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US09819078B2	Antenna apparatus Disclosed is an antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus includes a lower antenna element; an upper antenna element on the lower antenna element; and an intermediate ground element interposed between the lower antenna element and the upper antenna element and overlapping with the lower antenna element and the upper antenna element. The antenna apparatus may have an expanded resonance frequency band.
US09819072B2	Wireless communication apparatus and antenna module thereof A wireless communication apparatus includes a substrate, an electrical insulation cover, a first antenna and a second antenna. The substrate has a ground surface. The electrical insulation cover covers the substrate. The electrical insulation cover has first and second surfaces. The first antenna is disposed on the first surface and is electrically connected to the ground surface. The second antenna is disposed on the second surface and includes first and second capacitive coupling portions, a signal feeding portion and a first slit. The signal feeding portion connects the first and second capacitive coupling portions. The first slit is located between the first and second capacitive coupling portions. The first antenna can generate first and second resonant modes with the first and second capacitive coupling portions in a manner of capacitive coupling, respectively. The first and second resonant modes have different frequency bands.
US09819048B2	Method of manufacturing secondary battery Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a secondary battery wherein an electrode assembly impregnated with an electrolytic solution is embedded in a battery case, wherein interfacial contact properties (i.e. wetting) of the electrode assembly and the electrolytic solution are improved through a process including: (a) impregnating an electrode assembly having a separator interposed between a cathode and an anode with an electrolytic solution; and (b) applying vibration having a frequency of 20 to 100 kHz to an electrolytic solution with which the electrode assembly is impregnated. A secondary battery manufactured according to the method may have improved ionic conductivity, electronic conductivity and the like and, as such, may have improved electrochemical performance.
US09819046B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery that includes: an electrode assembly with a first electrode and a second electrode that include uncoated regions and coated regions; a case; a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab coupled to the first and second electrodes; and a laminating tape attached to opposite surfaces of a front end portion disposed at a center of the electrode assembly and opposite surfaces of a terminal end portion disposed at an outermost side of the electrode assembly. The second electrode tab is coupled to the uncoated region of the second electrode toward the uncoated region of the first electrode in the terminal end portion that is disposed at the outermost side of the electrode assembly, the first electrode tab is coupled to the uncoated region of the first electrode while being disposed closer to the coated region than the second electrode tab in the terminal end portion that is disposed at the outermost side of the electrode assembly, and an insulating laminating tape for preventing the second electrode tab and the uncoated region of the first electrode from electrically contacting each other is further included.
US09819045B2	Method of manufacturing secondary battery Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a secondary battery, built in a battery case, having an electrode assembly impregnated with an electrolyte solution, the method including: (a) injecting an electrolyte solution as a target into a chamber equipped with a vibrating probe; (b) impregnating by soaking an electrode assembly, which has a separator interposed between a cathode and an anode, in an electrolyte solution contained in the chamber; (c) applying vibration at a frequency of 20 to 100 kHz of to the electrolyte solution with the vibrating probe; and (d) moving the electrode assembly with the electrolyte solution into a battery case, whereby interfacial wetting of the electrode assembly and the electrolyte solution is improved. A secondary battery manufactured according to the method may have improved electrolyte solution impregnation properties, ionic conductivity, electronic conductivity and the like and, as such, may have improved electrochemical performance.
US09819042B2	Fuel cell integration within a heat recovery steam generator Systems and methods are provided for incorporating molten carbonate fuel cells into a heat recovery steam generation system (HRSG) for production of electrical power while also reducing or minimizing the amount of CO2 present in the flue gas exiting the HRSG. An optionally multi-layer screen or wall of molten carbonate fuel cells can be inserted into the HRSG so that the screen of molten carbonate fuel cells substantially fills the cross-sectional area. By using the walls of the HRSG and the screen of molten carbonate fuel cells to form a cathode input manifold, the overall amount of duct or flow passages associated with the MCFCs can be reduced.
US09819039B2	Redox flow batteries based on supporting solutions containing chloride Redox flow battery systems having a supporting solution that contains Cl− ions can exhibit improved performance and characteristics. Furthermore, a supporting solution having mixed SO42− and Cl− ions can provide increased energy density and improved stability and solubility of one or more of the ionic species in the catholyte and/or anolyte. According to one example, a vanadium-based redox flow battery system is characterized by an anolyte having V2+ and V3+ in a supporting solution and a catholyte having V4+ and V5+ in a supporting solution. The supporting solution can contain Cl− ions or a mixture of SO42− and Cl− ions.
US09819032B2	Standby electrical energy storage devices This invention relates to the formation of standby structural composite electrical energy storage devices, and a method of producing same. The device may be a standby battery or supercapacitor with first and second electrodes which are separated by a separator structure, wherein the device contains an electrolyte retained in a reservoir. The use of at least one valve allows the addition, removal of electrolyte fluids, and venting of any outgassing by products.
US09819023B2	Conductive primer compositions including phosphorus based acid bound to water soluble polymer for a non-aqueous electrolyte electrical energy storage device A conductive coating composition for use in electrical energy storage devices, which contain a non-aqueous electrolyte, is provided comprising an organic polymeric binder comprising one or more water-soluble polymers; water; solid conductive particles dispersed in the binder; and phosphorus based acid bound to at least one of the water-soluble polymers and present in a range of 0.025-10.0% by weight of the water-soluble polymers, as well as methods of making and using said conductive coating composition, coated current collectors and electrical energy storage devices made therefrom.
US09819019B2	All solid secondary battery and method of preparing all solid secondary battery An all solid secondary battery including: an exterior body; a cathode including a cathode active material including a transition metal oxide, an anode; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the cathode, the anode, and the solid electrolyte layer are disposed in the exterior body, wherein the transition metal oxide is a lithium composite transition metal oxide that contains nickel and at least one metal element other than nickel that belongs to Group 2 to Group 13 of the periodic table, and wherein the total of partial pressures of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the exterior body is 200 pascals or less.
US09819017B2	Sealed battery and battery jacket can There is provided a sealed battery having excellent corrosion resistance and sealing performance. The sealed battery 1 includes a battery jacket can 2 having a bottom and being in a cylindrical or polyhedral shape. The battery jacket can 2 also serves as a collector of one of the electrodes. The battery jacket can 2 has an opening pointing upwards and accommodates active parts (3, 4, 5 and 20). The opening is sealed by a sealing part 10 that includes a flat metal sealing plate 6, a gasket 9 made of an insulator, and a terminal part 7 of the other electrode. In the sealing part, the terminal part is attached to the sealing plate 6 using the gasket 9. The sealing plate has a planar shape that matches a shape of the opening of the battery jacket can. The sealing plate is in a saucer shape whose edge section is bent upwards. An upper end of the edge section of the sealing plate is laser-welded to an upper end of the battery jacket can while the sealing plate being inserted inside the opening of the battery jacket can. The battery jacket can is made of ferritic stainless steel to which Tin (Sn) is added.
US09819008B2	Negative-electrode stuff and negative electrode for use in lithium-ion secondary battery as well as lithium-ion secondary battery A negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery including a negative electrode that includes a current collector; and a negative-electrode active-material layer formed on a surface of the current collector, and including negative-electrode active-material particles. The negative-electrode active-material particles include an element being capable of sorbing and desorbing lithium ions, and being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium; or/and an elementary compound being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium, the negative-electrode active-material particles include particles whose particle diameter is 1 μm or more in an amount of 85% by volume or more thereof when the entirety is taken as 100% by volume, and exhibit a “D10” being 3 μm or more. The negative-electrode active-material layer having a thickness that is 1.4 times or more of a “D90” that said negative-electrode active-material particles exhibit.
US09819003B2	Rechargeable battery having short-circuit protrusion A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly including first and second electrodes; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a cap plate having a short-circuit opening; a first terminal coupled to the first electrode; a second terminal coupled to the second electrode; and a short-circuit member at the cap plate, corresponding to the short-circuit opening, and configured to deform to electrically couple the first and second electrodes; and a short-circuit protrusion at the second terminal and configured to contact the short-circuit member, wherein a surface roughness of the short-circuit protrusion is greater than that of the cap plate.
US09818998B2	Separator for electrochemical cell with overcharge protection and method of making same A separator for a rechargeable electrochemical cell that has a conductive first layer and a non-conductive second layer. The non-conductive second layer and the conductive first layer are adhered to one another, wherein the separator has a higher threshold voltage than a threshold voltage of the conductive first layer alone. At a predetermined voltage, the separator becomes conductive and stops further ionic transfers.
US09818990B2	Battery pack with shock absorber A battery pack includes a bare cell including an electrode assembly, a can housing the electrode assembly; and a cap plate sealing an open end of the can; a protective circuit module on the bare cell and including a lead member electrically coupling the protective circuit module to the bare cell; an upper cover coupled to the bare cell and covering the protective circuit module; and a shock absorber between the upper cover and the lead member.
US09818984B2	Organic electroluminescence element, image-forming apparatus, display apparatus, and imaging apparatus Provided is an organic electroluminescence element improved in emission efficiency. The organic electroluminescence element includes: a reflective electrode; a light exiting side electrode; an emission layer provided between the reflective electrode and the light exiting side electrode; and at least one low-refractive index layer provided between the reflective electrode and the emission layer, the low-refractive index layer having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the emission layer. An optical path L1 between the maximum emission surface of the emission layer and the reflection surface of the reflective electrode, and an optical path L2 between the reflection interface on an emission layer side of the low-refractive index layer and the maximum emission surface of the emission layer satisfy specific expressions.
US09818973B2	Display device There is provided a display device including a display panel configured to display an image, a window above the display panel and including a display area configured to transmit an image therethrough, a non-display area around the display area, a window base facing the display panel, a printed layer below the window base, and a low refractive-index zone between the window base and the printed layer, and an adhesive layer between the display panel and the window.
US09818970B2	Organic light emitting diode display panel, manufacturing method thereof and mask plate The present disclosure provides an OLED display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a mask plate. The OLED display panel includes an emitting layer and a cathode located at a light-exiting side of the emitting layer. The cathode is provided with gaps. Light emitted from the emitting layer may directly transmit through positions corresponding to the gaps, and then the cathode may have a decreased absorption and reflection against light emitted from the emitting layer as comparing with a cathode formed as a whole layer in the related art, thereby improving the light extracting rate of the OLED display panel, weakening the micro-cavity effect and solving the problem that the display color of the OLED display panel changes with different viewing angles.
US09818969B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of manufacturing the same An OLED display device includes a driving semiconductor layer on a substrate, a gate insulating layer covering the driving semiconductor layer, a driving gate electrode and etching preventing layer on the gate insulating layer, a passivation layer on the gate insulating layer, driving gate electrode, and etching preventing layer, and including a plurality of protruding and depressed patterns, driving source and drain electrodes on the passivation layer, a pixel electrode on the protruding and depressed pattern, and exposed etching preventing layer, the pixel electrode having a protruding and depressed shape, a pixel definition layer on the passivation layer, and the driving source and drain electrodes, and having a pixel opening exposing the pixel electrode, an organic emission layer on the exposed pixel electrode, and a common electrode on the organic emission layer and pixel definition layer. The protruding and depressed pattern partially exposes the etching preventing layer.
US09818962B2	Organic electroluminescent element and method for manufacturing same An organic electroluminescent element contains, on a base, at least a pair of electrodes that are arranged so as to face each other and a group of organic function layers including a light emitting layer, the group of organic function layers being held between the pair of electrodes. The base is a resin base having a thickness within the range of 3-50 μm, and the resin base-side electrode is a transparent positive electrode that is mainly composed of silver and has a thickness within the range of 2-20 nm.
US09818959B2	Metal-assisted delayed fluorescent emitters containing tridentate ligands Tridentate platinum, palladium, and gold complexes of Formulas A-I and A-II and tridentate iridium and rhodium compounds of Formulas B-I, B-II, and B-III suitable for delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent or phosphorescent emitters in display and lighting applications.
US09818947B2	Semiconductive roller of an image-forming apparatus A semiconductive roller to stably generate high-quality images for a long period of time by efficiently inhibiting migration of free epichlorohydrin (ECH) component to a surface of the semiconductive roller includes an elastic layer formed of a semiconductive rubber composition including about 50 to about 70 parts by weight of a base rubber and about 30 to about 50 parts by weight of a hydrin rubber. An extracted amount of the ECH component from the elastic layer is about 2% by volume or less, wherein the extracted amount is determined based on a reduced amount of chlorine (Cl) intensity measured using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis performed before and after extraction of the ECH component from the elastic layer using tetrahydrofuran (THF).
US09818943B2	Method of manufacturing multicolor quantum dot pattern Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a multicolor quantum dot pattern, the forming of a first quantum dot layer on the activated substrate includes: coating a polymer with a polarity opposite to a surface charge of the activated substrate or coating quantum dots having a functional group charged with a polarity opposite to a surface charge of the activated substrate onto the substrate; washing the substrate with water having pH 6 to pH 8; drying the substrate with flow of nitrogen, argon or air; coating quantum dots having a functional group charged with a polarity opposite to the polymer or the quantum dots charge coated on the substrate, or coating a polymer with a polarity opposite to the quantum dots charge coated on the substrate; washing the substrate with water having pH 6 to pH 8; and drying the substrate with flow of nitrogen, argon or air.
US09818940B2	Large-sized AMOLED display substrate and manufacturing method thereof A method for fabricating an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) display panel is provided. The method includes arranging Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) devices on one side of a substrate and a function layer on the other side of the substrate to form a laminate including both the TFT devices and the function layer, attaching the laminate onto a loading platform such that the function layer included in the laminate faces towards the loading platform, and conducting a process on the laminate to form an organic electroluminescent material layer on surfaces of the TFT devices.
US09818939B2	Resistive switching devices having a switching layer and an intermediate electrode layer and methods of formation thereof In one embodiment of the present invention, a resistive switching device includes a first electrode disposed over a substrate and coupled to a first potential node, a switching layer disposed over the first electrode, a conductive amorphous layer disposed over the switching layer, and a second electrode disposed on the conductive amorphous layer and coupled to a second potential node.
US09818929B2	Ultrasonic device, method for manufacturing the same, electronic device and ultrasonic imaging device An ultrasonic device includes a substrate having a first opening, a second opening and a wall part partitioning the first opening and the second opening; a first vibration film and a second vibration film which close the first opening and the second opening respectively; a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element which are formed on surfaces of the first vibration film and the second vibration film opposite to the substrate; an acoustic matching layer which is disposed within the first opening and the second opening so as to come into contact with the first vibration film and the second vibration film.
US09818925B2	Vibrating body, method of manufacturing the same and vibration type drive device A vibrating body includes a substrate, a piezoelectric element comprising a piezoelectric layer and electrode layers and joined to the substrate, and a ceramic layer between the substrate and the piezoelectric element. The ceramic layer comprises a first region and a second region which is adjacent to the first region in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the ceramic layer. The first region has a square shape, each side of the first region having a length equal to a thickness of the ceramic layer, the second region has a square shape, each side of the second region having the length equal to the thickness of the ceramic layer, and a difference between a porosity of the first region and a porosity of the second region is not greater than 15%.
US09818922B2	Light emitting diode package having frame with bottom surface having two surfaces different in height Provided is a light emitting device package. It is a substrate comprising a top and a bottom surfaces being substantially parallel to each other; a light emitting diode chip on the substrate; a frame disposed around the light emitting diode chip and configured to reflect light emitted from the light emitting diode chip, the frame having an opening; a first metal layer disposed on the top surface of the substrate; a second metal layer disposed on the top surface of the substrate; a third metal layer disposed on the bottom surface of the substrate; a through hole connected between the first metal layer and the third metal layer; a material being filled in the opening of the frame; and a lens disposed on the material, wherein the substrate and the frame are separate from each other.
US09818907B2	LED element Provided is an LED element that ensures horizontal current spreading within an active layer, improving light-emission efficiency, without causing problems due to lattice mismatch in an n-type semiconductor layer adjacent to the active layer. This LED element is obtained by inducing c-axis growth of nitride semiconductor layers on a support substrate, and comprises a first semiconductor layer constituted of an n-type nitride semiconductor, a current-diffusion layer, an active layer constituted of a nitride semiconductor, and a second semiconductor layer constituted of a p-type nitride semiconductor. The current-diffusion has a hetero-structure having a third semiconductor layer constituted of InxGa1-xN (0
US09818891B2	Solar cell module and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell module and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the solar cell module includes applying a low melting point metal on an electrode included in each of a plurality of solar cells, melting the low melting point metal to form a contact layer on the electrode, generating an ultrasonic vibration in the contact layer to remove a surface oxide layer formed on a surface of the electrode, melting a surface metal of the electrode and the contact layer to form a metal connection layer on the surface of the electrode, and connecting the metal connection layer to an interconnector.
US09818889B2	Composition for solar cell electrodes and electrode fabricated using the same A composition for solar cell electrodes, a solar cell electrode prepared from the composition, a solar cell, and a method of manufacturing the same, the composition including silver powder; silver iodide; glass frit; and an organic vehicle, wherein the silver iodide is present in an amount of about 0.1 wt % to about 30 wt %, based on a total weight of the composition.
US09818885B2	Deposited material and method of formation A system and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. An embodiment comprises forming a deposited layer using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The ALD process may utilize a first precursor for a first time period, a first purge for a second time period longer than the first time period, a second precursor for a third time period longer than the first time period, and a second purge for a fourth time period longer than the third time period.
US09818883B2	Metal oxide thin film transistor and preparation method thereof, as well as array substrate A metal oxide thin film transistor and a preparation method thereof, as well as an array substrate, wherein the metal oxide thin film transistor comprises a base substrate, an active layer and a source-drain metal layer formed on the base substrate that contact each other and are located in different layers, the source-drain metal layer comprising separated source electrode and drain electrode; the active layer having a hollow structure in a channel area located between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09818881B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate electrode facing the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, a first barrier layer below the oxide semiconductor layer, and a second barrier layer above the oxide semiconductor layer, the second barrier layer covering a top surface and side surfaces of the oxide semiconductor layer and being in contact with the first barrier layer in a region around the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09818876B1	Method for fabricating a finFET metallization architecture using a self-aligned contact etch A method of fabricating a FinFET device includes a self-aligned contact etch where a source/drain contact module is performed prior to a replacement metal gate (RMG) module. In particular, the method involves forming a sacrificial gate over the channel region of a fin, and an interlayer dielectric over adjacent source/drain regions of the fin. An etch mask is then used to protect source/drain contact regions and enable the removal of the interlayer dielectric from outside of the protected area, e.g., between adjacent fins.
US09818873B2	Forming stressed epitaxial layers between gates separated by different pitches Various embodiments include methods and integrated circuit structures. In some cases, a method of forming an integrated circuit structure can include: forming a doped silicon layer over a substrate; forming a plurality of fin structures from the doped silicon layer; forming a plurality of gate structures over the plurality of fin structures, each of the plurality of gate structures separated from a neighboring gate structure by a first pitch; forming a mask over the plurality of gate structures, exposing at least one of the plurality of gate structures; removing the at least one of the plurality of gate structures, wherein two of the remaining gate structures after the removing are separated by a second pitch larger than the first pitch; and forming an epitaxial region over the substrate between the two of the remaining gate structures.
US09818869B2	Ferroelectric device and method of its manufacture A ferroelectric device and a manufacturing method are provided. While holding a nonvolatile memory retention capability and a multiple rewriting endurance as the distinctive features of a ferroelectric device, the disclosed ferroelectric device is wider in memory window and more adaptively made microfiner than a conventional ferroelectric device that has used a ferroelectric mainly constituted of Sr—Bi—Ta—O as an oxide of strontium, bismuth and tantalum. Directly on or with intermediary of an insulator on a semiconductor there are layered a first ferroelectric and a conductor to form a gate stack, the first ferroelectric being mainly constituted of Sr—Ca—Bi—Ta—O as an oxide of strontium, calcium, bismuth and tantalum and being built up by a metal organic vapor deposition technique from a suitable film-forming raw material. The gate stack is heat-treated to cause the first ferroelectric to develop its ferroelectricity.
US09818861B2	Semiconductor device and method for forming the same A semiconductor device including a substrate having a drain region therein is provided. A gate-electrode layer is disposed on the drain region. A first field-plate conductor is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the drain region. A gap is located laterally between the first field-plate conductor and the gate-electrode layer. A second field-plate conductor covers the first field-plate conductor and the gap. The second field-plate conductor is separated from the first field-plate conductor. A method for forming the semiconductor device is also provided.
US09818858B1	Multi-layer active layer having a partial recess A transistor with a multi-layer active layer having at least one partial recess is provided. The transistor includes a channel layer arranged over a substrate. The channel layer has a first bandgap. The transistor includes a first active layer arranged over the channel layer. The first active layer has a second bandgap different from the first band gap such that the first active layer and the channel layer meet at a heterojunction. The transistor includes a second active layer arranged over the first active layer. The transistor also includes a dielectric layer arranged over the second active layer. The transistor further includes gate electrode having gate edges that are laterally adjacent to the dielectric layer. At least one gate edge of the gate edges is laterally separated from the second active layer by a first recess.
US09818857B2	Fault tolerant design for large area nitride semiconductor devices A fault tolerant design for large area nitride semiconductor devices is provided, which facilitates testing and isolation of defective areas. A transistor comprises an array of a plurality of islands, each island comprising an active region, source and drain electrodes, and a gate electrode. Electrodes of each island are electrically isolated from electrodes of neighboring islands in at least one direction of the array. Source, drain and gate contact pads are provided to enable electrical testing of each island. After electrical testing of islands to identify defective islands, overlying electrical connections are formed to interconnect source electrodes in parallel, drain electrodes in parallel, and to interconnect gate electrodes to form a common gate electrode of large gate width Wg. Interconnections are provided selectively to good islands, while electrically isolating defective islands. This approach makes it economically feasible to fabricate large area GaN devices, including hybrid devices.
US09818855B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first nitride semiconductor layer; a source electrode provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer; a drain electrode provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer; a gate electrode provided between the source electrode and the drain electrode; a first film provided between the source electrode and the gate electrode and between the gate electrode and the drain electrode; and a second film provided on the first film. The first film is provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer. The first film has a lower hydrogen diffusion coefficient than a hydrogen diffusion coefficient of a silicon oxide film.
US09818853B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof The surface of an interlayer insulating film formed over an emitter coupling portion and the surface of an emitter electrode formed over the interlayer insulating film are caused to have a gentle shape, in particular, at the end of the emitter coupling portion, by forming the emitter coupling portion over a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and integrally with trench gate electrodes in order to form a spacer over the sidewall of the emitter coupling portion. Thereby, stress is dispersed, not concentrated in an acute angle portion of the emitter coupling portion when an emitter wire is coupled to the emitter electrode (emitter pad), and hence occurrence of a crack can be suppressed. Further, by forming the spacer, the concavities and convexities to be formed in the surface of the emitter electrode can be reduced, whereby the adhesiveness between the emitter electrode and the emitter wire can be improved.
US09818837B2	Process of forming an electronic device having an electronic component In an embodiment, a process of forming an electronic device can include providing a semiconductor substrate having a first major side and an electronic component at least partly within the semiconductor substrate along the first major side; The process can further include thinning the semiconductor substrate to define a second major surface along a second major side opposite the first major side; and selectively removing a portion of the semiconductor substrate along the second major side to define a trench having a distal surface. The process can further include forming a feature adjacent to or within the trench. The feature can include a doped region, a conductive structure, or the like. In another embodiment, an electronic device can include the semiconductor substrate and a conductive structure within a trench. The conductive layer can laterally surround a pillar within the trench.
US09818834B2	Semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a gate stack, a spacer layer, and a dielectric layer over a substrate. The method includes removing a first portion of the dielectric layer to form a first hole in the dielectric layer. A second portion of the dielectric layer is under the first hole. The method includes forming a first protection layer over the gate stack and the spacer layer. The method includes forming a second protection layer over the first protection layer. The second protection layer includes a metal compound material, and the first protection layer and the second protection layer includes a same metal element. The method includes removing the second portion of the dielectric layer to form a through hole. The method includes forming a conductive contact structure in the through hole.
US09818816B2	Metal capacitor design for improved reliability and good electrical connection A metal capacitor is formed with good conductivity for both nodes of the capacitor and improved reliability. An embodiment includes a first layer of alternating first and second metal lines, a second layer of alternating third and fourth metal lines, a dielectric layer between the first and second layers, and vias in the dielectric layer connecting the first and second metal lines with the third and fourth metal lines, respectively, wherein each metal line comprises alternating first segments having a first width and second segments having a second width, the first width being greater than the second width, each first segment lying adjacent to a second segment of an adjacent metal line, and only first segments of the metal lines overlapping the vias. The design enables the spacing between metal lines to be maintained, the spacing between via to metal to be increased, and via connection to be maintained for both nets, thereby improving the conductivity and reliability of the capacitor and maintaining capacitance density.
US09818815B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface; a first coil formed on the main surface; a first insulating film formed over the first coil and having a first main surface; a second insulating film formed on the first main surface of the first insulating film and having a second main surface; and a second coil formed on the second main surface of the second insulating film, wherein the first main surface of the first insulating film has a first area on which the second insulating film is formed, and has a second area without the first area in a plan view, and wherein the second insulating film is surrounded with the second area in the plane view.
US09818813B2	Method for producing array substrate and array substrate Embodiments of the present application provide a method for producing an array substrate. The array substrate includes a planarization layer provided on a layer of thin film transistors and a first electrode provided on the planarization layer for a light emitting device. The method includes the steps of: forming a pixel definition layer for placing the first electrode, a via hole for the first electrode and a spacer on the planarization layer by a single patterning process with a single mask. The array substrate is produced by the method provided by the present embodiment, so that the number of the used patterning processes and the number of the used masks are reduced.
US09818811B2	Organic light emitting display devices and methods of manufacturing organic light emitting display devices An organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, a first hydrophobic pattern, at least one charge transport layer, a second hydrophobic pattern, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode. The substrate has a pixel region and a non pixel region surrounding the pixel region. The first electrode, the at least one charge transport layer and the organic light emitting layer are disposed on the substrate in the pixel region, while the pixel defining layer, the first hydrophobic pattern and the second hydrophobic pattern are disposed on the substrate in the non pixel region. The charge transport layer of one pixel is separated from a charge transport layer of another pixel by the first and second hydrophobic patterns to prevent crosstalk phenomenon.
US09818810B2	OLED and fabrication method thereof, and display apparatus An OLED and a fabrication method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The OLED comprises: a base substrate; a first electrode, an organic functional layer and a transparent or semi-transparent second electrode sequentially disposed on the base substrate; and a covering layer provided on a side of the second electrode away from the base substrate. A surface of the covering layer away from the base substrate is uneven.
US09818808B2	Organic electroluminescence display panel and method of manufacturing the same An organic EL display panel including: a substrate; a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode disposed over the substrate with a gap therebetween in a first direction; a wall separating a space above the first lower electrode and a space above the second lower electrode from one another; organic light-emitting layers respectively disposed in the spaces; and an upper electrode extending over the organic light-emitting layers. The wall includes a first portion disposed over the gap and two second portions each of which is disposed over a different one of the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode. The first portion is between the two second portions in the first direction, and at least a part of a bottom face of the first portion is positioned higher than a bottom face of the second portion.
US09818803B2	Pixel arrangement structure for organic light emitting display device A pixel arrangement structure of an OLED display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square.
US09818801B1	Resistive three-dimensional memory device with heterostructure semiconductor local bit line and method of making thereof A three-dimensional resistive memory device includes an alternating stack of electrically conductive layers and insulating layers. Resistive memory elements are provided between the electrically conductive layers and a semiconductor local bit line. The semiconductor local bit line includes a heterostructure of an inner semiconductor material layer having an inner-material band gap and an outer semiconductor material layer having an outer-material band gap that is narrower than the inner-material band. A gate dielectric is located between a gate electrode and the inner semiconductor material layer.
US09818800B2	Self aligned semiconductor device and structure A device, including: a first layer including first transistors and a second layer including second transistors, where at least one of the first transistors is self-aligned to one of the second transistors, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented transistors, and where the second layer includes a plurality of resistive-random-access memory (RRAM) cells, the memory cells including the second transistors.
US09818793B2	Photoelectric conversion device and method for producing photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device according to the present invention has a plurality of photoreceiving portions provided in a substrate, an interlayer film overlying the photoreceiving portion, a large refraction index region which is provided so as to correspond to the photoreceiving portion and has a higher refractive index than the interlayer film, and a layer which is provided in between the photoreceiving portion and the large refraction index region, and has a lower etching rate than the interlayer film, wherein the layer of the lower etching rate is formed so as to cover at least the whole surface of the photoreceiving portion. In addition, the layer of the lower etching rate has a refractive index in between the refractive indices of the large refraction index region and the substrate. Such a configuration can provide the photoelectric conversion device which inhibits the lowering of the sensitivity and the variation of the sensitivity among picture elements.
US09818786B2	Imaging device including wirings that overlap photoelectric conversions units A solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric conversion units formed side by side on the semiconductor substrate to form a light receiving unit; a peripheral circuit formed in a portion on an outside of the light receiving unit on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring section formed on the light receiving unit and formed for connecting the plural photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit; and a dummy wiring section formed on an opposite side of the wiring section for at least one photoelectric conversion unit among the plural photoelectric conversion units on the light receiving unit and formed for functioning as a non-connected wiring section not connected to the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit, wherein the dummy wiring section has a predetermined potential.
US09818782B2	Image sensor and method for fabricating the same An image sensor includes: a first inter-layer dielectric layer formed over a front side of a substrate including photoelectric conversion regions; isolation structures each of which penetrates through the first inter-layer dielectric layer and has a portion buried in the substrate; first metal lines formed over the first inter-layer dielectric layer to correspond to the photoelectric conversion regions; and an optical filter and a light condenser formed over a back side of the substrate.
US09818779B2	CMOS image sensor structure A semiconductor device is operated for sensing incident light and includes a substrate, a device layer, a semiconductor layer and a color filter layer. The device layer is disposed on the substrate and includes light-sensing regions. The semiconductor layer overlies the device layer and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface is adjacent to the device layer. The semiconductor layer includes microstructures on the second surface. The color filter layer is disposed on the second surface of the semiconductor layer.
US09818778B2	Solid-state image sensor and its manufacturing method, curable composition for forming infrared cut-off filters, and camera module A solid-state image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, photoelectric conversion elements arranged on a light receiving surface side of the semiconductor substrate and making up pixels, and a filter layer disposed on a light incidence side of the photoelectric conversion elements so as to correspond to the photoelectric conversion elements. The filter layer includes at least red color filters, green color filters, blue color filters and infrared cut-off filters. The infrared cut-off filters are each arranged next to at least one of the red color filters, the green color filters and the blue color filters. The solid-state image sensor suppresses occurrence of deterioration of the spectral characteristics of an adjacent color filter of any of three primary colors.
US09818777B2	Hybrid analog-digital pixel implemented in a stacked configuration A hybrid analog-digital pixel circuit is fabricated on two wafers. A first wafer includes the analog pixel circuitry and a second wafer includes the digital control and processing circuitry. Externally accessible contact structures for electrically interconnecting the two wafers are arranged in groups. Each group includes externally accessible contact structures for carrying signals associated solely with operation of a corresponding pixel.
US09818769B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display panel, and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The manufacturing method includes: forming a first metal wiring, an interlayer insulating film, a second metal wiring and a protecting layer in sequence on a substrate, the second metal wiring is parallel with the first metal wiring and has an overlapped area therewith which is defined as a first zone, and portions of the first and second metal wiring except the first zone are defined as a second zone and a third zone respectively; at least thinning a portion of the interlayer insulating film and/or the protecting layer corresponding to the first zone while leaving portions except those corresponding to the first, second and third zones un-thinned. The manufacturing method can mitigate Zara mura.
US09818765B2	Displays with silicon and semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
US09818760B1	Memory structure, method of operating the same, and method of manufacturing the same A memory structure includes stacks, memory layers, channel layers, dielectric layers, and first conductive lines. Each stack includes a group of alternating conductive strips and insulating strips. The memory layers are conformally disposed on the stacks. The channel layers are conformally disposed on the memory layers. The dielectric layers are disposed on portions of the channel layers at first sides of the stacks and portions of the channel layers at second sides of the stacks. The first conductive lines are disposed along sidewalls of the stacks. The first conductive lines are isolated from the channel layers by the dielectric layers. One first conductive line disposed at the first side of one stack is isolated from one first conductive line disposed at the second side of the same stack and isolated from one first conductive line disposed at the second side of an adjacent stack.
US09818759B2	Through-memory-level via structures for a three-dimensional memory device A three dimensional NAND memory device includes word line driver devices located on or over a substrate, an alternating stack of word lines and insulating layers located over the word line driver devices, a plurality of memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, each memory stack structure including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel, and through-memory-level via structures which electrically couple the word lines in a first memory block to the word line driver devices. The through-memory-level via structures extend through a through-memory-level via region located between a staircase region of the first memory block and a staircase region of another memory block.
US09818737B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device may include stacks including conductive layers and insulating layers. The conductive layers and insulating layers may be alternately stacked. The semiconductor device may include semiconductor patterns passing through the stacks. The semiconductor device may include plug patterns located on the semiconductor patterns and protruding compared to the stacks. The semiconductor device may include insulating patterns located on the stacks and the plug patterns and each including an edge area having a height at a level lower than a central area. The semiconductor device may include slit insulating layers located between the stacks and between the insulating patterns.
US09818726B2	Chip stack cooling structure An apparatus comprises a first die, a thermal cooler formed over at least a portion of the first die, a second die formed over at least a portion of the thermal cooler, and a plurality of through-silicon vias providing electrical connections between the first die and the second die. The thermal cooler comprises a plurality of fluid channels for fluid cooling of the first die and the second die, the plurality of fluid channels being formed horizontally through the thermal cooler. The plurality of through-silicon vias are formed vertically through the first die, the thermal cooler and the second die.
US09818723B2	Multi-chip package with interconnects extending through logic chip A microelectronic package includes a first microelectronic element comprising logic circuitry which is flip-chip mounted to a substrate, the substrate having terminals for connection with a circuit panel or other external component. A second microelectronic element overlies a rear surface of the first microelectronic element and has contacts electrically coupled with the substrate through electrically conductive interconnects extending through a region of the first microelectronic element. A heat spreader is thermally coupled with the rear surface of the substrate, either directly or through an additional element overlying the rear surface. Additional contacts of the second microelectronic element may be coupled with contacts of the substrate through electrically conductive structure disposed beyond an edge surface of the first microelectronic element.
US09818718B2	Conductive paste and die bonding method Provided are: a conductive paste in which sinterability of silver particles the conductive paste can be easily controlled by using silver particles having predetermined crystal transformation characteristics defined by an XRD analysis, and after a sintering treatment, excellent electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity can be stably obtained; and a die bonding method using the conductive paste.Disclosed is a conductive paste which includes silver particles having a volume average particle size of 0.1 to 30 μm as a sinterable conductive material, and a dispersing medium for making a paste-like form, and in which when the integrated intensity of the peak at 2θ=38°±0.2° in the X-ray diffraction chart obtainable by an XRD analysis before a sintering treatment of the silver particles is designated as S1, and the integrated intensity of the peak at 2θ=38°±0.2° in the X-ray diffraction chart obtainable by an XRD analysis after a sintering treatment (250° C., 60 minutes) of the silver particles is designated as S2, the value of S2/S1 is adjusted to a value within the range of 0.2 to 0.8.
US09818714B2	Method of manufacturing substrate for chip packages and method of manufacturing chip package Provided are a method of manufacturing a substrate for chip packages and a method of manufacturing a chip package, the method of manufacturing the substrate including: forming a lower adhesive layer in a lower part of an insulation film; forming an upper adhesive layer in an upper part of the insulation film to form a base material; forming via holes in the base material; and forming a circuit pattern layer on the upper adhesive layer, so it is effective to improve adhesion power between the molding resin and the insulation film at the time of manufacturing a chip package later.
US09818712B2	Package with low stress region for an electronic component A device package includes a substrate having an active surface. Electrical connection bumps are deposited on the active surface and are arranged in an array having a perimeter. At least one electronic component is formed at a region of the active surface, where the region is located outside of the perimeter of the array of electrical connection bumps. When the device package is coupled with external circuitry via the electrical connection bumps, the region at which the electronic component is formed is suspended over the electronic circuitry. This region is subject to a lower stress profile than a region of the active surface circumscribed by the perimeter. Thus, stress sensitive electronic components can be located in this lower stress region of the active surface.
US09818711B2	Post-passivation interconnect structure and methods thereof The semiconductor device includes a die that contains a substrate and a bond pad. A connective layer is disposed over the die. The connective layer includes a supporting pad and a conductive channel. A portion of the conductive channel passes at least partially through the supporting pad. At least one dielectric region is interposed between the supporting pad and the portion of the conductive channel.
US09818705B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes at least one semiconductor element having a first terminal side and a second terminal side connected by an outer periphery portion, a first terminal on the first terminal side, and a second terminal on the second terminal side. The device includes a frame surrounding the outer periphery portion of the semiconductor element. A first electrode is on the first terminal side and is electrically connected to the first terminal. The first electrode includes a first body portion and a first projection protruding outwardly therefrom around the circumference of the first body portion. A second electrode is on the second terminal side and is electrically connected to the second terminal, and a metal plate is over the first electrode. The first projection of the first electrode is spaced from and extends along a peripheral portion of the metal plate.
US09818702B2	Wiring substrate and semiconductor device A wiring substrate includes a first reinforcement pattern stacked on a lower surface of a first insulation layer at a peripheral region located at an outer side of a wiring formation region. A first reinforcement via extends through a second insulation layer in the thickness-wise direction and contacts the first reinforcement pattern. A second reinforcement pattern is stacked on a lower surface of the second insulation layer and connected to the first reinforcement pattern by the first reinforcement via. The first reinforcement via includes a top that partially extends into the first insulation layer.
US09818696B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a trench; a first electrode is formed in the trench; a first impurity region, which has a first conductivity type and is formed to abut on the trench; a second impurity region, which has a second conductivity type and is formed to abut the trench; an insulating film, which is formed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a conductive plug, which is formed to penetrate through the insulating film and is electrically connected to the first impurity region and the second impurity region; wherein the conductive plug includes: a silicon layer made of silicon other than a single crystal; a silicide crystallite contained in the silicon layer; and a blocking layer that is formed to cover sides of the silicon layer and is made of a material that is impervious to the silicide crystallites.
US09818688B2	Dielectric region in a bulk silicon substrate providing a high-Q passive resonator Structures and methods of making a dielectric region in a bulk silicon (Si) substrate of a mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) provide a high-Q passive resonator. Deep trenches within the bulk Si substrate in <100> directions are expanded by wet etching to form contiguous cavities, which are filled by Si oxide to form a dielectric region. The dielectric region enhances the quality (Q) of an overlying passive resonator, formed in metallization layers of the mixed-signal IC.
US09818687B2	Semiconductor module and method of manufacturing semiconductor module A semiconductor module includes an insulated circuit board that includes an insulating substrate, a first conductive plate arranged on a first principal surface of the insulating substrate and within the outer edges of the insulating substrate, and a second conductive plate arranged within the outer edges of the insulating substrate on a second principal surface of the insulating substrate that faces the first principal surface. Furthermore, boundary edges between the first principal surface of the insulating substrate and the side faces of the first conductive plate are covered by an ion gel that contains an ionic liquid.
US09818685B2	Semiconductor device with redistribution layers on partial encapsulation and non-photosensitive passivation layers A semiconductor device with redistribution layers on partial encapsulation is disclosed and may include a semiconductor die having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and side surfaces between the first and second surfaces; an encapsulant encapsulating the side surfaces of the semiconductor die; a contact pad on the first surface of the semiconductor die; and a redistribution layer coupled to the contact pad The redistribution layer may include a linear portion and a circular pad, and a hemispherical conductive bump on the circular pad may include a protruding part extending toward the linear portion and having a radius less than the hemispherical conductive bump. The second surface of the semiconductor die may be coplanar with a surface of the encapsulant. A dielectric layer may cover a portion of the first surface of the semiconductor die and a first surface of the encapsulant.
US09818681B2	Wiring substrate A wiring substrate includes a first substrate and an electronic component mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate. A first pad is formed on an uppermost wiring layer of the first substrate. A connection terminal is formed on the electronic component and is located proximate to the first pad in a plan view. The wiring substrate further includes a connection member formed on the first pad to electrically connect the first pad and the connection terminal. The connection member includes a rod-shaped core and a solder layer, which is coated around the core and joined to the first pad. The solder layer includes a bulge that spreads from the core of the connection member in a planar direction. The bulge is joined to the connection terminal of the electronic component.
US09818680B2	Scalable semiconductor interposer integration Semiconductor packages are described which increase the density of electronic components within. The semiconductor package may incorporate interposers with cavities formed into the top and/or bottom. The cavities may then be used as locations for the electronic components. Alternatively, narrow spacer interposers may be used to space apart standard more laterally elongated interposers to form the indentations used to house the electronic components. The semiconductor package designs described herein may be used to reduce footprint, reduce profile and increase electronic component and transistor density for semiconductor products.
US09818678B2	Semiconductor device To improve reliability of a semiconductor device, in a flip-chip bonding step, a solder material that is attached to a tip end surface of a projecting electrode in advance and a solder material that is applied in advance over a terminal (bonding lead) are heated and thereby integrated and electrically connected to each other. The terminal includes a wide part (a first portion) with a first width W1 and a narrow part (a second portion) with a second width W2. When the solder material is heated, the thickness of the solder material arranged over the narrow part becomes smaller than the thickness of the solder material arranged in the wide part. Then, in the flip-chip bonding step, a projecting electrode is arranged over the narrow part and bonded onto the narrow part. Thus, the amount of protrusion of the solder material can be reduced.
US09818674B2	Semiconductor component and method of manufacture In accordance with an embodiment, a semiconductor component includes a support having first and second device receiving structures. A semiconductor device configured from a III-N semiconductor material is coupled to the support, wherein the semiconductor device has opposing surfaces. A first bond pad extends from a first portion of the first surface, a second bond pad extends from a second portion of the first surface, and a third bond pad extends from a third portion of the first surface. The first bond pad is coupled to the first device receiving portion, the drain bond pad is coupled to the second device receiving portion, and the third bond pad is coupled to the third lead. In accordance with another embodiment, a method includes coupling a semiconductor chip comprising a III-N semiconductor substrate material to a support.
US09818670B2	Cooling device installation using a retainer assembly A system includes a retainer assembly to align each of a group of cooling devices with a corresponding electrical component of a group of electrical components that are mounted to a circuit board, where the retainer assembly includes a group of apertures, such that each of the cooling devices protrudes through a corresponding aperture when the retainer assembly is installed on the circuit board, and where the retainer assembly includes a group of retaining springs, each of which is associated with a corresponding aperture, that applies a respective force, of a group of forces, to a corresponding one of the cooling devices when the retainer assembly is installed on the circuit board. The system also includes a set of fasteners to mount the retainer assembly to the circuit board, such that the cooling devices dissipate heat that is generated by the electrical components.
US09818669B2	Printed circuit board assembly including conductive heat transfer A printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) may include a printed circuit board (PCB), a socket mechanically and electrically coupled to the PCB, and an integrated circuit package electrically coupled to the socket. The PCBA also may include a thermal cover comprising a thermally conductive material and a thermal strap thermally coupled to the thermal cover. The thermal cover may be thermally coupled to the integrated circuit package and mechanically urge the integrated circuit package in contact with the socket, and the thermal strap may include a thermally conductive material.
US09818666B2	Interconnect arrangement with stress-reducing structure and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device structure and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate structure embedded in a first dielectric layer over a substrate and a second dielectric layer formed over the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a conductive feature formed in the second dielectric layer over the gate structure and a first structure formed at least two sides of the conductive feature in the second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is made of a compressive material and the first structure is made of a tensile material or wherein the first dielectric layer is made of a compressive material and the first structure is made of a tensile material.
US09818664B2	Electronic device comprising an encapsulating block locally of smaller thickness An electronic device includes a carrier substrate with at least one electronic-circuit chip mounted on a front face of the carrier substrate. An encapsulation block on the front face and embedding the electronic-circuit chip has a periphery with corners. The encapsulating block further has, in at least one local zone located in at least one corner and from the front face of the carrier substrate, a smaller thickness than a thickness of the encapsulation block at least in a surrounding zone. The electronic device is manufactured by a process in which the zone of smaller thickness is obtained by molding or by machining.
US09818655B2	Method and structure for flip-chip package reliability monitoring using capacitive sensors groups Flip-chip package reliability monitoring and systems of monitoring using capacitive sensors are disclosed. The monitoring is conducted in situ and in real-time without the need for destructive testing of the packages. The capacitive sensors can be used for flip-chip package reliability monitoring.
US09818652B1	Commonly-bodied field-effect transistors Structures for a commonly-bodied field-effect transistors and methods of forming such structures. The structure includes a body of semiconductor material defined by a trench isolation region in a semiconductor substrate. The body includes a plurality of first sections, a plurality of second sections, and a third section, the second sections coupling the first sections and the third section. The third section includes a contact region used as a common-body contact for at least the first sections. The first sections and the third section have a first height and the second sections have a second height that is less than the first height.
US09818647B2	Germanium dual-fin field effect transistor In one example, a field effect transistor includes a pair of fins positioned in a spaced apart relation. Each of the fins includes germanium. Source and drain regions are formed on opposite ends of the pair of fins and include silicon. A gate is wrapped around the pair of fins, between the source and drain regions.
US09818645B2	Through electrode, manufacturing method thereof, and semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Embodiments provided are a through electrode that can be manufactured by a method not including the step of removing a side-wall insulating film formed at the bottom part of the through hole and so having improved electrical characteristics and mechanical reliability and a manufacturing method thereof as well as a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. A through electrode is disposed in a semiconductor substrate, and includes: a conductive layer; a side-wall insulating film that is disposed between the conductive layer and the semiconductor substrate, the side-wall insulating film being represented by the following chemical formula (1), and a tubular semiconductor layer disposed between the conductive layer and the semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor layer including a same material as the material of the semiconductor substrate.
US09818643B2	Semiconductor interconnect structure and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure, including a low k dielectric layer with an air gap region and a non-air gap region. A first conductive line is positioned in the air gap region, and a second conductive line is positioned in the non-air gap region of the low k dielectric layer. A height of the first conductive line is different from a height of the second conductive line. The present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor interconnect structure, including forming a photoresist layer over a hard mask layer with openings exposing a low k dielectric layer; treating a region of the low k dielectric layer to increase hydrophilicity through the openings of the hard mask layer, and removing the treated low k dielectric region to form an air gap in the air gap region.
US09818641B1	Apparatus and method of forming self-aligned cuts in mandrel and a non-mandrel lines of an array of metal lines A method includes providing a structure having a first, second and third hardmask layer and a mandrel layer disposed respectively over a dielectric stack. An array of mandrels, a beta trench and a gamma trench are patterned into the structure. First inner spacers are formed on sidewalls of the beta trench and second inner spacers are formed on sidewalls of the gamma trench. The first and second inner spacers form a portion of a pattern. The pattern is etched into the dielectric stack to form an array of mandrel and non-mandrel metal lines extending in a Y direction and being self-aligned in an X direction. The portion of the pattern formed by the first and second inner spacers forms a first pair of cuts in a mandrel line and a second pair of cuts in a non-mandrel line respectively. The cuts are self-aligned in the Y direction.
US09818638B1	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a low-k dielectric layer over a substrate and forming a first dielectric layer on the low-k dielectric layer. A first metal hard mask layer is formed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer is formed on the first metal hard mask layer. A second metal hard mask layer is formed on the second dielectric layer, and a first trench opening is formed in the second metal hard mask layer and the second dielectric layer exposing the first metal hard mask layer. A first via opening is formed in the exposed first metal hard mask layer in the first trench opening, and the first trench opening and first via opening are extended into the low-k dielectric layer to form a first trench and a first via.
US09818632B2	Tray for semiconductor devices A tray for semiconductor devices includes a base with a positioning unit. The positioning unit includes a plurality of tiered projections which jointly define and surround an enclosed space for receiving a semiconductor device. Each tiered projection is a two-tier structure including an inclined surface portion and an upright surface portion connected to the inclined surface portion, and a semiconductor device can be received, and limited in position, between the upright surface portions. When the tray bounces due external vibrations such that the semiconductor device received in the enclosed space is moved away from the upright surface portions to the inclined surface portions, the inclined surface portions of the tiered projections can guide and adjust the semiconductor device, returning the semiconductor device to between the upright surface portions, in order for the tray to carry the semiconductor device stably.
US09818630B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a first reaction chamber including: a first heating unit, a first processing space, and a first transfer space disposed under the first processing space, a second reaction chamber including: a second heating unit, a second processing space, and a second transfer space disposed under the second processing space; a first sidewall and a second sidewall defining the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, wherein the first sidewall is shared by the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, and a cooling channel disposed in the first sidewall and the second sidewall such that a cooling efficiency of the first sidewall is higher than that of the second sidewall, wherein the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber are disposed adjacent to each other with the first sidewall therebetween.
US09818624B2	Methods and apparatus for correcting substrate deformity Embodiments of methods and apparatus for correcting substrate deformity are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate flattening system includes: a first process chamber having a first substrate support and a first showerhead, wherein the first substrate support does not include a chucking mechanism; a first heater disposed in the first substrate support to heat a substrate placed on a first support surface of the first substrate support; a second heater configured to heat a process gas flowing through the first showerhead into a first processing volume of the first process chamber; and a second process chamber having a second substrate support, wherein the second substrate support is not heated, and wherein the first process chamber and the cooling chamber are both non-vacuum chambers.
US09818623B2	Method of forming a pattern for interconnection lines and associated continuity blocks in an integrated circuit A method for forming a pattern for interconnection lines and associated continuity dielectric blocks in an integrated circuit includes providing a structure having a mandrel layer disposed over an etch mask layer, the etch mask layer being disposed over a pattern layer and the pattern layer being disposed over a dielectric stack. Patterning an array of mandrels in the mandrel layer. Selectively etching a beta trench entirely in a mandrel of the array, the beta trench overlaying a beta block mask portion of the pattern layer. Selectively etching a gamma trench entirely in the etch mask layer, the gamma trench overlaying a gamma block mask portion of the pattern layer. Selectively etching the structure to form a pattern in the pattern layer, the pattern including the gamma and beta block mask portions.
US09818621B2	Cyclic oxide spacer etch process Embodiments described herein relate to methods for etching a substrate. Patterning processes, such as double patterning and quadruple patterning processes, may benefit from the embodiments described herein which include performing an inert plasma treatment to implant ions into a spacer material, performing an etching process on an implanted region of the spacer material, and repeating the inert plasma treatment and the etching process to form a predominantly flat top spacer profile. The inert plasma treatment process may be a biased process and the etching process may be an unbiased process. Various processing parameters, such as pressure, may be controlled to influence a desired spacer profile.
US09818620B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device In order to provide a semiconductor device with high reliability while manufacturing cost is being suppressed, dry etching for an insulating film is performed by using mixed gas containing at least CF4 gas and C3H2F4 gas as its components.
US09818618B2	Multi-layer polishing pad for CMP The invention is directed to a multi-layer polishing pad for chemical-mechanical polishing comprising a top layer, a middle layer and a bottom layer, wherein the top layer and bottom layer are joined together by the middle layer, and without the use of an adhesive. The invention is also directed to a multi-layer polishing pad comprising an optically transmissive region, wherein the layers of the multi-layer polishing pad are joined together without the use of an adhesive.
US09818614B2	Apparatus for molecular adhesion bonding with compensation for radial misalignment A method for bonding a first wafer onto a second wafer by molecular adhesion where the wafers have an initial radial misalignment between them. The method includes bringing the two wafers into contact so as to initiate the propagation of a bonding wave between the two wafers while a predefined bonding curvature is imposed on at least one of the two wafers during the contacting step as a function of the initial radial misalignment.
US09818609B2	Epitaxial-silicon-wafer manufacturing method and epitaxial silicon wafer A manufacturing method of an epitaxial silicon wafer including a silicon wafer doped with boron and having a resistivity of 100 mΩ·cm or less and an epitaxial film formed on the silicon wafer includes: growing the epitaxial film on the silicon wafer; and applying a heat treatment on the epitaxial silicon wafer at a temperature of less than 900 degrees C.
US09818606B2	Amorphous silicon thickness uniformity improved by process diluted with hydrogen and argon gas mixture The embodiments described herein generally relate to methods for forming an amorphous silicon structure that may be used in thin film transistor devices. In embodiments disclosed herein, the amorphous silicon layer is deposited using a silicon-based gas with an activation gas comprising a high concentration of inert gas and a low concentration of hydrogen-based gas. The activation gas combination allows for a good deposition profile of the amorphous silicon layer from the edge of the shadow frame which is translated to the polycrystalline silicon layer post-annealing.
US09818605B2	Oxide TFT, preparation method thereof, array substrate, and display device An Oxide TFT, a preparation method thereof, an array substrate and a display device are described. The method includes forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, as well as a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate; the channel layer is formed by depositing an amorphous oxide semiconductor film in a first mixed gas containing H2, Ar and O2. By depositing a channel layer in a first mixed gas containing H2, Ar and O2, the hysteresis phenomenon of the TFT can be mitigated effectively to improve the display quality of the display panel.
US09818603B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, the substrate includes a first fin, a second fin, and an isolation region disposed between the first fin and the second fin. The second fin includes a different material than a material of the substrate. The method includes forming an oxide over the first fin, the second fin, and a top surface of the isolation region at a temperature of about 400 degrees C. or less, and post-treating the oxide at a temperature of about 600 degrees C. or less.
US09818601B1	Substrate processing apparatus and method of processing substrate A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, a stage provided in the chamber, a shower head in which a plurality of slits are formed, and which is opposed to the stage, an opening/closing part for opening and closing the plurality of slits, a first gas supply part which supplies a gas to a space between the stage and the shower head via the plurality of slits, and a second gas supply part which is connected to a side wall of the chamber, and which supplies a gas to the space between the stage and the shower head.
US09818599B2	Method for in-situ dry cleaning, passivation and functionalization of Si—Ge semiconductor surfaces A method for in-situ dry cleaning of a SiGe semiconductor surface doses the SiGe surface with ex-situ wet HF in a clean ambient environment or in-situ dosing with gaseous NH4F to remove oxygen containing contaminants. Dosing the SiGe surface with atomic H removes carbon containing contaminants. Low temperature annealing pulls the surface flat. Passivating the SiGe semiconductor surface with H2O2 vapor for a sufficient time and concentration forms an a oxygen monolayer(s) of —OH sites on the SiGe. Second annealing the SiGe semiconductor surface is conducted at a temperature below that which would induce dopant diffusion. A method for in-situ dry cleaning of a SiGe semiconductor surface, ex-situ degreases the Ge containing semiconductor surface and removes organic contaminants. The surface is then dosed with HF(aq) or NH4F(g) generated via NH3+NH or NF3 with H2 or H2O to remove oxygen containing contaminants. In-situ dosing of the SiGe surface with atomic H removes carbon containing contaminants.
US09818590B2	Data quality after demultiplexing of overlapped acquisition windows in tandem mass spectrometry Systems and methods are provided for identifying missing product ions after demultiplexing product ion spectra produced by overlapping precursor ion transmission windows in sequential windowed acquisition tandem mass spectrometry. Overlapping sequential windowed acquisition is performed on a sample. A first precursor mass window and the corresponding first product ion spectrum are selected from a plurality of overlapping stepped precursor mass windows and their corresponding product ion spectra. A product ion spectrum is demultiplexed for each overlapped portion of the first precursor mass window producing two or more demultiplexed first product ion spectra for the first precursor mass window. The two or more demultiplexed first product ion spectra are added together producing a reconstructed summed demultiplexed first product ion spectrum. Missing product ions are identified in the summed demultiplexed first product ion spectrum by comparing the summed demultiplexed first product ion spectrum and the first product ion spectrum.
US09818584B2	Internal split faraday shield for a plasma source An inductively coupled plasma source for a focused charged particle beam system includes a conductive shield within the plasma chamber in order to reduce capacitative coupling to the plasma. The internal conductive shield is maintained at substantially the same potential as the plasma source by a biasing electrode or by the plasma. The internal shield allows for a wider variety of cooling methods on the exterior of the plasma chamber.
US09818580B2	Transmission line RF applicator for plasma chamber A transmission line RF applicator apparatus and method for coupling RF power to a plasma in a plasma chamber. The apparatus comprises two conductors, one of which has a plurality of apertures. In one aspect, apertures in different portions of the conductor have different sizes, spacing or orientations. In another aspect, adjacent apertures at successive longitudinal positions are offset along the transverse dimension. In another aspect, the apparatus comprises an inner conductor and one or two outer conductors. The main portion of each of the one or two outer conductors includes a plurality of apertures that extend between an inner surface and an outer surface of the outer conductor.
US09818579B2	Reducing stored electrical energy in a lead inductance According to a first aspect of the present invention, reducing electrical energy stored in a load or in one or more leads for connecting a power supply with the load is achieved by plasma process power circuitry including a switch in operative connection with at least one of the leads for enabling/interrupting power to the load; a first electrical nonlinear device; an energy storing device arranged in series with the first electrical nonlinear device; and a pre-charging circuit in operative connection with the energy storing device, the pre-charging circuit configured to charge the energy storing device to a pre-determined energy level while power to the load is enabled.
US09818573B2	Particle beam transport apparatus The present invention is related to an apparatus for transporting a charged particle beam. The apparatus may include means for scanning the charged particle beam on a target, a dipole magnet arranged upstream of the means for scanning, at least three quadrupole lenses arranged between the dipole magnet and the means for scanning and means for adjusting the field strength of said at least three quadrupole lenses in function of the scanning angle of the charged particle beam. The apparatus can be made at least single achromatic.
US09818569B2	High dose output, through transmission target X-ray system and methods of use A high dose output, through transmission target X-ray tube and methods of use includes, in general an X-ray tube for accelerating electrons under a high voltage potential having an evacuated high voltage housing, a hemispherical shaped through transmission target anode disposed in said housing, a cathode structure to deflect the electrons toward the hemispherical anode disposed in said housing, a filament located in the geometric center of the anode hemisphere disposed in said housing, a power supply connected to said cathode to provide accelerating voltage to the electrons.
US09818564B2	Magnetic proximity switch The present invention relates to a magnetic proximity switch, comprising a casing, and a balance plate is transversely provided in the middle within the casing; a dynamic magnet and a static magnet are disposed in parallel on the left and right sides above the balance plate; the left end of the balance plate is hinged within the casing; the lower surface of the right end of the balance plate is provided with a dynamic contact; the balance plate is connected to the dynamic magnet via an elastic component A; a wiring terminal A and a wiring terminal B are fixed in parallel on the left and right sides at the bottom in the casing; the top of the wiring terminal A is connected to the balance plate via an elastic component B; the upper portion of the wiring terminal B is transversely bent.
US09818563B2	Swivel actuating pressure switch Swivel actuating pressure switching devices and methods are described herein that include a shorting member that translates and rotates into contact with one or more terminals in response to the application of a specified pressure to a piston included in the switch. The rotation of the shorting member with respect to the one or more terminals can be controlled by a receptacle that can include flutes, which guide the rotational movement of the shorting member in response to fluid pressure that causes the translation of the piston.
US09818558B2	Snap action switch An actuator is allowed to move toward +A direction and toward −A direction. A movable contact engages with the actuator. A fixed contact touch the movable contact with electrical connection when the movable contact is located at an ON position, and are apart from the movable contact with electrical isolation when the movable contact is located at positions other than the ON position. An arc prevention mechanism prevents arc between the movable contact and the fixed contact.
US09818552B2	Additives for reducing ESR gain in electrochemical double layer capacitors The present disclosure relates to electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) that include an alkylating or arylating agent additive capable of scavenging nucleophilic species generated during operation of the EDLC. The additives for the electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) including an alkylating or arylating agent are described herein. The alkylating or arylating reagent comprises a compound of the formula I: R—X (I) wherein R and X are described herein.
US09818546B2	Ceramic electronic component A ceramic electronic component includes a laminated body including ceramic layers and conductor layers stacked alternately; and first and second external electrodes provided on portions of the laminated body. Each of the first and second external electrodes includes a sintered metal layer provided on the laminated body, a conductive resin layer covering the sintered metal layer, and a plated layer covering the conductive resin layer. The maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on the second principal surface is shorter than the maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on each of the first and second side surfaces.
US09818544B2	Monolithic ceramic capacitor, monolithic ceramic capacitor array, and monolithic ceramic capacitor mounting structure A monolithic ceramic capacitor includes a plurality of first and second inner electrodes in a ceramic body. A direction in which the first and second inner electrodes are stacked is a stacking direction, a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction in the ceramic body is a length direction, and a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction and the first direction is a width direction. The ceramic body includes an effective portion, a first outer layer portion, a second outer layer portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion. A ratio A/B is about 0.04 or less when a dimension of each of the first side portion and the second side portion in the width direction is A and a dimension of the effective portion in the stacking direction is B.
US09818514B2	Nanocomposite magnetic materials for magnetic devices and systems Nanocomposite magnetic materials, methods of manufacturing nanocomposite magnetic materials, and magnetic devices and systems using these nanocomposite magnetic materials are described. A nanocomposite magnetic material can be formed using an electro-infiltration process where nanomaterials (synthesized with tailored size, shape, magnetic properties, and surface chemistries) are infiltrated by electroplated magnetic metals after consolidating the nanomaterials into porous microstructures on planar substrates. The nanomaterials may be considered the inclusion phase, and the magnetic metals may be considered the matrix phase of the multi-phase nanocomposite.
US09818510B2	Electronic component and method for manufacturing the same In an electronic component, an outer electrode includes a sintered layer containing a sintered metal, an insulation layer containing an electric insulation material, and a Sn-containing layer containing Sn. The sintered layer extends from each of end surfaces of an element assembly onto at least one main surface thereof so as to cover each of the end surfaces of the element assembly. The insulation layer is directly provided on the sintered layer at each of the end surfaces of the element assembly so as to extend in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a side surface of the element assembly, and defines a portion of a surface of the outer electrode. The Sn-containing layer covers the sintered layer except for a portion of the sintered layer that is covered by the insulation layer, and constitutes another portion of the surface of the outer electrode.
US09818506B2	Flexible low impedance power bus Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for implementing power buses. Apparatus may include a first plurality of connectors, a second plurality of connectors, and a first plurality of conductive sheets configured to electrically couple the first plurality of connectors with the second plurality of connectors. The first plurality of conductive sheets may include a first conductive sheet and a second conductive sheet. The first conductive sheet may conduct a first current in a first direction. The second conductive sheet may provide a return path for the first current in a second direction. The apparatus may also include a second plurality of conductive sheets. The second plurality of conductive sheets may include a third conductive sheet and a fourth conductive sheet. The third conductive sheet may conduct a second current in the first direction. The fourth conductive sheet may provide a return path for the second current in the second direction.
US09818505B2	Electric cable An electric cable for improving flexibility of an insulating resin portion of the electric cable expressed by a secant modulus value is provided. In an electric cable 10a in which an outer periphery of a conductor 11 made of wires with diameters from 0.15 to 0.5 mm and having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm2 or more is covered with an insulating resin 12 including a flame retardant, a ratio of an electric cable diameter to a conductor diameter is from 1.15 to 1.40, and a secant modulus of the insulating resin 12 is from 10 to 50 MPa.
US09818498B2	Paste composition for printing and touch panel Disclosed is a paste composition for printing including conductive powders, a binder, a dispersing agent, and a solvent. The dispersing agent includes a block copolymer of polyethylene oxide (PEO)-polypropylene oxide (PPO)-polyethylene oxide (PEO), or a block copolymer of polypropylene oxide (PPO)-polyethylene oxide (PEO)-polypropylene oxide (PPO).
US09818496B2	Method for treating tritium-water-containing raw water The present invention relates to a method for treating tritium water-containing raw water, the method including supplying a part of raw water containing tritium water and alkali water to a circulation tank, mixing the raw water with alkali water in the circulation tank to obtain an electrolyte adjusted so as to have a desired alkali concentration, and continuously electrolyzing the electrolyte while circulating the electrolyte, thereby subjecting the raw water stored in the storage tank to alkali water electrolysis and thus gasifying the raw water.According to the invention, by gasifying tritium water-containing raw water by alkali water electrolysis, the tritium concentration in a tritium-containing hydrogen gas is diluted to 1/1,244 and the tritium water-containing raw water can be reduced in volume.
US09818491B2	Memory device and operating method thereof A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells for storing data; a plurality of memory cells for storing data; a non-volatile memory unit; a test control unit suitable for detecting weak memory cells among the plurality of memory cells; a program control unit suitable for controlling addresses of the detected weak memory cells to be programmed in the non-volatile memory unit; and a refresh control unit suitable for refreshing the addresses stored in the non-volatile memory unit more frequently than other memory cells.
US09818488B2	Read threshold voltage adaptation using bit error rates based on decoded data A read threshold voltage for a memory is adjusted based on a bit error rate based on decoded data for a plurality of read threshold voltages. The read threshold voltage can be adjusted by reading the memory at a current read threshold voltage to obtain a read value; applying a hard decision decoder to the read value; determining if the hard decision decoder converges for the read value to a converged word; storing bits corresponding to the converged word as reference bits and, if the hard decision decoder converges, (i) computing a bit error rate for the current read threshold voltage based on the reference bits; (ii) adjusting the current read reference voltage to a new read threshold voltage; and (iii) reading the memory at the new read threshold voltage to obtain a new read value, until a threshold is satisfied; and once the threshold is satisfied, selecting the read threshold voltage based on the bit error rates.
US09818483B2	Row decoder and a memory device having the same A row decoder of the semiconductor memory device includes a decoding and precharging unit that is connected between a high voltage node and a block word line, wherein the decoding and precharging unit precharges the block word line, and wherein the decoding and precharging unit includes one or more decoding transistors that decode an address and form a transmission path for transmitting a block selection voltage. The row decoder further includes a pass transistor block that transmits one or more row driving voltages to row lines in response to the block selection voltage, wherein the block selection voltage is boosted according to a switching operation of the pass transistor block.
US09818477B2	Methods of programming memory cells in non-volatile memory devices A method of operating a non-volatile memory device includes receiving program data and a program address. Memory cells that correspond to the program address are selected from among memory cells in an erased state. The selected memory cells are programmed based on the program data such that each of the selected memory cells is programmed to one of a plurality of programmed states, where threshold voltage distributions of the programmed states are different from each other and are higher than a threshold voltage distribution associated with the erased state. By programming all or a portion of the memory cells corresponding to the erased state to have positive threshold voltages, degradation of the data retention capability of the memory cells may be reduced.
US09818476B1	Reprogram without erase using capacity in multi-level NAND cells Inventive aspects include a memory device having one or more memory pages including a plurality of memory cells each having a plurality of programmable state levels. The memory device includes a memory control logic section including a program logic section and page-level reprogram state metadata. The program logic section may program the plurality of memory cells dependent on the page-level reprogram state metadata. The program logic section may program a first state level, a second state level, and a third state level of each of the memory cells in consecutive programming operations of the plurality of memory cells dependent on the page-level reprogram state metadata, without requiring any erase operations or read operations during or between the programming operations. Any combination of 1's bit, 2's bit, 4's bit, 8's bit, or 2(N−1)'s bit locations can be written to in a single program operation, as long as the lower order bits are not re-used for later writes, and proper state keeping is kept.
US09818466B2	Robust slope detection technique for STTRAM and MRAM sensing Slope detection systems and methods are provided that monitor magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) resistance switching. A low-overhead, sample-and-hold circuit can be used. Slope detection techniques can reduce or eliminate bit-to-bit process variation, thereby reducing or eliminating variation in oxide thickness. In addition, the need for data and reference current can be obviated compared to related art techniques, thereby increasing sensing robustness.
US09818463B2	Memory control component with inter-rank skew tolerance In a multirank memory system in which the clock distribution trees of each rank are permitted to drift over a wide range (e.g., low power memory systems), the fine-interleaving of commands between ranks is facilitated through the use of techniques that cause each addressed rank to properly sample commands intended for that rank, notwithstanding the drift. The ability to perform such “microthreading” provides for substantially enhanced memory capacity without sacrificing the performance of single rank systems. This disclosure provides methods, memory controllers, memory devices and system designs adapted to these ends.
US09818461B1	Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array; a memory cell array; a data receiver suitable for receiving a plurality of data sequentially inputted from an exterior, the plurality of data including previous data and current data; a data driving controller suitable for detecting the number of toggling values of the current data in comparison with the previous data and generating first to fourth driving control signals based on the number of toggling values; and a driver suitable for receiving input data through the data receiver and driving the input data or inverted input data to data transfer lines in response to the first to fourth driving control signals.
US09818454B1	Hermetically-sealed data storage device for increased disk diameter A data storage device involves inner surfaces of sidewalls of a second cover overlapping with and adhesively bonded with the outer surfaces of sidewalls of an enclosure base having an uppermost top surface, where the second cover or an underlying first cover are removably adhered to the uppermost top surface of the base. The removable adhesive bond may comprise a pressure-sensitive adhesive, which can provide for reworkability during the manufacturing and testing process. The second cover-to-base sidewall bond may form a hermetic seal between the second cover and the base. Hence, a thinner base sidewall adjacent to the recording disks is enabled, leaving more space available for larger-diameter recording disks within a standard form factor, hermetically-sealed storage device, which may be filled with a lighter-than-air gas.
US09818449B2	Editing method and recording and reproducing device In order to provide a recording and reproducing device that allows a user to select and manage arbitrary play lists, a unit of management for managing all registered play list information and an upper management hierarchical level are added. The unit of management is adapted to be handled on the same level with unified information that indicates a reproduction range of all AV data. User-defined unified information is adapted to be handled on the added management hierarchical level. The user-defined unified information is formed to allow arbitrary reproduction ranges contained on a lower hierarchical level to be registered.
US09818446B2	File producing method, file producing device, and recording medium A method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes the steps of: acquiring a play list including identification information indicating each of a plurality of elementary streams; selecting an elementary stream indicated by predetermined identification information from the acquired play list; acquiring a difference file including data that is not included in the selected elementary stream; and converting the selected elementary stream into an MP4 file format by combining data included in the difference file and data included in the selected elementary stream based on a manifest file corresponding to the selected elementary stream, the manifest file being necessary for the conversion of a file format based on a predetermined rule.
US09818439B1	Determining gamma of a read/write head based on active gain control and test signal amplitude measurements A change in servo active gain control values is determined from a beginning of a writing of a test region of a recording medium to an end of the writing of the test region. The servo active gain control values are read from servo marks by a read transducer of a read/write head during the writing. After writing of the test region, the test region is read by the read transducer to determine a change in recorded amplitude from the beginning of the writing to the end of the writing. A gamma value of the read/write head is determined based on the change in servo active gain control values and the change in recorded amplitude.
US09818438B1	Skew compensation in a patterned medium A system may compensate for skew in a patterned medium, such as but not limited to a self-assembling bit patterned medium, with a write pole separated from a data storage medium by an air bearing. The write pole being connected to a controller. The data storage medium can have a plurality of magnetic islands arranged in data tracks with each data track having a track center. The write pole may be selectively shifted from the track center by the controller to compensate for a skewed write pole configuration.
US09818437B2	Multilayer disk drive motors having out-of-plane bending Various embodiments concern a gimbaled flexure having a dual stage actuation structure. The flexure comprises a gimbal on which a motor is mounted. The motor comprises a first and second terminals and a plurality of actuator layers formed from a piezoelectric material. The plurality of actuator layers comprise serially stacked first, second, and third actuator layers. The plurality of actuator layers are respectively poled and connected to the first and second terminals such that both of the first and second actuator layers expand while the third actuator layer contracts in response to application of a signal across the first and second terminals. The differential motion of the plurality of layers in the motor cause the motor to curl about the contracting third actuator layer. The curling motion causes a portion of the flexure to preferentially curl.
US09818427B2	Automatic self-utterance removal from multimedia files Embodiments of a system and method for removing speech by a user from audio frames are generally described herein. A method may include receiving a plurality of frames of audio data, extracting a set of frames of the plurality of frames, the set of frames including speech by a user with a set of remaining frames in the plurality of frames not in the set of frames, suppressing the speech by the user from the set of frames using a trained model to create a speech-suppressed set of frames, and recompiling the plurality of frames using the speech-suppressed set of frames and the set of remaining frames.
US09818415B2	Selective watermarking of channels of multichannel audio A method for selecting a subset of channels of (e.g., determined from) at least a segment of a multichannel audio program for watermarking and watermarking the selected subset of channels, and a system or device configured to implement any embodiment of the method, or including a buffer which stores at least one frame or other segment of a multichannel audio program generated by any embodiment of the method or steps thereof. Some embodiments generate watermarking metadata during program creation including by analyzing audio content to be included in segments of a multichannel program, determining at least one watermark suitability value for each channel of each of the segments, and including the watermark suitability values (or watermarking data determined therefrom) as metadata in the program. Some embodiments are implemented by a playback system which determines the selected subset of channels to be watermarked.
US09818414B2	Dialogue system with audio watermark Described is an apparatus which comprises: first logic to generate a first audio data and to embed the first audio data with a watermark to generate an embedded data; a speaker to output the embedded data as a first audible audio; a microphone to receive a second audible audio; and second logic to check the second audible audio for the watermark, and if the second audible audio has the watermark embedded in the first audio data, generate a first message, else generate a second message.
US09818412B2	Methods for audio encoding and decoding, corresponding computer-readable media and corresponding audio encoder and decoder The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products which provide less complex and more flexible control of the introduced decorrelation in an audio coding system. According to the disclosure, this is achieved by calculating and using two weighting factors, one for an approximated audio object and one for a decorrelated audio object, for introduction of decorrelation of audio objects in the audio coding system.
US09818408B2	Techniques to provide a standard interface to a speech recognition platform Techniques and systems to provide speech recognition services over a network using a standard interface are described. In an embodiment, a technique includes accepting a speech recognition request that includes at least audio input, via an application program interface (API). The speech recognition request may also include additional parameters. The technique further includes performing speech recognition on the audio according to the request and any specified parameters; and returning a speech recognition result as a hypertext protocol (HTTP) response. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09818399B1	Performing speech recognition over a network and using speech recognition results based on determining that a network connection exists Systems, methods and apparatus for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models. A request including a speech data representation of an utterance or feature data extracted from the speech data representation of the utterance is received at a computing device. A transcription of the utterance by applying a speech recognition model to the speech data representation of the utterance or the feature data extracted from the speech data representation of the utterance is obtained by the computing device. A keyword that occurs in the transcription of the utterance is identified by the computing device. Communication between communication devices based at least on identifying the keyword is initiated initiating by the computing device.
US09818393B2	Acoustically absorbent cell for acoustic panel An acoustically absorbent cell for an acoustic panel, comprising a layer with a porous matrix incorporating a plurality of acoustic resonators between a first face and a second face of the porous matrix is described. The resonators are ordered so as to form at least two substantially parallel rows each comprising at least two resonators and extending along the first and second faces.
US09818389B2	Guitar pickup device and method A pickup for a guitar that has four (4) or more separate magnetic coils and selection means to select among the coil outputs. In some embodiments, the pickup is passive, not requiring an active pre-amplifier and voltage supply to shape the sound. In some embodiments, the selection means may be incremental or continuous, providing a wider degree to selectivity between and among the outputs of the separate coils.
US09818386B2	Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtaining external signals provide signals for merger with visual and sound presentations to obtain altered presentations either time shifted or in real time. In this fashion the user can create simulated radio stations for playback of prearranged and composed audio material. Further, the automatically composed musical score may be mixed with synthesized, digitized signals from the stored sound samples and external signals obtained through the device interfaces.
US09818364B2	Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a data driver and a display panel. The timing controller receives input image data at a first frequency substantially equal to a frame rate of an input image. The timing controller generates a data signal having the first frequency based on the input image data having the first frequency. The data driver converts the data signal into a data voltage. The display panel displays an image based on the data voltage.
US09818361B2	GOA circuits and liquid crystal devices A GOA circuit and a liquid crystal device (LCD) are disclosed. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of GOA units and a control module. Each of the cascaded GOA units is configured for charging corresponding horizontal scanning lines within a display area when being driven by a first level clock, a second level clock, a first control clock, and a second control clock. After the horizontal scanning lines are fully charged by the GOA circuit, the control module is configured for resetting the gate driving signals to be at the first level, i.e., the invalid level, via the turn-on pulse signals and the negative-voltage constant-voltage source.
US09818359B2	Scanning-driving circuit and liquid crystal display device having the same A scanning-driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The scanning-driving circuit has a forward-backward scanning module to output a forward and backward scanning-driving signals; a pull-up holding module connected to the forward-backward scanning module to receive a selecting signal of the forward-backward scanning module and to pull up a voltage level of a pull-down control signal node; an input module connected to the forward-backward scanning module and the pull-up holding module to receive a previous-stage clock signal and to charge a pull-up control signal node; a control module connected to the pull-up holding module to receive a present-stage clock signal and to control the pull-up holding module; an output module connected to the pull-up holding module and the control module to output a scanning-driving signal to a scanning line, and to transmit the scanning-driving signal to a pixel unit to ensure a stability of the scanning-driving circuit.
US09818346B2	Display device and control method for same On the basis of the image data obtained by the image data acquisition section, a target luminance calculation section calculates a target luminance, which is a target value for the luminance of emitted light for each segment region. An inverse filter acquisition section acquires an inverse filter of a light emission distribution function which represents light emission distribution characteristics of the light source for each segment region. A setting value calculation section calculates a setting value for the luminance of emitted light of the light source for each segment region by performing a convolution operation on the target luminance for each segment region with the inverse filter. On the basis of the setting value for each segment region calculated by the setting value calculation section, a light source control section controls the luminance of emitted light of the light source for each segment region.
US09818344B2	Display with light-emitting diodes A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.
US09818343B2	Organic light emitting diode display and method for repairing the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a substrate, OLEDs disposed on the substrate and separated from each other, pixel circuits, data lines extending in a first direction on the substrate and separated from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction, connecting lines neighboring the data lines and extending in the first direction, and a wire directly connecting one portion of one of the data lines to one portion of one of the connecting lines neighboring the one data line. Each pixel circuit includes a plurality of thin film transistors and each pixel circuit is connected to one of the OLEDs. The data lines and the connecting lines are connected to the pixel circuits, and one or more surfaces of the one portion of the one data line and the one portion of the one connecting line that contact the wire are curved.
US09818341B2	Organic light-emitting display device and method of driving the same An organic light-emitting display device includes: pixels; and a data driver including a plurality of current measurers connected to the pixels via at least one data line, each of the current measurers including: a first measurement circuit including: a first operational amplifier including a non-inverted input terminal to which a first reference voltage is applied, and an inverted input terminal connected to a first pixel from among the pixels; and a first feedback capacitor connected between the inverted input terminal and an output terminal of the first operational amplifier; and a second measurement circuit including: a second operational amplifier including a non-inverted input terminal to which a second reference voltage is applied, and an inverted input terminal connected to a second pixel from among the pixels; and a second feedback capacitor connected between the inverted input terminal and an output terminal of the second operational amplifier.
US09818340B2	Image display device and electronic appliance An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.
US09818336B2	Vector dithering for displays employing subfields having unevenly spaced gray scale values This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for generating images on a display using a dithering process that takes into account an uneven spacing of available gray scale values in at least one color subfield used to generate the images. The dithering process includes generating a set of initial color subfields, a set of quantized color subfields, and a set of final color subfields, which are then output on the display. The quantized color subfields an the final color subfields are derived based at least in part on the uneven spacing of gray scale values in at least one of the final color subfields.
US09818333B2	Method of self-adaptive conversion for images A method of self-adaptive conversion for images includes: calculating the degree of color saturation of each pixel of an RGB image and original grey value of each primary color component, and calculating a global gain value; calculating a total gain value of each pixel based on the global gain value and the partial gain value of each pixel; enhancing luminance of the white color component of each primary color component of each pixel based on the total gain value of each pixel, so to output an RGBW image. The present invention improves deviated color saturation to ensure display quality while elevating the display luminance when a conversion from an RGB image into an RGBW image.
US09818321B2	Calibration apparatus and method for controlling the same The present invention is a calibration apparatus comprising a calibration unit configured to perform calibration for an image display apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a color deviation direction that represents a direction of deviation in a color space between a color measurement value and a theoretical value, for each of color patches of a plurality of colors after executing the calibration; and a control unit configured to determine degrees of similarity of the color deviation directions in relation to the color patches of at least some of the plurality of colors included in the plurality of colors and control whether or not the calibration unit is allowed to perform the calibration for the image display apparatus again, on the basis of a result of the determination.
US09818320B2	Device and method for testing transparency effect of transparent display substrate using a reference object with two kinds of regions of different colors Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for testing transparency effect of a transparent display substrate. The device comprises a transparency identification module, an optical measurement unit and a reference object including two kinds of regions of different colors. The optical measurement unit is able to directly measure brightness of the two kinds of regions of different colors of the reference object to acquire a first brightness difference, and to measure brightness of the two kinds of regions of different colors of the reference object through the transparent display substrate to acquire a second brightness difference. Based on the first brightness difference and the second brightness difference, the transparency identification module calculates identification degree ID of the transparent display substrate according to the equation: ID = Δ ⁢ ⁢ L 2 Δ ⁢ ⁢ L 1 × 100 ⁢ % , where ΔL1 is the first brightness difference and ΔL2 is the second brightness difference. Embodiments of the present invention may eliminate the influence of ambient light on the test and increase the test accuracy of the transparent display substrate.
US09818319B2	Wearable device and control method thereof A wearable device apparatus, comprises: a first and second housings configured to be connected with each other; a plurality of light emitters configured to be separately located and configured to emit a light through the first housing; a light guide configured to guide a direction of the light emitted from the plurality of light emitters; a plurality of force detection sensor configured to detect a force applied to a certain point of the first housing; and a control board configured to control the plurality of light emitters through detection of the plurality of force detection sensors.
US09818313B2	Custom summary views for screen reader A screen reader software product feature referred to as a custom summary view, or custom summary, has been developed. The custom summary feature solves the major problem faced by blind users when working with large sets of data. That problem occurs as a result of an inefficiency of gleaning important data from within these larger sets. The custom summary provides the ability to gather such data into a summary that can be navigated easily. This ease of navigation greatly levels the playing field in the competitive workplace for blind workers and students alike. Also taught is a feature, referred to as a multiple region support, which allows users to define blocks of contiguous cells containing data as “regions” when a document such as a spreadsheet is displayed by a screen reader. Regions can either be named by the user or be defined simply by the top left and bottom right cell addresses that represent the boundaries of the block of contiguous cells containing data.
US09818308B2	Agricultural machine simulator A simulator of an agricultural working machine has a computer unit coupled to a display unit and a control unit. The agricultural working machine to be simulated has adjustable working parts and control elements that implement adjustment of the working parts and a software module that is stored in the computer unit. The software module depicts a process model of crop-processing processes to be implemented by the agricultural working machine and depicts the machine behavior resulting from the crop-processing processes. The process model and the machine behavior are visualized in the display unit and can be edited by the control unit.
US09818302B2	Vehicle fleet work order management system Vehicle management systems and associated processes can monitor the progress of assets, such as vehicle, along predetermined routes and report the progress to user. The system can compare the actual status of the vehicle to the expected status of the vehicle and to report any difference between the actual status and expected status to a user. Further, the system can receive a predetermined threshold value of the difference from a user and report to the user if the predetermined threshold has been exceeded.
US09818289B2	Method, device and storage medium for reminding in shutdown state The present disclosure relates to controlling a mobile device to provide a reminder even when the mobile device experiences a shutdown state. By controlling the mobile device to provide the reminder even when the mobile device experiences a shutdown state, the reminder may still be presented on the mobile device when an operating system of the mobile device has not been initiated.
US09818288B2	HVAC system with visitor presence sensor A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system may include a visitor presence sensor and a visitor presence indicator. The visitor presence sensor may detect the presence of a visitor at a residence and communicate the presence of the visitor to the visitor presence indicator, which may audibly and/or visually alert a homeowner of the presence of the visitor at the residence.
US09818285B2	Method and apparatus for moving while receiving information A method and apparatus to facilitate learning while moving, efficient multitasking involving movement while the user processes or responds to different stimuli. The stimuli may include but are not limited to information related to education or entertainment or feedback concerning the user's movement. More specifically this movement may be related to coordination, exercise or physiotherapy. The methods and apparatuses of the disclosure involve the user conducting movement, while simultaneously processing information (via: learning; creating through typing, moving, or talking; or being entertained) and receiving feedback or assistance related to that movement, processing, or any combination thereof.
US09818280B2	Instant personal emergency communication messaging device An instant personal emergency messaging platform in which message content is represented and transmitted via a single operation with the operation invoking a coding of geographic location and status data used to confirm the location and status of an individual.
US09818275B2	Mobile apparatus for neutralizing anti-theft devices Invention provides a wearable neutralizer apparatus for neutralizing anti-theft devices.
US09818274B2	Merchandise security system with optical communication Embodiments of the present invention are directed to security systems and methods for securing an item of merchandise from theft or unauthorized removal. For example, the security system may include a sensor configured to be coupled to the item of merchandise and a charging circuit for providing power to the sensor and/or the item of merchandise. The security system may also include a cable connected to the sensor and at least one optical transceiver for defining a sense loop between the cable and the sensor.
US09818271B2	Sound to haptic effect conversion system using mapping A system generates a haptic signal. The system receives an audio signal, pre-processes the audio signal by modifying the audio signal to create a modified audio signal, and maps the modified audio signal to a haptic signal. The system then sends the haptic signal to an actuator to generate one or more haptic effects.
US09818269B1	Status light data transmission To transmit information, a status light is located on a device. Information is broadcast from the device by controlled blinking of the status light. A computing device captures a video stream of the blinking status light utilizing a camera. The computing device decodes the video stream to extract the information.
US09818258B2	Gaming system and method for enabling a player to accept or reject a progressive award A gaming system which enables a player to exchange progressive awards of corresponding progressive award levels of different multi-level progressive award (“MLP”) configurations. Following the gaming system determining a progressive award of a specific progressive award level of a specific MLP configuration, the gaming system enables the player to accept that determined progressive award or forfeit that determined progressive award for another progressive award of a corresponding progressive award level of a different MLP configuration. The gaming system thus enables a player to swap or replace one progressive award of one progressive award level of one MLP configuration for a different progressive award of a corresponding progressive award level of a different MLP configuration. Such a configuration provides an increased level of excitement and enjoyment for certain players because the player's individual decisions regarding which progressive award offers to accept or reject determine which progressive award the player is ultimately provided.
US09818256B2	Techniques of synchronizing gaming devices for shared gaming activities A method for synchronizing a casino game playable at a plurality of gaming devices is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server having at least one processor, an indication of a wager from at least one of the plurality of gaming devices, determining, by the server, a schedule for at least one jackpot of the casino game based at least in part on the received indication of the wager, and sending, by the server, the schedule for the at least one jackpot of the casino game to at least a first gaming device and a second gaming device, the sending including sending the schedule to the first gaming device through wired communication channels, and sending the schedule to the second gaming device through at least one wireless communication channel.
US09818255B2	Video game incentivizing outside assistance Provided is a game system that makes it possible for different user groups mutually to participate in the progression of a game. In a game system (1), a user terminal (8) that provides a mobile game to a first user group, a game machine (GM) that provides an arcade game to a second user group that is different from the first user group, and a center server (3) that provides a predetermined service thereto, are connected together via a network. And, upon the condition that the first user of the first user group expends a predetermined value, the game system (1) provides an advantageous situation for the arcade game to the second user of the second user group; and moreover, if a benefit condition is satisfied in the arcade game, confers a benefit that can be used in the mobile game upon the first user.
US09818251B2	Unit dose dispensing systems and methods Mechanisms for dispensing items such as medications and medical supplies. Different mechanisms may be tailored to dispensing different kinds of items, for example medications in single dose packages, vials, syringes, or other similarly-shaped items. The dispensers may be placed in a dispensing unit that includes a lockable restock drawer and a dispense drawer into which items are dispensed by the dispensing mechanisms. The various kinds of dispensing mechanisms may be installed in the restock drawer in any workable proportion and arrangement. The dispensing mechanisms include multiple sensing technologies for tracking and inventory of items and for accurate sensing of items as they are dispensed.
US09818250B2	Methods and systems for creating vending machine kits A system and method for dispensing a kit of items from one or more vending machines includes a kit determination system with a kit analyzer to determine whether there is a specific kit or kits to recommend or assign to a user. A kit may be pre-assigned to the user by a third party. If there is no kit assigned to the user, a kit may be recommended to the user based on past history and a number of other factors. Also included is a vending machine kit dispensing system for dispensing a kit of items from one or more vending machines, the vending machines being interconnected on a network.
US09818246B2	System and method for gesture-based control of a vehicle door A control system for a vehicle door includes a power assist device coupled between a door and a door opening of the vehicle and a sensor. The system further includes a controller that receives a signal from the sensor, identifies a recognized user from image data within the signal, interprets a control gesture by the recognized user from video data within the signal, and causes the power assist device to move the door in response to the control gesture.
US09818235B1	Item dimension verification at packing This disclosure describes systems and methods for automatically verifying stored item dimension values and package utilization at packing. In some implementations, an image(s) of a package that includes items of a shipment set is captured at a pack station and analyzed to determine an actual package utilization. The actual package utilization is compared to an expected package utilization. If a difference between the expected package utilization and the actual package utilization is identified, it may be determined that the stored item dimension values may be inaccurate.
US09818231B2	Computer visualization of anatomical items A computer-implemented medical visualization method includes identifying a three-dimensional model of an anatomical item of a particular mammal; automatically identifying an open path in three-dimensional space through the anatomical item; fitting a smooth curve to the open path; and displaying the anatomical item and a visual representation of the smooth curve to a user on a three-dimensional imaging system.
US09818230B2	Environmental interrupt in a head-mounted display and utilization of non field of view real estate A wearable computing device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) that generates a virtual reality environment. Through the generation and tracking of positional data, a the virtual environment may be interrupted or paused. Upon pausing the environment, a user may access a number of ancillary menus and controls not otherwise available during normal operation of the virtual environment.
US09818227B2	Augmented reality presentations Technology is generally disclosed for augmented-reality presentations. In some embodiments, the technology can receive an indication of a user's sensitivity to an aspect of a presentation, receive general content relating to the presentation, receive overlay content relating to the presentation, combine the received general content and the received overlay content to create the presentation, and render the presentation. The overlay content may respond to the user's sensitivity.
US09818220B2	Method and system for indicating light direction for a volume-rendered image A method and system for volume-rendering. The method and system include generating a volume-rendered image that is shaded from a light direction, displaying the volume-rendered image, displaying a model of a solid at the same time as the volume-rendered image, and displaying a light direction indicator with respect to the model of the solid, wherein the position of the light direction indicator corresponds to the light direction used for shading the volume-rendered image.
US09818216B2	Audio-based caricature exaggeration Computerized, audio-based caricature exaggeration which includes: receiving a three-dimensional model of an object; receiving an audio sequence; generating a video frame sequence, said generating comprising computing a caricature of the object, wherein (a) the computing is with a different exaggeration factor for each of multiple ones of the video frames, and (b) the different exaggeration factor is based on one or more parameters of the audio sequence; and synthesizing the audio sequence and the video frame sequence into an audiovisual clip.
US09818214B2	Systems, processes, and computer program products for creating geo-location-based visual designs and arrangements originating from geo-location-based imagery Systems, processes, and computer program products for creating visual designs and arrangements that originate from an image or images are provided. In particular, the present subject matter relates to systems, processes, and computer program products for taking captured images of an intended operating environment and creating visual designs that create visual confusion that can be utilized to disguise a recognizable form of a person or an object by breaking up its outline using portions, magnifications and distortions of a single captured image, portions, magnifications and distortions of multiple captured images, and/or disruptive patterns that can projected on an image screen or can be printed on a material.
US09818213B2	Extensions for modifying a graphical object to display data A graphical manipulation tool to create and/or make modifications to a graphical object suitable for visually representing data. The graphical manipulation tool analyzes the graphical object to determine parameters of visual characteristics of the graphical object that can be used to visually represent data. A computing system, through the graphical manipulation tool, may generate metadata that defines a capacity for visual characteristics to represent data. In some cases, a preview is displayed on a user interface indicating to a user how the metadata, if incorporated with the graphical object, may result in the visual characteristics of the graphical object being used to visually represent data. If incorporating the metadata with the graphical object is desirable, the user may provide to include the additional metadata with the graphical object.
US09818212B2	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and method of processing MR image A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and a method of processing an MR image are provided. The MRI apparatus includes a scanner configured to acquire a first image that is a T1-weighted image and a second image that is a fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) image by performing an MRI scan on a brain. The MRI apparatus further includes an image processor configured to determine a white matter region in the second image based on the first image and the second image, and detect a white matter hyperintensity (WMH) region in the determined white matter region. The MRI apparatus further includes an output interface configured to display the detected WMH region and a change in the WMH region over time.
US09818201B2	Efficient lens re-distortion Methods and systems efficiently apply known distortion, such as of a camera and lens, to source image data to produce data of an output image with the distortion. In an embodiment, an output image field is segmented into regions so that on each segment the distortion function is approximately linear, and segmentation data is stored in a quadtree. The distortion function is applied to the segmented image field to produce a segmented rendered distortion image (SRDI) and a corresponding look-up table. To distort a source image, a location in the output image field is selected, and the uniquely colored segment at the same location in the SRDI is found. The look-up table provides the local linear inverse of the distortion function, which is applied to determine from where in the source image to take image texture data for the distorted output image.
US09818198B2	Method for near-realtime workspace mapping Motorized machinery, such as overhead cranes, are widely used in industries all over the world. It is not easy to move crane payloads without oscillation, increasing the likelihood of obstacle collisions and other accidents. One possible solution to such problems could be aiding the operator with a dynamic map of the workspace that shows the current position of obstacles. This method discloses the use of a camera to take images of the workspace, using imaging blurring to smooth the obtained images, and drawing contours to produce an individual, near real-time map of the workspace. In one or more embodiments, known obstacles may be tagged in a manner which is readable by the camera. This image and historical images of the same workspace are layered on top of one another to produce a map of obstacles on the workspace floor. This imaging and layering can produce a near real-time map of obstacles that can be used to guide heavy motorized machinery around a workspace without incident.
US09818195B2	Object pose recognition A method for use in estimating a pose of an imaged object comprises identifying candidate elements of an atlas that correspond to pixels in an image of the object, forming pairs of candidate elements, and comparing the distance between the members of each pair and with the distance between the corresponding pixels.
US09818178B1	Method and system for detection of ghosting artifact in a video A method and system for ghost detection in an image are described. Initially, a mode for detecting ghosting artifact is determined for deciding whether to perform analog or inter field ghosting analysis on the image. Based on the determined mode, a plurality of fields is determined to generate a field overlay image. The image is updated based on the field overlay image and an inter-field average of absolute difference is computed. A significant edge image, a principal edge image, and a delta gradient image are generated. A confidence score indicative of a likelihood of ghosting artifact in the image, is computed based on at least the inter-field average of absolute difference, a first and a second count of pixels in the delta gradient image, a third count of pixels in the principal edge image, and a count of rows of the significant edge image that correspond to the ghosting artifact.
US09818171B2	Device input and display stabilization One embodiment provides a method, involving: displaying, on a display device, display data; sensing, using a device sensor, movement of the display device; determining, based on the movement sensed, one or more responsive actions; executing, using a processor, the one or more responsive actions to adjust a user interface element. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09818165B2	Birth registration A system for registering a birth includes a processor and storage device. A location of a user is determined, using a first location detection method. The location of the user is verified, using a second location detection method. A security key is established with a registration authority according to the location. A birth registration report is generated in compliance with the birth registration requirements according to the location. The birth registration report comprises identification of the location, a picture of the newborn child, and a time stamp that identifies a time and date of the birth. The birth registration report is encrypted according to the security key, which prevents altering the birth registration report. The birth registration report is transmitted in encrypted format to a registrar of birth records for the location. The birth registration report is stored in encrypted format on a computerized device.
US09818162B2	Socially and contextually appropriate recommendation systems Systems and methods may provide for conducting an interest analysis of data associated with a user, wherein the interest analysis distinguishes between abstract interests and social interests. Additionally, one or more recommendations may be generated for the user based on the interest analysis and a current context of the user, wherein the one or more recommendations may be presented to the user. In one example, the abstract interests identify types of topics and types of objects, and the social interests identify types of social groups.
US09818158B1	Utilizing credit and informatic data for insurance underwriting purposes A computer device and method for processing risk or loss related data to determine insurance underwriting, pricing, or other decisions contingent upon informatic and credit score data. An insurance underwriting decision is identified which is to be rendered regarding an insured. Informatic data is received from one or more of an insured property and vehicle associated with the insured. Credit score data relating to the insured is also received. Analytics is performed on the received informatic data and credit score data to determine the insurance underwriting, pricing, or other decision.
US09818155B2	Method and apparatus for a fair exchange A fair exchange is disclosed to reduce potential inequities in an electronic trading environment. Market data is sent from a host system to client devices through one or more synchronized local communication servers such that the data can be displayed simultaneously or nearly simultaneously at each client device. Market data sent to client devices might include price information. Likewise, a host system may transaction data sent from client devices via the local communication servers. The ordering of transaction data is based, at least in part, on when the local communication servers received the transaction data from the client devices. Transaction data sent to a host system might include order information.
US09818147B2	3D printing: marketplace with federated access to printers Systems, methods, and media for optimizing and facilitating 3D printing services in a marketplace environment are provided. In one example, a system comprises a memory and at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to host or participate in a 3D printing service marketplace environment including marketplace participants and a federated network of 3D printing service providers. The at least one module receives a 3D printing request from a marketplace participant to print a 3D object at a 3D printing service provider, and communicates with at least some of the federated network of 3D printer service providers within the marketplace environment. In response to the received request, the at least one module lists at least some of the 3D printing service providers based on a 3D printer identifier metric. The 3D printer identifier metric may include a digital rights authorization.
US09818142B2	Ranking product search results Ranking product search results is disclosed, including: determining a plurality of sample pairs corresponding to a query word; determining a plurality of feature score values corresponding to a set of ranking features associated with the query word for each product associated with each of at least a subset of the plurality of sample pairs; and determining a set of weightings corresponding to the set of ranking features based at least in part on the plurality of feature score values and ranking priority assignments corresponding to the at least subset of the plurality of sample pairs.
US09818139B1	Classifying user-provided code Processes for classifying, and dynamically adjusting, tiers for web services are described. Depending on the classification of the web service, support resources (e.g. servers, storage, bandwidth or other communications resources, etc.) may be configured in different ways, such as, for example, sharing resources among one or more of the web services, or isolating the resources for particular web services from those of other web services. Various electronic storefronts may be provided by a service provider to merchants/customers of the service provider. The service provider may classify each of the electronic storefronts for the merchants to a plurality of tiers. Such classifying may be performed, for example, during an enrollment of the merchant with the service provider, and/or during operation of the electronic storefront.
US09818138B2	Systems and methods for employing document pre-tag auditing in transaction rooms for digital transactions Embodiments are directed towards employing a transaction room in a digital transaction service to provide participants controlled access and editing of a document. In response to a trigger, a first copy of the document is created. The first copy of the document may be provided to a participant for review such that the first copy is non-editable by the participants, while the document is editable in the transaction room. The document may be prepared for electronic signature such that, when the document has changed after the first copy was provided for review, a second copy of the document is created and tagged for signature; and when the document has not changed after the first copy was provided for review, the first copy may be tagged for signature. Tagging a document copy for signature may include pre-tagging the document for signature based on signing roles of the participants.
US09818133B1	Method for consumer profile consolidation using mobile network identification A method of consolidating consumer profiles based on mapping an external identifier of a mobile communication device to a mobile network identification by an authentication network element computer. The method comprises receiving, by an advertisement (ad) bidder server computer, an ad bid request with an external consumer identifier and consumer profile information of a mobile communication device, and receiving, by a mobile communication network, a pixel tag request from the mobile communication device with the external consumer identifier embedded in the pixel tag request, wherein the mobile communication network is maintained by a mobile network carrier that maintains the ad bidder. The method further comprises identifying a mobile network identification of the mobile communication device by the mobile communication network, and storing a mapping between the external consumer identifier and the mobile network identification.
US09818132B2	Advertisement delivery management apparatus and advertisement delivery management method An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes an allocation unit and an advertisement delivery unit. The allocation unit selects delivery target users who have the user attribute designated by each of order requests and whose number corresponds to the number of deliveries designated by each of order requests, from a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations, and allocates the selected delivery target users to the order requests. The advertisement delivery unit selects the advertising information of the order request corresponding to a user attribute of a user of a user terminal on the basis of the allocation result of the allocation unit and transmits the selected advertising information to the user terminal.
US09818128B2	Encouraging content distribution without restrictions An embodiment relates generally to a method of monitoring playback of content. The method includes providing for a file of content and embedding a playback counter in the file of content, the playback counter associated with a vendor. The method also includes distributing the file of content with the playback counter without restriction and incrementing a value of the playback counter in response to a viewing of the file of content with the embedded playback counter. The method further includes forwarding the value to the vendor to determine a payment to an author of the content.
US09818127B2	Implementing comparison of cloud service provider package offerings A computer-implemented method of implementing comparison of cloud service provider package offerings comprises a plurality of operations. An operation of creating a cloud services architecture specification defining a cloud infrastructure that supports deployment of an application thereto is performed. An operation of determining a cloud services offering price for each one of the plurality of cloud service offerings to characterize implementation of the cloud infrastructure using cloud services thereof on a basis of pricing of such cloud services is performed. Determining the cloud services offering price for a particular one of the cloud service offerings includes mapping the cloud services architecture specification to cloud service pricing information for the particular one of the cloud service offerings.
US09818124B2	Methods for sales call data management and processing Sales Tool and methodology for field representatives of products or services records the dates of site visits with customers, acquires sales data concerning consumption of a product or service in a region which is attributable to the customer, generates a chart that depicts the acquired sales data and superimposes on the chart the site visit information so as to coordinate sales data and site visit information into a unified presentation to the representative. Software implementations can permit the representative to interact with the superimposed site visit information and cause additional information to be retrieved from the local database or elsewhere and be presented. Site visits can include other points-of-contact between the customer and the representative, his or her company, or his or her company's materials.
US09818121B2	Mobile communications message verification of financial transactions A system and method for verifying a secure transaction by evaluating the transaction, generating a first verification value for the transaction, sending an electronic mobile message to a wireless device associated with the transaction, receiving a response from the wireless device to the electronic mobile message associated with the transaction and generating a new second verification value for the transaction based on the response is provided. The second verification value may be used to validate or invalidate the secure transaction.
US09818116B2	Systems and methods for detecting relations between unknown merchants and merchants with a known connection to fraud An example merchant fraud system may include an automated system for collecting contextual relationship information, plus a routine for analyzing additional data related to sanctions. The system may also include an automated analysis summary routine for creating condensed information subsets or graphlets containing information about sanction entities, some of which can be entities themselves, organized in a data retrieval system, such that an automated relationship examination system can check data from transactions and automatically identify and flag potentially suspect relationship aspects. The system may issue a fraud warning and may review a flagged transaction cluster, accepting transactions when transaction cluster items do not contain links to a known bad entity. Based on a hit with a suspect entity, the breadth of the examined co-related items may be expanded, and if that expansion results in one or more suspect connections, a transaction is rejected and sent for further review.
US09818110B2	Method, medium, and system for facilitating online transactions Methods and systems for facilitating online transactions are disclosed. One method includes supplying content for display in a frame of a website, the website hosted by a third-party. The method also includes receiving transaction information from the third-party, and returning a token to the frame, the token including state information based on the transaction information. The method further includes passing the token from the frame to the third-party. The method optionally also includes receiving the token from the third-party and transferring funds from a first account to a second account based on the transaction information and the state information.
US09818105B2	Guaranty provisioning via wireless service purveyance Disclosed herein are example embodiments for guaranty provisioning via wireless service purveyance. For certain example embodiments, at least one device, such as a server device of a wireless service provider: (i) may detect at least one proffered guaranty transaction that is associated with at least one product transaction; or (ii) may proffer at least one guaranty based at least partially on at least one wireless service data stream.
US09818102B2	Secure exchange of indicia of value and associated information Secure exchange of value and associated information in financial transactions involving beneficial offers available for customers is provided. Various offers, including discounts, prepaid amounts, and the like may be purchased by customers for use with various merchants. A third party issuer obtains information from the customer in selling the offers and issues some kind of indicium of value having a representation of the value of the offer associated therein. Record of the indicia are maintained and either transmitted to the merchant or kept by the issuer or associated financial institutions. When the customer redeems the offer by presenting the indicium to the merchant, the merchant may either authenticate the indicium using the records received by the issuer, or establish communication with the issuer for the issuer to authenticate the indicium, either by itself or in cooperation with one or more related financial institutions.
US09818100B2	Method and system for a multi-purpose transactional platform The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for consolidating a plurality of a consumer's payment and non-payment source accounts into a consolidated platform with a customer identification or available proxy account numbers that can be assigned to source accounts. The source accounts can be, for example, credit card accounts, ATM accounts, debit card accounts, demand deposit accounts, stored-value accounts, merchant-loyalty card accounts, membership accounts, and identification card numbers. The consumer can access and modify any of the source accounts and manage funds across the source accounts by accessing the consolidated platform with a single access device or mode.
US09818098B2	Systems and methods for facilitating payments via a peer-to-peer protocol This disclosure describes systems and methods related to facilitating payments via a peer-to-peer protocol. Tokenized information associated with a payment transaction may be obtained. Establishment of a peer-to-peer communications session with a payment recipient device may be facilitated. The tokenized information to the recipient device via the established peer-to-peer communications session may be communicated in order to facilitate completion of the payment transaction.
US09818096B2	Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device, establishing a close-proximity communication link using the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device, transferring payment information from the mobile device using the close-proximity communication device, switching the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device to an information receiving communication mode, and receiving a transaction confirmation at the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device. Other implementations are possible.
US09818094B1	Verifying that a purchasing request is legitimate In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A computing device provides a user interface of a third-party application program. The user interface includes an interface element that causes purchase of a product. The computing device receives an indication that the user has selected the interface element. The computing device identifies a first identity certificate that is assigned to the third-party application program from among multiple identity certificates that are assigned to multiple respective third-party application programs. The computing device sends the first identity certificate to a server system so as to cause the server system to determine whether the first identity certificate matches a second identity certificate. The computing device receives an indication that the third-party application program is able to legitimately purchase the product. The computing device sends a request for purchasing the product.
US09818079B2	System and method of inventory management An order management system including a server including a processor, a network interface for communicating with at least one medical device having an associated plurality of consumables, data storage means for storing relationship information for each consumable, current inventory for each consumable, usage history for each consumable, and an order management module including program instructions that, when executed by the processor, are configured to calculate consumable order information based on the relationship information, current inventory, and usage history for each consumable.
US09818065B2	Attribution of activity in multi-user settings The claimed subject matter includes a system and method for attribution of search activity in multi-user settings. The method includes training a classifier to distinguish between machines that are single-user and multi-user based on activity logs of an identified machine. The identified machine is determined to be multi-user based on the classifier. A number of users is estimated for the identified machine. Activity of the users is clustered based on the number of users estimated. A similarity function is learned for the number of users estimated. The method also includes assigning new activity to one of the users based on the clustering, and the similarity function.
US09818061B1	Collaboration of audio sensors for geo-location and continuous tracking of multiple users in a device-independent artificial intelligence (AI) environment Audio sensors collaborate for geo-location and tracking of multiple users. Different users can be independently geo-located and tracked within the AI environment. Location is determined from two or more AI clients of known locations that detect an event such as a human voice command to connect a call with a specific user. Responsive to classification of the event in view of the estimated location, a command for an AI action, such as connecting a call between users, is received for a response to the event at the AI clients that detected the event, or others.
US09818058B2	Time-division multiplexed neurosynaptic module with implicit memory addressing for implementing a universal substrate of adaptation Embodiments of the invention relate to a time-division multiplexed neurosynaptic module with implicit memory addressing for implementing a universal substrate of adaptation. One embodiment comprises a neurosynaptic device including a memory device that maintains neuron attributes for multiple neurons. The module further includes multiple bit maps that maintain incoming firing events for different periods of delay and a multi-way processor. The processor includes a memory array that maintains a plurality of synaptic weights. The processor integrates incoming firing events in a time-division multiplexing manner. Incoming firing events are integrated based on the neuron attributes and the synaptic weights maintained.
US09818049B2	Anti skimming and anti shimming card feed unit, kernel element, read out unit, transaction machine and method The present invention relates to a Card feed unit for transferring a data carrier for card information of a multi-services card, such as a bank card or credit card, to a reading ahead of a reading unit for at least reading out card information, the card feed unit comprising: —a card receipt position for receipt of the card, —a transfer assembly, preferably comprising a channel, in which: —the card feed unit is suitable for, during insertion of the card in the receipt position, receiving the card in the receipt position by means of an insertion operation with a direction of movement that, at least as seen in one direction, is substantially perpendicular to the readout direction of the card for preventing that the card is readable during the insertion operation. The card feed unit preferably comprises a kernel element and a separate cover element.
US09818045B2	Apparatus and method for detecting a feature in an image An apparatus for detecting a feature in an image includes an image input section for receiving at least part of the image in the form of image data having a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels comprising a plurality of non-border pixels, a feature detection module adapted to attribute a feature probability value to each of the pixels of the image data, and an extremum determination module for determining at least one local extremum among the feature probability values, wherein the extremum determination module is adapted to output, for each of the plurality of pixels, a final indication if the feature probability value of the pixel in question is a local extremum. The extremum determination module is adapted to use, for each of the plurality of non-border pixels, comparison results of at least two comparison operations, with each comparison operation including a comparison of the feature probability value of the non-border pixel in question with the feature probability values of a respective subset of neighboring pixels, with the respective subsets of neighboring pixels being different subsets.
US09818041B2	High security key scanning system A high security key scanning system and method is provided. The scanning system may comprise a sensing device configured to determine information and characteristics of a master high security key, and a digital logic to analyze the information and characteristics of the master key. The sensing device may be configured to capture information about the geometry of features cut into the surface of the master key. The logic may analyze the information related to that geometry and compare it to known characteristics of that style of high security key in order to determine the data needed to replicate the features on a new high security key blank. The system may be configured to capture the surface geometry using a camera or other imaging device. The system may utilize object coating techniques, illumination techniques, filtering techniques, image processing techniques, and feature extraction techniques to capture the desired features.
US09818040B2	Method and device for detecting an object It is provided a method for detecting an object in a left view image and a right view image, comprising steps of receiving the left view image and the right view image; detecting a coarse region containing the object in one image of the left view image and the right view image; detecting the object within the detected coarse region in the one image; determining a coarse region in the other image of the left view image and the right view image based on the detected coarse region in the one image and offset relationship indicating position relationship of the object in a past left view image and a past right view image; and detecting the object within the determined coarse region in the other image.
US09818039B2	Method and device for automatically identifying a point of interest in a depth measurement on a viewed object A method and device for automatically identifying a point of interest in a depth measurement on a viewed object using a video inspection device is disclosed. The video inspect device determines the three-dimensional coordinates in a region of interest on the viewed object and analyzes those surface points to determine the desired measurement application (e.g., determining the deepest point, the highest point, or the clearance between two surfaces). Based on the desired measurement application, the video inspection device automatically identifies the point of interest on the viewed object and places a cursor at that location.
US09818037B2	Estimating heading misalignment between a device and a person using optical sensor This disclosure is about a method and apparatus for estimating heading misalignment between a device and a person, where the device/apparatus comprises an optical sensor, the optical sensor capable of capturing an image of the person. At least one physical feature of the person is extracted from the image. A misalignment angle is estimated using the at least one physical feature of the person extracted from the image.
US09818035B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable storage medium According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an interface that receives a first image and a second image. A processor extracts a first character string appearing on the first image, and a second character string appearing on the second image. The processor determines that both the first character string and the second character string correspond to a photographed subject in the first image and second image. The processor cuts out each of the characters constituting the first character string, in units of a character. The processor cuts out each of the characters constituting the second character string, in units of a character. The processor calculates a first similarity degree group and a second similarity degree group. The processor recognizes a character string of the subject, based on the first similarity degree group and the second similarity degree group.
US09818020B2	Fingerprint pore analysis for liveness detection Various examples of systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. Fingerprint liveness may be determined by evaluating pixels of a fingerprint image to identify pores along a ridge segment of the fingerprint image. A circular derivative operator can be used to identify the pores. Liveness of the fingerprint can be determined based upon features of the identified pores.
US09818014B2	Surface sensor A sensor unit for measuring surface structures and properties of an object of organic tissue includes a contact surface adapted to have mechanical contact with the object, a first dielectric layer made from a dielectric material, a first conductor layer including at least one shielding electrode essentially covering an area of the dielectric layer facing the contact surface, the at least one shielding electrode surrounding at least one essentially non-conductive aperture defining a sensing region, and a second conductor layer separated from the first conductor layer by the first dielectric layer and comprising a number of conductive wires extending at least partially under the at least one aperture and having a direction essentially perpendicular to the sensing region, each wire having a predetermined width. A sensing area of each wire is defined by the width and the length of each wire extending in the sensing region.
US09818011B2	Method and device for identifying two-dimensional barcodes A method and device for identifying 2-dimensional (2-D) barcodes contained within a retrieved webpage are disclosed. The method includes the operations of: launching a browser to retrieve at least one webpage; receiving an instruction input by a user for identifying at least one 2-D barcode contained within the at least one retrieved webpage; determining according to the input instruction, whether the at least one 2-D barcode may be available within the at least one retrieved webpage; if the at least one 2-D barcode may be available within the at least one retrieved webpage, obtaining at least one 2-D barcode image; and identifying the least one 2-D barcode image, and obtaining 2-D barcode information associated with the identified least one 2-D barcode image. The disclosed method and device simplifies operations of 2-D barcodes identification within the retrieved webpage.
US09817991B2	System and method for a cloud based solution to track notes against business records Systems, apparatuses, and methods for creating, editing and using notes within the context of a records database. In an embodiment, a user may create a virtual sticky note that is associated with an underlying record such that the note is displayed with the record but extraneous from any field in the business record. Further, not all notes may be seen by all users as various levels of privacy may be established for different users. Embodiments enable users to efficiently and effectively associate their comments or other inputs with a record or file that is maintained on a cloud-based or multi-tenant platform. The notes may be implemented is a cloud-based solution to track notes/comments against business records maintained on a multi-tenant platform. In one embodiment, a note creator may permit other users to specify rules or criteria that determine who or what portions of an organization may view the created notes.
US09817986B1	Discovering availability of digital media from multiple sources Disclosed are various embodiments for discovering availability of digital media titles from multiple digital media service providers. For each of a plurality of digital media service providers, a computing device determines the availability of a digital media title for viewing by a user. The computing device presents to the user information about access to the digital media title. The information describes access by the user and from those of the digital media service providers for which the digital media title is available for viewing.
US09817965B2	System and method for authentication with a computer stylus A method for securing operation of a computing device operated with a stylus includes recognizing a pre-defined gesture performed by a stylus on a touch screen, the pre-defined gesture defined as a user command to lock an item displayed on the touch screen, determining a location of the gesture, determining identity of the stylus, locking an item displayed at the location determined, and recording identity of the stylus. A method for operating a computing device with a stylus includes receiving a command with a stylus to add restricted annotations to a document, receiving identity of the stylus, linking an annotation to the identity, restricting display of the annotation on the document to a computing device receiving input from the stylus; and displaying the document absent the at least one annotation on a computing device on which input from the stylus is not received.
US09817962B2	Module for managing a transaction between a terminal and an electronic device A transaction module can be incorporated in a terminal for authorizing a transaction between a first application resident in the terminal and a second application resident in an electronic device. The module may include code-obtaining means for obtaining a code; an interface with a communications means of the terminal enabling a validation request including the code to be sent to a secure server; means for generating an audio signal from the code; an interface with a module of the terminal suitable for sending the audio signal to a loudspeaker of the terminal in order to play it back; and means for authorizing the transaction on receiving a validation message from the secure server. The validation message may be representative of the secure server receiving the code from the electronic device.
US09817956B2	User authentication and data encryption A user is authenticated based on feature data of a target such as a body-part or other object obtained by a touchscreen of a computing device. When the user positions the target to interact with the touchscreen, interaction data is gathered. Feature data of the target is determined from the gathered interaction data. The feature data is used to identify one or more of the target and the user. Various actions are executed based on the identification and authentication of the user.
US09817936B2	Methods for minimizing layout area of IC A method for minimizing layout area of IC is provided. A plurality of first tiles of an initial floor plan are obtained according to a plurality of partitions and channels of the initial floor plan. Each first tile between the partition and the channel has a fixed tile property being the partition or the channel. Each second tile between at least one of the partitions and at least one of the channels has a changeable tile property which can be changed between the at least one partition and the at least one channel. A specific area path of the layout area is obtained according to the partitions, the channels and the routing densities corresponding to the channels. The changeable tile properties of the second tiles are changed according to the specific area path, to re-shape the partitions and re-route the nets within the channels.
US09817926B2	Meshfree method and system for numerically simulating brittle material based on damage mechanics Meshfree model containing a number of particles to represent a structure made of brittle material is defined. At each non-initial solution cycle of a numerical simulation using the meshfree model based on damage mechanics, the following operations are performed: (a) determining one or more damage zones in the structure from simulated structural responses obtained in immediate prior solution cycle; (b) dividing the particles into a first group representing the damage zones and a second group representing the remaining of the meshfree model; (c) applying a meshfree regularization scheme by modifying each particle's strain field of the first group with a morphing function that ensures a homogeneous jump condition along respective borders of the damage zones; and (e) obtaining simulated structural behaviors of the structure using a meshfree stabilization scheme that applies to all of the particle's strain field. Each damage zone represents a crack that can grow over time.
US09817924B2	Sweeping a profile along small circular arcs of a path A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to sweep a profile along a circular arc of a path. A sweep operation to sweep a profile along an arc of a path is initialized in a CAD application. For each path segment (in the path) that is circular, a determination is made regarding whether the profile crosses an axis of revolution of the circular path segment at a start position of the circular path segment. The profile that crosses the axis of revolution of the circular path segment is trimmed. The trimmed profile and an association with the circular path segment having the axis of revolution that is crossed by the trimmed profile are stored. A selective union operation that joins the solid bodies from the trimmed profiles is performed.
US09817922B2	Method and system for creating 3D models from 2D data for building information modeling (BIM) A method and system for creating three dimensional (3D) models from two dimensional (2D) data for building information modeling (BIM). The method and system allow new, 2D, 3D and higher dimensional models to be created for existing 3D modeling programs (e.g., AUTODESK REVIT, AUTOCAD, VECTORWORKS, MICROSTATION, ARCHICAD, etc.). The new models are used to enhance and extend existing 3D modeling programs. The new models can also be used to directly create physical objects (e.g., windows, doors, etc.) represented by the new models with robots, 3D printers and manufacturing machines.
US09817921B2	Information processing apparatus and creation method for creating a playlist An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a control portion configured to allow a user to hand-draw and input a picture as a tag to be associated with user-designated contents so as to create a playlist of the contents based on degrees of similarity between the pictures associated with the contents as the tags thereof.
US09817906B2	System for knowledge discovery An augmentation system configured to present global and local context sensitive augmented content in accordance with multiple criteria, including one or more user's preferences, and present the augmented content via a display layer on top of the original content. The augmentation system provides an efficient browsing, knowledge discovery and exploration experience. The original content remains visible to the user while the augmented content is being viewed and/or interacted with. The global context sensitive augmented content is generated using metrics based on the overall document or content being viewed, while the local context sensitive augmented content is generated using metrics based on the currently viewed or selected object within the document or content being viewed. Real-time and theme based augmentation are used to further enhance the user's experience. The local and global augmentation includes user customized augmented network of concepts and relationships that are of interest to knowledge discovery of the topic at hand.
US09817904B2	Method and system for generating augmented product specifications The present invention provides a method for providing augmented product specifications based on user reviews. The method obtains input data of specifications and user reviews on a plurality of products, each specification including at least a pair of a feature and a feature-value of the product. The method concatenates the user reviews of the products to form product-documents, each product-document corresponding to the concatenated user reviews of a product. The method further employs a topic model to process the input data and learn topic distributions in the product-documents and word distributions in topics. The topics include specifications of the products. The topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering topics that occur in a collection of product-documents. Based on the topic model, the method can provide augmented specifications including one or more of relevant sentences of the feature-value, feature importance information, and product-specific words of the product.
US09817898B2	Locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources Technologies are described herein for locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources. Query parameters are received from a user interface for defining a query for searching a number of content sources located on multiple, disparate content servers. A native search is executed on each of the content servers based on the received query parameters, and query statistics and other data regarding content items in the content sources matching the query parameters are received. The query statistics are aggregated across the content servers and presented in the user interface. The presentation of the query statistics may be broken out by each content source, by each query phrase segmented from the query, and the like. In addition, a preview of a number of content items matching the query parameters is presented based on the data received.
US09817896B2	Search query scoring and popularity monitoring and systems and methods therefor A method of indicating the popularity of the subject of a search query comprising receiving a search query from a user, the search query being received by a search server; determining whether the search query is likely to be related to a particular thing; obtaining popularity information for the particular thing; and, transmitting an indicator of the popularity information to a user computer for display. Some embodiments may also include targeted information about the search query subject, including a map showing the search query subject's location, the location of similar things in the same region as the search query subject, one or more advertisements, and the like. The targeted information and/or the popularity information indicator may be displayed with, or separate from search results associated with the search query.
US09817895B2	Associating video content with geographic maps A system and method for associating videos with geographic locations is disclosed. The system comprises a communication module, a location module, a tagging module and a database association module. The communication module receives a video uploaded by a content provider and a set of video data describing the video. The location module determines that the video describes a geographic location included in a geographic map based at least in part on the video data. The tagging module determines one or more travelling tags for the video based at least in part on the video data. The database association module associates the video and the one or more travelling tags with the geographic location so that the video with the one or more travelling tags is included in the geographic map.
US09817892B2	Automated removal of private information Systems, methods, and media for the automated removal of private information are provided herein. In an example implementation, a method for automatic removal of private information may include: receiving a transcript of communication data; applying a private information rule to the transcript in order to identify private information in the transcript; tagging the identified private information with a tag comprising an identification of the private information; applying a complicate rule to the tagged transcript in order to evaluate a compliance of the transcript with privacy standards; removing the identified private information from the transcript to produce a redacted transaction; and storing the redacted transcript.
US09817890B2	Predicting a command in a command line interface An apparatus for predicting a command in a command line interface includes a template command module, a parameter derivation module, and a parameter substitution module. The template command module is configured to determine a template command based on a command line history. The template command includes a command name and a parameter and the command line history includes two or more previously entered commands. The parameter derivation module is configured to determine a parameter derivation rule for deriving the parameter in the template command based on the command line history. The parameter substitution module is configured to substitute a substitute parameter for the parameter of the template command according to the parameter derivation rule.
US09817883B2	Event-related media management system An event-related media management system contextualizes media content. The event-related media management system associates media content with contextual event-related data to associate the media content with the events and information about the events. The contextual event-related data can then be used to provide access to the media content, such as through relevant search results or by presenting the media content in organized displays for contextual browsing and navigation. In some embodiments the event-related media management system generates contextualized media content for contextual search, discovery, and advertising.
US09817868B2	Behavioral targeting system that generates user profiles for target objectives A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, is model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users.
US09817866B1	Lossless compression of client read data A read is aligned to a reference data set. It is determined whether the read includes any identifier distinction, the determination being performed using the alignment. If so, positional data corresponding to the identifier distinction(s) are defined. Compressed read data is stored in association with a read identifier of the read. The compressed read data includes alignment information (e.g., a start and/or stop position of the alignment). When the read includes an identifier distinction, the compressed read data further includes the positional data and deviation data characterizing the distinction.
US09817859B2	Collecting and aggregating log data with fault tolerance Systems and methods of collecting and aggregating log data with fault tolerance are disclosed. One embodiment includes, one or more devices that generate log data, the one or more machines each associated with an agent node to collect the log data, wherein, the agent node generates a batch comprising multiple messages from the log data and assigns a tag to the hatch. In one embodiment, the agent node further computes a checksum for the batch of multiple messages. The system may further include a collector device, the collector device being associated with a collector tier having a collector node to which the agent sends the log data; wherein, the collector determines the checksum for the hatch of multiple messages received from the agent node.
US09817854B2	Generating and storing summarization tables for searchable events Embodiments are directed are towards the transparent summarization of events. Queries directed towards summarizing and reporting on event records may be received at a search head. Search heads may be associated with one more indexers containing event records. The search head may forward the query to the indexers the can resolve the query for concurrent execution. If a query is a collection query, indexers may generate summarization information based on event records located on the indexers. Event record fields included in the summarization information may be determined based on terms included in the collection query. If a query is a stats query, each indexer may generate a partial result set from previously generated summarization information, returning the partial result sets to the search head. Collection queries may be saved and scheduled to run and periodically update the summarization information.
US09817853B1	Dynamic tier-maps for large online databases Systems and methods for managing a tier-map of key items are disclosed. A system may include tiers having at least one tier limit, an indexing tier-map that maps key items to one of the tiers and a serving tier-map that maps key items to one or more of the tiers. The system may also include a memory storing instructions that cause a processor to perform operations. The operations may include using the indexing tier-map to determine that a particular key item is mapped to a first tier, determining that an amount of associated items for the particular key item approaches the tier limit, and updating the indexing tier-map to map the particular key item to map to a second tier. The operations may further include identifying a new associated item for the particular key item and storing the new associated item with the particular key item in the second tier.
US09817848B2	Wide area augmented reality location-based services Apparatus, methods and systems of providing AR content are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can obtain an initial map of an area, derive views of interest, obtain AR content objects associated with the views of interest, establish experience clusters and generate a tile map tessellated based on the experience clusters. A user device could be configured to obtain and instantiate at least some of the AR content objects based on at least one of a location and a recognition.
US09817844B2	Aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on graphic user interface and pre-processing method using the thereof An aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on a graphic user interface (GUI) includes an input unit for inputting measured aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data, a data storage unit for storing individual data, collection data, and edition data on division area data groups obtained after an investigation area is divided, a GUI providing unit for providing a GUI for data input/output, an operation unit for performing an operation to perform pre-processing for each of the division area data groups and collection and leveling of the division area data groups, and a controller for controlling the input unit, the data storage unit, the GUI providing unit, and the operation unit.
US09817834B1	Techniques for performing an incremental backup Techniques for performing an incremental backup are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for performing an incremental backup comprising retrieving a first identifier from a first portion of a prior backup of a database, backing up a first portion of a snapshot of the database, retrieving, using at least one computer processor, a second portion of the snapshot of the database, determining whether a second identifier of the second portion of the snapshot of the database is greater than the first identifier, and in the event the second identifier is greater than the first identifier, backing up the second portion of the snapshot of the database.
US09817833B2	System and method for processing an electronic image file A method and system that organizes and transmits data between systems is provided. The system and method also includes monitoring, using the monitoring data of a configuration data object, an identified monitoring location to detect a presence of at least one image file received from an image processing device and detecting, at the monitoring location, a presence of a metadata file associated with the at least one image file and determining if a sufficient amount of metadata is included in the metadata file. In response to detecting a sufficient amount of metadata is included in the metadata file, automatically transmitting the at least one image file and metadata file to the destination location identified in the destination data and creating a table in a database based on the structure data and storing the at least one type of metadata therein.
US09817832B1	Unified framework for policy-based metadata-driven storage services Providing a service in a storage system includes using a predicate that corresponds to a subset of storage objects in a set of storage objects stored in the storage system. The predicate is used to select or reject the objects to which the service is to be provided. The predicate is applied to the set of storage objects to obtain the subset of storage objects. The service is then invoked for the subset of storage objects selected according to the predicate. A trigger event causes invocation of the service. The trigger event may be periodic and/or may be a storage object lifecycle event, a storage object access related event, an event corresponding to a state change of the storage system, or an event that is external to the storage system. The trigger event may include the predicate being modified.
US09817822B2	Managing white space in a portal web page Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to web page layout and provide a novel and non-obvious system for managing white space in a web page. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing white space in a web page includes detecting white space adjacent to a non-rectangular shaped portlet rendered on the web page. The method further includes measuring a non-rectangular shape of the white space and selecting a graphic having a shape congruent with the shape of the white space. The method further includes rendering the graphic that was selected into the white space.
US09817819B1	Crowdsourcing transations on online social networks In one embodiment, a method includes send, to a client system of a first user, instructions configured to present a translation prompt comprising a first text string; receive, from the client system, a first input by the first user, wherein the first input corresponds to a first translation for the first text string; and calculate a reliability-value for the first translation based on the first input and a credibility-score of the first user, wherein the credibility-score of the first user is based on responses by the first user to checker-translation prompts, wherein the checker-translation prompts each comprise a control string for which a correct translation is known, and wherein the credibility-score is based on a number of responses by the first user that match the respective correct translations for the control strings.
US09817810B2	SVO-based taxonomy-driven text analytics Textual data is organized into statement clusters. Sentences are extracted from textual data and parsed. A verb usage pattern is identified and an SVO triplet is determined. The SVO triplet is compared to a taxonomy associated with the domain of the data and a sentiment is derived. A statement cluster is constructed comprising a higher level SVO triplet sensitive to the taxonomy and verb usage pattern, as well as the derived sentiment. Accordingly, the statement clusters may be organized by grouping.
US09817807B1	Selecting platform-supported services A network-based services platform is configured to receive an application template that specifies characteristics of desired network-accessible service components for use by a network-based application. The network-based services platform searches from available services to find those having characteristics that are compatible with those specified by the application template, and returns an indication of the matching services to a client or developer.
US09817802B2	Intelligent automatic expansion/contraction of abbreviations in text-based electronic communications A method for intelligently handling abbreviations in text-based electronic communications can begin with the compilation of abbreviation usage history data by an intelligent abbreviation handler component of a text-based electronic communications system. The abbreviation usage history data can indicate a presentation preference for abbreviation elements based upon past usage by the user. An abbreviation element can be an abbreviation, an acronym, or an initialism. The abbreviation element can be presented in a condensed format or an expanded format. Abbreviation elements can be identified in a received text-based electronic communication. The presentation preference of each identified abbreviation element can be intelligently determined for each recipient from the abbreviation usage history data. An abbreviation-adjusted text-based electronic communication can be created for each recipient using the received text-based electronic communication and the determined presentation preference. The abbreviation-adjusted text-based electronic communication can be conveyed to the recipient.
US09817792B2	Systems and methods for creating a surface in a faulted space Systems and methods for creating a surface in a faulted space, which includes using interpolation techniques.
US09817790B2	Multi-processor with selectively interconnected memory units A multi-processor having a plurality of data processing units and memory units has a bus system that selectively interconnects the processing units and the memory units.
US09817783B2	Module for a data bus A module for a data bus comprises a terminal. The terminal comprises two opposite outer faces, each comprising at least one contact, wherein the two contacts are connected by means of an internal data-bus line for forwarding data through the terminal via said internal data bus. The module further comprises a software-protection unit which is integrated into the terminal and connected to said data-bus line.
US09817781B2	Device and method for addressing, and converter It is provided to implement a different number of logical slaves in a field device for use in an AS interface network as a function of the assigned address, which slaves may be addressed using the assigned address in the standard or in the expanded addressing mode. Thus, in a field device, it is possible to provide slaves having different profiles, via which different data types may be exchanged. Furthermore, a method is provided, with which a field device having different slaves is able to be addressed in a simple manner while avoiding double addressing.
US09817773B2	System and method for preserving order of data processed by processing engines A device includes an input processing unit and an output processing unit. The input processing unit dispatches first data to one of a group of processing engines, records an identity of the one processing engine in a location in a first memory, reserves one or more corresponding locations in a second memory, causes the first data to be processed by the one processing engine, and stores the processed first data in one of the locations in the second memory. The output processing unit receives second data, assigns an entry address corresponding to a location in an output memory to the second data, transfers the second data and the entry address to one of a group of second processing engines, causes the second data to be processed by the second processing engine, and stores the processed second data to the location in the output memory.
US09817766B1	Managing relocation of slices in storage systems A method is used in managing data relocation in storage systems. Metadata of a slice of a storage tier in a data storage system is evaluated for migrating the slice from the storage tier to another storage tier. The data storage system includes a first storage tier and a second storage tier configured such that performance characteristics associated with the first storage tier is superior to the second storage tier. Based on the evaluation, relocation of the slice of the storage tier is effected. The metadata of the slice indicates whether the slice includes user data.
US09817761B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for optimization of host sequential reads or writes based on volume of data transfer A method for optimization of host sequential reads based on volume of data includes, at a mass data storage device, pre-fetching a first volume of predicted data associated with an identified read data stream from a data store into a buffer memory different from the data store. A request for data from the read data stream is received from a host. In response, the requested data is provided to the host from the buffer memory. While providing the requested data to the host from the buffer memory, it is determined whether a threshold volume of data has been provided to the host from the data buffer memory. If so, a second volume of predicted data associated with the identified read data stream is pre-fetched from the data store and into the buffer memory. If not, additional predicted data is not pre-fetched from the data store.
US09817757B2	Scalable metadata management in a multi-grained caching framework In one embodiment, a system includes a back-end storage device, a cache storage device, and a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to store data to the cache storage device using fine block descriptors (FBDs) configured for fine-grained mapping of variable-size cache allocations. The logic is also configured to store data to the back-end storage device using cache block descriptors (CBDs) configured for coarse-grained mapping of large blocks of data. At least some FBDs are smaller in size than any of the CBDs, and all FBDs are equal to or smaller in size than any of the CBDs.
US09817756B1	Managing memory in virtualized environments Techniques are described for enabling a virtual machine to be presented with an amount of available guest memory, where a hypervisor or other privileged component manages the mapping of the guest memory to either volatile memory (e.g., RAM) or to secondary storage (e.g., SSD). This enables volatile memory to be effectively oversubscribed to on host computing devices that have a limited amount of total available volatile memory but which are running multiple virtual machines. For example, each virtual machine on the device can be presented as having access to the total amount of available RAM that is available on the device. The hypervisor or other virtualization component then monitors the usage of the memory by each virtual machine and shapes which portions of the guest memory for that virtual machine are mapped to RAM and which portions are mapped to secondary storage, such as SSD.
US09817749B2	Apparatus and method of offloading processing from a data storage device to a host device A storage device includes non-volatile memory and a controller. A method performed in the data storage device includes sending an instruction to a host device to cause the host device to perform one or more specified computations. The method further includes receiving a response from the host device. The response is based on execution of the one or more specified computations.
US09817747B2	Systems and methods for unit testing of functions on remote kernels The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) providing a framework that includes (A) a user-space component that runs at a client site and (B) a kernel-space component that runs at a remote site, (2) identifying attributes of objects that reside at the remote site and whose addresses are unknown at the client site, (3) generating a script to test a function of a kernel running on the remote site based at least in part on the attributes, and (4) performing a remote unit testing of the function of the kernel by executing the script such that the user-space component (A) generates a message that identifies the attributes and (B) sends the message to the kernel-space component to facilitate (I) obtaining references to the objects by way of the attributes and (II) invoking the function by way of the references. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09817726B2	Delta replication of index fragments to enhance disaster recovery In an example embodiment, a disaster is detected at a primary data center and, in response to the detection, a system switches over from the primary data center to a secondary data center such that searches from one or more client applications are routed to the secondary data center. Then, for each document stored in a search core of the secondary data center: a count is requested for the document from a first client application, it is determined whether the count for the document from the first client application matches a count for the document from the search core of the secondary data center, and, in response to a determination that the count for the document from the first client application does not match a count for the document from the search core of the secondary data center, a full publish for the document is requested from the first client application.
US09817720B2	Methods, apparatuses and computer program products enabling to improve handover security in mobile communication networks An apparatus comprises a memory unit, and a control unit connected to the memory unit. The apparatus can be configured to interface at least one access node; the control unit is configured to derive at least one local level security key within an established security context for a terminal, forward the derived local security key to at least one access node, and detect failures in a handover for a terminal being served by a first access node towards a second access node. The failures concern the interface between the apparatus and the second access node. In response to a verified trigger condition, the control unit can re-adjust local level security keys with keys maintained at the terminal within the established security context.
US09817712B2	Storage control apparatus, storage apparatus, information processing system, and storage control method A storage control apparatus including a first error detection block and a second error detection block is provided. The first error detection block is configured to execute error detection in accordance with a first data unit read from a memory and a first error detection code corresponding to the first data unit. The second error detection block is configured, if a second error detection code corresponding to a second data unit smaller than the first data unit is held in an error detection code hold block different from the memory, to execute error detection in accordance with the second data unit read from the memory and the second error detection code held in the error detection code hold block.
US09817708B2	Device quality metrics using unsatisfied parity checks An apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory may be configured to store data. The controller may be configured to process a plurality of read/write operations to/from the memory, receive a codeword from the memory, generate a plurality of syndromes of the codeword at a plurality of possible code rates, generate a plurality of count values by counting a number of unsatisfied parity checks in each of the plurality of syndromes, generate a plurality of normalized values by dividing the plurality of count values by a plurality of lengths of the plurality of possible code rates respectively, and determine a bit error rate value of the memory based on a lowest value among the plurality of normalized values.
US09817701B2	Threshold computing in a distributed computing system A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. The computing device selects a subset of the other computing devices to perform a computing task on a data object. The computing device determines processing parameters of the data and determines task partitioning. The computing device also processes the data based on processing parameters to generate data slice groupings and partitions the task based on the task partitioning to generate partial tasks. The computing device obtains and processes at least the decode threshold number of the plurality of partial results generated by the subset of the other computing devices to generate a result.
US09817698B2	Scheduling execution requests to allow partial results The subject disclosure is directed towards scheduling requests using quality values that are defined for partial responses to the requests. For each request in a queue, an associated processing time is determined using a system load and/or the quality values. The associated processing time is less than or equal to a service demand, which represents an amount of time to produce a complete response.
US09817696B2	Low latency scheduling on simultaneous multi-threading cores A method is provided for prioritized hardware thread scheduling. The method includes, responsive to identifying a latency sensitive workload, enabling, by an operating system, one or more hardware threads to meet dispatch latency demands for the latency sensitive workload. The method further includes responsive to detecting an absence of the latency sensitive workload, de-committing, by the operating system, the one or more hardware threads.
US09817695B2	Method and system for migrating processes between virtual machines One or more processes are offloaded from one virtual machine running on one host computer to another virtual machine running on another host computer so that load balancing can be performed on a per process level and physical servers supporting the virtual machines can be more optimally utilized. Migrating one or more processes from a virtual machine running on a first host computer to a second host computer includes replicating the virtual machine on the second host computer, terminating the migrated processes from the virtual machine running on the first host computer, and terminating all user-level processes running on the replicated virtual machine other than the migrated processes.
US09817691B2	Migrating virtual machines based on relative priority of virtual machine in the context of a target hypervisor environment A method, system and computer program product for selecting a target hypervisor to run a migrated virtual machine. An “effective priority value,” representing the virtual machine's priority with respect to the other virtual machines running on the same hypervisor, is calculated for the virtual machine when it is running on the source hypervisor as well as if it were to run on a target hypervisor for each possible target hypervisor. The target hypervisor associated with the minimum difference in absolute value terms between the virtual machine's effective priority value calculated when it is running on the source hypervisor and its effective priority value calculated if it were to be migrated to run on a target hypervisor is selected to receive the migrating virtual machine. In this manner, the effective priority metric has enabled a target hypervisor to be chosen that most closely matches the priority environment of the source hypervisor.
US09817685B2	Reconfiguring a snapshot of a virtual machine Techniques for reconfiguring a snapshot of a virtual machine (VM) may be provided. The VM may be deployed on a hypervisor running on a computer. Techniques comprise provisioning of a VM, installing and configuring an operating system and a base program. A snapshot of the virtual machine may be taken together with the operating system and the base program together with configuration data defining the configuration of the virtual machine, the operating system and base application in a metadata descriptor. All may be stored in a persistent storage. Then the content of the metadata descriptor may be modified, and it may be reverted back to the snapshot using the modified content of the metadata descriptor such that the snapshot of the virtual machine with the operating system and the base program is reconfigured upon deployment of the snapshot including the operating system and the base program.
US09817683B2	Optimized remediation policy in a virtualized environment A system includes a first host system, a second host system, and a remediation module. The first host system includes a processor, a first virtual machine, and a second virtual machine. The remediation module is operable to receive an event generated by a resource of the first host system and migrate the first virtual machine to the second host system in response to determining that the event affects the first virtual machine and does not affect the second virtual machine. The first host system continues to run the second virtual machine in response to determining that the event affects the first virtual machine and not the second virtual machine.
US09817677B2	Rule based data driven validation The technology provides for rule based data driven validation in which a rule engine identifies which rules are applicable to target data items of a target data object by their data types including any inherited data types. Additionally, a condition for a rule or a rule exemption is implemented also as a rule which is processed by the rule engine like any other rule. In one embodiment, a validation system includes an abstract rule store of rule instance data items which link to corresponding concrete rules which may be in different data formats. A corresponding rule provides access to rule logic which implements the corresponding rule. A rule engine and the abstract rule store may be accessed over a network by an application requesting validation of a target data object. Furthermore, in some examples, the data driven rule store can be implemented using the Microsoft .NET™ framework.
US09817675B1	Methods and systems for attaching an encrypted data partition during the startup of an operating system During the startup of an operating system of a computing system, a monitoring process of the operating system is used to detect an entry point of a daemon manager process. In response to detecting the entry point, the startup process is paused, and an early attach process is launched so as to attach one or more encrypted data partitions to the operating system. As part of the early attach process, the network stack of the computing system may be initialized, which allows the early attach process to retrieve one or more decryption keys corresponding to the one or more encrypted data partitions from an external key management server. The one or more decryption keys may be transmitted to a disk filter driver of the operating system, which provides the operating system with access to the one or more encrypted data partitions. Upon the conclusion of the early attach process, the operating system startup process resumes with the one or more encrypted data partitions now accessible to the operating system.
US09817670B2	Framework to provide time bound execution of co-processor commands When a main processor issues a command to co-processor, a timeout value is included in the command. As the co-processor attempts to execute the command, it is determined whether the attempt is taking time beyond what is permitted by the timeout value. If the timeout is exceeded then responsive action is taken, such as the generation of a command timeout type failure message. The receipt of the command with the timeout value, and the consequent determination of a timeout condition for the command, may be determined by: the co-processor that receives the command, or a watchdog timer that is separate from the co-processor. Also, detection of co-processor hang and/or hung co-processor conditions during the time that a co-processor is executing a command for the main processor.
US09817669B2	Computer processor employing explicit operations that support execution of software pipelined loops and a compiler that utilizes such operations for scheduling software pipelined loops A computer processor includes execution logic (having a number of functional units) configured to perform operations that access operand data values stored in a plurality of operand storage elements. Such operand data values include a predefined None operand data value indicative of a missing operand value. The operations include a RETIRE operation specifying a number of operand data values that is intended to be retired in a predefined machine cycle. During execution of the RETIRE operation, zero or more at None operand data values are selectively retired in the predefined machine cycle based on the number of operand data values specified by the RETIRE operation and the number of operand data values to be retired as a result of execution of other operations by the execution logic in the predefined machine cycle. Other aspects and software tools are also described and claimed.
US09817668B2	Batched replays of divergent operations One embodiment of the present invention sets forth an approach for executing replay operations for divergent operations in a parallel processing subsystem. Specifically, the streaming multiprocessor (SM) includes a multistage pipeline configured to batch two or more replay operations for processing via replay loop. A logic element within the multistage pipeline detects whether the current pipeline stage is accessing a shared resource, such as loading data from a shared memory. If the threads are accessing data which are distributed across multiple cache lines, then the multistage pipeline batches two or more replay operations, where the replay operations are inserted into the pipeline back-to-back.
US09817664B2	Register caching techniques for thread switches Techniques are disclosed relating to register caching techniques for thread switches. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a register file and caching circuitry. In this embodiment, the register file includes a plurality of registers and the caching circuitry is configured to store information that indicates threads that correspond to data stored in respective ones of the plurality of registers. In this embodiment, the apparatus is configured to store, at a point in time at which a first register of the plurality of registers includes first valid data corresponding to a first thread, second valid data corresponding to a second thread in a second register of the plurality of registers. In some embodiments, the disclosed techniques may reduce context switch latency, reduce pressure on a data cache, and/or allow smaller slices of thread execution, for example.
US09817662B2	Apparatus for calculating and retaining a bound on error during floating point operations and methods thereof The apparatus and method for calculating and retaining a bound on error during floating point operations inserts an additional bounding field into the standard floating-point format that records the retained significant bits of the calculation with notification upon insufficient retention. The bounding field, which accounts for both rounding and cancellation errors, has two parts, the lost bits D Field and the accumulated rounding error R Field. The D Field states the number of bits in the floating point representation that are no longer meaningful. The bounds on the real value represented are determined from the truncated floating point value (first bound) and the addition of the error determined by the number of lost bits (second bound). The true, real value is absolutely contained by the first and second bounds. The allowed loss (optionally programmable) of significant bits provides a fail-safe, real-time notification of loss of significant bits.
US09817659B2	Artifact normalization Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating normalized analysis artifacts for a source code base. One of the methods includes receiving a request to perform an analysis of a collection of source code files in a particular file system, wherein each source code file in the particular file system has a respective associated original file path. One or more normalized analysis artifacts are generated for the collection of source code files, including applying a file path transformation function to the original file path of each source code file referenced by the analysis artifacts to generate a normalized file path for the source code file, wherein each reference in the normalized analysis artifacts to a particular source code file uses the normalized file path for the particular source code file instead of the original file path for the particular source code file.
US09817656B2	Hot rollback of updated agent Technology is disclosed herein for managing versions of an Agent associated with an application. Code for the Agent can be updated, and subsequently rolled back without being disruptive to the application. The technology includes running an Agent with an Application in a Java Virtual Machine and rolling back the Agent to use a previous version of code for the Agent while the Application and the Java Virtual Machine continue to run. The rolled back Agent with the Application in the Java Virtual Machine can then be run while the Application and the Java Virtual Machine continue to run.
US09817654B2	System and method for communication of software A vehicle includes at least one programmable computing device including a memory configured to store instructions that are executable by a processor. The vehicle also include a software loader configured to modify or replace the instructions based on a loadable software part. The vehicle includes a data interface and a loadable software part memory. The vehicle further includes a switch coupled to the data interface, to the loadable software part memory, and to software loader. While the switch is in a first position, a first data path between the data interface and the loadable software part memory is enabled and a second data path between the loadable software part memory and the software loader is disabled. While the switch is in a second position, the second data path is enabled and the first data path is disabled.
US09817653B2	Updating extension in response to opening associated document A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may comprise instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a backend server to at least receive, from an administrator webserver, an extension, store the extension and an associated timestamp in a repository, the associated timestamp indicating a time at which the extension was received from the administrator webserver, receive a request for the extension from a customer webserver, the request for the extension identifying the extension, and in response to receiving the request for the extension, fetch the extension from the repository, and send the extension to the customer webserver.
US09817652B2	Data storage device and method for reducing firmware update time and data processing system including the device A data storage device for reducing a firmware update time includes a non-volatile memory configured to store a firmware update image which will replace a current firmware image, a first volatile memory, and a processor configured to control an operation of the non-volatile memory and an operation of the first volatile memory. When a first code included in the current firmware image is executed by the processor, the first code generates data necessary for an operation of the data storage device and stores the data in the first volatile memory. When a second code included in the firmware update image is executed by the first code, the second code accesses and uses the data that has been stored in the first volatile memory.
US09817646B1	Multiplatform and multichannel distribution of web applications across devices A method for installation of user device configured web applications includes receiving a request to install a web application, determining if the request is from a user device or a sync server, determining information about the web application based on at least one of a configuration, a platform and a setting associated with the user device, revising the determined information about the web application if the request is from the sync server, determining a logical location of stored files based on the web application and at least one of the configuration, the platform and the setting associated with the user device, and installing the web application using files stored in the determined logical location.
US09817641B1	Facilitating application development using protected components A method, system, and medium are provided for facilitating development of an application by a user for a mobile communications device. A portion of programmatic code provided by the user is retrieved and a classification corresponding to the code is determined. A set of rules comprising a use restriction associated with a protected application component is referenced to determine whether the code classification corresponds to a use restriction. Incident to identifying an associated use restriction, feedback is presented to the user that indicates that the portion of code corresponds to a use restriction.
US09817636B2	Generating an entropy signal A method includes using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to provide an entropy signal at an output of the ADC. The method includes controlling a reference signal to the ADC to cause an internal noise level of the ADC to correspond to more than one least significant bit (LSB) of the ADC.
US09817635B1	Processing multiple audio signals on a device At least one processor that performs at least one of determine at least two audio signals, determine at least one directionality of at least one audio source from the at least two audio signals, determine at least one timing of the at least one audio source from the at least two audio signals, generate at least one context for the at least two audio signals based on the at least one directionality and the at least one timing of the at least two audio signals, and provide at least one user interface based on the generated at least one context.
US09817631B2	Control of vehicle interior sound levels based on vehicle location A computing device for a vehicle interior sound control system is described. The device includes one or more processors for controlling operation of the computing device, and a memory for storing data and program instructions usable by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to operate, responsive to a location of the vehicle, at least one portion of the vehicle so as to control a sound level in an interior of the vehicle produced by the at least one portion of the vehicle.
US09817616B2	Serverless image processing system with a plurality of apparatus groups and image formation apparatus for mediating communication between apparatus groups When an image formation apparatus included in an image processing system including a plurality of apparatus groups each consisting of a plurality of image formation apparatuses accepts a request for an inquiry about an image formation apparatus which has stored a print job associated with a designated user from another image formation apparatus belonging to an apparatus group to which the image formation apparatus belongs, the image formation apparatus requests, in response to the request, of an image formation apparatus which belongs to another apparatus group and is saved in advance, for the inquiry. When the request originates from another image formation apparatus belonging to another apparatus group, the image formation apparatus inquires of a management image formation apparatus within that apparatus group.
US09817615B2	Network based font management for imaging devices A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving a request from an imaging device indicating that the imaging device is unable to present textual content of an asset. The request includes one or more attributes of the textual content of the asset and the request is sent from the imaging device absent user input. Operations also include identifying an appropriate amount of font information from the received one or more attributes for the imaging device to present the asset, and, providing the identified font information to the imaging device for presenting the asset.
US09817614B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium According to an embodiment of this invention, an information processing apparatus that executes, by a processor, a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor has the following arrangement. That is, the first program layer holds image data to be processed in a first format. On the other hand, the second program layer holds it in a second format. When transferring image data between the first program layer and the second program layer, the format of the image data is converted between the first format and the second format.
US09817613B2	Generating integrated sheet information for an image forming system An image processing apparatus, communicable with an image forming apparatus useable for an image forming operation on a recording medium based on input image data, includes a processor to acquire output-side sheet information from the image forming apparatus, the output-side sheet information correlating attribution information related to the recording medium and engine adjustment information indicating image formation processing contents to be used for an image forming operation, to refer processing-side sheet information stored in the image processing apparatus, the processing-side sheet information correlating attribution information related to the recording medium and image processing setting information indicating image processing contents to be applied to the input image data, to generate integrated sheet information by correlating the attribution information, the image processing setting information, and the engine adjustment information, and to store the integrated sheet information in a memory.
US09817602B2	Non-volatile buffering for deduplication A system and method for storage of data is described where the data and commands received by a storage system is processed using at least a pair of redundant channels, configured so that received data buffered in a first channel is also buffered by a second channel prior to acknowledgement of the completion of the command execution. This permits a low latency of response to commands while securely storing the data. Data that is buffered in the first channel may be processed for storage, or for deduplication or compression prior to sending to the storage system subsequent to the acknowledgement of completion of the command and the data may then be purged from the data buffers in the redundant channels. A file identified as being smaller in size than the size allocated to associated metadata may be stored as part of the metadata without being sent to the storage system.
US09817601B1	Method and apparatus for determining feasibility of memory operating condition change using different back bias voltages A memory device having at least one output predicting a feasibility of whether the memory device will work properly at a different operating condition including a different supply voltage and/or a different operating frequency than the current supply voltage and/or the current operating frequency. A semiconductor device (e.g. a SoC chip) provides a test to either validate or invalidate the feasibility for the memory device to enter such a different operating condition based on read and write operations of the memory device in normal access cycles. The memory device is partitioned with at least a first memory unit and a second memory unit, which can be coupled to different back-bias voltages. This operating condition predicting function can be enabled or disabled by the semiconductor device in real time operation depending on the feasibility test results.
US09817599B2	Storing indicators of unreferenced memory addresses in volatile memory In example implementations, unreferenced memory addresses in a segment of a storage volume may be identified. Access to the segment of the storage volume may be controlled by one of a plurality of storage volume controllers (SVCs). The plurality of SVCs may control access to respective segments of the storage volume. Indicators of the identified unreferenced memory addresses may be stored in a volatile memory in the one of the plurality of SVCs. In response to an input/output (I/O) command from a host, data may be written to one of the identified unreferenced memory addresses corresponding to one of the indicators stored in the volatile memory. After the data has been written, the one of the indicators may be deleted from the volatile memory. The one of the identified unreferenced memory addresses may not have been made available to other SVCs after being identified.
US09817580B2	Secure migratable architecture having improved performance features Methods and systems for implementing a secure migratable architecture having improved performance features over existing virtualization systems are disclosed. One method includes allocating a portion of a memory for use by a process, the process including a firmware environment representing a virtual computing system having a second computing architecture different from a first computing architecture of a computing system on which the process is executed. The method includes associating area descriptors with each of a plurality of memory areas within the portion of the memory used by the process, and receiving a request within the firmware environment to store data within a first memory area of the plurality of memory areas, the first memory area defined by a first area descriptor of the area descriptors, the request being associated with a plurality of memory addresses within the first memory area. The method includes, in response to the request, performing a check on a tag associated with the first memory area and stored in the first area descriptor. The method further includes, upon completion of the check, storing the data within the first memory area without performing a separate tag check for each of the plurality of memory addresses within the first memory area.
US09817577B2	Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state drive A data storage device comprises a non-volatile memory comprising a plurality of blocks, each configured to store a plurality of physical pages at predetermined physical locations. A controller programs and reads data stored in a plurality of logical pages. A volatile memory comprises a logical-to-physical address translation map configured to enabling determination of the physical location, within one or more physical pages, of the data stored in each logical page. A plurality of journals may be stored, each comprising a plurality of entries associating one or more physical pages to each logical page. At startup, the controller may read at least some of the plurality of journals in an order and rebuild the map; indicate a readiness to service data access commands after the map is rebuilt; rebuild a table from the map and, based thereon, select block(s) for garbage collection after having indicated the readiness to process the commands.
US09817572B2	Overlapped transparent display and control method thereof Disclosed is a display device providing a user interface to switch a control object of a pointer from the display device to an external transparent display device. The display device includes a display unit including a first display area, a communication unit to communicate with an external transparent display device including a second display area, and a control unit. The control unit receives a pointer control signal, detects a first area among the first display area overlapped by the external transparent display device, sets a user interface to a position proximate to at least a portion of the edge of the first area, transmits the pointer control signal to the external transparent display device when the pointer overlaps at least a portion of the user interface, and transmits no pointer control signal when the pointer moves into the first area in a path not passing through the user interface.
US09817571B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is disclosed, thereby implementing a user input of a new type and enabling a user to determine a type and arrangement of a displayed navigation button on user's own. The present invention includes a display unit having a prescribed region assigned as a navigation region; and a controller controlling at least one navigation button to be displayed through the navigation region, wherein a type and arrangement of the at least one navigation button displayable through the navigation region are changeable.
US09817567B2	Touch panel device, process determination method, program, and touch panel system A touch panel device includes: first and second touch panels that detect contact of an object, and a control unit that associates images that are displayed on the first touch panel and that indicate data with the display positions of the images on the first touch panel, and determines on the basis of the state of contact detected on the second touch panel, from among a plurality of types of processes that have been determined in advance, a process that is to be performed upon data indicated by a selected image that is an image that corresponds to the position of contact detected on the first touch panel.
US09817566B1	Approaches to managing device functionality Various embodiments provide a graphical interface element displayable on a touch screen of a computing device associated with a function to be performed. In response to receiving a touch input from a finger of a user to an area associated with the graphical interface element, such as a tap, the function is performed. In response to receiving a touch input to the area associated with the user selectable element followed by a swipe, drag, or movement of the user selectable element with a finger of the user, the user is able to control an amount of the function to be performed.
US09817560B2	Method for managing documents on a mobile device A method for managing a document at a mobile device having a user interface screen, the mobile device being arranged for a wireless connection to a reproduction unit and loaded with a mobile application for sending documents to the reproduction unit, includes opening the document by the mobile application at most a complete desktop area on the user interface screen, storing the document in memory of the mobile device, closing the document by the mobile application at the user interface screen, and automatically showing the document stored by the mobile application at the desktop area by means of a representation after the document is closed. A mobile device is provided for performing the method.
US09817559B2	Predictive food logging A method of predicting food items consumed by a user of a food-logging application is disclosed. Loggings of consumptions of food items are received. A predictive model is generated based on the received loggings. The predictive model generates a prediction of one or more additional food items that a target user will consume or is likely to have consumed (e.g., at a particular time). The prediction is generated based on an application of the predictive model to one or more data items (e.g., data items streaming into the system in real time from the target user or other users that are relevant to food consumptions by the target user). The prediction of the consumption of the one or more additional food items by the user may then be communicated for presentation to the target user in a user interface.
US09817552B2	Method and system for communicating user interfaces between first and second users over a network A search result set is communicated to a first user as hypertext descriptions of data items constituting the result search set. A check box is displayed adjacent each hypertext description, utilizing which the first user may select a subset of the search result set. This subset is then communicated to a second user, again as hypertext descriptions of the subset. Check boxes are furthermore displayed to the second user so as to enable the second user to select a further and narrower subset of the search result set. Selected items of a result set of an Internet-based search may in this way conveniently be communicated between first and second users. Each of a number of interfaces provides the hypertext descriptions of the data items of the search result set.
US09817551B2	System and method for recording and sharing music A method includes uploading a plurality of songs to a server; allowing a first user to listen to a selected song from the plurality on an electronic device, the selected song being transmitted across an electronic network from the server; allowing the first user to record a user-generated stem track using the electronic device, the electronic device being located at the user location; without saving the user-generated stem track, transmitting only the user-generated stem track across the electronic network to the server; storing the user-generated stem track on the server; allowing the first user to select a plurality of other individual user-generated stem tracks from the server and combine the selected user-generated stem tracks to form a user-generated cover song; and transmitting an electronic message to other users who generated the other individual user-generated stem tracks, informing them of the combination of their stem tracks to form the cover song.
US09817548B2	Providing enhanced user interfaces Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing enhanced user interfaces are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may generate a user interface that presents a selectable control element. Subsequently, the computing device may receive input selecting the control element. In response to receiving the input selecting the control element, the computing device may update the user interface to present a ring that includes at least one band of icons. In addition, the ring may have a first portion that is visible and a second portion, different from the first portion, that is hidden. In some instances, the computing device then may receive a selection of an icon included in the at least one band of icons. In response to receiving the selection of the icon, the computing device may update the user interface to hide the ring.
US09817540B2	Device, system, and method of composing logical computing platforms Device, system, and method of composing logical computing platforms. For example, a wireless computing device includes: one or more wireless transceivers to send and receive wireless communication signals; a logical platform composition manager to provide a visual indication representing a logical platform that includes said wireless computing device and one or more wireless devices; and an input unit to receive a user selection corresponding to the visual representation; wherein, in response to the user selection, the logical platform composition manager is to command the one or more wireless transceivers to establish one or more wireless communication links between the wireless computing device and the one or more wireless devices.
US09817530B2	Electronic device with touchscreen for removing sample subsets and related methods An electronic device may include a touchscreen having sensing capacitors, and readout circuitry. The readout circuitry may be configured to accumulate a sample set from each sensing capacitor, divide the sample set into sample subsets, remove a given sample subset when the given sample subset exceeds a threshold, and process remaining sample subsets for touch input.
US09817529B2	Flexible touch panel Provided is a flexible touch panel, including: a flexible substrate; and a touch sensor unit positioned on the flexible substrate and including a transparent conductive oxide pattern and a transparent conductive polymer pattern which are stacked while being connected to each other.
US09817527B2	Touch sensing device A touch sensing device includes an external interconnection region, patch electrodes, and internal interconnections. External interconnections are disposed in the external interconnection region. The patch electrodes are arranged in a first direction away from the external interconnection region. The patch electrodes include a first patch electrode and a second patch electrode. The internal interconnections have first ends connected to the patch electrodes, respectively, and second ends connected to one of the external interconnections. Each of the internal interconnections includes a detour portion, at least one of which at least partially extends away from the external interconnection region, and a main portion, which extends toward the external interconnection region. The detour portion of a first internal interconnection connected to the first patch electrode is longer than the detour portion of a second internal interconnection connected to the second patch electrode.
US09817500B2	Mechanism for facilitating flexible wraparound displays for computing devices A mechanism is described for facilitating flexible wraparound displays at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes placing a flexible wraparound display at a computing device, where the flexible wraparound display being represented as a single display that is flexibly wrapped around the computing device. The method may further include calibrating the flexible wraparound display for performing its functions using one or more default components of the computing device.
US09817492B2	Wireless electronic pen set A wireless electronic pen set in association with a terminal device having a display is disclosed, the set comprising: a wireless electronic pen; a wireless stick communicating with the pen in a wireless manner, wherein the stick is physically and removably secured to the terminal device and communicates with the device in a wired manner, wherein the wireless electronic pen includes: a touch input unit to receive a touch input from a user; a first wireless communication unit to communicate with the stick; and a controller to enable the touch input to be sent to the device via the wireless communication unit, wherein the stick includes: a second wireless communication unit to communicate with the pen; and a connector electrically connected to the device, wherein the touch input is transferred via the second wireless communication unit and the connector to the device.
US09817484B2	Method for capturing screen content of mobile terminal and device thereof A method for capturing screen content of a mobile terminal and a device thereof are provided. The method comprises: detecting a DOWN event of a specified key of the mobile terminal and recording the time of occurrence of the DOWN event as a first time stamp; detecting an UP event of the specified key and recording the time of occurrence of the UP event as a second time stamp; and comparing a difference between the second time stamp and the first time stamp with a preset time threshold, performing a full screen capturing or a regional screen capturing on the screen content of the mobile terminal if the difference is less than the preset time threshold, or performing a regional screen capturing or a full screen capturing on the screen content of the mobile terminal if the difference is greater than the preset time threshold.
US09817483B1	Protective case with keyboard and combination of protective case and electronic device A protective case includes a first side plate, a second side plate connected to the first side plate, a first key module that includes a first set of English keys and is laid out on the first side plate, and a second key module that includes a second set of English keys and is laid out on the second side plate. The first set of English keys and the second set of English keys constitute a complete set of English alphabet keys. When the first side plate is unfolded relative to the second side plate, the first key module and the second key module are unfolded correspondingly to form a keyboard. A combination of the protective case and an electronic device is also provided.
US09817475B2	Method for tracking a user's eye to control an indicator on a touch screen and electronic device thereof A method includes detecting a movement of an eye pupil in an eye tracking mode, moving an indicator on the screen according to the movement of the eye pupil, detecting a touch on a touch area, and in response to detecting the touch on the touch area, selecting an object on which the indicator is located, among the plurality of the objects on the screen. An electronic device includes a display configured to display displaying a plurality of objects on a screen, and a processor configured to detect a movement of an eye pupil through a camera in an eye tracking mode, move an indicator on the screen according to the movement of the eye pupil, detect a touch on the electronic device, and in response to detecting the touch, select an object on which the indicator is located, among the plurality of the objects on the screen.
US09817474B2	Gaze driven interaction for a vehicle According to the invention, a method for changing information on a display in a vehicle based on a gaze direction of a driver is disclosed. The method may include displaying information on the display in the vehicle. The method may also include receiving gaze data indicative of the gaze direction of a user. The method may further include changing the display based at least in part on the gaze data.
US09817465B2	Low latency computer system power reduction Technology for handling overcurrent conditions on electrical circuits that power multiple computing modules is disclosed. Aspects of the technology include a power system adapted to provide notifications of overcurrent conditions, and computing modules adapted to reduce an operating speed thereof in response to notification of an overcurrent condition.
US09817461B2	Abnormality display device including a switch to control a display element to indicate abnormal or normal operations for plural systems An abnormality display device for an electronic apparatus includes power source circuits (1) each being used inside systems of the electronic apparatus and generating each of system voltages, a voltage monitoring circuit (2) that turns on an input power source of the electronic apparatus and detects whether each system voltage normally rises up before the electronic apparatus rises, display elements (6b to 6d) that show whether an abnormality occurs in any of the system voltages through input of a signal from the voltage monitoring circuit (2), and switching elements (5a to 5c) in which a switching signal is input after each system voltage rises. The switching signal switches the display elements from a display mode used to show the abnormality of each system voltage to a display mode other than the display mode used to show the abnormality of each system voltage.
US09817458B2	Adaptive USB port controller An adaptive USB port controller is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a system comprises a source, a power adapter, a USB port controller, a USB plug and cable, and a device. In one example, the device includes a rechargeable battery. After connecting the device to the USB port controller via the USB plug and cable, a reconfigurable module within the USB port controller sets a power mode by: (1) configuring an impedance network to present impedance modes that indicate available power modes, (2) detecting voltages on one or more of the USB conductors in response to each impedance mode, and (3) comparing the detected voltages to reference voltage levels to set one of multiple power modes. The reconfigurable module then controls the power adapter to transfer power according to the determined power mode.
US09817454B2	Apparatus and method for dynamic thermal management of integrated circuit A thermal control system for an integrated circuit in an electronic device includes a sensing unit, a calculating unit, and a control unit. The sensing unit is for providing a first temperature signal by sensing the temperature of the integrated circuit and providing a second temperature signal by sensing the temperature of a component of the electronic device. The calculating unit computes a target temperature value of the integrated circuit according to the second temperature signal. The control unit adjusts target setting for the integrated circuit according to the target temperature value and the first temperature signal.
US09817450B2	Electronic apparatus The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus, the back plate, the I/O module, the power supply, the node module and the like are reasonably and neatly laid out in the case, so that more modules can be laid out in a limited case space, thus having a high utilization rate and a low cost. Besides, the I/O module, the power supply module and the node module are separately designed, and the modules cooperate with each other; the modules are snap structures, and can be assembled and disassembled by hand, which increases operation and maintenance efficiency. Moreover, the completion of the signal transmission among different modules mainly depends on the golden finger or the high-speed back plate connector, thus the case is clean and neat inside.
US09817444B2	Electronic devices with flexible displays having fastened bent edges An electronic device may be provided with a display having a flexible substrate with fastened bent edges. The flexible substrate may have an active region that includes an array of light-emitting elements such as organic light-emitting diodes. The flexible substrate may also have inactive regions that lie outside of the active region. The bent edges may include portions of the inactive regions and portions of the active region. The bent edges may be wrapped to conform to the shape of an internal support structure. The bent edges may be fastened to the support structure with fastening members that attach a housing member or an internal clamp to the support structure. The bent edges may be secured between the housing member or the internal clamp and the support structure. The fastening members may be engaged in openings in the support structure and may pass through or alongside the bent edges.
US09817434B2	Memory system controlling peak current generation for a plurality of memories by synchronizing internal clock of each memory with a processor clock at different times to avoid peak current generation period overlapping A memory system including a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each including an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
US09817432B2	Microcomputer and method for correcting clock thereof ProblemA sub clock for a sleep mode in a a microcomputer is retained to be operable with high accuracy.SolutionA sub clock 20 counts oscillating pulses of a CR oscillating circuit 21 by a loop counter 22, and outputs a clock signal each time the oscillating pulses reach a target count Pm. A CPU 11 counts oscillating pulses of the CR oscillating circuit 21 in a predetermined time measured by a time counter 25 in response to a clock signal of a main clock 13 by a crystal oscillator, and corrects the target count Pm according to a pulse count P thereof. Since the real count state is obtained based upon the clock signal of the main clock having high frequency accuracy without the estimation of the sub clock 20, the high accuracy of the sub clock is retained even if environmental changes such as temperatures occur.
US09817427B2	Static offset reduction in a current conveyor A voltage mirror circuit, having an input node and an output node provides substantially equal voltage levels at the input node and the output node. The voltage mirror circuit comprises an input current source transistor, an input gain transistor arranged in series with the input current source transistor such that the input gain transistor is traversed by the bias current, wherein the voltage level at the input node corresponds to the voltage drop across the input current source transistor and the input gain transistor. An intermediate gain transistor forms a first current mirror with the input gain transistor. An output current source transistor forms a second current mirror with the intermediate current source transistor. The voltage level at the output node corresponds to the voltage drop across the output current source transistor and the output gain transistor.
US09817426B2	Low quiescent current voltage regulator with high load-current capability Embodiments of voltage regulators and methods for operating a voltage regulator are described. In one embodiment, a voltage regulator includes a set of current mirror circuits configured to convert an input voltage into an output voltage and a voltage buffer circuit configured to buffer a reference voltage for the set of current mirror circuits. The set of current mirror circuits form a positive feedback loop. Other embodiments are also described.
US09817419B2	Method for determining an individual power consumption To determine a power consumption in a group of individual electric power distribution branches (3), a method includes the steps of: a) measuring the current (I) flowing in a main upstream line (2) and the voltage (U) of the main upstream line; b) measuring the voltage (Ui) of at least one branch, downstream of a circuit breaker (7) equipping each branch (3); c) determining the current (Ii) flowing through the branch based on the difference (ΔUi) between the upstream-downstream voltages; d) calculating the individual power consumption (Pi′) of the branch from the current and the voltage of the branch; e) calculating the general power (P) consumed by the group of branches from the current and the voltage of the main upstream line; and f) correcting (F6) the individual power consumption (Pi′) so that an instantaneous electric power consumption variation observed at the level of the branch (3) is equal to an instantaneous electric power consumption variation simultaneously observed at the level of the main upstream line (2).
US09817417B2	Generating event anticipation parameters in advance of a demand response event A method and system for intelligent demand response by a load controller device connected to a load is provided. Demand response events generated by utilities can generate energy conservation however they can provide demand subpeaks during the event and can impact user comfort. In order to improve the energy profile and user comfort one or more event parameters from the DR event are generated. One or more temperature setpoints of the load controller device are modified to provide smooth setpoint transition between temperature setpoints using the generated one or more event parameters to shape electricity demand of the load to reduce an expected demand subpeak during the DR event. The modified one or more temperature setpoints can be applied at an associated time to control the load.
US09817409B2	Method and apparatus for distributed control of thermostatic electric loads using high-granularity energy usage data A system, apparatus, and method for distributed control of thermostatic electric loads (TELs) including receiving at an energy gateway, a demand response event signal and receiving real-time measurements of a temperature value and a power consumption value corresponding to a temperature setting of a plurality of TELs. The method retrieving historical data from pre-determined load profiles for the TELs and comparing load profiles and real-time measurements to determine a first consumption trajectory. Further, coordinating temperature settings of at least two TELs to generate a second consumption trajectory corresponding to the demand response event signal.
US09817405B2	Cargo transport system and method based on unmanned aerial vehicle A cargo transport system includes a UAV and a vehicle for sending and receiving the UAV. The UAV has a navigation system for guiding the UAV to fly to transport cargos between the vehicle and a terminal according to first navigation position information of the vehicle and the terminal. The vehicle includes a UAV accommodating device and a UAV receiving controller for guiding the UAV to the vehicle based on wireless signal transmitted directly between them when the UAV flies into a preset range around the vehicle. The UAV receiving controller includes: an identity verification unit for providing information to the UAV in response to a request broadcasted by the UAV to determine whether the vehicle is a target vehicle where the UAV is to land; and a short distance guide unit which provides information for guiding the UAV to land when the vehicle is the target vehicle.
US09817399B2	Autonomous vehicle speed calibration Systems and methods may calibrate an indicator of speed of an autonomous vehicle. In one implementation, a system may include at least one processor programmed to: receive from a camera at least a plurality of images representative of an environment of the vehicle; analyze the plurality of images to identify at least two recognized landmarks; determine, based on known locations of the two recognized landmarks, a value indicative of a distance between the at least two recognized landmarks; determine, based on an output of at least one sensor associated with the autonomous vehicle, a measured distance between the at least two landmarks; determine a correction factor for the at least one sensor based on a comparison of the value indicative of the distance between the at least to recognized landmarks and the measured distance between the at least two landmarks.
US09817387B2	System and method for selecting a tool assembly A method of identifying a multi-component cutting tool assembly to a user includes the steps of: receiving an indication from the user of a desired characteristic of at least one of the cutting tool assembly or of a workpiece to be machined, determining at least a portion of a first set of characteristics associated with a first component of the plurality of tool components corresponds to the desired characteristic, determining at least a portion of a second set of characteristics associated with a second component of the plurality of tool components corresponds to a portion of the first set of characteristics and responsive thereto grouping the first component and the second component together to form a combination and identifying the combination to the user as the cutting tool assembly.
US09817385B2	Machining assistance method and the apparatus using the same A machining assistance method and an apparatus using the same are provided. The machining assistance method comprises following steps. Firstly, a circle correction path is received for driving a platform to perform a circular motion. Next, a driving torque of the server driver driving the platform is obtained. Then, whether the driving torque is changed to 0 is determined; if yes, a first position of the platform is recorded. Then, whether the driving torque is changed to a peak is determined; if yes, a second position of the platform is recorded. After that, the server driver is controlled to drive the platform according to a first position and a second position in a machining process.
US09817374B2	Method and device for the real-time simulation of complex systems and processes A method for a real-time dynamic simulation of a response of a complex system or process controlled by a plurality of driving factors Pi (i=1 . . . k), each varying in a given range of variation. The range of variation of the driving factor Pi is discretized into NPi values. A prior parametric model of simulation is obtained in the form of a functional equation connecting the response to variations in the plurality of driving factors for any combination of values of the driving factors. Their range of variation is in the form of a sum of N modes that are functions of the factors. Each mode is defined for each of the NPi discretized values. The parametric model is stored in the form of a computer program in an independent device comprising a processor capable of running the program.
US09817370B2	Pointer and timepiece A pointer including a pointer body formed using a carbon fiber textile sheet having a carbon fiber woven thereinto.
US09817367B2	Method and device for verifying diffractive elements The invention relates to a method for authenticating a diffractive element, e.g., a hologram, on an object or document (2), wherein at least two images of the diffractive element are recorded by means of a portable device (1). The recordings are taken in different spatial orientations of the portable device in relation to the diffractive element. Recording data are created from the images and the associated spatial orientations. The recording data are electronically compared with reference data. The comparison can be performed locally or in a server-based manner.
US09817356B2	Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and post-processing apparatus The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a post-processing apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus has a fixing unit configured to heat and press a recording sheet with a transferred toner image to fix the toner image to the recording sheet, and the post-processing apparatus has a humidifying unit configured to humidify the recording sheet with the toner image fixed by the fixing unit, and a voltage applying unit configured to apply a bias voltage to the recording sheet humidified by the humidifying unit.
US09817353B2	Method and system for managing service intervals for related components A method and system for managing one or more high frequency service items associated with a device. A parent/child relationship between the high frequency service items can be defined to track replacement of components based on a service action related to a child component. A taxonomy of related service items and servicing functions can be specified in an XML document associated with the rendering system. The relationship between the high frequency service items can be indicated utilizing a related component indicator and a HFSI counter. A parent component can be replaced by a maintenance operator and an aggregate child component can be rebuilt by a service engineer in order to retain the component life thereby reducing down time and service costs.
US09817351B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming portion capable of forming an image on a recording medium; an operation portion for performing an operation of the image forming apparatus; a push button which is arranged in a surface of the operation portion, and with which a signal of stopping an image forming action performed by the image forming portion is input; a receiving portion provided in the operation portion so as to be able to receive a radio signal from a communication component by placing the communication component transmitting the radio signal so as to face the receiving portion; and at least a central portion of the push button located at a position recessed from the surface of the operation portion.
US09817345B2	Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling fixing device A fixing device includes a heater, a fixing rotator, a pressure rotator to press against the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed, a moving device to move the pressure rotator in directions in which the pressure rotator comes into contact with and separates from the fixing rotator, a thermal expansion amount predictor to predict an amount of thermal expansion of the fixing rotator while the recording medium is conveyed, and a nip width adjuster to control a moving distance of the pressure rotator moved by the moving device toward the fixing rotator, depending on the amount of thermal expansion of the fixing rotator predicted by the thermal expansion amount predictor, so as to adjust a width of the fixing nip to maintain a substantially constant width of the fixing nip.
US09817342B2	Image forming apparatus using stretch member and contact member to maintain potential with a current flowing to intermediate transer belt A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective image forming stations.
US09817341B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearers, a transfer bias member, and a power source. When the transfer bias member transfers a color toner image onto a recording sheet, a second peak value of a peak-to-peak of a transfer bias, which is smaller than a first peak value of the peak-to-peak in an electrostatic force to move toner from the image bearers or an intermediate transfer body to the recording sheet, is zero or has a first polarity to generate the electrostatic force in a transfer direction to move toner from the image bearers or the intermediate transfer body to the recording sheet. When the transfer bias member transfers a monochromatic toner image including only black toner onto the recording sheet, the second peak value is zero or has a second polarity to generate an electrostatic force in an opposite direction to the transfer direction.
US09817337B2	Image forming apparatus that restrains use of apparatus in state where developer is not replenishable An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an image carrier, a developing device, a developer housing container, and a regulating member. The developer housing container takes a posture changeable between a first posture and a second posture. The developer discharge port communicates with the developer replenishment port such that the developer is replenishable to the developing device in the first posture. The second posture locates the developer discharge port separate from the developer replenishment port and seals the developer discharge port. The regulating member allows the cover member to be closed with respect to the apparatus main body while the developer housing container takes the first posture in the apparatus main body. The regulating member regulates the cover member to be closed with respect to the apparatus main body by an interference with the developer housing container while the developer housing container takes the second posture.
US09817332B2	Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including the same An optical scanning device includes a deflecting unit having a deflecting surface, and arranged to deflect a light beam and optically scan a scanned surface in a main-scanning direction; an incident optical system arranged to cause the light beam to be obliquely incident on the deflecting surface in a sub-scanning section; and a light receiving unit arranged to receive a light beam deflected by the deflecting surface and generate a signal. A following condition is satisfied, \|β\|≦\|α\|, where α (deg) is an incident angle of the light beam from the incident optical system with respect to the deflecting surface in the sub-scanning section, and β (deg) is an angle defined by the light beam incident on the deflecting surface and the light beam deflected by the deflecting surface and directed toward the light receiving unit in a main-scanning section.
US09817328B2	Charging member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A charging member includes a support member, a conductive elastic layer disposed on the support member, and a front surface layer disposed on the conductive elastic layer. Irregularities with a cycle of shorter than 0.1 mm and irregularities with a cycle of 0.1 mm or longer are distributed on an entirety of an outer circumferential surface of the charging member, and satisfy the following conditions of (1) and (2): (1) the irregularities with the cycle of shorter than 0.1 mm have an average height of greater than 0 μm and 4 μm or less; and (2) the irregularities with the cycle of 0.1 mm or longer have an average height of from 5 μm to 30 μm. A half-value width of a maximum frequency value of height distribution on the outer circumferential surface is from 1 μm to 3 μm.
US09817318B2	Mask manufacturing equipment and mask manufacturing method According to an embodiment, mask manufacturing equipment includes a detector, an irradiator, a calculator, and a controller. The detector detects positional deviation of a pattern formed on a mask substrate. The irradiator irradiates the mask substrate with laser light to form a heterogeneous layer that is expanded in volume in the mask substrate. The calculator calculates an area periphery irradiation condition under which the irradiator is caused to emit laser light to a peripheral area of the pattern on the basis of the positional deviation detected by the detector so that the pattern area is reduced by forming the heterogeneous layer in the peripheral area of the pattern. The controller controls the irradiator to form the heterogeneous layer in the peripheral area of the pattern according to the area periphery irradiation condition.
US09817314B2	Conductive polymer composition, coated article, patterning process, and substrate The present invention provides a conductive polymer composition which contains (A) a polyaniline-based conductive polymer having a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1), (B) a polyanion, and (C) an amino acid, wherein RA1 to RA4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a linear, branched, or cyclic monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally containing a heteroatom; and RA1 and RA2, or RA3 and RA4 may be bonded to each other to form a ring. There can be provided a conductive polymer composition that has excellent antistatic performance and applicability, dose not adversely affect a resist, and can be suitably used in lithography using electron beam or the like.
US09817313B2	Laminated structure A laminated structure for use as a thy film photoresist, which includes a supporting layer, a photosensitive resin layer and a protective layer. The protective layer is a polyester film that has a maximum surface roughness between 1,500 nm and 2,500 nm, and a sheet resistance between 1×108Ω/□ and 1×1012Ω/□. The laminated structure is particularly applicable to the manufacture of a photosensitive device and a circuit of a printed circuit board or a lead frame.
US09817309B2	Photomasks, methods of fabricating the photomasks, and method of fabricating semiconductor devices by using the photomasks Provided are photomasks, methods of fabricating the photomasks, and methods of fabricating a semiconductor device by using the photomasks, in which a critical dimension (CD) of a pattern of a specific region of the photomask is corrected to improve the distribution of CDs of the pattern formed on a wafer. The photomasks may include a substrate and a light-blocking pattern formed on the substrate that includes an absorber layer and an anti-reflection coating (ARC) layer. The light-blocking pattern may include at least one of a first corrected area in which a top surface of the absorber layer is exposed, and a second corrected area in which a correction layer is formed on the ARC layer.
US09817296B2	Optical router having optical routing nodes of four bi-directional optical switches An optical routing element may include a planar dielectric photonic crystal which includes a lattice of holes having a first linear defect adjacent a second linear defect, with the two defects being separated by a central row of lattice holes. The first linear defect in the lattice of holes may form a first single mode line defect waveguide, and the second linear defect in the lattice of holes may form a second single mode line defect waveguide. Optical energy may be selectively coupled between the first and second waveguides across the central row of lattice holes. A free-carrier injector may be included to inject free-carriers into the dielectric photonic crystal, activation of which may alter selectivity of the optical coupling between the first and second waveguides. A plurality of optical routing elements with associated free-carrier injectors may be interconnected to form a bi-directional optical routing array.
US09817295B2	Injection modulator An injection modulator for modulation of optical radiation, having an optical waveguide and a diode structure, having at least two p-doped semiconductor portions, at least two n-doped semiconductor portions and at least one lightly or undoped intermediate portion between the p-doped and n-doped portions. The p-doped portions when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the waveguide are offset with respect to the n-doped portions and the diode structure is arranged in a resonance-free portion of the waveguide. The p-doped portions lie on one side of the waveguide, the n-doped portions lie on the other side of the waveguide and the intermediate portion lies in the center, each portion extends transversely with respect to the waveguide longitudinal direction in the direction of the waveguide center of the waveguide and no p-doped portion when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the waveguide overlaps any n-doped portion.
US09817293B2	Optical modulator An object is to provide an optical modulator in which a light receiving element is disposed on a substrate configuring the optical modulator and which is capable of suppressing a decrease in the frequency bandwidth of the light receiving element even in a case in which two radiated lights from a combining part in a Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide are received and monitored at the same time. The optical modulator includes a substrate 1, an optical waveguide including a Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide formed in the substrate, and a modulation electrode (not illustrated) for modulating light waves that propagate through the optical waveguide, alight receiving element 5 is disposed to bridge over an output waveguide 24 configuring the Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide so as to receive two radiated lights being radiated from a combining part in the Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide, and, in the light receiving element, two or more light receiving areas (51 and 52) are formed apart from each other on a substrate of light receiving element 55.
US09817289B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including first, second and third pixels that display different colors and are sequentially disposed, a plurality of data lines including first, second and third data lines sequentially and repeatedly disposed where the first data line is disposed between the third pixel and the first pixel, the second data line is disposed between the first pixel and the second pixel, and the third data line is disposed between the second pixel and the third pixel, widths of the first, second and third data lines are substantially the same as each other, and a first interval between the first data line and the second data line is different from a second interval between the second data line and the third data line or a third interval between the third data line and the first data line.
US09817288B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT substrate having pixels each including a common electrode formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film formed so as to cover the common electrode, a pixel electrode having a slit and formed on the interlayer insulating film, a through-hole formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, and a source electrode electrically conducted to the pixel electrode via the through-hole. A taper angle at a depth of D/2 of the through-hole is equal to or more than 50 degrees. The pixel electrode covers part of a side wall of the through-hole but does not cover the remaining part of the side wall of the through-hole. This configuration facilitates the alignment film material to flow into the through-hole, thereby solving a thickness unevenness of the alignment film in vicinity of the through-hole.
US09817287B2	Array substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display device The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same and a display device. The array substrate comprises a gate line PAD region and a data line PAD region. In the gate line PAD region of the array substrate, gate-line wirings, which are parallel to the gate lines and are electrically insulated from the gate lines, are provided between adjacent gate lines. In the data line PAD region of the array substrate, data-line wirings, which are parallel to the data lines and are electrically insulated from the data lines, are provided between adjacent data lines. Both of the gate-line wirings and the data-line wirings are conductive wiring segments. By forming the gate-line wirings and the data-line wirings in the PAD region, the ability of resisting scratch of the product can be improved while not deteriorating performance of display of the product.
US09817286B1	Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a shielding electrode disposed on the first substrate and which extends in a first direction; a pixel electrode disposed on a same layer as the shielding electrode and insulated from the shielding electrode; a common electrode which overlaps the shielding electrode and the pixel electrode in a thickness direction of the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the common electrode and the pixel and shielding electrodes. The liquid crystal layer includes a first liquid crystal molecule disposed in a first region between the shielding electrode and the pixel electrode, and the first liquid crystal molecule is pre-tilted to have an azimuthal angle in a range of about zero degree to about +45 degrees or in a range of about −45 degrees to about zero degree, based on the first direction.
US09817283B2	Liquid crystal display A display, includes: a substrate; first signal lines (FSLs) disposed on the substrate and extending in substantially a first direction; a gate insulating layer (GIL) disposed on the FSLs; a first electrode disposed on the GIL; a thin film transistor (TFT) connected to a FSL of the FSLs and including the GIL and the first electrode; a pixel electrode (PE) extending in substantially the first direction, connected to the TFT, and configured to receive a data voltage from the TFT; a common electrode (CE) overlapping with at least a portion of the PE; and a first insulating layer disposed between the PE and CE. One of the PE and the CE has a planar shape and the other includes branch electrodes overlapping with the planar shape and extending substantially parallel to the FSL. At least a portion of the CE overlaps with at least a portion of the FSL.
US09817281B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: a first insulating substrate; a gate line and a data line, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a second insulating substrate facing the first insulating substrate, wherein one pixel includes the thin film transistor and the pixel electrode and includes a first sub-region and a second sub-region which are separated by the gate line intervened therebetween, the high gradation sub-pixel electrode includes a first high gradation sub-pixel electrode disposed in the first sub-region, and a second high gradation sub-pixel electrode disposed in the second sub-region, and the low gradation sub-pixel electrode includes a first low gradation sub-pixel electrode disposed in the first sub-region, and a second low gradation sub-pixel electrode disposed in the second sub-region.
US09817279B2	Display device The present invention relates to a display device, comprising: a display unit comprising a pixel layer; a backlight unit; and a modulation unit disposed between the display unit and the backlight unit, wherein the modulation unit comprises a plurality of conductive layers and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the plurality of conductive layers, and the liquid crystal layer comprises a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) or a polymer stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC).
US09817277B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a horizontal alignment type liquid crystal layer, sub spacers, and a photo-alignment film, wherein the liquid crystal display device can suppress the occurrence of a disclination. The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates facing each other; and a horizontal alignment type liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein at least one of the pair of substrates includes a photo-alignment film, one of the pair of substrates includes multiple sub spacers, the multiple sub spacers are not in contact with the facing substrate under atmospheric pressure, and each of the multiple sub spacers is formed such that its thickness in a cross section monotonically increases and then monotonically decreases from one end to another end of the sub spacer.
US09817272B2	Liquid crystal display device A display device may include a liquid crystal layer and a pixel electrode that overlaps the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode may include a first bar, a second bar, a third bar, and a plurality of first-type branches. The second bar may be directly connected to a first end of the first bar. The third bar may be directly connected to a first end of the second bar or directly connected to a second end of the first bar. The first-type branches may be slanted with respected to the first bar and may be positioned between the third bar and at least one of the first bar and the second bar.
US09817271B2	Display panel A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of metal wires, a protection layer, a first alignment layer, and a plurality of agglomerates. The first substrate has at least a display area and a non-display area located outside the display area. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The thin film transistors and the metal wires are disposed on the first substrate, the protection layer overlaying at least a portion of the metal wires. The first alignment layer is disposed on the protection layer for exposing a first surface of the protection layer. The agglomerates are disposed on at least a portion of the first surface.
US09817261B2	Curved cover for curved display and curved type display apparatus including the same Disclosed are a curved cover for curved display and a curved type display apparatus including the same in which the curved type display apparatus includes a curved part that includes a front part covering one edge of a display panel having a curved shape, and the front part includes a curved part having a curved shape and a bending part provided at each of both edges of the curved part.
US09817258B2	Backlight module and liquid crystal display device The present invention discloses a backlight module, comprising a plastic frame, a back frame and a positioning block, where the positioning block is fixed on the outer surface of the sidewall of the back frame, the supporting portion of the plastic frame is disposed on the back frame, the first positioning hole corresponding to the positioning block is disposed on the sidewall of the plastic frame, and the positioning block is embedded into the first position hole to fix the plastic frame and the back frame together. The present invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device having the backlight module. The backlight module and the liquid crystal display device of the present invention achieve the narrow boarder design, also own good positioning for the plastic frame and the outer frame, and even enhance the whole cooling performance of the backlight module.
US09817256B2	Optical device with power supply system The invention pertains to an optical device comprising at least one glass or polymer area, whereby an active matrix is located in contact with the at least one glass or polymer area, the optical device comprises a power supply system located between a first auxiliary plane and a second auxiliary-plane parallel to a glass or polymer area, and a distance L from a third auxiliary-plane or a fourth auxiliary-plane approximately perpendicular to the glass or polymer area. The invention pertains also to a power supply system for such an optical device.
US09817248B2	Method of virtually trying on eyeglasses A method of virtually trying on eyeglasses includes capturing a plurality of images of a user's face, obtaining locations of a plurality of feature points on the user's face in the plurality of images, and using the locations of the plurality of feature points in the plurality of images to create a standard three-dimensional model of the user. Next, a selection is received from the user of a pair of virtual eyeglasses, the selected pair of virtual eyeglasses having a corresponding three-dimensional model depicting the size and shape of the selected pair of virtual eyeglasses. After this, a modified three-dimensional model of the user having the selected pair of virtual eyeglasses superimposed on the user's face is created according to the standard three-dimensional model of the user and the corresponding three-dimensional model of the selected pair of virtual eyeglasses. The result is then displayed for the user to see.
US09817236B2	Controller and image display system having multiple attachment members A controller for outputting an operation signal to a virtual image display device includes: a controller main body which outputs the operation signal; a first attachment member attached to the controller main body; and a second attachment member which is attached to a mounting site where the controller is mounted, and to which the first attachment member is removably attached. Thus, it is possible to mount the controller on the mounting site by attaching the first attachment member attached to the controller main body, to the second attachment member attached to the mounting site.
US09817235B2	Method and apparatus for prompting based on smart glasses The present invention proposes a method and apparatus for prompting based on smart glasses. The method comprises: acquiring current scenario information; determining prompt information corresponding to the current scenario information according to a preconfigured information base, the information base storing at least one kind of scenario information and prompt information corresponding to each kind of scenario information; and displaying the prompt information by means of the smart glasses. The method can facilitate the acquisition of prompt information corresponding to a scenario by a user.
US09817233B2	Image display device The image display device (100) provides images perceivable from the area of the eye box (E), and includes a light source unit (110), a screen (140), a scanning unit (130) and an optical system (155). The screen (140) has a single micro lens array (1) on which multiple micro lenses (3) are arranged. The scanning unit (130) includes a mirror (130a) to reflect beams emitted from the light source unit (110), and swings the mirror (130a) around a pivot center (130c) to scan the beams thereover, thereby generating images. The optical system (155) brings the images formed on the screen (140) to the eye box (E). An angle (θout) formed between a zero-order diffracted beam and a first-order diffracted beam, which are among a luminous flux of beams diffracted by the screen (140) and pass through the center of the eye box (E), is smaller than a minimum visual angle (Vmin).
US09817230B2	Optical scanner apparatus An optical scanner apparatus that oscillates a mirror to scan incident light, includes an optical scanner unit that includes a sensor that detects an oscillation angle of the mirror, and an interconnect connected to the sensor; and a shading unit that shades the sensor and the interconnect from stray light of the incident light and ambient light.
US09817227B2	Relay set for an endoscope and an endoscope The invention relates to a relay set for an endoscope that includes a plurality of relay sets of the same type, having two plano-convex rod lenses which face one another with their planar end surfaces, and an achromat that is arranged between these rod lenses, particularly in a central aperture plane of said relay set. Said achromat takes the form of an arrangement of at least two lenses which have different refractive indices and Abbe numbers, and is located at a distance from the rod lenses. The invention also relates to a corresponding endoscope. The claimed relay set is improved in that one lens of said achromat consists of ED glass that has an Abbe number of at least 75, in particular at least 77.
US09817223B2	Digital microscope comprising pivoting stand, method for calibration and method for automatic focus and image center tracking for such a digital microscope A digital microscope having a pivoting stand, a method for calibrating said stand and a method for automatic focus tracking and image center tracking upon actuation of the pivoting stand. The pivoting stand includes an angle sensor for determining a current pivot angle of the pivot arm (07). The current pivot angle is processed in the control unit to execute automatic focus tracking and/or center tracking upon actuation of the pivot arm (07). Calibration is performed using two pivot angles, wherein deviating focus and image center positions are ascertained, and a pivot-angle-dependent function for focus and the image center position is ascertained therefrom.
US09817222B2	Microscope system including a laser source, a plurality of laser microscopes, and an optical path switching unit to switch a supply destination of a laser from the laser source A microscope system includes a laser light source, a plurality of laser microscopes, and an optical path switching unit that is provided between the laser light source and the laser microscopes and switches a supply destination of a laser beam among the plurality of laser microscopes by changing a beam splitter to be arranged on an incident optical axis. Each of the laser microscopes includes an optical axis adjustment unit that adjusts an optical axis of the laser beam, and a control unit that controls the optical axis adjustment unit based on identification information about the beam splitter arranged on the incident optical axis.
US09817212B1	Camera lens A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes four piece ultra-thin and wide angle lenses with excellent optical properties and with chromatic aberration sufficiently corrected as follows: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with positive refractive power; a fourth lens with negative refractive power; which are arranged sequentially from object side. The camera lens is characterized in that it meets specified conditions.
US09817209B1	Mirror assembly A mirror assembly including a base, a first mirror, at least one first magnetic component, at least one second magnetic component, at least one supporting frame, and at least one second mirror is provided. The base has a first recess, a side wall portion surrounding the first recess, and at least one second recess located on the side wall portion. The first mirror is disposed on the base and covers the first recess. The first magnetic component is disposed on the side wall portion and corresponding to the second recess, and is located in the first recess. The second magnetic component is inserted into the second recess, and the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component attract each other. The supporting frame is pivoted to the second magnetic component so as to rotate relative to the base. The second mirror is disposed on the supporting frame.
US09817208B1	Integrated chuck A chuck interface that includes a mirror; an inner surface that is shaped and sized to match a portion of a sidewall of a chuck; wherein the inner surface is mechanically coupled to the mirror; and at least one interfacing element for assisting in attaching the chuck to the mirror; and wherein a difference between a thermal expansion coefficient of the chuck and a thermal expansion coefficient of the mirror does not exceed 0.5 micron*Kelvin per Meter.
US09817201B2	Sliding assembly and method for fiber management A hybrid chassis for fiber management includes a fixed tray adapted to mount to one of a rack and a frame; a sliding chassis assembly housed in the fixed tray; fiber connectors on a front faceplate of the sliding chassis assembly; internal cross connections in the sliding chassis assembly between the fiber connectors; and a sliding mechanism between the sliding chassis assembly and the fixed tray providing constrained sliding of the sliding chassis assembly between at least two positions including an operating, recessed position and a maintenance, fiber access position. In the operating, recessed position, the sliding chassis assembly can be recessed by about 3.3″ in the fixed tray, wherein, in the maintenance, fiber access position, the sliding chassis assembly can be recessed by about 1.3″ for fiber access, and wherein the constrained sliding can be about 2″.
US09817199B2	Device package and methods for the fabrication and testing thereof Provided are methods of forming sealed via structures. One method involves: (a) providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; (b) forming a layer on the first surface of the substrate; (c) etching a via hole through the substrate from the second surface to the layer, the via hole having a first perimeter at the first surface; (d) forming an aperture in the layer, wherein the aperture has a second perimeter within the first perimeter; and (e) providing a conductive structure for sealing the via structure. Also provided are sealed via structures, methods of detecting leakage in a sealed device package, sealed device packages, device packages having cooling structures, and methods of bonding a first component to a second component.
US09817194B2	Fiber optic ferrule with rear holes to align a guide pin clamp with field changeable guide pins A fiber optic ferrule with rear holes and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion to engage the rear face of the fiber optic ferrule, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring, and a guide pin retaining plate. The guide pin retaining plate is movable from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.
US09817192B2	Optical module, optical module mounting method, optical module-mounted circuit substrate, optical module evaluation kit system, circuit substrate, and communication system An optical module includes a housing including an internal space that has an opening in a substrate mounting surface, an element mounting surface that forms a portion of an inner surface of the internal space, and a waveguide introduction opening that is formed in a side surface intersecting the substrate mounting surface and is opened to the opening of the substrate mounting surface and communicated with the internal space, an optical element that is mounted on the element mounting surface, and an electronic element that is mounted on the element mounting surface and is connected to the optical element. When the substrate mounting surface is mounted on a circuit substrate, an optical waveguide that protrudes from a surface of the circuit substrate is introduced into the internal space through the waveguide introduction opening.
US09817184B2	Optical fiber An optical fiber having a reduced attenuation includes a silica glass core and a silica glass cladding. The silica glass core has substantially no germanium and includes a first core and a second core. The second core encloses the first core, the refractive index of the second core is larger than the refractive index of the first core, and the average value of halogen concentration of the second core is 5000 ppm or more. The silica glass cladding surrounds the second core and contains substantially no germanium. The refractive index of the cladding is smaller than the refractive index of the first core.
US09817177B2	Light source device and display apparatus Provided are a light source device capable of suppressing reflection of light which is irregularly reflected on a side face relating to a notch part, and a display apparatus. The light source device includes a light guide plate having a notch part formed at an edge part thereof, and a reflection sheet which is disposed to face the light guide plate and has a notch part formed at an edge part corresponding to the notch part, wherein the reflection sheet includes a low-reflection part which is provided around the notch part of a surface facing the light guide plate and has a reflectance lower than that of the reflection sheet.
US09817175B2	Light guide plate having rounded polygon pattern and liquid crystal display device having thereof Provided is a light guide plate including: a main body for guiding incident light and transmitting the incident light from an upper surface of the main body; and a plurality of light converging patterns in a rounded wedge shape having a rounded upper surface on a lower surface of the main body to converge and reflect the incident light in a predetermined direction.
US09817173B2	Anamorphic light guide A backlight system for a display is described. The system can include an anamorphic light guide that comprises a light receiving portion, a light diverting portion, and a light output portion. The light receiving portion receives light having an area illuminating a first aspect ratio and the output light portion outputs light having an area illuminating a second aspect ratio, the second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio by at least an order of magnitude. The light input face is substantially perpendicular to light output face. The etendue of the light is substantially preserved.
US09817148B2	Borehole while drilling electromagnetic tomography advanced detection apparatus and method A borehole while-drilling electromagnetic tomography advanced detection apparatus includes a site host, a drilling rig, a detecting pipe screwed coupling on one end to a drilling stem of the drilling rig, a drilling bit screwed coupling to the other end of the detecting pipe, wherein the detecting pipe is provided with a probe comprising a transmitting coil, a receiving coil, an electromagnetic transmitting module, an electromagnetic receiving module, a SCM (Single Chip Microcomputer), a 3D electronic compass, a network interface of the probe and a first memory, in which the memory port of the SCM is connected to the first memory, and the network interface of the probe can be data-communicated with the site host.
US09817146B2	Method and device for measuring distances by means of inductive sensors Disclosed is method for measuring influence of or propagation time of inductive fields including producing and detecting a first inductive temporal field change and a first change value, producing and detecting a further inductive temporal field change and further field change, at least one of the changes being influenced by an object, comparing the first and further change values to produce a comparison value used to produce amplitude values such that amplitude of the first or further change value are substantially of the same magnitude, detecting a clock pulse alternation signal corresponding to the field change, determining a difference value by a comparison of the clock pulse alternation signals, changing the difference value to change phase delay of the first or further field change until the difference value is zero, using the phase delay to determine influence/propagation time of the inductive change.
US09817140B2	Apparatus and method for collecting geophysical information An apparatus for collecting geophysical information may include a geophysical information station disposed along a seismic communication cable. A bypass circuit responsive to a command signal is in communication with a switching circuit that is operable to route electrical power, commands, data or a combination to bypass the geophysical information station in response to the command signal. An exemplary method for bypassing a geophysical information station in a geophysical information collection system includes sending a command signal to a bypass circuit and activating one or more switching circuits using the bypass circuit to route electrical power, commands, data or a combination to bypass the geophysical information station in response to the command signal.
US09817135B2	Performance stabilization for scintillator-based radiation detectors A method for improving the measurement accuracy of scintillation based radiation detectors for ionizing radiation pulses when the multi-channel analyzer of the radiation detector is exposed to continuously varying temperatures.
US09817131B2	Moving pet gantry An apparatus is described herein. The apparatus comprises a first modality unit and a second modality unit. The first modality unit is located within a gantry. The second modality unit within the gantry is moveable along an examination axis to be concentric about with the first modality unit such that a field of view of the first modality unit and a field of view of the second modality unit are centered about a single point of interest.
US09817129B2	Monitor based ambiguity verification for enhanced guidance quality Methods and systems useful in determining relative position of moveable vehicle, for example including a GPS receiver, may include determining candidate integer ambiguities in groups, and performing tests to check usefulness of those candidate integer ambiguities.
US09817113B2	Systems and methods for verifying a location of an item A method for use in verifying a location of an item aboard a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving, by a transceiver device located in the vehicle, at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) signal. Each RFID signal is associated with an RFID tag of an item aboard the vehicle. The method additionally includes processing the at least one RFID signal and transmitting, by the transceiver device, the at least one RFID signal to a passenger compartment of the vehicle.
US09817105B2	Stacked waveguide substrate, radio communication module, and radar system A stacked-waveguide substrate includes: a body configured to include a first dielectric-substrate, a second dielectric-substrate, and a third dielectric-substrate which are stacked in this order; a first conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a bottom surface of the first dielectric-substrate; a second conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a top surface of the third dielectric-substrate in a position corresponding to the first conductor-pattern; a first conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the first dielectric-substrate and the second dielectric-substrate, and to have a first opening which faces the first conductor-pattern; a second conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the second dielectric-substrate and the third dielectric-substrate, and to have a second opening which faces the second conductor-pattern; a first wiring line configured to cross the first opening to the first conductor-pattern; and a second wiring line configured to cross the second opening to the second conductor-pattern.
US09817087B2	Sensor with magnetroesitive and/or thin film element abutting shorting bars and a method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of a sensor, the method comprising, in a first fabrication facility, forming one or more components of the sensor on a substrate; and in a second fabrication facility depositing a sensor layer, such as a magnetoresistive sensor, onto the substrate or over the one or more components. Otherwise contaminating effects of depositing magnetoresistive materials can thus be confined to the second fabrication facility, permitting more advanced fabrication equipment and techniques to be employed in the first fabrication facility.
US09817086B2	CPP-GMR sensor for electronic compass CPP-GMR sensors and methods for making them are disclosed. In an implementation, a CPP-GMR sensor comprises: a substrate; an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer formed on the substrate; a magnetic pin layer formed on the AFM layer; a first wire electrically coupled to the pin layer; a non-magnetic spacer layer formed on the pin layer, the spacer layer insulated from the first wire by electrical insulation material; a sensing layer formed on the spacer layer; a protective layer formed on the sensing layer; and a second wire formed on the protective layer, the second wire electrically coupled to the first wire through the protective layer, the sensing layer, the spacer layer and the pin layer.
US09817084B2	Single-chip magnetic field sensor bridge A single-chip magnetic field sensor bridge, comprising a substrate, a reference arm, a sensing arm, shielding structures, and wire bond pads is disclosed. The reference arm and the sense arm respectively comprise at least two rows/columns of reference element strings and sense element strings formed by electrically connecting one or more identical magnetoresistive sensing elements. The reference element strings and the sense element strings are alternately arranged. The magnetoresistive sensing elements are AMR, GMR or TMR sensing elements. The reference element strings are provided with shielding structures thereon, and the sensing element strings are located in gaps between two adjacent shielding structures. The shielding structures are arrays of elongated strips composed of permalloy or another soft ferromagnetic material. The sensors can be implemented as one of three different bridge structures, called a quasi-bridge, a half-bridge, or a full-bridge. This single-chip magnetic field sensor bridge has the advantages of small size, low cost, high sensitivity, small offset, good linearity, and good temperature stability.
US09817082B2	Magnetic sensor arrangement A magnetic sensor arrangement for determining information indicative of characteristics of a mechanical component has a first magnetic sensor to sense a signal associated with a periodic changing magnetic field generated by relative movement of the mechanical component and the magnetic sensor arrangement, a second magnetic sensor to sense that signal, wherein the first sensor is arranged a fixed distance from the second sensor, and a determination unit coupled to the first and second sensors to receive output signals of the first and second sensors. The output signal of the first sensor is phase-shifted to the output signal of the second sensor, to compare the output signals for determining the absolute phase of the signal associated with the periodic changing magnetic field, and to determine information indicative of characteristics of the mechanical component based on the determined absolute phase of the signal associated with the periodic changing magnetic field.
US09817070B2	Third tap circuitry controlling linking first and second tap circuitry IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Ports (TAPs) may be utilized at both IC and intellectual property core design levels. TAPs serve as serial communication ports for accessing a variety of embedded circuitry within ICs and cores including; IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan circuitry, built in test circuitry, internal scan circuitry, IEEE 1149.4 mixed signal test circuitry, IEEE P5001 in-circuit emulation circuitry, and IEEE P1532 in-system programming circuitry. Selectable access to TAPs within ICs is desirable since in many instances being able to access only the desired TAP(s) leads to improvements in the way testing, emulation, and programming may be performed within an IC. A TAP linking module is described that allows TAPs embedded within an IC to be selectively accessed using 1149.1 instruction scan operations.
US09817068B1	Method and system for improving efficiency of sequential test compression using overscan Systems and methods efficiently bring additional variables into a Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator (“PRPG”) in the early cycles of an automatic test pattern generation (“ATPG”) process without utilizing any additional hardware or control pins. Overscanning (e.g., scanning longer than the length of the longest channel) for some additional cycles brings in enough variables into the PRPG. Data corresponding to earlier cycles of the ATPG process is removed.
US09817067B2	Testbench builder, system, device and method including latency detection A testbench for testing a device under test (DUT), wherein the testbench has a verification environment including a reference model, a scoreboard and a customized agent for each interface that the DUT needs to receive input from and/or transmit output on. The testbench system is able to be generated by a testbench builder that automatically creates a scoreboard, a reference model, a dispatcher and generic agents including generic drivers, loopback ports, sequencers and/or generic monitors for each interface and then automatically customize the generic agents based on their corresponding interface such that the agents meet the requirements of the interface for the DUT.
US09817066B1	Configurable JTAG-to-serial bus translator A circuit couples a test access port (TAP) having a JTAG interface to another port having a serial interface different from the JTAG interface. The circuit includes a forwarding circuit and a timing control circuit. The forward circuit is coupled to couple a test data in (TDI) terminal, a test data out (TDO) terminal, and a test clock (TCK) terminal of the TAP to an input terminal, an output terminal, and a clock terminal of the another port, respectively. The timing control circuit is coupled to drive a select terminal of the another port with a select signal that activates serial data transfer through the serial interface to a device. The timing control circuit delays assertion of the select signal by a configurable time period after assertion of a shift data state of a state machine of the TAP.
US09817065B2	Test mode circuit and semiconductor device including the same A test mode circuit of a semiconductor device includes a test mode activating signal generation unit suitable for generating a test mode activating signal in response to a test signal; a test clock generation unit suitable for generating a plurality of test clocks in response to the test mode activating signal and a control clock; a test control signal generation unit suitable for generating test control signals based on the plurality of test clocks of a control signal input cycle, wherein the plurality of test clocks have the control signal input cycle and a data input cycle; and an internal control signal generation unit suitable for generating a plurality of control signals to perform a test operation in response to the test control signals and input data.
US09817059B2	Evaluation of thermal instability stress testing A circuit is powered through a transistor whose thermal instability behavior is to be evaluated in a stress test. The transistor is stressed during a stress phase of the stress test with a sensor circuit powered off and the Vds of the transistor is zero. The sensor circuit is powered on through the transistor during an evaluate phase of the stress test.
US09817055B2	Testing apparatus for testing electrical circuit board having electrical connectors thereon A testing apparatus for testing a circuit board is disclosed, which includes an upper plate, a lower plate, and an adaptor circuit board. A plurality of positioning units is received in the lower plate. Each positioning unit has a plurality of length-variable test probes secured therein. Each test probe has a shell and upper and lower probe ends at opposite ends of the shell. In test, the circuit board is put on the lower plate and the upper plate is lowered to push the circuit board and the lower plate toward the adaptor circuit board. The upper ends of the test probes engage with electrical connectors of the circuit board and the lower ends thereof engage with the adaptor circuit board whereby test of the circuit board can be automatically performed by the testing apparatus.
US09817052B2	Method and circuit for determining dispersion of electric power towards ground in electric appliances An electric appliance (100) is disclosed. The electric appliance has an electric load (205), and a driving element (215) for selectively energizing/de-energizing the electric load (205). The driving element (215) has a first driving terminal (A1) coupled to a first load terminal (T1) of the electric load, a second driving terminal (A2) coupled to a first power supply terminal (TN), and a control terminal (G) for switching on/off the driving element (215) thereby allowing said selective energization/de-energization, respectively. The electric appliance also has a switching element (230) for selectively coupling a second power supply terminal (TL) to a second load terminal (T2) of the electric load (205). The electric appliance (100) further has a detection arrangement (210,220) configured for detecting a first electrical quantity (VA1) at the first driving terminal (A1), and at least one between a second electrical quantity (VT2,CL,VT2,OP) at the second load terminal (T2) and a power supply electrical quantity (VMAINS) at the second power supply terminal (TL). The detection arrangement (210,220) has a coupling element (220) coupling the first driving terminal (A1) to the second load terminal (T2), and a control unit (210) coupled to the first driving terminal (A1), and to at least one between the second load terminal (T2) and the second power supply terminal (TL). The control unit (210) is further configured for determining dispersion of electric power towards ground in the electric load (205) according to the detected electrical quantities.
US09817047B2	Duty cycle measurement Methods and systems for measuring a duty cycle of a signal include applying a first branch of an input signal directly to a latch. A delay of a second branch of the input signal is incrementally increased, with the second branch being applied to the latch, until the latch changes its output. A delay, corresponding to the latch's changed output, is divided by a period of the input signal to determine a duty cycle of the input signal.
US09817042B2	Fuel dispenser tamper detection arrangement Methods and systems provide for detecting tampering of a fuel dispenser. Power is applied to a valve coil of a fuel dispenser. The valve coil is part of a control valve configured to accomplish a gradated fuel flow of the fuel dispenser. Current flowing through the valve coil is measured in response to the power being applied to the valve coil. The current measurements are compared with predetermined criteria and tampering with the valve coil is determined if the current measurements are sufficiently different than expected.
US09817040B2	Measuring method of low off-state current of transistor A minute current measurement method is provided. In the current measurement method, a first potential is applied to a first terminal of a transistor under test, a second potential is applied to a first terminal of a first transistor, the first transistor is turned on to accumulate a predetermined charge in a node electrically connecting a second terminal of the transistor under test with a second terminal of the first transistor, a third potential of an output terminal of a read circuit electrically connected to the node is measured, the first transistor is turned off, a fourth potential of the output terminal of the read circuit electrically connected to the node is measured, the amount of the charge held by the node is estimated from the amount of change in the potential of the output terminal of the read circuit (e.g., a difference between the third potential and the fourth potential), and a value of current flowing between the first terminal of the transistor under test and the second terminal of the first transistor is calculated from the amount of the charge held by the node.
US09817035B2	Impedance measuring circuit An impedance measuring circuit has an amplifier connected to a target and to amplify an input AC voltage with a gain corresponding to an impedance in the target and to output the voltage, and a voltage level setting circuit to set a DC voltage level in an output node of the amplifier when a first capacitor is connected between one end of the target and an output node of the amplifier and a second capacitor is connected between another end of the target and a node with a voltage correlated with the input AC voltage.
US09817034B2	Measuring device A measurement device measuring a current passing through a detection resistor coupled between a first node and a second node is provided. An interference elimination unit is coupled to the first and second nodes and selectively outputs the voltage of at least one of the first and second nodes according to a control signal. A first voltage-dividing unit is coupled to the interference elimination unit and processes the voltage of the first or second node to generate a first processed signal. A second voltage-dividing unit is coupled to the interference elimination unit and processes the voltage of the first or second node to generate a second processed signal. A processing unit is coupled to the first and second voltage-dividing units to receive the first and second processed signals and calculates the first and second processed signals to obtain the current passing through the detection resistor.
US09817032B2	Measurement device To provide a measurement device which allows long-term accurate measurement of voltage without adversely affecting a device under test, by ensuring a predetermined level of resistance to ESD and reducing leakage current. A measurement device includes a probe needle for contacting a device under test, a first FET for detecting voltage of the device under test, and a protection circuit for protecting the first FET from static electricity. The protection circuit includes a second FET having an oxide semiconductor film as a channel formation region.
US09817030B2	Testing device for testing an under-test object A testing device includes a base body, a holder, an electrically conductive plate, plural testing probes and plural insulation structures. The testing device of the present invention uses the electrically conductive plate to replace the plastic plate of the conventional testing device. Consequently, the electrostatic discharge effect is avoided. Moreover, the insulation structure is arranged between the testing probe and the electrically conductive plate to separate the testing probe from the electrically conductive plate so as to avoid the electric leakage problem. Consequently, the testing device of the present invention is capable of avoiding the electrostatic discharge effect without causing damage of the under-test object and reducing the measurement accuracy.
US09817021B2	Sensor system including two inertial sensors A sensor system is described as including at least two micromechanical inertial sensors, which are movably connected to a substrate, each inertial sensor including a functional layer, the functional layers of the two inertial sensors varying in thickness, and the two inertial sensors being situated next to one another on the substrate.
US09817020B2	Physical quantity sensor and electronic apparatus An acceleration sensor includes a base substrate provided with a first recess part, and a sensor part located on the first recess part and swingably supported in a depth direction of the first recess part by a support part, wherein the sensor part is sectioned into a first part and a second part by the support part, includes a movable electrode part in the first part and the second part, a through hole is provided at least at an end side in the second part larger in mass than the first part, and the base substrate includes a fixed electrode part in a position opposed to the movable electrode part in the first recessed part, and a second recess part deeper than the first recess part is provided in a position opposed to the end side of the sensor part.
US09817018B2	Deceleration factor estimation apparatus A deceleration factor estimation apparatus estimating a deceleration factor of a vehicle includes: a driving force acquisition unit that obtains a driving force of the vehicle; a speed acquisition unit that obtains a speed of the vehicle; an acceleration acquisition unit that obtains an acceleration of the vehicle; and a deceleration factor estimation unit that estimates a plurality of deceleration factors on the basis of a relationship between the obtained driving force, speed, and acceleration, wherein the deceleration factor estimation unit switches the deceleration factor to be estimated on the basis of a travel condition of the vehicle.
US09817016B1	Low cost optical high speed discrete measurement system Systems and methods are provided for determining a velocity or an inflation rate of a droplet in a microfluidic channel. The droplet is exposed to two or more temporally separated flashes of light, each flash including light of one wavelength band, and imaged using a detector configured to distinguish light in the wavelength bands. Two or more images of the droplet are acquired, each corresponding to one of the flashes, and all within a single video frame or photographic exposure. The images can be processed separately and the position or size of the droplet in each image is calculated. A velocity or inflation rate is then determined by dividing the change in position or size by the amount of time allowed to pass between the flashes.
US09817013B2	Sample dispensing apparatus and automatic analyzer including the same The invention provides a small-sized automatic analyzer being compact, enabling a large number of analysis items to be carried out, and having a high processing speed. The automatic analyzer is particularly suitably applied to a medical analyzer used for qualitative/quantitative analysis of living body samples, such as urine and blood. A plurality of sample dispensing mechanism s capable of being operated independently of each other are provided to suck a sample from any one of a plurality of sample suction positions and to discharge the sucked sample to any one of a plurality of positions on a reaction disk. The automatic analyzer having a high processing capability can be thus realized without increasing the system size.
US09817011B2	Method of using a multi-well tray System, apparatuses, and methods for performing automated reagent-based analysis are provided. Also provided are methods for automated attachment of a cap to a reaction receptacle, and automated removal of a cap from a capped reaction receptacle.
US09817007B2	Method and apparatus for real-time detection of human cannabinoid intoxication A method for quantifying the intoxicating affect of natural and synthetic Cannabinoids on Humans. The method includes the capacity to measure a human's psychoactive intoxication as a function of Cannabinoid-Mediated Depolarization-Induced Suppression of Inhibition (C-DISI) relative to the Cannabinoid Receptors found in the Human brain. A Method incorporating the ability to also quantify the affects of Cannabinoids on the various Cannabinoid Receptors found in the Human body. Neurons are used as transistors in a solid state electronic configuration with an apparatus to measure the toxicity of a given aqueous solution comprised of one or more Cannabinoid analytes. Said method incorporates a novel recycling process affiliated with analyte acquisition & testing.
US09817006B2	Rapid and sensitive method of forensic toxicology in post-mortem subjects using oral fluid testing The present invention provides a rapid, sensitive method for forensic drug testing in a post-mortem subject using oral fluid collected from the post-mortem subject. The method comprises collecting a sample of oral fluid from a post-mortem subject, analyzing the oral fluid sample qualitatively to detect the presence of one or more non-naturally occurring drugs, analyzing the oral fluid sample quantitatively to determine concentration of the one or more non-naturally occurring drugs in the post-mortem subject, and identifying the one or more non-naturally occurring drugs in the post-mortem subject. The detection and quantification in oral fluid is more sensitive and faster than detection and quantification of the non-naturally occurring drugs in blood, urine, bile, and liver tissue collected from the same post-mortem subject. Further, the qualitative and quantitative results are obtained in as little as three hours.
US09817003B2	9-oxo-ODE as a biomarker for healthy aging Using NMR/MS based metabonomics and targeted lipidomics approaches the inventors have explored the metabolic phenotypes of aging and longevity in a cohort including centenarians, elderly and young adults. The inventors have identified biomarkers for a reduced risk of developing ageing related chronic inflammatory disorders and propose a method of diagnosing a lifestyle that allows delaying and/or avoiding ageing related chronic inflammatory disorders using 9-oxo-ODE as biomarker.
US09817000B2	Method for identifying compounds that modulate a T2R taste receptor The invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a novel family of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors.
US09816998B2	Circulating exosomes as diagnostic/prognostic indicators and therapeutic targets of melanoma and other cancers The present invention is directed to methods of diagnosing, preventing, and treating metastatic disease in a subject. The present invention is also directed to a method of inhibiting primary tumor growth in a subject. Methods of identifying candidate compounds useful for preventing and treating metastatic disease and primary tumor growth in a subject are also disclosed.
US09816996B2	Antibody for detecting epithelial ovarian cancer marker and method for diagnosing epithelial ovarian cancer The present invention provides an antibody capable of specifically recognizing and detecting the highly specific cancer marker with respect to the epithelial ovarian cancer, or a fragment of the antibody. The present invention provides an anti-β1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 3 antibody for diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer, i.e., an antibody for detection of a glycosyltransferase β1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 3 as an epithelial ovarian cancer marker. The antibody recognizes, as an epitope, a part of a polypeptide of the enzyme consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1.
US09816991B2	Diagnostic peptides for lyme disease The present invention relates, e.g., to a composition comprising peptides represented by SEQ ID NO:1-SEQ ID NO:28 and/or SEQ ID NO:41-SEQ ID NO:47, or active variants thereof, wherein the peptides or active variants can bind specifically to an antibody induced by a causative agent of Lyme disease (a pathogenic Borrelia), e.g. in a sample from a subject having Lyme disease. Compositions of the invention may comprise multiple peptides, from multiple proteins. Diagnostic kits comprising the peptides are described, as are diagnostic assays using the peptides.
US09816989B2	Immunologically active polypeptide Disclosed are immunomodulatory polypeptides that elicit an unusual induced cytokine profile, compositions comprising such polypeptides, compositions comprising antibodies that specifically bind to such polypeptides, and methods of using the same, including in cancer treatment, in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, in organ transplantation and for reducing graft rejection, for promoting fertility, and for identifying a neutrophil subset and/or other cellular subset including by flow cytometry. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits, and treatment methods are also disclosed.
US09816987B2	Rotors for immunoassays The present invention provides an analyte detection system for detecting target analytes in a sample. In particular, the invention provides a detection system in a rotor or disc format that utilizes a centrifugal force to move the sample through the detection system. Methods of using the rotor detection system to detect analytes in samples, particularly biological samples, and kits comprising the rotor detection system are also disclosed.
US09816980B2	Apparatus and corresponding method for sampling and analyzing drugs and respective metabolites in breath air, particularly suitable for performing road drug tests A portable apparatus to sample and analyze volatile organic compounds in breath air, includes:a box internally divided in two internal sections, each housing a sample collecting tube or filter in turn containing a stationary phase suitable for retaining determined analytes, as drugs and/or respective metabolites, having specific chemical physical properties, contained in breath air;a pre-accumulation chamber for receiving breath air from the outside through a breath entrance connection and for feeding the received breath air to the sample collecting filters housed in the two sections, with these two sample collecting filters being connected in parallel to the chamber; anda tool application kit for removing the two sample collecting filters from the respective sections in the box of the apparatus, in a way that avoids any contamination thereof, and for extracting the analytes that are retained by the stationary phase on the same two sample collecting filters.
US09816971B2	Controllable injector sample dilution for a liquid chromatography system Described are a method and a system for injecting a sample into a flow of a liquid chromatography system. The method includes combining a flow of a sample and a flow of a mobile phase to create a diluted sample in the system flow. The volumetric flow rate of the sample is controlled to be at a value that yields a desired dilution ratio for the diluted sample. The particular value at which the volumetric flow rate is maintained can be determined from the desired value of the dilution ratio and the volumetric flow rate of the mobile phase. System embodiments include a syringe that can be used to provide a sample solution at a controllable volumetric flow rate for combination with a high pressure mobile phase.
US09816961B2	Gas sensor control apparatus An O2 sensor has a sensor element, which includes a solid electrolyte layer and a pair of electrodes. The solid electrolyte layer is held between the electrodes. The electrodes include an atmosphere side electrode, which becomes a positive side at a time of outputting an electromotive force from the sensor element, and an exhaust side electrode, which becomes a negative side at the time of outputting the electromotive force from the sensor element. A resistor is provided in an electric path that connects between the atmosphere side electrode and a ground. When the sensor element generates the electromotive force, the resistor conducts an electric current, which is generated while using the electromotive force as an electric power source, to induce a change in an output characteristic of the O2 sensor.
US09816960B2	Gas sensor and method of making A gas sensor includes a metallic shell extending along a shell axis and defining a shell attaching surface that is substantially perpendicular to the shell axis; a metallic shield extending along a shield axis and defining a shield attaching surface that is substantially perpendicular to the shield axis; and a ceramic sensing element extending along a sensing element axis, the sensing element being rigidly fixed at a first axial location of the sensing element to the shell and the sensing element being laterally supported by the shield at a second axial location of the sensing element that is axially spaced apart from the first axial location. The shield is attached to the shell at an interface formed between the shield attaching surface and the shell attaching surface, thereby accommodating misalignment between the shield axis and the shell axis. A method of making the gas sensor is also provided.
US09816958B2	Gas sensor, NOx sensor and method of manufacturing gas sensor It is an object of the present invention to provide a NOx sensor for accurately obtaining the resistance value of a heater. When a second layer is laminated immediately above a first layer on which the heater for electrically heating the proximity of an inner space of the NOx sensor and two heater leads having substantially same shape which are energizing paths to the heater are formed, the second layer on which at least one of leads is formed out of a first lead for electrically connecting a reference electrode to outside, a second lead for electrically connecting a measuring electrode to outside, and a third lead for electrically connecting a plurality of pump electrodes to outside, the lead formed on the second layer is arranged so as not to overlap any of two heater leads in a laminating direction of the first layer and the second layer.
US09816957B2	Blood component measuring device, method for measuring blood component, and bio-sensor Provided is a blood component measuring device or the like that can further suppress the measurement error of a blood component. The device detects an oxidation-reduction current generated by oxidation-reduction when a first voltage is applied to a first electrode pair 21, 22 of a biosensor 1, and converts the oxidation-reduction current (glucose response value) into a glucose conversion value. The device detects a current generated when a second voltage is applied to a second electrode pair 23, 24 of the biosensor 1, and converts the detected current (blood cell amount response value) into a blood cell amount conversion value. The glucose response value is measured more than once and the blood cell amount response value is also measured more than once within a predetermined period after the introduction of the blood into the biosensor 1. A CPU 72 corrects the glucose conversion value measured within the predetermined period based on at least a part of a plurality of glucose conversion values and a plurality of blood cell amount conversion values obtained from the results of measurement.
US09816950B2	XRF analyzer communication An x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis system 10 can include an XRF analyzer 20 which can communicate wirelessly with other devices. The system 10 can also include remote-processor software configured to be loaded onto a handheld electronic device 23 and/or remote-computer software configured to be loaded onto a remote-computer 28. The XRF analyzer 20 can include a microphone 18 and/or an output device 31 to allow a user 19 to communicate conveniently with the XRF analyzer 20.
US09816945B2	System and method for determining properties of liquids At least one property of a complex liquid is determined utilizing first and second sensing devices for measuring a respective first and second physical parameter of the liquid and generating respective first and second measured data indicative thereof. A control unit connectable to the sensing devices is used for analyzing the first and second measured data and determining the at least one property of the complex liquid. The first measured data may be responsive to a relatively low-frequency electric or electromagnetic field induced in the liquid, and the second measured data may be a response of the liquid to a relatively high-frequency external electromagnetic field applied to it.
US09816944B2	Method for evaluating oxide semiconductor thin film, method for managing quality of oxide semiconductor thin film, and evaluation element and evaluation device used in above evaluation method The present invention provides a method for accurately and easily measuring/evaluating/predicting/estimating the electrical resistance of an oxide semiconductor thin film, and a method for managing the film quality. The method for evaluating an oxide semiconductor thin film includes: a first step for irradiating, with excitation light and microwave, a sample on which an oxide semiconductor thin film is formed, measuring the maximum value of the reflected microwave by the thin film which changes due to the excitation light irradiation, then stopping the excitation light irradiation and measuring the change in reflectivity of the microwave from the thin film after the excitation light irradiation has been stopped; and a second step for calculating a parameter corresponding to the slow decay observed after the excitation light irradiation has been stopped from the change in the reflectivity and evaluating the electrical resistivity of the oxide semiconductor thin film.
US09816941B2	Systems and methods for constructing and testing composite photonic structures Systems and methods are disclosed relating to composite photonic materials used to design structures and detecting material deformation for the purpose of monitoring structural health of physical structures. According to one aspect, a composite structure is provided that includes a base material, an optical diffraction grating and one or more fluorophore materials constructed such that localized perturbations create a measurable change in the structure's diffraction pattern. An inspection device is also provided that is configured to detect perturbations in the composite structure. The inspection device is configured to emit an inspecting radiation into the structure and capture the refracted radiation and measure the change in the diffraction pattern and quantify the perturbation based on the wavelength and the angular information for the diffracted radiation.
US09816940B2	Wafer inspection with focus volumetric method Disclosed are methods and apparatus for detecting defects in a semiconductor sample. An inspection tool is used to collect intensity data sets at a plurality of focus settings from each of a plurality of xy positions of the sample. A polynomial equation having a plurality of coefficients is extracted for each of the xy position's collected intensity data sets as a function of focus setting. Each of the coefficients' set of values for the plurality of xy positions is represented with a corresponding coefficient image plane. A target set of coefficient image planes and a reference set of coefficient image planes are then analyzed to detect defects on the sample.
US09816922B2	Dual-mode characterization of particulates The invention relates to methods and apparatus for detecting properties of suspended particles. Embodiments disclosed include an optical instrument (200) for detecting properties of a sample, comprising: a sample cell (103) for holding a sample of a particulate dispersion; a coherent light source (101) configured to illuminate the sample in the sample cell (103); a light intensity detector (104, 106) positioned to receive and measure an intensity of light from the coherent light source (101) elastically scattered by the sample in the sample cell (103); and a spectral light detector (212) positioned and configured to receive and measure a range of wavelengths of light from the coherent radiation source (101) inelastically scattered by the sample in the sample cell (103).
US09816920B2	Method for producing an integrated micromechanical fluid sensor component, integrated micromechanical fluid sensor component and method for detecting a fluid by means of an integrated micromechanical fluid sensor component A method for producing an integrated micromechanical fluid sensor component includes forming a first wafer with a first Bragg reflector and with a light-emitting device on a first substrate. The light-emitting device is configured to emit light rays in an emission direction from a surface of the light-emitting device facing away from the first Bragg reflector. The method further includes forming a second wafer with a second Bragg reflector and with a photodiode on a second substrate. The photodiode is arranged on a surface of the second Bragg reflector facing towards the second substrate. The method also includes bonding or gluing the first wafer to the second wafer such that there is formed a cavity into which a fluid is introduced and through which the light rays can pass. The method further includes separating the fluid sensor component from the first and the second wafer.
US09816918B2	Laser gas analyzer A laser gas analyzer includes a light emitter which emits a laser light irradiated onto a gas to be measured; a light receiver which receives a laser light which transmitted the gas to be measured; a plurality of optical-axis adjustment mechanisms, one of which is provided in the light emitter and the other one of which is provided in the light receiver; a main display which is provided in one of the light emitter and the light receiver and displays thereon the measured result acquired by receiving the laser light which transmitted the gas to be measured; and a sub-display which is provided in the other one of the light emitter and the light receiver and displays thereon a part of the measured result displayed on the main display.
US09816915B2	Couplings for flame observation devices A window for viewing combustion includes a window body having an interior surface facing a combustion space, an opposed exterior surface facing an instrument space, and a seal surface between the interior and exterior surfaces. The seal surface tapers from the interior surface to the exterior surface and hermetically separating the instrument space from the combustion space. A coupling for connecting a combustion space to an instrument space includes a union body, flanged body and locking body all aligned along an optical axis. The union body defines a tapered bore in which a viewing window for viewing combustion is disposed.
US09816914B2	Flow cell The invention relates to a flow cell for absorption detection, in which a tube through which flow is to pass is held at its opposite ends in a supporting flange in each case and is suspended in a substantially cantilevered manner, the two supporting flanges being connected rigidly to each other in order to avoid stresses accidentally introduced into the tube.
US09816910B2	Microanalysis of cellular function An inverted microwell provides rapid and efficient microanalysis system and method for screening of biological particles, particularly functional analysis of cells on a single cell basis. The use of an inverted open microwell system permits identification of particles, cells, and biomolecules that may be combined to produce a desired functional effect also functional screening of secreted antibody therapeutic activity as well as the potential to recover cells and fluid, and optionally expand cells, such as antibody secreting cells, within the same microwell.
US09816909B2	Contact angle measurement apparatus A contact angle measurement apparatus includes a liquid reservoir arrangement, a drop dosing device in fluid communication with the liquid reservoir arrangement and adapted for applying a liquid drop onto a sample surface, an illuminating device for illuminating each drop applied by the drop dosing device and disposed on the surface from a first side, and an image recording device for recording an image of each applied drop disposed on the surface. A liquid pressurizing system is adapted to pressurize liquid from the liquid reservoir arrangement, and a controller connected to the valve of each drop dosing device and to the liquid pressurizing system, which controls the operation of the liquid pressurizing system and, for each drop dosing device, opening and closing of the respective valve to apply a drop of the respective liquid from the respective liquid line to the surface in a jet of pressurized liquid.
US09816908B2	Liquid density measuring device A liquid density measuring device for use with a hydrometer comprising a vessel for receiving a liquid sample with a temperature calibration gauge having a thermo sensing end in contact with the liquid sample within the vessel. The gauge including a readout can be either analog or digital. The readout indicates a number relative to a current temperature of the liquid sample as sensed by the gauge. The number indicated on the readout being a desired hydrometer reading at the current temperature of the liquid sample. The readout will change to indicate a different desired hydrometer reading if the liquid sample changes temperature.
US09816900B2	Method of measuring equipment performance and device therefor A device for measuring equipment performance having one or more sensors that measure functionality of equipment without interactive communication between the sensors and equipment. The one or more sensors generate and transmit data related to functionality of the equipment to a microprocessor. The microprocessor contains an algorithm that converts the data related to functionality of the equipment into equipment utilization metrics. These equipment utilization metrics are transmitted by a transmitter to an equipment operator.
US09816898B2	Testing fixture for vehicle rollover simulation A testing fixture for a vehicle includes a tube and a piston slideably disposed in the tube. A seat belt D-ring is mounted t the piston. An actuator is supported on the tube in communication with the piston through the tube for moving the piston relative to the tube to an extended position in a designated time interval during a simulated vehicle rollover. The piston defines teeth, and a ratchet is supported on the tube and engages the teeth of the piston for preventing movement of the piston relative to the tube toward the retracted position during or after the simulated vehicle rollover.
US09816894B2	Gas monitoring device, system and methods A gas monitoring system for continuously detecting leakage of at least one gas and being operable in an extreme climate condition, the system involving a processor; at least one emergency shutdown valve responsive to a set of instructions from the processor; and a user interface in communication with the processor. The system further involves a weather-proof enclosure for housing system components. The weather-proof enclosure is adapted to operate at a temperature range of ambient temperature to a below-freezing temperature, wherein the at least one emergency shutdown valve comprises at least one latch valve.
US09816892B2	Systems and methods for fuel leak detection In one aspect, systems for detecting a fuel leak are described herein. In some implementations, a system for detecting a fuel leak described herein comprises a fuel-containing vessel having an exterior surface and a carbon nanotube coating layer comprising photoluminescent carbon nanotubes disposed on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the fuel-containing vessel. The system further comprises a fuel-sensitive coating layer substantially covering the carbon nanotube coating layer. The fuel-sensitive coating layer is optically opaque or substantially opaque to wavelengths of light absorbed and/or emitted by the photoluminescent carbon nanotubes.
US09816874B2	Power generation device, measurement device, and measurement system for generating power by increasing heat quantity due to vibration A power generation device includes a thermoelectric conversion part; a cooling member configured to be disposed on one principal surface of the thermoelectric conversion part; and a heat generation part configured to be disposed on another principal surface of the thermoelectric conversion part, to be formed of a viscoelastic body having a plurality of cavities formed in the viscoelastic body, and to generate heat by violation.
US09816863B1	Wind field vertical profile estimation using spectral radiance of multiband imagery and temperature profiles Techniques are provided for an image processing device to receive image information comprising image data for a plurality of mid-wave infrared region (MWIR) channels, where the image data is obtained during a first imaging period and during a second imaging period temporally different from the first imaging period. A plurality of sets of atmospheric wind vectors are calculated using differences between image data obtained during the first imaging period and the image data obtained during the second imaging period for corresponding sets of MWIR channels. An altitude is assigned to the plurality of atmospheric wind vectors in each set based on a brightness temperature of each wind vector and a pre-computed atmospheric temperature profile to generate a set of two-dimensional wind fields comprising one two-dimensional wind field for each set of MWIR channels.
US09816856B2	Magnetically coupled optical connector assembly and related methods An optical connector assembly may include a first housing having a first opening therein, a second housing having a second opening therein, a first optical window carried by the first housing within the first opening, a second optical window carried by the second housing within the second opening, at least one Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) carried within the first housing behind the first optical window, and at least one photodetector carried within the second housing behind the second optical window. A first magnetic member may be carried by the first housing, and a second magnetic member may be carried by the second housing and configured to cooperate with the first magnetic member to bias the first and second housings together so that the at least one VCSEL and the at least one photodetector are in optical alignment.
US09816855B2	System for measuring light intensity and wirelessly transferring light intensity data A system for measuring light intensity of a specific location and wirelessly transferring the light intensity data contains at least one light intensity sensing assembly and a computing device. The light intensity data is recorded by the light intensity sensing assembly and is wirelessly transferred to the computing device. The light intensity sensing assembly contains a dome lens, a photocell, a processing unit, a wireless data-transferring module, and a portable power source. The photocell is centrally mounted within the dome lens in order to receive a maximum amount of light. The photocell is electronically connected to the processing unit. In order to transmit the light intensity data, the processing unit is electronically connected to the wireless data transfer module. The photocell, the processing unit, and the wireless data-transferring module are powered by the portable power source.
US09816852B2	System for weighing individual micro- and nano-sized particles A device for weighing micro- and nano-sized particles. The device includes a base portion, an oscillator coupled to the base portion and configured to vibrate the base portion, a first cantilevered beam coupled to the base portion, a second cantilevered beam coupled to the base portion, a first plurality of fingers coupled to the first cantilevered beam near the tip inwardly pointing toward the second cantilevered beam, and a second plurality of fingers coupled to the second cantilevered beam near the tip inwardly pointing toward the first cantilevered beam.
US09816847B2	Ultrasonic flowmeter and method for measuring flow An ultrasonic flow meter that includes a first ultrasonic transducer for making incident a first ultrasonic signal against a pipe through which a fluid flows; a second ultrasonic transducer, disposed in a position capable of receiving the first ultrasonic signal, for making incident a second ultrasonic signal against pipe; a flow velocity computation component for computing the flow velocity of the fluid within pipe based on a first time period during which the first ultrasonic signal arrives at the second ultrasonic transducer and on a second time period during which the second ultrasonic signal arrives at the first ultrasonic transducer; a logarithmic correction function saving component for saving a logarithmic correction function; and a logarithmic correction component for correction the flow velocity by using the correction coefficient that corresponds to the Reynolds number of the fluid.
US09816843B2	Magnetorestrictive position sensor according to the propagation time principle having a magnetorestrictive detector unit for mechanical-elastic density waves Instead of tapping a mechano-elastic desnity wave (MEDW) from a wave conductor or a Villary band through a detector coil, a changing field strength H is captured by a XMR sensor which is positioned on a wave conductor or proximal to the wave conductor or on a Villary band or proximal to the Villary band.
US09816842B2	Optoelectronic position measuring device including a code carrier, a radiation source, and a detection element Embodiments described herein include an optoelectronic position measuring device that may include a code carrier, which carries an optically detectable position code, a radiation source for emitting optical radiation onto the code carrier, and a detection element having a multiplicity of light-sensitive reception regions for receiving at least part of the optical radiation, as a result of which a scanning signal dependent on the position code can be generated and a position of the code carrier relative to the detection element can thus be detected, wherein the measurement components are arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with respect to one another on a carrier element, the code carrier is movable with one degree of freedom, in particular rotationally or along an axis, and the code carrier and the carrier element are arranged at a fixed spatial distance with respect to one another.
US09816826B2	Technique for correcting digitized map data A technique is described for correcting digitized map data stored in a map database of a navigation device, wherein the map data comprises routing data in the form of route links and shape points, and wherein each route link is associated with a sequence of shape points representing a course of a road segment that is displayable on a navigation screen. A method aspect comprises the steps of detecting a first user input operation indicative of a selection of a road segment displayed on the screen, detecting at least one second user input operation indicative of a graphical manipulation of the course of the selected road segment on the screen, generating on basis of the detected second user input operation corrected routing data reflecting the manipulated course of the selected road segments and storing the corrected routing data in the map database.
US09816820B2	Positioning system having smoothed kalman filter update A method and a system of determining a position of a mobile machine are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the system may include a first sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of a parameter of the mobile machine. The system may also include a second sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of a pose of the mobile machine. The system may further include a controller in communication with the first and second sensors. The controller may be configured to generate one or more estimated poses of the mobile machine based on the first signal. The controller may further be configured to update each estimated pose with a fraction of a correction. The correction may be determined, based on the second signal, in a measurement update stage of a Kalman filter.
US09816819B2	Deduced reckoning navigation without a constraint relationship between orientation of a sensor platform and a direction of travel of an object Systems, methods, and apparatus for performing deduced reckoning navigation without a constraint relationship between orientation of a sensor platform and a direction of travel of an object are described herein. A sensor fusion component can be configured to receive data from sensors of a sensor platform coupled to a pedestrian; and generate world coordinate information based on the data. Further, a gait recognition component can be configured to record one or more walking patterns of the pedestrian in a training database; and determine whether the world coordinate information is associated with a walking pattern of the one or more walking patterns. Furthermore, a position estimation component can be configured to estimate a position of the pedestrian based on the world coordinate information if the world coordinate information is associated with the walking pattern, regardless of an orientation of the sensor platform with respect to the position of the pedestrian.
US09816817B2	Method for estimating location of user terminal using difference between true north and magnetic north and the user terminal thereof A method of estimating a location of a user terminal is provided. It is based on a difference between a true north and a magnetic north that may estimate a location of a user terminal on a magnetic field map based on a difference between a true north and a magnetic north corresponding to each location of the magnetic field map, and the user terminal thereof.
US09816811B2	Measuring device Measuring device for measuring a rotationally symmetrical cavity in a workpiece has a base body for supporting on the workpiece, and a measuring head with a sensor for scanning the inner wall of the cavity. The measuring device has a shaft connected to the base body. Measuring head is movable relative to base body in the axial direction of the shaft and is rotatable about a rotational axis defined by the shaft. The shaft is configured as a hollow shaft, and accommodates a drive shaft rotationally drivable by a rotary drive apparatus. A distal end of the drive shaft is connected to the measuring head in a rotationally fixed manner. The shaft is situated on the base body and movable in the axial direction of the shaft by a slide bearing system. An axial drive apparatus moves the shaft relative to the base body.
US09816806B2	Deformation detection tool and method for detecting deformation A tool for detecting deformation of a nominally straight element includes a first body element having first straight edge, means for biasing the first straight edge against the straight element, and a light source arranged to illuminate any space present between the straight element and the first straight edge of the first body element.
US09816803B2	Method and system for low coherence interferometry Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system and apparatus of this instant application is very useful for diagnosis and management of 3ophthalmic diseases such as retinal diseases and glaucoma etc. Instant innovative OCT diagnostic system leverages advancements in cross technological platforms. The Michelson interferometric system presented in this application could be used for the OCT imaging, which includes biological OCT imaging, medical OCT imaging, ophthalmic OCT imaging, corneal OCT imaging, retinal OCT imaging, and the like. A tunable filter is placed in front of the detector to make the interferometer more sensitive and accurate for examining various samples for diagnosis.
US09816802B2	Optical coherence tomography An optical coherence tomography system comprising a light source (a) and a probe (e) that has a window at a front facing end. The window has an inner face (i) that has an anti-reflection surface and allows light from the source to pass through it, and an outer face (j) that reflects some of the light from the source and transmits some of the light to and from the sample (k). The reflected light acts as a reference.
US09816790B2	Shock hardened initiator and initiator assembly Embodiments of an initiator support assembly that includes an initiator housing including an initiator cavity system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a bridge substrate is positioned within the initiator cavity. The bridge substrate includes a substrate base including a uniform first planar surface and an opposed second surface. The bridge substrate further includes a first bridge contact extending over the substrate base. The first bridge contact is substantially flush with the first planar surface. A second bridge contact extends over the substrate base. The second bridge contact is substantially flush with the first planar surface. The first and second bridge contacts and the uniform first planar surface form a continuous planar mounting surface. An explosive charge, positioned within the initiator cavity, includes a charge mounting surface that is continuously coupled in surface-to-surface contact across the continuous planar mounting surface.
US09816787B2	Rear sight block for AK-type rifles Implementations of a rear sight block for AK-type rifles are provided. In some implementations, the rear sight block may comprise an optic mounting interface and a sleeve. In some implementations, the optic mounting interface may be used to attach an optical gun sight to the rear sight block, and the sleeve may be used to secure the rear sight block to the barrel of an AK-type rifle. In some implementations, the optic mounting interface may include a rear sight notch therein. In some implementations, the rear sight block may further comprise at least one accessory mounting interface thereon. In some implementations, the accessory mounting interface may be used to position a flashlight, laser, and/or other firearm accessory on the left (or right) side of the rear sight block.
US09816786B2	Method for automatically generating a three-dimensional reference model as terrain information for an imaging device A method for automatically generating a three-dimensional reference model as terrain information for a seeker head of an unmanned missile. A three-dimensional terrain model formed from model elements obtained with the aid of satellite and/or aerial reconnaissance is provided. Position data of the imaging device at least at one planned position and a direction vector from the planned position of the imaging device to a predetermined target point in the three-dimensional terrain model are provided. A three-dimensional reference model of the three dimensional terrain model is generated that incorporates only those model elements and sections of model elements from the terrain model, which in the viewing direction of the direction vector from the planned position of the imaging device, are not covered by other model elements and/or are not located outside the field of view of the imaging device.
US09816785B2	Interactive weapon targeting system displaying remote sensed image of target area Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
US09816782B2	Riflescope with integrated wind sensor and targeting display Techniques are disclosed for providing the weapon-mounted optical scope that provides for wind sensing and the display a ballistic solution without the need for a separate device. Embodiments may include various additional sensors housed within the weapon-mounted optical scope to provide data for the ballistic solution calculation. Embodiments may further include a display at the input aperture rather than internally at the first-focal-plane, enabling for simpler, more cost effective embodiments. Additionally or alternatively, embodiments may include a laser, separate from the wind sensing laser, to perform range-finding functions, and/or an enhanced-image assembly.
US09816775B2	Balanced pulley assembly for compound archery bows, and bows incorporating that assembly A compound bow includes a first and second pulley, each of which is operative, when the bow is drawn, to unwind a portion of a bow string from a bow string groove and to take up a portion of a bow cable so as to decrease its effective length. At least one of the pulleys includes a cable controller which operates to modify the rate at which the effective length of the bow cable is decreasing so that during an initial portion of the draw of the bow, the rate is greater than it would be in the absence of the controller, and during a second portion of the draw, the rate is less than it would be in the absence of the controller. Use of the controller provides a bow which has an inherently balanced draw.
US09816767B2	Tubes and manifolds for heat exchangers A heat exchanger includes a manifold defining a longitudinal axis, wherein the manifold includes an interior configured for a flow of heat exchange fluid therethrough. A plurality of heat exchanger tubes are connected in fluid communication with the interior of the manifold for exchanging heat exchange fluid with the interior of the manifold. Each tube is mounted to the manifold at a tube/manifold interface. Each tube extends into the interior of the manifold from the tube/manifold interface to a respective tube end face that is spaced apart from the from the tube/manifold interface by an offset. The tube end faces collectively define a tube-end profile, e.g., a smooth profile, within the interior of the manifold.
US09816764B2	Efficient self cooling heat exchanger An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the sections of the heat exchanger to control the heat flow within the heat exchanger.
US09816763B2	Heat transfer plate and plate heat exchanger comprising such a heat transfer plate A heat transfer plate has first and second long sides, with a transition area adjoining the distribution area along a first borderline and adjoining a heat transfer area along a second borderline. The transition area includes a transition pattern comprising transition projections and depressions, and first, second and third sub-areas successively arranged between the first/second border lines. An imaginary straight line extends between two end points of each transition projection with a smallest angle αn, n=1, 2, 3 . . . relative to a longitudinal center axis of the plate. The smallest angle varies between transition projections within the second sub-area such that the smallest angle for at least a main part of the transition projections within the second sub-area is larger than the first angle α1, and the smallest angle for a main part of the transition projections within the first sub-area is essentially equal to the first angle.
US09816757B1	Methods and apparatuses for drying electronic devices Methods and apparatuses for drying electronic devices are disclosed. Embodiments include methods and apparatuses that heat and decrease pressure within the electronic device. Some embodiments increase and decrease pressure while adding heat energy, such as by using a heated platen in contact with the electronic device or by supplying a gas (e.g., air), which may be heated, into the interior of the electronic device. Embodiments include heating the gas supplied into the interior of the electronic device with pump used to decrease pressure within the electronic device and/or a separate heater. Still other embodiments include controlling the temperature of the gas supplied into the electronic device. Still further embodiments automatically control, such as by using an electronic processor, some or all aspects of the drying of the electronic device.
US09816750B2	Cryogenic cooling apparatus and method A method is provided of operating a cryogenic cooling system, in which a target region for receiving a sample is cooled by a dilution refrigerator containing an operational fluid. Firstly any operational fluid is removed from the dilution refrigerator. Target apparatus comprising the sample is loaded from a high temperature location to the target region. The target apparatus is then pre-cooled in the target region to a first temperature using a mechanical refrigerator. The operational fluid is then supplied to the dilution refrigerator and the dilution refrigerator operated so as to cool the target apparatus in the target location to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature. A suitable system for performing the method is also disclosed.
US09816744B2	Twist harvest ice geometry An ice maker assembly includes an ice making apparatus for an appliance with an ice making tray having a water basin formed by a metallic ice forming plate and at least one perimeter sidewall extending upwardly from a top surface of the ice forming plate. The ice making tray also has a grid with at least one dividing wall. The at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall and the top surface of the ice forming plate form at least one ice compartment having an upper surface and a lower surface. An ice body is formed in the at least one ice compartment. Moreover, the at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall form a draft angle with the top surface of the ice forming plate, of about 17° to about 25° degrees.
US09816734B2	Air conditioner and method for controlling an air conditioner An air conditioner and a method for controlling an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include at least one indoor device, an electric heat pump (EHP) outdoor device connected to the at least one indoor device and having an EHP compressor driven using an applied current, and a gas heat pump (GHP) outdoor device connected to the at least one indoor device having an engine driven using a combustion of gas and a GHP compressor driven by receiving a driving force from the engine. The EHP compressor may include an inverter that controls a frequency of the current applied to the EHP compressor. The GHP compressor may include a first compressor that receives a driving force from the engine to compress a refrigerant; and a second compressor that is connected to the first compressor in parallel and receives the driving force from the engine to compress the refrigerant.
US09816724B2	Integrated ventilation unit An integrated ventilation unit configured to provide ventilation and conditioned air to an indoor space may include a heat pump system, an energy recovery device and a control unit. The heat pump system may include a first coil located at a supply air side of the ventilation unit, a second coil located at an exhaust air side of the ventilation unit, and a compressor. The energy recovery device may be configured to transfer heat between a return air stream and a supply air stream and the control unit may be configured to control operation of the heat pump system and the energy recovery device.
US09816721B2	System and method for optimizing energy consumption in an HVAC unit by minimizing chiller activity A system and method that optimizes energy consumption in an HVAC unit by minimizing chiller activity. The system uses a control unit that overrides a thermostat in at least one room to close a cooling valve that leads a fluid input to the room. When multiple cooling valves are closed through the rooms, the consequential return fluid maintains greater cooling capacity and thus, the chiller does not have to operate at full capacity. The control unit individually controls components in the HVAC unit, which were previously controlled by switches on the thermostat. The control unit includes a temperature sensor that monitors an environment, such as the room and a plenum. The control unit also includes a control relay that closes the cooling valve on the HVAC unit when the predetermined temperature of the control unit is above the thermostat temperature set by a room occupant.
US09816716B2	Ventilation devices and methods Devices are provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in a liquid-containing storage tank (e.g. water-storage tank). The devices include a first fluid flow path that is physically isolated from a second fluid flow path and a convection device for moving a first fluid along the first fluid flow path toward at a desired destination and for exhausting the first fluid at the desired destination at a desired velocity. Methods are also provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in liquid-containing storage tanks (e.g. water-storage tanks). The methods involve blowing a first fluid through a ventilation device into a liquid-containing storage device at a velocity sufficient to achieve a desired mass transfer rate of volatile chemicals from the liquid in the liquid-containing storage device to air in the headspace and flowing the contaminated air back through the ventilation device.
US09816715B2	Humidifier and air-conditioning apparatus with humidifier A humidifier that suppresses formation of a slime, a scale, and a dew bridge in a lower portion of a humidifying member thereby preventing degradation in humidifying performance. The humidifier includes one or more porous metal bodies serving as the humidifying member and including therein a plurality of voids, a fan that blows air to the porous metal body, a water-supplying device (a supply pipe, a reservoir, and a nozzle) that supplies water to the porous metal body, and the porous metal body includes a tip portion formed in a lower end portion, in a protruding shape or a pointed shape.
US09816713B2	Two-channel air conditioner for the flexible climate control of a number of rooms The invention relates to a two-channel air-conditioner (10) for the climate control of a number of rooms (44, 46, 48) and/or room zones, having an air inlet device (52) in every room (44, 46, 48) to be climate controlled, having at least one pair of supply air channels (20, 22) wherein at least one supply channel (20, 22) comprises a cooling and/or heating register (32, 34; 58, 60) having at least one temperature regulator for each room (44, 46, 48) to be climate controlled, which keeps the room (44, 46, 48) to be climate controlled at a room temperature (Troom target) which can be set, having valve units (54, 72), which connect the supply air channels (20, 22) to the air inlet device (52). The invention is characterized in that it allows switching, the cooling or heating register (32, 34; 58, 60) is only opened as needed if the temperature in at least on of the supply air channels (20,22) is insufficient for cooling or heating the room (44, 46, 48) to be climate controlled.
US09816708B2	Method for operating a combustion device including injecting a fluid together with diluent fuel to address combustion pulsations A method for operating a combustion device includes supplying a fuel and an oxidizer into the combustion device and burning them. According to the method, during at least a part of a transient operation, an additional fluid is supplied together with the fuel, and its amount is regulated to counteract combustion pulsations.
US09816706B2	Fuel cell combustor and fuel cell module A raw fuel inlet pipe, an air inlet pipe, and a combustion gas exhaust pipe are provided for a casing of a start-up combustor. A raw fuel supply chamber connected to the raw fuel inlet pipe and an air supply chamber connected to the air inlet pipe form double layer structure. A chamber having a partition wall is provided for the raw fuel supply chamber, and a slit connected to the air supply chamber is formed in the partition wall. A plurality of raw fuel through holes are formed on a side surface of the partition wall with which the slit is formed.
US09816705B2	Flare burner for a combustible gas A flare burner for burning combustible waste gases with a manifold, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of outlets disposed on the plurality of arms. The arms may be perpendicular to the manifold. The arms may also extend outwardly from the manifold. The arms may extend into annuli, to produce oppositely flowing exit gas. A curved dispersing surface may be disposed above the manifold. The arms may comprise a curvilinear shape, or include both a linear and a curvilinear portion. The outlets are configured and spaced such that flame is short relative to size of the flare burner.
US09816704B2	Burner for flare stack A flare gas burner and a process for disposing of a waste gas using such a burner. The burner has a rounded outer surface that includes a plurality of dimples. The dimples increase the mixing of the waste gas and ambient air prior to combustion. The flare gas burner may have a diameter of 0.61 m and between 300 and 400 dimples. The flare gas burner may comprise a cast material.
US09816698B2	Lighting device having a light source heat sink arranged separate from a driver A lighting device (1) comprising a driver (7) arranged at a base (2) of the lighting device (1), a heat sink (14) arranged at a portion (3) of the lighting device (1), separate from the driver (7), a light source (13) mounted to the heat sink (14), and a wire (10) arranged to electrically connect the light source (13) to the driver (7), wherein a portion of the wire (10) extending from the base (2) to the portion of the lighting device (1) is arranged to be exposed to light from the light source (13). The present embodiment is advantageous in that the thermal performance is improved and the lifetime of the lighting device (1) is increased. Further, the exposed wire (10) may be illuminated by the light source (13) and visible from outside the lighting device (1), thereby having the appearance of a filament.
US09816694B2	Systems and methods for improved lighting systems Embodiments are provided for a lighting system and a method of installing a lighting system. According to certain aspects, a driver box is configured with a plurality of drivers secured therein. A series of wired connections can couple the plurality of drivers to a plurality of luminaires and can conduct electric power from the plurality of drivers to power the plurality of luminaires. According to aspects, the driver box and its plurality of drivers are located remote from the plurality of luminaires to enable efficient maintenance of the lighting system.
US09816689B2	Backlight back plate, adhesive-metal integrated structure of backlight source, backlight source, and display panel The present disclosure relates to the field of display design, and in particular to a backlight back plate, an adhesive-metal integrated structure of the backlight source, a backlight source and a display panel. The backlight back plate includes a bottom plate and protrusions. The protrusions are arranged at an opening at a side edge of the bottom plate, which are arranged on the bottom plate and extend into an adhesive that forms an integral structure with the backlight back plate by an injection molding and being provided with a hole into which the adhesive is filled.

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