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US09882127B2	Nonvolatile resistance change element According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile resistance change element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor layer and a first layer. The first electrode includes at least one of Ag, Ni, Co, Al, Zn, Ti, and Cu. The semiconductor layer is sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. The first layer is provided between the second electrode and the semiconductor layer and contains an element included in the semiconductor layer and at least one of Ag, Ni, and Co.
US09882126B2	Phase change storage device with multiple serially connected storage regions A phase change storage device, Integrated Circuit (IC) chip including the devices and method of manufacturing IC chips with the devices. The device includes a phase change storage region with multiple phase change regions, e.g., two (2), of different phase change material serially-connected between said program/read line and a select device conduction terminal.
US09882120B2	Magnetic memory devices including in-plane current layers A magnetic memory device can include an upper electrode, a lower electrode and a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ). The MTJ can include a reference magnetic pattern configured to generate a fixed magnetization and a free magnetic pattern on the reference magnetic pattern configured to generate a switchable magnetization that switches direction between parallel and anti-parallel to the fixed magnetization. A metal pattern can be on the free magnetic pattern and can be configured to conduct an in-plane current and a perpendicular-to-plane to/from the upper electrode.
US09882108B2	Nanostructured layers of thermoelectric materials This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to thermoelectric materials. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of nanostructures. The plurality of nanostructures comprise a thermoelectric material, with each nanostructure of the plurality of nanostructures having first ligands disposed on a surface of the nanostructure. The plurality of nanostructures is mixed with a solution containing second ligands and a ligand exchange process occurs in which the first ligands disposed on the plurality of nanostructures are replaced with the second ligands. The plurality of nanostructures is deposited on a substrate to form a layer. The layer is thermally annealed.
US09882106B2	Semiconductor device and light-emitting apparatus A semiconductor device wherein the horizontal spreading of solder at the time of reflow is suppressed and a plurality of devices can be mounted close to each other on a substrate, and a light-emitting apparatus using such a semiconductor device as a light-emitting device are provided. A semiconductor device bonded to a substrate by solder includes a semiconductor layer, a plurality of device electrodes formed on a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes formed integrally with the device electrodes, respectively, wherein each of the auxiliary electrodes includes a groove portion formed in a bottom surface thereof, and a side face of the groove portion is slanted with respect to the bottom surface of the semiconductor layer so that the groove portion becomes narrower in width with increasing distance from a lower end of the auxiliary electrode and decreasing distance to an upper end thereof.
US09882103B2	Method for producing light emitting device A method for producing a light emitting device includes spraying a resin mixture onto a light emitting element using a pulse spraying method to deposit the resin mixture on the light emitting element. The resin mixture includes a thixotropy imparting agent. The resin mixture is cured to form a light transmissive member via which light emitted from the light emitting element is to transmit to an outside of the light emitting device.
US09882099B2	Semiconductor light emitting device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor layer including a light emitting layer; and a phosphor layer provided on the semiconductor layer. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors, −0.05
US09882093B2	Light emitting element A light emitting element has: first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, first and second electrodes disposed on the same face side of the first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, respectively. In plan view, the first electrode has a first connecting portion, a first extending portion, and two second extending portions, and the second electrode has a second connecting portion and two third extending portions. The first extending portion of the first electrode extends linearly from the first connecting portion toward the second connecting portion, and the two second extending portions extend parallel to the first extending portion on two sides of the first extending portion. The second extending portions each has two bent portions. The third extending portions extend parallel to the first extending portion between the first extending portion and the two second extending portions.
US09882092B2	Light emitting device, electrode structure, light emitting device package, and lighting system Provided are a light emitting device, an electrode structure, a light emitting device package, and a lighting system. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure layer comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer. An electrode disposed on a top surface of the first semiconductor layer, a first layer includes a transmittive oxide material between the top surface of the first semiconductor layer and the electrode, and a second layer disposed is disposed between the first layer and the electrode, wherein the first layer is formed in a different material from the second layer, wherein the electrode comprises a lower portion connected to the first semiconductor layer and an upper portion on a top surface of the second layer.
US09882087B2	Semiconductor material including different crystalline orientation zones and related production process The invention relates to a manufacturing process of semiconductor material of element III nitride from a starting substrate, the process comprising: the formation of an intermediate layer based on silicon on a starting substrate, said intermediate layer comprising at least two adjacent zones of different crystalline orientations, especially a monocrystalline zone and an amorphous or poly-crystalline zone, growth via epitaxy of a layer of element III nitride on said intermediate layer, the intermediate layer being intended to be vaporised spontaneously during the step consisting of growing the layer of element III nitride via epitaxy.
US09882084B2	Vertical structure LEDs A vertical light emitting diode structure, comprising: a support structure including a support substrate and a metallic layer, the metallic layer being disposed on the support substrate; a GaN-based semiconductor structure including a first-type semiconductor layer on the support structure, an active layer on the first-type semiconductor layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer on the active layer, the GaN-based semiconductor structure including a bottom surface proximate to the support structure, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, and a side surface between the top surface and the bottom surface, a thickness of the GaN-based semiconductor structure from the bottom surface to the top surface being less than 5 micro meters, and a ratio of a thickness of the second-type semiconductor layer to the thickness of the GaN-based semiconductor structure being not less than 60%; a first contact layer disposed between the support structure and the GaN-based semiconductor structure to be electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer, a thickness of the first contact layer being less than the thickness of the first-type semiconductor layer; a second contact layer disposed on the GaN-based semiconductor structure to be electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer, the second contact layer including titanium and aluminum; a metal pad disposed on the second contact layer, the metal pad including gold; and a passivation layer being in contact with the support structure, the passivation layer extending from the support structure to the top surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure via the side surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure.
US09882078B2	Integrated back-sheet assembly for photovoltaic module A process for forming a back-sheet assembly for a photovoltaic module having multiple solar cells with back-side electrical contacts includes providing a substrate, adhering an electrically conductive metal circuit to the substrate, adhering release pads to the metal circuit in a pattern, adhering an insulating layer to the metal circuit, forming openings in said insulating layer in a pattern over the release pads, and filling the openings with electrically conductive material that is in electrical contact with the electrically conductive metal circuit. A process for forming a photovoltaic module with this back-sheet assembly is also provided. The back-sheet assembly and photovoltaic module made with the back-sheet assembly are also provided.
US09882068B2	Monolithic integration techniques for fabricating photodetectors with transistors on same substrate Examples of the various techniques introduced here include, but not limited to, a mesa height adjustment approach during shallow trench isolation formation, a transistor via first approach, and a multiple absorption layer approach. As described further below, the techniques introduced herein include a variety of aspects that can individually and/or collectively resolve or mitigate one or more traditional limitations involved with manufacturing PDs and transistors on the same substrate, such as above discussed reliability, performance, and process temperature issues.
US09882066B1	Transcap manufacturing techniques without a silicide-blocking mask Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor variable capacitor. The semiconductor variable capacitor generally includes a first non-insulative region disposed above a semiconductor region, and a second non-insulative region disposed adjacent to the semiconductor region. In certain aspects, the semiconductor variable capacitor also includes a first silicide layer disposed above the second non-insulative region, wherein the first silicide layer overlaps at least a portion of the semiconductor region. In certain aspects, a control region may be disposed adjacent to the semiconductor region such that a capacitance between the first non-insulative region and the second non-insulative region is configured to be adjusted by varying a control voltage applied to the control region.
US09882063B2	Thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof, array substrate and display device The present disclosure relates to the field of manufacturing technologies for semiconductor devices and provides a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device. The thin film transistor includes: an active layer located on a plane; a source electrode, which is located on the active layer and is in contact with the active layer; a first insulation layer located on the source electrode and including a first via hole; and a drain electrode located on the first insulation layer, where the drain electrode is in contact with the active layer via the first via hole.
US09882056B2	Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same A thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a graphene pattern. The semiconductor layer overlaps with the gate electrode. The gate insulating layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The source electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer. The drain electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer. The drain electrode is spaced apart from the source electrode. The graphene pattern is disposed between the semiconductor layer and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09882052B2	Forming defect-free relaxed SiGe fins A method of forming defect-free relaxed SiGe fins is provided. Embodiments include forming fully strained defect-free SiGe fins on a first portion of a Si substrate; forming Si fins on a second portion of the Si substrate; forming STI regions between adjacent SiGe fins and Si fins; forming a cladding layer over top and side surfaces of the SiGe fins and the Si fins and over the STI regions in the second portion of the Si substrate; recessing the STI regions on the first portion of the Si substrate, revealing a bottom portion of the SiGe fins; implanting dopant into the Si substrate below the SiGe fins; and annealing.
US09882037B2	IGBT-free wheeling diode combination with field stop layer in drift region A semiconductor device includes a middle field stop layer having a first conductivity type impurity concentration higher than a drift layer and arranged at a position in the drift layer. A ratio of a depth of the position of the middle field stop layer from a front surface of a semiconductor substrate to a thickness of the semiconductor substrate is equal to or greater than fifteen percent and equal to or less than thirty-five percent. When an IGBT is arranged in the semiconductor device, vibration of a collector voltage waveform in a switching off of the IGBT is restricted. When a diode is arranged in the semiconductor device, vibration of a recovery waveform in a recovery operation of the diode is restricted. Accordingly, at least one of the vibrations of the recovery waveform and the collector voltage waveform in the switching is restricted.
US09882031B2	Method of manufacturing a horizontal gate-all-around transistor having a fin A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a fin. The fin extends from the substrate and is formed with a hole therethrough. The hole is defined by a confronting pair of wall parts. One of the wall parts is more arcuate than the other of the wall parts. A method for fabricating the semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US09882030B2	Method to enhance FinFET device performance with channel stop layer depth control A method for manufacturing a fin-type semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor structure comprising a plurality of fins, and a plurality of trenches each disposed between two adjacent fins, filling each of the trenches with a spacer, and performing a first dopant implantation into the spacer to form an etch stop layer. The thus formed etch stop layer can decrease the etch rate of the HF/SiCoNi etchant towards oxide, e.g., silicon oxide, thereby reducing the spacer loss in a subsequent HF/SiCoNi etch of the dummy gate insulation layer, and improving the device performance.
US09882029B2	Semiconductor device including Fin-FET and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first fin structure for a first fin field effect transistor (FET). The first fin structure includes a first base layer protruding from a substrate, a first intermediate layer disposed over the first base layer and a first channel layer disposed over the first intermediate layer. The first fin structure further includes a first protective layer made of a material that prevents an underlying layer from oxidation. The first channel layer is made of SiGe, the first intermediate layer includes a first semiconductor (e.g., SiGe) layer disposed over the first base layer and a second semiconductor layer (e.g., Si) disposed over the first semiconductor layer. The first protective layer covers side walls of the first base layer, side walls of the first semiconductor layer and side walls of the second semiconductor layer.
US09882028B2	Pitch split patterning for semiconductor devices A method for forming fins of a semiconductor device comprises forming a first hardmask on a substrate, a sacrificial layer on the first hardmask, and a second hardmask on the sacrificial layer. Portions of the second hardmask and the sacrificial layer are removed to form a mandrel. Spacers are formed adjacent to the sacrificial mandrel. A second sacrificial layer is deposited and portions of the second sacrificial layer are removed to expose portions of the spacers and the first hardmask. A first doped region and a second doped region are formed by annealing. The second hardmask and the sacrificial spacer are removed. Undoped portions of the sacrificial mandrel and the second sacrificial layer are removed to further expose portions of the first hardmask. Exposed portions of the first hardmask are removed to expose portions of the semiconductor substrate, and exposed portions of the semiconductor substrate are removed to form fins.
US09882022B2	Method for manufacturing transistor with SiCN/SiOCN multilayer spacer A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided in the present invention. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate and two spacers on both sidewalls of the gate structure. Each spacer comprises an inner first spacer portion made of SiCN and an outer second spacer portion made of SiOCN.
US09882020B2	Cascode configured semiconductor component In accordance with an embodiment, a cascode connected semiconductor component and a method for manufacturing the cascode connected semiconductor component are provided. The cascode connected semiconductor component has a pair of silicon based transistors, each having a body region, a gate region over the body region, a source region and a drain. The source regions of a first and second silicon based transistor are electrically connected together and the drain regions of the first and second silicon based transistors are electrically connected together. The gate region of the second silicon based transistor is connected to the drain regions of the first and second silicon based transistors. The body region of the second silicon based transistor has a dopant concentration that is greater than the dopant concentration of the first silicon based transistor. A gallium nitride based transistor has a source region coupled to the first and second silicon based transistor.
US09882016B2	Transistors, memory cells and semiconductor constructions Some embodiments include a semiconductor construction having a gate extending into a semiconductor base. Conductively-doped source and drain regions are within the base adjacent the gate. A gate dielectric has a first segment between the source region and the gate, a second segment between the drain region and the gate, and a third segment between the first and second segments. At least a portion of the gate dielectric comprises ferroelectric material. In some embodiments the ferroelectric material is within each of the first, second and third segments. In some embodiments, the ferroelectric material is within the first segment or the third segment. In some embodiments, a transistor has a gate, a source region and a drain region; and has a channel region between the source and drain regions. The transistor has a gate dielectric which contains ferroelectric material between the source region and the gate.
US09882014B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor; a source electrode and a drain electrode in contact with the oxide semiconductor; a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode overlapping the oxide semiconductor, part of the source electrode, and part of the drain electrode with the gate insulating film positioned therebetween. The source electrode and the drain electrode each include a Cu—X alloy film (X is Mn, Ni, Cr, Fe, Co, Mo, Ta, or Ti), and the thickness of a region of the oxide semiconductor over which neither the source electrode nor the drain electrode is provided is smaller than the thicknesses of regions of the oxide semiconductor over which the source electrode and the drain electrode are provided.
US09882013B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a semiconductor device including a gate electrode, source and drain regions, and a spacer. The gate electrode is located over a substrate, and an angle of a base corner of the gate electrode is greater than 90 degrees. The source and drain regions are located in the substrate at sides of the gate electrode. The spacer is located at a sidewall of the gate electrode.
US09882011B2	Semiconductor device with reduced parasitic drain-gate capacitance and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device having electrodes of three or more levels, includes: a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a transistor formed on the epitaxial layer; a source electrode formed on the epitaxial layer and electrically connected to a source of the transistor; and a gate drawing electrode formed on the epitaxial layer and electrically connected to a gate of the transistor, wherein the source electrode includes a first source electrode, a second source electrode which is an electrode at a second or higher level on the first source electrode, and a third source electrode which is an electrode at a third or higher level on the second source electrode and above the gate drawing electrode, and the gate drawing electrode is an electrode at a second or higher level on the first source electrode and surrounded with the first, second, and third source electrodes.
US09882002B2	FinFET with an asymmetric source/drain structure and method of making same Embodiments of the present disclosure are a semiconductor device, a FinFET device, and a method of forming a FinFET device. An embodiment is a semiconductor device comprising a first semiconductor fin extending above a substrate, a first source region on the first semiconductor fin, and a first drain region on the first semiconductor fin. The first source region has a first width and the first drain region has a second width with the second width being different than the first width.
US09881996B2	Method for manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device and silicon carbide semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes the steps of preparing a silicon carbide substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface located on a side opposite to the first main surface, forming an epitaxial layer on the first main surface, the epitaxial layer having a first conductivity type and having a third main surface located on a side opposite to a side on which the silicon carbide substrate is located, forming a trench, which includes side walls intersecting with the third main surface and a bottom portion connected to the side walls, in the epitaxial layer, widening an opening of the trench, and forming an embedded region, which has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, in the trench. The epitaxial layer adjacent to the embedded region and the embedded region constitute a superjunction structure.
US09881988B2	Flexible display A flexible display is disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a substrate, a gate insulating layer formed over the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer formed over the gate insulating layer, and a trench disposed between the gate and interlayer insulating layers and configured to accommodate a signal line therein.
US09881982B2	Organic light emitting display An organic light emitting display includes a substrate including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region, a plurality of first organic light emitting elements located in the first region, a plurality of second organic light emitting elements located in the second region, and a plurality of first thin film transistors located in the second region and connected to the first organic light emitting elements in the first region to drive the first organic light emitting elements. The first thin film transistors do not overlap with the first organic light emitting elements.
US09881974B2	Display substrate and method of manufacturing the same A display substrate includes a first switching element electrically connected to a gate line extending in a first direction and a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, an organic layer disposed on the first switching element, a shielding electrode disposed on the organic layer and overlapping the data line, a pixel electrode disposed on the same layer as the shielding electrode and a light-blocking pattern disposed on the shielding electrode and adjacent to a corner of the pixel electrode.
US09881964B1	Image sensor with inverted source follower An image sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a first semiconductor material and a floating diffusion disposed proximate to the photodiode in the first semiconductor material. A source follower transistor is disposed in part in a second semiconductor material and includes: a first doped region, a third doped region, and a second doped region with an opposite polarity as the first doped region and the third doped region, and a gate electrode coupled to the floating diffusion and disposed in the first semiconductor material and aligned with the second doped region in the second semiconductor material of the source follower transistor.
US09881961B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an imaging area including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each of the plurality of pixels converting incident light into a pixel signal; a column signal line provided for each of the columns, for reading out the pixel signal; and a current source connected to the column signal line, in which the current source includes: three transistors connected in series and provided between the column signal line and a GND line; and a transistor having a drain and a source each of which is connected to a different one of connection points connecting adjacent ones of the three transistors.
US09881949B2	Sensing device, image sensing system and method thereof A sensing device includes: a sampling circuit arranged to sample a sensing signal for generating a signal in response to a sampling signal having a monotonically increasing waveform; and a conversion circuit arranged to convert the signal into a digital output signal when the signal reaches a predetermined threshold of the conversion circuit.
US09881943B2	Hollowed electronic display Presented here are manufacturing techniques to create an irregularly shaped electronic display, including a hollow within which a sensor, such as a camera, can be placed. The manufacturing techniques enable the creation of the hollow anytime during the manufacturing process. The resulting electronic display occupies the full side of the mobile device, with the sensors placed within and surrounded by the display.
US09881938B2	Substrate for display device and method for manufacturing display device According to one embodiment, a substrate for display device includes an insulating substrate and a conductive film formed on at least one main surface of the insulating substrate. As to the substrate in an etching process in which a fluoric acid solution containing 10% or more hydrogen fluoride is used, a first etching rate of the conductive film is substantially the same as a second etching rate of the insulating substrate, or the first etching rate is greater than the second etching rate.
US09881936B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit Disclosed herein is a semiconductor integrated circuit including: a cell layout region including circuit cells subject to power control the supply and interruption of power to which is controlled by a power switch, and always-on circuit cell groups which are always powered after the activation; a main line laid out in the cell layout region and applied with a source or reference voltage; and first and second branch lines which branch from the main line in the cell layout region.
US09881934B2	Vertical non-volatile memory device, method of fabricating the same device, and electric-electronic system having the same device Provided is a vertical non-volatile memory device having a metal source line. The vertical non-volatile memory device includes cell string units that are formed on first portions of a semiconductor substrate and are vertically arranged with respect to a surface of the semiconductor substrate, impurity regions formed on second portions of the semiconductor substrate between the cell string units, conductive lines formed on the impurity regions, and spacers that are formed on the sidewalls of the cell string units and insulate the conductive lines from the cells string units.
US09881932B2	Methods of adjusting flatband voltage of a memory device Methods for adjusting a flatband voltage of a memory device, including applying a voltage to a control gate of the memory device such that charged species are moved to one of a plurality of different levels in a dielectric material in response to the voltage, wherein the plurality of different levels is greater than two.
US09881928B2	Method for producing one-time-programmable memory cells and corresponding integrated circuit An integrated circuit includes a silicon-on-insulator substrate that includes a semiconductor film located above a buried insulating layer. A first electrode of a silicide material overlies the semiconductor film. A sidewall insulating material is disposed along sidewalls of the first electrode. A dielectric layer is located between the first electrode and the semiconductor film. A second electrode includes a silicided zone of the semiconductor film, which is located alongside the sidewall insulating material and extends at least partially under the dielectric layer and the first electrode. The first electrode, the dielectric layer and the second electrode form a capacitor that is part of a circuit of the integrated circuit.
US09881924B2	Semiconductor memory device having coplanar digit line contacts and storage node contacts in memory array and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having active areas and a trench isolation region between the active areas. The active areas extend along a first direction. Buried word lines extend along a second direction in the semiconductor substrate. Two of the buried word lines intersect with each of the active areas, separating each of the active areas into a digit line contact area and two cell contact areas. The second direction is not perpendicular to the first direction. A digit line contact is disposed on the digit line contact area. A storage node contact is disposed on each of the two cell contact areas. The digit line contact and the storage node contact are coplanar. At least one digit line extends along a third direction over a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The at least one digit line is in direct contact with the digit line contact.
US09881915B2	Power FET with a resonant transistor gate A semiconductor FET provides a resonant gate and source and drain electrodes, wherein the resonant gate is electromagnetically resonant at one or more predetermined frequencies.
US09881910B2	Apparatuses and methods for forming die stacks Apparatuses and methods for forming die stacks are disclosed herein. An example method includes dispensing a temporary adhesive onto a substrate, placing a base die onto the temporary adhesive, curing the temporary adhesive, forming a die stack that includes the base die, activating a release layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the release layer is between the substrate and the temporary adhesive, removing the die stack from the substrate, and removing the temporary adhesive from the die stack.
US09881906B2	Semiconductor module According to one embodiment, a semiconductor module includes: a substrate; a first interconnect layer provided on the substrate; a plurality of first semiconductor elements provided on the first interconnect layer, each of the first semiconductor elements having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode, and the second electrode being electrically connected to the first interconnect layer; a plurality of first rectifying elements provided on the first interconnect layer, each of the first rectifying elements having a fourth electrode and a fifth electrode, and the fifth electrode being electrically connected to the first interconnect layer; and a second interconnect layer provided on the substrate, and the second interconnect layer being electrically connected to the first electrode and the fourth electrode. The second interconnect layer includes a corrugated surface or the first interconnect layer includes a corrugated surface.
US09881903B2	Package-on-package structure with epoxy flux residue A structure includes a first package and a second package. The second package is coupled to the first package by one or more connectors. Epoxy flux residue is disposed around the connectors and in contact with the connectors. A method includes providing a first package having first connector pads and providing a second package having corresponding second connector pads. Solder paste is printed on each of the first connector pads. Epoxy flux is printed on each of the solder paste. The first and second connector pads are aligned and the packages are pressed together. The solder paste is reflowed to connect the first connector pads to the second connector pads while leaving an epoxy flux residue around each of the connections.
US09881900B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device can be manufactured with a reduced cost. The semiconductor device (1D) includes, a substrate (100D), which includes a main surface (101D) and a recess (108D) depressed from the main surface (101D), and includes a semiconductor material; a wiring layer (200D) in which at least a portion thereof is formed on the substrate (100D); one or more first elements (370D) accommodated in the recess (108D); a sealing resin (400D) covering at least a portion of the one or more first elements (370D) and filled in the recess (108D); and a plurality of columnar conductive portions (230D) penetrating through the sealing resin (400D) in the depth direction of the recess (108D), and respectively connected with the portion of the wiring layer (200D) that is formed at the recess (108D).
US09881899B2	Organic light-emitting device and organic display device An organic light-emitting device having light-emitting portions arranged in two directions along a substrate main surface. Each light-emitting portion, in a first direction intersecting the substrate main surface, includes, disposed via a first insulating layer, a first electrode, an organic laminate, and a second electrode. In a second direction being one of the two directions along the substrate main surface, a non-light-emitting portion is present between adjacent light-emitting portions. The first electrodes of the adjacent light-emitting portions extend into the non-light-emitting portion. A second insulating layer is present between portions of the first electrodes in the non-light-emitting portion, and covers the portions of the first electrodes in the non-light-emitting portion. A height of the second insulating layer from the substrate main surface is lower than a height, from the substrate main surface, of upper surfaces of portions of the first electrodes in the light-emitting portions.
US09881895B2	Wire bonding methods and systems incorporating metal nanoparticles Wire bonding operations can be facilitated through the use of metal nanoparticle compositions. Both ball bonding and wedge bonding processes can be enhanced in this respect. Wire bonding methods can include providing a wire payout at a first location from a rolled wire source via a dispensation head, contacting a first metal nanoparticle composition and a first portion of the wire payout with a bonding pad, and at least partially fusing metal nanoparticles in the first metal nanoparticle composition together to form an adhering interface between the bonding pad and the first portion of the wire payout. The adhering interface can have a nanoparticulate morphology. Wire bonding systems can include a rolled wire source, a dispensation head configured to provide a wire payout, and an applicator configured to place a metal nanoparticle composition upon at least a portion of the wire payout or upon a bonding pad.
US09881880B2	Tamper-proof electronic packages with stressed glass component substrate(s) Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US09881879B2	Power semiconductor module In a power semiconductor module, the 0.2% yield strength of solder under a lead terminal that bonds the lead terminal and a semiconductor element is set to be lower than the 0.2% yield strength of solder under the semiconductor element that bonds the semiconductor element and an insulating substrate. As a result, the lead terminal is expanded with self-heating by energization of the semiconductor element, and stress is applied to the semiconductor element via the solder under the lead terminal. However, the solder under the lead terminal with low 0.2% yield strength reduces the stress that is applied to the semiconductor element. Thus, the reliability of a surface electrode of the semiconductor element that is bonded to the solder under the lead terminal is improved.
US09881877B2	Electronic circuit package using composite magnetic sealing material Disclosed herein is an electronic circuit package includes a substrate, an electronic component mounted on a surface of the substrate, and a magnetic mold resin covering the surface of the substrate so as to embed therein the electronic component. The magnetic mold resin includes a resin material and a filler blended in the resin material in a blended ratio of 30 vol. % or more to 85 vol. % or less. The filler includes a magnetic filler containing Fe and 32 wt. % or more and 39 wt. % or less of a metal material contained mainly of Ni, thereby a thermal expansion coefficient of the magnetic mold resin is 15 ppm/° C. or less.
US09881874B2	Forming method of superposition checking mark, manufacturing method of a semiconductor device and semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a forming method of superposition checking marks includes forming a first superposition checking mark to have a first step with respect to an arrangement surface for the first superposition checking mark, forming an opaque film having a second step resulting from the first step on the arrangement surface, and forming on the opaque film a second superposition checking mark provided with a transparent film allowing observation of the second step.
US09881873B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes a frame having a through hole, a semiconductor chip disposed in the through hole and including connection pads, an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of the frame and the semiconductor chip, and a redistribution layer disposed on the frame and the semiconductor chip and including a first region and a second region. In the first region, a first via and a second via, electrically connected to one of the connection pads, disposed in different layers, and connected by a wiring pattern, are disposed. In the second region, a third via and a fourth via, electrically connected to another of the connection pads, disposed in different layers, and connected by the wiring pattern, are disposed. A distance between axes of the first via and the second via is shorter than a distance between axes of the third via and the fourth via.
US09881872B2	Method for fabricating a local interconnect in a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first transistor having a first gate, a first source and a first drain, a second transistor having a second gate, a second source and a second drain, an isolation region separating the first transistor from the second transistor, and a local interconnect connecting at least one of the first source and the first drain to at least the second source and the second drain. The local interconnect is in contact with a surface of the at least one of the first source and the first drain, a surface of the at least the second source and the second drain and a surface of a part of the isolation region.
US09881865B1	Semiconductor devices including electrically isolated patterns and method of fabricating the same A method of forming a composite dielectric material can be provided by performing a first deposition cycle to form a first dielectric material and performing a second deposition cycle to form a second dielectric material on the first dielectric material, wherein the first and second dielectric materials comprise different dielectric materials selected from a list consisting of a transition metal nitride, a transition metal oxide, a transition metal carbide, a transition metal silicide, a post-transition metal nitride, a post-transition metal oxide, a post-transition metal carbide, a post-transition metal silicide, a metalloid nitride, a metalloid oxide, and a metalloid carbide.
US09881864B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor package and semiconductor package using the same Provided are a method for fabricating a semiconductor package and a semiconductor package using the same, which can simplify a fabricating process of the semiconductor package by forming a lead frame on which a semiconductor die can be mounted without a separate grinding process, and can improve product reliability by preventing warpage from occurring during a grinding process. In one embodiment, the method for fabricating a semiconductor package includes forming a frame on a carrier, forming a first pattern layer on the frame, first encapsulating the frame and the first pattern layer using a first encapsulant, forming conductive vias electrically connected to the first pattern layer while passing through the first encapsulant, forming a second pattern layer electrically connected to the conductive vias on the first encapsulant, forming a first solder mask formed on the first encapsulant and exposing a portion of the second pattern layer to the outside, removing the frame by an etching process and etching a portion of the first pattern layer, and attaching a semiconductor die to the first pattern layer.
US09881862B1	Top side cooling for GaN power device A packaged semiconductor includes an electrically insulating encapsulant having opposite facing first and second planar sides. A thermally conductive substrate is partially embedded in the encapsulant such that an outer side of the substrate is exposed at the first side of the encapsulant and an inner side of the substrate is contained within the encapsulant. A GaN based power semiconductor device is completely embedded in the encapsulant and includes: a main side having electrically conductive device terminals, and a rear side that faces away from the main side and is mounted on the inner side the substrate. A plurality of electrically conductive leads is partially embedded in the encapsulant and electrically connected to the device terminals. Vertical portions of the leads extend away from the substrate towards the second side of the encapsulant.
US09881860B2	Method for producing waveguide substrate To allow a metal film to have a sufficient thickness around a bottom surface of a non-through hole and prevent the metal film from being peeled from a substrate surface, a method for producing a waveguide substrate includes forming a first metal film on (i) a first main surface of a substrate, at which first main surface a non-through hole opens, and on (ii) an inner wall of the non-through hole, forming resist on a first main surface side of the substrate in such a manner that the resist blocks the opening of the non-through hole, removing a first portion of the first metal film which first portion is on the first main surface, removing the resist, and forming a second metal film on the first main surface of the substrate in a state where the first metal film is present on the inner wall of the non-through hole.
US09881856B1	Molded intelligent power module An intelligent power module (IPM) has a first, second, third and fourth die paddles, a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth transistors, a tie bar, a low voltage IC, a high voltage IC, a first, second and third boost diodes, a plurality of leads and a molding encapsulation. The first transistor is attached to the first die paddle. The second transistor is attached to the second die paddle. The third transistor is attached to the third die paddle. The fourth, fifth and sixth transistor s are attached to the fourth die paddle. The low and high voltage ICs are attached to the tie bar. The molding encapsulation encloses the first, second, third and fourth die paddles, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth transistors, the tie bar, the low and high voltage ICs, and the first, second and third boost diodes. The IPM has a reduced top surface area and a reduced number of leads compared to a conventional IPM.
US09881854B2	Cascode semiconductor package and related methods A semiconductor package includes an electrically conductive base (base) having a source connector. A drain connector and a gate connector are electrically coupled with the base. A depletion mode gallium nitride field-effect transistor (GaN FET) and an enhancement mode laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (LDMOS FET) are also coupled with the base. The gate connector and a gate contact of the LDMOS FET are both included in a first electrical node, the source connector and a source contact of the LDMOS FET are both included in a second electrical node, and the drain connector and a drain contact of the GaN FET are both included in a third electrical node. The GaN FET and LDMOS FET together form a cascode that operates as an enhancement mode amplifier. The semiconductor package does not include an interposer between the GaN FET and the base or between the LDMOS FET and the base.
US09881851B2	Semiconductor device and method for producing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a device layer located at an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer located on the device layer, and a through electrode. The through electrode includes a body located in a through hole provided in the insulating layer and a head located on the body and the insulating layer and is electrically connected to an upper-layer wiring in the device layer. A perimeter of the head on a lower surface side thereof is smaller than a perimeter of the head on an upper surface side thereof.
US09881844B2	Integrated circuits with copper hillock-detecting structures and methods for detecting copper hillocks using the same An integrated circuit includes a copper hillock-detecting structure. The copper hillock-detecting structure includes a copper metallization layer and an intermediate plate structure spaced apart from adjacent to the copper metallization layer. The intermediate plate structure includes a conducting material plate. The intermediate plate structure further includes a plurality of conductive vias that are electrically and physically connected with the conducting material plate. The copper hillock-detecting structure further includes a sensing plate adjacent to the intermediate plate and electrically and physically connected with the plurality of vias such that the vias are disposed between the intermediate plate and the sensing plate.
US09881843B1	Integrated circuit including NCEM-Enabled, tip-to-tip gap-configured fill cells, with NCEM pads formed from at least three conductive stripes positioned between adjacent gates An integrated circuit, in the form of a wafer, die, or chip, includes multiple standard cell-compatible fill cells, configured to enable non-contact electrical measurements. Such fill cells include mesh pads that contain at least three conductive stripes disposed between adjacent gate stripes. Such fill cells further include geometry to enable non-contact evaluation of tip-to-tip shorts and/or leakages.
US09881835B1	Nanowire devices, systems, and methods of production A method of depositing nanowires including generating wells disposed on a patterned conductive film. The patterned conductive film includes well-sites. The patterned conducive film covers a portion of a surface of a substrate. Each of the wells is disposed proximate to a corresponding wellsite. The method includes applying a nanowire mixture to the wells and, after applying the nanowire mixture, at least one nanowire is deposited on a first portion and a second portion of the patterned conductive film by generating an electric field proximate to the patterned conductive film. The first portion and the second portion of the patterned conductive film are separated by a gap.
US09881829B2	Adhesive composition, laminate, and stripping method An adhesive composition for temporarily attaching a substrate to a support plate which supports the substrate, including a thermoplastic resin and a release agent.
US09881824B2	Transfer apparatus and control method thereof A transfer apparatus that includes a moving unit capable of moving with respect to a base and transferring an article with the moving unit protruding from the base. The transfer apparatus includes a movement regulation unit capable of switching between a first state in which the moving unit is restricted in a reference position and a second state in which the moving unit is allowed to move from the reference position to one of a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction and in which movement of the moving unit in the other direction is restricted.
US09881823B2	Automated material handling system for semiconductor manufacturing based on a combination of vertical carousels and overhead hoists A highly efficient Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) that allows an overhead hoist transport vehicle to load and unload Work-In-Process (WIP) parts directly to/from one or more WIP storage units included in the system. The overhead hoist transport subsystem includes an overhead hoist transport vehicle traveling along a suspended track defining a predetermined route.
US09881821B2	Control wafer making device and method for measuring and monitoring control wafer A control wafer making device, a method of measuring an epitaxy thickness in a control wafer, and a method for monitoring a control wafer are provided. In various embodiments, the control wafer making device includes a wafer substrate removing element and an epitaxy forming element. In various embodiments, a control wafer includes a substrate, a recess, a blocking layer, and an epitaxy. The substrate has a surface, and the recess is in the surface of the substrate. The blocking layer is over the surface of the substrate other than the recess. The epitaxy is in the recess. In various embodiments, the thickness of the epitaxy of the control wafer is measured by a polarized light.
US09881819B2	Thermal processing apparatus for heating substrate, and susceptor A semiconductor wafer with (100) plane orientation has two orthogonal cleavage directions. A notch is provided so as to indicate one of these directions. During irradiation with a flash, the semiconductor wafer warps about one of two radii at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the cleavage directions such that the upper surface thereof becomes convex, and the opposite ends of the other radii become the lowest position. Eight support pins in total are provided in upright position on the upper surface of a holding plate of a susceptor while being spaced at intervals of 45 degrees along the same circumference. The semiconductor wafer is placed on the susceptor such that any of the support pins supports a radius at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to a cleavage direction.
US09881815B2	Substrate cleaning method, substrate cleaning device, and vacuum processing device A substrate cleaning method for removing particles adhered to a substrate includes: acquiring particle information including diameters of the particles adhered to the substrate; controlling, based on the acquired particle information, a factor related to sizes of gas clusters having aggregates of atoms or molecules of a cleaning gas; ejecting the cleaning gas, at a higher pressure than a processing atmosphere where the substrate is provided, to the processing atmosphere and generating the gas clusters by adiabatic expansion; and removing the particles by irradiating the gas clusters in a perpendicular direction to a surface of the substrate. As a result, even if recesses for a circuit pattern are formed on the surface of the substrate, the particles in the recesses can be removed at a high removal rate.
US09881814B2	Apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor package and method for manufacturing semiconductor package using the same The inventive concepts provide an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor package and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package using the same. The apparatus includes a mold unit with a cavity formed by an inner space of the mold unit. The mold unit includes a first mold, a second mold coupled to the first mold, a supply part supplying a molding resin into the cavity, and a vent part disposed to be opposite to the supply part. The vent part includes a first vent part fixed in the mold unit, and a second vent part movable with respect to the first vent part.
US09881809B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A dielectric layer is formed on a barrier layer. A first opening is formed in the dielectric layer and exposes a portion of the barrier layer. A protection layer is formed on the barrier layer at the bottom of the first opening. The protection layer is thicker at the central portion while thinner at the edge portion thereof. A portion of the exposed barrier layer is removed by using the protection layer as a mask to form a second opening. The second opening has at least one sub-opening disposed in the barrier layer adjacent to the sidewall of the second opening. A semiconductor device formed with the method is also provided.
US09881808B2	Mask and pattern forming method According to one embodiment, a mask includes a substrate, first and second pattern portions. The substrate includes a first surface, and the substrate is light transmissive. The first pattern portion includes first optical members. The first optical members are provided on the first surface. A light transmittance of the first optical members is lower than a light transmittance of the substrate. A distance between the adjacent two first optical members is a first distance. The second pattern portion includes second optical members. The second optical members are provided on the first surface. A light transmittance of the second optical members is lower than the light transmittance of the substrate. A distance between the adjacent two second optical members is a second distance. A first phase of a light penetrating the first pattern portion is different from a second phase of a light penetrating the second pattern portion.
US09881804B2	Method and system for high precision etching of substrates This disclosure relates to a plasma processing system and methods for high precision etching of microelectronic substrates. The system may include a plasma chamber that may generate plasma to remove monolayer(s) of the substrate. The plasma process may include a two-step process that uses a first plasma to form a thin adsorption layer on the surface of the microelectronic substrate. The adsorbed layer may be removed when the system transitions to a second plasma or moves the substrate to a different location within the first plasma that has a higher ion energy. In one specific embodiment, the transition between the first and second plasma may be enabled by changing the position of the substrate relative to the source electrode with no or relatively small changes in plasma process conditions.
US09881797B2	Replacement gate electrode with multi-thickness conductive metallic nitride layers Gate electrodes having different work functions can be provided by providing conductive metallic nitride layers having different thicknesses in a replacement gate scheme. Upon removal of disposable gate structures and formation of a gate dielectric layer, at least one incremental thickness conductive metallic nitride layer is added within some gate cavities, while not being added in some other gate cavities. A minimum thickness conductive metallic nitride layer is subsequently added as a contiguous layer. Conductive metallic nitride layers thus formed have different thicknesses across different gate cavities. A gate fill conductive material layer is deposited, and planarization is performed to provide multiple gate electrode having different conductive metallic nitride layer thicknesses. The different thicknesses of the conductive metallic nitride layers can provide different work functions having a range of about 400 mV.
US09881794B1	Semiconductor methods and devices In some embodiments, a method of a semiconductor process includes conformally forming a spacer layer over a plurality of mandrels that are disposed over a mask layer, portions of the spacer layer disposed over opposing sidewalls of adjacent ones of the plurality of mandrels defining trenches therebetween, filling the trenches with a dummy material, and removing first portions of the dummy material in the trenches, thereby forming a plurality of openings in the dummy material. The method further includes filling the plurality of openings with a first material, removing a remaining portion of the dummy material in the trenches, and removing the plurality of mandrels after the removing the dummy material.
US09881791B2	Method for producing an oxide film using a low temperature process, an oxide film and an electronic device thereof Disclosed are a method for producing an oxide film using a low temperature process, an oxide film and an electronic device. The method for producing an oxide film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of coating a substrate with an oxide solution, and irradiating the oxide solution coat with ultraviolet rays under an inert gas atmosphere.
US09881790B2	Method to enhance growth rate for selective epitaxial growth Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for forming a doped silicon epitaxial layer on semiconductor devices at increased pressure and reduced temperature. In one embodiment, the method includes heating a substrate disposed within a processing chamber to a temperature of about 550 degrees Celsius to about 800 degrees Celsius, introducing into the processing chamber a silicon source comprising trichlorosilane (TCS), a phosphorus source, and a gas comprising a halogen, and depositing a silicon containing epitaxial layer comprising phosphorus on the substrate, the silicon containing epitaxial layer having a phosphorus concentration of about 1×1021 atoms per cubic centimeter or greater, wherein the silicon containing epitaxial layer is deposited at a chamber pressure of about 150 Torr or greater.
US09881786B2	Methods of forming nanostructures using self-assembled nucleic acids, and nanostructures thereof A method of forming a nanostructure comprises forming a directed self-assembly of nucleic acid structures on a patterned substrate. The patterned substrate comprises multiple regions. Each of the regions on the patterned substrate is specifically tailored for adsorption of specific nucleic acid structure in the directed self-assembly.
US09881782B2	Method for separating ions according to a physicochemical property A method of separating ions according to a physicochemical property is disclosed. The method comprises causing ions to perform a plurality of cycles along or around an ion guiding path such that the ions separate according to said physicochemical property. The ions are ejected from an ion exit region by applying a force to the ions such that only having a physicochemical property value that is either above or below a threshold value are ejected as they pass through the exit region, but ions having a physicochemical property value either below or above said threshold value, respectively, remain within the ion guiding path. The force applied to the ions within the exit region is varied with time such that the physicochemical property value of the ions ejected from the ion guiding region varies with time.
US09881781B2	Optimized multiple reaction monitoring or single ion recording method A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising monitoring for the emergence of one or more species of ions of interest and determining during the course of acquiring experimental data whether one or more ions or interest have emerged and then discontinuing monitoring for the emergence of the one or more species of ions of interest if it determined that the one or more ions or interest have emerged.
US09881776B2	Monitoring liquid chromatography elution to determine when to perform a lockmass calibration A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed that comprises acquiring mass spectral data during a single experimental run or acquisition of a mass spectrometer and determining a first time T during the single experimental run or acquisition for calibrating the mass spectrometer. The step of determining the first time T further comprises determining a time when the mass spectral data being acquired during the single experimental run or acquisition is equal to or below a threshold. The mass spectrometer is then calibrated by introducing calibrant or lockmass ions at the first time T.
US09881770B2	Multi charged particle beam exposing method, and multi charged particle beam exposing apparatus A multi charged particle beam exposing method includes setting, in multiple exposures by a plurality of shots of each beam of multi-beams where the plurality of shots continuously irradiate a same irradiation position, a plurality of clock periods including at least one different clock period where the plurality of clock periods individually control an irradiation time of each beam of the multi-beams such that a clock period of at least one exposure processing differs from clock periods of other exposure processing, and exposing respective corresponding irradiation positions on a target object with the multi-beams by controlling, in each exposure processing of the multiple exposures, the irradiation time in exposure processing concerned using a clock period which has been set in the plurality of clock periods including the at least one different clock period.
US09881769B2	Charged particle beam device and charged particle beam device control method The objective of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device, wherein the positional relationship between reflected electron detection elements and a sample and the vacuum state of the sample surroundings are evaluated to select automatically a reflected electron detection element appropriate for acquiring an intended image. In this charged particle beam device, all the reflected electron detection elements are selected when the degree of vacuum inside the sample chamber is high and the sample is distant from the reflected electron detectors, while a reflected electron detection element appropriate for acquiring a compositional image or a height map image is selected when the degree of vacuum inside the sample chamber is high and the sample is close to the reflected electron detectors. When the degree of vacuum inside the sample chamber is low, all the reflected electron detection elements are selected.
US09881761B2	High voltage compact fusible disconnect switch device with magnetic arc deflection assembly A compact fusible disconnect switch device includes a magnetic arc deflection assembly including at least a pair of magnets disposed about a switch contact assembly. The magnetic arc deflection assembly facilitates reliable connection and disconnection of DC voltage circuitry well above 125 VDC with reduced arcing intensity and duration. Multiple pairs of magnets may apply magnetic fields in directions opposing one another to deflect electrical arcs in different directions at more than one location in the switch contact assembly to facilitate high voltage DC operation.
US09881753B2	Rotary battery switch A battery switch including a housing having a removable side panel, a base, and two terminals located within the housing. Each terminal has a fixed end and a free end. Each terminal extends upwardly from the base. Each free end is positioned in a space between the base and the housing. Wherein the free ends of each of the terminals are accessible by removing the side panel.
US09881748B2	Key structure and keyboard using the same A key structure includes a base, a keycap, and a connecting rod. The base includes a structural plate and a connecting plate. The connecting plate is configured on the structural plate. The keycap is configured on the structural plate and includes a plate body and a first hook. The connecting rod is configured under the structural plate and extending towards an extension direction. The connecting rod includes at least a second hook. The connecting rod moves along the extension direction relative to the base to drive the second hook to be fastened to or detached from the first hook. When the first hook is detached from the second hook, the keycap moves relative to the connecting rod to expose the space between the keycap and the base, and then the key structure is easily repaired or cleaned.
US09881735B2	Fe-based amorphous transformer magnetic core, production method therefor, and transformer The present invention provides an Fe-based amorphous transformer magnetic core formed by stacking Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strips and satisfying the following (1) to (3) in a direct current B-H curve measured by applying a magnetic field of 80 A/m to the magnetic core: B80≧1.1 T (1) 0.5 T≦Br≦0.7 T (2) B80−Br≧0.6 T (3) wherein B80 represents a magnetic flux density (T) obtained when magnetization is performed in the magnetic field of 80 A/m, and Br represents a residual magnetic flux density (T) obtained when a magnetic field is changed to 0 A/m after magnetization is performed in a magnetic field of 80 A/m.
US09881733B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless power An apparatus that transmits and receives wireless power, includes a controller configured to determine whether the apparatus is to operate in a power reception mode or a power transmission mode based on a capacity of a battery of the apparatus, and a capacity of a battery of another apparatus. The apparatus further includes a resonator configured to receive power from the other apparatus in response to the apparatus being determined to operate in the power reception mode, and transmit power to the other apparatus in response to the apparatus being determined to operate in the power transmission mode.
US09881730B2	Reactor A reactor includes an annular core, coils, a sensor detecting a state of the reactor, and a connector outputting signal from the sensor. Resin-molded bodies are provided around the annular core. The resin-molded body has bobbins for the respective coils and core covering portions formed integrally with each other. An exposed area where no resin covers the bottom of the core is formed in the lower face of the covering portions. A holder to fasten the connector is formed integrally with the upper portion of the covering portion. An assembly including the resin-molded bodies in which the annular core is embedded, and the coils wound around the bobbins are retained in a metal casing. A clearance is formed between the assembly and the casing, and a filler is filled in this clearance. The filler covers the exposed area of the core bottom.
US09881729B2	Broadband power amplifier having high efficiency A wideband power amplifier module includes a plurality of switch mode amplifiers and a plurality of impedance amplifier modules. Each switch mode amplifier includes an input to receive an input signal, and an RF output to output an RF power signal. The switch mode amplifier includes at least one semiconductor switch formed from gallium nitride (GaN). Each impedance amplifier module includes an output electrically connected to the RF output of a respective switch mode amplifier. The impedance amplifier module is configured to inject at least one impedance control signal to each RF output.
US09881728B2	High frequency transformer A high frequency transformer with high conversion efficiency is provided. The high frequency transformer includes a first coil assembly 1 formed from a single flat wire, with first coils 1A that are configured by winding the flat wire edgewise plural times and that are formed at specific intervals, and a second coil assembly 2 formed from a single flat wire, with second coils 2A that are configured by winding the flat wire edgewise plural times and that are formed at specific intervals. In the primary coil assembly 1 and the secondary coil assembly 2, the primary coils 1A are disposed at intervals to each other such that a winding end portion of one of adjacent primary coils 1A opposes a winding start portion of the other of the adjacent primary coils 1A, and one of the secondary coils 2A is disposed in each interval between the primary coils 1A such that a winding start portion of each secondary coil 2A opposes the winding end portion of one of the primary coils 1A, and a winding end portion of each secondary coil 2A opposes the winding start portion of the other of the primary coils.
US09881727B2	Decorative multi-layer surfacing materials having embedded conductive materials, solid surfaces made therewith, methods for making such surfacing materials and uses therefor Decorative, multi-layer surfacing materials, surfaces made therewith, methods of making such and wireless power transmission using the same, which surfacing materials comprise: a first resin-impregnated paper layer and a second resin-impregnated paper layer, and a first conductive material having a first terminus and a second terminus and capable of carrying an electric current from the first terminus to the second terminus; wherein the first conductive material is disposed on a first surface of the first resin-impregnated paper layer; wherein the first resin-impregnated paper layer and the second resin-impregnated paper layer are disposed in a stacked and compressed such that the first conductive material is encapsulated between the first resin-impregnated paper layer and the second resin-impregnated paper layer; and wherein at least one of the first resin-impregnated paper layer, the second resin-impregnated paper layer or an optional additional resin-impregnated paper layer is a decorative layer.
US09881724B2	Reactor A reactor 2 disclosed by the present specification is equipped with two coils 3 that are arranged parallel to each other, a resin cover 41 that adheres to the two coils to cover the coils, and a column member 13. The resin cover 41 exposes lateral faces of the coils on such a side as to be in contact with a common tangential plane KL. The column member 13 is arranged parallel to the coils 3 in a space that is surrounded by the common tangential plane KL and the lateral faces of the respective coils 3. The column member 13 is exposed on a side thereof that is opposed to the common tangential plane KL, and is in contact with the respective coils 3 on the other side thereof. Furthermore, the column member 13 has a groove 13a that has an opening on the other side of the common tangential plane KL and extends along coil axes. The groove has a width that is narrow at the opening and widens toward a bottom of the groove. An interior of the groove is filled with resin of the resin cover 41.
US09881722B2	Composite magnetic body and method for manufacturing same A composite magnetic body includes metal magnetic powder formed of metal magnetic particles and an insulator impregnated into at least a part of voids among the metal magnetic particles. On a cumulative curve of widths of the voids among the metal magnetic particles, a void width at which a cumulative distribution is 50% is equal to or smaller than 3 μm, and a void width at which the cumulative distribution is 95% is equal to or greater than 4 μm.
US09881720B2	Grain oriented electrical steel with improved forsterite coating characteristics Increasing the chromium content of an electrical steel substrate to a level greater than or equal to about 0.45 weight percent (wt %) produced a much improved forsterite coating having superior and more uniform coloration, thickness and adhesion. Moreover, the so-formed forsterite coating provides greater tension potentially reducing the relative importance of any secondary coating.
US09881694B2	Built-in-self-test (BIST) engine configured to store a per pattern based fail status in a pattern mask register A BIST engine configured to store a per pattern based fail status during memory BIST run and related processes thereof are provided. The method includes testing a plurality of patterns in at least one memory device and determining which of the plurality of patterns has detected a fail during execution of each pattern. The method further includes storing a per pattern based fail status of each of the detected failed patterns.
US09881691B2	Bidirectional shift register and image display device using the same A display device including a bidirectional shift register circuit, including: a plurality of cascade-connected register circuits; various circuits for setting various nodes to various voltage levels responsive to various signals input to various terminals; and an output circuit which outputs the clock pulse as an output pulse when the voltage of the first node is high level, wherein, at the forward shift operation, the bottom dummy register circuit is not input the reset signal and the first node of the bottom dummy register circuit is reset if the initial reset circuit of the bottom dummy register circuit receives the backward trigger signal, and wherein, at the backward shift operation, the top dummy register circuit is not input the reset signal and the first node of the top dummy register circuit is reset if the initial reset circuit of the top dummy register circuit receives the forward trigger signal.
US09881687B2	Self-latch sense timing in a one-time-programmable memory architecture A programmable memory including a self-latching read data path. A sense amplifier senses the voltage level at a bit line, the bit line communicating the data state of a selected memory cell in its associated column. A data latch coupled to the output of the sense amplifier passes the sensed data state. Set-reset logic is provided that receives the output of the data latch in the read data path and, in response to a transition of the data state in a read cycle, latches the data latch and isolates it from the sense amplifier. The set-reset logic resets the data latch at the start of the next read cycle. In some embodiments, a timer is provided so that the latch is reset after a time-out period in a long read cycle in which no data transition occurs.
US09881674B2	Sequential write and sequential write verify in memory device Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods for performing a first stage of an operation of storing information in a first memory cell and a second memory cell, and performing a second stage of the operation after the first stage to determine whether each of the first and second memory cells reaches a target state. The first memory cell is included in a first memory cell string coupled to a data line through a first select transistor. The second memory cell is included in a second memory cell string coupled to the data line through a second select transistor.
US09881673B2	Memories having a shared resistance variable material Memories having a plurality of resistive storage elements in a shared resistance variable material, a plurality of select devices coupled to the plurality of resistive storage elements in a one-to-one relationship and sense circuitry coupled to the plurality of select devices.
US09881672B2	Resistive memory apparatus and voltage generating circuit therefor A resistive memory apparatus may include a memory region including a plurality of resistive memory cells arranged in a plurality of memory cell pairs. The resistive memory apparatus may include a voltage generating circuit configured to generate a read voltage code based on a switching state of at least one memory cell pair. The resistive memory apparatus may include a voltage providing unit configured to generate a read voltage corresponding to the read voltage code.
US09881659B2	Technologies for clearing a page of memory Technologies for clearing a page of memory include a memory device configured write a value to a block of memory cells in response to an activation signal. The memory device includes a row decoder responsive to a memory address to select a row of memory cells and a column decoder responsive to the activation signal to select one or more columns of memory cells. Additionally, a write driver of the memory device is configured to write a value to global input/output lines, which are connected to the selected memory cells in response to the activation signal and regardless of data received on a data input of the write driver.
US09881657B2	Computer system and method of memory management Computer systems and methods for memory management in a computer system are provided. A computer system includes an integrated circuit, where the integrated circuit includes a processing unit and a memory controller coupled to the processing unit. The memory controller includes a first interface and a second interface configured to couple the memory controller with a first memory and a second memory, respectively. The second interface is separate from the first interface. The computer system includes the first memory of a first memory type coupled to the memory controller through the first interface. The computer system further includes the second memory coupled to the memory controller through the second interface, where the second memory is of a second memory type that has a different power consumption characteristic than that of the first memory type.
US09881654B2	Power source for memory circuitry An integrated circuit comprises a power supply input pin receiving an off-chip supply voltage having a variable current, an on-chip power source powered by the off-chip supply voltage and providing a regulated current, a memory array, and a set of one or more circuits coupled to the memory array and powered by the regulated current from the on-chip power source. The IC can include control circuitry performing memory operations on the memory array, said control circuitry powered by at least the off-chip supply voltage from the power supply pin.
US09881652B2	Forwarding signal supply voltage in data transmission system In a data transmission system, one or more signal supply voltages for generating the signaling voltage of a signal to be transmitted are generated in a first circuit and forwarded from the first circuit to a second circuit. The second circuit may use the forwarded signal supply voltages to generate another signal to be transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit, thereby obviating the need to generate signal supply voltages separately in the second circuit. The first circuit may also adjust the signal supply voltages based on the signal transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit. The data transmission system may employ a single-ended signaling system in which the signaling voltage is referenced to a reference voltage that is a power supply voltage such as ground, shared by the first circuit and the second circuit.
US09881649B2	Assembled record player An assembled record player includes: a box having a cover and a base, and the cover being covered onto the base, and a accommodating space being included between the cover and the base; a record player contained in the accommodating space; at least one loudspeaker and contained in the accommodating space; and a circuit board contained in the accommodating space. The cover and the base are separated, and an accommodating hole is formed on the cover, and the record player is installed and fixed to the accommodating hole, and the loudspeaker and the circuit board are fixed to the base, and the circuit board is electrically connected to the record player and the loudspeaker, and the cover of the record player is covered onto the base to form the record player. Therefore, users can experience the fun of assembling the record player.
US09881646B2	Video preview creation with audio Providing a method for creating and displaying portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be associated with audio, such that when the video previews are activated, the audio may play with the video preview. When multiple video previews are organized to play as a playable group or composite of video previews, a corresponding composite audio file can play in response to an activation of the composite.
US09881642B2	Disk surface defect detection The present application provides a transducer head comprising a laser source configured to heat a target storage medium surface, and a thermal sensor configured to detect a defect on the target storage medium surface. The present application also provides a method comprising heating a target storage medium surface with an energy source configured in a transducer head to irradiate the target storage medium surface, and detecting a defect on the target storage medium surface using a thermal sensor configured in the transducer head. Other implementations are also described and recited herein.
US09881637B1	Methods and devices for spin torque oscillator control and monitoring An apparatus for microwave-assisted magnetic recording includes a magnetic write head operable to write data to a magnetic storage medium. The apparatus includes a spin-torque microwave oscillator coupled to the magnetic write head and operable to provide microwave radiation to the magnetic storage medium. The apparatus includes a driver circuit in communication with the magnetic write head. The driver circuit is operable to dynamically modulate bias current provided to the spin-torque microwave oscillator in sympathy with data being written to the magnetic storage medium by the magnetic write head.
US09881636B1	Escalation detection using sentiment analysis Systems and methods for escalation detection using sentiment analysis are disclosed. A computer-implemented method of the invention includes: determining, by a computer device, the occurrence of an interaction event between a first party and a second party within a recording including audio data; analyzing, by the computer device, the audio data for a change in tone over time; analyzing, by the computer device, the audio data for the presence of any negative tones; determining, by the computer device, whether the change in tone, the presence of any negative tones, or a combination of the change in tone and the presence of any negative tones, indicates an escalation during the interaction event to generate escalation data; and saving, by the computer device, the escalation data.
US09881629B2	System for maintaining reversible dynamic range control information associated with parametric audio coders On the basis of a bitstream (P), an n-channel audio signal (X) is reconstructed by deriving an m-channel core signal (Y) and multichannel coding parameters (α) from the bitstream, where 1≦m
US09881628B2	Mixed domain coding of audio In one example, a method includes obtaining an audio signal comprising a plurality of elements; generating a first Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) soundfield that represents the audio signal; selecting a set of elements of the audio signal for encoding in a non-Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) domain; generating, based on the selected set of elements and a set of spatial positioning vectors, a second HOA soundfield that represents the selected set of elements; generating a third HOA soundfield that represents a difference between the first HOA soundfield and the second HOA soundfield; and generate a coded audio bitstream that includes a representation of the selected set of elements in the non-HOA domain, an indication of the set of spatial positioning vectors, and a representation of the third HOA soundfield.
US09881621B2	Position-dependent hybrid domain packet loss concealment The present document relates to audio signal processing in general, and to the concealment of artifacts that results from loss of audio packets during audio transmission over a packet-switched network, in particular. A method (200) for concealing one or more consecutive lost packets (412, 413) is described. A lost packet (412) is a packet which is deemed to be lost by a transform-based audio decoder. Each of the one or more lost packets (412, 413) comprises a set of transform coefficients (313). A set of transform coefficients (313) is used by the transform-based audio decoder to generate a corresponding frame (412, 413) of a time domain audio signal. The method (200) comprises determining (205) for a current lost packet (412) of the one or more lost packets (412, 413) a number of preceding lost packets from the one or more lost packets (313); wherein the determined number is referred to as a loss position. Furthermore, the method comprises determining a packet loss concealment, referred to as PLC, scheme based on the loss position of the current packet; and determining (204, 207, 208) an estimate of a current frame (422) of the audio signal using the determined PLC scheme (204, 207, 208); wherein the current frame (422) corresponds to the current lost packet (412).
US09881617B2	Blind diarization of recorded calls with arbitrary number of speakers In a method of diarization of audio data, audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. Each utterance is represented as an utterance model representative of a plurality of feature vectors. The utterance models are clustered. A plurality of speaker models are constructed from the clustered utterance models. A hidden Markov model is constructed of the plurality of speaker models. A sequence of identified speaker models is decoded.
US09881608B2	Word-level correction of speech input The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data to a transcription system. The method further includes receiving a word lattice transcribed from the speech audio data by the transcription system. The method further includes presenting one or more transcribed words from the word lattice. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the presented transcribed words. The method further includes presenting one or more alternate words from the word lattice for the selected transcribed word. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the alternate words. The method further includes replacing the selected transcribed word in the presented transcribed words with the selected alternate word.
US09881601B2	Controlling stability in ANR devices Stability is provided in an active noise reduction (ANR) headphone by measuring a sound field to generate an input signal, filtering and applying a variable gain to the input signal to produce a first filtered signal using a first filter and a variable gain amplifier in an ANR signal pathway, outputting the filtered signal, and simultaneously with outputting the first filtered signal, sampling a signal at a point in the ANR signal pathway and filtering the sampled signal using a second filter to produce a second filtered signal. The second filtered signal is compared to a threshold, and if the comparison finds that the second filtered signal is greater than the threshold signal, the gain of the variable gain amplifier is changed to attenuate the first filtered signal. The second filter applies different gains, different by at least 10 dB, in different frequency ranges between 10 Hz and 10 kHz.
US09881597B2	Efficient combined harmonic transposition The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δf. The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of FΔf; with F being a resolution factor, with F≧1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F.
US09881596B2	System and method for analysis and creation of music A method and system for analyzing patterns in the relationships of notes of an input piece of music. The method comprises generating a set of the most frequently occurring note pitches in ascending pitch order that matches an interval pattern, and detecting out-of-key pitches that lie outside of this interval pattern. One or more potential key sequence bifurcations are identified which represent a list of possible key sequences according to forwards and backwards analysis. By finding patterns of repetition in the chordal sequences that may be generated according to these key sequence bifurcations, a key sequence that allows the most frequently recurring chord sequences may be chosen. Chord sequences may be analyzed by using ghost chords, temporary harmonic structures that are created, updated and finalized over time according to a combination of essential and inessential note fragments. The method further comprises identifying non-harmony pitches according to the analyzed chord sequence.
US09881595B2	Articulating amplifier stand Improvements in a tilting, lifting stand are presented. The tilt, lift stand is for a musical instrument stand or to elevate/tilt a speaker and or amplifier and rigidly supports a sousaphone brass type instruments, speaker or amplifier in an in a stored and in a playable or elevated position. The stand supports all or the majority of the weight of the instrument or speaker or amplifier in a static position to relieve the weight of the musical instrument or speaker or amplifier. The stand has legs that are extendable to rest on multiple levels as might be found in a stadium. The stand further has a securing mechanism that gently grasps a tubular section to hold the musical instrument. The speaker stand can be easily collapsed for transportation and storage.
US09881579B2	Low noise sensitivity source driver for display apparatus Disclosed is a source driver for a display apparatus which is insensitive to power noise, and a configuration of filtering an influence of power noise, which is introduced from an exterior of the source driver or occurs in an interior thereof, to an operation of the source driver. The present invention is applied to the case of receiving a clock signal and a data signal through the single signal line, and is embodied such that a source driver for driving a display apparatus for achieving a high speed operation and a large screen has a characteristic insensitive to power noise.
US09881576B2	Shift register, gate driving circuit, and display panel The present disclosure provides a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel and a display device. The shift register comprises an input module, a reset module, a pull-up module, a first pull-down module, a second pull-down module, an output control module, and an output denoising module. The output denoising module feeds the scanning signal back to the first control terminal of the output control module when the scanning signal output terminal outputs the scanning signal, thereby reducing noise of the signal of the first control terminal of the output control module and further reducing noise of the scanning signal outputted by the scanning signal output terminal.
US09881564B2	Electro-optic displays with reduced remnant voltage The invention provides materials and methods (including driving methods) for reducing the effects of remnant voltages in electro-optic displays.
US09881549B2	OLED pixel unit and method of driving the same, and OLED display device An OLED pixel unit, a method of driving the same and an OLED display device are provided. The OLED pixel unit comprises M driving modules, a light emitting module comprising N light emitting units and a selecting module for performing gating so that the light emitting unit about to emit light in each frame of picture is connected with the corresponding driving module, wherein M
US09881547B2	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of driving the same An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensing regions. The OLED display further includes a temperature sensor array comprising a plurality of temperature sensors respectively arranged on the sensing regions. The OLED display also includes a controller configured to output a plurality of control signals so as to sequentially select the temperature sensors, receive a plurality of output signals output from the temperature sensors selected by the control signals, and generate first temperature data corresponding to the locations of the selected temperature sensors based on the output signals.
US09881539B2	Display substrate and driving method thereof as well as display apparatus A display substrate and a driving method thereof as well as a display apparatus. The display substrate comprises pixel groups which are arranged repeatedly, each pixel group comprising a first sub-pixel group and a second sub-pixel group, each comprising four pixel columns. The present invention reduces the number of sub-pixels in the whole display apparatus. Therefore, on a premise of ensuring that the display apparatus achieves a relatively high resolution, the fabrication difficulty of the display apparatus is reduced, and the cost is lowered.
US09881534B2	Lighting fixture Provided is a lighting fixture, which belongs to the technical field of display equipment detection and can be used for solving the problem that an existing lighting fixture is liable to damage a detection probe in a detection process. The lighting fixture includes a work load platform, a lifting unit and a lighting test unit, wherein the work load platform is used for loading a display panel to be subjected to lighting test; the lifting unit is connected with the lighting test unit and used for driving the lighting test unit to ascend and descend; and the lighting test unit is provided with a plurality of probes and is driven by the lifting unit to contact the probes with a circuit test point on the display panel, in order to carry out the lighting test on the display panel. The lighting fixture is intelligent, flexile and strong in adaptability.
US09881528B2	Transparent liquid crystal display on display case Exemplary embodiment disclosed herein provide a point-of-sale advertising system for use with a display case having a front glass sheet positioned in front of a cavity for accepting goods, the system containing a transparent LCD positioned behind the front glass sheet, and a plurality of LEDs positioned adjacent to one pair of opposing edges of the LCD and arranged so that light which is emitted from the LEDs is directed backwards towards the cavity. Further embodiments may also contain a door assembly and frame surrounding the front glass sheet and LCD, a switch positioned to determine when the door assembly is open or closed, and electrical circuitry adapted to turn off the LEDs when the door is open and turn on the LEDs when the door is closed.
US09881524B2	Tamper evident labels The present invention includes laminates and a tamper indication system. In some embodiments, the laminate and the tamper indication system may change color to indicate exposure of the laminate to an acrylic-based adhesive.
US09881522B2	Chest tube simulation method and training device Disclosed herein is a chest tube trainer model. Specifically exemplified is a an anatomical model for simulating at least a portion of a thorax that includes a rib portion removably secured to and supported by a base, the rib portion comprised in whole or in part of a hydrogel; and a securing member for holding the anatomical model onto a human; wherein the rib portion has a convex shape defining a space between the base and the rib portion, the space is adapted for receiving a bladder disposed between the rib portion and the base; and at least a portion of the base is formed from puncture resistant material.
US09881518B2	Food intake controlling devices and methods Technologies are generally described for controlling food intake. Example devices/systems described herein may include an image sensor, a dietary information identifier, a dietary management unit, and an image display unit. The image sensor may capture an image of a dish or a menu. The dietary information identifier may identify the dish or menu from the image and provide meal dietary information based on the identified dish or menu. The dietary management unit may store personal dietary information and determine combined dietary information based on the personal dietary information and the meal dietary information. The image display unit may process the captured image based on the combined dietary information in such a manner that a part of the captured image is hidden on an image display unit or a part of color or text information of the captured image is changed on the image display unit.
US09881511B1	Monitoring and motivating health habits A system and a method are disclosed for analyzing health-related data associated with a user and suggesting goals to the user to improve health. The system and method monitor progress towards the goal.
US09881508B2	Collision detection system An aircraft ground collision detection system comprising: an object detection device for mounting on an aircraft and arranged to detect objects and output the location of each detected object; and a processor arranged to: receive the ground speed of the aircraft and the heading of the aircraft and the detected location of each detected object; predict the aircraft's path based on the ground speed and the heading; compare the predicted aircraft path with the object locations; and output an alert based on the overlap or proximity of the predicted aircraft path with the object locations. By predicting the path of the aircraft based on detected ground speed and heading, the system can accurately assess which detected objects pose a collision threat.
US09881503B1	Vehicle-to-pedestrian-communication systems and methods for using the same An autonomous-driving vehicle system, for implementation at an autonomous-driving vehicle. The autonomous-driving vehicle system includes a hardware-based processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising and input module and an activity module. The input module, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, obtains input data indicating presence of a pedestrian communication device near the autonomous-driving vehicle. The activity module, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit: (i) determines, based on the input data, in a pedestrian-presence determination, that the pedestrian communication device is or will soon be near the autonomous-driving vehicle, and (ii) determines, based on the pedestrian-presence determination, an autonomous-driving action to be implemented by the autonomous-driving vehicle. In other aspects, the present technology relates to a method or a non-transitory computer readable storage device, for performing any of the operations described.
US09881501B2	Driver assistance system with traffic light alert A traffic light alert system of a vehicle includes a display operable to display an iconistic traffic light representation with a background surrounding the displayed iconistic traffic light representation. A control is operable to adjust the display responsive to a determination of a status of a traffic light ahead of the vehicle and being approached by the vehicle. Responsive to determination of the traffic light ahead of the vehicle and determination that the traffic light has a particular signal status, the control controls the display so that the iconistic traffic light representation indicates the determined particular signal status and the surrounding background is displayed in a particular color associated with the determined particular signal status.
US09881497B2	Detecting road condition changes from probe data Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for identifying anomalies or changes in road conditions on a roadway location. An initial low rank data matrix of initial vehicle probe data at a plurality of different times for a roadway location is provided, where the initial low rank data matrix represents a baseline of road conditions for the roadway location. A plurality of additional vehicle probe data from at least one vehicle at the roadway location is received. The additional vehicle probe data is added to the initial vehicle probe data of the initial low rank data matrix. The updated data matrix with the compiled probe data is decomposed into a low rank data matrix and a sparse data matrix. A change at the roadway location is identified based on the probe data in the sparse data matrix.
US09881496B2	Remote control system electronic device and remote control method The invention provides a remote control system, including a cloud server, a first device and a portable electronic device. The first device includes a transmission interface for connecting to a second device. The portable electronic device sets up a transmission path to connect with the first device via the cloud server. The first device transmits type information including a type of the transmission interface to the portable electronic device through the transmission path. The portable electronic device encodes original data based on the type information to generate encoded data conforming to the transmission interface, and transmits the encoded data to the first device through the transmission path. The first device transmits the encoded data to the second device through the transmission interface, so as to control the second device.
US09881492B2	Security system with shielded devices The shielding status of a security system may be determined based on shielding statuses of individual devices in the security system. The shielding status of each individual device in the security system may be determined based on whether it is in a secured state and is properly functioning. The shielding status of the security system may be determined based on equally or unequally weighted shielding statuses of the individual devices. The shielding status of the security system may be transmitted to a mobile device carried by a user who is outside of the monitored environment. The shielding status of the security system may also be transmitted to the security monitoring company, the device vendor, or the homeowner insurance carrier, which may advertise products or services or provide incentives to the user based on the shielding status of the security system.
US09881491B2	Fire detector comprising a MOS gas sensor and a photoelectric detector A dual sensor fire detector includes a smoke sensor and a gas sensor. A source of radiant energy emits a primary beam that is formed into first and second beams. One beam is directed into a smoke sensing chamber. The other is directed to the gas sensor. Outputs from the smoke sensor and the gas sensor are combined to make a fire determination.
US09881484B1	Location-based warning notification using wireless devices A method and system for generating warning notifications using wireless indoor navigation technology is disclosed. The method comprises determining a location for an individual and a transportation device by receiving device identifiers (e.g., distinctive combination of numbers and/or characters uniquely identifying receiving devices associated with the individual and the transportation device) and location information, received from one or more beacons, from the receiving devices. The method comprises determining a location associated with the individual and the transportation device based on the location information and/or the device identifiers. The method also comprises receiving a destination location and determining an intended path for the transportation device. The method comprises warning the individual upon determining that the location associated with the individual is within a predetermined proximity to the transportation device or its intended path.
US09881460B2	Gaming system and method providing a bonus opportunity when a designated relationship exists between a plurality of randomly determined elements Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a bonus opportunity when a designated relationship exists between a plurality of randomly determined elements. The gaming system randomly generates a plurality of elements in association with a play of a secondary game. The gaming system determines whether a designated relationship exists between the randomly determined elements. If the designated relationship exists between the randomly determined elements, the gaming system determines a bonus opportunity associated with the randomly determined elements and provides the bonus opportunity to a player.
US09881453B2	Integrating remotely-hosted and locally rendered content on a gaming device A wager gaming machine may be configured not only to provide wagering games, but also to communicate with one or more hosts that can provide information and/or services pertaining to local wager gaming events, including but not limited to local tournaments, local restaurants, local messages (e.g., messages from other players in the gaming establishment), local social events, local sporting events, local dating opportunities, etc. Other hosts may provide information and/or services pertaining to business or finance (e.g., stock quotes), sports, news, weather, etc. Processes for conveying audio, video, etc., from host devices may be separate from processes used to control wager game presentations. At least some such processes may be able to output an associated “skin” on a video system of the wager gaming machine. These processes may involve providing one or more “widgets.” In some preferred implementations, at least a threshold level of one or more wager gaming machine resources will be made available to wager game presentations and related functions.
US09881452B2	Augmented or replaced application outcome interleaved wagering system An augmented or replaced application outcome interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller by a network, the interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive application outcomes, advancement of an interactive application being based on the application outcomes; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive application outcome requests; generate application outcomes; communicate the application outcomes; determine a wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connected to the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive the application telemetry; communicate the application outcome request; receive the application outcomes; communicate the application outcomes; receive the wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome.
US09881451B2	Gambling hybrid gaming system with accumulated trigger and deferred gambling Systems and methods for providing a gambling hybrid game with an accumulated trigger and deferred gambling are disclosed. The gambling hybrid game monitors an accumulation of an activating element during play of an entertainment game and activates a gambling game in a manner dependent upon the amount of the activating element accumulated during the play of the entertainment game. The gambling game may occur only after a sufficient amount of the activating element has been accumulated and/or at a particular point in game play of the entertainment game. Awards of a game currency and/or real credits based on the results of gambling events in the gambling game may also be determined by the accumulation of the activating element.
US09881450B2	Gaming system, gaming device, and method providing one or more alternative wager propositions if a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount Various embodiments of gaming systems, gaming devices, and methods of the present disclosure provide one or more alternative wagering propositions to a player when the player's credit balance is less than (or, in certain embodiments, less than or equal to) a designated wager amount. If the player accepts one of the alternative wager propositions, the player risks an amount of the player's remaining credit balance for a chance to win an alternative award. If the player wins the alternative award, the gaming system enables the player to play one or more plays of the wagering game at the designated wager amount. If the player does not win the alternative award, the gaming system reduces the player's credit balance by the amount risked.
US09881440B2	Apparatus for inventory control The invention provides an apparatus for controlling and monitoring the storage and dispensing of beverage products; the apparatus comprising: a plurality of product registration devices for registering the presence of beverage products in one or more storage locations, each product registration device being associated with one beverage product or group of beverage products; a plurality of metering dispensers in a sales location from which one or more authorized users can dispense beverage products to customers; a plurality of locking means for preventing dispensing of a beverage product, each locking means being operatively linked to a different one of said metering dispensers; a plurality of user identifying devices for identifying authorized users, each user identifying device being operatively linked to a different one of said locking means so that an authorized user can unlock the said locking means and thereby dispense a beverage product from an operatively linked ‘metering dispenser; and a processor which receives and processes data from the said product registration devices, the user identifying devices and the metering dispensers and records the placing of beverage products in the one or more storage locations, the transfer of beverage products from the one or more storage locations to the sales location; and the dispensing of beverage products from the metering dispensers by authorized users; and calculates the total value of each customer transaction made by each authorized user. Two locks or safeguards are provided to prevent unauthorized removal of an optic element. The locks are interlocked.
US09881429B2	Segmenting operational data Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for segmenting operational data and identifying events of interest in the segmented operational data. With the events of interest identified, a total time between the events of interest can be determined.
US09881426B2	3D patient interface device selection system and method An electronic apparatus for use in selecting a patient interface device and including a geometric fit score determining unit (42) configured to calculate a geometric fit score for each of one or more of patient interface devices, a patient criteria fit score determining unit (44) configured to calculate a patient criteria fit score for each of the one or more patient interface devices, and an overall fit score determining unit (46) configured to calculate an overall fit score for each of the one or more patient interface devices based on the calculated geometric fit score and the calculated patient criteria fit score for each of the one or more patient interface devices.
US09881424B2	Virtual reality display method and system Embodiments of the present invention relates to the technical field of augmented reality. A virtual reality display method includes: acquiring a real scene picture; retrieving from the real scene picture a target image having the same shape and color with a sample image, and extracting the space coordinates of the target image; and shielding off or highlighting the target image according to the space coordinates. From the perspective of subtraction and on the basis of a real scene, the virtual reality display method and system according to the embodiment of the present invention achieve the effect of shielding off or weakening interference information of the real scene and highlighting the real subject of interest by means of shielding off or highlighting.
US09881419B1	Technique for providing an initial pose for a 3-D model In one embodiment, augmented reality is facilitated by a special initialization user interface that shows multiple views of a three-dimensional (3-D) model and a representation of a physical environment captured by a camera, where each of the multiple views is updated substantially in real-time as changes are made in another of the multiple views. An approximate lateral position of the representation of the physical environment with respect to the 3-D model is received through user interaction with a first of the views. An approximate orientation of the representation of the physical environment with respect to the 3-D model is received through user interaction with a second of the views. Correspondence is established between a plurality of portions of the 3-D model and a plurality of portions of the representation of the physical environment to anchor the 3-D model to the representation of the physical environment.
US09881418B2	Identifying features in polygonal meshes A polygonal mesh is received and the edges and vertices of the polygonal mesh are analyzed. A positive (e.g., convex or protruding) feature may be identified where the positive feature is bound by a non-concave edge (e.g., a convex edge or a planar edge). A negative (e.g., concave or receding) feature may also be identified where the negative feature is bound by a non-convex edge (e.g., a concave edge or a planar edge).
US09881412B2	Image generation device and operation support system An image generation device generates an output image based on an image obtained by taking images by an image-taking part mounted to a body to be operated, which boy is capable of performing a turning operation. A coordinates correspondence part causes coordinates on a columnar space model, which is arranged to surround the body to be operated and has a center axis, to correspond to coordinates on an image plane on which the input image is positioned. An output image generation part generates the output image by causing values of the coordinates on the input image plane to correspond to values of the coordinates on an output image plane on which the output image is positioned through coordinates on the columnar space model. The columnar space model is arranged so that an optical axis of the image-taking part intersects with the center axis of said columnar space model.
US09881397B2	Method and system for constructing a graph representing a building One inventive aspect relates to a method of constructing a graph representing a building (BAT) in which a person (U) moves. In one inventive aspect, the method is adapted to receiving information about the movement of the person in the building over a period of time, the information being collected and transmitted by a portable device (D) associated with the person (U), and in constructing at least one branch of the graph from received movement information. One inventive aspect also provides a method of remotely tracking the activity of a person in a building as a function of the constructed graph. One inventive aspect also provides a server (S) implementing the method of constructing a graph.
US09881395B2	Rendering multi-part glyphs Disclosed herein are technologies for facilitating rendering of glyphs. In accordance with one aspect, a vector-based glyph is decomposed into multiple part-glyphs. A font file including rendering data of the part-glyphs is generated. The part-glyphs are individually configured with respective properties. A mapping file that includes configuration information of the part-glyphs may also be generated. The configuration information may include grouping information and the respective properties of the part-glyphs.
US09881391B2	Procedurally defined texture maps A procedural texture relates texel coordinates to color values through an arbitrary function, herein called a texel shader. The procedural texture is defined by a dimension, size, texel format and the texel shader. Texel coordinates are an input to the texel shader, which generates a color value for those texel coordinates. A renderer can be implemented either in hardware, such as part of a graphics processor, or in software as a computer program executed by a processor. The renderer samples from the procedural texture in response to texel coordinates, and evaluates the texel shader on demand. Filtering also can be applied automatically to results. The results of the texel shader invocations are stored in a texture cache to take advantage of spatial and temporal locality. Results are shared among threads, processes and the like through the texture cache.
US09881386B1	Systems and methods of object shape and position determination in three-dimensional (3D) space Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on edge points thereof.
US09881380B2	Methods and systems of performing video object segmentation Techniques and systems are described for performing video segmentation using fully connected object proposals. For example, a number of object proposals for a video sequence are generated. A pruning step can be performed to retain high quality proposals that have sufficient discriminative power. A classifier can be used to provide a rough classification and subsampling of the data to reduce the size of the proposal space, while preserving a large pool of candidate proposals. A final labeling of the candidate proposals can then be determined, such as a foreground or background designation for each object proposal, by solving for a posteriori probability of a fully connected conditional random field, over which an energy function can be defined and minimized.
US09881371B2	System for visualization of a cancer diagnosis Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for automatic ER/PR scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying a positive stained nucleus in a slide image of the tissue sample, identifying a negative stained nucleus in the slide image, computing a proportion score based on number of the positive stained nucleus identified and number of the negative stained nucleus identified and determining the cancer diagnosis score based on the proportion.
US09881353B2	Buffers for display acceleration Embodiments enable a graphics processor to more efficiently process graphics and compositing processing commands. In certain embodiments, a client application submits client graphics commands to a graphics driver. The client in certain embodiments can notify a window server that client graphics commands have been submitted. In response, the window server can generate compositing processing commands and provide these commands to the graphics driver. Advantageously, a graphics processor can execute the client graphics commands while the window server generates compositing processing commands. As a result, processing resource can be used more efficiently.
US09881349B1	Apparatus and methods for computerized object identification Apparatus and methods for identification of a coded pattern visible to a computerized imaging apparatus while invisible or inconspicuous to human eyes. A pattern and/or marking may serve to indicate identity of an object, and/or the relative position of the pattern to a viewer. While some solutions exist for identifying patterns (for example, QR codes), they may be visually obtrusive to a human observer due to visual clutter. In exemplary implementations, apparatus and methods are capable of generating patterns with sufficient structure to be used for either discrimination or some aspect of localization, while incorporating spectral properties that are more aesthetically acceptable such as being: a) imperceptible or subtle to the human observer and/or b) aligned to an existing acceptable visual form, such as a logo. In one variant, a viewer comprises an imaging system comprised as a processor and laser scanner, or camera, or moving photodiode.
US09881338B2	System and method for automated trading of financial interests A derived order gives a participant simultaneous access to liquidity across multiple books, destinations, or marketplaces. The derived order can be placed and anchored in one trading venue and simultaneously replicated in another trading venue. A participant can place the derived order in the lit book as an anchor book and replicate the order in the hybrid book and/or the dark book, or alternatively, the participant can place the derived order in the hybrid book as an anchor book and replicate the order in the dark book. A trading engine can be configured to replicate an order in different books and guarantee that each order is only executed once. When an order is replicated, the trading engine can check the stored record to see where the order was placed, and then adjust or cancel an order in one book when it is being fulfilled in a different book.
US09881336B2	Foreign currency exchange system and method A foreign currency exchange system and method are provided that allows the user to exchange various foreign currency for a physical or electronic gift card, a donation to a charity, a stored foreign currency value card and/or a multi-currency debit cash card.
US09881324B2	Apparatus and method of wireless instant messaging A wireless communication device declares one of a plurality of extended instant messaging states and transmits the declared states to a presence information server. Declared extended instant messaging states for destination devices are received, and an enhanced instant message based on declared extended instant messaging states is generated.
US09881323B1	Providing hard-to-block advertisements for display on a webpage Methods and systems of the invention provide advertisements or other content for a webpage. An example is providing portions of an advertisement as separate items in multiple formats, multiple positions, and/or from multiple locations so that at least some of the advertisement is still displayed to a requesting user even though advertisement-blocking mechanisms are used.
US09881321B2	Method for identifying bundled software and apparatus therefor A method for identifying bundled software and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises: detecting a user interface for software installation; acquiring text information on the user interface; determining whether bundled software exists; and, based upon the determination, extracting the name and amount of bundled software from the text information and prompting the name and the amount of the bundled software. The embodiments may identify bundled software before installing software and avoid starting the bundled software process, having the effect of anti-bundling on the bundled software in advance. By extracting the name of the bundled software, acquiring the amount of bundled software, and prompting the name and amount of the bundled software, a user is able to determine whether to install the bundled software according to his or her requirements, thereby improving the autonomous right of selection of the user in the process of installing software.
US09881318B1	Attributing web-based user actions to multivariate test parameters associated with publisher content Certain embodiments herein relate to attributing or associating a user's actions with respect to web page content to the multivariate test parameters. For example, a user's purchase of a product after clicking on an ad in the web page content may be attributed to multivariate test parameters corresponding to the placement of the ad, the size of the ad image, whether a border is placed around the ad, any number of attributes associated with the ad, the content in which the ad is placed, etc. In certain embodiments, a user's actions may occur at a device that is separate from the publisher device. Techniques described herein may attribute or associate such actions with a publisher's web page content such that publishers may be made aware of the effectiveness of the placement, layout, orientation, etc., of their web page content based on how users reacted to such attributes.
US09881316B2	Performance based approval in CMS workflow process A method for testing a new workflowed item associated with a workflow process in a content management system (CMS) is provided. The method may include adding a workflow stage to the workflow process in the content management system (CMS). The method may also include adding a test associated with the workflow stage. The method may further include determining if a criteria threshold is met based on the test associated with the workflow stage. Additionally, the method may include publishing the new workflowed item based on the criteria threshold being met.
US09881300B2	Technologies for split key security Technologies for split key security include a payment device to generate a key encryption key and a first key encryption key part. The payment device generates a second key encryption key part based on the key encryption key and the first key encryption key part and deletes the key encryption key in response to generating the second key encryption key part. Further, the payment device stores the first key encryption key part to a secure memory of a security co-processor of the payment device and the second key encryption key part to a secure memory of a secondary processor of the payment device. The secondary processor is electrically coupled to a backup energy source.
US09881299B2	System and method for processing financial transactions Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for receiving data from a giver at a first time, the data being used to identify a merchant at which a gift from the giver to a recipient is redeemable. The system presents a group of merchants associated with the data to the giver, each merchant of the group of merchants offering a promotion in connection with the gift. The system receives from the giver a selection of a chosen merchant from the group of merchants, the chosen merchant having an associated promotion. The system then generates a policy comprising the gift, the chosen merchant, and the associated promotion such that upon receiving an indication of a triggering event caused by the recipient, the system can apply the gift and the associated promotion according to the policy.
US09881298B2	Credit card system and method A credit card system is provided which has the added feature of providing additional limited use credit card numbers and/or cards. These numbers and/or cards can be used for a single or limited use transaction, thereby reducing the potential for fraudulent reuse of these numbers and/or cards. The credit card system finds application to “card remote” transactions such as by phone or Internet. Additionally, when a single use or limited use credit card is used for “card present” transactions, so called “skimming” fraud is eliminated. Various other features enhance the credit card system, which will allow secure trade without the use of elaborate encryption techniques. Methods for limiting, distributing and using a limited use card number, controlling the validity of a limited use credit card number, conducting a limited use credit card number transaction and providing remote access devices for accessing a limited use credit card number are also provided.
US09881296B1	Processing a mobile payload Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing a payment request. A mobile device associated with a payor may generate a user interface having two screen portions. The first screen portion may be configured to display received and sent messages and further configured to receive a command to transmit a message. The second screen portion may be configured to access a third-party application and configured to populate a new message with a payload. The mobile device may receive an inputted amount in the second screen portion representing the payment amount. The mobile device may transmit a request including the payor's identification and the payment amount to a third-party Payment Processing System (PPS) and receive a payload from the PPS. The mobile device may populate and transmit a message to the recipient that contains the payload.
US09881294B2	RF payment via a mobile device A nontraditional transaction device, for example a mobile device, may be employed to complete a transaction. The mobile device may utilize radio frequency (RF) communication and/or authentication to facilitate completion of a transaction. Secondary identification information, for example voice recognition data, biometric recognition data, or alphanumeric data, may be utilized for secondary end user authentication. For security reasons, the mobile device account data may transmitted after the secondary identification information is verified.
US09881292B2	Point of sale (POS) docking station system and method for a mobile barcode scanner gun system with mobile tablet device or stand alone mobile tablet device A mobile scanner gun system processes a POS sale transaction and performs real-time daily store level inventory management. The system includes a main body portion extending toward a handle portion and forms an interior cavity and an aperture with a lens. A plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) mobile input devices are attached to the mobile scanner gun, including a barcode scanner and payment card input devices including a “Magnetic Stripe Reader” (MSR) and a “Europay, MasterCard and Visa” (EMV) reader, both with USB access to a PIN Entry Device (PED) and a “Near Field Communications” (NFC) reader through a specialized universal serial bus wiring harness. The specialized universal series bus wiring harness is adapted to be attached to and communicate with the mobile tablet device for communicating with a system integrated therein that enables store level real-time inventory management and a fully functioning POS capability for selling merchandise in a retail sales environment. A main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) having a previously programmed Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) controlling all MSR, EMV or NFC operations through the corresponding payment card input devices of each. When a customer payment card is swiped through the MSR slot or dipped into EMV reader or tapped on the NFC reader for payment card processing, customer payment is processed through the proper secured bank card processing network.
US09881289B2	System and method for point of sale transaction logging The present disclosure generally relates to a method and a hardware and software system for collecting data from retch point of sale. The hardware connects to a wide variety of barcode scanners and receipt printers. Collected data is transmitted to a cloud-based infrastructure backend system using a wireless inter net connection built into the hardware. The collected data can be processed to extract item-level transaction information, and estimate the price and in-stock status of items in particular shops. A search engine can be provided using this data, which allows a customer to discover which nearby shop has an item of interest in stock. A targeted advertising system that complements this search service is also presented. The data can be used by retailers and manufacturers for business analysis and optimization.
US09881287B1	Dual interface mobile payment register A mobile payment register can generate a first user interface on a display. The first user interface is adapted to accept an input to process a first operation by a first user associated with a payment transaction. The payment transaction requires inputs into the mobile payment register by at least two users. The mobile payment register detects, via a sensor, a re-orientation motion. The re-orientation motion can cause the display to change from a first orientation substantially facing the first user to a second orientation substantially facing a second user. In response to detecting the re-orientation motion, the display can replace at least a portion of the first user interface with at least a portion of a second user interface such that input elements on the second user interface are able to accept an input from the second user to authorize or modify the payment transaction.
US09881286B2	Vehicle charging control apparatus, vehicle charging control method, and information terminal A vehicle charging control apparatus includes: a unit which presents unit prices of charging power; a unit which issues an instruction for preferentially charging a vehicle for which allowable time is short in proportion to request amount; and a unit which determines whether there is another allowable time which is associated with the request amount and meets a condition that the other allowable time is longer than the allowable time and the unit price associated with the other allowable time is lower than the unit price associated with the request amount and the allowable time. The unit prices are set lower when associated with a longer allowable time and also set lower when associated with a smaller request amount. When the other allowable time meets the condition, the other allowable time and the unit price associated with the other allowable time are presented.
US09881280B2	Method and apparatus for searching for text messages A method is performed on a handheld device that involves receiving a search term and searching through stored text message information of multiple text messages for the search term. A listing of text message conversations are listed on the display where each listed conversation has at least one text message whose text message information was found to include the search term. And, in response to a user selection of one of the conversations, a sequence of text messages within the one selected conversation is displayed.
US09881278B2	Ticket-based harvest life cycle information management: system and method A system and method is presented for gathering data concerning harvests. Data tickets are generated at a point of origination (i.e., the field), local storage, processing, or a customer location. Data tickets may also be generated for supplies delivered to the field. Implements attached to a vehicle in the field (e.g., a tractor) may provide data over a vehicle communication bus about how a field processing task was performed. Data may be extracted from the bus to use in preparing a field processing ticket, possibly in combination with manual entry from field personnel. A harvest data tracking system, based on data tickets, may be used to track the complete life cycle of crop production.
US09881277B2	Wrist band haptic feedback system Inventory management systems and related methods employ radio frequency based tracking of a worker's hands to monitor performance of inventory tasks. An inventory management system includes inventory bins, a user-wearable unit configured to be worn in proximity to a user's hand, fixed RF antennas configured to transmit at least one RF interrogation signal and receive at least one RF response signal, a RF transceiver operatively coupled with the fixed RF antennas, and a management module operatively coupled with the RF transceiver. The user-wearable unit includes an RF transceiver configured to transmit RF response signals in response to reception of the at least one RF interrogation signal. The management module is configured to process signals generated by the RF transceiver to track locations of the user-wearable unit and identify an inventory bin based on proximity of the user-wearable unit to the identified inventory bin to monitor performance of an inventory system task.
US09881264B2	Mobile system and method for processing secure remote in person transactions A mobile system and method are provided for securely sending, receiving and signing documents remote from a home office. A mobile unit capable of connecting to a home corporate network where documents are stored relating to a transaction is used as part of the system. While in route to or at the remote signing location, the mobile unit connects to the corporate network and prints the documents, or the home office sends the documents through a secure wireless connection to the mobile unit. The transaction is conducted at a remote location, and the executed documents are scanned and sent securely to the corporate network. The housing and mobile unit may be moved to a subsequent location and the mobile unit connects, while in route to or at the subsequent location, prints the documents for the subsequent transaction.
US09881262B2	Undo/redo of database files for modifying re-accommodation Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for modifying re-accommodations. A report characterizing execution of a re-accommodation may be stored in a report database. The report may include an impacted Passenger Name Record (PNR) table that associates each PNR impacted by the re-accommodation with an identifier. The identifier may identify an envelope in a history file comprising a portion of the history file that documents changes made to the PNR by the re-accommodation. In response to receiving a request to modify the re-accommodation, the report may be retrieved from the report database. PNRs impacted by the previous re-accommodation, and changes made to each PNR, may be determined using data in the impacted PNR table and the history files of the PNRs. The impacted PNR table may thereby enable building and execution of a modifying re-accommodation that selectively undoes or redoes a previously executed re-accommodation to implement new solutions to scheduling changes.
US09881260B2	Mobile ticketing Embodiments of a transit ticket system are provided. The transit ticket system may include a mobile computing device configured to (i) download a mobile ticketing application from a ticket management server, the mobile ticketing application including a graphical data sheet, a ticket dictionary, and ticket strings, (ii) receive ticket rendering instructions from the ticket management server in response to completion of a ticket purchase process via the mobile computing device, and (iii) render for display an active ticket on the mobile computing device with data stored on the mobile computing device based on the ticket rendering instructions, the graphical data sheet, ticket dictionary, and ticket strings in response to an activation input command.
US09881249B2	Unique method to simultaneously manufacture paper substrate transaction card and display carrier An in-line process is provided for economical and concurrent manufacture of attractive flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers with or without an RFID chip embedded therein. In the user-friendly process, one or more continuous webs from roller paper are automatically fed and sequentially advanced through a series of operations and stations in a single pass to simultaneously produce the flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers.
US09881247B2	Method for producing a smart card having a plurality of components and card obtained in this way A method is provided for producing a smart card including at least one chip and another electronic component having a face accessible from the outside. The method includes: forming a card body having two opposing faces and in which at least two recesses are formed, one being a through-recess extending from one of the faces to the other, forming a first module including the chip and forming a second module separate from the first module and including the other electronic component, the second module including a support to which the component is secured opposite the face that must be accessible, securing the second module in the through-recess from the face of the body that is opposite the face through which the face of the component must be accessible, via a shoulder in the through-recess, and securing the first module in the other recess.
US09881237B2	Real-time line feed measurement of inkjet printer Disclosed is a method of determining characteristics of a printer, the method comprising the steps of receiving print data, defining dot locations to be printed on a print medium, determining from the dot locations a dot frequency measure reflecting the number of dots to be printed on at least a part of the print medium, forming a simulated reference image of the print data comprising simulated dots corresponding to the dot locations in the print data, determining a size of the simulated dots in the reference image, this size being inversely related to the dot frequency measure, printing the print data on the print medium using the image forming apparatus to form a printed image, and determining characteristics of the image forming apparatus by comparing the printed image and the simulated reference image.
US09881236B2	Organizing images associated with a user A method includes identifying images associated with a user, where the image is identified as at least one of captured by a user device associated with the user, stored on the user device associated with the user, and stored in cloud storage associated with the user. The method also includes for each of the images, determining one or more labels, wherein the one or more labels are based on at least one of metadata and a primary annotation. The method also includes generating a mapping of the one or more labels to one or more confidence scores, wherein the one or more confidence scores indicate an extent to which the one or more labels apply to corresponding images. The method also includes interacting with the user to obtain identifying information that is used to categorize one or more of the images.
US09881234B2	Systems and methods for end-to-end object detection Presented are systems and methods that provide a unified end-to-end detection pipeline for object detection that achieves impressive performance in detecting very small and highly overlapped objects in face and car images. Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an accurate and efficient one-stage FCN-based object detector that may be optimized end-to-end during training. Certain embodiments train the object detector on a single scale using jitter-augmentation integrated landmark localization information through joint multi-task learning to improve the performance and accuracy of end-to-end object detection. Various embodiments apply hard negative mining techniques during training to bootstrap detection performance. The presented are systems and methods are highly suitable for situations where region proposal generation methods may fail, and they outperform many existing sliding window fashion FCN detection frameworks when detecting objects at small scales and under heavy occlusion conditions.
US09881230B2	System and method for automated road identification in distant traffic camera images In embodiments the invention provides methods and systems for improved monitoring of roadways and related resources. The methods employ frugal devices such as remote webcams, and provide methods for improving the quality and usefulness of the data obtained from such devices.
US09881226B1	Object relation builder Recommendations can be generated even in situations where sufficient user information is unavailable for providing personalized recommendations. Instead of generating recommendations for an item based on item type or category, a relation graph can be consulted that enables other items to be recommended that are related to the item in some way, which may be independent of the type or category of item. For example, images of models, celebrities, or everyday people wearing items of clothing, jewelry, handbags, shoes, and other such items can be received and analyzed to recognize those items and cause them to be linked in the relation graph. When generating recommendations or selecting advertisements, the relation graph can be consulted to recommend products that other people have obtained with the item from any of a number of sources, such that the recommendations may be more valuable to the user.
US09881209B2	Methods and systems for detecting tampering in a document image In one embodiment, an image processing device for detecting tampering in a document image is disclosed. The image processing device comprises a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores processor instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to determine an image quality of the document image by analyzing one or more quality features extracted from the document image. The processor is caused to pre-process the document image based on a pre-defined ontology of documents when the image quality is above a pre-defined quality threshold. Further, the processor is caused to segment the pre-processed document image into one or more region of interests based on the pre-defined ontology of documents and detect tampering in a region of interest in the document image by processing each region of interest of the one or more region of interests to detect tampering in the document image.
US09881208B2	Neural network based recognition of mathematical expressions Provided are methods and system for recognizing characters such as mathematical expressions or chemical formulas. An example method comprises the steps of receiving and processing an image by a pre-processing module to obtain one or more candidate regions, extracting features of each of the candidate regions by a feature extracting module such as a convolutional neural network (CNN), encoding the features into a distributive representation for each of the candidate regions separately using an encoding module such as a first long short-term memory (LSTM) based neural network, decoding the distributive representation into output representations using a decoding module such as a second LSTM-based recurrent neural network, and combining the output representations into an output expression, which is outputted in a computer-readable format or a markup language.
US09881207B1	Methods and systems for real-time user extraction using deep learning networks Methods and systems for real-time user extraction using deep learning networks. In one embodiment, user extraction comprises obtaining a given frame of color pixel data, checking whether a reset flag is cleared or set, and generating a trimap for the given frame. If the reset flag is cleared, generating the trimap comprises: obtaining a user-extraction contour based on a preceding frame; and generating the trimap based on the obtained user-extraction contour. If the reset flag is set, generating the trimap comprises: detecting at least one persona feature in the given frame; generating an alpha mask by aligning an intermediate contour with the detected persona feature(s), wherein the intermediate contour is based on a color-based flood-fill operation performed on a previous frame which was segmented by a machine-learning-segmentation process; and generating the trimap based on the generated alpha mask. The generated trimap is output for extracting a user persona.
US09881204B2	Method for determining authenticity of a three-dimensional object A method for determining authenticity of an object includes, detecting the object included in each of a plurality of two-dimensional images captured at different angles, detecting one or more feature points in the detected object, generating three-dimensional data representing a surface around each of the one or more feature points, generating a similarity value of the generated three-dimensional data relative to referential three-dimensional data, with respect to each of the one or more feature points, and determining whether or not the object is a real object, based on the similarity value generated with respect to each of the one or more feature points.
US09881195B2	Apparatus for recognizing biometric information and method for activating a plurality of piezoelectric element individually The present invention relates to a biological information recognition apparatus and a method for selectively activating, by the biological information recognition apparatus, a plurality of piezoelectric elements. More particularly, the present invention relates to a biological information recognition apparatus which may be used to identify a user by recognizing biological information, such as the fingerprint, blood vessels, and bones of a finger of the user, and a method of driving the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a methodology for individually activating a plurality of piezoelectric elements included in the biological information recognition apparatus and scanning biological information using a method different from a conventional method by selectively activating the plurality of piezoelectric elements. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to forming the piezoelectric elements on a substrate in a pattern of a form which is different from a conventional pattern of a matrix form and more efficiently identifying biological information.
US09881191B2	Method of controlling operation of cataloged smart devices A method of controlling operation of cataloged smart devices includes generating an image of an item using a camera of a mobile computing device, the item corresponding to a smart device, identifying the item in the image, establishing a link to the smart device in response to identifying the item in the image, and controlling the smart device using the mobile computing device after establishing the link to the smart device.
US09881190B2	Detector logic and radio identification device and method for enhancing terminal operations An electronic device operable with a radio frequency identification device operable with a detector logic and a method for operating the electronic device with a radio frequency identification device and a detector logic is provided. Firstly, a detection event is registered by the detector logic. The detected event relates to an operation of the radio frequency identification device, which is applicable to transmit data to a counterpart radio frequency identification device. A detection signal is generated and issued by the detector logic in response to the registering and detection event, respectively, which detection signal is received by the electronic device. Then, the electronic device initiates one or more operations in response to the receiving of the detection signal.
US09881188B2	Use of a tag and reader antenna for a simulated theremin effect The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for providing an audible feedback based on a proximity or a link quality between an external reader and a tag. The external reader transmits power to the tag with a radio frequency electromagnetic signal. The tag may rectify the radio frequency electromagnetic signal and create a rectified voltage. This rectified voltage may be used to power various components of the tag. Once it receives power from the reader, the tag may communicate information back to the external reader. The information communicated back to the reader is communicated by modulating an antenna impedance of the tag. By modulating the impedance, the tag will backscatter radiation transmitted by the reader. The reader is able to create an audio output based on determining the proximity or link quality from the reader to the tag based on the backscatter radiation it receives from the tag.
US09881183B2	System and method for recovering from an interrupted encryption and decryption operation performed on a volume Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable medium may have instructions stored thereon, the instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: (i) receive a generalized command from an application of an information handling system, the generalized command including an encryption or decryption task; (ii) convert the generalized command into a format recognizable by an encryption accelerator; (iii) provide the generalized command to the encryption accelerator in the format recognizable by the encryption accelerator; and (iv) instruct a cryptoprocessor to provide an encryption key for use in connection with the generalized command, the encryption key is unique to a storage resource, the encryption key further based on a security policy, wherein the security policy defines whether an encryption or decryption task is to be executed based on one or more of: a user logged into the information handling system, characteristics of the storage resource, or characteristics regarding a directory path of data to be written or read.
US09881176B2	Fragmenting data for the purposes of persistent storage across multiple immutable data structures Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests; selecting a first subset of the values as corresponding to higher-security fields; segmenting a first value in the first subset; instructing a first computing device to store a first subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory; and instructing a second computing device to store a second subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory.
US09881167B2	Sanitization of vitual machine images Sanitizing a virtual machine image of sensitive data is provided. Labeling dependencies and sanitization dependencies between a plurality of software components in the virtual machine image are identified based on labeling execution policies located in a labeler module and sanitization execution policies located in a sanitizer module, respectively. The labeler module and the sanitizer module are inserted in the virtual machine image. A sensitivity level label of a plurality of sensitivity labels is attached to identified sensitive data from the sensitive data contained in the virtual machine image based on the identified labeling dependencies. In response to receiving an input to perform a sanitization of the identified sensitive data having attached sensitivity level labels contained in the virtual machine image, the sanitization of the identified sensitive data having the attached sensitivity level labels contained in the virtual machine image is performed based on the identified sanitization dependencies.
US09881161B2	System on chip to perform a secure boot, an image forming apparatus using the same, and method thereof A system on chip is provided. The system on chip includes a first memory to store a plurality of encryption keys, a second memory, a third memory to store an encryption key setting value, and a CPU to decrypt encrypted data which is stored in an external non-volatile memory using an encryption key corresponding to the encryption key setting value from among the plurality of encryption keys, to store the decrypted data in the second memory, and to perform a boot using data stored in the second memory. Accordingly, security of a boot operation can be improved.
US09881158B2	Secure option ROM control A mechanism for controlling the execution of Option ROM code on a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-compliant computing device is discussed. A security policy enforced by the firmware may be configured by the computing platform designer/IT administrator to take different actions for different types of detected expansion cards or other devices due to the security characteristics of Option ROM drivers associated with the expansion card or device. The security policy may specify whether authorized signed UEFI Option ROM drivers, unauthorized but signed UEFI Option ROM drivers, unsigned UEFI Option ROM drivers and legacy Option ROM drivers are allowed to execute on the UEFI-compliant computing device.
US09881156B2	Detecting heap spraying on a computer Detecting heap spraying on a computer by determining that values of characteristics of a plurality of requests to allocate portions of heap memory are consistent with benchmark values of the characteristics, wherein the benchmark values of the characteristics are associated with heap spraying; and performing a computer-security-related remediation action responsive to determining that the values of the characteristics are consistent with the benchmark values of the characteristics.
US09881151B2	Providing selective system privileges on an information handling device Devices, methods and products are described that provide for selective system or root level access for applications on an information handling device. One aspect provides a method comprising determining whether an application has system privileges on an information handling device; and executing privileged code from the application on said information handling device responsive to determining that the application has system privileges through one or more native services operating on said information handling device. Other aspects and embodiments are also described herein.
US09881149B2	Methods, systems, and products for authentication of users Methods, systems, and products authenticate users for access to devices, applications, and services. Skills of a user are learned over time, such that an electronic model of random subject matter may be generated. The user is prompted to interpret the random subject matter, such as with an electronic drawing. The user's interpretation is then compared to the electronic model of the random subject matter. If the user's interpretation matches the electronic model, the user may be authenticated.
US09881148B2	Authentication processing device for performing authentication processing The present invention is to enable a user to input authentication information without burden, such that the user only has to memorize part of the authentication information even when inputting lengthy authentication information in order to ensure high-level security. When an operation of inputting and arranging authentication information in an information arrangement region is performed in a state where an arrangement status of a specified portion in the information arrangement region is set in advance as partial-authentication reference information in a reference authentication information memory, a CPU detects an arrangement status of the specified portion from an overall arrangement status in the information arrangement region, and performs, as partial authentication, processing of matching the detected arrangement status of the specified portion and the arrangement status of the specified portion set as the partial-authentication reference information.
US09881144B2	Identifying usage of code As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, includes receiving a deployed computer application to be staged, where the deployed computer application includes monitored items corresponding to a downloaded code package, verifying the integrity of the downloaded code package included in the deployed computer application, and staging the deployed computer application to provide a staged computer application. The method further includes monitoring the staged computer application for usage of monitored items corresponding to the downloaded code package and billing a customer according to usage of the monitored items. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
US09881136B2	Methods and systems for managing patient treatment compliance Provided are computer implemented method and systems for providing and monitoring patient compliance with a patient healthcare treatment plan. The method includes receiving, from a healthcare provider over a network, application features for generating a patient application including patient instructions for using a medical therapy, and generating an application for a patient. The application includes at least an input for the user to input data for use in evaluating patient compliance with a treatment plan. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the healthcare provider over the network, a prescription for the application for the patient, and activating the application after the patient receives training on use of the application. The method also may include receiving patient compliance data from the application over the network based on the input.
US09881121B2	Verification method of mask pattern, manufacturing method of a semiconductor device and nontransitory computer readable medium storing a mask pattern verification program According to one embodiment, an inscribed figure as circle or an oval inscribed in a rectangular pattern of designed layout data is calculated, a difference in area between a lithographic shape corresponding to the rectangular pattern and the inscribed figure is calculated, and it is determined whether the difference in area satisfies a predetermined specification.
US09881119B1	Methods, systems, and computer program product for constructing a simulation schematic of an electronic design across multiple design fabrics Disclosed are techniques for generating a parasitic-aware simulation schematic across multiple design fabrics. These techniques identify a first extracted model from existing extracted models for a first circuit component design in a first layout in a first design fabric of an electronic design that spans across multiple design fabrics. These techniques further generate a simulation schematic by inserting the first extracted model into the simulation schematic. In addition, a simulation may be performed with the simulation schematic to generate simulation results. Schematic models, if existing, may also be used to revise the simulation schematic. For circuit component designs corresponding to no extract models or schematic models, one or more extracted models placeable in the simulation schematic may also be constructed to update the simulation schematic.
US09881117B1	Predictive circuit design for integrated circuits A method for creating a circuit design for an integrated circuit includes, responsive to a request to modify a current circuit design, determining, using a processor, a first core used in the current circuit design and predicting, using the processor, a second core not yet included in the current circuit design as a candidate core for inclusion in the current circuit design. The second core is determined based upon usage of the second core and the first core, in combination, in a plurality of example circuit designs.
US09881113B2	Layout synthesis of a three-dimensional mechanical system design This application discloses a computing system implementing tools and mechanisms to import a three-dimensional mechanical model from a mechanical design system. The three-dimensional mechanical model includes a folded representation of a substrate having a surface for placement of electronic components and electrical connections. The tools and mechanisms can identify one or more bends in the surface of the folded representation of the substrate, and generate a two-dimensional layout representation of the substrate for an electronic design system based, at least in part, on the one or more bends in the surface of the folded representation of the substrate.
US09881110B1	Apparatus and method for estimating and modeling turbulent flow A turbulent flow estimation apparatus and method provides for the measurement of turbulent flow through the introduction of particles which characterize the flow, the detection of extents of turbulent flow regions, the assignment of a plurality of primitive shapes to those turbulent flow regions, and the assignment of individual characteristics to each of the primitive shapes of the estimate, including center location, rotational velocity of the primitive shape, identification of the rotational axis of the primitive shape, and the temporal trajectory of the primitive shapes.
US09881106B2	Determination of behavior of loaded wheels by load simulation The invention relates to a method for contactless determining a behavior of a loaded tire or wheel, comprising the steps of determining a contour of at least a portion of the tire or wheel; simulating loading of the tire or wheel with a virtual loading element bearing against the tire for at least one rotary position of the wheel on the basis of the determined contour, a displacement of the determined contour caused by the virtual loading element and at least one parameter associated to the tire or wheel or to a part of the tire; and determining the behavior of the loaded wheel using the simulation results.
US09881105B2	Minimizing uncertainty envelopes in trajectories of evolving ensemble members A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for minimizing uncertainty envelopes in trajectories of evolving ensemble members. The mechanism generates a trajectory forecast of each member object of an ensemble based on an initial state-space and a model for predicting trajectories of the member objects to generate a plurality of trajectory forecasts. Each of the plurality of trajectory forecasts has an individual uncertainty envelope. The mechanism applies a classification algorithm on the plurality of trajectory forecasts to identify at least one group of member objects having similar trajectory forecasts, generates a reduced ensemble of member objects including the identified group of member objects, and reconfigures the state-space and the model for predicting trajectories. The mechanism generates an updated trajectory forecast of each member object of the reduced ensemble based on the reconfigured state-space and the reconfigured model for predicting trajectories of the member objects.
US09881102B2	Aggregating personalized suggestions from multiple sources A computer provides a search interface that accesses multiple search providers, and aggregates their suggestions, providing a single, unified suggestion view across the multiple search providers. Suggestions are received from the multiple sources, such as a search engine on the internet or other public resource, and a search tool on the computer that accesses local or private resources. The suggestions are combined, ranked and displayed as a list to the user, from which the user is able to select.
US09881101B2	Dynamic file retrieving for web page loading A computer loads a web page, the web page including a first file and a second file. The computer then determines a likelihood of change value for the first and second file. The computer then loads one of the first or second file having a higher likelihood of change value and subsequently loads the other of the first or second file having a lower likelihood of change value.
US09881097B2	Systems and methods for contacting target person Systems and methods for a requester to contact a target person. A linking path is made to connect a requester with a target person through references. After references along the path recommend the requester one by one, the requester is allowed to contact the target person. To protect privacy, names of references are not released. References may use strength level to quantify their recommendation.
US09881095B2	Search results for native applications Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating native application search results. In one aspect, a method includes accessing application package files for native applications, and for each native application: determining, from the application package file, an application name of the native application, accessing, at the data processing apparatus, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages, generating application page data describing content of the application page, an application page name of the application page, the content described by the application page data including text that a user device displays on the application page when the user device displays the application page, and indexing the application page data and application icon for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine.
US09881094B2	Systems and methods for automated local story generation and curation Systems and methods for automated local story generation and curation are described. In one example embodiment, a server computer receives content from client devices, and processes the content to identify content characteristics. Stories are then generated based on the characteristics of the received content, and the stories are communicated to client devices. In certain embodiments, selection at a client device of an individual piece of content within a story may further be used by the system to provide the client device with a sub-story that includes pieces of content sharing content characteristics with the characteristics of the selected image or video.
US09881088B1	Natural language solution generating devices and methods Natural language solution generating devices and methods are provided herein. Exemplary devices may execute logic via one or more processors, which are programmed to receive a complex query in natural language format, the complex query including a real-world problem that requires interrogation of a plurality of information sources in order to ascertain a response to the problem, evaluate the complex query to determine query segments, which are each included with at least one domain, wherein a domain corresponds to an information source, query the information sources to obtain responses for the query segments, and generate a natural language solution using the responses.
US09881073B2	Method for reconfiguration of database, recording medium, and reconfiguration device A method for reconfiguration of a database, the method includes extracting a plurality of entity candidates based on a plurality of attribute names and first information about a relation degree between the attribute name and the entity, first identifying a plurality of entity candidate groups in which each is comprised of extracted the plurality of entity candidates and has a correspondence relation with all the attribute names and the number of the entity candidates is minimum, second identifying the entity candidate group, in which a total of relation degrees between the entities in the entity candidate group is maximum, based on second information about the relation degree between the entities, and assigning each of the plurality of attribute names to either one of the plurality of entity candidates so as to have the correspondence relation of the attribute name and the entity candidate based on the first information.
US09881061B2	Embedded content suitability scoring Embedded content suitability scoring is provided. A plurality of containers of a document is identified. Each container includes a portion of content of the document. A source for a container of the plurality of containers of the document is identified by matching the content of the container to the content of the source. A suitability score for the container is determined based, at least in part, on the content of the container and the content of the source. A suitability category for the container is determined based, at least in part, on the suitability score. The document is presented along with markup of the container that is based, at least in part, on the suitability category.
US09881055B1	Language conversion based on S-expression tabular structure Approaches for S-expression tabular structure based language conversion. An SQL expression is converted into an S-expression tabular structure. A function table including a plurality of functions associated with S-expression tabular structure tabulated against at least one of a function name, a derived column and a derived table and an argument table including plurality of arguments associated with the S-expression tabular structure tabulated against at least one of an argument type, a function identifier linking the arguments to the function table, a computed from function, a reference to entity or a literal value, is generated based on the S-expression tabular structure. One or more functions associated with the S-expression tabular structure is converted to a pre-determined SQL based language, based on a language map of the pre-determined language and the function table and the argument table.
US09881038B2	Archive migration system A computer detects that a threshold value associated with a storage capacity of a first storage account has been exceeded. The computer determines one or more other storage accounts to migrate a determined amount of data contained in the first storage account, wherein the determined one or more storage accounts are linked to the first storage account. The computer migrates the determined amount of data from the first storage account to the determined one or more other storage accounts.
US09881037B2	Method for systematic mass normalization of titles A system for determining a canonical title includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive a new title. The processor is to generate a set of n-grams based on the new title; look up n-grams in canonical database to assign one or more labels; and map the new title to a canonical title based on the one or more labels.
US09881032B2	Personal objects using data specification language A system includes reception of a logical schema associated with data stored in a data store, generation of an input schema based on the logical schema, reception of an expression having a type of the input schema and comprising a first expression element defining an object, compilation of the first expression element based on the input schema to generate an output schema, and merger of the output schema and the input schema to generate a second input schema.
US09881027B2	Image appended search string Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing an image appended search string. In example embodiments, a selection of an image is received. The image is a search result from a plurality of search results obtained based on a matching process performed on a current search string. A keyword corresponding to the selected image is determined. The keyword corresponding to the selected image is appended to the current search string. The plurality of search results is refined based on the appending of the keyword. The refined search results are then caused to be presented.
US09881024B1	Mobile healthcare application for facilitating color determination A method for assisting a health care practitioner in color evaluation includes maintaining, in a database, a plurality of images each corresponding to a particular result or condition; capturing, by a healthcare practitioner using a camera of a mobile electronic device, a subject image of a patient or an object associated with the patient; automatically comparing, utilizing one or more electronic processors, the captured subject image to images maintained in the database, such comparison including comparing one or more colors in the subject image to one or more colors in the images maintained in the database; automatically determining, based on the automatic comparison, that the captured subject image is positively matched to one or more of the plurality of images maintained in the database; and displaying an indication of the particular result or condition corresponding to each of the positively matched plurality of images.
US09881018B2	File management in thin provisioning storage environments A computing environment includes a home site and a cache site with nonhomogeneous thin-provisioned storage configurations. A file management system updates files stored at the cache site. Each updated file has an updated file size and a pre-update file size. When a resynchronization is needed between the cache site and the home site, for example due to an extended communication failure, the storage requirement changes for the updated files are calculated and a notification is sent to the home site. The notification identifies the updated files and the storage requirement changes. The home site sends a reply to the cache site. The reply identifies which files are approved for immediate processing. The cache site transfers resynchronization data for the approved files to the home site, and delays transferring resynchronization data for the unapproved files until subsequent replies from the home site indicate that the previously unapproved files are now approved.
US09881004B2	Gender and name translation from a first to a second language A system and method are provided for inferring person gender and translating people's names into a second language. The present invention translates an individual's name into a required second language to reduce waiting time in registration areas. It also is able to infer gender once the registration clerk enters the individual's first name in a native language. It also prevents duplication of a person's record generated because of the confusion that happens around how a native name is translated into a second language by standardizing such translation. The embodiments of the present invention utilize machine learning and statistical approaches to infer gender and translate an individual's name into a second language.
US09880991B2	Transposing table portions based on user selections Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for displaying tabular data. A computing device identifies a plurality of data elements organized in a first plurality of rows and a first plurality of columns, wherein the first plurality of rows and the first plurality of columns are at least partially displayed. The computing device receives a data selection spanning an entire row or an entire column included in the first plurality of rows or the first plurality of columns. The computing device, in response to receiving the data selection spanning an entire row or an entire column included in the first plurality of rows or the first plurality of columns, determines a statistical relationship included in the data selection. The computing device, in response to determining the statistical relationship, displays at least a portion of the data selection.
US09880983B2	Methods and systems for uniquely identifying digital content for eDiscovery Systems and methods provide for the collection of content, such as webpage content, and for detection of changes in content. Files composing a document at a different time periods may be accessed and sets of hash values corresponding to files composing the document at the different periods may be calculated. A determination is made as to whether a file in the identified files at the different time periods is an HTML file, and if so an additional hash value corresponding to the HTML file is calculated. Aggregated hash values may be calculated based on hash values in the sets of hash values. A report may be generated reporting hash values for the document as it exists at the different time periods, including the hash values for the files composing the document, the additional hash values for respective HTML files, and the aggregated hash values. Changes in hash values may be indicated.
US09880981B2	Automatically detecting the ability to execute processing logic after a parser or validation error In an embodiment of the invention, a method for error handling during document processing is provided. The method includes receiving a well-defined document as input to a computer program executing in memory of a computer, parsing the well-defined document and validating the well-defined document as conforming with a defined plan for the well-defined document, and responsive to detecting an error during parsing and validating, permitting use of the well-defined document to proceed notwithstanding the detected error if enough of the well-defined document conforms to the defined plan to satisfy programmatic input needs of the computer program, but otherwise terminating use of the well-defined document in the computer program.
US09880977B2	Calendar overlays Implementing an electronic calendar can include accessing a first electronic calendar owned by a first party, accessing a second electronic calendar owned by a second party, and presenting a view that combines at least one existing entry from within each of the first and second electronic calendars. Source information for each of the first and second electronic calendars may be electronically maintained. The combined view may be updated electronically to reflect a change to at least one of the existing entries from within at least one of the first and second electronic calendars. Electronic calendars may be accessed and overlaid without importing events, thus enabling simple updating. Event information may be imported and source or other attributes may be associated with imported information to enable updating and other sorting functions.
US09880966B1	Encapsulating metadata of a platform for application-specific tailoring and reuse of the platform in an integrated circuit Application-specific tailoring and reuse of a platform for a target integrated circuit may include determining, using a processor, a plurality of unused interfaces of the platform and determining, using the processor, connectivity of a circuit block to be coupled to the platform within the target integrated circuit. The method may include coupling, using the processor, the circuit block to the platform using an interface that is compatible with the circuit block and selected from the plurality of unused interfaces of the platform.
US09880962B2	Vehicle entertainment assemblies and systems Methods and systems are disclosed relating to in-vehicle entertainment, information presentation, and/or processing. Aspects of multimedia in-vehicle entertainment systems that may incorporate removable and/or portable tablet-type computing devices are described. In certain configurations, a hinged tablet computer carrier includes guide rails into which a portable tablet computer may slide while in an open position, and which can hinge into a closed or locked position that holds the tablet computer in place, positions it for viewing, and effects mechanical and electrical coupling of the tablet computer with other components of the in-vehicle entertainment system. Exemplary placement could include headrest, seatback, overhead, or in-dash mounting. Hinging or sliding could be vertical or horizontal. Various other mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical aspects of the methods and systems are described.
US09880955B2	Interface unit for direct memory access utilizing identifiers An interface unit is provided for the arrangement between a bus system, to which a processor unit and a data memory are connectable, and a data transporting unit, in particular a network processor, are described. The interface unit carries out a direct memory access to the data memory as a function of an identifier (chid) previously agreed upon between an application and the data transporting unit.
US09880949B1	Cross clock compensation between layers in peripheral component interconnect express A PCIe bus adapted for cross clock compensation of asynchronous clocks includes one or more PHY data ports provided in a PHY layer having a transmit clock (TCLK) for timing data transmitted to a peripheral device and a receive clock (RCLK) for timing data received from the peripheral device, one or more media access control (MAC) ports provided in a MAC layer having an interface clock (PCLK) for timing data transmitted to the PHY layer and data received from the PHY layer, wherein the PCLK and one or both of the TCLK and the RCLK are asynchronous, and one or more backpressure ports at an interface between the PHY layer and the MAC layer for controlling reading and writing of one of the PHY layer and the MAC layer. In some aspects, the PCLK frequency is set to be always greater than a maximum frequency of the RCLK and the TCLK.
US09880937B2	Dynamic set associative cache apparatus for processor and access method thereof The present invention provides a dynamic set associative cache apparatus for a processor. When read access occurs, the apparatus first determines a valid/invalid bit of each cache block in a cache set to be accessed, and sets, according to the valid/invalid bit of each cache block, an enable/disable bit of a cache way in which the cache block is located; then, reads valid cache blocks, compares a tag section in a memory address with a tag block in each cache block that is read, and if there is a hit, reads data from a data block in a hit cache block according to an offset section of the memory address.
US09880935B2	Efficient data transfer between a processor core and an accelerator A processor writes input data to a cache line of a shared cache, wherein the input data is ready to be operated on by an accelerator. It then notifies an accelerator that the input data is ready to be processed. The processor then determines that output data of the accelerator is ready to be consumed, the output data being located at the cache line or an additional cache line of the shared cache, wherein the cache line or the additional cache line comprises a set first flag that indicates the cache line or the additional cache line was modified by the accelerator and that prevents the output data from being removed from the cache line or the additional cache line until the output data is read by the processor. The processor reads and processes the output data from the cache line or the additional cache.
US09880929B2	Systems and methods for generating a unique device id A device including a network interface, a memory, and at least one processor is provided. The memory may include a random access memory (RAM) and nonvolatile memory. The processor may be coupled to the memory and coupled to the network interface and configured to designate an uninitialized section of RAM, generate a network device identifier for the device using data from the uninitialized section of RAM, store the network device identifier in a nonvolatile memory, and assign the network device identifier to the device. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate the network device identifier using the data from the uninitialized section of RAM as a seed for a pseudorandom number generator.
US09880920B2	Providing a user with feedback regarding power consumption in battery-operated electronic devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a user with feedback regarding power consumption in a battery-operated electronic device. In one aspect, a method performed by data processing apparatus includes identifying, using the data processing apparatus, usage of a hardware component of a battery-operated electronic device that includes the data processing apparatus, attributing the usage of the hardware component to the hardware component or to a software application that uses the hardware component, recording, using the data processing apparatus, a power consumption resulting from the usage, and presenting power consumption feedback to a user using the data processing apparatus. The power consumption feedback identifies the hardware component or the software application of the electronic device and the power consumption resulting from the usage.
US09880903B2	Intelligent stress testing and raid rebuild to prevent data loss A method for intelligently rebuilding a RAID includes subjecting a storage drive in an existing RAID to a stress workload test by placing the storage drive in a RAID 1 configuration with a spare storage drive. In the event the storage drive fails the stress workload test but can still be read, the method uses the RAID 1 configuration to copy recoverable data from the failing storage drive to the spare storage drive. The method uses other storage drives in the existing RAID to reconstruct, on the spare storage drive, data that is not recoverable from the failing storage drive. Either before or after all non-recoverable data has been reconstructed on the spare storage drive, the method logically replaces, in the existing RAID, the failing storage drive with the spare storage drive. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09880898B2	Transmission control checking for interconnect circuitry Transmission control checking circuitry adds control check data to a transaction response which is received at a transaction master and compared with expected data at the transaction master. The expected data having control check data may be a unique transaction identifier. The transaction master generated the unique transaction identifier when it generated the transaction request and will check that the transaction responses include that unique transaction identifier. In this way, errors in the control of transmission of transactions (e.g., misrouting) may be detected.
US09880883B2	Virtual resource control system determining new allocation of resources at a hub To provide a virtual resource control system capable of appropriately defining the amounts of allocated virtual resources to individual service systems under an environment in which service systems are added or deleted. A resource excessive/lacking amount calculation means 54 simulates a resource consumption situation of each node in the service system by use of a hybrid model, and calculates the amount of excessive/lacking resource indicating the lacking amount or the excessive amount of the amount of allocated virtual resource corresponding to one entire service system corresponding to a service management device. The resource excessive/lacking amount calculation means 54 notifies the amount of excessive/lacking resource to a hub device 60, and receives a notification of the new amount of allocated virtual resource corresponding to the entire service system. A notification by the resource excessive/lacking amount calculation means 54 and a response from the hub device 60 are made asynchronously.
US09880881B1	Multi-tier resource and load orchestration Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for process-performing resources and process specifications particularized to loads are provided. A provisional electronic composite for a load may be created. A type of process-performing resource may be identified. Performance data may be accessed to identify a process-performance duration that corresponds to a process type, the type of process-performing resource, process-performance locations, and process-performance times. A process-assignment duration may be defined, and an availability of a process-performing resource may be detected. A performance time may be determined based on the availability of the process-performing resource. Instruction to perform the process at the performance time may transmitted to at least one resource-controlling device. The provisional electronic composite for the load may be modified based on the performance time and the instruction to form an updated electronic composite.
US09880877B2	Methods for rule-based dynamic resource adjustment for upstream and downstream processing units in response to an intermediate processing unit event A method dynamically adjusts the resources available to a processing unit of a distributed computer process executing on a multi-node computer system. The resources for the processing unit are adjusted based on the data other processing units handle or the execution path of code in an upstream or downstream processing unit in the distributed process or application.
US09880873B2	Electronic official document processing method An electronic official document (EOD) processing method, wherein a work action set consisting of N work actions is defined, comprising: (1) selecting M work actions from the work action set, setting a corresponding working user for each selected work action, and sequencing all selected work actions into a workflow by order of execution; (2) inputting a to-be-processed EOD as a first EOD into the first work action in the workflow; (3) starting an integer i from 1 and increasing the integer i by 1 each time until the integer i reaches M, and executing the following every time the integer i is increased: the working user corresponding to the i-th work action performs an operation specified in the i-th work action on the No. i EOD, and stores the processing result as a No. i+1 EOD; and (4) outputting the No. M+1 electronic document as the processing result.
US09880856B2	Patching boot code of read-only memory The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for patching boot code of read-only memory (ROM). In some aspects, execution of boot code from a ROM is initiated to start a boot process of a device. Execution of the boot code from the ROM is then interrupted to enable execution of other boot code, such as corrected boot code or additional boot code, from another memory. Once the other boot code is executed, execution of the boot code from the ROM is resumed to continue booting the computing device. By so doing, the corrected boot code or additional boot code can be executed during the boot process effective to patch the boot code stored in the ROM.
US09880855B2	Start-up control program, device, and method A start-up control device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: acquiring data relating to communication processing when communication connection of plural data processing devices is initiated; and based on the acquired data relating to communication processing, controlling start-up of the plural data processing devices such that a data processing device that transmitted a response to a request for the connection is started-up earlier than a data processing device that transmitted the request.
US09880849B2	Allocation of load instruction(s) to a queue buffer in a processor system based on prediction of an instruction pipeline hazard Various aspects provide for detecting ordering violations in a memory system. A system includes a prediction component and an execution component. The prediction component predicts whether a load instruction in the system is associated with an instruction pipeline hazard. The execution component allocates the load instruction to a queue buffer in the system in response to a prediction that the load instruction is not associated with the instruction pipeline hazard.
US09880832B2	Software patch evaluator Automated systems and methods for assessing the urgency of installing a patch for a component of a software application are described. The systems and methods involve identifying a set of defective programming constructs of the component that are altered by the patch, collecting execution traces of programming constructs of the software application and programming constructs of the component in a context of application use, and evaluating the execution traces to determine whether one or more defective programming constructs of the component are invoked in the context of application use.
US09880827B2	Managing software version upgrades in a multiple computer system environment An independent product upgrade function is associated with each of multiple software products installed in a set of multiple computing devices. Responsive to a triggering event, each upgrade function determines whether the corresponding product can be updated based on rules for the corresponding product. Upgrade may be dependent on other products, but the upgrade function need not know the conditions for upgrading other products. If a product can be updated, update is performed and all other products are notified. Each of the other product upgrade functions then determines whether its corresponding product can be upgraded as a result of the recent upgrade to the first product, and if so, another set of notifications is sent. This cycle continues until all dependent products have been updated. Upgrade functions preferably operate in a peer-to-peer relationship, and upgrade can be initiated in any node.
US09880819B2	Methods and apparatuses for a compiler server A method and an apparatus that instructs a compiler server to build or otherwise obtain a compiled code corresponding to a compilation request received from an application are described. The compiler server may be configured to compile source codes for a plurality of independent applications, each running in a separate process, using a plurality of independent compilers, each running in a separate compiler process. A search may be performed in a cache for a compiled code that satisfies a compilation request received from an application. A reply message including the compiled code can be provided for the application, wherein the compiled code is compiled in direct response to the request, or is obtained from the cache if the search identities in the cache the compiled code that satisfies the compilation request.
US09880816B2	Simulator with local resource capabilities A framework for developing applications is described herein. In accordance with one aspect, an application is developed using an integrated development environment (IDE) with a preview function. The preview function may be selected to preview the application. In response to the selection of the preview function, the IDE causes a companion application on an end-user device to be launched onto an application simulator on the end-user device. The companion application is a container application that includes plugins of local resources. The application may be run in the companion application, where the application may access local resources provided by the companion application.
US09880812B2	Extracting entropy from machine vibration Generating a pool of random numbers for use by computer applications. Vibration sensors are placed throughout a machine and collects information theoretic entropy data from the measurement of the vibration sensors. The data is then filtered and added to an entropy pool. Applications needing a random number may acquire a number from the pool. A method, computer program product and system to generate the pool are provided.
US09880810B1	Universal shifter and rotator and methods for implementing a universal shifter and rotator A single block shifter design performing arithmetic and logical shift operations on input operands of multiple types is disclosed. The shifter design may be configurable and automatically generated to support multiple partition types including at least one of 80-bit, 40-bit, and 20-bit partition type. The shifter may also be configured and automatically generated to perform rotate operations on input operands. The shifter may include two stages where the first stage includes multiple multiplexers performing shift or rotate operations by one or more shift or rotate amounts without saturation, and the second stage includes multiple multiplexers performing operations with saturation. The shifter includes an inversion block to process signed and unsigned input data. A method of automatically generating the shifter design with an electronic design tool is also disclosed.
US09880808B2	Display apparatus and method of controlling a display apparatus in a voice recognition system A display method and apparatus for controlling a voice recognition system are provided. When a user's voice for controlling the display apparatus is input, the method of controlling the display apparatus transmits the voice's user to the interactive server, while determining whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, and in response to the user's voice not being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus and the control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of the same function as the user's voice are transmitted from the interactive server, the method performs the function of the display apparatus, according to the control information transmitted from the interactive server, and displays the first guide information.
US09880803B2	Audio buffering continuity A method of audio buffering continuity which includes downloading by a client device a digital audio stream from a digital source; buffering by the client device the downloaded digital audio stream; playing the digital audio stream from the buffered digital audio stream; when the digital audio stream is interrupted such that there is a gap when the client device is incapable of downloading the digital audio stream, inserting by the client device an audio pattern into the gap wherein the audio pattern has one or more elements of the downloaded digital audio stream; and playing by the client device the audio pattern a plurality of times to form a loop while the digital audio stream is interrupted. Also disclosed is an apparatus and a computer program product.
US09880800B1	Routing content in a dual-display computing device In some implementations a computing device may comprise at least a first display device and a second display device. The computing device may receive a selection to display protected content. The computing device may determine a display mode associated with the first display device and the second display device. The computing device may determine an orientation (e.g., landscape or portrait) and modify (e.g., by rotating) the content based on the orientation to create modified content. The computing device may determine a routing of the modified content and route the modified content to at least one of the first display device or the second display device.
US09880795B2	Recording system, recording apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording control method that shift range of recording elements A recording system, includes a recording apparatus configured to perform recording using a recording head having a plurality of recording elements; and an information processing apparatus configured to send a print job to the recording apparatus to shift a range of use of the recording elements in an array direction of the recording elements. The information processing apparatus includes a head shading correction unit configured to execute, based on information indicating that the range of use of the recording elements is one of plural ranges of use, head shading correction corresponding to the one range on image data; and a sending unit configured to send the image data subjected to the head shading correction to the recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes a recording control unit configured to control the recording head to perform recording at the one range by using the image data subjected to the head shading correction.
US09880794B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium In an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus in which a print job including drawing data and a print setting is stored, and a method of controlling the same, when an image of a logical page unit generated based on the drawing data included in the print job is received from the printing apparatus, the received image of the logical page unit is stored. When the print setting included in the print job is changed, the stored image of the logical page unit of the print job is used to generate an image of a physical page unit based on the changed print setting, and that generated image of the physical page unit is preview-displayed.
US09880793B2	Image information converting apparatus, image forming apparatus, image information converting system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing image information converting program and image information converting method An image information converting apparatus according to one embodiment includes a converting unit, a splitting unit and an adding unit. The converting unit converts first image information described in a first language into second image information described in a second language, the second language being different from the first language. The splitting unit splits the first image information into a plurality of split image files so as to each have a data size satisfying a restriction in image processing performed by the second image forming apparatus. The adding unit adds first additional information to each of the split image files. The first additional information indicates whether or not to add an image formation unit mark. The image formation unit mark indicates boundaries between batches of image formation units corresponding to images to be formed on a plurality of pages.
US09880791B2	Image formation apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program executable on image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus includes a hypervisor, a control firmware running on a host OS and responsible for controlling the image formation apparatus, and a cooperation module operating on the same level as the hypervisor. A resource includes an image memory managed by the control firmware and adapted for image processing. The cooperation module is configured to: cooperate with the control firmware to obtain an available memory space of the image memory; associate a content of a job to be processed with a program running on one or more guest OSs required for that job; and before starting the job, read a required guest OS into the available memory space of the image memory and cause the associated program to be executed.
US09880789B2	Printing system for distributing print jobs, image forming apparatus and server apparatus According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus is connected with a server. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and an input section configured to receive, from a user, a job start operation for a requested print job. The image forming apparatus also includes a communication interface that receives a print job from the server, and transmits a request for transmission of a print job. A storage section stores image data corresponding to each received print job. A processor determines whether the image data corresponding to the requested print job is already stored in the storage section when the job start operation was received. In a case that the image data corresponding to the requested print job is already stored in the storage section when the job start operation was received, image data corresponding to the requested print job is printed.
US09880787B2	System and method for memory patching circuits A patching system and a patching circuit provide a type of patching entry which can replace several sequential memory positions with hardcoded and dynamically configured assembly instructions, thus injecting a small piece of code. The operation of the injected code can be for any purpose, but as an example may be used to seamlessly redirect the execution flow of a processing unit.
US09880780B2	Enhanced multi-stream operations A Solid State Drive (SSD) (505) may include circuitry to receive data from streams (305, 320, 335, 350). Each stream (305, 320, 335, 350) may have a Time-To-Live (TTL) (310, 325, 340, 355). Selection logic (525) may select a stream (305, 320, 335, 350) to write to a block (103). Writing logic (530) may then write data from the selected stream (905) to the block (103). The SSD (505) may change which stream (305, 320, 335, 350) is written to the block (103) over time. As a result, the data stored in the block (103) should expire sooner overall, making garbage collection of the block (103) more efficient.
US09880779B1	Processing copy offload requests in a storage system A system and method for performing copy offload operations. When a copy offload operation from a first volume (pointing to a first medium) to a second volume (pointing to a second medium) is requested, the copy offload operation is performed without accessing the data being copied. A third medium is created, and the first medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the third medium. The first volume is re-pointed to the third medium. Also, a fourth medium is created, the second volume is re-pointed to the fourth medium, and the second medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the targeted range of the fourth medium. All other ranges of the fourth medium have the second medium as their underlying medium.
US09880777B1	Embedded synchronous replication for block and file objects A technique for performing synchronous replication on both block and file-based objects employs a replication appliance embedded alongside a unified data path IO stack within a storage processor of a data storage system. Various arrangements are described for achieving failover, migration, failback, and load balancing, both involving other embedded replication appliances and involving external replication appliances.
US09880764B1	Flash disk cache management for increased virtual LUN availability Systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed. A map including the number of dirty cache pages stored in the flash disk cache for each VLUN of the plurality of VLUNs on the storage system is maintained, by the storage system. A flash disk cache error requiring the storage system to take the flash disk cache offline is detected. In response to detecting the flash disk cache error a first one or more VLUNs of the plurality of VLUNs with at least one dirty cache page stored in the flash disk cache are identified by the storage system based on the map. The first one or more VLUNs are taken offline by the storage system. The flash disk cache is taken offline by the storage system. A second one or more VLUNs comprising VLUNs of the plurality of VLUNs without dirty cache pages stored in the flash disk cache are maintained online by the storage system.
US09880758B1	Data transfer techniques with data replication Described are data replication techniques. Writes of cycle N directed to a first storage device of a first data storage system are received. Writes of cycle N−1 directed to the first storage device are transmitted to a second data storage system. Writes of cycle N−2 directed to the first storage device are applied to a second storage device of the second data storage system. An acknowledgement regarding cycle N−1 is sent to the first data storage system responsive to determining that the writes of cycle N−1 directed to the first storage device have been received by the second data storage system and that the writes of cycle N−2 have been applied to the second storage device. At least some writes of cycle N directed to the first storage device are transmitted to the second data storage system prior to the first data storage system receiving the acknowledgement regarding cycle N−1.
US09880754B2	System and method for enabling transportability of a non volatile dual inline memory module A dual inline memory module includes a local memory and a non-volatile memory. The local memory stores data during normal operation of the dual inline memory module. The non-volatile memory includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion stores the data located in the local memory in response to a power failure of an information handling system in communication with the dual inline memory module. The second portion stores configuration information for the dual inline memory module. The configuration information is utilized to set up the dual inline memory module in a new information handling system.
US09880752B2	Memory die temperature adjustment based on a power condition A device includes a memory device and a controller. The controller is coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to, in response to receiving a request to perform a memory access at the memory device, determine that the memory device has a characteristic indicative of a temperature crossing. The controller is also configured to, in response to determining that the memory device has the characteristic indicative of the temperature crossing, determine that the memory device satisfies an availability criterion. The controller is further configured to, in response to determining that the memory device satisfies the availability criterion, increase a temperature of the memory device by performing memory operations on the memory device until detecting a condition related to the temperature.
US09880749B2	Storage method and device for controlling the output timing of commands based on a hold time According to one embodiment, there is provided a storage controlling device including a receiving unit and a controlling unit. The receiving unit receives a read command or a write command for a storage device, from an internal or external command issuing device. The controlling unit holds the write command received by the receiving unit until at least a first interval time has elapsed after outputting a write command received most recently before the write command is received, and then outputs the write command which is held after the first interval time has elapsed. The controlling unit outputs the read command received by the receiving unit, prior to outputting the write command that is held, when the read command is received during a time when the write command is held.
US09880740B2	Rapid virtual machine power-on with iterative swap space reservation A computer system provides for rapid power-on operations on virtual machines (VMs) with a virtual memory space including a reservation from machine memory and a small or no swap size. When the computer system powers on a VM, the computer system creates a physical memory space for the VM with a size larger than the minimum memory reservation for the VM and a swap space with a size less than the difference between the size of the virtual memory space and the minimum memory reservation. Subsequently, the computer system iteratively decreases the size of the physical memory space for the VM and increases the size of the swap space for the VM until the size of the physical memory space equals the minimum size of the memory reservation, which may be the amount of the virtual space that is guaranteed to be backed by machine memory.
US09880739B2	Method and system for cascaded FlashCopy® zoning and algorithm and/or computer program code and method implementing the same A method for storage volumes in a cascade of storage volumes including starting a first data map relating a first storage volume to a second storage volume while a second data map relating the first storage volume and a third storage volume is active. Starting the first data map uses a zone map that relates the first storage volume to a zone within the cascade of storage volumes.
US09880738B2	Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered storage environment A storage controller configures a plurality of storage tiers. A sub-unit of a storage unit is maintained in a selected storage tier of the plurality of storage tiers, for at least a predetermined duration of time subsequent to an input/output (I/O) request for the sub-unit.
US09880734B2	Handwritten information inputting device and portable electronic apparatus including handwritten information inputting device A handwritten information inputting device includes an inputting region into which handwritten information is inputted with a pointer such as an electronic pen or a finger. The device also includes a function disposition region in which a plurality of operational elements (e.g., graphic icons) are disposed, each assigned a process related to the inputted handwritten information such as enlarging or rotating the inputted handwritten information. In response to a continuous operation for a defined period of time of any of the operational elements, operational element disposition information regarding the operational elements disposed in the function disposition region is displayed on an external display apparatus, to which the handwritten information inputting device is connected. Also, the operated (selected) operational element is displayed visually distinguishable from the rest of the operational elements. Thus, an operator can confirm his operation of the operational elements without taking his eyes off the external display apparatus.
US09880733B2	Multi-touch remote control method A multi-touch remote control method comprises following steps: a remote control device receiving a touch gesture input; computing a number of the touch points of the touch gesture input; generating and transferring a mouse event data to a receiving device as a mouse input if the number of the touch points is 1; and generating and transferring a single touch event data to the receiving device as a single touch input if the number of the touch points is greater than 1 and all the touch points of the touch gesture input are close to each other.
US09880724B2	User interface for viewing event data Methods, systems, and non-transitory, tangible computer-readable medium for generating a graphical user interface to view status events for devices operating within an electrical distribution system over various time interval granularities and ranges are disclosed. The graphical user interface provides users with the ability to select various overall ranges of time and time intervals within these ranges. By generating a simple graphical user interface in this manner, operating personnel can more easily view an aggregation of data for the electrical power system, predict trends, and isolate and rectify recurring problems.
US09880721B2	Information processing device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program, and information processing method An information processing device includes an operation receiver capable of receiving a gesture operation for an object on a screen; and a controller configured to receive an output from the operation receiver and an output from a user motion detector configured to detect whether the gesture operation received by the operation receiver is a two-hand operation or a one-hand operation. The controller sets a size change associated with the resizing to a first degree when the gesture operation for the object is the two-hand operation, and sets a size change associated with the resizing to a second degree which is relatively greater than the first degree when the gesture operation for the object is the one-hand operation on a basis of a user operation detected by the user motion detector, and reflects resizing of the object on the screen on a basis of the set degree.
US09880720B2	Adjusting media display in a personal display system based on perspective A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the personal display device may adjust displayed media to overlay features of a theater, thus giving the user of the personal display device the impression of being in the theater. In some embodiments, the personal display device may receive a user selection of a seat in the theater from which to watch the media, and may adjust the media display accordingly. In some embodiments, the personal display device may detect the user's movements using one or more sensors and may adjust the displayed image based on the user's movements. For example, the device may detect a user's head movement and cause the portion of media displayed to reflect the head movement.
US09880716B2	User-selectable quasi-permanent partial overlap of user interface display A method includes displaying via a processor a user interface on a display screen of a computing device, detecting a selection of a portion of the first user interface, generating a clip configured to include the selected portion of the user interface as content. The method further includes displaying the generated clip on the display screen to enable a user of the mobile device to review the content, and maintaining the display of the generated clip on the display screen even after the user interface is no longer displayed on the display screen.
US09880710B1	Systems and methods for effectively using data controls in a graphical user interface on a small visual display A user interacts with a graphical user interface on a client device. The device displays a data visualization that includes configuration parameters. The device also displays one or more read-only static controls, each static control corresponding to a respective parameter. Each static control indicates the value assigned to the corresponding parameter. A first user action activates a first static control. The first static control corresponds to a first parameter with a first value. The device displays an editable indirect control in the graphical user interface, which displays the first value. The editable indirect control is larger than the first static control, and is superimposed over the corresponding static control. The user changes the first value to a second value, and the device updates the displayed data visualization based on the second value for the first parameter. The editable indirect control is subsequently removed from display in the graphical user interface.
US09880709B2	System and method for creating and displaying previews of content items for electronic works Systems and methods for displaying, responsive to user-designation of a desired set of media object previews for view, the previews of the media objects of an electronic content work within a single view on a display of a computer system. The view presents those previews of the media objects of the electronic content work appropriate for one or more target rendering environments, according to user-specified display criteria. The previews may be images of the media objects captured when the subject media objects were rendered in a simulated target rendering environment. In some cases, these may be images of the media objects captured with the media objects were in desired states during rendering thereof in the simulated target rendering environment. The view may present the previews according to user-defined size criteria.
US09880706B2	Gesture for selecting multiple items in a list An information processing method and an electronic device, related to the field of communication, are provided in the application. The method includes: displaying M data entries of a page on a display interface by a display unit, where the page includes N data entries, M≦N; obtaining a continuous track generated by a slide operation by an operating body; determining L data entries from J data entries passed by the continuous track based on a predetermined rule, 1≦J≦N, L≦J; and setting the L data entries into selected states. By the solutions in the application, an operation of selecting multiple data entries is implemented without clicking check boxes one by one by a user, the operation is significantly simplified, and efficiency of a multiple selection is improved.
US09880703B2	Electronic bookshelf system Techniques are disclosed for purchasing, accessing, consuming, and/or providing electronic content using an electronic bookshelf (eBookshelf) system. The eBookshelf system can be used by accessing a touchscreen-based user interface and/or local hardware controls and/or a remote control. A user's personal library of eBooks and/or any other electronic content can be displayed and/or aurally presented. In addition, the vast content of commercial retailers can also be displayed for browsing and purchase/rental. If the user identifies a content selection on the eBookshelf system that he/she wishes to consume, it can be readily transferred from the system to a personal content consuming device. Multiple eBookshelf systems can be attached to one another to extend the length and/or height of the eBookshelf. Accessing the eBookshelf system by a user ID allows multiple users to enjoy a personally customized version of the system.
US09880702B2	Content structures and content navigation interfaces In one example, a content navigation interface apparatus includes display logic for displaying selections for accessing a first entry of a content structure and a second entry of the content structure, wherein the second entry is a sub-entry of the first entry. The apparatus further including selection logic for determining the second entry for display based on a user characteristic (e.g., history, user profile, etc.). The first entry may be associated with a first level of a hierarchical content structure, and the second entry associated with a second level of the hierarchical content structure. In one example, the first entry is associated with a broad content category and the second entry associated with content, such as a media object.
US09880699B2	Multiple views of a geographic area on a mobile device A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving on a mobile device a search query associated with a geographic location, providing one or more search results in response to the search query, the search results each being associated with a geographic location, and presenting on a graphical display of the computing device icons corresponding to each search result and also corresponding to a key on the computing device.
US09880693B2	Example based video editing Enabling creation of a user-specific storyboard style based on a storyboard edited by a user. Metadata defined by analyzing the editing decisions made by the user and the media content associated with the storyboard represents the user-specific style. The user-specific style may be applied to other media content to produce a fully edited storyboard that matches the style of the example storyboard from which the user-specific style was created. The produced storyboard is combined with the other media content to produce audio/video data for consumption by the user.
US09880690B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal having an input device that performs inputting in a tactile manner is disclosed. A touch screen of a first region and touch buttons of a second region are implemented by a single touch sheet without having touch sensing units. Thus, manufacturing, assembling and handling can be facilitated.
US09880681B2	Touch sensor and display including the same A touch sensor is disclosed to include a first mesh touch electrode formed in a first direction and transmitting a first touch signal, a first supplementary mesh touch electrode formed on the same layer as the first mesh touch electrode, an insulating layer covering the first mesh touch electrode and the first supplementary mesh touch electrode and having a contact cutout, a second mesh touch electrode formed in a second direction crossing the first direction and transmitting a second touch signal, and a second supplementary mesh touch electrode formed on the same layer as the second mesh touch electrode. In this touch sensor, the first mesh touch electrode is connected to the second supplementary mesh touch electrode through the contact cutout and the second mesh touch electrode is connected to the first supplementary mesh touch electrode through the contact cutout.
US09880680B2	Touch-panel substrate with conductor lines including a wide width portion, method for manufacturing touch-panel substrate, and electronic device Provided are (i) a touch panel substrate improved in uniformity of in-plane light transmittance and (ii) an electronic device employing the touch panel substrate. A plurality of first sensor electrodes (11) are formed by dividing first conductor lines (13). At least one of a pair of ends of the first conductor lines (13), which pair of ends face each other via a dividing line along which the first conductor lines (13) are divided, has a wide width part (40) which is wider than the other part of the first conductor lines (13), when viewed from above.
US09880674B2	Pattern of electrodes for a touch sensor In certain embodiments, a touch sensor includes first, second, and third electrode tracks. The first electrode track includes a first electrode, which has a first segment, a second segment connected to the first segment, and a third segment connected to the first segment. The second electrode track includes a second electrode, which includes a fourth segment, a fifth segment connected to the fourth segment, and a sixth segment connected to the fourth segment. A portion of the second segment extends between portions of the fifth and sixth segments from a perspective orthogonal to the surface of the touch sensor, and a portion of the fifth segment extends between portions of the second and third segments from the orthogonal perspective. The third electrode track includes a third electrode, a portion of which extends between portions of the first and second electrodes from the orthogonal perspective.
US09880672B2	Display apparatus, display method, and computer-readable recording medium A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays a 3D image thereon, the 3D image being created by combining two pieces of image data in which adjacent right-side and left-side parts of respective fields of view overlap with each other; a touch panel that is provided on the display screen of the display unit and that detects a touch position of an external object or a nearby position of an object near a surface of the touch panel; and a sensitivity setting unit that sets, in accordance with the level to which the 3D image appears to protrude in a direction perpendicular to the display screen, the detection sensitivity of the touch panel.
US09880669B2	Touch panel with infrared light receiving elements, and display device A touch panel and a display device are provided. The touch panel includes a touch substrate; two first photodetectors disposed at both ends of a side of the touch substrate, wherein the touch substrate is divided into a first touch area and a second touch area, the second touch area is in a location corresponds to the detection blind zone of the two first photodetectors, and the two first photodetectors are configured to determine the position of a touch point in the first touch area; and a second photodetector disposed at peripheral of the touch substrate which can emit and receive infrared light and are configured to determine a position of a touch point in the second touch area.
US09880650B1	Driver circuit for touch panel The invention provides a touch driver circuit, by only using a select signal (Select) to control the operation of transport gates (TG1, TG2) to realize output of a valid pulse touch driver signal (TXH) and a constant low voltage signal (TXL). The circuit structure is simplified, and removes a plurality of elements and two control signals so as to reduce the layout space occupied by the touch driver circuit as well as reduced the border width of the touch display to realize narrow border design for touch display panel.
US09880644B2	Computer input apparatus and method using smart terminal with electronic pen A computer input system is provided for using a smart terminal as an input device to a computer. The method for the computer includes receiving from the smart terminal, input to the smart terminal from an electronic pen, wherein the input is received by the computer through a predetermined communication mode established between the computer and the smart terminal, identifying a foreground application of the computer, interpreting the input in association with the foreground application, converting the interpreted input to an input signal associated with the foreground application, and controlling the foreground application with the input signal, to execute an operation corresponding to the input signal, where the input signal is a keyboard or mouse input signal.
US09880638B2	Character specification system and method that uses a limited number of selection keys A method and apparatus of identifying and selecting characters from among a plurality of characters. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer processor electronically enables identification of each of a plurality of characters arranged in a one-dimensional array. Each character is identified by an integer value that corresponds to the number of positions the character is offset from a reference position of the one-dimensional array. The computer processor electronically enables selection of any of the characters by receiving input resulting from activation of selection keys that specify the integer value of a character desired for selection. In one further embodiment, each selection key has an assigned integer value, and the integer value that identifies the selected character is calculated by summing the assigned integer values of each selection key activated for each instance that each selection key is activated within a selectable-length time period.
US09880637B2	Human interface apparatus having input unit for pointer location information and pointer command execution unit A human interface apparatus comprising the steps of: receiving text input from a user; switching to input mode for pointing location information; receiving input for pointing location information from the user; and switching the human interface apparatus to a text input mode, wherein the text input area and the pointing location information input area have at least a part of the area in common.
US09880630B2	User interface device, user interface method, program, and computer-readable information storage medium To enable a user to easily select a selection element, a user interface device includes image capturing means for capturing an image of a user viewing a display screen, recognition means for recognizing the position of a reference part of the user's body appearing in the captured image, which differs from a selection position that is a position for the user to select a selection element displayed on the display screen, display position determination means for determining a display position of the selection element based on the position of the reference part appearing in the image, and display means for displaying the selection element in the determined display position.
US09880629B2	Gesture recognition devices and methods with user authentication Devices and related methods are disclosed herein that generally involve detecting and interpreting gestures made by a user to generate user input information for use by a digital data processing system. In one embodiment, a device includes first and second sensors that observe a workspace in which user gestures are performed. The device can be set to a keyboard input mode, a number pad input mode, or a mouse input mode based on the positioning of the user's hands. Subsequent gestures made by the user can be interpreted as keyboard inputs, mouse inputs, etc., using observed characteristics of the user's hands and various motion properties of the user's hands. These observed characteristics can also be used to implement a security protocol, for example by identifying authorized users by the anatomical properties of their hands or the behavioral properties exhibited by the user while gesturing.
US09880623B2	Friction modulation for three dimensional relief in a haptic device A haptic device includes a display configured to display an image, a haptic output device configured to generate a haptic effect to a user when the user interacts with the display, and a processor configured to receive information related to the image displayed on the display. The processor is also configured to create a friction based haptic effect map associated with the image displayed on the display, and generate a signal to the haptic output device to output the haptic effect when the user interacts with the display when the image is displayed on the display, the haptic effect being configured to simulate a feel of the image in three dimensions.
US09880622B2	Tactile sensation providing apparatus and control method for tactile sensation providing apparatus when using an application that does not support operation of tactile sensation A tactile sensation providing apparatus for providing a tactile sensation based on an operator's input to an object, without wasting an existing application resource constituting a user interface, and a control method for the tactile sensation providing apparatus are provided.A tactile sensation providing apparatus 1 includes a touch sensor 40, a tactile sensation providing unit 50 configured to vibrate a touch face of the touch sensor 40, a display unit 30, and a control unit 10 configured to set a tactile sensation to be provided by the tactile sensation providing unit 50 for an object displayed on the display unit 30 based on information about the tactile sensation supplied from application software and, when detecting an input to the object, to control the tactile sensation providing unit 50 such that the tactile sensation set for the object is provided to a pressing object pressing the touch face.
US09880619B2	Virtual reality system with a finger-wearable control A system, which is optionally a virtual reality (VR) system, including: (a) a finger-wearable device that has a force sensing actuator configured to sense a pinching of thumb to finger and trigger an emission of a signal, multiple light sources configured to emit multiple optical signals, a motion detector, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter configured to transmit an RF signal; (b) a screen; (c) an RF receiver configured to receive the RF signal; (d) at least one optical sensor configured to receive the multiple optical signals and use the optical signals to detect a spatial position of the finger-wearable device; and (d) a controller configured to use the received RF signal, the multiple optical signals and the spatial position to project visual content onto the screen.
US09880617B2	Electronic device and method of controlling display of electronic device Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling a display of an electronic device. One or more reference points are detected at a touch panel of the electronic device. Screen display positions for a Head Mounted Display (HMD) mode are determined based on positions of the one or more reference points. Screens in the HMD mode are displayed at the screen display positions.
US09880613B2	Apparatus and control method based on motion A device includes a display panel configured to display an interface. The device includes a motion sensor configured to detect a motion of the device and to output a detection signal in response to the detection of the motion. The device includes circuitry configured to control, based on the detection signal, the display panel such that at least one of a display position and a display size of an element displayed in the interface changes, wherein when the motion includes a physical shock on the device, the detection signal includes an indication of a hitting position corresponding to a position on the device where the physical shock is detected by the motion sensor, and the circuitry controls the display panel such that the at least one of the display position and the display size of the element changes based on the hitting position.
US09880608B2	Application processor for adjusting clock signal using hardware power management unit and devices including the same An application processor includes a central processing unit (CPU), intellectual properties (IPs), a hardware power management unit (PMU) configured to determine whether the application processor is in system idle based on a first idle signal output from the CPU and output control signals as a result of the determination, and a clock signal supply control circuit configured to change an output signal supplied to the CPU and the IPs from clock signals to an oscillation clock signal, based on the control signals. The oscillation clock signal has a frequency lower than that of the clock signals.
US09880592B2	Modularly-constructed information handling system having perforated chassis design for receiving varying sizes of snap-in components An information handling system (IHS) includes a modularly-constructed chassis for receiving varying sizes of snap-in compute components for assembly of the IHS. The modularly-constructed chassis includes a base panel having a chassis surface that includes more than one engagement feature formed within the chassis surface and a selected at least one of a first tray that is sized to receive a first compute component of a first size and a second tray that is sized to receive a second compute component of a second size. The first and second trays have a bottom surface with more than one complementary engagement feature formed within the bottom surface to snap-in corresponding engagement features of the base panel. The IHS includes one or more connecting cabling interconnecting the at least two compute components.
US09880589B2	Instrument eject system An instrument eject system includes a device configured to store an instrument at a storage location within the device. A cover is rotationally coupled to a base via hinge. An ejection element is configured to impose an ejecting force on the instrument when the instrument is stored within the device. A retaining element is configured to retain the instrument within the device in a lock position of the retaining element and to release the instrument in a release position of the retaining element.
US09880582B2	Educational apparatus for learning math as well as components therefor and methods including the same A counting element is dimensioned for sliding engagement along an outside surface of an elongated rod of an educational apparatus. The counting element includes an element body extending between first and second end surfaces. The element body includes an outer wall a plurality of inner walls disposed radially inward of the outer wall. The inner walls are operatively connected to the outer wall adjacent the first end surface and extend to a free end disposed toward the second end surface. The inner walls define a passage dimensioned to receive the elongated rod. The free ends of the inner wall portions are radially deflectable and function as biasing elements operative to generate frictional resistance to sliding movement of the counting element along the outside surface of the elongated rod. An educational apparatus includes a frame, a plurality of elongated rods and a plurality of counting elements. Methods are also included.
US09880580B2	Systems and methods for microgrid power generation management with selective disconnect Systems and methods for coordinating selective activation of at least one power storage device over a predetermined geographic area to supply a microgrid of electrical power, and automatic, selective disconnect any of the at least one power storage device from providing power supply to a microgrid or a wider area grid.
US09880572B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit and power supply control system provided with a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuits A semiconductor integrated circuit, supplied with a power source voltage generated by a power supplier and having a level determined in accordance with an analog signal, includes: an output unit outputting, as the analog signal, an output voltage signal indicating the power source voltage; an input unit including an input interface identical in specifications to an output interface of the output unit, and receiving an input signal indicating a voltage and input from an outside of the semiconductor integrated circuit; and a voltage control circuit generating the output voltage signal, based on the input signal and operating voltage information indicating a voltage required for an operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit.
US09880569B2	Pressure control method for process chamber and pressure control device for process chamber A predicted outflow rate (Qo) at which gas is discharged from a process chamber 2 via a vacuum pump 3 is computed, and an input flow rate (Qi) is calculated in order to reach a preset target pressure (Psp). The input flow rate (Qi) is calculated, on the basis of the expression Qi=Qo+(ΔP/Δt)V, from a known volume (V) of the process chamber 2 and a pressure change rate (ΔP/Δt) obtained from the current pressure (P1) within the process chamber 2 to reach the target pressure (Psp). A current predicted outflow rate (Qo) is estimated on the basis of the expression Qo(n)=P2*f1(P2), from the current pressure (P2) within the vacuum pump 3 and a known characteristic pumping rate (Sp=f1(P2)) of the vacuum pump 3 under preset pressure.
US09880565B1	Two-stage valve The present invention describes a two-stage valve comprising a first stage constituted by a main valve body provided with at least one fluid inlet duct and with at least one fluid outlet duct, between which is interposed at least one shutter element configured to put selectively in fluid communication such ducts. The valve comprises a second stage constituted by a pilot valve body provided with at least one fluid inlet duct and with at least one fluid outlet duct, between which is interposed at least one shutter element configured to put selectively in communication such ducts. The opening of the shutter element of the pilot valve generates a fluid flow passing through the fluid inlet duct of the pilot valve and the fluid outlet duct of the pilot valve, the pressure of such a fluid flow generating the opening of the shutter element of the main valve. The shutter element of the pilot valve is actuated by an actuator device comprising at least one wire made of a shape-memory alloy, capable of applying a force onto the shutter element of the pilot valve as a consequence of a temperature variation determined by the Joule effect by the flow of an electric current through such a wire.
US09880548B2	Electronic component mounting system and component management method for electronic component mounting system Necessary component data indicative of the type and number of electronic components used in component mounting operation is obtained on the basis of production plan data, and mounting data in advance for each of production lots in advance. New allocation processing for allocating an electronic component necessary for production execution of a new production lot to be newly produced on an electronic component mounting line for the new production lot on the basis of the necessary unit data is executed, and component reservation processing for registering the allocation result in question as the inventory data is conducted by a unit reservation unit.
US09880546B2	Industrial equipment production system and method for configuring a motor controller using public and secret information A register of an industrial equipment production system acquires setting information adjusted in an industrial equipment and registers the setting information in a server. A receiver receives a production instruction for the industrial equipment. An identifier identifies, in a case where the production instruction is received, the setting information on the industrial equipment to be produced in accordance with the production instruction based on the setting information registered in the server.
US09880545B2	System and method for self-contained self-calibrating modular manufacturing tool A system and method for a self-contained self-calibrating modular manufacturing device having modular tools and parts configured to collectively accomplish a specific task or function. The modular device includes a housing that has a mount configured to engage a robotic arm or other form of maneuvering actuator (such a crane or gantry). The housing provides a base by which additional modules are mounted and coupled. The modular device also includes an interface configured to communicate with a remote control system capable of controlling the robotic arm. Such modules work in conjunction with each other to accomplish tasks and functions. In a self-contained self-calibrating modular manufacturing device, a processor disposed in the housing is configured to control the functional tools (e.g., each end-effector) independent of the overall manufacturing control system as well as use local sensors to determine aspects of an underlying manufactured items for calibration purposes.
US09880541B2	Providing instructions to a mainframe system Method and system are provided for providing instructions to a mainframe system. The method at a client system includes constructing a job control language (JCL) job embedded with an interpreted language program to provide instructions to a mainframe operating system. The method at a mainframe system includes: receiving a job control language (JCL) job embedded with an interpreted language program to provide instructions to a mainframe operating system; copying the interpreted language program to a transient executable area; and executing the interpreted language program.
US09880537B2	Customized land surface modeling for irrigation decision support in a crop and agronomic advisory service in precision agriculture An irrigation modeling framework in precision agriculture utilizes a combination of weather data, crop data, and other agricultural inputs to create customized agronomic models for diagnosing and predicting a moisture state in a field, and a corresponding need for, and timing of, irrigation activities. Specific combinations of various agricultural inputs can be applied, together with weather information to identify or adjust water-related characteristics of crops and soils, to model optimal irrigation activities and provide advisories, recommendations, and scheduling guidance for targeted application of artificial precipitation to address specific moisture conditions in a soil system of a field.
US09880528B2	Medical devices and related updating methods and systems Apparatus are provided for medical devices and related operating systems and methods. An exemplary medical device includes a motor, one or more data storage elements to maintain control information, and a control module coupled to the motor and the one or more data storage elements. The control module is configured to obtain updated control information via a peer-to-peer communication session over a network, store the updated control information in the one or more data storage elements, and thereafter operate the motor based at least in part on the updated control information.
US09880526B2	System and method for automating ancillary devices using a motor controller for a pump A motor controller coupled to a motor for a pump is described. The motor controller is configured to determine a first mode of operation for the motor, based on at least one of a predefined schedule stored by the motor controller and an input signal received by the motor controller from at least one ancillary device. The motor controller is additionally configured to transmit a first control signal to the motor to operate the motor in the first mode, and to transmit a second control signal to change an operation of the at least one ancillary device, wherein the at least one ancillary device includes one or more of a heater, a chlorine generator, and an ozone generator.
US09880523B2	Powerless time reference According to an embodiment, a time reference device is provided. In the embodiment, the time reference device, includes a corrodible element, wherein a corrosion of the corrodible element advances with advancing time, and a sensor configured for providing a sensor signal, the sensor signal depending on a physical property of the corrodible element; wherein the physical property of the corrodible element changes with a corrosion of the corrodible element and the physical property of the corrodible element is at least one of an electrical property, a magnetic property, and an optical property. A barrier may be provided for defining a permeability for a corrosive substance to the corrodible element.
US09880517B2	Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive drum; a rotatable roller having a rotation shaft in a position deviated from an axis of the developing roller, for transmitting a driving force to the developing roller; a coupling member disposed at an end portion of the shaft of the developing roller; a driving force receiving portion, provided on the coupling member and movable in a direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller, for receiving a driving force to be transmitted to the developing roller; an urging member for urging the drive receiving portion in the direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller; a supporting portion for rotatably supporting the drive receiving portion so as to be movable together with the drive receiving portion toward the rotatable roller in the direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller; and an abutting portion for receiving the supporting portion urged by the urging member, wherein the abutting portion is positioned outside an outer periphery of the photosensitive drum on a plane perpendicular to the shaft of the rotatable roller.
US09880500B2	Fixing device A fixing device includes a cylindrical film; a plate heater including an electrode portion, wherein a lubricant is applied in a region where the heater contacts the film; a supporting member; and a sealing member contacting a surface of the heater where the electrode portion of the heater is provided, the sealing member being provided at a position closer to a center of the heater than the electrode portion is. The sealing member includes an engaging portion engaging with an end portion of the supporting member with respect to a widthwise direction of the heater and a cantilever contact portion contacting the surface of the heater where the electrode portion is provided.
US09880494B2	Toner container, image forming apparatus A toner container includes an elongated container main body, a toner discharge port, a first rotation member configured to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port, a support plate provided in the container main body and disposed in such a way as to face the wall surface, and an opening and closing member provided between the wall surface and the support plate and supported by the support plate in such a way as to be able to move between a closing position and an opening position. The support plate includes a first opening portion formed at a position corresponding to the toner discharge port and larger than the toner discharge port in size, and a film member attached to the support plate in such a way as to cover the first opening portion and including a second opening portion formed at a position corresponding to the toner discharge port.
US09880492B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device which forms an image on a recording medium and an image scanning device which transmits scanned image data to the image forming device. The image forming device includes a receiver, a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit, and a controller. The receiver receives at least one of external image data transmitted from an external device and the scanned image data as input image data. The first image forming unit forms a developer image based on the input image data on the recording medium. The second image forming unit forms a mark image on the recording medium. The controller determines whether to make the second image forming unit form the mark image or not depending on a type of a transmission source of the input image data.
US09880489B2	Light scanning device that ensures improved flexible location of component for regulating expanded widths of light beam A light scanning device includes a light source, a deflector, a reflection mirror, and a light width regulating portion. The light source includes a plurality of light-emitting elements located at intervals one another. The deflector deflects to scan by reflecting a plurality of light beams. The plurality of light beams are emitted from the respective light-emitting elements. The reflection mirror is located in an optical path between the light source and the deflector and guides the plurality of light beams emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements to the deflector. The light width regulating portion regulates widths of the plurality of light beams reflected by the reflection mirror in a main-scanning direction. The light width regulating portion is located adjacent to a reflecting surface of the reflection mirror and includes a pair of regulating wall portions located opposed one another in the main-scanning direction.
US09880484B2	Charging member, intermediate transfer belt and image forming apparatus having the same An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning device located, in a direction in which an intermediate transfer belt rotates, downstream of a second transfer position and upstream of a first transfer position, at which a first transfer device transfers a toner image onto the intermediate transfer belt, the cleaning device cleaning the intermediate transfer belt; and a charging member located upstream of the first transfer position and downstream of the cleaning device in the direction in which the intermediate transfer belt rotates, the charging member having a shape of a roller having a diameter smaller than a diameter of a driving roller that drives the intermediate transfer belt to rotate the intermediate transfer belt, the charging member charging the intermediate transfer belt by holding the intermediate transfer belt between the charging member and the driving roller and touching an outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt.
US09880482B2	Ultraviolet-curable liquid developer and method of producing same The ultraviolet-curable liquid developer contains a hydrophobic cationically polymerizable liquid monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, a toner particle insoluble in the liquid monomer, and a toner particle dispersing agent, wherein the toner particle contains a binder resin that has an acid value of at least 5 mg KOH/g; the toner particle dispersing agent is a polymer that contains at least both a monomer unit represented by general formula (1) and a monomer unit represented by general formula (2); and the toner particle dispersing agent has a monomer unit represented by general formula (1) at a position other than the terminal position.
US09880481B2	Liquid developer set A liquid developer set of the present invention includes a first liquid developer including an insulating liquid and first toner particles and a second liquid developer including an insulating liquid and second toner particles, the first toner particles include carbon black and a first resin, the second toner particles include a coloring agent other than carbon black and a second resin, without including carbon black, the first resin and the second resin each include a hydrocarbon long chain which is a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 8 to 30, and a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the first toner particles is higher than a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the second toner particles.
US09880477B2	Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image forming apparatus The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an electrophotographic photoreceptor, comprising: a conductive support; and at least a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer on the conductive support, wherein said charge generation layer contains a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine synthesized using a halogen solvent, said charge transport layer contains a polyester resin having a specific structural unit, and said charge transport layer is formed using a non-halogen solvent.
US09880471B2	Developing solution processing device and processing method The purpose of the present invention is to provide a developing solution processing device and processing method that solve problems that accompany the occurrence of scum, improve product defect rate, increase the utilization ratio of manufacturing devices, and contribute considerably to reduced manufacturing costs and other factors through highly efficient recovery of noble metals. The present invention provides a developing solution processing device provided with: a centrifuge for separating a clarified liquid and a residue by centrifugally separating out developing solution after development processing; and a defoaming device for defoaming and discharging the clarified liquid.
US09880462B2	Pellicle and exposure mask including the same A pellicle includes a pellicle frame, a pellicle membrane, and an attaching element, a first surface of the attaching element having exposed pores.
US09880454B2	Light source device and projector using the same A light source device is disclosed. An embodiment of the light source device includes: an excitation light source configured to emit irradiation light of a color component to be used as excitation light and projection light; a fluorescent member disposed in an excitation light path and configured to generate fluorescence of a color component different from the color component of the irradiation light when being irradiated with the irradiation light; a light path merger unit configured to merge a fluorescence light path through which the fluorescence generated with irradiation of the irradiation light is delivered, and a projection light path through which the projection light is delivered; and a light path switch disk configured to switch the irradiation light between the excitation light path and the projection light path.
US09880450B2	Document camera A document camera includes a base, a first arm assembled to the base, a second arm assembled to the first arm, and a camera head assembled to the second arm. The first arm is pivotable between a parallel extending position and a raised position. The second arm is pivotable between a juxtaposed position and a raised position and between the raised position and a parallel extending position. The camera head is pivotable between a juxtaposed position and a position where the camera head is raised from the second arm. When the document camera is to be folded, the first arm is set to the parallel extending position, the second arm and the camera head are to the respective juxtaposed positions. When the document camera has been folded, upper surfaces of the first and second arms and the camera head are substantially coplanar.
US09880448B2	System for parallax correction A system for parallax correction includes a first lens having a first pin extending radially therefrom and a second lens positioned parallel to the first lens. A moving platform has a first slot for accepting the first pin therein. The first slot is angled relative to the lenses to correct for parallax between the first and second lenses. The system can include an actuator for extending and retracting the moving platform towards and away from an object to focus on the object.
US09880446B2	Apparatus and method for producing short radiation pulses The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for producing short synchronous radiation pulses at different wavelengths, particularly to an optically parametric oscillator, comprising at least one pump radiation source (2), preferably a pump laser, for outputting radiation at a pump wavelength, and a resonator (3) having a wavelength-dependent effective resonator length, wherein the resonator (3) has a non-linear wavelength converter (4) for producing radiation at a first and a second wavelength; a dispersive element (5) having a strong wavelength-dependent delay characteristic; and a coupling-out element (6) for at least partially coupling-out the radiation from the resonator (3). In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing short radiation pulses by means of an apparatus (1), particularly an optically parametric oscillator.
US09880445B1	Harmonic generation using optimized stack of thin films Systems and methods implementing a stack on a substrate, where the stack includes a plurality of films structured as layers to convert radiation incident to the stack to radiation of a nonlinear optical signal different from the incident radiation or to a harmonic of the incident radiation, can be used in a variety of applications. The stack can be structured having parameters selected with respect to conversion efficiency and bandwidth the converted radiation. Additional systems and methods can be used in a variety of applications.
US09880443B2	Electro-optic beam deflector device having adjustable in-plane beam control A substantially planar waveguide for dynamically controlling the out-of-plane angle at which a light beam exits the waveguide. Generally, liquid crystal materials may be disposed within a waveguide in a cladding proximate or adjacent to a core layer of the waveguide. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more taper regions such that the light beam exits the waveguide and propagates out-of-the-plane of the waveguide into an out-coupling medium at a propagation angle. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more electrodes onto which one or more voltages may be applied. The magnitude of the propagation angle may be electronically controlled by altered by controlling or altering the magnitude of the one or more applied voltages.
US09880432B2	Display substrate A display substrate includes a base substrate including a display area in which signal lines and pixels are arranged and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, pads disposed in the peripheral area and receiving an electrical signal, fan-out lines connecting the pads and the signal lines, and static electricity breakup circuits comprising a breakup line that crosses the fan-out lines, and static electricity prevention circuits respectively connected to the fan-out lines. Parts of the static electricity prevention circuits are connected to adjacent fan-out lines and are commonly connected to the one of the breakup lines through a common contact part.
US09880430B2	Liquid crystal display device In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first gate line and a second gate line extending in a first direction, respectively. A first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode includes a first main pixel electrode in the shape of a belt located on an edge of the first source line and extending in the second direction, and a second main pixel electrode in the shape of a belt located on an edge of the second source line and extending in the second direction. A second substrate includes a main common electrode located between the first main pixel electrode and the second main pixel electrode and extending in the second direction.
US09880429B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that is capable of achieving good display characteristics even if the pixel size is reduced. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystal material that has negative dielectric anisotropy. The first substrate has a first hook-like electrode and a second hook-like electrode, which are independent from each other. When the first substrate is seen in a plan view, the inner profile line of the first hook-like electrode and the inner profile line of the second hook-like electrode face each other.
US09880426B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof, mask and manufacturing method thereof, and display device A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, a mask and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a first display substrate and a second display substrate arranged to be opposed to each other, and main spacers and assistant spacers arranged between the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The main spacers and the assistant spacers are both arranged on the first display substrate. The main spacers have a height equal to a distance from the first display substrate to the second display substrate to support the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The assistant spacers have a height smaller than that of the main spacers. An end surface of a suspending end of at least one of the assistant spacers is planar and/or an end surface of a suspending end of at least one of the assistant spacers is convex.
US09880421B2	Curved liquid crystal display A curved liquid crystal display is provided. The curved liquid crystal display includes: a first curved substrate; a second curved substrate; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal layer being interposed between the first and second curved substrates; a first curved liquid crystal alignment layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the first curved substrate; and a second curved liquid crystal alignment layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second curved substrate. The first curved liquid crystal alignment layer includes protrusions protruded toward the second curved liquid crystal alignment layer. The second curved liquid crystal alignment layer includes protrusions protruded toward the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer. An average number of the protrusions on the second curved liquid crystal alignment layer is greater than an average number of protrusions on the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer.
US09880409B2	Flat-panel product inspection device The invention discloses a flat-panel product inspection device, comprising: a horizontal conveying mechanism for driving a flat-panel product in a horizontal state to move in a first horizontal direction; a guiding clamp for clamping the flat-panel product when the flat-panel product is moved to a first position; and a turnover mechanism connected with the guiding clamp and used to drive the guiding clamp to turn around a first rotating axis after the flat-panel product is clamped by the guiding clamp, so that the flat-panel product is turned from the horizontal state to a vertical state, the first rotating axis being parallel to the first horizontal direction.
US09880404B2	Optical waveguide device and method of manufacturing the same An optical waveguide device includes a substrate; a lower cladding disposed on the substrate; a rib waveguide including a slab disposed on the lower cladding and a single rib disposed on the slab contiguous to the slab; and an upper cladding disposed on the rib waveguide. The rib waveguide includes a first doped region having a first electric conductivity exhibiting a P-type electric conductivity across the rib and the slab and a second doped region being contiguous to the first doped region and having a second electric conductivity exhibiting an N-type electric conductivity across the rib and the slab.
US09880399B2	Truncated translating contact lens with optimized performance and method of design Translating contact lenses which are truncated for correcting presbyopia and whose design is optimized to maximize translation ability while maintaining comfort when the lens is worn on eye. Truncation of the lenses results in a non-round geometry while still retaining under-lid residency in select portions of the lens itself. Maximum thickness and back surface radius of curvature along with ramp shape can be optimized individually or in combination to maximize translation of the lens relative to the eye, when the lens is positioned on eye.
US09880394B2	Display apparatus with improved viewing angles A display apparatus including a display unit in which pixels configured from a group of a plurality of types of sub-pixels displaying different primary colors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape in the row direction and the column direction; and an optical separation unit separating an image displayed on the display unit into images for a plurality of observation points, in which, when one of the primary colors displayed by the sub-pixels is expressed as a first primary color, the distance between the boundaries of respectively adjacent sub-pixel columns formed of sub-pixels displaying the first primary color is shorter than the distance between boundaries of respectively adjacent sub-pixel columns formed of the same type of sub-pixels displaying different primary colors to the first primary color.
US09880379B2	Endoscope laser light filter assembly An endoscope laser light filter assembly includes a filter support having opposing first and second sides, one or more circumferential flanges, and a laser light filter. The one or more circumferential flanges are positioned on the first side of the filter support and are displaced from the filter support along a central axis. The laser light filter is supported on the second side of the filter support.
US09880372B2	Imaging lens A compact low-cost imaging lens with an F-value of 2.5 or less which achieves both low-profileness and a wide field of view and corrects various aberrations properly. It includes elements arranged from an object side to an image side as follows: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface; a third lens with positive refractive power having convex object-side and image-side surfaces and having at least one aspheric surface; a fourth lens with positive refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex image-side surface; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface. The imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression 20<νd1−νd2<50, where νd1 denotes Abbe number of the first lens at d-ray, and νd2 denotes Abbe number of the second lens at d-ray.
US09880368B2	Method for high speed processing of partially bonded ribbon structures Embodiments of the invention include a method for making a partially bonded optical fiber ribbon. The method includes providing a linear array of optical fibers, and applying with an ink jet printing machine a bonding matrix material to at least a portion of at least two adjacent optical fibers. The applied bonding matrix material has a viscosity of approximately 2.0 to approximately 10.0 centipoise (cP) measured at 25 degrees Celsius (° C.). The applied bonding matrix material also has a conductivity of approximately 600 to approximately 1200 millimhos (mmhos). The applied bonding matrix material also has an adhesion of approximately 0.01 to approximately 0.20 Newtons (N). Also, the bonding matrix material is applied to at least a portion of at least two adjacent optical fibers in such a way that the linear array of optical fibers forms a partially bonded optical fiber ribbon.
US09880365B2	Fiber-optic feedthroughs for superconducting systems Interconnect systems for coupling a first system operating in a first type of environment (e.g., a cryogenic environment) to a second system operating in a second type of environment (e.g., a non-cryogenic environment) are provided. An interconnect system includes a first connector coupled to optical fibers that are coupled to the first system operating in the first type of environment. The interconnect system further includes a second connector coupled to optical fibers that are coupled to the second system operating in the second type of environment. The interconnect system may include an optical window configured to couple optical signals between the optical fibers, and the optical window is configured to maintain a vacuum seal between the first type of environment and the second type of environment such that the first type of environment is substantially thermally isolated from the second type of environment.
US09880357B2	Optical module for industrial plug-in connectors of modular design The invention relates to a module that can be inserted into a housing of an industrial plug-in connector (5), into which module (1) at least one optical fiber connector (2) can be inserted and at least one adapter (3) can be inserted into the module (1), which adapter is connected to the optical fiber connector (2), wherein the adapter (3) contains an optical imaging element (11). In the plugged-in condition, the optical elements (11, 11′), for example the ball lenses proposed above, of two modules (1) are aligned with each other in such a way that the light signal exiting from the optical element (11) of the module of the first industrial plug-in connector (5) is coupled into the optical element (11′) of the module (1′) of the second industrial plug-in connector (5′).
US09880348B2	Display apparatus Provided is a display apparatus in which a deflection of an optical sheet as well as a slit due to vibration and impact are suppressed while a flaw in a member being in contact with the optical sheet is suppressed, uniform surface luminance and preferable image quality are attained, and thus the occurrence of a defect is suppressed.A display module in a TV receiver includes a display panel, an optical sheet group, a light guide plate, a chassis, a panel holding member and a bezel. At the middle part of the lower side portion of the optical sheet group, a latch hole is formed. At a portion of the bottom part of the chassis, which is opposed to the latch hole, is provided with a projecting part formed to have a cylindrical main body and a latch projection continuously formed from the main body with a cylindrical shape having a diameter smaller than that of the main body. The optical sheet group is supported at its lower side portion by a side part on the lower side of the chassis in the state where the latch projection is inserted into the latch hole to position the optical sheet group.
US09880339B2	Backlight unit and display device having the same A display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel disposed to be spaced apart from the first display panel, a first light guide plate which is under the first display panel and provides light thereto, a second light guide plate which is under the second display panel and provides light thereto, a light source unit which is commonly disposed under the first and second light guide plates and generates and provides the light to the first and second light guide plates, and a reflective member which is disposed on the light source unit and is commonly disposed on the first and second light guide plates, the reflective member defining a first curved surface which reflects the light to the first light guide plate and a second curved surface which reflects the light to the second light guide plate.
US09880338B2	Illumination device and display apparatus An illumination device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a light guide plate configured to emit light from inside through one surface of the light guide plate, a light source disposed to face a peripheral surface of the light guide plate, and a reflection sheet which is provided at a region face to the other surface of the light guide plate, which is opposite to the one surface, to reflect the light emitted by the light source toward the light guide plate. For distances between the light source and a peripheral edge part of the reflection sheet, a distance between a middle part of the light source in a peripheral edge direction of the light guide plate and a portion in the peripheral edge part of the reflection sheet corresponding to the middle part is the longest.
US09880336B2	Light-emitting device including photoluminescent layer A light-emitting device includes a photoluminescent layer, a light-transmissive layer located on the photoluminescent layer, and a multilayer mirror layered together with the photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer. At least one of the photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer has a submicron structure. The submicron structure has at least projections or recesses arranged perpendicular to the thickness direction of the photoluminescent layer. The photoluminescent layer emits light including first light having a wavelength λa in air. The distance Dint between adjacent projections or recesses and the refractive index nwav-a of the photoluminescent layer for the first light satisfy λa/nwav-a
US09880329B2	Optical mirror, X-ray fluorescence analysis device, and method for X-ray fluorescence analysis An x-ray fluorescence analysis device, including an x-ray source for irradiating a sample with x-ray radiation, an x-ray detector for measuring x-ray fluorescence radiation emitted by the sample, and a camera for producing an optical control image of the irradiated measurement point of a sample by means of an optical mirror arranged at an angle in the beam path of the x-ray source, which optical mirror includes a carrier having a mirror layer provided on the carrier. In order to create an x-ray florescence device by means of which realistic control recordings of the sample to be analyzed, in particular of the sampled surface point, the optical mirror has a passage window for the x-ray radiation, which is formed by an opening in the carrier and a foil forming the mirror layer and covering the opening on an outer surface of the carrier.
US09880328B2	Transparent diffusers for lightguides and luminaires A light-transmitting structure comprising a substrate having a plurality of regions where at least two of the plurality of regions have different refractive indices, an optical path length of light transmitted from a first light source through the plurality of regions is substantially constant, and where light transmitted from a second light source into the substrate is scattered by at least one of the plurality of regions.
US09880325B2	Hybrid optics for near-eye displays A method for displaying a near-eye light field display (NELD) image is disclosed. The method comprises determining a pre-filtered image to be displayed, wherein the pre-filtered image corresponds to a target image. It further comprises displaying the pre-filtered image on a display. Subsequently, it comprises producing a near-eye light field after the pre-filtered image travels through a microlens array adjacent to the display, wherein the near-eye light field is operable to simulate a light field corresponding to the target image. Finally, it comprises altering the near-eye light field using at least one converging lens, wherein the altering allows a user to focus on the target image at an increased depth of field at an increased distance from an eye of the user and wherein the altering increases spatial resolution of said target image.
US09880322B2	Benzyl (meth)acrylate monomers suitable for microstructured optical films Presently described are optical films comprising a polymerized (e.g. microstructured) surface that comprises the reaction product of a polymerizable resin composition and polymerizable resin compositions that comprise nanoparticles; at least one first monomer comprising at least two (meth)acrylate groups; and at least one second (meth)acrylate monomer having following the structure (I); wherein at least one R1 comprises an aromatic substituent, t is an integer from 1 to 4, and R2 is hydrogen or methyl.
US09880306B2	Method and device for marine seismic acquisition Methods and systems for improving azimuth distribution in a seismic acquisition system are described. A survey acquisition system includes a plurality of streamers towed by a plurality of streamer vessels, including a first streamer vessel and a second streamer vessel and a plurality of sources towed by a plurality of source vessels. The plurality of streamer vessels and plurality of source vessels are configured relative to one another such that the plurality of source vessels are positioned at one or more predetermined inline distances behind a portion of the first streamer vessel and are also positioned at one or more predetermined inline distances in front of a portion of the second streamer vessel. The plurality of streamer vessels and plurality of source vessels are also spaced apart from one another in a cross-line direction.
US09880300B2	Accelerating fissile material detection with a neutron source A neutron detector system for discriminating fissile material from non-fissile material wherein a digital data acquisition unit collects data at high rate, and in real-time processes large volumes of data directly to count neutrons from the unknown source and detecting excess grouped neutrons to identify fission in the unknown source. The system includes a Poisson neutron generator for in-beam interrogation of a possible fissile neutron source and a DC power supply that exhibits electrical ripple on the order of less than one part per million. Certain voltage multiplier circuits, such as Cockroft-Walton voltage multipliers, are used to enhance the effective of series resistor-inductor circuits components to reduce the ripple associated with traditional AC rectified, high voltage DC power supplies.
US09880282B1	Determining device location using multiple sources of location data Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for determining a location of a mobile device from different sources of location data is provided. The system may be configured to store current location data of a mobile device, the current location data associated with a first source of location data. The system may also be configured to obtain location data from a second source of location data, determine whether a first accuracy indicator of the current location data overlaps with a second accuracy indicator of the obtained location data from the second source, and update the current location data of the mobile device with the obtained location data from the second source if the first accuracy indicator of the current location data does not overlap with the second accuracy indicator of the obtained location data.
US09880276B2	Radar device A radar device is provided with: a transmitter that transmits a high-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna; a controller that controls execution or stopping of transmission of the radar transmission signal; a receiver that amplifies a thermal noise signal inputted from reception antenna by using an initial gain value and quantize the amplified thermal noise signal, while the transmission of the radar transmission signal is stopped; and a gain controller that adjusts the prescribed gain value to a gain value suitable for dithering of the thermal noise signal, based on the quantized thermal noise signal.
US09880275B2	Radar for vehicle and method of operating the same Disclosed herein is a vehicle radar. The radar may include Tx antennas for a middle range, Tx antennas for a short range, Rx antenna columns for a middle range each configured to have a long shape vertically and be horizontally disposed, Rx antenna columns for a short range each configured to have a long shape vertically and be disposed between some of the Rx antenna columns for a middle range, and a control unit configured to process signals of radio waves that are reflected from a specific object after the radio waves are radiated by the Tx antennas for the middle range and that are received by the Rx antenna columns for the middle range or signals of radio waves that are reflected from a specific object after the radio waves are radiated by the Tx antennas for the short range and that are received by the Rx antenna columns for the short range.
US09880271B2	Ultrasonic thick slice image forming via parallel multiple scanline acquisition An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system scans a plurality of planar slices in a volumetric region which are parallel to each other. Following detection of the image data of the slices the slice data is combined by projecting the data in the elevation dimension to produce a “thick slice” image. Combining may be by means of an averaging or maximum intensity detection or weighting process or by raycasting in the elevation dimension in a volumetric rendering process. Thick slice images are displayed at a high frame rate of display by combining a newly acquired slice with slices previously acquired from different elevational planes which were used in a previous combination. A new thick slice image may be produced each time at least one of the slice images is updated by a newly acquired slice. Frame rate is further improved by multiline acquisition of the slices.
US09880264B2	Projection optical system and object detection device A projection optical system includes a light source to emit light and an optical element including an incidence plane on which the light from the light source is incident and an emission plane having a plurality of flat planes to emit the light, wherein the plurality of flat planes includes a first inclination plane inclining in a direction of the light-emitting surface.
US09880256B2	Diverse radio frequency signature, video, and image sensing for detection and localization Systems and methods can support coprocessing radio signals and video to identify and locate a radio transmitter. Positions and orientations for cameras and RF sensors may be maintained. An RF signature associated with the radio transmitter may be received from the RF sensors to determine an RF persona. A first physical location for the radio transmitter may be estimated according to a physical radio propagation model operating on RF signals. A video stream from one or more of the cameras may be received. An individual may be identified in the video stream using computer vision techniques. A second physical location for the radio transmitter may be estimated from the video stream. Relationships may be established between the first physical location and the second physical location and between the RF persona and the identified individual. The relationships may be presented to an operator interface.
US09880245B2	Method and magnetic resonance system to acquire spectroscopy data in a predetermined volume segment of an examination subject In a method and a magnetic resonance system for acquisition of spectroscopy data in a predetermined volume segment of an examination subject, spectroscopy data in the volume segment are acquired in multiple measurement steps, and spatially resolved MR data of the examination subject also are acquired in multiple measurement steps. Each of the measurement steps to acquire the spectroscopy data or to acquire the MR data respectively includes an excitation step and a readout step associated with that excitation step. At least one of the measurement steps to acquire the MR data occurs between one of the measurement steps to acquire the spectroscopy data and another of the measurement steps to acquire the spectroscopy data.
US09880236B2	PET-MRI apparatus In a PET (Positron Emission Tomography)-MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus of an embodiment, a magnet that is a seamless structure generates a static magnetic field in a bore having a cylindrical shape. First detectors and second detectors are each formed in a ring shape and detect gamma rays emitted from positron emitting radionuclides injected into a subject. The first detectors and the second detectors are disposed with a space therebetween in an axial direction of the bore so as to interpose the magnetic field center of the static magnetic field therebetween.
US09880230B1	System and method for inferring operational specifications of a photovoltaic power generation system using net load with the aid of a digital computer A computer-implemented system and method for inferring operational specifications of a photovoltaic power generation system using net load is provided. Photovoltaic plant configuration specifications can be accurately inferred with net load data and measured solar resource data. A time series of net load data is evaluated to identify, if possible, a time period with preferably minimum and consistent power consumption. Power generation data is simulated for a range of hypothetical photovoltaic system configurations based on a normalized solar power simulation model. Net load data is estimated based on a base load and, if applicable, any binary loads and any variable loads. The set of key parameters corresponding to the net load estimate that minimizes total squared error represents the inferred specifications of the photovoltaic plant configuration.
US09880221B2	Semiconductor device, physical quantity sensor, electronic apparatus, and moving object A semiconductor device includes a digital circuit having a scan test mode. The digital circuit includes a first flip-flop forming a part of a scan chain when in the scan test mode, and a first selector provided on an input side of the first flip-flop. The first selector is capable of selecting a first signal when not in the scan test mode, and selecting a second signal that is different from the first signal when in the scan test mode.
US09880214B2	Apparatus and method for detection and adaption to an end-of-line resistor and for ground fault localization An apparatus and method for detection and adaption to an end-of-line resistor in a notification appliance circuit (NAC) of a control panel or power booster of, for example, an alarm system, and for ground fault localization in the alarm system are provided. The apparatus can include the NAC where the NAC includes first and second analog input terminals, where the NAC includes first and second external output terminals, and where the NAC includes an end-of-line resistor. Current can be driven through the NAC via the first and second analog input terminals, and voltage can be measured at each of the first and second external output terminals. The measured voltage can be indicative of one of a value of the end-of-line resistor or that a state of the NAC is one of open, shorted, ground faulted, or normal.
US09880210B2	Scanner system and method for high-resolution spatial scanning of an electromagnetic field radiated by an electronic device under test A scanner system and method operable for high-resolution spatial scanning of an electromagnetic field radiated by an electronic device under test (DUT) are provided. The electromagnetic field level radiated by the DUT is measured with a probe array comprising a plurality of spatially separated switched probes, an analyzer, and a computer. An actuator changes the relative position of the probe array to the DUT by a distance less than or equal to the separation distance between the probes, and the electromagnetic field level is measured and stored again.
US09880205B2	Minimizing blind spots in a sensor network According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a system for monitoring circuit branches coupled to an input line of a load center, the system comprising a plurality of first current sensors, each configured to be coupled to a circuit branch, at least one second current sensor configured to be coupled to the input line, a controller, a plurality of first sensor circuits, each configured, in a first mode of operation, to sample a signal from an associated current sensor, and in a second mode of operation, to be powered off, and at least one second sensor circuit configured to sample a signal from the at least one second current sensor and provide an input line current measurement signal to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to operate each first sensor circuit in one of the first and second modes of operation based on the input line current measurement signal.
US09880204B1	Diode checker Embodiments of the invention are directed to using a DC multimeter configured for checking device amperage. A DC voltmeter is electrically-connected in series with the DC multimeter. A linear circuit is electrically connected in series between the DC multimeter and the DC voltmeter. A device under test is electrically-connected between positive and negative terminals of the DC voltmeter.
US09880197B2	Controlling alignment during a thermal cycle A method of testing an integrated circuit of a device is described. Air is allowed through a fluid line to modify a size of a volume defined between the first and second components of an actuator to move a contactor support structure relative to the apparatus and urge terminals on the contactor support structure against contacts on the device. Air is automatically released from the fluid line through a pressure relief valve when a pressure of the air in the fluid line reaches a predetermined value. The holder is moved relative to the apparatus frame to disengage the terminals from the contacts while maintaining the first and second components of the actuator in a substantially stationary relationship with one another. A connecting arrangement is provided including first and second connecting pieces with complementary interengaging formations that restricts movement of the contactor substrate relative to the distribution board substrate in a tangential direction.
US09880186B2	Telematics devices and methods for vehicle speeding detection Exemplary embodiments are provided of telematics devices and exemplary corresponding methods. In an exemplary embodiment, a telematics device generally includes a controller and a wireless communication module for transmitting data to a remote station. The controller is configured to periodically obtain the speed of a vehicle, determine when the speed of the vehicle has exceeded a first speed threshold, store the monitored speed as a max speed value, and compare each successive monitoring interval speed to a previous monitoring interval speed. When the successive monitoring interval speed is greater than the max speed value, the max speed value is updated. A speeding event occurs when each successive monitoring interval speed is above the first speed threshold for a speed duration, and/or when any successive monitoring interval speed exceeds a second speed threshold.
US09880181B2	Method for preparation of purified autoimmune antigen positive serum The present invention relates to a method for preparation of purified autoimmune antigen positive serum. The method comprises steps of: using autoimmune antigen to immunize healthy animals, obtaining antiserum after blood sampling, and purifying the antiserum for obtaining positive serum, the step of purifying the antiserum for obtaining positive serum are as follows: affining and purifying the antiserum for obtaining IgG antibody; coupling the IgG antibody and human IgG Fc or human IgM Fc or human IgA Fc at a ratio of 1:1˜2; separating and purifying the coupled solution for obtaining IgG-IgG Fc conjugates concentrated solution or IgG-IgM Fc conjugates concentrated solution or IgG-IgA Fc conjugates concentrated solution; and diluting the IgG-IgG Fc conjugates concentrated solution or the IgG-IgM Fc conjugates concentrated solution or the IgG-IgA Fc conjugates concentrated solution to a concentration of 0.5˜1 μg/ml for obtaining the positive serum.
US09880179B2	Method for selecting agents that bind to transmembrane receptors in a conformationally selective manner Provided herein are several methods for selecting agents that bind to transmembrane receptors in a conformationally-selective way. In some embodiments, the method may comprise producing: a transmembrane receptor in an active conformation; and said transmembrane receptor in an inactive conformation and using cell sorting to select, from a population of cells comprising a library of cell surface-tethered extracellular capture agents, cells that are specifically bound to either the transmembrane receptor in its active conformation or the transmembrane receptor in its inactive conformation, but not both. In other embodiments, the method may comprise: contacting a GPCR with a population of cells that comprise a library of surface-tethered extracellular proteins; labeling the cell population with a conformationally-specific binding agent, e.g., a G-protein or mimetic thereof; and using cell sorting to select from the cell population cells that bind to the agent.
US09880177B2	Fibrosis biomarker assay A method of bioassay for the quantification of biomarkers useful in the diagnosis of fibrosis disease and prognosis of its development, including biomarkers indicative of the risk of developing fibrosis after a chronic injury is provided. In particular, according to the present invention, biomarkers relating to degradation fragments of Collagen type I, III, IV, V, and VI, elastin, C-reactive protein, and proteoglycans including Biglycan, Decorin, Versican, and Perlecan are found to be useful.
US09880173B2	Pyrite shrink-film laminate as a hydroxyl radical generator Disclosed are hydroxyl radial generating devices, comprising: a substrate layer; and a pyrite layer configured to produce hydroxyl radicals. Another aspect relates to a method for producing a hydroxyl radical generating device, comprising: providing a polymeric substrate layer; placing a layer of pyrite on a surface of the polymeric substrate layer to form a multi-layer structure; and applying heat to the multi-layer structure such that at least the surface of the polymeric substrate layer contracts; wherein the layer of pyrite contracts to a lesser extent than the surface of the polymeric substrate layer providing a textured surface comprising the pyrite layer. Also disclosed is a method of analysis, comprising: placing a solution comprising a biological substance on a sample site of a hydroxyl generating device comprising a surface of pyrite; incubating the solution; and analyzing a sample including proteolytic fragments of the biological substance.
US09880172B2	Nonlinear optical detection of molecules comprising an unnatural amino acid possessing a hyperpolarizability A system for making molecules, and proteins in particular, suitable for detection by a surface-selective nonlinear optical technique. A first use of the invention is for determining a protein's structure in real space and real time. A second use of the invention is to detect a protein or its activity (conformational change). A third use of the invention is for drug screening. A further aspect of the present invention is measuring probe tilt angle orientation in an oriented protein.
US09880170B1	Gluthatione/gold(III) pharmaceutical composition A method for treating cancer and gold(III) complexes with diaminocyclohexane ligand as anticancer agents. Also described are a pharmaceutical composition incorporating the gold(III) complexes and a method of synthesizing the gold(III) complexes.
US09880169B2	MEK1 mutation conferring resistance to RAF and MEK inhibitors Nucleic acids and proteins having a mutant MEK sequence, and methods concerning identification of patients having resistance to treatment with anti-cancer agents, specifically inhibitors of RAF or MEK are provided. Methods of treatment and for optimizing treatment for patients having a mutation in a MEK1 sequence are also provided.
US09880166B2	Sensitive and rapid method for detection of low levels of LAL-reactive substances Methods and systems for measuring the concentration of LAL-reactive substances in fluid samples is provided. They include contacting an aqueous sample with a detection reagent to form a prepared sample. A physical property of the prepared sample may be measured to obtain at least one sample measurement characteristic of the prepared sample. Curve fitting may then be used to forecast a concentration of the LAL-reactive substance the aqueous sample will have at a specified time in the future based on the sample measurement and a correlation developed between at least one standard measurement of a physical quality of a solution with a known concentration of a LAL-reactive substance therein. The quality of the sample measurement may be validated using historical data and/or the standard measurement.
US09880152B2	Leukocyte activation and methods of use thereof Described herein are compositions, methods and/or kits for determining the likelihood of a pregnant subject delivering at term, or developing a disorder associated with pregnancy. These compositions, methods and/or kits feature the measurement of the chemotactic activity of peripheral leukocytes, the measurement of ccl2 mRNA expression or the measurement of Fp or Otr protein expression.
US09880151B2	Method of determining, identifying or isolating cell-penetrating peptides The present invention provides a method of determining or identifying or isolating a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) or analog or derivative thereof having cell-type selectivity and/or at least capable of passing through a Blood Brain Barrier of an animal subject. This invention also provides CPPs and analogs and derivatives thereof, such as those set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 1-27 of the Sequence Listing, and compositions comprising one or more of the CPPs, including conjugates in which a CPP or analog or derivative thereof is linked to a cargo molecule. The invention also provides methods for transporting cargo molecules across cell membranes to specific locations within cells, and for treating, preventing and/or diagnosing diseases that are treatable by a cargo molecule to which a CPP or analog or derivative of the invention is attached. The invention also provides tailored peptide libraries for use in identifying or isolating CPPs.
US09880149B2	Coatings of semiconductor quantum dots for improved visibility of electrodes and pipettes A glass pipette such as an electrode for electrophysiological recording is coated with quantum dots. This greatly aids the ability to observe the glass pipette, particular in tissue as the quantum dots provide an excellent performance under two-photon illumination used to visualize objects at depths of hundreds of microns.
US09880146B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a property of construction material Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a property of construction material. According to one aspect, a material property gauge operable to determine a property of construction material is disclosed. The gauge may include an electromagnetic sensor operable to measure a response of construction material to an electromagnetic field. Further, the electromagnetic sensor may be operable to produce a signal representing the measured response by the construction material to the electromagnetic field. An acoustic detector may be operable to detect a response of the construction material to the acoustical energy. Further, the acoustic detector may be operable to produce a signal representing the detected response by the construction material to the acoustical energy. A material property calculation function may be configured to calculate a property value associated with the construction material based upon the signals produced by the electromagnetic sensor and the acoustic detector.
US09880141B2	Detection and recovery of chemical elements from fluids with tectrabrachion The present disclosure provides uses and methods for using compositions comprising a tetrabrachion protein from Staphylothermus marinus or a fragment thereof for detecting and/or recovering a chemical element from a solution or a suspension. The fragment of the tetrabrachion protein includes the right handed coiled coil (RHCC).
US09880131B2	Liquid-liquid separator interface detection system and polymerization process utilizing the same A system for detecting an interface between polymer-rich phase and solvent-rich phase comprising a liquid-liquid separator configured to receive a polymer solution as an inlet stream produced in a solvent-based polymerization reactor through an inlet feed, wherein the tank is configured to permit the stream to separate into a polymer rich phase and a solvent rich phase; a first sonic transponder for sending a first sonic signal from either a top or bottom of the liquid-liquid separator and for receiving a first reflected portion of the sonic signal, the reflected portion of the sonic signal created by the passage of the sonic signal through a liquid-liquid interface between the solvent rich phase and the polymer rich phase is provided.
US09880128B2	Electrode strip and sensor strip and manufacture method thereof and system thereof The present disclosure relates to an electrode strip, a sensor strip, a system thereof and a manufacturing method thereof. The sensor strip includes a first reactive film, a second reactive film and a vent hole. The first reactive film includes a substrate, a first electrode layer and a first insulation layer. The first end of the first insulation layer is concaved to a first depth to form a first reactive area. The second reactive film includes a second electrode layer and a second insulation layer. The first end of the second insulation layer is concaved to a second depth to form a second reactive area. The vent hole penetrates the second insulation layer, the second electrode layer and the first insulation layer so as to connect the first reactive area and the second reactive area.
US09880127B2	Fault simulator for checking the diagnosis implemented in a control device for a lambda sensor in an internal combustion engine A method for checking fault detection of a control device of an internal combustion engine for malfunction of a connected broadband lambda probe, including checking with a fault simulator between the lambda probe and the control device; to simulate faults of the broadband lambda probe, the fault simulator modifies electrical signals between the broadband lambda probe and the control device. A Nernst voltage of the lambda probe and a pump current of the control device are delivered to the fault simulator; the fault simulator delivers a pump current to the lambda probe and a Nernst voltage to the control device; to simulate faults of the lambda probe, the fault simulator modifies the Nernst voltage to the control device as to the Nernst voltage outputted from the lambda probe. Also described is a related fault simulator. The method and fault simulator monitor the fault detection of control devices for lambda probes.
US09880126B2	Biosensor based on carbon nanotube-electric field effect transistor and method for producing the same Disclosed are a biosensor, a method of producing the same, and a method of detecting a biomaterial through the biosensor. The biosensor includes a substrate, an insulating layer, source and drain electrodes formed on the insulating layer, a middle-discontinuous channel provided between the source and drain electrodes, and a detection area on which a detection target material is to be fixed, covering the middle-discontinuous channel.
US09880117B2	Measuring instrument for detection of electrical properties in a liquid A measuring instrument for detection of electrical properties in a liquid includes a main body configured to hold a tester, a first pole extending from the main body, and a second pole extending from the main body that is spaced apart from the first pole. The first pole carries a positive probe for attachment to the tester, and the second pole carries a negative probe for attachment to the tester. When the probes are placed in the liquid, electrical properties in the liquid are detected by the tester.
US09880116B2	High-throughput sorting of small objects via oil and/or moisture content using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance The current disclosure describes an automated high-throughput seed sorting system for separating seed via oil and/or moisture content using novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) systems and methods. The disclosed systems and methods for measuring the oil and/or moisture content of a single seed in a low-field time domain NMR instrument are superior in sample throughput and signal-to-noise ratio to conventional NMR systems and methods (free induction decay or spin echo) for single seed oil/moisture measurement.
US09880114B2	Industrial CT scanning test system and fluid pressure loading apparatus A fluid pressure loading device applied to an industrial computed tomography scanning test system includes a body, a sample accommodating chamber and at least one fluid medium chamber being provided in the body. Each of the at least one fluid medium chamber is provided therein with a piston, the corresponding fluid medium chamber is separated into two chambers by the piston, one of the two chambers is in communication with an external hydraulic medium via oil lines provided in the body, the other of the two chambers is in communication with the sample accommodating chamber, and one end, facing towards the sample accommodating chamber, of the piston is extendable into the sample accommodating chamber. With the loading device, real-time loading of a test sample can be realized, thus improving a simulation accuracy of the system, and multi-directional loading of the sample can be realized.
US09880112B2	Methods and system for determining shear angle A method for determining an actual shear angle between an interior wall and a facesheet of a cellular panel using an imaging system is disclosed. The imaging system may include a radiation source and a detector diametrically opposed to the radiation source. The method may include positioning the cellular panel at a tilt angle relative to a line extending between the radiation source and the detector, transmitting radiation from the radiation source to the detector through the cellular panel at the tilt angle to obtain an image, measuring a projected shear angle in the obtained image, and determining the actual shear angle between the interior wall and the facesheet using the tilt angle and the projected shear angle.
US09880108B2	Bore imaging system A bore imaging system comprises a photo detector having a readout set of pixels, and a bore surface imaging arrangement that transmits image light from the bore surface to the photo detector. The bore surface imaging arrangement comprises an image geometry transforming fiber bundle comprising a plurality of optical fibers having input ends that are arranged in a first shape to receive light that arises from an image zone and passes through a lens arrangement, and output ends that are arranged in a second shape to transmit the image light to the readout set of pixels, wherein the outputs ends or the readout set of pixels are configured such that at least 25% of the readout set of pixels receive the transmitted image light. High image data rates and good image resolution may thereby be provided in a borescope without using custom photo detectors.
US09880102B2	Microwell array articles and methods of use The disclosure provides microstructured articles and methods useful for detecting an analyte in a sample. The articles include microwell arrays. The articles can be used with an optical system component in methods to detect or characterize an analyte.
US09880100B2	Electronic field enhancement element, analysis device, and electronic apparatus An electronic field enhancement element includes: a metal layer; a dielectric layer provided on the metal layer; and a plurality of fine metal structures provided on the dielectric layer. A refractive index n of the dielectric layer satisfies n′=n+iκ and is in a range of 1≦n<1.46, wherein a complex refractive index of the dielectric layer is n′, an imaginary unit is i, and an extinction coefficient is κ.
US09880098B2	Method and systems for quantifying differences between colored surfaces A system and method of quantifying a difference between gonioapparent colored surfaces includes determining a lightness (L), a sparkle area (Sa), and a sparkle intensity (Si) of the first and second surfaces at a first aspecular angle and at a second aspecular angle. A sparkle metric (SpkM) to quantify the difference between the first and second surfaces is calculated utilizing the lightness (L), the sparkle area (Sa), and the sparkle intensity (Si) of the first and second surfaces at the first and second aspecular angles.
US09880085B2	Flow cytometer system including flow cytometer, autosampler and system integration structure A flow cytometer system includes a flow cytometer, an autosampler and a system integration structure to accommodate interconnection and interface of the flow cytometer and autosampler for operation together and providing for convenient interface with equipment for handling process liquids.
US09880084B2	Apparatus for separation of particles Methods and apparatus for separation of particles based on deformability, and for measurement of particle deformability are provided.
US09880082B2	Detection device that calculates a center of gravity of a container gap region A detection device configured to detect each color of a plurality of components of a biological-sample is provided. The detection device executes the detection process with respect to the container which stores the sample containing the first and the second components. The detection device includes an image pickup device for picking up an image of the container, a background section serving as background of the image pickup section, and a detection section for detecting color of the first component of the sample. The container is disposed between the image pickup section and the background section. The detection section is configured to identify a first region of the first component having the label attached to the container as background, and a second region of the first component having the background section as background so as to detect color information on the first component from at least one region of the first and the second regions.
US09880081B1	Expandable jacket for triaxial, unconfined and uniaxial compression tests and test device for three-dimensional consolidation and settlement tests The expandable jacket consists of the rubber membrane surrounding the cylindrical specimen, circular segmental metal plates surrounding the rubber membrane, and elastomeric rubber bands or rings around the segmental plates to permit uniform radial expansion and maintain uniform diameter of the specimen during the test and thereby providing accurate values of deviator stress, volume change characteristics and shear strength of soil specimen. To determine the three-dimensional coefficient of consolidation and coefficient of consolidation in horizontal direction, the flexible ring consists of all above structural components of expandable jacket except that a filter fabric or paper is wrapped around the cylindrical specimen, and then rubber membrane is mounted surrounding the filter paper or paper. The calibration device for calibration of the expandable jacket and flexible ring shall provide the magnitude of correction to be made in deviator stress and lateral resistance provided by the rubber bands or rings during the test.
US09880077B2	Multi sampling port monitoring apparatus for measuring pollution level and monitoring method using the same Provided are a multi sampling port monitoring apparatus for measuring a pollution level in a predetermined space and a monitoring method using the same. More particularly, provided are a multi sampling port monitoring apparatus capable of effectively monitoring a pollution level in a wide space by including a plurality of sampling ports so that air is sucked at several points in a space to be measured, measuring an average pollution level of the air sucked from the plurality of sampling ports, and allowing pollution levels of the air sucked from the sampling ports to be individually measured in the case in which the average pollution level is out of a predetermined range, and a monitoring method using the same.
US09880074B2	Pressing load setting method of tire testing machine A tire and a drum are relatively moved so that a pressing load is increased, and stopped when the pressing load becomes a predetermined value lower than a target value. A value of the pressing load and a relative distance between the tire and the drum are measured at timings when a circumferential position of the tire is the same. A dynamic longitudinal spring constant of the tire is calculated by using change amounts of the pressing load and the relative distance. An adjustment amount serving as a distance by which the tire and the drum are relatively moved so that a value of the pressing load when relative movement is stopped becomes the target value is calculated by using the dynamic longitudinal spring constant and a difference between the arrival value and the target value. The tire and the drum are relatively moved by the adjustment amount.
US09880070B2	Engine inspection apparatus and system Inspection systems for a gas turbine engine (20) are provided. The inspection systems may comprise an inspection port (106), a bore-scope plug (100), a seal seat (108) and a seal (110A/110B). The bore-scope plug (100) may comprise a shaft (102A/102B) having a uniform or stepped profile. The seal (110A/110B) may be a multi-part seal (110A) or a piston seal (110B). Moreover, the bore-scope plug (100) may be configured to support, carry, and/or stabilize one or more internal structures such as, for example, a mid-turbine frame vane 82. In various embodiments, the inspection systems described herein may provide for increased inspection efficiency during development, qualification, maintenance, and event inspections.
US09880069B1	Optical fiber test apparatus with combined light measurement and fault detection An optical fiber test apparatus includes an optical power meter operable to detect light at a predetermined wavelength, and a laser source operable to generate a visible laser beam. The optical fiber test apparatus further includes an optical fiber extending between a first end and a second end, and a diplexer which includes a first optical connector and is coupled to the optical power meter, the laser source, and the first end of the optical fiber. The optical fiber test apparatus further includes a second optical connector coupled to the second end of the optical fiber and including a test port. The diplexer is operable to transmit light at the predetermined wavelength from the second optical connector to the optical power meter and transmit the visible laser beam from the laser source to the second optical connector.
US09880067B2	Mechanical agitator with seal housing assembly A mechanically driven agitator for use in bioprocessing, including a seal housing providing an integral seal around the agitator shaft is provided. Additionally, a fluid mixing assembly comprising a container and the agitator, as well as a support assembly for supporting the fluid mixing assembly, the support assembly further comprising a mounting assembly for lockably engaging the seal housing, are also provided.
US09880059B2	Gas turbine exhaust diffuser mounted blade path thermocouple probe A thermocouple probe assembly for monitoring the temperature of an exhaust gas flow at an output of a gas turbine engine. The probe assembly includes a plenum pipe positioned within an opening extending through an outer casing wall and a plenum plate of the engine, where an air gap is provided between the casing wall and the plate. The plenum pipe is rigidly secured to the plenum plate and resiliently mounted to the casing wall so that the plenum pipe is operable to slide relative to the wall. The probe assembly further includes a diffuser liner boss rigidly secured to an outer liner of an exhaust gas diffuser in the gas turbine engine, where the liner boss includes a central bore, and where the shaft of the thermocouple probe extends through the central bore in the liner boss so that the sensor is positioned within the exhaust gas diffuser.
US09880053B2	Image pickup apparatus, spectroscopic system, and spectroscopic method An image pickup apparatus includes an encoder which is arranged on an optical path of light incident from an object and which has a plurality of regions with first light transmittance and a plurality of regions with second light transmittance lower than the first light transmittance, a dispersive element which is arranged on an optical path of at least one part of light after passage through the encoder and which spatially shifts the at least one part of the light in accordance with wavelength, and at least one image pickup device which is arranged to receive light after passage through the dispersive element and light without passage through the dispersive element and which acquires a first image, in which light components for respective wavelengths spatially shifted by the dispersive element are superimposed, and a second image based on the light without passage through the dispersive element.
US09880051B2	Sealing system for optical sensors in gas turbine engines A sealing system (20) for an optical sensor of a turbine engine that diverts and exhaust seal leakage away from the seal (22, 24) to prevent ingestion of humid air through the seal (22, 24) is disclosed. The sealing system (20) may include inner and outer optical housings (26, 28) with first and second seals (22, 24) positioned there between separating inner and outer optical housings (26, 28) radially. The sealing system (20) may include one or more leakage manifolds (30) positioned between the first and second seals (22, 24) and containing one or more manifold rings (32). The manifold ring (32) may be positioned between and in contact with the first and second seals (22, 24) enabling the first and second seals (22, 24) to form a double seal. The manifold ring (32) may also be configured to capture leakage air that has seeped past the first seal (22) and exhaust that leakage air through one or more exhaust vents (34) in the outer optical housing (28) before leaking through the sealing system (20).
US09880048B2	Fiber optic distributed vibration sensing with wavenumber sensitivity correction An apparatus and method for correcting the wavenumber sensitivity of a distributed fiber optic sensor are disclosed. The distributed fiber optic sensor is deployed in a region of interest to measure a characteristic of an incident acoustic wavefield. A composite response of the distributed sensor is determined based on backscatter optical signals generated by the sensor, where the composite response is indicative of a characteristic of an incident acoustic wavefield. The composite response includes at least a first response having a first wavenumber sensitivity and a second response having a second wavenumber sensitivity. The second wavenumber sensitivity is selected so that wavenumber notches of the first and second responses do not overlap.
US09880040B2	Flow sensor Provided is a welding structure which enables external visual checks and has improved stability of bonding properties at a laser weld between a cover and a housing of this flow sensor. This flow sensor is provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber sealed between these and housing electronic components or wiring, and a subpassage through which the fluid flows that is to be sensed, and is characterized in that at least the part near the gate section of the cover that transmits the laser is thinner than the other parts that transmit the laser.
US09880033B2	Air mass flow sensor pipe An air mass sensor pipe (116) for a combustion engine includes an inlet opening (124) for air, an outlet opening (126) for air and an air mass sensor (118) arranged inside the pipe (116) between the inlet and outlet openings (124; 126). A first feed-through section (128) for the air is arranged upstream of the air mass sensor (118), the air mass sensor (118) is arranged in a second feed-through section (130) for the air, and that the first and second feed-through sections (128; 130) are displaced at an angle in relation to each other. Also a combustion engine which comprises such an air mass sensor pipe (116) is disclosed.
US09880030B2	Extending programmable measurement device functionality System and method for extending programmable device functionality while preserving functionality of the device driver and driver IP. User input may be received specifying functionality of custom IP for a programmable measurement device with standard driver IP. The custom IP may be generated accordingly, and may be deployable to the programmable measurement device. During operation the custom IP may communicate directly with the standard driver IP and may provide custom functionality of the programmable measurement device while preserving functionality of the standard driver IP on the programmable measurement device and the standard device driver.
US09880025B2	Angular orientation sensor and corresponding methods and devices A sensor for sensing an angular orientation of a magnet producing a magnetic field includes a sensing unit having N≧2 magnetic field sensing devices MFSD; a scanning circuit for repeatedly sequentially probing at least two of the MFSDs and concatenating signals outputted by the respective MFSDs for obtaining a magnetic signal; a magnet-signal output for outputting the magnetic signal; and a reference output for outputting a reference signal independent of the magnetic field. The sensor includes a first signal processing unit SPU1 and a second signal processing unit which are identically constructed, each having an input and an output; a phase detection unit PDU having a first input PDU1 and a second input PDU2, for deriving phase differences between inputted signals, and for outputting a signal related to the angular orientation.
US09880023B2	Direct read metering device and direct read water meter The present invention discloses a direct read metering device, comprising a digital counting wheel connected with a rotary shaft, a micro-controller—a ring magnet coaxially installed on the digital counting wheel, and a tunneling magnetoresistive angular displacement sensor installed radially displaced from the central axis of the annular magnet; the tunneling magneto-resistive angular displacement sensor and the ring magnet are separated by a certain distance in the direction parallel to the central axis of the ring magnet; the micro-controller is connected to the tunneling magnetoresistive angular displacement sensor and used to convert the output of the tunneling magnetoresistive angular displacement sensor into a readable number. The device uses the tunneling magneto-resistive angular displacement sensor to sense the angle of a rotary magnetic field generated by the rotation of the ring magnet which is installed on the digital counting wheel in order to permit the code of the digital counting wheel to be determined when the meter is read, thus realizing a direct read metering function. This direct read metering function is applied to provide a direct read water meter.
US09880021B2	Systems and methods for attitude fault detection in one or more inertial measurement units Systems and methods for attitude fault detection in an inertial measurement unit (IMU) are disclosed. In one embodiment, an avionics system comprises: an IMU configured to produce a calculated pitch solution, a calculated roll solution, or both; a monitor coupled to the IMU and configured to produce an estimated pitch solution, an estimated roll solution, or both; a comparator, wherein the comparator determines the difference between the calculated pitch solution and the estimated pitch solution, the difference between the calculated roll solution and the estimated roll solution, or both; and a display device communicatively coupled to the comparator; wherein the display device receives a warning message from the comparator when the difference between the calculated pitch solution and the estimated pitch solution is greater than a pitch threshold, or when the difference between the calculated roll solution and the estimated roll solution is greater than a roll threshold, or both.
US09880020B1	Dynamic route updating for refueling based on route deviation metrics In some embodiments, techniques for trip routing include determining a set of refueling stations, each of which is less than a threshold distance of deviation from a route; determining a fuel price and a deviation cost for each of the set of refueling stations, wherein the deviation cost is based on a unit distance of deviation from the route for each respective refueling station; calculating an imputed cost for each of the set of refueling stations, wherein the imputed cost is based on a combination of the fuel price and the corresponding deviation cost at each respective refueling station; selecting a first refueling station from among the set of refueling stations, wherein the first refueling station has a minimum imputed cost; updating the route to include the first refueling station; and presenting information relating to the updated route.
US09880018B2	Computer-implemented method for recommending booths-to-visit Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for recommending booths-to-visit to a user. The method includes: accessing a map database of an exhibition; accessing a history database that stores a plurality of records indicative of booths visited by a previous visitor in the exhibition; accessing a user record that includes data indicative of the booths which the user has visited; determining similarity level between each record in the history database and the user record, selecting one of the records according to the determined similarity level so as for the selected record to function as a reference record, usable to determine the booths not yet visited by the user; obtaining the user's current location in the exhibition, and determining a target booth, from the booths not yet visited by the user, by referring to the current location and the map database; and sending to the user a message indicative of the target booth.
US09880015B2	Power transfer system and power transfer method The present invention relates to a power transfer system and a power transfer method for efficiently transferring power between vehicles that travel in a group. The power transfer system according to the present invention is a power transfer system in a vehicle that can travel on power, the system including: an information obtaining unit that obtains possible driving distance information indicating a possible driving distance of each of vehicles that travel to a same destination; and a power transfer controller that controls, based on the possible driving distance information obtained by the information obtaining unit, transfer of power between a power-surplus vehicle with extra power and a power-shortage vehicle lacking in power so that the vehicles can reach a same charging station, the power-surplus vehicle and the power-shortage vehicle being included in the vehicles.
US09880010B2	Method of and arrangement for mapping range sensor data on image sensor data A method of and arrangement for mapping first range sensor data from a first range sensor to image data from a camera are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes: receiving time and position data from a position determination device on board a mobile system, as well as the first range sensor data from the first range sensor on board the mobile system and the image data from the camera on board the mobile system; identifying a first points cloud within the first range sensor data, relating to at least one object; producing a mask relating to the object based on the first points cloud; mapping the mask on object image data relating to the same object as present in the image data from the at least one camera; and performing a predetermined image processing technique on at least a portion of the object image data.
US09880004B2	Geographical constraints-aware map routing A not crossable element (NCE) is marked using a shape on a map. A map data does not prevent a route from crossing the NCE. A closed area is selected on the map, which includes a polygon bound on one side by a portion of the shape. A set of mapping points (MP) that are included in the closed area is selected. A route is formed by connecting one MP to another MP. A subset of MPs is identified as a set of candidate MPs (CMP). Each CMP lies within a search distance of a not-mapping point (NMP). The CMPs are sorted according to CMP-NMP distances. A subset of CMPs is selected whose paths to the NMP do not intersect with any shape corresponding to any NCE in the closed area. The NMP is linked in the route with a selected CMP from the subset of CMPs.
US09880001B2	Method and system for multi-layer positioning system This invention relates to a navigation system for integrating a number of positioning receivers to obtain a final position. The navigation system comprises an operation and control module and a unifying module. The operation and control module is being configured to receive a location data from each of the positioning receivers and transmits the location data to the unifying module. The unifying module will then determine the final position based on a statistical model. In particular, the statistical model uses normal distribution to determine the final position. This final position is then displayed on the display of the navigation system.
US09879997B1	Quartz resonator with plasma etched tethers for stress isolation from the mounting contacts A resonator assembly includes a semiconductor substrate; a resonator gyroscope, the resonator gyroscope including a first resonator formed in a layer of a first material; and an oscillator on the semiconductor substrate, the oscillator including a second resonator formed of a second material. The second resonator is disposed in a cavity, the cavity comprising a first recess in the layer of a first material with the edges of the first recess being attached to the substrate, or the cavity comprising a second recess in the substrate and the edges of the second recess being attached to the layer of a first material.
US09879991B2	Device and method for detecting level degree of overhead conveyor The present disclosure provides a device and a method for detecting a level degree of an OHCV. The device may include a laser beam transmission unit, at least one baffle, a laser beam reception unit, and a controller. The laser beam transmission unit, the baffle and the laser beam reception unit may be sequentially arranged at an identical horizontal level inside the OHCV. The at least one baffle may be provided with a via-hole. The laser beam transmission unit may be configured to generate a laser beam through the via-hole and toward the laser beam reception unit. The laser beam reception unit may be configured to receive the laser beam and transmit information about the received laser beam to the controller. The controller may be configured to monitor the real-time information about the laser beam. According to the present disclosure, it is able to conveniently detect the level degree of the OHCV, effectively reduce the workload of an inspector and enable the inspector to inspect the OHCV without entering an interior of the OHCV, thereby to prevent the normal operation and the cleanliness of the OHCV from being adversely affected.
US09879988B2	Metrology method and apparatus, computer program and lithographic system Disclosed is a method of measuring a parameter of a lithographic process, and associated computer program and apparatuses. The method comprises providing a plurality of target structures on a substrate, each target structure comprising a first structure and a second structure on different layers of the substrate. Each target structure is measured with measurement radiation to obtain a measurement of target asymmetry in the target structure, the target asymmetry comprising an overlay contribution due to misalignment of the first and second structures, and a structural contribution due to structural asymmetry in at least the first structure. A structural asymmetry characteristic relating to the structural asymmetry in at least the first structure of each target structure is obtained, the structural asymmetry characteristic being independent of at least one selected characteristic of the measurement radiation. The measurement of target asymmetry and the structural asymmetry characteristic is then used to determine the overlay contribution of the target asymmetry of each target structure.
US09879985B2	Simultaneous multiple view surface geometry acquisition using structured light and mirrors A method of generating surface geometry information of an object within an imaged region using an imaging system comprising a camera and a source of structured light, the source of structured light comprising a source of a plurality of rays of light. The method comprising obtaining first image data comprising a plurality of pixels, the first image data comprising image data representing the object and first structured light incident on the object, the first structured light comprising a periodic pattern comprising a plurality of pattern elements and having a first spatial frequency projected from said source of structured light and obtaining second image data comprising a plurality of pixels, the second image data comprising image data representing the object and providing information associating each of the plurality of image pixels of the second image data with a ray of said source of structured light. The first image data is processed based upon the second image data to determine a relationship between each of the plurality of image pixels of the first image data and a pattern element of said pattern of the first structured light projected from said source of structured light and the surface geometry information of the object is generated based upon the determined relationship and position data indicating relative spatial positions of said camera and said source of structured light.
US09879984B2	Optical scanning probe and apparatus for generating three-dimensional data using the same An optical scanning probe and an apparatus to generate three-dimensional (3D) data using the same are provided. The apparatus to generate 3D data includes an optical scanning probe that scans light generated from a light emitter over an object to be measured, a distance calculation processor that calculates a distance between the optical scanning probe and the object to be measured, based on the light scanned over the object to be measured and light reflected from the object to be measured; and a depth image generation processor that generates 3D data based on a scanning direction of the optical scanning probe and the distance between the optical scanning probe and the object to be measured.
US09879980B2	Light based positioning The subject matter described herein relates to light based positioning. In one embodiment, a method comprises: responsive to receiving a light signal from at least one light source available to the device, decoding a beacon from the received light signal, the beacon associated with the at least one light source; measuring signal strength of the received light signal; and determining a position of the device at least in part based on the decoded beacon, the measured signal strength, and number of the at least one light source. In addition, the frequency channelization and random channel hopping may be utilized to further improve the performance.
US09879979B2	Heterodyne grating interferometer displacement measurement system A displacement measurement system of heterodyne grating interferometer, comprises a reading head, a measurement grating and an electronic signal processing component. Laser light emitted from the laser tube is collimated, passes through the first polarization spectroscope, and then emits two light beams with an orthogonal polarization direction and an orthogonal propagation direction; the two light beams pass through two acousto-optic modulators and respectively generate two first-order diffraction light beams with different frequencies, which are later divided into reference light and measurement light; two parallel reference light beams form a beat frequency electric signal with positive and negative first-order diffraction measurement light respectively after passing through a measurement signal photo-electric conversion unit; the beat frequency signals are transmitted to the electronic signal processing component for signal processing, thus the output of linear displacement in two directions is realized.
US09879967B2	Method for compensating measurement errors due to thermally induced structural deformations in a coordinate measurement machine A method for compensating measurement errors caused by the deformation of a component defining a slide axis in a measurement machine, comprising the steps of calculating the curvature of the component as a function of the difference between the current temperature Tc and a reference temperature Tr at which the geometric compensation map of the machine has been obtained, calculating correction values for the compensation parameters stored in the compensation map as a function of the curvature, and updating the compensation map with these correction values.
US09879954B2	Less-lethal munition and mechanical firing device A non-centerfire mechanical firing device designed to operate with a non-centerfire cartridge, wherein a conventional centerfire or rimfire cartridge is not able to be fired from the non-centerfire firing device.
US09879953B2	Firework accomodating apparatus comprising guide rod, firework and electronic unit Firework accommodating apparatus comprising a shaped body with an upwardly open recess and a first open bore at the bottom in the shaped body, which is situated centrally, wherein a second bore having a smaller diameter is preferably located next to the first bore, wherein in the first bore, preferably a continuous bore or hollow bore, preferably a rod, a so-called guide rod can be fastened and having at least two lateral cylindrical hollow bores in the shaped body or instead of the hollow bores, downwardly inclined wings.
US09879950B2	Inflator mounted on protective equipment The present invention relates to an inflator mounted on protective equipment, comprising: a main body (100) having a cylindrical structure that is open at the top and bottom thereof, wherein the main body (100) has a key-ball insertion hole (110) and a gas supply hole (120) that are formed on portions of a lateral side thereof, and a bomb (600) for storing compressed air is coupled to the lower side of the main body (100); an eccentric lever (200) that is rotatably coupled to the upper opening of the main body (100) through a rotation shaft (230) and includes a lever (210) that adjusts a downward pressure by rotating an eccentric drum part (220) having the shape of a circular plate; a perforation part (300) that provides a restoring force downward according to the pressure state of the eccentric lever (200) and perforates the bomb (600) to allow the gas in the bomb (600) to be supplied to a user's protective equipment through the gas supply hole (120); and a key-ball (400) that confines the movement of the perforation part (300) while being inserted into the key-ball insertion hole (110) and separates from the key-ball insertion hole (110) according to the state of the outside to operate the perforation part (300).
US09879941B2	Method and system for providing power and data to firearm accessories An apparatus and method for providing power to an accessory on a firearm, the method including the steps of: detecting an accessory when attached to said firearm through actuation of a magnetic switch magnetically coupled to a magnet in the accessory via a pin located in the firearm and providing a power path with said accessory; and providing power to said accessory from a secondary source of power should power be required.
US09879939B2	Crossbow with variable cable displacement In at least one embodiment, a crossbow comprises a stock defining a shooting axis and a bow portion comprising a bowstring and a cable. The stock comprises an aperture formed therein and the cable extends through the aperture. A surface of the aperture biases the cable in a direction lateral to the shooting axis. At least a portion of the surface is oriented non-parallel to the shooting axis.
US09879930B2	Compact action spring and buffer assembly The present application is directed to a firearm including an action spring and a buffer assembly including a buffer body defining a counterweight bore having a first length and a counterweight received within the counterweight bore. The buffer body has a first end defining a face and a second end. The counterweight has a second length less than the first length. A buffer bumper is supported on the second end of the buffer body and a buffer pad is positioned within the counterweight bore between the counterweight and the first end of the buffer body. A bolt carrier is positioned to engage the face of the buffer body. An action spring is positioned about the buffer body and extends between the receiver extension of the firearm and the buffer body.
US09879927B2	System and method of heat extraction for preventing or mitigating a landfill subsurface reaction Disclosed is a system for preventing or mitigating elevated temperatures within a landfill. The system comprises at least one water tight heat exchange unit with a lower edge and an upper edge, wherein the placement of the heat exchange unit is at least one of (1) within the waste mass proximate the area of elevated temperature, or (2) within the area of elevated temperature, the at least one heat exchange unit fabricated to resist differential settlement forces within the landfill as well as the elevated temperatures. The system further includes piping configured to discharge a cooling fluid within the heat exchange unit and a heat exchanger for ejecting heat from the cooling fluid and at least one temperature probe configured to measure the temperature of the waste mass. The system utilizes a pump adapted to circulate the cooling fluid within the piping system and to the heat exchange unit.
US09879926B2	Controlled cooling of an electronic system for reduced energy consumption Energy efficient control of a cooling system cooling an electronic system is provided. The control includes automatically determining at least one adjusted control setting for at least one adjustable cooling component of a cooling system cooling the electronic system. The automatically determining is based, at least in part, on power being consumed by the cooling system and temperature of a heat sink to which heat extracted by the cooling system is rejected. The automatically determining operates to reduce power consumption of the cooling system and/or the electronic system while ensuring that at least one targeted temperature associated with the cooling system or the electronic system is within a desired range. The automatically determining may be based, at least in part, on one or more experimentally obtained models relating the targeted temperature and power consumption of the one or more adjustable cooling components of the cooling system.
US09879925B2	Heat dissipation sheet manufactured using graphene/graphite nanoplate/carbon nanotube/nano-metal complex and method of manufacturing the same To effectively dissipate heat discharged from various electronic or mechanical components, a high-performance ultra-thin heat dissipation sheet with high thermal conductivity and thermal emissivity by using a graphene/graphite nanoplate/carbon nanotube/nano-metal complex that forms a high-content 3D-structured complex that is stably dispersed, and a method of manufacturing the same, is provided. The method includes preparing a first heat dissipation film by sintering a composition for dissipating heat including a graphene/graphite nanoplate/carbon nanotube/nano-metal complex dispersion solution and a binder, and forming a second heat dissipation film on one surface or two opposite surfaces of the first heat dissipation film by using a graphene adhesive including the graphene/graphite nanoplate/carbon nanotube/nano-metal complex dispersion solution and an adhesive. A heat dissipation sheet according to the present invention may be utilized as a material with heat dissipation properties constituting a heat sink alone or with other materials with heat dissipation properties.
US09879921B2	Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle device including the heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes fins that are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which air flows and a heat transfer pipe that extends through the fins and that is bonded and fixed to the fins when the heat transfer pipe is radially expanded by a pipe-expanding method. Tall projections and short projections are provided on an inner surface of the heat transfer pipe. The tall projections are arranged in a circumferential direction and extend in an axial direction of the heat transfer pipe. The short projections are arranged between the tall projections and extend in the axial direction. Opposing side surfaces of the tall and short projections after the expansion of the heat transfer pipe are so inclined that when extensions are drawn from the side surfaces, the extensions cross each other in an inner region of the heat transfer pipe.
US09879916B2	Gas purging element and associated gas connection element Gas purging element (10) for metallurgical applications, comprising the following features in its mounted state: a ceramic refractory body (10, 30) with a lower end and an upper end, the upper end features an upper front surface, the lower end features a lower front surface (12), a depression (20) extends from the lower front surface (12) into the lower end of the ceramic refractory body (10), the depression (20) comprises a first part (16, 16′, 16″) of a detachable, form-fit connection to a gas connection element (50), a fluidic connection for a treating gas through at least one gas permeable section (30) of the ceramic refractory body (10) is provided between the depression (20) and the upper front surface.
US09879913B2	Method and plant for carrying out thermal treatments of braking elements, in particular brake pads A method and plant for thermally treating braking elements after a forming step, including a convective heating step at 150-300° C. and a infrared irradiation heating step, immediately in succession one relative to the other. A tunnel convection furnace is crossed by at least a first conveyor belt which translates along a first direction and on an upper face of which the braking elements are placed, is arranged laterally adjacent, with respect to the first direction, to an infrared heating tunnel furnace crossed by a second conveyor belt which translates along a second direction, parallel and opposite to the first one, and on an upper face of which the braking elements are placed. The first conveyor belt is larger than the second conveyor belt, and the braking elements appear in multiple side-by-side rows in a transverse and oblique direction with respect to the first and second directions. Robots placed at the opposite ends of the furnaces transfer the braking elements from the first conveyor belt to the second one or vice versa to a first end of the furnaces and place them on the first conveyor belt or second one to a second end of the furnaces being opposite to the first one, so as to change at will the sequence in which the infrared and convective heating steps are performed.
US09879909B2	Method for monitoring the secondary drying in a freeze-drying process A method to monitor a secondary drying phase of a freeze-drying process comprises initial steps in which is provided to perform pressure rise tests at different time and to calculate a respective value of experimental desorption rate of product (steps 1 to 3). Subsequently, the method provides to estimate initial conditions and kinetic constants of a kinetic model of the process (step 4) and to calculate at time t=t2 a respective residual moisture content and a respective desorption rate (step 5). The method can be performed in a freeze-dryer apparatus which includes a drying chamber that contains a product to be dried and can be isolated to perform pressure rise tests.
US09879907B2	Device for drying and crystallizing granulate A method and device for continuously drying and crystallizing water-flushed granulate. The method comprises the steps of: feeding water-flushed granulate into a pre-dryer, pre-drying granulate in the pre-dryer, conveying pre-dried granulate into a dryer/crystallizer, and discharging crystallized granulate from the dryer/crystallizer. An air conditioning means produces temperature-controlled and humidity-conditioned air that is delivered to the dryer/crystallizer, wherein the exhaust air of the dryer/crystallizer is delivered to the pre-dryer, and wherein the exhaust air of the pre-dryer is returned to the air conditioning means forming a closed air circuit is formed by the dryer/crystallizer, pre-dryer, and air conditioning means. The device comprises a pre-dryer, a dryer/crystallizer, an air conditioning means, and optionally a control unit.
US09879905B2	Natural gas isobaric liquefaction apparatus This invention is about a natural gas isobaric liquefaction apparatus, which is based on the Rankine cycle system of similar thermal energy power circulation apparatus at cryogenic side, a cryogenic liquid pump is used to input power and the refrigerating media makes up cold to the natural gas liquefying apparatus, so as to realize the isobaric liquefaction of natural gas. The natural gas liquefying apparatus of this invention can save energy by over 30% as compared with the traditional advanced apparatus with the identical refrigerating capacity, therefore it constitutes a breakthrough to the traditional natural gas liquefaction technology, with substantial economic, social and environmental protection benefits.
US09879901B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator may include a main door pivotably mounted to the cabinet to allow access to a storage compartment, the main door having an opening for an auxiliary storage compartment; a sub door pivotably mounted to the main door; a support shelf having at least one rotating shaft pivotably mounted at a lower vicinity of the opening; a case mounted in a recess formed in the main door, the case having an opening through which a slider slides, and a rotating gear provided with a pinion and coupled to the at least one rotating shaft. The slider includes a rack engaged with the pinion such that a movement of the sub door to close the auxiliary compartment rotates the support shelf to a vertical position, and a movement of the sub door to open the auxiliary compartment rotates the support shelf to a horizontal position.
US09879888B2	Auxiliary heat exchanger having fluid retention member for evaporative cooling An auxiliary heat exchanger may reduce a temperature of a refrigerant allowed to pass through the auxiliary heat exchanger. The operation of the auxiliary heat exchanger may be controlled. In some implementations, the auxiliary heat exchangers may include fluid retention members, thermoelectric coolers, and/or other types of heat exchangers.
US09879887B2	Ejector An ejector has a swirling space, a pressure reducing space, a suction passage, a pressure increasing space, a nozzle passage, a diffuser passage, a passage forming member that forms the nozzle passage and the diffuser passage, and a vibration suppressing portion that suppresses a vibration of the passage forming member. The vibration suppressing portion has (i) a first elastic member that applies a load to the passage forming member in a direction in which an area of a cross section perpendicular to the direction of the central axis of the nozzle passage and the diffuser passage decreases and (ii) a second elastic member that applies a load to the passage forming member in a direction opposite from the direction in which the first elastic member applies the load to the passage forming member.
US09879886B2	Turbo refrigerator A turbo refrigerator (1) includes: a turbo compressor (5) to which a gas-phase component (X3) of a refrigerant from an economizer (3) is supplied, wherein the turbo compressor (5) includes a first flow path (R10) through which a compressed refrigerant gas (X1) flows, and a connecting pipe (5b) connected to the first flow path (R10) and a second flow path (R3) through which the gas-phase component (X3) of the refrigerant flows, and the diameter of the connecting pipe (5b) reduces toward the first flow path (R10) from the second flow path (R3).
US09879884B2	Self-calibrating solar position sensor A sun positioning sensor and method of accurately tracking the sun are disclosed. The sensor includes a position sensing diode and a disk having a body defining an aperture for accepting solar light. An extension tube having a body that defines a duct spaces the position sensing diode from the disk such that the solar light enters the aperture in the disk, travels through the duct in the extension tube and strikes the position sensing diode. The extension tube has a known length that is fixed. Voltage signals indicative of the location and intensity of the sun are generated by the position sensing diode. If it is determined that the intensity values are unreliable, then historical position values are used from a table. If the intensity values are deemed reliable, then actual position values are used from the position sensing diode.
US09879875B2	Remote contractor system with case management A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may help a contractor pro-actively identify possible issues with its customer's building control systems and may output an alert related to an operation of the customer's building control systems. Within the system, the contractor may able to open a case associated with the customer's building control systems and link related alerts to the case.
US09879874B2	Air-conditioning system control apparatus An air-conditioning system control apparatus capable of, even for a room in which a humidity sensor is not installed, accurately estimating an indoor humidity and preventing an indoor temperature and humidity from deviating from comfortable ranges. The air-conditioning system control apparatus includes a thermal characteristic parameter setting unit configured to determine a thermal characteristic parameter of a building thermal model based on a heat equation, a humidity characteristic parameter setting unit configured to determine a humidity characteristic parameter of a building humidity model based on a moisture balance equation in an air-conditioned space, and a control data generation unit configured to generate control data of an air-conditioning apparatus so that a temperature and a humidity of the air-conditioned space are each within a preset range.
US09879867B2	Hot water supply system The present invention achieves energy saving and a decrease in facility cost for a hot water supply device by dividing a water receiving tank. A hot water supply system comprising: a water receiving tank receiving water supplied from a water supply source; a hot water storage tank connected to the water receiving tank via a connection pipe and storing hot water and supplying hot water to a hot water supply load; and a hot water supply device supplying the water stored in the hot water storage tank. The water receiving tank including: a temperature non-raising water receiving tank storing water supplied from the water supply source, the temperature non-raising water receiving tank, a general water supply pipe performing general water supply being connected; a temperature raising water receiving tank storing the water supplied from the water supply source and supplying the stored water to the hot water storage tank; and a preheating device preheating the water stored in the temperature raising water receiving tank.
US09879866B2	Cooking device A cooking device includes a casing, a heating chamber (102) provided in the casing and having an opening on a front side thereof, and a heat shield member (122) for blocking heat that transfers from the heating chamber (102) toward the casing. At least a part of the heat shield member (122) is located in a position that enables the heat shield member (122) to receive water droplets dropping through between the heating chamber (102) and the casing (101). The configuration reduces the possibility that a motor (133) and other components located below the heating chamber (102) fails by becoming wet due to condensate water.
US09879855B2	Gaseous fuel burner with high energy and combustion efficiency, low pollutant emission and increased heat transfer The invention relates to a gaseous fuel (including all mixtures thereof) burner structure, characterized in that it comprises: a housing defining a distal flame outlet end and a proximal gaseous fuel and air supply end, both ends having covers; a pressurized-air inlet arranged in the housing close to the proximal end, defining an inner pressurized-air-supply chamber; a pressurized-gaseous-fuel-supply duct arranged in the center, housed in a first mixing chamber and provided with a plurality of openings for the outflow of the gaseous fuel to said first mixing chamber, said first mixing chamber also comprising a plurality of openings for supplying pressurized air axially and radially; an igniter arranged inside said first mixing chamber for a first combustion; a second, over-mixing chamber arranged colinearly with said first chamber, the end of the fuel duct comprising a cover provided with openings via which gaseous fuel is axially supplied to said second, over-mixing chamber, and the wall of said second chamber comprising openings via which pressurized air is radially supplied, where a second stage of the combustion process is carried out; and a third, conical flame-formation chamber colinearly connected to the end of said second, over-mixing chamber.
US09879850B2	T-bar for suspended ceiling with heat dissipation system for LED lighting The T-bar includes an elongate rigid spine extending between terminal ends including either a fixed anchor or adjustable anchor for attachment to adjacent T-bars or other supports. An upper heat sink is provided on an upper portion of the spine to enhance heat transfer from the T-bar to air surrounding upper portions of the T-bar. A light housing is provided on a lower portion of the T-bar which is configured to support a lighting module therein, such as a light emitting diode (LED) light. A lower heat sink is provided above this light housing and integrated into a rest shelf which supports ceiling tiles adjacent the T-bar. A power supply is provided which can be removably attached to the T-bar and provide appropriately conditioned power for the lighting module.
US09879849B2	LED light fixture having heat sink with fins at flow-through opening An LED light fixture including a heat-conductive overstructure having upper and lower surfaces and a plurality of upwardly-protruding elongate fins which extend along the upper surface adjacent to at least one opening through the fixture permitting air flow from beneath the lower surface to above the upper surface. An LED light source is secured with respect to the lower surface. The fins have heights which gradually increase toward fin-ends proximal to the at least one opening.
US09879845B2	Modular lighting system using hangers and power bars A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
US09879842B2	Sunny bright solar lighting Sunny Bright Solar Lighting is an easily mounted roof solar sunpipe that magnifies and concentrates the incoming sun light with an internally mounted and focused nonimaging Fresnel lens paired with a Kohler concentrator lens in order to magnify and concentrate the focused intense sun light onto a fiber optic illumination systems glass plate, used for solid core fiber optic lighting cables, and a bundle of seven 14 mm solid core endglow plastic fiber optic cables that carries only light waves in a visible light spectrum to seven different rooms that are up to thirty three feet away from the roof mounted sunny bright solar tube. Each fiber optic cable has an easily installed adjustable light aperture with diffuser on the end in order to dim or turn off each light independently this would allow sunny bright solar lighting to bring the suns light into any desired room during the day and at night the 110 v LED lighting array that is internally mounted in the sunny bright solar tube would replace the sunlight to continue lighting the seven different rooms.
US09879841B2	Ventilation apparatus of lamp module for vehicles A ventilation apparatus of a lamp module for vehicles may include a lamp housing, a lamp installed in the lamp housing and emitting light through a light transmitting part, a light transmitting lens covering an opening of the lamp housing and transmitting the light emitted from the light transmitting part, an intake hole part formed through the lamp housing and arranged at one side of the lamp, an exhaust hole part formed through the lamp housing and arranged at the other side of the lamp, an exhaust pipe coupled to the lamp housing and connected to the exhaust hole part, and an exhaust pump connected to the exhaust pipe and forcibly discharging the air between the lamp housing and the light transmitting lens through the exhaust pipe.
US09879836B2	Lighting device in a motor vehicle The present invention is directed toward a lighting device in a motor vehicle that includes a first light conductor and at least one second light conductor. The first light conductor propagates light by total internal reflection which impacts on a light coupling-out area of light conductor and is at least partially reflected toward and emits from an opposite light output area. The at least one second light conductor propagates light by total internal reflection which is coupled into the first light conductor by a midway coupling-in. The light that emits out of the second light conductor via a light output area enters into the first light conductor via the light coupling-out area. An air gap is formed between the light coupling-out area of the first light conductor and the light output area of the second light conductor.
US09879831B2	Semiconductor lamp with tubular contact pins A semiconductor lamp comprises a housing in which a driver is accommodated and at least one contact pin protruding from the housing outwards, wherein the contact pin is tubular and riveted to the housing and the driver is connected to the contact pin via an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into a cavity of the contact pin. A method serves for producing a semiconductor lamp, wherein at least one tubular contact pin is inserted into a feedthrough of a housing from outside till the contact pin abuts the housing, the contact pin is next riveted with the housing on the inside and a driver is inserted into the housing, whereby an electrically conductive connection element is inserted into the contact pin. The invention is particularly applicable to LED retrofit lamps for replacing bipin halogen lamps, in particular MR16 lamps.
US09879830B2	Bypass feeder device A device and method for chemicals to be fed into a water system, treating the water system as it enters, for example, a fire protection mains and/or fire protection systems (FPS) to protect and maintain the longevity of the water system preventing damages to the water system or enhancing the operation characteristics of the system. This device is a treatment system that may be installed as a portable or permanent device with chemicals such as, corrosion inhibitors, wetting agents, polymeric dispersants, biocides, biostats or other water chemical enhancing effects with means for injecting the chemicals into the fire protection system or a bypass feed system utilizing the fluid means without the need for any electricity. Activation of the pump occurs when water enters the FPS mains and FPS sprinkler system from an outside source. Valving is included to isolate the pump and drums, storage tank to prevent backflow from the FPS.
US09879811B2	Quick-fit hydraulic or hydrodynamic coupling for pressurized fluids The quick-fit coupling (1) for pressurized fluid comprises a valve body (3) extending along a longitudinal axis (L) and having an axial cavity (4) wherein a shutter stem (5) is axially movable with respect to the valve body in contrast to and by action of at least one elastic element (6) between a position for opening and a position for closing an axial passage of fluid through said cavity (4), the stem (5) being configured so as to be subjected by the fluid present in the cavity (4) to a resultant force having a substantially null component at least in an axial direction.
US09879810B2	Push-to-connect joint assembly with protective shield device and method Embodiments of a push fitting joint packaging arrangement include a sealing member, a fastening ring, a retaining ring member and a shield member. In various embodiments, the shield member has a substantially cylindrical interior surface, and a non-cylindrical exterior surface.
US09879802B2	Hose and cable management system The invention is a suspension apparatus for maintaining conduits (hoses, cables, wires, tubing) in desirable positions to prevent abrasion, drag, and friction damage. The suspension apparatus connects a conduit guide engaging the conduits to a tension reel via a tension cable that maintains the conduits at a proper elevation and placement. The tension reel may be enclosed in a housing and attached to a structure with an appropriate bracket. The suspension apparatus may be used to ensure that tractor and trailer combinations have conduits maintained in place such that the conduits are not damaged during use.
US09879798B2	Valve position indicator and a method for indicating a valve position A valve position indicator/method comprising a main rotation axle operably connected with a valve. Repositioning the valve provides rotation of the main axle with a main axle disc with at least one tooth for cooperation with a gear wheel. The main axle disc has a toothless portion substantially not interfering with the gear wheel. The at least one tooth provides a rotation of the gear wheel and the toothless portion provides no rotation of the gear wheel upon rotation of the main axle disc. The gear wheel is on a secondary axle with an indication means.
US09879795B2	Additively manufactured gas distribution manifold A manifold constructed by additive manufacturing for use in semiconductor processing tools is provided. The manifold may include a mixing chamber and portions of a plurality of flow paths with each flow path including a first fluid flow component interface, a second fluid flow component interface, a first tubular passage fluidically connecting the first mixing chamber with a first fluid flow component interface outlet of that flow path, and a second tubular passage fluidically connecting a first fluid flow component interface inlet of that flow path with a second fluid flow component interface outlet of that flow path. Each fluid flow component interface is configured to interface with a corresponding fluid flow component such that the corresponding fluid flow component, when installed, is able to interact with fluid flow between the fluid flow component interface inlet and the fluid flow component interface outlet.
US09879785B1	PTFE flip seal for rotating shafts A seal system includes a housing defining a bore having an inner bore surface. A rotating shaft is rotatably received in the bore and includes a recessed annular groove. A seal body has an unassembled form having a ring shape, wherein in an assembled state the seal member is received in the annular groove of the rotating shaft with the seal member flipped with a first side surface facing radially inward toward the annular groove and a second side surface facing radially outward toward the bore, the first side surface along a cylindrical outer diameter surface being lifted off of a bottom surface of the annular groove so that the second side surface along the outer diameter surface engages the inner bore surface while the second side surface along an inner diameter surface is spaced from the inner bore surface.
US09879782B2	Seal and corresponding manufacturing method A seal comprises an annular portion having a static seal surface in contact with a first element and made of an elastomeric material. An annular lip exerts a dynamic seal in relation to a second element. A garter spring and a leaf spring cooperate to maintain the annular lip in an operating configuration abutting on a sliding surface of the second element, whilst an annular locking element holds in position the leaf spring.
US09879775B2	Shifting lever assembly A shifting lever assembly is provided and includes a shifting lever rotated about a predetermined angle of a rotation axis to select a shift stage, a magnet disposed on the rotation axis to rotate integrally with the shifting lever, and a shifting lever position detection unit coupled adjacent to the magnet that detects a magnetic force based on a rotation of the shifting lever. Further the shifting lever position detection unit includes a circuit board, first and second magnetic force sensors, installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and a third magnetic force sensor, installed on a second surface of the circuit board. Each of the three magnetic force sensor includes a magnetic force detector for detecting a force of the magnet. The magnetic force detectors of the first and second magnetic force sensors are arranged to be symmetrical to the rotation axis.
US09879771B2	Dry well shaft assembly Disclosed herein are a shaft assembly having a dry well and a gearbox incorporating the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly may include a housing having an opening and a lubricant reservoir. A tubular member may be fixed in the opening and extend above a surface of lubricant that collects in the lubricant reservoir during operation. At least one sealing member may be positioned between the tubular member and an inner wall defining the opening. A solid shaft may extend through the tubular member and have an outer diameter that is smaller than an inner diameter of the tubular member, thereby defining a dry well between the solid shaft and the tubular member. A bearing mount may be arranged about the tubular member and may be removably connected to a gear associated with the solid shaft. A method of assembling a gearbox incorporating the shaft assembly is also disclosed.
US09879765B2	Vehicle drive system The disclosure provides a vehicle drive system that includes a drive pedestal, a drive motor mounting plate connected to the drive pedestal, an electric drive motor assembly having an output shaft and being connected to the drive motor mounting plate, at least two bearings connected to the drive pedestal, an axle shaft rotatably connected to the at least two bearings, a drive wheel connected to the axle shaft, a chain drive assembly, and a controller that provides control signals to the electric drive motor assembly and is connected to the drive pedestal. The electric drive motor assembly also includes a first gear speed reduction, while the chain drive assembly includes a second gear speed reduction.
US09879764B2	Chain drive tensioner spring force control mechanism A tensioner which adjusts the mean tensioner force to keep the chain tension as low as possible without sacrificing chain control, significantly improving drive efficiency as the chain wears and is subject to low dynamic loads.
US09879763B2	Chain guide and chain transmission device A chain guide includes a curved guide base extending along the direction in which a torque transmitting chain moves. The guide base includes, on its surface opposed to the chain, a rolling guide portion including a plurality of roller element bearings which are rotatable and configured to guide the chain while kept in rolling contact with the chain, and a sliding guide portion in the form of a curved surface. The rolling guide portion reduces a loss in torque transmission, while the sliding guide portion reduces flapping of the chain, thus reducing noise and vibrations of the chain.
US09879762B2	Control device of automatic transmission A jump shift of an automatic transmission with multiple shift speeds such as, e.g., ten forward speeds involves operation of many engagement elements. The shifting operation for the jump shift is therefore complicated, making it difficult for the automatic transmission to respond quickly. After shifting to the seventh speed as a direct coupling speed is completed by engaging three clutches C1, C3, C4, the remaining other clutch C2 is also engaged at the seventh speed. In the case of a jump shift, e.g., a shift from the seventh speed to the fifth speed, shifting to the fifth speed is completed by disengaging the clutch C1 and performing control to disengage the clutch C3 and to engage a brake B1 with the remaining other clutch C2 kept in the engaged state. This facilitates the shifting operation from the direct coupling speed and allows the automatic transmission to respond quickly.
US09879760B2	Rotary actuator with shortest force path configuration A parallel eccentric electro-mechanical actuator provides motive power and includes an electric prime mover that drives the reducer's pinion gear. This pinion drives minimum three star gears with stationary shaft bearings. Each shaft contains an eccentric which are completely in parallel with each other. These eccentrics can be thought of as parallel/in-phase driven crankshafts. Each eccentric drives the parallel eccentric (PE) gear through a bearing. The PE gear exhibits a circular motion (without rotation) which in itself is unbalanced. The crankshafts have another eccentric which create an opposite inertia force to balance that of the PE gear. The PE gear contains an external toothed gear on its periphery. It meshes with the internal teeth of the output ring gear. The relative motion between the PE gear and the ring gear is that the PE gear rolls inside the ring gear. This relative motion is called hypo-cycloidal motion.
US09879757B2	Chain comprising polymeric links and a spacer The present invention relates to a chain comprising a plurality of chain links comprising a polymeric fiber and wherein said chain comprises at least one spacer having a thickness Δ at the contact location through which loads are directly transmitted between said chain links and a ratio Δ/τ=f, with τ being the thickness of any of the chain links at the contact location through which loads are directly transmitted between said chain links and f being in a range between 0.10 and 2.50. The invention further relates to the use said chain for storing, securing, lashing and tying down for handling and transporting cargo, in lifting and hoisting, logging, hauling and rigging, propulsion and driving, mooring, cargo-hold of an aircraft or naval ship.
US09879756B2	Link unit A link unit includes two outer chain plates and an assembling pin. Each of the outer chain plates has a first end section, and a second end section spaced apart from the first end section. The first end section of each of the outer chain plates has a through hole. The second end section of each of the outer chain plates has a connecting hole that has a first hole portion, a second hole portion, and a neck portion located between the first and second hole portions. The assembling pin is inserted removably through the connecting hole of each of the outer chain plates, and is capable of being prevented from moving past the neck portion of each of the outer chain plates so as to be positioned in the second hole portion of each of the outer chain plates.
US09879752B1	Spring loaded sprocket carrier A device that will allow a go kart to smoothly accelerate and decelerate particularly during racing the go cart. This device once assembled will allow the gradual absorption of shock on the drive chain as it rotates around thereby, rotating the axle of the go kart.
US09879750B2	Systems and methods for oil damping with textured damper surfaces A damper system may include an inner damper having a first annular geometry and a textured surface. An outer damper may also have an annular geometry and be disposed about the inner damper. The outer damper may have a textured surface. The textured surfaces of the inner damper and outer damper may define a cavity that is configured to contain a viscous fluid.
US09879746B2	Rod guide system and method with multiple solenoid valve cartridges and multiple pressure regulated valve assemblies The present disclosure relates to a shock absorber having a pressure tube forming a pressure chamber. A piston rod is disposed within the pressure chamber. A reserve tube defines a reserve chamber adjacent the pressure tube. A rod guide assembly is concentrically disposed about the piston rod and the pressure chamber and houses a plurality of digital valves. Each one of the digital valves includes a component which is moveable between an open state and a closed state, and thus helps to control a fluid flow between the pressure chamber and the reserve chamber. An electronic control system is disposed on a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and controls actuation of the digital valves. At least one additional valve is associated with one of the digital valves for further controlling a flow of fluid between the pressure chamber and the reserve chamber.
US09879743B2	Air spring with sliding element A bellows-type air spring, more particularly a folding-bellows-type air spring having two or more bellows sections designed as folds or toroidal parts, which are separated by rings placed around the air spring bellows, more particularly metal rings, wherein the bellows-type air spring is secured between the sprung and the unsprung mass with the aid of connecting parts, more particularly designed as an air spring cap and an air spring rim or piston, and wherein the bellows project outward in the manner of a balloon between the connecting parts, or the folds or toroidal parts of the bellows project outward in the manner of a balloon between or adjacent to the rings.
US09879736B2	Ball ramp actuator retaining plug A ball ramp plate assembly includes a first ball ramp plate and a second ball ramp plate coaxially aligned so that first and second ball pockets are opposed with rolling elements disposed in the opposing first and second ball pockets. A plug extends through the first ball ramp plate and the second ball ramp plate and engages both ball ramp plates to maintain the first ball ramp plate and the second ball ramp plate against displacement with respect to each other.
US09879732B2	Universal joint A universal joint includes a joint cross having a plurality of bearing journals, each bearing journal being supported in a bearing bushing by a plurality of trunnion bearing rolling elements, the universal joint also including a seal assembly configured to seal the journal cross against the bearing bushing. The bearing bushing includes a sleeve for slidingly supporting at least one seal lip of the seal assembly, the sleeve has an axially inner region facing the rolling elements, and the axially inner region has a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion. The radially inner portion is axially offset from the radially outer portion towards the rolling elements by an offset amount.
US09879729B2	Connection of a tubular device to a shaft A tubular device for connection to a shaft such that a torque can be transmitted between the tubular device and the shaft comprises a hollow receiving region configured to receive a first supporting region of the shaft, and at least one first torque-transmitting section configured to engage with at least one second torque-transmitting section of the shaft. The hollow receiving region includes at least one contact surface configured to engage at least one first supporting region of the shaft when the tubular device is radially mounted to the shaft. The at least one first torque-transmitting section includes at least one bump which, starting from the at least one first contact surface, projects into the hollow receiving region and is positioned immovably on the tubular device.
US09879723B2	Countershaft A countershaft as disclosed herein may include one or more bearing zones along its axial length. Each bearing zone may include one or more radial holes in fluid communication with one or more grooves, respectively, and one or more axial channels formed along the longitudinal length of the countershaft. Each groove may be positioned adjacent an interface between a rotating member and a non-rotating member and include one or more features therein, such as a profile and/or taper.
US09879720B2	Bearing damper with external support spring systems and methods One embodiment describes a bearing damper including a housing; a damper with an annular gap and an internal spring, in which the annular gap is formed between an inner rim and an outer rim of the damper, the internal spring circumferentially bounds the annular gap, the outer rim is coupled to the housing, and the annular gap is configured to be filled with fluid used to dampen vibrations produced on a drive shaft; and an external spring coupled to the housing and to the inner rim, in which the external includes an axial stiffness engineered to externally offset axial forces exerted on the inner rim of the and a radial stiffness engineered to externally offset a first portion of radial forces exerted on the inner rim and to permit a second portion of the radial forces to propagate the vibrations from the drive shaft to the inner rim.
US09879719B2	Supporting structure for gear of outboard motor A shift mechanism includes a second driven gear, a first conical roller bearing and a second conical roller bearing, a biasing member, a first spacer, and a nut. The second driven gear meshes with a driving gear. The first and second conical roller bearings are disposed on an outer periphery of a tubular portion of the second driven gear in directions opposite from one another. The biasing member biases one of inner or outer races of the first or second conical roller bearings in directions separate from one another. The first spacer maintains a distance between the other ones. The nut holds the first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing to the tubular portion of the second driven gear. One of the inner or outer races of the first and second conical roller bearings are relatively displaceable in an axial direction.

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