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US09457757B2	Interlocking structure, mounting member, and airbag device A mounting member to be mounted to an obverse side of a cover part arranged at a central portion of a steering wheel includes corner parts 31a, 31b, 31c, and 31d having hook parts 36-3, 36-4, 36-5, and 36-6 protruding from their reverse sides, the hook parts 36-3, 36-4, 36-5, and 36-6 being capable of interlocking with holes formed at the cover part. The hook parts 36-3, 36-4, 36-5, and 36-6 are arranged at narrow parts 37a and 37b between a contour 33 of the mounting member 30 and openings 35a and 35b formed along the contour 33.
US09457744B2	Power supply control device and instrument device A power supply control device is configured to reduce a current supplying capacity required by a power supply even when power is supplied to a prescribed external device. The power supply control device comprises a first power supply for supplying power to a pointer instrument; a first control unit that operates with power from the first power supply and controls driving of the pointer instrument and supply of power from the first power supply to the pointer instrument; and a second control unit for controlling supply of power from the first power supply to an external memory. Upon receiving a prescribed command, the first power supply stops supplying power to the pointer instrument, and the first power supply starts supplying power to the external memory in response to the stoppage.
US09457729B1	Vehicle component support structure A panel of a vehicle body structure has a first slot and a second slot spaced apart from one another. A component has a mounting structure that includes a first tab and a second tab spaced apart from the first tab. A first head of the first tab is inserted through a wide second end of the first slot and the second head of the second tab is inserted through a wide second end of the second slot. The first tab and the second tab thereafter moved to a corresponding one of respective narrow first ends of the first and second slots. Consequently, the first head of the first tab rests on a first upper surface portion of a first area of the panel and the second head rests on a third upper surface portion of a second area of the panel thereby suspending the component from the panel.
US09457725B2	Seatback-mountable holder for a portable electronic device A holder for removably attaching a portable electronic device to an elongate support such as a tray table latch on a seatback with a stowable tray table comprises a clamp frame, a spring compression lever slidably attached to the clamp frame, a flexible band for suspending the clamp frame from the elongate support and a self-centering clamp for gripping opposite sides of the elongate support. The holder may optionally include a device adapter for attaching a selected electronic device. Another embodiment comprises steps in a method for holding a portable electronic device against a seatback having a stowable seatback tray table.
US09457719B2	Work vehicle periphery monitoring system and work vehicle A work vehicle periphery monitoring system includes a plurality of imaging apparatuses which are attached to the work vehicle and image the periphery of a work vehicle to output image information, a display control unit which displays an image based on image information which is output from imaging apparatuses, and a pattern indicating information relating to the work vehicle periphery monitoring system on a monitor, and a pattern display control unit which changes a display position at which the pattern is displayed on the monitor 50 based on a display switching signal for switching a display of the monitor, before and after switching the display of the monitor.
US09457718B2	Obstacle detection system An obstacle detection system includes an object detection system, an alert system, and a controller. The controller is configured to store an electronic map containing a known obstacle, store known and unknown obstacle warning zones, and detect a detected object in proximity to the machine. The controller is further configured to compare the detected object to the known obstacle to determine whether the detected object is a known obstacle or an unknown obstacle, generate a first alert signal if the detected object is a known obstacle and within the known obstacle warning zone, and generate a second alert signal if the detected object is an unknown obstacle and within the unknown obstacle warning zone.
US09457707B2	Vehicle auxiliary lamp unit A vehicle auxiliary lamp unit includes a first circuit board and an elongated light pipe. The first circuit board has a plurality of first light sources and at least one aperture. The elongated light pipe has a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is located by the first circuit board and arranged to receive light from a first of the plurality of first light sources. The proximal end of the elongated light pipe includes at least one locating projection that is received by the at least one aperture of the first circuit board.
US09457706B2	Tie-down apparatus In one example, a tie-down apparatus can include a tie-down device and a housing adapted to receive the tie-down device. The tie-down apparatus can be transitionable between a stowed state and a deployed state. In the stowed state, the tie-down device can be stored entirely within the housing. The stowed state can be convenient for storing the tie-down device when not in use. In the deployed state, certain portions of the tie down device can be concealed within the housing while other portions of the tie-down device (e.g. attachment mechanisms) are deployed through openings in the housing. The deployed state can be convenient for securing cargo without damaging (e.g. scratching or denting) the cargo.
US09457704B2	ATV transport device A loading and transport device for all terrain vehicles. The loading and transport device loads two ATVs into a pickup bed by the use of a folding track that folds into an A frame shape by use of a jack. The ATVs are attached to the frame, and are transported in a generally vertical position. Loading involves unfolding the ATV racks, one of which reaches the ground. A winch is used to pull ATVs from the ground onto the ATV racks, and to lower them to the ground again.
US09457703B2	Mobile tire storage A method of storage for this tire storage system will be Semi-Trailers in various length and width, some being drop-deck van boxes, some straight van box trailers and various lengths from 24′ to 53′. Also included are ground level containers ranging from 20′ to 53′ long; sometimes referred to as Conex boxes or overseas shipping containers. The inside of the trailer/container will have from one to thirty sections, each having one to six layers of storage space for the vertical storage of tires. Each section beams are adjustable from floor to ceiling. Beams will be between 3′ and 15′ in length.
US09457701B2	Seat heater and seat cover with same A seat heater includes: a base material; and a heater wire disposed on the base material. The base material has a fold-back portion projecting from an edge of the base material where a cutout portion is formed. The heater wire is disposed on the fold-back portion. In a state where the fold-back portion is folded back toward a base material side, a proximal portion of the fold-back portion is positioned inside the edge of the base material. With such a configuration, the seat heater whose temperature elevation performance is not deteriorated can be realized.
US09457700B2	Head rest A compact headrest having a simplified and more compact mechanism is provided. The headrest includes a first and a second headrest pillars, and a stationary unit disposed therebetween. The stationary unit is movable in a vertical direction along the pillars. The headrest further includes a movable unit movable forward away from the stationary unit and rearward toward the stationary unit through a moving mechanism. The headrest further includes a front-rear locking mechanism having a lock receiver and a locking component engaging therewith. The front-rear locking mechanism locks and unlocks the movable unit moving in a front-rear direction to the stationary unit. The headrest further includes a vertical locking mechanism locking and unlocking the stationary unit stepwise in a vertical direction along the pillars. The headrest further includes an operation unit for simultaneously operating the front-rear locking mechanism and the vertical locking mechanism in a substantially identical direction.
US09457697B2	Adjustable vehicle armrest and tambour door A vehicle armrest is designed to allow for sliding movement between retracted and extended positions as desired by the vehicle occupant. A tambour door is disposed over at least part of the armrest, and may be moved fore and aft to allow access to storage volumes within the armrest or a support structure. The armrest is supported by sliding structures, such as engaged rails, and the tambour door is supported by tracks, one of which is fixed or stationary, and the other of which moves with the armrest. In this manner, the tambour door may be fully supported as it moves fore and aft, whether the armrest is in the retracted or extended position.
US09457693B2	Supporting device for a seat and vehicle seat equipped therewith A supporting device for a seat, in particular a vehicle seat, has at least one planar supporting part and a plurality of fastening structures arranged on the supporting part. The supporting part has at least one region of extent for an extent in at least one direction in the surface plane of the supporting part. The supporting part is of planar design and has web-like surface sections. The at least one region of extent is designed as a predetermined separating point in at least one web-like surface region.
US09457687B2	Regenerative energy system for ground transportation vehicles Present example embodiments relate generally to a ground transportation system for interacting with one or more vehicles, the vehicle comprising at least one magnetic element fixedly attached to the vehicle, each magnetic element operable to generate a magnetic field having a first magnitude and a first direction, the system comprising a magnetic coil assembly fixedly positioned near an area traversable by the vehicle and comprising a core and a magnetic wire coil wrapped around the core, the magnetic coil assembly operable to generate a magnetic field having a second magnitude and a second direction; and an energy storage unit operable to release energy to and store energy from the magnetic coil assembly.
US09457685B2	Industrial vehicle, system for managing operation of industrial vehicle, and electric forklift An industrial vehicle includes: a key-on signal detection unit that detects whether or not a key switch is in a key-on state; an under-charging signal detection unit that detects whether or not a storage battery is being charged; an operating time calculation unit that calculates a time, which is in the key-on state and in which charging is not performed, as an operating time; and an output unit that outputs the operating time.
US09457684B2	Redundant electrical power for autonomous vehicles A system includes a first battery configured to power at least one vehicle subsystem and a second battery configured to power an electric motor to propel a vehicle. A processing device is configured to detect an inadequate power level provided from the first battery to the at least one vehicle subsystem and selectively partition the second battery to power the at least one vehicle subsystem.
US09457683B2	Method for discharging at least one capacitor of an electric circuit The invention relates to a method for discharging at least one capacitor (2) of an electric circuit (1), said electric circuit (1) also comprising: an electric stator winding (4) of a polyphase rotary electric machine, said winding (4) comprising a plurality of coils (6) which each form a stator phase and which are not being coupled to one another; and a switching system (5) disposed between the capacitor (2) and the electric stator winding (4) and comprising a plurality of controllable switching cells (10). According to the method of the invention, the coils (6) are electrically powered by the capacitor (2) by means of the switching system (5), of which the switching cells (10) are controlled such that the homopolar electric current passes through the electric stator winding (4).
US09457680B2	Vehicle-to-grid control There is provided a system and a computer-implemented method for storing electrical charge in an electric vehicle connected to a charging station. The method includes: attaining a minimum State of Charge (SOC) for the electric vehicle; determining a time to charge the electric vehicle to a maximum SOC; maintaining an electric vehicle SOC by repeatedly charging and allowing discharge of the electric vehicle between the minimum SOC and a threshold; and charging the electric vehicle to the maximum SOC when the determined time to charge the electric vehicle to a maximum SOC has elapsed, wherein the threshold is greater than the minimum SOC and the maximum SOC is greater than or equal to the threshold.
US09457674B2	Overhead power cable management system A power cable which connects to charge the battery power supply of an electric vehicle is suspended at a height generally above the vehicle and is automatically retractable. The operation of the power cable is automatically managed to provide a slack-free condition of the cable when the cable is moved in the extending and the retracting directions. The cable connector is easily accessible and the connector is positionable for ease of connection with the vehicle battery charging terminal. The cable management system for extending and retracting the overhead power cable employs a drive mechanism and a clutch assembly which are electronically controlled.
US09457671B2	Drive system for a motor vehicle A motor vehicle drive system utilizing a flywheel for storing recaptured kinetic energy from a moving vehicle is described. Alternators mounted to the drive train generate electrical power from the passively spinning wheels of a moving vehicle. This power may be used to rotate a flywheel. Energy from the continuously spinning flywheel is used or stored for later use to charge batteries which provide power to the drive wheels of the vehicle. The disclosed drive system can be mounted in an all-electric or gasoline-electric hybrid motor vehicle and provides additional power to an electric drive motor of the vehicle.
US09457664B2	Display device A display device includes: first setting means for setting a first operation amount to be performed by an occupant so as to increase an output in a state in which a vehicle speed is less than a predetermined threshold; second setting means for setting a second operation amount to be performed by the occupant such that an operation state of the vehicle can be shifted to a desired state in which optimal instantaneous fuel consumption is realized, by decreasing the output in a state in which the vehicle speed is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold; and display means for displaying, on a display unit, at least one of the first operation amount and the second operation amount, and a present operation amount which is an operation amount performed at present by the occupant.
US09457661B2	Systems and methods for information management Systems and methods for information management are provided. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a signal from a vehicle sensor, the signal related to a condition of a vehicle, determining a new alert from the signal, and comparing the new alert with a currently provided alert. Some embodiments include determining a priority of the new alert and, in response to determining that the new alert has a higher priority than the currently provided alert, determining whether to output the currently provided alert in a minimized form, providing the new alert for output on a primary output device, and providing the currently provided alert in the minimized form.
US09457660B2	Accelerator pedal apparatus An accelerator pedal apparatus includes a pedal arm rotating around a first rotation axis line, a return spring and a reaction force adding mechanism including a drive source and a rotation member rotating around a second rotation axis line and having a contact portion contacted to the pedal arm which adds reaction force in the direction to return the pedal arm to the rest position. A first distance from the contact position of the pedal arm with the contact portion to the first rotation axis line is longer than a second distance to the second rotation axis line. The pedal arm includes a contact section having the contact portion displaced while being contacted so that the contact portion is to be farther from the first rotation axis line when rotating toward the maximum depression position and to be closer to the first rotation axis line when rotating toward the rest position.
US09457655B2	Drive axle system having a clutching device A drive axle system for a vehicle drive train having a clutching device is provided. The drive axle system includes a first shaft, a first axle assembly, a second axle assembly, a first clutching device, a second clutching device, and an axle assembly housing. At least a portion of the first shaft, the second clutching device, and at least one of the first axle assembly and the second axle assembly are disposed in the axle assembly housing. The first axle assembly is drivingly engaged with the first shaft. The first clutching device divides one of a pair of output axles into first and second portions. The second clutching device selectively engages a driving gear of the second axle assembly with one of the first shaft and a portion of the first axle assembly.
US09457654B2	Drive axle system A drive axle system that may have a first drive axle assembly and a second drive axle assembly. The first drive axle assembly may have a first pinion that may rotate about a first pinion axis. The second drive axle assembly may have a second pinion that may rotate about a second pinion axis. The first pinion axis may be disposed substantially parallel to the second pinion axis.
US09457651B2	Systems and methods for an externally accessible refueling request switch Systems are provided for a fuel system comprising an external refueling request switch accessible at or near a refueling door, thus enabling methods that may include initiating depressurization of a fuel tank responsive to an operator engaging the refueling request switch. The status of depressurization may be communicated to the operator via on one or more LED displays located either inside the refueling assembly or located at the refueling door. In this way, refueling requests may be initiated by a refueling operator, and by relaying the status of depressurization to the operator, any confusion on the part of the operator may be avoided.
US09457644B2	Convertible assemblies for vehicles A convertible top for a vehicle includes a convertible top assembly having a pivotally interconnected link arrangement between a forward assembly and an aft assembly. The forward assembly is configured to pivotally move relative to the vehicle framework and the aft assembly from a closed position to a first retracted position. The aft assembly is configured to pivotally move relative to the vehicle framework and the forward assembly from the first retracted position to a lowered storage position. Methods for opening the convertible top assembly are also provided.
US09457642B2	Vehicle sun visor with a multi-functional touch screen with multiple camera views and photo video capability A vehicle sun visor system with a touch screen display is configured to display video feed from one or more cameras. A front facing polarized and/or photochromic camera shows the area of view which is normally blocked by the deployed sun visor, allowing the user to view traffic lights, road signs, etc. without the distraction of glare. Software image processing may also be used to reduce glare and improve visibility. In addition the sun visor system also has a “see-me” camera which allows the user to use the screen as a mirror, and one or more rear-view cameras which can be used to see the passenger area of a vehicle through the touch-screen display. Any of the cameras may be used to take photos or videos, which may be viewed on the display and transmitted wirelessly to other electronic devices or cloud storage.
US09457630B2	Towing device A device comprises an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve that is rotatably supported at least partly in an interior of the outer sleeve. A hollow axle is located in an interior of the inner sleeve, and a skewer is supported within an inner region of the hollow axle. The skewer is slidable along an axis of hollow axle. First and second slots are located on the hollow axle. A lever that is rotatable about the axis of the hollow axle includes a mechanism for causing the rod to slide along the axis to change respective widths of the slots.
US09457627B1	Handheld interrogation and display for remote sensors A handheld interrogation device includes a controller configured to generate a power signal. The controller is also configured to determine tire pressure data based on a signal received from a tire pressure sensor. The handheld interrogation device also includes a primary coil coupled to the handheld interrogation device and configured to transmit the power signal to a sensor coil of the tire pressure sensor and to receive a data signal from the sensor coil, via inductive coupling, in response to the primary coil being within a predetermined distance of the sensor coil.
US09457625B2	Tire pressure management system with enhanced wireless security and control method thereof A tire pressure management system with enhanced wireless security and a control method thereof are provided. The tire pressure management system includes initiators configured to wirelessly transmit a tire information request signal to tire pressure sensors when the initiators receive a first signal, a receiver configured to receive packets including the tire information from the tire pressure sensors, and an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to transmit the first signal to the initiators. Further the ECU is configured to measure a delay after transmission of the first signal until the packets are received. The ECU is also configured to transmit the tire information within the received packets to a cluster or drop the received packets in response to the delay.
US09457619B2	Hub for a motor vehicle wheel A hub for a motor vehicle wheel provides a cylindrical portion that extends in an axial direction, and a flange extending in a radially outer direction from an axially outer end of the cylindrical portion. The hub includes a core of metallic material which extends into the cylindrical portion and in the flange of the hub, and a covering body of plastic material applied over the core.
US09457616B2	Wire wheel assembly Wire wheel assembly apparatus for, and a method of providing, a wire wheel assembly for use with a tubeless tire. A wire wheel element comprises a wheel centre element, a spoke ring element, and a plurality of spoke elements extending between the wheel centre element and the spoke ring element. The spoke ring element is configured to allow a first rim element comprising a first rim tire flange and a second rim element comprising a second rim tire flange to be assembled with said wire wheel element into a wire wheel assembly in which a tire receiving region is defined between said first rim tire flange and said second rim tire flange. A first rim element and a second rim element configured to be assembled with said wire wheel element. A sandwich arrangement and a cantilever arrangement of a wire wheel assembly are disclosed. A split-rim wire wheel is disclosed.
US09457603B2	Apparatus for cooling media sheets An apparatus for cooling media sheets in a printer includes a number of cooling units, a conveyor having a first conveyor path adapted to feed the media sheets successively through the cooling units, and a switch adapted to deflect selected ones of the media sheets into a second conveyor path. The switch is disposed upstream of a last one of the cooling units and downstream of a first one of the cooling units. The second conveyor path bypasses the last one of the cooling units. The conveyor includes a decelerating mechanism configured to decelerate the sheets in the first conveyor path between the first one of the cooling units and the last one of the cooling units.
US09457599B2	Printer with ink control A printer is disclosed. The printer determines the width of media to be printed on. When the width of the media is below a threshold the printer prints using multiple printing passes where the amount of ink is divided between the multiple printing passes with a first distribution. When the width of the media is not below the threshold the printer prints using multiple printing passes where the amount of ink is divided between the multiple printing passes with a second, different distribution.
US09457592B2	Liquid ejecting apparatus and light source module A printer includes a light source module including an ejecting head that ejects a UV ink onto a medium. The UV ink hardens when irradiated with a UV light ray. The light source module includes an irradiator that irradiates the UV ink with the UV light ray. The printer may include a guide shaft to/from which the light module is attachable/detachable and a driving controller that performs control of the irradiator. The light source module includes, in addition to the irradiator, a memory module that stores therein information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator. The driving controller performs control of the irradiator by using the information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator.
US09457587B2	Automatic thermal print on demand produce labeler An automatic, thermal print on demand labeler is provided. The thermal print head is placed above the axis of rotation of the rotary head, with a cylindrical platen mounted horizontally opposite the print head. A stripper pin is mounted below the platen; the pin is positioned very close to the print region of the print head. This positioning of components results in a label being printed and dispensed onto a bellow in one index of the multi-bellow rotary head. Independent direct gear drive trains are provided for the rotary head and label tape drive.
US09457585B2	Print apparatus, print method, and serial printer A print apparatus that is configured to cause a print head provided with nozzles and a printing substrate to move relatively, eject an ink from the nozzles, and record dots onto the printing substrate includes a print control unit. The print control unit is configured to perform a control for ejecting the ink from the nozzles, and the print control unit modifies a proportion at which dots are formed adjacent to one another depending on an ejected amount of ink.
US09457579B2	Fluid circulation A method for use in fluid jetting, the method includes recirculating a fluid between a first container and a second container through a flow path in a printhead, the flow path includes a nozzle through which jets fluid from either the first container or second container which supplies the fluid for jetting. A ratio of a recirculation fluid flow rate to an amount of fluid jetted through the nozzle depends on an operational parameter of the printhead, and the recirculation fluid flow rate includes an amount of the recirculation fluid passing by a cross-section of the flow path per second.
US09457578B2	Inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head having an ink discharge surface, a wiper blade that cleans the ink discharge surface of the recording head, and a controller. The controller causes the wiper blade to wipe ink off the ink discharge surface by causing the wiper blade to be pushed against the ink discharge surface and move. The wiper blade includes an ink carrying surface and a protrusion having an ink retaining surface. The ink retaining surface inclines at a predetermined angle relative to the ink carrying surface and is connected to the ink carrying surface. The ink retaining surface curves such that a distance from the ink retaining surface toward a tip end of the wiper blade increases from a central part toward opposite ends of the wiper blade in a width direction of the wiper blade.
US09457576B2	Inkjet printing apparatus and method for controlling inkjet printing apparatus An inkjet printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a first printing head that performs a first printing operation by discharging ink onto the printing medium, a second printing head positioned downstream from the first printing head in a transport direction and performing a second printing operation by discharging ink onto the printing medium, and a preliminary discharge controller that causes the second printing head to perform a preliminary discharging operation that does not contribute to the second printing operation, wherein the preliminary discharge controller causes an ink discharge amount of the preliminary discharging operation of the second printing head to be smaller when an ink discharge amount of the first printing operation is greater than or equal to a predetermined value than when the ink discharge amount of the first printing operation is less than the predetermined value.
US09457571B2	Fluid ejection apparatuses including a substrate with a bulk layer and a epitaxial layer Examples of fluid ejection apparatuses and methods for making fluid ejection apparatuses are described. An example method may include forming a fluid feed slot in a bulk layer of a substrate, forming a plurality of ink feed channels in at least an epitaxial layer of the substrate, each of the ink feed channels fluidically coupled to the fluid feed slot, and forming a plurality of drop generators over the substrate such that the epitaxial layer of the substrate is between the plurality of drop generators and the bulk layer and such that the each of the drop generators is fluidically coupled to the fluid feed slot by at least one of the ink feed channels.
US09457567B2	Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus Piezoelectric elements constituted by lower electrodes, piezoelectric layers, and an upper electrode are extended from positions corresponding to openings of pressure chambers to outer positions beyond opening edges of the pressure chambers. The piezoelectric layers have exposure portions on the extended portions and the exposure portions of the piezoelectric layers are covered by an adhesive between an actuator unit and a sealing plate.
US09457558B2	Gravure offset printing method, gravure offset printing device, and gravure plate Provided are a gravure offset printing method, a gravure offset printing apparatus, and a gravure plate that allow a fine wiring pattern to be accurately printed on the material to be printed. A gravure offset printing method executed by a gravure offset printing apparatus includes a step of filling a groove on a gravure plate with a printing paste, a step of offsetting the printing paste from the groove on the gravure plate to the blanket, and a step of transferring the printing paste from the blanket to a substrate. The groove on the gravure plate includes a region having a width of 100 to 700 μm in a direction perpendicular to a print direction. The region has a leading end tapered forward in the print direction and a trailing end split into a pair of branches by a notch tapered forward in the print direction.
US09457541B2	Copper foil for current collector of lithium secondary battery with improved wrinkle characteristics A copper foil for a current collector of a lithium secondary battery has a crystalline structure, in which a ratio of the sum of texture coefficients of a (111) surface and a (200) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) surfaces is 60 to 85%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (111) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) is 18 to 38%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (200) surface thereto is 28 to 62%, and a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (220) surface thereto is 15 to 40%. The copper foil has surface roughness (Rz-JIS) of 2 μm or less, weight deviation of 3% or less, tensile strength of 30 to 40 kgf/mm2, elongation of 3 to 20%, and thickness of 1 to 35 μm.
US09457539B2	Compliant slit film seaming element Disclosed herein is a seaming element for attachment to an industrial textile. The industrial textile has opposed first and second seamable edge regions, while the seaming element has: i) a first lateral edge; ii) a second lateral edge; iii) a trailing edge; iv) a forward portion comprising a plurality of protruding seaming with successive loops spaced apart by an aperture, and v) a rearward portion continuous with the forward portion, with the rearward portion comprising an upper member and a lower member. The upper and lower members are substantially planar and have mutually opposed inner surfaces, with a portion of each inner surface bonded to the industrial textile at a selected one of the first and second seamable edge regions. At least one of the upper and lower member comprises one or more slits between the first lateral edge and the second lateral edge, with the one or more slits extending from the respective trailing edge in a direction towards the forward portion of the seaming element.
US09457538B2	Absorbent non-woven fibrous mats and process for preparing same The present invention relates to liquid entrapping devices (e.g., absorbent non-woven fibrous mats) and to a process for preparing such devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to mechanically strong absorbent materials made from such liquid entrapping devices (e.g., non-woven fibrous mats) and to a method for preparing same. In one embodiment, a liquid entrapping device of the present invention comprises at least one hydrophilic elastomeric fibrous component (HEFC) and at least one wetting agent component. In another embodiment, a liquid entrapping device of the present invention comprise at least one hydrophilic elastomeric fibrous component (HEFC), at least one absorbent component, and at least one wetting agent component. In one instance, the wetting agent component of the present invention is contained on and/or within the fibers and/or nanofibers that form the liquid entrapping device (e.g., a non-woven fibrous mat) of the present invention.
US09457537B1	Methods for embedding fasteners in an open cellular sandwich structure Methods of embedding at least one fastener in a sandwich structure having an ordered three-dimensional microstructure core provided between a pair of facesheets. The method includes attaching the at least one fastener to a first facesheet. The method also includes irradiating a volume of photo-monomer in a reservoir with light beams to form an ordered three-dimensional microstructure core around the at least one fastener. The method also includes attaching a second facesheet to the ordered three-dimensional microstructure core to form the sandwich structure. The fasteners embedded in the sandwich structure are configured to facilitate attachment of the sandwich structure to another structure.
US09457533B2	Construction and composition of preformed containers used in a high-pressure press A container assembly for use in a high-pressure press having a central pressure cell and a method of sealing a central pressure cell. The container assembly includes a container that receives a sample to be pressed, and a gasket distinct from the container, the gasket meeting the container at an interface. The container and the gasket are dimensioned to locate the interface within the central pressure cell.
US09457526B2	Calibration device for calibrating an extruded film tube A calibration device for calibrating an extruded film tube, above the frost line, forms an annular gap between the calibration device and the film tube. The calibration device includes a plurality of calibration segments and at least one blowing nozzle. The plurality of calibration segments are distributed around a longitudinal axis and form a central feed through opening for feeding through the film tube along the longitudinal axis. The calibration segments are adjustable for adjusting the diameter of the feed through opening. The at least one blowing nozzle for each calibration segment, feeds a calibration gas to the feed through opening. The at least one blowing nozzle is formed such, that the calibration gas is guided to the annular gap substantially parallel to a surface of the film tube and that the calibration gas flows through the annular gap in a single flow direction.
US09457522B2	Methods and apparatus useful in manufacturing lenses Methods of manufacturing a contact lens are provided. Such methods include using an adjustable mandrel to fixedly retain a single mold section carrying a polymerized contact lens product and delensing the contact lens product from the single mold section. Adjustable mandrels are also provided.
US09457514B2	Method and device for layered buildup of a shaped element Since concrete materials do not cure quick enough when prototyping methods are used, so that a lower layer (2a) is already completely cured when the next layer (2b) is applied, a support material (4) is applied about the formed element (100) that is being built up in order to compensate for the lack of pressure resistance of the lower layer (2a), wherein the support material preferably has the same specific weight as the material (3) of the formed element (100). Thus, 3D-printing as well as selective curing are facilitated as build up methods.
US09457509B2	Tool for forming a three dimensional article or container A tool for forming a container from a blank. The container can include a flange. The tool has a first tool assembly, and a second tool assembly. At least one of the first tool assembly and the second tool assembly can be moveable between an open position, wherein the blank is received between the first tool assembly and the second tool assembly, and a closed position wherein the blank is formed into the container. At least one of the first tool assembly and the second tool assembly has flange forming features for forming the flange of the container whereby a first portion of the flange is folded with respect to a second portion of the flange.
US09457501B2	Resin molding, method for manufacturing the same, and metal mold for manufacturing the same A resin molding is provided. A main body is comprised of 100 parts by weight of thermoplastic resin and 0.1 to 4 parts by weight of bright material having the aspect ratio of 30 to 50. A main body has a design surface formed with a groove. The lower limit of the depth of the groove is set to 0.3 mm and the upper limit of the depth of the groove is set to 0.5 mm.
US09457497B2	Microfluidic device and method of manufacturing the microfluidic device A microfluidic device having a substrate with an array of curvilinear cavities. The substrate of the microfluidic device is preferably fabricated of a polymer such as polydimethylsiloxane. The microfluidic device is manufactured using a gas expansion molding technique.
US09457490B2	Wire saw The invention relates to a wire saw having a saw wire drive sheave (2) for driving an endless saw wire, a motor having a motor output shaft directly or indirectly connected to the drive sheave (2) characterized in a at least one torsion suspension device (27), between the motor output shaft and the drive sheave (2), for dampening or absorbing torsion jerk/s to or from the endless saw wire (1).
US09457486B2	Shaving cartridge with individual blade guards A shaving razor having integrally formed blade guards. A generally monolithic body is formed from a suitable material such as thermoplastic to define blade channels for a plurality of blades, 1 blade retained in each channel the cutting edges of which define a cutting plane. A plurality of blade guards is formed as part of the body such that the shaving plane passes through the blade guards with one blade guard forward of each blade in the cutting direction. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09457480B2	Transport device A transport device that allows transport containers varying in shape or size to be transported without changing a device configuration, and can prevent works in a transport container from popping out of the transport container with a simple device configuration. An overhead carriage includes a chucking device that holds a magazine accommodating works. The overhead carriage transports the magazine held by the chucking device. The chucking device includes a holding unit that holds the magazine and a sensor that detects the magazine held by the holding unit. The holding unit is controlled based on the detection of the sensor to hold the magazine so that the holding unit prevents works stored in the magazine from popping out.
US09457478B2	Area vacuum gripper A surface area vacuum gripper for sucking and handling workpieces, comprising a housing, in which a negative pressure vacuum chamber is provided that can be subjected to negative pressure and wherein the housing includes suction openings on the suction side, facing the workpiece. An insertion element is provided in the housing, which reduces the free inner space of the housing and includes vacuum channels fed by a vacuum generator. The insertion element can be equipped with a plurality of optional functions.
US09457472B2	Position detection device for robot, robotic system, and position detection method for robot A position detection device for a horizontal articulated robot includes a camera for imaging the robot or a work as an imaging object, a control section for calculating a location of the imaging object from an image, an acquisition section (I/O) for obtaining the drive amounts of first and second electric motors of the robot, and a storage section for storing the calculated location of the imaging object and the drive amounts so as to correspond to each other. A common trigger signal for detecting the location of the imaging object is input to the camera and the I/O. The camera starts to image the imaging object in response to the input of the trigger signal. The I/O starts to obtain the drive amounts in response to the input of the trigger signal.
US09457471B2	Autonomous mobile robot An autonomous mobile robot includes a robot body, a drive system, a sensor system, and a controller. The drive system supports the robot body and maneuvers the robot over a floor surface. The sensor system includes an inertial measurement unit for measuring a pose of the robot and issues a sensor signal including data having information regarding a pose of the robot. The controller communicates with the drive and sensor systems and executes a behavior system. The behavior system receives the sensor signal from the sensor system and executes a behavior. The behavior system executes an anti-stasis behavior in response to sensor signals indicating that the robot is constrained to evaluate a state of constraint. In addition, the behavior system executes an anti-tilt behavior in response to sensor signals indicating that the robot is tilted with respect to a direction of gravity to evaluate a state of tilt.
US09457463B2	Robot for solar farms The solar energy and solar farms are used to generate energy and reduce dependence on oil (or for environmental purposes). The maintenance, operation, optimization, and repairs in big farms become very difficult, expensive, and inefficient, using human technicians. Thus, here, we teach using the robots with various functions and components, in various settings, for various purposes, to improve operations in big (or hard-to-access) farms, to automate, save money, reduce human mistakes, increase efficiency, or scale the solutions to very large scales or areas.
US09457462B2	Power tool having a speed selector switch A power tool includes a tool housing defining a cavity and a pocket formed in a wall of the tool housing. A motor is positioned within the cavity, and a trigger mechanism is moveably coupled to the tool housing. A speed selector switch is positioned within the pocket, the speed selector switch including a push-button operable to receive a speed selection and a plurality of speed indicators. The speed selector switch is operable to output a speed signal based on the speed selection, and the speed indicators indicate the speed selection. The power tool further includes a controller operable to receive the speed signal from the speed selector switch, the speed signal indicative of a selected speed, receive an activation signal from the trigger switch, and operate the motor at the selected speed upon receiving the activation signal.
US09457459B2	Power tool provided with circuit board A power tool includes a motor, an impact mechanism, an output unit, a circuit board, a housing, and a power cord. The circuit board includes a power-source circuit board configured to convert alternate current into direct current and a control circuit board. The housing includes a body section, a board accommodating section, and a handle section. The board accommodating section accommodates the circuit board. The handle section has one end portion connected to the body section and another end portion connected to the board accommodating section. The power cord extends from the board accommodating section. The power cord is positioned opposed to the handle section with respect to the board accommodating section. The control circuit board is located at a position close to the handle section in the board accommodating section. The power-source circuit board is located between the control circuit board and the power cord.
US09457458B2	Fastener removal The present invention provides a method for removing a fastener from a component, the fastener comprising an end portion exposed from the component, the end portion having a threaded section, the method comprising the following steps; providing a cap with a threaded opening, screwing the threaded opening of the cap onto the threaded section of the exposed end portion of the fastener, and securing a percussive tool to the cap, such that repeated impacts from the percussive tool are directed onto the exposed end portion of the fastener. The present invention also provides a cap for use in removing a fastener from a component, the cap comprising a threaded opening for screwing onto a threaded section of an exposed end portion of the fastener, and an attachment portion for securing a percussive tool to the cap.
US09457445B2	Machine tool with cover adapted for discharge of chips A machine tool has a cover comprising a front cover and right and left side covers and includes a first slope part between the front cover and a table on which a workpiece is placed. The first slope part has slopes gradually declining from the center of the front cover toward left and right side covers. Further, the machine tool has also a second slope part that is connected to the left and right lower ends of the first slope part and has slopes declining rearward relative to the machine tool from the side of the front cover. If chips produced by machining are deposited on the surface of the first slope part, they are discharged onto the second slope part and into a contaminated fluid tank by a cutting fluid supplied from a nozzle.
US09457444B2	Machine tool having movable covers A machine tool includes a table, a saddle, and first and second telescopic covers respectively disposed on two side surfaces of the table or the saddle. The two side surfaces are opposite each other along the direction of travel of the table or the saddle. Upper surfaces of the first and second telescopic covers are inclined in opposite directions perpendicular to the direction of travel of the table or the saddle.
US09457434B2	Joining approaches for sandwich structures A method for securing sandwich structures together, especially vehicle structures. In one embodiment, two sandwich structures are perpendicularly secured together, where a first one of the sandwich structures includes a micro-truss core having one unit cell geometry and second one of the sandwich structures includes a micro-truss core having different unit cell geometry. The micro-truss core of the second sandwich structure includes a micro-truss extension fabricated at the same time as the micro-truss core and having the same unit cell geometry as the micro-truss core for the first sandwich structure. The extension is inserted in an open area between face sheets in the first sandwich structure so that it abuts against the micro-truss core in the first sandwich structure.
US09457424B2	Laser machining device A laser machining device which can suppress the aberration of a laser beam converged into an object to be machined is provided. The device includes a laser light source for emitting a laser beam and a reflective spatial light modulator for modulating the laser beam emitted from the laser light source (202), while first mirrors for reflecting the laser beam are disposed between the laser light source and reflective spatial light modulator in an optical path of the laser beam and configured such as to be able to adjust the direction of reflection of the laser beam. Therefore, by regulating the direction of reflection of the laser beam at each of the mirrors, the device can adjust the position and incident angle of the laser beam incident on the reflective spatial light modulator as desired. Hence, the laser beam can precisely be made incident on the reflective spatial light modulator.
US09457418B2	Gas-cooled welding gun for an arc welding device A gas-cooled welding gun for an arc welding device, comprising an electrically conductive current contact tube disposed concentrically within an electrically conductive outer tube and separated therefrom by an intermediate space. The current contact tube includes a wire guiding channel for a welding wire. A plurality of spacers is disposed at intervals in the intermediate space between the current contact tube and outer tube, electrically insulating these components from each other. A shielding gas is provided in the intermediate space to cool the system and openings in the spacers allow the gas to flow therethrough. Structures are provided on the current contact tube which increase the overall surface area thereof. Regions of the surface of the current contact tube not covered by spacers are exposed toward the intermediate space and therefore to the shielding gas.
US09457416B2	Fillet weld joint and method for gas shielded arc welding A fillet weld joint of steel formed by arc welding, wherein a martensitic transformation starting temperature (Ms point) of a weld metal is 400° C. or above and 550° C. or below, a value obtained by dividing a toe radius ρ of a toe part of welding by a sheet thickness t of a base metal (ρ/t) is 0.25 or above, an expression Ms(° C.)≦375×[ρ/t]+320 is satisfied, and a crack defect does not exist in the fillet weld joint.
US09457406B2	Copper metal film, method for producing same, copper metal pattern, conductive wiring line using the copper metal pattern, copper metal bump, heat conduction path, bonding material, and liquid composition Disclosed are: a copper metal film which has good adhesion to a substrate, low volume resistivity, and good deep-part metal properties; and a method for producing a copper metal film, wherein the copper metal film can be produced by reducing a substrate to a deep part thereof without damaging the substrate. Specifically disclosed is a copper metal film obtained by treating a copper-based particle deposition layer containing both copper oxides and a metallic transition metal or alloy, or a transition metal complex containing a metal element, with gaseous formic acid and/or formaldehyde heated to 120° C. or higher. The copper oxide is preferably copper (I) oxide and/or copper (II) oxide. The transition metal, alloy or metal complex are preferably a metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Pd, Pt, Ni, Ag, Au and Rh, an alloy containing the metal, or a complex containing the metal element, respectively.
US09457403B2	Sintering method and apparatus A sintering apparatus comprising a container for holding small particles that contact one another, an electric current generator generating an alternating electric current and a flux concentrator having a collector positioned to be exposed to an alternating magnetic field generated by the alternating electric current and a tip that focuses the alternating magnetic field so that the particles are exposed to the alternating magnetic field, the alternating magnetic field heating surfaces of the particles so that they join and are fused together.
US09457401B2	Riser breaker assembly A tool assembly includes an actuator and a bearing surface. The actuator places a force with the bearing surface on a riser connected to a workpiece to separate the riser from the workpiece.
US09457398B2	Spherical centrifuge Devices are disclosed for the high speed centrifugal casting of one or more spheroids. One or more hollow spherical molds are each caused to rotate at high speed about two substantially perpendicular axes intersecting at the center of the mold. Where the mold is partially filled with casting material, a hollow spheroid having walls of even thickness results. Where the mold is filled with multiple casting materials with different densities, the resulting spheroid will have a core that is less dense than its outer layers. Such spheroids are useful as sporting goods, bearing balls, insulation material, and in numerous other applications.
US09457394B2	Method and system for upsetting hollow members An apparatus and method for upsetting an end of a hollow workpiece to increase the wall thickness of that end is taught. A mandrel is inserted into the workpiece within a clamp which holds the workpiece. A die is urged into contact with the end of the workpiece to compress the end, decreasing its length and increasing the wall thickness of the end while the mandrel and clamp prevent deformation of the workpiece held in the clamp.
US09457388B2	Double-layer persulfate sustained-release material and its preparation method The present invention involves a persulfate-release material used in the filler of permeable reactive barrier (PRB). This material presents double-layered structure characteristic: inner- and outer-layers are consisted of persulfate, cement, sand and water with different mass ratio. Two different types of moulds are used for the regulation of the shape of the two-layer structures, which guarantees the stability and reproducibility of its structures and properties. During the whole released process, the released rate become more uniform and stable by the use of this material. During the whole service period, the change of the released rate is very slow, and the service lifetime can be 1-10 years. This invention can both reduce the initial released rate and improve the later released rate, and thus the whole released rate can be more uniform, which can be an important method to promote the efficiency of the persulfate toward engineering application.
US09457387B2	Apparatus for washing and drying totes and related methods A machine and method are provided for washing a tote or other container having a bottom wall, and first and second opposed side walls that are connected by first and second opposed end walls to define an access opening. The machine and method involve utilizing an automated washing machine having a housing that includes a wash zone for spraying wash liquid onto the container, a downstream rinse zone for spraying rinsing liquid onto the tote and a downstream drying zone for directing air flow onto the container to promote drying of the container and a conveyor mechanism for moving the container through the housing. The container is placed in an inverted position on the conveyor mechanism with the bottom wall facing upward and the access opening facing downward, and the conveyor mechanism moves the container through the zones for cleaning.
US09457376B2	Method of manufacturing gas barrier film, gas barrier film, and organic photoelectric conversion element Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a gas barrier film possessing a substrate in the form of a belt and provided thereon, a gas barrier layer containing silicon oxide, possessing a coating step in which a coating solution comprising a polysilazane compound is coated on the substrate to form a coating film, and a UV radiation exposure step in which the coating film is exposed to the vacuum UV radiation emitted from the plural light sources facing the substrate while moving the substrate on which the coating film is formed relatively to the plural light sources, the plural light sources each exhibiting even illuminance along a width direction of the substrate to form a gas barrier layer, and provided is a method of manufacturing a gas barrier film by which the gas barrier film suitable for production coupled with roll-to-roll system, exhibiting excellent gas barrier performance can be prepared.
US09457374B2	Method and apparatus for curtain coating A curtain coating method including forming a curtain including a coating material. A coated web is formed by coating a moving primary web with the coating material. The curtain and the primary web meet at a contact line. A primary pattern is projected on a material layer. The material layer moves with respect to the contact line. The primary pattern includes a first pointer feature. A first image is captured. The first image includes a first sub-image of the first pointer feature. The position of the first sub-image in the first image is detected. Distance information is provided by comparing the detected position of the first sub-image with a reference position.
US09457369B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and deposition mask for the apparatus An organic light-emitting display apparatus including: a substrate including a light emission area and a non-emission area disposed in an outer portion adjacent the light emission area; a plurality of subpixels disposed in the light emission area of the substrate and including a first electrode, a emission layer, and a second electrode, wherein the plurality of subpixels respectively emit light of different colors; and a plurality of dummy emission layers that are disposed in a non-emission area of the substrate and are of different colors. A first distance between adjacent dummy emission layers of a first color, from among the plurality of dummy emission layers is smaller than a second distance between adjacent subpixels that emit light of the first color, from among the plurality of subpixels.
US09457367B2	Tire repair solution can A tire repair solution can includes a can with a connector connected to the opening thereof. The connector has an air path and a liquid path. A mount is connected to the connector and has a protrusion which has a recess defined in the top thereof. An air passage and a liquid passage are defined in the inner end of the recess. A seal member is fitted in the recess of the mount and has an air film and a liquid film. The air film and the liquid film are located corresponding to the air passage and the liquid passage. A flexible hose is connected to the liquid passage of the mount. The air film and the liquid film are broken by air pressure and liquid pressure when in use, so that the liquid completely flows into the tire to seal the leak of the tire.
US09457365B2	Solution-providing apparatus and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the apparatus A solution-providing apparatus and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the apparatus are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a storage unit, a spraying unit, a pipe, an emission-inducing unit, and a spectrometer. The storage unit is configured to store the solution that includes a light emissive material. The spraying unit is configured to spray the solution toward the substrate. The pipe interconnects the storage unit and the spraying unit. The emission-inducing unit is configured to excite the light emissive material of the solution that flows through the pipe so as to emit light from the solution. The spectrometer is configured to measure the wavelength and intensity of the light.
US09457363B2	Nutating sprinkler head A sprinkler head with a nutating water distribution cage attached to a sprinkler body. Water from the sprinkler head impacts a strike plate of the cage to initiate nutation of the cage. Spiral grooves on the strike plate contribute to the nutation of the cage, and an upturned edge on the periphery of the strike plate contributes to the spread and uniform distribution of water from the sprinkler head.
US09457362B2	Overhead showerhead enabling auto-cleaning of nozzle openings thereof An overhead showerhead enabling auto-cleaning of nozzle openings thereof; the overhead showerhead has a showerhead shell and a water ejection surface front cover removably connected with each other; a plurality of nozzles are provided on the water ejection surface front cover; a first cavity is provided inside the showerhead shell; a water ejection device, a cleaning disc and a driving device for driving the cleaning disc to move up and down are provided inside the first cavity; the cleaning disc is provided with a plurality of cleaning rods; positioning of the cleaning rods corresponds to positioning of the nozzles.
US09457360B1	Low profile attachment for emitting water The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
US09457358B2	Method for determining the torque of a worm of a decanter A method for determining the torque of a worm of a solid bowl worm centrifuge. The solid bowl worm centrifuge includes a rotatable drum and a rotatable worm, the rotatable worm being rotatable at a different rotational speed than that of the rotatable drum. The rotatable drum and rotatable worm are driven via a gear arrangement and a common single drive motor via at least one belt drive, a driving belt pulley, a driven belt pulley and a belt coupling the pulley. The method steps include determining a slip of the at least once belt drive and calculating a torque based upon the determination of the slip.
US09457357B2	Mixed collector compositions Collector compositions and methods for making and using same are provided. The collector can include one or more etheramines and one or more amidoamines. A liquid suspension or slurry comprising one or more particulates can be contacted with the collector to produce a treated mixture. A product can be recovered from the treated mixture that includes a purified liquid having a reduced concentration of the particulates relative to the treated mixture, a purified particulate product having a reduced concentration of liquid relative to the treated mixture, or both.
US09457356B2	Particle separation apparatus Provided is a particle separation apparatus. The particle separation apparatus for separating soil by particle size in a wet-type separation manner includes a body unit providing a space in which a mixture of the soil and water is received to flow vertically, a screen unit coupled to the inside of the body unit to separate the soil by the particle size from the mixture that flows vertically, and a space adjustment unit coupled to a lower portion of the body unit to cover the lower portion of the body unit, the space adjustment unit adjusting a volume of a lower space of the body unit to allow the mixture to repeatedly flow in a vertical direction.
US09457352B2	Thermal cycler A thermal cycler includes a holder receiving a reaction chamber including a channel filled with reaction mixture and an immiscible liquid having different specific gravities and allowing the reaction mixture to move along an opposed inner wall, a temperature gradient forming unit forming a temperature gradient in the movement direction of the reaction mixture relative to the channel during loading into the holder, and a driving unit rotating the holder and temperature gradient forming unit about a rotation axis having a component perpendicular to the gravitational direction and a component perpendicular to the movement direction of the reaction mixture, and a maximum distance from the rotation axis to a point in the channel is smaller than a maximum distance connecting two points in the channel when projected on a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis.
US09457349B2	Packaging cassette for reagent carriers The invention concerns a packaging cassette for reagent carriers, which is characterized by a base housing containing connected adjacent compartments for reagent carriers, wherein the compartments are separated from one another by partitions and are opened individually, each compartment having its own sealing cover which enables the compartment to be re-sealed.
US09457348B2	Device for sampling and transporting nano-objects contained in aerosols for the analysis thereof A device for sampling and transporting nano-objects for analysis thereof. A cassette portion of the device includes two parts with mutual assembly mechanisms between them including a clipping mechanism configured not to be accessible from outside in assembled position of the parts. Therefore, any inopportune opening of the cassette and thus extraction of the sampling filter accommodated in the cassette somewhere else than the place intended for the analysis are avoided.
US09457347B2	Olefin metathesis catalysts The present invention refers to novel ruthenium- and osmium-based catalysts for olefin metathesis reactions, particularly to catalysts having stereoselective properties. Z-selectivity is obtained by utilizing two mono-anionic ligands of very different steric requirement. In olefin metathesis reactions these catalysts selectively provide the Z-isomer of disubstituted olefinic products.
US09457336B2	Seals for use with foil supported and catalyst structures Described herein are flexible seals for directing fluid flow in a tubular reactor, such as a reformer, for enhancing heat transfer and reactor efficiency. The seals can be made of corrugated metal foil that is expandable in the radial direction for accommodating the expansion and contraction of reactor components in the tubular reactor during operation. The seals can block or redirect fluid flow through the reactor. Fluid is directed to the interior of the reactor by the seals and bypass around the outer circumference of the reactor components is reduced or eliminated.
US09457335B2	Hydration apparatus and method Vessels including an enclosure having an outer perimeter and an interior space, a channel disposed in the interior space, a first port disposed on a surface of the first enclosure at or proximate to a first end of the channel, and a second port disposed on a surface of the first enclosure at or proximate to a second end of the channel, where the channel has a length greater than the shortest distance between the first port and the second port, and where the first port and the second port are in fluid communication with one another. In some cases, the length of the channel is greater than a length of the outer perimeter. Optionally, the vessel may have a second enclosure having an outer perimeter and an interior space with a second channel disposed in the interior space, a third port disposed on a surface of the second enclosure at or proximate to a first end of the second channel, and a fourth port disposed on a surface of the second enclosure at or proximate to a second end of the second channel, where the second port, the third port and fourth port are in fluid communication. In yet some other optional variations, the vessel further includes a plurality of enclosures each having an outer perimeter and an interior space, a channel disposed in the interior space, a port disposed on a surface of the enclosure at or proximate to a first end of the channel, and a port disposed on a surface of the enclosure at or proximate to a second end of the channel, where the channel has a length greater than a shortest distance between the ports, and the second port and the ports disposed on the surface of the plurality of enclosures are in fluid communication. The perimeter shape of the enclosure(s) may be any suitable shape, including, but not limited to, substantially circular, ovate or rectangular.
US09457330B2	Electrowetting element and fluid containing low amounts of water An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid which are immiscible with each other and are switchable between a first configuration and a second configuration by changing a voltage applied to at least one of the first and second fluids, wherein less than or equal to 35 wt % of the second fluid is water and a balancing wt % of the second fluid comprises at least one non-aqueous component.
US09457309B2	Structure for preventing air leakage and air cleaner having the same There are provided an air leakage preventing structure and an air cleaner having the same. The air leakage preventing structure includes: a partition unit having an inlet opening formed on one side thereof to allow air to be introduced therethrough and having a rib formed to be protruded from the circumference of the inlet opening; an air blowing fan coupled to the partition unit and rotating to allow air to be introduced through the inlet opening; a motor unit connected to the air blowing fan to rotate the air blowing fan; and an air guide unit connected to the rib formed to be protruded from the partition unit to form an outlet opening, and preventing air leakage when air introduced through the net opening flows out through the outlet opening.
US09457308B2	Filter element and filter system with a filter element A filter element has a filter body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the filter body has a first end with a first end face and a second end with a second end face opposite the first end in direction of the longitudinal axis. The filter body is provided with inner and outer circumferential surfaces permeable for a medium to be filtered. A first end disk is arranged at the first end face and a second end disk is arranged at the second end face. The outer circumferential surface of the filter body has at least one fluid-tight area that is impermeable for the medium to be filtered. The fluid-tight area is an incoming flow protector or an improper handling protector resting on the outer circumferential surface.
US09457301B2	ePTFE filter for aseptic pharmaceutical use and method of using A HEPA filter which utilizes spun bond scrim material and ePTFE membrane for use in an aseptic pharmaceutical filtration air handling system for installation and testing is provided. The installation and testing configuration includes the ePTFE filter with a low or ultra-low concentration of challenging aerosol in the upstream side of the filter along with a scanning device for determining the upstream concentration, all completed in situ within a pharmaceutical air handling system. At the downstream side of the ePTFE filter is positioned another scanner which may be a discrete particle scanner for calculating the penetration percentage of the aerosol through the filtering media of ultra-low concentrations. The system and configuration allows for exposure to ePTFE filtration media for certification by low or ultra-low concentrations of oil based challenging compounds.
US09457296B2	Separation of liquid components from a mixture Operation of an oil-water separator or other liquid mixture separator is monitored. The separator uses a vessel through which a mixture of different liquid components flows horizontally. A plurality of ultrasound transducers is provided on a wall of the vessel at different heights at a common stage along the direction of the horizontal flow. Ultrasound at a plurality of different ultrasound wavelengths is transmitted through the vessel between transducers and ultrasound arriving transducers is detected. Parameter values of a model are fitted to the detection. A model is used that relates height dependent properties of liquid in the vessel to properties of the detected ultrasound transmission between transceivers, the model comprising at least a fittable parameter of a height dependent droplet size distribution in a least a sub-range of a height of liquid in the vessel. The model relating the droplet size distribution to ultrasound wavelength dependence of the properties of ultrasound transmission. The measured droplet size distribution may be used to determine the route of ultrasound paths and to control demulsification measures.
US09457289B2	Smoke emitting toy A toy gun capable of firing a projectile and simultaneously or near simultaneously, emitting smoke from the muzzle of a barrel of the gun after the projectile has been discharged from the muzzle. The toy gun has first and second rechargeable air pumps, with the first air pump automatically discharging stored air into a breech part of the barrel in order to propel a loaded projectile from the barrel, and the second air pump expelling stored air through a flow restriction device which serves as a pressure switch for actuating a smoke generator located adjacent to the muzzle. The second air pump also provides a low air flow rate through the smoke generator to expel smoke therefrom. The second air pump expels stored air much more slowly than the first air pump. The first and second air pumps are simultaneously triggered to release stored air by a user.
US09457250B1	Object tossing game An object tossing game includes a portable receiving board and a container. The container defines a reservoir containing a volume of water. The board is positioned within the container and floats atop the water. The board is constructed out of a buoyant material and includes at least one (1) receiving aperture. The board also includes a catch pocket positioned below the receiving aperture to catch and hold game pieces received by the aperture. The water provides a force dampener when the thrown game piece impacts a surface of the board.
US09457249B2	Sports training device and implementation thereof Embodiments of a sports training device that incorporates structure to facilitate installation and transport. These embodiments include a frame with one or more articulating sections that can change the configuration of the frame. The different configurations can change the dimensions of the sports training device, e.g., reducing the dimensions for transport and increasing the dimensions to match the opening of a goal.
US09457242B2	Golf club head A golf club includes a hollow head 6, a shaft 8, and a grip 10. The head 6 includes a face f6. The face f6 includes a thick portion T1. The thick portion T1 includes a thick portion center point Ec. A face height at the position of the thick portion center point Ec is defined as H1, and the height of the thick portion center point Ec is defined as H2. H2/H1 is equal to or greater than 0.55. The face f6 preferably further includes secondary thick portions T2 and T3 thinner than the thick portion T1, and thin portions T4 and T5 thinner than the secondary thick portions T2 and T3. The thick portion T1 and the secondary thick portions T2 and T3 preferably form a sloped thick portion Ts extending from the upper side of a heel to the lower side of a toe.
US09457238B2	Golf ball with material-filled grooves A golf ball may include an inner core layer and an outer cover layer disposed radially outward of the inner core layer. The outer cover layer may be formed of an outer cover layer material having one or more grooves extending radially inward from an outer surface of the outer cover layer. In addition, the golf ball may include a groove material disposed within the one or more grooves. The groove material may have a compressibility that is different from a compressibility of the outer cover layer material. Also, the outer surface of the groove material may be recessed below the outer surface of the outer cover layer.
US09457235B2	Multi-layered cores having foam inner core for golf balls Multi-layered golf ball core sub-assemblies and the resulting golf balls are provided. The core structure includes an inner core (center) comprising a foam composition, preferably foamed polyurethane. The intermediate core layer is preferably formed from a thermoplastic composition such as an ethylene acid copolymer ionomer resin; and the outer core layer is preferably formed from a thermoset composition such as polybutadiene rubber. The core layers have different hardness and specific gravity levels. In one preferred embodiment, the inner core has a positive hardness gradient, the intermediate core has a positive hardness gradient, and the outer core has a zero or negative hardness gradient. The core structure and resulting ball have relatively good resiliency.
US09457233B2	Three-layer-core golf ball having highly-neutralized polymer outer core layer A golf ball includes an inner core layer formed from a thermoset rubber composition. The inner core layer has a first outer surface Shore D hardness and an outer diameter of about 1.0 to 1.6 inches. A thermoplastic outer core layer is formed around the inner core layer, has a second outer surface Shore D hardness, and is formed from an acid copolymer of ethylene and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, optionally including a softening monomer, such as alkyl acrylates and methacrylates; a plasticizer; and a cation source present in an amount sufficient to neutralize about 70 to 100% of the acid groups present in the material. The golf ball an inner and outer cover layers. The second outer surface Shore D hardness is greater than the first outer surface Shore D hardness.
US09457232B2	Golf ball compositions Disclosed herein are heterogeneous golf ball compositions comprising a thermoplastic matrix and discrete particles of crosslinked polymer dispersed within the matrix.
US09457229B2	Sensor-based gaming system for an avatar to represent a player in a virtual environment A method of providing a sensor-based gaming system for an avatar to represent a player in a virtual environment includes wirelessly receiving a set of measurements describing attributes of the player. The method includes generating a player profile associated with the player and including an avatar depicting a virtual embodiment of the player in a virtual world. The method includes receiving sensor data from sensors. The sensor data describes a change in a real world position of the player. The method includes determining an estimate of a player movement. The method includes determining a difference between a screen position of the avatar in the virtual world and the real world position of the player in the real world. The method includes generating avatar image data representative of movement of the avatar corresponding to movement of the player.
US09457223B2	Stride seeker elliptical exercise apparatus The present invention relates to a standup exercise apparatus that simulates walking and jogging with arm exercise. More particularly, the present invention relates to an exercise machine having separately supported pedals for the feet and arm exercise coordinated with the motion of the feet where the pedal stride length is determined by the movements of an operator. Crank arms are positioned on the framework rearward the operator at a height comparable to the pedals. The default mode provides a stepping motion with handles side by side. Allowing the handles to move as desired achieves elliptical curve pedal paths with varying stride length.
US09457220B2	Push actuated positional adjustment of strength machines An exercise machine including an adjustable joint with a first part and a second part that are shaped to rotate with respect to each other such that when an orientation between the first part and the second part changes, a position of the user contact feature also changes. The machine also includes a locking mechanism that is positioned to secure the first part and the second part together. The locking mechanism being positioned to secure the first part and the second part in an axial locking direction and to release the first part from the second part in an axial release direction. When the first part and the second part are secured, at least two first part features are interlocked with at least two second part features simultaneously.
US09457213B2	Sprinkler deflector A sprinkler assembly including a fluid deflecting structure including a plurality of spaced apart tines defining a plurality of slots. The tines include a first pair of symmetric tines and a second pair of symmetric tines disposed orthogonally to the first pair of symmetric tines. The tines includes outer edges of varying configuration to define tine and slot geometries and patterns.
US09457207B2	Facemask with filter insert for protection against airborne pathogens A facemask assembly includes one or more airflow vents in a lower front section of the mask as well as within the nasal area. The airflow vent allow for the outflow of exhaled heat and CO2. The airflow vents can be configured to direct inward airflow to strike an interior air filter. In some embodiments the airflow strikes the air filter at an oblique angle. The particulate capturing air filter can be replaceable. In some embodiments the air filter contains biocidal elements. In some embodiments the internal filter design enhances the capture of exhaled H2O which activates silver ions in the filter material creating a biocidal environment. In some embodiments, the facemask has two snap-in zones—one below the nose and one under the chin that can accommodate a wide variety of straps/tubing/O-ring stock and be secured behind the head via tying or various cord locks.
US09457206B2	Fire resistant anti-ballistic knit fabric and protective article and protective undergarment made from the same A knit fabric is provided having a fabric weight of no more than 20 OPSY (ounces per square yard) prepared from a combination of yarns of a fire-resistant rayon yarn, and an aramid yarn; wherein the knit fabric provides a V50 value of at least 600 fps, measured in accordance with MIL-STD-3207, and particularly provides flame resistance properties, antimicrobial properties, high air permeability, and high water vapor transmission, and a garment formed therefrom.
US09457201B2	Portable device to initiate and monitor treatment of stroke victims in the field Methods and apparatuses are provided for initiating stroke treatment “in the field” and/or during the transport of the patient to a care facility. The capability is provided to adjust automatically to the individual “therapeutic window” for each single patient, which is crucial because of the significant differences in skull morphology between humans of different age, gender and race. Further, the methods and apparatuses are based on the use of non-invasive application of ultrasound, as well as the non-invasive application of ultrasound in combination with an acoustically active agent, such as microbubbles, where stable cavitation of the microbubbles caused by the ultrasound may be relied upon as an underlying mechanism for both the therapeutic application as well as its control.
US09457193B2	Dual chamber leadless pacemaker programmer and method Systems and methods for providing communications between an external device and first and second leadless pacemakers (LPs) located in a heart are provided. A method includes receiving first and second event messages from the first and second LPs, the first and second event messages received at different points in time at the external device, determining the signal strengths of the first and second event messages, respectively, as received at the external device, adjusting first and second LP discrimination thresholds based on the received signal strengths of the first and second event messages, respectively, and utilizing the first and second LP discrimination thresholds to identify which of the first and second LP transmits subsequent event messages, in order for the external device to independently communicate with the first and second LPs.
US09457192B2	Systems and methods for monitoring neurostimulation dosing Various implantable device embodiments may comprise a neural stimulator configured to deliver a neurostimulation therapy with stimulation ON times and stimulation OFF times where a dose of the neurostimulation therapy is provided by a number of neurostimulation pulses over a period of time. The neural stimulator may be configured to monitor the dose of the delivered neurostimulation therapy against dosing parameters. The neural stimulator may be configured to declare a fault if the monitored dose does not favorably compare to a desired dose for the neurostimulation therapy, or may be configured to record data for the monitored dose of the delivered neurostimulation therapy, or may be configured to both record data fir the monitored dose of the delivered neurostimulation therapy and declare a fault if the monitored dose does not favorably compare to a desired dose for the neurostimulation therapy.
US09457189B2	Hypertension treatment device and method for mitigating rapid changes in blood pressure An implantable baroreflex activation device administers a special electrotherapy program that causes the device to apply electrotherapy to limit a rate of change of blood pressure increase associated with a blood pressure surge event such as a morning blood pressure surge (MBPS).
US09457185B2	Muscle supporter and muscle support method A muscle supporter includes a sheet member that is to be closely attached to skin covering a muscle, a muscle strength condition detector, a muscle contraction timing detector, and a muscle assist movement provider. The muscle strength condition detector disposed on the sheet member detects information related to muscle strength condition of the muscle. The muscle contraction timing detector disposed on the sheet member, in operation, detects a muscle contraction timing of the muscle. The muscle assist movement provider disposed on the sheet member, in operation, assists the muscle to contract in response to the detected information and the detected muscle contraction timing.
US09457179B2	Systems for monitoring and applying electrical currents in an organ perfusion system Electrode systems have been developed for use in perfusion systems to measure the electrical activity of an explanted heart and to provide defibrillation energy as necessary. The perfusion systems maintain the heart in a beating state at, or near, normal physiological conditions; circulating oxygenated, nutrient enriched perfusion fluid to the heart at or near physiological temperature, pressure and flow rate. These systems include a pair of electrodes that are placed epicardially on the right atrium and left ventricle of the explanted heart, as well as an electrode placed in the aortic blood path.
US09457176B2	Implantable drug delivery device with bladder retention feature Implantable devices and methods for controlled drug delivery are provided. The device includes a device structure deformable between a retention shape and a low profile shape for deployment in the bladder of a patient and has a drug reservoir lumen in which a drug formulation is housed. The device also includes a buoyancy retention portion, which includes a volume of entrapped air or a gas-generating or effervescent powder which will generate a volume of entrapped air following contact with urine in the bladder. The buoyancy retention portion may include a water permeable and/or biodegradable wall, which can release the entrapped air following drug release, to cause the device to sink into the bladder neck to facilitate device expulsion without the need for a device retrieval medical procedure.
US09457174B2	Elliptical element for blood pressure reduction Apparatus is provided for treating hypertension of a subject. The apparatus includes an implantable element which has a non-circular shape and which is configured to reduce the hypertension by facilitating an assumption of a non-circular shape by a blood vessel in a vicinity of a baroreceptor of the subject, during diastole of the subject. Other embodiments are also described.
US09457173B2	Methods of providing access to a salivary duct Methods of treatment are described. More particularly, methods of providing access to a bodily passage, such as a salivary duct, are described herein. For example, methods of providing access to a salivary duct and introducing a sheath and wire guide are described herein. In addition, various methods of treatment are described herein. For example, methods of treating a stone located within a salivary duct are described herein.
US09457170B2	Balloon and balloon catheter A balloon including a laminated film of at least two layers including a polyamide elastomer layer and a polyamide layer wherein the polyamide elastomer layer is formed at the inner side of the polyamide layer and a molecular weight distribution of the polymers as a whole of the balloon (weight-average molecular weight MW/number-average molecular weight Mn) ranges from 3 to 10.
US09457165B2	Reperfusion protection in resuscitation An apparatus and method for resuscitating a patient suffering from cardiac arrest or another condition in which normal circulation has been interrupted. A ventilator is used for delivering a gas mixture to the patient. The ventilator is configured to adjust the partial pressure of CO2 to one or more partial pressures high enough to slow expiration of CO2 from the patient's lungs and thereby maintain a reduced pH in the patient's tissues for a period of time following return of spontaneous circulation.
US09457156B2	Injection device comprising a needle protecting sleeve A device and method for protecting against needle sticks, including a needle protection sleeve for being coupled to an administering device to cover a needle associated with the administering device, wherein the sleeve can be moved against the force of a spring from an extended position to a retracted position and by the force of the spring from the retracted position to the extended position, the spring being carried on the needle protection sleeve.
US09457155B2	Protective cover for disposable injection needles A protective cover (4) to be used with disposable injection needles (1), such as those used for injection of insulin, which injection needles comprise a base (3) and a needle (2) fastened in the base, said protective cover comprising a hood (9) pivotably fastened on the base, said hood (9) being arranged to be pivotable, with the one and the same hand that holds a syringe on which the injection needle is arranged, between an inactive position at the side of the needle (2) of the injection needle and an active position in front of the needle (2) seen in the longitudinal direction of the needle.
US09457154B2	Injection device with an end of dose feedback mechanism An injection device with a dose delivering mechanism being adapted to provide a non-visual, e.g. audible and/or tactile, feedback signal when a set dose has been at least substantially injected. A first and a second part of the injection device are adapted to perform a relative rotational movement with respect to each other. The relative rotational movement causes at least two parts of the injection device to abut or engage, and this abutment or engagement causes the non-visual feedback signal to be generated. A very distinct and precise feedback is provided as compared to prior art axial solutions because the generation of the feedback signal is initiated by the relative rotational movement. Feedback signal may be generated by a change in a rotational velocity of at least one part, e.g. by changing the pitch of a threaded portion or by engaging a non-rotating part and a rotating part, thereby causing the non-rotating part to start rotating. May alternatively be generated by building up and releasing a tension. The injection device is suitable for injecting insulin.
US09457152B2	Drive mechanism for a medication delivery device and medication delivery device A drive mechanism for a medication delivery device is proposed, the drive mechanism comprising a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, a rotation member which is adapted to be rotated in a first direction with respect to the housing during setting of a dose of a medication and to be rotated in a second direction with respect to the housing during delivery of the dose, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, a piston rod which is adapted to be displaced in a distal direction with respect to the housing for delivering the dose, a drive member which follows rotational movement of the rotation member in the second direction during delivery of the dose, and a stop member which prevents rotational movement of the drive member with respect to the housing in the first direction during setting of the dose, wherein the rotational movement of the drive member in the second direction is converted into movement of the piston rod in the distal direction with respect to the housing. Furthermore, a medication delivery device is provided for.
US09457151B2	Needleless drug-injecting system and method thereof The present invention relates to a needleless drug-injecting system and a drug-injecting method thereof, wherein the needleless drug-injecting system comprises a controlling device and a needleless drug-injecting device. By using the needleless drug-injecting system and the drug-injecting method, a user is able to individually set a variety of parameters comprising usage dose of liquid medicine, shot pressure of liquid medicine, air flow rate, single-shot quantity of liquid medicine, continuous shot frequency of liquid medicine, and a continuous shot spacing time according to different liquid medicine. Thus, after setting the parameters, the liquid medicine can be injected into the dermis layer of the face skin of a human when the user using this needleless drug-injecting system to inject any one liquid medicine to the human face, therefore the liquid medicine would be absorbed by the face skin without hurting the human face.
US09457150B2	Biasing mechanism for a drug delivery device A method and system for biasing a cartridge in a drug delivery device. An element for biasing a cartridge in a cartridge housing of a drug delivery device is provided. This non-plastic element does not comprise a coil spring. A self retained element for providing a spring bias to a cartridge in a cartridge holder of a drug delivery device comprises a first member having a shape that allows passage of a spindle of the drug delivery device. A portion of the first member is self retained by an internal surface of the drug delivery device. The self retained element biases the cartridge against an inner surface of the cartridge holder. This cartridge could be a removable cartridge.
US09457148B2	Medicament delivery device The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device comprising an elongated housing (10, 10′) having opposite distal and proximal ends, a medicament container (18; 18′) arranged inside said housing, a medicament delivery member (16; 16′) attachable to said medicament container; a plunger rod (22; 22′) arranged to act on a stopper (20; 20′) inside said medicament container; driving means arranged to interact with said plunger rod; wherein said device further comprises an operation member (38; 38′) transversally protruding through an elongated opening (39; 39′) on the longitudinal surface of the elongated housing and interactively connected to the driving means for both setting and actuating the delivery of a dose of medicament.
US09457133B2	Thermo-mechanically controlled implants and methods of use An implant comprises a structure that may be implanted into tissue and that has a first material property at normal body temperature. The first material property is variable at elevated temperatures above normal body temperature. The implant also has a plurality of particles dispersed in the structure that are adapted to convert incident radiation into heat energy when irradiated with electromagnetic radiation. The particles are in thermal contact with the structure such that exposure of the particles to incident radiation raises the temperature of the structure thereby changing the first material property relative to the first material property at normal body temperature.
US09457132B2	Controlled covalent attachment of bioactive bacteriophage for regulating biofilm development Medical devices that are resistant to biofilm development and methods of the manufacture of biofilm resistant medical devices are provided. One or more bacteriophages are tethered to the surface of a medical device or a hydrogei-type coating on the surface of the device by covalent bonding while maintaining bacteriophage infective or lytic activity. The presence of the bacteriophages on a medical device, such as an indwelling medical device, prevents biofilm formation or reduces existing biofilm formation on the surface of the device when in use. These devices address the long felt need for biofilm resistant devices that increase safety and reduce complications normally associated with prior indwelling or other medical devices.
US09457131B2	Apparatus and method for producing a dental bone graft According to some embodiments of the invention, there is provided a method of producing a bone graft, comprising: providing a tooth, converting the tooth into a plurality of particles, and selecting from available particles a subset of particles. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a dental clinic. In some embodiments, the dental bone graft is an autograft produced by grinding a patient's tooth. According to some embodiments of the invention, there is provided an apparatus configured for connecting to a motor unit to produce a bone graft at a dental clinic, comprising: a housing encasing: a chamber sized to receive a tooth, a blade assembly positioned within the chamber and configured to pulverize the tooth, an accessible compartment in which a subset of tooth particles is collected, and one or more sieves positioned to sift particles that flow between the chamber and the accessible compartment.
US09457129B2	Temporarily stiffened mesh prostheses The present invention relates to medical prostheses and methods of manufacturing those devices. In particular, the prostheses are temporarily stiffened meshes with particular coatings to provide initial stiffness and thereby permit easier surgical handling for treatment or reconstruction of soft tissue defects. Preferred embodiments include surgical meshes coated with one or more biodegradable polymers that can act as a stiffening agent by coating the filaments or fibers of the mesh to temporarily immobilize the contact points of those filaments or fibers and/or by increasing the stiffness of the mesh by at least 1.1 times its original stiffness. The devices of the invention can also provide relief from various post-operative complications associated with their implantation, insertion or surgical use. By including biologically active agents and/or drugs in the coating, the devices provide prophylaxis for and can alleviate side effects or complications associated with the surgery or use of prostheses in general.
US09457120B2	Air purifier An air purifier including an air sterilizing unit, an air blowing unit arranged such that air flows in the air sterilizing unit; the air sterilizing unit comprising housing and an ultraviolet light emitting device which emits deep ultraviolet ray having wavelength of 200 to 350 nm; the housing comprising a sterilizing room; the sterilizing room comprising an air intake opening and an air outlet opening; and the ultraviolet light emitting device being arranged in the housing such that the deep ultraviolet ray is emitted toward inside of the sterilizing room, wherein (A) at least a part of an inner wall surface of the sterilizing room comprises an ultraviolet reflective material which may be covered with an ultraviolet ray transmitting material, and/or (B) one or more reflector plate is arranged in the sterilizing room.
US09457114B2	Apparatus and method for sterilizing containers An apparatus for sterilizing plastic preforms, comprises a transport device that transports the plastic preforms along a predefined transport path, each plastic preform extending in a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of actuation devices. Each actuation device inputs a flowable medium into interiors of the plastic preforms, respectively. The actuation devices travel with the plastic preforms in a transport direction along the transport device. The actuation devices at least one of inject the flowable medium into the plastic preforms at a predefined angle α relative to the longitudinal directions of the plastic preforms, or include longitudinal directions, respectively, that are offset relative to the longitudinal directions of the plastic preforms.
US09457101B2	Hydrogels for delivery of therapeutic polypeptides Disclosed herein is a hydrogel composition comprising a polymer covalently linked to glutathione (GSH). Also disclosed herein is a method for providing localized delivery of one or more agents in a subject suffering from a disease. The method comprises administering to the subject a GST/GSH affinity hydrogel comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the one or more agents.
US09457100B2	PEGylation by the dock and lock (DNL) technique The present invention concerns methods and compositions for forming PEGylated complexes of defined stoichiometry and structure. In preferred embodiments, the PEGylated complex is formed using dock-and-lock technology, by attaching a target agent to a DDD sequence and attaching a PEG moiety to an AD sequence and allowing the DDD sequence to bind to the AD sequence in a 2:1 stoichiometry, to form PEGylated complexes with two target agents and one PEG moiety. In alternative embodiments, the target agent may be attached to the AD sequence and the PEG to the DDD sequence to form PEGylated complexes with two PEG moieties and one target agent. In more preferred embodiments, the target agent may comprise any peptide or protein of physiologic or therapeutic activity. The PEGylated complexes exhibit a significantly slower rate of clearance when injected into a subject and are of use for treatment of a wide variety of diseases.
US09457099B2	Polyethylene glycol-based dendrons The instant invention relates to polyethylene glycol-based dendrons, otherwise known as PEGtide dendrons, compositions thereof and methods of use.
US09457098B2	Asymmetric bifunctional silyl monomers and particles thereof as prodrugs and delivery vehicles for pharmaceutical, chemical and biological agents Asymmetric bifunctional silyl (ABS) monomers comprising covalently linked pharmaceutical, chemical and biological agents are described. These agents can also be covalently bound via the silyl group to delivery vehicles for delivering the agents to desired targets or areas. Also described are delivery vehicles which contain ABS monomers comprising covalently linked agents and to vehicles that are covalently linked to the ABS monomers. The silyl modifications described herein can modify properties of the agents and vehicles, thereby providing desired solubility, stability, hydrophobicity and targeting.
US09457093B2	Solid dispersions of a ERB2 (HER2) inhibitor A solid dispersion of N4-(4-([1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridin-7-yloxy)-3-methylphenyl)-N6-(4,4-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazol-2-yl)quinazoline-4,6-diamine and processes for preparing the solid dispersion are provided herein. Also, a pharmaceutical composition comprising a solid dispersion of N4-(4-([1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-α]pyridin-7-yloxy)-3-methylphenyl)-N6-(4,4-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazol-2-yl)quinazoline-4,6-diamine and uses thereof are provided herein.
US09457092B2	Delivery of ibuprofen and other compounds The present invention generally relates to the transdermal delivery of various compositions. In some aspects, the transdermal delivery may be facilitated by the use of a hostile biophysical environment. One set of embodiments provides a composition for topical delivery comprising ibuprofen and/or an ibuprofen salt, a nitric oxide donor, and optionally, a hostile biophysical environment. In some cases, the composition may be stabilized using a stabilization polymer such as xanthan gum, KELTROL® BT and/or KELTROL® RD; propylene glycol; and a polysorbate surfactant such as Polysorbate 20, which unexpectedly provides temperature stability to the composition, e.g., at elevated temperatures such as at least 40° C. (at least about 104° F.), as compared to compositions lacking one or more of these.
US09457087B2	Stable crystal modifications of DOTAP chloride The invention relates to enantiomerically pure DOTAP chloride and stable crystal modifications of (2R,S)-, (2S)- and (2R)-DOTAP chloride, to a process for the preparation of these modifications, and to the use thereof as constituent for the preparation of medicaments.
US09457084B2	Use of EP4 receptor antagonists in the treatment of IL-23 mediated diseases This invention relates to a compound with EP4 antagonistic activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt with EP4 receptor antagonistic activities, which is useful in the treatment of immune disease or allergy. This invention also relates to a compound of formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (Va) or (Vb), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with EP4 receptor antagonistic activities, which is useful in the treatment of immune disease or allergy. This invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of immune disease or allergy which comprises a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (Va) or (Vb), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Further this invention relates to a method for the treatment of immune disease or allergy in an animal subject including a mammalian subject, which comprises administering to the animal subject including a mammalian subject a compound of the formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (Va) or (Vb), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09457083B2	Liposome composition for treating acne containing conjugate of lysophosphatidylcholine and chlorin e6 The present invention relates to a liposome composition comprising 0.001 to 5% by weight of conjugate of lysophophatidylcholine and chlorin e6, 1 to 10% by weight of sucrose laurate, 0.1 to 5% by weight of sodium stearoyl glutamate, 1 to 10% by weight of PEG-5 rapeseed sterol, 1 to 20% by weight of medium-chain triglyceride, 1 to 10% by weight of vegetable oil, 0.1 to 5% by weight of sodium deoxycholate, 3 to 10% by weight of glycerin and the balance of water, and a skin care composition comprising the same. The liposome composition of the present invention is very effective in the treatment of acne.
US09457079B2	Methods for producing enteroendocrine cells that make and secrete insulin Methods are described for producing enteroendocrine cells that make and secrete insulin in a mammal by blocking the expression or biological activity of one or more Foxo proteins or biologically active fragments or variants thereof.
US09457078B2	Methods for inhibiting C5a with C5a peptides coupled or fused to a carrier protein The present invention relates to a vaccine comprising at least one peptide consisting of amino acid sequence LRANISHKDMQLGR (SEQ ID No. 1) or a peptide fragment thereof (SEQ ID No. 2-13) coupled or fused to a carrier protein comprising at least one T cell epitope, wherein said peptide fragment comprises at least 7 amino acid residues and the amino acid sequence KDMQLGR (SEQ ID No: 7) or KDMQLG (SEQ ID No: 23) under the provision that the peptide fragment does not consist of amino acid sequences HKDMQLGR (SEQ ID No: 16) and HKDMQLG (SEQ ID No: 22).
US09457076B2	Method for producing vaccinal viral strain of a virus of the Reoviridae family The invention relates to a method for producing a modified viral strain of a virus which is a member of the Reoviridae family and, in particular, relates to vaccinal viral strains of the Orbivirus genus.
US09457074B2	Compositions and methods for treating and preventing porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating or preventing Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) infection in a subject.
US09457073B2	Live attenuated replication-competent arteriviruses having decreased dub/deisgylating activity The present invention relates to replication-competent Arteriviruses having a decreased DUB/deISGylating activity due to a mutation in the PLP2 domain of the non-structural protein nsp2, to their use as a medicament, their use as a vaccine and in prophylaxis, to vaccines comprising such Arteriviruses and to Arteriviral PLP2-ubiquitin complexes.
US09457067B2	Sialylated glycoprotein compositions and uses thereof The present application relates to sialylated glycoprotein compositions and methods of their use in treating various conditions and disorders.
US09457065B2	Methods for delivering insulin preparations into a lumen of the intestinal tract using a swallowable drug delivery device Embodiments of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Many embodiments provide a swallowable device for delivering the agents. Particular embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. Embodiments also provide various drug preparations that are configured to be contained within the capsule, advanced from the capsule into the intestinal wall and degrade to release the drug into the bloodstream to produce a therapeutic effect. The preparation can be operably coupled to delivery means having a first configuration where the preparation is contained in the capsule and a second configuration where the preparation is advanced out of the capsule into the intestinal wall. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract.
US09457049B2	Method for generating nitric oxide The present invention relates to a method for generating nitric oxide, in particular for therapeutic applications, which comprises the steps of: guiding a process gas into a reaction chamber (12), wherein the process gas comprises nitrous oxide in a carrier gas in a concentration in the range of ≦2 vol-%, in particular in the range of ≧10-3 vol-% to ≦1 vol-%, and heating the process gas to a temperature which is sufficiently high to enable a reaction of nitrous oxide to form nitric oxide, thereby forming a gas which at least partly comprises nitric oxide. This method allows generating nitric oxide without remarkable concentrations of toxic nitrogen oxides, in particular of nitrogen dioxide. The method according to the invention is particularly suitable for therapeutic applications.
US09457048B2	Absorbent ingestible agents and associated methods of manufacture and use Appetite suppression and weight management achieved through pre-meal ingestion of temporary gastric bulking agents in the form of superabsorbent polymer hydrogels (SAPHs) selected from among a group consisting of crosslinked polycarboxylic acid moieties is described. The preferred compositions and manufacturing methods of ultrapure preparations of ingestible forms; as well as the preferred methods of use, dosage and administration; distribution and delivery of SAPH materials are also described.
US09457040B2	Effective treatment of esophageal adenocarcinoma using triciribine and related compounds The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat esophogeal adenocarcinoma by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug.
US09457039B2	2′-disubstituted nucleoside derivatives and methods of use thereof for the treatment of viral diseases 2′-disubstituted substituted nucleoside derivatives of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed: (1), wherein A is N3 or NH2 and X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R18 are as defined herein. Compositions comprising at least one 2′-disubstituted nucleoside derivative, and methods of using the 2′-disubstituted nucleoside derivatives for treating or preventing HCV infection in a patient are disclosed.
US09457038B2	Administration of avermectin/milbemycin compounds for the treatment of ophthalmic pathologies Administration of at least one compound of the family of the avermectins or of the family of the milbemycins, notably ivermectin, is useful for the treatment of ophthalmic pathologies, including ocular rosacea.
US09457029B2	Treatment of genotyped diabetic patients with DPP-IV inhibitors such as linagliptin The present invention relates to methods for preventing or treating of metabolic disorders and related conditions, such as in certain patient groups.
US09457027B2	Compounds for use in treatment of mucostis The present invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing mucostitis with one or more compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, disclosed herein, or compositions comprising the same.
US09457025B2	Compositions and methods comprising bupropion or related compounds for sustained delivery of dextromethorphan Dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and methods related to sustained release of dextromethorphan or improved therapeutic effects are disclosed. Typically, bupropion or a related compound is orally administered to a human being to be treated with, or being treated with, dextromethorphan.
US09457022B2	Methods and compositions for treating or preventing symptoms of hormonal variations The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and kits for treating or preventing symptoms of hormonal variation. The method comprises the steps of administering an effective amount of Dextromethorphan or Dextrorphan, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a subject having one or more symptoms of hormonal variations.
US09456998B2	Selective inhibitors of undifferentiated cells Uses of a compound of any of Formulas I-VI as a cytotoxic inhibitor of undifferentiated cells are disclosed herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of any of Formulas I-VI, and methods for identifying a lead candidate for inhibiting undifferentiated cells. Further disclosed are uses of an SCD-1 inhibitor as a cytotoxic inhibitor of undifferentiated cells.
US09456986B2	Naloxone mono preparation and multilayer tablet The present invention relates to a solid oral pharmaceutical composition comprising naloxone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active substance, wherein the composition releases the active substance in a prolonged manner. In order to provide a composition that is suitable for an administration period of at least twelve-hours for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation, it is proposed that the composition should have an in vitro release rate of the active substance measured using the paddle stirrer method according to Ph. Eur. at 75 rpm in 500 ml 0.1 N hydrochloric acid at 37° C., of 0% to 75% in 2 h, of 3% to 95% in 4 h, of 20% to 100% in 10 h, of 30% to 100% in 16 h, of 50% to 100% in 24 h, and of more than 80% in 36 h, wherein the composition has a IC50/Cmax value of at least 40. In an alternative embodiment, the composition can be a multilayer tablet.
US09456984B2	Method for treating fibrosis using siRNA and a retinoid-lipid drug carrier What is described is a method for treating a fibrotic disease by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a drug carrier, which comprises a lipid and a retinoid, and a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, which comprises an antisense sequence to mRNA encoding human hsp47.
US09456980B2	Latanoprost-containing aqueous pharmaceutical composition The invention provides a latanoprost-containing aqueous pharmaceutical composition filled in a filter-equipped container, with the adsorption of latanoprost by the filter being prevented. In the latanoprost-containing aqueous pharmaceutical composition filled in the filter-equipped container, a nonionic surfactant is contained in the composition and the filter is made from at least one material selected from the group consisting of polyether sulfone, polyvinylidene fluoride, polycarbonate, and polytetrafluoroethylene.
US09456976B2	Hair treatment compositions comprising selected UV filters and selected complexes of acidic protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines The present invention relates to hair treatment agents that include a synergistic combination of selected UV filters and selected complexes of acid protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines.
US09456975B2	Hair care compositions with selected amino acids and selected complexes of acidic protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines Hair treatment agents include selected amino acids and selected complexes of acidic protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines.
US09456974B2	Hair care compositions with selected protein hydrolysates and selected complexes of acidic protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines Hair treatment agents include selected protein hydrolysates and selected complexes of acidic protein hydrolysates and basic fatty acid amidoamines.
US09456972B2	Niacin-peptide having skin whitening activity and use for same Provided is niacin-peptide which has skin whitening activity. The peptide of the present invention has skin whitening activity by inhibiting melanogenesis, that is, by inhibiting the expression of a gene related to melanogenesis (for example, TRP-1, TRP2, or MIFT). The peptide of the present invention has high stability and skin permeability. Also provided is a cosmetic composition for skin whitening which contains the niacin-peptide.
US09456965B2	Oil-in-water emulsified skin cosmetic The present invention is an oil-in-water emulsified skin cosmetic comprising acetylated hyaluronic acid, a specific polymethacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine derivative, non-emulsifying cross-linked silicone, glycerin, polyvinyl alcohol, an acrylamide type thickener, and an oil component in an amount of 25 wt % or more relative to the total amount of the oil-in-water emulsified skin cosmetic.The object of the present invention is to provide an oil-in-water emulsified skin cosmetic manifesting superior effects in improving spreadability on the skin, absorption in the skin, absence of stickiness, emollient sensations, taut sensations, and wrinkles/sagging.
US09456963B2	Photo-curable resin compositions and method of using the same in three-dimensional printing for manufacturing artificial teeth and denture base Photo-curable compositions for artificial teeth and denture base and a method for manufacturing denture by a three-dimensional printing system are provided. The compositions include photo-curable organic compounds, surface modified nano-sized inorganic filler, photo-initiator, colorant, and stabilizer. The composition is in a viscous liquid state having 1500-5000 cps at ambient temperature and has a low viscosity of 50-500 cps at jetting temperature or dispensing temperature. The composition also has an excellent curing rate for three-dimensional printing. Using the compositions, denture having a distinctive denture base and a set of artificial teeth can be manufactured via an inkjet type or digital light process type three-dimensional printing according to Computer Aided Design (CAD) data.
US09456950B2	Variable acupressure ball for massaging apparatus Provided is a variable acupressure ball for a massaging apparatus having a drive motor, a reducer connected to the drive motor, and an acupressure unit which has at least one acupressure ball disposed on top of a body thereof and which is coupled to a rotational shaft of the reducer so as to be rotated together. The variable acupressure ball includes a shaft protruding from the top of the body of the acupressure unit, a cap-shaped acupressure ball loosely fitted around the shaft, and an elastic unit resiliently restoring an interval between the cap-shaped acupressure ball and the shaft. The acupressure ball formed on the acupressure unit is variable in position according to acupressure strength.
US09456948B1	Dental chair A dental chair is provided including a chair assembly comprising a backrest, a seat, and a base; and at least one set of utility ports disposed on the chair, adjacent to the seat, each port having a quick release fitting for receiving a flexible conduit connected to a hand piece.
US09456946B2	Fluid receiving suction mat A mat for collecting fluid spilled onto a floor that includes a body of small thickness relative to its length and width and having an upper surface defining a plurality of receptacles and a lower surface defining a plurality of diagonally oriented channels or passages that communicate with each other and with the drains. The diagonal channels have distal ends that terminate in an end wall and inner ends that communicate directly or indirectly with a collection channel, the collection channel having a discharge port that is connectable to a suction source. The diagonal channels are formed in two groups that are disposed symmetrically about the collection channel. The mat is especially suitable for use on the floor of an operating room, as well as the floor of a food processing or manufacturing facility where fluids are spilled. The mat may include a anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and/or disinfectant treatment which may be effected by treating the mat after it is molded or adding the treatment compounds to the material from which the mat is molded.
US09456941B2	Trolley for transporting individuals of limited capacity in sedentary position on chair A trolley for transporting individuals of limited capacity in a sedentary position on a chair is disclosed. The aforesaid trolley comprises (a) a carrying structure and (b) at least three wheels rotatably secured to the structure within a perimeter thereof. The carrying structure is configured for releasably fixating legs of the chair such that the chair is reversibly mountable on the carrying structure.
US09456930B2	Topical vacuum-press surgical incisional dressings, surgical adjuncts, hybrids and composites A negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) dressing includes a wick configured for placement over an incision. A transfer assembly includes a compressible, porous core with a permeable cover placed over the core. The transfer assembly is positioned on the wick in fluidic contact and is covered by a dressing cover, which is configured for adhesive attachment to the patient around the incision. A drain slip including a proximal end configured for placement in the incision extends through the wick and the transfer assembly and is configured for connection to a negative pressure source. A NPWT method includes steps of draining a closed incision using negative pressure applied to a drain slip.
US09456928B2	Wound dressing with vacuum reservoir A wound dressing apparatus includes a wound dressing member dimensioned for positioning relative to a wound bed. The wound dressing member including an internal vacuum reservoir and has a port in communication with the vacuum reservoir for applying subatmospheric pressure to the vacuum reservoir to facilitate removal of fluid from the wound bed. The wound dressing member includes a visual pressure indicator associated therewith for indicating a level of pressure within the vacuum reservoir. The visual pressure indicator includes color indicia having a plurality of colors corresponding to a condition of the pressure within the vacuum reservoir. The wound dressing member includes a lower absorbent member positionable adjacent the wound bed and an upper member which at least partially defines the vacuum reservoir. At least one of the top member and the lower absorbent member has the visual pressure indicator mounted thereto.
US09456922B2	Prophylactic having a textured pattern A prophylactic device includes a base for receiving a portion of a body, a tip for containing body fluids, and a tubular body in between. The tubular body includes at least one area with a textured pattern, including lines running along the tubular body (e.g., lines running in at least three directions) that form shapes on the tubular body with portions of the lines forming edges of the shapes (e.g., circles, ellipses, polygons, etc.). The textured pattern forms a reinforcing mesh that wraps around the tubular body. A mold can be used for making the prophylactic device, where the mold includes different portions for receiving material(s), and is shaped to form the material(s) into the base, tip, and tubular body of the prophylactic device.
US09456918B2	Orthosis and method of use for treatment and rehabilitation of dropfoot A functional electrical stimulation brace responsive to various positions of an intended wearer's foot. The device includes a plurality of sensors positioned at different locations under the intended wearer's foot to detect the current position of the foot. Outputs from the sensors are fed to a controller that uses logic to activate an electrical stimulation unit that stimulates the peroneal muscles of a patient at the appropriate times during the patient's gait. The device may also employ mechanical stabilization of the ankle in addition to the functional electrical stimulation by means of an ankle foot orthosis with a variable resistance hinge. The electrodes are embedded in fixed locations in the brace upper portion so that optimal location of the electrodes relative to the peroneal muscles is maintained every time the device is applied. Also provided is a method for assistance and rehabilitation for a patient by electrical stimulation of the peroneal muscles. In the method, the position of the foot is detected and the peroneal muscles are stimulated responsive to particular positions of the patient's foot in order to activate the muscles at the appropriate times during the patient's gait. The device also provides lateral and torsional stability by means of the ankle-foot orthosis.
US09456902B2	Orthopaedic implants A method for making an orthopaedic implant, the method comprising: characterizing at least a portion of a bone corresponding to the bone to be replaced, said corresponding bone being on the contralateral side of the patient; providing a model of the orthopaedic implant based on a mirror image of the contralateral bone; and forming the orthopaedic implant based on the model.
US09456900B2	Method and apparatus for harvesting cartilage for treatment of a cartilage defect A method for treating a cartilage defect can include identifying an area of excessive boney growth on at least one of a femoral head and a femoral neck of a patient where the excessive boney growth area is covered with articular cartilage. A portion of the articular cartilage can be harvested from the identified area of excessive boney growth and an area of cartilage damage in an acetabulum of the patient can be identified. The harvested portion of the articular cartilage can be implanted into the identified area of cartilage damage in the acetabulum.
US09456892B2	Flipping-type graft fixation device and method A buckle useful for cortical fixation has a graft retention loop slidably affixed thereto for movement from a first position adjacent a first end of the buckle to a second position at about the midpoint of the buckle. The buckle, with a graft over the loop, is drawn up lengthwise through a bone tunnel through a tibia and then flipped sideways to rest against the surface of the bone with the loop and graft depending back into the tunnel. The sliding attachment of the loop permits flipping of the buckle minimizes the flipping distance, which is the excess amount of the loop which must be pulled free of the tunnel to allow the buckle to be flipped sideways.
US09456891B2	Tubular conduit A tubular conduit is disclosed. The tubular conduit comprises a tubular portion made from a flexible material and an axially extending external helical formation located around the outside of the tubular portion. The external helical formation is for supporting the tubular portion. Optionally the tubular portion also comprises an axially extending internal helical protrusion, which imparts a helical flow to a fluid passing through the tubular portion. It is preferred that the tubular conduit is a vascular graft.
US09456881B1	Dental attachment assembly A dental attachment assembly has an abutment portion at the proximal end of a one-piece dental implant (an “abutment portion”), or is an abutment for attachment to a dental implant or to a bar joining two or more dental implants, and a two-part assembly including a metal cap for placement in/attachment to a dental appliance. The cap includes a flanged skirt that projects from the top surface of the cap. A second part, a plastic insert, snaps firmly inside the cap.
US09456878B2	Subcutaneous biopsy cavity marker device A marking device for identifying a subcutaneous biopsy cavity having a first nonabsorbable marker element detectable by a first imaging modality and a second nonabsorbable marker element detectable by a second imaging modality but not detectable by the first imaging modality.
US09456877B2	Direct drive instruments and methods of use Disclosed herein are various instruments, systems, and methods of use. The instruments can have various control members and/or handles for controlling various degrees of freedom. In addition, the control members can include various control mechanisms for transferring user inputs from a handle to a distal portion of the instrument. In one aspect, an instrument can comprise a control member and a catheter. The catheter can be adjustably and/or detachably connected to the control member.
US09456874B2	Grid patterned alignment plate for imaging apparatus and method of providing implant placement A computer implemented system for adjusting the placement of an implant in a patient through the use of a dimensioned grid template placed relative to patient anatomy on a fluoroscopic machine and a method to digitally quantify alignment parameters is provided. This system can be used for determining: 1) leg length, offset, and cup position during arthroplasty replacement surgery; 2) fracture reduction/correction position during trauma procedures and 3) an apparatus to be used for deformity correction planning is provided; 4) placement and positioning of instruments and implants relative to bone and anatomical architecture; 5) bone anatomy boundary parameter identification relative to reaming and cutting landmarks of bone.
US09456869B2	Methods for bilateral renal neuromodulation Methods and apparatus are provided for bilateral renal neuromodulation, e.g., via a pulsed electric field, via a stimulation electric field, via localized drug delivery, via high frequency ultrasound, via thermal techniques, etc. Such neuromodulation may effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, action potential attenuation or blockade, changes in cytokine up-regulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, neuromodulation is applied to neural fibers that contribute to renal function. In some embodiments, such neuromodulation is performed in a bilateral fashion. Bilateral renal neuromodulation may provide enhanced therapeutic effect in some patients as compared to renal neuromodulation performed unilaterally, i.e., as compared to renal neuromodulation performed on neural tissue innervating a single kidney.
US09456865B2	Symmetric switching electrode method and related system Electrosurgical system and related methods that include: producing energy by a generator of an electrosurgical controller, the generator comprises a first terminal coupled to a first electrode of an electrosurgical wand, and the generator comprises a second terminal coupled to a second electrode of the electrosurgical wand; forming, responsive to the energy, a plasma proximate to the first electrode, and acting as a current return by the second electrode; reducing energy output of the generator such that the plasma proximate the first electrode is extinguished, the reducing energy output during periods of time when the electrosurgical controller is commanded to produce energy; producing energy from the generator with the first terminal coupled to the first electrode and the second terminal coupled to the second electrode; and forming, responsive to the energy, a plasma proximate to the second electrode, and acting as a current return by the first electrode.
US09456864B2	Surgical instruments and end effectors therefor An end effector for use with a surgical instrument is disclosed. The end effector comprises a first jaw, a second jaw, wherein the first jaw is movable relative to the second jaw to transition the end effector between an open configuration and an approximated configuration to clamp tissue between the first jaw and the second jaw, and a camming assembly. The camming assembly comprises a first camming member comprising a first distal camming portion, a first proximal camming portion, and a first flexible portion extending between the first distal camming portion and the first proximal camming portion. The camming assembly further comprises a second camming member and a connector at least partially disposed between the first camming member and the second camming member, wherein the camming assembly is movable relative to the end effector to transition the end effector to the approximated configuration.
US09456858B2	Bone plates, screws and instruments Systems for trauma and/or joint fusion implants and instruments include transarticular screw and intra-articular washer, polyaxial screw and plate, single- and multi-level polyaxial bone clamps, and minimally invasive adaptations.
US09456852B2	Composite material spinal implant A pedicle screw implant construct kit, comprising at least one pedicle screw, at least one collar comprising a recess for receiving a rod, the collar configured to be coupled to a head of the pedicle screw, an elongated rod for connecting the collar to one more additional collars to couple between the pedicle screw and one or more additional screws, and a locking ring sized to be positioned over at least a distal portion of the collar to restrain relative movement of the screw head and rod by exerting radial compression force onto the collar. In some embodiments, the components of the kit are comprised of carbon reinforced composite material.
US09456851B2	Spinal implant A screw and rod fixation assembly includes a body member including a screw seat for seating a screw head therein and a rod seat for seating a rod therein. An adjustable locking ring applies a locking force against the screw head seated in the screw seat and a locking cap adjustably applies a locking force against a rod seated in the rod seat. The adjustable screw locking ring and locking cap function independent of each other.A method of fixing the rod to the screw includes the steps of inserting a screw head into a screw seat in one end of a body member and inserting a rod into a rod seat in a second end of a body member and selectively and independently adjusting a locking force on both the screw head and the rod within the screw seat and rod seat, respectively.
US09456850B2	Spinal implant locking member with improved guidance, tactile and visual feedback An implant having a receiver that is adapted to receive a polyaxial screw in the bore and either an internal or external cap. The cap can be an external or internal cap and the implant further has at least one locking aid in the form of at least one of a tactile feedback, a visual feedback or an enhanced fixation between the cap and a rod that is received in the receiver.
US09456844B2	Atherectomy device An atherectomy device has a drive circuit which rotates a direct-current motor. The drive circuit has a three-terminal regulator having an ADJ terminal. A partial pressure resistor is connected between the ADJ terminal and an output terminal of the three-terminal regulator. Moreover, one end of six variable resistors whose resistances are set to be different from each other is connected to the ADJ terminal. The other end of the six variable resistors is selectively connected to the negative electrode of a battery by a change-over switch which is a rotary switch having six contacts. When the variable resistors are switched by the change-over switch, the output current of the three-terminal regulator becomes large. Thus, the rotation speed of a cutter which is rotated by the direct-current motor becomes high.
US09456830B2	Bone graft delivery system and method for using same A bone graft delivery system can include an elongate tube, a handle having a trigger, and a tip. The trigger is actuated to deliver bone graft material through the tube. The tip has one or more openings to deliver the bone graft material to a desired location and includes a surface suitable to act as a rasp for decorticating bone. A method for delivering bone graft material to a desired surgical location includes providing a bone graft delivery device, positioning the device adjacent the surgical location, decorticating bone, and delivering bone graft material to the surgical location.
US09456824B2	Manual surgical ligation clip applier A ligation clip applier is provided. The clip applier includes: a pair of jaws; a distal clevis tube to which the jaws are pivotally mounted; a proximal clevis tube located behind the distal clevis tube, wherein the distal clevis tube and the proximal clevis tubes move axially with respect to each other; a clip lock actuator fixed to one of the proximal and distal clevis tubes; and a distal pushrod extending through the distal and proximal clevis tubes and forming a camming connection with the jaws configured to close and move the jaws toward a proximal direction toward the clip lock actuator when the distal pushrod is moved in the proximal direction. A method for applying a clip on a vessel is disclosed.
US09456823B2	Embolic devices Described herein are apparatus, compositions, systems and associated methods to occlude structures and malformations of the vasculature with radiopaque hydrogel filaments with delayed controlled rates of expansion. Further described is a device for implantation in an animal comprising a difunctional, low molecular weight ethylenically unsaturated shapeable macromer; an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; and a radiopaque element, wherein said device contains no support members. Methods of forming such devices are also disclosed.
US09456818B2	Method and device for suture removal A method for manipulating a suture is provided. The method includes protracting a snare from a body of a suture manipulation device through an opening in the body. The snare includes, at a distal end, a hook. The method further includes ensnaring a portion of the suture passed through tissue with the snare and securing the portion of the suture. The method further still further includes retracting the hook into a slot located distally in the body to prevent the snare from retracting into the body through the opening in the body.
US09456816B2	Closure device, deployment apparatus, and method of deploying a closure device The present invention relates a closure device implant for sealing an opening formed through biological tissue including a plug, a rigid wire including a plastically deformable portion configurable between an unrestrained position and a restrained position relative to the plug, wherein a distal end of the wire is substantially spherically shaped, and a footplate attached to the wire, wherein the footplate comprises an elongated plate portion including a wire channel. The present invention also relates to a closure device deployment device including an elongated housing, a sheath assembly connected to the housing, and at least two sliding members slidably connected to the housing.
US09456814B2	Closure devices, systems, and methods An anchor assembly configured to locate and anchor body tissue surrounding an opening in the body tissue. The anchor assembly can include a plurality of anchor elements. Each anchor element can include an elongate portion and an anchor portion extending from the elongate portion. The elongate portion can be configured to be manipulated by a user. The anchor portion can have a contracted configuration capable of passing through the opening in the body tissue and can have an expanded configuration capable of anchoring the body tissue surrounding the opening. The anchor portion and the elongate portion can be integrally formed from a single wire.
US09456809B2	Tissue sample flushing system for biopsy device A method for operating a biopsy device to acquire at least one tissue sample from a body of a living being, including retracting a sample-receiving device through a hollow needle to a sample removal position, a tissue sample being simultaneously transported to the sample removal position by the sample-receiving device; operatively connecting a liquid supply unit to a cavity of the sample-receiving device when the sample-receiving device is at the sample removal position; and delivering a lateral flow of a flushing liquid from the liquid supply unit to the cavity of the sample-receiving device to facilitate a lateral tissue sample ejection from the cavity.
US09456807B2	Soft tissue coring biopsy devices and methods An excisional device for either handheld or stereotactic table use may comprise an outer sheath that may comprise a distal trough shape configured to penetrate and/or cut tissue independently or in concert with work element(s). The articulable work element(s) may comprise articulable beak(s) and may be configured to translate and/or rotate at a first rate and to cut tissue in a direction implied by placement of the trough shaped outer sheath. A first helical element or equivalent assembly may be configured to transport tissue cut by the work element(s) and/or trough, may be co-axially disposed relative to the work element(s) and may be operative to rotate at a second rotation rate that is different than the first rate. A proximal sheath may be co-axially disposed relative to the work element(s) and the first helical element, and may be configured to rotate and actuate the work element(s).
US09456806B2	Biopsy probe mechanism having multiple echogenic features A biopsy probe mechanism includes an elongate sample receiving member having a longitudinal axis and having a sample receiving notch. The elongate sample receiving member and a cutting cannula are movable relative to one another along a longitudinal axis. A first echogenic feature is established on the elongate sample receiving member and a second echogenic feature is established on the cutting cannula. The elongate sample receiving member and the cutting cannula are configured to have a first position in which the first echogenic feature is in longitudinal alignment with the second echogenic feature, and configured such that when the elongate sample receiving member and the cutting cannula are moved relative to one another from the first position, the first echogenic feature and the second echogenic feature are out of longitudinal alignment.
US09456802B2	Mechanical scanning ultrasound transducer with micromotor A system for use with ultrasound procedures including an ultrasound control and/or imaging system which has a microminiature motor, a rotatable reflector and a stationary ultrasound transducer. The transducer may be placed between the motor and the reflector, so as to eliminate the need for placement of wires or other artifact-creating items in the path of ultrasound signals. In particular embodiments, such systems can be incorporated in or retrofitted to commercially standard diagnostic and therapeutic catheters or other housings. Examples can be used in variety of ultrasound procedures, e.g. to perform intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging.
US09456799B2	Modality with multicomputer system and powering sequence therefor An imaging modality includes a first computer, a second computer, a computer select circuit connected to a manually operable switch and configured to allow an operator to select whether to operate the first computer or the second computer by manually operating the manually operable switch, a single power supply unit configured to supply operating power to the first computer and the second computer; and a power control circuit connected to a power input of the first computer and connected to a power input of the second computer. The power control circuit outputs a trigger signal to activate or deactivate flow of power supply to the second computer in response to first computer receiving a turn ON or turn OFF input.
US09456798B2	Methods and apparatus for individually optimizing uniform contrast enhancements in computed tomography imaging A method is provided for optimizing a contrast injection function for CT imaging. The method includes injecting, with an injector pump, a test bolus of a contrast agent into a subject. The method also includes computing, on a processor, an impulse enhancement function. The method also includes determining, on a processor, a target enhancement function for a region of interest. The method also includes determining, with a processor, a plurality of parameters for a functional form for a contrast injection function in a time domain. The method also includes determining for the contrast injection function a constraint. The method also includes determining, with a processor, particular values for the plurality of parameters, which satisfy the constraint and minimize a difference between a value of an enhancement function and the target enhancement function computed in the time domain at discrete time periods without use of a Fourier transform.
US09456797B2	System and method for generating a 2D image from a tomosynthesis data set A 2D mammogram image is synthesized from at least one of tomosynthesis projection images and/or the tomosynthesis reconstructed image data. In a simplest form, the mammogram may be synthesized by selecting one of the tomosynthesis projection images for display as a synthesized mammogram. Other methods of synthesizing a mammogram include re-projecting and filtering projection data and/or reconstructed data. The synthesized mammogram is advantageously displayed together with at least a portion of the reconstructed data to aid in review of the reconstructed data. The present invention thus provides a familiar image which may be used to facilitate review of a tomosynthesis data set.
US09456795B2	X-ray imaging apparatus and control method thereof An X-ray imaging apparatus automatically distinguishes between right and left breasts during mammography. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes: an X-ray assembly configured to press a breast, irradiate X-rays onto the pressed breast, and detect X-rays transmitted through the breast; two handles respectively provided in both sides of the X-ray assembly so that a patient is able to grip the handles, each handle including a sensor for detecting the patient's grip; and a controller configured to determine a position of a handle including the sensor that has detected the patient's grip, and to determine that a breast subject to mammography is a breast corresponding to the determined position.
US09456794B2	Molecular imaging using radioluminescent nanoparticles Molecular imaging of radioluminescent nanoparticle probes injected into biological tissue is performed by irradiated the tissue with ionizing radiation to induce radioluminescence at optical wavelengths, preferably at predetermined near infrared wavelengths. The optical light is detected and processed to determine a spatial distribution of the probes. The radioluminescent nanoparticles may be inorganic or organic phosphors, scintillators, or quantum dots. Imaging systems realizing this technique include tomographic systems using an x-ray beam to sequentially irradiate selected regions, systems with a radioactive source producing the ionizing radiation from outside the tissue, such as with a beam, or inside the tissue, such as with an endoscope or injected radiopharmaceutical. The optical signals may be detected by a photodetector array external to the tissue, a photodetector integrated with an endoscope or mammographic paddle, integrated into a capsule endoscope, or an array positioned near the biological tissue.
US09456793B2	Patient support for an odontological x-ray apparatus The invention relates to a patient support (17) for an odontological x-ray apparatus, which can be arranged e.g. to a patient support station (18) of the x-ray apparatus (10). The patient support (17) includes a substantially uniform, substantially curved or bendable to be curved band structure (21) substantially extending at least from one patient's temple to the other. The material and layer thickness of the band structure (21) are chosen such that the band structure (21) is soft, elastic and/or flexible and its density with respect to attenuation of x-radiation is substantially lower than that of cranial soft tissues.
US09456791B2	System and method for constraining a computerized tomography patient A constraint having a main body and at least one coupler. The main body can be substantially arcuate in shape and can be configured to constrain a patient. The at least one coupler can couple the main body to a bed or treatment pallet. The constraint can be sized to restrict a patient within a computerized tomography (CT) scan field of view.
US09456776B2	Detection method of life activity, measuring device of life activity, transmission method of life activity detection signal, or service based on life activity information According to a measuring method or a control method of life activity, a life object is illuminated with an electromagnetic wave including a wavelength in a designated waveband, and a characteristic in a local area of the life object is detected, or a life activity thereof is controlled. The “designated waveband” is defined based on phenomena used for detecting or controlling an activity state of the life object or a change of the state. This “local area” is an area constituted by one or more cells.
US09456775B2	Passive safety I.V. blood collection catheter Apparatus and methods for a single, handheld device that provides for both insertion of a catheter and collection of a fluid. Some embodiments further include a needle that assists in the insertion of the catheter into a blood vessel, and which includes a retraction feature that protects the user from an accidental needle stick when the device is ready for disposal. Still further embodiments include a protective cover that prevents a user from accidentally being stuck by a second needle used for the introduction of the patient's blood into a collection device.
US09456768B2	Spirometry system and disposable volume spirometry apparatus A disposable volume spirometry apparatus and non-contact measurement system is described. The spirometry system includes an expandable disposable volume spirometry apparatus, a remote non-contact sensor, memory, and a processor. The remote non-contact sensor captures images associated with the expandable disposable volume spirometry apparatus. The memory stores the captured images. The processor is operatively coupled to the memory and determines a volume for the expandable disposable volume spirometry apparatus by analyzing the captured images.
US09456766B2	Apparatus for use with needle insertion guidance system A guidance system for assisting with the insertion of a needle into a patient body is disclosed. The guidance system utilizes ultrasound imaging or other suitable imaging technology. In one embodiment, the guidance system comprises an imaging device including a probe for producing an image of an internal body portion target, such as a vessel. One or more sensors are included with the probe. The sensors sense a detectable characteristic related to the needle, such as a magnetic field of a magnet included with the needle. The system includes a processor that uses data relating to the sensed characteristic to determine a 3-D position of the needle. The system includes a display for depicting the position of the needle. The needle can include a donut-shaped magnet disposed about the needle cannula, or a removable stylet with a magnetic element and a strain gauge for detection of the needle distal tip.
US09456750B2	System and method for voice control of medical devices A diagnostic system includes sensors with at least one being a diagnostic device comprising one or more solid state light sources used in a measurement. A software application capable of generating physiological information based on the sensors is operable on a control system adapted to receive, store and process the physiological information. The control system includes a touch-screen, circuitry for obtaining position information from a location sensor, and a wireless transceiver to transmit wireless data including the physiological information over a wireless link and is further capable of receiving voice and manually entered input signals. A host includes a digital file for receiving and storing the wireless data, control logic to process the wireless data to generate a status of the user, memory for recording the status, and an output for communicating the status or associated information over a communication link to display output devices located remotely from the host.
US09456733B2	Endoscopic instrument having a deflectable distal tool Embodiments of the disclosure may include a medical device comprising a flexible elongate member including a longitudinal axis and a tool connected to the elongate member at a pivot axis, wherein the tool may be configured to conduct electricity and deliver a fluid, and wherein the tool may be configured to pivot towards either side of the longitudinal axis relative to the elongate member at the pivot axis.
US09456731B2	Dishwasher having a turbidity sensor A dishwasher includes an input element configured to select a first wash cycle from a plurality of wash cycles, a controller configured to control a cycle parameter, a turbidity sensor configured to measure a soil level of a wash liquid, and a display device configured to at least temporarily display the soil level measured by the turbidity sensor.
US09456722B2	Backpack vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner is described that includes an elongated vacuum body, an optional battery-pack attached to the bottom end of the elongated vacuum body, and a removable backpack assembly with shoulder and waist straps attachable directly to the elongated vacuum body. The shape of the elongated vacuum body is such that the center of gravity of the body is shifted close to the body of the vacuum appliance user, allowing for greater freedom of movement during use. The vacuum appliance also includes exhaust air vents positioned to reduce the noise output of the vacuum appliance as perceived by the user during use.
US09456719B2	Automatic toilet flushing system A universal flushing lever for a toilet that can be mounted on different areas of the toilet tank, during flushing action, triggers the closing of the toilet seat cover and or seat using magnetic fields. A magnet is attached to a universal flushing lever as well as the seat cover and/or seat. When the flushing lever is actuated it uses the magnet's fields to trigger the cover and/or seat closure. The magnets can be positioned to use the magnetic fields in two ways, repulsion or attraction individually or in conjunction. In the repulsion scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once in proximity forces the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat. In the attraction scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once away from proximity allows the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat. This system allows adjustment of the magnets to a variety of preexisting tanks and toilets for effective retrofitting as well as new designs. This application can be used as a kit or embedded in design intended with new toilets.
US09456718B1	Paper towel and toilet paper portable dispenser The object of this invention is to provide an improved paper towel and toilet paper portable dispenser that will protect and cover a paper towel or toilet paper roll, so as not to become dirty when being transported. It will further allow the desired amounts of paper towels and toilet paper to be easily removed from the dispenser when needed. Not only is the dispenser light weight, flexible and simple and easy to use, it is economical in cost to manufacture.
US09456705B2	Dual temperature refrigerated merchandiser A merchandiser system includes a case that has a door and a door heater. The system includes a low temperature refrigeration unit sized to fit within a case compartment and to operably couple to the case to maintain food product within a low temperature range. The system also includes a medium temperature refrigeration unit sized to fit within the compartment and operably couple to the case to maintain food product within a medium temperature range. The system includes a controller in communication with the door heater and is programmed to activate the door heater only in response to the low temperature modular refrigeration unit positioned within the compartment. One of the low temperature refrigeration unit and the medium temperature refrigeration unit is removably coupled to the case within the compartment, and is replaceable by the other refrigeration unit to change the temperature range of the product display area.
US09456701B2	Valve assembly for controlling fluid communication between fluid chambers, inflatable device, and method A valve assembly for controlling fluid communication between fluid chambers in a device such as an inflatable device includes a valve body having first and second ports for fluidly connecting to first and second fluid chambers, and defining a plurality of primary valve seats in series between the ports. A plurality of compound valves are within the valve body and each includes a primary valve member movable to close or open one of the primary valve seats, and a secondary valve member movable to close or open a secondary valve seat in the primary valve member.
US09456699B1	Foldable bed frame The foldable bed frame contains two frame assemblies side-by-side and laterally joined together. Each frame assembly contains an upper assembly and a lower assembly. Upper beams from the two upper assemblies are end-to-end joined together through upper connection pieces. Lower beams from the two lower assemblies are end-to-end joined together through lower connection pieces and intermediate connection pieces between the lower beams and the lower connection pieces. The various connection pieces are light-weighted and reliable, allowing the bed frame to be folded and unfolded smoothly and conveniently.
US09456695B2	Manual control component for an electrically adjustable piece of furniture and electrically adjustable piece of seating furniture A manual control component (100) for an electrically adjustable piece of furniture comprises a housing (110) and a switch element (120) with an upper part (130) that features a flat, upwardly directed control panel (132) with a first and a second control surface (134, 136), as well as a lower part (140) that features a downwardly directed control lever (142). The lower part is coupled to the upper part in an essentially rigid fashion. The switch element is pivotably supported in the housing (110). The manual control component (100) further comprises a circuit arrangement (150) that is designed for detecting a pivoting motion of the switch element (120) and for generating a signal in order to activate a drive of the piece of furniture (200) in dependence on the detected pivoting motion.
US09456692B2	Multi-piece shelf brackets and methods of assembling the same This disclosure provides a multi-piece shelf bracket including a support arm that receives a connector having a support portion and at least one hook portion, and a method of assembling the multi-piece shelf bracket.
US09456682B2	Drill-powered brush with electrical shock protection and long reach functionality A drill-powered rotational brush apparatus features an electrically non-conductive tubular housing, and a metal input shaft rotatably supported in the housing has an external end reaching out from the housing for engagement in the chuck of the drill. A connection is provided between an internal end of the metal input shaft and a brush whose radial bristles reside externally of the housing at the second end thereof. The connection features an electrical insulator that electrically isolates the metal input shaft from the brush and any portion of the connection that lies externally of the tubular housing beyond the second end thereof, thereby protecting the user form the risk of electrical shock. The connection end of the brush matches the cross-sectional size and peripheral shape of the external end of the input shaft to allow coupling together of two like apparatuses to collectively form a longer brush assembly.
US09456676B2	Cosmetic container A cosmetic container is configured such that when a cover is rotated against a container main body in the removing direction, a guided part of a stopper portion rotated in sync with a grip portion is first guided by a guiding part of a joint, the stopper portion, the sleeve portion, and a cosmetic material M or an application body 3 move to the side of the container main body, the cosmetic material and the application body contact each other, and the screwing operation of the first and second screw parts then takes effect, to cause the cover to be removed from the container main body. This enables an appropriate amount of the cosmetic material to be attached to the application body along with a removing operation of the cover from the container main body without the need for a particular operation.
US09456666B2	Adjustment device for a portable element comprising wire-shaped elements The adjustment device for a portable element includes: a first and second pair of first and second wire-shaped elements; a first adjustment unit mounted mobile on the first pair of wire-shaped elements and configured to: define two deviation paths of the first pair of wire-shaped elements and to separate the first and second wire-shaped elements of the first pair by a first distance X1, and define a first mechanical coupling means with the second pair of wire-shaped elements; and a second adjustment unit mounted mobile on the second pair of wire-shaped elements and configured to: define two deviation paths of the second pair of wire-shaped elements and to separate the first and second wire-shaped elements of the second pair by a second distance X2, and define a first mechanical coupling means with the first pair of wire-shaped elements.
US09456656B2	Midsole component and outer sole members with auxetic structure An article with a sole structure including a midsole component and an outer sole member are described. The sole structure includes a set of holes arranged in an auxetic configuration that permit the sole to expand in an auxetic manner. The set of holes extends through the midsole component and the outer sole member and both the midsole component and the outer sole member are exposed on an outer surface of the sole structure.
US09456648B2	Systems and methods for helmet liner evaluation A helmet testing apparatus including a movable member, a sensor coupled to the movable member and configured to acquire compliance data regarding a liner disposed within a shell of a helmet through engagement of the sensor with the liner, and a processing circuit configured to determine a rating for the helmet based on the compliance data and predetermined compliance parameters for the helmet.
US09456645B2	Abrasion resistant glove A glove comprising an elastomeric coating with a particle filler and a method of making such a glove. Specifically, the glove comprises a knitted liner formed from at least one yarn; a elastomeric coating covering at least a portion of the knitted liner; and wherein the elastomeric coating comprises a filler particle having a hardness greater than the hardness of the elastomeric coating.
US09456633B2	Atomizing device and electronic cigarette using the same The present invention provides an atomizing device and an electronic cigarette using the same. The atomizing device includes an outer sleeve, a liquid storage layer, a heating assembly, an atomizing elastic seat and a hard connecting assembly. The hard connecting assembly is inserted in the atomizing seat to elastically squeeze and tensioningly engage. The atomizing seat is adapted for the outer sleeve, and elastically expanded as a result of the connecting assembly being inserted in the elastic atomizing seat to be tightly sealed in the inner wall of the outer sleeve. The electronic lines are respectively tensioningly fixed in the elastic atomizing seat and electrically connect to the connecting assembly. The strength of the atomizing device is highly enhanced and assures further assembly. The atomizing seats is squeezed and sealed by the connecting head.
US09456625B2	Instant-prepared fried noodle and producing method of the noodle The present invention directed to instant-prepared fried noodle and aimed to reduce an amount of fats and oils therein and realize those with favorable texture and taste with the simple method without depending on any special device. Dough is prepared by adding 0.3-0.6 weight by percent in total of sodium carbonate and/or potassium carbonate to raw noodle flour like wheat flour, then adding edible acid substance thereto to adjust dough pH to 7.5-8.5, and kneading them with brine water. The dough so produced is rolled, cut, steamed, then seasoning solution or water is absorbed into noodle strings so made and the noodle strings are dried by frying them with oil of 130 ° C.-160° C. Thereby, an amount of fats and oils in the instant-prepared fried noodle bricks can be reduced without generating any scorching damage in the noodle strings.
US09456609B2	Hydrocarbons and metals induce bio-catalyst to modify development process in plants and fruits The invention is directed to methods of modifying the plant development process comprising of exposing a plant or plant part to volatiles biosynthesized by one or more bacteria or enzymes. Specifically, the embodiment uses one or more bacteria selected from the plant growth promoting bacteria group consisting of Rhodococcus spp., Pseudomonas spp., or Xanthobacter spp., or a mixture thereof. A closed apparatus, FIG. 1A, containing a tri-phasic system is used to expose the bacteria to hydrocarbons, iron, cyanide, and/or ammonium compounds; the method induces the biocatalyst to biosynthesize volatile compound(s) that deter ethylene production in climacteric plants or fruit resulting in the biocatalyst ability to delay fruit ripening.
US09456607B2	Glutaraldehyde based biocidal compositions and methods of use Provided are biocidal compositions comprising glutaraldehyde and a compound selected from the group consisting of 1-(3-chloroallyl)-3,5,7-triaza-1-azoniaadamantane; tris(hydroxymethyl)-nitromethane; and a hexahydrotriazine compound. The compositions are useful for controlling microorganisms in aqueous or water-containing systems.
US09456604B2	Herbicide composition The present invention relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of an aqueous spray composition comprising a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl and C1-C4alkoxy- C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl; and R2 is C1-C6haloalkyl; or an agriculturally acceptable salt therefore; wherein in the pH of the spray composition is from about 5 to about 9. The invention further relates to a liquid substantially non-aqueous herbicide composition comprising a compound of formula (I) as defined above and a pH adjuster, and to the use of a pH adjuster to reduce the phytotoxicity of a compound of formula (I) in crop plants.
US09456602B2	Method for the formulation of hand sanitizer A hand sanitizer composition that provides effective skin sanitization and exhibits low flammability, while containing sufficient humectant for moisturization of the skin includes an alcohol selected from the group consisting of alcohol(s) containing 4 to 6 carbon atoms in an amount of from about 10% to about 60% by volume, and one or more humectants present in an amount of from about 10% to about 80% by volume.
US09456597B1	Lockable and adjustable friction game call apparatus and methods A game call that includes a push rod, a friction plate, a striker, first and second biasing members, and a locking sleeve. The push rod includes distal and proximal end portions. The friction plate is mounted to the push rod. The first biasing member is configured to bias the push rod in a proximal direction. The second biasing member is configured to rotate the friction plate into contact with the striker. The locking sleeve is connected to the push rod and configured to fix an axial position of the friction plate relative to the striker.
US09456581B2	Security gate combined with a cattle guard A security gate is disclosed, including a pit, wherein the pit has a length and a width, at least one gate post, and a gate panel, wherein the gate panel is made up of multiple, spared apart structural members, wherein the gate panel is rotatably attached to the at least one gate post, wherein the gate panel has a length and a width, wherein the length of the pit and the length of the pit are substantially similar such that when the gate panel is horizontal it covers the length of the pit.
US09456575B1	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH160864 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH160864. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH160864, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH160864 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH160864.
US09456574B1	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH164586 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH164586. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH164586, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH164586 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH164586.
US09456567B1	Maize hybrid X08D363 A novel maize variety designated X08D363 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X08D363 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08D363 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08D363, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08D363. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08D363.
US09456560B1	Tree and plant watering systems A tree and plant watering system relating to improved transfer of water to trees and plants (both new and existing) is provided. The system comprises soil penetrators, soil anchors, and area extenders to enhance water capacity and to provide ease of water transfer to root systems. Additionally, the system provides plant growth ladders to assist upward plant growth and root apertures to assist root growth.
US09456556B2	Plant illumination device and method for dark growth chambers An improved method to produce artificial light for plant cultivation, an illumination device with a semiconductor light emission solution and device suited for plant cultivation in a greenhouse and/or dark growth chamber environment are described. The best mode is considered to be a lighting device with LEDs that produces an emission spectrum similar to the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) spectrum in a dark growth chamber. The methods and arrangements allow more precise spectral tuning of the emission spectrum for lights used in plant (310, 311) cultivation. Therefore unexpected improvements in the photomorphogenetic control of plant growth, and further improvements in plant production, especially in dark growth chambers, such as basements, are realized.
US09456555B2	Agent for treating grape vine wood The invention relates to the use of neutral anolyte for decontaminating grape vine wood.
US09456551B2	Grain conveyor for a combine havester A grain conveyor for a combine harvester capable of increasing capacity and reducing component wear is disclosed. The grain conveyor includes a grain elevator, a transition chamber and an auger assembly. The grain elevator has an inlet for receiving a flow of grain. The transition chamber includes an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the transition chamber inlet and the grain elevator inlet. The transition chamber outlet has an asymmetric non-circular opening larger than the non-cylindrical opening of the transition chamber inlet. The auger assembly is operatively connected to the transition chamber and includes an inlet for receiving a flow of grain and an outlet in fluid communication with the transition chamber inlet.
US09456550B2	Threshing and separating device and combine harvester having the same A threshing and separating device comprises a first threshing and separating mechanism, a second threshing and separating mechanism, and an intermediate feeding mechanism therebetween. The first threshing and separating mechanism comprises a first cylinder in a form of a toothed rod and a first concave in a form of a wire-grate, and a surface of the first concave facing the first cylinder is provided with no part protruding into a tip circle of threshing teeth of the first cylinder; the second threshing and separating mechanism comprises a second cylinder in a form of a toothed rod and a second concave in a form of a wire-grate, and a surface of the second concave facing the second cylinder is provided with no part protruding into a tip circle of threshing teeth of the second cylinder; the second cylinder comprises a forced feeding portion located at front end thereof and comprising a truncated cone and helical blades on the truncated cone; and a toothed-rod cylinder portion located behind the forced feeding portion and comprising a plurality of second rods parallel to the rotation axis of the second cylinder and uniformly arranged in a circumferential direction thereof, and each second rod is provided with a plurality of second threshing teeth.
US09456549B2	Combine harvester with variable stroke cleaning shoe A combine harvester having a sieve that is moveable by a sieve drive assembly to perform a reciprocating sieve movement having a sieving stroke and a sieve throwing angle, wherein the sieve drive assembly has: a rotary drive, having a rotatable output shaft, a transmission between the rotatable output shaft of the rotary drive and the sieve, which transmission comprises an eccentric device, at least one transmission element, a plurality of linkage pivots, a first non-adjustable transmission element which is pivotably connected to the eccentric device, wherein the first non-adjustable transmission element is further pivotably connected to the adjustable transmission element, which adjustable transmission element is further pivotably connected to the combine harvester chassis, and wherein the first non-adjustable transmission element is further pivotably connected to the sieve through at least one further non-adjustable transmission elements.
US09456546B2	Transmission device for self-propelled equipment and self-propelled equipment fitted with such a transmission Transmission device for self-propelled equipment, includes a housing having a driving input shaft transmitting movement to an output shaft, the input shaft bearing a receiving pulley around which pulley a belt transmission is wrapped. The input shaft also bears a component that rotates as one with the shaft and a member for controlling the movement of the pulley along the input shaft in terms of the pulley movement towards or away from the component so that the pulley, which is mounted with freedom to rotate on the input shaft, can be moved from a disengaged position when it is away from the component, into an engaged position when it is close to the component, the pulley having a groove of constant predetermined width for accepting the belt so that when the belt is taut inside the groove, the belt tension is maintained as the pulley moves along the input shaft.
US09456544B2	Precision super seeder In embodiments, a seeder may include a frame including a seed box and a rear roller. In embodiments, the seeder may be configured to removably couple with either a roller assembly or a disc blade assembly. In some embodiments, the seeder may include a front tray configured to receive two kinds of seed from two different seed boxes and disperse the seed at a position in front of the rear roller so that the seeds are planted at the same depth. In some embodiments, the seeder may further include a calibration tray which may have a width less than a width of the seeder. The calibration tray may be configured to receive seed from the seed box during a calibration procedure.
US09456541B2	Embryo insertion and method The present disclosure is directed generally towards to embryo insertion systems and methods for use with manufactured seeds. In some embodiments, embryo insertion systems according to the disclosure include an embryo delivery assembly and a fill material deposit assembly. The embryo delivery assembly may include an insertion member, a release assistance member, and a fill material deposit assembly. The fill material deposit assembly may include a fill material containment device, a fill material conveyance device, and optionally, a fill material separation device. Further aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for operating embryo insertion systems according to embodiments of the disclosure to enable simultaneous embryo insertion and fill material delivery.
US09456538B2	Reversible plough A reversible plough with a frame for a 3-point hitch attachment comprises a frame with lower first and second and an upper third attachment point for attachment to a 3-point hitch. A vertical pivot axle supports a plough tool carrier for pivotable movement. The upper third attachment point is located on a vertical pivot plate in a first upper pivot point. A second lower pivot point of said plate is connected to a transversel pivot axis on the frame and a third upper pivot point of said plate is connected to a control link. When the upper link of the 3-point hitch moves backwards, then the plate pivots and moves the control link backwards as well. Said control link extends towards the rear end portion of the frame and is connected to a link arrangement pivotally supported by the vertical pivot axle and connected to the plough tool carrier.
US09462733B2	Magnetic shielding apparatus and magnetic shielding method A magnetic shielding apparatus includes: a passive shield; a correction target space that is defined in the interior of the passive shield; external coils as a first coil that corrects a magnetic field in the passive shield; a first magnetic sensor; a second magnetic sensor that is arranged more inside the passive shield than the first magnetic sensor; and a control unit. The first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor measure a magnetic field gradient in the passive shield. The control unit controls the external coils based on a result of the measurement performed by the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor.
US09462730B2	Shield member and method for manufacturing the same A shield member (1) includes a flexible main body part (11) surrounding electrical wire connected to a device in a shield case; and a flange part (12) provided at a shield-case-side terminal part of the main body part (11) so as to be integral with the main body part (11), facing a wall surface of the shield case. The stiffness of the flange part (12) is higher than that of the main body part (11).
US09462727B2	LC filter having a function to cool AC reactor The LC filter includes a first AC reactor having a first core and a first coil whose terminal is connected to an AC power source, a second AC reactor having a second core and a second coil whose terminal is connected to a power convertor which converts AC to DC, a capacitor, a casing to house these components, a cooling air introduction portion which introduces cooling air into the casing, and a cooling air discharge portion which discharges the cooling air from the casing in a predetermined direction. The second AC reactor is positioned so as to provide a second gap between the outer periphery of the second coil and the casing, and so that the axial direction of the second coil coincides with the flow direction of the cooling air flowing along the second gap.
US09462725B2	Server rack and its server device A server rack and its server device are provided. The server device includes a chassis, a motherboard module, a power-supply module, a storage array module, and a plurality of input/output interface elements. The chassis is provided with a containing space, a first opening and a second opening in which the first opening and the second opening are located at two opposite ends of the containing space. The power-supply module and the motherboard module are both disposed in the containing space and are pluggable independently, are both capable of plugging in and out from the chassis via the first opening, and are electrically connected to each other. The input/output interface elements are fixed on the motherboard module, and all of them are disposed at the first opening. The storage array module is disposed in the containing space and is slidable.
US09462705B2	USB device with preassembled lid A USB memory assembly, and methods of forming same, are disclosed. The USB memory assembly includes a USB memory device within a carrier. The carrier may in turn be received within a connector shell and lid.
US09462697B2	Electronic component embedded substrate and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to an electronic component embedded substrate including: a first insulating layer including a cavity; an electronic component inserted in the cavity; a first metal pattern formed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer to mount the electronic component thereon and including at least one guide hole for exposing a portion of the external electrode; a second insulating layer formed on the lower surface of the first insulating layer to cover the first metal pattern; a first circuit pattern formed on a lower surface of the second insulating layer; and a first via for electrically connecting the first external electrode exposed through the guide hole and the first circuit pattern, and can improve electrical connectivity between the external electrode and the via even when the size of the external electrode of the electronic component is reduced than before.
US09462696B2	Circuit module and method for producing such a circuit module The invention relates to a circuit module (10) having a circuit carrier (12), at least one circuit (14) mounted on the circuit carrier (12), encapsulated by a protective material (16), and at least one electrical/electronic component (18) encapsulated by a protective coating (20), protecting the at least one electrical/electronic component (18) from the protective material (16), and to a method for producing the circuit module (10). According to the invention, the protective coating (20) protecting the at least one electrical/electronic component (18) is only partially encapsulated by the protective material (16).
US09462695B2	Power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device comprising a first housing having a cutout with an opening, and a second housing. The device has a load element having external and internal sections, and a feedthrough section pressing through the opening. The feedthrough section has a first outer edge region which tapers laterally towards a first outer edge thereof and a second outer edge region which tapers laterally towards a second outer edge thereof. The first and second outer edge regions face away from one another. The first outer edge is near the lateral first end of the opening and the second outer edge is near the lateral second end of the opening. A first seal is positioned between the first housing and the feedthrough section and a second seal is positioned between the second housing and the feedthrough section. The seals contact one another laterally from the first and second outer edges.
US09462686B2	Printed circuit board Provided is a printed circuit board, comprising: a supporting substrate including a first region and a second region extending to be bent from the first region; an insulating substrate above the supporting substrate; a bending portion bent between the first region and the second region; and an adhesive layer between the supporting substrate and the insulating substrate and except for the bending portion.
US09462685B2	Method for penetrating a flexible circuit board Disclosed are a method and a structure of penetration and combination for a flexible circuit board with a hinge assembly. A pre-formed flexible circuit board is processed by taking a pre-folding line as a center line to fold a connection section of the flexible circuit board toward the terminal distribution section. Then, the connection section is rolled in a direction toward the terminal distribution section so as to make the connection section forming a rolled body. The rolled body is then put through the bore of the hinge assembly to have the rolled body completely extend through the bore of the hinge assembly so that the extension section of the flexible circuit board is positioned in the bore of the hinge assembly and the first end and the second end are respectively located at opposite sides of the bore of the hinge assembly.
US09462682B2	Conductive structure and method for manufacturing same The disclosure provides a conductive structure body including a substrate; a conductive layer; and a darkening layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body prevents reflection by a conductive layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive layer, and improves a concealing property of the conductive layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility is developed by using the conductive structure body.
US09462675B2	Method of improving isolation between circuits on a printed circuit board A method of improving electrical isolation between a first circuit and a second circuit sharing a common substrate having an effective dielectric constant greater than that of air. The first and second circuits are spaced apart and separated from one another by an intermediate portion of the substrate. The method includes removing a portion of the intermediate portion to replace the portion removed with air thereby reducing the effective dielectric constant of the intermediate portion. By reducing the effective dielectric constant of the intermediate portion, electrical isolation between the first and second circuits is improved thereby reducing crosstalk between the first and second circuits. In particular implementations, the method may be used to reduce alien crosstalk between adjacent communication outlets in a patch panel.
US09462672B2	Adjustment of power and frequency based on three or more states Systems and methods for adjusting power and frequency based on three or more states are described. One of the methods includes receiving a pulsed signal having multiple states. The pulsed signal is received by multiple radio frequency (RF) generators. When the pulsed signal having a first state is received, an RF signal having a pre-set power level is generated by a first RF generator and an RF signal having a pre-set power level is generated by a second RF generator. Moreover, when the pulsed signal having a second state is received, RF signals having pre-set power levels are generated by the first and second RF generators. Furthermore, when the pulsed signal having a third state is received, RF signals having pre-set power levels are generated by the first and second RF generators.
US09462671B2	Electrode structure for plasma cutting torches The invention relates to an electrode structure for plasma cutting torches, wherein a recess or borehole open at one side in the direction of a workpiece to be processed is formed in an electrode holder or in a holding element for receiving an emission insert, in which recess or borehole the inserted emission insert can be fastened in a force transmitting manner, in a shape-matching manner and/or with material continuity. At least one pressure equalization passage and/or an at least temporarily active pressure equalization passage is present between a hollow space formed in a recess or borehole and the emission insert and the environment through the emission insert and/or between an outer jacket surface region of the emission insert and the inner wall of the recess or borehole, which is formed in the holding element or in the electrode holder (7.1).
US09462670B2	Diffuser shape vent slots in a hand torch shield castellation A torch tip for a plasma arc torch includes a body having a first end, configured to attach to the torch, and a second end, where an end wall is disposed. A plasma exit orifice is formed in the end wall. At least two castellations are formed in the end wall. Each castellation has a castellation width defined by the distance between the sidewalls of that castellation. At least one slot is disposed between two castellations. Each slot has a slot width defined by a distance between the sidewalls of its adjacent castellations. The slot width can be at least twice the castellation width. Each slot also has a slot floor and an exterior shape. The slot floor can have slope that tapers toward the first end of the body in an outward radial direction and the exterior shape of the slot can have a generally V-shaped or U-shaped contour.
US09462663B2	Interactive user interface functionality for lighting devices or system An example of a lighting system includes intelligent lighting devices, each of which includes a light source, a communication interface and a processor coupled to control the light source. In such a system, at least one of the lighting devices includes a user input sensor to detect user activity related to user inputs without requiring physical contact of the user; and at least one of the lighting devices includes an output component to provide information output to the user. One or more of the processors in the intelligent lighting devices are further configured to process user inputs detected by the user input sensor, control lighting and control output to a user via the output component so as to implement an interactive user interface for the system, for example, to facilitate user control of lighting operations of the system and/or to act as a user interface portal for other services.
US09462659B2	Dimming drive method, device and dimmable light A method for driving light adjustments, a device therefor and a light adjustable lamp thereof are disclosed. The method includes: connecting a light source driving circuit which supplies a light source and an MCU with electricity and then the light source driving circuit driving the light source to vary brightness; after disconnecting the light source driving circuit, a temporary power supplying circuit continuing to power the MCU; when the light source is varying brightness and at an instant of disconnecting the light source driving circuit, the MCU obtaining a brightness state of the light source and storing information about the brightness state; after the temporary power supplying circuit is drained, the information vanishing; if the light source driving circuit is connected before the vanishing, the light source working constantly according to the information; and if the light source driving circuit is connected after the vanishing, the light source varying brightness.
US09462651B2	Three-way solid-state light bulb A three-way solid-state light bulb is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide power supply circuitry that allows a solid-state lamp or light bulb to work in a manner similar to that of a common three-way incandescent light bulb. The power supply can selectively receive the input voltage, usually AC line voltage, on first and second input terminals. In some embodiments, a control circuit is operable to influence a feedback loop by diverting current and/or in some cases alter a current sense resistance in accordance with the selective presence of the voltage at the first and second inputs. The light output of the solid-state emitter or solid-state emitters in the bulb is set in accordance with a selective presence of the input voltage.
US09462650B2	Light emitting device and a method for dimming a light emitting device A light emitting device, comprising at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) adapted for, in operation, emitting light with a first spectral distribution, a first light guide (4) comprising a first light input surface (41), which is arranged parallel to the main waveguiding direction of the first light guide (4), and a first light exit surface (42) extending in an angle different from zero in relation to the first light input surface (41), the first light guide being adapted for receiving the light with the first spectral distribution at the first light input surface, converting at least a part of the light with the first spectral distribution to light (14) with a second spectral distribution, guiding the light (14) with the second spectral distribution to the first light exit surface (42) and coupling the light (14) with the second spectral distribution out of the first light exit surface (42), the at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) being arranged at mutually different distances from the first light exit surface (42) of the first light guide (4), and a control device (90) adapted for dimming the light emitting device starting with the light source of the at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) which is arranged at a largest distance from the first light exit surface (42) of the first light guide (4).
US09462648B2	Method and arrangement for remotely driving light emitting diodes from a three-phase power source via a single phase cable system Multiple LEDs connected in series are driven by DC voltage that is provided by a diode rectifier connected to a three-phase power source. In order to reduce ripple in the DC voltage, the series-connected LEDs can be divided into a first set and a second set, and a first constant current source is provided that drives the first set, and a second constant current source is provided that drives the second set. The first and second constant current sources are both connected across the outputs of the rectifier circuit, and operate to drive the respective sets of light emitting diodes in alternation. The capability for dimming can be provided, as well as back-up single phase operation. The light emitting diodes can be situated remote from said rectifier and connected thereto by a single phase power transmission system, formed by only two wires.
US09462644B2	Power supply device A power supply device may include an insulating DC/DC converter unit including a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding, and inducing a voltage in the secondary winding in a first direction or a second direction, and a boosting unit. The boosting unit may comprise a first booster boosting the voltage induced in the secondary winding to supply power to a first light emitting diode module, in a first mode in which the voltage is induced in the secondary winding in the first direction, and a second booster boosting the voltage induced in the secondary winding to supply power to a second light emitting diode module, in a second mode in which the voltage is induced in the secondary winding in the second direction.
US09462641B2	Transverse flux strip heating with DC edge saturation Induction heating apparatus and methods are disclosed for selective workpiece heating such as strip heating, in which DC windings around one or more laminations proximate to a workpiece edge are selectively energized using DC electrical power for controlled partial or full saturation of the one laminations to control edge overheating in a transverse flux induction heating system, in which certain implementations further employ a copper shield between the induction heating coil and the strip workpiece proximate the edge of the workpiece to control the edge heating effect.
US09462622B2	Method for requesting device-to-device communication in wireless access system and apparatus for same Disclosed are a method for requesting device-to-device communication in a wireless access system that supports device-to-device communication and an apparatus for the method. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a first device, request information for requesting device-to-device communication with a second device; transmitting, to the second device, check information to inquire whether to accept device-to-device communication with the first device; receiving, from the second device, response information indicating that device-to-device communication is accepted; and, if the second device has accepted the device-to-device, transmitting resource allocation information for device-to-device communication to the first device and the second device.
US09462614B2	Method and apparatus for managing group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments Group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments are managed via a radio controller. A request to transmit an emergency notification with acknowledgment to an identified target group of subscriber devices is received at the radio controller from a requesting device. The radio controller identifies one or more base stations actively serving subscriber devices associated with the identified target group and identifies, for each of the identified one or more base stations, active channels including one or more of a control channel associated with the base station and active voice or data channels associated with the base station. The radio controller causes an emergency notification outbound signaling packet (OSP), requesting individual acknowledgment and identifying the target group of subscriber devices, to be broadcast on the identified active channels at the identified one or more base stations. Acknowledgments are forwarded back to one of the requesting device and a dispatch console.
US09462608B2	Method and device for regulating transmission in a telecommunication network A method is provided for regulating transmission implemented by a station, having at least one packet to be transmitted via a communication network, and participating in at least one tournament composed of a succession of selection rounds. The method includes: obtaining by the station, for each selection round of a first tournament, a binary value assigned to the station, representative either of an authorization to transmit, or of a prohibition to transmit, transmitting, on completion of the first tournament, at least one packet by the station when the station determines, as a function of at least one of the binary values assigned to the station for the selection rounds of the first tournament, that the station is authorized to transmit. The at least one packet transmitted by the station includes data representative of the succession of binary values assigned to the station for the selection rounds.
US09462607B2	Apparatus, method and system of multi-user uplink transmission Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of multi-user uplink transmission. For example, an apparatus may include a transmitter to transmit a multi-user (MU) downlink transmission to a plurality of wireless stations; a receiver to receive from the plurality of wireless stations a plurality of acknowledgement (ACK) frames, at least one ACK frame from at least one wireless station including an uplink scheduling request indicating uplink resources requested by the wireless station; and a scheduler to schedule an uplink transmission from the at least one wireless station based on the uplink scheduling request, the transmitter to transmit at least one scheduling frame including scheduling information of the scheduled uplink transmission.
US09462606B2	System and method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a communication system A system is provided for transmitting/receiving downlink resource allocation information in a communication system. In the system, a base station generates first information including downlink resource allocation information necessary for supporting a first mode supported by the base station, generates second information including length information of the first information, and transmits the first information and the second information. A mobile station notifies the base station of a second mode supported by the mobile station, receives, after the notification, the first information and the second information from the base station, and skips without decoding as much downlink resource allocation information as a length corresponding to the length information without decoding, if the first mode is different from the second mode.
US09462604B2	Methods and apparatus related to selecting a request group for a request report Methods and apparatus related to reporting transmission backlog information are described. A wireless communications device maintains and updates transmission backlog information corresponding to a plurality of different transmission request groups. Different request groups may correspond to different uplink traffic queues. For a request reporting opportunity, the communications device selects a request group from among the plurality of different transmission request groups as a function of: request group changes in backlog with respect to previously reported requests, the changes taking into consideration base station allocation of transmission resources; and request group priority information. A request report is generated conveying backlog information corresponding to the selected request group, and the generated report is transmitted over a wireless communications link.
US09462603B2	Digital baseband transport in telecommunications distribution systems A telecommunications system is provided that includes a unit for communicating channelized digital baseband signals with remotely located units. The channelized digital baseband signals include call information for wireless communication. The unit includes a channelizer section and a transport section. The channelizer section can extract, per channel, the channelized digital baseband signals using channel filters and digital down-converters. The transport section can format the channelized digital baseband signals for transport together using a transport schedule unit for packetizing and packet scheduling the channelized digital baseband signals. A signal processing subsystem can control a gain of uplink digital baseband signals, independently, that are received from the remotely located units prior to summing the uplink digital baseband signals.
US09462600B2	Time budget management for WLAN and WWAN processing for inter-frequency/inter-rat measurements for LTE A time period associated with each of a plurality of tasks included in a current instance of WWAN data capture/processing by a WLAN processor and a WWAN processor is determined. A total time period comprising the respective time periods of each task is compared to an overall time budget criterion to obtain a comparison outcome. A change in at least one of the tasks based on the comparison outcome is implemented. The change results in an adjustment of the total time period associated with a next instance of WWAN data capture/processing by the WLAN processor and the WWAN processor.
US09462597B2	Method and apparatus for providing uplink control signalling in a multi-radio access environment Various methods for providing control signaling in a multi-radio access environment are provided. One example method includes implementing radio resource management and a general link layer jointly across at least two radio access technology modules, and selecting one of the radio access technology modules to perform control signaling in a multi-radio environment. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided.
US09462593B2	Interference suppression for cellular networks A framework for enabling a user equipment (UE) to apply interference suppression processing during network conditions that are favorable to interference suppression or that are known is provided. The framework includes an interference suppression (IS) time and frequency (time/frequency) zone, which can be scheduled by a serving base station and signaled to the UE. In an embodiment, the serving base station coordinates with the interfering base station(s) to create a network condition favorable to interference suppression at the UE during the IS time/frequency zone. In another embodiment, the serving base station opportunistically schedules the IS time/frequency zone for the UE whenever it determines favorable transmission parameters being used or scheduled for use by the interfering base station(s). The UE applies interference suppression processing within the IS time/frequency zone, thereby improving receiver performance. Outside the time/frequency zone, the UE may disable interference suppression processing so as not to degrade receiver performance.
US09462591B2	Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment, mobile communications device and method A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, including a core network part including plural infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including plural base stations communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices. The mobile communications device communicates an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and provides the communications bearer from the mobile communications device to one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication and to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with the indication communicated via the communications bearer, to control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority.
US09462584B2	Method and apparatus of receiving different types of subframes in mobile communication system A method and base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, system information including information associated with a sub-frame configuration of multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) sub-frames, determining a transmission mode of the terminal, the transmission mode indicating one of a first transmission mode and a second transmission mode, transmitting, to the terminal, configuration information of the determined transmission mode of the terminal, transmitting, to the terminal, control information in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first sub-frame of the MBSFN sub-frames and a second sub-frame of non-MBSFN sub-frames for the terminal, if the terminal is configured in the first transmission mode, and transmitting, to the terminal, the control information in the PDCCH in the second sub-frame of the non-MBSFN sub-frames, if the terminal is configured in the second transmission mode.
US09462575B2	Low rate data communication A method includes generating a data packet at a source device for transmission via an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11 wireless network. The data packet includes multiple data symbols that are duplicated in the data packet. At least a portion of a preamble of the data packet is not duplicated in the data packet. The portion of the preamble indicates that the packet is a low rate mode packet. The method also includes transmitting the data packet from the source device to a destination device via the wireless network.
US09462571B2	Adaptive and selective bundling of downlink paging messages Concepts and technologies are described herein for adaptive and selective bundling of downlink paging messages. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobility management entity (“MME”) can determine whether to delay a paging procedure to deliver a downlink paging message to a mobile device served by the MME. If the MME determines that the paging procedure to deliver the downlink paging message to the mobile device should be delayed, then the MME can store the downlink paging message in a bundling cache. If the MME determines that the paging procedure to deliver the downlink paging message to the mobile device should not be delayed, then the MME can initiate the paging procedure.
US09462570B1	Selectively sending notifications to mobile devices A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product selectively sends notifications to mobile devices. One or more processors receive a token authorization to provide notifications of mobile device events to a set of mobile devices operated by a user, and then determine that a push notification of a mobile device event is to be issued to one or more mobile devices from the set of mobile devices. The processor(s) receive a status of applications running on each of the set of mobile devices and an extent of user engagement for each of the applications. The processor(s) associate a content with the push notification, and parse and evaluate the content. The processor(s) select a mobile device from the set of mobile devices based on the status of the applications, the extent of user engagement, and the parsed evaluated content, and then transmit the push notification to that mobile device.
US09462568B2	Systems and methods for indoor location services Many indoor location services do not require precise knowledge of the position of a mobile device, but simply whether a mobile device is within a particular zone of an indoor area. Existing signals in an indoor space may provide enough information to distinguish between different zones of an indoor area, allowing a server to provide indoor location services without requiring the installation of new signal sources in the indoor area.
US09462560B2	Wireless communication terminal device, wireless communication base station device, and wireless communication method Disclosed are a wireless communication method, a wireless communication base station device, and a wireless communication terminal device that dynamically switch the transmission slot of an SRS of each terminal within a cell while suppressing an increase in the number of signaling bits. A terminal (100) and a base station (200) are each provided with a table wherein FH flags for SRS and transmission power data of each slot are mapped to two-bit notification bits. In this table, transmission power data indicating SRS transmission by slot 1 and slot 2 and FH flags are mapped, and an FH flag is not mapped to transmission power data indicating SRS transmission by slot 1 or slot 2. The base station (200) notifies the terminal (100) of the FH flag data and the SRS transmission power data by means of transmitting scheduling data containing the notification bits to the terminal (100).
US09462559B2	Methods for radio technology selection and power calibration in multi-rat small cells Described herein are techniques for radio technology selection and power calibration in multi-RAT small cells. For example, the technique may involve determining, at an access point, path loss information for a circuit switched fallback failure location. The technique may involve building a path loss database over a time period from the path loss information and managing power or operation mode of a first RAT and a second RAT of the access point based on the path loss database.
US09462554B2	Mobile station that adjusts transmission timing for signal In order to suppress an increase in signal quantity attributed to repetition of transition to a “Preservation state” and return to an “Active state” when multiple applications are operated independently, a mobile station (UE) of the invention includes: a management unit (12) which manages a transmission timing for regular data not involving a user operation in each of multiple applications (#1 to #N); and a transmission unit (13) which transmits a “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” to a radio access network when the mobile station (UE) transitions from a “Preservation state” to an “Active state.” The transmission unit (13) is configured to adjust a transmission timing for the “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” based on the transmission timings for the regular data not involving the user operation in the multiple applications (#1 to #N).
US09462552B1	Adaptive power control Systems and methods for adaptive power control are provided. A minimum power level of a primary acoustic signal is estimated. The minimum power level may then be compared to at least one power threshold. Subsequently, a large power consuming system is controlled based on the comparison of the minimum power level to the power threshold.
US09462541B2	Method for enhanced access selection for a user equipment in a cellular telecommunications network, telecommunications network, and system for enhanced access selection of a user equipment A method for enhanced access selection for a user equipment in a cellular telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a serving base station entity sending validation information to the user equipment, the validation information having either a positive value, indicating to apply a policy corresponding to a policy information data element, or a negative value, indicating not to apply the policy corresponding to the policy information data element; and in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the user equipment applying the policy corresponding to the policy information data element in case that the validation information has a positive value, and the user equipment terminating the data bearer or refraining from establishing the data bearer via the access point in case that the validation information has a negative value.
US09462532B2	Enhanced real-time messaging A system includes a gateway that is configured to receive a message from a source for transmission to a destination and multiple communication channels on which to transmit the message to the destination, where the communication channels include different types of communication channels. The system includes a decision engine that is operably coupled to the gateway and the communication channels. The decision engine is configured to select a first communication channel from the communication channels to route the message for transmission to the destination. The decision engine is configured to select a second communication channel from the communication channels to route the message for transmission to the destination in response to a period of time expiring without receiving an acknowledgement from the destination via the first communication channel, where the second communication channel is a different type of communication channel than the first communication channel.
US09462530B2	Wireless base station, wireless terminal, and packet transmission method A wireless base station includes a processor configured to detect whether a device that is a final destination of packets is a wireless device or a wired device, aggregate payloads in unit of byte, which are included in the packets comply with a TCP, so as to become a maximum length of data unit which is allowed for the data link layer in an wireless LAN, when a condition is satisfied in which the device is detected to be the wireless device, form a payload complying with a protocol of the data link layer in a wireless network based on the aggregated payloads when the condition is satisfied, and configure a packet that includes the formed payload complying with the protocol when the condition is satisfied and configure packets that include the payloads complying with the TCP when the condition is not satisfied.
US09462524B1	Method for adapting cell change time in a multi-cell wireless communication network A method and system for performing cell change by a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the cell change is from a first group of cells of a first radio access technology, RAT, to a second group of cells of a second RAT. Performance of a cell change includes receiving a cell change command. In response to the cell change command, the wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with a first cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a first specified period of time. The wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with at least one remaining cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a second specified period of time ending after an end of the first specified period of time.
US09462523B2	Selective enabling of user equipment capability User equipment for use in a wireless network, the wireless network including a first radio access network supporting communication using a first radio access technology in first service areas and a second radio access network supporting communication using a second radio access technology in second service areas, the user equipment having a capability to communicate using the first radio access technology, and a capability to communicate using the second radio access technology that may be disabled or enabled, wherein the user equipment is arranged to disable the capability to communicate using the second radio access technology in response to a determination that a preferred mode of voice communication cannot be provided using the second radio access technology in a said second service area, and wherein the user equipment is arranged to enable the capability to communicate using the second radio access technology, on the basis of communications, using the first radio access technology, in a selected one of said first service areas.
US09462507B2	Load balancing method and system for multi-band network A load balancing method and system is provided. When a terminal enters an idle, access or service state, and a base station determines that the terminal is in a multi-band covering section, load conditions of the bands in the section are recorded; and when determining that a preset idle or access or service state condition is met based on the recorded load conditions of the bands in the section, the base station performs load balancing control on the terminal. For the terminal in the idle, access or service state, load balancing for a multi-band network can be implemented.
US09462505B2	MAC header compression in long-range wireless local area networks A wireless network interface device receives a packet, wherein the packet includes (i) a set of one or more flag bits, and (ii) a medium access control (MAC) header, and the MAC header contains at least (i) a first address field specifying a receiver address, and (ii) a second address field specifying a transmitter address. The wireless network interface device processes the packet to determine whether the packet is a multicast packet. When it is determined that the packet is a multicast packet, the wireless network interface device processes a third address field in the MAC header to determine a MAC multicast address for the packet.
US09462496B2	Automated communications device field testing, performance management, and resource allocation Field testing, performance monitoring, and resource management are performed via a communications device, automatically and autonomously, without user intervention. Abnormal conditions are automatically detected while the communications device is performing a service and adjustments are automatically made to network resources in order to improve service performance. Upon initiation of a request for service (e.g., IM, MMS, SMS, etc.), the communications device automatically begins to monitor the performance of the service session (e.g., send time, receive time, etc.). During or after the service session, the communications device stores the performance data associated with the performance of the service. The performance data is analyzed in accordance with a subscriber's user profile information, to detect any problems with the service. If problems are detected, necessary adjustments and/or reallocation of resources are made automatically and autonomously, without user intervention.
US09462494B2	Method and apparatus for assessing the quality of a communication channel in a multi-domain network A method for assessing the quality of a communication channel in a multi-domain network includes transmitting, from a device, a probe signal onto the communication channel. The transmitting coordinated with the transmission of at least one alien probe signal by another network node. Subsequently to the transmitting, receiving a mixed feedback signal. The mixed feedback signal including a first component corresponding to the probe signal and a second component corresponding to the at least one alien probe signal. The method further includes extracting the first component from the mixed feedback signal, and assessing the quality of the communication channel on the basis of the extracted first component. The probe signal and the at least one alien probe signal are designed to facilitate their separation after having been superimposed.
US09462486B2	Method and device for classifying wireless data service A method and a device for classifying wireless data service are provided in the disclosure. The method comprises the following steps of: calculating Key Performance Indicators KPIs of the wireless call information, matching the calculated KPIs with the service model which is preset, and determining a service type of a call. The disclosure may quickly and accurately differentiate the actual IP service type of a user without increasing the system load at a base station or a core network, so that the quality of service of a wireless network is improved and the resource may be distributed reasonably.
US09462481B2	Methods and apparatus for configuration of femtocells in a wireless network Methods and apparatus that enable and optimize the simultaneous operation of several wireless femtocells having overlapping coverage areas. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource allocation (e.g., time-frequency grid for an OFDM or TDMA based wireless network) governs the simultaneous operation of several femtocells with overlapping coverage areas by specifying uses for resources. A resource allocation unit (RAU) entity is disclosed for managing and modifying resource allocations for femtocells. The community of femtocells can flexibly share resources according to the time-frequency grid, thereby maximizing spectral efficiency without requiring substantial network overhead.
US09462476B1	Identifying unsubscribed tethering in a wireless network Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying and managing wireless devices that are performing tethering services are described. The system may include a database and server. The database stores records of services subscribed by wireless devices in a wireless network. The server may poll the database to generate a list of wireless devices that are not subscribed to a tethering service. In turn, the server receives notification messages from each wireless device that is tethering at least one other network element. The wireless devices are identified as unauthorized by the server when the notification message indicates existence of a configured network address translation table at the wireless device and the wireless device is located on the list of wireless devices that are not subscribed to the tethering service.
US09462468B2	Wireless local area network authentication method and mobile terminal A wireless local area network authentication method is provided that includes: automatically obtaining, by a mobile terminal, an access account and an access password; and automatically sending, by the mobile terminal, a web authentication request to a network server, where the web authentication request carries the access account and the access password. A corresponding mobile terminal is also provided. By applying the wireless local area network authentication method and the mobile terminal disclosed in the present invention, a mobile terminal can automatically complete web authentication of a wireless local area network, a user does not need to enter an account and a password, and a web authentication interface does not need to be displayed to the user either, thereby avoiding a complex and repetitive authentication operation and improving user experience.
US09462463B2	Method of controlling states of mobile node and verifier therein for receiving secret key Disclosed are a verifier used in a mobile node and a method of controlling plural states of the mobile node. The verifier comprises a secret key receiving part configured to listen and receive at least one secret key from at least one secret key transmitter in an area limited Ad-hoc network; a secret key stamp generating part configured to perform calculation on the at least one secret key according to a predetermined verification rule so as to generate a secret key stamp; and a secret key stamp verifying part configured to compare the secret key stamp and a predetermined standard value, wherein, if the secret key stamp is equal to the predetermined standard value, then the secret key is determined as valid, otherwise, the secret key is determined as invalid.
US09462461B2	Correlating mobile device locations Systems and methods related to the provision of location based services via a mobile communications device. In some cases, a plurality of mobile communication devices can be tracked, based on a user's preferences, and data regarding the locations of that plurality of mobile communication devices can be sent to the user's device. In a particular aspect, for example, the user's device might display a map showing the locations of some or all of the plurality of mobile communication devices.
US09462460B2	Virtual access point using single service set identifiers An Access Point (“AP”) apparatus comprising one or more processors containing program code. The program code may be configured to: (i) cause the AP to broadcast a beacon containing a single SSID indentifying the AP; (ii) cause the AP to receive from the STA an query for network information for at least one network operator accessible through the AP; and (iii) cause the AP to send to the STA, for the at least one network operator, a network information description element, in response to the network information query. The AP providing the plural responses broadcasts only a single service set identification (“SSID”).
US09462455B2	Dynamic user recommendations for ban enabled media experiences Disclosed is a method, performed in a Body Area Network (BAN) enabled media experience device for enabling transmission of a media experience according to a stored, predefined user configuration associated with an identification data, userID, of a BAN enabled communication device, the method comprising: establishing a connection between the BAN enabled media experience device and the BAN enabled communication device by using BAN; retrieving the identification data, userID, of the BAN enabled communication device; retrieving the stored, predefined user configuration associated with the userID of the BAN enabled communication device; and initiating transmission of the media experience by the BAN enabled media experience device according to the stored, predefined user configuration.
US09462448B2	Adaptive positioning reference signal (PRS) for indoor location Methods and systems for adapting positioning reference signal (PRS) transmissions are disclosed. A server receives a request to support an emergency call associated with a user equipment (UE) and sends a first PRS schedule to a first base station, the first PRS schedule configured to enable the first base station to switch to a first emergency PRS mode and to transmit PRS signals according to the first PRS schedule. The base station establishes a PRS schedule, switches to an emergency PRS mode, and transmits PRS signals in accordance with the PRS schedule. A UE initiates an emergency call, receives positioning assistance data from a server, performs terrestrial radio location positioning measurements based on the received positioning assistance data, and provides the terrestrial radio location positioning measurements or a location computed from these measurements to the server.
US09462447B2	Methods and systems for allocating resources from component carriers to a public-safety mobile radio Disclosed herein are methods and systems for allocating resources from component carriers to a public-safety mobile radio. An embodiment takes the form of a process that is carried out by carried out by a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Node B (eNodeB). The eNodeB makes a first determination to allocate resources to a given mobile radio. The eNodeB makes a second determination that the given mobile radio is a public-safety mobile radio. In response to making the first and second determinations, the eNodeB selects, based on one or more public-safety-communication criteria, a component carrier from among a plurality of component carriers managed by the eNodeB. The eNodeB allocates resources on the selected eNodeB component carrier to the given mobile radio.
US09462445B2	Mobile communication terminal, and system and method for safety service using same A mobile communication terminal and a system and a method for safety service using the terminal for checking the user's location and a situation of the surroundings of the user at the time of an emergency such as kidnapping, accident, and so on, are provided. The mobile communication terminal includes a camera, an angle-of-view changing unit which changes angle-of-view of the camera, and a controller which controls the angle-of-view changing unit to change the angle-of-view of the camera and controls the camera to capture the surroundings corresponding to the angle-of-view at the time of emergency mode.
US09462443B2	Method of handling radio access and to prioritize subscribers in case of an emergency In a multi-access environment, applications with high priority can temporarily, when needed, occupy parts or even complete resources from at least one of the accesses in a certain geographical area radio access can be secured for such applications. An area consisting of a number of cells is created In such an area, an application having high priority can have guaranteed resources on one pre-determined access while other “ordinary” traffic is temporarily directed to the other access(es) even if that may result in a lower Quality of Service (QoS) in that particular area.
US09462440B2	Community interaction using mobile communication devices Techniques are provided for delivering content to mobile communication devices related to interactions of members with a user community. The method involves detecting a communication session involving a mobile communication device; determining one or more context parameters associated with the communication session; and delivering content related to the context parameters to one or more mobile communication devices. Data is stored at a central computing entity that indicates association or membership of a plurality of mobile communication device users in a user community. The central computing entity detects when an action is taken by one mobile device user that is a member of the user community, and sends a notification to members of the social circle based on the detected action. These techniques allow individuals who are involved in a user community to maintain their interaction with the user community using their mobile communication devices.
US09462439B2	Delivering specialized services to users of phones An aspect of the present invention enables users to avail specialized services using missed calls. In one embodiment, a missed call server on receiving an indication that a missed call has been placed by a user to a phone number, determines the specialized service corresponding to the phone number, and then sends a data to the service provider offering the determined service. The service provider then delivers the specialized service (sought to be availed) to the user. One of the specialized services is the delivery of content to the user. Thus, a user is enabled to access different contents by placing missed calls to the appropriate phone numbers.
US09462435B2	System and methods for integrating short message service messaging with contact center applications A system for routing short message service (SMS) messages to endpoints in a contact center includes a first node for receiving SMS message streams from multiple sources operating variant protocols and for multiplexing the multiple streams into a single message stream following a universal protocol, a media gateway server connected to the first node for receiving the single message stream and for forwarding individual ones of the messages therein to individual ones of a plurality of connected servers, and a router connected to at least one of the connected servers for routing individual messages represented therein to individual ones of a plurality of network-supported endpoint devices.
US09462430B2	System and method for managing messages A system, method, and computer program product for managing different types of messages, such as, but not limited to, voicemails and text messages, is presented. For example, in one embodiment, the method includes identifying a sender associated with a message for a recipient; and grouping all messages from the sender under a directory associated with the sender, wherein the directory includes different types of messages received from the sender.
US09462427B2	System and method for elastic scaling using a container-based platform An embodiment method includes triggering, by a service orchestrator, creation of one or more container instances for a first service cluster. The method further includes creating, by a container manager, the one or more container instances and mapping the one or more container instances of the first service cluster to one or more first virtual machines belonging to a first virtual machine server group in accordance with a platform profile of the first virtual machine server group and the first service provided by the first service cluster. The method further includes mapping, by a virtual machine manager, the one or more first virtual machines to one or more first host virtual machines of a cloud network in accordance with the platform profile of the first virtual machine server group.
US09462425B2	System and method for spatial multiplexing-based multiple antenna broadcast/multicast transmission Methods and devices are provided for implementing two types of sub-channel arrangements. A first type of sub-channel arrangement involves defining a first traffic portion and a second traffic portion of a transmission resource, transmitting broadcast traffic on at least one first antenna of a plurality of antennas in the first traffic portion using a first sub-channelization, transmitting multicast traffic on at least one second antenna of the plurality of antennas, the at least one second antenna being distinct from the at least one first antenna, in the first traffic portion using a second sub-channelization, and transmitting unicast traffic on at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas in the second traffic portion using a third sub-channelization. A second type of sub-channel arrangement involves defining a first traffic portion and a second traffic portion, wherein for a portion of the transmission resource, a portion of the first traffic portion overlaps with a portion of the second traffic portion. In the portion of the transmission resource in which a portion of the first traffic portion overlaps with a portion of the second traffic portion, the channel arrangement involves transmitting broadcast/multicast traffic on at least one first antenna of a plurality of antennas using a first sub-channelization and b) transmitting unicast traffic on at least one second antenna of the plurality of antennas, the at least one second antenna being distinct from the at least one first antenna, using a second sub-channelization. The first, second and third sub-channelizations may be based on either one of or a combination of FDM sub-channelization and TDM sub-channelization.
US09462415B2	Method of searching for contact number and electronic device for supporting same A method of searching for a contact number by a host device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal for requesting vehicle data of a first mobile station and a location value of a second mobile station; receiving a location value and flag information of the first mobile station; determining the location value of the first mobile station based on the flag information; determining whether a difference between the determined location value of the first mobile station and the location value of the second mobile station is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold location value; extracting the vehicle data of the first mobile station based on the determination result as to whether the difference is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold location; and transmitting the extracted vehicle data of the first mobile station.
US09462406B2	Method and apparatus for facilitating spatial audio capture with multiple devices A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to facilitate spatial audio capture by utilizing multiple audio recording devices. In the context of a method, spatial characteristics of sound recorded by a first device are determined. The method also mapping, with a processor, sound recorded by a second device to a location and orientation of the first device. As such, the spatial characteristics of the sound recorded by the second device are modified to match the spatial characteristics of the sound recorded by the first device.
US09462403B1	Package-integrable high sound quality moving coil loudspeaker structure A package-integrable high sound quality voice coil loudspeaker structure includes a metal shell, and a diaphragm, voice coil washer, magnet, T iron and PCB packed integrally inside the metal shell; the metal shell has a cylindrical side wall and bottom wall, and a sound output is opened on the bottom wall, with a lengthened cylinder in communication with the first sound output being projected outward integrally from the bottom face of the bottom wall. Therefore, the present invention utilizing the metal shell to pack all components integrally simplifies the assembly process, and has a good waterproof performance. In addition, the configuration of the lengthened cylinder improves the sound quality.
US09462400B2	Periodogram-based wireless signal detection method A periodogram-based wireless microphone signal detection method, which solves the problem of incapability of distinguishing wireless microphone signal from narrow-band interference, includes: acquiring a time-domain digital signal for detection through antenna module, RF front-end module, ADC module and time-domain signal preprocessing module; and performing detection of microphone signal in frequency domain, that is, calculating an average value of periodogram of M segments of the time-domain digital signal for detection, shifting the average value to obtain a shifted vector, estimating a mean and a covariance matrix of the shifted vector, locating a maximum point of the vector, and taking several points on each side of the point as a center to form an information vector; calculating a decision statistical quantity of the information vector using the decision theory, simulating or calculating a threshold in a predefined method, and deciding the signal is narrow-band interference if the decision statistical quantity is less than the threshold, otherwise the signal is wireless microphone signal.
US09462392B2	Speaker device with a magnetic gap filled with magnetic fluid and changing magnetic flux density in axial and circumferential directions A speaker device including a magnet formed in a ring shape; a yoke having a center pole portion inserted in the center of the magnet; a plate formed in a ring shape and arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the center pole portion of the yoke while being attached to the magnet; a coil bobbin formed in a cylindrical shape and movable in the axial direction of the center pole portion while being partially fitted on the center pole portion of the yoke; a voice coil wrapped around the outer circumferential surface of the coil bobbin, at least part of the voice coil being arranged in a magnetic gap formed between the plate and the center pole portion of the yoke; a diaphragm having its inner circumferential portion connected to the coil bobbin; and a magnetic fluid filled in the magnetic gap.
US09462384B2	Nomadic device for controlling one or more portable speakers An apparatus for receiving audio data from a nomadic device is provided. The apparatus comprises a first portable speaker for being operably coupled to the nomadic device. The nomadic device receives first information indicative of a first crossover frequency for the first portable speaker and determines the first crossover frequency based on the first information. The nomadic device transmits the audio data to the first portable speaker in accordance to the first crossover frequency. The first portable speaker is configured to playback the audio data at the first crossover frequency.
US09462381B2	Intelligent dynamics processing A multi-band audio compressor that may provide not only better and brighter sound, but also speaker protection. The multi-band audio compressor breaks an input audio signal into different frequency bands. For each band signal, a volume re-mapper translates a user preference volume level to a converted volume level based on a programmable volume curve for the band signal. For each frequency band, the band signal is processed by a gain stage and a compressor. Each gain stage applies a signal gain to the band signal based on the converted volume level. Each compressor compresses the output of the gain stage. After compression, the different frequency band signals are re-combined and the combined audio signal may then be passed to a power amplifier that is driving a speaker. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09462379B2	Method and apparatus for detecting and controlling the orientation of a virtual microphone A method for controlling the orientation of a virtual microphone, which is carried out on an electronic device, includes combining and processing signals from a microphone array to create a virtual microphone; receiving data from a sensor of the electronic device; determining, based on the received data, a mode in which the electronic device is being used; and based on the determined mode, directionally orienting the virtual microphone. Possible use modes include a) a stowed use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being substantially enclosed by surrounding material; b) a handset (alternately, private) use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being held proximate to a user; and c) a handheld (alternately, speakerphone) use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being held away from a user.
US09462378B2	Apparatus and method for deriving a directional information and computer program product An apparatus for deriving a directional information from a plurality of microphone signals or from a plurality of components of a microphone signal, wherein different effective microphone look directions are associated with the microphone signals or components, has a combiner configured to obtain a magnitude value from a microphone signal or a component of the microphone signal. The combiner is further configured to combine direction information items describing the effective microphone look directions, such that a direction information item describing a given effective microphone look direction is weighted in dependence on the magnitude value of the microphone signal, or of the component of the microphone signal, associated with the given effective microphone look direction, to derive the directional information.
US09462377B2	Systems and methods for optimizing an audio communication system Methods and systems for optimizing and audio communication system, including detecting a surrounding noise profile, determining one or more states of one or more noise-related conditions corresponding to the surrounding noise profile, and associating the one or more states of the one or more noise-related conditions to the surrounding noise profile.
US09462371B2	Earphone and implementation method of vibratile earphone The present invention provides an earphone and an implementation method of vibratile earphone. The earphone comprises: a low-frequency detection control circuit and a vibratile terminal connected to the low-frequency detection control circuit; the low-frequency detection control circuit is for sending a control signal to the vibratile terminal when detecting a signal of low-frequency below a specified frequency from earphone signals; the vibratile terminal produces vibration when receiving the control signal sent from the low-frequency detection control circuit. The solution of the invention can make the earphone produce vibration when the earphone signals contain low frequency signals and thus improve people's sense of shock when they are listening to voices or playing games with the earphone.
US09462367B2	Jack for preventing headphone from inputting double audio sources A jack for preventing a headphone from inputting double audio sources includes: an audio jack set including a left audio jack and a right audio jack, which are respectively provided on bottoms of a left earpiece and a right earpiece of a headphone and for connecting an audio connector. The left audio jack includes a first common grounding contact, a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal. The right audio jack includes a second common grounding contact, a third conductive terminal and a fourth conductive terminal. Two audio jacks are provided for users to select. Simple mechanical switches are additionally provided, which only allow one inputted audio signal to input to a left earpiece and a right earpiece of the headphone for playing audio, and thus are capable of preventing users from inputting two different audio sources to the headphone simultaneously.
US09462363B2	Sound generator for an exhaust system A sound generator (1) for an exhaust system (2) of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle (3) includes a housing (4), with an electroacoustic converter (5) having a membrane (6) separating a housing rear volume (9) from a housing front volume (10). A connection pipe (11) connects the front volume (10) of the sound generator (1) to an exhaust gas-carrying exhaust gas line (12) fluidically and acoustically. To reduce the risk of damage to the membrane (6), for example, in case the housing (4) becomes flooded, a pressure equalization line (15) is connected by a proximal end (16) to the housing (4) on the outside and is connected fluidically with the rear volume (9) through an opening (18) in the housing. A distal end (17) of the pressure equalization line (15) is at a spaced location from the housing (4).
US09462359B2	System and method for photonic switching In one embodiment, optical node includes an input port configured to receive an input optical frame and a first optical switch coupled to the input port, where the first optical switch is configured to remove the input optical frame to produce a removed input optical frame when an address of the input optical frame is a node address of the optical node and to pass the input optical frame to a second optical switch when an address of the input optical frame differs from the address of the optical node. The optical node also includes the second optical switch coupled to the first optical switch, where the second optical switch is configured to output the input optical frame to an output port when the address of the input optical frame is not the node address of the optical node and the address of the input optical frame is not an empty address.
US09462354B2	Audited pipelined distributed system for video advertisement exchanges Techniques and systems for operating a video ad exchange includes controlling an ad server to receive ad requests from viewer devices, provide ad responses to viewer devices, generate an ad delivery data file that includes information about delivery of ads to the viewer devices, and transfer the ad delivery data file to a distributed computing cloud. The technique further includes controlling an ad data infrastructure mechanism to download the cloud-based ad delivery data file into a local memory, and process the copied ad delivery data file to generate billing data. An ad data infrastructure mechanism receives a configuration file from the ad server, verifies that all items in the configuration file from the ad server were used in the generation of the first billing data, and removes non-verifiable items from the first billing data to generate a final billing data.
US09462347B2	Content discovery and playback in a network environment A processing resource detects that a subscriber entity subscribes to at least a first content service provider and a second content service provider. The processing resource receives a first message indicating content available to the subscriber entity for selective retrieval from the first content service provider. The processing resource receives a second message indicating content available to the subscriber entity for selective retrieval from the second content service provider. Based on at least the first message and the second message, the processing resource produces a content guide to include at least first content available to the subscriber entity for retrieval from the first service provider and second content available to the subscriber entity for retrieval from the second service provider. Via display of the content guide, a respective subscriber is able to view content available from multiple service providers.
US09462346B2	Customizable channel guide Methods and systems for providing a customizable channel guide, and more specifically, a personalized channel guide for a user, are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, indications of types of content for which the user has an interest are received. Information about content that is available for viewing is accessed. Personalized channels for the user are generated based on the received indications of the types of content for which the user has an interest and based on the information about content that is available for viewing. Each separate personalized channel provides the user with access to a separate type of content for which the user has an interest. A listing of at least some of the personalized channels is displayed to thereby enable the user to select one of the personalized channels.
US09462344B1	Trickplay control using finite state automata Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate regulation of trickplay control during playback of streaming multimedia. Trickplay control can be regulated by associating a segment of a multimedia stream with a finite state automaton, associating a state of the finite state automaton with a flag, and controlling transitions from state to state within the finite state automaton by client interactions with the multimedia stream or predetermined time period.
US09462340B1	Voice/manual activated and integrated audio/video multi-media, multi-interface system An enhanced form of edited interactive audio and video content delivered through a subscriber based network system and accessed by several unique multimedia interface devices. These unique multimedia interface devices can also create and edit both user generated audio and video content into this enhanced form of edited interactive audio and video content. The present invention will incorporate both voice and manual activation as an embedded technology into all multi-media and user generated audio/video content.
US09462338B2	Set top box for performing diagnostic functions Examples of the disclosure enable a set top box to be installed. In some examples, a remote control device, a computing device, and a set top box are provided. The computing device downloads configuration information for a location and receives input from an installer at the location. The set top box includes a remote control interface that receives commands from the remote control device, a local communications channel that transmits data to the computing device, an emulator that emulates the receipt of the commands by injecting remote control keypresses into the remote control interface to issue the commands, and a diagnostic feature activatable over the local communications channel by the computing device after the computing device receives the input to perform verification tests and to return results of the verification tests to the computing device to confirm to the installer that the set top box has been installed correctly.
US09462324B2	System and method for delivering targeted advertising in an internet protocol television system A system is disclosed for delivering targeted advertising data over a network including but not limited to a first video server processor interface for sending data for rotating one of the set of follow-on advertisements off of the on-screen picture in picture queue display to an off-screen storage; and a second video server processor interface for sending data rotating another one of the follow-on advertisements from the off-screen storage to the on screen picture in picture queue display.
US09462318B2	System for media program management A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to capture an image, and transmit the image to a system. The system can be operable to determine that the image corresponds to a media program, identify metadata associated with the media program, and transmit the metadata to a set-top box operable to display program information according to the metadata. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462311B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving multi-media services A server for transmitting and receiving messages for a Signaling (S) layer in a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) is provided. The server includes a first sub-layer of the S layer for producing first messages to provide information used for the use of MPEG, a second sub-layer of the S layer for producing second messages to provide information used for delivering MPEG media, and a Delivery (D) layer for making external and internal deliveries of the first and the second messages, wherein each of the first and the second messages includes at least one field corresponding to each of the message type, version, length, extension field and payload.
US09462305B2	Layered multicast and fair bandwidth allocation and packet prioritization Embodiments include an overlay multicast network. The overlay multicast network may provide a set of features to ensure reliable and timely arrival of multicast data. The embodiments include a congestion control system that may prioritize designated layers of data within a data stream over other layers of the same data stream. Each data stream transmitted over the network may be given an equal share of the bandwidth. Addressing in routing tables maintained by routers may utilize summarized addressing based on the difference in location of the router and destination address. Summarization levels may be adjusted to minimize travel distances for packets in the network. Data from high priority data stream layers may also be retransmitted upon request from a destination machine to ensure reliable delivery of data.
US09462299B2	Centralized broadband gateway for a wireless communication system A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a centralized broadband gateway for a wireless communication system, including a router/gateway module which receives encoded compressed audio/video (A/V) streams and distributes the encoded compressed audio/video A/V streams; multiple audio/video decoders which receive the encoded compressed A/V streams from the a router/gateway module, decode the encoded compressed A/V streams, and output uncompressed A/V streams; and an integrated Wireless High Definition Multimedia Interface (WHDMI) which receives the uncompressed A/V streams from the multiple audio/video decoders and transmits the uncompressed A/V streams wirelessly to media devices, without deploying individual media processors at each media device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462295B2	Manipulating sub-pictures of a compressed video signal The invention relates to manipulation of sub-pictures (303) in a picture such as a mosaic screen (301). An apparatus comprises a sub-picture generator (105) connected to a mosaic screen generator (107), which generates the mosaic screen (301) from the sub-pictures. The mosaic screen (301) is by a video compressor (111) divided into uncompressed picture blocks such that each block only comprise video data from one sub-picture. The picture blocks are compressed using a block compression scheme such as MPEG-2. The apparatus further comprises a video manipulation processor (113), which manipulates the sub-pictures by manipulating the association between control data in the video signal and the compressed picture blocks. The video data of the compressed picture blocks are not affected whereby de-compression and new compression is avoided.
US09462289B2	Implicit signaling of scalability dimension identifier information in a parameter set A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile and where each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another.
US09462286B2	Methods and devices for coding binary symbols as n-tuples Methods and devices for reconstructing coefficient levels from a bitstream of encoded video data for a coefficient group in a transform unit. Greater-than-one flags are encoded by grouping them into tuples and by encoding a tuple-based value that is a function of the greater-than-one flags within that tuple. The tuple-based value may permit the decoder to infer the greater-than-one flags in some cases, in which case they are not encoded in the bitstream.
US09462275B2	Residual quad tree (RQT) coding for video coding A video decoding device receives an array of transform coefficients for a chroma component of video data. The video decoding device receives entropy encoded data representing the value of a split flag associated with the chroma component. The value of the split flag indicates whether the array of transform coefficients is divided into smaller transform blocks. The video decoding device determines a context for the entropy encoded data representing the split flag. The context is based on the value of a split flag associated with another component of video data. The video decoding device entropy decodes the data representing the value of the split flag based on the determined context using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). The luma and chroma components have independent residual quadtree (RQT) structures.
US09462271B2	Moving image encoding device, moving image decoding device, moving image coding method, and moving image decoding method When generating a prediction image of a color difference signal, an intra prediction unit 4 carries out an intra prediction process on a target block to be encoded of a color difference signal by using the same intra prediction parameter as that which the intra prediction unit 4 uses when carrying out an intra prediction process on a target block to be encoded of a luminance signal, or carries out the intra prediction process on the target block to be encoded of the color difference signal by applying an average prediction to the target block to be encoded. A variable length encoding unit 13 variable-length-encodes a flag showing whether the intra prediction unit 4 uses the same intra prediction parameter as that used for the luminance signal.
US09462268B2	Output management of prior decoded pictures at picture format transitions in bitstreams Systems and methods may be provided for determining whether or not to output the “decoded pictures yet to be output” (DPYTBO) after decoding a random access point (RAP) picture of the second of two consecutive coded video sequences in a bitstream. The DPYTBO pictures may reside in a portion of memory coupled to a video decoder. The portion of memory may correspond to the Decoder Picture Buffer (DPB) of the video decoder. The picture resolution in the bitstream is allowed to change only at the start of a CVS. The first coded picture in a coded video sequence (CVS) may be a RAP picture. The second CVS may or may not have a picture resolution that is different from the picture resolution corresponding to the first CVS.
US09462267B2	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.
US09462260B2	Display device An object is to provide a three-dimensional display device capable of displaying bright images with low power consumption. The display device includes: an image display portion including a pixel portion provided with a plurality of pixels; a light-blocking portion including a first shutter and a second shutter; a signal source outputting the common potential; and a controller controlling transmittances of the first shutter and the second shutter and level of the common potential output from the signal source to bring the transmittances and the level into synchronism with supply of an image signal, display of a right-eye image, or display of a left-eye image performed in the pixel portion.
US09462255B1	Projection and camera system for augmented reality environment A device includes a projection and camera system to create an augmented reality environment in which images are projected onto a scene and user movement within the scene is captured. The projection and camera system have a camera to image scattered IR light from the scene and compute time of flight values used in depth mapping of objects in the room. The system also has a projector to project the images onto the scene. The projected images and scattered IR light use a common optical path through the same lens. Additionally, an illumination system used to illuminate the scene with the IR light may also use the common optical path through the same lens. In one implementation, the projection and camera system are mounted in a movable head of a table lamp.
US09462254B2	Light field image capture device and image sensor An image sensor 2 includes: a photoelectric conversion layer 1d including a plurality of photosensitive cells; a reflective layer 1c that reflects light that has been transmitted through the photoelectric conversion layer 1d; a micro lens layer 1a that includes a plurality of micro lenses that are arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c; and a transmitted light controlling layer 1b that is arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c and that is able to change optical transmittance in accordance with an instruction given by a controller. The micro lens layer 1a is arranged so that light that has been transmitted through one of the photosensitive cells and then reflected from the reflective layer 1c is incident on the same photosensitive cell again.
US09462253B2	Optical modules that reduce speckle contrast and diffraction artifacts An optical module, for use in a depth camera, includes a plurality of laser emitting elements, each of which emits a corresponding laser beam, and a micro-lens array (MLA) that includes a plurality of lenslets. Laser beams emitted by adjacent laser emitting elements at least partially overlap one another prior to being incident on the MLA For each lenslet of at least a majority of the lenslets of the MLA, the lenslet is at least partially filled by light corresponding to laser beams emitted by at least two of the laser emitting elements. The inclusion of the plurality of laser emitting elements is used to reduce speckle contrast. The overlap of the laser beams, and the at least partially filling of the lenslets of the MLA with light corresponding to laser beams emitted by multiple laser emitting elements, is used to reduce diffraction artifacts.
US09462251B2	Depth map aligning method and system A depth map aligning method and a system are provided. The depth map aligning method includes the following steps. A view warping is performed to a left-view image and a right-view image of a real-view image according to a corresponding depth map to obtain a right-virtual view image, a left hole information, and a right hole information thereof. A residual difference of pixel, which is not a hole, is obtained by pixel to pixel. If the residual difference of the pixel is larger than a first threshold value, a reverse warping is performed to obtain a coordinate of the pixel. The depth value of the pixel is aligned according to the depth value of one or more pixels in a vicinity of the obtained coordinate.
US09462228B2	Distributed real-time media composer A system and a method allowing simultaneous exchange of audio, video or data information between a plurality of units over a communication network, supported by a central unit, wherein the central unit is, based on knowledge regarding one or more of the units, adapted to instruct said one or more units to generate multimedia data streams adjusted to fit into certain restrictions to be presented on other units participating in a same session.
US09462213B2	Video display device A video display device includes a video display panel that displays video, a case that encloses an outer periphery of the video display panel, an audio device that is arranged in proximity to the outer periphery of the video display panel, the audio device being configured to linearly arrange a plurality of speakers, and a sound emitting hole that corresponds to an opening of the audio device, the sound emitting hole being provided to the case and emitting sound generated by the audio device.
US09462210B2	Method and system for user interface for interactive devices using a mobile device A software application and system that enables point-and-click interaction with a TV screen. The application determines geocode positioning information for a handheld device, and uses that data to create a virtual pointer for a television display or interactive device. Some embodiments utilize motion sensing and touchscreen input for gesture recognition interacting with video content or interactive device. Motion sensing can be coupled with positioning or localization techniques the user to calibrate the location of the interactive devices and the user location to establish and maintain virtual pointer connection relationships. The system may utilize wireless network infrastructure and cloud-based calculation and storage of position and orientation values to enable the handheld device in the TV viewing area to replace or surpass the functionality of the traditional TV remote control, and also interface directly with visual feedback on the TV screen.
US09462191B2	Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, method of controlling the image processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image signal, a generating unit configured to perform enhancement processing on the image signal to generate a first image and a second image, a synthesizing unit configured to generate a synthetic image with the first image used in a region having a first brightness and the second image used in a region having a second brightness lower than the first brightness, and a recording unit configured to record the synthetic image on a recording medium, the generating unit being configured to perform the enhancement processing such that the second image is more enhanced than the first image.
US09462189B2	Piecewise perspective transform engine An image signal processor of a device, apparatus, or computing system that includes a camera capable of capturing image data may apply piecewise perspective transformations to image data received from the camera's image sensor. A scaling unit of an Image Signal Processor (ISP) may perform piecewise perspective transformations on a captured image to correct for rolling shutter artifacts and to provide video image stabilization. Image data may be divided into a series of horizontal slices and perspective transformations may be applied to each slice. The transformations may be based on motion data determined in any of various manners, such as by using gyroscopic data and/or optical-flow calculations. The piecewise perspective transforms may be encoded as Digital Difference Analyzer (DDA) steppers and may be implemented using separable scalar operations. The image signal processor may not write the received image data to system memory until after the transformations have been performed.
US09462187B2	Electronic device having better anti-shake function and image adjustment method An electronic device includes a camera module and an image module. The camera module captures a number of static images of an object. The image module includes a detecting unit and an image combining unit. The image module detects an edge response value of each image. The image combining unit selects and combines two images having maximum edge response values in turn according to a rate of the edge response values.
US09462182B2	Imaging apparatus and control method thereof During shooting, first encoded image data based on image data obtained by performing a simplified development process on RAW image data is recorded together with a RAW image, and afterward, second encoded image data based on image data obtained by performing a high-quality development process on the RAW image data is generated and recorded. By estimating the data amount of the second encoded image data during shooting and reflecting an area based on this data amount on management information of the recording medium as an area for recording the second encoded image data, the area in the recording medium is ensured.
US09462181B2	Imaging device for capturing self-portrait images A digital camera for capturing an image containing the photographer, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system for forming an image of a scene on the image sensor; a processor for processing the output of the image sensor in order to detect the presence of one or more faces in a field of view of the digital camera; a feedback mechanism for providing feedback to the photographer while the photographer is included within the field of view, responsive to detecting at least one face in the field of view, and a means for initiating capture of a digital image of the scene containing the photographer.
US09462172B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for facilitating color communication In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes computing a first set of tuning parameters indicative of a color correction associated with a media output component of an apparatus. Also, the method includes computing a second set of tuning parameters indicative of a color correction associated with a media capturing component of the apparatus. The first set of tuning parameters and the second set of tuning parameters are associated with the apparatus for facilitating color tuning of the apparatus.
US09462170B2	Lighting methods and apparatus Illumination methods and apparatus are described. In some embodiments a lighting device includes one or more lighting modules. At least some but not necessarily all lighting modules include a light source, e.g., LED or bulb, a collimating lens positioned in front of said light source for generating a beam of light from light output by said light source and a beam flattening lens for flattening the beam of light in at least a first direction as it passes through the first beam flattening lens. In some but not necessarily all embodiments lighting modules are controlled based on which portion of a scene is being captured at a point in time thereby avoiding the need to illuminate the entire scene for the full duration of an image capture period. The lighting device may be used in combination with a rolling shutter and a sensor used to capture one or more images.
US09462159B2	Image processing device, method and inkjet recording device A image processing device includes a nozzle ejection rate determination unit that determines a first nozzle ejection rate for each nozzle, a nozzle pattern determination unit that determines a nozzle pattern indicating by which of the plurality of nozzles individual pixels are to be recorded, a conversion unit that converts gradation values reflecting the first nozzle ejection rate on the gradation values of the individual pixels, and a halftone processing unit that performs halftone processing to an image converted by the conversion unit. The halftone processing unit performs the halftone processing using a second dither mask generated by threshold conversion reflecting a second nozzle ejection rate on a threshold of a first dither mask.
US09462157B2	Image forming apparatus communicable with at least one registered mobile terminal registered in advance In an operation panel of an image forming apparatus, a display section that displays an operation status and a near field communication section that obtains an operation instruction from a registered terminal by near field communication are arranged. In the image forming system, the registered terminal functions as an operation section of the image forming apparatus.
US09462153B2	Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts identification information items from image information items of a document group that includes plural individual documents, each of the identification information items being included in a corresponding one of the individual documents, a corresponding information generating unit that generates corresponding information items that indicate corresponding relationships between the identification information items and the image information items of the individual documents, and an electronic document generating unit that rearranges an order of the identification information items on the basis of contents of the identification information items and generates an electronic document that includes the image information items of the document group, the corresponding information items, and the identification information items that have been sorted.
US09462141B2	Electronic device, imaging device, image reproduction method, image reproduction program, recording medium with image reproduction program recorded thereupon, and image reproduction device An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.
US09462139B2	Image processing system and image processing method An image processing system includes a vote adding portion, a vote reception portion, a vote determination portion, and a default registration portion. The vote adding portion adds a vote key indicating whether image data is good or bad, to the image data. The vote reception portion displays, of the vote key, a goodness key indicating that the image data is good, in a selectable manner, and receives selection of the goodness key. The vote determination portion counts the number of votes to the goodness key and determines whether or not the counted number of votes to the goodness key is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. When the number of votes is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the default registration portion automatically registers a setting condition for the image reading of the transmitted image data as an initial setting condition.
US09462127B2	Matching using agent/caller sensitivity to performance A method, system and program product, the method comprising: obtaining for each call in one set of calls a respective pattern representing multiple different respective data fields; obtaining performance data for the respective patterns of the calls; obtaining performance data for the respective agents; determining agent performance sensitivity to call pattern performance for agents in a set of agents comprising the agent performance data correlated to call performance data for the calls the agent handles; and matching a respective one of the agents from the set of agents to one of the calls based at least in part on the performance data for the respective pattern of the one call and on the agent sensitivity to call performance for the respective one agent of the set of agents.
US09462126B2	Tracking individuals using voice verification A method for tracking the location of an individual can include selecting a first audio clip from a plurality of audio clips, wherein each audio clip comprises a different question for the individual and wherein a correct answer corresponds to each audio clip. The method can further include initiating a telephone call to a telephone of the individual at a desired location and playing the first audio clip for the individual via the telephone call. The method can further include receiving an oral response to the first audio clip from the individual via the telephone call and executing a speech recognition process upon the oral response. The method can further include comparing the oral response to a voice print of the individual and storing a record indicating that the individual is compliant if the oral response matches the correct answer and the oral response matches the voice print.
US09462114B2	Inconspicuous mode for mobile devices A communication device is configured to switch from a normal mode of operation to an inconspicuous mode of operation in which a reduced set of information is presented on a home screen of a display of the device in comparison to a set of information presented on the home screen in the normal mode of operation. In addition, other display properties such as contrast and brightness may be adjusted to make them less conspicuous. The home screen in the inconspicuous mode of operation is less obtrusive or conspicuous to individuals than in the normal mode of operation. The device may enter the inconspicuous mode upon user request or by detecting at least one environmental condition using a sensor available to the mobile communication device. The environmental condition may be anything that the device can detect or sense in its surrounding environment such as ambient light or sound. The device may return to the normal mode of operation by user request or when the environmental condition is no longer present.
US09462112B2	Use of a digital assistant in communications A digital assistant operating on a device is configured to be engaged as an active participant in communications between local and remote parties by listening to voice and video calls and participating in messaging sessions. The digital assistant typically can be initiated by voice using a key word or phrase and then be requested to perform tasks, provide information and services, etc. using voice or gestures. The digital assistant can respond to the request and take appropriate actions. In voice and video calls, the interactions with the digital assistant (i.e., the request, response, and actions) can be heard by both parties to the call as if the digital assistant was a third party on the call. In a messaging session, messages are generated and displayed to each participant so that they can see the interactions with the digital assistant as if it was a participant.
US09462107B2	Intuitive computing methods and systems A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09462105B2	Systems and methods for managing incoming phone calls A method and system for managing incoming phone calls to a user device using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes storing in a memory, a plurality of category rules, the category rules associated with parameters of a phone call incoming to a user device, receiving an incoming phone call, comparing parameters of the incoming phone call with at least some of the category rules, assigning each incoming phone call to a category associated with one of the plurality category rules based on the comparison, and automatically, responding to the phone call based on an action specified by the category rules of the assigned category.
US09462101B2	Methods and apparatus to electronically tag a circuit pair Methods and apparatus to electronically tag a circuit pair are disclosed herein. Example methods include generating circuit identifying information to be included in a tag, transmitting the circuit identifying information to a first network element and to a portable circuit probe, and electronically tagging the circuit pair by applying a tone to the circuit pair at the first network element. In some examples, the tone is encoded to include the tag. Example methods additionally include notifying the portable circuit probe that the circuit pair has been electronically tagged. In some examples, the tag is transmitted to the first network element via the circuit pair and, if the first network element fails to acknowledge receipt of the circuit identifying information, via an out-of-band network.
US09462077B2	System, method, and circuit for servicing a client data service request One or more parameters of a received data service request may be compared against a lookup table. Based on one or more priority values stored in the lookup table and associated with the one or more request parameters, the data service request may be assigned a priority level.
US09462076B2	Information dissemination system based on integration of broadcast network and internet The present invention provides an information dissemination system based on the integration of the broadcast network and the Internet, including: a terminal storage module, a regional storage module, a statistics-and-analysis module, a recommendation-and-analysis module, a media content management module and a network scheduling module. By two-level storing and playing of media contents, along with the statistics and analysis for on-demand behaviors of users, the intervention of the operator, and the recommendation and analysis performed by the recommendation-and-analysis module, the media contents are classified. Further, according to the classification, a media content is transmitted to the terminal storage module via the Internet; or, is transmitted to the terminal storage module via the Internet and pushed to the terminal storage module via the broadcast network; or, is pushed to the terminal storage module or the regional storage module at a predetermined time via the broadcast network. Thus, the respective advantages of the broadcast network and the Internet can be integrated and also the bandwidth pressure and the pressure of concurrent accesses on the Internet can be alleviated.
US09462075B2	Encrypted cached content system An encrypted cached content system includes a user IHS, a content provider IHS, and a caching IHS. The caching IHS includes a caching engine that is configured to receive a content request from the user IHS. The caching engine generates a user-side key using content identifying information in the content request, and forwards the content request to the content provider IHS over a network as a content partial information request. In response to receiving a content partial information response from the content provider IHS over a network, the caching engine generates a content-provider-side key using header information in the content partial information response. The caching engine performs a hashing operation on the content request using a combination of the user-side key and the content-provider-side key to produce a hashed content request, and uses the hashed content request to retrieve content from the cache.
US09462073B2	Remote access of media items Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. Media item content data associate with a first subset of the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. In this manner, only media item metadata associate with a second subset of the plurality of media items is stored on the first network device.
US09462062B2	Portable terminal for displaying local service based on context awareness technology, and operation method of the portable terminal Provided are a portable terminal for displaying a local service based on context awareness technology, and an operation method of the portable terminal. The portable terminal may discover a plurality of local services available at a current position, verify a current context of a user, apply a predetermined weight to one or more local services corresponding to the verified current context among the plurality of local services, and thereby display the one or more local services based on the weight.
US09462055B1	Cloud tiering A method, system, and program product for migrating data between clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds via a cloud router and a cloud migrator.
US09462054B2	Systems and methods for providing a user with a set of interactivity features locally on a user device Providing a user with an interactive user interface that may fully enable interactions regardless of connectivity status may be provided. In some embodiments, one or more content items may be selected by a user of the user devices and may be queued for upload to a content management system. The content items may be organized into one or more collections of content items with other content items already stored in a user account on the content management system, such as images having similar geo-temporal characteristics. A set of interactivity features may be available to the user for interacting with the queued content item. This may provide the user with the seamless feeling as if the content items have been uploaded to the content management system and the user may be interacting with the content items on the content management system, even if the upload has not been completed.
US09462050B2	Terminal device, printer and storage medium A terminal device configured to support selection of a printer, the terminal device including: a first processor; and a first memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform: registering area information which defines an area including a location of a printer and is for associating the area with the printer located in the area; acquiring the registered area information; acquiring terminal position information which represents the position of the terminal device; and specifying a candidate of a printer to be used based on the area information and the terminal position information, wherein the area is defined based on three or more positions.
US09462045B2	Triggering a communicative action based on a client-determined relationship between proximate client devices In an aspect, a client device detects a set of proximate client devices. The client device classifies, for each respective proximate client device in the set of proximate client devices, a relationship relative to an operator of the client device based on a local evaluation of one or more interactions between the client device and at least one proximate client device from the set of proximate client devices in response to the detecting. The client device determines whether to automatically trigger a communicative action with one or more proximate client devices from the set of proximate client devices based on the classifying.
US09462042B2	System and method for enabling application discovery by automation needs This invention generally relates to a process, system and computer code for identifying one or more data relationships that exist between and utilized by one or more applications; determining for each data relationship a respective rank based on specific data that associates the two or more user applications; finding applications based on the degree a respective rank has to one or more user applications; categorizing each relationship based on a criteria of the interaction; creating an application wall containing status updates and links to and from other applications related to the one of the one or more user applications; constructing a automation map from the links between the one or more user applications and other applications.
US09462040B2	Network-based dynamic data management In one embodiment, a router operating in a hierarchically routed computer network may receive collected data from one or more hierarchically lower devices in the network (e.g., hierarchically lower sensors or routers). The collected data may then be converted to aggregated metadata according to a dynamic schema, and the aggregated metadata is stored at the router. The aggregated metadata may also be transmitted to one or more hierarchically higher routers in the network. Queries may then be served by the router based on the aggregated metadata, accordingly.
US09462036B2	Method and apparatus for using the web to select a VoIP provider and for attaching the provider to a generic VoIP resource A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and services to all of the telephone handsets throughout the home. With this end-to-end solution, any information or services available via the web can be delivered through a broadband enabled telephone system. Through the web, each member of a family can build a profile which defines what information and services they want available through the handset. In addition, each handset can be dynamically personalized for any family member. The color screens on the handsets become windows through which an individual can view and interact with a broad range of content and services. The audio channels thus become an extension of the voice based services, such as messaging and voice chat.
US09462022B2	Mobile application migration to cloud computing platform Technology is disclosed herein for migrating at least portions of computer applications to a server. According to at least one embodiment, a computing device identifies a service component of a computer application executed at the computing device. The service component does not directly interact with a user of the computing device. The computing device transfers an instance of the service component to a server so that the service component can be executed at the server. The computing device then receives from the server a result message generated by the instance of the service component executed at the server. The computing device feeds the result message to a user interface component of the computer application via a procedure call such that the user interface component retrieves the result message as if it were generated by an instance of the service component executed at the computing device.
US09462016B2	Viewing shared documents in a sharing session In a sharing session between a presenter and several attendees, the presenter can share any type of document quickly and without substantial prior preparation. The presenter's device identifies an active document-sharing window within the desktop sharing environment, and detects if there is a shared document in the active window. The presenter's device creates a framework for any detected shared document that is transmitted to each of the attendee devices. The framework contains information about the pages in the shared document, such that an attendee device can request a specific page in the shared document. At least the first page of the shared document is rendered to a page image and transmitted to the attendee devices. Upon request from an attendee device, page images of any of the remaining pages may be sent to the attendee device, allowing each attendee to view a different page than the presenter.
US09462000B2	Off-site user access control Systems and methods are described for off-site user access control to communications services via a site-based communications network. Embodiments operate in context of sites, each having one or more site-based networks in communication with external networks via one or more on-site routers. User devices are provided with controlled access to those external networks via wired or wireless connections between those user devices and the site based networks. In some embodiments, on-site routers maintain route maps that indicate which user devices are authorized. Standard routing functions are used so that traffic from authorized devices is routed normally, while traffic from unauthorized devices is automatically forwarded to an off-site (e.g., cloud-based) authentication system. As devices become remotely authenticated, the off-site authentication system can remotely update route maps of the on-site routers to add those devices.
US09461997B2	Secure authorization of modules running on virtualized hardware A method is described that includes securing authorization for a control module to conduct a test using a plurality of test modules running on a plurality of virtual machines. The method further includes registering the plurality of test modules with the control module to conduct the test. Authorization of the control module is extended to the test modules by securely communicating authorization and instructions to a first set of the registered test modules to send test stimulus to a device under test. Similarly, the authorization is extended to the test modules by securely communicating authorization to and receiving test result data from a second set of the registered test modules, wherein the test result data is responsive to the test stimulus sent to the device under test. The first and second sets of registered test modules can overlap or be the same test modules.
US09461992B2	Smartphone based identification, access control, testing, and evaluation A suite of testing and evaluation tools that run in conjunction with a smartphone that can be used to both enroll, and for subsequent enrollees, to gain secure access so that the program may measure, track and report on tests, including activities, that may indicate general health and wellness status. Here, the word “smartphone” includes any handheld or mobile device containing at least one processor. The smartphone can be used as the platform for this suite of tools that can include applications that run independently on the smartphone device, but can also include sensors and other data acquisition tools that can be peripheral to the smartphone and connected by wire or wirelessly.
US09461983B2	Multi-dimensional framework for defining criteria that indicate when authentication should be revoked Methods and systems are presented for defining criteria that indicate when authentication for an identified client device should be revoked based on rules associated with interested parties. Authentication information is stored that indicates that an identified client device is authenticated. Rules that are associated with a plurality of interested parties and include rules of different rule types may also be stored. Criteria may be defined based on the rules and the authentication information, the criteria indicating when authentication of the identified client device should be revoked. Authentication of the identified client device may be revoked based on the criteria.
US09461979B2	Method and system for including network security information in a frame A method and apparatus for including network security information in a frame is disclosed. Network security information is included in a secure portion of overhead of a frame. The network security information is configured to facilitate network security. A network device configured to process a frame is also disclosed. The frame includes frame security information and network security information. The frame security information is configured to facilitate securing a portion of overhead of the frame, and the network security information is located in the secure portion of the overhead of the frame and is configured to facilitate network security.
US09461974B2	System and method to merge encrypted signals in distributed communication system In a computer implemented method for data privacy in a distributed communication system, the method includes: storing a plurality of secret keys, each secret key for a respective one of a plurality of client terminals; identifying a mixer key; generating a plurality of key switch hints for the client terminals, each of the key switch hints generated for a respective client terminal of the client terminals, using the mixer key and a respective secret key for each respective client terminal; sending the key switch hints to a mixer; switching a first encrypted data stream received from a first client terminal of the client terminals to an encrypted output data stream using the key switch hints; and sending the encrypted output data stream to a receiving client terminal of the client terminals to be decrypted by the receiving client terminal.
US09461972B1	Intelligently designed user interface based on user behavior Systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling the efficient configuration of a User Interface (UI) for a user so that the configured UI represents the UI elements used most commonly by the user. In one embodiment, the invention may be used by the operator and users of a multi-tenant business data processing platform to permit each user to be associated with a specific configuration of UI elements and capabilities based on that user's typical or most common usage patterns. Further, in one embodiment, information or data that represents the UI configuration associated with a user may be encoded and provided to the multi-tenant business data processing platform in an efficient manner to enable the platform to present the desired UI to that user.
US09461967B2	Packet classification for network routing Techniques for packet classification for network routing are disclosed. In some embodiments, packet classification for network routing includes receiving packets associated with a new flow at a security controller from a network device, in which the network device performs packet forwarding; classifying the flow; and determining an action for the flow based on a policy (e.g., a security policy). In some embodiments, the network device is a Software Defined Network (SDN) network device (e.g., a packet forwarding device that supports the OpenFlow protocol or another protocol).
US09461965B2	Redirecting of network traffic for application of stateful services Techniques are presented herein for redirection between any number of network devices that are distributed to any number of sites. A first message of a flow is received from a network endpoint at a first network device. A relationship between the endpoint and the first network device is registered in a directory that maps endpoints for network devices. A state for the flow is stored at the first network device. A second message is received for the flow which is indicative of the first endpoint at a second network device. It is determined that the second network device does not store the flow state for the flow. Querying is performed to receive information indicative of the relationship between the endpoint and the first network device. The received information is stored in a cache at the second network device. Services are applied to the second message according to the stored information.
US09461960B2	Logical L3 daemon For a network controller for managing hosts in a network, a method for configuring a host to resolve network addresses is described. The method configures an address resolution module in a host to resolve a network address. The method configures a managed forwarding element in the host to (1) avoid sending a request to resolve the network address to another host by using the address resolution module to resolve the network address and (2) forward packets using the resolved network address.
US09461958B1	Methods and system for distributing information via multiple forms of delivery services A content distribution facilitation system is described comprising configured servers and a network interface configured to interface with a plurality of terminals in a client server relationship and optionally with a cloud-based storage system. A request from a first source for content comprising content criteria is received, the content criteria comprising content subject matter. At least a portion of the content request content criteria is transmitted to a selected content contributor. If recorded content is received from the first content contributor, the first source is provided with access to the received recorded content. The recorded content may be transmitted via one or more networks to one or more destination devices. Optionally, a voice analysis and/or facial recognition engine are utilized to determine if the recorded content is from the first content contributor.
US09461957B2	Method and apparatus for social network communication over a media network A system that transmits a request to initiate a communication session with a member device of a social network may include, for example, activating a speech capture element, maintaining activation of the speech capture element in accordance with a pattern of prior speech messages, detecting a speech message at the activated speech capture element, and transmitting the detected speech message, or a derivative thereof, to the member device of the social network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09461955B1	Transmission of information during low-bandwidth network service Implementations disclose transmission features for devices during low-bandwidth conditions. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a bandwidth on a network satisfies or will satisfy a low-bandwidth threshold and restricts or will restrict transmission of one or more information messages between the user and one or more entities associated with the one or more information messages. The method modifies transmission of the one or more information messages between the user and the one or more entities based on one or more social relationships between the user and the one or more entities.
US09461951B2	Communication method and system A method and system authenticate a transaction between a user and a payment system. The information of the transaction is transmitted through a secure communications from the user to the payment system, and the authentication message is sent from a payment system to the user via an authentication system. The authentication message is sent from the authentication system from one of multiplicity of addresses to the user, and the response to the message is received in that address. Additional security is achieved when the reply addresses are selected randomly.
US09461949B2	Managing links and invitations to shared content A sharer account of a content management system may share a link to a non-synchronized (i.e., read-only) version of a content item, with a recipient that already has access to a synchronized (i.e., read-write) version of the content item. This can possibly be due to the sharer forgetting that the recipient already has access to the synchronized version, the sharer finding it more convenient to share the link, and/or due to various other reasons. The present disclosure can determine that the recipient, with whom the link is shared, already has access to the synchronized version of the shared content item. The recipient can be notified that he already has access to the synchronized version and can be provided with an option to access the synchronized version (which can be stored locally at the recipient's device and/or stored online at the recipient's account with the content management system).
US09461943B2	Network assisted virtual machine mobility A first addressing message is received at a first switch in a network fabric indicating that a first virtual machine has undergone migration from connection to a first virtual switch at a first server to connection to a second virtual switch at a second server. A route advertisement message is then transmitted from the first switch to at least a second switch in the network fabric. This route advertisement is configured to cause the second switch to transmit a second addressing message to a second virtual machine connected to the first virtual switch. The second addressing message provides the second virtual machine with updated addressing information for the first virtual machine. A third addressing message is also transmitted from the first switch to the first virtual machine to provide the first virtual machine with updated addressing information for the second virtual machine.
US09461940B2	System and method for high speed packet transmission The present invention provides systems and methods for providing data transmission speeds at or in excess of 10 gigabits per second between one or more source devices and one or more destination devices. According to one embodiment, the system of the present invention comprises a first and second media access control (MAC) interfaces to facilitate receipt and transmission of packets over an associated set of physical interfaces. The system also contemplates a first and second field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) coupled to the MAC interfaces and an associated first and second memory structures, the first and second FPGAs are configured to perform initial processing of packets received from the first and second MAC interfaces and to schedule the transmission of packets to the first and second MAC interface for transmission to one or more destination devices. The first and second FPGAs are further operative to dispatch and retrieve packets to and from the first and second memory structures. A third FPGA, coupled to the first and second memory structures and a backplane, is operative to retrieve and dispatch packets to and from the first and second memory structures, compute appropriate destinations for packets and organize packets for transmission. The third FPGA is further operative to receive and dispatch packets to and from the backplane.
US09461938B2	Large distributed fabric-based switch using virtual switches and virtual controllers In one embodiment, a system includes at least one distributed line card (DLC) in electrical communication with at least one switch fabric coupler (SFC) and a meta-controller in electrical communication with the at least one DLC, the meta-controller including a processor for executing logic, logic configured for creating more than one virtual switch and a corresponding virtual control domain (VCD) associated with each virtual switch, wherein each virtual switch includes a plurality of physical ports of one or more of the at least one DLC, and logic configured for autonomously controlling the virtual switches, wherein the system appears to a device external of the system as a single cell switched domain. Other systems are described according to more embodiments.
US09461935B2	Method and system for policy based lifecycle management of virtual software appliances A system and method for managing dynamically allocated resources assigned to a service includes providing a service to be used by a plurality of sites in a federation. Usage information associated with the service is communicated to each of the plurality of sites. A disposition of the service is determined based on local policies and the usage information received from other sites by a service owner. The disposition of the service is updated across a plurality of sites in accordance with messages sent by the service owner to reduce resource usage.
US09461932B2	Visually depicting resource utilization in a cloud computing environment Visually depicting resource utilization in a cloud computing environment, including: identifying a plurality of resources available to a user in the cloud computing environment; identifying resource utilization values for each of the identified resources; assigning each resource to one or more axes of a coordinate system; mapping the resource utilization values for each of the identified resources on the coordinate system; and displaying the resource utilization values for each of the identified resources on the coordinate system.
US09461919B2	Network system, method, apparatus, and program A switch is provided between a first network and a second network and an offloading determination unit determines whether or not to offload traffic for the first network, and configures an offload path to bypass the first network for the switch when the offloading is performed. When the traffic is offloaded, the switch forwards a packet to be offloaded to the offload path.
US09461918B2	Multi-carrier load-balancing Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to perform load-balancing across a plurality of channels based upon a likelihood of a load imbalance occurring across the plurality of channels. Service flows can be configured to use one or more channels of a plurality of channels based upon determinations of a minimum and/or a maximum bandwidth potential of each of the plurality of channels.
US09461909B2	Method and system of shortest path bridging (SPB) enhanced resilience with loop mitigation A method forward Ethernet frames at a node in a network supporting an implementation of shortest path bridging (SPB) protocol is disclosed. The method starts with a shortest path computation for the node (referred to as the computing node). The shortest path computation selects at least a shortest path to each destination node in the network, where a neighboring node on the shortest path to reach each node is recorded. Then it computes a downstream loop-free alternate (LFA) node for a destination node, where the LFA node is downstream of the computing node but not on the selected shortest path to the destination node from the computing node. Then when connectivity to the neighboring node on the computed shortest path is detected to be abnormal, the node forwards an Ethernet frame with a destination media access control (MAC) address corresponding to the destination node through the LFA node.
US09461905B2	Method for indirect link characterization and quality measurement of a digital network Method for determining link characteristics of a network link including: selecting or configuring one or more existing network traffic packets with one or more requirements when necessary, wherein the one or more requirements include a receiving network node having knowledge about the packets it should receive; transmitting the selected one or more network traffic packets from a transmitting network node to the receiving network node; and examining the transmitted selected one or more network traffic packets to determine the link characteristics of a network link between the transmitting network node and the receiving network node, according to said knowledge about the packets.
US09461899B2	Communication control device, program, and communication control method There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reception timing at which a second radio communication device receives a downlink signal from a base station performing radio communication with a first radio communication device or the second radio communication device, and a decision unit configured to decide a transmission timing at which the second radio communication device transmits a signal to the first radio communication device through inter-device communication based on the reception timing. The decided transmission timing is a timing later than a timing at which the second radio communication device transmits an uplink signal.
US09461883B2	Coupling device for a data transmission network and data transmission network A coupling device for connection of one of two servers at a time to a data transmission network as well as to a data transmission network having a coupling device. The device has a first and second terminal for connecting a first and second server and a third terminal for connection to the data transmission network. A switch device is provided having a first switching state where the third terminal is connected to the first terminal and disconnected from the second terminal, and a second switching state, where the third terminal is connected to the second terminal and disconnected from the first terminal. The switch device is adapted to assume a switching state, when it is provided with the energy signal by the power supply, and to assume another switching state, when it is not provided with the energy signal by the power supply.
US09461880B2	Method and system for network and intra-portal link (IPL) sharing in distributed relay control protocol (DRCP) A method supporting network and intra-portal link (IPL) sharing in a link aggregation group at a network device is disclosed. The method starts with transmitting frames on the IPL at the network device, where the physical link or aggregation link of the link aggregation group is dedicated to the IPL. The network device determines that the network device is configured with a network and IPL sharing method that is consistent with the neighbor network device, the network and IPL sharing method including sharing by at least one of time, tag, and encapsulation, where the network and IPL sharing method indicates sharing of the physical link or link aggregation between frames for the IPL and frames for another IPL or a network link of the link aggregation group. Then the network device transmits the frames between the network device and the neighbor network device using the network and IPL sharing method.
US09461878B1	Blocking download of content At least initially blocking client download of certain content and injecting a user verification step for such downloads is disclosed. In some embodiments, client download of a response from a server to a client request is blocked, and instead a notification page with options to accept or decline the server response is provided to the client.
US09461863B2	Systems and methods for advanced iterative decoding and channel estimation of concatenated coding systems Systems and methods for decoding block and concatenated codes are provided. These include advanced iterative decoding techniques based on belief propagation algorithms, with particular advantages when applied to codes having higher density parity check matrices. Improvements are also provided for performing channel state information estimation including the use of optimum filter lengths based on channel selectivity and adaptive decision-directed channel estimation. These improvements enhance the performance of various communication systems and consumer electronics. Particular improvements are also provided for decoding HD Radio signals, including enhanced decoding of reference subcarriers based on soft-diversity combining, joint enhanced channel state information estimation, as well as iterative soft-input soft-output and list decoding of convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon codes. These and other improvements enhance the decoding of different logical channels in HD Radio systems.
US09461854B1	Extracting carrier signals from modulated signals Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting a center frequency of an input signal, the input signal including a carrier signal modulated with a modulation signal. Detecting a frequency of a second signal. Determining a difference signal between the center frequency of the input signal and the frequency of the second signal. Modifying the frequency of the second signal based on the difference signal to provide the carrier signal. And, outputting the carrier signal.
US09461852B2	Signal demodulation apparatus and signal demodulation method A signal demodulation apparatus includes: a clock generation device arranged to generate a clock signal according to an inputting modulation signal; and a demodulation device arranged to demodulate the inputting modulation signal to generate a demodulation signal according to the clock signal; wherein a signal edge of the clock signal substantially aligns to a turning point of the inputting modulation signal.
US09461850B2	Parallel data processing Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for parallel data processing. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for parallel data processing, comprising: receiving baseband data corresponding to multiple antennas from uplink data; converting the baseband data from time-domain signals to frequency-domain signals; processing the frequency-domain signals at least partially in parallel by multiple processing units in a general-purpose processor so as to restore transmitted code blocks; and constructing transmission block (TB) based on the transmitted code blocks. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for parallel data processing. By means of the method and apparatus of the present invention, the parallel data processing capacity of a general-purpose data processor may be used to process, in parallel as much as possible, data in uplink data transmission and further improve the receiver operation efficiency.
US09461829B2	Method and apparatus for controlling charging in a communication network A method and apparatus for controlling a present service charging session for charging service usage in a communication network. The method comprises receiving a first request for grant of a reservation service unit quota from a charging client, the first request including at least data identifying an account to charge for the service usage. A first granted service unit quota for the first request is determined and a first carry-over service units quota from a previous service charging session associated with the identified account is accessed. A first reservation service unit quota is determined by deducting the first carry-over service units quota from the first granted service unit quota. According to the method it is reserved for the first reservation service unit quota from the account and the first granted service unit quota is sent to the charging client.
US09461823B2	System and method for limiting exploitable or potentially exploitable sub-components in software components Approaches for limiting exploitable or potentially exploitable sub-components in software components are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first software component in the component creation environment may be identified. The first software component may include a first sub-component that provides a function that is exploitable or potentially exploitable to compromise the first software component. The first sub-component may be disabled such that the function provided by the first sub-component is not available via the first software component when the first software component is executed. The first software component may be placed in the component repository after the first sub-component is disabled such that the first software component is placed in the component repository without availability of the function provided by the first sub-component. In some implementations, disabling the first sub-component may comprise removing the first sub-component from the first software component.
US09461821B1	System and method for key material protection on devices using a secret sharing scheme Encryption key(s) and/or other protected material are protected on devices. A secret splitting scheme is applied to a secret, S, that protects at least one data item to obtain a plurality of secret shares. At least one secret share is encrypted to provide at least one encrypted secret share using an encryption scheme that uses at least one other secret share as the encryption key. A subset of the plurality of secret shares and encrypted secret share(s) is required to reconstruct the secret, S. One or more secret shares and/or encrypted secret shares are provided to at least one device, for example, based on a corresponding key-release policy, to allow access to the data item(s) secured by the secret, S. The secret, S, comprises, for example, a secret key used to protect at least one content item and/or a key used to protect one or more of a content container and a vault storing one or more protected data items.
US09461820B1	Method and apparatus for providing a conditional single sign on A method and apparatus for accessing a computer resource, wherein, during a first access sequence, the computer resource receives credentials of a user from a device the user is using to access the computer resource, encrypts the credentials using at least a first credentials key stores the encrypted credentials, communicates the first credentials key to a connection broker or to the device, and purges the first credentials key. The computer resource, during a subsequent access sequence, receives the first credentials key, decrypts the encrypted credentials using the first credentials key, and purges the first credentials key. The computer resource authenticates the user using the credentials and purges the credentials after the user is authenticated and enables the device to access the computer resource following the authentication of the user.
US09461806B2	Providing different transmit and/or receive modes in different sectors of a wireless base station A wireless base station simultaneously transmits or receives wireless communications in different modes in different sectors of the wireless base station. The different modes may comprise a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode and a non-TDD mode, and/or different air interfaces. Related methods and systems are described.
US09461799B2	Base station and method for receiving control information Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an encoding ratio setting unit (122) sets the encoding ratio R′control of the control information which is time-multiplexed with user data, according to the encoding ratio Rdata of the user data, ΔPUSCHoffset as the PUSCH offset of each control information, and ΔRANKoffset as the rank offset based on the rank value of the data channel using Expression (1). R control ′ = O Q ′ = max ( O ⌈ O 10 - Δ offset PUSCH + Δ offset RANK 10 · R data ⌉ , O 4 · M sc ) ( 1 ) Where ┌x┐ is an integer not greater than x, and max(x,y) is the greater one among X and Y.
US09461790B2	Methods and systems for controlling cells in a network At least one example embodiment discloses a method of coordinating a change from a first operating state to a second operating state of a selected cell in a system. The method includes changing to an intermediate state from the first operating state based on first signaling information exchanged between a serving cell of a user equipment (UE) and the selected cell in the first operating state and at least one signal received by the selected cell in the first operating state from the UE, the first operating state being a dormant state and operating in the intermediate state based on second signaling information between the serving cell and the selected cell, third signaling information between the serving cell and the UE and transmission information between the UE and the selected cell, the intermediate state being between the first operating state and the second operating state, the second operating state being an on state where the selected cell serves the UE.
US09461788B2	Mobile communication system, base station, and communication control method In a mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations included in a CoMP cooperating set perform downlink CoMP communication with a user terminal, each of the plurality of base stations comprises: a first transmission unit that transmits first transmission data in each of a plurality of HARQ processes; and a retransmission unit that transmits retransmission data corresponding to the first transmission data in each of the plurality of HARQ processes, and a transmission interval of the first transmission data by the first transmission unit is set to a minimum odd number larger than a maximum HARQ retransmission number.
US09461787B2	Method of performing random access procedure in wireless communication system A method includes transmitting a random access preamble, receiving a random access response as a response of the random access preamble, wherein the random access response comprises an uplink resource assignment and a request for transmission of a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), and transmitting the CQI in the uplink resource assignment.
US09461770B2	Method and system for floating grid transceiver A multi-channel transceiver using a floating frequency grid for multi-channel, optical communication is presented. Transmitter frequencies are permitted to drift, and a receiver is tuned to compensate for drifts in the transmitter frequencies.
US09461768B2	Terabit top-of-rack switch One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a number of multi-channel optical transceivers mounted on the PCB, and a number of switch ports accessible from a front panel of the switch. The switch ports include a number of electrical interfaces that are electrically coupled to a switch chip mounted on the PCB, and a number of optical interfaces that are coupled to the switch chip via the multi-channel optical transceivers.
US09461764B2	Apparatus and method for communicating data over a communication channel Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting data over a communication channel having at least one physical lane for transmitting data. The apparatus includes, for each physical lane, allocation circuitry configured for allocating data in logical lanes corresponding to the physical lane. The apparatus also includes, for each physical lane, a multiplexer configured for bit-interleaving the data from the logical lanes corresponding to the physical lane into interleaved data for transmission over the physical lane. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, for each physical lane, the allocation circuitry is configured for allocating the data such that the interleaved data for transmission over the physical lane has clusters of sequential bits of the same symbol. Thus, upon transmission and reception by a receiver, any correlated errors affecting sequential bits may affect fewer symbols. Also provided is an apparatus and method for receiving data in a complementary manner.
US09461754B2	Optical receiving apparatus, optical transmitter and receiver module, and optical transmitting and receiving apparatus A housing accommodates an optical waveguide substrate, plural signal light receiving elements, and a signal-light-level monitoring light receiving element. Signal light and locally oscillated light are input into optical waveguides in the optical waveguide substrate from a first end face of the optical waveguide substrate. The plural signal light receiving elements are disposed aligned on a side of a second end face opposite to a side of the first end face of the optical waveguide substrate. The signal-light-level monitoring light receiving element is disposed on a side of a third end face or a fourth end face between the first end face and the second end face of the optical waveguide substrate and at a position closer to the first end face than to the second end face.
US09461741B2	Signal transmission method and apparatus Provided are a signal transmission method and apparatus. In the signal transmission method, a terminal device obtains a signal to be sent; and the terminal device sends the signal through a visible light medium, wherein after being demodulated, the signal sent through the visible light medium is carried on a power line for transmission. By virtue of the solution, the problem in related technologies regarding the integration of the visible light communication as a wireless access manner with the power line communication technology is solved, the construction of the communication network can be more convenient and faster, and the advantages of the visible light communication and the power line communication technology are fully utilized.
US09461739B2	Wireless communication method, base station and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, base station and system. The base station includes several LED lights and/or several VLC/IR receivers. The several LED lights are configured to send downlink signals in an OFDMA standard to a user terminal, and the several VLC/IR receivers are configured to receive uplink signals that are of an SC-FDMA standard and sent by the user terminal. The base station further includes a baseband signal processing unit configured to equate the several LED lights and/or the several VLC/IR receivers with radio remote units of an LTE mode to perform processing and resource management. The embodiments of the present invention are capable of reusing baseband signal processing and resource management manners in an existing LTE system, thereby simplifying resource management and baseband signal processing operations performed by the base station, and saving the base station resources.
US09461731B1	Bent-pipe relay communication system with automatic gain control and methods of using same A bent-pipe relay communication system and method of using same. The bent-pipe relay communication system includes a plurality of bent-pipe relay channels, each channel having automatic gain control. Each channel of the plurality of bent-pipe relay channels includes a radio -frequency-to-intermediate-frequency demodulator, at least one programmable variable gain amplifier, and an intermediate-frequency-to-radio-frequency modulator. The communication system further includes at least one radio frequency power detector operably connected to the intermediate-frequency-to-radio-frequency modulator for each channel. The system also includes at least one controller communicating with the at least one radio frequency power detector and the at least one variable gain amplifier for the each channel to provide the automatic gain control.
US09461730B2	Self-interference suppression control for a relay node A technique for controlling suppression of self-interference in a relay node configured to transmit and receive simultaneously using the same frequency channel or using proximate frequency channels is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of actively cancelling a signal transmitted from the relay node that leaks back into a receiver of the relay node to suppress self-interference, determining whether an increase of an amount of self-interference suppression is needed or whether self-interference suppression can be decreased, and increasing or decreasing, depending on the result of the determination, at least one of the transmit power of the signal transmitted from the relay node and the receive power of the relay node.
US09461727B2	Adaptive sectorization of a spational region for parallel multi-user transmissions Technology to adaptively sectorize a spatial region for parallel multi-user transmissions is disclosed. In an example, a node (e.g., evolved Node B (eNB)) can include computer circuitry configured to: Generate a set of precoding matrices for a set of beam cones in the spatial region; and generate a beam cone for multi-user beamforming transmissions using system information for the beam cone. A precoding matrix in the set of precoding matrices can be used for each beam cone, and each beam cone can cover a beam cone spatial region that differs from another beam cone spatial region of another beam cone in the spatial region. Each beam cone can include system information that differs from the system information of the other beam cones in the spatial region.
US09461722B2	Method for transmitting an information sequence Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US09461719B2	Distributed antenna system for MIMO technologies A method and system for supporting M1MO technologies which can require the transport of multiple spatial streams on a traditional Distributed Antenna System (DAS). According to the invention, at one end of the DAS, each spatial stream is shifted in frequency to a pre-assigned band (such as a band at a frequency lower than the native frequency) that does not overlap the band assigned to other spatial streams (or the band of any other services being carried by the DAS). Each of the spatial streams can be combined and transmitted as a combined signal over a common coaxial cable. At the other “end” of the DAS, the different streams are shifted back to their original (overlapping) frequencies but retain their individual “identities” by being radiated through physically separate antenna elements.
US09461715B1	Physical server location identification A server and rack system includes at least one server rack; multiple server slots within the rack; multiple near field communication (NFC) tags; a server located within one of the server slots; an NFC reader within and powered by the server; and an entity that needs to receive locations of servers within racks of the system. Each of the multiple NFC tags is positioned on the rack so as to individually correspond, on a one-to-one basis, with each of the multiple server slots, and each of the NFC tags is programmed with an identifier of the specific rack and slot with which it corresponds, and the NFC reader is positioned such that, when power is supplied to the NFC reader by the server, the NFC reader will read the identifier that corresponds to the slot the server is located within and automatically communicate that identifier to the entity.
US09461714B2	Packaging and details of a wireless power device A wireless power system includes a power source, power receiver, and components thereof. The system can also include a parasitic antenna that can improve the coupling to the power source in various modes. The antenna can have both a variable capacitor and a variable inductor, and both of those can be changed in order to change characteristics of the matching.
US09461710B2	Method of performing operation related to other device via near field communication and apparatus therefor A method of performing an operation related to a second device, performed by a first device, via near field wireless communication, and an apparatus therefore. When a signal for wireless communication is received from the second device, the method includes calibrating the strength of the received signal; comparing the strength of the calibrated signal with operation signal information that is a result of calibrating a range of strengths of signals which are for the wireless communication and which are received from the second device moving between a plurality of points set to be within a predetermined distance from the first device; and as a result of the comparison, selectively performing the operation related to the second device.
US09461707B1	Power-line network with multi-scheme communication In various embodiments, a power-line communication apparatus provides data over a power-line communication network by transmitting data symbols to endpoint circuits over a power line. The power-line communication apparatus includes a signal-processing circuit configured to combine a plurality of different data streams, each of the plurality of different data streams respectively formatted according to different communication schemes, to form a signal that represents a combination of the different data streams and corresponding communication schemes. Further, the power-line communication apparatus includes a pulse-modulation circuit configured to convert the signals, as combined, as a pulse-width modulated or a pulse-density modulated signal, the pulse-modulation circuit configured to switch at a frequency higher than frequencies of the different communication schemes. An output circuit can be configured to filter the switching frequency and to couple the data symbols to an injector transformer for presentation to the endpoint circuits.
US09461701B1	Fast time acquisition in a frequency-hopped communications link Systems and methods to provide fast time acquisition in a frequency-hopped communication link by taking advantage of the fact that a modem receive path has an instantaneous bandwidth that can span multiple discrete frequencies used by the frequency-hopped link. The systems and methods take advantage of the probabilistic frequency locality of time hypotheses to find a set of time hypotheses that can be searched simultaneously.
US09461699B2	Method and system for data and voice transmission over shared and dedicated channels In one disclosed embodiment, data information is stored in a buffer in a transmitter. The data information is transmitted on a shared channel and control information for recovering the associated data information is transmitted on a dedicated channel. The shared and dedicated channels can be, for example, different portions of the frequency band. The control information can include a spreading factor used to spread the data at the transmitter. For example, the spreading factor can be the length of the Walsh function orthogonal coding used to spread the data. The control information is received over the dedicated channel before the associated data information is received over the shared channel. The control information is then used to recover the associated data information. For example, knowing the spreading factor from the control information, the correct Walsh function can be selected to de-spread, i.e. to Walsh de-cover, the data information.
US09461698B2	Communications device with simultaneous transmit and receive and related methods A communications device may include a transmit path, a receive path operable simultaneously with the transmit path and at a same frequency as the transmit path, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to generate a baseband signal for the transmit path, generate a feedforward signal based upon the baseband signal, and use the feedforward signal to reduce self-interference in the receive path from the transmit path.
US09461694B2	Method for controlling controller area network transceiver circuit and device therefor A controller area network (CAN) circuit includes a first switch section circuit, a second switch section circuit, a reception section circuit, a transmission section circuit, a power supply circuit, a CAN-low (CANL) line and a CAN-high (CANH) line. The first switch section circuit is connected between the power supply circuit and the transmission section circuit and the second switch section circuit is connected between the power supply circuit and the reception section circuit.
US09461693B1	Systems and methods for frequency and bandwidth optimization with a single-wire multiswitch device This disclosure relates to a devices and methods related to satellite information broadcasting. Example embodiments may include frequency shifting an intermediate frequency (IF) signal down-conversion from the microwave-band. As an example, down-conversion involving local oscillators may lead to frequency drift due to varying temperature and/or humidity conditions. Correcting for the frequency drift may provide an opportunity to remove or filter excess bandwidth. Further embodiments may include receiving, in a tuning request, information about a transponder type. A frequency translation module may be adjusted based, at least in part, on the transponder type related to the IF signal being input into the frequency translation module. Such frequency-shifting and transponder-specific filtering may allow Single-Wire Multiswitch (SWM) devices to provide output signals with narrower bandwidth, which may improve signal quality, cable run length, reduce power demands, etc.
US09461682B2	Method and system for filtering out adjacent frequency band interference Provided are a method and a system for filtering out adjacent frequency band interference. The method includes that an RF MEMS switch control module receives a first transmitted coupling signal from a first frequency band RF module and a second received coupling signal from a second frequency band RF module; the RF MEMS switch control module determines whether interference exists between a first frequency band and a second frequency band according to the first transmitted coupling signal and the second received coupling signal; if interference exists, the RF MEMS switch control module filters out the interference by instructing a first frequency band RF MEMS radio frequency reconfigurable antenna working in the first frequency band to change a first antenna structure and/or by instructing a second frequency band RF MEMS radio frequency reconfigurable antenna working in the second frequency band to change a second antenna structure. By means of the disclosure, adjacent frequency bands can co-exist on hardware and mutual interference is effectively avoided.
US09461667B2	Rounding injection scheme for floating-point to integer conversion According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a memory, a normalization engine, a lookup table, and an adder. The memory may be configured to store a floating-point number formatted in a floating-point format. The normalization engine may be configured to normalize at least a portion of the floating-point number to create a normalized number. The lookup table may be configured to generate an injection constant based upon a predefined set of rounding values specifically for converting a floating-point number to an integer number. The adder may be configured to create an integer result by adding the normalized number and the injection constant.
US09461666B2	Dynamic power switching in current-steering DACs Methods and systems are provided for dynamic power switching in current-steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs). A DAC circuit may be configured to apply digital-to-analog conversions based on current steering, and to particularly incorporate use of dynamic power switching during conversions. The DAC circuit may comprise a main section, which may connect a main supply voltage to a main current source. The main section may comprise a positive-side branch and a negative-side branch, which may be configured to steer positive-side and negative-side currents, such as in a differential manner, to effectuate the conversions. The dynamic power switching may be applied, for example, via a secondary section connecting a main current source in the DAC circuit to a secondary supply voltage. The secondary supply voltage may be configured such that it may be less than the main supply voltage used in driving the current steering in the DAC circuit.
US09461659B2	Micro-machined vapor cell The invention concerns a micro-machined vapor cell comprising a central silicon element forming a cavity containing vapor cell reactants such as alkali metal or alkali metal azide, buffer gas(es), and/or anti relaxation coating(s); a first and a second glass caps sealing the cavity; and a solenoid arranged to provide a homogeneous magnetic field to said vapor cell. The solenoid is coiled directly on the central silicon element of the vapor cell. This invention is an improvement for the highly miniaturized atomic clocks developments.
US09461656B2	Injection-locked phase locked loop circuits using delay locked loops An injection-locked phase-locked loop (ILPLL) circuit includes a delay-locked loop (DLL) and an ILPLL. The DLL is configured to generate a DLL clock by performing a delay-locked operation on a reference clock. The ILPLL includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and is configured to generate an output clock by performing an injection synchronous phase-locked operation on the reference clock. The DLL clock is injected into the VCO as an injection clock of the VCO.
US09461650B2	User registers implemented with routing circuits in a configurable IC Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”). The configurable IC includes a set of configurable logic circuits for configurably performing a set of functions. The configurable IC also includes a set of configurable routing circuits for routing signals to and from the configurable circuits. During several operational cycles of the configurable IC, a set of data registers are defined by the configurable routing circuits. These data registers may be used wherever a flip-flop can be used.
US09461647B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device may include a first channel provided in a first die. The semiconductor device may include a second channel provided in a second die and disposed adjacent to the first channel, and configured to exchange signals and data with the first channel. The first channel and the second channel may receive and output calibration-related signals from and to each other through bonding, and may share calibration start signals. The calibration start signal may be respectively generated in the first channel and the second channel.
US09461646B2	Semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device A semiconductor device suitable for low-voltage driving. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a power supply line, a circuit, and a memory circuit. The first transistor controls electrical continuity between the circuit and the power supply line. The memory circuit stores data for setting a gate potential of the first transistor. The second transistor controls electrical continuity between an output node of the memory circuit and a gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a transistor with an ultralow off-state current, for example, an oxide semiconductor transistor. In a period for operating the circuit, a first potential is input to the power supply line and the second transistor is turned off. In a period for updating the gate potential of the first transistor, a second potential is input to the power supply line. The second potential is higher than the first potential.
US09461637B2	Method and apparatus for controlling a gate voltage in high electron mobility transistor According to example embodiments, a method for controlling a gate voltage applied to a gate electrode of a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) may include measuring a voltage between a drain electrode and a source electrode of the HEMT, and adjusting a level of the gate voltage applied to the gate electrode of the HEMT according to the measured voltage. The level of the gate electrode may be adjusted if the voltage between the drain electrode and the source electrode is different than a set value.
US09461636B2	Techniques for enhancing spurious free dynamic range performance Techniques and architecture are disclosed for improving spurious performance in a signal generator/system. The disclosed techniques/architecture can be used, for example, to enhance/improve the wideband and/or narrowband spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) between a given carrier signal and spurious signals. In some example instances, wideband and/or narrowband SFDR may be improved to about −40 dBc or better. In some other example instances, wideband and/or narrowband SFDR may be improved to about −70 dBc or better. The disclosed techniques/architecture can be implemented in a wide variety of signal generators/systems, such as a direct digital synthesizer (DDS)-based system, and over a wide range of input clock frequencies (e.g., in the range of about 10 MHz to 40 GHz, or higher).
US09461635B2	Signal processing circuit In an integration mode, since a switch becomes OFF, a positive feedback path from an output terminal of an operational amplifier to a positive input terminal is blocked. Therefore, oscillation can be prevented even when a voltage of a signal line connected to a reference voltage supply point varies due to an impedance of the reference voltage supply point not being 0. In the integration mode, a resistor and a capacitor function as a noise filter. Further, in a reset mode, a switch becomes ON, and charge is accumulated in the capacitor depending on a reference voltage of the reference voltage supply point.
US09461630B1	Low current and high frequency oscillator circuit An oscillator circuit operates to selectively charge and discharge a capacitance with a charging circuit. An inverting circuit includes a first transistor, second transistor, third transistor and fourth transistor having source-drain paths coupled in series. The second and third transistors are connected as an inverter with an input coupled to the capacitance and an output. A feedback loop couples the output of the inverter to an input of the charging circuit. A first shunting transistor is configured to selective shunt across the first transistor in response to a first logic state of a feedback signal in the feedback path. A second shunting transistor is configured to selective shunt across the fourth transistor in response to a second logic state of the feedback signal in the feedback path.
US09461628B2	Single ended charge to voltage front-end circuit Charge to voltage conversion integrator circuitry for data acquisition front-end and other applications to provide a single-ended up a voltage using an input bias capacitance and a switching circuit to selectively place an input transistor in a negative feedback configuration in a first mode to charge the input bias capacitance to a calibration voltage for compensating integrator amplifier bias circuitry, with the switching circuit connecting an input node and the input bias capacitance in a second mode to integrate the input current signal across a feedback capacitance to provide a single-ended output voltage with the input bias capacitance maintaining a zero voltage at the input node.
US09461626B2	Dynamic voltage adjustment of an I/O interface signal Techniques for adjusting swing voltage for an I/O interface signal are described herein. In one embodiment, a device comprises an input/output (I/O) interface, and an I/O voltage controller. The I/O voltage controller is configured to determine a frequency or temperature of the I/O interface, and to adjust a swing voltage of the I/O interface based at least in part upon the determined frequency or temperature.
US09461624B2	Output driver slew control In one example, a method includes, in response to a voltage level of an input signal satisfying an input voltage threshold, activating a first driver of a plurality of drivers configured to collectively generate an output signal. In this example, the method also include, in response to the voltage level of the input signal satisfying the input voltage threshold and a voltage level of the output signal satisfying an output voltage threshold, toggling activation of a second driver of the plurality of drivers, wherein the second driver is configured to switch more current when activated than the first driver, and wherein the first driver has a faster slew rate than the second driver.
US09461622B2	Capacitance multiplier and method Capacitance multiplier circuitry provides an increased equivalent capacitance, and may be implemented using a desirably small footprint. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a capacitor provides a first capacitance across first and second plates, and capacitance multiplier circuitry operates with the capacitor to provide a second equivalent capacitance that is a multiple of the first capacitance. The capacitance multiplier circuitry includes a first circuit path having a first resistor between the first plate and a common terminal, and a second circuit path having a switch and a second resistor between the second plate and the common terminal. An amplifier has differential inputs respectively corresponding to the first and second circuit paths and provides the second equivalent capacitance by controlling operation of the switch based upon the differential inputs and the respective resistances provided by the resistors in the first and second circuit paths.
US09461616B2	Bulk wave resonator having an aluminum nitride film containing scandium and ScAlN protective layer A bulk wave resonator that includes an aluminum nitride film containing scandium on a substrate, a first electrode disposed on one surface of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium, and a second electrode disposed on the other surface of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium. The aluminum nitride film containing scandium includes a portion acoustically isolated from a top surface of the substrate. The first electrode overlaps the second electrode with the aluminum nitride film containing scandium interposed therebetween. The overlap forms a piezoelectric vibrating portion. The scandium content of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium is 5 atomic percent or more and 43 atomic percent or less when Sc and Al of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium constitute 100 atomic percent.
US09461602B2	Power amplifier module Improvement in linearity is achieved at low costs in a power amplifier module employing an envelope tracking system. The power amplifier module includes a first power amplifier circuit that amplifies a radio frequency signal and that outputs a first amplified signal, a second power amplifier circuit that amplifies the first amplified signal on the basis of a source voltage varying depending on amplitude of the radio frequency signal and that outputs a second amplified signal, and a matching circuit that includes first and second capacitors connected in series between the first and second power amplifier circuit and an inductor connected between a node between the first and second capacitors and a ground and that decreases a gain of the first power amplifier circuit as the source voltage of the second power amplifier circuit increases.
US09461600B2	Method for high-frequency amplifier using power gain-boosting technique The present invention provides a power gain-boosting technique for an amplifier in order to compensate for the decrease of Gmag in a transistor at high frequencies. A power gain-boosting technique of the present invention comprises the steps of: finding the Maximum Unilateral Gain or Mason's Invariant U of a transistor; designing a linear, lossless, reciprocal network embedding the transistor so that the final equivalent S-, Y-, or Z-parameters satisfy the condition: S ⁢ 21 S 12 = Y 2 ⁢ ⁢ 1 Y 1 ⁢ ⁢ 2 = Z 2 ⁢ ⁢ 1 Z 1 ⁢ ⁢ 2 = - [ ( 2 ⁢ U - 1 ) + 2 ⁢ U ⁡ ( U - 1 ) ] ; embedding the transistor into the linear, lossless, reciprocal network; and constructing simultaneous conjugate matching.
US09461599B2	Dynamic bias current adjustment for power amplifiers In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a power amplifier. The circuit further comprises a memory that stores bias current values corresponding to a plurality of frequencies across a frequency band for setting the bias of a power amplifier based on selected frequencies, and a controller configured to provide at least one bias current value corresponding to a selected frequency from the memory to the power amplifier in response to a frequency selection signal. The bias current value at each frequency may be selected to maximize power efficiency or minimize adjacent channel leakage-power ratio of the power amplifier at said frequency. In one embodiment, the memory further stores bias current values corresponding to the plurality of frequencies across the frequency band at a plurality of temperatures for setting the bias of a power amplifier based on a temperature of the power amplifier and on selected frequencies.
US09461591B2	RF/microwave power divider with port to port isolation A power divider may coherently divide an RF or microwave input signal into multiple instances of that signal. The power divider may include: an input port that receives the input signal; multiple output ports; and passive signal splitting circuitry that causes a different instance of the input signal to be delivered to each of the output ports all substantially in phase with one another and with substantially equal amplitude, but isolates any signal that is reflected back to one of the output ports from a device to which the output port is connected from any of the other output ports.
US09461587B2	FM receiver that receives fm signal and method for receiving FM signal A quadrature detector quadrature-detects an FM signal. An FM detector generates a detection signal by FM detecting an FM signal that has been quadrature-detected. An AFC unit generates a control signal for controlling a frequency of a local oscillation signal used for quadrature detection on the basis of the generated detection signal, and feeds back the control signal to a local oscillator that should output the local oscillation signal. A difference calculator generates a difference signal representing a difference from a reference value on the basis of the generated detection signal. An addition unit adds the generated difference signal and the generated detection signal.
US09461585B2	Oscillation circuit, oscillator, manufacturing method of oscillator, electronic device, and moving object An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillation unit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal connected to a vibrator; a third terminal to which a ground potential is supplied; a fourth terminal which is electrically connected to the second terminal, and to which at least one of an AC voltage for driving the vibrator and a voltage for operating the oscillation unit is applied; and a first switching unit which switches modes of electrical connection between the first terminal and the third terminal.
US09461572B2	Method for controlling a wind turbine during an asymmetrical grid fault and a wind turbine The invention is directed to a method for controlling a wind turbine connected to a three-phase electrical supply grid during an asymmetrical grid fault. The method is configured for wind turbines with a doubly-fed induction generator. The reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid in the negative phase-sequence system is generated by the line-side and the rotor-side converter in a coordinated manner and depends on the line voltage. The reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid is distributed among the rotor-side and line-side converters. As a result, even in the case of severely asymmetrical grid faults, the reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid can be provided and excessive loading of the rotor-side converter can be prevented using simple means. The invention is also directed to a wind turbine for performing the above method.
US09461569B2	Motor control device, robot hand, robot, and motor control method A motor control device controls a motor using an angle data signal and a rotational speed signal output from a rotation detector detecting a rotation state of a rotating shaft of the motor. The motor control device includes a speed control unit that outputs a torque instruction signal corresponding to a difference between the rotational speed of the rotating shaft and a speed instruction using the speed instruction of the rotating shaft and the rotational speed signal, a limit value setting unit that sets a torque limit value indicating the maximum value of the torque applied to the rotating shaft, and a torque limit control unit that limits the torque of the rotating shaft driven by the torque instruction signal to the torque limit value or less.
US09461547B2	Converter circuitry Disclosed is a DC-DC converter with a converter bridge, tank circuitry, and rectifier circuitry. In one embodiment, the converter bridge includes multiple switch circuits, which are formed with silicon carbide MOSFETs (metal on semiconductor field effect transistors), and are configured to provide a primary current. The tank circuitry includes a resonant capacitance, a resonant inductance, and a transformer with a primary, a first secondary, and a second secondary. The tank circuitry is configured to receive the primary current, and the transformer is associated with a magnetizing inductance. The resonant frequency of the tank circuitry is greater than about 225 kilohertz as essentially defined by the magnetizing inductance, the resonant capacitance, and the resonant inductance. The rectifier circuitry is coupled to the first secondary and the second secondary coil, and is adapted to provide a rectified output current.
US09461541B2	Control method for a power supply system A control method for a power supply system having at least two power parts with power outputs connected in parallel, wherein each power part is actuated via a separate control and where at least one first power limit is specified for each control, where the control actuates the allocated power part up to the first power limit in a normal mode, a first drawdown value of the output voltage is specified for each control upon reaching the first power limit, and the respective control regulates the output voltage of the related power part to the first drawdown value upon reaching the first power limit so that the parallel connection of a plurality of power parts without a super-ordinate control is achieved.
US09461539B2	Self-calibrated voltage regulator A voltage regulator includes a driving circuit, a feedback circuit, first and second control circuits and a resistor. The driving circuit is coupled to an input node and an output node and generates an output voltage at the output node from an input voltage at the input node. The feedback circuit is coupled to the output node and generates a feedback voltage based on the output voltage. The first control circuit is coupled to the feedback circuit and the driving circuit to control the output voltage based on the feedback voltage. The resistor has opposite first and second terminals. The first terminal of the resistor is coupled to the output node. The second control circuit is coupled to the second terminal of the output stage resistor and the feedback circuit to control the feedback voltage based on a regulated voltage at the second terminal of the resistor.
US09461530B2	Electromechanical generator for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy An electromechanical generator for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy, the electromechanical generator comprising a housing, an electrically conductive coil assembly fixedly mounted in the housing, a magnetic core assembly movably mounted in the housing for linear vibrational motion along an axis, a first biasing device, mounted between the housing and the magnetic core assembly, adapted to apply a centering force acting to oppose movement of the magnetic core assembly away from a central position on the linear axis and a second magnetic biasing device adapted to provide a compensating force to compensate for variations in the centering force of the first biasing device due to temperature.
US09461528B2	Deformation control device for a resonant spring in a linear driving unit The present device is applied to a linear driving unit which comprises: a linear electric motor (M) formed by a motor housing (C) which is electrically excited and affixed to a fixed structure (1), and by a magnetic armature (A) which is displaced in a reciprocating axial movement; and a helical resonant spring (50) having an end coupled to the fixed structure (1) and an opposite end coupled to the magnetic armature (A). The deformation control device (60) is mounted to contact a surface extension of the resonant spring (50), which is elastically and radially deformed, and to generate friction with said surface extension and/or an elastic deformation in the deformation control device (60), absorbing energy in a value sufficient to at least minimize said radial elastic deformation of the resonant spring (50).
US09461521B2	Window regulator motor assembly having a circuit board and motor control connector A window regulator motor assembly has an electric motor, a worm, a gear and a controller. The motor has an end face and an output shaft extending outwardly from the end face. The motor further includes a connector extending outwardly from the end face spaced from and generally parallel to the output shaft. The worm is on the output shaft and is driven by the motor. The gear is driven by the worm. The controller includes a circuit board positioned between the output shaft and the motor connector. A motor control connector extends from a first face of the circuit board and engages the motor connector. A speed sensor is on the second face of the circuit board and faces the output shaft.
US09461496B1	Method and system for recharging a solid state battery A method and system for recharging a solid state battery device. The method can include providing the solid state battery in a fully or partially discharged state. The solid state battery can be coupled to a pair of electrodes. An energy source coupled to the electrodes can be used to supply energy to the solid state battery. This supply of energy can use a first constant current recharge process followed by a constant voltage recharge process. This supply of energy can cause an increase of an energy level of the solid state battery to the maximum energy level within a predetermined amount of time. The predetermined amount of time can be determined as being less than a time period associated with recharging the solid state battery using solely a constant current recharge process.
US09461488B2	Battery with integrated power inverter A vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter includes an outer housing having a positive terminal and a negative terminal located exterior to the outer housing; a battery located in the outer housing, the battery having a positive output and a negative output that together output a DC current, wherein the positive output is coupled to the positive terminal and the negative output is coupled to the negative terminal; a power inverter located in the outer housing, the power inverter having a DC input coupled to the positive and negative outputs of the battery, and an AC output; and an AC socket coupled to the AC output. A shell for a vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter, and a method of making a vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter are also described.
US09461479B2	Wireless power transmitter and wireless power transfer method thereof A wireless power transmitter including a power supply unit configured to supply an input voltage; a power conversion unit configured to generate wireless power based on a driving signal, generated by the supplied input voltage and a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, and transfer the wireless power to a wireless power receiver; and a power transmission control unit configured to receive a voltage value of a battery charged with the wireless power through a wireless network, and generate the first PWM signal based on the voltage value of the battery.
US09461472B2	Controlling power in a micro-grid A method and system for controlling electrical power in a micro-grid, especially during islanding when the micro-grid is disconnected from a main grid is described. A potential load shedding for islanding is determined when the micro grid is connected to the main grid. The potential load shedding is performed when a grid switch that connects the micro-grid to a main grid opens. A frequency based load shedding and a frequency based control of power injections to the micro grid may also be performed. The frequency based load shedding is performed with a faster response than the power injection control during islanding. The frequency based power injection control is performed with a faster response than the frequency based load shedding when the micro grid is connected to the main grid. A load shedding controller, an energy storage controller and methods performed by the load shedding controller, and the energy storage controller, respectively, is also provided.
US09461469B2	Electrical power grid for a downhole BHA A downhole electrical power grid electrically connects a string of downhole tools including at least a first power generating tool and a second power consuming tool. The power generating tool includes a power generator, an electric load, and a power management controller. The power management controller is configured to automatically electrically connect and disconnect the tool from the power grid. The power generating tool may include a rotary steerable tool having a power generator, an electric actuator, and the aforementioned power management controller.
US09461467B2	System for supplying direct electric power for at least two loads from an alternating electric power source and method for starting such a supply system The invention relates to a system for supplying direct electric power to at least two loads from an alternating electric power source comprises a circulation bus for the alternating power adapted to be connected to the alternating power source and at least one converter for converting alternating power into direct power, connected to the circulation bus.The system further comprises at least two connection interfaces, each connection interface being connected to a corresponding converter and being adapted to be connected to at least one electric load to supply direct electric power for the or each corresponding load; and means for controlling the connection interfaces, the control means being capable of time-shifting the start-up moment for the supply of direct power from one interface to the other.
US09461463B2	DC/DC converter with III-nitride switches Disclosed is a buck converter for converting a high voltage at the input of the buck converter to a low voltage at the output of the buck converter. The buck converter includes a control circuitry configured to control a duty cycle of a control switch, the control switch being interposed between the input and the output of the buck converter. A synchronous switch is interposed between the output and ground. The control switch and the synchronous switch comprise depletion-mode III-nitride transistors. In one embodiment, at least one of the control switch and the synchronous switches comprises a depletion-mode GaN HEMT. The buck converter further includes protection circuitry configured to disable current conduction through the control switch while the control circuitry is not powered up.
US09461456B2	Integrated switchboard for a modular data center A modular data center includes a first module that provides a first function of the mobile data center, a second module operable that provides a second function of the mobile data center, and an integrated switchboard having first and second protection devices and a switch. The integrated switchboard receives a high-capacity power feed, protects the high-capacity power feed from a first over-current condition with the first protection device to provide a load feed to a load associated with the first module, provides the high-capacity power feed to an input of the switch, and protects an output of the switch from a second over-current condition with the second protection device to provide a load feed to a load associated with the second module.
US09461454B2	Device for connecting a battery to an electric or hybrid vehicle, and battery housing comprising said connection device A connection device 3 for connecting a battery 2 to an electric or hybrid motor vehicle, comprising at least one input 3a capable of being connected to a terminal of the battery and an output 3b capable of being connected to a first terminal of an electrical circuit of the vehicle. The device 3 also comprises an electrical-circuit cutoff device 8 mounted in series between the input 3a and the output 3b of the connection device 3. The cutoff device 8 comprises a pyrotechnic igniter connected to control terminals, the electrical opening of the cutoff device 8 being controlled by an electrical control signal applied to the said control terminals.

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