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US09741877B2	Composition for solar cell electrode and electrode prepared using the same A composition for solar cell electrodes, the composition including silver (Ag) powder; a glass frit; an organic binder; and a solvent, the organic binder including a compound containing a repeat unit represented by Formula 1: wherein R1 is Na+, K+, NH4+, or PH3+; R2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C2 alkyl group; and n is an integer of 1 to 3,500.
US09741868B2	Self-aligned split gate flash memory The present disclosure relates to a self-aligned split gate memory cell, and an associated method. The self-aligned split gate memory cell has a memory gate with a flat top surface. A memory gate spacer is arranged directly above the memory gate having a lateral dimension smaller than that of the memory gate. The memory gate spacer has an inner sidewall disposed along an upper portion of a charge trapping layer and an outer sidewall recessed back laterally relative to an outer sidewall of the memory gate. In some embodiments, a dielectric liner is continuously lined the outer sidewall of the memory gate, extending on a portion of the top surface of the memory gate not covered by the memory gate spacer, and extending upwardly along the outer sidewall of the memory gate spacer.
US09741860B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.
US09741857B2	Approach for an area-efficient and scalable CMOS performance based on advanced Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI), Silicon-On-Sapphire (SOS) and Silicon-On-Nothing (SON) technologies New, distinct, and useful architectures for single-legged SOI-MOS were established and fabricated for the very first time. They incorporated into their architectures an innovative new configuration to wire the device Body to the Body-Tied-Source. This new configuration drastically increased the conductance between the Body and the Body-Tied-Source. This consequently allowed these devices to effectively support much higher operating biases. Same configuration also functioned on structures with very large peripheries. These gave proportional increase in this same conductivity, and for same area-efficiency, with the increase of their peripheries to accommodate higher currents. The functional model that governs this proportional scaling in these new architectures for single-legged SOI-MOS devices was established and is being claimed through this patent for the very first time. Through it, single-legged SOI-MOS devices will efficiently scale to area-efficient ultra large peripheries with minimal hits to their bandwidth.
US09741855B2	Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the same Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are provided. The methods may include forming a fast etching region comprising phosphorous in an active region and forming a first trench in the active region by recessing the fast etching region. The methods may also include forming a second trench in the active region by enlarging the first trench using a directional etch process and forming a stressor in the second trench. The second trench may include a notched portion of the active region.
US09741852B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor structure A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure is provided. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure includes the following steps: providing a substrate; forming a gate structure on the substrate; forming a recess in the substrate at a lateral side of the gate structure; performing a pre-bake process at a temperature of 740-840° C. and under a pressure of equal to or higher than 150 torr; and forming an epitaxial buffer layer in the recess.
US09741849B1	Integrated circuits resistant to electrostatic discharge and methods for producing the same Integrated circuits and methods of producing such integrated circuits are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a heavily doped source area having conductivity determining impurities at a heavily doped source concentration and a lightly doped drain area having conductivity determining impurities at a lightly doped drain concentration less than the heavily doped source concentration. A drain conductor directly contacts the lightly doped drain area, and a channel is positioned between the heavily doped source area and the lightly doped drain area. A gate overlies the channel.
US09741845B2	Lateral high voltage transistor A device and a method for forming a device are disclosed. The device includes a substrate with a high voltage (HV) device region. The HV device region is defined with first and second device isolation regions and an internal dielectric region which are shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. A HV transistor is disposed in the HV device region. The HV transistor includes a gate dielectric layer on the substrate, a gate disposed on the gate dielectric layer, and a source region disposed in the substrate adjacent to the gate and first device isolation region while a drain region disposed in the substrate adjacent to the second device isolation region. A drift well and a body well are disposed in the substrate. At least one buried RESURF region is disposed under the internal dielectric region.
US09741842B2	Vertical power transistor device A power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, a drift layer over the substrate, and a spreading layer over the drift layer. The spreading layer includes a pair of junction implants separated by a junction gate field effect (JFET) region. A gate oxide layer is on top of the spreading layer. The gate contact is on top of the gate oxide layer. Each one of the source contacts are on a portion of the spreading layer separate from the gate oxide layer and the gate contact. The drain contact is on the surface of the substrate opposite the drift layer.
US09741840B1	Electronic device including a multiple channel HEMT and an insulated gate electrode An electronic device can include a lower channel layer, an upper channel layer overlying the lower channel layer and having an opening extending through the upper channel layer. The electronic device can further include an insulator within the opening; and a gate electrode extending into the opening, wherein the insulator is disposed between the gate electrode and the second channel layer. A double channel transistor can include the lower and upper channel layers and the gate electrode. In a further embodiment, a conductive member can be used to electrically short the channel layers near the gate electrode. In an embodiment, the transistor can be enhancement-mode transistor. A process can include forming the insulator such that it is in the form of a sidewall spacer or as an insulating layer along the sidewall and bottom of the opening through the upper channel layer.
US09741832B2	Tunneling field effect transistors with a variable bandgap channel Tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) including a variable bandgap channel are described. In some embodiments, one or more bandgap characteristics of the variable bandgap channel may be dynamically altered by at least one of the application or withdrawal of a force, such as a voltage or electric field. In some embodiments the variable bandgap channel may be configured to modulate from an ON to an OFF state and vice versa in response to the application and/or withdrawal of a force. The variable bandgap channel may exhibit a bandgap that is smaller in the ON state than in the OFF state. As a result, the TFETs may exhibit one or more of relatively high on current, relatively low off current, and sub-threshold swing below 60 mV/decade.
US09741829B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device comprises a fin structure disposed over a substrate; a gate structure disposed over part of the fin structure; a source/drain structure, which includes part of the fin structure not covered by the gate structure; an interlayer dielectric layer formed over the fin structure, the gate structure, and the source/drain structure; a contact hole formed in the interlayer dielectric layer; and a contact material disposed in the contact hole. The fin structure extends in a first direction and includes an upper layer, wherein a part of the upper layer is exposed from an isolation insulating layer. The gate structure extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The contact material includes a silicon phosphide layer and a metal layer.
US09741827B2	Etchant and method of manufacturing display device by using the same An etchant composition is provided comprising a persulfate from 0.5 to 20 wt %; a fluoride compound from 0.01 to 2 wt %; an inorganic acid from 1 to 10 wt %; a N (nitrogen atom)-containing heterocyclic compound from 0.5 to 5 wt %; a chloride compound from 0.1 to 5 wt %; a copper salt from 0.05 to 3 wt %; an organic acid or an organic acid salt from 0.1 to 10 wt %; an electron-donating compound from at 0.1 to 5 wt %; and a solvent of the residual amount. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a display device by using the same.
US09741822B1	Simplified gate stack process to improve dual channel CMOS performance A semiconductor device and method of making the same wherein the semiconductor device includes a pFET region including a SiGe channel having a Si-rich top surface within the gate portion, and an nFET region including a Si channel. The method includes subjecting both the pFET and nFET regions to a single high-temperature anneal process thereby avoiding the need for an additional spike anneal process at RMG module.
US09741818B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor structure for improving quality of epitaxial layers A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure for improving quality of an epitaxial layer is provided in the present invention. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. A gate structure is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and two lightly doped regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate at two sides of the gate structure. A capping layer is formed on the gate structure and the lightly doped regions. Two epitaxial layers are formed at the two sides of the gate structure after the step of forming the capping layer. An oxide film formed on the lightly doped regions will influence the growth condition of the epitaxial layers. A removing process is performed to remove the oxide film on the lightly doped regions before the step of forming the capping layer so as to improve the quality of the epitaxial layers.
US09741814B2	Semiconductor device with fin transistors and manufacturing method of such semiconductor device A semiconductor device including: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes agate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor.
US09741812B1	Dual metal interconnect structure Source/drain contact structures that exhibit low contact resistance and improved electromigration properties are provided. After forming a first contact conductor portion comprising a metal having a high resistance to electromigration such as tungsten at a bottom portion of source/drain contact trench to form direct contact with a source/drain region of a field effect transistor, a second contact conductor portion comprising a highly conductive metal such as copper or a copper alloy is formed over the first contact conductor portion.
US09741795B2	IGBT having at least one first type transistor cell and reduced feedback capacitance An IGBT includes at least one first type transistor cell, including a base region, first and second emitter regions, and a body region arranged between the first emitter region and base region. The base region is arranged between the body region and second emitter region. A gate electrode adjacent the body region is dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric. A base electrode adjacent the base region is dielectrically insulated from the base region by a base electrode dielectric. The base region has a first base region section adjoining the base electrode dielectric and a second base region section arranged between the second emitter region and the first base region section. A ratio between the doping concentration of the first base region section and the doping concentration of the second base region section is at least 10. The base electrode dielectric is thicker than the gate dielectric.
US09741792B2	Bulk nanosheet with dielectric isolation Techniques for dielectric isolation in bulk nanosheet devices are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a nanosheet device structure with dielectric isolation includes the steps of: optionally implanting at least one dopant into a top portion of a bulk semiconductor wafer, wherein the at least one dopant is configured to increase an oxidation rate of the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer; forming a plurality of nanosheets as a stack on the bulk semiconductor wafer; patterning the nanosheets to form one or more nanowire stacks and one or more trenches between the nanowire stacks; forming spacers covering sidewalls of the nanowire stacks; and oxidizing the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer through the trenches, wherein the oxidizing step forms a dielectric isolation region in the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer. A nanowire FET and method for formation thereof are also provided.
US09741791B2	Latchup reduction by grown orthogonal substrates An integrated circuit is formed by providing a heavily doped substrate of a first conductivity type, forming a lightly doped lower epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type over the substrate, implanting dopants of the first conductivity type into the lower epitaxial layer in an area for a shallow component and blocking the dopants from an area for a deep component, forming a lightly doped upper epitaxial layer over the lower epitaxial layer and activating the implanted dopants to form a heavily doped region. The shallow component is formed over the heavily doped region, and the deep component is formed outside the heavily doped region, extending through the upper epitaxial layer into the lower epitaxial layer.
US09741790B2	Method for creating the high voltage complementary BJT with lateral collector on bulk substrate with resurf effect Complementary high-voltage bipolar transistors formed in standard bulk silicon integrated circuits are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, collector regions are formed in an epitaxial silicon layer. Base regions and emitters are disposed over the collector region. An n-type region is formed under collector region by implanting donor impurities into a p-substrate for the PNP transistor and implanting acceptor impurities into the p-substrate for the NPN transistor prior to depositing the collector epitaxial regions. Later in the process flow these n-type and p-type regions are connected to the top of the die by a deep n+ and p+ wells respectively. The n-type well is then coupled to VCC while the p-type well is coupled to GND, providing laterally depleted portions of the PNP and NPN collector regions and hence, increasing their BVs.
US09741787B2	Methods and apparatus for high voltage integrated circuit capacitors High voltage integrated circuit capacitors are disclosed. In an example arrangement. A capacitor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a bottom plate having a conductive layer overlying the semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer deposited overlying at least a portion of the bottom plate and having a first thickness greater than about 6 um in a first region; a sloped transition region in the capacitor dielectric at an edge of the first region, the sloped transition region having an upper surface with a slope of greater than 5 degrees from a horizontal plane and extending from the first region to a second region of the capacitor dielectric layer having a second thickness lower than the first thickness; and a top plate conductor formed overlying at least a portion of the capacitor dielectric layer in the first region. Methods and additional apparatus arrangements are disclosed.
US09741786B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device having with a reservoir capacitor A semiconductor integrated circuit device may include a through silicon via (TSV), a keep out zone and a plurality of dummy patterns. The TSV may be arranged in a selection region of a semiconductor substrate. The keep out zone may be configured to define a peripheral region of the TSV. The dummy patterns may be arranged in the keep out zone to receive a conductive signal. The dummy patterns may function as an electrode of a reservoir capacitor.
US09741773B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a display area including first and second pixels. A plurality of photo sensors is arranged in an outer area of the display area. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, and a first emission layer between the first pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The first pixel electrode, the opposite electrode, and the first emission layer are arranged on a substrate. The second pixel includes a second pixel electrode, the opposite electrode having a reflectance less than a reflectance of the second pixel electrode, and a second emission layer between the second pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The second pixel is closer to the plurality of photo sensors than the first pixel. The second pixel electrode includes a first portion in parallel with the substrate and a second portion having a slope with respect to the substrate.
US09741771B2	Method for manufacturing organic light emitting diode display A manufacturing method of an organic light emitting device may include the following. A panel displaying an image is formed. A buffering member including a dummy buffering member is adhered to the panel. A film is adhered to an upper surface of the buffering member. The film and the dummy buffering member are removed.
US09741770B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a transistor on the substrate, a reflecting electrode connected to the transistor, a color filter on the reflecting electrode, a first electrode on the color filter and electrically connected to the reflecting electrode, a pixel definition layer on the color filter and having an opening exposing the first electrode, a white emission layer in the opening and a second electrode on the white emission layer.
US09741766B2	Memory device According to one embodiment, a memory device includes first to third interconnects, memory cells, and selectors. The first to third interconnects are provided along first to third directions, respectively. The memory cells includes variable resistance layers formed on two side surfaces, facing each other in the first direction, of the third interconnects. The selectors couple the third interconnects with the first interconnects. One of the selectors includes a semiconductor layer provided between associated one of the third interconnects and associated one of the first interconnects, and gates formed on two side surfaces of the semiconductor layer facing each other in the first direction with gate insulating films interposed therebetween.
US09741760B2	Solid-state imaging device with suppression of color mixture, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device having a backside illuminated structure, includes: a pixel region in which pixels each having a photoelectric conversion portion and a plurality of pixel transistors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; an element isolation region isolating the pixels which is provided in the pixel region and which includes a semiconductor layer provided in a trench by an epitaxial growth; and a light receiving surface at a rear surface side of a semiconductor substrate which is opposite to a multilayer wiring layer.
US09741758B2	Methods of forming image sensors including deposited negative fixed charge layers on photoelectric conversion regions A method of forming an image sensor can be provided by forming a respective photoelectric conversion region in each of a plurality of unit pixel regions of a substrate and depositing a material configured to provide a negative fixed charge layer on the photoelectric conversion region.
US09741757B2	Solid-state imaging device with layered microlenses and method for manufacturing same A solid-state imaging device includes: a first lens layer; and a second lens layer, wherein the second lens layer is formed at least at a periphery of each first microlens formed based on the first lens layer, and the second lens layer present at a central portion of each of the first microlenses is thinner than the second lens layer present at the periphery of the first microlens or no second lens layer is present at the central portion of each of the first microlenses.
US09741756B2	Image sensor including planar boundary between optical black and active pixel sensor areas An image sensor includes a substrate including a sensor array area, a pad area, and a circuit area, a wiring layer on the pad area, and a light-shielding pattern on the sensor array area. The sensor array area includes a first area including active pixels and a second area including optical back pixels. The wiring layer is apart from the substrate by a first distance on the pad area. The light-shielding pattern includes a first portion spaced apart from the substrate by a second distance less than the first distance, a second portion disposed between the first portion and the wiring layer and extending on the same level as the wiring layer, and a third portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion and integrally formed with the first portion and the second portion.
US09741748B2	Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, a gate line and a gate pad disposed on the substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the gate pad, a data line and a data pad disposed on the gate insulating layer, an organic layer disposed on the data line and the data pad, and a connecting member disposed on one of the gate pad and the data pad, in which the organic layer includes a first portion overlapping the connecting member and a second portion not overlapping the connecting member, and a height of the first portion of the organic layer is greater than a height of the second portion of the organic layer.
US09741746B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of gate lines (102) and a plurality of data lines (101); a region defined by adjacent data lines (101) and adjacent gate lines (102) is a pixel unit; the pixel unit includes a common electrode line (103), a pixel electrode (104), a thin film transistor (105) and an auxiliary electrode (202); a first end of the auxiliary electrode (202) is electrically connected with a drain electrode (203) of the thin film transistor (105); and a second end of the auxiliary electrode (202) is electrically connected with the pixel electrode (104). The array substrate is used for enhancing an electric field within the peripheral range of the pixel electrode (104) of the pixel unit and avoiding the phenomenon of light leakage at an edge of the pixel unit.
US09741743B2	Array substrate and fabrication method thereof, display panel and display device Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate comprising: a base substrate, a gate line and a gate electrode located on the base substrate; an insulating layer covering the gate line and the gate electrode; an active layer on the insulating layer, corresponding to the gate electrode; an etch stop layer above the active layer, the etch stop layer including a first via hole and a second via hole located above the active layer; a data line, a source electrode and a drain electrode and a pixel electrode on the etch stop layer, wherein the source electrode is connected with the active layer through the first via hole, wherein the etch stop layer is made of a light-shielding material.
US09741733B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a semiconductor pattern including an opening on a semiconductor substrate. A peripheral transistor and a peripheral interconnection structure may be disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor pattern. The peripheral interconnection structure may be electrically connected to the peripheral transistor. Cell gate conductive patterns may be disposed on the semiconductor pattern. The cell vertical structures may extend through the cell gate conductive patterns and may be connected to the semiconductor pattern. Cell bit line contact plugs may be disposed on the cell vertical structures. A bit line may be disposed on the cell bit line contact plugs. A peripheral bit line contact structure may be disposed between the bit line and the peripheral interconnection structure. The peripheral bit line contact structure may extend through the opening of the semiconductor.
US09741732B2	Integrated structures Some embodiments include an integrated structure having a conductive material, a select device gate material over the conductive material, and vertically-stacked conductive levels over the select device gate material. Vertically-extending monolithic channel material is adjacent the select device gate material and the conductive levels. The monolithic channel material contains a lower segment adjacent the select device gate material and an upper segment adjacent the conductive levels. A first vertically-extending region is between the lower segment of the monolithic channel material and the select device gate material. The first vertically-extending region contains a first material. A second vertically-extending region is between the upper segment of the monolithic channel material and the conductive levels. The second vertically-extending region contains a material which is different in composition from the first material.
US09741728B2	Method for forming a split-gate flash memory cell device with a low power logic device A method of manufacturing an embedded flash memory device is provided. A pair of gate stacks are formed spaced over a semiconductor substrate, and including floating gates and control gates over the floating gates. A common gate layer is formed over the gate stacks and the semiconductor substrate, and lining sidewalls of the gate stacks. A first etch is performed into the common gate layer to recess an upper surface of the common gate layer to below upper surfaces respectively of the gate stacks, and to form an erase gate between the gate stacks. Hard masks are respectively formed over the erase gate, a word line region of the common gate layer, and a logic gate region of the common gate layer. A second etch is performed into the common gate layer with the hard masks in place to concurrently form a word line and a logic gate.
US09741726B2	Non-volatile memory cell and method of manufacture A memory device includes a capacitor, a tunneling-enhanced device, and a transistor. In accordance with an embodiment, capacitor has first and second electrodes wherein the first electrode of the capacitor serves as a control gate of the memory device. The tunneling-enhanced device has a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode of the second capacitor serves as an erase gate of the memory device and the second electrode of the tunneling-enhanced device is coupled to the second electrode of the capacitor to form a floating gate. The transistor has a control electrode and a pair of current carrying electrodes, wherein the control electrode of the transistor is directly coupled to the floating gate. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for manufacturing the memory device includes a method for manufacturing the memory device.
US09741723B2	Semiconductor device having shallow trench isolation structure A semiconductor device is provided, which prevents a case where the widths of word lines become uneven because of a stress developing at the border between a memory cell area and a peripheral circuit area. The semiconductor device 1 has a semiconductor substrate 2 on which a memory cell area MC defined by a peripheral isolation region 3c. The memory cell area MC has multiple cell active regions k defined by multiple cell isolation regions 3a, 3b. Guard active regions GLa, GLb made of the semiconductor substrate are disposed in the border between the memory cell area MC and the peripheral isolation region 3c to separate the memory cell isolation regions 3a, 3b from the peripheral isolation region 3c.
US09741719B2	Methods, structures, and designs for self-aligning local interconnects used in integrated circuits An integrated circuit includes a gate electrode level region that includes a plurality of linear-shaped conductive structures. Each of the plurality of linear-shaped conductive structures is defined to extend lengthwise in a first direction. Some of the plurality of linear-shaped conductive structures form one or more gate electrodes of corresponding transistor devices. A local interconnect conductive structure is formed between two of the plurality of linear-shaped conductive structures so as to extend in the first direction along the two of the plurality of linear-shaped conductive structures.
US09741715B2	Structure to prevent lateral epitaxial growth in semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes a set of fin structures having a set of fin ends at a respective vertical surface of a fin structure and is separated by a set of trenches from other fin structures. Each of the fin structures has a top surface which is higher than a top surface of a dielectric material in the set of trenches. A set of dielectric blocks is disposed at the set of fin ends, the dielectric blocks having a top surface level with or above the top surfaces of the fin structures which inhibit excessive epitaxial growth at the fin ends.
US09741712B2	Semiconductor devices with trench gate structures in a semiconductor body with hexagonal crystal lattice A semiconductor device includes trench gate structures in a semiconductor body with hexagonal crystal lattice. A mean surface plane of a first surface is tilted to a <1-100> crystal direction by an off-axis angle, wherein an absolute value of the off-axis angle is in a range from 2 degree to 12 degree. The trench gate structures extend oriented along the <1-100> crystal direction. Portions of the semiconductor body between neighboring trench gate structures form transistor mesas. Sidewalls of the transistor mesas deviate from a normal to the mean surface plane by not more than 5 degree.
US09741710B2	Electrostatic discharge protection device and method for manufacturing the same, and chip component with the same An electrostatic discharge protection device includes a base, a plurality of electrodes arranged on the base separated from each other, a function layer supplied on a separation space between the electrodes and a composite insulating layer disposed on the base and composed of inorganic particles dispersed in a resin, the composite insulating layer covering the electrodes and the function layer.
US09741699B2	Light emitting device The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a transparent substrate which light can pass through and at least one LED chip emitting light omni-directionally. Wherein the LED chip is disposed on one surface of the substrate and the light emitting angle of the LED chip is wider than 180°, and the light emitted by the LED chip will penetrate into the substrate and at least partially emerge from another surface of the substrate. According to the present invention, the light emitting device using LED chips can provide sufficient lighting intensity and uniform lighting performance.
US09741698B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a first light-emitting element mounted on the substrate, an annular transparent dam formed on the substrate so as to surround the first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element that is mounted on the substrate so as to be embedded in an interior of the dam and that has a shorter peak emission wavelength than that of the first light-emitting element, and a sealing material filled inside the dam so as to seal the first light-emitting element.
US09741697B2	Three-dimensional 3D-oP-based package The present invention discloses a three-dimensional 3D-oP (three-dimensional offset-printed memory)-based package (3D2-oP). The mask-patterns for different dice in a same 3D2-oP package are merged onto a same data-mask. At different printing steps, a wafer is offset by different values with respect to the data-mask. Accordingly, data-patterns from a same data-mask are printed into different dice in a same 3D2-oP package.
US09741692B2	Methods to form high density through-mold interconnections Methods of fabricating a microelectronic device comprising forming a microelectronic substrate having a plurality microelectronic device attachment bond pads and at least one interconnection bond pad formed in and/or on an active surface thereof, attaching a microelectronic device to the plurality of microelectronic device attachment bond pads, forming a mold chase having a mold body and at least one projection extending from the mold body, wherein the at least one projection includes at least one sidewall and a contact surface, contacting the mold chase projection contact surface to a respective microelectronic substrate interconnection bond pad, disposing a mold material between the microelectronic substrate and the mold chase, and removing the mold chase to form at least one interconnection via extending from a top surface of the mold material to a respective microelectronic substrate interconnection bond pad.
US09741690B1	Redistribution layers in semiconductor packages and methods of forming same An embodiment package includes a first integrated circuit die, an encapsulent around the first integrated circuit die, and a conductive line electrically connecting a first conductive via to a second conductive via. The conductive line includes a first segment over the first integrated circuit die and having a first lengthwise dimension extending in a first direction and a second segment having a second lengthwise dimension extending in a second direction different than the first direction. The second segment extends over a boundary between the first integrated circuit die and the encapsulant.
US09741687B2	Integrated circuit structure with active and passive devices in different tiers An integrated circuit structure includes a two-tier die including a first tier and a second tier over and bonded to the first tier. The first tier includes a first substrate including a semiconductor material, an active device at a surface of the first substrate, and a first interconnect structure over the first substrate, wherein the first tier is free from passive devices therein. The second tier includes a second substrate bonded to and in contact with the first interconnect structure, and a second interconnect structure over the second substrate, wherein metal lines in the second interconnect structure are electrically coupled to the first interconnect structure. The second tier further includes a plurality of through-vias penetrating through the second substrate, wherein the plurality of through-vias lands on metal pads in a top metal layer of the first interconnect structure, and a passive device in the second interconnect structure.
US09741686B2	Electronic package and method of connecting a first die to a second die to form an electronic package Some embodiments relate to an electronic package. The electronic package includes a substrate that includes a plurality of buildup layers. A first die is embedded in one of the buildup layers on one side of the substrate. A second die is bonded to the substrate within a cavity on an opposing side of the substrate. The first die and the second die may be electrically connected to conductors within the plurality of buildup layers. Other embodiments relate to method of connecting a first die to a second die to form an electronic package. The method includes attaching a first die to a core and fabricating a substrate onto the core. The method further includes creating a cavity in another of the buildup layers on an opposing side of the substrate and attaching a second die to the substrate within the cavity.
US09741685B2	Methods for directly bonding silicon to silicon or silicon carbide to silicon carbide A method for bonding a first silicon part to a second silicon part includes arranging the first silicon part and the second silicon part in direct physical contact on a surface in a thermal insulating structure; controlling pressure in the thermal insulating structure to a predetermined pressure; controlling temperature in the thermal insulating structure to a predetermined temperature using one or more heaters; and bonding the first silicon part and the second silicon part during a process period. The predetermined temperature is in a temperature range that is greater than or equal to 1335° C. and less than 1414° C.
US09741683B2	Device packaging facility and method, and device processing apparatus utilizing phthalate Provided are a device packing facility and method using phthalate and a device processing apparatus utilizing the phthalate. The device packaging facility includes a mounting unit providing phthalate between first and second devices to attach the first and second devices to each other, a processing unit thermally processing the first and second devices that are attached to each other to remove the phthalate and fix the first and second devices to each other, and a transfer unit transferring the first and second devices that are attached to each other from the mounting unit to the processing unit.
US09741682B2	Structures to enable a full intermetallic interconnect A method forming an interconnect structure includes depositing a first solder bump on a chip; depositing a second solder bump on a laminate, the second solder bump including a nickel copper colloid surrounded by a nickel or copper shell and suspended in a tin-based solder; aligning the chip with the laminate; performing a first reflow process to join the chip to the laminate; depositing an underfill material around the first solder bump and the second solder bump; and performing a second reflow process at a temperature that is lower than the first reflow process to convert the first solder bump and the second solder bump to an all intermetallic interconnect; wherein depositing the underfill material is performed before or after performing the second reflow process.
US09741681B2	Debonding schemes An apparatus includes a bottom stage configured to hold a bottom surface of a substrate stack including at least two substrates, a top stage configured to hold a top surface of the substrate stack, and at least one blade configured to be inserted between two adjacent substrates of the substrate stack, wherein the at least one blade has a pointed tip in plan view and has a channel configured to inject air or fluid.
US09741675B2	Bump structures, semiconductor device and semiconductor device package having the same The present disclosure relates to bump structures and a semiconductor device and semiconductor device package having the same. The semiconductor device includes a body, at least one conductive metal pad and at least one metal pillar. The body includes a first surface. The at least one conductive metal pad is disposed on the first surface. Each metal pillar is formed on a corresponding conductive metal pad. Each metal pillar has a concave side wall and a convex side wall opposite the first concave side wall, and the concave side wall and the convex side wall are orthogonal to the corresponding conductive metal pad.
US09741658B2	Electrical fuse structure and method of formation A fuse device having contacts configured to reduce electro-migration is disclosed. In some exemplary embodiments, the fuse structure includes an anode disposed at a first end and a cathode disposed at a second end. A fuse link extends between and contacts the anode and the cathode. A boundary between the fuse link and the cathode has a center point, and each connector of a plurality of cathode connectors has a center point that is an equal distance from the center point of the boundary between the fuse link and the cathode. In some such embodiments, each connector of the plurality of cathode connectors is a different size than an anode connector, whereas in some such embodiments, each connector of the plurality of cathode connectors is substantially a same size as the anode connector along at least one axis.
US09741652B1	Wiring substrate A wiring substrate includes a wiring layer on a projection of an insulating layer. The wiring layer includes a first metal layer on an end face of the projection with a peripheral portion of the end face exposed, a second metal layer that is on the first metal layer and wider than the end face, and a third metal layer. The second metal layer includes first and second opposite surfaces with the second surface on the first metal layer with a peripheral portion thereof exposed. The third metal layer covers side surfaces of the first metal layer, and the first surface, the peripheral portion of the second surface, and side surfaces of the second metal layer, and fills in a region where the end face and the peripheral portion of the second surface face each other. The materials of the second and third metal layers are different.
US09741649B2	Integrated interposer solutions for 2D and 3D IC packaging An integrated circuit (IC) package includes a first substrate having a backside surface and a top surface with a cavity disposed therein. The cavity has a floor defining a front side surface. A plurality of first electroconductive contacts are disposed on the front side surface, and a plurality of second electroconductive contacts are disposed on the back side surface. A plurality of first electroconductive elements penetrate through the first substrate and couple selected ones of the first and second electroconductive contacts to each other. A first die containing an IC is electroconductively coupled to corresponding ones of the first electroconductive contacts. A second substrate has a bottom surface that is sealingly attached to the top surface of the first substrate, and a dielectric material is disposed in the cavity so as to encapsulate the first die.
US09741647B2	Wiring substrate, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing wiring substrate A wiring substrate is provided with a first wiring layer including a first land, a first insulative layer formed on the first wiring layer, a second wiring layer formed on the first insulative layer, a second insulative layer formed on the second wiring layer, and a via formed extending through the first insulative layer and the second insulative layer in a thicknesswise direction. The via includes one end, which is electrically connected to the first land of the first wiring layer, and another end, which is located opposed to the one end and serves as a pad to which a mounted electronic component is electrically connected. The second wiring layer includes a coupling portion electrically connected to the via. The coupling portion of the second wiring has a width that is smaller than a diameter of the via.
US09741645B2	Dense interconnect with solder cap (DISC) formation with laser ablation and resulting semiconductor structures and packages Dense interconnect with solder cap (DISC) formation with laser ablation and resulting semiconductor structures and packages are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming an insulative material stack above a plurality of solder bump landing pads. The solder bump landing pads are above an active side of a semiconductor die. A plurality of trenches is formed in the insulative material stack by laser ablation to expose a corresponding portion of each of the plurality of solder bump landing pads. A solder bump is formed in each of the plurality of trenches. A portion of the insulative material stack is then removed.
US09741631B2	Substrate storage container with handling members A handling member includes: a substantially plate-like handling member main body that is arranged along a pair of the side walls, respectively; a circular position-restriction through hole that is formed to extend through the handling member main body in a thickness direction of the handling member and with which the semicircular convex portion can be engaged; a handling member side guided portion that is engaged with the guide members and of which a movement is guided between the mounting position and the detachment position by the guide members; and a back-side guided portion that can be engaged with the back-side engaging portion by a movement of the handling member from the detachment position to the mounting position.
US09741625B2	Method of forming a semiconductor device with STI structures on an SOI substrate In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of forming a semiconductor device, including providing an SOI structure comprising a base substrate, a buried insulating material layer formed on the base substrate and an active semiconductor layer formed on the buried insulating structure, forming a germanium-comprising layer on an exposed surface of the active semiconductor layer, forming a trench isolation structure, the trench isolation structure extending through the germanium-comprising layer and the active semiconductor layer, performing an annealing process after the trench isolation structure is formed, the annealing process resulting in an oxide layer disposed on a germanium-comprising active layer which is formed on the buried insulating material layer, and removing the oxide layer for exposing an upper surface of the germanium-comprising active layer.
US09741620B2	Structures and methods for reliable packages A device and method of forming the device that includes cavities formed in a substrate of a substrate device, the substrate device also including conductive vias formed in the substrate. Chip devices, wafers, and other substrate devices can be mounted to the substrate device. Encapsulation layers and materials may be formed over the substrate device in order to fill the cavities.
US09741613B1	Method for producing self-aligned line end vias and related device A method for producing self-aligned line end vias and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming trenches in a dielectric layer; filling the trenches with a sacrificial layer; forming and etching a block mask over sacrificial layers to form a cut area over a portion of the trenches; forming spacers at sides of the cut area; removing the sacrificial layer from the portion of the trenches; forming a mask in the cut area and the portion of trenches, the mask selected from a HDP oxide, SiC or SiCNH; selectively etching the spacers; and selectively etching the sacrificial layer and the dielectric layer by RIE to form SAVs.
US09741602B2	Contact for a non-volatile memory and method therefor A semiconductor device is disclosed that comprises a first non-volatile memory cell, a second non-volatile memory cell, an active region between the first and second memory cells, and an electrically conductive contact touching the active region, wherein the contact has a horizontal cross-section that is at least five percent smaller in a first dimension than in a second dimension.
US09741599B2	High voltage chuck for a probe station A chuck for testing an integrated circuit includes an upper conductive layer having a lower surface and an upper surface suitable to support a device under test. An upper insulating layer has an upper surface at least in partial face-to-face contact with the lower surface of the upper conductive layer, and a lower surface. A middle conductive layer has an upper surface at least in partial face-to-face contact with the lower surface of the upper insulating layer, and a lower surface.
US09741598B2	Protective tape and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same A protective tape and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same capable of achieving excellent connection properties. The protective tape includes an adhesive layer, a thermoplastic resin layer and a backing material film in that order; a modulus ratio of a shear storage modulus of the adhesive layer to a shear storage modulus of the thermoplastic resin layer at an application temperature at which the protective tape is applied is 0.01 or less. This suppresses resin residue on bumps thereby achieving excellent connection properties.
US09741597B2	Positioning device for glass substrate The present invention provides a positioning device configured to position a glass substrate. The positioning device comprises a support base, a pair of first positioning mechanisms located on two neighboring sides of the glass substrate, a pair of second positioning mechanisms located on another two neighboring sides of the glass substrate, respectively, a pair of connecting bars, a driving member, a gear group and a conveying belt sleeved on the gear group. One end of the one of the pair of connecting bar is fixed with the conveying belt, and another end is fixed with one of the pair of first positioning mechanisms. One end of another one of the pair of connecting bar is fixed with the conveying belt, and another end is fixed with another one of the pair of first positioning mechanisms.
US09741588B2	Method of manufacturing thin-film transistor substrate A method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor substrate which includes a thin-film transistor includes: forming a planarization layer comprising polyimide material above the thin-film transistor; and heating the thin-film transistor at a temperature of 240° C. or lower after the planarization layer is formed.
US09741584B1	Densification of dielectric film using inductively coupled high density plasma A method for densifying a dielectric film on a substrate includes arranging a substrate including a dielectric film on a substrate support in a substrate processing chamber; supplying a gas mixture including helium and oxygen to the substrate processing chamber; controlling pressure in the substrate processing chamber to a pressure greater than or equal to a predetermined pressure; supplying a first power level at a first frequency to a coil to create plasma in the substrate processing chamber. The coil is arranged around an outer surface of the substrate processing chamber. The method includes densifying the dielectric film for a predetermined period. The pressure and the first power level are selected to prevent sputtering of the dielectric film during densification of the dielectric film.
US09741580B2	Substrate mask patterns, methods of forming a structure on a substrate, methods of forming a square lattice pattern from an oblique lattice pattern, and methods of forming a pattern on a substrate A method of forming a pattern on a substrate comprises forming spaced, upwardly-open, cylinder-like structures projecting longitudinally outward of a base. Sidewall lining is formed over inner and over outer sidewalls of the cylinder-like structures, and that forms interstitial spaces laterally outward of the cylinder-like structures. The interstitial spaces are individually surrounded by longitudinally-contacting sidewall linings that are over outer sidewalls of four of the cylinder-like structures. Other embodiments are disclosed, including structure independent of method.
US09741577B2	Metal reflow for middle of line contacts A method of forming a contact in a semiconductor device includes forming a first gate and a second gate on a substrate; removing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material arranged between the first gate and the second gate to form a trench that extends from a surface of the first gate and a surface of the second gate to the substrate; depositing a liner along a sidewall of the trench and an endwall of the trench in contact with the substrate; depositing by a physical vapor deposition method (PVD) a layer of metal on a surface of the first gate and a surface of the second gate; and heating to reflow metal from the layer of metal on the surface of the first gate and the second gate into the trench and form the contact.
US09741567B2	Method of forming multiple patterning spacer structures Disclosed herein is a method of forming a structure, comprising forming a mandrel layer over a substrate, masking the mandrel layer with a first mask and performing a first etch on the mandrel layer, the first etch forming a first opening exposing a first portion of the substrate. The mandrel layer is masked with a second mask and a second etch is performed on the mandrel layer. The second etch forms a second opening exposing a second portion of the substrate, and also forms a protective layer on the first portion of the substrate and in the first opening.
US09741557B1	Silicon nitride process for reduction of threshold shift A semiconductor device has a substrate with a semiconductor material. The semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor in and on the semiconductor material. The field effect transistor has a gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor material of the semiconductor device, and a gate over the gate dielectric layer. The gate dielectric layer includes a layer of nitrogen-rich silicon nitride immediately over the region for the channel, and under the gate.
US09741550B2	Mass spectrometer with laser spot pattern for MALDI The invention relates to mass spectrometers with an ion source, comprising a UV laser system for mass spectrometric analyses with ionization of analyte molecules in a sample by matrix-assisted laser desorption, which, with very low energy losses, can produce a spatially distributed spot pattern with several intensity peaks of equal height, thus making it possible to achieve an optimum degree of ionization of analyte ions for any task. Such a spot pattern can be generated from the UV beam with high transverse coherence, using a combination of a lens array and a lens, provided that the lens array satisfies a mathematical condition for separation of the micro-lenses from each other (pitch) and their focal length. For example, a lens array with square or round lenses produces a pattern of nine and five spots, respectively. The lens arrays are inexpensive and do not require any lateral adjustment in this arrangement.
US09741548B2	Mass spectrometer The mass spectrometer (1) provides an ionization chamber (11) therein with: a probe (15) having a sample to be measured flow path (155) for spraying a sample to be measured; and a standard sample flow path (255) for spraying a standard sample used for the calibration of the mass-to-charge ratio of the mass spectrum into the ionization chamber. The standard sample is intermittently introduced into the ionization chamber via a pulse valve (216). Thus, mixing of the sample to be measured and the standard sample can be prevented, while the timing according to which the standard sample is introduced can be appropriately controlled. It also becomes possible to acquire an accurate mass spectrum for each sample to be measured even in the case where a number of types of samples to be measured are introduced into the ionization chamber one after another over a short period of time.
US09741547B2	Low-pressure plasma system with sequential control process The low pressure plasma system includes a treatment chamber which is pumped out in a first process step by means of a pump. In a second process step a gas supply valve is opened in order to achieve a defined gas composition in the treatment chamber at low pressure. In a third process step a plasma generator is switched on in order to ignite a plasma in the treatment chamber. In a fourth process step a flushing valve can be opened in order to flush the treatment chamber. In a fifth process step the treatment chamber can be ventilated by way of a ventilation valve. The sequential switching element can be a rotary switch and include a zero switching position where the low pressure plasma system is off. The sequential switching element renders possible a simple embodiment of the low pressure plasma system and its intuitive operation.
US09741543B2	Multi-range voltage sensor and method for a voltage controlled interface of a plasma processing system A voltage sensor for a voltage controlled interface of a plasma processing system. The voltage sensor receives a RF signal generated by a pickup device. The RF signal is indicative of a RF voltage provided at a substrate in a plasma chamber. The voltage sensor includes first and second dividers corresponding to first and second channels and having first and second capacitance ratios. The dividers receive the RF signal and respectively generate first and second reduced voltage signals. A first output of the first channel outputs a first output signal based on the first reduced voltage signal and while the RF signal is in a first voltage range. A second output of the second channel outputs a second output signal based on the second reduced voltage signal and while the RF signal is in a second voltage range.
US09741542B2	Plasma generation device A plasma generating device that improves plasma generating efficiency can further accommodate changes in plasma generating state because of changes in conditions of surroundings and the like. The plasma generating device is provided with an electromagnetic wave radiating device, which has an electromagnetic wave generating device that oscillates electromagnetic waves and a radiating antenna that radiates electromagnetic waves oscillated by the electromagnetic wave generating device, and a control device that controls the electromagnetic wave radiating device. The electromagnetic wave radiating device is provided with a power detector that detects traveling wave power output by the electromagnetic wave generating device and reflected wave power reflected from the radiating antenna, and the control device automatically controls the oscillation pattern for the electromagnetic waves on the basis of the proportion of the value for the reflected wave power to the value for the traveling wave power detected by the power detector.
US09741532B1	Multi-beam electron microscope for electron channeling contrast imaging of semiconductor material A multi-beam electron microscope for ECCI is provided. The electron microscope has a platform, on which a crystalline sample is placed. At least a first electron source and a second electron source of the electron microscope are mounted to a housing. The housing is tiltable with respect to a longitudinal direction through a pivot for forming a fulcrum, such that the first electron source and the second electron source are tilted simultaneously and are substantially equally distanced from the platform along a vertical axis when the housing is tilted. The electron microscope also has electron beam focusing assemblies for focusing the electron beams generated by the electron sources onto the crystalline sample to generate backscattered electrons. The electron microscope also has detectors for detecting the backscattered electrons.
US09741531B2	Charged particle beam device enabling facilitated EBSD detector analysis of desired position and control method thereof A charged particle beam device allowing an analysis position in a sample analyzable with an EBSD detector to be acquired beforehand, and allowing a sample to be adjusted to a desired analysis position in a short time. A charged particle beam device is provided with a charged particle source (111), a charged particle optical system (115), an EBSD detector (101), a sample stage (116), an image display unit (117) for displaying a portion of the sample observable with the EBSD detector and a non-observable portion of the sample such that said portions are distinguished from each other, an operation input unit (121) where a position to be observed by the EBSD detector is entered, and a control unit (118) for controlling a planar movement, an inclination movement and a rotation movement of the sample stage so as to allow the observation position entered from the operation input unit to be observed with the EBSD detector.
US09741530B2	Charged-particle-beam device, specimen-image acquisition method, and program recording medium A charged-particle-beam device is provided with a data processing unit that removes, from a detector signal, the effect that scattering of a primary charged-particle beam before the primary charged-particle beam reaches a specimen has on the spot shape of the primary charged-particle beam. For example, when using an electron microscope to observe a specimen in a non-vacuum atmosphere, the effect that scattering of a primary charged-particle beam due to a barrier film or a gas present in a non-vacuum space has on the spot shape of the primary charged-particle beam is removed from a signal acquired by a detector. This makes it easy to obtain high-quality images.
US09741528B2	Charged particle optical apparatus having a selectively positionable differential pressure module Disclosed is a charged particle optical apparatus, which includes a particle optical arrangement, configured to define a particle beam path for inspecting an object. The object is accommodated in a pressure-controlled interior of a specimen chamber during the inspection of the object. The charged particle optical apparatus further includes a differential pressure module having a differential pressure aperture. A positioning arm is arranged in the specimen chamber for selectively position the differential pressure module within the pressure-controlled interior of the specimen chamber into an operating position in which the particle beam path passes through the differential pressure aperture. The selective positioning includes an advancing movement of the differential pressure module toward the primary particle beam path. The advancing movement is transmitted to the differential pressure module by a track-guided movement of the positioning arm.
US09741520B2	Molded case circuit breaker The present invention relates to a molded case circuit breaker, in which a locking member is formed at an inner side of a lever and an anti-rotation member is formed at an upper like. Accordingly, the locking member can be brought into contact with the anti-rotation member even though a handle is rotated to an OFF position even in a fused state between a fixed contactor and a movable contactor, thereby preventing a rotation of the handle to the OFF position.
US09741518B2	Latch relay A latch relay includes a frame, a bobbin installed in the frame and having a coil wound therearound, first and second yokes provided as magnetic bodies, a rotary mover rotating in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction between head portions of the first and second yokes, first and second fixed contactors installed to be spaced apart from one another and parallel to each other within the frame, a movable contactor having one end connected to the second fixed contactor, a transmission lever having one end coupled to one side of the rotary mover to make a vertical movement, a support member fixedly installed on one side of the transmission lever, and an elastic member providing contact force such that the movable contactor is brought into contact with the first fixed contactor or separated from the first fixed contactor, while moving according to a movement of the transmission lever.
US09741515B1	Structures for representation of an operational state Structures, devices, systems, and techniques are provided to represent an operational state of an electronic device. In one aspect, a device that can represent the operational state of the electronic device can comprise a substrate configured to produce an amount of heat in response to a predetermined operational state of the electronic device, and a member thermally coupled to the substrate and having a physical property that is configurable in response to at least the amount of heat produced by the substrate. Configuration of the physical property can yield a specific physical state of the member that represents the predetermined operational state.
US09741512B2	Switchgear system, and electrical switching apparatus assembly and maintaining method therefor An electrical switching apparatus assembly is for a switchgear system. The switchgear system includes a number of circuit stabs and an enclosure having a number of compartments. The electrical switching apparatus assembly includes an electrical switching apparatus having a number of terminals and a mounting assembly, the terminals being structured to be mechanically coupled and electrically connected to the circuit stabs, the mounting assembly comprising a mounting member coupled to the terminals; and a maintaining assembly comprising a plate member and a maintaining member, the plate member being coupled to the mounting member, the maintaining member being coupled to the plate member and structured to engage the enclosure. Responsive to an arc fault event, the maintaining assembly is structured to move between FIRST and SECOND positions. When the maintaining assembly moves from the FIRST position to the SECOND position, the plate member moves away from the terminals.
US09741506B1	Keyboard device A keyboard device includes plural keycaps and a membrane switch circuit member. The membrane switch circuit member is disposed under the plural keycaps. The membrane switch circuit member includes a wiring board and plural separate covering pads. The wiring board includes plural first trace patterns and plural second trace patterns corresponding to the plural keycaps. The plural second trace patterns are disposed on the wiring board and separated from the plural first trace patterns. There is a gap between each first trace pattern and the adjacent second trace pattern. The covering pads are disposed over the wiring board. The plural covering pads are aligned with the corresponding keycaps and cover the corresponding gaps. The covering pad has a triggering trace pattern over the corresponding gap.
US09741497B2	Beta-alumina and alpha-alumina bonding method using alpha-alumina and calcium oxide and thermal to electric converter using the same Disclosed is an insulating bonding part for bonding to a solid electrolyte including beta-alumina, the insulating bonding part comprising a plurality of layers which have different mixing ratios of the alpha-alumina and CaO, wherein the layer closer to the solid electrolyte including the beta-alumina has a higher ratio of the CaO, and wherein the layer farther from the solid electrolyte including the beta-alumina has a higher ratio of the alpha-alumina.
US09741489B2	Ceramic electronic component and method for producing ceramic electronic component A ceramic electronic component includes a ferrite material magnetic body part and a Cu conductive part, the ferrite containing 20 to 48% trivalent Fe in terms of Fe2O3 and divalent Ni. The ferrite can contain Mn so that it is less than 50% of the total of Fe and Mn in terms of Mn2O3 and Fe2O3. The magnetic and conductive parts are co-fired at a pressure not exceeding the equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu2O thereby ensuring insulating performance and favorable electrical characteristics.
US09741488B2	Power transmission coil A power transmission coil includes a plane coil including a no-wire portion and a coil wound about a no-wire portion, a cover for covering the plane coil from above, a first foreign-matter-detecting unit provided at the no-wire portion, and a power control circuit electrically connected to the plane coil and the first foreign-matter-detecting unit. An upper surface of the cover has a first inclining portion inclining toward the first foreign-matter-detecting unit. The power control circuit transmits power through the plane coil if a foreign matter is not detected in the no-wire portion based on an output from the first foreign-matter-detecting unit. The power control circuit is configured to stop transmitting power through the plane coil if foreign matter is detected in the no-wire portion based on an output from the first foreign-matter-detecting unit. This power transmission coil is capable of detecting a small foreign matter that may generate heat.
US09741485B2	Reconfigurable multi-stack inductor A reconfigurable multi-stack inductor formed within a semiconductor structure may include a first inductor structure located within a first metal layer of the semiconductor structure, a first ground shielding structure located within the first metal layer that is electrically isolated from and circumferentially bounds the first inductor structure, and a second inductor structure located within a second metal layer of the semiconductor structure, whereby the second inductor structure is electrically coupled to the first inductor structure. A second ground shielding structure located within the second metal layer is electrically isolated from and circumferentially bounds the second inductor structure, whereby the first and second inductor generate a first inductance value based on the first ground shielding structure and second ground shielding structure being coupled to ground, and the first and second inductor generate a second inductance value based on the first ground shielding structure and second ground shielding structure electrically floating.
US09741480B2	Mechanical superconducting switch A mechanically operating superconducting switch has two superconducting wires, a respective end of each superconducting wire being embedded in a respective block of superconducting material. A mechanical arrangement is provided for driving respective contact surfaces of the blocks into physical contact with each other, and for separating those services.
US09741470B1	Communication cables incorporating separators with longitudinally spaced projections A cable may include a plurality of twisted pairs of individually insulated conductors, a separator positioned between the twisted pairs, and a jacket formed around the twisted pairs and the separator. The separator may include a longitudinally extending spine positioned between the plurality of twisted pairs, and one or more respective projections extending from the spine at each of a plurality of longitudinally spaced locations. Each projection at a given spaced location may extend between a respective set of adjacent twisted pairs. Additionally, a respective longitudinal gap of at least approximately twenty centimeters may be present between each adjacent pair of longitudinally spaced locations.
US09741468B2	Power cable filler device and power cable comprising the same A power cable and filler device adapted to bear against a first and second power cores in a power cable, including a first arced wall which defines a portion of a first circle having a first diameter, a second and third arced wall, each defining a portion of a second circle having a second diameter which is smaller than the first diameter. A chamber is formed between the first, second and third arced walls.
US09741463B2	GTMS connector for oil and gas market A feed-through element for harsh environments is provided that includes a support body with at least one access opening, in which at least one functional element is arranged in an electrically insulating fixing material. The electrically insulating fixing material contains a glass or a glass ceramic with a volume resistivity of greater than 1.0×1010 Ω cm at the temperature of 350° C. The glass or a glass ceramic has a defined composition range in the system SiO2—B2O3-MO.
US09741462B2	Method of manufacturing silicon oxide Provided is a method of manufacturing silicon oxide by which an amount of oxygen of the silicon oxide may be controlled. The method of manufacturing silicon oxide may include mixing silicon and silicon dioxide to be included in a reaction chamber, depressurizing a pressure of the reaction chamber to obtain a high degree of vacuum while increasing a temperature in the reaction chamber to a reaction temperature, and reacting the mixture of silicon and silicon dioxide in a reducing atmosphere.
US09741458B2	Multimodal debris trap In a debris trap that may be used in an Emergency Core Cooling System of a nuclear power plant, the filter media is arranged to define both filtration and bypass flowpaths that are in fluid communication with one another. At least initially, each of the filtration and bypass flowpaths are open, and the filtration and bypass flowpaths have relatively low and relatively high head loss, respectively. The debris trap is operative so that flow through the debris trap may passively, and typically gradually, transition from the filtration flowpaths to the bypass flowpath in response to the filter media collecting increasing amounts of debris. More specifically, initially substantially all of the flow may be through the filtration flowpaths, and thereafter the filtration flowpaths may become substantially obstructed so that substantially all of the flow is through the bypass flowpath.
US09741450B2	Memory comprising a circuit for detecting a glitch on a line of the memory A memory including at least one line to which memory cells are coupled. A control circuit is configured to emit an end-of-operation signal at the end of the execution of an operation on at least one memory cell, and a glitch detection circuit coupled to the memory line is configured to supply a glitch detection signal when a falling edge of the amplitude of a voltage signal appears on the memory line in the absence of the end-of-operation signal.
US09741449B1	Sample and hold circuit Aspects of various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to applications utilizing voltage sampling. In certain embodiments, a sample and hold circuit is configured to sample voltages that exceed a tolerance voltage of components. The circuit includes a first and a second capacitors. In a first mode, a voltage difference between an input node and a first reference voltage is sampled using the first capacitor. Also in the first mode, a voltage stored by the second capacitor is referenced to a second reference voltage and provided to a first output node. In a second mode, a voltage difference between an input node and a first reference voltage is sampled using the second capacitor. Also in the second mode, a voltage stored by the first capacitor is referenced to the second reference voltage and provided to a second output node.
US09741448B2	Three-dimensional offset-printed memory with multiple bits-per-cell The present invention discloses a three-dimensional offset-printed memory (3D-oP) with multiple bits-per-cell. The mask-patterns for different bits-in-a-cell are merged onto a same data-mask. At different printing steps, a wafer is offset by different values with respect to the data-mask. Accordingly, data-patterns from a same data-mask are printed into different bits-in-a-cell.
US09741427B2	Performing logical operations using sensing circuitry Apparatuses and methods for performing logical operations using sensing circuitry are disclosed. An apparatus comprises an array of memory cells, sensing circuitry coupled to the array of memory cells via a sense line, and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells and the sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and does not include an accumulator. The controller is configured to perform logical operations using the array of memory cells as an accumulator without transferring data out of the memory array and sensing circuitry.
US09741423B2	Methods and apparatus for synchronizing communication with a memory controller A memory controller receives data and phase-providing signals from a memory device. The phase-providing signal is not a clock signal, but is used by the memory controller to phase align a local data-sampling signal with the incoming data. The memory controller samples the data signal with the data-sampling signal. The memory controller can perform maintenance operations to update the phase relationship between the phase-providing and data-sampling signals.
US09741412B2	Semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus may include: a data storage group including first to eight data storage areas; a first channel select pad configured to transmit a first channel select signal to the first and third data storage areas; a second channel select pad configured to transmit a second channel select signal to the second and fourth data storage areas; a third channel select pad configured to transmit the first channel select signal to the sixth and eighth data storage areas; a fourth channel select pad configured to transmit the second channel select signal to the fifth and seventh data storage areas; a first clock enable pad configured to transmit a first clock enable signal to the first and third data storage areas; a second clock enable pad configured to transmit a second clock enable signal to the second and fourth data storage areas; a third clock enable pad configured to transmit the first clock enable signal to the fifth and seventh data storage areas; and a fourth clock enable pad configured to transmit the second clock enable signal to the sixth and eighth data storage areas.
US09741411B2	Bank control circuit and semiconductor memory device for data access with limited bandwidth for commands A bank control circuit includes an implicit signal generation unit suitable for activating an implicit signal when a first active signal corresponding to a bank which is in an activated state bank, among a plurality of banks; and a delay unit suitable for delaying the implicit signal by a predetermined time, wherein the bank corresponding to the first active signal is precharged based on the implicit signal and activated again based on the delayed implicit signal.
US09741409B2	Apparatuses and methods for targeted refreshing of memory Apparatuses and methods for targeted row refreshes are disclosed herein. In an example apparatus, a predecoder receives a target row address and determines whether a target row of memory associated with the target row address is a primary or a redundant row of memory. The predecoder is further configured to cause one or more rows of memory physically adjacent the primary row of memory to be refreshed if the primary row is the target row or one or more rows of memory physically adjacent the redundant row of memory to be refreshed if the redundant row of memory is the target row of memory.
US09741408B2	Semiconductor memory device having dummy word lines and operating method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, and a voltage generator suitable for generating voltages supplied to the memory cell array. The memory cell array includes cell strings each including memory cells extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction and a third direction; bit lines extending in the second direction and electrically coupled to the cell strings; and word lines extending in the third direction and electrically coupled to corresponding memory cells, wherein the word lines includes dummy word lines. A program voltage is supplied to a program word line that is electrically coupled to a memory cell to be programmed, and a level of a first dummy word line voltage supplied to a parallel dummy word line, which is disposed parallel to the program word line in the first direction is different from a level of a second dummy voltage supplied to a nonparallel dummy word line other than the parallel dummy word line.
US09741403B2	Apparatuses and methods to perform post package trim Memory die can be stacked to form a three-dimensional integrated circuit. For example, through-silicon vias (TSVs) can permit signals to pass vertically through the three-dimensional integrated circuit. Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods to perform post package trimming of memory die, which advantageously permits the memory die to be trimmed after the memory die is stacked, such that test and trimming characteristics are relatively close to that which will be actually be encountered.
US09741402B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller suitable for determining, based on data read from the plurality of memory cells, section cell numbers corresponding to threshold voltage sections, and for determining an average threshold voltage of a threshold voltage distribution selected among a plurality of threshold voltage distributions of the memory cells which are estimated based on the section cell numbers, based on a Gaussian distribution function.
US09741399B2	Data shift by elements of a vector in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for performing shift operations in a memory. An example method comprises performing a shift operation a first element stored in a first group of memory cells coupled to a first access line and a number of sense lines of a memory array and a second element stored in a second group of memory cells coupled to a second access line and the number of sense lines of the memory array. The method can include shifting the first element by a number of bit positions defined by the second element by performing a number of AND operations, OR operations, SHIFT operations, and INVERT operations performed without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US09741398B1	Using out-of-band signaling to communicate with daisy chained nonvolatile memories Memory devices connected in a chain topology to a host controller that communicate using Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) and out-of-band signaling.
US09741391B1	On the fly formatting The disclosure is related to systems and methods of On the Fly Formatting. Various parameters that influence areal density of hard disc regions can be changed on the fly based on storage capacity and reliability needs. Further adjustments can be made to the formatting of the region to fine tune achievable storage capacity and reliability values. In some cases, the formatting can include error correction code strength, gap widths between user data sectors and servo data sectors, other characteristics or parameters, or any combinations thereof.
US09741382B2	Hexagonal ferrite powder and magnetic recording medium An aspect of the present invention relates to hexagonal ferrite powder, which comprises equal to or more than 70% on a particle number basis of isotropic hexagonal ferrite particles satisfying equation (1): major axis length/minor axis length<2.0 (1), having an average particle size of equal to or greater than 10.0 nm but equal to or less than 35.0 nm, and having a saturation magnetization of equal to or greater than 30 A·m2/kg.
US09741380B1	Generating defect signals in time based servo tape storage systems In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes creating a spike in a servo channel from a predetermined start position to an end position, and storing servo data including at least a portion thereof generated during the spike. The spike has a predetermined amplitude. In another embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a controller to perform the foregoing method.
US09741360B1	Speech enhancement for target speakers A method of speech enhancement for target speakers is presented. A blind source separation (BSS) module is used to separate a plurality of microphone recorded audio mixtures into statistically independent audio components. At least one of a plurality of speaker profiles are used to score and weight each audio components, and a speech mixer is used to first mix the weighted audio components, then align the mixed signals, and finally add the aligned signals to generate an extracted speech signal. Similarly, a noise mixer is used to first weight the audio components, then mix the weighted signals, and finally add the mixed signals to generate an extracted noise signal. Post processing is used to further enhance the extracted speech signal with a Wiener filtering or spectral subtraction procedure by subtracting the shaped power spectrum of extracted noise signal from that of the extracted speech signal.
US09741356B2	Coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, and methods A coding apparatus normalizes a low-frequency spectrum included in each of sub-bands obtained from dividing a low band part, using a largest amplitude value among the low-frequency spectrum included in each sub-band, obtains a normalized low-frequency spectrum by decoding the first encoded data, and calculates a correlation between each divided band of a high-frequency spectrum and a plurality of candidate bands of the normalized low-frequency spectrum. The best bands of a plurality of candidate bands are identified, each candidate band having a starting frequency position with non-zero amplitude in the normalized low-frequency spectrum, the high-frequency spectrum being in a high band part of the input audio signal that is higher than the predetermined frequency, and the high-frequency spectrum is encoded using lag information identifying the best band for transmitting the lag information to a decoder.
US09741349B2	Audio coding method and apparatus An audio signal is coded, where a frequency spectrum of the audio signal is divided into first and second regions. Spectral peaks in the first region are encoded by a first coding method. For a segment of the audio signal, a relation between an energy of a band in the second region and an energy estimate of the first region is determined. A relation between the energy of the band in the second region and energy of neighboring bands in the second region is determined. A determination is made whether available bits are sufficient for encoding at least one non-peak segment of the first region and the band in the second region. Further, when the relations fulfill a respective criterion and the bits are sufficient, the band in the second region and the at least one segment of the first region are encoded using a second coding method.
US09741336B2	System and method for generating manually designed and automatically optimized spoken dialog systems Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for generating a natural language spoken dialog system. The method includes nominating a set of allowed dialog actions and a set of contextual features at each turn in a dialog, and selecting an optimal action from the set of nominated allowed dialog actions using a machine learning algorithm. The method includes generating a response based on the selected optimal action at each turn in the dialog. The set of manually nominated allowed dialog actions can incorporate a set of business rules. Prompt wordings in the generated natural language spoken dialog system can be tailored to a current context while following the set of business rules. A compression label can represent at least one of the manually nominated allowed dialog actions.
US09741323B2	Insertable percussion system A percussion system comprising a pedal and an inserting/retracting mechanism operably connected to a percussion instrument and the pedal from moving the percussion instrument horizontally from a first position to a second position and from the second position to the first position by operation of the pedal.
US09741322B2	Capturing device A capturing device joins with an instrument to capture an accumulated body fluid in the instrument. The device has a tubular shape for capturing and containing a superfluous amount of fluid that has accumulated inside an instrument from performing on the instrument. The device joins with the instrument, proximally to an instrument fluid accumulation portion. For example, the device is oriented on the instrument to capture the fluid that accumulates in the spit valve. The instrument may require tilting or other manipulations to enable fluid to flow from the instrument fluid accumulation portion to a reception aperture. The device is capped on each end, whereby one of the capped ends form a secure seal for trapping the body fluid inside the device, and may also be removed for removing the body fluid. The device has an absorbent portion to absorb the fluid in an interior region.
US09741319B2	Memory control device, mobile terminal, and computer-readable recording medium In a case where a determination section (34) determines that a distance between rp and wp is less than RDIST, a period control section (33) carries out a suspending control of a reading operation of a next line, until the distance between rp and wp is not less than RDIST.
US09741316B2	Method and system for displaying pixels on display devices A method for displaying pixels on display devices, comprising the steps of (a) Providing virtual pixel storage means, preferably one or more virtual frame buffers (6), for temporarily storing the pixel data, (b) Receiving pixel data into the virtual pixel storage means (6) from one or more pixel sources (5), (c) Processing the pixel data stored in the virtual pixel storage means, based on characteristic display parameters characterizing the display devices; and (d) Transmitting the pixel data from the virtual pixel storage means (6) to one or more virtual displays attached to the virtual pixel storage means via a network (7), based on a network transmission protocol. The invention further relates to a system for displaying pixels on display devices.
US09741305B2	Devices and methods of adaptive dimming using local tone mapping Methods, systems, and devices for improving contrast, dynamic range, and power consumption of a backlight in a display are provided. By way of example, a method includes receiving image data to be displayed on pixels of a display panel, generating a global histogram of the image data, generating a plurality of thresholds based on the global histogram, and defining a first threshold and a second threshold of the plurality of thresholds as local thresholds based on the global histogram and a local histogram. The first threshold and the second threshold are generated according to a local tone mapping function. The method further includes adjusting a luminance of one or more of pixels of the display panel based at least in part on the first threshold and the second threshold.
US09741303B2	Display apparatus with decreased afterimage A display apparatus includes a display panel which includes a gate line, a data line and a storage line, and displays an image, a gate driving part configured to output a gate signal to the gate line, a data driving part configured to output a data signal based on an image data of the image to the data line, and a voltage providing part configured to apply an alternating current voltage to the storage line.
US09741295B2	Image display apparatus and method for controlling the same An image display apparatus includes a display unit to display an image based on image data on a screen including a plurality of areas, a light emitting unit to individually control emission brightness for each area, a calculation unit to calculate emission brightness of an image displayed on the screen for each area based on the image data, a measurement unit disposed opposing the screen and to measure a characteristic value relating to display characteristics of the display unit, and a control unit to determine whether emission brightness of a first area opposing the measurement unit is lower than a first value when the measurement unit measures the characteristic value and to set the emission brightness to a value equal to or greater than the first value when the emission brightness of the light emitting unit for the first area is lower than the first value.
US09741292B2	Method and system for programming and driving active matrix light emitting device pixel having a controllable supply voltage Method and system for programming and driving active matrix light emitting device pixel is provided. The pixel is a voltage programmed pixel circuit, and has a light emitting device, a driving transistor and a storage capacitor. The pixel has a programming cycle having a plurality of operating cycles, and a driving cycle. During the programming cycle, the voltage of the connection between the OLED and the driving transistor is controlled so that the desired gate-source voltage of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor.
US09741290B1	Multi-mode display Methods and apparatuses are provided for a multi-mode display. In one embodiment, a multi-mode display comprises an array of light sensing and emitting units (LSEUs), a decoder configured to generate addresses for accessing one or more LSEUs in the array of LSEUs, and a controller configured to control the array of LSEUs using the addresses, where each LSEU in the array of LSEUs comprises a light sensing and emitting component (LSEC), an emitting circuit configured to generate light using the LSEC, and a sensing circuit configured to detect light using the LSEC.
US09741289B2	Active-matrix display device, and active-matrix organic electroluminescent display device An active-matrix display device employs current-programmed-type pixel circuits and performs the writing data to each of pixels on a line-by-line basis. The active-matrix display device having a matrix of current-programmed-type pixel circuits includes a data line driving circuit 15 formed of m current driving circuits (CD) 15-1 to 15-m arranged corresponding to respective data lines 13-1 to 13-m. The data line driving circuit (CD) 15-1 to 15-m holds image data (luminance data herein) in the form of voltage, and then converts the voltage of the image data into a current signal. The current signal is than fed to the data lines 13-1 to 13-m at a time. The image information is thus written on the pixel circuits 11.
US09741283B2	Over-current control device and organic light emitting display device adopting the same Disclosed is to an over-current control device and an organic light emitting display device adopting a function of interrupting an over-current. To provide an over-current control device and a OLED device using the same, which allow a fast and reliable detection of an over-current, an over-current control device for detecting an over-current provided to an OLED is provided, comprising: an over-current identification unit adapted to compare a driving voltage on a supply line for driving the OLED with a reference voltage on a reference voltage line for identifying the over-current; an interruption unit connected between the supply line supplying the driving voltage and the pixel including the OLED for interrupting the power supply if the over-current identification unit recognizes an over-current flowing through the supply line.
US09741273B1	Illuminated assemblies and methods of manufacture thereof An illuminated assembly includes a substrate that is rigid so as to maintain a shape, the substrate having a first terminal surface and a second terminal surface. The assembly includes at least one channel defined into the substrate, the at least one channel having: an exposed portion defined on the first terminal surface of the substrate to define an indicia for display, a base portion defined between the first and second terminal surfaces of the substrate, and two channel walls extending from the exposed portion to the base portion. The assembly includes at least one light source between the exposed portion and the base portion of the at least one channel. The assembly includes a compound defined in an intermediate portion of the at least one channel, the intermediate portion extending from the at least one light source to the two channel walls, the exposed portion, and the base portion.
US09741271B2	Flexibly supported video display A method of displaying a video display system, assembling a video display system, and a video display system are disclosed. The video display system can include a flexible support, a display device detachably engaged to the flexible support, and a coupling device engaged to the flexible support and the display device at a first location on the display device.
US09741270B2	Display board system A display board system includes a first display board, a second display board, a first clip, and a second clip. The first clip is coupled to the first display board and includes a body and a top portion coupled to the body generally above an upper edge of the first display board. The top portion has an upwardly facing cavity and a downwardly extending tab. The second clip is coupled to the second display board and includes a body and a top portion coupled to the body generally above an upper edge of the second display board. The top portion has an upwardly facing cavity and a downwardly extending tab. The tab of the second clip is receivable in the cavity of the first clip to support the second display board on the first display board.
US09741269B2	Modular signpost system An improved system for simply assembling, installing, and customizing a signpost. In one exemplary embodiment, the assembled signpost may define a semi-modular post-with-arm structure configured to receive one or more signs via one or more attachment components. The attachment component(s) may be adjustably attached/positioned at any length along the extended arm component. Moreover, the extended arm component, and any signs engaged thereto, may be supported by the post component. Moreover, the post component, the extended arm component, and any signs engaged thereto, may be rigidly yet detachably engaged to a supporting substrate via an anchoring component. The anchoring component may be specifically designed to engage discreetly with the supporting substrate under cover of the post component. Moreover, the assembled signpost may comprise a decorative add-on sub-system intended to make the over-all system more aesthetically pleasing to the intended audience.
US09741261B2	Educational timepiece An educational timepiece provided with the hour hand and the minute hand, which comprises a base plate having an upper surface on which the hour hand and the minute hand rotate, and an angle hand rotating on the upper surface of the base plate for measuring the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand, wherein the angle hand serves to measure the angle between the hour hand and one of the hour indication parts adjacent to the hour hand, the interval between every two adjacent hour indication parts being divided by a given angle.
US09741259B2	Identification for performing tasks in open social media Embodiments of the invention relate to user identification in social media for task performance based on past usage and traits. One embodiment includes identifying users of a social media platform for ability of performing a task. Readiness scores are predicted based on past usage of the social media platform. A predicted readiness score includes a value corresponding to whether a user is predicted to be ready for performing the task. Users that are ready to perform the task are determined based on comparing the readiness scores with a threshold. Willingness scores for performing the task by the users determined to be able and ready to perform the task are determined. A willingness score includes a value corresponding to whether a user is estimated to be willing for performing the task. Users that are willing to perform the task are determined based on comparing the willingness scores with a threshold.
US09741254B2	System and method for defining and predicting aircraft trajectories The method of the present invention comprises acquiring input data of both aircraft performance characteristics and atmospheric data, and defining trajectory parameters to which the aircraft trajectory must be subjected, the method further comprising defining aircraft trajectory parameters; acquiring a plurality of atmospheric forecast ensembles; calculating a predicted trajectory from each atmospheric forecast of an atmospheric forecast ensemble, said predicted trajectory having associated information regarding a certain figure of merit of the aircraft trajectory, wherein an ensemble of predicted trajectories is obtained from each atmospheric forecast ensemble, each predicted trajectory of the ensemble of predicted trajectories having an associated probability derived from the probability of each atmospheric forecast within an atmospheric forecast ensemble; the system of the present disclosure comprising all the necessary equipment to carry out the method of the present disclosure.
US09741242B2	Handheld terminal with integrated wireless appliance control Disclosed is a terminal that integrates control of multiple appliances, where a corresponding control interface is provided in response to a physical design feature of the terminal. For example, in some cases the physical design feature may be a toggle switch, a pop-up button, or a deformable region of a flexible display. In this way, in response to activation of a physical design feature of a device, a user may use a single control interface integrating controls for multiple appliances to easily, immediately, and seamlessly control multiple different appliances.
US09741237B1	Emergency location identification using wireless devices Embodiments of the present disclosure include an efficient and accurate method for presenting victim locations to emergency responders. The method disclosed can be used to track individuals still remaining in a building in case of an emergency. The method comprises determining a location for an individual by receiving a device identifier (e.g., combination of numbers and/or characters uniquely identifying a receiving device associated with the individual) and location information, received from one or more beacons, from the receiving device. The method comprises determining a first location associated with the receiving device based on the location information and/or the device identifier. The method comprises determining different locations associated with the individual as the individual moves and determining whether the individual is still within the building. The method comprises, displaying location information and instructions to reach the individual in case of an emergency.
US09741236B2	Consumer alarm with quiet button An alarm system is disclosed. The alarm system includes an enclosure; at least one sensor, the sensor is configured to communicate a signal to the enclosure; and at least one of a wireless transceiver positioned in the enclosure, the transceiver configured to receive an activation signal and transmit an alarm signal.
US09741235B2	Digital real security system, method and program A digital real security system, method and program reliably report the occurrence of an emergency situation in real time. The digital real security system comprises an abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) that acquires an abdominal pressure signal from an abdominal pressure sensor (10) for detecting a user's abdominal pressure and acquires a respiration signal from a respiration sensor (20) for detecting the user's breathing, and a storage unit (105) that stores a normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern of the user detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101), and an abnormality determination unit (112) matches a number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) to that user's normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern stored in the storage unit (105), and determines whether it is abnormality based on the match result.
US09741229B2	Optical sensor, optical sensor assembly and monitoring device An optical sensor (100) comprises: a holding sleeve (11); a fixed ferrule (12) fixedly mounted in said holding sleeve (11); a movable ferrule (13) movably mounted in said holding sleeve (11), a predetermined distance existing between a first movable end of said movable ferrule (13) and a first fixed end of said fixed ferrule (12) in said holding sleeve (11); a reflection part (14) arranged at a second movable end of said movable ferrule (13) opposite to said first movable end, for reflecting light entering the movable ferrule (13); and an actuation part (15), said actuation part (15) being constructed to drive said movable ferrule (13) to move so that said first movable end moves towards said first fixed end. An optical sensor assembly and a monitoring device comprising the optical sensor (100), or another sensor (1012) can remotely detect a mechanical movement in a passive mode. A first reflector (14, 1016) is configured to provide a first reflected optical signal. The sensor (100, 1012) is connected to the first reflector and has a first position and a second position, the second position configured to attenuate the first reflected optical signal more than the first position. The sensor is configured to move between the first and second positions in response to a monitored parameter (1018).
US09741211B2	Checkout station A checkout station includes a display that is rotatable between a first position and a second position and a barcode scanner that is directed in a first direction in the first position and in a second direction in the second position.
US09741210B2	Gaming system and method providing a battling symbol generators game Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a battling symbol generators game. In various embodiments, each symbol generator of a set of symbol generators employed for the battling symbol generators game is associated with one of a plurality of different characteristics. During play of the battling symbol generators game, the gaming system modifies the set of symbol generators upon the occurrence of various symbol generator set modification events such that more symbol generators of the set are associated with a particular characteristic and/or such that fewer symbol generators of the set are associated with another characteristic. The gaming system provides a bonus when a designated quantity of the symbol generators of the set are each associated with a particular characteristic.
US09741202B2	Method of online valuating a client and a system thereof There is provided a system and method of online valuating a client in a computerized service system (e.g. game system). The method comprises: identifying all clients directly involved in a monetary event; for each identified directly involved client Ci, searching a stored plurality of records for all records informative of monetary chunks tagged with the client Ci as an owner, and associating with the client Ci a virtual account Ai, the virtual account Ai being informative of all monetary chunks in an ownership of the client Ci, thereby giving rise to a plurality of virtual accounts associated with the identified directly involved clients, wherein each monetary chunk is further tagged with a depositor client who introduced the respective monetary chunk into the service system and with respective timestamp; identifying every client tagged as depositor client to at least one monetary chunk corresponding to at least one virtual account of the plurality of virtual accounts, thereby giving rise to a plurality of clients indirectly involved in the event; and valuating one or more clients directly or indirectly involved in the event, wherein a value of each given client is calculated with consideration of all monetary chunks corresponding to the plurality of virtual accounts and tagged to the given client as a depositor client.
US09741197B2	Automated prescription dispensing system and method An automated prescription dispensing system and method for facilitating dispensing of medications from an automated prescription dispenser designed for in-home use. The dispenser may connect to a remote patient monitoring center for monitoring of the patient's dispenser use and adherence to a medication regime. The dispenser may further connect to a remote medication operations center for monitoring replenishment of the patient's medications and to a remote medical center for monitoring the patient's reaction to medications and clinical signs. A connection to a data analytics center and analytical engine facilitates communications among and between the users and/or caregivers at the remote centers. The dispenser may be loaded with a standardized cartridge that is replenished according to the patient's needs. The dispenser is further equipped with a camera that allows a caregiver at the remote patient monitoring center to view the patient while the patient uses the dispenser.
US09741179B2	Onboard unit for a vehicular identification system An onboard unit for a vehicular identification system is disclosed herein. The onboard unit comprises a housing attachable to an exterior surface of a vehicle's windscreen, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to communicate with the identification system via the transceiver. The transceiver and processor are contained in the housing. The onboard unit comprises a tampering protection unit which is split into a first part which is contained in the housing and a second part which is attachable to an inner surface of the windscreen. The first and the second part each comprise a limited range communication module for communication between each other. The tampering protection unit is configured to detect a loss of communication between both communication modules and, upon detection, to trigger an alarm event.
US09741178B1	Fare collection system in a public transit network A system in a public transit network may include a fare collection system, a fare management system, and a processing device for assessing the riskiness of fare classes in the transit network and causing the fare management system to take an action based on the assessment. Particularly, the processing device will receive fare information from the fare collection system, such as via a token reader, determine a fare return series over a period of time, apply a Capital Asset Pricing Model to the fare return series and assess the return versus volatility chart for multiple fare classes. Based on the assessment, the processing device will cause the fare management system to take an action such as changing a fare price or a route, deleting a fare class or a route, combining one or more fare classes or routes, or combining one or more fare classes with one or more routes.
US09741172B2	Providing volume indicators based on received images of containers In order to aid a user in filling a container with a target volume of a substance, an image is received. The image includes a view of the container and a view of a reference object. The reference object has a known dimension. The view of the reference object and the view of the container are then compared with reference to the known dimension. Based on the comparison, a volume of the container is determined. Based on the volume of the container, a volume indicator is provided.
US09741169B1	Wearable augmented reality devices with object detection and tracking The technology disclosed can provide capabilities to view and/or interact with the real world to the user of a wearable (or portable) device using a sensor configured to capture motion and/or determining the path of an object based on imaging, acoustic or vibrational waves. Implementations can enable improved user experience, greater safety, greater functionality to users of virtual reality for machine control and/or machine communications applications using wearable (or portable) devices, e.g., head mounted devices (HMDs), wearable goggles, watch computers, smartphones, and so forth, or mobile devices, e.g., autonomous and semi-autonomous robots, factory floor material handling systems, autonomous mass-transit vehicles, automobiles (human or machine driven), and so forth, equipped with suitable sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection.
US09741151B2	Mobile interactive comparison chart An animated visualization of data on an electronic device having a limited display area (such as a mobile device with a touch screen input) is disclosed. The limited display area is partitioned into a thumbnail view of a full data set and an expanded view of a subset of the data that is highlighted within the thumbnail. The views are correspondingly animated such that the highlighted data appears to progressively slide across the thumbnail view such that the full set of data is ultimately displayed in the expanded view. The data displayed in the expanded view is kept in context by dynamically highlighting the corresponding data within the thumbnail view. Various actions are also disclosed, such as pausing/re-starting the animation, selectively pinning data and consolidating coupled data elements—in each case at any time during the animation.
US09741137B2	Image-based color palette generation Systems and methods for generating an image-based color palette based on a color image. A color palette can be a collection of representative colors each associated with a weight or other metadata. A color palette may be generated based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation and palette determination. Representative colors with associated weight can be identified from a distribution of colors depicted by the color image, multiple palette candidates corresponding to the same color image can be generated based on various palette generation criteria, and a color palette can be identified therefrom.
US09741132B2	Method for correcting deviations of measured image data A method of correcting measured image data deviations of an image inspection system determining image data using a single measuring head and image measuring unit, by using a computer, includes measuring color spectrums of color fields using the head and unit, creating a color set from color spectrums of the head and unit, calculating spectrums from overprinting color combinations for the head and unit using a color model and the respective color set, calculating Lab color values for the head and unit based on spectrums of the head and unit, determining deviations between color values of the head and unit for supporting points, adding determined deviations to the color values of the measuring unit at the supporting points, creating an ICC profile based on corrected color values of the measuring unit for converting imprecise measured values thereof into accurate color values, and correcting imprecisely measured values of the measuring unit using the profile.
US09741130B2	Method and apparatus for detecting object A method and an apparatus for detecting an object are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a plurality of depth images of the object; extracting foregrounds; fusing the foregrounds in a unified three-dimensional world coordinate system; calculating an appearance two-dimensional histogram from the fused foreground by the following steps of dividing the foreground into vertical members and getting statistics of the numbers of foreground points in the vertical members so as to obtain the appearance two-dimensional histogram; determining an overlapping region and the number of overlaps based on the placement of stereo cameras; determining a detection parameter relating to a detection position based on the overlapping region and the number of overlaps; and detecting the object by the appearance two-dimensional histogram based on the determined detection parameter.
US09741104B2	Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for quad reconstruction using hybrid filter convolution and high dynamic range tone-mapping An apparatus for image reconstruction is provided, including processing circuitry to obtain, from a scan of a region of interest of a patient, raw projection data of the region of interest; reconstruct the raw projection data to produce image data; apply high dynamic range tone-mapping to the image data to produce tone-mapped image data by applying window width and window level parameters to the image data to produce adjusted image data, and calculating a contrast adjustment based on both the image data and the adjusted image data; and quantize the tone-mapped image data to produce quantized tone-mapped image data for display.
US09741102B2	Method to evaluate the presence of a source of x-ray beam inhomogeneity during x-ray exposure A statistical analysis is performed on pixel values of at least one region of interest in an image obtained by substantially uniform irradiation of an x-ray detector and deciding upon the presence of a source of x-ray beam in-homogeneity by comparing the results of the statistical analysis with at least one predetermined acceptance criterion.
US09741097B2	Image processing device Provided is an image processing device including a scaling unit configured to enlarge an input image represented by an input image signal to generate an enlarged image, a gain calculating unit configured to calculate a gain for enhancing the enlarged image for each target pixel of the enlarged image on a basis of the input image signal, and an adding unit configured to add, for each target pixel, a pixel value of the target pixel and the gain corresponding to the pixel value of the target pixel.
US09741088B2	Mobile device with context specific transformation of data items to data images In a mobile device with a processing unit, main memory, display memory and display, a context module identifies a user-context, a determiner module determines correspondence or non-correspondence of data images in the main memory to the user-context, a first selector module selects corresponding data images for access by the display memory in case of correspondence, a second selector module select data items in case of non-correspondence, a transformation module transforms selected data items to corresponding data images and stores them in the main memory, and an access module lets the display memory access the selected data images.
US09741083B2	Systems and methods for facilitating closing of a check Various methods are described for facilitating closing and payment of a check. One example method may comprise performing an action with a mobile device proximate a physical location associated with the check. The method may further comprise receiving in response a location identifier associated with the physical location. Additionally, the method may comprise determining the check to be closed based at least in part on the location identifier. Another example method may comprise performing an action with a mobile device proximate a folio device. The method may further comprise receiving in response a folio device identifier associated with the folio device. Additionally, the method may comprise providing for transmission of the check information to the folio device based at least in part on the folio device identifier. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided.
US09741072B2	Systems and methods for providing a customizable virtual gift card template According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for administering a virtual gift card, the method comprising acts of receiving a request from a server of a retailer, providing, in response to the request, an interface to a terminal operated by a purchaser, the interface comprising fields for receiving a value and a recipient for the virtual gift card, receiving from the terminal, in response to input from the purchaser, the value and the recipient for the virtual gift card, generating a code for the virtual gift card, and sending a message to the recipient of the virtual gift card, the message including the code for the virtual gift card.
US09741066B2	Tool for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
US09741065B2	Automated guidance for selecting components of an it solution A computer displays a first set of components available for selection by the customer for an IT solution. The computer receives, from the customer, selection of a first component included in the first set of components. The computer determines that subsequent use of the first component requires a service. The computer identifies and displays a second set of components based on compatibility with the first component and ability to use the same service as the first component. The computer receives selection, from the customer, a second component included in the second set of components. The computer designs the IT solution to (a) include the first component and the second component and (b) share the same service during use of the first component and the second component.
US09741061B2	System and method for personal customization of digital content A hosted server system includes a database, a processor, and computer program instructions for facilitating personal customization of digital media, such as for example gift messages to be coupled to e-books. The server system receives customization data and a digital media file from a third-party platform, and creates a record with a customized gift message file from the customization data. A file wrapper is generated with data indicating locations of the gift message file and the digital media file, which enables the third-party platform to selectively execute the customized gift message file and the digital media file. Alternatively, the initial data and request may be provided from a first platform, wherein an identifier is generated and transmitted to the first platform. Upon later receiving the identifier from a second platform, the file wrapper is generated and transmitted to the second platform.
US09741051B2	Tokenization and third-party interaction Processing of a transaction involving one or more third-parties and offers is described. Certain embodiments allow for suspending a received authorization request message which includes a transaction amount and a token mapped to a primary account number. One or more third-parties may be queried for an offer or discount eligible towards the transaction. The authorization request message may be adjusted to reflect one or more eligible offers from the one or more third-parties. The authorization request message may also be adjusted to replace the token with the mapped PAN. The authorization request message may then be sent to an issuer for further processing.
US09741049B2	Generation of cost-per-braking event values Systems and techniques are described for generating cost values for a plurality of braking events of an aircraft, where each cost value is based on an expected wear of the wheel-and-brake assembly of the aircraft during the respective braking event. The systems and techniques may take into account data representative of conditions during the respective braking event of the aircraft to generate the cost values.
US09741040B2	High-load business process scalability The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing high-load business process scalability in cloud-based infrastructures. One process includes operations for receiving a message at a first computer node executing a first business process instance. A second business process instance associated with the message is identified. The message is sent to a messaging queue for retrieval by the second business process instance if the second business process instance is not located at the first computer node.
US09741038B2	Systems and methods for risk triggering values Systems and methods for facilitating risk assessment for point of sale transactions utilizing at least one risk triggering value (RTV) is disclosed. An RTV is a condensed version of a set of complex risk data and strategies usually found in central processing sites. After receiving a request for payment authorization, a risk value is calculated for the request. The distributed processing site compares the risk value to the RTV to determine whether to authorize payment. If the risk value is less than or equal to the RTV, the payment is authorized while a risk value greater than the RTV will not be authorized. The central site calculates a new RTV for the account and distributes the new RTV to the distributed processing site.
US09741031B2	Portable device configured to receive product information A portable device includes a data capture unit and a wireless communication circuit in communication with a control circuit. The data capture unit is configured to receive product information from a product identifier. The wireless communication circuit is configured to communicate with a vendor server storing an electronic catalog that includes a product associated with the product information.
US09741026B1	Payment by use of identifier Described is a technology that enables a customer, who uses a payment card in a transaction and further provides an identifier in the same transaction, to use the identifier as a payment mechanism in all future transactions. In some embodiments, the technology involves communication between a customer's user device, a payment service system (PSS), and one or more merchant POS systems. A merchant POS system collects information in a transaction conducted between the merchant POS system and the customer, including, among others, the customer's contact information (e.g., telephone number), and forwards this information to the PSS. The PSS stores the information as an identifier, where the identifier is stored in association with the card used in the transaction. In a second transaction, the PSS sends a verification request to the user device based on the identifier (e.g., a text message), and processes the transaction only upon confirmation from the customer.
US09741022B2	Parental controls A web service platform to improve end-user engagement in a captive audience environment. Mobile and web-based clients allow application users to authorize and approve usage of entitlements of other users, including their children, based upon preconfigured rules and the proximity between the user requesting and the user approving authorization to use the entitlement.
US09741021B2	Optimized online marketing and scheduling systems and methods that are based on driving demand for services In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for driving demand for services. An appointment platform operating on a server may identify, based on an appointment inventory of a service provider, an open appointment to be filled. The appointment platform may rank a plurality of users to which the open appointment may be offered. The appointment platform may rank a user of the plurality of users based on a current membership score of the user. The appointment platform may determine, based on the ranking, to offer the user the open appointment. The appointment platform may identify, based on the current membership score of the user, a type of incentive from a plurality of types of incentives, to offer to the user for filling the open appointment.
US09741014B2	Automated asset management system with multiple sensing technologies An automated asset management system includes a plurality of storage locations for storing objects, and first and second sensing subsystems each configured to sense presence or absence of the objects in the plurality of storage locations. The first and second sensing subsystems are used to sense the presence or absence of a same particular object using different respective sensing modalities. In operation, a first scan of the storage locations is performed using the first sensing subsystem, and the presence or absence of the particular object is determined using the first sensing modality. In turn, a second scan of the storage locations is performed using the second sensing subsystem, and the presence or absence of the particular object is confirmed using both the result of the determination made using the first sensing modality and a determination of the presence or absence of the particular object using the second sensing modality.
US09741013B2	Object location guiding device and operation method thereof An object location guiding device and an operation method thereof are provided. The object location guiding device includes a processor, a controller and a guiding element array. Guiding elements of the guiding element array are disposed at different positions in a field so as to point to storage positions of different objects in the field. The processor converts the object data on an object list into storage-position information. The controller receives the storage-position information from the processor, converts the storage-position information into a first axis position code and a second axis position code, and drives the guiding element array by using the first axis position code and the second axis position code, so as to allow at least one corresponding guiding element of the guiding elements to point to a storage position of a corresponding object in the field.
US09741006B2	System and method for providing complex access control in workflows A system for providing complex access control in workflows. The system comprises a computer, including a computer readable storage medium and processor operating thereon. The system also comprises at least one business process which includes a plurality of tasks. Each task is associated with a task state which changes during execution of the task. The system further comprises a plurality of logical roles. Each logical role defines a responsibility based on the task state and a member of that logical role. Additionally, the system comprises a configurable matrix of access controls that is used to control access to the plurality of tasks based on the plurality of logical roles.
US09741005B1	Computing resource availability risk assessment using graph comparison Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, determining whether some or all portions of an application stack implemented on a distributed system are vulnerable to availability issues. In some examples, a web service may utilize or otherwise control a client instance to control, access, or otherwise manage resources of a distributed system. Based at least in part on comparing one or more customer graphs with one or more model, curated, or best practice graphs of a distributed system, availability risks and/or deployment recommendations may be provided. Additionally, in some examples, one or more remediation and/or migration operations may be performed automatically or provided as recommendations.
US09740987B2	Generation of computer-based discovery avatars based on tokenization of prioritized source data In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for developing, training, validating and deploying discovery avatars embodying mathematical models that may be used for document and data discovery and deployed within large data repositories. For example, an avatar may be constructed by machine learning processes, including by processing information related to what types of information analysts find useful in large data sets. Once constructed, an avatar may be deployed as an aid to human intuition in a wide range of analytical processes, such as related to national security, enterprise management (e.g., programs related to sales, marketing, product, promotions, placement, pricing and the like), dispute resolution (including litigation), forensic analysis, criminal, administrative, civil and private investigations, scientific investigations, research and development, and a wide range of others.
US09740985B2	Rating difficulty of questions A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for rating difficulty of a question. The mechanism receives an input question and generates one or more candidate answers from a corpus of knowledge using a pipeline of software engines. The pipeline of software engines generates a plurality of features extracted from the question, the one or more candidate answers, or the corpus of knowledge. The mechanism then generates a question difficulty score based on the plurality of features using a machine learning model. The machine learning model maps features to assigned weights for scaling the difficulty score.
US09740976B2	RFID tag and manufacturing method thereof An RFID tag includes a core formed by a first elastic material and having a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, and a pair of end parts provided on mutually opposite sides and connecting to the first surface and the second surface. The RFID tag further includes a metal layer provided on the first surface, a semiconductor chip provided on the second surface, and a dipole antenna provided on the second surface and electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. One of the metal layer and the dipole antenna is folded at folded parts at the pair of end parts, and the metal layer and the dipole antenna overlap at the folded parts.
US09740967B2	Method and apparatus of determining air quality In an approach to determining an air quality based on image, a computer performs a method, the method comprising: determining an image to be measured; determining an air quality model of at least one key area, the at least one key area including a key area associated with the image to be measured; acquiring a reference clear image corresponding to the image to be measured; and determining an air quality index to be measured based on an air quality related feature extracted from the image to be measured, the corresponding reference clear image, and the determined air quality model of the key area associated with the image to be measured.
US09740964B2	Object classification through semantic mapping There are provided systems and methods for performing object classification through semantic mapping. Such an object classification system includes a system processor, a system memory, and an object categorizing unit stored in the system memory. The system processor is configured to execute the object categorizing unit to receive image data corresponding to an object, and to transform the image data into a directed quantity expressed at least in part in terms of semantic parameters. The system processor is further configured to determine a projection of the directed quantity onto an object representation map including multiple object categories, and to associate the object with a category from among the multiple object categories based on the projection.
US09740960B2	Method and system for registration/alignment of 3D digital models Systems and methods, devices and software are described for use in image comparison such as required for medical planning such as in dental implantology or other applications that require registration of digital images. A method and system is described for automatically finding correspondences between two or more digital representations such as images of one or more 3D objects with an identical, partially identical or similar geometry. The method and system, devices and software have the advantage that although the different digital representations of the object may be influenced by either noise, or scatter, or occlusion, or clutter, or any combination of these, correspondence can be found.
US09740959B2	Acceleration of exposure fusion with pixel shaders A method of fusing images includes encoding first image data of a pixel in a first image and second image data of a like pixel in a second image. The first image and the second image have different exposures and are captured by an image capture device of the same scene from the same location, and the pixel and the like pixel map to an identical coordinate location within their respective images. The method also includes determining, by a graphics processing unit (GPU), a first quality measure for the first image data and a second quality measure for the second image data. A weighted blending of the first image data with the second image data is performed to achieve fused image data for a third pixel at the identical coordinate location in a fused image.
US09740955B2	Method for product recognition from multiple images A method for product recognition from multiple images includes producing a plurality of recognition results for a plurality of input images, stitching the plurality of input images into a single stitched image; merging the plurality of recognition results using information from stitching the plurality of input images to generate a merged recognition result; and outputting the merged recognition result. The disclosure also includes systems for implementing the method.
US09740946B2	Identification method based on connectivity profiles The present invention relates to a medical data processing method for identifying an entity of the nervous system, in particular the brain, of a patient, wherein the method is designed to be executed by a computer and comprises the following steps: a) acquiring target connectivity data comprising target connectivity information about the probability of a target entity being connected to other entities of the nervous system; b) acquiring candidate connectivity data comprising candidate connectivity information about the probability of at least one candidate entity being connected to other entities of the nervous system; and c) determining similarity data for each of the at least one candidate entities on the basis of the candidate connectivity data and the target connectivity data, wherein the similarity data comprise similarity information about the similarity between the candidate entity and the target entity.
US09740937B2	System and method for monitoring a retail environment using video content analysis with depth sensing A method and system for monitoring a retail environment by performing video content analysis based on two-dimensional image data and depth data are disclosed. Accuracy in customer actions to provide assistance, change marketing behavior, safety and theft, for example, is increase by analyzing video containing two-dimensional image data and associated depth data. Height data may be obtained from depth data to assist in object detection, object classification (e.g., detection a customer or inventory) and/or event detection.
US09740924B1	Feature-based pose detection In order to classify the presented pose of a human hand, a feature distribution map of the pose is compared to reference feature distribution maps. To generate a feature distribution map, each contour point of a hand is analyzed to determine a corresponding feature set. The feature set of a contour point includes a distance feature and an angle feature of the contour point in relation to one of its neighboring contour points. The feature sets generated from an observed pose are compared to feature sets of reference poses to determine which of the reference poses most closely matches the presented pose.
US09740914B2	Face location detection The location of a face is detected from data about a scene. A 3D surface model from is obtained from measurements of the scene. A 2D angle data image is generated from the 3D surface model. The angle data image is generated for a virtual lighting direction, the image representing angles between a ray directions from a virtual light source direction and normal to the 3D surface. A 2D face location algorithm is applied to each of the respective 2D images. In an embodiment respective 2D angle data images for a plurality of virtual lighting directions are generated and face locations detected from the respective 2D images are fused.
US09740897B1	Inventory management system and method An inventory management system includes an RFID reader, a multiplexing device operably connected to the RFID reader, and a plurality of shelving units. Each shelving unit has an outer boundary defined at least in part by RF blocking material. The inventory management system additionally includes a plurality of shelf antennas multiplexed to the RFID reader via the multiplexing device. At least one shelf antenna is routed within each shelving unit and tuned such that only RFID tags within the outer boundary of the shelving unit respond to an interrogation signal.
US09740894B1	Silent RFID state and restore back Silent radio frequency identifier (RFID) state and restore back is described herein. An RFID tag enters a silent state by receiving a sleep command from an RFID reader. While the RFID tag is in the silent state, only an awake command will restore back normal operation of the RFID tag. Other received commands or interrogations from the RFID reader are ignored and responses are not transmitted to the RFID reader.
US09740891B1	Tag-to-tag communication using RFID readers Messages may be passed between Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags using RFID readers. A first tag with a message intended for a second tag sends the message to an RFID reader. The reader then determines that the destination of the message is the second tag and sends the message to the second tag. The second tag may confirm receipt of the message by sending a receipt confirmation message to the reader for forwarding to the first tag, and/or the reader may itself confirm that the message was sent to the second tag by sending a transmit confirmation message to the first tag.
US09740890B2	Card insertion part and card reader A card insertion part for use with a card may include a card insertion port; a light guide member surrounding at least a part of a periphery of the card insertion port when viewed in an inserting direction of the card; a light source configured to emit a light toward the light guide member; a reflection member disposed on a rear side with respect to the light guide member in the inserting direction of the card; and a cover member including the card insertion port and covers at least the light guide member and the light source from a front side in the inserting direction of the card. The cover member may include translucent light transmissive material.
US09740889B2	Determining a computer's position and system for manufacturing a tag A method for accurately positioning a computer position, and identifying a specific rack position where the computer is without manual intervention. A camera is installed on the computer to read the contents of a tag on the rack, so as to identify the position information of the computer. Specifically, the computer is provided with a self-positioning function, wherein: a camera is installed on the computer, and the camera is configured to read the contents of a tag attached on a side of a rack to house the computer to identify the rack position where the computer is.
US09740888B1	Tamper evident detection Systems or methods can be used to detect evidence of tampering. The tampering can be physical tampering, such as the turning of a screw, or removal or modification of an electronic component. In some examples, a tamper detection value can be determined from a tamper detection device and compared to a predetermined tamper detection value to determine if tampering is indicated. The system can, upon detection of the tampering, halt an operation, disable device or circuit functionality, disable future operations, physically disable a device, or any combination thereof.
US09740865B2	System and method for configuring antivirus scans Disclosed are systems and method for configuring antivirus scans on a computer. An example method comprising: identifying, by a hardware processor, a software object that requires an antivirus scan; collecting, by the hardware processor, information for setting antivirus scan of the object; accessing, by the hardware processor, a data store of antivirus setting rules; selecting, by the hardware processor, a date and time for the start of the antivirus scan of the object based on the collected information and one or more antivirus setting rules; selecting, by the hardware processor, an antivirus scan method based on the collected information, the selected date and time, and one or more antivirus setting rules; and performing, by the hardware processor, an antivirus scan of the object using the selected antivirus scan method and at the selected date and time.
US09740863B2	Protecting a secure boot process against side channel attacks Embodiments of an invention for protecting a secure boot process against side channel attacks are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes cryptography hardware, a non-volatile memory, a comparator, and control logic. The cryptography hardware is to operate during a first boot process. The non-volatile memory includes a storage location in which to store a count of tampered boots. The comparator is to perform a comparison of the count of tampered boots to a limit. The control logic is to, based on the first comparison, transfer control of the apparatus from the first boot process to a second boot process.
US09740853B2	Configuring a sandbox environment for malware testing A device may receive a file to be analyzed in a sandbox environment, and may determine configuration information for configuring the sandbox environment. The configuration information may be determined based on at least one of: file information associated with the file to be analyzed, or client device information associated with a client device for which the file is intended. The device may configure the sandbox environment using the configuration information. The configuration information may identify a system configuration for the sandbox environment. The device may analyze the file in the sandbox environment based on configuring the sandbox environment using the configuration information.
US09740852B2	System and method for assessing an application to be installed on a mobile communications device A system and method checks for harmful behavior of an application to be installed on a mobile communications device. A server computer receives from the mobile communications device data pertaining to the application to be installed and information pertaining to the mobile communications device. The server processes the data and information to determine an assessment for the application to be installed. The assessment is provided to the mobile communications device and the assessment is displayed on the device if the assessment is one of dangerous and potentially dangerous.
US09740851B2	Sending a password to a terminal A mechanism is provided for sending a password to a terminal. A password send request is received. The status of each of a plurality of terminals coupled to the information processing device via a network is acquired. On the basis of the acquired statuses, at least one item is selected from a group comprising the terminal serving as a destination for the password, the communication method with the terminal, or the method for inputting the password in the terminal. The password is then sent to the selected terminal via a network.
US09740843B2	Method, system, license server for providing a license to a user for accessing a protected content on a user device and software module A method for providing a license to a user for accessing a protected content on a user device is provided, the method comprising: transmitting user authentication data from the user device to a user account server; transmitting user identification data from the user account server to a license server if the user authentication data corresponds to a valid user account on the user account server; checking in the license server, whether the user is entitled to the license; and transmitting the license from the license server to the user device, if the user identification data is validated and if the user is deemed entitled to the license. A corresponding system, a license server and a software module are provided as well.
US09740838B2	Method and computer program for providing authentication to control access to a computer system The present invention relates to a method and computer program for providing authentication to control access to a computer. system including online services accessed via a portal, cloud based systems and browser accessed systems using for example HTML5, and relates particularly, but not exclusively, to authentication systems for mobile computer and telecommunications devices.
US09740836B2	Licensing for each of software modules of application for execution on the apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of executing an application formed by a plurality of program modules is disclosed, including: a correspondence information storing part, a determination part, and a boot control part. A correspondence information storing part stores correspondence information corresponding to the plurality of program modules and a plurality of sets of license data for the application. A determination part determines whether to permit or deny activation based on the license data corresponded to the correspondence information for each of the program modules included in the application. A boot control part activates one or more program modules which are permitted to be activated by the determination part.
US09740832B2	Method, apparatus and system for access mode control of a device A method, apparatus, and system for accessing at least a portion of a device based upon an access input. An access input is received. The access input includes information for gaining access to one or more functions of the device. A user access mode of the device is changed from a first access mode to a second access mode based upon at least in part on the access input. An application is selected in the device in response to changing from the first access mode to the second access mode. At least a portion of the output of the selected application is provided.
US09740831B2	Clinical data management system A clinical data management system (1) has databases (20), processors in servers (2-4) which are programmed to process clinical data and communicate with user interfaces and external systems interfaces, and at least one database. The system imports source data from disparate clinical site sources into staging databases at refresh intervals, maintains data models, and maps data from the staging databases into the data models, and feeds data from the data models into data delivery databases. There is a uniform refresh frequency for the staging databases. The system output is regularly updated data for clinical site performance, quality and risk metrics to a clinical study team. The data mapper servers identify each of a plurality of source data stages, and transform data from each stage to one or more data models according to one or more mapsets, each mapset defining a transformation.
US09740829B2	Interface for medical infusion pump An apparatus for indicating a change in operation of a medical infusion pump. The apparatus includes a memory configured to store an original pump parameter and a current pump parameter. The apparatus further includes a programmable circuit in electrical communication with the memory, the programmable circuit programmed to display the original pump parameter and the current pump parameter. A method indicates a change in operation of a medical infusion pump.
US09740827B2	Method and system for monitoring intoxication A method and system for monitoring a user's intoxication including receiving a set of signals, derived from a set of samples collected from the user at a set of time points; providing a sobriety task to the user proximal to a time point of the set of time points; generating a performance dataset characterizing performance of the sobriety task by the user; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing a demographic profile of the user and/or a physiological state of the user; determining a set of values of an intoxication metric, derived from the set of signals; generating a predicted temporal profile of the intoxication metric for the user based upon the set of values, the set of time points, and the supplementary dataset; generating an analysis of the user's sobriety based upon the performance dataset and the predicted temporal profile; and providing a notification to the user based upon the analysis.
US09740825B2	Dynamic presentation of actionable content items Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for determining and generating variably-sized display areas for presenting content items. The display areas include a notification bar that present icons representative of content items, a content item display area that displays content items, and a results display area that presents more detailed information concerning a particular content item.
US09740824B2	Drinking water reminding system and reminding method thereof Disclosed is a drinking water reminding system and the reminding method thereof. The water intake of user is measured by the operation of a reminder of the drinking water reminding system, and a collector of the drinking water reminding system is provided for adjusting the daily drinking water demand of user according to environmental parameters or the physiological parameters of user. The drinking water reminding system reminds the user to drink water if the drinking water reminding system determines that the user has taken insufficient water according to predetermined conditions and measurement results, drinking water reminding system.
US09740823B2	Healthcare tracking A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining location-time data automatically generated by a mobile electronic device associated with a healthcare provider, correlating the location-time data with a location of a healthcare patient, and using the location-time data to bill for care of the healthcare patient by the healthcare provider.
US09740822B2	Tags for automated location and monitoring of moveable objects and related systems An example embodiment provides a method, including: communicating, using a plurality of receivers placed throughout a hospital, with a tag affixed to a moveable object; receiving, via one or more of the plurality of receivers, location data of the tag affixed to the movable object; identifying, using data received from the tag, the movable object; determining, based on the one or more of the plurality of receivers transmitting the location data, a location within the hospital of the movable object; associating, using location information of a database, a use state for the movable object based on the location of the movable object within the hospital, the database storing the location information associated with placements of the plurality of receivers and a use state for a movable object associated with the placements; and updating, using a processor, a use state for the movable object. Related methods and products are also described and/or claimed herein.
US09740817B1	Apparatus for biological sensing and alerting of pharmaco-genomic mutation Electronic label processor compares bioinformatic values to determine pharmaco-genomic mutation associated with host. Label display indicates pharmaco-genomic mutation, which is network-accessible for modified medical message. Bioinformatic values are determined preferably at different times.
US09740815B2	Electromigration-aware integrated circuit design methods and systems Disclosed are electromigration (EM)-aware integrated circuit (IC) design techniques, which consider EM early in the IC design process in order to generate, in a timely manner, an IC design that can be used to manufacture IC chips that will exhibit minimal EM fails for improved IC reliability. Specifically, prior to placement of library elements, EM-relevant information is acquired and used to define protected zones around at least some of the library elements. Once the protected zones are defined, the library elements are placed relative to power rails in a previously designed power delivery network (PDN) and this placement process is performed such that each library element is prevented from being placed in a protected zone around any other library element to avoid EM fails in the PDN. Optionally, this same EM-relevant information is used during subsequent synthesis of a clock distribution network to prevent EM fails therein.
US09740814B1	Method and system for triple patterning technology (TPT) violation detection and visualization A method, system, and computer program product for triple patterning technology (TPT) violation detection and visualization within an integrated circuit design layout are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises mapping a plurality of violations of the integrated circuit design layout to a graph, generating a color graph corresponding to the graph, detecting at least one TPT violation from the color graph; and visualizing the at least one TPT violation on a layout canvas. In a second aspect, the system comprises a graph generator module for mapping a plurality of violations of the integrated circuit design layout to a graph and to generate a color graph corresponding to the graph, a detector module for detecting at least one TPT violation from the color graph, and a visualizer module for visualizing the at least one TPT violation on a layout canvas.
US09740813B1	Layout effect characterization for integrated circuits An aspect includes forming a layout effect characterization circuit by incorporating a plurality of inverting device chains including a reference chain and one or more chains having a different inverting device arrangement and a same number of inverting devices per chain in an integrated circuit layout. A low pass filter is coupled to an output of the inverting device chains to produce a filtered output. An output capture circuit is coupled to the filtered output to enable a comparison of a captured filtered output of the one or more chains having the different inverting device arrangement to a captured filtered output of the reference chain.
US09740810B2	Expert system-based integrated inductor synthesis and optimization A system and method for designing an electrical component comprises a model extraction engine configured to generate a model based on a set of parameters, a simulator configured to simulate the generated model and measure performance, a rule-set usable to determine changes to the set of parameters, and an inference engine configured to change salience values of expert rules included in the rule set. The salience value determines when and if an expert rule is used to change the set of parameters. One or more microprocessors are configured to determine design characteristics of the electrical component by iteratively performing, until measured performance is within tolerance, the steps of generating a model based on an updated version of the set of parameters, simulating the generated model, measuring performance of the generated model, and updating the set of parameters using the rule-set if the measured performance is not within the predefined tolerance.
US09740805B1	Method and system for detecting hotspots for photolithographically-defined devices A method detects hot spots from overlay error data for photolithography defined device(s). The overlay error data corresponds to data for sites on a substrate for the photolithography defined device(s). The overlay error data is converted to residual overlay data, which indicates a residual overlay error for each of the sites. The residual overlay error is based on an expected overlay error for each of the sites. It is determined whether group(s) of overlay error sites are present. Each group includes at least two nearest neighbor sites that have the residual overlay error greater than a threshold. For each group of overlay error sites, it is determined whether the group fits a physical model, such as the derivative of a Gaussian, for a hotspot. Each group fitting the physical model is categorized as a hotspot. Hotspot parameters are determined for each group that fits the physical model.
US09740803B2	System and method for inferring operational specifications of a fleet of photovoltaic power generation systems with the aid of a digital computer Operational specifications of a photovoltaic plant configuration can be inferred through evaluation of historical measured system production data and measured solar resource data. Based upon the location of the photovoltaic plant, a time-series power generation data set is simulated based on a normalized and preferably substantially linearly-scalable solar power simulation model. The simulation is run for a range of hypothetical photovoltaic system configurations. The simulation can be done probabilistically. A power rating is derived for each system configuration by comparison of the measured versus simulated production data, which is applied to scale up the simulated time-series data. The simulated energy production is statistically compared to actual historical data, and the system configuration reflecting the lowest overall error is identified as the inferred (and optimal) system configuration. Inferred configurations of photovoltaic plants in a photovoltaic fleet can be aggregated into a configuration of the fleet.
US09740801B2	Optimization for cooling A design optimization system (100) and a method for achieving design optimization for cooling are described herein. According to an implementation, the method includes obtaining an inlet value of at least one flow parameter at a small geometric length scale and determining an outlet value of the at least one flow parameter at the small geometric length scale based on the inlet value. Further, a flow behavior is modeled based on the inlet and outlet values of the at least one flow parameter, and based on the modeled flow behavior an optimized design for cooling is ascertained.
US09740799B2	Cut-fold shape technology for engineered molded fiber boards A three-dimensional engineered shaped fiber configuration is formed using determined structural requirements for a three-dimensional engineered shaped fiber configuration and ascertained properties of an engineered molded fiber fiberboard material. A first cut on a top surface and a second cut on a bottom surface of the fiberboard material are calculated. These calculations are based, at least in part, on the structural requirements properties of the fiberboard material. The first cut and the second cut each have a depth, a width, and a position. The first cut and the second cut have a spacing between them such that the flat piece of fiberboard material can be folded at a point located in the spacing between the first cut and second cut to position a first portion of the fiberboard material at a particular angle with respect to a second portion of the fiberboard material.
US09740796B2	Navigating a website using visual analytics and a dynamic data source Embodiments of the present invention disclose identifying relevant content in a social media website. A data set is identified using a computer. A plurality of electronic records of the data set are received, wherein the electronic records are a result of the data mining. A plurality of ontologies is generated based on the electronic records and a subset of the plurality of ontologies is displayed on a user device. A user input is recorded as a user record and the set of ontologies that is displayed is modified. A second subset of ontologies for display on the user's device is generated, based on the modified popularity value. A modified display value based on the modified popularity value is determined and the second subset of ontologies is displayed based on the modified display value.
US09740795B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for consolidating web pages displayed in multiple browsers Methods, systems, and computer program products for consolidating Web pages displayed in multiple browsers at a computer processing device are provided. A method includes generating an information file in response to initiation of a browser instance and creating a file record for each web page accessed during the browser instance. The file record includes session history data for each web page. The method also includes consolidating each of the file records from the information file with other file records from another information file created in response to another browser instance. The method further includes displaying a single view of browser activity corresponding to the browser instance and the other browser instance resulting from the consolidation.
US09740794B2	Methods and systems for enhancing internet experiences Previews of a target web site or other Internet-accessible resource are displayed in response to cursor control events. The previews are displayed in preview windows, which may have associated toolbars that include functions permitting various manipulations of the content displayed in the preview window. In some cases, the target web site is displayed as an image thereof in the preview window.
US09740790B2	Tooling system A tooling system may comprise a tool scanner, a tool database, and a user interface device. The tool scanner may be configured to scan a tool identifier on a tool. The tool database may have tool information associated with the tool identifier. The user interface device may be in communication with the tool scanner and the tool database. The user interface device may receive tool information from the tool database in response to the scan by the tool scanner, concurrently display a tool issue description and a tool issue image from the tool information of the tool database, receive a tool area selection with respect to the tool issue image, and provide access to a tool issue history from the tool database in response to the tool area selection.
US09740789B2	Search engine analytics and optimization for media content in social networks Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for searching a social network for media content. Aspects include receiving a query for media content related to a topic from a user, identifying a plurality of content items associated with the topic and determining a quality score for each of the plurality of content items. Aspects also include providing a subset of the plurality of content items to the user, wherein the subset is selected based on the quality score and updating the quality score of one or more content items in the subset based on a behavior of the user in viewing the subset of the plurality of content items.
US09740785B1	Ranking discussion forum threads Discussion threads may be ranked based a factor other than a time since a most recent post of the discussion thread. Discussion threads may be ranked based on a likelihood of each discussion thread being helpful to a broad range of users and/or based on how likely each discussion thread is to draw users to participate in the respective discussion thread.
US09740778B2	Ranking domains using domain maturity Ranking domains for search engines is provided herein. To rank a domain, contributing domains associated with the domain are identified. Additionally, the maturity of each of the contributing domains is determined. A rank for the domain is then determined based at least in part on the maturity of each of the contributing domains. The domain rankings may then be used to order results for search queries.
US09740775B2	Video retrieval based on optimized selected fingerprints A video retrieval method is provided. The method includes dividing video sequences stored in a video database into a plurality of video frames, extracting by a predetermined feature extracting algorithm a plurality of selected fingerprints from the plurality of video frames representing features having characteristic information specific to the plurality of video frames, and storing the plurality of extracted selected fingerprints in a fingerprint database. The method also includes receiving a query video sequence submitted by a user, extracting by the predetermined feature extracting algorithm at least one query fingerprint representing at least one query frame from the received query video sequence, and calculating similarity between the query fingerprint and the selected fingerprints from the fingerprint database to search for a match for the query fingerprint. Further, the method includes determining a matching fingerprint in the selected fingerprints by applying a fast dynamic programming algorithm and generating a matching result.
US09740774B2	System and method of organizing and editing metadata In the metadata organization system a metadata classification module dynamically reads metadata organization information, such as, for example, metadata field information, metadata display set information, and metadata category grouping information, from the metadata organization database, reads metadata from a metadata database, and organizes the metadata for display to a user in a graphical user interface. In the graphical user interface, a user may add, delete, and/or modify the metadata in the display. As the user changes the metadata, the metadata database is updated and the user's changes are reflected in the graphical user interface.
US09740772B2	Method and system for maintaining integrity of a user's life state information A method for enabling a user to view information filtered to align with the user's life state includes enabling the user to register and become a member of an information delivery system. The user provides the information about the user's life state. This information may include at least demographic information, ethnic information, social information and psychological information. The user may grant partners permission to access the information about the user's life. The granting of the permissions is performed and controlled by the user and may be limited to some information about the user's life. The partners are also members of the information delivery system. The partners are evaluated using a set of criteria before they become members of the information delivery system. The partners may use the information about the user's life to filter its information according to the information about the user's life. The method also enables the partner to participate in a marketplace to procure the information about the user's life, to rate the user according to the user's behavior, and to enable search engines to filter search results according to the information about the user's life.
US09740765B2	Building nomenclature in a set of documents while building associative document trees A method for topic discovery through structural knowledge in an associative document tree building system includes inserting a set of documents into nodes of a document tree, extracting a tag set of tags from the set of documents and inserting each tag into a different node of a tag tree. The method also includes conducting a search engine query using the tags of the extracted tag set to produce a new set of documents and inserting the new set of documents into nodes of the document tree. The method yet further includes extracting a new tag set of tags from the new set of documents and inserting each tag of the new tag set into a different node of the tag tree. Finally, the method includes displaying at least a portion of each of the document tree and tag tree in a user interface displayed.
US09740764B2	Systems and methods for probabilistic data classification A system for performing data classification operations. In one embodiment, the system comprises a file system configured to store a plurality of computer files and a scanning agent configured to traverse the file system and compile data regarding the attributes and content of the plurality of computer files. The system also comprises an index configured to store the data regarding attributes and content of the plurality of computer files and a file classifier configured to analyze the data regarding the attributes and content of the plurality of computer files and to classify the plurality of computer files into one or more categories based on the data regarding the attributes and content of the plurality of computer files. Results of the file classification operations can be used to set appropriate security permissions on files which include sensitive information or to control the way that a file is backed up or the schedule according to which it is archived.
US09740752B2	Determining user personality characteristics from social networking system communications and characteristics A social networking system obtains linguistic data from a user's text communications on the social networking system. For example, occurrences of words in various types of communications by the user in the social networking system are determined. The linguistic data and non-linguistic data associated with the user are used in a trained model to predict one or more personality characteristics for the user. The inferred personality characteristics are stored in connection with the user's profile, and may be used for targeting, ranking, selecting versions of products, and various other purposes.
US09740751B1	Application keywords Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance of a user, determining that at least a portion of the audio data corresponds to an action keyword, obtaining candidate applications that correspond to the action keyword, which include applications associated with a uniform resource identifier (URI) that corresponds to the action keyword, ranking the candidate applications that correspond to the action keyword based at least on: (i) a bidding weight associated with the action keyword for each of the candidate applications, and (ii) a power score associated with each of the candidate applications, identifying a highest ranked application among the candidate applications that has a URI that corresponds to at least the action keyword, and executing the URI for the highest ranked application among the candidate applications that correspond to at least the action keyword.
US09740749B2	Contextualization of entity relationships Methods and arrangements for identifying related data in different data sets to assist in searching the data sets. A first data asset and a second data asset are accessed. Common entities are identified between the first and second data assets. A score is determined for the relationship between the first and second data assets, based on the identified common entities. One or more relationship contexts are determined for the relationship between the first and second data assets, and the relationship score and one or more relationship contexts are used to join at least a portion of each of the first and second data assets as a basis for subsequent searching. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09740747B2	Similar design case example search apparatus A similar design case example search apparatus includes a design case example storage unit that manages such information as specification values of design case examples of past products and costs and period for manufacturing the products; a recommended weight storage unit that stores recommended weight for every requirement specification categories; a requirement specification receiving unit that receives requirement specification values; a requirement specification satisfaction degree calculation unit that calculates a requirement specification satisfaction degree which is the degree that the specification values of each design case example stored in the design case example storage unit satisfy the requirement specification values; a recommended degree calculation unit that calculates a recommended value of a searched design case example based on the recommended weight stored in the recommended weight storage unit; and a search result display unit that displays searched products with similarity and recommended degrees and can sort the data by the similarity and the recommended degree.
US09740746B2	Question answer system using physical distance data A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.
US09740742B2	Partitioning and repartitioning for data parallel operations A query that identifies an input data source is rewritten to contain data parallel operations that include partitioning and merging. The input data source is partitioned into a plurality of initial partitions. A parallel repartitioning operation is performed on the initial partitions to generate a plurality of secondary partitions. A parallel execution of the query is performed using the secondary partitions to generate a plurality of output sets. The plurality of output sets are merged into a merged output set.
US09740736B2	Linking ontologies to expand supported language A computer-implemented method, system using at least one computing device, and computer program product are disclosed for linking an ontology provided by a content service with a word expansion ontology. The content service ontology is referred to as a category ontology and the word expansion ontology is referred to herein as a lexical ontology. A user may provide an input such as an input command to an application. The input command is processed by a natural language processing engine to derive the user's intent and to extract relevant entities embodied in the command. The NLP engine may create a composite concept set containing multiple permutations of the concepts (entities extracted) and provide the composite concept set to a concept mapper. The concept mapper applies searches an ontology map and applies one or more scoring operations to determine a best match between the composite concept set and at least one category provided by the category ontology. The content service is searched using the category and the results are displayed to the user.
US09740730B2	Authorizing distributed task processing in a distributed storage network A method begins by a distributed storage (DS) processing module transmitting a set of requests to a set of DS units regarding a set of data elements and receiving a set of respective requests from the set of DS units. When the set of respective requests is in accordance with a current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period, the method continues with the DS processing module issuing a set of responses to the set of DS units. The method continues with the DS processing module receiving a set of respective responses from the set of DS units. When the set of received respective responses is in accordance with the current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period, the method continues with the DS processing module processing the set of received respective responses in accordance with the current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period to produce one of a set of results.
US09740725B2	Recommending content to digital magazine server users based on content inclusion in digital magazines A digital magazine server allows its users to create digital magazines by including content items in sections of one or more digital magazines. For various pairs of digital magazines, the digital magazine server determines a score based on a number of content items added to a digital magazine that were previously added to an additional digital magazine in a pair. The score indicates a frequency that the additional digital magazine added content items before the digital magazine. Digital magazines may be ranked for a user based on the scores, with the ranking used to recommend digital magazines or other users to the user. Further, the scores and connections between digital magazines may be used to create an influence score for various digital magazines.
US09740723B2	Systems and methods for management of virtualization data Described in detail herein is a method of copying data of one or more virtual machines being hosted by one or more non-virtual machines. The method includes receiving an indication that specifies how to perform a copy of data of one or more virtual machines hosted by one or more virtual machine hosts. The method may include determining whether the one or more virtual machines are managed by a virtual machine manager that manages or facilitates management of the virtual machines. If so, the virtual machine manager is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it manages or that it facilitates management of. If not, a virtual machine host is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it hosts. The data of each virtual machine is then copied according to the specifications of the received indication.
US09740722B2	Representing dynamic trees in a database A multiplicity of nodes are represented with a unique node identification (ID) and range ID for both enabling the database tree to be modified and identifying descendants of each of the plurality of nodes in a single query.
US09740719B2	Column store optimization using telescope columns A data set of spatial data having a plurality of dimensions and including linestrings can be processing by decomposing each linestring of the plurality of linestrings into a plurality of line segments. Each coordinate dimension appears in at least one line segment of the plurality of line segments can be listed in one of a plurality of dimensional dictionaries that each correspond to a dimension of the plurality of dimensions. A linestring of the plurality of linestrings can be represented as a set of the line segments using the plurality of dimensional dictionaries.
US09740717B2	Method of operation for a hierarchical file block variant tracker apparatus A system and apparatus intermediates between a centralized remote file service and several distributed virtual machine data center servers. When several file blocks are committed by applications running in virtual machines, they are aggregated together into a fewer number of file write operations to exploit the parallelism of multi-disk arrays. Requests for frequently retrieved file blocks are redirected to the location of the freshest retention. Each data center has a non-transitory file block store locally attached which provides images of virtual machines, applications, and data. Each file block librarian provides a file system view to each virtual machine. Several Virtual Machine Data Centers are coordinated by a tracker that locates, redirects, and retrieves any file block of any version of any file within its name space.
US09740707B2	Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods include clients that determine a target storage provider to contact for a particular storage transaction based on a pathname provided by the filesystem and a predetermined scheme such as a hash function applied to a portion of the pathname. Servers use the same scheme to determine where to store relevant file information so that the clients can locate the file information. The target storage provider may store the file itself and/or may store metadata that identifies one or more other storage providers where the file is stored. A file may be replicated in multiple storage providers, and the metadata may include a list of storage providers from which the clients can select (e.g., randomly) in order to access the file.
US09740703B2	Deploying policies and allowing offline policy evaluation In an information management system, policies are deployed to targets and targets can evaluate the policies whether they are connected or disconnected to the system. The policies may be transferred to the target, which may be a device or user. Relevant policies may be transferred while not relevant policies are not. The policies may have policy abstractions.
US09740700B1	Snapshot map This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for generating a snapshot map used to facilitate storage system management. In some embodiments, this includes receiving a set of selection criteria, generating a snapshot map based on the set of selection criteria, associating the snapshot map with a timestamp, storing the snapshot map along with the timestamp, associating an identifier after storing the snapshot map and the timestamp in a database, and displaying the snapshot map after obtaining the snapshot map from the database based on the identifier.
US09740697B2	Subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across networks A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to the receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes notifying at least the receiving client that the content is to be received by the preferred device.
US09740695B2	Method for enriching a multimedia content, and corresponding device According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps of: clustering said plurality of creators to deliver clusters comprising at least two creators, called relevant creators; assigning, to at least some relevant creators of the cluster comprising the first creator, called first cluster, a score of relevance determined from at least one criterion of similarity between said relevant creators and said first creator; ranking relevant creators of said first cluster according to their scores of relevance; selecting, among a plurality of multimedia contents, at least one second multimedia content related to said first multimedia content and delivered by a ranked relevant creator of said first cluster; enriching said first multimedia content based on said second multimedia content.
US09740690B2	Methods and systems for generation of flexible sentences in a social networking system Some embodiments include a computer-implement method of producing a flexible sentence syntax to facilitate one or more computer applications to generate and publish sentence expressions. For example, the method can include providing a developer interface to define a flexible sentence syntax that controls one or more sentences publishable by an application service. A developer of the application service can customize the flexible sentence syntax including selecting at least one of selectable tokens that is associated with another element to incorporate in the flexible sentence syntax. Based on the selected token, a computing device can generate and publish a target sentence according to the flexible sentence syntax on the application service's behalf.
US09740686B2	System and method for real-time multimedia reporting The present invention provides a real-time multimedia event reporting system and method that enable reporters to generate accurate reports or contents simultaneously in multiple languages accessible by users from anywhere in any form in real-time as the live event proceeds. In addition, the present invention enables the generation of a multi-language report in which words uttered during the event are represented in the languages that they were spoken. The disclosed system also enhances the real-time performance of the reporting process by enabling dynamic adjustment to the speech transcription operating parameters and by providing real-time editing of transcribed text using configurable event-specific text representations.
US09740685B2	Generation of natural language processing model for an information domain Embodiments relate to a method, apparatus and program product and for generating a natural language processing model for an information domain. The method derives a skeleton of a natural language lexicon from a source model and uses it to form a dictionary. It also applies a set of syntactical rules defining concepts and relationships to the dictionary and expands the skeleton of the natural language lexicon based on a plurality of reference documents from the information domain. Using the expanded skeleton of the natural language lexicon, it also provides a natural language processing model for the information domain.
US09740682B2	Semantic disambiguation using a statistical analysis A text containing a word is received by a computing device. The word is compared to inventory words in a sense inventory. The sense inventory comprises at least one inventory word and at least one concept corresponding to the at least one inventory word. Upon matching the word to an inventory word in the sense inventory, a concept for the word is identified by comparing each concept related to the inventory word to the word. The concept is assigned the word.
US09740676B2	Automatic column resizing In various embodiments, methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed that allow developers to provide automatic column resizing in spreadsheet software using a desktop integration framework. The width of a column usually can only be set at or to hard-wired widths or manually adjusted to fit (even with a manually triggered auto adjustment function). This feature adds the ability to control column widths in tables at run time.
US09740675B1	Communications between a customer relationship management (CRM) application and an electronic worksheet to automatically generate a pivot table object An integrated system is described that allows a user to easily mine and report data maintained by a customer relationship management (CRM) application. In general, the system automates the process of creating electronic reports, such as an electronic worksheet, in a format that can be directly manipulated and viewed from spreadsheet application. In one embodiment, the report is automatically generated to include a pivot table for displaying the data. The system includes a database adapted to store the CRM data. First and second reporting modules execute within the CRM software application and the worksheet software application, respectively. The reporting modules cooperate in order to integrate CRM application and spreadsheet application, thereby automating the process of generating a worksheet based on the CRM database.
US09740668B1	Plotting webpage loading speeds and altering webpages and a service based on latency and pixel density Techniques for managing performance information associated with rendering electronic content may be provided. For example, electronic content may be rendered and pixel density information may be plotted on a graph for comparison and/or perceived latency detection. In some examples, electronic content may be monitored during an amount of time. Based at least in part on the monitoring, pixel density information may be collected. The pixel density information may be associated with rendering the electronic content during the amount of time. Further, in some examples, perceived latency information may be determined. The perceived latency information may correspond to the rendering of the electronic content based at least in part on the collected pixel density information.
US09740667B2	Method and system for generating portable electronic documents The present disclosure relates to a method for generating portable electronic documents. The method comprises retrieving key character positions of each syllable, repositioned character and syllable chunks of each syllable of pre-processed electronic document. Then, probable data loss resulting from usage of each syllable chunk of the syllable chunks is determined using corresponding characteristic information associated with each syllable chunk. Each character of each syllable chunk is translated into glyph stream using predetermined glyph mapping based on probable data loss. The glyph stream is restructured using invisible glyphs and composite glyphs. Font data of at least one of invisible and composite glyphs is modified upon restructuring. Then, glyph stream is mapped with predetermined Unicode value of invisible glyphs, composite glyphs, repositioned character and each syllable chunk upon modification. A portable electronic document is generated using modified font data, mapping of the Unicode value and glyph stream of each syllable chunk.
US09740666B1	Systems and methods for merging table cells via expansion based on states of cells Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resolving a change to a table. A processing circuitry receives, from a user in a collaborative document editing environment, the change to the table, wherein the change comprises an expansion of a first cell in the table. A first state of the first cell is identified, wherein the state is indicative of a number of columns and a number of rows over which the first cell spans, and at least one of the number of columns and the number of rows is greater than one. A second state of a second cell that is adjacent to the first cell is identified, and the processing circuitry selects whether to allow the expansion of the first cell based on the second state of the second cell.
US09740663B2	Processing device and method for performing a stage of a Fast Fourier Transform A data processing device and a method for performing second or next stage of an N point Fast Fourier Transform is suggested. The processing device comprises an input operand memory unit and an input buffer comprising a plurality of addressable memory cells arranged in lines and columns. Furthermore, the device comprises a number of radix-P operation units for producing output operands that are buffered in an output buffer. Input operands are read from the input operand memory unit and buffering into the input buffer. The input operands are stored and fetched from the input buffer according to a reordering scheme that allows efficient parallel processing of the operands by the butterflies and the buffering of subsequent input operands.
US09740649B2	Systems, devices, apparatus, and methods for identifying stored data by a device located in a path between virtual Fibre channel switches and performing a data management service A first port of a device is connected to a first switch port of a first virtual switch defined within a switch device and a second port of the device is connected to a second switch port of a second virtual switch defined within the switch device. A target world wide port name of a target port of a storage system connected to the second virtual switch is identified by the device. The first port of the device is registered, in a first registration procedure, with the first virtual switch based on the target world wide port name. Registration information relating to an initiator port of a server that is associated with the target port is received in a second registration procedure. An initiator world wide port name of the initiator port of the server is determined based on the registration information. A storage volume in the storage system that is associated with the initiator port is identified based on the initiator world wide port name of the initiator port.
US09740648B2	Substrate treatment apparatus that controls respective units by master-slave method A valve control unit includes a data reading/selecting unit, which reads each of signals transmitted onto a serial bus, and selects a flow rate data signal from among the read signals. Therefore, the valve control unit can acquire the flow rate data signal from the serial bus without allowing the flow rate data signal to pass via the master IC. As a result, it is made possible to ensure real time properties of feedback control, which adjusts a needle valve based on a measurement result of a flowmeter, while reducing a load applied to a CPU that controls the master IC. Moreover, it is not necessary to provide an additional instrument for transferring analog signals between slave devices, and accordingly, a size increase and cost increase of an apparatus can be suppressed.
US09740641B2	Information processing device, I/O system, and I/O control method An information processing device that are capable of continuing access to an I/O device by operational computers even when a failure has occurred in a management computer is provided.A virtualization bridge (300) includes a monitoring unit (307) and a backup control unit (308). The virtualization bridge (300) provides operational computers (200) with virtual functions of an I/O device (400). The monitoring unit (307) detects failures in a management computer (100). The backup control unit (308) generates backup management information (341) on the basis of packets transmitted and received between the management computer (100) and the I/O device (400), and, when a failure in the management computer (100) is detected by the monitoring unit (307), controls the I/O device 400 on the basis of the backup management information (341) in place of the management computer (100).
US09740637B2	Cryptographic multi-shadowing with integrity verification A virtual-machine-based system that may protect the privacy and integrity of application data, even in the event of a total operating system compromise. An application is presented with a normal view of its resources, but the operating system is presented with an encrypted view. This allows the operating system to carry out the complex task of managing an application's resources, without allowing it to read or modify them. Different views of “physical” memory are presented, depending on a context performing the access. An additional dimension of protection beyond the hierarchical protection domains implemented by traditional operating systems and processors is provided.
US09740634B2	Establishing a point-in-time copy relationship between source logical addresses and target logical addresses Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for establishing a point-in-time copy relationship between source logical addresses and target logical addresses. A point-in-time (PiT) copy establish command specifies a source set comprising a subset of source logical addresses in at least one storage and a target set comprising a subset of target logical addresses in the at least one storage. The source set of source logical addresses are copied to the target set of target logical addresses. The source logical addresses map to source tracks and wherein the target logical addresses map to target tracks. Copy information is generated indicating whether the source logical addresses in the source set have been copied to the target set. Complete is returned to the PiT copy establish command after generating the copy information and before copying all the source logical addresses to the target logical addresses.
US09740633B2	Updatable address lookup application program interface Embodiments relate to a new application program interface (API) and supporting tools to introduce efficiency associated with a transaction. An in-memory translation table maintains accurate address locations of key-value pair locations. The new API employs the translation table to obtain both the requested data and any updated address associated with the requested data. Any subsequent API may be communicated with the updated address.
US09740628B2	Page table entry consolidation A method includes identifying, by a processor, a first page table entry (PTE) of a page table for translating virtual addresses to main storage addresses, the page table comprising a second page table entry contiguous with the second page table entry, determining with the processor whether the first PTE may be joined with the second PTE, the determining based on the respective pages of main storage being contiguous, and setting a marker in the page table for indicating that the main storage pages of identified by the first PTE and second PTEs are contiguous.
US09740620B2	Distributed history buffer flush and restore handling in a parallel slice design An approach is provided in which a computing system captures content included in a history buffer entry that corresponds to a flush ITAG. The computing system, in turn, uses an execution unit to transmit the content over a results bus to multiple registers and restore at least one of the registers accordingly.
US09740617B2	Hardware apparatuses and methods to control cache line coherence Methods and apparatuses to control cache line coherence are described. A hardware processor may include a first processor core with a cache to store a cache line, a second set of processor cores that each include a cache to store a copy of the cache line, and cache coherence logic to aggregate in a tag directory an acknowledgment message from each of the second set of processor cores in response to a request from the first processor core to modify the copy of the cache line in each of the second set of processor cores and send a consolidated acknowledgment message to the first processor core.
US09740613B2	Cache memory system and processor system A cache memory system has a first cache memory comprising one or more levels, to store data corresponding to addresses, a second cache memory comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, which has higher speed capability than a main memory, has a larger capacity than the first cache memory and stores data corresponding to addresses, and a first storage to store address conversion information from a virtual address issued by a processor to a physical address and to store flag information indicating whether data is stored in the second cache memory by a page having a larger data amount than a cache line, the first cache memory being accessed by the cache line.
US09740607B2	Swap operations in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing swap operations in a memory. An example apparatus might include a first group of memory cells coupled to a first sense line and configured to store a first element. An example apparatus might also include a second group of memory cells coupled to a second sense line and configured to store a second element. An example apparatus might also include a controller configured to cause the first element to be stored in the second group of memory cells and the second element to be stored in the first group of memory cells by controlling sensing circuitry to perform a number operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US09740605B2	Reducing page invalidation broadcasts in virtual storage management Technical solutions for reducing page invalidation broadcasts in virtual storage management are described. One general aspect includes a method including allocating, by a storage manager, a virtual memory page to a memory buffer that is used by an application being executed by a multiprocessor system, the virtual memory page being allocated from an address space of the application. The method also includes recording, by a memory management unit, a mapping between the virtual memory page and a physical location in a memory. The method also includes in response to a request, from the application, to deallocate the memory buffer, delaying invalidation of the mapping between the virtual memory page and the physical location in a memory, based on a count of free frames in the address space of the application.
US09740601B2	Globalization testing management service configuration Disclosed aspects may include examining a set of product development data of a product development environment. In response to the examining, a set of globalization data may be identified. The set of globalization data may relate to a set of globalization parameters. In response to the identifying, the set of globalization data may be transmitted. Disclosed aspects may include receiving a set of globalization data which relates to a set of globalization parameters. By processing the set of globalization data using a set of globalization testing operations, a globalization test output can be determined. In response to the determining, the globalization test output can be provided.
US09740595B2	Method and apparatus for producing a benchmark application for performance testing A method of producing a benchmark application for testing input/output—I/O—settings of a computer application, the method comprising: compiling trace data relating to operations to be executed by the computer application; grouping the trace data into one or more phases, based on different stages in the execution of the computer application to which the operations relate; identifying patterns in the trace data and comparing the patterns; producing simplified trace data in which trace data having similar patterns are combined; and outputting a benchmark application which includes the simplified trace data and information indicating where the trace data have been combined.
US09740590B2	Determining importance of an artifact in a software development environment In an approach to determining an importance value of an artifact in a collaborative software development environment, a computer determines a snapshot of a collaborative software development environment, wherein the snapshot includes an artifact and at least one relationship between the artifact and one or more nodes in one or more hierarchical levels. The computer then determines, based, at least in part, on the snapshot, a plurality of parameters for the artifact in the collaborative software development environment. The computer calculates, based, at least in part, on the plurality of parameters, an importance value of the artifact.
US09740585B2	Flexible configuration and control of a testing system A method is provided to get a high test coverage through a large number of test cases with a minimum number of test programs. Tests are performed flexibly in various environments, using parameters in multiple dimensions. The parameters can be dynamically extracted from the machine or simulator either by controlling scripts or by the test program itself. Multiple ways are offered to execute subsets of the test combinations.
US09740580B2	Systems and methods for serial data transfer margin increase Embodiments are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for enhancing margin in a serial data transfer.
US09740570B2	Network folder resynchronization Resynchronization of folders shared among multiple client devices over a network is provided. Metadata and hash values stored on the client device are moved from a metadata database to a resynchronization database, and the data in the metadata database is deleted. Metadata is created for locally stored synchronized files. For each file, the created metadata is compared to the metadata stored in the resynchronization database. If the metadata matches, hash values are retrieved from the resynchronization database and stored with the created metadata in the metadata database. If the metadata does not match, hashes for the file are created and stored with the created metadata in the metadata database. A synchronization operation may be performed which consists of comparing the files stored on the client to the synchronized versions on a host server and updating or adding files that are not present or not up to date.
US09740564B2	Information device storing data for system restoration An information device has a storage medium storing information items which includes a first program provided on a first partition, a second program and data provided on a second partition to restore the first program on the first partition to a predetermined state, a boot block which causes system activation from one of the first partition and the second partition, and an active-partition switching program which indicates, to the boot block, one of the first and second partitions. An input/output system activates the active-partition switching program when a specific operation is performed. The active-partition switching program indicates to the boot block that system activation is to be executed from the second partition.
US09740561B2	One-time programmable memory device and method for verifying data for such memory device A one-time programmable (OTP) memory device includes a memory array. The memory array includes: a data storage section for storing application data; a verification information section including at least one verification information unit, wherein each verification information unit includes a verification address region for storing verification address information associated with an address of a subject region in the data storage section, and a reference verification data region for storing one or more reference verification data, and wherein each reference verification data is calculated through reference verification calculation on the application data stored in the subject region using a predetermined verification algorithm. The OTP memory device further includes a verification processor for reading the application data from the subject region according to the verification address information, and calculating a self-verification result from the application data stored in the subject region using a selected verification algorithm; and a controller coupled to the memory array and the verification processor, for receiving the self-verification result from the verification processor and comparing the self-verification result with a reference verification data selected from the one or more reference verification data stored in the reference verification data region to obtain a comparison result.
US09740558B2	On-die ECC with error counter and internal address generation A memory subsystem enables managing error correction information. A memory device internally performs error detection for a range of memory locations, and increments an internal count for each error detected. The memory device includes ECC logic to generate an error result indicating a difference between the internal count and a baseline number of errors preset for the memory device. The memory device can provide the error result to an associated host of the system to expose only a number of errors accumulated without exposing internal errors from prior to incorporation into a system. The memory device can be made capable to generate internal addresses to execute commands received from the memory controller. The memory device can be made capable to reset the counter after a first pass through the memory area in which errors are counted.
US09740547B2	Storing data using a dual path storage approach A method begins by a processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a data object for storage in DSN memory and determining dispersed storage error encoding parameters for encoding the data object to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module determining to use a dual storage path approach for storing the plurality of sets of encoded data slices in first memory type of the DSN memory and in second memory type of the DSN memory. The method continues with the processing module dispersed storage error encoding the data object to produce the plurality of sets of encoded data slices and outputting the plurality of sets of encoded data slices to the first and second memory types of the DSN memory in accordance with the dispersed storage error encoding parameters.
US09740525B2	Scaling priority queue for task scheduling In a computing system having a multiple central processing unit (CPU) cores the task scheduler can be configured to generate one or more priority value lists of elements, with each priority value list comprising elements having the same priority value. The priority queue of a task scheduler can be populated by links to priority value lists that are arranged in order of priority. Worker threads can access an input SIAO and determine the maximum priority of any element in the input SIAO. If the input SIAO has an element with higher priority than the priority queue of the task scheduler then the worker thread can cause the task associated with that element to be processed, otherwise the worker thread can cause all of the elements of the SIAO to be put into the priority value lists linked to by the elements in the priority queue.
US09740521B2	Constrained transaction execution Constrained transactional processing is provided. A constrained transaction is initiated by execution of a Transaction Begin constrained instruction. The constrained transaction has a number of restrictions associated therewith. Absent violation of a restriction, the constrained transaction is to complete. If an abort condition is encountered, the transaction is re-executed starting at the Transaction Begin instruction. Violation of a restriction may cause an interrupt.
US09740513B2	System and method for real time virtualization A system includes a plurality of compute modules and a first processor configured to implement a virtualization layer, where the virtualization layer is configured to support real time jobs. The system also includes a hardware support layer coupled between the plurality of compute modules and the virtualization layer, where the hardware support layer is configured to provide an interface between the virtualization layer and the plurality of compute modules.
US09740508B2	Alerting a user of an indicated impact of a command Disclosed aspects include alerting a user of an indicated impact of a command using a weight for the command. Using a set of command data which indicates an impact of a first command, a first weight for the first command is established. By monitoring a user, a predicted execution of the first command is detected. By comparing the first weight with a threshold weight, a determination is made to provide an alert to the user. In response to making the determination, the alert is provided to the user.
US09740507B2	Interacting with remote applications displayed within a virtual desktop of a tablet computing device Virtual desktops generated by a virtual desktop application locally executing on a tablet computing device, can further display remote applications. The tablet computing device executes an operating system that does not contemplate a mouse pointer and that displays a native desktop. In many instances, the virtual desktop is displayed on the tablet computing device such that the virtual desktop appears to be the native desktop. The virtual desktops therefore include a mouse pointer which can be used to interact with the remote applications. The remote applications generate graphical application output when they execute on a remote server. The graphical application output is transmitted to the tablet computing device and displayed in an application output window displayed within the virtual desktop. Using a virtual trackpad or other virtual input device, a user can interact with the remote applications via the application output displayed on the virtual desktop.
US09740506B2	Automating interactions with software user interfaces A method and apparatus applies an action to a software application by determining a target object for the input action. The determination of the target object is performed by identifying the target object through socially identifying object information relative to a reference object. Then, the input action is applied to the target object.
US09740503B2	Centralized administration method for operating system of thin client and method thereof A centralized administration system for operating system (OS) of thin client and method thereof are disclosed, where the thin client is accessed a preboot execution environment (PXE) OS, an administration program installed in the PXE OS installs, updates or snapshot captures OS of the thin client, and a monitor message is feedback by the administration program to an administration server to be displayed immediately, so that an administration may acquire a progress, state and result of OS of the thin client installing, updating or snapshot capturing immediately and centrally. Therefore, the improving efficiency of OS of thin client management may be achieved.
US09740493B2	System and method of loop vectorization by compressing indexes and data elements from iterations based on a control mask Loop vectorization methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes generating a first control mask for a set of iterations of a loop by evaluating a condition of the loop, wherein generating the first control mask includes setting a bit of the control mask to a first value when the condition indicates that an operation of the loop is to be executed, and setting the bit of the first control mask to a second value when the condition indicates that the operation of the loop is to be bypassed. The example method also includes compressing indexes corresponding to the first set of iterations of the loop according to the first control mask.
US09740489B2	Instruction and logic for processing text strings Method, apparatus, and program for performing a comparison operation. The apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, the execution resources store a result of a comparison between valid data element of a first and second operand.
US09740486B2	Register files for storing data operated on by instructions of multiple widths A processor core includes even and odd execution slices each having a register file. The slices are each configured to perform operations specified in a first set of instructions on data from its respective register file, and together configured to perform operations specified in a second set of instructions on data stored across both register files. During utilization, the processor receives a first instruction of the first set specifying an operation, a target register, and a source register. Next, a second instruction upon which content of the source register depends is identified as being of the second set. In response, the first instruction is dispatched to the even slice. In accordance with the operation specified in the first instruction, the even slice uses content of the source register in its register file to produce a result. Copies of the result are written to the target register in both register files.
US09740465B1	Orchestration of software application deployment in a satellite platform Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying software applications in satellites. In one example, a control system may receive user input indicative of deployment requirements for a software application, and identify an availability of resources in a plurality of satellites deployed as an orbiting satellite platform. The control system further determines deployment options for deployment of the software application based on the deployment requirements and the availability of resources in the plurality of satellites, and provides the deployment options to a developer of the software application.
US09740463B2	Mechanism for increasing the performance of multiple language programs by inserting called language IR into the calling language A method and system of cross-language inlining that includes receiving source code of a multiple language program, the source code including a main language and a first access of a first foreign object in a first additional language; translating the main language to obtain a main language intermediate representation (IR); translating the first additional language to obtain a first IR snippet; composing, before performing a compilation, the main language IR and the first IR snippet to obtain a cross-language IR; and performing the compilation of the cross-language IR to obtain machine code corresponding to the multiple language program.
US09740462B2	Adaptive, context-aware, model-based suggestions The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) solution hosted on a cloud environment. One computer-implemented method includes receiving an entity data model extensible markup language (XML) (EDMX) model, receiving an indication of user input from a user input device, providing auto completion suggestions based on received user input, determining whether the provided auto completion selections are acceptable, and determining whether the ECMX model is complete and in a logical state.
US09740461B2	System and method for executing user channel programs on mainframe computers A method, apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising: opening a storage volume associated with a mainframe computer executing z/OS operating system; obtaining access to a required area of the storage volume; receiving a call from a program programmed in a high level programming language and executed on the mainframe computer, to execute a user channel program, wherein the user channel program may refer to any location within the required area of the storage volume; and processing the user channel program to obtain channel command words and provide the channel command words to Execute Channel Program (EXCP).
US09740458B1	Restricting class inheritance relationships In an embodiment, a system may include a processor having memory storing processor-executable instructions for a programming environment. The processor may perform the following instructions. A first, second, and third class may be defined. The second class may be defined as being compatible with the first class. The third class may be defined as being incompatible with the first class. A fourth class may be defined as a subclass of both the first class and the second class. A fifth class may be prevented from being a subclass of both the first class and the third class.
US09740453B2	Obtaining content from multiple remote sources for playback A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements. The system includes a task distribution device that distributes tasks to a synchrony group comprising a plurality of devices that are to perform the tasks distributed by the task distribution device in synchrony. The task distribution device distributes each task to the members of the synchrony group over a network. Each task is associated with a time stamp that indicates a time, relative to a clock maintained by the task distribution device, at which the members of the synchrony group are to execute the task. Each member of the synchrony group periodically obtains from the task distribution device an indication of the current time indicated by its clock, determines a time differential between the task distribution device's clock and its respective clock and determines therefrom a time at which, according to its respective clock, the time stamp indicates that it is to execute the task.
US09740443B2	Printing apparatus capable of performing near field wireless communication, method for controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium When a print processing apparatus is not connected to a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus generates communication information using an IP address of the printing apparatus and writes the generated communication information into a memory of an NFC communication unit. When the print processing apparatus is connected to the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus generates communication information using an IP address of the print processing apparatus and writes the generated communication information into the memory of the NFC communication unit.
US09740442B2	Virtual input/output device for printers A system and method for operating a printing device is disclosed. A connection is provided between a computing device and the printing device, wherein the printing device is configured with a software application. Instructions are executed on the computing device, which provide the software application on the computing device. The computing device receives at least one input in the software application on the computing device, and transmits to the printing device at least one command associated with the at least one input. The printing device operates in response to the at least one command substantially in the same manner as it operates in response to at least one second input received in the software application provided on the printing device. The at least one first input in the software application on the computing device corresponds to the at least one second input in the software application on the printing device.
US09740439B2	Solid-state storage management Solid-state storage management for a system that includes a main board and a solid-state storage board separate from the main board is provided. The solid-state storage board includes a solid-state memory device and solid-state storage devices. The system is configured to perform a method that includes a correspondence being established, by a software module located on the main board, between a first logical address and a first physical address on the solid-state storage devices. The correspondence between the first logical address and the first physical address is stored in a location on the solid-state memory device. The method also includes translating the first logical address into the first physical address. The translating is performed by an address translator module located on the solid-state storage board and is based on the previously established correspondence between the first logical address and the first physical address.
US09740434B2	Storage device and control method A storage device includes a first storage and a processor. The processor is configured to emulate an access to a physical tape with an access to a second storage. The processor is configured to store, in the first storage, first position information in which a first position in a first physical tape is associated with a storage position in the second storage. The processor is configured to receive an instruction to move data stored at the first position in the first physical tape to a second physical tape. The processor is configured to store, in the first storage, second position information in which a second position in the second physical tape is associated with the storage position.
US09740428B1	Circular buffer descriptor for describing and/or accessing a circular buffer Accessing a circular buffer in memory from a processor may be performed with the aid of precomputed values stored in a pointer descriptor field of a processor storage element, such as a register. The pointer descriptor may store a precomputed value for calculating a memory address in the circular buffer, which may include two values, in which the two values are based, at least in part, on the size of the circular buffer, but neither be the size of the circular buffer. The first value may be used to derive a starting memory location for a circular buffer. The second value may be used in combination with the first value to calculate an end memory location. The start and end locations or addresses, along with the precomputed stored values, are then used to calculate the next address based on the current address of a circular buffer in an efficient manner.
US09740417B2	Secondary storage operation instruction tags in information management systems According to certain aspects, a system can include a client computing device configured to: in response to user interaction, store an identifier associated with a first tag in association with a first file; and in response to instructions to perform a secondary copy operation, forward the first file, a second file, and the identifier associated with the first tag. The system may also include a secondary storage controller computer(s) configured to: based on a review of the identifier associated with the first tag, identify the first file as having been tagged with the first tag; electronically obtain rules associated with the first tag; perform on the first file at least a first secondary storage operation specified by the rules associated with the first tag; and perform on the second file at least a second secondary storage operation, wherein the first and second secondary storage operations are different.
US09740416B2	Essential metadata replication Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining, in a storage system including receiving, by a storage system, a storage request, and identifying, based on the storage request, one or more storage management units. For each of the storage management units, a master partition table having multiple master entries and one or more backup partition tables is identified, each of the backup partition tables having backup entries in a one-to-one-correspondence with the master entries. Upon detecting a failure in master partition table, one of the backup partition tables is configured as a replacement master partition table, essential metadata is used to calculate non-essential metadata in the replacement master partition table, and the calculated non-essential metadata is stored to the replacement master partition table.
US09740412B2	Receptacles for memory devices and methods of operation thereof An interface is provided comprising: a receptacle arranged to receive a memory device; and a detection signal line arranged to transmit an electrical signal identifying a type of the memory device.
US09740409B2	Virtualized storage systems Described herein is a virtualized storage system (VSS), for sharing a storage cluster comprising a plurality of storage devices, among multiple hosts. The virtualized storage system comprises a plurality of virtual host bus adapters (vHBA), wherein each vHBA is connected to a host, though a standard based host bus interface. The VSS further comprises a storage fabric switch for connecting the plurality of the vHBAs with the storage cluster through a cluster of storage controllers to facilitate transfer of data and commands between the hosts and the storage devices, wherein the storage fabric switch provide storage services for each host, the storage services comprising at least one of backup, replication and thin-provisioning. The storage fabric switch further comprises a command processing engine (CPE) to map commands received from the plurality of vHBAs, in a virtual addressing domain, to a physical address of a mapped storage controller for execution.
US09740406B2	Dynamic granule-based intermediate storage A data storage system includes data storage and random access memory. A sorting module is communicatively coupled to the random access memory and sorts data blocks of write data received in the random access memory of the data storage. A storage controller is communicatively coupled to the random access memory and the data storage and being configured to write the sorted data blocks into one or more individually-sorted granules in a granule storage area of the data storage, wherein each granule is dynamically constrained to a subset of logical block addresses. A method and processor-implemented process provide for sorting data blocks of write data received in random access memory of data storage. The method and processor-implemented process write the sorted data blocks into one or more individually-sorted granules in a granule storage area of the data storage, wherein each granule is dynamically constrained to a subset of logical block addresses.
US09740400B2	Electronic device and method for character deletion A method performed on an electronic device for character deletion is described. The electronic device has a virtual keyboard including a plurality of virtual keys organized in accordance with a keyboard layout, with each key in a position according to the layout, and the plurality of virtual keys includes a first virtual key. The method for character deletion includes associating a first virtual key of a virtual keyboard with a delete function for deleting characters; determining a language associated with the virtual keyboard; determining a customary direction in which the language is read; and updating the first virtual key to: perform, when selected, a delete function that operates in a particular operating direction based on the customary direction; and display an indicator of the particular operating direction.
US09740399B2	Text entry using shapewriting on a touch-sensitive input panel Described herein are various technologies pertaining to shapewriting. A touch-sensitive input panel comprises a plurality of keys, where each key in the plurality of keys is representative of a respective plurality of characters. A user can generate a trace over the touch-sensitive input panel, wherein the trace passes over keys desirably selected by the user. A sequence of characters, such as a word, is decoded based upon the trace, and is output to a display or a speaker.
US09740390B2	Dynamic clip analysis A dynamic clip analysis system for use in a networked server-client system includes: a client including a client-side remote application module configured to analyze content from one or more of a client-side clipboard and a client-side drag and drop utility; and a remote application interactively connected with the client over a network via the client-side remote application module, the remote application including: one or more of a remote clipboard and a remote drag and drop utility; and a client-side remote application module configured to analyze content from one or more of the remote clipboard and the remote drag and drop utility, so as to perform dynamic clip analysis in the server-client system.
US09740389B2	Device, system and method for processing character data A method is described. The method comprising: receiving character data from the remote device in response to a user applying the character data to a displayed target; and supplying the character data to one of a plurality of components executable on a processor of a device based on one or more characters in the character data. A device is also described.
US09740388B2	Anchored approach to scrolling At an electronic device having access to a plurality of data objects: displaying a viewport comprising graphical representations of a first subset of the plurality of data objects that are ordered. While displaying the graphical representations of the first subset, the device receives a request to navigate through graphical representations of the plurality of data objects in the viewport. The request is associated with an input magnitude. In response to the request: generate a layout for a second subset of the plurality of data objects based on the input magnitude and an anchor within the plurality of data objects that was selected based on user input; and changing the content of the viewport by displaying graphical representations of the data objects of the second subset according to the layout.
US09740376B2	User interface for relating enterprise information with public information using a private user profile and schema Methods, systems, and computer program product for forming relationships between enterprise data and publically-accessible information are disclosed. Embodiments commence upon accessing a private user profile from a private data area and determining a role and/or access privilege from the user profile. The user profile is used to form queries, and to retrieve enterprise data from an enterprise data repository. Aspects of retrieved enterprise data are then used to determine at least one public information source, from which is retrieved at least some publically-accessible information to be combined with information from the enterprise data repository and displayed to a user. Portions of the retrieved enterprise data are presented in a first display area and portions of the publically-accessible information are displayed in a proximal second display area. Relationships between information from the enterprise data repository and the publically-accessible information are formed. Structured data and unstructured data are combined in the display.
US09740373B2	Content sensitive connected content The disclosure describes a method of connecting multimedia content to a network resource. This method operates in a computer network environment. Operating in a network connected device, the method extracts an identifier from a media signal, such as from a digital watermark, perceptual hash, or other machine extracted signal identifier. It then sends the identifier to a network along with context information indicating device type information. From the network, the method receives related data associated with the media signal via the identifier. The related data is adapted to the network connected device based on the device type information. This device type information may include a display type, so that the related date may be formatted for rendering on the display type of the device. This device type information may also include a connection speed so that the related data may be optimized for the connection speed of the device.
US09740371B2	Panoramic experience system and method In one general sense, a user may be presented with a multimedia experience corresponding to an entertainment event or venue by managing a sensor array having at least two sensors that are made configured to provide a stream of data units, associating location information with sensors in the sensor array, enabling the user to perceive a map related to an entertainment event or venue, relating the perceived map to one or more sensors within the sensor array, receiving a user request identifying a selected position within the map, identifying one or more sensors within the sensor array corresponding to the selection, and presenting to the user a multimedia experience based on one or more streams of data units associated with the selected sensors.
US09740368B1	Positioning labels on graphical visualizations of graphs Provided is a process, including: obtaining a graph to be visually represented in a graphical user interface of a client computing device; obtaining a set of text labels each corresponding to a respective collection of the nodes; determining a two dimensional or higher layout of the icons in the visual representation; segmenting the field of view into a plurality of segments; determining which icons are disposed within each of the segments of the field of view; determining positions of the text labels in the visual representation relative to one or more icons representing nodes in the respective collection of nodes based on the segment of the field of view in which the one or more icons representing nodes in the respective collection are disposed; and causing the visual representation to be displayed.
US09740367B2	Touch-based interaction method A touch-based interaction method includes the steps of: detecting a first ending touch point signal generated when a user at a first location touches a first ending touch point on a touch screen; upon detection of a disappearance of the first ending touch point signal, displaying a shortcut icon on a first area on the touch screen, wherein the first area is an area on the touch screen touched by the user locating at the first location; upon the user touching the shortcut icon, hiding the shortcut icon from the touch screen and displaying a menu interface on the touch screen, wherein the menu interface is located in the first area; detecting a close menu touch point signal generated when the user touches the touch screen outside of the menu interface; and upon detection of the close menu touch point signal, hiding the menu interface from the touch screen.
US09740364B2	Computer with graphical user interface for interaction Different techniques of processing user interactions with a computing system are described. In one implementation, an interactive display is configured to depict a graphical user interface which includes a plurality of different types of user interface elements (e.g., button-type element, scroll bar-type element). A user may use one or more user input object (e.g., finger, hand, stylus) to simultaneously interact with the interactive display. A plurality of different user input processing methods are used to process user inputs received by the graphical user interface differently and in accordance with the types of the user interface elements which are displayed. The processing of the user inputs is implemented to determine whether the user inputs control the respective user interface elements. The processing may determine whether the user inputs activate and/or manipulate the displayed user interface elements in but one example.
US09740362B1	Event chips in calendar Provided are methods and systems for providing users with a simplified view of events shared across multiple calendars. An event associated with multiple calendars is displayed only once in a user's view of the multiple calendars, and is displayed together with a visual indication (an “event chip”) that the event belongs to multiple calendars. The event chip displayed with a given event indicates, based on the patterns/colors/prints/etc. comprising the chip and/or the order of the patterns/colors/prints/etc. comprising the chip, which of the other calendars associated with the event is the lead calendar and which are secondary calendars, where the event chip represents the state of the event (e.g., accepted, declined, tentative, etc.) in the lead calendar.
US09740358B2	Electronic apparatus and operating method of electronic apparatus In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a display, a touch detector, a proximity detector, and at least one processor. The display displays no information in a first display mode and displays information in a second display mode. The touch detector has a detection mode including a first detection mode in which the touch detector detects a touch operation at a first sensitivity and a second detection mode in which the touch detector detects the touch operation at a second sensitivity higher than the first sensitivity. The proximity detector is configured to detect proximity of an object. The at least one processor is configured to set the detection mode of the touch detector. When the proximity detector detects the proximity at a switch from the first display mode to the second display mode, the at least one processor sets the detection mode to the first detection mode.
US09740356B1	Capacitive touch system using differential sensing and operating method thereof A capacitive touch system including a drive end, a capacitive sensing matrix and a detection end is provided. The drive end concurrently inputs encoded and modulated drive signals into a plurality of channels of the capacitive sensing matrix within each drive time slot of a frame. The detection end detects a detection matrix of the channels in the frame and decodes the detection matrix to respectively generate a two-dimensional detection vector corresponding to each of the channels. The detection end further calculates a subtraction between components of the two-dimensional detection vectors associated with two receiving electrodes of the capacitive sensing matrix to eliminate interference from noises.
US09740347B2	Active pen sensing for a display device having an integrated sensing device A processing system (and associated input device and method) is disclosed that includes a display module configured to drive a display signal onto a plurality of sensor electrodes for updating a display, and a sensor module configured to communicate with the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is configured to, in a first mode of operation, operate the plurality of sensor electrodes to receive an active input from an active input device, and in a second mode of operation, operate the plurality of sensor electrodes to receive capacitive sensing data from a passive input device. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to determine a position of the active input device based on a harmonic of the active input signal.
US09740346B2	Touch screen, manufacturing method thereof and display device A touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. In the touch screen, a plurality of first sensing units are connected to each other by a first connection line in a first direction; and a plurality of second sensing units are connected to each other by a second connection line in a second direction; the first sensing units and the second sensing units are arranged alternatively in the first and second direction; and in the first direction, at least part of the second sensing units is overlapped with the first connection line between two first sensing units adjacent to this second sensing unit, and in the second direction, at least part of the first sensing units is overlapped with the second connection line between two second sensing units adjacent to this first sensing unit. The overlapping area between the first sensing unit and the respective connection line and the overlapping area between the second sensing unit and the respective connection line is increased, improving the electrostatic capacitance in the overlapping position, and in turn improving the ability of anti-static electricity of the touch screen.
US09740341B1	Capacitive sensing with interpolating force-sensitive resistor array An combination interpolating force sensitive resistor (IFSR) array touch sensor and capacitive touch sensor, or a modified IFSR sensor, is configured to detect touches resistively and capacitvely. By comparing resistive and capacitive signals, touches may be accurately characterized. The IFSR array may also be used in conjunction with an active stylus to determine a position of the active stylus relative to the IFSR array.
US09740332B1	Charging calibration system and method thereof A method of a charging calibration system is mainly to charge/discharge a reference touch pad, then to compute a reference charging time needed for a number of accumulated reference supply duties to reach a reference charging number, then to base on the reference charging time to charge/discharge one of operation touch pads repeatedly by a calibration supply duty, finally to count a number of the experienced calibration supply duties within the reference charging time. Thereupon, a reference charged number of an individual operation touch pad within the reference charging time can be obtained. Thus, the operation touch pad can adjust the reference charging time to meet various environmental requirements. Also, the reference supply duty is greater than the calibration supply duty.
US09740314B2	Display apparatus for vehicle A display apparatus for a vehicle includes a screen on which an image is displayed. A projector projects the image to the screen, and a knob is rotatably disposed at one side of the screen. A vibration sensor senses a vibration and outputs a vibration signal. A controller determines a rotational direction and a rotational amount of the knob based on the vibration signal output from the vibration sensor.
US09740310B2	Intuitive control of pressure-sensitive stroke attributes Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to a drawing application that enables intuitive application of a pressure-sensitive effect to a rendered stroke. Such a drawing application may receive input stroke data along including pressure measurements along a path of the stroke. The drawing application may then map the pressure measurements to respective attribute values for a pressure sensitive stroke attribute. Such a mapping results in a pressure measurement at a predefined level of pressure mapping to a default attribute value, while a pressure measurement above or below the predefined level of pressure would result in an attribute value greater than or less than the default attribute value. The drawing application may then cause a stroke to be rendered on the display in accordance with the attribute values for the pressure sensitive stroke attribute.
US09740308B2	Computer mouse with automatic grip angle control function The purpose of the present invention is to provide a computer mouse with an automatic grip angle control function for reducing a sense of wrist fatigue by continuously changing a grip angle in a constant period during use. In order to achieve this objective, the present invention provides the computer mouse with the automatic grip angle control function, including a base having a board, which is necessary for operating the mouse and located at the upper end of the base, and an upper surface provided with a button and a wheel, and the mouse comprises: a rotational unit coupled with one side of the base and one side of the upper surface corresponding to one side of the base to enable the relative rotation of the upper surface with respect to the base; a guide unit fixed to an upper end of the base of an opposite side at which the rotational unit is located and having a gear formed on an outer surface thereof; a motor fixed to the inside of the upper surface; a pinion fixed to a rotary shaft of the motor; and a control unit for controlling the motor, wherein the pinion is engaged with the gear of the guide unit and the grip angle of the upper surface is changed by the rotation of the motor.
US09740304B2	Systems, methods, and media for providing an enhanced remote control having multiple modes Systems, methods, and media for providing a multipurpose remote control are provided. In some implementations, a system for controlling a media device is provided, the system comprising: a hardware processor connected to a touch sensor, a directional input region, and a motion sensor, wherein the hardware processor is configured to: detect that the touch sensor is activated for a predetermined period of time; and upon detecting that the touch sensor has been activated for the predetermined period of time, switching from a first mode to a second mode, wherein: the first mode comprises controlling a highlighted region displayed on the media device in response to an input provided on the directional input region and selecting an item corresponding to the highlighted region in response to depression of the touch sensor; and the second mode comprises controlling a position of a cursor displayed on the media device in response to an output of the motion sensor, selecting an item corresponding to the position of the cursor in response to depression of the touch sensor, and inhibiting the display of the highlighted region.
US09740303B2	Pointing system, control device, and control method A pointing system including: a pointing device including an operation portion and a light-emitting portion that emits light according to an operation to the operation portion; and a control device including an image pickup portion that picks up light from the light-emitting portion when the light-emitting portion emits light and outputs an image including information on a light spot of the light, a display portion that includes a screen and displays a pointer on the screen, and a control portion that judges, as well as judge a movement of the light spot based on the information on the light spot in the image and move the pointer on the screen based on the movement of the light spot, whether the light spot is turned off based on the information on the light spot in the image and executes processing related to a click when the light spot is turned off.
US09740300B2	Information processing system, management apparatus, and management method By causing information processing apparatuses belonging to a same group to be in a same state and transmitting operation information received from an input unit to the information processing apparatuses belonging to the same group simultaneously or approximately simultaneously, the operations of the information processing apparatuses belonging to the same group are synchronized with each other, and operation results received from the synchronized information processing apparatuses belonging to the same group are output by an output unit. In this way, the plurality of grouped information processing apparatuses can be simultaneously operated.
US09740293B2	Operating environment with gestural control and multiple client devices, displays, and users Embodiments described herein includes a system comprising a processor coupled to display devices, sensors, remote client devices, and computer applications. The computer applications orchestrate content of the remote client devices simultaneously across the display devices and the remote client devices, and allow simultaneous control of the display devices. The simultaneous control includes automatically detecting a gesture of at least one object from gesture data received via the sensors. The detecting comprises identifying the gesture using only the gesture data. The computer applications translate the gesture to a gesture signal, and control the display devices in response to the gesture signal.
US09740291B2	Presentation system, presentation apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture.
US09740290B2	Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch notice that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphic environment based at least in part on the position signal, or perform a different function. At least one actuator is also coupled to the touch input device and outputs a force to provide a haptic sensation to the user contacting the touch surface. The touch input device can be a touchpad separate from the computer's display screen, or can be a touch screen. Output haptic sensations on the touch input device can include pulses vibrations, and spatial textures. The touch input device can include multiple different regions to control different computer functions.
US09740288B2	Electronic device The electronic device 1 is provided with a touch panel 3, vibration units 15 and 16 that vibrate the touch panel 3, and a display unit 18 disposed adjacent to the backside of the touch panel 3. The display unit 18 is held suspended from the touch panel 3 via a flexible member 24 disposed along the entire periphery of the display unit 18, improves dust resistance and water resistance, as an electronic device that includes and vibrates a panel forming the external appearance of the electronic device, while making it difficult to inhibit vibration of the panel.
US09740283B2	Display method and electronic device The disclosure provides a display method and an electronic device. The display method includes: detecting whether display contents are to be displayed via a display unit of the electronic device, determining a first region corresponding to a gazing position of a user on the display unit, determining a second region on the display unit based on the first region, and displaying the display contents in the second region.
US09740276B2	Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device There are provided n (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) physical layer control units which communicate with another apparatus connected to a device itself and control a physical layer, a logical layer control unit which controls a logical layer in communication with the other apparatus, and a control unit which controls the logical layer control unit from a power-supply ON state to a standby state in accordance with a standby instruction for the device itself, wherein one physical layer control unit of the n physical layer control units generates a clock using a connected resonator and the other physical layer control units receive the clock generated by the physical layer control unit to which the resonator is connected.
US09740270B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes: an operation section, a reception section, a human body detection sensor, and a mode switching section. The mode switching section switches the electronic device between a normal operation mode permitting a normal operation and a sleep mode in a power saving state based on presence or absence of a detection signal from the human body detection sensor. Then the mode switching section stops in a case where a state in which the reception section receives an operation made by use of the operation section continues for a predefined period of time the switching between the normal operation mode and the sleep mode based on the presence or absence of the detection signal.
US09740269B1	Apparatuses and methods for arbitrating a shared terminal for calibration of an impedance termination An arbitration system and method is disclosed. The apparatus includes first and second memory devices, and a resistor coupled in common to the first and second memory devices, the first memory device including a first calibration circuit configured to perform, when activated, a first calibration operation based on the resistor and a first arbiter configured to activate the first calibration circuit responsive, at least in part, to an assertion of a first command or keep the first calibration circuit inactive irrespective of the assertion of the first command.
US09740266B2	Apparatus and method for controlling multi-core of electronic device An electronic device includes a plurality of processor cores, a core controller, and a core setting module. The processor cores are for executing an application program. The core controller monitors a degree of parallelism of the application program; determining, according to utilization of the processor cores, whether frequencies of the processor cores or power-on number of the processor cores should be changed; and selects, according to the degree of parallelism of the application program, at least one of the frequencies of the processor cores and the power-on number of the processor cores to provide a selection result when determining that the frequencies of the processor cores or the power-on number of the processor cores should be changed. The core setting module changes at least one of the frequencies of the processor cores and the power-on number of the processor cores based on the selection result.
US09740257B2	Wireless communication system and network attached storage device thereof A network attached storage (NAS) device includes a control unit, a wireless communication unit, a switch unit, a voltage conversion circuit, a battery unit, and a storage unit. When the wireless communication unit receives a request to access the storage unit, the wireless communication unit outputs a first control signal to activate the switch unit, the battery unit powers the voltage conversion circuit through the switch unit, and the voltage conversion circuit supplies power to the control unit and the storage unit. Until the wireless communication unit receives the request, the wireless communication unit outputs a second control signal to deactivate the switch unit, the battery unit cannot power the voltage conversion circuit through the switch unit, and the voltage conversion circuit does not supply power the control unit and the storage unit.
US09740252B2	Thermal conduction matrix A system can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; lithium-ion battery cells to power at least the processor and the memory; and a thermal conduction matrix that includes crystalline carbon formations that distribute heat energy generated by the lithium-ion battery cells. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09740242B2	Motion control assembly with battery pack A motion control assembly includes a motion control device electrically connected to a battery pack and to a mobile computing device for at least data transmission therebetween. The motion control device can generate inputs, such as inputs corresponding to an attribute of a sensed object, for transmission to the mobile computing device. The drain on a battery of a battery-powered mobile computing device can be reduced when used with a motion control device as follows. A motion control assembly, comprising a motion control device and a battery pack, capable of powering the motion control device, as an integral, one-piece unit, is selected. The motion control device is connected to an electrical connector of a battery-powered mobile computing device. The motion control device is supplied with power from the battery pack during use so the motion control device can be operated using the power from the battery pack.
US09740240B1	Base with rotating mount that increases friction of rotation when portable computing device is placed onto mount A base for a portable computing device may comprise a keyboard, a frame, a shaft, a mount, and a shaft engagement element. The keyboard may be configured to communicate with the portable computing device. The frame may surround the keyboard. The shaft may be rotationally attached to the frame. The rotational attachment of the shaft to the frame may have a friction greater than a force of gravity on the portable computing device. The mount may be configured to hold the portable computing device. The mount may define a shaft recess through which the shaft extends and in which the shaft freely rotates. The shaft engagement element may be configured to rotationally couple the mount to the shaft in response to the portable computing device being placed on the mount.
US09740237B2	Assembly for removable display and input devices Embodiments of the present invention disclose a removable input device and assembly thereof. According to one embodiment, the assembly includes a base frame having a cavity for receiving the input device. A movable attachment member is formed on the base frame for facilitating attachment of a display device with the assembly. Furthermore, the input device is configured to removably attach to and from the base frame.
US09740236B2	Dual window watchdog timer Systems and methods for a Dual Window Watchdog Timer (DWWDT) are described. In some embodiments, a method may include running a first counter in a first clock domain and a second counter in a second clock domain; generating an interrupt to a controller during a window open period, wherein the window open period begins in response to the first counter having reached a predetermined threshold; and at least one of: restarting the first counter if the controller restarts the second counter in response to the interrupt before the window open period ends; or issuing a system reset if the controller does not restart the second counter in response to the interrupt before the window open period ends.
US09740235B1	Circuits and methods of TAF-DPS based interface adapter for heterogeneously clocked Network-on-Chip system An interface adapter for facilitating the data communication among computation modules in a Network-on-Chip SoC comprises 1) a FIFO block having certain number of storage cells for temporarily storing the data to be transported between two communicating modules; 2) a TAF-DPS clock generator and a multi-phase generator attached at the FIFO write side for generating the write clock for FIFO and the driving clock for the transmitter, a TAF-DPS clock generator and a multi-phase generator attached at the FIFO read side for generating the read clock for FIFO and the driving clock for the receiver; 3) a write pointer controller and a read pointer controller for reading the FIFO status and controlling the TAF-DPS clock generators at the write side and at the read side, respectively. A design scheme of using said interface adapters in Network-on-Chip SoC design includes a plurality of computation modules, routing modules, said interface adapters, a network of communication link, a network of global clock distribution. Methods of creating the interface adapter and using it in the Network-on-Chip SoC design are also disclosed.
US09740229B2	Curvature-corrected bandgap reference A curvature-corrected bandgap reference comprising a first BJT device operating at a first current density that is substantially proportional to absolute temperature, the first BJT device having a first base-emitter voltage and a first base terminal and a second BJT device operating at a second current density that is substantially independent of temperature, the second BJT device having a second base-emitter voltage and a second base terminal. The first and second base terminals operate at a reference voltage. The reference voltage comprises a linear combination of the first and second base-emitter voltages and is thereby made substantially independent of temperature and curvature-corrected. The linear combination is provided by summing the first base-emitter voltage, a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) voltage proportional to a first current density, and a curvature-correction voltage proportional to a difference between the first and second base-emitter voltages.
US09740221B2	Method to limit the inrush current in large output capacitance LDO's The present document relates to a pre-charge circuit of electronic circuits having Miller compensation and significant output capacitance such as LDOs or multistage amplifiers. The pre-charge circuit limits an inrush current right after enabling of the electronic circuit. The pre-charge circuit limits and clamps the fast charging of the Miller capacitor. A delay circuit disables the pre-charge circuit when the bias conditions of the Miller capacitor are close to normal bias conditions.
US09740212B2	System and method for coordinating movement of mobile drive units A method for moving one or more mobile drive units within a workspace includes receiving, from a first mobile drive unit, a reservation request requesting use of a first path segment to move in a first direction. The method further includes determining that a second mobile drive unit is currently located on the first path segment and determining whether the second mobile drive unit is moving in the first direction. Additionally, the method includes transmitting a reservation response indicating that the reservation request is denied, in response to determining that the second mobile drive unit is not moving in the first direction. The method also includes transmitting a reservation response indicating that the reservation request is granted, in response to determining that the second mobile drive unit is moving in the first direction.
US09740211B2	Method and device for reducing a hazard to and/or by a vehicle situated on a parking lot A method for reducing a hazard to and/or by a vehicle situated on a parking lot, including the following: checking a communication link between a vehicle situated on a parking lot and a parking lot management system for operating the parking lot while the vehicle is driving at least partially assisted on the parking lot with the aid of the parking lot management system; and initiating one or multiple measures in the event of a disrupted or absent communication link to reduce a hazard to the and/or by the vehicle due to the disrupted or absent communication link. Also described is a corresponding device, a vehicle, a parking lot management system, and a computer program.
US09740210B2	Robotic working tool system with a boundary wire A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a signal generator (240), a boundary wire (250) and a robotic work tool (100), said boundary wire being adapted to demark a work area (205), said signal generator (240) being arranged to transmit a control signal (255) through said boundary wire (250), and said robotic work tool (100) comprising at least one sensor (170) for detecting said control signal (255) being transmitted through the boundary wire (250). The robotic work tool system (200) is characterized in that said pulse signal (255) comprises at least one first pulse train (256) being transmitted at a first amplitude (C1) and at least one second pulse train (257) being transmitted at a second amplitude (C2), wherein said first amplitude (C1) and second amplitude (C2) being arranged so that said first amplitude (C1) is greater than said amplitude level (C2) and a sum of the amplitudes (C1, C2) for all pulse trains (256, 257) over time falls below a threshold value.
US09740209B2	Autonomous moving body An autonomous moving body executes a mode in which an autonomous moving body: outputs a motor control amount from travel commands input by an operator; estimates the position of the autonomous moving body on an environment map, obtains position information of obstacles near the autonomous moving body, associates position information of the obstacles with times that the position information of the obstacles were obtained, stores the same in the storage unit as environment map restoration data, generates a travel schedule, and stores the same in the storage unit. In a replication mode, the autonomous moving body estimates the position of the autonomous moving body on the environment map, obtains position information of the obstacles near the autonomous moving body, reads the environment map restoration data that corresponds to the estimated position of the autonomous moving body, updates the environment map, creates a control amount for the motor, so as to travel on the updated environment map in accordance with the schedule, and inputs the same to the travel unit.
US09740206B2	Driving test system for a moving object One form of a driving test system for a moving object includes: an unmanned aircraft configured to fly at a set distance from the moving object that is configured to drive along a set route in a set zone and has a vision sensor disposed on one side that is configured to detect the moving object's motion; and a controller configured to control the flight of the unmanned aircraft to follow the moving object and to transmit to the vision sensor and to receive from the vision censor, detected motion characteristics of the moving object.
US09740203B2	Drive assist apparatus A drive assist apparatus includes an arrival window time calculation unit configured to calculate an arrival window time before the vehicle arrives at a switching completion point, a driving concentration degree estimation unit configured to estimate a driving concentration degree of a driver based on a state of the driver when the arrival window time is equal to or shorter than a predetermined time, and a stimulation providing unit configured to provide a stimulus to the driver according to the driving concentration degree. In a case where the driving concentration degree is equal to or less than a threshold value set in advance, the stimulation providing unit provides a stimulus to the driver, which is stronger than that in a case where the driving concentration degree is greater than the threshold value, or provides a stronger stimulus to the driver in accordance with reduction in the driving concentration degree.
US09740201B2	Systems and methods for target tracking The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices related to target tracking by UAVs. The UAV may be configured to receive target information from a control terminal related to a target to be tracked by an imaging device coupled to the UAV. The target information may be used by the UAV to automatically track the target so as to maintain predetermined position and/or size of the target within one or more images captured by the imaging device. The control terminal may be configured to display images from the imaging device as well as allowing user input related to the target information.
US09740200B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle inspection system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes obtaining, from a user device, flight operation information describing an inspection of a vertical structure to be performed, the flight operation information including locations of one or more safe locations for vertical inspection. A location of the UAV is determined to correspond to a first safe location for vertical inspection. A first inspection of the structure is performed is performed at the first safe location, the first inspection including activating cameras. A second safe location is traveled to, and a second inspection of the structure is performed. Information associated with the inspection is provided to the user device.
US09740198B2	Systems and methods for modeling interdependencies in batch processes According to various embodiments, an interdependency modeling method for controlling a batch process with an industrial automation system includes evaluating an input parameter expression residing in a level of a supervisory system of the industrial automation system to determine a value, transferring the value of the input parameter expression to a level of an equipment control system of the industrial automation system, transferring data from the level of the equipment control system to the level of the supervisory system, and evaluating an output parameter expression residing in the level of the supervisory system based on the data from the level of the equipment control system.
US09740188B2	Systems and methods for scheduling the operation of building resources Described herein are systems and methods for scheduling the operation of building resources. In overview, some embodiments provide a central interface for allowing the scheduling of a large number of devices within a building, irrespective of the manufacturer or scheduling requirements of the individual devices. For example, one embodiment provides, a software product that executes on a processor for allowing a user to submit scheduling preference in relation to one or more building resources. The software package analyses and applies these preferences across the devices described by the building resource or resources.
US09740187B2	Controlling hardware in an environment An instruction-storage machine holds instructions that, when executed by a logic machine, cause the logic machine to find a human subject in depth data acquired with one or more depth cameras arranged to image an environment, and to compute an aspect of the human subject from the depth data. Based on the computed aspect, the logic machine determines a change to be made in the environment and actuates appropriate hardware in the environment to make the change.
US09740182B2	Integrated controller solution for monitoring and controlling manufacturing equipment Methods and apparatus for controlling manufacturing equipment are provided herein. In some embodiments, a manufacturing system may include an integrated controller having one or more inputs to receive input values corresponding to operating information of at least one of a process tool, a mass flow controller or at least one sub-fab auxiliary system, wherein the integrated controller is configured to receive the input values, determine that an error condition is matched based on the received input values, and control the at least one sub-fab auxiliary system to operate at a fail-safe operating mode responsive to the determined error condition.
US09740180B2	Method of controlling a dynamic physical system that exhibits a chaotic behaviour A method of controlling a dynamic physical system comprising a plurality of variable quantities. A model of the system comprising a plurality of variables representing the variable quantities, and a plurality of respective rate equations that describe the rate of change of the variables, is obtained. A control term in at least one rate equation from the plurality of rate equations is identified. A rate control function is derived from, for at least one of the variables in the rate equation, the proportion of the variable to the growth rate of the rate equation, and the rate control function is applied to the control term to provide a stabilized control term. The dynamic physical system is then controlled by modifying at least one of the quantities represented by the variables in the control term, so that the control term derived from the modified quantities is substantially the same as the stabilized control term.
US09740173B2	Shockproof system with secure mounting A shock absorber device for an arbour of a timepiece element including a support including a base cup surmounted by a peripheral rim delimited, opposite the cup, by an upper surface and including an outer wall, the cup and the rim defining together a recess. The device further includes at least one pivot module extending along an axis, the at least one pivot module being arranged in the recess and configured to cooperate with the arbour and a cap formed by a hollow part fixed to the support on the peripheral rim, the cap including an inner wall on which at least one groove is arranged so that an elastic mechanism can be placed therein.
US09740170B2	Oscillator for a clock movement An oscillator (10) includes a spiral spring (11) made from a paramagnetic or diamagnetic material and an assembled balance wheel (12) having a shaft (13) on which the following elements are fitted: a balance wheel (14), a plate (15) and a collet (16) rigidly connected with the spiral spring (11). The maximum diameter (Dmax) of the shaft is less than 3.5, or even 2.5, or even 2 times the minimum diameter (D1) of the shaft on which one of the elements is fitted, or the maximum diameter (Dmax) of the shaft is less than 1.6, or even 1.3 times the maximum diameter (D2) of the shaft on which one of the elements is fitted.
US09740160B2	Image formation device and method for starting image formation device An image formation device includes a power controller that controls transition to an energy-saving mode to reduce power consumption in a standby state and starts up out of the energy-saving mode and a timer in which a timing schedule that starts up the device out of the energy-saving mode is set. The power controller controls the surface temperature of the fixing roller of the image generator to be a temperature lower than the fixing temperature that enables image formation when the image formation device is started up out of the energy-saving mode according to the timing schedule set in the timer.
US09740158B2	Power supply unit and image forming apparatus Provided is a power supply unit that includes a switching section and a controller. The switching section is configured to perform a switching operation and thereby generate, based on an input signal, a first alternating-current signal. The controller is configured to control the switching operation and thereby perform an amplitude control that involves increasing, based on an input current in the switching section, a signal amplitude of the first alternating-current signal.
US09740149B2	Fixing device having endless belt and nip member slidably contacting inner surface of endless belt A fixing device includes an endless belt, a heat source, a nip member, and a backup member. The endless belt has an inner surface. The nip member has a contact surface slidably contacting the inner surface. The nip member is configured to be heated by the heat source. The backup member is configured to pinch the endless belt in cooperation with the nip member while the backup member rotates together with endless belt. The contact surface includes a first portion receiving urging force from the backup member and a second portion other than the first portion. At least a part of the first portion is coated by a first material providing a slidability higher than that of the nip member. The second portion includes a region uncoated with the first material.
US09740146B2	Image forming apparatus with updates for speed-based setting of transfer voltage An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a voltage source, a speed setting portion, a test mode executing portion, a renewing mode executing portion, and a setting portion for setting a voltage applied to the transfer member. In a period in which the toner image exists at the transfer portion when image formation is executed at a first speed, the setting portion sets the voltage applied to the transfer member at a first target voltage last renewed. In a period in which the toner image exists at the transfer portion when the image formation is executed at a second speed, the setting portion sets the voltage applied to the transfer member at a voltage on the basis of the first target voltage last renewed and a conversion coefficient last renewed.
US09740144B2	Cleaning device and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a cleaning device body including a cleaning member, the cleaning member being in contact with a surface of an image carrier so as to remove developer retained on the surface of the image carrier; and a fixing member that fixes an end of the cleaning device body in a longitudinal direction to a side surface of a frame that supports the image carrier and corresponds to the end of the cleaning device body in the longitudinal direction.
US09740135B2	Optical scanning device In one embodiment, an optical scanning device includes a board and a light receiving member, the positional accuracy of which is improved. When a length in a scanning direction and a length in an intersection direction of a body portion of the light receiving member are denoted by Lx0 and Ly0, respectively, and a length in the scanning direction and a length in the intersection direction of a through-hole formed in the board are denoted by Lx1 and Ly1, respectively, the lengths Lx0, Ly0, Lx1, and Ly1 satisfy the following formula: (Lx1−Lx0)>(Ly1−Ly0).
US09740130B2	Electrostatic charge image developing carrier, electrostatic charge image developer, and developer cartridge An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a core particle and a resin coating layer coated on the core particle, wherein the resin coating layer contains a cationic surfactant and an anionic surfactant and a total content of the cationic surfactant and the anionic surfactant in the resin coating layer is from 0.1% by weight to 6.0% by weight with respect to the entire resin coating layer.
US09740127B2	Toner A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer disposed over the surface of the toner core. The shell layer includes a thermosetting portion substantially composed of a water-insoluble thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic portion substantially composed of a water-insoluble thermoplastic resin. At least a part of the thermoplastic portion has a shape of a film with projections and recesses and is located on the surface of the toner core. At least a part of the thermosetting portion is located on the thermoplastic portion. The part of the thermosetting portion located on the thermoplastic portion has a shape of a film along the shape of the thermoplastic portion.
US09740117B2	Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and condensed polycyclic aromatic compound Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical characteristics, and in which image deletion is satisfactorily suppressed, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface layer which includes a polymerized product of a hole transporting substance having a reactive functional group, in which a structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance is one of: a structure consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom; and a structure consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom, and the structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance comprises a specific conjugate structure.
US09740116B2	Photoconductor, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the photoconductor A photoconductor includes an electroconductive substrate; an intermediate layer overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer overlying the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a metal oxide particle and a binder resin, and satisfies the following relations (1) and (2): Smr=Scut/Sk (1) 0.4≦Smr≦0.6 (2) where Smr represents an areal ratio of concave parts; Sk represents a reference area; and a Scut represents a cross-sectional area obtained by cutting a three-dimensional curved surface obtained from the reference area with an average height surface, the average height surface being a surface constituted of averaged height of all measured height data.
US09740114B2	Movable body drive method and movable body drive system, pattern formation method and apparatus, exposure method and apparatus, device manufacturing method, and calibration method A substrate is exposed with an illumination light via a projection optical system. A stage that holds the substrate moves below the projection optical system. A measurement system measures positional information of the stage with a plurality of heads that face a grating section. Movement of the stage is controlled based on the positional information measured with the measurement system, while compensating for a measurement error of the measurement system that occurs due to the heads.
US09740101B2	Additions of organic species to facilitate crosslinker removal during PSPI cure A formulation comprising an esterified polyamide resin with a photosensitive linkage, a polymerizable crosslinker, and an organic species is provided. The organic species is selected such that (a) when exposed to UV radiation, it copolymerizes with the polymerizable crosslinker and the photosensitive linkage on the esterified polyamide resin forming the crosslinking network, (b) during thermal cure the copolymer thus formed drops from polyimide backbones, and (c) wherein the thermal degradation temperature of the copolymer thus formed is lower than the thermal degradation temperature of the homopolymer formed from the polymerizable crosslinker and the thermal degradation temperature of the copolymer formed from the polymerizable crosslinker and the photosensitive linkage on the esterified polyamide resin. The formulation is useful in forming a semiconductor passivation layer and facilitates more complete removal of crosslinker using less stringent conditions.
US09740098B2	Chemically amplified negative resist composition using novel onium salt and resist pattern forming process A chemically amplified negative resist composition is defined as comprising (A) an onium salt having an anion moiety which is a nitrogen-containing carboxylate of fused ring structure, (B) a base resin, and (C) a crosslinker. The resist composition is effective for controlling acid diffusion during the exposure step, exhibits a very high resolution during pattern formation, and forms a pattern with minimal LER.
US09740097B2	Resist composition and method for producing resist pattern A resist composition contains: a resin having an acid-labile group, an acid generator, a compound having two or more phenolic-hydroxy groups and being other than a resin, and a solvent. The resist composition of the disclosure can provide a resist pattern showing excellent shape and detachability, therefore, the present resist composition can be used for semiconductor microfabrication with resist patterns showing excellent shape.
US09740085B2	Optical element adjusting apparatus and projector using the same An optical element adjusting apparatus configured to support an optical element includes an adjusting base, a fixed base and locking elements. The adjusting base includes a first through hole disposed on a center of gravity of the adjusting base, a second through hole and a third through hole. An extension direction of a first straight line passing through the first through hole and the second through hole is different from an extension direction of a second straight line passing through the first through hole and the third through hole. The fixed base includes coupling holes corresponding to the first, second, third through holes. The locking elements pass though the first, second, third through holes respectively and are coupled to the coupling holes to couple the adjusting base to the fixed base. The adjusting base includes a support side away from the fixed base to support the optical element.
US09740082B1	Enhanced organic electro-optic poling through nanoparticle doping A method of poling an organic polymeric electro-optic material. The method includes doping the organic polymeric electro-optic material with nanoparticles. The method also includes heating the organic polymeric electro-optic material to a poling temperature. The method also includes poling the organic polymeric electro-optic material by applying an electric field across the organic polymeric electro-optic material.
US09740075B2	Method and system for perforated reflective film display device New reflective display architecture embodiments are disclosed to create specular or paper-like reflectance comprising a transparent outer sheet with an optional light diffusing layer, a rear backplane electrode, a perforated continuous reflective or non-reflective film with a thin conductive reflective or transparent layer acting as a front electrode facing the transparent outward sheet placed between the transparent outward sheet and rear backplane electrode. Other variations include semi-retroreflective or sintered TiO2 layers atop the front electrode. Light is modulated by reflectance or absorbance of the light rays that pass through the transparent outward sheet by movement of light absorbing electrophoretically mobile particles within an optically transparent liquid or air medium. A voltage bias is applied across the medium by a voltage source to move the electrophoretically mobile particles.
US09740061B2	Array substrate, liquid crystal panel and display device An array substrate includes: a base substrate; a sub-pixel region on the base substrate in which a first electrode and a second electrode are provided, one of the first electrode and the second electrode being a common electrode, the other being a pixel electrode; an insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; the sub-pixel region comprises right opposite overlapping regions between the first electrode and the second electrode that are disposed in different layers and non-right opposite overlapping regions; and hollowed-out regions are provided at least in regions of the insulating layer that correspond to the non-right opposite overlapping regions. The array substrate is used to provide a liquid crystal panel with low power dissipation.
US09740056B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus with electrodes comprising openings that is less susceptible to disturbance of the contour shape of the display part. The apparatus includes two substrates, a first electrode, a second electrode. A display part is demarcated in a region where the two electrodes overlap, and an offset region is set from the display part edge to the inside. The electrodes comprise first openings disposed in a non offset region, and second openings disposed in the offset region. First openings comprises a shape wherein a branch part disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along a first direction and a branch part disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along a second direction are connected. Second openings comprises openings disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the first direction, and openings disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the second direction.
US09740048B2	Display device The present invention relates to a display device. The display device comprises a color filter substrate comprising a color filter layer, an array substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate, characterized in that the display device further comprises a reflective layer and a light excitation layer; the reflective layer is disposed on the side away from the liquid crystal layer of the array substrate, the light excitation layer and the color filter substrate are disposed on the same side of the liquid crystal layer; the light excitation layer emits stimulated light upon being excited by external light and the reflective layer is capable of reflecting the stimulated light to the color filter layer. The display device enhances the utilization to the external light and achieves a higher brightness and an improved color gamut.
US09740045B2	Liquid crystal panel, method of manufacturing liquid crystal panel, transflective display device, and a method of controlling displaying of transflective display device The embodiment of the present invention discloses a transflective liquid crystal panel, a method of manufacturing the transflective liquid crystal panel, a transflective display device, and a method of controlling displaying of the transflective display device to solve the technical problems that the process for fabricating the reflection layer is complicated, the metal film of the reflection layer will cause electrostatic charges to be accumulated, and the surface of the reflection layer has an uneven concavo-convex shape so that the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules in the reflection region is adversely affected. The transflective liquid crystal panel comprises pixel units arranged in a matrix, a transmission region and a reflection region disposed in each pixel unit, and a reflection layer disposed in the reflection region. The reflection layer includes an electronic ink layer.
US09740043B2	Liquid crystal display device with antistatic polarizing layer and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, and a first polarizing layer on the first substrate, wherein the first polarizing layer includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes aligned in a first direction.
US09740036B2	Display device and manufacturing method of the same A display device includes: display and peripheral regions, the peripheral region including: a first wire on a first insulating layer; a passivation layer on the first insulating layer, exposing a portion of the first wire; a light blocking member on the passivation layer, a first hole therein exposing the portion of the first wire; a second insulating layer on the light blocking member, a second hole therein exposing the portion of the first wire; a third insulating layer on the second insulating layer, covering sides of the light blocking member and the second insulating layer at the first and second holes; and a second wire on the third insulating layer, in contact with the first wire. The second insulating layer at the second hole exposes an upper surface of the light blocking member at the first hole
US09740033B2	Test apparatus of a direct-light-type backlight module Embodiments of the disclosure provide a test apparatus of a direct-light-type backlight module. The test apparatus comprises: a light-emitting-element fixing unit, configured for fixing a light emitting element; an optical-element fixing unit, configured for fixing an optical element into an optical path of the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a test head (85), configured for testing the light emitted from the light emitting element and passing through the optical element.
US09740028B1	Ophthalmic color-enhancing lenses and materials An ophthalmic spectacle lens having transmittance properties that block UV and violet light and partially block certain cyan wavelengths to enhance contrast between blue versus green and partially block certain yellow wavelengths to enhance contrast between green versus red, and keep in accordance with the tristimulus values. Adding wavelength-selective organic dyes provides the entire functional attributes of the current invention or improves the contrast-enhancing attributes provided by a glass wafer having functional rare-earth oxides, either of which improve multi-band spectrum that is balanced in blocking UV light, and adding contrast between the primary colors to optimize color-enhancing functions. When using organic dyes for all functional attributes it is possible to integrate these dyes into plastic ophthalmic materials. Some lenses are polarized. Unlike other color-enhancing sunglass lenses, this invention may help protect the eyes from over-exposure to some high-energy visible blue light, which may lead to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
US09740024B2	Pair of progressive ophthamlic lenses A pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses (1, 2) meets special conditions for improving binocular vision of a wearer, while avoiding discomfort for peripheral vision. A first one of the conditions relates to width values of far vision fields and/or proximate vision fields, for indicating that the fields are different enough in width between both lenses. A second one of the conditions sets a maximum value for the relative difference in mean refractive power gradient between both lenses.
US09740023B1	Wearable device with heat transfer pathway A wearable device is disclosed according to one embodiment. The wearable device can include an eyewear body, onboard electronic components, a thermal coupling and a heat transfer device. The eyewear body can be configured for wearing by a user to hold one or more optical elements mounted on the eyewear body within a field of view of the user. The onboard electronic components can be carried by the eyewear body at a first portion of the eyewear body and can comprise a heat source that generates heat during electrically powered operation thereof. The thermal coupling can be thermally coupled to the heat transfer device at a second portion of the eyewear body. The elongate heat transfer device can be disposed within the eyewear body and can be thermally coupled to the heat source and the thermal coupling. The heat transfer device can extend lengthwise between the heat source and the thermal coupling to transfer heat from the heat source to the thermal coupling.
US09740021B1	Glasses with lens fastened by pivotal members A pair of glasses includes a spectacles frame, a lens unit, and two pivotal members. A pivot hole is provided in each of first and second ends of the spectacles frame. The lens unit is detachably assembled on the spectacles frame and includes two snap-fit portions. Each pivotal member includes a swing arm and a pivot formed at the swing arm and held in a corresponding pivot hole, so that each pivotal member can make a pivotal rotation relative to the spectacles frame. The swing arm includes a locating slot at a lower end thereof. The lens unit is assembled on the spectacles frame when the snap-fit portions of the lens unit join the locating slots in the pivotal members. The lens unit can be disassembled from the spectacles frame when the snap-fit portions of the lens unit are separated from the locating slots in the pivotal members.
US09740020B2	Lens moving apparatus, camera module and optical appliance including the same Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin in which a lens is mounted, a first coil and a magnet configured to electromagnetically interact with each other so as to move the bobbin, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin therein, an elastic member including an inner frame coupled to the bobbin, an outer frame coupled to the housing, and a frame connection portion configured to connect the inner frame and the outer frame to each other, and a support member connected to the elastic member and configured to support the housing, and the outer frame includes a first coupling portion coupled to the housing, a second coupling portion coupled to the support member, the second coupling portion being spaced apart from the first coupling portion, and a single connection portion configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion to each other.
US09740019B2	Integrated structured-light projector Optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor die and a monolithic array of light-emitting elements formed on the semiconductor die in a grid pattern comprising multiple columns. Conductors formed on the die define a respective common contact for driving each column of the light-emitting elements. A diffractive optical element (DOE) is configured to project multiple replicas of a pattern of stripes generated by the light-emitting elements, each stripe corresponding to a respective one of the columns.
US09740015B2	Three-dimensional imaging system based on stereo hologram having nine-to-one microlens-to-prism arrangement A three-dimensional imaging system based on a stereo hologram is disclosed. Images composed of sub-images having the same vertical-horizontal resolutions which are generated at plural image projection modules having a two-dimensional arrangement structure are projected to a prism array plate or a transmission-type diffusion plate, and are converted into light points, i.e., image points through a microlens array unit. A diffusion plate used as an image display screen is mounted to a position at which images diffused from the light points intersect with images diffused from the adjacent light points.
US09740013B2	Collimating optical device and system There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.
US09740012B2	See-through computer display systems Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with a wide field of view.
US09740007B2	Display device, image processing device and image processing method, and computer program There is provided a display device including a display unit that displays an image thereon, an eyepiece optical unit that projects a display image of the display unit on the eyes of a user, a correction information retaining unit that retains correction information created in advance according to a state of the user, and a distortion correction unit that corrects distortion of the display image based on correction information according to a current state of the user.
US09740001B2	Wheel and projection device using the same A wheel and a projection device using the same are provided. The wheel includes a wheel plate and a wavelength conversion layer. The wheel plate includes a first surface, a second surface, a through hole, a first groove, and a second groove. The first surface is opposite to the second surface, and forms a coating area and a non-coating area. The through hole is located in the coating area. The second groove is formed on the second surface and protrudes over the first surface to assemble a driver. The wavelength conversion layer is formed in the coating area of the first surface to convert a wavelength of a light beam.
US09739985B2	Projection lens and projection display apparatus A projection lens includes a compound aspherical lens in which a resin layer is formed on a surface of a glass lens and a lens surface of the resin layer on the air contacting surface side has an aspherical shape. If the glass transition temperature of the resin layer is taken as Tg and its unit is taken as ° C., Tg of at least one of the resin layers is 150
US09739979B2	Imaging lens and electronic apparatus having the same An optical imaging lens includes, first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens element has a positive refractive power and the object-side surface of the first lens element comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The image-side surface of the second lens element comprises a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The object-side surface of the third lens element comprises a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The image-side surface of the fourth lens element comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element comprises a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and for the optical imaging lens as a whole, only the five lens elements have refractive power.
US09739976B2	Imaging lens and imaging apparatus An imaging lens includes, in order from the object side: a positive first lens group; a stop; a positive second lens group; and a negative third lens group. The first lens group includes, in order from the object side, at least one positive single lens, at least one cemented lens, at least one negative single lens, and a negative meniscus single lens. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side, a cemented lens and a biconvex lens. The third lens group includes, in order from the object side, a negative meniscus lens, at least one negative lens, and at least one positive lens. Focusing from infinity to a close distance is performed by moving the first lens group, the stop, and the second lens group while the third lens group is fixed with respect to an imaging surface.
US09739975B1	Deployable tactical room clearing mirrors A tactical mirror system includes a convex mirror that may be rapidly deployed and adhesively affixed to a room entry door to provide a room entry team member with a view of the room interior from a concealed cover position outside the room adjacent to the doorway is disclosed. A rip-cord is affixed to allow the user to peel away a protective layer thereby exposing an adhesive coated surface thereby allowing for rapid affixation of the mirror. A pair of diametrically opposed notches and a resilient transversely disposed band that function to allow the mirror device to be removably mounted to a baton to allow a room entry team member to manually extend and position the mirror. A plurality of mirrors may be provided and configured for compact nested storage thereby providing the user with a plurality of deployable mirror devices.
US09739974B2	Lens barrel An interchangeable lens has a lens frame holding a movable lens group, another lens frame holding another movable lens group, one actuator that drives one lens frame, and the other actuator that drives the other lens frame. A first yoke forming a magnetic circuit of the one actuator and a second yoke forming a magnetic circuit of the other actuator are disposed away from each other in an optical axis direction, and a nonmagnetic member is interposed between the first yoke and the second yoke.
US09739971B2	Keying for MPO systems Keying may be used to indicate various features of cables, cable connectors, and/or equipment. The keying mechanisms of the connectors systems disclosed herein identifies whether each plug is a pinned plug or a pinless plug. The keying mechanisms disclosed herein identify the number of optical fibers terminated at each plug. For example, one type of keying mechanism may indicate a cable plug manufactured under a 40 Gb/sec standard and another type of keying mechanism may indicate a cable plug manufactured under a 100 Gb/sec standard. The keying mechanisms may indicate a cabling/wiring pattern to be used (e.g., indicates a polarity of the cable). The cables and/or plugs may be color coded based on the keying mechanism. Accordingly, the keying may alert a user to the features of the cable that are not readily apparent upon a cursory inspection.
US09739970B2	Fiber distribution device A fiber distribution device includes a swing frame chassis pivotally mounted to a support structure. At least a first optical splitter module is mounted to the swing frame chassis. Pigtails having connectorized ends are carried by the swing frame chassis and have portions that are routed generally vertically on the swing frame chassis. An optical termination field includes fiber optic adapters carried by the swing frame chassis. The fiber optic adapters are configured to receive the connectorized ends of the pigtails.
US09739965B2	Optical fiber ribbon and optical fiber cable housing the optical fiber ribbon Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of concurrently ensuring mid-span access performance and cable production performance. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting the adjacent optical fibers 2, the connecting portions 3 being formed intermittently in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction X and a ribbon width direction Y. The optical fiber ribbon 1 including the connecting portions 3 having split strength which is set in the range from 1.50 gf to 21.0 gf, contributes to exhibiting both the mid-span access performance and the cable production performance.
US09739964B2	Semiconductor device having quadrangular interposer with plural functional blocks having arranged regions An interposer includes a plurality of identical functional blocks arranged in the x direction, for example, and the functional blocks include a first region mounting a semiconductor chip, a second region mounting a light emitting element chip, a third region mounting a light receiving element chip, and a plurality of silicon waveguides. Then, the second and third regions are arranged between the first region and a first side along the x direction of the interposer. In addition, the plurality of silicon waveguides are arranged between the second region and the first side, and between the third region and the first side, extending from the second region toward the first side and from the third region toward the first side and are not formed between the functional blocks adjacent in the x direction.
US09739957B2	Optical transmission and receiving device for implementing passive alignment of components and method for passively aligning components An optical device for implementing passive alignment of parts and a method therefor, more particularly an optical device and a method therefor that utilize an alignment reference part arranged on the substrate to passively align an optical element part with a lens-optical fiber connection part.For the passive alignment of parts, connection pillars of an alignment reference part are coupled to substrate holes, one or more light-emitting elements and one or more light-receiving elements are aligned in a row in a particular interval with respect to alignment holes arranged opposite each other in the alignment reference part, a lens-optical fiber connection part is aligned with respect to the alignment holes, and an optical fiber is aligned with the optical alignment point at a surface of a prism forming a portion of the lens-optical fiber connection part.
US09739956B2	Variable optical attenuator Provided is a variable optical attenuator, including a pigtail, a spacer, a lens and a cap. The pigtail has a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The first waveguide transmits incident light, and the second waveguide receives the returned light. The pigtail is attached to one side of the space, and the lens is attached to another side of the space. Moreover, the cap includes a hollow portion, a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion. The lens is placed inside the hollow portion, and the space is connected to the first connecting portion of the cap.
US09739955B2	Push-pull type fiber optic connector assembly A push-pull type fiber optic connector assembly includes a fiber optic connector connectable to fiber optic adapter and including connector housing, latch having elastic arm extended from top of connector housing for locking connector housing to fiber optic adapter, recessed portion located at bottom side relative to latch, pressure rod extended from recessed portion, fiber ferrule mounted in cable passage inside connector housing, connector sub assembly mounted in connector housing to hold fiber ferrule and fiber optic cable having fiber core inserted through fiber ferrule, and operating handle including sliding cap movably capped on connector housing, push member having push arm forwardly extended from sliding cap, cam located at one side of push arm and inserted into recessed portion of fiber optic connector, and handle shaft extended from sliding cap to pull sliding cap backwards in forcing down wedge-shaped pressure rod for disengaging fiber optic connector from fiber optic adapter.
US09739951B2	Fiber-optic connection arrangement and adapter sleeve The invention relates to a fiber-optic connection arrangement, with the connection arrangement (21) comprising a fiber-optic adapter (2), with the fiber-optic adapter (2) having a first connecting device (38) for a first connecting plug (11) and a second connecting device (6) for a second connecting plug (17), with the first and the second connecting devices (38, 6) being different, with the fiber-optic adapter (2) having at least one first adapter-side attachment means, with the first adapter-side attachment means being in the form of an external thread (8) with a first adapter-side nominal diameter, wherein the connection arrangement (21) furthermore comprises an adapter sleeve (26), with the adapter sleeve (26) having a first end section (27) with a first opening (28), and a second end section (29) with a second opening (30), with the first end section (27) having a first sleeve-side attachment means, with the first sleeve-side attachment means being in the form of a first internal thread (36), with the first internal thread (36) having a first sleeve-side nominal diameter,with the first sleeve-side nominal diameter corresponding to the first adapter-side nominal diameter, with the adapter sleeve (26) being screwed onto the adapter-side external thread (8) such that at least the second connecting device (6) is arranged in an internal volume (47) in the adapter sleeve (26). The invention also relates to an adapter sleeve (26).
US09739945B2	Distributed passive optical networks A passive optical network includes one or more multi-service terminals each having a housing and a plurality of ruggedized plug-receiving distribution ports accessible from outside the housing. The multi-service terminals also each include an optical power splitter or wave division multiplexer for splitting an optical signal and directing the split signal to the plug-receiving distribution ports. Some of the multi-service terminals provide a different power split ratio from others of the multi-service terminals.
US09739944B1	Reconfigurable pluggable transceiver A pluggable transceiver is provided that may receive an electrical signal from a host device, convert the optical signal into an optical signal, and transmit the converted optical signal to one or more external cables. In one aspect, a pluggable transceiver may include a first transceiver connector for connecting to a host device, an optical module for converting an electrical signal to an optical signal and vice versa, and a second transceiver connector for transmitting the optical signal to external cables or devices.
US09739943B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same A rectangular optical waveguide, an optical phase shifter and an optical modulator each formed of a semiconductor layer are formed on an insulating film constituting an SOI wafer, and then a rear insulating film formed on a rear surface of the SOI wafer is removed. Moreover, a plurality of trenches each having a first depth from an upper surface of the insulating film are formed at a position not overlapping with the rectangular optical waveguide, the optical phase shifter and the optical modulator when seen in a plan view in the insulating film. As a result, since an electric charge can be easily released from the SOI wafer even when the SOI wafer is later mounted on the electrostatic chuck included in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, the electric charge is less likely to be accumulated on the rear surface of the SOI wafer.
US09739941B2	Optical printed circuit boards Disclosed herein are apparatuses that include a first layer that includes glass and a plurality of waveguides disposed in the glass; a second layer that includes a second layer polymer and a plurality of waveguides disposed in the second layer polymer; and a third layer that includes a third layer polymer and a plurality of waveguides disposed in the third layer polymer.
US09739939B1	Apparatuses and methods for photonic communication and photonic addressing Apparatuses and methods for photonic communication and photonic addressing are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a photonic source layer that provides a plurality of photonic sources, each at a different wavelength, a plurality of second layers, and a third layer. Each of the plurality of second layers may be associated with a respective wavelength, and each of the plurality of second layers may include photonic filters tuned to their respective wavelength, a photonic modulator, and a photonic detector. The third layer may include a plurality of photonic circuits, with each of the plurality of photonic circuits associated with a respective second layer of the plurality of second layers. Additionally, each of the plurality of photonic circuits may include a photonic filter tuned to a respective wavelength associated with a respective second layer, a photonic detector and a photonic modulator. Modulated and unmodulated photonic signals may be provided from the second layers to the third layer and from the third layer to the second layers, where the respective wavelengths of the photonic signals acts like an address for each of the plurality of second layers.
US09739937B2	Elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining large-mode-area gain fiber The present invention discloses an elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining large-mode-area gain fiber, structurally comprising a core of the elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining large-mode-area gain fiber, an inner cladding, an elliptical stress layer, a first outer cladding, a second outer cladding and a third outer cladding, wherein the inner cladding surrounds the core; the elliptical stress layer surrounds the inner cladding, and has an elliptical cross-sectional shape; the first outer cladding surrounds the elliptical stress layer; the second outer cladding surrounds the first outer cladding; and the third outer cladding surrounds the second outer cladding. As the birefringence of the elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining fiber is directly proportional to the ellipticity and the deposition of a stress-applying area occurs during the preform rod forming process, procedures of preform drilling and the like are eliminated, and the likelihood of preform contamination is greatly reduced. The optical loss and strength of the fiber can hence be improved, and the entire manufacturing process is simplified. Furthermore, the birefringence and the pump absorption of the fiber can also be improved.
US09739936B2	Low-loss few-mode fiber A low-loss few-mode fiber relates to the technical field of optical communications and related sensing devices, and includes, from inside to outside, a core layer (1), a fluorine-doped quartz inner cladding (2), a fluorine-doped quartz second core layer (3), a fluorine-doped quartz depressed cladding (4) and a fluorine-doped quartz outer cladding (5); germanium element is not doped within the core layer (1), the refractive index of the core layer (1) is in gradient distribution, and the distribution is a power-exponent distribution; the maximum value of difference in relative refractive index between the core layer (1) and the fluorine-doped quartz inner cladding (2) is 0.3% to 0.9%; the relative refractive index difference of the fluorine-doped quartz inner cladding (2) with respect to synthetic quartz is −0.3% to −0.5%; the difference in relative refractive index between the fluorine-doped quartz second core layer (3) and the fluorine-doped quartz inner cladding (2) is 0.05% to 0.2%; the difference in relative refractive index between the fluorine-doped quartz depressed cladding (4) and the fluorine-doped quartz inner cladding (2) is −0.1% to −0.5%; the relative refractive index difference of the fluorine-doped quartz outer cladding (5) with respect to synthetic quartz is −0.3% to −0.5%. The transmission loss of optical signals of the linear polarization modes that are supported by the few-mode fiber and the relay cost are reduced.
US09739935B2	Optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof An optical fiber includes a core, and a clad surrounding an outer circumference of the core, in which a first relative refractive index difference Δ1a is greater than 0, a second relative refractive index difference Δ1b is greater than 0, the first relative refractive index difference Δ1a is greater than the second relative refractive index difference Δ1b, the first relative refractive index difference Δ1a and the second relative refractive index difference Δ1b satisfy a relationship denoted by the following expression: 0.20≦(Δ1a−Δ1b)/Δ1a≦0.88, and a refractive index profile Δ of the core in an entire region of a section of 0≦r≦r1 as a function Δ(r) of a distance r from a center of the core in the radial direction is denoted by the following expression: Δ(r)=Δ1a−(Δ1a−Δ1b)r/r1.
US09739928B2	Light input for directional backlight A directional backlight may include a light guiding apparatus including at least one transparent optical waveguide for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources. The waveguide is arranged in a first part and a second part with a light injection aperture between the respective parts. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality including high brightness displays and high display efficiency.
US09739927B2	Light source device and display apparatus Provided are a light source device capable of effectively coping with a luminance change in a light guide plate caused by a variation in an interval between a light source and the light guide plate at a low cost, and a display apparatus. A light source device which includes a light guide plate for emitting light made incident on one side surface from one surface thereof, is configured so as to, for the luminance change due to a change in an interval between a light source disposed on the one side surface side of the light guide plate and the light guide plate, previously increase only an average luminance of the light source side (one side surface side) in which an influence of the luminance change is largest.
US09739910B2	Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A polarizing plate includes: a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer; and transparent protective films provided on both surfaces of the polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer with an adhesive layer interposed between each of the transparent protective films and the polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer. A first transparent protective film contains a (meth)acrylic resin and an ultraviolet absorber, the (meth)acrylic resin having an unsaturated carboxylic acid alkyl ester unit and a glutarimide unit represented by the general formula (1), having an imidization ratio of 2.5 to 5.0% and an acid value of 0.10 to 0.50 mmol/g, and having an acrylic ester unit of less than 1% by weight. A second transparent protective film contains a cycloolefin-based resin. R1 and R2 each independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group; and R3 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group.
US09739899B1	Method of operational status verification for a neutron detecting device A method of verifying the operational status of a neutron detecting device includes at least partially enclosing a neutron detecting device including a neutron detector in a container having outer walls comprising a thermal neutron absorber material, and determining an attenuated neutron count rate of the neutron detecting device. The method then includes removing the neutron detecting device from the container, exposing the neutron detecting device to neutron radiation originating from cosmic ray background, determining an operational neutron count rate of the neutron detecting device, determining a ratio between the operational neutron count rate and the attenuated neutron count rate, and verifying the operational status of the neutron detecting device if the operational neutron count rate is higher than the attenuated neutron count rate by at least a predetermined amount and the ratio is in a predetermined range.
US09739896B2	Coatings for digital detectors Described is a scintillator screen that includes a supporting layer having a phosphor dispersed in a polymeric binder disposed on the supporting layer and a barrier layer disposed on the polymeric binder. The barrier layer includes a non-moisture absorbing polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, cellulose diacetate, ethylene vinyl acetate and polyvinyl butyraldehyde. The barrier layer has a thickness of less than 1 micron. An antistatic layer is disposed on the barrier layer. The antistatic layer includes poly(3,4-ethylenedixythiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS) dispersed in a polymer selected from the group consisting of a polyester and a polyurethane. The antistatic layer has a transparency of greater than 95 percent at a wavelength of from about 400 nm to 600 nm.
US09739890B2	GPS baseband controller architecture A GPS receiver includes an RF front end for acquiring and tracking a satellite signal and a baseband processor configured to preserve power. The baseband processor includes a GPS engine configured to process the satellite signal and generate a PVT fix, a power supervisory module for receiving the PVT fix, and a user state module that determines an environmental state, wherein the power supervisory module may power down the GPS receiver for a period of time based on a result of the determined environment state. The baseband processor also includes a time-based management module that adjusts the TCXO in response to the determined environmental state. The GPS receiver includes a plurality of operation modes, each of which is associated with a plurality of tracking profiles.
US09739886B2	Using a two-dimensional scanner to speed registration of three-dimensional scan data A method for measuring and registering 3D coordinates has a 3D scanner measure a first collection of 3D coordinates of points from a first registration position. A 2D scanner collects horizontal 2D scan sets as 3D measuring device moves from first to second registration positions. A processor determines first and second translation values and a first rotation value based on collected 2D scan sets. 3D scanner measures a second collection of 3D coordinates of points from second registration position. Processor adjusts second collection of points relative to first collection of points based at least in part on first and second translation values and first rotation value. Processor identifies a correspondence among registration targets in first and second collection of 3D coordinates, and uses this correspondence to further adjust the relative position and orientation of first and second collection of 3D coordinates.
US09739877B2	Topology determination for bulk materials For determining the topology of a bulk material surface, a series of echo curves are detected in different primary radiation directions of the antenna. Subsequently, for each distance cell of the echo curves, the maximum of all of the echo curves is determined and the distance thereof is plotted as a function of the coordinates thereof so as to obtain an image of the topology of the bulk material surface in two or three dimensions.
US09739873B2	Range sidelobe suppression A system, apparatus, and method for receiving a signal. In one implementation, the system includes a receiver, a correlator, and a range sidelobe envelope generator. The receiver receives the signal. The correlator compresses the signal with a reference signal. The range sidelobe envelope generator generates a range sidelobe envelope function based on the compressed signal.
US09739867B2	Methods and apparatus for determining relationships in heterogeneous networks A method enables automatic determination that an area covered by an Access Point (AP) of a Wi-Fi Radio Access Network (RAN) overlaps with a cell of a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) RAN. The method comprises, at an entity of the Wi-Fi RAN, obtaining a 3GPP identifier related to a user terminal that is attached to the Wi-Fi RAN and an identifier for an AP of the Wi-Fi RAN to which the terminal is attached. The method further comprises, at the entity, generating and sending a Location Service Request including the 3GPP identifier to a Location Services (LCS) Server associated with the 3GPP RAN, receiving a Location Service Response from the LCS Server that includes information identifying a cell of the 3GPP RAN in which the user terminal is located, and causing storage of an association between the identified Wi-Fi AP and the identified 3GPP cell.
US09739860B2	Systems and methods for landmarking for subject imaging An imaging system includes an imager adapted to obtain an image of a desired region of interest of a subject and a coil positioned on the desired region of interest of the subject. The coil includes a plurality of markings disposed at a plurality of locations on the coil. The imaging system also includes a position indication device having a user interface adapted to receive input from a user indicating which of the plurality of markings corresponds to a desired scan plane of the subject.
US09739859B2	Method and control device to control a magnetic resonance system A method and control device operate a magnetic resonance system in order to execute a first pulse sequence that includes an excitation phase and an acquisition phase. In the excitation phase, a first gradient is applied in a gradient direction to generate a spatially dependent basic magnetic field. A selective radio-frequency excitation pulse is executed, wherein the selective radio-frequency excitation pulse excites a first material and does not excite a second material in a first partial region of an examination volume, and wherein the selective radio-frequency excitation pulse does not excite the first material and excites the second material in a second partial region of the examination volume. In the acquisition phase, non-selective refocusing pulses are executed in order to acquire raw data of the first and second partial region of the examination volume, which acquisition is spatially coded along the gradient direction.
US09739840B2	Power detection system for valve actuators A system and method to detect the loss or disruption of one or more phases of a three phase alternating current (AC) power source used in the operation of a valve actuator. The loss of one or more phases of a three phase AC power source may cause a peak in AC power output. While a peak in AC power output may not affect an operation of electronic circuitry, all three phases are often required to safely operate other hardware components, such as an AC motor that is associated with the valve actuator. Therefore, in response to detecting the loss or disruption of at least one phase of a three phase AC power source, this disclosure presents a system and method to inhibit damaging operations such as operating an AC motor associated with a valve actuator, and continuing to operate communications and diagnostic circuitry to report the condition.
US09739836B2	Battery management system having a data interface for a battery module, battery module having a data memory, battery system having a battery management system and a battery module, and motor vehicle having a battery system The disclosure describes a battery management system, a battery module, a battery system and a motor vehicle. In order to be able to reliably exchange battery modules, the battery module is provided with a data memory, and the battery management system is provided with a control apparatus, which can be connected to the data memory so as to transmit data, and with a bridging switch, wherein the control apparatus closes the bridging switch on the basis of the data in the data memory and therefore bridges the battery module.
US09739827B1	Automated waveform analysis using a parallel automated development system A mixed signal testing system capable of testing differently configured units under test (UUT) includes a controller, a test station and an interface system that support multiple UUTs. The test station includes independent sets of channels configured to send signals to and receive signals from each UUT being tested and signal processing subsystems that direct stimulus signals to a respective set of channels and receive signals in response thereto. The signal processing subsystems enable simultaneous and independent directing of stimulus signals through the sets of channels to each UUT and reception of signals from each UUT in response to the stimulus signals. Received signals responsive to stimulus signals provided to a fully functional UUT (with and without induced faults) are used to assess presence or absence of faults in the UUT being tested which may be determined to include one or more faults or be fault-free, i.e., fully functional.
US09739810B2	Duty cycle independent comparator Disclosed are methods and circuits to measure independently of duty cycles a pulsed current of a pass transistor of a switched circuit. Methods and circuits of one embodiment may be applied to precisely operate DC-to-DC converters such as buck converters in the most efficient operation modes. Another embodiment can be used to measure the pulsed current independently of duty cycle over a wide range of current values.
US09739794B2	Sample injector with disconnectable injection needle A sample injector for injecting a fluid into a fluidic path, wherein the sample injector comprises a robot arm configured for moving an injection needle, when being connected to the robot arm, between a fluid container containing the fluid and a seat in fluid communication with the fluidic path, the needle configured for aspirating the fluid from the fluid container, when the needle has been moved to the fluid container, and for injecting aspirated fluid into the fluidic path, when the needle is accommodated in the seat, and the seat configured for accommodating the needle and providing fluid communication with the fluidic path, wherein the robot arm is configured for selectively disconnecting the needle from the robot arm when the needle is accommodated in the seat, and wherein the robot arm is configured for performing a further task while the needle is disconnected from the robot arm.
US09739791B2	Methods for predicting and treating myocardial damage A method for predicting myocardial damage in a subject having or at risk of cardiac disease includes determining a level of apolipoprotein AI (ApoAI) and a level of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in the subject and comparing the determined levels of ApoAI and CoQ10 to control levels.
US09739787B2	Method for diagnosing sleep apnea by measuring adipsin and betatrophin levels The method for diagnosing sleep apnea includes measuring concentrations of biomarkers in a patient's bodily sample. To determine whether a patient suffers from sleep apnea, or has a predisposition for developing sleep apnea, a sample from the patient is analyzed. If one or more of the following biomarker concentrations are found in the patient's sample, then the patient may be diagnosed as suffering from sleep apnea or having a predisposition for developing sleep apnea: between approximately 992.8 pg/mL and approximately 1309.6 pg/mL of adipsin; between approximately 1,640 pg/mL and approximately 2,900 pg/mL of betatrophin; between approximately 8,090.82 pg/mL and approximately 11,829.07 pg/mL of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); between approximately 11.82 pg/mL and approximately 88.26 pg/mL of interleukin-13 (IL-13); between approximately 49.45 pg/mL and approximately 103.29 pg/mL of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α); and between approximately 16.55 pg/mL and approximately 29.76 pg/mL of the protein encoded by Human DNAJC27.
US09739776B2	Rationale, methods, and assays for identifying human and non-human primate taste specific genes and use thereof in taste modulator and therapeutic screening assays This invention relates to novel rationale and methods for identifying human and primate taste-specific genes, including genes involved in salty taste perception, especially human salty taste perception, but also genes involved in sweet, bitter, umami, and sour taste perception, and genes involved in other taste cell or taste receptor related activities such as digestive function and digestive related diseases, taste cell turnover, immunoregulation of the oral and digestive tract, and metabolic regulation such as in diabetes and obesity, the genes identified using these methods, and assays for identifying taste modulators (enhancers or blockers) and potential therapeutics using these genes. These compounds have potential application in modulating (enhancing or blocking) taste perception, especially salty taste perception and as potential therapeutics. In addition, this invention relates to novel methods for identifying taste-specific genes that can be used as markers for different taste cell types, including sweet, bitter, umami, sour, salty, and other taste cells in mammals as well as assays that measure the activity of the sweet, bitter, umami, or sour receptor in the presence of these genes to identify modulators of sweet, bitter, umami, and sour taste and to identify therapeutics especially for treating digestive or metabolic disorders, taste loss, and oral infections. Particularly, the genes identified herein and antibodies or oligos thereto can be used as markers to identify and/or purify specific taste cells e.g., from taste cell suspensions by use of FACS or magnetic bead cell selection or other known cell purification and isolation procedures.
US09739770B2	Label-free detection of nanoparticles and biological molecules using microtoroid optical resonators Systems and methods are provided for detecting one or more particles such as individual unlabeled molecules or single nanoparticles. In examples described herein, optical energy is introduced into a microtoroid or other microcavity to generate an evanescent field. The microcavity has a functionalized outer surface that has been functionalized with a chemically or biologically active substance such as an antibody, antigen or protein. An indication of a particle bound to the functionalized outer surface of the microcavity is then detected based on a reactive interaction between the particle and the evanescent field while using frequency locking, balanced detection and various filtering techniques. The frequency locking, balanced detection and filtering techniques reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the detection system so that single nanoparticles (e.g. 2.5 nanometers (nm) in radius) and individual molecules (e.g. 15.5 kilo-Dalton (kDa) in size) can be detected in aqueous solution in some examples.
US09739758B2	Methods for gas leak detection and localization in populated areas using isotope ratio measurements Improved gas leak detection from moving platforms is provided. Automatic horizontal spatial scale analysis can be performed in order to distinguish a leak from background levels of the measured gas. Source identification can be provided by using isotopic ratios and/or chemical tracers to distinguish gas leaks from other sources of the measured gas. Multi-point measurements combined with spatial analysis of the multi-point measurement results can provide leak source distance estimates. Qualitative source identification is provided. These methods can be practiced individually or in any combination.
US09739757B2	Condition change labels Described herein are condition change labels, methods of forming them, and methods of using them. Generally, condition change labels include a first layer including a blister laminated to a first side of a bottom layer thereby creating a container; an indicator substance located in the container; and an adhesive disposed on at least a portion of a second side of the bottom layer, wherein the condition change label has a stiffness less than about 0.06 mN•m.
US09739746B1	Analyte sensor incorporating negatively charged moieties An analyte sensor and a method for making the analyte sensor are disclosed. The analyte sensor includes a crosslinked, hydrophilic copolymer having a methacrylate-derived backbone and a side chain having a negatively charged group. The copolymer can include an embedded analyte sensing component, and can be adjacent to a surface of an electrode, or be adjacent to a sensing membrane that that has an embedded analyte sensing component and is adjacent to a surface of an electrode. The sensing membrane can have a crosslinked network of crosslinked proteins.
US09739741B2	Tube-in-a-tube electronic sensors The present invention is directed to tube-in-a-tube electronic materials and electronic chemical sensors comprising tube-in-a-tube configurations such as covalently functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes.
US09739736B2	HF alkylation process An HF olefin/isoparaffin alkylation process is carried out in an alkylation unit with a settling vessel in which the alkylate product is separated from the HF acid catalyst containing water and acid soluble oil (ASO). The density of the liquids in the settling vessel is measured at different levels by means of a nuclear density profile analyzer. The acid strength of the acid phase is determined from the density measurement and an optional temperature measurement. The proportion of water in the acid phase may also be measured separately by measurement of its electrical conductivity to determine the respective contributions of the water and the ASO to the density of the HF acid phase.
US09739727B2	Systems and methods for aligning an aperture An alignment system for aligning apertures in an X-ray backscatter system is provided. Additionally, a method for aligning apertures in an X-ray backscatter system is provided. Further, a computer-readable storage device including computer-executable instructions for aligning apertures in an X-ray backscatter system is provided.
US09739715B2	Laser scanning microscope system and method of setting laser-light intensity value A method of setting a laser-light intensity value includes: emitting laser light, the laser light being excitation light, a fluorescent-dyed biological sample being irradiated with the excitation light and emitting light; detecting fluorescence emitted by the biological sample, and outputting a signal corresponding to a brightness value; prestoring relation information, the relation information including the plurality of laser-light intensity values, and information on at least one possible correlation between a phototoxicity degree and the brightness value in relation to each of the laser-light intensity values, the phototoxicity to the biological sample resulting from the laser light; generating a fluorescence image having the brightness value based on the output signal; calculating a brightness value representative of a ROI area based on the generated fluorescence image; and referring to the relation information, and determining a laser-light intensity value satisfying tolerance of the phototoxicity based on the calculated representative brightness value.
US09739710B2	Optical sensing and separation based on ordered three-dimensional nanostructured surfaces A sensor having a substrate is provided in which structures are disposed on a surface of the substrate. The structures can be, e.g., nanostructures. Polarized light is directed toward the sensor, and birefringence of the structures with respect to the light is measured. Target particles that interact with the structures are detected based on changes in the measured birefringence.
US09739709B2	Hydrocarbon sensing methods and apparatus A chip-scale, reusable sensor can detect aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), rapidly in water without sample preparation. The device is capable of real-time, continuous monitoring for BTEX solutes, which diffuse into a film, such as a polymer, on the sensors surface. In operation, BTEX analytes concentrate in the film, causing an increase in refractive index, which modulates evanescent coupling into the chips integrated photodetector array. Integration of the photodetector array simplifies system instrumentation and permits incorporation of an on-chip photocurrent reference region in the immediate vicinity of the sensing region, reducing drift due to temperature fluctuations. In some examples, the chip responds linearly for BTEX concentrations between 1 ppm and 30 ppm, with a limit of detection of 359 ppb, 249 ppb, and 103 ppb for benzene, toluene, and xylene in water, respectively.
US09739708B2	Systems and methods for pressure differential molecular spectroscopy of compressible fluids Described herein is a spectroscopic system and method for measuring and monitoring the chemical composition and/or impurity content of a sample or sample stream using absorption light spectroscopy. Specifically, in certain embodiments, this invention relates to the use of sample pressure variation to alter the magnitude of the absorption spectrum (e.g., wavelength-dependent signal) received for the sample, thereby obviating the need for a reference or ‘zero’ sample. Rather than use a reference or ‘zero’ sample, embodiments described herein obtain a spectrum/signal from a sample-containing cell at both a first pressure and a second (different) pressure.
US09739697B2	Drop impact tester and method for drop impact test A drop impact tester comprises a holder configured to hold a test piece and release the test piece such that the test piece drops in freefall; an impact surface disposed under the holder such that the test piece dropped from the holder hits the impact surface; and a drop angle measurement device configured to measure a drop angle which is a value correlated with an angle between a major surface of the dropped test piece and a reference plane. The tester further comprises an impact measurement device configured to move the impact surface from its first posing state to its second posing state to adjust an angle of the impact surface with respect to the reference plane based on the drop angle. The impact measurement device is configured to measure a drop impact applied to the impact surface by the dropped test piece or another test piece.
US09739690B2	Tire testing apparatus A tire testing machine includes a tire and wheel assembly having a sensor configured to measure a parameter related to the tire and wheel assembly as it rotates on a rotating element. A holder supports the tire and wheel assembly. A processor is configured to receive an input at least based on the output signal from the sensor, and provide an output signal indicative of a parameter of a contact patch between a tire of the tire and wheel assembly and the rotating element. Controlled element(s) are configured to vary a parameter related to the contact patch and/or friction.
US09739683B2	Device for inspecting canister for vehicle The present invention relates to a device for inspecting a canister for a vehicle, the device including: an inspection unit fixing a canister and inspecting airtightness of the canister using pressure of air supplied from an external supply source; a control unit controlling the pressure of the air and showing inspection process and result by the canister; and an alarm unit providing least any one of a voice and light warning in cooperation with the control unit in an inspection process when a defect of canister is detected.
US09739677B2	Matching back pressures on differential oil-filled diaphragms Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a differential pressure transducer that comprises first and second diaphragms of different configurations, i.e., different diameters and/or thicknesses. The pressure transducer provides more versatility over prior art designs as the diaphragms can be of different configurations yet still maintain substantially similar back pressures. Therefore, the errors commonly associated with back pressures are eliminated because the back pressures from the diaphragms ultimately cancel out in the sensor's differential pressure measurement.
US09739673B2	Sensor substrate In an embodiment, a sensor substrate includes a first end, a second end, and a body. The body contains provisions for accommodating one or more sense elements. The first end and the second end contain attachment points for attaching the sensor substrate to a shaft. In addition, the first end and the second end include curved portions. For a particular end, a spacing of the attachment points and/or a depth of the curved portion may define, in part, a flexibility of the end. This flexibility may be used to control a sensitivity of the sense elements.
US09739668B2	Testing device for wireless power transfer and associated method A testing device (30) is provided for use with a wireless power transmitter device (20) having a wireless power transmitter coil (24). The testing device (30) has a housing (50), the housing having a bottom side (53) adapted for placement on a surface (25) of the wireless power transmitter device (20), and a top side (54) opposite to the bottom side (53). A wireless power receiver coil (34) is provided in the housing. The testing device (30) also has thermo sensory means (31) and an interface (33) to provide measurement data from the thermo sensory means (31). The thermo sensory means (31) includes at least a first temperature sensor (55) adapted to measure a temperature at a first position inside the housing (50), and a second temperature sensor (56) adapted to measure a temperature at a second position external to the housing (50).
US09739665B2	Covering cap and measuring device A covering cap, in particular for placing on a skin analyzer, contains an end wall bounded by a circumferential edge, and a circumferential wall adjoining the circumferential edge of the end wall. At least one part of the covering cap has a thickness that is less than a thickness of the circumferential wall in a portion of the circumferential wall that lies in the region or end of the circumferential wall remote from the end wall. The end wall is of a gas-permeable configuration.
US09739656B2	Dynamic scale that uses multiple weight measurements of an object in continious motion to derrive a weight value and a quality value, where the quality value determines the validity of the weight value In a dynamic scale and a weighing method therefor, an object to be weighed is received on a weighing unit of the dynamic scale and weight information of the object on the weighing unit is detected by the weighing unit. The weight information includes a number of items of weight information, which are supplied to a processor, and a derived weight value is determined in the processor by evaluation of a predetermined number of the items of weight information, and a quality value for the derived weight value is also determined in the processor by evaluation of the predetermined number of items of weight information. Depending on the quality value, it is established, in the processor, that the derived weight value is a valid weight value and, when it is established that the derived weight value is a valid weight value, the weighing unit is then fed with a new object.
US09739655B2	System and method for using a rate of decay measurement for real time measurement and correction of zero offset and zero drift of a mass flow controller or mass flow meter The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a self-validating mass flow controller or mass flow meter. For example, in one embodiment, a self-validating mass flow controller is disclosed that does not require any software modification to a tool/tool controller in which the mass flow controller is being utilized. In other embodiments, a self-validating mass flow controller is disclosed that does not require any hardware or mechanical changes to an existing mass flow controller. Still, the disclosed embodiments further include a self-validating mass flow controller that is configured to determine valve leak and sensor offset simultaneously for performing real time in-situ correction of a mass flow controller's output for zero offset or zero drift in the presence of valve leak.
US09739651B1	Variable cone flow meter A flow meter for measuring fluid flow in a tubular that includes an obstruction suspended in a path of the fluid flow, and where the obstruction has a conical shape. The obstruction can be conically shaped on its upstream and downstream ends, or can be conically shaped only on its upstream end. When only the upstream end is conically shaped, the downstream end can be substantially planar or shaped like a hemisphere. Optionally, the aspect ratio of the obstruction can be changed by manipulating supports that suspend the obstruction within the flow meter.
US09739649B2	Method for increasing the reliability of transducers A method for increasing a reliability of a transducer is provided. The transducer has a first and a second IC, wherein the two ICs each have substantially the same monolithically integrated circuit components with one sensor apiece, and a signal contact for bidirectional data transmission. A reference contact on each of the two ICs is connected to or disconnected from the signal contact by a controllable switch, and a signal generated as a function of the physical quantity sensed by the relevant sensor is applied to the signal contact. The two ICs are integrated into a common IC package, and a supply voltage contact of the first IC is connected to a first package contact, and the first package contact is connected to a first terminal of a control unit, and the supply voltage contact of the second IC is connected to a second package contact.
US09739648B2	Dial structure The dial structure includes a dial base having an optical transparency, on which a carbon pattern is formed, and an uneven portion formed on a front surface of the dial base. The uneven portion has a convex and concave form representing a convex and concave form of the carbon pattern. A background print layer is formed on a back surface of the dial base excluding a portion to be an indicator portion, and has a color tone of the carbon pattern.
US09739645B2	Fibre optic distributed sensing A method of distributed fiber optic sensing is described in which an optical fiber (104) is interrogated with electromagnetic radiation; back-scattered radiation is detected; and the returns are processed to provide a measurement signal (310) for each of a plurality of longitudinal sensing portions of the optical fiber. The method comprises analyzing the measurement signals of a first subset of longitudinal sensing portions to provide a first zone (306a) having a first sensing function and analyzing the measurement signals of at least a second subset of longitudinal sensing portions to provide at least a second zone (306b) having a second, different, sensing function. The different sensing functions may include detecting different events of interest. In some embodiments the geometry of the fiber may provide different sensing zones (406a, 406b).
US09739639B2	Rotation angle detection device A rotation angle detection device includes a lever, a cylindrical part, a magnet, and a magnetic sensing element. The lever includes a base and a shaft projecting in the direction of the rotation axis of the base and integrated with the base. The cylindrical part has a first end close to or in contact with the base, and a second end opposite to the first end and farther from the base than the first end. The shaft is inserted in the cylindrical part and is rotatably supported by the cylindrical part. The magnet is attached to the end of the shaft. The magnetic sensing element faces the magnet with a predetermined gap therebetween.
US09739636B2	Calibration device and calibration method A calibration device to calibrate precise horizontality of a light emitting element includes a retaining rack, a microprocessor, a regulating member, two driven members, and two photo sensing members. The regulating member drives the light emitting element, the two driven members are on the retaining rack, and the microprocessor controls the driven members to move linearly. The photo sensing members detect light transmitted and data as to the vertical distance between two driven members, and vertical distance between the photo sensing member and the two driven members, is stored. The microprocessor calculates the moving distance of the photo sensing members carried by the driven members based on the signals of light detected, and further calculates declination of the light emitting element. The microprocessor can adjust the orientation of light emitting element.
US09739632B2	Methods and systems of providing information using a navigation apparatus A method of providing information relating to a path being travelled using a navigation apparatus, involves displaying a path bar including a linear representation of at least a portion of a path to be travelled using a navigation apparatus. The linear representation of the portion of the path is scrollable in the display window by a user to reveal a linear representation of another portion of the path. The method may involve automatically increasing a scale of the linear representation of the path displayed as a given location represented along the path is approached, wherein the location is a location of a safety camera or event affecting traffic flow along the path.
US09739625B2	Information processing apparatus, operating system, and operating method for information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus for operating a vehicle, when the vehicle is running, and an application is instructed through voice. An in-running operation acceptance/denial list is produced, i.e., a list of words meaning an operation to be inhibited from being executed during the time when the vehicle is running. A command acceptance/denial executing portion of the onboard apparatus determines if the command corresponding to the content, which a user speaks, can be operated or not, during the time when the vehicle is running, by referring this list and a title of the command operable through voices included in the application, and when the vehicle is running, an execution of that command is instructed to an application controller portion, if being determined operable, by referring to a running condition of the vehicle, and if being determined inoperable, the execution of that command is not instructed to the application controller portion.
US09739617B2	Navigation system with prompt mechanism and method of operation thereof A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a navigation distance based on comparing a current location and a guidance point; determining a connection mode based on comparing a mode threshold distance and the navigation distance; detecting a communication initiation information for initiating a communication session; and generating a guidance notification with a control unit based on detecting the communication initiation information during the connection mode representing the mode threshold distance meeting or exceeding the navigation distance for presenting on a device.
US09739615B2	Autonomous data evacuation For autonomous data evacuation, a compartment is motivated by a propulsion device. A navigation module guides the compartment to a disaster recovery target using the propulsion device in response to an evacuation signal. At least a portion of the navigation module comprises one or more of hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media.
US09739614B2	Fibre-optic measurement device, rate gyro, and inertial stabilisation and navigation unit A fiber-optic measurement device (10) includes a SAGNAC ring interferometer (20) having a proper frequency fp, a detector (14) and a modulation chain (30) generating a phase-shift modulation φm(t) between the two counter-propagating waves (24, 25) propagating in the ring interferometer. The device aims to reduce measurement faults due to the linearity defects in the modulation chain of such a measurement device with optical fiber. For this reason, the fiber-optic measurement device reduces the amplitude of the phase-shift modulation φm(t) which is the sum of a first biasing phase-shift modulation component φb1(t) and a first counter-reaction phase-shift modulation component φcr1(t), the phase-shift modulation φm(t) falling or rising by twice the amplitude of the first biasing phase-shift modulation component φb1(t). A rate gyro including such a measurement device and an inertial stabilization or navigation unit including at least one such rate gyro are also described.
US09739613B2	Microelectromechanical structure with enhanced rejection of acceleration noise An integrated MEMS structure includes a driving assembly anchored to a substrate and actuated with a driving movement. A pair of sensing masses suspended above the substrate and coupled to the driving assembly via elastic elements is fixed in the driving movement and performs a movement along a first direction of detection, in response to an external stress. A coupling assembly couples the pair of sensing masses mechanically to couple the vibration modes. The coupling assembly is formed by a rigid element, which connects the sensing masses and has a point of constraint in an intermediate position between the sensing masses, and elastic coupling elements for coupling the rigid element to the sensing masses to present a first stiffness to a movement in phase-opposition and a second stiffness, greater than the first, to a movement in phase, of the sensing masses along the direction of detection.
US09739612B2	Sensor including moving masses and means for detecting relative movements of the masses A MEMS type inertial sensor comprising a support structure having at least a first seismic body and a second seismic body connected thereto by resilient means in order to be movable in a suspension plane, transducers for maintaining the seismic bodies in vibration and for determining movements of the seismic bodies in the suspension plane, and a control unit connected to the transducers by electrical conductor means. The transducers comprise at least one electrode secured to the first seismic body and at least one electrode secured to the second seismic body, the two electrodes being arranged to enable relative movements of the seismic bodies relative to each other in the suspension plane to be measured directly.
US09739609B1	Time-of-flight sensor with configurable phase delay Techniques to determine a distance associated with a surface using time-of-flight (ToF) of pulses of light occurring at a predetermined frequency. A ToF camera may include a light emitter that emits light according to one or more phase delays relative to the configured of a first storage device of multiple storage devices of the ToF camera to receive light, convert to current, and store a charge corresponding to current. For instance, a light emitter may emit pulses at a 0° phase delay (i.e., simultaneously with the opening of the first storage device), a 90° phase delay, a 180° phase delay, and a 270° phase delay. Light captured and stored as energy in the storage devices may be then be analyzed to estimate a distance to a surface of an object in an environment. After estimating a distance between the ToF camera and a surface, the ToF camera may optimize its phase delay to reduce the error associated with a subsequent distance measurement.
US09739599B2	Devices, apparatus, and articles of manufacturing to monitor environments Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor environments are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing a first depth value corresponding to a coordinate of an object of an image captured by a depth sensor, the first depth value having been captured with the depth sensor positioned at a first angle relative to a reference axis; moving the depth sensor to a second angle relative to the reference axis, the second angle being different than the first angle; triggering capture of a second depth value at the coordinate with the depth sensor positioned at the second angle; and calculating a depth gradient for the coordinate based on the first and second depth values.
US09739588B1	Book alignment device and method A book alignment device engages a back side of objects that are misaligned on a plane and applies a transverse force against the back side of the objects to align the objects on the plane. The device aligns the separate, misaligned objects into a single aligned set of objects. In this manner, the objects are not only aligned, but compacted into a stronger, unitary configuration that forms a single set of objects. An alignment rod forms an elongated member having a substantially straight configuration and a pair of free ends. The alignment rod engages a back side of the objects to pull them forward into alignment. A pair of lateral bars extend from the free ends of the alignment rod. The lateral bars have a distal end that perpendicularly joins the free ends of the alignment rod, and a proximal end that enables manipulation of the alignment rod.
US09739578B1	Conductive energy weapon ammunition Ammunition for a conductive energy weapon. A receptacle includes a cavity accessible through each of a first opening in a first face of the receptacle, a second opening in the first face of the receptacle, a third opening in a second face of the receptacle and a fourth opening in a third face of the receptacle. A propellant unit is included within the cavity proximate the second opening and a projectile is included within the cavity proximate the second opening. A housing is coupled to at least the second face and the third face of the receptacle and is further configured to couple to the conductive energy weapon. The propellant unit releases a propellant into the cavity, in a direction substantially opposite the projectile's direction of flight, in response to a trigger pull of the conductive energy weapon, and the cavity directs the propellant in the projectile's direction of flight.
US09739577B2	Device for launching fireworks A device for launching fireworks, the device includes: a plastic plug and a locking base. The plastic plug includes: a resistance heating wire, a slot for accommodating the resistance heating wire, two metal conductors, two plate-like electrodes, and an upper clamping structure. The locking base includes: a lower clamping structure, two spring electrodes, and a circuit connecting socket. The top of the plastic plug is provided with the slot for accommodating the resistance heating wire. The resistance heating wire is fixed in the slot for accommodating the resistance heating wire and two ends of the resistance heating wire are electronically connected with one ends of the two metal conductors. The other ends of the two metal conductors are respectively electronically connected with the two plate-like electrodes and fixed at a bottom of the plastic plug. The bottom of the plastic plug is provided with the upper clamping structure.
US09739567B2	Rocket launch system and supporting apparatus A rocket launch system includes a tubular rocket launcher carriage with electromotive cableway traction drives conveyed beneath a two axis pivot anchored to the earth, elevated into a co-axial transfer tube leading to three primary tether cables whose weight is offset by balloons. The carriage is conveyed to a docking station supported into the stratosphere by a pair of secondary cables suspended under an attachment frame for tensioning balloons. The carriage is engaged by a carriage end gripper guided by two sets of secondary cables and two sets of tertiary cables and lifted by a lower hoist guided by the secondary cables to a lift ring assembly. This lower hoist is supported by an upper hoist suspended from the tensioning balloons attachment frame. The carriage, which engages a lift ring guided by two secondary cables, is elevated further, rotated in azimuth and elevation, and rocket ejection occurs from a launch tube during freefall of the carriage, with engine ignition occurring at a safe distance. The carriages have traction drives which grip cables from which they derive power and rotate to drive the carriage from the low altitude to the high altitude. The traction drives rotate in the opposite direction as the carriage descends the cable following the launch of a rocket under gravitational force. The kinetic energy of the traction drive is converted to electrical energy which is fed back to the cables during descent of the carriage.
US09739564B2	Efficient high-velocity compressed gas-powered gun An efficient high-velocity compressed gas-powered gun includes a lower receiver having a trigger assembly. The efficient high-velocity compressed gas-powered gun includes an upper receiver having a gas distribution assembly and a bolt assembly configured to operate in response to actuation of the trigger assembly and configured to be operated by the gas distribution system. The bolt assembly has a first part and a second part that are separated by a small gap just prior to actuation of the trigger assembly, and become separated by a large gap, larger than the small gap, over a projectile-firing period of time immediately after the trigger assembly is actuated. The increase in the gap size is caused by movement of the second part in response to gas entering the small gap from the gas distribution assembly. The first part and the second part move together to cock the gun once they are separated by the large gap.
US09739560B1	System, method and apparatus for attaching an accessory to a firearm A system for attaching an accessory to a firearm includes a muzzle device configured for attachment to the muzzle end of the firearm, the muzzle device having a first coarse-threaded engagement means and one of an annular grooved surface and a grooved surface engagement mechanism, and an adapter device. The adapter device includes an adapter having a forward portion including an accessory engagement means for receiving the accessory and a rearward portion having a second coarse-threaded engagement means formed on an inner surface of the adapter, a biasing mechanism received on the rearward portion, and a retainer ring received on the rearward portion adjacent to the biasing mechanism, the retainer ring having the other of the annular grooved surface and the grooved surface engagement mechanism. The male coarse-threaded engagement means and the female coarse-threaded engagement means cooperate to releasably secure the adapter device to the muzzle device.
US09739544B2	Surface treatment method for aluminum heat exchangers A surface treatment method for aluminum heat exchangers including (a) a step wherein a chemical conversion coating film is formed on the surface of an aluminum heat exchanger by subjecting the aluminum heat exchanger to chemical conversion using a chemical conversion agent; (b) a step wherein the aluminum heat exchanger, the surface of which has been provided with a chemical conversion coating film in step (a), is brought into contact with a hydrophilizing agent that contains a hydrophilic resin; and (c) a step wherein a hydrophilized coating film is formed on the surface of the aluminum heat exchanger by baking the aluminum heat exchanger, which has been subjected to a contact treatment in step (b). The chemical conversion agent used in step (a) contains zirconium and/or titanium in an amount of 5-5,000 ppm by mass in total, vanadium in an amount of 10-1,000 ppm by mass and a metal stabilizer in an amount of 5-5,000 ppm by mass. In addition, the chemical conversion agent used in step (a) has a pH of 2-6.
US09739542B2	Heat transfer plate and plate heat exchanger comprising such a heat transfer plate A heat transfer plate comprises a first end area, a heat transfer area and a second end area along a longitudinal center axis of the plate which divides the plate into first and second halves delimited by first and second long sides respectively. The first end area comprises an inlet port hole, a distribution area and a transition area. The transition area adjoins the distribution area and the heat transfer area. The distribution area has a distribution pattern of projections and depressions, the transition area has a transition pattern of projections and depressions, and the heat transfer area has a heat transfer pattern of projections and depressions. An imaginary straight line extends between two end points of each transition projection with an angle relative to the longitudinal center axis. The angle varies between the transition projections and increases from the first long side to the second long side.
US09739529B2	Method and system for separating fluids in a distillation tower A method and system for separating fluids in a distillation tower. The method may include feeding a stream to the distillation tower, wherein the stream includes carbon dioxide, reducing a carbon dioxide concentration of the stream received by the rectifier section by feeding a first cryogenic fluid to the controlled freeze zone section and accumulating rectifier section stream in at least one of a holding vessel and a sump of the rectifier section, and terminating reducing the carbon dioxide concentration when the carbon dioxide concentration of the stream travelling from the controlled freeze zone section to the rectifier section is less than or equal to a maximum carbon dioxide concentration. The first cryogenic fluid may comprise a substantially carbon-dioxide-free fluid.
US09739519B2	Startup logic for refrigeration system A refrigeration system includes a compressor having a first stage and a second stage; a heat rejecting heat exchanger including an inter-cooler and a gas cooler, the intercooler coupled to an outlet of the first stage and the gas cooler coupled to an outlet of the second stage; an unload valve coupled to an outlet of the intercooler and a suction port of the first stage; a flash tank coupled to an outlet of the gas cooler; a primary expansion device coupled to an outlet of the flash tank; a heat absorbing heat exchanger coupled to an outlet of the primary expansion device, an outlet of the heat absorbing heat exchanger coupled to the suction port of the first stage; and a controller for executing a startup process including controlling the unload valve to direct refrigerant from the intercooler to the suction port of the first stage.
US09739516B2	Refrigerator Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment, a freezing compartment door opening or closing the freezing compartment, and an ice making device disposed on a rear surface of the freezing compartment door. The ice making device includes a case disposed on the freezing compartment door, an ice tray rotatably disposed inside the case, the ice tray making an ice therein, a knob exposed to the outside of the case, the knob being connected to a rotation shaft of the ice tray and rotated by being manipulated from the outside, and an elastic member disposed on the rotation shaft of the ice tray, the elastic member providing an elastic force into the ice tray so that the ice tray is rotated to an original position. Thus, a structure for rotating the ice tray may be simplified.
US09739509B2	Multi-fluid renewable geo-energy systems and methods A geo-energy production method for extracting thermal energy from a reservoir formation. A production well extracts brine from the reservoir formation. A plurality of working fluid injection (“WFI”) wells may be arranged proximate to the production well to at least partially circumscribe the production well. A plurality of brine production (“BP”) wells may be arranged in a vicinity of the WFI wells to at least partially circumscribe the WFI wells. A working fluid is injected into the WFI wells to help drive a flow of the brine up through the production and BP wells, together with at least a portion of the injected working fluid. Parasitic-load time-shifting and to storing of excess solar thermal energy may also be performed.
US09739508B2	Apparatus and method for utilizing thermal energy An apparatus is provided having a heat generation device such as a boiler. A hypersonic energy harvester is provided having a first input and a second input. The first input and the second input are fluidly coupled to the heat generation device. A variable speed pump is fluidly coupled to supply liquid from the heat generation device to the hypersonic energy harvester. A deaerator is fluidly coupled to receive condensate from the hypersonic energy harvester.
US09739506B2	Solar energy harvesting An solar energy harvester and method for controlling the solar energy harvester, in which an insolation collector is formed of one or more elements each having two opposite major sides, a first side and a second side, and being configured to collect energy from insolation incident on any of the first and second sides. A cradle enables installation of the insolation collector on a roof with the first side generally towards the sun independently of the form of the roof. One or more heliostats reflect insolation to the second side of the insolation collector. A controller controls the one or more heliostats to maintain reflected insolation incident on the collector and to decrease the reflected insolation incident on the collector when necessary to inhibit the insolation collector receiving insolation exceeding given threshold through its first and second sides.
US09739505B1	Solar tracking and solar energy collection apparatus and method of using The invention is directed to a solar tracking apparatus that with permanent adjustment for latitude and pre-operation seasonal adjustment, when aimed at the Sun, will with rotation alone, track the Sun. The apparatus defines a permanently polar axis aligned shaft which rotates by the force of a weighted hydraulic timed drive continuously or intermittently at a rate simulating the apparent approximate fifteen degree per hour movement of the Sun across the sky. A two-ended carriage is fitted with a Fresnel lens or other solar concentrating or collecting element on one end and a targeted receiver is fitted to the other end. The carriage is adjustably mounted to about twenty three degrees either side of perpendicular to the polar aligned shaft thus focusing and concentrating the solar radiation on a receiving device, which stores the solar energy in the form of heat.
US09739497B2	Humidity control for air conditioning system An air conditioning system includes a cooling unit having a cooling coil and a fan, the cooling unit for cooling recirculated air from a return duct; a bypass duct providing an air pathway bypassing the cooling unit; a phase change material (PCM) module including a PCM and a PCM fan for drawing makeup air over the PCM; and a supply duct fluidly coupled to the cooling unit and the PCM module, the supply duct for supplying conditioned air to a space to be conditioned.
US09739493B2	Coaxial ventilator A coaxial ventilator (20) exchanges atmosphere between parts of a building (22) that are at differing heights. The coaxial ventilator (20) includes an outer conduit (24) that extends from an upper end (42) thereof downward to a lower end (44) thereof. The outer conduit (24) surrounds an inner conduit (62) that extends substantially the entire length of the outer conduit (24). Both the outer and inner conduits (24, 62) are open at their respective upper ends (42, 66) and lower ends (44, 68). Temperatures of atmosphere both surrounding and within the outer conduit (24) and the inner conduit (62) induce an exchange of atmosphere between the coaxial ventilator (20) and surrounding atmosphere.
US09739487B2	Glow plug A glow plug includes a cylindrical housing, a rod-shaped heater, a membrane portion, and a pressure sensor. The cylindrical housing extends along an axial direction. The rod-shaped heater extending along the axial direction is displaced along the axial direction and has one end portion disposed within the housing, and an other end portion which is exposed from the housing. The membrane portion connects together the heater and the housing and has a multi-layer construction which has a first layer and a second layer of which at least part is positioned nearer to the other end portion in the axial direction of the heater than the first layer. The pressure sensor measures a pressure within a combustion chamber in which the other end portion is disposed by making use of a displacement of the heater. A thickness of the second layer is larger than a thickness of the first layer.
US09739466B1	Stethoscope flashlight The stethoscope flashlight is a flashlight that is mounted on the tubing near the drum of the stethoscope. The stethoscope flashlight provides supplemental light during low ambient light situations (like night time visits) to provide the medical care giver to visually evaluate the patient and readily read the patient's chart without disturbing the patient. The stethoscope flashlight comprises a stethoscope, a tube mount, and a flashlight.
US09739465B1	Sconce box assembly for shallow wall cavities and various wallboard thicknesses A sconce box assembly for mounting sconces on walls of various wallboard thicknesses and shallow wall cavities with no disruption to the surrounding wall. The sconce box assembly includes an electrical box having a sidewall, a back wall, an electrical cavity, and wing bosses extending from the sidewall. First rotatable wings secured to the wing bosses are adapted for rotation between a retracted position, in which the rotatable wings are positioned inside the sidewall perimeter, and an extended position in which the rotatable wings are positioned outside the sidewall perimeter. Retracting the wings facilitates insertion of the electrical box through a hole in a wall. Extending the wings facilitates tightening the wings and clamping the electrical box to the wallboard. The invention contemplates at least one second rotatable wing that may be used optionally in place of the first rotatable wing in order to accommodate attachment to various thicknesses of wallboards.
US09739437B2	Vehicular lamp unit A vehicular lamp unit has a substrate, a light source having a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element disposed on the substrate, and an optical element having the light source attached thereto. The substrate is long in a first direction. The optical element radiates emitted light of the first and second light-emitting elements toward a front of the vehicular lamp unit, with a desired light distribution. A reference portion serving as a positioning reference for the optical element is provided in a part of the substrate. The first and second light-emitting elements are arranged in the first direction. The first light-emitting element illuminates an area having high light intensity of the light distribution. The second light-emitting element illuminates an area having low light intensity of the light distribution. The first light-emitting element is mounted at a position closer to the reference portion in the first direction than the second light-emitting element.
US09739431B2	Modular light-string system having independently addressable lighting elements Apparatus and associated methods relate to modular series-connectable LED light strings having an input connector and an output connector for electrically communicating power and a control signal, an input control signal being actively level-shifted to a level suitable to a first lighting element of the LED light string. In an illustrative embodiment, the LED light string may have a plurality of series connected lighting elements that generate a series of intermediate supply voltage levels. In some embodiments, the active level shifter may bias the input control signal between an DC voltage level applied to a positive supply pin of the first lighting element and the intermediate supply voltage level generated at the connection of a negative supply pin of the first lighting element and the positive supply pin of the second lighting element. In some embodiments, active level-shifting may advantageously restore the proper bias for a series connected light string.
US09739430B2	Systems, methods and/or devices for providing LED lighting Certain embodiments are directed to a lighting device comprising one or more of the following: a plurality of LEDs; a plurality of optic devices corresponding to the plurality of LEDs; at least one optical separator for substantially preventing the light emitted from one LED from effecting the other LEDs; a thermoelectric device configured to harvest heat generated by the LEDs and convert the harvested heat into electrical energy; and a low temperature material for creating a temperature difference across the thermoelectric device.
US09739423B2	Synthesis and hydrogen storage properties of novel metal hydrides The present disclosure relates to improved processes for the preparation of metal hydrides. The present disclosure also relates to metal hydrides, e.g., metal hydrides prepared by the processes described herein, that exhibit enhanced hydrogen storage capacity when used as hydrogen storage systems.
US09739421B2	Hydrogen energy systems Hydrogen energy systems for obtaining hydrogen gas from a solid storage medium using controlled laser beams. Also disclosed are systems for charging/recharging magnesium with hydrogen to obtain magnesium hydride. Other relatively safe systems assisting storage, transport and use (as in vehicles) of such solid storage mediums are disclosed.
US09739412B2	Method of extending life expectancy of high-temperature piping and life expectancy extension structure of high-temperature piping A method of extending a life expectancy of a high-temperature piping, includes removing a heat insulation material which covers the piping having a high creep rupture risk, and lowering an outer surface temperature of piping, wherein a width of an exposed portion obtained is twice or more a distance from a peeled-off end portion of the exposed portion to a portion where a compressive stress is asymptotical to 0 after a change in stress between a tensile stress and the compressive stress occurring in the piping due to the removal of the heat insulation material is made from the tensile stress to the compressive stress, and the distance is calculated based on the following formulae, βx=5, β = 3 ⁢ ( 1 - v 2 ) a 2 ⁢ h 2 4 here, ν is a Poisson's ratio, a is an average radius of the piping, and h is a plate thickness of the piping.
US09739409B2	Winch boom and method for trench less replacement A pipe replacement system and method are shown. Configurations are shown that include a pulley that does not damage a bursting tool, as the bursting tool is pulled into a pit. Configurations are also shown that include a boom that does not need an extraction cage for the bursting tool.

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