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US09616669B2	Liquid ejecting apparatus Provided is a liquid injecting apparatus equipped with a liquid injecting head, which is mounted on a carriage and moved reciprocally in a widthwise direction of a target, and a valve unit, which is mounted on the carriage to be supplied with liquid via a supply passage from a liquid retainer and to supply liquid to the liquid injecting head. The valve unit has a pressure chamber connected to the liquid retainer via the supply passage; a valve, which opens or closes the supply passage to supply liquid to the pressure chamber; and a flexible film member, which is displaced based on a negative pressure generated as liquid in the pressure chamber decreases to thereby operate the valve.
US09616657B2	Closed loop ink thickness control system with reduced substrate waste in a printing press A method is provided of charging an inker in a lithographic printing press. The method comprises placing all of the printing units of the printing press in an off impression position, with a continuous substrate passing through the printing units, each printing unit including a blanket cylinder; and in one or more printing units of the plurality of printing units, moving the takeaway roller into contact with the blanket cylinder of the printing unit. Thereafter, the method includes driving the ink train, plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and the take away roller at a first surface speed, whereby the ink from the ink train transmitted to the plate cylinder from the ink train, from the plate cylinder to the blanket cylinder, and from the blanket cylinder to the take away roller; and during said driving step, keeping the continuous substrate stationary or moving the continuous substrate at a second surface speed less than 50% of the first surface speed. Also provided is a closed loop control system for controlling the ink film thickness applied to a printed substrate in a lithographic printing press.
US09616653B2	Systems and methods for ink-based digital printing using dampening fluid imaging member and image transfer member An ink-based digital printing system for variable data lithographic printing includes an imaging member having a surface configured to absorb dampening fluid. A dampening fluid patterning system jets dampening fluid onto the imaging member surface according to image data to form a dampening fluid pattern. The system includes a transfer member that receives the jetted dampening fluid pattern from the imaging member at a dampening fluid loading nip for subsequent inking of the dampening fluid pattern to form an ink pattern. The ink pattern is transferred to a substrate from the transfer member at an ink pattern transfer nip.
US09616652B2	System for removing touch panel The present disclosure provides a system for removing a touch panel from a display panel. The system includes: a carrying device on which the display panel adhered with the touch panel is placed; a heating device configured to heat an adhesive between the touch panel and the display panel; and a cutting device arranged on the carrying device and configured to cut the adhesive so as to remove the touch panel from the display panel.
US09616644B2	Lamination device and method A lamination device includes a jig configured to accommodate a window having a curved surface; a transfer member configured to allow a film member attached to the window to be spaced from the window; a roller unit configured to press a surface of the transfer member to which the film member is not attached and attaching the film member to the window; a driving unit connected to the roller unit and configured to move the roller unit along the curved surface of the window by rotating with respect to a single rotational center; and a pressing unit connected to the driving unit and the roller unit and configured to press the roller unit.
US09616630B2	Method of making a golf ball with lattice reinforced layer Methods of making a golf ball that includes a lattice reinforced layer, which is a layer made of at least two materials with different properties, includes various injection and compression molding steps. In some embodiments, the lattice reinforced layer is manufactured using a shutoff molding technique so that the entire lattice reinforced layer is molded in the same mold. In other embodiments, a grid for the lattice layer is formed first, then filled using an injection molding technique.
US09616629B2	Blade having an integrated composite spar A blade including a structure with aerodynamic profile including two opposite skins obtained by three-dimensional weaving of a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix, and a longeron including a fibrous reinforcement obtained by three-dimensional weaving and densified by a matrix, the longeron including a first part extending outside the structure with aerodynamic profile and designed to be connected to a drive hub in rotation of the blade and a second part arranged inside the structure with aerodynamic profile between the two skins. The second part of the longeron has a thickness substantially similar to that of the skins of the structure with aerodynamic profile. In addition, the fibrous reinforcement of the second part of the longeron has the same weaving armor as that of the reinforcement of the skins of the structure with aerodynamic profile.
US09616628B2	Apparatus and process for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels An apparatus for manufacturing tires for vehicle wheels wherein each tire includes a carcass structure formed starting from at least one carcass ply laid on a forming support extended along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus includes at least one device for positioning at least one annular anchoring structure on at least one end edge of the carcass ply, the positioning device being circumferentially extended around the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable with respect to the forming support between an operating position distal from the forming support and at least one operating position close to the forming support. The apparatus further includes a device for turning up the end edge of the carcass ply around the annular anchoring structure, the turning up device being circumferentially extended about the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable for approaching/moving away to/from the forming support. The positioning device and the turning up device are radially expandable/contractible in a synchronous manner with respect to the longitudinal axis of the forming support and are settable in a plurality of different operating radial positions, each operating radial position being selected based on a respective radial dimension of the tire to be manufactured.
US09616627B2	Mold comprising a cavity for molding a device for closure in a groove A molding element for a mold for vulcanizing a tread of a tire, comprising a base able to mold part of the tread surface of the tread and a bar able to mold a groove in the tread, the bar comprising two lateral faces extending along its length and projecting from the base and an upper face connecting the lateral faces. The molding element comprises a contact edge formed by the base and the bar, intended to come into contact with another molding element to form all or part of the vulcanizing mold, and further comprising at least one recess in the bar, which opens onto one of the lateral faces and onto the contact edge, but does not open onto the upper face of the bar.
US09616624B1	Method to repair deformations in elastomeric hoses A system to repair a hose made from deformable material includes an elongated container for holding a liquid heated sufficiently for softening the hose. A heater can be positioned in the container. A plurality of restraining members can be positioned to retain the hose immersed in the liquid within the container. A gas supply is used to pressurize the hose prior to immersion, and a support is provided for holding the hose before and after immersion. A method includes filling an elongated container with a heated liquid and pressurizing the hose with a gas. The pressurized hose is immersed in the liquid and maintained immersed by retaining members to soften the hose. The hose is removed from the liquid, depressurized and allowed to cool.
US09616622B2	RTM method An RTM method in which a preform formed from a reinforcing fiber substrate is placed in a cavity of a molding die, and resin is injected from a plurality of injection ports into the cavity and impregnated into the preform, includes disposing the plurality of injection ports in first positions in a central section of the cavity corresponding to positions of the preform located in a product area of an article to be finally molded and second positions located in a periphery of the cavity corresponding to positions of the preform outside the product area of the article to be finally molded or corresponding to positions inside the cavity but outside an area of the preform, and causing the timing of closing the injection ports after resin injection to be different from each other between injection ports disposed in the first positions and injection ports disposed in the second positions.
US09616621B2	Wheel made of fiber composites and process for the manufacture thereof A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.
US09616619B2	Method for producing a bottle using a multifunctional detabber apparatus A multifunctional detabber apparatus and method for producing bottles having a bottom surface with a hook projection integrally molded with and extending from the bottom surface in a deployed position. The bottom surface also includes at least one locking channel in order to receive and releasably secure the hook projection in a non-deployed position. The multifunctional detabber apparatus includes at least a grabber, a trimmer, and a hook closer. The grabber includes first and second jaws which surround the bottle and prevent movement. The trimmer includes first and second strikers for creating an outer periphery of the hook projection and an opening in the hook projection. The hook closer includes a mandrel that extends to bend and secure the hook projection in the locking channel in the bottom surface of the bottle.
US09616617B2	Scalable biochip and method for making The present disclosure provides a biochip and methods of fabricating. The biochip includes a fluidic part and a sensing part bonded together using a polymer. The fluidic part has microfluidic channel pattern on one side and fluidic inlet and fluidic outlet on the other side that are fluidly connected to the microfluidic channel pattern. The fluidic inlet and fluidic outlet are formed by laser drilling after protecting the microfluidic channel pattern with a sacrificial protective layer. The polymer bonding is performed at low temperature without damaging patterned surface chemistry on a sensing surface of the sensing part.
US09616613B2	Imprint apparatus including alignment and overlay measurement An imprint apparatus cures an imprint material, while a pattern formed on a mold is kept in contact with the imprint material, thereby transferring the pattern onto the imprint material. The apparatus includes a measurement unit which performs, in parallel, alignment measurement in which a relative position between the mold and a shot region on the substrate, to which the pattern is to be transferred, is measured so as to align the mold and the shot region, and overlay measurement in which a relative position between a first pattern already formed in another shot region on the substrate using the mold, and a second pattern underlying the first patter is measured.
US09616612B2	Apparatus for producing a stretchable sheet An apparatus for producing a stretchable sheet includes a pair of gear rolls each having a plurality of teeth arranged on a circumference thereof. The apparatus is configured to draw a raw sheet by passing the raw sheet through a gap between the pair of gear rolls. The raw sheet contains a plurality of types of fibers, and has a plurality of recessed sections formed by pressing. The recessed sections are formed collinearly at least along the drawing direction at a predetermined formation pitch in the drawing direction. An arrangement pitch of the teeth in the drawing direction is greater than the formation pitch and smaller than twice the formation pitch.
US09616601B2	Disc-shaped retaining device for bushings of a rotary tablet press The invention concerns a disc-shaped retaining device for bushings of a rotary tablet press, wherein the disc-shaped retaining device comprises two disc halves that are connected with one another, each of which shows multiple holes, which align with one another if the disc halves are connected with one another and thus form mounting holes in which one respective bushing is located, wherein the bushings between the disc halves that are connected with one another are designed in a form-fit manner.
US09616598B2	Plastic lens manufacturing method An aspect or the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a plastic lens, which comprises casting a plastic lens starting material liquid into a cavity in a forming mold and conducting a polymerization reaction of the plastic starting material liquid within the cavity to provide a molded article. The forming mold is one in which two molds are disposed opposite each other, a gasket made of an elastic resin is disposed around the two molds to form the cavity, and at least one of the two molds is made of an elastic resin, one surface of the molded article is a convex surface and the other surface of the molded article is a concave surface, and the concave surface is formed by transferring a molding surface of the mold made of elastic resin.
US09616595B2	Method for removing ink printed on plastic films The present invention relates to a method for removing ink printed on a plastic film comprising various physical/chemical treatments. The main steps in the method are: conditioning the material, grinding, removing ink from the film, washing the film, recovering the cleaning solution, recovering the pigment and drying the film. As a result of the method, it is possible to obtain, on one hand, a plastic film free of ink and, on the other hand, the pigment. Said products may be reused in industry, thereby enhancing the value chain of the product.
US09616593B2	Tile or masonry saw assembly with double movement A tile or masonry saw assembly may include a saw, a frame, and a workpiece support. The saw includes a motor operable to turn a blade assembly to cut a workpiece. The frame is operably coupled to the saw to enable the saw to be moved along the frame in a first direction. The workpiece support is operably coupled to the frame to support the workpiece relative to the saw, and to allow the workpiece support to be moved along the frame. The saw assembly further includes a movement assembly via which both movement of the workpiece support and movement of the saw relative to the frame is accomplished, such that a movement of the work piece support along the frame in a second direction is enabled to cause the saw to move along the frame in the first direction which is opposite the second direction.
US09616591B2	Slurry distributor, system and method for using same A slurry distribution system can include a feed conduit and a distribution conduit in fluid communication therewith. The feed conduit can include a first feed inlet and a second feed inlet disposed in spaced relationship thereto. The distribution conduit can extend generally along a longitudinal axis and include an entry portion and a distribution outlet in fluid communication therewith. The entry portion is in fluid communication with the first and second feed inlets of the feed conduit. The distribution outlet extends a predetermined distance along a transverse axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The slurry distribution system can be placed in fluid communication with a gypsum slurry mixer adapted to agitate water and calcined gypsum to form an aqueous calcined gypsum slurry.
US09616582B2	Handling system and method of operating a handling system A handling system having at least one vacuum generator and an associated vacuum handling device connected to and operable via the vacuum generator. The vacuum handling device is provided with an individually assigned recognition unit including a memory device in which operating data for the vacuum handling device is storable and can be read out. Each vacuum generator has a respective sub-control unit adapted to control the vacuum generator depending on data transmitted from the recognition unit. The memory device of the recognition unit can be read out directly from the sub-control unit.
US09616577B2	Robot having end effector and method of operating the same The present invention relates to an end effector including: blade members for holding substrates, each configured to hold the substrate, and configured such that each interval between the blade members can be changed; a blade support unit configured to support the blade members, the blade support unit being configured to be driven integrally with the blade members by the robot; and blade drive means configured to change the interval between the blade members by moving at least one of the blade members relative to another blade member.
US09616568B1	Generating a grasp affordance for an object based on a thermal image of the object that is captured following human manipulation of the object Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media related to utilizing a thermographic camera to capture at least one thermal image of an object following human manipulation of the object, and generating a grasp affordance for the object based on the temperatures indicated by the captured thermal image. The generated grasp affordance may be utilized, directly or indirectly, by one or more robots for determining grasping parameters for manipulating the object and/or other objects that are similar to the object.
US09616560B2	Pipe separator A pipe separator for separating pipes at a pipe joint includes an elongate shaft and an engagement portion. The engagement portion is configured to be mounted adjacent to a pipe joint. A force is applied to the pipe separator to separate the pipes at the joint without damaging the pipes.
US09616544B2	Wafer inspection method and grinding and polishing apparatus Disclosed herein is a wafer inspection method of inspecting a wafer after polishing. The wafer inspection method includes the steps of polishing the wafer after grinding, imaging a polished surface of the wafer to thereby create image data including the characteristics of plural saw marks left on the polished surface of the wafer from a detected image, performing Fourier transform to the image data to thereby extract a frequency distribution corresponding to the saw marks, performing inverse Fourier transform to the frequency distribution extracted above to obtain an amplitude of each saw mark, and determining imperfect polishing of the wafer in the case that the amplitude is greater than a predetermined range.
US09616538B2	Interlinking system for overhead transfer devices The invention relates to an interlinking system for overhead transfer devices having at least two portals for the transport of workpieces or of workpieces on pallets between machines and/or supply/removal devices and vice versa. Each of the portals is in this respect equipped with at least one loading unit and the two portals are equipped with a transfer module for conveying the workpieces or the workpieces on pallets between a first and a second portal which is in turn equipped with a transport device for the reception of one or more workpieces or workpiece pallets.
US09616535B2	Positioning device and positoning method using the same A positioning device includes a main body, a drive member, and a pin assembly. The main body defines a receiving portion which extends through two opposite ends of the main body. The drive member is partially or completely received in the receiving portion. The pin assembly includes a pin bushing and a pin. The pin bushing is securely coupled to the main body and defines an expansion slot on the sidewalls. The expansion slot extends along a central axis of the pin bushing. The pin is coupled to the drive member and extends through the pin bushing. The drive member is configured to drive the pin to move in the pin bushing, pressing the inner sidewalls of the pin bushing to enlarge a diameter.
US09616534B2	Modular structures for motion stages A modular structure includes a structural element, a rod, a knuckle, a rod mount, and a bearing holder. The knuckle is connected to a first end of the structural element and the rod mount is connected through the structural element. The bearing holder is removably connected to an actuated member and slides along the rod held by the rod mount.
US09616533B2	Industrial plant and method for the production of an industrial product, in particular an aeronautical component or system An industrial plant includes a plurality of first operating stations and a plurality of second operating stations, respectively placed at a first level (H1) and at a second higher level or height (H2). Each of the operating stations is adapted to carry out a production activity on the industrial product, at least one of the activities being one among a manufacturing, processing, forming, transforming and assembling activity of an industrial product. The plant includes a moving system configured to transport the industrial product, by lifting and/or lowering the industrial product from at least one of the first operating stations to at least one of the second operating stations. A central control system controls the moving system by automatically moving the industrial product between the operating stations as a function of a predetermined principle and based on the state of occupancy of the operating stations.
US09616527B2	Process for laser-arc hybrid welding aluminized metal workpieces Process for laser welding at least one metal workpiece (1) by a laser beam (3), the workpiece having a surface coating (2) containing aluminum, characterized in that the laser beam (3) is combined with at least one electric arc (4) so as to melt the metal and actually weld the workpiece(s).
US09616525B2	Laser nozzle with mobile element of improved external profile The invention relates to a nozzle for laser cutting comprising a nozzle body (1) comprising an axial housing (5) and a first outlet orifice (11) situated in the region of the front face (1a) of the nozzle body (1), a mobile element (2) arranged in the axial housing (5) of the nozzle body (1), comprising a skirt-forming front part (2a) and comprising a second outlet orifice (12), said mobile element (2) being able to be moved in a translational movement inside the axial housing (5) toward the first outlet orifice (11) under the effect of a gas pressure applied to the mobile element (2) until such time as the skirt-forming front part (2a) of the mobile element (2) projects out from the axial housing (5) through the first outlet orifice (11), and an elastic element (8) arranged in the axial housing (5), between the nozzle body (1) and the mobile element (2), applying an elastic return force to the mobile element (2). According to the invention, the front part (2a) comprises an end portion (17) the outside diameter of which decreases progressively toward the second outlet orifice (12). Focusing head and associated laser cutting installation. Laser-beam cutting method employing a nozzle according to the invention, a laser focusing head according to the invention or an installation according to the invention.
US09616518B2	Feed-through A feed-through, in particular a feed-through which passes through part of a housing, in particular a battery housing, for example made of metal, in particular light metal, for example aluminum, an aluminum alloy, AlSiC, magnesium, an magnesium alloy, titanium, a titanium alloy, steel, stainless steel or high-grade steel. The housing part has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, in particular an essentially pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material, is guided. The base body is, for example, an essentially annular-shaped base body.
US09616514B2	System and method to detect droplet detachment The invention described herein generally pertains to a method for improved droplet detachment detection in a welding process in which a derivative of at least one welding parameter over time is used to detect droplet detachment from the wire during a welding operation based identification of a peak signature.
US09616509B2	Apparatus for fixing knife plate with saw blade of saw machine An apparatus for fixing a saw blade and a knife plate of a saw grinding machine includes a driving device including an axis; and a fixture plate having a first end and a second end. The fixture plate includes a connective hole coupled to the driving device, and a coupled portion defined at the first end thereof. The saw blade is pivotally connected to the axis of the driving device, with the saw blade and the fixture plate moved with respect to the driving device simultaneously. The knife plate is coupled to the coupled portion of the fixture plate and includes a blocked side formed on a side thereof, with a vertical distance between the blocked side and the saw blade maintained to be fixed.
US09616507B2	Replaceable head cutting tool A replaceable head cutting tool increases the strength of engagement between a tool body and a coupling member without causing damage. A cylindrical mounting unit of the coupling member which is made of a metal having hardness lower than the hardness of the tool body, is inserted into a mounting hole having a concave portion formed on the inner surface of the tool body. The mounting unit is plastically deformed so as to increase in diameter, and the outer peripheral surface of the mounting unit contacts the inner peripheral surface of the mounting hole and is engaged with the concave portion which includes a first wall surface that is inclined toward the outer peripheral side as it moves in an insertion direction of the mounting unit, and a second wall surface that is inclined toward the inner peripheral side as it moves in the insertion direction.
US09616502B2	Cutting tool holder with vibration damping weight assembly A cutting tool holder has a holder body and a vibration damping weight assembly. The holder body has first and second side surfaces, and a top surface extending there between, and a cutting portion located at a front end of the holder body at the top surface thereof. A weight aperture opens out to the first and second side surfaces and has an aperture inner surface. A weight assembly is located within the weight aperture, having a first weight portion with a through hole, a second weight portion with a threaded hole, a damping ring located along the aperture inner surface, and a fastening member configured to connect together and urge the first and second weight portions towards one another, such that the contact surface of each weight portion presses against the damping ring, within the weight aperture.
US09616501B2	Apparatus for feeding bars to a machine tool An apparatus for feeding bars to a machine tool including an end adjacent a working zone in which a spindle is provided; a drum element, rotatable around an axis; a movable support provided on the drum element for supporting and guiding a bar parallel to the axis. The movable support slidably drivable on the drum element parallel to the axis between a disengagement retracted configuration and an engagement extended configuration. The movable support having telescopic tube configured for being received inside tubular housing and guide for coupling with the spindle. The telescopic tube defines, a cylindrical containing structure configured for enclosing and supporting in a distributed manner a respective bar along the entire supporting zone, so as to prevent the bar from flexing because of the centrifugal actions generated by rotation.
US09616496B2	Refractory component for lining a metallurgical vessel In a steel ladle used for handling molten steel, a precast ladle barrel ring forms part of a refractory structure that covers the bottom wall and side wall of the steel ladle. The precast ladle barrel ring is comprised of a monolithic annular ring formed of a high-temperature, cast refractory. The annular ring further includes means for positioning the precast ladle barrel ring in a steel ladle.
US09616490B2	Investment technique for solid mold casting of reticulated metal foams A method to manufacture reticulated metal foam includes coating a precursor in a molten wax to increase ligament thickness; and investment coating the molten wax coated precursor with a ceramic plaster.
US09616484B2	Method and apparatus for forming a turbofan mixer The method for forming a turbofan mixer comprises providing a single monolithic and generally flat annular sheet metal blank, providing a die surface substantially corresponding in shape to a turbofan mixer shape, positioning the blank with reference to the die surface, and forcing the blank against the die surface to transform the blank into a monolithic turbofan mixer.
US09616472B2	Oxidation of contaminants Various embodiments of contaminant removal systems, compositions, and methods are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for oxidizing a contaminant includes contacting the contaminant with a peroxygen compound and initializing, maintaining, or propagating degradation of the peroxygen compound with an oxygenated organic compound, thereby releasing oxidizing radicals. The method also includes oxidizing the contaminant with the released oxidizing radicals.
US09616469B2	Light projection device A light irradiation device includes a workpiece support onto which a workpiece (object to be processed) is placed, an ultraviolet lamp for emitting a vacuum ultraviolet beam to a target surface (surface to be processed) of the workpiece, and a light transmitting window member disposed between the workpiece and the ultraviolet lamp and configured to pass the vacuum ultraviolet beam from the ultraviolet lamp therethrough. A gap defined between the target surface of the workpiece and the light transmitting window member is no greater than 1 mm. A gas supply unit is provided for supplying a processing gas into the gap such that the gas travels along the target surface in one direction. A gas blocking member is provided on the workpiece support in a region where the workpiece is not present. The region extends along a supply direction of the processing gas.
US09616465B1	Dry trim and sift bag apparatus and method of use A dry trim and sift bag apparatus comprising a hollow body having open axial ends; a pair of selectively openable and closable end caps respectively sealing the open axial ends; a compression spring operatively coupled to the hollow body and configured to hold the hollow body in an expanded configuration and to be collapsed under compression to a collapsed configuration; and a sifting screen operatively coupled within the hollow body partitioning the interior of the hollow body into a trim chamber for product to be trimmed and a sift chamber for sifted product, the trim chamber having a greater volume than the sift chamber. Additionally, the dry trim and sift bag apparatus comprises multiple handle assemblies for ergonomic and efficient motion series of operation.
US09616463B2	Probe for ultrasound system and method of manufacturing the same A probe for an ultrasound system, and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The probe includes a backing layer, an electrode part formed on the backing layer, and a piezoelectric member installed to the electrode part. The probe is manufactured by connecting the piezoelectric member to the PCB via a unidirectional conduction part, instead of soldering which requires difficult and laborious operations, thereby allowing easy connection therebetween while reducing an operation time for connection.
US09616462B2	Protective polymer layer The present invention relates to a method of joining polymer coated steel pipes comprising the steps of—providing polymer coated pipe segments with an uncoated length on both ends of the segments; —welding the polymer coated pipe segments together; —applying a curable polymer (A) onto the uncoated length of the welded pipe segments to form an first coating layer; and—applying a polymer composition (B) onto the first coating layer to form a topcoat layer with a thickness of 0.5 to 10 mm, wherein the polymer composition (B) has a melt flow rate MFR2 of 1.0 to 6.0 g/10 min, determined according to ISO 1133 at a temperature of 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, and includes a base resin comprising (B-1) a non-elastomeric polyethylene in an amount of 60 to 85 wt % of the total polymer composition being produced in a process using a single-site catalyst, and (B-2) an elastomer comprising a copolymer of ethylene and at least one polar comonomer, wherein component (B-1) or components (B-1) and (B-2) have been grafted with an acid grafting agent and the use of polymer composition (B) as topcoat layer with a thickness of 0.5 to 10 mm in a coating of coated steel pipe field-joints, a method of coating a steel pipe and the use of polymer composition (B) for the coating of steel pipe joints or steel pipes.
US09616459B1	Polymeric coatings for fortification of visible, infrared, and laser optical devices A method for coating a surface of a material involves contacting a surface of a material with a surface activator containing a fluoride-containing compound and an organic solvent to form an activated surface, contacting the activated surface with a protective reagent to form an initial coated surface, and contacting the initial coated surface with a thinning agent containing a fluoride-containing compound and a surfactant to from a final coated surface, wherein the final coated surface is coated with a protective coating that is covalently bonded to the surface of the material.
US09616454B2	Multicomponent cartridge for single use A multicomponent cartridge which is designed for single use includes two separate supply chambers arranged coaxially of each other and two pistons. The two pistons are movable via a plunger to simultaneously discharge two components. A guide element guides the two pistons in the respective supply chambers and contains a discharge opening for discharging the first component. The guide element is movable relative to a housing via a movement element in order to open the discharge opening.
US09616448B2	Wheel spraying device The present invention provides a wheel spraying device, comprising a frame, an electric motor, a hollow shaft, a ring flange, and cylinders. During use of the device, the need of jacking up and rotating a wheel in wheel spraying can be met, and the difficulty of removing the protection plugs of bolt hole due to thickening and clogging after completion of spraying can be completely avoided. Meanwhile, the device has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience for use, low manufacturing cost, and safe and stable performance.
US09616442B2	Rotating disk atomizer with treatment fluid feed arrangement A rotary atomizer is disclosed for the even distribution of a treatment fluid within a treatment chamber. The treatment fluid is delivered onto a rotating disk atomizer through multiple outlet ports. Fluid passages provide each outlet port with an even flow of treatment fluid at generally the same time and rate. This even and simultaneous flow of treatment fluid results in a more even distribution of treatment fluid on the seed that flows through the treatment chamber throughout the treatment cycle.
US09616441B2	Multiple function dispenser A dispenser for mixing and dispensing a liquid chemical concentrate with a dilutent from a container. The dispenser includes two slideable eductors one of which is also rotatable. Both a high and low flow rate can be obtained with simultaneous adjustment of concentration of the chemical concentrate. The dispenser has a high degree of accuracy of the amount of dilution of the chemical concentrate as well as positive positioning of the high and low flow rate.
US09616435B2	Self-cleaning sprinkler A self-cleaning sprinkler is disclosed, generally comprised of an upper and lower housing, which encase a nozzle and a diaphragm. The diaphragm moves in an upward and downward position relative to the nozzle, which allows water located within a chamber to be expelled out of an exit aperture of the nozzle. A needle is secured within the diaphragm to correspondingly move in an upward and downward position, such that once in a closed position, the needle will penetrate the exit aperture of the nozzle in order to clean any debris that may have accumulated therein. The diaphragm moves in from a closed position to an open position depending on the incoming water pressure.
US09616431B2	Sand separator An apparatus and method for separating a natural gas production stream from hydrocarbon well operations into a gas component and a sand and liquid component is described. More specifically, a sand separator comprising a cylindrical body, a production stream inlet port, a gas outlet port and a solid and liquid drain port is described. The cylindrical body has an inner cavity with an inner cone having one-way gas vents and a stationary auger wrapped around the inner cone. The production stream inlet port includes a pipe having a curved tip that directs the production stream into the body and around the inner cone and stationary auger, causing the production stream to slow down and the components to separate.
US09616427B2	Cartridge assembly tray for immunoassay tests This invention relates to a cartridge assembly tray for conducting automated biochemical tests, such as immunoassay tests. The tray comprises a base member, a hinged frame and a locking mechanism. The base member includes a plurality of slots within the base member. Each of the plurality of slots is to receive a test cartridge. The hinged frame is coupled to the base member. The hinged frame is capable to rotate to an opened position or a closed position. The hinged frame includes a horizontal push bar configured to apply a downward force to test cartridges received in the plurality of slots when the hinged frame is in the closed position. The locking mechanism is to lock the hinged frame in the closed position when the hinged frame rotates to the closed position.
US09616420B2	Catalysts for treating transient NOx emissions A heterogeneous catalyst article having at least one combination of a first molecular sieve having a medium pore, large pore, or meso-pore crystal structure and optionally containing a first metal, and a second molecular sieve having a small pore crystal structure and optionally containing a second metal, and a monolith substrate onto or within which said catalytic component is incorporated, wherein the combination of the first and second molecular sieves is a blend, a plurality of layers, and/or a plurality of zones.
US09616416B2	Process for preparing an industrial hydroconversion catalyst, catalyst thus obtained and use thereof in a hydroconversion process The invention relates to a process for preparing a hydroconversion catalyst based on modified zeolite Y, comprising the steps of: A—preparation of a modified zeolite Y, whose intracrystalline structure presents at least one network of micropores, at least one network of small mesopores with a mean diameter of 2 to 5 nm and at least one network of large mesopores with a mean diameter of 10 to 50 nm, these various networks being interconnected; B—mixing the zeolite with a binder, shaping the mixture and then calcining; C—introducing at least one catalytic metal chosen from metals of group VIII and/or of group VIB, followed by calcination. The invention also relates to a catalyst obtained via this process and also to the use thereof.
US09616410B2	Exhaust gas purifying catalyst The object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, exhibits excellent performance for methane purification. The object can be solved by the exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising a substrate and a catalyst layer provided on the substrate, in which the catalyst layer comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of vanadium, niobium and tantalum; and platinum, and/or palladium.
US09616396B2	Mixing assembly for reducing exhaust reductant deposits An aftertreatment system comprises a SCR system. A mixing assembly is positioned upstream of the SCR system and includes a housing defining a flow path for an exhaust gas. An injection port is defined on a first sidewall of the housing and oriented at a predetermined angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the flow path. A mixer is positioned within the flow path downstream of the injection port and includes a plurality of plates each positioned in the flow path. A first plate is positioned distal to the injection port and adjacent to a second sidewall of the housing opposite to the first sidewall. The first plate has a first length substantially longer than a length of the other plates and extends in a direction upstream of the mixer. An exhaust reductant injector is positioned on the first sidewall of the housing proximal to the injection port.
US09616393B2	Porous hollow fiber membrane for treating blood It is intended to provide a porous hollow fiber membrane for treating blood which suffers from little mechanical damage in the course of production, transfer or handling and shows excellent fractionation properties though it is a thinned polysulfone-based hollow fiber membrane. A porous hollow fiber membrane for treating blood which comprises a polysulfone-based polymer and polyvinylpyrrolidone and has a gradient porous structure with an increase in pore size from the inside to the outside along the membrane thickness direction, characterized in that the porous structure has a membrane thickness of 25 μm or more but less than 40 μm, and fibrils having an average diameter of from 100 to 200 μm are provided in such a manner that the ratio (To/Ti) of the average outside diameter (To) along the membrane thickness direction to the average inside diameter (Ti) is adjusted to not more than 2.
US09616378B2	System and method for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration from relatively high concentration CO2 mixtures A system and method of reducing the net carbon dioxide footprint of an industrial process that generates power from the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels in which ambient air is admixed with up to 50% by volume of an effluent gas from the power generator of the industrial process, in order to substantially increase the CO2 concentration in the air prior to treatment. The treatment comprises adsorbing CO2 from the admixed ambient air utilizing a cooled, porous substrate-supported amine adsorbent, wherein the porous substrate initially contacts the mixed ambient air containing condensed water in its pores, which act as an intrinsic coolant with respect to the exothermic heat generated by the adsorption process. In addition, prior to regenerating the supported adsorbent, air pressure is substantially reduced in the sealed regeneration chamber and the low pressure chamber is placed in fluid connection with a higher pressure regeneration chamber containing steam and carbon dioxide, to preheat the sorbent to be regenerated and to quickly cool the regenerated sorbent prior to use for further CO2 adsorption.
US09616375B2	Capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from air Disclosed is a method for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream, comprising placing the gas stream in contact with a resin, wetting the resin with water, collecting water vapor and carbon dioxide from the resin, and separating the carbon dioxide from the water vapor. The resin may be placed in a chamber or a plurality of chambers connected in series wherein the first chamber contains resin that was first contacted by the gas, and each successive chamber contains resin which has been wetted and carbon dioxide collected from for a greater period of time than the previous chamber, and so on, until the last chamber. Secondary sorbents may be employed to further separate the carbon dioxide from the water vapor.
US09616367B2	Filter cloth retention Cloth retention apparatus for retaining the edges of a filter cloth comprises an edge strip having which can engage with a channel in a frame member, and be retained therein by a wedging member. The wedging member may be separate or attached to the bead, or incorporated therein.
US09616358B2	Quaternary phosphinates with co-solvents for extracting C1 to C4 carboxylic acids from aqueous streams This invention relates to solvents for extracting C1 to C4 carboxylic acids from aqueous streams. More specifically, the extraction solvents include one or more salts composed of a tetraalkylphosphonium cation and a phosphinate anion. The extraction solvents may further include one or more co-solvents as an enhancer. The co-solvents may be selected from higher carboxylic acids, ethers, esters, ketones, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and nitriles. The extraction solvents are useful for extracting aqueous mixtures containing one or more lower carboxylic acids, such as monocarboxylic acids and organofluorine carboxylic acids.
US09616356B2	Blowout A blowout in which the required exhaling force of for stretching thereof may be precisely set to a suitable level. The blowout may include: a stretchable body having a generally tubular shape; a wire body having elasticity and arranged along the longitudinal direction of the stretchable body; and a mouthpiece connected to an end of the stretchable body. In use, the mouthpiece may be held in the mouth such that air is blown therethrough, whereby the stretchable body is stretched. The stretchable body remains curled into a spiral shape by the wire body when air is not blown thereinto. The elastic force of the wire body may be set to a predetermined value, the mouthpiece may include an air regulator for regulating the quantity of airflow, and the stretchable body may not stretch unless the force of air blown is equal to or more than a predetermined value.
US09616348B2	System and method of providing leaderboards for mobile gaming in a wireless network A method of receiving a leaderboard associated with a software game executed at a wireless device is provided. The method includes monitoring at least one metric associated with the software game while the software game is played. The method further includes collecting a value of the at least one metric when the game is over and comparing the value of the at least one metric to a device leaderboard. The method additionally includes transmitting the value of the at least one metric to a game server when the value of the at least one metric is a best value when compared to the device leaderboard. The device leaderboard may indicate a ranking of scores achieved by playing the software game at the wireless device in which the software game is executed.
US09616322B2	Card game and gaming system having community cards including community wild card A system and method for playing a card game is provided. The play may occur in a casino using a standard deck of cards with players making an ante wager, optional second wager, a third wager, and optional bonus event wager. Players are dealt two cards face down (player viewable only), two shared community cards which are dealt face down, and one or more shared community joker value cards. A player first makes an ante wager and then an optional second wager based on the player's impression of the player dealt cards. Then, a first community card is revealed to the player and the player provided an opportunity to make an optional third wager, which is required to continue game play. If a third wager is placed, the dealer reveals the second community card and the player's five card hand and bonus event hand is evaluated for a winning outcome.
US09616320B1	Instructive break shot training device Apparatus for billiards break shot practice, comprising a lightweight force absorption pillow and a triangle rack pattern combination. Game player breaks with maximum force to achieve greatest transfer to cue ball travelling to break up game balls, but using a reduced three-game-ball configuration with assistance of pillow and pattern that well-simulates virtually the same resistance of full fifteen-game-ball tournament game ball formation. A player saves tremendous time and effort in game ball setup and can practice break shots in rapid succession to develop high levels of breaking skill. Head and cue ball travel are observed in more iteration per practice session. The pillow has a storage flap to hold pattern, making it portable and quick to layout. Aligning pillow and pattern different distances apart simulates different ball resistances for game variations like 9-ball or 10-ball, or for different table sizes.
US09616318B2	Powered personal transportation systems and methods A personal vehicle system including a deck having a substantially flat top surface, where the top surface is substantially flat and is of sufficient area to support two feet of a user, a truck coupled to the deck, where the truck consist of a first portion coupled to the deck and a second portion that tilts relative to the first portion, and a wheel motor coupled to the second portion of the truck. A personal vehicle system that includes a deck, a truck coupled to the deck, and a wheel motor coupled to the truck, where the wheel motor has a passive cooling system. The passive cooling system includes at least one endcap that rotates about a wheel rotation axis during operation of the wheel motor and the endcap has at least one fin.
US09616313B2	Portable therapeutic stretching and massage storage device Disclosed herein is a portable exercise storage apparatus, comprising: a rigid hollow tube comprising a first end and a second end; a first end cap that is configured to removably close the first end; and at least one strap releasably connected to the first end and the second end.
US09616311B2	Sports simulator and simulation method A sports simulator calculates spin of a sports object using image analysis. A velocity vector is also calculated. These are combined to produce a predicted future trajectory of the sports object. In one embodiment, the sports object is a golf ball and the sports simulator simulates golf.
US09616308B2	Practice goalie The disclosure is directed to a rotatable life size cut out of a lacrosse goalie target made of plastic, foam rubber, or other material, and preferably a foam rubber, adapted to absorb the shock of repeated impacts of lacrosse balls, holding a lacrosse stick. The target is placed in front of (and optionally attached to by a coupler) a goal net to assist lacrosse players in their practice sessions. The practice goalie can be disposed in a first orientation holding a lacrosse stick such that the net of the lacrosse stick is to the right of the practice goalie's head or in a second orientation wherein the lacrosse stick is to the left of the practice goalies head, and can preferably be rotated to any angle therebetween the first and second configurations. Players can use either positioned practice goalie to practice their shooting using both of their hands.
US09616305B2	Method of forming multi-material iron type golf club head A golf club that utilizes multiple materials to achieve improved performance is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of forming golf club that utilizes different materials to construct different portions of the iron type golf club head allowing weight to be removed from portions of the golf club head that doesn't require such weighting. The current invention utilizes a lightweight material to form a blade portion of the golf club head while utilizing a standard steel material to form the hosel portion of the golf club head to allow the malleability characteristics of a golf club head to be maintained. The weight saved from the lightweight material used to create the blade portion can then be used to create a sole insert that is made out of a dense and heavy material to improve the CG and MOI characteristics of the golf club head to dramatically improve the performance of the golf club head. The current invention's usage of the multiple materials allows the performance of the golf club head to be increased without sacrificing the feel characteristics of the golf club head.
US09616298B1	Golf club with improved weighting A golf club with improved weighting characteristic is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses to a golf club wherein the improved weighting distribution stems from an increase in the mass of the golf club at a specific distance away from the butt end or proximal end of the golf club head to help increase the feel and minimize the dispersion of the golf shot by minimizing the pull and or draw tendencies of a golf shot.
US09616294B2	Modular activity board An apparatus for receiving one or more activity attachments including a deck having one or more openings along a long axis of the deck and between the top surface and the bottom surface of the deck. Each of the one or more openings having a circular aperture for receiving an accessory of a set of accessories. Each accessory of the set of accessories providing an activity for a user of the activity. Each accessory having an attachment platform configured to attach the accessory to the board. The attachment platform having a locking mechanism to engaging with a complementary locking mechanism of the board.
US09616293B2	Training kit A system trains a sport player and includes at least one wearable item to be worn by the sport player, such that the wearable item includes a plurality of colors. Accordingly, each one of the plurality of colors is displayed on a designated portion of the wearable item. The system further includes a plurality of equipment devices. Each one of the equipment devices includes a color that corresponds to one of the plurality of colors displayed on the wearable item, Each equipment device directs the sport player to perform a specific operation, such that the operation is executed with the designated portion of the wearable item.
US09616291B2	Wearable sports monitoring equipment with context determination capabilities and relating method The invention relates to sports monitoring equipment and methods. The invention provides a device or system comprising means for reading a heartbeat signal corresponding to heartbeat of the person during the performance, and means for reading a motion signal corresponding to motion of the person during the performance. There are also computing means for estimating energy consumption of the person during the performance using one or both of said signals. According to the invention, the device or system further comprises means for determining the type of the sports performance. The computing means for calculating the energy consumption parameter are adapted to utilize said heartbeat signal, said motion signal or both signals in combination in a manner depending on the type of the sports performance determined. The invention allows for accurate estimation of energy consumption in versatile sports.
US09616282B2	Multi-modal gait-based non-invasive therapy platform Apparatus and associated methods relate to a knee-position control system having a knee engagement pad, a lower-leg control member and an upper-leg control member, the knee engagement pad configured to naturally position a user's knee in response to movement of a foot-rest of a natural-gait therapy system. In an illustrative embodiment, the upper-leg control member may pivot about a point substantially axially coincident with a user's hip. In some embodiments, the upper-leg control member may be pivotally coupled to the lower-leg control member at a pivot point substantially axially coincident with a user's knee. The lower-leg control member may be pivotably coupled to the foot rest at a pivot point substantially axially coincident with a user's ankle. The knee-position control system may advantageously position a user's knee in a natural position relative to both the user's ankle and the user's hip, in response to movement of the user's foot.
US09616280B2	Sitting type oblong orbital exercising machine An oblong orbital exercising machine includes a main frame, an upright, a seat support, a cycle movement mechanism, two swinging handles, two drive bars, two pedal units and two adjustment units. Each of the pedal units includes a fixing plate, a rocking plate, two springs, two fastening rods and a pedal. Each of the two adjustment units includes a fixed disk, an adjusting disk, two limit stubs, a hollow rod, a hollow mounting sleeve and a positioning pull pin. Thus, when the pedal units are moved in concert with the drive bars, the pedal of each of the pedal units is adjusted to correspond to the oblong trace of movement. In addition, the user can adjust the position of each of the pedal units easily and quickly by operation of each of the two adjustment units.
US09616277B2	Exercise assisting device An exercise assisting device includes a table shape body configured for a user to step on, a main body which supports the table shape body from below, and a hold body which is arranged on the main body. The hold body is configured to hold a trunk of the user as the user steps on the table shape body and a center of gravity of the user is positioned more forward of a step position provided on the table shape body. The exercise assisting device is configured to move the table shape body relative to the main body and/or the hold body relative to the main body while regulating a forward inclination of the user as the user uses the device.
US09616274B2	Swing training apparatus and method A resistance training apparatus and method for providing a plurality of training vectors having points of origin variable by direction and elevation to a trainee. The apparatus may accommodate a plurality of trainees and provide multiple training vectors to each trainee. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a base forming the training area and a pair of tower assemblies, each providing members for attachment to the harnesses worn by the athlete. In another embodiment the apparatus provides at least sixteen training vectors to a trainee. Each of the members providing the training vectors are independently adjustable such that balanced or unbalanced loading may be applied simultaneously to a trainee from multiple directions and multiple planes.
US09616273B2	Adjustable dumbbell assembly An adjustable dumbbell device includes a handle bar having two plates extended from end portions and two extensions, a number of weight members each having a groove and a passage, two blocks are secured to the extensions, two pairs of beams are secured between the plates and the blocks and engageable into the groove of the weight member, two latches are slidably engaged onto the extensions, two rods are secured to the latches for moving the latches relative to the beams, two catches are engaged onto the rods and biased to engage with the beams, and two weight elements are detachably attached to the blocks, the weight elements each has a weight of one half (½) of that of the weight member.
US09616261B1	Fireman shield assembly A fireman shield assembly for inhibiting a fireman from being struck by falling, burning debris includes a frame that may be positioned around a fireman. A shield is positioned over the frame. The covers the fireman when the fireman stands in the frame. Thus, the shield inhibits falling debris from striking the fireman.
US09616257B2	Multi-layer chemical and biological protection fabric for mobile shelters A lightweight, low bulk, mobile CB shelter fabric includes a high tensile strength woven scrim laminated between two thin CB-impenetrable polymer films. Laminate adhesives can include isocyanate adhesion promotors. Coatings can provide camouflage, increased light opacity, increased CB protection, sun, fire, and weather resistance. Lamination heat and pressure can cause the films to conform and bond through the scrim, while a pre-applied coating does not flow and remains uniform in thickness. The resulting fabric weight can be approximately 50% of conventional CB fabrics. The films can be hard-drawn polymers. A coating of hammer milled kaolin clay can provide increased light opacity. The films can be 1 micron thick, and can be nylon, aliphatic nylon, urethane, or poly-ether. The scrim can be a 1500 denier Vectran® (liquid crystal polymer) with a 4.5 ends-per-inch warp and a 3.5 ends-per-inch fill. The scrim yarns can be flattened bundles of untwisted fiber.
US09616253B2	Water-absorbing (meth) acrylic resin with optical effects, and related compositions A water-absorbing polymer obtained from (A) a phosphate-containing (meth)acrylic monomer and/or a salt thereof, (B) a monomer having one (meth)acrylic group within the molecule and/or a salt thereof other than component (A), and (C) an organopolysiloxane having a (meth)acrylic group at both ends and related compositions.
US09616252B2	Multi-field cancer therapy apparatus and method of use thereof A multi-field cancer therapy apparatus and method of use thereof is described increasing dimensionality of incident tumor treatment angles while minimizing distance between a final beamline focusing magnet and the patient. Increased dimensionality of incident tumor treatment angles is achieved through coordinated use of one or more of: a rotatable targeting magnet; a first patient rotation platform rotating the patient around, without intersecting, a vertical axis; a second patient rotation platform rotating a body part through a movable vertical axis; and patient tilt. The increased charged particle incident angle dimensionality distributes Bragg peak tail energy about the tumor. Dynamic energy and/or intensity control of the charged particle beam as a function of efficiency of beam delivery based on tumor shape further reduces Bragg peak tail energy delivered to healthy tissue about the tumor.
US09616249B2	Radiotherapy control apparatus and radiotherapy control program A radiotherapy control apparatus includes a fluoroscopic image acquisition unit to acquire fluoroscopic images of markers in a patient from a single fluoroscopic imaging device, a projection line calculation unit to identify projected positions of the markers on the fluoroscopic image and calculate equations of projection lines linking these projected positions and a focus position of the imaging device, an inter-marker distance acquisition unit to acquire a distance between each pair of the markers, a marker position calculation unit to calculate current positions of the markers based on the equations and the distances, and a therapeutic radiation emission determination unit to determine whether to emit therapeutic radiation based on the current positions of the markers.
US09616245B2	Method of treating cells with drug and radiation according to proton density This Invention relates to a method for achieving Focused Resonance Nanopermeabilization (FORN), which can be utilized in a novel anticancer therapy, and other selective permeabilization therapy and a machine to carryout the said method, where the transient permeabilization of cells by Focused Resonance pulses induces a significant increase of anti-tumor drug concentration in tumor or other interested cells. This invention can be successfully applied to the treatment of tumors in humans and Animals by using antimitotic drugs, chemotherapy. The invention is also useful in transpermeabilization of drug molecules for non cancer applications like vaccine and delivery of genetic materials for therapeutic purposes. Focused Resonance Nanopermeabilization (FORN), would enable a practical solution to a whole body application in its natural environment, without implanting electrodes or external probes, FORN is completely non-invasive. This invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the above method.
US09616244B2	External defibrillator An external defibrillator estimates the phase of ventricular defibrillation (VF) by deriving, from an ECG exhibiting VF, at least one quality marker representing the morphology of the ECG and, therefore, the duration of the VF. The duration of the VF is calculated as a function of the value (s) of the quality marker (s). The quality marker (s) may comprise any one or more of the median slope of the ECG, the average slope of the ECG, the ratio of the power in relatively high and low frequency bands of the ECG, and a measure of the density and amplitude of peaks in the ECG, over a predetermined period.
US09616242B2	Energy harvesting mechanism for medical devices Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems and methods for harvesting energy from bio-kinetic events to power various implanted medical devices. One embodiment provides an energy harvesting mechanism for a cardiac pacemaker comprising an energy converter and a signal path component. The energy converter is positionable inside a human body and configured to generate electric power signals in response to a bio-kinetic event of the human body such as a heart beat, respiration or arterial pulse. The converter can comprise a piezoelectric material which generates electricity in response to mechanical deformation of the converter. The converter can also have a power generation characteristic that is matched to the frequency of the bio-kinetic event. For heart beat powered applications, the power generation characteristic can be matched to the physiologic range of pulse rates.
US09616231B2	Systems for regulation of blood pressure and heart rate A method and apparatus for treating a condition associated with impaired blood pressure and/or heart rate in a subject comprising applying an electrical treatment signal, wherein the electrical treatment signal is selected to at least partially block nerve impulses, or in some embodiments, to augment nerve impulses.
US09616215B2	One-way valve for an infusion instrument The invention pertains to a one-way valve 1, especially for medical use, comprising at least one valve housing, an inlet 22, an outlet 26, and a valve element consisting of a valve body 20 and a valve seal 16. To it make possible for the one-way valve 1 to function reliably even in the case of liquids containing dietary fiber and for the tubing assembly to be filled rapidly, it is provided according to the invention that the valve body 20 comprises a passageway 21, which opens out into a sealing cavity 23 between the valve body 20 and the valve seal 16, and that the valve seal 16 comprises an opening 39, which can be closed in such a way by the valve body 20upon relative movement of two housing parts 2, 3 that the valve seal 16 rests with a sealing lip 28 against the valve body 20. As part of an infusion kit above the one-way valve 1, a feed pump is used, which produces a feed pressure for lifting the sealing lip 28 from the valve body 20, so that, after the passageway 21 has been closed, the feed pressure ensures a continuous flow of the infusion solution to the patient.
US09616212B2	Implant cannula having an implant and a method for securing implants in an injection cannula The application provides an injection cannula having an implant which is detachably secured in the cannula. The application also provides a method for detachably securing an implant in an injection cannula.
US09616205B2	Drug delivery implants An orthopedic implant system includes an orthopedic implant implantable at a selected location within a corporeal body and configured for delivering at least one therapeutic agent to the corporeal body, the implant defining a reservoir and a plurality of channels, the reservoir configured for receiving the at least one therapeutic agent, the plurality of channels configured for conveying the at least one therapeutic agent from the reservoir to a treatment site relative to the corporeal body, the implant being at least one of an internal fixation device and a porous device.
US09616201B2	Intravenous catheter and insertion device with reduced blood spatter A venous access catheter is combined with a needle, guidewire, and actuator where the needle is disposed coaxially over the guidewire and the catheter is disposed coaxially over the needle. A hub at a proximal end of the access catheter includes a wiping element to clean blood from the needle and guidewire as they are removed and a side port to allow connection of fluids after the access catheter is placed.
US09616199B2	Irrigated catheter employing multi-lumenal irrigation tubing An irrigated catheter includes a catheter body having both proximal and distal irrigation passageways. A first fluid delivery tube feeds the proximal irrigation passageway and is fluidly isolated from the distal irrigation passageway, while a second fluid delivery tube feeds the distal irrigation passageway and is fluidly isolated from the proximal irrigation passageway. Typically, the first and second fluid delivery tubes will be unitary, at least through the catheter body. The overall shape of the first and second fluid delivery tubes, as well as their respective lumens, may vary as necessary for a particular application of the irrigated catheter. The system also includes an irrigation fluid source and at least one pump to deliver the irrigation fluid through the irrigation passageways. Typically, the pump will be a volume-driven pump, such as a rolling pump.
US09616195B2	Micro-fabricated catheter devices having varying diameters A catheter device comprising an elongated outer member having an outer surface and an interior surface forming a lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end, wherein an outer diameter of said distal end is larger than an outer diameter of said proximal end, and embodiments thereof.
US09616192B2	Breathable gas inlet control device for respiratory treatment apparatus A breathable gas inlet control device permits flow regulation at the inlet of a flow generator for a respiratory treatment apparatus such as a ventilator or continuous positive airway pressure device. The device may implement a variable inlet aperture size based on flow conditions. In one embodiment, an inlet flow seal opens or closes the inlet to a blower in accordance with changes in pressure within a seal activation chamber near the seal. The seal may be formed by a flexible membrane. A controller selectively changes the pressure of the seal activation chamber by controlling a set of one or more flow control valves to selectively stop forward flow, prevent back flow or lock open the seal to permit either back flow or forward flow. The controller may set the flow control valves as a function of detected respiratory conditions based on data from pressure and/or flow sensors.
US09616183B2	Autoinjector having two springs for biasing the shroud forwardly An autoinjector has a main body (10, 12) containing a syringe (13) or cartridge with a needle at its front end for being moved forwardly in the body to extend the needle from the body for an injection, the body housing in a forward region a shroud (24) having a forward portion of generally tubular form (32), the shroud being moveable longitudinally between a rearward retracted position and a forward extended position, the autoinjector further including a spring arrangement for biasing the shroud forwardly, the spring arrangement (44) including two springs disposed alongside and spaced from the longitudinal axis.
US09616181B2	Auto-injector An auto-injector with an interlock mechanism for defining an operation sequence of the auto-injector in a manner to allow a lateral trigger button to be operated only when a proximal end of the auto-injector is pressed against an injection site.
US09616179B2	Resetting mechanism for a drug delivery device A driver for driving a spindle of a drug delivery device is provided. Said driver comprises a first component and a second component rotationally coupled to said first component. During resetting of said drug delivery device, said first component is rotationally decoupled from said second component.
US09616176B2	Syringe carpule for storing, transporting and in situ mixing of local anesthetic and buffer, and for delivery of buffered anesthetic solution and a piercing-mixing unit therefore A syringe carpule for storing, transporting and in situ mixing of a local anesthetic, such as lidocaine, and a buffer, such as sodium bicarbonate, and delivery of buffered anesthetic solution comprises a hollow tubular body received within the frame of a carpule syringe, at least one axially movable plunger within the body and configured to be engaged and moved by a rod of the carpule syringe, a seal pierced by a rear portion of a needle coupled to the carpule syringe, a first chamber within the body filled with anesthetic solution during storing and transport, a second chamber defined within the body filled with buffering solution during storing and transport; and a breachable separating member between the first and second chamber configured to be removed by a piercing-mixing unit for in situ mixing of the buffering and the anesthetic solutions allowing for delivery of a buffered anesthetic solution.
US09616173B2	System and method for an injection using a syringe needle An auto-injector for injecting a fluid medicament into a patient from a pre-filled syringe requires a disposable cassette that is selectively engageable with the reusable injector. The syringe is latched onto the cassette, and the cassette is then engaged with the injector. Activation of the injector causes a first motor to move the syringe so its needle is extended from a concealed position inside the cassette for injection of the medicament. A second motor on the injector is then activated to expel fluid medicament from the syringe. Then, the first motor is again activated to withdraw the syringe into the cassette for disposal of the cassette/syringe after an injection.
US09616170B2	Infusion pump An infusion pump comprises a tube attachment section configured such that an infusion tube is detachably attachable to the tube attachment section, an access cover configured to close the tube attachment section in an openable manner, and a tube clamp mechanism located within the tube attachment section and configured to clamp and block a portion of the infusion tube. The tube clamp mechanism comprises a base member, a clip clamp member rotatably mounted on the base member, a tube clamp release lever rotatably mounted on the base member, and a tube clamp member rotatably mounted on the base member.
US09616168B2	Medical device for delivering at least one fluid from a medical device The invention relates to a medical device and a method for delivering at least one fluid from a medical device. More particularly, the present patent application relates to medical devices for delivering at least one, in particular two drug agents from separate reservoirs. The technical problem of preventing after-dripping and at the same time improving the safety and the dose accuracy of a medical device is solved by a method for delivering at least one fluid from a medical device, wherein the fluid is ejected from a reservoir by an advancing movement of a bung, wherein an electromechanical device is instructed to move the bung via a piston over a predetermined distance and wherein, after a dwell time following the advancing movement of the piston, the piston is retracted by the electromechanical device.
US09616166B2	Systems and methods of determining injection protocols for diagnostic imaging procedures A method and system for tailoring an injection protocol to an individual patient, wherein the injection protocol is administered in connection with a diagnostic imaging procedure. The method includes: administering a test injection of a fluid including a contrast enhancing fluid into the patient at an administration site; performing a test scan of one or more regions of interest of the patient as the fluid propagates through the patient to obtain scan data; determining from the scan data an enhancement output from each of the one or more regions of interest at a plurality of points in time as a result of the propagation of the fluid through the patient; and determining the injection protocol for the patient based at least in part upon the enhancement output from each of the one or more regions of interest at each of the plurality of points in time.
US09616164B2	Device and method for detecting the recirculation during an extracorporeal blood treatment A device and method for detecting recirculation for an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus and an apparatus with a device for detecting recirculation are based on targeted haemodilution by administration of a substituate bolus, causing a pressure change in venous and arterial branches of the extracorporeal circuit due to a viscosity change of flowing fluid. Recirculation is detected based on detection of the pressure change. The device includes a control unit cooperating with a device for conveying blood and a device for supplying substituate. The control unit provides an operating mode for detecting recirculation, in which blood flow rate is reduced during administration of a substituate bolus. With simultaneous substituate bolus administration and reduction of blood flow rate, the composition of fluid flow is optimized for detection of recirculation, so that fairly large pressure changes result in venous and arterial branches, thereby improving sensitivity and reliability of the measurement method.
US09616160B2	Blood treating device A blood treatment unit has a blood treatment device which is part of an extracorporeal blood circulatory system. The unit has a control unit and a display and input unit having a touch screen. In order to simplify the operation of the blood treatment unit using the touch screen, the control unit and the display and input unit are suitable for representing various mode means on the touch screen which correspond to the various time modes of the blood treatment. The control unit automatically instigates the beginning of the following time mode at the end of at least one time mode, this being indicated by a change in the representation of the selected mode means on the touch screen. It is especially advantageous to use sensors through whose measured values the control unit identifies the end of one time mode and the beginning of the subsequent time mode.
US09616155B2	Fixation devices for tissue repair Fixation devices for tissue repair, for example sutures, surgical arrows, staples, darts, bolts, screws, buttons, anchors, nails, rivets, or barbed devices comprise at least one of angiogenic material; angiogenic precursor material which is capable of breaking down in vivo to form angiogenic material; or tissue-engineered material, which tissue-engineered material is capable of producing angiogenic material. In a preferred form, the material is incorporated into a polymer matrix having predetermined hydrophobicity to allow controlled release of angiogenic materials such as butyric or hydroxybutyric acid or salts thereof. Polymer matrix compositions comprising angiogenic materials and methods for tissue repair are also provided.
US09616152B2	Multi-layer tissue systems and methods Embodiments of the present invention encompass anti-adhesion wound dressings including patches made from amnion tissue obtained from human birth tissue. Exemplary amnion patches can be fabricated by folding a section of amnion over on itself with the epithelial layer on the outside of the folded patch and the fibroblast layer on the inside of the folded patch. Optionally, individual amnion tissue pieces can be sandwiched together to provide a multi-layer patch. Sufficient pressure is applied to the layered amnion to cause adherence between opposing faces of the fibroblast layers. The pressed fibroblast layers provide mechanical strength to hold the amnion patch together with the epithelial layers on the outsides of the amnion patch.
US09616151B2	Sulfhydryl-functionalized polymeric compositions for medical devices The present disclosure provides sulfhydryl-modified polymer foams, which may be used for wound dressing materials. For example, the modified materials can include free sulfhydryl group, which can serve as a linker to attach biologically active molecules. For example, sulfhydryl groups can be used to conjugate biologically active polypeptides and/or metals to foam polymers. Methods for using sulfhydryl-modified polymers, such as for wound dressings, are also provided.
US09616143B2	Mobile apparatus and method for sterilizing one or more surgical trays with integrable transfer and storage system An improved mobile apparatus for sterilizing surgical trays serves as a self-contained autoclave, allowing sterilization of the interior of the apparatus and its contents. A method of sterilization using the apparatus is presented as well. By means of a dedicated transfer and storage system, the apparatus, integrable with respect to a transfer cart and a lift device, may be moved easily between a location of sterilization, a storage area, and an operating room, and more than one such apparatus may be stacked vertically for storage to enhance storage efficiency.
US09616134B2	Liquid preparation comprising pimobendan A liquid preparation includes an etherified cyclodextrin derivative and a substituted benzimidazol, where the etherified cyclodextrin derivative is one of alpha-, beta, and gamma-cyclodextrin ether.
US09616132B2	Kinetin/zeatin topical formulation The solubility of kinetin and/or of zeatin is increased when either or both are combined in a formulation that includes a polyoxyalkylene-n-glycerol dicarboxylate component and a fatty acid component. These two components provide a synergistic increase in the solubility of kinetin and/or zeatin that is greater than that which would be expected based on the solubility of kinetin and zeatin in the individual components.
US09616122B2	PH sensitive metal nanoparticle and preparation method The present invention relates to a pH sensitive particle, a method of preparation thereof, and a use thereof. More particularly, the invention provides a pH sensitive metal nanoparticle and its use for medical treatment utilizing cell necrosis during photothermal therapy. The pH sensitive metal nanoparticle based on this invention consists of a pH sensitive ligand compound whose charge changes depending on the pH of the metal nanoparticle. The particle can be collected in cells, such as cancer cells which present an abnormal pH environment. The pH sensitive metal nanoparticle based on this invention can induce cell death through a photothermal procedure after aggregation. Therefore, the invention enables medical treatment using cell necrosis for e.g. cancer treatment.
US09616120B2	Monoclonal antibodies directed to CD20 The invention provides antibody to canine or feline or equine antigens. Specifically, antibodies directed to canine CD20 which have been caninized or felinized are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing high affinity antibodies to canine and feline CD20 as well as methods for treating B cell disorders in companion animals.
US09616118B2	Newcastle disease virus vectored avian vaccines The present invention encompasses engineered Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) vaccines or compositions. The vaccine or composition may be a recombinant vaccine. The invention also encompasses recombinant vectors encoding and expressing avian pathogen antigens, more specifically avian influenza proteins, epitopes or immunogens. Such vaccines or compositions can be used to protect animals, in particular avian, against disease.
US09616116B2	Detoxified endotoxin immunogenic compositions and uses thereof The present invention provides an immunogenic composition of a lipopolysaccharide vaccine and a non-alum adjuvant. The immunogenic composition may be detoxified J5 core lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli non-covalently complexed with group B meningococcal outermembrane protein. Also provided are methods for preventing an infection caused by a Gram-negative bacteria in an individual via administering the immunogenic compositions to the individual.
US09616114B1	Modified bacteria having improved pharmacokinetics and tumor colonization enhancing antitumor activity Bacterial strains are provided having at least one of a reduced size, a sialic acid coat, inducibly altered surface antigens, and expression of PD-L1 or CTLA-4 agonists and/or tryptophanase. The bacteria may have improved serum half-life, increased penetration into tumors, increased tumor targeting and increased antitumor activity. The bacteria are useful for delivery of therapeutic agents that treat of neoplastic diseases including solid tumors and lymphomas.
US09616110B2	Fabrication method for stratified and layered tissue to repair osteochondral defects Fabrication method for stratified and layered tissue to repair osteochondral defects. In a method of the present disclosure, the method comprises the step of applying a first direction magnetic field to a first quantity of a first collagen solution to align collagen within the first collagen solution in a first direction relative to the first direction magnetic field, forming a first layer of collagen. In a method of generating an aligned collagen layer of the present disclosure, the method comprises applying a first magnetic field at or greater than 0.1 Tesla to a layer of a first collagen solution defining a horizontal plane, within a temperature at or between 2° C. and 45° C., to generate an aligned collagen layer.
US09616092B2	Compositions and methods for treating a pathogenic metabolic condition of the gut microbiota and derived diseases The invention relates to the use as a drug or medical nutritional product in humans to treat a pathological dysbiosis and/or to prevent or treat at least one derived metabolic disease chosen from among excess weight with comorbidity, obesity, diabetes, heart and vascular diseases, atherosclerosis, degenerative bone disease, neurodegenerative disease, metabolism-related cancers, autoimmune diseases, steatosis, metabolic steatohepatitis, and chronic inflammatory diseases of the intestine, by increasing the Christensenella bacterial genus in the intestine, of a composition comprising a mixture of active ingredients consisting of at least: a whey hydrolysate with a molecular weight comprised between 200 and 10,000 Daltons, a whey isolate and/or a concentrate, and calcium caseinate.
US09616088B2	Advanced functional biocompatible polymer putty used as a hemostatic agent for treating damaged tissue and cells A hemostatic putty for treatment of a variety of wounds topographies, including but not limited to highly three dimensional wounds, for example gunshot wounds and impalements, is disclosed. The putty is comprised of a matrix polymer weakly crosslinked or not crosslinked such that a viscoelastic matrix is formed. The viscoelastic nature of the putty is tunable by the composition and enables the putty to conform to a variety of wound topographies. Likewise, a hemostatic polymer, for example chitosan or hydrophobically modified chitosan, is included in this matrix to impart hemostatic properties and tissue adhesive on the putty. The hemostatic polymers disclosed prevent microbial infection and are suitable for oxygen transfer required during normal wound metabolism.
US09616086B2	Use of MicroRNA or inhibitors thereof in regulation of lipid metabolism The present invention relates to use of a microRNA or an inhibitor thereof, and specifically, the present invention relates to use of a microRNA or an inhibitor thereof in preparing a medicament for regulating lipid metabolism or preparing a medicament for preventing or treating a disease related to lipid metabolism. The microRNA is one or more of the following: miRNA-96, miRNA-185, and miRNA-223. The present invention also relates to use of the microRNA or the inhibitor thereof in regulating the expression level of a protein related to lipid metabolism. The present invention also relates to a composition comprising the microRNA or the inhibitor thereof. The microRNA or the inhibitor thereof in the present invention can be used as a pharmaceutical component, and can be applied in preventing or treating a disease caused by lipid metabolism disorders such as hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease or other diseases.
US09616081B2	Antitumor agent including low-dose irinotecan hydrochloride hydrate Provided is a novel combination therapy using an FTD/TPI combination drug which exhibits remarkable antitumor effects, and few side effects.An antitumor agent is characterized in that the FTD/TPI combination drug is administered, using a reduced amount of trifluridine, at a dose in the range of 35 to 70 mg/m2/day and CPT-11 is administered at a dose in the range of 45 to 144 mg/m2/day.
US09616079B2	Aminoglycosides and uses thereof in treating genetic disorders A new class of pseudo-trisaccharide aminoglycosides having an alkyl group at the 5″ position, exhibiting efficient stop codon mutation readthrough activity, low cytotoxicity and high selectivity towards eukaryotic translation systems are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and uses thereof in the treatment of genetic disorders, as well as processes of preparing these aminoglycosides. The disclosed aminoglycosides can be represented by the general formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl; and all other variables and features are as described in the specification.
US09616074B2	Compositions and methods for suppressing endometrial proliferation The subject matter of the instant invention is pertinent to the field of hormone therapy. More specifically, the subject matter of the instant invention concerns methods of treating estrogen-dependent conditions such as endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer in a female undergoing estrogen and/or selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) therapy. The instant invention is also relevant to the suppression of endometrial proliferation. The instant invention is also relevant to the treatment of pain associated with endometriosis. The compositions for practicing the methods, comprising progesterone antagonists are also disclosed. Embodiments of the instant invention also disclose methods for identifying new selective progesterone receptor modulators for practicing disclosed methods of treatment.
US09616071B2	Oral sustained release pharmaceutical composition An oral sustained release pharmaceutical composition comprising a plurality of granules having diameters of not more than 1000 μm, wherein each of the granules comprise a nucleus granule comprised of beraprost sodium and a coating agent coating the nucleus granule, and wherein the coating agent is comprised of a first skin layer containing one or more relatively water-insoluble macromolecular substances, and a second skin layer containing one or more hot-melt low-melting substances.
US09616066B2	Therapy for constipation A method is disclosed of treating acute, sub-acute or chronic constipation in a patient having a condition requiring such treatment. The method includes administering a lipase inhibitor. Also provided is a method of treating chronic pain in a patient which includes administration of a lipase inhibitor, with or without pain medication.
US09616065B2	Compositions useful in treating brain-related diseases or disorders and methods using same The present invention provides compounds useful for treating or preventing a brain-related disease or disorder. The present invention further provides a method of treating or preventing a brain-related disease or disorder in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one compound of the invention. The present invention further provides a method of modulating the activity of a monoamine transporter.
US09616064B2	Rho kinase inhibitors and methods of use The subject invention concerns materials and methods for treating diseases and disorders associated with expression of Rho associated kinases (ROCKs). Examples of diseases and disorders contemplated within the scope of the invention include, but are not limited to, oncological disorders, cardiovascular diseases, CNS disorders, and inflammatory disorders. In one embodiment, a method of the invention comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more compounds of the present invention, or a composition comprising the compounds, to a person or animal in need of treatment. The subject invention also concerns compounds that inhibit ROCKs, and compositions that comprise the inhibitor compounds of the invention. Compounds contemplated within the scope of the invention include, but are not limited to, those compounds shown in Table 5.
US09616057B2	Desethylhydroxychloroquine for the treatment of diseases associated with inflammation Compositions and methods are provided for inhibiting or treating the early and established stages of inflammatory diseases by administration of an effective dose of the desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ). A benefit of the methods is the ability to deliver a dose of agent that is effective in treating inflammation while sparing the individual from retinal toxicity.
US09616048B2	Anti-depression compounds This technology relates generally to compounds and methods for stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, including post-natal hippocampal and hypothalamic neurogenesis) and/or protecting neuronal cell from cell death. Various compounds are disclosed herein. In vivo activity tests suggest that these compounds may have therapeutic benefits in neuropsychiatric and/or neurodegenerative diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, normal aging, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke, radiation therapy, chronic stress, abuse of a neuro-active drug, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, physiological weight loss associated with various conditions, as well as cognitive decline associated with normal aging, chemotherapy, and the like.
US09616032B2	Sustained-release nucleic acid matrix compositions There are provided compositions for extended release of a nucleic acid agent, comprising a lipid-saturated matrix formed with a biodegradable polymer. Also provided are methods of producing the matrix compositions and methods for using the matrix compositions to provide controlled release of the nucleic acid agent.
US09616030B2	Tamper resistant pharmaceutical formulations Disclosed in certain embodiments is a solid oral dosage form comprising a plurality of particles, each particle comprising (i) a core comprising an active agent susceptible to abuse and an internal adhesion promoter, wherein the cores are (i) dispersed in a matrix comprising a controlled release material or (ii) coated with a controlled release material. The dosage form can also include an alcohol resistant material.
US09616026B2	Sustained release formulations of sotalol Sustained release compositions of sotalol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are provided. In certain examples, sotalol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, may be administered in an effective amount to provide a therapeutic effect to a patient, such as, for example, a patient suffering from a cardiac disorder. In some examples, sotalol combined with a sustained release system may be administered to provide a sustained release of sotalol for a desired period, e.g., at least about 24 hours.
US09616017B2	Two part formulation system for ophthalmic delivery Ophthalmic products and related methods are described herein. These methods include a stabilizing composition comprising a therapeutically active agent which is separated from a liquid vehicle composition by a barrier. The barrier may be removed to allow the two compositions to mix to provide an ophthalmically acceptable liquid comprising the therapeutically active agent.
US09616016B2	Method for treating retinal conditions using an intraocular tamponade A composition includes at least one fatty acid glycerol ester for use during or after a vitrectomy procedure, the composition being bioresorbable, being injectable in the vitreous cavity, having a density below 1, more preferably between 0.90 and 1, or a density above 1, more preferably between 1 and 1.5; having a surface tension of less than 50 dynes/cm more preferably ranging from 20 and 30 dynes/cm, being not susceptible to emulsify into droplets when injected; method for treating a retinal disorder involving the use of the composition.
US09616011B2	Personal care compositions Personal care compositions comprising a dipeptide and methods of using such compositions to treat the condition of keratinous tissue. The C terminal amino acid of said dipeptide is threonine. The personal care composition can be applied topically, ingested orally, injected, or used as part of a combined treatment regimen.
US09616009B2	Composition containing at least one C7 sugar for alopecia treatment, cosmetic treatment of hair and nails, and care of hair, eyelashes or nails The present invention relates to a composition including at least one C7 sugar, or derivative from esterification of said sugar, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for treating alopecia. The present invention also relates to a method for cosmetically treating hair and nails, said method being intended to stimulate the growth thereof and/or slow the loss thereof. According to said method, a cosmetic composition including at least one C7 sugar, or derivative from esterification of said sugar, is administered. The present invention finally relates to a method for cosmetic care of hair and/or eyelashes and/or nails.
US09616008B2	Antimicrobial compositions An anti-microbial composition, comprising a chelator (such as EDTA and its salts), and a transport enhancer (such as Methyl Sufonyl Methane; MSM) is provided. Together, the combination of the two substances unexpectedly and beneficially inhibits bacterial or fungal biofilms when administered to an area of microbial infection. Preferred formulations include spray, lotion, solution, gel, cream, ointment, soap, deodorant, surgical rinse, or dental rinse.
US09616001B2	Solid lipid nanoparticles (I) The present invention relates to new (foodgrade) solid lipid nanoparticles, as well as the production of such solid lipid nanoparticles and the use of them.
US09615996B2	Closure cap for receptacles for receiving medical liquids and receptacle for receiving medical liquids The invention relates to a closure cap (1) for receptacles for receiving medical liquids, in particular receptacles filled with infusion solutions, transfusion solutions or liquids for enteral nutrition. The invention further relates to a receptacle (40) for receiving medical liquids, in particular a bottle, comprising such a closure cap. The closure cap (1) according to the invention is characterized by two injection parts (6 and 7) arranged separately from one another, each for injecting an additive. One injection part (6) serves to inject an additive with an injection syringe that has a needle (cannula), while the other injection part (7) serves to inject an additive with a needle-less injection syringe.
US09615994B2	Motion-based control for a personal massager A personal massage apparatus includes a personal massager and can also include a controller for controlling the operation of the massager. The massager includes a motor or other motion-causing device and can also include an interface (e.g., a wireless interface) to the controller (where such a controller is included). The controller is a remote control that can include a motion sensor (e.g., an accelerometer) for detecting motion of the controller (e.g., changes in orientation). The massager can also have a motion sensor for detecting motion of the massager. Circuitry in the controller and/or massager converts the detected motion of the controller or massager into control signals for the controller or massager. The operation of the controller or massager (e.g., the output motor power, a vibration pattern, or another massage setting) is adjusted based on the detected motion of the controller or massager.
US09615991B2	Intermittent pneumatic compression device Intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) devices facilitate fluid circulation in a body by providing alternating higher pressure and a lower or no pressure in an associated inflatable cuff. A source of air at a pressure less than 130% of the higher pressure at the inflatable cuff communicates to the inflatable cuff through a large-cross-section, continuously-open passageway. A large vent valve on that passageway opens for a lower or no pressure condition and closes to achieve a higher pressure within 0.1 second. For the lower or no pressure state, the vent valve not only vents the inflatable cuff, but also vents continuing air flow from the source of air pressure, until the next rapid pressure rise. The periods between successive compressions are from 2 to 10 seconds, with compressions from 0.35 to 5 seconds. While most of the inflatable cuff is not transparent, portions adjacent the heel and toes are.
US09615986B2	Chiropractic table Chiropractic table that allows conservation of the natural curves of the spine of a patient using thereof, comprising a continuous curved surface having a concave section at its central portion on the convex side of said curved surface defining first and second convex sections, wherein the ends of the curved surface are in contact with the ends of a frame composed of a plurality of longitudinal straight bar pairs, parallel to each other and which are transversely joined by a plurality of main transverse bars to said longitudinal straight bars, wherein further the first convex section has a greater height then the second convex section with respect to the plane defined by the plurality of longitudinal straight bars and the plurality of main transverse bars.
US09615985B2	Direct drive tilt mechanism for infant-care medical devices A system and method for tilting an infant-supporting device can be decoupled through a manual coupler or decoupler, that includes a clevis (40) coupled to the lifting means (4, 9) and a pivot pin (41) slidably coupled to the tilt means (12).
US09615972B2	Ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus, and eyeball fixing portion movement unit and eyeball fixing unit used in the same An ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes an irradiation optical system and including an objective lens, and treats a patient's eye by using a laser beam. The ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes a delivery unit that includes an irradiation end unit, includes at least a portion of the irradiation optical system, and optically guides the laser beam, a first movement unit that includes a first drive section and integrally moves the irradiation end unit and an eyeball fixing unit which is connected to the delivery unit and fixes the patient's eye, a second movement unit that includes a second drive section and moves the eyeball fixing unit by driving the second drive section, and drive control means for controlling driving of the first drive section and driving of the second drive section, and individually moving the first movement unit and the second movement unit.
US09615968B2	Portable rapid cooling, hypothermia inducing headgear apparatus for tissue preservation Hypothermic therapy headgear for patients includes a headpiece for engaging the head of the patient and a cooling member engaged to the headpiece for contacting at least one surface portion of the patient. The cooling member includes at least one cooling surface for contacting the surface portion of the patient, and at least two endothermic reaction components. The endothermic reaction components have an initial state where the endothermic reaction components are separated from contact with each other, and a treatment state in which the endothermic reaction components are placed into contact, wherein an endothermic reaction takes place and cools the cooling surface and the corresponding portion of the patient. An activation device selectively places the endothermic reaction components into the treatment state when a patient is in need of hypothermic therapy. A thermal therapy device and a method for administering thermal therapy are also disclosed.
US09615959B2	Uncinate process support for ethmoid infundibulum illumination A dilation apparatus comprises an elongate member and a dilation assembly that is slidable along the elongate member. The dilation assembly comprises a platform and an inflatable dilator. The platform and the elongate member cooperate to absorb inflation forces from the dilator directed toward the longitudinal axis of the elongate member, such that the dilation forces are exerted against tissue asymmetrically relative to the longitudinal axis of the elongate member. The dilation apparatus may be used to dilate the ethmoid infundibulum in a human patient. Various devices may be used to maintain the dilated state of an ethmoid infundibulum, including a wedge, a mesh, and a tether. An illuminator may be configured to reach around an uncinate process, retract the uncinate process, and then illuminate the ethmoid infundibulum to provide improved visualization of the ethmoid infundibulum.
US09615951B2	Manual actuation system for deployment of implant A system for mechanically deploying intraluminal implants is disclosed. The system is used with an implant that is delivered and/or deployed via a pull wire and includes a handle having a funnel and receiving channel for receiving the pull wire, a slider having a thumb grip and a wedge, and a shuttle having a grabber for grasping the pull wire. The thumb grip is pulled proximally to retract the wedge to cause the grabber to grasp the wire and retract the shuttle but not the wire. An extension spring linked between the slider and the shuttle abruptly pulls the shuttle to retract the pull wire after the slider is fully retracted.
US09615949B2	Delivery device A delivery device for deploying an expandable prosthesis and method of use thereof are described. The delivery device includes an outer sheath that is capable of retracting in a proximal direction and resheathing over the prosthesis in a distal direction. The device includes a drive pulley that can engage gears to retract or resheath the outer catheter in relation to the prosthesis. In some embodiments, the delivery device may include a reinforced outer sheath disposed over an inner elongate member, the reinforced outer sheath comprising a proximal section reinforced with a braid, a distal section reinforced with a coil and an overlapping section extending between the proximal section and the distal section. Additionally or alternatively, the delivery device may include a stabilizing element for releasably holding the stent to the inner catheter.
US09615947B2	Artificial blood vessel using decellularized blood vessel sheet An artificial blood vessel that can be transplanted to blood vessels with a small diameter, can be adjusted to an arbitrary size of a diameter, improves in invasiveness when a graft is taken, and overcomes the problem on the provision of a graft is provided. An artificial blood vessel prepared from a decellularized tubular structure, which is prepared by processing a decellularized, sheet-like blood vessel (decellularized blood vessel sheet) into a roll structure, and a tissue adhesive, wherein a portion which is contacted with blood that flows within the artificial blood vessel consists of the tissue of the tunica intima lined with the tissue of the tunica media whereas a portion of the sheet that overlaps when the sheet is processed into a roll structure (overlap width) consists of the tissue of the tunica media and wherein a tissue adhesive is applied to the overlap width.
US09615941B2	Orthopedic tool for altering the connection between orthopedic components An orthopedic tool for loosening the connection between orthopedic components. In one embodiment, the orthopedic tool includes a housing and a wedge. The housing has a head, an upper portion, a lower portion, and an opening between the upper and lower portions. The wedge is positioned at least partially between the upper portion and the lower portion of the housing and is actuatable to move toward the head of the housing. When at least a portion of the head of the housing is placed in mating engagement with the junction between two assembled orthopedic components, advancement of the wedge towards the head results in separation of the upper portion and lower portion of the housing. Thus, as the wedge is advanced toward the head, the upper and lower portions of the housing are separated, which results in corresponding separation of the assembled orthopedic components.
US09615938B2	Methods and apparatus for insertion of implant material Various surgical devices and methods for facilitating distraction of adjacent vertebrae and/or insertion of an intervertebral implant material therebetween are disclosed. The devices include an elongated barrel having a cannula. A distal end of the barrel is configured to engage the adjacent vertebrae. Slots may be formed on at least a portion of the barrel such that at least the distal end of the barrel may be expanded to distract vertebrae. In one embodiment, an inner member is reciprocally positioned within the barrel. The inner member includes features that engage one or more surfaces of the barrel to expand the distal end of the barrel as the inner member moves with respect to the barrel. In some embodiments, cams are used to expand the distal end of the barrel.
US09615937B2	Lateral approach expandable spinal implant and method An expandable interbody fusion device configured for placement into the intradiscal space between vertebral bodies in a lumbar spine from a lateral approach. The device is expanded by the insertion of a plurality of wafers into the device in situ. The length of the device is configured to extend on the vertebral body endplate from pedicle to pedicle and to reside interiorly of the ring apophysis with at least a portion of the device resting on the area of increased bone density at the posterior portion of the endplate between the pedicles.
US09615919B2	Implantable valve prosthesis and method for manufacturing such a valve The invention relates to an implantable valve prosthesis, optionally comprising a support structure and at least one valve leaflet. The valve prosthesis comprises a material structure of unidirectional reinforcing elements of drawn ultra high molecular weight polyolefin, extending in at least two directions, wherein the modulus of elasticity of the polyolefin reinforcing elements is at least 60 GPa. The invention furthermore relates to a method for manufacturing such an implantable valve. The valve is easily manufactured and has an improved durability.
US09615914B2	Apparatus and methods for nipple and breast formation Apparatus and methods for nipple and breast formation are described where devices precondition or expand a target nipple tissue to reduce the pressure exerted by the skin on an eventual implant. Generally, the apparatus comprises a mold having a contact surface which is curved in conformance with a breast upon which the mold is positionable, the contact surface having an adhesive for securement upon the breast, and the mold defining a cavity along the contact surface which conforms to a size of a nipple to be formed upon the breast and where the cavity further comprises the adhesive for securement to the nipple. A breast enlargement device comprises a cup larger than the target breast and further defines an inner surface which adheres to the breast when contacted.
US09615911B2	Delivery system for inflatable implant An implant delivery system can be used to deliver an implant into a body. The implant delivery system can include an inflation tube and a tubular member surrounding the inflation tube. The inflation tube can be used to provide an inflation medium to the implant. The tubular member can have a distal tip and an opening spaced from the tip to allow the implant to be released through the opening into an anatomical structure within the body.
US09615910B2	Layered collagen and HA scaffold suitable for osteochondral repair The invention relates to a method for producing a multi-layer collagen scaffold. The method generally comprises the steps of: preparing a first suspension of collagen and freezing or lyophilizing the suspension to provide a first layer; optionally preparing a further suspension of collagen and adding the further suspension onto the layer formed in the previous step to form a further layer, and freezing or lyophilizing the layers, wherein when the layer formed in the previous step is formed by lyophilization the lyophilized layer is re-hydrated prior to addition of the next layer; optionally, repeating the aforementioned step to form one or more further layers; and preparing a final suspension of collagen and pouring the final suspension onto the uppermost layer to form a final layer, and freeze-drying the layers to form the multi-layer collagen composite scaffold.
US09615905B2	Male urethral prosthesis with tensioning member The present invention includes a method of implanting a urethral prosthesis. The method includes making an incision, positioning arms of the prosthesis in the pelvic region of the patient, and positioning a stem of the prosthesis in the scrotum of the patient.
US09615901B2	Method and apparatus for imaging three-dimensional structure An apparatus for determining surface topology of a portion of a three-dimensional structure is provided, that includes a probing member, an illumination unit, a light focusing optics, a translation mechanism, a detector and a processor.
US09615890B2	Surgical robot system and method of controlling the same A surgical robot system includes a slave system to perform a surgical operation on a patient and an imaging system that includes an image capture unit including a plurality of cameras to acquire a plurality of affected area images, an image generator detecting an occluded region in each of the affected area images acquired by the plurality of cameras, removing the occluded region therefrom, warping each of the affected area images from which the occluded region is removed, and matching the affected area images to generate a final image, and a controller driving each of the plurality of cameras of the image capture unit to acquire the plurality of affected area images and inputting the acquired plurality of affected area images to the image generator to generate a final image.
US09615879B2	Open irrigated ablation catheter with proximal cooling Medical devices and methods for using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include an open-irrigated ablation catheter. The open-irrigated ablation catheter may include a catheter body, an electrode tip body with one or more irrigation ports at a distal end, and a proximal insert for providing cooling fluid to a proximal end of the electrode tip body.
US09615876B2	Bipolar surgical morcellator A device for morcellating tissue within a body cavity of a patient comprises a stationary tube (8) having a distal end portion, and a bipolar electrosurgical electrode assembly (13) located at the distal end of the tube. The electrosurgical electrode assembly (13) comprises first and second electrodes (14, 16) separated by an insulation member (15). When an electrosurgical cutting voltage is applied to the electrode assembly (13), and relative movement is initiated between the tube (8) and the tissue, a slug of resected tissue is formed within the tube such that it can be removed from the body cavity of the patient. The bipolar electrosurgical assembly (13) has a first circumferential region (A) and a second circumferential region (B), the first circumferential region (A) being longer than the second circumferential region (B), the bipolar electrosurgical assembly being adapted to cut tissue preferentially in the first circumferential region (A) as compared with the second circumferential region (B).
US09615874B2	Bone plate shaping system Methods and systems for bone plate bending are provided which include bending tools that couple relative to the bone plate to bend the plate. Such system permit bending without necessitating that the bending tools are in direct contact with the holes in the plate, which could deform the holes.
US09615868B2	Bone fastener and methods of use A bone fastener includes a first portion that defines a longitudinal axis and includes an inner surface defining an implant cavity. An intermediate portion includes a first part having a wall including a first end surface that defines at least a portion of the implant cavity and a second end surface. The intermediate portion further includes a second part having a wall including an end surface connected with the second end surface of the first part and an inner surface. The second part is rotatable relative to the first part. A second portion includes a first end engageable with the inner surface of the second part and a second end configured to penetrate tissue. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US09615865B2	Bone end (epiphysis) fracture fixation device and method of use A bone end (epiphysis) fracture device including a rotatable fixation plate having a guide pin aperture and a plurality of fixation screw apertures formed therethrough. The guide pin aperture is used by a surgeon to position the fixation plate so that one or more fixation screw apertures are properly positioned to receive fixation screws inserted by the surgeon for repairing a bone end fracture. In another embodiment, the fracture fixation device also includes a side plate to which the fixation plate is rotatably attached. This embodiment further includes one or more side plate apertures formed through an elongate extension, whereby the fixation device may also be attached to the bone for which an end fracture is being repaired. A lock screw is provided in this embodiment for locking the position of the fixation plate with respect to the side plate.
US09615864B2	Limb lengthening system for residual limb An Intramedullary Distraction Osteotomy (IM DO) apparatus and corresponding methods are disclosed that allow for the patient or another to lengthen residual bone. The apparatus may be inserted into the intramedullary canal of the residual bone and may be lengthened through the application of a traction force. The apparatus protrudes from the body through a single percutaneous site. Lengthening of the amputated limb is achieved by the application of a controlled traction force that is generated by turning a lengthening knob external to the percutaneous site. One or more additional screw segments may be utilized to assist in limb lengthening. The traction force serves to separate a distal bone segment from a proximal bone segment at a specified, controllable rate, allowing new bone growth to fill in the resulting gap. Components of the apparatus provide support and alignment to the residual bone during both the lengthening and consolidation phases. External components of the apparatus may be removed after desired limb length has been achieved, reducing the risk of infection and improving patient mobility.
US09615854B2	Beauty tool A beauty tool (1) includes: a substantially rod-shaped main body (10); an attraction head (2) provided in the main body (10); and a beauty effect imparting part for imparting a beauty effect to human skin in a state where it is in contact with or close to the human skin. The attraction head (2) is provided at one end of the main body (10) and includes a magnetic force generating surface (20) for attracting and removing, by means of a magnetic force, a cosmetic agent applied to the human skin.
US09615847B2	Devices and methods for soft tissue hydro dissection In one embodiment, a medical device may include an insertion member configured to be inserted into a body opening, and a needle member, movably coupled to the insertion member, configured to be inserted into the body opening. The needle member may include a lumen configured to transfer dissection fluid, a blunt tip located on a distal end of the needle member, and an opening disposed proximate to the blunt tip that is configured to discharge the dissection fluid into a space between tissue layers.
US09615832B2	Aneurysm occlusion system and method An aneurysm occlusion system includes a device positionable within a cerebral blood vessel covering a neck of an aneurysm on the blood vessel. The device includes an expandable tubular element having a lumen surrounded by a sidewall including a plurality of gaps. When expanded, the tubular element includes longitudinal standards arrayed helically in a proximal to distal direction. The standards support struts and the gaps are defined between adjacent struts and are sufficiently large to permit delivery of embolic coils or other embolic materials therethrough.
US09615827B2	Surgical stapling device with locking member A surgical stapling device for sequentially applying a plurality of fasteners to body tissue and simultaneously incising tissue is provided. The surgical stapling device is adapted to receive disposable loading units having staples in linear rows whose length can be between about 30 mm and 60 mm. The disposable loading unit includes a proximal body portion, a mounting assembly and a tool assembly. The mounting assembly is secured to the proximal end of the tool assembly and pivotally mounted about a pivot axis to the distal end of the proximal body portion. A support member or blow-out plate assembly is positioned on opposite sides of the pivot axis and extends between the proximal body portion and the mounting assembly.
US09615826B2	Multiple thickness implantable layers for surgical stapling devices In various embodiments, a staple cartridge for use with a surgical stapler is disclosed. The staple cartridge comprises a cartridge body comprising a deck, a row of first staple cavities defined in the deck, a plurality of first staples, wherein the first staples are positioned in the first staple cavities, a row of second staple cavities defined in the deck, and a plurality of second staples, wherein the second staples are positioned in the second staple cavities. The staple cartridge further comprises a first layer comprising a first portion positioned over the first staple cavities and configured to be captured within the first staples and a second portion positioned over the second staple cavities and configured to be captured within the second staples. The staple cartridge further comprises a second layer positioned over the second portion and not positioned over the first portion of the first layer.
US09615821B2	Tensionable knotless anchor systems and methods of tissue repair Systems and methods for soft tissue to bone repairs, without knot tying. The soft tissue repair systems include self-cinching constructs with splices and loops that are pre-loaded onto modified knotless anchors (for example, swivel and/or screw-in suture anchors and/or push-in suture anchors with a distal eyelet) to position the self-locking, adjustable construct at the repair site. The systems allow for knotless tensioning of the tissue after the knotless anchors have been implanted.
US09615814B2	Ultrasonic bone assessment apparatus and method An invention is disclosed for locating a region of interest in the calcaneus. A pair of ultrasound transducers are positioned on the medial and lateral sides of the heel, respectively. The positioning is based on a size of a portion of the body of a subject upon whom the ultrasound assessment of the calcaneus is to be made. In a presently preferred embodiment, the length of the foot from the back to the head of the first metatarsal is used in conjunction with a proportionality constant and an angle, to position the pair of transducers. The positioning so obtained facilitates (i) reproducible measurements and (ii) comparisons of the results obtained in one person with another, because relatively analogous portions of the highly heterogeneous calcanei are assessed in both. In an alternative embodiment, a single transducer is positioned similarly on the heel, operating in pulse-echo mode.
US09615801B2	Animal holder for performing neuroimaging An animal holder for use with an imaging device includes a body tube for receiving a first body portion of the animal. The animal holder also includes a head immobilization mechanism disposed adjacent one end of the body tube for receiving a head of the animal. The head immobilization mechanism includes opposing first and second flexible fingers that have free ends configured to contact and immobilize the head of the animal when the fingers are moved to a compressed position.
US09615796B2	Patient support device for prone immobilization A patient immobilization device for positioning a patient in the prone position for breast irradiation, includes a cephalic module for supporting the head and upper extremities of the patient, a thoracic module for supporting the patient thorax, and shaped to allow at least one breast to extend below the thoracic module, and a caudal module for supporting the pelvis and lower extremities of the patient, wherein the cephalic module is optionally detachable and securable to the thoracic module; wherein the thoracic module is optionally detachable and securable to the caudal module and the device can be pivoted in an indexed way around a craniocaudal patient axis F.
US09615795B2	Probe support apparatus Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.
US09615793B2	Continuous outpatient ECG monitoring system An ECG monitoring system for ambulatory patients includes a small multi-electrode patch that adhesively attaches to the chest of a patient. A reusable battery-powered ECG monitor clips onto the patch and receives patient electrical signals from the electrodes of the patch. A processor continuously processes received ECG signals and stores the signals in memory in the monitor. The processor also analyzes the received ECG signals for predefined arrhythmia. If an arrhythmia is detected, a wireless transceiver in the ECG monitor transmits the event information and an ECG strip to a cellphone handset. The cellphone handset automatically relays the event information and ECG strip to a monitoring center for further diagnosis and necessary intervention.
US09615782B2	Blood flash needle A device for drawing fluid from a lumen comprising a body, a first needle portion extending from a forward portion of the body and a second needle portion extending from a rear portion of the body, wherein the body includes an observation portion adapted to allow visual observation of the fluid, and wherein the observation portion is provided with enhancement means adapted to enhance the visibility of the fluid in the observation portion.
US09615776B2	Signal processing method and apparatus The invention provides signal processing algorithms and apparatus for detecting bradykinesia, tremor, or other symptoms of neurological dysfunction in subjects, using three-dimensional sensors to tract finger and hand position. The invention provides Cartesian Genetic Programming networks and particular function blocks for such networks to enable identification of subjects exhibiting such symptoms.
US09615767B2	Fluid level indicator determination A method for use in analyzing impedance measurements on a subject is described. The method can include, in a processing system, determining at least one impedance value at each of a number of frequencies, each impedance value representing the impedance of a segment of the subject, determining a dispersion parameter value indicative of a dispersion of the impedance values and, determining an indicator based at least on part on the dispersion parameter value.
US09615763B2	Ambulatory electrocardiography monitor recorder optimized for capturing low amplitude cardiac action potential propagation Physiological monitoring can be provided through a lightweight wearable monitor that includes two components, a flexible extended wear electrode patch and a reusable monitor recorder that removably snaps into a receptacle on the electrode patch. The wearable monitor sits centrally (in the midline) on the patient's chest along the sternum oriented top-to-bottom. The placement of the wearable monitor in a location at the sternal midline, with its unique narrow “hourglass”-like shape, significantly improves the ability of the wearable monitor to cutaneously sense cardiac electrical potential signals, particularly the P-wave and, to a lesser extent, the QRS interval signals indicating ventricular activity in the ECG waveforms. Additionally, the monitor recorder includes an ECG sensing circuit that measures raw cutaneous electrical signals using a driven reference containing power supply noise and system noise to the reference lead, which is critical to preserving the characteristics of low amplitude cardiac action potentials, particularly P-waves.
US09615757B2	Method and apparatus for remote detection and monitoring of functional chronotropic incompetence Methods and apparatus to determine the presence of and track functional chronotropic incompetence (hereinafter “CI”) in an in-home setting under conditions of daily living. The functional CI of the patient may be determined with one or more of a profile of measured patient heart rates, a measured maximum patient heart rate, or a peak of the heart rate profile. The functional CI of the patient may be determined with the measured heart rate profile, in which the measured heart rate profile may correspond to heart rates substantially less than the maximum heart rate of the patient, such that the heart rate can be safely measured when the patient is remote from a health care provider. The functional CI of the patient may be determined based a peak of the remotely measured heart rate profile, for example a peak corresponding to the mode of the heart rate distribution profile.
US09615753B2	Cardiac tissue elasticity sensing A system and method are provided for assessing the compliance of internal patient tissue for purposes of catheter guidance and/or ablation procedures. Specifically, the system/method provides for probing internal patient tissue in order to obtain force and/or tissue displacement measurements. These measurements are utilized to generate an indication of tissue elasticity. In one exemplary embodiment, the indication of elasticity is correlated with an image of the internal tissue area and an output of this image including elasticity indications is displayed for a user.
US09615751B2	Object information acquiring apparatus and object information acquiring method An object information acquiring apparatus, comprising: a plurality of detecting elements which detect an acoustic wave generated from an object irradiated with light and convert the acoustic wave into detection signals; a signal determining unit which determines a detection signal detected by a detecting element which is not in acoustic contact with the object, of the plurality of detecting elements; a signal acquisition unit which generates a corrected detection signal by deleting at least a region which is not based on an acoustic wave generated from the interior of the object, from the determined detection signal; and an image processor which forms image data of the object from a detection signal detected by a detecting element which is in acoustic contact with the object and from the corrected detection signal.
US09615745B2	System and method for wireless biosensor monitoring A system and method for monitoring a physical parameter of a subject is provided. The system may include a casing with a sensor coupled to the casing. The sensor may be configured to detect a physical parameter of the subject. The physical parameter may include a chemical parameter of the subject. The system includes an endoscopic clip coupled to the casing and may include a wireless transmitter for transmitting a signal via a wireless medium. The signal encodes the physical parameter of the subject detected by the sensor and the wireless transmitter is electronically connected to the endoscopic clip. The system may further include a monitor configured to communicate with the wireless transmitter for receiving the signal encoding the physical parameter of the subject.
US09615742B2	Eye imaging in head worn computing Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith. Aspects further relate to determining health conditions of the user based on eye imaging technologies.
US09615735B2	Measurement of the lipid and aqueous layers of a tear film Systems and methods for determining thickness of lipid and aqueous layers of a tear film in which a spectrum array is generated from optical coherence tomography and input into a statistical estimator, which determines the thickness of the lipid and/or aqueous layers at a nanometer resolution based on the inputted spectrum and other information, such as information about a laser intensity noise, Poisson noise, and dark noise associated with the OCT.
US09615712B2	Mobile floor cleaning robot A pad particularly adapted for surface cleaning. The pad includes an absorbent core having the ability to absorb and retain liquid material, and a liner layer in contact with and covering at least one side of the absorbent core. The liner layer has the ability to retain and wick liquid material through the liner layer. Cleaning apparatus containing such pads and methods of using such pads are also described.
US09615711B2	Floor care appliance A brush vacuum cleaner having a safety shutdown of the drive via an overload brush roller torque detection. A mechanical triggering element via transmission elements actuates an electrical switch for the main switch to shut down the drive above a torque threshold. The switch is additionally connected in parallel by an external actuating element to an on and off position by a spring-loaded control element and a coupling element. Due to the control element, switching the switch into an off position due to overload is transmitted to the actuating element that can be adjusted into an off position. The control element is spring held in the on position in an arrangement for the engagement of the control element, where an unlocking can be set as off position by adjustment of the control element via the actuating element against the spring pressure.
US09615708B2	Vacuum cleaner agitator cleaner with agitator lifting mechanism A vacuum cleaner having a base, an agitator cleaner, an agitator, and a motor. The agitator extends in a longitudinal direction and is mounted to the base to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the agitator and to move between a first position in which the agitator is spaced from the agitator cleaner and a second position in which the agitator engages the agitator cleaner. The motor is operatively associated with the base and configured to rotate the agitator about the longitudinal axis of the agitator while the agitator is in the second position to remove debris from the agitator by interaction between the agitator and the agitator cleaner.
US09615707B2	Floor care appliance A floor care appliance having a height-adjustable brush set. A pushbutton of the brush set is actuatable for height adjustment via a manual suction tube of the floor care appliance. The pushbutton has a receptacle for receiving an edge region of a manual suction tube and/or for foot actuation.
US09615705B2	Liquid aspirator for drawing off and sucking up liquids A liquid vacuuming device for drawing off and vacuuming up liquids may include a housing (1), an extractor device formed by at least one extracting lip (7) for extracting and collecting the liquid in front of at least one vacuum mouth (5), a vacuuming device that features a motor-driven vacuum subassembly and is able to vacuum an air/liquid flow mixed with the liquid to be vacuumed up along a flow pathway from the vacuum mouth (5) through an intake channel (4) into the housing (1), a separating device (13) for separating the liquid from the air and a tank for receiving the separated liquid. The device may further include an on/off function that turns on the motorized drive or increases the motor power when pressure is exerted upon the extracting lip (7) and turns off the motorized drive or reduces the motor power when the pressure decreases. Similar functionality may be implemented by an orientation switch.
US09615696B2	Grill removal assembly A grill removal assembly removes a hot grill grate from an appliance such as a grill, smoker, oven, or the like. The assembly includes a handle has a slot and a pair of tabs. The slot may insertably receive a selected one of a rod on a grill. The tabs may be positioned beneath a central rod on the grill when the slot receives the selected rod. A stabilizer is attached to the handle. The stabilizer abuts the selected rod when the slot receives the selected rod thereby facilitating the handle to remove the grill from an oven.
US09615694B2	Heating cooker A heating cooker is provided with: a container for housing food; a housing unit for housing the container; a discharge port for discharging air in the lateral direction towards the inside of the housing unit, the discharge port being provided at the upper part of a side wall of the housing unit; outlet ports through which air in the housing unit flows out, the outlet ports being provided to the housing unit; an airflow duct communicating the outlet ports and the discharge port to each other; an airflow fan for channeling air flowing into the airflow duct towards the discharge port; and a duct heater, which is a heating unit for heating the air channeled into the airflow duct.
US09615692B2	Grill and/or frying plate for the use on cooking hobs A grill and/or frying plate for use on an induction cooking hob, including at least one grill section and at least one section different from the grill section, in particular a frame section or a warming section. When the grill and/or frying plate is mounted to the cooking hob, the at least one grill section is at least partially arranged directly above at least one heating element of the cooking hob and that the at least one section different from the grill section is at least partially arranged in a position where no heating element is arranged below. A recess and/or a securing recess and/or a fixation groove are arranged in a region that delimits the grill section from the section different from the grill section, in such a way that the heat transfer from the grill section to the section different from the grill section is reduced.
US09615690B2	Slow cooking appliance with cammed lid latching arrangement A cooking appliance including a housing and cooking vessel having a rim. A lid covers the cooking vessel when seated on the rim. At least one latch is disposed on the lid and a complementary engagement member is disposed on a sidewall of the housing. The at least one latch includes a base attached to the lid, a rotating arm having a cammed head at one end that engages the base, and a rod pivotally connected to the cammed head on one end and having a foot disposed at an opposite end. The rod passes through an aperture in the base and the cammed head engages the base as the arm is rotated. The rotation of the arm causes an axial displacement of the rod to cause a stop member on an end of the rod to engage the engagement member to seal the lid to the cooking vessel rim.
US09615689B2	Food cooking system An appliance including a heating and circulating unit immersed in a pot for cooking food inside a cooking bag immersed in the water. A first recess is formed in a base for storing the heating and circulating unit. A second recess is formed in the base for storing the vacuum packaging unit. A third recess is formed in the base for holding a supply of cooking bags. Prior to cooking food is placed into the cooking bag and evacuated with the vacuum packaging unit. The vacuum packaging unit includes an electronic display and an electronic control panel. An electrical cable connects the vacuum packaging unit and the heating and the circulating unit. The heating and the circulating unit and the vacuum packaging unit are controlled from the electronic control panel and data related to the operation thereof is displayed on the electronic display.
US09615685B2	Apparatus for dressing aid An apparatus for dressing aid includes a first side arm, a second side arm, a stationary stabilizer bar, a removable stabilizer bar, a first and second attachment clip. The first and second side arms are oppositely positioned of each other along the stationary stabilizer bar and pivotably connected to the stationary stabilizer bar. The first and the second attachment clips are respectively connected to a distal end of the first side arm and the second side arm so that a garment can be secured to the first and second side arms. The apparatus is then utilized to put the garment, wherein the first and second side arms are individually operated about pivot connections of the stationary stabilizer bar. The first and second side arms also form a rigid structure with the removable stabilizer bar that attaches to a proximal end of the first and second side arms.
US09615683B2	Liquid-dispensing container with single gimbal mechanism A household liquid-dispensing container such as a drinking vessel or a jug comprising a vessel (30) that is configured to hold a liquid and that has a base (37) on which it can stand, an opening (39) and at least one side (38); and a handle (50) that is configured to be held by a user and that is attached to a side of the vessel (38) by a joint that forms a single gimbal between the handle (50) and the vessel (30) and that allows the handle (50) to pivot about a single axis (21) that extends directly above the center of gravity of the vessel (30) when the vessel base (37) is standing on a horizontal surface; an optional baffle assembly (80) to reduce sloshing; and a lid (120).
US09615681B2	Arrangement with a base plate and a covering hood for a screen An arrangement for a screen with a number of sections which are foldable and/or pivotal in relation to one another and which form a screen-off, which includes a fixed section and two sections pivotal in relation thereto, or one fixed section and a number of foldable or pivotal sections in relation to one another, which are pivotally mounted on the fixed section, the fixed section being mounted on a foot, the foot includes a supporting base plate, and the base plate is covered with a hood for preventing direct contact of at least the upper side of the base plate and possibly also the major portion of the edges of the base plate.
US09615677B2	Retail fixture with slot A retail fixture includes a platform having a plurality of openings and a cover having at least one slot where the cover is positioned over the platform such that each of the at least one slots of the cover is aligned with an opening of the platform. A set of spaced-apart nubs extends along at least one opening. A bracket extends across the plurality of openings and is mounted to a bottom surface of the platform. The bracket has channels aligned with the openings. Each channel has a first width proximate the bottom surface and a second width distal from the bottom surface wherein the second width is wider than the first width.
US09615675B2	System for displaying products on a shelf A product display unit for a displaying a plurality of products thereon is disclosed. The product display unit comprises a bottom member, a first rib, a second rib and a top member. The bottom member is configured to be positioned on a first product-supporting shelf. The first rib projects upwardly from the product-supporting surface and extends longitudinally along the bottom member. The second rib projects upwardly from the product-supporting surface and extends longitudinally along the bottom member, such that a distance is defined between the first rib and the second rib. The top member is disposed in juxtaposed relation with the bottom member and is configured for suspension from a second product-supporting shelf. The distance between the first rib and the second rib is dimensioned to be less than the widest portion of a product configured to be supported by the bottom member.
US09615674B2	Can dispenser and merchandiser A dispenser is provided for storing and individually dispensing cylindrical containers in a vertical orientation. The dispenser includes an upper chamber having a ramp sloping downward toward a back of the dispenser, which receives the containers loaded in a vertical orientation at a front of the dispenser. The containers move down the upper chamber ramp by gravity to an opening at a back end of the dispenser, through which the containers pass to a lower chamber. The lower chamber has a ramp sloping downward toward the front of the dispenser. The containers move down the lower chamber ramp by gravity to a dispensing position at the front of the dispenser. A latch is positioned at a back portion of the upper chamber to restrict passage of the containers so that they pass through the opening one at a time as containers are removed from the dispensing position.
US09615665B2	Foldable mobile restaurant booth A foldable mobile restaurant booth and a method of its use are configured for ease of mobility and storage by allowing the seat portion to fold upward toward the seat back. The booth has a seat back and seat portion coupled to a base, and a linkage arrangement coupling the seat portion to the seat back. The base may have a plurality of wheels for allowing the booth to roll easily on the ground. The linkage arrangement permits the seat portion to move between a first, operative position to a second, folded position in which the seat portion extends at an angle no more than 45 degrees from vertical.
US09615657B2	Corner joint for modular portable stand A corner joint for use in a modular portable stand that can be quickly and easily assembled and disassembled by one person without using any tools or hardware.
US09615654B2	Slimfold table A slimfold table has a plurality of legs, at least one table leaf, an inner cross brace, and an outer cross brace. The plurality of legs, the at least one table leaf, the inner cross brace, and the outer cross brace are movable from a deployed condition to a nested condition. The deployed condition has the plurality of legs all generally parallel each other and spaced apart by the inner and outer cross braces, with the at least one table leaf generally orthogonal the legs. The nested condition has the plurality of legs all generally parallel and adjacent to each other and to the inner and outer cross braces and to the at least one table leaf, with the legs and the at least one table leaf nested within the inner cross brace and the inner cross brace nested within the outer cross brace.
US09615649B2	Hydration dispensing device The invention is directed to an improved hydration dispensing device and method for preventing the freeze-up of the hydration line, to dispense potable fluids, such as water, from the hydration dispensing device, eliminating freezing by routing the line under the user's clothes with the line accessible section and extending beyond user's cuff, to be accessible at any time. The device and method comprise a remotely actuated valve mechanism adapted worn and remotely actuated, having a valve means for controlling the flow of potable fluid through the mechanism and a shell, defining an interior cavity, providing a valve seat projecting into the interior cavity, adapted to cooperatively seat the valve means, and operationally adapted to selectively open and close a hydration line when operated. The hydration line attaches to a hydration reservoir, or pack liquid-filled bladder, containing the potable fluid.
US09615648B1	Backpack A backpack is provided, which includes a bag, a first to third zippers, a first extended fabric, and a buckle set. The bag includes a first cloth, a second cloth, and a third cloth, which neighbor each other. Three openings are formed among the three cloths. The three zippers respectively seal the three openings. Two first fasteners are provided on the second and the third cloths, wherein a first segment of the third zipper is located between the two first fasteners. The buckle set includes two buckles, connected to the first cloth and the slider of the third zipper respectively. With the first extended fabric and the buckle set, the backpack is double anti-theft; on the other hand, after the two buckles are detached from each other, the bag is easy to be opened by pulling the first extended fabric.
US09615645B2	Adjustable roller and cosmetic device A roller assembly for a cosmetic device includes a cylindrical drum portion having an interior and an abrasive outer surface; first and second ends enclosing opposite ends of the cylindrical drum portion; and first and second posts extending from the interior of the cylindrical drum portion and being movable along a longitudinal axis of the roller assembly.
US09615643B2	Hair styling device A hair styling device is disclosed. In one aspect the hair styling device includes: a body defining a chamber adapted to accommodate a length of hair, the chamber having a primary opening through which the length of hair may enter the chamber; a rotatable element adapted to engage the length of hair adjacent to the primary opening; an elongate member around which, in use, the length of hair is wound by the rotatable element; a guide part adapted to guide the length of hair towards the primary opening, the rotatable element being rotatable relative to the guide part, the guide part being movable relative to the body. The movable guide part may also serve to press the length of hair towards the primary opening.
US09615631B2	Ratchet belt system and related accessories A ratchet belt system includes a belt having a notch strip extending along a portion of the length thereof. The notch strip is formed of a plurality of adjacent notches, each being configured to engage a ratcheting tab of an associated buckle. The belt is configured with a first belt layer, a second belt layer, and a monolithic insert disposed between the first and second layers. The belt with monolithic insert can be configured for use with a gun holster.
US09615625B1	Sole assembly for article of footwear A sole assembly for an article of footwear having a midsole defining a sidewall channel in the forefoot and a sidewall channel in the heel. The forefoot and heel channels terminate at the arch. The sole assembly includes a plate disposed below the midsole. The plate may include an arch portion, forefoot legs extending along the medial and lateral sides of the forefoot and heel legs extending along the medial and lateral sides of the heel. The medial forefoot leg may extend almost the full length of the forefoot. The lateral forefoot leg may extend about half-way through the forefoot. The lateral heel leg may extend almost the full length of the heel. The medial heel leg may extend about half-way through the heel. The sole assembly may include an outsole with slots in the heel and forefoot. The slots may terminate short of the peripheral edge.
US09615616B2	Surgical convertible bra A therapeutic bra and its method of use are presented. The therapeutic bra is intended for use by individuals recovering from shoulder surgery or otherwise having areas of discomfort in the shoulder region. A single strap is provided for interconnection above the cup of the bra that is associated with the non-sensitive, unaffected shoulder. The strap extends across the unaffected shoulder and then makes interconnection with any of various receiving sleeves along a top edge of the back portion of the bra. The receiving sleeve employed will typically be a function of the anatomy of the user and the associated cup size. The single bra strap may be connected around the neck of the user and to the top of each of the cups of the bra to be used as a halter, or the strap can be totally removed and not used at all.
US09615613B2	Sleep apnea prevention mask A sleep apnea prevention sleep-aid mask is described. The sleep-aid mask is configured to secure the lips of a user together in a natural state, in order to encourage the respiratory system of the user to employ the nasal passages rather than the mouth for respiration. A pad equipped with a perforated mesh or channel is positioned over the lips and mouth of the user, and secured in position on the user via an adhesive, which temporarily affixes the pad to the face of the user. The sleep-aid mask is preferably shaped and sized according to the specific size of the user's face, and is configured to limit the effective diameter of the mouth of the user, in order to cause continued use of respiration via the nasal passages.
US09615612B2	Filtering face-piece respirator with stiffening member integral with filtering structure A filtering face-piece respirator 10 having a mask body 12 formed of a filtering structure 16. The mask body 12 has at least one transversely extending stiffening member 50, formed by an s-shaped or tri-fold pleat permanently connected, such as by welding. The at least one stiffening member 50 increases the integrity of the mask body 12, when in the opened cup-shaped configuration, inhibiting collapse of the mask body, due to, for example, increased pressure drop across the mask body 12 due to dirty or moisture laden air.
US09615609B2	Nursing bra A nursing bra includes a front portion including a first cup and a second cup; a back portion, wherein the front and back portions are connected at the sides of the bra. The nursing bra further includes a first shoulder strap extending from the back portion to the first cup and a second shoulder strap extending from the back portion to the second cup, wherein the straps are permanently connected to the front portion through connection parts and the straps are releaseably connected to the cups through cup release elements. The front portion includes a first flexible tube and a second flexible tube each including filler in the form of a liquid or a semi-liquid, wherein the first tube extends along at least part of the underside edge of the first cup and the second tube extends along at least part of the underside edge of the second cup.
US09615604B2	Food waste dehydrator A food waste dehydrator that can efficiently collect food scraps and food waste and create an output that can be used as livestock feed, livestock feed supplement, or can be further processed into compost or soil amendment. In some embodiments, the food waste dehydrator is mobile and modular. In some embodiments, the food waste dehydrator includes a self-contained heating and energy source.
US09615592B2	Combination of a conveying device for slaughter animals and removing device, as well as a method for operating such combination The invention provides a combination of a conveying device for slaughter animals and a removing device (15). The conveying device comprises a guide (2) extending along a transport path, product carriers (3) for the slaughter animals, which are movable in a direction of movement along the guide, each product carrier comprising at least one groove inclined according to a direction of inclination for holding at least one held part of a slaughter animal therein. The at least one groove has an open upper end and a lower end. The removing device comprises a pusher element, which is movable to and fro between a passive position and an active position for pushing the at least one held part out of the at least one groove. The removing device comprises a further pusher element which is movable to and fro between a further passive position and a further active position. The pusher element is designed to push the at least one held part of a slaughter animal from the intermediate position, via the upper end of the at least one groove, out of said at least one groove in the active position or during its movement from the passive position to the active position.
US09615591B1	Meat stripper with articulating stripper plate assembly A meat stripper is disclosed for stripping meat from the bone of an animal part. The meat stripper includes a slide block and a first stripper plate assembly including an arm pivotally mounted to the slide block and having a first stripper plate at an opposite end. A second stripper plate assembly including an arm is pivotally mounted to the slide block and has a second stripper plate at an opposite end with the second stripper plate opposing the first stripper plate. The first and second stripper plates move away from each other to open the meat stripper when the arms are pivoted apart and move toward each other to surround the bone when the arms are pivoted together. A mechanism is disclosed for moving the stripper plates along the length of the bone to strip meat from the bone. A mechanism also is disclosed for articulating at least one of the stripper plates after meat has been stripped from the bone in such a way that meat lodged in or on the stripper is dislodged and falls to a collection location below. In one example, the pivot plate pivots to dislodge the meat and is magnetically biased to a stripping position.
US09615590B2	Method of fabricating a steak from subscapularis and product obtained by such method This disclosure relates to a system and method for preparing and offering to the marketplace a muscle cut from a carcass for use as a steak. In particular, the Subscapularis muscle may be utilized according to the instant invention as a high-end cut of meat. In an embodiment, a Subscapularis muscle will be processed into a steak via a prescribed series of cuts. The steak will, in some embodiments, be further processed by trimming fat and connective tissue as is taught herein.
US09615588B2	Dehiding tool A dehider includes an elongated handle having side-by-side circular disks, one of which is stationary and the other is rotary. A pinion gear is power-driven to rotate the rotary disk.
US09615584B2	Polymicrobial formulations for enhancing plant productivity Described herein are eco-friendly formulations and methods for providing such formulations to plants. The formulations include mixtures of microbial isolates. In particular, numerous bacterial and fungal strains were isolated from a variety of soil types, from rhizospheres and from root nodules of leguminous plants, in designed combinations, for providing plant growth and plant productivity enhancing formulations. These specifically designed polymicrobial formulations provide protection against plant pathogens, lower the need for nitrogen containing fertilizers, solubilize minerals, protect plants against pathogens, and make available to the plant valuable nutrients, such as phosphate, thus reducing and eliminating the need for using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.
US09615581B2	Stable needle-shaped crystals of natamycin The present invention describes natamycin comprising needle shaped crystals.
US09615575B2	Composition for elimination of troublesome varmints Composition for elimination of troublesome varmints comprises all the non-essential amino acids alanine, glycine, proline, serine, tyrosine, aspartic acid, asparagine, glutamic acid.
US09615568B2	Waterfowl decoy carrying and storage device An apparatus for carrying waterfowl decoys is provided having a hollow tubular member with an inner diameter. A line extends through the interior of the hollow tubular member. A first, smaller clip is affixed to one end of the line and a second, larger clip is affixed to the other end of the line. The first clip is sized so as to be able to be passed through the interior of the hollow tubular member, while the second clip is sized such that cannot be passed through the interior of the hollow tubular member. The hollow tubular is preferably flexible. The cables of the waterfowl decoys are drawn by the smaller clip into the interior of the hollow tubular member so as to allow for carrying of the waterfowl decoys.
US09615550B2	Genetically modified major histocompatibility complex mice The invention provides genetically modified non-human animals that express chimeric human/non-human MHC I polypeptide and/or human or humanized β2 microglobulin polypeptide, as well as embryos, cells, and tissues comprising the same. Also provided are constructs for making said genetically modified animals and methods of making the same. Methods of using the genetically modified animals to study various aspects of human immune system are provided.
US09615543B2	Self-adjusting magnetic link The present invention is a self-adjusting link for connecting two anchors that move under a varying external force, comprising: N magnetic units; N−1 link connectors, each link connector connecting one unit to an adjacent unit, each magnetic unit being held by the link connectors such that each pair of adjacent units can move from a closed position where they are magnetically bound to an open position where they do not exert significant force on each other; and anchor connectors attached to the anchors. The length of the link increases as the external force increases sufficiently to cause one or more pairs of magnetic units to move from the closed position into one of the open positions to permit the anchors to further separate, and the length of the link decreases as the external force is reduced and one or more pairs of magnetic units move into the closed position.
US09615541B2	Devices and systems for reducing spray from nipple water valves, and related methods According to an exemplary embodiment, an improved nipple water valve includes a nipple housing, a deflector, an annular seal, a nipple stem, a resilient element, and an orifice housing portion, assembled such that the deflector deflects water exiting the valve toward an internal surface of the nipple housing, thereby reducing spray. The deflector is also arranged to restrain movement of the nipple stem in a direction toward the deflector and to permit movement of the nipple stem away from the deflector to aid operation of the nipple water valve.
US09615540B1	Dispensing system for providing food and water to a pet in an automobile A dispensing system for dispensing water and/or food to a pet that is confined in an automobile. A backboard is attached to the rear of a vehicle's seat using suspension elements. At least one storage container is mounted to the backboard. A tray is positioned under the storage containers. The tray holds a bowl for each storage container. The tray is also attached to the backboard. The bowls receive the dispensed water and/or food dispensed from the storage containers. The bowls are specially formed to minimize spillage in an automobile. Each bowl is annular in shape. As such, each bowl has a central opening. When water or food fills a bowl, any overflow or spillage flows into the central opening. Under the bowls, the spillage is captured by receptacles in the underlying tray.
US09615537B2	Milking box with backplane responsive robotic attacher A milking box comprises a stall portion having a longitudinal axis. A backplane is positioned in the stall portion and moves toward the rear of the stall portion along the longitudinal axis in response to pressure applied, and toward the front of the stall portion in response to pressure removed. A robotic attacher extends from the rear of the stall portion and between the hind legs of a dairy livestock. A controller determines the position of the backplane relative to the rear of the stall portion and determines a positional offset that increases as the dairy livestock moves toward the front of the stall and decreases as it moves toward the rear of the stall. The controller further communicates a signal to move the robotic attacher along the longitudinal axis. The amount of movement is determined at least in part according to the positional offset.
US09615535B2	Spinach hybrid SV1778VC and parents thereof The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV1778VC and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV1778VC and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
US09615532B2	Peronospora resistance in Sinacia oleracea The present invention relates to a spinach plant which may comprise a single dominant gene which confers resistance to Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae races Pfs1, Pfs2, Pfs3, Pfs4, Pfs5, Pfs6, Pfs9, Pfs11, Pfs12, Pfs13 and UA4410, and to isolate E1314-283, wherein the gene is obtainable by introgression from a plant grown from seeds of which a representative sample was deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB accession numbers 41857, 41976, 41977, 41978, 41980, 41981, 41984, 42116. The invention further relates to progeny of the plant, to propagation material therefore, such as seed, and to food products which may comprise the spinach leaves.
US09615530B2	Cotton variety 14R938B2XF The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 14R938B2XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 14R938B2XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 14R938B2XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 14R938B2XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US09615525B2	Soybean variety 01051642 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051642. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051642. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051642 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051642 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09615520B1	Inbred corn line LLM06BM An inbred corn line, designated LLM06BM, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line LLM06BM, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line LLM06BM with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LLM06BM with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line LLM06BM, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line LLM06BM and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US09615511B2	Combine harvester and associated method for gathering grain A combine harvester is provided that separates grain material from material other than grain using multiple processing areas, including a harvesting area, a feederhouse area, a threshing area, a cleaning area, and a grain delivery area. In a location at or prior to entering one of the processing areas, the material may be collected and held until a collection threshold is reached. Once it is determined that the collection threshold is reached, the material forming a first group of material may be transported from the location to the processing area or a subsequent processing area. The first group of material is transported from the location to the processing area or the subsequent processing area substantially simultaneously and thus simulates the gathering of a large amount of crop material even when small plots are involved. In this way, reduced cycle times may be achieved, and the efficiency benefits of large-plot harvesting may be extended to small-plot applications.
US09615510B2	Reel mower having bidirectional turf groomer capable of left or right hand drive A turf groomer is coupled to a reel cutting unit in advance of the cutting reel and is powered by a gearbox having a rotary gear drive that provides alternately usable first and second drive paths capable of selectively rotating the turf groomer in opposite directions at different speeds. The rotary gear drive includes an axially slidable input gear on an input shaft. An actuator is coupled to the input gear to slide the input gear from one position in which the input gear is within the first drive path to select rotation of the turf groomer in a first direction at a first rotational speed. Alternatively, the actuator can slide the input gear into a second operational position in which the input gear is within the second drive path to select rotation of the turf groomer in an opposite direction at a different speed.
US09615502B1	Adjustable agricultural implement driveshaft assembly holder and implement fitted with same A holder unit facilitates secure, safe and adjustable connection between an agricultural implement and a draft vehicle such as a tractor. The holder unit mounts to the tongue of the implement and engages a portion of a drivetrain, allowing the drivetrain to rest on a saddle of the holder unit. The holder unit features three adjustability orientations, a fore-and-aft adjustability, a height adjustability and a saddle pivot adjustability. These adjustability orientations are easily combined by the user to achieve accurate alignment for PTO-to-drivetrain connection irrespective of variations between the draft vehicle and the implement drivetrain connector device respective orientations and terrain unevenness.
US09622395B2	Guide vane and jetting apparatus A guide vane has a devised guide configuration for changing a flow direction of molten solder. The guide vane comprises a half-cylindrical plate 11 having a prescribed inner surface shape and a prescribed height, being stood on a prescribed board and changing a flow direction of fluid; and a half-cylindrical plate 12 having a prescribed inner surface shape and a prescribed height, being stood on the board 13 on which the first member 11 is stood and changing the flow direction of the fluid as shown in FIG. 1. The half-cylindrical plate 11 and the half-cylindrical plate 12 are faced so that an inner surface of the half-cylindrical plate 11 is faced to an edge of the half-cylindrical plate 12 and an inner surface of the half-cylindrical plate 12 is faced to an edge of the half-cylindrical plate 11. This structure allows to jet the molten solder to a target place and uniformize a widthwise distribution of the jetting height of the molten solder.
US09622390B2	Apparatus for cooling inverter An apparatus for cooling inverter is disclosed, whereby an optimum heat radiation effect can be accomplished, because a flow part is divided in response to heat generation amount of an electric element arranged inside a housing to adjust an air flow.
US09622388B1	Multi-directional fans in an electronic chassis supporting extended range temperature operation Systems and methods for providing airflow in an electronic chassis supporting operation in an extended temperature range for components therein include providing airflow in a first configuration in high-temperature operation; and providing airflow in a second configuration, different from the first configuration, in low-temperature operation, wherein the airflow in the second configuration is directed to provide preheated air to one or more components in the electronic chassis which support operation in a limited temperature range, to enable operation of the one or more components in the extended temperature range.
US09622386B2	Graphics card cooler A bracket for cooling a peripheral component interconnect card is disclosed. The bracket includes a plurality of heat transfer surfaces, mounting systems for a blower fan, fan shroud and liquid cooling system for cooling the peripheral component interconnect card.
US09622381B2	Adsorption heat pump and method of driving the same An adsorption heat pump includes: an evaporator configured to generate coolant vapor; a first adsorber and a second adsorber each containing an adsorbent to adsorb the coolant vapor generated in the evaporator; a condenser configured to condense the coolant vapor generated in any of the first adsorber and the second adsorber; and a control unit. The control unit feeds the condenser with cooling water for condensation of the coolant vapor and feeds the condenser with warm water for evaporation of the coolant at predetermined timing.
US09622379B1	Drawer-level immersion-cooling with hinged, liquid-cooled heat sink Cooling apparatuses and methods of fabrication are provided which facilitate immersion-cooling of an electronic component(s). The cooling apparatus includes a drawer-level enclosure sized to reside within an electronics rack. The drawer-level enclosure includes a compartment which accommodates one or more electronic components to be cooled. A dielectric fluid is disposed within the compartment. The dielectric fluid includes a liquid dielectric which at least partially immerses the electronic component(s) within the compartment(s). A hinged, liquid-cooled heat sink is also disposed within the compartment of the enclosure. The heat sink operatively facilitates cooling the one or more electronic components via the dielectric fluid within the compartment, and is rotatable between an operational position overlying the electronic component(s), and a service position which allows access to the electronic component(s).
US09622362B2	Mount for co-locating an access point and an antenna Mount for an access point and an antenna includes a base for attachment to a mounting structure, the base for attaching thereto an access point; and a tray pivotably attached to the base, the tray for attaching thereto an antenna. The tray is disposed above the base and the tray is positionable at an angle relative to a reference plane.
US09622361B2	Enclosure and mount for motion capture element Enables coupling or retrofitting a golf club with active motion capture electronics that are battery powered, passive or active shot count components, for example a passive RFID, and/or a visual marker on the cap for use with visual motion capture cameras. Does not require modifying the golf club. Electronics package and battery can be easily removed and replaced, for example without any tools. May utilize a weight that is removed when inserting the electronic package in the mount, wherein the weight element may have the same weight as an electronics package, for no net change or minimal change in club weight. May be implemented with a shaft enclosure and expander that may be coupled with a screw aligned along an axis parallel to the axis of the shaft. May utilize non-permanently and/or friction coupling between the mount and shaft. Cap may include a visual marker and/or logo.
US09622357B2	Method for orienting discrete parts Systems and methods for positioning a component on a surface or substrate including the steps of applying a coating to a selected deposit area of the surface, each deposit area defining at least a portion of a perimeter of an alignment area, depositing an fluid on the coating, and depositing, dropping, or otherwise positioning the component above the alignment area are disclosed.
US09622343B2	Flexible display and method for preparing the same The present invention provides a flexible display and a method for preparing the same. The method comprises the steps of: providing a first substrate; forming a bonding agent layer on a first surface of the first substrate; providing a second substrate; attaching the surface of the first substrate, on which the bonding agent layer is formed, to the second substrate, wherein the adhesive force between the bonding agent layer and the second substrate is lower than 5 N/20 mm-wide bonding agent layer; forming a display device body on a second surface of the first substrate; and peeling off the first substrate, on which the display device body is formed, from the second substrate, and obtaining the flexible display.
US09622335B2	Magnetic field regenerator An example particle accelerator includes the following: a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to a cavity to accelerate particles from a plasma column, where the cavity has a magnetic field causing particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a regenerator to provide a magnetic field bump within the cavity to thereby change successive orbits of the particles accelerated from the plasma column so that, eventually, particles output to the extraction channel. The magnetic field is at least 6 Tesla and the magnetic field bump is at most 2 Tesla.
US09622334B2	Cyclotron and superconductive electromagnet A cyclotron includes a pole; a superconductive coil wound so as to cover an outer periphery of the pole; a coil support that supports the superconductive coil; a cooling part that cools the superconductive coil; a first support that is connected to the coil support and is capable of adjusting a position of the coil support in a direction of a winding central axis of the superconductive coil; and a second support that is connected to the coil support and is capable of adjusting the position of the coil support in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the direction of the winding central axis of the superconductive coil. The second support has a link mechanism that is displaceable in each of the direction of the winding central axis and the orthogonal direction.
US09622333B2	Linear accelerator system with stable interleaved and intermittent pulsing A linac-based X-ray system for cargo scanning and imaging applications uses linac design, RF power control, beam current control, and beam current pulse duration control to provide stable sequences of interleaved pulses having different energy levels, for example alternating 4 MeV and 6 MeV pulses or other energies where the difference in levels is at least approximately 1 MeV and less than approximately 5 MeV. The pulse repetition rate can be 100-400 pulses per second or more. In an embodiment, a cool down calculation is combined with automatic frequency control to provide stable energy and dose per pulse even upon restarting of pulsing after an “off” period of indeterminate duration.
US09622325B2	Two-level LED security light with motion sensor A two-level LED security light with a motion sensor. At night, the LED is turned on for a low level illumination. When the motion sensor detects any intrusion, the LED is switched from the low level illumination to a high level illumination for a short duration time. After the short duration time, the LED security light returns to the low level illumination for saving energy. The LED security light includes a power supply unit, a light sensing control unit, a motion sensing unit, a loading and power control unit, and a lighting-emitting unit. The lighting-emitting unit includes one or a plurality of LEDs which may be turned-on or turned-off according to the sensing results from the light sensing control unit. When the motion sensing unit detects an intrusion, the illumination of the LED security light can be immediately turned on to the high level to scare away the intruder.
US09622323B2	Luminaire associate A street lighting fixture and street lamp used in street lighting containing an accelerometer that is used to detect and characterize acceleration events on a street lighting fixture. The accelerometer readings may be combined with GPS technology to determine a relocation of the street lighting fixture.
US09622316B2	Light emitting diode replacement lamp Thermal management and control techniques for light emitting diode and other incandescent replacement light technologies using a current controller are disclosed.
US09622306B2	LED lighting circuit An LED lighting circuit includes a first node and a second node adapted to couple with an AC input power source; and an LED circuit loop having a plurality of LED light strings each having one or more LED light elements, the LED circuit loop defines a closed loop arranged between the first node and the second node and is connected to the first node and the second node respectively through a capacitive arrangement such that the LED light strings in the LED circuit loop is arranged to be driven with DC power while AC power provided by the AC input power source is transmitted between the first and second nodes.
US09622298B2	Microwave launchers providing enhanced field uniformity A microwave heating system configured to heat a plurality of articles is provided. The microwave heating system can include one or more microwave launchers that define at least one launch opening having a depth of not more than about 0.625λ, wherein λ is the predominant wavelength of the microwave energy passing through the launcher. Additionally, in some embodiments, the launch opening may have a width or depth that is less than the corresponding inlet dimension, such that the microwave launcher has a generally tapered profile. When the microwave launcher includes a single inlet and two or more launch openings, the center points of adjacent outlets may be laterally spaced from one another relative to the direction in which the articles are passed through the heating chamber.
US09622295B1	Scan induction heat treatment of an elongated workpiece Apparatus and method are provided for preventing deformation along the longitudinal axis of a workpiece passing through a scan inductor when the workpiece has at least one section with a cross section larger than the cross section of the remainder of the workpiece. An upper and lower pair of opposing jaws transition between opened and closed positions as the workpiece passes through the scan inductor so that deformation is minimized as the workpiece passes through the scan induction apparatus.
US09622294B1	Device for simulating thermal characteristics of a lithium-ion battery The present invention, as frequently practiced, represents a methodology for carrying out thermal management testing. Inventive practice provides desired temperature characteristics without incurring the safety risks associated with Lithium-ion batteries. An exemplary inventive device includes a spiral-wound electrical resistance heater, and simulates the heat generation profile within a Lithium-ion cell through the use of the resistance heater. The construction of the resistance heater is tailored not only to mimic the localized heating profile of the Lithium-ion cell of interest, but also to match thermal properties of the Lithium-ion cell (such as radial thermal conductivity, axial thermal conductivity, and heat capacity). An exemplary inventive device is constructed out of inert materials and hence is inherently safe to carry out thermal management testing, thereby obviating the need for expensive and time-consuming safety qualifications.
US09622291B2	Wireless communication method and apparatus supporting multiple communication services A wireless communication method and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a transmission module for transmitting a signal to a Circuit Switching (CS) network or a signal to a Packet Switching (PS) network; a first reception module and a second reception module for receiving a signal from the CS network or the PS network; and a communication control module for controlling the transmission module, the first reception module, and the second reception module, wherein, when a signal of the PS network is received through at least one of the first reception module and the second reception module, the communication control module at least temporarily receives a signal received from the CS network in preference to the signal received from the PS network through at least one of the first reception module and the second reception module.
US09622289B2	End-to-end delay adaptation with connected DRX in a cellular voice call End-to-end delay adaptation in conjunction with connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode communication during cellular voice calls. A Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call may be established between a first wireless user equipment (UE) device and a second UE. End-to-end delay between real-time transport protocol (RTP) layers of the first UE and the second UE for the VoLTE call may be estimated. The end-to-end delay may be compared with one or more thresholds A C-DRX cycle length for the VoLTE call may be modified based on comparing the end-to-end delay with the one or more thresholds.
US09622280B2	Method and device for pairing devices It is provided a method for pairing two devices, one of which is a first device the other is a second device, wherein the method is implemented at the first device, including: generating a pattern to be displayed on either of or both of the first and second devices; sending whole or a part of the tracing pattern to the second device for displaying the tracing pattern on the second device if any; displaying the corresponding pattern on the first device; receiving information indicating the result of tracing the pattern on the second device; and accepting pairing the two devices.
US09622274B2	Enhanced self-organizing network switching matrix Automated control of simulcast ratios based on network traffic data provides efficient network capacity management. In one aspect, a remote switching matrix can be utilized at a venue to couple remote transceiver units (RTUs) with different antenna ports, for example, of one or more multi-beam antennas deployed at the venue. A simulcast ratio that can be utilized to support traffic demand at the venue can be determined and implemented by creating dynamic connections between the RTUs and the antenna ports. In one aspect, the simulcast ratio can be modified based on changes in network traffic at the venue that are monitored via self-organizing network devices. In addition, one or more antenna beams of the multi-beam antennas are remotely steered or rotated based on a location of the traffic.
US09622260B2	Radio station and method of processing user data with radio station A radio station (1) includes a first part (1A) and a second part (1B). The second part (1B) can be arranged so as to be physically separated from the first part (1A) and is connected to the first part (1A) via a transmission line (40) so as to be able to communicate with the first part. Each of the first part (1A) and the second part (1B) includes a digital signal processing unit (11A, 11B) and is capable of alternatively performing digital signal processing for user data. An analog signal processing unit (13) arranged in the second part performs analog signal processing including at least one of frequency conversion and power amplification to provide an air interface to a mobile station.
US09622259B2	Satellite network service sharing Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing network access services to mobile users via multi-user network access terminals over a multi-beam satellite system. Quality-of-service (QoS) is controlled for the mobile devices at a per-user level according to user-specific traffic policies Mobile users may be provisioned on the satellite system according to a set of traffic policies based on their service level agreement (SLA). System resources of the satellite may be allocated to mobile users based on the demand of each mobile user and the set of traffic polices associated with each mobile user, regardless of which multi-user network access terminal is used to access the system. Dynamic multiplexing of traffic from fixed terminals and mobile users on the same satellite beam can take advantage of statistical multiplexing of large numbers of users and on different usage patterns between fixed terminals and mobile users.
US09622258B2	Method for generating a time table for sensors A method for generating a time table determines the data exchange times between a control unit and wireless sensors in a vehicle, which includes said control unit. The wireless sensors detect properties of components of the vehicle and/or surrounding parameters, and carrying out data exchange with the control unit by establishing a wireless connection with at least one wireless port provided in the control unit. The method can include calculating the data exchange periods and/or the data exchange durations between each sensor and the control unit; generating a time table having an adjustable table length according to the data exchange periods and/or data exchange durations; splitting the time table into subunits according to the data exchange periods and/or data exchange durations; and entering the times at which each sensor performs data exchange with the control unit into the table according to a predefined priority order.
US09622257B2	Prioritization of retransmission of protocol data units to assist radio link control retransmission The transmission and retransmission of radio link control (RLC) data protocol data units (PDUs) is managed by user equipment (UE). An indication is received, by the UE, that an RLC data PDU was not received by a receiving device. The RLC data PDU, that was not received, is retransmitted and prioritized over other RLC data PDUs. A number of times that the RLC data PDU was retransmitted is tracked by the UE.
US09622254B2	Method and apparatus for managing communication interfaces in a communication system A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, facilitating establishing a first interface between a processor and the system where the system performs a policy and charging rules function in a mobile communications network and where the first interface bypasses a packet data network gateway and a serving gateway, facilitating establishing a second interface between the processor and the system where the second interface utilizes the packet data network gateway and the serving gateway, providing a first message from the processor to the system via the first interface where the first message is associated with a quality of service authorization, and receiving a second message from the system via the first interface where the second message is associated with the quality of service authorization. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09622233B1	Dynamic use of orthogonal coding to manage control channel capacity Disclosed is a method and system for use of orthogonal coding to manage control channel load. Based on evaluation of downlink air interface load, a base station dynamically toggles use of orthogonal coding of downlink control information (DCI) messages for transmission on a downlink control channel. When downlink load is high, the base station may responsively operate in a state in which the base station orthogonally codes DCI messages to facilitate transmitting multiple DCI messages per set of resource elements on the downlink control channel, possibly boosting transmission power in those resource elements to help facilitate successful transmission. Whereas, when downlink load is not high, the base station may responsively operate in a state in which the base station does not orthogonally code DCI messages and thus sends just one DCI message per set of resource elements.
US09622229B2	Network relay signaling for downlink transparent relay In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals scheduling information for the retransmission to the transparent relay station via a control link; and the transparent relay station receives the scheduling information for the retransmission on the control link; and sends the retransmission to the mobile station in a retransmit subframe on a retransmit frequency band.
US09622225B2	Method and device for transmitting and receiving signal by terminal in wireless communication system to which carrier aggregation technique is applied The present application discloses a method of transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal over a network in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes: receiving a downlink signal from the network through a downlink cell and transmitting an uplink signal to the network through a first uplink cell; receiving a specific message for changing an uplink cell from the network; and changing an uplink cell to a second uplink cell according to the specific message and transmitting the uplink signal to the network through the second uplink cell, wherein when changing the uplink cell, the downlink cell is maintained.
US09622223B2	Requesting a communication resource in a wireless network A network device to send to a user equipment (UE) configuration information to configure a power controlled uplink control channel particular to the UE is disclosed. The UE may send a request to utilize a physical uplink shared channel capable of being shared by a plurality of UEs. The request may be received at a first power and other information is received at a second power.
US09622222B2	Mobile communication system, base station, and user terminal In a mobile communication system that employs a FDD scheme, a HeNB (100-1) and a UE (200-1) use a pair of a UL CC and a DL CC for radio communication. The HeNB (100-1) and the UE (200-1) change the UL CC of the pair of the UL CC and the DL CC to another CC while maintaining the DL CC during execution of the radio communication.
US09622213B2	Message notification method and electronic device A message notification method and an electronic device are provided. The message notification method includes: receiving a message by an electronic device; detecting whether a screen of the electronic device is in an unobservable state when the message is received, the unobservable state indicating that the screen of the electronic device is downward or covered; and controlling a message notification assembly configured at a non-screen side of the electronic device to generate a visual prompt if the screen of the electronic device is in the unobservable state. Thus, the user can be notified to read or answer the received messages even if the electronic device is in the silent mode and the screen is in the unobservable state.
US09622212B2	Paging method and device A paging method includes, when needing to page a user equipment (UE) according to service requirements, a mobile switching center (MSC) analyzing a user identification if finding that subscriber data are lost at present, judging whether the UE has a possibility of residing in a long term evolution (LTE) network, if yes, finding out one or more mobility management entities (MMEs) which are overlapped with the coverage area of the MSC itself, and sending a paging message for the UE to the MMEs. An MSC includes a first module, a second module, a third module and a fourth module. With the paging method and apparatus provided, the UE in the LTE can be successfully paged under the condition that a visitor location register (VLR) loses the subscriber data and a home location register (HLR) fails to return an MME identification.
US09622206B1	Registration with radio access network in response to registration with call server A method and apparatus in which (i) a user equipment device registers with a first radio access network (RAN) that provides connectivity with a transport network, (ii) once registered with the first RAN, the device then registers via the first RAN and transport network with a call server, and (iii) in response to the device registering with the call server, but before the device then engages in a call served by the call server, the device registers via the first RAN with a second RAN. The method may thereby help to expedite later handover of a call served by the call server from being via the first RAN to being via the second RAN. Further, by the second RAN registration being conducted in response to registration of the device with the call server, the method may help to ensure usefulness of the registration of the device with the second RAN.
US09622193B2	Method and system for reducing co-channel interference due to the deployment of femtocells in a macro-cellular network The present invention concerns a method and system for reducing co-channel interference due to the deployment of N femtocells in a macrocellular network. Said method comprises a step (1) of taking power measurements on signals sent over this network, a step (3) of optimizing the transmission powers of the femtocells according to these measurements, and a step (4) of allocating to each femtocell its transmission power. Said method is characterized in that: during step (1) of taking measurements, the power measurements are only made by the N femtocells and these measurements are ordered temporally by a central facility UC in the system, during the optimization step (3), the transmission powers of the femtocells are maximized under the constraint of maintaining a minimum quality of service of terminals that would be attached to the base stations in the macrocellular network.
US09622189B2	Techniques for fast delivery of radio information A transmitting wireless device provides channel access information to a receiving wireless device for the receiving wireless device to make a determination of when to transmit and what transmissions parameters to use for the transmission. The channel access information may be used differently by wireless devices operating in a basic service set and an overlapping basic service set. Channel access information may include fields indicative of transmission power used, signal to noise ratio headroom available, and so on. Channel access information may be generated and transmitted at the PHY layer of an implementation, thus providing a fast delivery to the receiving wireless device.
US09622188B2	Inter-cell power control in the presence of fractional frequency reuse System(s) and method(s) are provided for inter-cell power control in the presence of fractional frequency reuse in a wireless communication system. Transmission power control of a terminal, and ensuing inter-cell interference mitigation, is accomplished by receiving load indicators from non-serving sectors, decoding those load indicators corresponding to the non-serving sectors that operate in the same frequency bands as the terminal, and adjusting the transmission power according the states of the decoded load indicators in conjunction with the associated non-serving sectors' forward link signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio at the terminal. The states of the load indicators reflect magnitudes of interference metrics with respect to threshold values. Load indicators can also be conveyed by the non-serving sector to a base station serving the terminal through a backhaul communication, and said base station can schedule an adjusted transmission power for the terminal.
US09622187B2	Real-time specific absorption rate implementation in wireless devices Embodiments disclosed herein provide a method and apparatus for optimizing time-averaged transmitter power of a communications device. A time-averaged SAR is computed over a predefined time window using past transmitter power levels with minimum transmitter power equal to reserve transmitter power for any time interval. Based on the time-averaged SAR a maximum allowable transmitter power for a future fixed time interval is determined. The communication device then transmits at a power equal to or less than the maximum allowable transmitter power. The communication device may back off from high transmitter power to a reserve transmitter power when calculated time-averaged SAR approaches the SAR limit. When old high power transmissions expire, the communication device gains SAR margin and may then transmit at high power. The apparatus comprises: at least one antenna, a transmitter in communication with a power supply, a receiver, a timer in communication with a processor, and a memory.
US09622186B2	Uplink power control method, user equipment, and base station Provided is a method for mitigating inter-cell interference generated by the collision of UL transmissions and DL transmissions between adjacent cells in an asymmetric time division duplex (TDD) communication system. The present invention removes or reduces time-frequency resources for UL transmissions which collide with DL transmissions of an adjacent cell, and thus can mitigate inter-cell interference.
US09622178B2	Method for processing data associated with idle mode signaling reduction in a wireless communication system A method and a user equipment (UE) are described for controlling timers in a wireless communication system including a first type network communicating based on a number of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and a second type network which is different from the first type network. An update message is received that activates an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) function of the UE. If the ISR function is activated in the UE, a periodic tracking area updating (P-TAU) timer is started, which is used to periodically notify availability of the UE. If the P-TAU timer expires and a mobility management backoff (MM-BO) timer is running, a deactivate ISR timer corresponding to the first type of network is started. The MM-BO timer is configured to start when a MM-BO time value is received at the UE.
US09622177B2	Context aware system with multiple power consumption modes A context aware system, for use in a mobile device, includes a context change detector (CCD) coupled to a context classifier (CCL). The CCD is configured to receive sensor data and to detect a change in a current context state of the mobile device based on the received sensor data. The CCL is configured to transition from a low power consumption mode to a normal power consumption mode in response to the CCD detecting the change in the current context state. The CCL is further configured to determine a next context state of the mobile device while in the normal power consumption mode.
US09622176B2	Packet filtering for saving power at a user equipment The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for packet filtering to save power at a user equipment (UE). For example, the disclosure presents a method for receiving a packet filtering configuration message, at a modem processor (MP) of the UE, from an application processor (AP) in communication with the MP, wherein the packet filtering configuration message includes one or more packet filtering rules for filtering packets associated with one or more applications, configuring a packet filter at the MP based at least on the one or more packet filtering rules received in the packet filtering configuration message, and enabling the configured packet filter at the MP in response to receiving an indication from the AP that the AP entered a low power or sleep mode, wherein the enabled packet filter allows or drops a packet based on the packet filtering rules. As such, packet filtering to save power at UE may be achieved.
US09622175B2	Method for implementing discontinuous reception and base station The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication technology, and provides a method for implementing discontinuous reception and a base station. The method includes the steps of: receiving, by a first base station, a discontinuous reception DRX configuration recommendation reported by UE; and transmitting, by the first base station, the DRX configuration recommendation or DRX configuration parameters configured by the first base station for the UE in accordance with the DRX configuration recommendation to a second base station when the UE is switched from the first base station to the second base station.
US09622169B2	Power-save operation supporting apparatus, power-save operation supporting method, storage medium and base station [Technical problem] To provide a power-save operation supporting apparatus, a power-save operation supporting method, a storage medium and a base station which can reduce power consumption of a wireless access network with restraining emergence of an area whose service quality is degraded.[Solution to problem] The power-save operation supporting apparatus includes an estimation means to estimate degree of degradation of the service quality which is caused in the case that power-save control is carried out to any base station, and a selection means to select the base station as a candidate base station, to which the power-save control should be carried out, in the case that the degree of the degradation of the service quality is not higher than a predetermined reference.
US09622159B2	Plug-and-play interactive vehicle interior component architecture A system may include a wireless transceiver configured to scan for advertised services; and a processor programmed to receive a service identifier of a service from the wireless transceiver, verify a name included in the service identifier indicates that the service identifier is an in-vehicle component, and decode, from the service identifier, a relative location within the vehicle, a zone controlled by the in-vehicle component, and a category of functionality of the in-vehicle component. A method may include enumerating characteristics of a service of an in-vehicle component describing configurable functions of the in-vehicle component; retrieving a control state of the in-vehicle component using a read characteristic of the service; generating a user interface of the in-vehicle component indicating the configurable functions and the control state; and updating the control state of the in-vehicle component using a write characteristic of the service responsive to user input to the user interface.
US09622158B2	Measurement pattern for small cell searching Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for small cell searching. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include searching, in a first mode, for a first cell including a first base station based on a first event; changing, based on a second event, to a second mode having a search rate different than the first mode, wherein the second mode searches for the first cell including the first base station; and establishing a connection from a user equipment to the first base station serving the first cell. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09622155B2	Wireless network service transaction protocol A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
US09622154B2	Radio communication terminal, mobile ad hoc network, and network participation method A mobile ad hoc network including the communication terminals for cognitive radio communication may have a problem that it takes time for the terminal to newly participate in the network. A radio communication terminal already participating in a mobile ad hoc network includes a pulse pilot generating unit which converts a pulse signal having a predetermined pattern into a radio signal and outputs the obtained radio signal at an unused frequency, after participating in the mobile ad hoc network. A radio communication terminal to participate in a mobile ad hoc network includes a pulse pilot checking unit which checks whether any pulse signal having a predetermined pattern exists in a radio signal for each predetermined frequency and performs a participation process for the frequency of each radio signal including the pulse signal, the participation process including inquiring whether the radio communication terminal can participate in the mobile ad hoc network.
US09622140B2	Base station and handover control method A base station performs communication with a terminal by using a cell defined as a combination of a frequency and an area reachable by a signal transmitted from the base station. The base station specifies, for each of cells, a first area in which disconnection of communication with a terminal occurs more frequently as compared to another area. The base station controls handover that changes a current cell of a first terminal to another cell, based on information on the specified first area and the current cell of the first terminal, and a position, moving speed, and moving direction of the first terminal.
US09622136B2	Methods, computer program products and apparatuses enabling to improve handovers in mobile communication networks A memory includes a number of partitions, each assigned to a respective terminal, each including a first number of subpartitions of a first type, each assigned to a respective cell visited by the respective terminal. The memory includes second number of subpartitions of a second type, each assigned to a respective transition of a terminal between respective cells. Upon each transition of a respective terminal between respective cells, data is received pertaining to the respective terminal from a network entity(les) representing a respective cell. Responsive thereto, in each subpartition of the first type, statistical information is stored that pertains to the terminal in relation to that cell. In each subpartition of the second type, information is stored that pertains to the respective transition of the terminal. It Apparatuses as well as respective related methods, and computer program products are disclosed.
US09622135B1	Traffic redirection control in wireless networks Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for providing redirection control of communications over a wide area network for user devices over a wireless local area network are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a wireless network device is provided. The method includes receiving a connection request from a user device over the wireless local area network, and responsive to the connection request, identifying a traffic plan for the user device based at least on one or more policy factors associated with the user device. When the traffic plan indicates redirected access, then the method includes establishing a tunnel to a cellular communication network associated with the user device and routing the communications of the user device over the tunnel. When the traffic plan indicates local access, then the method includes routing the communications of the user device to the wide area network.
US09622124B2	Techniques for improved allocation of network resources using geolocation and handover management Techniques for improved allocation of network resources using geolocation and handover management are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for optimizing a mobile communications network. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a mobile communications network. The one or more processors may be configured identify a neighbors table comprising a handover priority list of target base stations prioritized based on relative signal strength or quality of service of the target base stations apparent to mobile devices in a footprint of a source base station. The one or more processors may also be configured to determine a non-obvious handover plan based on at least one of geolocation data of a mobile device, user information associated with the mobile device, and network resources data. The one or more processors may further be configured to update the handover priority list in the neighbors table based on the non-obvious handover plan to provide improved allocation of network resources and improved signal strength or quality of service to a plurality of mobile devices within the mobile communications network over a sustained period of time.
US09622113B2	Base station apparatus and radio access system A base station apparatus that divides a message into a data of a transmittable size to a terminal apparatus, and transmits the divided data to subordinate all the terminal apparatuses by broadcast, the base station apparatus including: a radio utilization rate calculation unit configured to calculate a radio utilization rate indicating a rate of a time for transmission of one of the message with respect to a transmission period of each the message in case of transmitting the message repetitively, based on a number of repetition times of each the divided data and a transmission period of each the divided data; and a transmission decision unit configured to determine a transmission schedule of the data based on the radio utilization rate.
US09622110B2	Method and device for ranging in a wireless communication system Provided are a method and device for ranging in a wireless communication system. A machine-to-machine (M2M) device receives an advanced air interface-system configuration descriptor (AAI-SCD) message including information on a dedicated ranging channel for the M2M device and an M2M parameter change count from a base station, and attempts ranging through the dedicated ranging channel to the base station. At this point, the M2M parameter change count orders information on the dedicated ranging channel in the AAI-SCD message to change.
US09622107B2	Handling data in a communications network A method and apparatus for handling data between a radio network and a service network, the data comprising Network Aware data. A gateway node in a mobile core network receives a message from the radio network. It then determines whether the message comprises Network Aware data. If it does, then the message is routed to a Packet Data Network Gateway node configured to handle Network Aware data. If it doesn't, then the message is routed to a Packet Data Network Gateway node for message handling. This ensures that non-Network Aware data is handled using regular message handling, and Network Aware data is handled by nodes configured to handle Network Aware data.
US09622106B2	Capacity increasing devices and methods for wireless communication The present patent application improves DARP by allowing multiple users on one time slot (MUROS). It comprises means and instructions for sharing signals on a single channel, comprising setting up a new connection, allocating a new time slot if there is an unused time slot on a channel frequency, selecting an used time slot for the new connection to share with an existing connection if there is not an unused time slot on the channel frequency, and selecting a different training sequence code for the new connection if the used time slot on the channel frequency has been selected for the new connection to share with an existing connection. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09622103B2	Communications network control method, computer product, and system A communications network control method by a computer includes obtaining measurement area information indicating a measurement area of a sensor included in a communications node, the computer obtaining the measurement area information for each communications node in a communications node group that is included in a communications network and that is among plural communications nodes arranged in an arrangement area; obtaining divided area information indicating plural divided areas obtained by dividing the arrangement area; deriving for each divided area among the plural divided areas, a first value corresponding to a count of communications nodes that are in the communications node group and at least partially include the divided area in the measurement area indicated by the obtained measurement area information; and providing control of changing among the plural communications nodes, communications nodes included in the communications network, according to the first value derived for each divided area.
US09622096B2	Method and device for subscribing to radio link failure report Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for subscribing to an RLF report. An integration reference point manager configures a subscription condition for an RLF report for an integration reference point agent. The integration reference point manager obtains an RLF report that is sent by the integration reference point agent and satisfies the subscription condition. The embodiments of the present invention can avoid the case in the prior art that a base station sends an RLF report obtained from a UE, to an IRPManager through an IRPAgent in a best-effort mode, thereby decreasing the load of information transferred between the IRPManager and the IRPAgent.
US09622090B2	Method for generating wireless virtual network and wireless network control device A method for generating a wireless virtual network and a wireless network control device are provided. In some feasible embodiments of the present invention, a wireless network control device responds to a wireless virtual network establishment/modification request of a wireless virtual network demander, and configures a base station according to the wireless virtual network establishment/modification request. The wireless network control device receives configuration completion response of the base station, confirms the success of wireless virtual network establishment/modification, and sends a parameter of the wireless virtual network to the wireless virtual network demander. Then, the wireless network control device receives a parameter confirmation message of the wireless virtual network demander, and the wireless virtual network takes effect.
US09622079B2	Secure distribution of electronic content A method of accessing electronic content received by a mobile device includes: determining a current location of the mobile device; comparing the current location with a zone within which an instance of electronic content may be accessed; when the result of the comparison indicates that the mobile device is located within the zone, accessing by the mobile device the instance of electronic content and providing at least part of the instance of electronic content for display on the mobile device; determining a new current location of the mobile device while the instance of electronic content is being accessed; and checking that the new current location of the mobile device is with the zone. If the mobile device is no longer within the zone, the mobile device terminates the access to the instance of electronic content.
US09622078B2	Mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual enterprise and data networks A mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks and/or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise. The invention may consist of a primarily of core network and services components based on the IMS network architecture, and is backward compatible to support legacy systems in place in current telecom and data networks.
US09622072B2	Communication method, method for forwarding data message during the communication process and communication node thereof The present invention provides a communication method, and a method for forwarding a data message during the communication process and a communication node. Wherein, the configuration mode for identity recognition is clarified, and under the architecture based on access identifier and location separation in the network, a specific method for implementing identity recognition is provided, and the processing performed by each network element is regulated; the requirement for the number of the coding spaces is met, meanwhile the present invention realizes the intercommunication and interconnection with the legacy IP network, realizes the compatibility with the upper application programs of IPv4/IPv6, and supports the various application programs of the IPv4/IPv6 network to transplant smoothly to the architecture based on access identifier and location separation in the network.
US09622068B2	System, method and computer program product for connecting roaming mobile devices to a virtual device platform Systems, methods and computer program products that enable efficient roaming of virtual mobile devices. In one embodiment, multiple PoP locations having a set of common master images are maintained. A communication from a mobile device received at a central facility identifies a user, a location and a type of the mobile device. The central facility determines performance measures for the PoP locations and identifies a preferred PoP location in response to the communication. If the preferred PoP location has available capacity, the central facility directs the preferred PoP location to provision resources and instantiate a virtual device from a selected master image corresponding to the mobile device. If the preferred PoP location persistently stores a user data volume for the user, the virtual device is attached to the stored user data volume. Otherwise, data is transferred from the user's data volume to a cache attached to the virtual device.
US09622067B1	Controlling device connection based on whether device provides wireless relay backhaul connectivity A method and system for managing connectivity when a signaling controller is going to be taken out of service. The method involves determining that a WCD served by the signaling controller provides wireless backhaul connectivity for a relay base station, and responsively taking action to proactively transition that WCD from being served by the signaling controller to being served by a different signaling controller without the WCD detaching and reattaching. This may enable the WCD to maintain its network connectivity, including its assigned network address, and may thus enable the relay base station to maintain its network connectivity as well, thereby helping to maintain connectivity for WCDs served by the relay base station and continuity of interfaces between the relay base station and other core network entities.
US09622045B2	Managing location profiles for personal area maps The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for managing location profiles for personal area maps. The method may include receiving, from a user, instructions to designate the device as a personal area map (PAM) controller. The method may also include determining a PAM profile associated with the user and identifying one or more objects associated with the PAM profile. Additionally, the method may include determining respective location information associated with the one or more objects. The method may also include generating, based at least in part on the respective location information, a PAM associated with the PAM profile.
US09622043B2	Past location-based communication with mobile devices For location-based communication with mobile devices, a condition is received, at a device associated with a caller, where the condition has to be satisfied by a callee at a past location, the past location being a place where different callees with different mobile devices are present at different times. At the device associated with the caller, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a mobile device of a potential callee in a set of potential callees, where each mobile device associated with each potential callee in set of potential callees was present at the past location at a past time, and where each potential callee in the set of potential callees satisfies the condition at the past location. Using a processor and a memory in the device associated with the caller, the telecommunication call is initiated to mobile devices associated with a subset of potential callees.
US09622042B2	Methods and apparatuses for mobile station centric determination of positioning assistance data Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in various devices to generate positioning assistance data and/or the like by mobile station with regard to at least one of a plurality of different indoor regions.
US09622039B2	Method for retrieving tourist information based on user location There is provided a technology for retrieving tourist information based on a user location which makes it easy for the user to retrieve accurate tourist information which she/she truly requires. A user's location on the map is measured and the plurality of reference areas are retrieved from memory storing a plurality of reference areas RA, RB, RC and RD allocated to a plurality of target objects A, B, C and D on the map which are correlated with a plurality of tourist information items, using the measured current location as a search key. A reference area including the measured current location is extracted from plurality of reference areas and tourist information, from plurality of tourist information items corresponds to the extracted reference area is provided to the user. Each reference area is defined by location, shape and size of area reflecting the attributes of corresponding target objects on the map.
US09622038B2	Global-positioning system (GPS) update interval based on sensor data In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting at a pre-determined polling frequency an activation signal waking from a sleep mode an application on a mobile computing device and causing the application to activate a location service of the mobile computing device for a pre-determined sampling duration. The pre-determined polling frequency and the pre-determined sampling duration are determined at least in part by detecting a movement of the mobile computing device. The method also includes receiving location data from the mobile computing device after the pre-determined sampling duration. The location data is responsive to a transmission signal.
US09622036B1	Method and system for estimating and use of device location based on radio frequency signature of coverage from a single base station A computing system includes or has access to data records that associate (i) radio frequency (RF) signatures of device coverage from a base station with (ii) locations of devices corresponding with the RF signatures. When a device whose location is at issue is then within coverage of that base station, the computing system receives an RF signature of the device's coverage from the base station, and the computing system (i) finds multiple data records whose RF signatures of coverage from the base station most closely match the received RF signature, (ii) based on the device locations in the multiple data records, determines a representative bearing from the base station and a representative distance from the base station, and (iii) estimates the device's location to have the determined representative bearing and determined representative distance. The estimated device's location may then be used as a basis to provide a location-based service.
US09622032B2	Method and system for monitoring a mobile station presence in a special area Method for monitoring the presence of a mobile station in at least one special area, wherein a radio communication defining device transmits one radio distinctive defining signal that define the special area by its coverage, the mobile station processes a signal received in order to determine whether or not it is defining signal and more precisely a distinctive one that defines the special area, the mobile station sends an updating signal to a mobile telephone network, the network routes the updating signal to special operating means that adapt the value of an operating parameter. According to the invention, the special area is associated to the mobile station by transmitting to the mobile station a checking data used by the mobile station for determining whether or not the defining signal received is distinctive defining signal.
US09622029B2	Methods and arrangements in location servers An identifier of a first location server is received together with information regarding which communication devices the first location server stores geographic location information for. A location request is received from an Operator Location Service (OLS) node for requesting the geographic location information of the communication device. The location request originates from an Over The Top (OTT) service providing node and comprises an identifier of the communication device. The first location server is determined by utilising the received identifier of the communication device and the received identifier of a first location server. The geographic location information of the communication device is obtained from the determined first location server by utilising the received identifier of the first location server. The retrieved geographic location information of the communication device is sent to the OLS node, which forwards the received geographic location information to the OTT service providing node.
US09622019B2	Systems and methods for generating a virtual network topology for M2M communications Methods and systems for generating a virtual network topology for machine-to-machine communications. A set of input information including network information and configuration information is obtained. One or more virtual serving gateways for the virtual network are located at one or more physical hosts, and each machine is associated with a respective virtual serving gateway, in accordance with the network information and the configuration information. A set of output information defining the virtual network topology is generated.
US09622018B2	Method and device for processing data transmission of machine-type communication device Disclosed are a method and device for processing data transmission by a machine-type communication device. The method comprises: determining, by the network side, the mode for the machine-type communication device to transmit a small amount of user data using a control plane; instructing, by the network side, the machine-type communication device to transmit the small amount of user data using the control plane according to the determined mode; and transmitting, by the machine-type communication device, the small amount of user data using the control plane, according to instructions from the network side. In the present application, on the one hand, the mode of transmitting user data by a control plane can be used in transmitting a small amount of data, so as to improve the system efficiency; and on the other hand, the possibility of causing or increasing the congestion in signalling transmission and/or processing can be avoided when making full use of the mode of transmitting user data by the control plane in transmitting the small amount of data, thus improving the performance of a long-term evolution system in supporting the machine-type communication device.
US09622017B2	Remote activation of mobile applications According to one configuration, a user is able to activate an application on a mobile phone device without the user having to directly pressing an appropriate sequence of keys on the mobile phone device. For example, a user logs onto a web site to provide a phone number of the mobile phone device. Additionally, via input to the web site, the user also requests activation of a particular application on the mobile phone device. An application server receives notification of the request and generates a text-message to the application on the mobile phone device to initiate activation of the application. In response to receiving the text-message, the application on the mobile phone device initiates retrieval of appropriate configuration information associated with the user from the application server.
US09622016B2	Invisiblemask: a tangible mechanism to enhance mobile device smartness An inter-app switching method on a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving at least one input associated with mobile app usage from a user and determining whether a pre-defined trigger is enabled based on the at least one received input. The method also includes performing routine user operations on the mobile device when the pre-defined trigger is disabled. Further, the method includes discovering a current user intent by utilizing at least one user interaction, recommending at least one mobile app recommendation and access point including at least an entrance to a function and a type of the function (FUNC) to the user, receiving a selection by the user from the at least one recommended FUNC, and directly switching from a current app page to another app page without returning to any home screen on the mobile device when the pre-defined trigger is enabled.
US09622015B2	System and method for controlling a printing apparatus A device system is configured to determine an access address for acquiring a control unit that controls the device according to property information of a mobile communication terminal, in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal connected to a network.
US09622009B2	System and method for adaptive audio signal generation, coding and rendering Embodiments are described for an adaptive audio system that processes audio data comprising a number of independent monophonic audio streams. One or more of the streams has associated with it metadata that specifies whether the stream is a channel-based or object-based stream. Channel-based streams have rendering information encoded by means of channel name; and the object-based streams have location information encoded through location expressions encoded in the associated metadata. A codec packages the independent audio streams into a single serial bitstream that contains all of the audio data. This configuration allows for the sound to be rendered according to an allocentric frame of reference, in which the rendering location of a sound is based on the characteristics of the playback environment (e.g., room size, shape, etc.) to correspond to the mixer's intent. The object position metadata contains the appropriate allocentric frame of reference information required to play the sound correctly using the available speaker positions in a room that is set up to play the adaptive audio content.
US09622006B2	Method and system for head-related transfer function generation by linear mixing of head-related transfer functions A method for performing linear mixing on coupled Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to determine an interpolated HRTF for any specified arrival direction in a range (e.g., a range spanning at least 60 degrees in a plane, or a full range of 360 degrees in a plane), where the coupled HRTFs have been predetermined to have properties such that linear mixing can be performed thereon (to generate interpolated HRTFs) without introducing significant comb filtering distortion. In some embodiments, the method includes steps of: in response to a signal indicative of a specified arrival direction, performing linear mixing on data indicative of coupled HRTFs of a coupled HRTF set to determine an HRTF for the specified arrival direction; and performing HRTF filtering on an audio input signal using the HRTF for the specified arrival direction.
US09622005B2	Plastic frame and sound transducer using the same A sound transducer is disclosed. The sound transducer includes a plastic frame having a cavity and a wall surrounding the cavity, the wall having an inside surface face toward the cavity and an outside surface opposite to the inside surface, a number of sinks disposed on the inside surface of the plastic frame in a row, a yoke located in the cavity and including a sidewall for contacting with the plastic frame, a gap formed by the sink cooperatively with the sidewall of the yoke, and bonding adhesive located in the gap for fixing the yoke in the frame firmly.
US09622001B2	Method of remotely fitting a hearing aid system, a remote hearing aid fitting system and a hearing aid A method of remote fitting a hearing aid system (102) adapted to avoid mal-functioning of the hearing aid system as a consequence of an interruption or failure of the remote connection during a remote fitting of the hearing aid system. A hearing aid fitting system adapted for such a method and a hearing aid adapted for such a method.
US09621991B2	Spatial audio apparatus An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least one audio signal from a further apparatus; an input configured to receive at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus; an orientation/location determiner configured to determine a relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; an audio processor configured to process the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus based on the relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; and a combiner configured to combine the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus having been processed and the at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus.
US09621987B2	Un-tethered wireless audio system A wireless speaker audio system configured to receive audio information wirelessly transmitted by an audio source including first and second wireless transceivers. The first wireless transceiver establishes a bidirectional secondary wireless link with the audio source for receiving and acknowledging receipt of the audio information. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate with each other via a primary wireless link. A wireless audio system including an audio source and first and second wireless transceivers. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate via a primary wireless link. The audio source communicates audio information to the first wireless transceiver via a secondary wireless link which is configured according to a standard wireless protocol. The first wireless transceiver is configured to acknowledge successful reception of audio information via the secondary wireless link.
US09621984B1	Methods to process direction data of an audio input device using azimuth values Devices, systems, and methods provide direction finding of an acoustic signal source with respect to a voice-controlled device. The direction can be found without using elevation data, instead determining the horizontal location based on power values of the received signal. A large number of candidate vectors having values for azimuth, elevation, and power may be generated by a steered response power algorithm. The large number of vectors is reduced to a small number of reference azimuths spanning an azimuth range by associating the vectors with the closest reference azimuth and then calculating an average and/or maximum power of the associated vectors at each reference azimuth. The reference azimuth with the highest average (or maximum) power may be set as the direction of the signal source. Alternatively, each reference azimuth having an average (or maximum) power exceeding a threshold may be considered a direction of one of multiple sources.
US09621979B2	Pressure equalization systems and methods An apparatus include an earpiece including a chamber. The chamber has a passageway. The apparatus includes a valve configured to relieve acoustic pressure in the chamber. The valve control assembly is configured to control the valve based on acoustic pressure in the chamber.
US09621975B2	Systems and apparatus having top port integrated back cavity micro electro-mechanical system microphones and methods of fabrication of the same A micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device is provided. The MEMS device includes: a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and a port disposed through the first substrate, wherein the port is configured to receive acoustic waves and wherein the first surface is exposed to an environment outside the MEMS device; and a diaphragm coupled to and facing the second surface and configured to deflect in response to pressure differential at the diaphragm in response to the received acoustic waves. The MEMS device also includes a second substrate coupled to and facing the diaphragm, and including circuitry, wherein the second substrate includes a recess region forming an integrated back cavity in the MEMS device. The MEMS device also includes an electrical connection electrically coupling the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to transmit an electrical signal indicative of the deflection of the diaphragm.
US09621974B2	Dual purpose pill reminder and tamper detector An audio signal analysis method is provided for detecting the opening and closing of a medicine bottle cap in a robust manner using a micro speaker and a microphone along with associated mixed signal electronics. It is also used for robust tamper detection and for monitoring liquid medication consumption accurately. In a preferred embodiment an un-modulated OFDM signal is used that covers the entire operating audio spectrum. In another embodiment, Complimentary code based phase encoding of the subcarrier phases is used to reduce the peak to average power of the OFDM signal, thereby enabling higher transmit power of the audio signal to mitigate against interference. A suitable wireless device can be co-located with the mixed signal electronics for sending the bottle usage, medication reminder alarm, and tamper status to the medication compliance monitoring system or to the user's cell phone. In some embodiments of the patent, electrical capacitance sensing is used to determine if the bottle is opened or closed.
US09621971B2	Data transport in a virtualized distributed antenna system A system for routing signals in a Distributed Antenna System includes a plurality of local Digital Access Units (DAUs) located at a Local location. Each of the plurality of local DAUs is coupled to each other and operable to route signals between the plurality of local DAUs. Each of the plurality of local DAUs includes one or more Base Transceiver Station (BTS) RF connections. Each of the plurality of BTS RF connections is operable to be coupled to one of one or more sectors of a BTS. The system also includes a plurality of remote DAUs located at a Remote location. The plurality of remote DAUs are coupled to each other and operable to transport signals between the plurality of remote DAUs.
US09621956B2	Systems and methods for providing a transport control interface A transport control interface may be provided by an interactive television program guide application to provide information, control or both for live and recorded video programming. The transport control interface may indicate to the user this time duration of a live or recorded program and any time segments of the program that have been recorded. The transport control interface may automatically adjust the start and end time shown to accommodate various factors such as continuous viewing on a particular channel, multiple recorded segments, buffer size, etc. Various information associated with the live or recorded video programming may be displayed in the transport control interface.
US09621955B2	Identifying media channels that have a high likelihood of multiple consumptions by one or more users A computer system determines user scores for each channel. The user scores for a respective channel are based on activity of the users accessing one or more media items of the respective channel. The system determines a channel score for the respective channel using the user scores that correspond to the respective channel The channel score indicates a likelihood of the respective channel to have repeated user visits. The system determines a set of the channels relevant to one or more users, and causes a subset of the set of channels to be selected for promotion to the one or more users based on channel scores for the set of channels.
US09621944B2	Mobile communication terminal and terminal operation method An object is to effectively use a surface of a display unit of a mobile communication terminal and to appropriately set a detection area according to display modes, thereby allowing a user to perform an operation easily and intuitively.A mobile communication terminal 110 of the present invention includes a display unit 214, a screen control unit 240 that displays a plurality of screens arranged on the display unit, a touch detection unit 218 that receives a user input to a surface of the display unit 214 and a detection area setting unit 242 that, when the plurality of screens are arranged on the display unit 214, sets, as a detection area of the touch detection unit 218 that receives an operation to each of the screens, an area corresponding to either one screen according to sizes of the screens.
US09621942B2	Display apparatus, paid broadcast processing apparatus, and control method thereof A display apparatus, a paid broadcast processing apparatus, and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a tuner configured to receive at least one broadcast signal through at least one broadcast channel; a signal processor configured to signal-process the received at least one broadcast signal; a display configured to display the signal-processed at least one broadcast signal; an interface connected with at least one paid broadcast processing apparatus which descrambles at least one paid broadcast signal; and a controller configured to control the signal processor to signal-process the received at least one broadcast signal into a form that is displayable through the display, and, when the received at least one broadcast signal is the at least one paid broadcast signal, transmit the at least one paid broadcast signal to the paid broadcast processing apparatus through the interface.
US09621938B2	Advertisement targeting scheme in a multicast ABR environment based on switched video A scheme for providing targeted advertisements in a multicast adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming environment. In one implementation, ads specific to a subscriber's demographic profile and relevant to the genre of a tuned MABR media channel may be downloaded in a gateway (GW) or into a network storage system. In another implementation, multicast ABR streams of ads may be triggered at specific points (e.g., insertion markers in a multicast ABR media channel) that can be selectively joined by a GW node based on demographics and channel genre. In yet another implementation, continuously streaming multicast ad channels may be switched at suitable points in a multicast ABR media channel based on targeting parameters.
US09621937B1	Ad selection in opt-in media experience based on multiple group membership and participation A system to delivery media over a network for rendering by client devices forms a definition of a group of people who have opted-in to experience a defined shared media experience, and augments the shared media as a result of a dynamic measurement of one or more characteristics of the group.
US09621936B2	Information providing device, information providing method, and computer program Log information includes items of information that identify one or more of program titles and performers that are selected by a user as being preferred. Identifiers are displayed, where each of the identifiers identifies an item of information included in the log information. An input to select one of the identifiers is received, and broadcast information for the program title or performer corresponding to the selected identifier is acquired. The broadcast information includes one or more broadcast times of contents that have the program title or that include the performer. The broadcast information is displayed to include the one or more broadcast times and an input is received to select a broadcast time of a content. Detailed information for the content and the broadcast time are displayed when the input to select the broadcast time of the content is received.
US09621927B2	Video advertising insertion using multiple processes A system for video advertising insertion is presented. In one example, the system includes a transport stream interface to receive multiple video program channels in at least one first video transport stream. The system also includes at least one hardware processor that executes a host process to initiate a plurality of instance processes to execute concurrently, wherein each of the instance processes is assigned a distinct subset of the channels. Each of the instance processes analyzes the at least one first video transport stream to determine advertisement insertion points of the distinct subset of the channels, and inserts at least some of the plurality of video advertisements into the distinct subset of the channels based on the advertisement insertion points and an advertising schedule. The transport stream interface is also to transmit the channels with the inserted video advertisements in at least one second video transport stream.
US09621926B1	Predictive transmitting of video stream data Techniques are described for providing a predictive data streaming service associated with a visual media file. For example, third type of frame data for a visual media file may be transmitted to a client device from a streaming service. In embodiments, a selection of the particular visual media file may be transmitted to the streaming service. A request may be made to an interface associated with the client device, via an application program interface call, for a first data stream of a first type of frame data and a second data stream of a second type of frame data for the particular visual media file. The request may be based at least in part on the selection of the particular visual media file and after receipt of the third type of frame data. The third type of frame data, the first data stream of the first type of frame data, and the second data stream of the second type of frame data may be interleaved based at least in part on instructions from the interface.
US09621922B2	Data transformation Data transforms suitable for transforming data, such as not necessarily limited to those suitable for transforming data from a spatial domain to a frequency domain, is contemplated. The data transforms may correspond with a discrete cosine transform (DCT), an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT), a discrete Fourier transform (DFT), an inverse DFT (IDFT), a modulated lapped transform (MLT), an inverse MLT, a modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT), an inverse MCLT, etc. where the corresponding basis functions are optimized depending on whether data being transformed is characterized as square and non-square.
US09621914B2	Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method for coding efficiency According to an embodiment, an encoding device includes a deriving unit and an encoding unit. The deriving unit is configured to derive a first reference value based on fixed point precision representing roughness of a weighting factor that is used for multiplying a reference image. The encoding unit is configured to encode a first difference value that is a difference value between the weighting factor and the first reference value and the fixed point precision. The weighting factor is included in a first range of predetermined bit precision having the first reference value at approximate center. The first difference value is in the predetermined range.
US09621905B2	Tiles and wavefront parallel processing This disclosure describes techniques that may enable a video coder to simultaneously implement multiple parallel processing mechanisms, including two or more of wavefront parallel processing (WPP), tiles, and entropy slices. This disclosure describes signaling techniques that are compatible both with coding standards that only allow one parallel processing mechanism to be implemented at a time, but that are also compatible with potential future coding standards that may allow for more than one parallel processing mechanism to be implemented simultaneously. This disclosure also describes restrictions that may enable WPP and tiles to be implemented simultaneously.
US09621903B2	Method and device for sharing a candidate list The present invention relates to a method and device for sharing a candidate list. A method of generating a merging candidate list for a predictive block may include: producing, on the basis of a coding block including a predictive block on which a parallel merging process is performed, at least one of a spatial merging candidate and a temporal merging candidate of the predictive block; and generating a single merging candidate list for the coding block on the basis of the produced merging candidate. Thus, it is possible to increase processing speeds for coding and decoding by performing inter-picture prediction in parallel on a plurality of predictive blocks.
US09621902B2	Multi-stream optimization Methods and systems are provided for transmitting multiple video streams to clients based on individual preferences of the clients and network conditions. A cost-function minimization problem is formulated based on various network parameters. The network parameters (e.g., round-trip time (RTT), available bandwidth, packet loss rate, etc.) may be inputs to this optimization problem, which attempts to find optimal resolutions, bitrates, etc., given the network parameters and the video content. Additionally, by incorporating quality prediction, the cost-function may be based on actual content of video sequences.
US09621896B2	Macroblock-level adaptive quantization in quality-aware video optimization A method of optimizing an encoded video stream comprising one or more video frames, each video frame comprising a plurality of macroblocks, each macroblock comprising a plurality of pixels. The method includes receiving an encoded macroblock, decoding the encoded macroblock, and extracting a first quantization parameter. The first quantization parameter corresponds to quantization settings originally used for compressing the encoded macroblock. The method also includes computing a second quantization parameter based at least in part on the first quantization parameter, re-encoding the decoded macroblock based on the second quantization parameter, and providing the re-encoded macroblock.
US09621881B2	Stereoscopic image display device and operating method thereof A display device may include a signal controller to use a received image signal to generate sectional image signals, to determine a sequence for displaying sectional images that respectively correspond to the sectional image signals, and to use the sectional image signals to generate an image data signal. The sectional images may include a top left image, a bottom left image, a top right image, and a bottom right image. The device may further include a display panel to display the sectional images according to data signals generated based on the image data signal and according to the sequence. The sectional images may be portions of a whole image that has a size substantially equal to a display area of the display panel.
US09621873B2	Apparatus including function to generate stereoscopic image, and method and storage medium for the same A single lens imaging apparatus which generates a stereoscopic image includes a single imaging lens section which is rotatable around an axis along a first direction orthogonal to an optical axis so that a relationship of a position of background with respect to a subject in an optical image is changed. A first driving section rotates the single imaging lens section around the axis. An obtaining section including a moveable imaging element obtains two image signals at different times corresponding to two optical images which respectively pass through the single imaging lens section at different times before and after a rotation thereof by the first driving section and in which the relationship of the position of the background with respect to the subject is different. A generating section generates image data of a stereoscopic image based on the two image signals respectively obtained before and after the rotation.
US09621859B2	Time-lapse photography method, its computer program product, and electronic device with image-capturing function thereof A time-lapse photography method includes several steps as follows. A determination is immediately made as to whether an image retaining condition is satisfied whenever an electronic device with an image-capturing function collects at least one data set. The data set includes a captured image. When the image retaining condition is satisfied, the captured image of the data set is stored; otherwise, the captured image of the data set is refused to be stored.
US09621857B2	Setting apparatus, method, and storage medium A setting apparatus, that sets a frequency for determining whether an object in a moving image is a predetermined object, determines whether an object in the moving image is the predetermined object, and when it determines that the object is the predetermined object, it sets the frequency for determining to be lower than before determining that the object is the predetermined object.
US09621852B2	Videoconferencing systems with recognition ability A videoconferencing system which encodes different streams of information. The information may include video, audio, speech recognized versions of the audio, and language translated versions of the audio. Text may be sent as part of the videoconference.
US09621839B2	Processing system, monitoring method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A processing system at least including a processing apparatus including a robot configured to perform, in accordance with operation commands, processes on a container that contains an object to be processed in a biochemistry, biotechnology, or life science field includes an image capturing apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The image capturing apparatus continuously captures a moving image of the processes. The monitoring apparatus includes a storage unit, a list display unit, and a playback unit. The storage unit stores the moving image captured by the image capturing apparatus. The list display unit displays at least one of a list of the processes and a list of operation information items of each indicating an operation the robot. The playback unit plays the moving image from a timing corresponding to a process specified from the list of processes or an operation information item specified from the list of operation information items.
US09621828B2	Imaging apparatus, control method for imaging apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixels for generating a focus detection image and a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a captured image, a color ratio detection unit detecting a color ratio based on a pixel value output from a pixel in a position surrounding a processing target pixel, a color conversion unit generating a first pixel value by applying color conversion with the color ratio to a pixel value output from a pixel that is located in the predetermined direction of the processing target pixel, and an adding unit generating a third pixel value by adding a second pixel value output from the processing target pixel with the first pixel value having the same color as the second pixel value.
US09621821B2	Method for shooting a performance using an unmanned aerial vehicle A method for shooting a performance making use of umanned aerial vehicles, such as drones for example, to provide the physical markers that are needed to give a physical actor indications on the positioning of virtual elements to be inserted later in the scene, and with which s/he needs to interact.
US09621817B2	Wide dynamic range using monochromatic sensor A system for digital imaging in a light deficient environment includes an emitter for providing illumination with electromagnetic pulses. The system includes an image sensor that creates image data from the electromagnetic pulses. The image sensor has a plurality of subsets of differing pixels, where each of the pixels comprises a transfer gate transistor. Each transfer gate transistor in one subset of pixels is electrically connected by a TX signal. The TX signal provides global operation of transfer gate transistor (TX) per subset of pixels. The system includes a memory comprising instructions for controlling the emitter so as to pulse for a plurality of exposures that correspond to the subsets of differing pixels and instructions that coordinate the electromagnetic pulses being emitted during a blanking portion of the image sensor frame period. The system includes a processor that combines a plurality of exposures to expand dynamic range.
US09621804B2	Display terminal, display control device, display control method, display method and image display system A display terminal, in which a supply of electric power from a battery can also be performed, includes an imaging unit that performs imaging to generate an image; a display unit that displays the image generated by the imaging unit; a detection unit that detects whether a direction of the imaging unit while imaging to generate the image to be generated by the imaging unit is being changed; and a power supply interruption unit that interrupts the supply of the electric power from the battery to the imaging unit when the detection unit detects that the direction of imaging to generate the image to be generated by the imaging unit is being changed.
US09621759B2	Systems and methods for providing timestamping management for electronic photographs Systems and methods are provided for revising the time associated with a digital photograph. A digital photograph and data representing an initial time the photograph was taken may not correspond with identified temporal information. In response, a revised time may be generated based on the temporal information and associated with the digital photograph.
US09621758B2	Imaging assembly for scanner A system for processing document to scan the documents to obtain optical image data representing the document is provided. The system (10) includes elements that reduce or eliminate the effects of debris that can create streaks in the scanned images. One element is a recess (174) in the lens (170) through which an imaging device (60) scans the document. Another element is a guide (80) having an opening (84) opposing the lens (70, 170) of the imaging device (60). The opening (84) reduces or eliminates light reflecting off the guide back to the imaging device so that the area around the document is scanned as black.
US09621748B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a display unit which displays a screen in which is performed an operation for controlling another apparatus; and a control unit which manages an error occurring in the other apparatus and controls displaying/non-displaying of error information which indicates an occurrence of the error, wherein the control unit controls the displaying/non-displaying of the error information based on a relationship between the error occurring and the screen displayed by the display unit.
US09621746B2	Information processing apparatus, information management apparatus, control methods thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus generates data by a data generation operation by a user, transmits the data to an information management apparatus, and set a prescribed time capable of a disclosure cancel operation by the user upon generating the data. The information processing apparatus, when the prescribed time has elapsed without the cancel operation by the user, transmits, to the information management apparatus, a notification which allows disclosure of the data to another information processing apparatus.
US09621743B2	Terminal device which performs communication with an image processing device after switching a working application in the terminal device A terminal device performs communication with a MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), and each of cloud servers. Terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process for image data with the MFP and the cloud servers via a cooperation application program. The terminal device switches a working application in the terminal device to another application, during the transmitting and receiving process via the cooperation application program. In this instance, the terminal device suspends the transmitting and receiving process. The terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process via the another application for a part of the image data for which the transmitting and receiving process is not executed.
US09621741B2	Techniques for context and performance adaptive processing in ultra low-power computer vision systems Techniques are disclosed to adaptively control an image sensor and image signal processor (ISP), collectively known as an image pipeline, such that a minimum amount of power is consumed by an electronic device while producing images that can be accurately analyzed by a computer vision application. The techniques disclosed herein can be implemented in various electronic devices capable of capturing and processing image data, such as, for example, smart phones, wearable computers, laptops, tablets, and other mobile computing or imaging systems. In an embodiment, the techniques disclosed herein are implemented in a system-on-chip device.
US09621737B2	Abuse detection for phone number lookups A system and method for rate-limiting phone number lookups. An account look-up application receives an address book of a first user, the address book including a phone number that belongs to a second user, creates a phone edge by associating the phone number in the address book with an account of the second user, receives a request including the phone number from the first user for obtaining the account associated with the phone number, determines an edge cost associated with the phone edge for the first user, determines whether to provide the phone edge to the first user based on the edge cost, and provides the phone edge to the first user responsive to a positive determination.
US09621729B2	Methods and systems for data transfer and campaign management An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data/voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.
US09621726B2	Computer-implemented system and method for detecting events for use in an automated call center environment A computer-implemented system and method for detecting events for use in an automated call center environment are provided. A plurality of messages is monitored by a call center. Those messages sharing one or more keywords representative of one or more potential events are identified. The one or more potential events are detected based on the shared keywords. At least one of the potential events is identified as an event based on the number of messages that share the keywords representative of that potential event. Metadata regarding the event is extracted from the messages sharing the keywords representative of the event. A message regarding the event that includes the extracted metadata is generated. The generated message from the call center is provided to at least one user related to the event.
US09621723B2	System and method for prompt modification based on caller hang Ups in IVRs In a method for use in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, an IVR is configured such that voice prompts provided to a caller vary systematically and caller hang-up activity is attributed to the particular version of a prompt played to the caller. Voice prompt modifications are chosen based on how long the caller willingly listens to the voice prompt. A relatively short time listening to a prompt before hang-up, indicates dissatisfaction with that prompt. The system compares caller hang-up rates for each of the phrases in a prompt and chooses the optimum solution, which is the variant of the prompt with the longest caller listening time. Optionally, the system compares hang up rates to a threshold and contingent on that comparison chooses an alternative version of the prompt.
US09621714B2	System and method for electronic notification in institutional communication Disclosed is a multi-mode communication notification system and method for improving communication between an inmate and a third party by enabling a third party to send a web-initiated contact request for a specific inmate and further allowing the inmate to check his/her contact requests or be automatically notified of contact requests. Additionally, the system electronically notifies the third party when the specific inmate has been notified of the contact request. Further, the system notifies the third party if they have missed a call from the specific inmate.
US09621711B2	Communication control device, communication apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium A communication control device for controlling communication performed over a communication line includes a voltage-value acquirer for acquiring a value of a line-to-line voltage of the communication line in an on-hook state, a first determiner for determining whether the voltage value is continuously equal to or lower than a threshold voltage for a first predetermined duration, a current-value acquirer for acquiring a value of a current flowing through the communication line in an off-hook state when the voltage value is continuously equal to or lower than the threshold voltage for the first predetermined duration, a second determiner for determining whether the current value is continuously equal to or smaller than a threshold current for a second predetermined duration, and a disconnection determiner for determining that the communication line is disconnected when the current value is continuously equal to or smaller than the threshold current for the second predetermined duration.
US09621703B2	Motion to connect to kiosk A user may associate a mobile device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a movement pattern for a target with a movement pattern of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the mobile device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone.
US09621699B2	Mobile digital communication/computing device having a context sensitive audio system A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with at least a first and second audio resources and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate various audio signals in a more context sensitive manner, while multi-media resources are being utilized. The instructions/circuitry cause the mobile client device to determine a first audio volume level at which the mobile client device is being utilized by a user for a first audio signal. Once the first audio volume level is determined, instructions/circuitry cause a second audio signal to be provided at a second audio volume level to the user. The second audio volume level being based at least in part on the first audio volume level initially.
US09621695B2	Portable electronic device A portable electronic device having a speaker module is provided. The speaker module includes: a speaker unit; a back chamber; an acoustic region coupled between the speaker unit and the back chamber; and a porous material at least partially filling a portion of the front chamber, the back chamber, or the channel, for improving and extending bass performance and relieving a acoustic effect caused by the acoustic region coupling the speaker unit and back chamber. Moreover, the portable electronic device is advantageously able to compensate a resonance degradation caused by the porous material.
US09621694B2	Mobile wireless communications device with shunt component and related methods A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing including at least one electrically conductive housing portion configured to function as an antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may also include a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing, and wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB and including at least one circuit element carried by the PCB. The mobile wireless communications device may also include at least one current shunt component coupled between the at least one electrically conductive housing portion and the at least one circuit element.
US09621693B2	Wireless communication device Provided is a wireless communication device that ensures reduced interference between a plurality of antennas without relatively separating the antennas. The wireless communication device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a planar conductor. The conductor is arranged adjacent to both of the first and second antennas on one side. A cutout portion is formed in the conductor. The cutout portion extends from an outer edge between positions adjacent to the first and second antennas.
US09621691B2	Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device.
US09621688B2	Custom error page enabled via networked computing service An approach is provided for queuing clients when a web page is temporarily unavailable. The approach includes providing a computer infrastructure operable to: maintain a queue of clients requesting the web page; receive an indication of an availability number from a host of the web page; and release one or more of the clients from the queue equal to the availability number indicated by the host, based on the receiving the indication of the availability number.
US09621644B2	Joining a distributed database A method may include a device joining a distributed database in a distributed physical access control system. The method may include storing first data in a first memory area of a memory. The first memory area may be designated to store data for a consensus-based distributed database (DB). The first data is to be added to the consensus-based distributed DB that is distributed among other devices in a network. The method may include copying the first data to a second memory area of the memory of the device and adding the device to the network, receiving data from the other devices in the network and adding the received data to the consensus-based distributed DB by storing the received data in the first memory area, and adding the first data to the consensus-based distributed DB by copying the first data from the second memory area to the first memory area.
US09621640B2	Vehicle cloud processing system and method for synthesizing components A cloud computing system includes a network interface for interfacing with a wide area network. At least one wireless transceiver engages in bidirectional communication with a plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices within a corresponding plurality of vehicles in at least one vehicle aggregation location. A network control device receives requests for at least one cloud computing service via the wide area network and facilitates the at least one cloud computing service via the bidirectional communication with the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.
US09621626B2	Dynamically updating website content or web service via text messaging A method is disclosed for dynamically updating the content of a website or a web service via a text message. A text service may receive, at a text phone number, the text message sent by a user from a text device. The text device may have a user phone number. In preferred embodiments, the text service may have a plurality of text phone numbers that may be called by a plurality of users. The text service may produce an action code based, at least in part, on the text message, the text phone number called by the user, the user phone number or some combination thereof. The text service may transmit the action code to one or more hosting servers to alter a website which may then be published. In another embodiment, the text service may transmit the action code to web server(s) that may alter a web service for the user.
US09621619B2	Enhanced notification for relevant communications Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for providing a severity of a notification for a communication. A computing device determines a topic and associated information of a current activity, operating on the computing device. The computing device receives a communication and determines the topic and associated information of the communication. The computing device determines a level of relevance between the topic and associated information of the received communication and the topic and associated information of the current activity. The computing device determines whether the level of relevance exceeds a predefined threshold, and in response to determining that the level of relevance exceeds the predefined threshold, the computing device provides a notification, wherein the severity of the notification for the communication is proportional to the level of relevance.
US09621615B2	System to communicate media A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.
US09621612B2	Methods and systems for distributed calculations of latency variation Methods and systems for calculating latency variations in a distributed manner, including the steps of: calculating, by first and second switches, first and second local latency variations, of first and second streaming sessions, at first and second output ports of the first and second switches, respectively. Receiving, by the third switch, the first and second local latency variations; wherein a first and second paths of the first and second streaming sessions, respectively, are passing through a third output port of the third switch after passing through the first and second output ports, respectively. And calculating, by the third switch, a third local latency variation of the first streaming session at the third output port, based on the first and second local latency variations.
US09621604B2	Statistical remultiplexing of ABR streams Statistical remultiplexing of adaptive bit rate streams may be provided. First a video quality associated with a first representation of a content stream being delivered to a first client on a shared network may be determined. The content stream may be available in a plurality of representations, each representation comprising a plurality of chunks of varying sizes and a manifest having an indication of a quality level and a bit rate for the representation. Next, network conditions may be analyzed to determine whether a bit rate of the content stream being delivered to the first client device should be adjusted to adjust the video quality. Based on the determined video quality and the network conditions, it may then be communicated to the first client device to request a second representation of the content stream.
US09621601B2	User collaboration for answer generation in question and answer system Mechanisms are provided, in association with a question and answer system, for generating answers to an input question. An input question is received and processed to generate at least one query. The at least one query is applied to the corpus to generate a set of candidate answers and corresponding selections of evidence portions of the corpus of information providing evidence in support of the at least one candidate answer being a correct answer for the input question. A graphical user interface (GUI) is output comprising a first GUI sub-section comprising the set of candidate answers, and a second GUI sub-section comprising the evidence portions of the corpus. User input modifying at least one of set of candidate answers or the evidence portions of the corpus of information is received via the GUI and an operation of the data processing system is adjusted based on the user input.
US09621593B2	Managing execution of programs by multiple computing systems Techniques are described for managing the execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as on virtual machine nodes executing on the computing systems. A program execution service may in some situations provide the multiple computing systems and manage the program execution on behalf of multiple customers or other users, including to select appropriate computing systems to execute one or more instances of a program for a user, such as based in part on configuration information specified by the user. The described techniques may further include managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes in some situations.
US09621588B2	Distributed traffic management system and techniques Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for implementing a distributed firewall. In an embodiment, many different computer assets police incoming messages based on local policy data. This local policy data is synchronized with global policy data. The global policy data is generated by one or more separate analyzers. Each analyzer has access to message logs, or information derived therefrom, for groups of computer assets, and is thus able to generate policies based on intelligence from an entire group as opposed to an isolated asset. Among other effects, some of the approaches, techniques, and mechanisms may be effective even in computing environments with limited supervision over the attack surface, and/or computing environments in which assets may need to make independent decisions with respect to how incoming messages should be handled, on account of latency and/or unreliability in connections to other system components.
US09621585B1	Applying functional classification to tune security policies and posture according to role and likely activity Computer security threats are increasing in customization and complexity of attacks, expanding the burden on security companies in addressing the wide-array of threats. Functional classification is used here to determine the likely role a client and its user play to personalize computer security according to client/user role. A security module analyzes the client to identify data or applications present on the client or activities performed using the client. Based on this analysis, the security module predicts the role of the client or a user of the client. The module further dynamically generates a security policy that is personalized to and optimized for the client or the user based on the role predicted and on computer security threats expected to affect the client or user based on the role. The module then applies the security policy generated to provide personalized security.
US09621578B2	System and method for detecting network activity of interest A network activity detection system is trained to detect network activities of interest such as threats by malicious computer data. The training involves distilling the characteristics of known network activities of interest (e.g., intrusion by computer viruses, exploits, worms, or the like) into a minimal set of meta-expressions. At run-time, the network activity detection system combines the minimal set of meta-expressions with efficient computer algorithms for evaluating meta-expressions to detect known network activities of interest, as well as their unknown variants, among an unknown set of network activity. The network activity detection system may produce appropriate responses upon the detection of network activities of interest.
US09621577B2	Mitigation of computer network attacks Various techniques for mitigating computer network attacks are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving indications of denial of service attacks from multiple target computing systems and determining one or more sources from which the denial of service attacks are deemed to originate in response to the received indications of denial of service attacks from the target computing systems. The method also includes negotiating with the network aggregation point for permission to divert network traffic originated from the one or more of the determined sources and destined to the target computing systems to the gateway.
US09621576B1	Detecting malicious websites There are disclosed techniques for use in detecting malicious websites. In at least one embodiment, there is disclosed a technique for generating a profile in connection with a website. The profile comprising at least one attribute associated with the website. The technique also comprises collecting information relating to the website during a visit to the website. The technique further comprises detecting a change in connection with the website. The detection of the change comprises identifying a variation between the generated profile and the collected information.
US09621569B1	Method and apparatus for detecting cyber attacks on an alternating current power grid A method and apparatus for detecting cyber attacks on remotely-operable elements of an alternating current distribution grid. Two state estimates of the distribution grid are prepared, one of which uses micro-synchrophasors. A difference between the two state estimates indicates a possible cyber attack.
US09621560B2	Confirming an identity of a user of a social network In cases where a user of a social network has lost access to one or more email addresses on file with the social network, the social network may confirm an identity of the user before issuing a new password. The social network may confirm the identity of the user by prompting the user to correctly identify pictures of members of the social network that are connected to the user, selecting or receiving a selection of a plurality of trustees (e.g., members of the social network who are connected to the user), prompting the trustees to confirm with the user that the user has lost the access, and receiving notification that at least a specified number of the trustees have confirmed with the user that the user has lost the access. After the social network confirms the identity, the social network may provide a new password to the user.
US09621559B2	Network apparatus for secure remote access and control A network appliance is designed and configured to communicate over a data network and to provide secure on-demand remote access and control of a computing system in the context of remote support.
US09621558B2	Granting collaboration permissions in a computerized system A computerized method for obtaining collaboration with an object of a computerized system, comprising receiving at an owner party that owns the object a request from a requesting party employing a requesting mechanism of the computerized system to collaborate the object with a recipient party, providing by the owner party a decision to the recipient party whether to grant the recipient party to collaborate with the object, and registering, in a data construct of the computerized system, data comprising a status indicative of the decision, thereby providing for the computerized system to determine whether to allow the recipient party to collaborate with the object, wherein the method is performed on an at least one computer of the computerized system configured to perform the method, and an apparatus for performing the same.
US09621546B2	Method of generating one-time password and apparatus for performing the same Disclosed is a technology related to a method of generating an OTP and an apparatus for performing the same. The method includes receiving user secret information that is input according to execution of a process of providing an OTP; authenticating the user secret information by generating a response value based on the received user secret information and a challenge value received from a user verification apparatus, and transmitting the response value to the user verification apparatus; and generating an OTP using at least one of the user secret information, the challenge value and the response value as the user secret information is authenticated, thereby effectively dealing with loss or appropriation of a user terminal and also improving the security of an OTP.
US09621543B2	Intercepting encrypted network traffic for internet usage monitoring Example methods disclosed herein include intercepting, with a meter executing on a computing device, a request sent by a client application to establish a secure communication session with a network server. Such disclosed example methods also include receiving, at the meter in response to forwarding the request to the network server, a first public key provided by the network server for encrypting a session key, and providing, from the meter to the client application, a second public key associated with the meter instead of the first public key provided by the network server in response to the request being intercepted. Such disclosed example methods further include using the first public key and a private key associated with the second public key to enable the meter to access an unencrypted version of the session key, and monitoring, with the meter, the network traffic using the unencrypted version of the session key.
US09621542B2	Identification for apparatuses It is inter alia disclosed to provide first identity data stored in an apparatus, the first identity data comprising an identifier and a first certificate, and to provide second identity data stored in the apparatus, the second identity data comprising an identifier and a second certificate, wherein the identifier of the first identity data is the same as the identifier of the second identity data.
US09621532B2	Information processing device and method for controlling information processing device A provider server (100) includes: a receiving section (21) for obtaining a redirection URL (2); an information registering section (11) for registering user information (3); an access authorizing section (12) for authorizing the consumer server (200) to make access to the user information; a sending section (22) for sending the redirection URL (2) to a smartphone (300); an authorization judging section (13) for judging whether or not the access is authorized; and a sending section (22) for sending the user information (3) to the consumer server (200).
US09621531B2	Authentication device and authentication program It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication technology that is more convenient. A device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: equipment information creating request receiving means for receiving an equipment information creating request issued by external equipment; date/time obtaining means for obtaining information for identifying a date/time; path display identifier identifying means for identifying a path display identifier that is associated with a request source identifier of a request source of the equipment information creating request received by the equipment information creating request receiving means; and output means for outputting, to the external equipment, in response to the equipment information creating request, at least the path display identifier identified by the path display identifier identifying means and the information for identifying a date/time.
US09621530B2	Trust heuristic model for reducing control load in IoT resource access networks The disclosure relates to a trust heuristic model for reducing a control load in an IoT resource access network. For example, an authenticating node may challenge a client node that requests access to a resource and grant the access if the client node correctly responds to the challenge or alternatively deny the access if the client node incorrectly responds to the challenge. Furthermore, based on the response to the challenge, the client node may be assigned a trust level, which may be dynamically updated based on successive challenge-and-response exchanges and/or interactions with other IoT network nodes. For example, to reduce the resource access control load, subsequent challenge-and-response intervals may be increased or eliminated if the client node correctly responds to successive challenges over time, while client nodes that incorrectly respond to successive challenges over time may be blocked from accessing the resource or banned from the IoT network.
US09621524B2	Cloud-based key management Cloud storage of sensitive data is improved by ensuring that all cloud-based data is encrypted at all times, not only when the data is at rest (i.e., stored), but also while data is being processed or communicated. Cryptographic keys can advantageously be managed via cloud based resources without exposing sensitive data. Instead, a key management system maintains cryptographic functions on administrative hosts and endpoints outside of cloud-based resources so that any vulnerabilities of the cloud-based resources will expose only encrypted data, and keys and sensitive data will never be exposed in unencrypted form. Thus sensitive data is protected end-to-end among hosts and endpoints using, e.g., platform independent cryptographic functions and libraries within a web browser or the like, and the cloud functions simply as a storing and forwarding medium for secure data.
US09621523B2	Secure communication secret sharing Embodiments are directed to sharing secure communication secrets with a network monitoring device (NMD). The NMD may passively monitor network packets communicated between client computers and server computers. If a secure communication session is established between a client computer and a server computer, a key provider may provide the NMD a session key that corresponds to the secure communication session. The NMD may buffer each network packet associated with the secure communication session until the NMD is provided a session key for the secure communication session. The NMD may use the session key to decrypt network packets communicated between the client computer and the server computer. The NMD may then proceed to analyze the secure communication session based on the contents of the decrypted network packets.
US09621520B2	Network service packet header security A network service packet (NSP) header security method includes receiving an NSP on a communication interface, analyzing, by a processor, the NSP in order to identify a plurality of service functions and an associated service function path for the plurality of service functions, identifying, by the processor, which security function or functions may be performed by each of the plurality of service functions on an NSP header to he generated for the NSP, requesting, by the processor, at least one key for securing at least part of the NSP header, receiving the at least one key on the communication interface, generating, by the processor, the NSP header for the NSP, securing, by the processor, the NSP header based on the at least one key, and sending, on the communication interface, the NSP with the NSP header to one of the plurality of service functions.
US09621515B2	Kernel-level security agent A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
US09621509B2	Systems and methods for achieving multiple tenancy using virtual media access control (VMAC) addresses Systems and methods for segmenting network traffic using virtual media access control (vMAC) addresses are disclosed. An intermediary device establishes a plurality of traffic domains to segment network traffic. The device generates a plurality of vMAC addresses to assign to the traffic domains. Each of the vMAC addresses includes an identifier of a traffic domain corresponding to the traffic domain to which the vMAC address is assigned. The device receives, from a second device, an ARP request to determine a MAC address to transmit data packets. The device selects, from the plurality of virtual MAC addresses, the virtual MAC address to use as the MAC address in a response based on an IP address identified via the ARP request. The device transmits, to the second device, a response to the request identifying, as the MAC address, the selected vMAC address of a traffic domain.
US09621506B2	Method and apparatus for accessing location based service A method for providing a social network service using location information is provided. The method includes receiving at least one content, when the content includes at least one location information, extracting the at least one location information from the content, and providing the social network service using the extracted at least one location information.
US09621505B1	Providing images with notifications Implementations generally relate to providing images with notifications. In some implementations, a method includes generating a notification to a target user in a social network system. The method also includes selecting one or more of the images associated with the notification based on one or more predefined selection criteria. The method also includes cropping one or more of the selected images based on one or more predefined cropping criteria. The method also includes causing the cropped images to be displayed with the notification.
US09621502B2	Enhanced buddy list interface A graphical user interface between a user of a computer service and the computer service includes a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user and an icon associated with one of the other listed users indicating that a communication has occurred between the user and the other user.
US09621485B2	Shared interface circuit The present invention provides a circuit including a multiplexer, a level-shifter circuit, a power-supply circuit, and a switch circuit. The multiplexer has a first input-terminal, a second input-terminal and a third input-terminal, wherein the first and second input-terminals are coupled to a first-interface pin and a second-interface transfer pin of a processor, and the third input-terminal is coupled to a second-interface receive pin or the first-interface pin of the processor. The level shifter circuit converts signals on the second input-terminal of the multiplexer and the signal receiving terminal of a shared-socket. The power-supply circuit couples a first power-source to the signal outputting terminal. The switch circuit couples the signal receiving terminal of the shared-socket to the third input-terminal of the multiplexer.
US09621477B2	System and method of offloading browser computations A method of operating a browser of a terminal apparatus is provided. The method of operating a browser of a terminal apparatus according to various exemplary embodiments includes: confirming a resource needed for a first computation for operating the browser in the terminal apparatus; requesting an external device perform the first computation when the resource does not exist or is insufficient; receiving from the external device data according to a result of the first computation; and displaying data on the browser using the received data.
US09621475B2	Internet-wide scheduling of transactions A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for the transaction to proceed at a given time, determining, based on the computing, a scheduled time for the transaction to proceed, and distributing the content according to a schedule related to the scheduled time.
US09621472B1	System and method for dynamically controlling sample rates and data flow in a networked measurement system by dynamic determination of statistical significance A system and methods for dynamically controlling sample rates and data flow in a distributed networked environment by dynamic determination of statistical significance or characteristics for an unlimited number of data collection scripts concurrently executed on concurrently rendering web pages operating an unlimited number of advertisements. Consumer and media behaviors are sampled on all the different components of the distributed environment to gather information, which is transmitted to a downstream statistical analytics system. The system and methods are configured to balance the communication data flow and load among servers and browsers in this distributed networked environment that are engaged in viewing of online content including online content with one or more advertisements.
US09621470B2	Service layer southbound interface and quality of service Existing resource reservation techniques are inefficient for M2M communications. In an example embodiment described herein, a system comprises a service layer server that resides on a service layer and a control plane node that resides on an access network, wherein the service layer server communicates with the control plane node via a control plane interface. The control plane interface can be used to configure quality of service (QoS) policies (rules) that are based on an object that is being addressed. In this context, for example, an object may be a memory location or value. For example, the service layer may configure one or more QoS rules for the access network based on the object by sending a QoS provisioning message that includes one or more parameters to the control plane node. The control plane node may determine the object that is identified in the one or more QoS rules, and the QoS rules may be distributed to one or more routers that may be used to access the object. The access network may apply the one or more QoS rules in accordance with the parameters.
US09621469B2	Apparatus and method for managing flow in server virtualization environment, and method for applying QOS An apparatus and method for managing a flow in a server virtualization environment, and a method of applying a QoS policy, the method including a flow processing unit configured to analyze a flow generated by a virtual machine (VM) to extract flow information, determine whether the flow is a new flow by comparing the extracted flow information with preset flow information, and apply a corresponding Quality of Service (QoS) policy to the flow, and a QoS management unit configured to, in a case in which the flow is a new flow, generate a QoS policy for the analyzed flow based on the extracted flow information and prestored virtual machine information, and transmit the generated QoS policy to the flow processing unit.
US09621467B1	Iterative frame synchronization for multiple-lane transmission One embodiment relates to a data transmission circuit with deterministic flow control that includes a plurality of FIFO buffers, a plurality of transmitter lanes, a transmitter MAC circuit, and a transmitter aligner circuit. The transmitter aligner circuit includes control circuitry that performs one or more iterations of a procedure to optimize a starting offset, where the starting offset provides an initial delay between the writing of the data bits to the plurality of FIFO buffers and the reading of the data bits from the plurality of FIFO buffers. Another embodiment relates to a method of reducing data path latency in a data transmission circuit with deterministic flow control. Other embodiments, aspects, and features of the invention are also disclosed.
US09621457B2	System and method for implementing mesh network communications using a mesh network protocol The following describes data structures, communication protocol formats and process flows for controlling and facilitating secure communications between the nodes of a mesh network, such as utility meters and gateway nodes comprising a utility network. The enabled processes include association, information exchange, route discovery and maintenance and the like for instituting and maintaining a secure mesh network.
US09621453B1	Path discovery in multipath networks Exemplary embodiments identify all viable paths in an ECMP/WCMP enabled network without running traceroute multiple times. Devices in a network may be configured to send a packet including a pre-determined option to an Software-Defined Network Controller (SDNC) upon receipt. If a destination of the packet is within the SDNC-controlled domain, SDNC identifies all viable ECMP/WCMP paths using routing information of the network. If the destination of the packet is outside the SDNC-controlled domain, SDNC identifies at least one egress switch of the SDNC-controlled domain. SDNC may identify internal paths connecting the source of the packet to the at least one egress switch. SDNC may also identify external paths connecting the at least one egress switch to the destination of the packet. SDNC may construct the viable ECMP/WCMP paths by connecting the internal paths to the external paths.
US09621444B2	Method and device for handling dropped data packets Disclosed herein is a first network node and a method in the first network node and a charging node and a method in the charging node for handling dropped data packets in a communications network, comprising: obtaining information indicating dropped data packets for a wireless device served by the first network node; detecting based on the obtained information that an amount associated with the dropped data packets reaches a first threshold or that a timer associated with the dropped data packets reaches a second threshold; and transmitting a message to a policy node, which message comprises at least one of information indicating the amount associated with the dropped data packets or information indicating that the amount has reached the first threshold or indicating that the timer has reached the second threshold.
US09621438B2	Network traffic management In an aspect, the present application is directed to managing traffic in a network. A capacity request is received, wherein the capacity request comprises a request for capacity on the network. The capacity request is evaluated to determine whether the capacity requested by the capacity request in view of a measure of currently in-use network capacity on the network would exceed a threshold level. If the threshold level would not be exceeded, the capacity request is fulfilled so that a corresponding network request can be granted for transmission over the network; and if the threshold level would be exceeded, retrieving and analyzing real-time capacity data to determine an available network capacity of the network to be compared to the capacity requested in the capacity request.
US09621436B2	Device cooperation service execution apparatus, device cooperation service execution method, and computer-readable recording medium An application information acquisition unit transmits a device list of unconnected devices, which are owned devices recorded in a local storage but not retrieved by a device retrieval unit, and connected devices, which are owned devices retrieved by the device retrieval unit, to an external server via an external network. A service list display unit displays a list of device cooperation services indicated in device cooperation service list information obtained by the application information acquisition unit from the external server and a list of devices determined to be owned devices by an owned device management unit on a display unit, whereby a user is prompted to select a device cooperation service.
US09621434B2	Display apparatus, remote control apparatus, and method for providing user interface using the same A display apparatus which is controllable by a remote control apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a communicator which communicates with the remote control apparatus, a storage which stores user interface (UI) screen information which is mapped to each application executable in the display apparatus, and a controller which, if a first application is executed based on a user command, controls a transmission of UI screen information corresponding to the first application from among the UI screen information stored in the storage to the remote control apparatus.
US09621429B2	System, method, and apparatus for incorporating a centralized self organizing network (SON) in a network In one example embodiment, a Self Organizing Network (SON) element is provided to communicate with at least one Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network and at least one transport communication network. The SON element is operative to obtain information that relates to updated Neighbor Lists from a plurality of enodeBs (eNBs) belonging to the at least one LTE wireless network, and to convey information that relates to the updated Neighbor Lists obtained, to at least one managing entity belonging to the transport communication network.
US09621426B1	Switching facility having a control panel with relegendable buttons A switching facility has a plurality of input ports for connection to signal sources in multiple categories, each category having multiple members, a plurality of output ports for connection to signal destinations in multiple categories, each category having multiple members, and a switch fabric configurable by a control system to connect any selected input port to any unique group of one or more output ports. A control panel interacts with the control system and has a plurality of actuatable elements and a display area associated with each actuatable element for displaying a legend associated with the actuatable element. The control system is functionally connected to the control panel and is operative to change the legend associated with an actuatable element.
US09621422B2	Device to device content upgrades In embodiments of device to device content upgrades, a computing device includes a peer sharing manager that shares content and upgrades to content with peer devices. The computing device downloads content and upgrades from sources on the Internet, and shares the content and upgrades with peer devices that lack an Internet connection. A lowest supported version of the content can be shared from the computing device to one of the peer devices. The lowest supported version of the content determines capabilities of the peer device and establishes a peer-to-peer communication link with the computing device. The peer device reports the capability information to the computing device and, if the computing device determines that the peer device is capable of supporting an upgraded version of the content, the computing device communicates the upgraded version of the content to the peer device.
US09621421B1	Systems and methods for prognostic network management A computer-implemented method for prognostic network management may include (1) monitoring a health indicator of a physical component of a device in a network, (2) using the health indicator to estimate a remaining useful life of the physical component, (3) detecting that the remaining useful life of the physical component has reached a predetermined threshold, and (4) reconfiguring the network in response to detecting that the remaining useful life of the physical component has reached the predetermined threshold so that failure of the physical component does not cause the network to become unavailable to any user of the network. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09621419B2	Determining when to switch to a standby intelligent adjunct network device An adjunct network device includes several ports, an uplink interface, and an adjunct forwarding engine coupled to the ports and the uplink interface. A first port is configured to receive a packet, which includes a destination address. The adjunct forwarding engine is configured to send the packet to the uplink interface if the destination address is not associated with any of the ports. The packet is sent to one of the ports if the destination address is associated with the one of the ports.
US09621416B2	Method for setting network information in communication device, communication system, and communication device A first communication device communicates with a second communication device based on first setting information stored in a first storage unit of the first communication device. The first communication device transmits the first setting information to the second communication device. The second communication device stores the first setting information received from the first communication device in a second storage unit. The first communication device receives, after first hardware of the first communication device is replaced, the first setting information stored in the second storage unit from the second communication device. The first communication device stores, after the replacement, the first setting information received from the second communication device in the first storage unit of the first communication device after the replacement.
US09621408B2	Gateway registry methods and systems A gateway device for managing a set of two or more local management devices at a location. A system for networks at a plurality of locations. A method of operating a gateway device in a control network. A method for storing information to operate a gateway device in a control network. A method for storing information to operate a replacement gateway device in a control network.
US09621402B2	Load balanced and prioritized data connections In embodiments of load balanced and prioritized data connections, a first connection is established to communicate first data from a first server to a second server over a public network, where the first data is communicated from a private network to a first device or subnet that is connected to the second server. A second connection is established to communicate second data from the first server to the second server over the public network, where the second data is communicated from the private network to a second device or subnet that is connected to the second server. The second server can distinguish the first data from the second data according to an authentication certificate field that identifies one of a first communication interface of the first connection or a second communication interface of the second connection.
US09621398B2	Separating and extracting modulated signals Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving an input signal, where the input signal includes a carrier signal modulated with a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal, and where the second modulation signal is a TM signal. Demodulating the first modulation signal from the input signal. Modulating an un-modulated carrier signal with the first modulation signal to generate a third signal, where the third signal includes the carrier signal modulated by the first modulation signal. And, removing the first modulation signal from the input signal by subtracting the third signal from the input signal to extract the TM signal from the input signal.
US09621396B2	Transmitter, receiver, and controlling methods thereof A transmitter and receiver of a broadcast signal and corresponding methods are provided. The transmitter includes: a preamble symbol inserter configured to insert a preamble symbol including a synchronization part and an information part into a frame; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the frame including the preamble symbol. The synchronization part includes a plurality of first sequences for measuring frequency offset of the preamble symbol, and the information part includes a plurality of second sequences for measuring a phase shift amount of the information part.
US09621393B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals comprises encoding DP (data pipe) data carrying at least one service, mapping the encoded DP data onto constellations, time interleaving the mapped DP data, building at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the at least one signal frame includes emergency alert information.
US09621390B2	Methods and systems for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple zone partitioning Aspects of the invention include methods and devices for inserting data and pilot symbols into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frames having a time domain and a frequency domain. A method involves inserting in at least one zone of a first type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency and inserting in at least one zone of a second type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency. In some implementations the zone of the first type comprises common pilot symbols that can be detected by all receivers receiving the OFDM frame. In some implementations the zone of the second type comprises dedicated pilot symbols that are only detectable by a receiver that is aware of pre-processing used to encode the dedicated pilot symbols.
US09621387B1	I/Q modulator and demodulator with wide instantaneous bandwidth and high local-oscillator-port-to-radio-frequency-port isolation An improved quadrature modulator/demodulator (IQMD) may use two-phase quadrature local oscillator (LO) signal generation for generating 0° and 90° LO signals, and an anti-phase combiner/divider (at 0° and 180°) on the RF (radio frequency) port. The IQMD may include mixers (which may be double-balanced passive mixers) that function as downconverters when a signal is incident at their radio frequency (RF) ports, and function as upconverters when signals are incident on their intermediate frequency (IF) ports. Accordingly, the IQMD may function as an I/Q modulator by connecting digital-to-analog converters (DAC) to the differential I and Q ports, and/or it may also function as an I/Q demodulator by connecting analog-to-digital converters (ADC) to the differential I and Q ports.
US09621385B2	Methods and apparatus to reduce signaling power System, methods and apparatus are described that reduce the power consumed by a multi-level encoded communications link. In one example, different logic states of a 4-level pulse amplitude modulation encoded transmission consume greater power than other logic states. The fraction of primary bits in a first logic state in multi-bit data symbols may determine whether the primary bits are inverted prior to transmission. The fraction of secondary bits in the first logic state in the multi-bit data symbols may determine whether the secondary bits are inverted prior to transmission. The primary bits may be swapped with the secondary bits is more secondary bits are in the first logic state than primary bits in the first logic state.
US09621378B2	Methods and routers for connectivity setup between provider edge routers A router receives, from a BGP peer, a BGP update message including NLRI (VPN-NLRI) specific to a virtual private network, as well as path information including an address of a next hop for the VPN-NLRI. The router determines that there is no route to the next hop, modifies the filtering information to permit propagation of NLRI including the address of the next hop, and sends the modified filtering information to BGP neighbors. Alternatively, a router determines that such a BGP update message is due to be sent to a BGP peer. The router determines that the filtering information does not allow propagation, to the peer, of NLRI including the address of the next-hop, modifies the filtering information so as to permit propagation, to the BGP peer, of NLRI including the address of the next hop, and sends the BGP update message to the peer.
US09621376B2	Dynamic location of a subordinate user Providing location information to a supervisory user includes providing a parental control, using a computer automatically to determine a location of a subordinate user, and storing location information indicative of the location of the subordinate user in a database. A request of the supervisory user to locate the subordinate user is received and a user interface informs the supervisory user of the location of the subordinate user based on the stored location information. At least one of the storing and/or the informing are based on the parental control.
US09621371B2	Wireless sensor device with wireless remote programming The disclosure relates generally to wireless sensor devices, and more particularly, to remote programming of wireless sensor devices. A wireless sensor device wirelessly may receive messages from a remotely located device to a wireless sensor device. The wireless sensor device may be programmed via the receive messages. In one example, a building controller may be programmed to wirelessly send one or more messages to a wireless sensor device in order to change the behavior of the wireless sensor device, even while the wireless sensor device and building controller are on-line and actively controlling a building control system. In some instances, a technician or installer may use a diagnostic or setup tool to send one or more messages to a wireless sensor device to change the behavior of the wireless sensor device. These are just some examples.
US09621366B2	Network node and method for controlling resources in a communication network A network node (10) controls resources (22) in a network. The node (10) includes processing units (12) and assigns, for each set of resources (22), to a unit (12) a master role consisting in reserving and releasing resources (22) and to two processing units (12), named controllers, the role of controlling resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a first mode when a master role is assigned to a processing unit (12m) and the unit (12m) is available to reserve and release resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a second mode when no master role is assigned or when a master role is assigned to a unit (12m) which is not available to reserve and release resources (22). In the second mode, a controller (12c) maintains a list (14) of resources (22) to be released and selects a resource (22) from the list (14) to reserve a resource (22).
US09621360B2	System and method for analyzing network power consumption A system and method for analyzing network power consumption is disclosed. The system and method for analyzing network power consumption includes the steps of specifying at least one service which will run on said network; defining a plurality of resources provisioned in the network, each having an associated power efficiency; associating a network path with the service; calculating a sum of the power efficiencies for the resources of the network path; and outputting the sum to a display device. The system and method for analyzing network power consumption is particularly useful for identifying power consumption efficiencies throughout a communication network.
US09621358B2	Method of conducting safety-critical communications An exemplary method of communicating with a safety device includes obtaining a key from the safety device that is useable for only a single communication session with the safety device. A plurality of messages are sent to the safety device during the single communication session. Each of the plurality of messages includes the obtained key, an identifier of the source of the message, an identifier of the safety device, a sequence number indicating how many of the plurality of messages preceded the message during the communication session, a command for the safety device, and at least one cyclic redundancy code (CRC) based on content of the message. A next one of the plurality of messages is sent only after confirming that the safety device has accepted a most recently sent one of the plurality of messages.
US09621353B2	Method for authenticating key information between terminals of a communication link With the help of a key management protocol, the transmitted key information is authenticated by at least one certificate signed by the terminals, and at least one fingerprint of the public keys or certificate, which were used for authenticating the key information, is added to the useful part of an SIP message. The identity information present in the header of an SIP message is additionally copied into a region of the header or the useful part, and a signature is produced by way of the fingerprint, the datum information presented in the header of an SIP message, the copied identity information, and optionally the certificate reference information, and is inserted into a further region of the header of the SIP message. The additional signature that is produced and inserted can remain uninfluenced during a transmission across several networks of different network operators.
US09621330B2	Split microwave backhaul transceiver architecture with coaxial interconnect A communication system includes a conversion module configured to convert a signal between a radio frequency baseband (RF-BB) and an intermediate frequency (IF). At least one RF front-end module converts the signal between the IF and a radio frequency (RF). The RF front-end module is configured as an RF phased array and includes a coaxial interconnect configured to connect the conversion module with the RF front-end module. The signal is transmitted between the conversion module and the RF-front end module via the coaxial interconnect. At least one RF front-end module includes an active front-end (AFE) configured to allow the signal to be transmitted via the coaxial interconnect while minimizing any deterioration of the signal.
US09621328B2	Communication control device, communication control method, program, terminal device, and communication control system Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by one or more terminal devices according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe, and a control section that signals the link direction configuration configured by the configuration section to each terminal device. The configuration section configures a first link direction configuration for a first terminal group, and configures a second link direction configuration for a second terminal group, and the control section signals the first link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the first terminal group on a first cycle, and signals the second link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the second terminal group on a second cycle that is shorter than the first cycle.
US09621326B2	Methods and devices for random access One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method for random access in a UE in an out-of sync status. The method comprises: sending to a base station a first message including a random access preamble according to a TDD configuration in a SIB; receiving from the base station a second message including a random access response using the random access preamble according to the TDD configuration in the SIB. Another embodiment of the present invention also relates to corresponding method for random access in a base station. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there are provided corresponding devices.
US09621320B2	Method and apparatus for selecting transport format A method and an apparatus for selecting a transport format are provided. The method includes: receiving a transport format parameter of a user equipment sent by a base station, where the transport format parameter of the user equipment includes a primary stream grant value and an association between the primary stream and the secondary stream; determining a maximum transport block length of the primary stream according to a preset value of the maximum transmit power of the user equipment and the association between the primary stream and the secondary stream; determining an actual transport block length of the primary stream according to a size relationship between a theoretical transport block length of the primary stream and the maximum transport block length; and determining a transport block length of the secondary stream.
US09621319B2	Method for feeding back channel state information in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for feeding back Channel State Information (CSI) using a common subband at a user equipment in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting first CSI to at least one base station at a first transmission time point according to a first CSI feedback configuration, and transmitting second CSI to the at least one base station at a second transmission time point according to a second CSI feedback configuration, wherein the second CSI is generated based on the common subband when the second transmission time point is within a prescribed SubFrame Threshold (SFT) from the first transmission time point.
US09621315B2	Method for allocating multi-UEs' sounding reference signal (SRS) uplink resources and eNB The present invention is to provide a method for allocating multi-UEs' Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) uplink resources, and an eNB for allocating multi-UEs' SRS uplink resources with the method. The method may automatically and dynamically allocate multi-UEs' SRS resource in both the time domain resource and the frequency domain resource in accordance with system capacity attribute value and configured SRS transmission period. When multi-UEs' SRS are positioned in the same time domain resource and same frequency domain resource, it is also possible to further divide the multi-UEs' SRS automatically by a method of configuring cyclic shift. According to the method of the present invention, the eNB may allocate SRS resources for multi-UEs more flexibly and effectively, which reduces disturbance to multi-UEs' SRS, improves the decoding performance of physical layer, and thus improves the stability of a system.
US09621307B2	Method for transmitting a plurality of uplink messages and mobile radio communication terminal device A method for transmitting a plurality of uplink messages may include transmitting a first uplink message to a sink device and monitoring a feedback channel for feedback information from the sink device during one or more default feedback reception periods associated with the first uplink message. The method may further include skipping monitoring of the feedback channel during the remaining default feedback reception periods associated with the first uplink message if a number of consecutive default feedback reception periods containing positive feedback information exceeds a threshold, updating the threshold based on a channel quality measure, transmitting a second uplink message, and monitoring or skipping monitoring of the feedback channel during default feedback reception periods associated with a second uplink message based on the updated threshold.
US09621303B2	Method and apparatus for valid encoding Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit including an encoding circuit and a valid circuit. The encoding circuit is configured to encode data to be transmitted as signals on a data bus to satisfy a requirement that limits a number of bit transitions between consecutive transmissions. The valid circuit is configured to selectively corrupt the signals not to satisfy the requirement that limits the number of bit transitions between the consecutive transmissions to indicate whether the signals to be transmitted on the data bus constitute valid data or invalid data.
US09621297B2	Optical communication system, method of bi-directional communication and method of operating a network element An optical communication system comprising an optical link comprising an optical fiber, a first network element coupled to a first end of the optical link and a second network element coupled to a second end of the optical link. The first network element is configured to generate a first optical signal for transmission to the second network element, the first optical signal having a first propagation mode corresponding to a first guided mode of the optical fiber. The second network element is configured to generate a second optical signal for transmission to the first network element, the second optical signal having a second propagation mode, different to the first propagation mode, corresponding to a second guided mode of the optical fiber.
US09621295B1	PON overlay on a legacy optical access network Methods, systems, and apparatus for overlaying a passive optical network on a legacy optical access network are disclosed. In one aspect a system includes a legacy optical access network in a copper loop plant. The legacy optical access network provides access to customer premises. The system also includes a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) that is overlaid on the legacy optical access network. A fiber is shared by the GPON and the legacy optical access network. The GPON can provide a plurality of channels on the shared fiber at wavelengths that are separate and independent of wavelengths of the legacy optical access network.
US09621294B2	Enhancement of inter-cell interference coordination with adaptive reduced-power almost blank subframes based on neighbor cell profile data An inter-cell interference coordination procedure in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is enhanced based on utilization of cell profile data associated with neighbor access points to improve HetNet spectrum efficiency, mobility performance, and/or overall network capacity. In one aspect, a macro access point can receive cell profile data associated with neighbor access points and modify a power level of reduced-power almost blank subframes (ABS) transmitted by the macro access point to manage macro cell capacity. Further, the macro access point can configure the ABS pattern and transmit the ABS pattern to the neighbor access points. Based on the ABS pattern, the neighbor access points can schedule transmissions to user equipment that are located at (or close to) their cell-edge to reduce inter-cell interference.
US09621291B2	Optical communication cross-connection devices and signal processing method thereof Provided is an optical communication cross-connection device for exchanging an OTN signal through optical communications, including: a plurality of OTN signal processing units (OTNsp units) for asynchronously conducting OTN signal processing; and a space switch connected between the plurality of OTNsp units, for conducting bidirectional signal exchange for the OTN signal, in which a first and a second OTNsp units that conduct signal transmission among the plurality of OTNsp units subject the OTN signal to skew processing on one side and deskew processing corresponding to the skew processing on another side between the first and second OTNsp units or between a communicating end-side one of the first and second OTNsp units and a communicating end-side OTNsp unit of an optical communication cross-connection device of a communication counterpart destination for the optical communication cross-connection device, and share a clock for the signal transmission therebetween.
US09621285B2	Power line communication modem, power line communication system and power line communication method A power line communication modem is provided including a transmitter configured to transmit a power line signal on at least one carrier of a plurality of carriers via a power line to a further power line communication modem; and a processor configured to allocate transmit powers to individual carriers of the plurality of carriers, wherein the sum of the transmit powers of individual carriers located in the first frequency range is below or equal to a first predetermined power maximum value for the first frequency range. A corresponding power line communication system and a power line communication method are provided as well.
US09621282B2	Acoustic information transfer Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for acoustically transferring information between systems. In a particular embodiment, a method provides identifying information for acoustic transfer and determining an amount of time corresponding to the information. The method further provides acoustically transmitting a signal at a first time and, upon the amount of time elapsing since the first time, acoustically transmitting the signal at a second time.
US09621280B2	Built-in redundancy scheme for communication system on chip In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system on chip device. The device has a redundancy block is configured to add at least redundancy bit as a function of one or more data bits associated with data for data error detection and correction data. In an example, the driver module is coupled to the signal processing blocking using a uni-directional multi-lane bus configured with N lanes, whereupon N is greater than M such that a difference between N and M represents a redundant lane or lanes. The device also has a mapping block configured to associate the M lanes to a plurality of selected laser devices for a silicon photonics device.
US09621269B2	Optically driven active radiator A multi-port radiator radiates electromagnetic signal in response to a beat frequency of a pair of optical signals. The radiator includes a multitude of optical paths each carrying an optical signal having first and second wavelengths. A multitude of frequency conversion elements convert the optical signals to electrical signals and deliver them to the radiator's multiple ports. The frequency of the electrical signals, and hence the frequency of the electromagnetic wave, is defined by the difference between the first and second wavelengths. The phases of the optical signals received by the frequency conversion elements are shifted with respect to one another. Optionally, the difference between the phases of the optical signals travelling through each pair of adjacent paths is 90°. The first and second wavelengths are generated by a pair of optical sources and are optionally modulated before being combined and delivered to the optical paths.
US09621265B2	Street lighting control, monitoring, and data transportation system and method A method and system for controlling and monitoring street lights using optical link signaling through free space which does not require an FCC license for operation. The optical link signaling is accomplished in the space between street lights by using LEDs for both area lighting and optical signaling. A Street lighting system luminaire comprises a structural member such as a pole, a lamp comprising one or more LEDs, and an optical receiver that receives optical signaling from one or more other luminaires in street lighting network. The modulator modulates the output of the lamp to launch data into the street lighting system for transport. The optical receiver and modulator enables strobing and flashing modes such as required to support emergency services.
US09621258B2	Bi-directional communication for control of unmanned systems Bi-directional personal communication systems and processes may be utilized to control unmanned systems. Such systems and processes may enable operator interface with unmanned systems as a replacement or a supplement to use of specialized hardware and rich, graphical interfaces. The bi-directional communication systems and methods also may be integrated as a subsystem within a ground control station. The system may include a personal communications device with a native interface for an operator to select command, control and/or communication (C3) messages to interact with the unmanned system, and a communication link operable to send the C3 messages selected by the operator to the unmanned system, wherein the unmanned system includes a receiver that receives the C3 messages over the communication link and an onboard computing device that processes and responds to the C3 messages received by the receiver.
US09621253B2	Single slot bi-directional message exchange in relay networks Technologies are generally provided for single-slot bi-directional message exchange that allows two nodes to transmit in the same time-slot at the same frequency. The transmissions may be relayed to the destination node within the same time-slot. An interfering signal generated by each node may appear time-offset in the same time slot as it was transmitted, superimposed on the message signal from the other terminal. Roundtrip and cross-trip delay estimates and channel estimates may be determined at each node. Transmitted signals may be recovered at the destination nodes based on the roundtrip and cross-trip delay estimates and channel estimates.
US09621250B2	Femto access point operable with different spatial characteristic antenna patterns It is described a femto access point for providing wireless access for a user equipment to a femto cell of a telecommunication network. The femto access point includes an antenna which is adapted to operate with different spatial characteristic antenna patterns, and a transceiver unit, which is coupled to the antenna and which is adapted to activate at least one of the different spatial characteristic antenna patterns. It is further described a method for providing wireless access for a user equipment to a femto cell of a telecommunication network via a femto access point. The method includes activating at least one spatial characteristic antenna pattern of an antenna of a femto access point, wherein the antenna is adapted to operate with different spatial characteristic antenna patterns.
US09621249B2	Techniques for variable channel bandwidth support Techniques for supporting variable channel bandwidths in a wireless communications network are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a communications management module, and the communications management module may be operable by the processor circuit to determine a channel bandwidth for communication over a channel of a wireless network, transmit a beamforming initiation message comprising a channel bandwidth parameter indicating the determined channel bandwidth, receive a beamforming initiation confirmation message confirming the channel bandwidth parameter, perform a beamforming training sequence to determine one or more beamforming parameters, and transmit one or more messages over the channel according to the determined channel bandwidth and the one or more beamforming parameters. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09621242B2	Downlink control signalling for indication of interfering layers A method of communicating a plurality of transmission layers from at least one cell which is under the control of at least one base station to a user equipment. The plurality of transmission layers includes a data layer and an interference layer which are spatially multiplexed. The data layer includes user data for the user equipment and the interference layer interferes with the data layer. The method includes determining interference layer information relating to the interference layer, transmitting the data layer, the interference layer and a control channel message to user equipment. The control channel message includes a first information field and a second information field.
US09621220B2	Radio device and distortion cancelling method A radio device includes: a processor that outputs a transmission signal containing a plurality of signals that are transmitted at different frequencies; an amplifier that amplifies the transmission signal output from the processor; and a transmitter/receiver that transmits by radio the transmission signal amplified by the amplifier and that receives by radio a signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the transmission signal. The processor generates a cancel signal based on the plurality of signals contained in the transmission signal, the cancel signal corresponding to an intermodulation distortion that occurs due to intermodulation among the plurality of signals, and the transmitter/receiver synthesizes the cancel signal generated by the processor with the transmission signal amplified by the amplifier.
US09621212B2	Apparatus for intelligently reducing a specific absorbtion rate, a protective case and a terminal The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for intelligently reducing a specific absorption rate, a protective case and a terminal. The apparatus includes an antenna assembly, a sensing assembly being configured to determine an approach to or a contact of the antenna assembly by a human body; the sensing assembly is also configured to control the antenna assembly for reduction of input power when detecting an approach to or a contact by a human body. By the above means, the apparatus is capable of lowering the input power automatically when the antenna is approached to the human body, therefore reducing the radiation to the human body and reducing the harm thereto.
US09621210B1	Communication device A communication device includes a main circuit board, a cable, and an active antenna device. The cable is configured to deliver both a DC (Direct Current) control signal and an RF (Radio Frequency) signal. The active antenna device includes a comparator, a transmission path, a reception path, and an antenna element. The comparator recovers the DC control signal. The antenna element selects the transmission path or the reception path according to the recovered DC control signal, so as to transmit or receive the RF signal.
US09621198B2	DMT symbol repetition in the presence of impulse noise With the current initialization procedures defined in the VDSL and ADSL standards, even though the xDSL system could operate in Showtime in an impulse noise environment where symbols are being corrupted, the transceivers would not be able to reach Showtime because initialization would fail due to initialization message failure. Through the use of an improved initialization procedure for communication systems, operation in environments with higher levels of impulse noise is possible.
US09621197B2	Bi-phased on-off keying (OOK) transmitter and communication method An on-off keying (OOK) transmitter and communication method are provided. The OOK transmitter may include a data encoder configured to encode input data into a transmission sequence, a pulse shaper configured to generate pulses based on the transmission sequence, a bi-phase controller configured to generate a control signal to control a random change in phase, between two phases, of a carrier based on the transmission sequence, a bi-phased switch configured to randomly change a phase of the carrier generated by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), based on the control signal, and a power amplifier (PA) configured to generate a transmission signal based on the generated pulses and the carrier with the randomly changed phase. The PA may be a bi-phasing PA, and the bi-phased switch may be included in the bi-phasing PA.
US09621193B1	Microcode data recovery strategies for use of iterative decode Various embodiments for data error recovery in a tape storage system, by a processor device, are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in a tape storage system using an iterative hardware decoder, dynamically initializing at least one microcode-initiated decode cycle on a buffered dataset, each iterative decode cycle providing an error feedback loop.
US09621184B2	ΔΣ D/A converter, signal processing circuit including the same, and electronic apparatus A ΔΣ D/A converter for converting a digital input data to an analog output signal, includes: a ΔΣ modulator configured to generate a first data by ΔΣ-modulating the digital input data; a digital filter configured to generate a second data by smoothing the first data; and a D/A converter configured to convert the second data to the analog output signal.
US09621180B1	Apparatus and method for fast conversion, compact, ultra low power, wide supply range auxiliary digital to analog converters A data converter includes a single-end capacitive digital to analog converter (DAC); a transconductance (GM) buffer having an output, a positive input coupled to the DAC and a negative input coupled to the output; a resistor and a capacitor load in parallel coupled to the output at one terminal and to ground at the other terminal. The developed architecture of comprising single end capacitive DAC and GM-based buffer provides fast conversion rate, low current consumption, small silicon area and wide supply range for general-purpose auxiliary DAC applications.
US09621176B2	Offset correction for sense amplifier The present invention is directed to data communication. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an offset correction technique for a SERDES system. A CTLE module for receiving input data signal is set to an isolation mode, and one or more sense amplifiers perform data sampling asynchronously during the isolation mode. During the isolation mode, CLTE(s) that are not directly connected to the sense amplifiers are shut. Data sampled during the isolation mode are used to determine an offset value that is later used in normal operation of the SERDES system. There are other embodiments as well.
US09621175B2	Sampling/quantization converters Provided are, among other things, systems, apparatuses, methods and techniques for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal. One such apparatus includes an input line for accepting an input signal that is continuous in time and continuously variable, multiple processing branches coupled to the input line, and an adder coupled to outputs of the processing branches, with each of the processing branches including a bandpass noise-shaping circuit, a sampling/quantization circuit coupled to an output of the bandpass noise-shaping circuit, a digital bandpass filter coupled to an output of the sampling/quantization circuit, and a line coupling an output of the sampling/quantization converter circuit back into the bandpass noise-shaping circuit. A center frequency of the digital bandpass filter in each processing branch corresponds to a stopband region in a quantization noise transfer function for the bandpass noise-shaping circuit in the same processing branch.
US09621173B1	Circuits and methods of implementing time-average-frequency direct period synthesizer on programmable logic chip and driving applications using the same Circuits of a TAF-DPS clock generator implemented on programmable logic chip comprise: 1) a base time unit generator created from configurable blocks, or on-chip PLL, or on-chip DLL, said base time unit generator produces a plurality of phase-evenly-spaced-signals; 2) a TAF-DPS frequency synthesizer created by configuring configurable blocks of said programmable logic chip, said TAF-DPS frequency synthesizer takes said plurality of phase-evenly-spaced-signals as its input. Methods of creating flexible clock signal to drive application comprise: 1) selecting one or more strategic areas in said programmable logic chip; 2) creating one or more TAF-DPS clock generator for each said area by using the configurable resource in said area; 3) creating control function to control the frequency and duty-cycle of the TAF-DPS clock generator output, said control function can be circuit created from configuring configurable blocks, said control function can also be achieved by software; 4) driving the circuits in application by the flexible clock generated from said TAF-DPS clock generator.
US09621166B1	Wide frequency/voltage-ratio buffer with adaptive power consumption Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus (e.g., a level shifter) for buffering an oscillating signal generated by an oscillator. One example apparatus generally includes an amplifier having a first amplification stage configured to amplify the oscillating signal generated by the oscillator and a second amplification stage configured to amplify an inverse of the oscillating signal generated by the oscillator; and a sensing circuit configured to adjust an operational bandwidth of the amplifier based on a frequency of the oscillating signal.
US09621160B2	Circuits for impedance adjustment having multiple termination devices with switchable resistances and methods of adjusting impedance Integrated circuit devices and methods of operating integrated circuit devices are useful in impedance adjustment. Integrated circuit devices include a signal driver circuit having an output node, a voltage node, and a first termination device and a second termination device connected in parallel between the voltage node and the output node. The first termination device and the second termination device each have a particular configuration of switchable resistances, and different strengths. Methods include connecting a node of the integrated circuit device to a first voltage node through a reference resistance, connecting the node to a second voltage node through a termination device, adjusting a resistance value of the termination device and comparing a resulting voltage level to a reference voltage. The reference voltage has a voltage level different than half-way between a voltage level of the first voltage node and a voltage level of the second voltage node.
US09621159B2	Reconfigurable semiconductor integrated circuit and electronic device According to an embodiment, a reconfigurable semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second blocks. The first block includes first memories; and second memories; a selector selecting one first memory and one second memory; a first logic circuit whose logic is determined according to data read from the selected first memory; and a first switch circuit that is connected to first wires and switches connection between the first wires according to data read from the selected second memory, a part of the first wires being connected to the first logic circuit. The second block includes third and fourth memories; a second logic circuit whose logic is determined according to data read from the third memory; and a second switch circuit that is connected to second wires and switches connection between the second wires according to data read from the fourth memory, a part of the second wires being connected to the second logic circuit.
US09621157B2	Sampling circuit and sampling method A sampling circuit for sampling an input voltage and generating an output voltage, comprising six switches, a capacitor and a voltage buffer. The first switch has a control terminal and makes the output voltage equal to the input voltage when switching on. The second switch is coupled to a first terminal of the capacitor and a first level. The third switch is coupled to a second terminal of the capacitor and a second level. The fourth switch is coupled to the first terminal of the capacitor and the control terminal. The fifth switch is coupled to the control terminal and the second level. The voltage buffer has large input impedance, and has an input receiving the input voltage, an output providing a voltage equal or close to the input voltage. The sixth switch is coupled to the second terminal of the capacitor and the output of the voltage buffer.
US09621151B2	Semiconductor device and electric power control apparatus A driver IC includes a ring-shaped termination area, and a first area and a second area that are respectively arranged outside and inside the termination area on a layout. A sense MOS that is arranged between floating terminal and a first sense node and is driven at a power supply voltage is formed in the termination area. A fault detection circuit that detects presence of a fault when a voltage of the first sense node is higher than a decision voltage that has been deteLutined in advance in a period of time that a low side driver is driving a low side transistor into an ON state is formed in the first area.
US09621148B2	High speed switching Switching circuits are implemented in a manner that facilitates fast switching, which can be effected while also maintaining relatively low power dissipation. As may be implemented in connection with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a transistor connected between an input port and an output port, and a gate that switches between on and off states. A charge storage circuit stores a charge, and a switching circuit operates by switching the transistor between the on and off states as follows. In a first charging mode, a voltage is coupled across the charge storage circuit and a charge is stored therein, while decoupling the transistor from the charge storage circuit. In a second discharge mode, the transistor is switched from the off state to the on state, while coupling the stored charge across the gate and one of the source and drain of the transistor.
US09621146B2	Digital current equalization method and power supply module A digital current equalization method includes: acquiring a current value from a counter preset value loading module in each synchronization period; generating a continuous variable frequency pulse according to the current value, and receiving a synchronization signal transmitted by a phase inverter connected to the PFM generator; transmitting, according to the synchronization signal, the continuous variable frequency pulse to the digital current equalization bus through an OC gate of a triode connected to the PFM generator; counting a frequency of the continuous variable frequency pulse on the digital current equalization bus, where an acquired frequency count value is used to represent a current magnitude of a power supply module, which currently outputs a greatest current, of the foregoing power supply module and a power supply module connected in parallel with the foregoing power supply module to accordingly adjust the output current of the foregoing power supply module.
US09621141B1	Micro-pipeline frequency-comparison circuit In an integrated circuit, a resettable data latch and a second resettable data latch at ends of a pipeline in a frequency-comparison circuit receive input clocks. This pipeline operates asynchronously and includes at least a pair of flow-control elements separated by a NAND-gate detector circuit. Moreover, the resettable data latch and the second resettable data latch selectively generate tokens and spaces based on rising or falling edges of the input clocks. Then, the frequency-comparison circuit moves the tokens and the spaces in the pipeline between the ends based on a difference in fundamental frequencies of the input clocks. Furthermore, arbiter circuits in the frequency-comparison circuit provide output signals based on changes in numbers of tokens proximate to the ends, to indicate how at least one of the input clocks should be adjusted so that the fundamental frequencies converge on a common value.
US09621140B1	Electronic circuit for driving an output current signal and method of driving the output current signal from the electronic circuit to achieve an altered transition of the output current signal An electronic circuit has a current generator circuit that generates a two-state output current signal for which a transition between states is altered.
US09621135B1	Voltage level shifter A voltage level shifter including a voltage converting unit to convert an input voltage into a current; a voltage level shifting unit to drive a driving voltage based on the current and shift a voltage level of the driving voltage when a modulation voltage is applied at a first voltage level to a floating ground; a circuit driving voltage supply unit to supply a circuit driving voltage and further to generate a shifted voltage level of the circuit driving voltage when the modulation voltage is applied at the first voltage level; and an output unit to supply an output voltage based on the circuit driving voltage and the driving voltage, and further supply the output voltage at a second voltage level based on the shifted voltage level of the driving voltage and the circuit driving voltage when the modulation voltage is applied at the first voltage level is disclosed.
US09621134B2	Voltage level shifter A level shifter in a primary voltage domain has a control module receiving an input signal from a secondary voltage domain for controlling operation of the level shifter. The control module includes a complementary pair of transistors and a first native transistor connected in a series current conduction path in the primary voltage domain. The complementary pair of transistors have gates connected to receive the input signal and the first native transistor has a gate connected to limit to a leakage current the current in the series current conduction path.
US09621131B2	Systems and methods for an adjustable filter engine Systems and methods are provided for an adjustable filter engine. In particular, an electronic system is provided that can include a focus module, memory, and control circuitry. In some embodiments, the focus module can include an adjustable filter engine and a motor. By using the adjustable filter engine to generate a filter with a large number of filter coefficients, the control circuitry can accommodate a variety of system characteristics. For example, by generating a set of cumulative coefficients and re-arranging the order of the cumulative coefficients, the control circuitry can reduce the bit-width requirements of the adjustable filter engine hardware. For instance, the control circuitry can reduce the number of multipliers required to perform a convolution between an updated filter and one or more input signals. In some embodiments, the updated filter can be generated to reduce oscillations of the motor movement due to a new position request.
US09621123B2	Methods and circuitry to trim common mode transient control circuitry Embodiments herein include a replica communication path and monitor circuit to provide increased common mode transient immunity. As its name suggests, the monitor circuit monitors the replica communication path and produces an adjustment signal (common mode transient adjustment signal) to cancel presence of a common mode transient signal in one or more other communication paths conveying data signals.
US09621117B2	Method and system for a configurable low-noise amplifier with programmable band-selection filters Methods and systems for a configurable low-noise amplifier with programmable band-selection filters may comprise a receiver with a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with differential output terminals; a low pass filter operably coupled to the LNA; a high pass filter operably coupled to the second input terminal of the LNA; and a signal source input coupled to the low pass filter and the high pass filter. The LNA may be operable to receive signals in a pass band of the high pass filter and a pass band of the low pass filter. The receiver may be operable to amplify input signals in the pass band of a first filter but not signals in the pass band of the second filter by operably coupling the second to ground.
US09621111B2	Apparatus and methods for envelope shaping in power amplifier systems Apparatus and methods for envelope shaping in power amplifier systems are provided. In certain implementations, a power amplifier system includes a modulator for generating a RF signal, a power amplifier for amplifying the RF signal, a gain control circuit for controlling the gain of the power amplifier, and an envelope tracking system for controlling a voltage level of the power amplifier's supply voltage based on an envelope signal corresponding to the RF signal's envelope. The gain control circuit includes a gain adjustment table, and the envelope tracking system includes an envelope shaping circuit including an isodistortion table. The isodistortion table can be used to map the envelope signal to a shaped envelope signal so as to maintain a substantially constant distortion in the system's transmit and/or receive bands across the envelope signal's range.
US09621110B1	Capacitive cross-coupling and harmonic rejection A power amplifier of the present invention comprises a first cascode including a MOSFET and a JFET and a first capacitor electrically connected between the source and the drain of the JFET. Two such power amplifiers in parallel form a differential power amplifier. In the differential amplifier a second capacitor can be electrically connected between the source and the drain of the second JFET. Another differential power amplifier comprises a first capacitor electrically connected between the gate of the first MOSFET and the source of the second MOSFET, and a second capacitor electrically connected between the gate of the second MOSFET and the source of the first MOSFET. Some of these differential power amplifiers also include capacitors electrically connected between the sources and the drains of the JFETs.
US09621103B2	Circulating current and oscillating current suppressing method and parallel inverter driver system A circulating current and oscillating current suppressing method and parallel inverter driver system are disclosed. Each inverter driver outputs a suppressing three-phase current to a motor and has an entity inductance device and a virtual inductance device. The virtual inductance device receives and sums the suppressing three-phase current of the inverter drivers, and generates a compensated three-phase current according to the suppressing three-phase currents, an impedance of the motor and an ideal impedance value generated by a virtual inductance unit and the entity inductance device. Consequently, the oscillating current of the transition three-phase current outputted from a switch device of the inverter driver can be reduced. In addition, the circulating current suppressing device generates a corrected three-phase voltage command according to a zero-sequence current and/or the circulating current quantity of the parallel inverter driver system, thereby suppressing the zero-sequence current and the circulating current of the parallel inverter driver system.
US09621100B2	Vehicular AC electric generator To provide a vehicular AC electric generator provided with a highly reliable electric power conversion unit. A stator of a rotary electric machine is configured to have a plurality of sets of three-phase windings, an electric power conversion unit is configured to have a plurality of sets of three-phase bridge circuits corresponding to the plurality of sets of three-phase windings, each of the three-phase windings of the stator is connected to a DC power supply via the corresponding three-phase bridge circuits of the electric power conversion unit, the plurality of sets of three-phase bridge circuits are controlled to be at different switching timings from each other, and semiconductor switches constituting respective arms in the plurality of sets of three-phase bridge circuits are configured to be one-chip MOSFETs.
US09621092B2	Induction motor control apparatus and induction motor control method An induction motor control apparatus controls an induction motor connected to drive wheels by setting a motor torque command value on the basis of vehicle information. The induction motor control apparatus calculates a first torque current command value and a first excitation current command value on the basis of the motor torque command value and estimates a rotor magnetic flux on the basis of the first excitation current command value. The induction motor control apparatus calculates a first torque command value on the basis of an estimated value of the rotor magnetic flux and the first torque current command value. Further the induction motor control apparatus calculates a second torque command value by applying filter processing to the first torque command value, a natural vibration frequency component of a drive shaft torque transmission system in a vehicle being removed in the filter processing. Then the induction motor control apparatus controls drive of the induction motor on the basis of the first excitation current command value and the second torque current command value.
US09621091B2	Method and system for controlling an automotive vehicle three-phase electric machine supplied via chopped voltages A system for controlling an automotive vehicle three-phase electric machine supplied via chopped voltages, including: a mechanism determining settings of current of phases of the electric machine as a function of a torque request from a driver; a regulating mechanism to determine voltages of each phase as a function of corresponding settings of current; a mechanism correcting torque oscillations, which can determine powers of each phase, to determine whether speed of rotation of the magnetic field exceeds a threshold value, to carry out a bandpass filtering of the powers, and to determine attenuation currents relating to each phase as a function of the post-filtering powers; subtractors configured to subtract the attenuation currents relating to each phase from the settings of current of the corresponding phases, destined for the regulating mechanism.
US09621089B2	Control apparatus of an AC generator for a vehicle A control apparatus of an AC generator for a vehicle can obtain large regeneration energy without making the size of the generator large. In the control apparatus in which an AC output current is rectified and supplied to a vehicle mounted battery (6) and an electric load of the vehicle, provision is made for a regulator (5) that controls a continuity rate of electric power supply to a field coil (3) of a generator (1) by controlling an output voltage of the generator (1). The regulator (5) suppresses the continuity rate of electric power supply to the field coil (3) at the time of steady operation of the vehicle, and switches a suppression value of the continuity rate of electric power supply so as to increase the continuity rate of electric power supply at the time of deceleration operation of the vehicle.
US09621084B2	Thrust compensation system of dual-winding voice coil motor A thrust compensation system of a dual-winding voice coil motor, which is used for driving the voice coil motor having main windings (100) and secondary windings (200), wherein the secondary windings (200) of the voice coil motor are between each pair of the main windings (100). The system includes a switch drive circuit of the main windings (800) which is powered by a first controlled voltage source to drive the main windings (100) adopted as the main working windings of the voice coil motor and used for providing the output electromagnetic force required by the driving system of the voice coil motor in work; a switch drive circuit of the secondary windings (900) which is powered by a second voltage source to drive the secondary windings (200) adopted as compensation windings, and used for providing the thrust ripple opposite to the main windings (100) so as to compensate the thrust ripple of the main windings (100) and keep the resultant force of the output of the main windings (100) and the secondary windings (200) of the voice coil motor in constant; wherein the voltages Udc1 and Udc2 of the first and second controlled voltage sources of the main windings (100) and the second windings (200) are configured as meeting a certain relationship.
US09621063B2	Reference current generation in bidirectional power converter A power converter can be controlled to generate a target output power based on a reactive power reference and an active power reference. The control process may include monitoring a time-varying power signal (e.g., a power grid voltage signal from a power grid), and filtering the time-varying power signal to derive a filtered sine component of the time-varying power signal and a filtered cosine component of the time-varying power signal. A sine coefficient and cosine coefficient each based on at least the reactive power reference and the active power reference can be determined, and applied to the filtered sine component and filtered cosine component of the time-varying power signal, respectively. A target current reference of the power converter can then be set to include a sum of the current reference sine component and the current reference cosine component.
US09621062B2	Dimmer output emulation with non-zero glue voltage An apparatus may include a dimmer output voltage emulator for causing a power converter interface circuit to draw current from a capacitor in the power converter interface during a period of time when a dimmer coupled to the power converter interface circuit is non-conducting to generate an emulated dimmer output voltage. The emulated dimmer output voltage may emulate part of a cycle of a non-zero AC dimmer output voltage of the dimmer after a triac of the dimmer prematurely stops conducting that would occur if the triac continued conducting during the part of the cycle. The dimmer output voltage emulator may include a pull-down circuit to pull down current of the interface circuit and generally decrease the emulated dimmer output voltage during a first period of time and a hold circuit to maintain the emulated dimmer output voltage below a substantially non-zero threshold value during a second period of time.
US09621052B2	Switched mode power supply and method of operating a switched mode power supply A switched mode power supply comprises a switched mode converter (12) and a controller for controlling the switched mode converter, wherein the switched mode converter is provided for converting an input voltage (Vin) to an output voltage (Vout) and includes, on a primary side, a primary winding (X1) and a controllable switch based circuitry (31) connecting the input voltage over the primary winding; and, on a secondary side, a secondary winding (X2) coupled to the primary winding, and a capacitive element (C) connected over the secondary winding, wherein the output voltage is obtained as the voltage over the capacitive element. The primary winding comprises a first winding portion (np1) and at least one further winding portion (np2); and the switch based circuitry comprises controllable switches (Q11, Q41, Q12, Q42, Q21, Q31) capable of switching between a first operation state wherein the input voltage is connected only over the first winding portion and at least a second operation state wherein the input voltage is connected over the first and the at least one further winding portions, thereby enabling switching between two different transformer ratios (n1, n2).
US09621050B2	Storage time control A switch mode power converter (SMPC) includes a switching control system to control the turn off time delay of a switching device. The SMPC also has an inductive component including an input winding to receive power from an input and a switching device to conduct input winding current. The switching control system applies turn on and turn off signals to the switching device. The turn off signal initiates turning off of the switching device and a sensing signal from a further winding inductively coupled to the input winding is detected to indicate an end of a turn off time delay or duration. The turn on signal for a subsequent switching cycle of the SMPC device is controlled to regulate the turn off delay time.
US09621032B2	Generation of voltages Voltage generation circuits are useful in the generation of internal voltages for use in integrated circuits. Voltage generation circuits may include a stage capacitance and a voltage isolation device connected to the stage capacitance. The voltage isolation device may include a first current path between an input and an output of the voltage isolation device through a diode, and a second current path between the input and the output of the voltage isolation device through a gate. The gate is responsive to the contribution of a low-pass filter between the output of the voltage isolation device and the gate, and to the contribution of a high-pass filter between a clock signal node and the gate.

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