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US09899935B2	Power factor correction device with first and second output parts According to one embodiment of the present invention, when a power supply device including first and second amplification units which share an energy storage element is used, it is possible to reduce voltage stress on a semiconductor device and to consistently maintain voltages output to the first and second amplification units by independently adjusting the amplification rates of the first and second amplification units.
US09899929B2	Soft transition on all switching elements two transistors forward converter A method is shown to improve any forward topology operation to achieve efficient resonant transitions by actively shorting the magnetizing inductance and release the short at another time thus producing lower switching losses independent of frequency. In another embodiment of this invention the current from the output inductor is allowed to go negative before the freewheeling synchronous rectifier is turned off, pushing the current back into the primary to create a soft transition across the switching elements before they are turned on. In another embodiment of the invention a current source is used to inject a negative current through the freewheeling synchronous rectifier before is turned off with the purpose of transferring the current into the primary to discharge the parasitic capacitances of the primary switchers before are turned on. An optimized control method can be utilized to tailor the frequency to create the necessary conditions requested by the embodiments of the invention.
US09899922B1	Digital sub-regulators In certain aspects, a regulator includes a variable-impedance switch coupled between a supply rail and a circuit block, wherein an impedance of the variable-impedance switch is set by an impedance code input to the variable-impedance switch. The regulator also includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert a block supply voltage at the circuit block into a voltage code, and a controller configured to adjust the impedance code based on the voltage code in a direction that reduces a difference between the block supply voltage and a target supply voltage.
US09899920B2	Voltage regulator and method for controlling output stages of voltage regulator A voltage regulator includes a plurality of output stages and a controller. The plurality of output stages are arranged for selectively enabling to generate output voltages and output currents or not according to a plurality of control signals, respectively. The controller is arranged for sensing the output currents of the output stages, and generating the control signals according to the sensed output currents. When the controller generates the control signals to reduce a quantity of the enabled output stages, the controller determines whether a summation of the sensed output currents is greater than a first threshold or not to determine whether to enable more output stages, then a period of time later, the controller selectively determines whether the summation of the sensed output currents is greater than a second threshold or not to determine whether to enable more output stages, wherein the second threshold is lower than the first threshold.
US09899910B2	Bridgeless PFC power converter with reduced EMI noise A bridgeless PFC boost converter has either a single switching cell or two identical switching cells configured to operate 180 degrees out of phase. A switching cell includes first and second transistor switches coupled to opposing ends of an input AC voltage source, and first and second rectifying diodes, one rectifying diode coupled in series to each of the two transistor switches. A boost inductor is coupled to a junction node between each transistor switch and rectifying diode series. Either a third rectifying diode or a third transistor switch is coupled to a junction node between the input AC voltage source and the first transistor switch. Either a fourth rectifying diode or a fourth transistor switch is coupled to a junction node between the input AC voltage source and the second transistor switch. The rectifying diodes are coupled an output capacitor. Two switching cells can be interleaved.
US09899904B2	DC-DC power supply control circuit and electronic device A DC-DC power supply control circuit includes: a voltage stabilizing diode, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a first triode and a second triode. Two ends of the first resistor are connected with an input end and an enable end of the DC-DC power supply respectively. Two ends of the second resistor are connected with the enable end and a collector of the second triode. A base electrode and an emitting electrode of the second triode are connected with a collector of the first triode and ground respectively. A negative electrode end and a positive electrode end of the voltage stabilizing diode are connected with an output end of the DC-DC power supply and a base electrode of the first triode respectively. Two ends of the third resistor are connected with the base electrode and the ground respectively. An emitting electrode of the first triode is grounded.
US09899900B2	Method of manufacturing the rotor assembly for an electric motor A method is provided for fabricating a rotor assembly for an electric motor which utilizes pre-fabricated conductive rotor bars and die cast end rings. Containment rings, which may be installed on the end rings either before or after casting, may be used to inhibit end ring creep at high rotational speeds.
US09899898B2	Controller-integrated rotary electric machine A controller-integrated rotary electric machine with electrolytic corrosion resistance improved can be obtained. The controller-integrated rotary electric machine includes: a power circuit unit provided between an external power supply and a stator winding of a rotary electric machine main body; a power input/output terminal bolt provided in the power circuit unit and electrically connected to the external power supply; a plate pressed into the power input/output terminal bolt and abutting a power input/output conductor; a bus bar connected to the power input/output conductor; and a power module connected to the bus bar and the stator winding, wherein the power input/output terminal bolt and the bus bar are separated from each other.
US09899886B2	Devices and methods for magnetic flux return optimization in electromagnetic machines A rotor element configured for movement relative to a stator includes a backing member formed, at least in part, from a ferromagnetic material; a first magnetic pole having a first polarity; and a second magnetic pole having a second polarity, opposite the first polarity. The first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole are coupled to a first surface of the backing member such that the second magnetic pole is disposed, relative to the first magnetic pole, at a distance defined in a direction of a width of the backing member. A thickness of the backing member is varied along the width of the backing member to form a plurality of alternating first portions and second portions. The first portions include protrusions extending from a second surface of the backing member, opposite the first surface, such that the first portions are thicker than the second portions.
US09899880B2	Power receiver, resonance-type contactless power supply and control method therefor The present disclosure relates to a power receiver, a resonance-type contactless power supply and a control method. The power converter is coupled between a receiver-side resonant circuit and a load, and is controlled to adjust a current strength parameter of a high-frequency AC current output from the receiver-side resonant circuit, so that a first current strength parameter, which is a peak or an effective value of a current flowing through a transmitting coil, and a second strength parameter, which is a peak or an effective value of a current flowing through a receiving coil, have a predetermined relationship, and a load impendence of an equivalent load is adjusted, and thus system efficiency is optimized.
US09899873B2	System and method for generating a power receiver identifier in a wireless power network Embodiments in the present disclosure may be directed to a system and method that may be used to generate a unique identifier for one or more wireless power devices such as one or more wireless power receivers, wireless power transmitters, GUI management devices, and system management servers among others, within a wireless power network. The method may use automated software embedded on a chip that may run when a wireless power device boots up for the first time. The unique ID may allow easy associations of wireless power devices with user defined names.
US09899866B2	Regulator rectifier device and a method for regulating an output voltage of the same A regulator rectifier device and a method for regulating an output voltage of the same which takes input from three phase alternating current voltage generating device with each phase including a positive cycle and a negative cycle. A first rectifying unit with a first gate terminal, connected to the generating device to rectify the positive cycle of said three phase alternating current voltage. A second rectifying unit with a second gate terminal, connected to said generating device to rectify the negative cycle of said three phase alternating current voltage, wherein said second rectifying unit switches between rectification mode and shunt mode depending on the load condition. And a controlling unit configured to control said second rectifying unit by a gate control signal, said controlling unit outputs said gate control signal based on an output voltage of said regulator rectifier device with respect to a first predefined voltage in battery connected condition or third predefined voltage in battery-less condition and said positive cycle and said negative cycle of each phase of said three phase alternating current voltage from said generating device, said gate control signal enables said second rectifying unit to switch between rectification mode and shunt mode by controlling the second gate terminal of said second rectifying unit, wherein said gate control signal switches said second rectifying unit into shunt mode when the output voltage of said regulator rectifier device is greater than said first predefined voltage in battery connected condition or third predefined voltage in battery-less condition and thereby continuing the shunting of said second rectifying unit as long as said positive cycle of corresponding phase of said three phase alternating current voltage exists.
US09899858B2	Power adapter with power saving mode and power-saving method for power adapter A power adapter with a power saving mode includes a power adaptation unit. The power adaptation unit includes a pulse width modulation control unit and a power saving signal receiver. The power saving signal receiver is electrically connected to the pulse width modulation control unit. When the power adapter enters a working status, the power adapter charges a battery. After the power saving signal receiver receives a battery fully-charged signal, the power adapter enters a sleeping status.
US09899857B2	Method and apparatus for start-up of a field device Method for start-up of a field device, wherein for start-up of the field device an energy storage unit (R) for storing electrical energy is charged by means of a power supply (PS), preferably a power-limited power supply (PS), and wherein the electrical energy stored in the energy storage unit (R) is used to supply the field device at least at times with electrical energy, at least during start-up of the field device.
US09899854B2	Mobile terminal, master data communication device and mobile terminal charging system and method A mobile terminal, a master data communication device and a mobile terminal charging system and method are provided. The method includes that: a mobile terminal determines whether or not a power supply device is a master data communication device and, if so, determines an appropriate charging mode for charging the mobile terminal. The disclosure not only enables a mobile terminal to select a plurality of adjustable charging modes to charge the mobile terminal but also enables the terminal to select a most appropriate charging mode to charging the mobile terminal, thus improving the charging efficiency.
US09899848B2	Mobile terminal, DC-charging power source adaptor, and charging method The disclosure discloses a mobile terminal, a DC-charging power source adaptor, and a charging method, the mobile terminal comprising: a battery configured to store electrical energy; a USB interface configured to be engaged with an external device; and a microprocessor configured to determine whether two differential data pins of the USB interface are shorted, upon detecting an external device being inserted into the USB interface; and if so, to communicate with the inserted external device, wherein if the external device is a DC-charging power source adaptor, then the DC-charging power source adaptor switches two communication pins of a charging interface thereof from being shorted by default to being disconnected, and communicates with the microprocessor; and the microprocessor detects voltage of the battery after communicating successfully with the DC-charging power source adaptor, and if the voltage of a battery core lies in a range delimited by preset DC-charging thresholds, then the microprocessor controls the battery to be DC-charged using charging voltage output by the DC-charging power source adaptor, and determines a value of the charging voltage of the DC-charging power source adaptor from the current voltage of the battery core.
US09899835B2	Uninterruptible power supply system Provided is an uninterruptible power supply system. The uninterruptible power supply system includes a power supply unit including a power supply circuit converting alternating current power into direct current voltage to be supplied to a load apparatus. The uninterruptible power supply system includes a battery unit including a battery circuit. The battery circuit stores direct current power and discharges the direct current power to generate direct current voltage to be supplied to the load apparatus. The uninterruptible power supply system includes a rack in which each of the power supply unit and the battery unit is mounted.
US09899833B2	Electronic direct current transformer An electronic direct current (DC) transformer apparatus and method of using it to convey unregulated off grid DC power to one or more load devices that in total use power at a level of at least 1 kW. The resonant frequency is at least 20 kHz, the unregulated energy-transfer efficiency is at least 75%, and the power distributing efficiency from source to load device is at least 75%.
US09899832B2	Wearable device and electrostatic discharge protection circuit of the same A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a first functional module, at least one exposed contact, a second functional module, an ESD protection circuit that converts an ESD input to an output voltage when the ESD input occurs, a detection module that detects whether the exposed contact is connected to an external electronic module, a switch module and a processing module. The switch module electrically connects the exposed contact and the second functional module when the exposed contact is connected to the external electronic module to perform a transmission behavior with the second functional module through the exposed contact. The switch module electrically connects the exposed contact and the ESD protection circuit when the exposed contact is not connected to the external electronic module. The processing module receives the input voltage to reset the first function module according to the input voltage.
US09899831B2	Method and device to protect an ESP power supply from transient over-voltages on the power grid A power supply converter unit is disclosed, in particular for an electrostatic precipitator, converting the frequency of alternating input supply (1) to high frequency alternating output (Ua, Ub) by rectifying the alternating input supply (1) in a rectifier (12) to a direct current (Udc), which is converted to alternating-current in a full bridge inverter (13) in a H-bridge circuit with switches (48) controlled by a control unit (23). According to the invention on the input side of the rectifier (12) and/or in the direct current (Udc) section there is provided at least one overvoltage protection circuitry (34, 35, 37-39, 45). Furthermore the invention discloses a method of operation of such a power supply converter unit as well as uses of such a power supply converter unit.
US09899818B2	Circuit assembly and electrical junction box Provided is a circuit assembly that includes a circuit board that has a connection opening, a plurality of busbars that are laminated on one surface side of the circuit board via an adhesive sheet, a coil that has a main portion and a plurality of lead terminals, the coil being arranged on the other surface side of the circuit board by the lead terminals being connected to the plurality of busbars that are exposed through the connection opening, and a heatsink that is laminated on a side of the plurality of busbars that is opposite to the circuit board via an adhesive agent. The adhesive sheet has sheet openings through which the plurality of busbars are exposed and the plurality of lead terminals are connected to the plurality of busbars, the adhesive sheet covering a gap between the plurality of busbars, the gap being located in the connection opening.
US09899814B2	Active cover plates Various embodiments of a wall-plate system are disclosed. For example, wall-plate system may extend in longitudinal, lateral, and transverse directions that are orthogonal to one another. The wall-plate system may include any or all of the following: (1) a face plate; (2) a back plate; (3) electronic circuitry; (4) at least one spring clip comprising at least one first portion of conductive material and resiliently deflecting between a neutral position and a deflected position located outboard of the neutral position in the lateral direction; (6) at least one insulator positioned outboard of the at least one first portion of conductive material in the lateral direction; (7) the at least one insulator tracking the at least one spring clip as the at least one spring clip deflects between the neutral position and the deflected position.
US09899806B2	Method for manufacturing spark plug A method for manufacturing a spark plug comprises: welding a ground electrode to a tip of a metal shell (metallic shell); and removing a welding sag formed on and over inner surfaces of the ground electrode and the metal shell from a work in which the ground electrode is welded to the tip of the metal shell, the welding step including: cutting the welding sag using a working tool while a control unit controls a working position of the working tool with respect to the work; and measuring a remaining quantity of the welding sag after the cutting step and the control unit performing a feedback of a measured value of the remaining quantity of the welding sag measured in the measuring step to a working position of a working tool in the cutting step for the subsequent work.
US09899798B2	Apparatus and method for suppressing parasitic lasing and applications thereof Apparatus and methods that enable the suppression of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and prevention against parasitic lasing in cryogenically-cooled laser amplifier systems, thus allowing sustainable extraction efficiency when increasing the pump power and suitable for large-scale, high average-power laser systems employing large-aperture gain media. A gain medium having a known index of refraction for operation in an evacuated, cryogenic environment includes an ASE-absorbing epoxy composition on the perimetrical edge of the gain medium, wherein the epoxy composition has an index of refraction that substantially matches the index of refraction of the gain medium.
US09899797B2	Laser diode driving systems and methods A laser diode driving method that reliably maintains average optical power and extinction ratio is disclosed. The present invention for laser driving uses a preloaded laser diode characteristic curve/table and/or mathematical equations to create a programmable bias and modulation current range. This ensures stable closed-loop operation and prevents system failure if the feedback signal is impaired by confining the operation of the laser diode to a normal operating range.
US09899789B2	Thermal management systems A thermal management system for removing excess heat from a heat source includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidly connected together within a cooling loop. A phase change material is positioned within the condenser. The phase change material is configured to melt with a liquid coolant warmed by the evaporator. The phase change material is also configured solidify with the liquid coolant cooled by the condenser to temperatures below the melting point.
US09899787B2	Apparatus and methods for connecting and disconnecting threaded connectors Apparatus and methods that may be employed to install or remove a threaded connector by allowing a cable or tubing segment attached to the threaded connector to pass through an open pass-through area that is defined to extend through the tool so as to allow the threaded connector to be tightened and/or loosened relative to the fitting by turning the connector a full revolution or more while the cable or tubing is attached to the connector and extending through the tool.
US09899785B2	Electrical transmission line repair device An electrical transmission line repair device including a first conductor clamp, a second conductor clamp and at least one tie rail extending between the first and second conductor clamps in a spaced apart orientation. The first conductor clamp including a lower assembly and an upper assembly. The lower assembly and the upper assembly are slidably engageable with each other so as to define a conductor cavity extending therealong. Clamping fasteners are configured to extend through openings in the upper assembly so as to be threadable toward and away from the conductor contact region of the lower assembly within the conductor cavity.
US09899784B2	Motor There is provided a motor, the motor comprising (1) a brush unit that is provided at one axial direction side of a motor main body, and that includes a first brush and a second brush, (2) a pair of power supply terminals that are provided at the brush unit, that are respectively electrically connected to either the first brush or the second brush, and that include connector connection portions to which external connectors connect and that extend out toward another axial direction side of the motor main body at respective other end sides of the power supply terminals, and (3) a pair of element connection portions that are respectively provided at the other end sides of the power supply terminals, and that are disposed offset from each other in the radial direction of the motor main body.
US09899780B2	RJ and USB connectors with grooved contact pins A female electrical connector includes a number of walls defining a housing, a female connector inside the housing, and an opening configured to facilitate insertion of a mating male connector into the female connector. Contacts of the female connector are positioned in the opening of the housing. Contact pins extend from the contacts of the female connector through at least one of the walls of the housing for connection to a substrate. Each contact pin includes a curved or bent portion. The female electrical connector can be a USB or RJ-type connector.
US09899777B2	Connection arrangement A connection arrangement includes a housing having a connecting portion on which at least one housing contact wedge is formed that has a contact surface that is oriented at a wedge angle to an assembly direction, and a connecting body which can he placed on the connecting portion and on which a connecting contact wedge is provided that has a contact surface oriented at the same wedge angle. A plurality of housing contact wedges is provided on the connecting portion of the housing so as to be spaced apart from one another. A groove for receiving the connecting contact wedge is formed between adjacent housing contact wedges.
US09899772B2	Electric connector A first connector (R) element (100) comprises a first body (102) secured to a locking pin (104) and a first indexing member (106). The second connector (R) element (200) comprises a locking ring (216) axially immobilized and rotatable around a second body (202), as well as at least one second indexing member. The second connector element (200) comprises an obstacle (230) moving, relative to the locking ring (216), between a first position blocking the rotation of the locking ring (216), and a second, released position. The second connector element (200) comprises a blocking ring (240) moving, relative to the second body (202), between a forward position, and at least one withdrawn position. The blocking member (230) can block the locking ring (216) in a configuration where the mouth of the slot is aligned with the locking pin. During the fitting, the blocking ring (240) is pushed back by a portion (1044) of the first connector element (100).
US09899770B2	Lever-type connector A lever-type connector includes a housing having support holes; a fitting part provided inside the housing and fitted in a counterpart connector; a lever that includes a pair of plate-like portions facing each other in an opposed manner, a connection portion connecting the pair of plate-like portions with each other, and projection portions provided respective outside surfaces of the pair of plate-like portions, the lever being rotatably supported by the housing while the projection portions are engaged with the support holes; and sliding members each includes a guide portion that is slidably supported by the housing and engaged with a part to be guided provided to the counterpart connector, the sliding members being slid depending on a rotation of the lever to depress the part to be guided by way of the guide portion and fit the counterpart connector in the fitting part.
US09899769B2	Connector with an operating member mountable in either of two opposite orientations and locks for locking the operating member at an initial position and a connection position in either orientation A moving direction of an operating member (11) from an initial position toward a connection position with respect to a housing (10) is selectable from directions along a first movement path and a second movement path opposite to each other. The housing (10) includes a first lock portion (25) and a second lock portion (26) at positions line-symmetrical with respect to a center of a length along the moving direction of the operating member (11). The first and second lock portions (25, 26) lock and hold the operating member (11) selected to move along the first movement path respectively at the initial position and the connection position and lock and hold the operating member (11) selected to move along the second movement path respectively at the connection position and the initial position.
US09899762B2	Electrical receptacle An electrical outlet receptacle includes a neutral side having a neutral blade opening and a neutral port aligned with the neutral blade opening. The neutral port is configured to receive a neutral blade of an electrical plug. A neutral contact is aligned with the neutral port. The receptacle further includes a hot side having a hot blade opening and a hot port aligned with the hot blade opening. The hot port is configured to receive a hot blade of an electrical plug. A hot contact is aligned with the hot port. A connector bar having a neutral tab extending into the neutral side of the receptacle is located between the neutral port and the neutral contact, and a hot tab extending into the hot side of the receptacle is located between the hot port and the hot contact. The neutral tab and the hot tab are offset from each other.
US09899757B2	Surface connector with silicone spring member Contact structures for devices, where contacts in the contact structures provide a proper normal force while consuming a minimal amount of surface area, depth, and volume in a device and where the contact structures prevent or limit the ingress of fluid or debris into the device. On example may provide a contact structure having a frame. The frame may be arranged to be placed in an opening in a device enclosure for an electronic device or the frame may be part of the electronic device. The frame may include a number of passages, each passage for a contact of the contact structure. Each contact may be held to the frame by a pliable membrane. Each contact may connect to a board in the electronic device via a compliant conductive path.
US09899756B2	Connector and connector structure A connector is attachable to a board having a principal surface, a recess and a board-side contact portion. When the connector is attached to the board, the connector is, at least in part, arranged within the recess while an upper-lower direction with respect to the connector intersects with the principal surface. The connector comprises a contact and a holding member having a protection portion. The contact has a held portion held by the holding member, a support portion extending from the held portion to be resiliently deformable and a contact portion supported by the support portion. When the connector is attached to the board, the contact portion is brought into contact with the board-side contact portion, and the protection portion is, at least in part, positioned within the recess. The protection portion hides the contact portion when seen along a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the upper-lower direction.
US09899755B2	Connector and connection structure A connector mounted to a circuit board and mating with a mating connector in a mating direction extending along the circuit board is disclosed. The connector comprises a contact having a resilient contact portion, a housing retaining the contact and having a pair of restricting projections, and a retainer having a resilient retainer portion. The retainer is disposed between the pair of restricting projections and retains the housing on the circuit board. The pair of restricting projections restricts movement between the housing and the circuit board in the mating direction and the resilient contact portion and the resilient retainer portion permit movement between the housing and the circuit board in a plurality of directions perpendicular to the mating direction.
US09899751B2	Electrical connector limiter structure of wire connection terminal An electrical connector limiter structure of wire connection terminal is easily operable to enhance the stability of the operation and motion of metal leaf springs. The wire connection terminal includes conductive components mounted in the insulation case and electrical connector assembled with the conductive components. The electrical connector has a limiter for receiving the metal leaf springs and restricting moving path thereof. The limiter is partitioned to define a first space and a second space with fully closed peripheries, in which the metal leaf springs are mounted. The wiring circuits or conductive wires coming from an apparatus can be easily directly plugged into the first and second spaces of the limiter to insert with the metal leaf springs. The limiter serves to prevent the metal leaf springs from deflecting in operation.
US09899750B1	Modular crimp contact The present invention relates to a modular crimp contact system and method. The modular crimp contact system comprises a crimping member secured to a conductor by having one end of the crimping member crimped about the exterior of the conductor. A locking ring disposed about the body of the crimping member locks the crimping member in a receiving end of a connection member. The connection member may have a pin or a socket on a connection end opposite the receiving end the connection member.
US09899748B2	Terminal connection structure and method for producing same A terminal connection structure for an electric wire end portion (12a) in which the electric wire end portion is soldered being exposed on a flat-plate terminal piece (11b) out from inside of a terminal main part (11a), the terminal piece being continuous with a front end of the terminal main part (11a). The electric wire end portion (12a) exposed on the terminal piece (11b) from the terminal main part (11a) includes a first end section (12a1) that is close to the terminal main part (11a) and a second end section (12a2) that is far from the terminal main part (11a). The electric wire end portion (12a) has a shape, in side view, such that the first end section (12a1) is compressed to have a gentle curved surface that approaches the terminal piece (11b) toward the second end section (12a2).
US09899738B2	Antenna An antenna that comprises a feeding point, a first conductor and a second conductor is provided. The first conductor is connected to the feeding point, includes, as an open end, an end which is not connected to the feeding point, and has a linear shape. The second conductor is formed to branch from the first conductor, includes, as an open end, an end on an opposite side of a point branching from the first conductor, and has a linear shape. At least part of the first conductor and at least part of the second conductor are formed on different planes and include coupling portions electromagnetically coupled to each other.
US09899716B1	Waveguide E-plane filter It is provided a waveguide E-plane band-pass filter comprising a tubular, electrically conductive waveguide body. An electrically conductive foil is arranged in the waveguide body and extending along a longitudinal direction of the waveguide body, the foil comprising a plurality of resonator openings. Furthermore, the waveguide body comprises at least one ridge protruding from an inner wall of the waveguide body and extending longitudinally along the longitudinal direction of the waveguide body. The foil is in mechanical contact with said at least one ridge and arranged to divide an inner volume of the waveguide body into two portions. It is also provided a diplexer, a radio transceiver, and a method for filtering a signal using such a filter.
US09899715B2	Transmission line member and electronic apparatus A transmission line member includes a dielectric base body. At an intermediate point in a thickness direction of the dielectric base body, first and second signal conductors are disposed. A reference ground conductor is disposed at one side of the first and second signal conductors in the thickness direction, and an auxiliary ground conductor is disposed at the other side. At intermediate points of the first signal conductor, a coil conductor and a capacitor-defining plate conductor are disposed. The capacitor-defining plate conductor faces the reference ground conductor and the auxiliary ground conductor to connect a low pass filter and the first transmission line. A coil conductor is disposed between the second signal conductor and the reference ground conductor, and connected to the second signal conductor and the reference ground conductor to connect a high pass filter and the second transmission line.
US09899712B2	Battery temperature adjustment unit and vehicle having said unit installed To provide a battery temperature adjustment unit capable of efficiently supplying air adjusted to an appropriate temperature to a battery. A unit provided in a module case accommodating a battery includes a unit case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a heat exchanger disposed in the unit case, and a blower disposed in the unit case, in which air in the module case is sucked through the air inlet by the blower while being blown out through the air outlet and circulates through the module case and the air blown out through the air outlet includes air that has passed through the heat exchanger and air that has not passed through the heat exchanger. The unit also includes a heater disposed in parallel with a heat exchanger for cooling or disposed closer to the air inlet than the heat exchanger for cooling.
US09899705B2	Electrolyte for a lithium-sulphur cell An electrolyte for a lithium sulphur cell comprising at least one lithium salt and at least one organic solvent; and a surfactant, wherein the concentration of surfactant in the electrolyte is 0.5-3 weight %.
US09899686B2	Method for producing fuel cell catalyst The present invention is to provide a method for producing a fuel cell catalyst that is configured to be able to increase the power generation performance of a membrane-electrode assembly. Disclosed is a method for producing a fuel cell catalyst, wherein the method comprises: a mixing step in which, by mixing a platinum-containing solution, a titanium-containing solution and an electroconductive support in a solvent, a catalyst precursor in which a platinum ion compound and a titanium ion compound are supported on the electroconductive support, is formed; a solvent removing step in which, by removing the solvent from a mixture thus obtained after the mixing step, the catalyst precursor is obtained; a firing step in which, by firing the catalyst precursor at a temperature of 500 to 900° C. in a hydrogen gas atmosphere after the solvent removing step, a fired product in which a composite containing the platinum and the titanium oxide is supported on the electroconductive support, is obtained; and a washing step in which, by washing the fired product with hydrofluoric acid after the firing step, a catalyst in which the composite containing the platinum and the titanium oxide is supported on the electroconductive support, is obtained.
US09899684B2	Electrodes, batteries, electrode production methods, and battery production methods Battery electrodes are provided that can include a conductive core supported by a polymeric frame. Methods for manufacturing battery electrodes are provided that can include: providing a sheet of conductive material; and framing the sheet of conductive material with a polymeric material. Batteries are provided that can include a plurality of electrodes, with individual ones of the electrodes comprising a conductive core supported by a polymeric frame.
US09899683B2	Electrolytic copper foil, electric component and battery including the same Disclosed herein is an electrolytic copper foil in which an average diameter of a pore which is a region between surface elements protruding from a matte side is 1 mm to 100 nm. The electrolytic copper foil has high elongation while maintaining low roughness and high strength and thus may be used in a current collector of a medium-large size lithium ion secondary battery and a semiconductor packaging substrate, and the like, for tape automated bonding (TAB) which is used in a tape carrier package (TCP).
US09899668B2	Method of preparing positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery, positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery prepared by method, and rechargeable lithium battery including same Disclosed is a method of preparing a positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery that includes mixing an iron source including a carbon source, a lithium source, and a phosphoric acid source to form a positive active material precursor for a rechargeable lithium battery, the positive active material precursor including a lithium iron phosphate precursor and a carbon precursor; pulverizing the positive active material precursor for a rechargeable lithium battery; and heat-treating the pulverized positive active material precursor for a rechargeable lithium battery.
US09899664B2	Cathode active material for lithium ion battery, cathode material for lithium ion battery, and lithium ion battery Provided are a cathode active material with excellent high-temperature life that suppresses the elution of metal elements from the cathode active metal and the generation of different phase therein and exhibits a high potential, as well as a high-voltage lithium ion battery that achieves excellent high-temperature life by applying such a cathode active material. The cathode active material for a lithium ion battery is represented by a compositional formula LiaNixMnyMzO4-δFδ (where M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ti, Ge, Mg, Co, Fe, Cu, and Al, and a, x, y, z, and δ satisfy the following formulas: 1≦a<1.08, 0.4≦x<0.5, 0
US09899662B2	Method for producing electrodes for all-solid battery and method for producing all-solid battery Disclosed herein is a method for producing an electrode includes a step of reducing lithium-vanadium oxide by heating in reducing gas, a step of causing the reduced lithium-vanadium oxide to deliquesce, a step of mixing the deliquesced lithium oxide with an active material so as to prepare an electrode mixture, and a step of making the electrode mixture into an electrode by virtue of molding after heat treatment to the electrode mixture. The method for producing an all-solid battery further includes a step of bonding the thus-made electrode to a solid electrode layer in such a way that the solid electrode layer is interposed between the electrode and either of cathode and anode to be paired with the electrode.
US09899661B2	Method to improve LiCoO2 morphology in thin film batteries A method for improving the lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) film (such as films in thin film batteries) morphology includes using oxygen (O2) and argon (Ar) gases during sputtering deposition of the LiCoO2 film. This may allow for the manufacturing of thicker LiCoO2 films. Such a method may also significantly reduce or eliminate cracking and obvious columnar structures within the resulting LiCoO2 film layer. Sputtering using a mixture of O2 and Ar also may produce a LiCoO2 film layer that requires lower annealing temperatures to reach good utilization and has higher lithium diffusion rates.
US09899646B2	Battery module having battery guiding portions A battery module includes a battery group configured of a plurality of cylindrical batteries, a holder configured to retain the battery group so that the respective batteries are bundled in parallel to each other, and a casing being closed by the holder and including a storing space for housing the battery group. The casing includes an opposing wall portion facing the holder, and the opposing wall portion includes hole portions that retain the batteries by peripheries or inner circumferential surfaces of the hole portions. The battery module also includes guiding portions formed on the peripheries or the inner circumferential surfaces of the hole portions that are configured to guide the batteries into the storing space within the casing by causing the batteries to come closer to centers of the hole portions, such that central axis lines of the batteries pass through the centers of the hole portions.
US09899642B2	Rechargeable battery and module thereof A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly; a case housing the electrode assembly; a cap plate sealing an opening of the case; an electrode terminal that is electrically connected to the electrode assembly and extends through a terminal hole of the cap plate and is oriented outside of the cap plate; and an insulating member that electrically insulates the cap plate and the electrode terminal while supporting the electrode terminal at an outer surface of the cap plate.
US09899640B2	Flat-shaped battery A flat-shaped battery of the present invention includes an outer can that is open upward, a sealing can that is open downward, and a gasket that is placed between the outer can and the sealing can to seal the space between them. The outer can includes a base plate and a cylindrical surrounding wall. The surrounding wall of the outer can includes a straight portion that extends upward and perpendicular to the base plate. The sealing can includes a housing in the form of an inverted dish, a flange that projects outward from a lower end of the opening of the housing, and a single outer surrounding wall that extends downward from an outside edge of the flange so as to be perpendicular to the flange. The outer surrounding wall of the sealing can is arranged perpendicular to the base plate of the outer can. The gasket includes a base that receives a lower end of the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can, and an outer cylindrical wall that extends upward from the base and is disposed between the surrounding wall of the outer can and the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can. The surrounding wall of the outer can has a curved edge such that the surrounding wall at the opening of the outer can is bent toward an axis of the outer can and positioned laterally with respect to the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can. The curved edge presses an upper end of the outer cylindrical wall of the gasket against an upper end of the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can.
US09899636B2	Photolithographic patterning of organic electronic devices A method of making an OLED device includes providing a first undercut lift-off structure over the device substrate having a first array of bottom electrodes. Next, one or more first organic EL medium layers including at least a first light-emitting layer are deposited over the first undercut lift-off structure and over the first array of bottom electrodes. The first undercut lift-off structure and overlying first organic EL medium layer(s) are removed by treatment with a first lift-off agent comprising a fluorinated solvent to form a first intermediate structure. The process is repeated using a second undercut lift-off structure to deposit one or more second organic EL medium layers over a second array of bottom electrodes. After removal of the second undercut lift-off structure, a common top electrode is provided in electrical contact with the first and second organic EL medium layers.
US09899627B2	Organic light emitting diode An organic light emitting diode including a structure of a flexible printed circuit board installed on a substrate is provided.
US09899618B2	Photoelectric conversion device and manufacturing method thereof A photoelectric conversion device of an embodiment includes: a first photoelectric conversion part including a first transparent electrode, a first organic active layer, and a first counter electrode; and a second photoelectric conversion part including a second transparent electrode, a second organic active layer, and a second counter electrode, which are provided on a transparent substrate. A conductive layer is formed on a partial region, of the second transparent electrode, which is adjacent to the first transparent electrode. The first counter electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically connected by a connection part including a groove formed from a surface of the second organic active layer to reach an inside of the conductive layer and a part of the first counter electrode filled in the groove.
US09899614B2	Phosphorescent tetradentate metal complexes having modified emission spectra Multidentate metal complexes useful as phosphorescent emitters in display and lighting applications have the structures as described herein. Multidentate metal complexes and compositions including one or more of the complexes described herein can be useful as emitters in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), displays and lighting applications, and photovoltaic devices. Generally, a chemical structural change will affect the electronic structure of the compounds, which thereby affects the optical properties of the compounds (e.g., emission and absorption spectra). Thus, the compounds described herein can be tailored or tuned to a particular emission or absorption energy. In some aspects, the optical properties of the compounds disclosed herein can be tuned by varying the structure of the ligand surrounding the metal center.
US09899611B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device, the condensed cyclic compound being represented by Formula 1 below:
US09899604B2	Compound for organic optoelectronic device, organic light emitting diode including the same, and display including the organic light emitting diode A compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by Chemical Formula 1 wherein groups R1-R4, Ar1, Ar2, L1, L2, X, n1, and n2 are described in the specification.
US09899602B2	Spirofluorene derivative, material for light-emitting element, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and electronic device It is an object of the present invention to provide a material having a high Tg and a wide energy gap. The present invention provides a spirofluorene derivative represented by General Formula 1. (In the formula, R1 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a group represented by General Formula 2. Each of R2 and R3 is either hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be identical or different. R4 is an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms. Each of R5 and R6 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms and may be identical or different.)
US09899601B2	Material for organic electroluminescent device and organic electroluminescent device including the same A material for an organic electroluminescent device having high emission efficiency, represented by Formula 1, and an organic electroluminescent device including the same: The organic electroluminescent device may include a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and one or more organic layers between the first electrode and second electrode. When the material for an organic electroluminescent device is included in at least one of the organic layers, the organic electroluminescent device may achieve high emission efficiency and long lifespan.
US09899600B2	Multicyclic aromatic compound and organic light emitting device using the same The present specification describes a multicyclic aromatic ring compound having a novel structure and an organic light emitting device using the same.
US09899594B2	Magnetic memory devices A magnetic memory device includes a substrate, a circuit device on the substrate, a lower electrode electrically connected to the circuit device, a magnetic tunnel junction structure (MTJ structure) on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the MTJ structure. The MTJ structure includes a pinned layer structure including at least one crystalline ferromagnetic layer and at least one amorphous ferromagnetic layer, a free layer, and a tunnel barrier layer between the pinned layer structure and the free layer.
US09899588B2	Thermoelectric element A thermoelectric element having high thermal resistance and requiring less semiconductor material than a conventional thermoelectric element with comparable performance comprises a substrate having a substrate front side and a substrate rear side opposite the substrate front side, a first contact, applied as a layer to the substrate front side, a second contact, applied as a layer to the substrate front side, a cut-off between the first and second contact which thermally and electrically separates the first and second contact from one another, and a thermoelectrically active layer having a top side and a bottom side, which are connected to one another by lateral delimiting surfaces, wherein the thermoelectrically active layer is arranged in the cut-off in such a way that the bottom side is on the substrate front side, and one of the lateral delimiting surfaces is against the first contact and one of the lateral delimiting surfaces is against the second contact. The invention further relates to a method for producing the thermoelectric element.
US09899584B2	Semiconductor device and package including solder bumps with strengthened intermetallic compound A semiconductor device includes a light emitting structure, and an interconnection bump including an under bump metallurgy (UBM) layer disposed on an electrode of at least one of the first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers, and having a first surface disposed opposite to a surface of the electrode and a second surface extending from an edge of the first surface to be connected to the electrode, an intermetallic compound (IMC) disposed on the first surface of the UBM layer, a solder bump bonded to the UBM layer with the IMC therebetween, and a barrier layer disposed on the second surface of the UBM layer and substantially preventing the solder bump from being diffused into the second surface of the UBM layer.
US09899582B2	Light source module A light source module including a body in which a light emitting device is disposed may be provided. The body includes: a main body including a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side, and a second side; a first subsidiary body disposed on the first side of the main body; and a second subsidiary body disposed on the second side of the main body. The first subsidiary body includes a first extension part extending from the first side and a second extension part extending from the first extension part. Each of the first extension part and the second extension part has a top surface and a bottom surface. The bottom surface of the first extension part and the bottom surface of the second extension part are disposed on the same plane with the bottom surface of the main body. The top surface of the first extension part is disposed lower than the top surface of the second extension part and the top surface of the main body, and the top surface of the second extension part is disposed lower than the top surface of the main body. The second subsidiary body is symmetrical with the first subsidiary body with respect to the main body. The light source module according to the embodiment can be mechanically coupled to another light source module having the same body as that of the light source module. The light source module according to the embodiment can provide a light source which is obtained by connecting a plurality of the light source modules and thus has a user's desired length. The light source module according to the embodiment can be used a light source of various lighting products, for example, a fluorescent lamp, a flat panel lighting device, etc.
US09899576B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having electrodes on a lower surface side thereof; a phosphor layer covering a surface of the light emitting element; a transparent covering member disposed on at least one side surface of the light emitting device; and a reflection member that covers the covering member.
US09899575B2	Method of continuous flow synthesis and method of correcting emission spectrum of light emitting device The present application provides a method of continuous flow synthesis of core/shell quantum dots doped polymer mats (QD-MAT), including mixing a first core precursor with a second core precursor and feeding the reaction mixture into a first furnace to obtain quantum dot cores; feeding a first shell precursor and a second shell precursor into a second furnace and simultaneously injecting the quantum dot cores to obtain core/shell quantum dots; mixing the core/shell quantum dots with a polymer solution to obtain a QD-polymer composite; and introducing the QD-polymer composite to an electrospinning system to fabricate the core/shell quantum dots doped polymer mats. The present application also provides a method of correcting emission spectrum of light emitting devices with the core/shell quantum dots doped polymer mats with light diffusing properties which can be used to replace the diffuser layer of light emitting devices.
US09899572B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device The present techniques provide a semiconductor light-emitting device in which current diffusion is ensured in a transparent electrode and light absorption by the transparent electrode is suppressed. The light-emitting device comprises an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, a transparent electrode, a transparent insulating film, and a reflection electrode. The transparent electrode contains In. The thickness of the transparent electrode is 10 nm to 150 nm. The reflection electrode is a p-type electrode. The reflection electrode P1 has a plurality of contact electrodes being in contact with the transparent electrode at a plurality of openings. The number density of the contact electrodes is 400/mm2 to 1,000/mm2.
US09899571B2	Semiconductor light emitting device Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a plurality of compound semiconductor layers including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive semiconductor layer; a pad on the plurality of compound semiconductor layers; an electrode layer under the plurality of compound semiconductor layers; and a supporting member disposed under the plurality of compound semiconductor layers and corresponding to the pad.
US09899562B2	Method of fabricating a solar cell A method for fabricating a solar cell includes the steps of providing a substrate, forming a transparent conductive layer on a surface of the substrate, forming a plurality of photoresist patterns on the transparent conductive layer, forming a dielectric layer on the photoresist patterns and the transparent conductive layer, in which a part of a sidewall of the photoresist pattern is exposed from the dielectric layer, removing the photoresist patterns and a part of the dielectric layer covering the photoresist pattern so that a plurality of openings are defined in the remaining part of the dielectric layer, and forming plural electrodes in the openings respectively. A solar cell fabricated by the method is also disclosed.
US09899560B2	Method of manufacturing thin-film solar cells with a p-type CdTe layer The present invention proposes a method to produce thin film CdTe solar cells having a pin-hole free and uniformly doped CdTe layer with a reduced layer thickness. The method according to the present invention is an efficient way to prevent shunting of the solar cells, to improve reliability and long-term stability of the solar cells and to provide a uniform doping of the CdTe layer. This is achieved by applying a sacrificial doping layer between a first CdTe layer having large grains and a second CdTe layer having small grains, which together form the CdTe layer of the solar cells. Furthermore it provides the possibility to eliminate the CdCl2 activation treatment step in case the sacrificial doping layer comprises a halogen.
US09899558B2	Photosensor and display device including the same A disclosed photosensor includes: a first electrode layer including a reflection part having an inclination surface; a first semiconductor layer positioned on the first electrode layer; a second electrode layer positioned on the first semiconductor layer; and a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer sequentially positioned on the second electrode layer, wherein the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer have different dielectric constant values. Further, the disclosed display device includes a plurality of pixel areas positioned on a substrate, and a sensor unit formed in at least some pixel areas among the plurality of pixel areas.
US09899557B2	Avalanche photodiode operating in geiger mode including a structure for electro-optical confinement for crosstalk reduction, and array of photodiodes An avalanche photodiode includes a cathode region and an anode region. A lateral insulating region including a barrier region and an insulating region surrounds the anode region. The cathode region forms a planar optical guide within a core of the cathode region, the guide being configured to guide photons generated during avalanche. The barrier region has a thickness extending through the planar optical guide to surround the core and prevent propagation of the photons beyond the barrier region. The core forms an electrical-confinement region for minority carriers generated within the core.
US09899555B2	Method for producing a rear-side contact system for a silicon thin-layer solar cell A method for producing a rear-side contact system for a silicon thin-film solar cell having a pn junction formed from a silicon absorber layer and an emitter layer includes applying an organic insulation layer to the emitter layer; producing contact holes in the insulation layer as far as the absorber layer and the emitter layer; subsequently insulating the contact holes; subsequently applying a low-melting metal layer to form n and p contacts in the contact holes; separating the metal layer into n-contacting and p-contacting regions by laser-cutting; before applying the organic insulation layer to the emitter layer, applying a TCO layer; producing holes for contacts for the silicon absorber layer in the organic insulation; and subsequently selectively doping the produced holes for the contacts as far as the silicon absorber layer.
US09899551B2	Optoelectronic device and method of producing the same An optoelectronic device comprising a substrate having a first and a second series of grooves and a channel therebetween. Each groove of the first and second series of grooves has a first and a second face and a cavity therebetween. The cavity is at least partially filled with a first semiconductor material. The first face is coated with a conductor material and the second face coated with a second semiconductor material. The channel transects the grooves of the first and second series of grooves. Also a method of producing an optoelectronic device.
US09899549B2	Infrared-ray sensing device An infrared-ray sensing device includes a support and a plurality of photodiodes disposed on the support. Each photodiode of the plurality includes a first mesa including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers, and a super-lattice region disposed on the support along a reference plane. The third semiconductor layer and the super-lattice region are provided in common for the photodiodes of the plurality. In the photodiodes, the first mesas and the second semiconductor layers are aligned along a first axis intersecting the reference plane so that each of the second semiconductor layers is provided in a position corresponding to the position of its first mesa. Each second semiconductor layer is disposed between the third semiconductor layer and the super-lattice region.
US09899543B2	Microelectronics package with integrated sensors The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with optical sensors and/or thermal sensors. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a thinned flip-chip die with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, and a first mold compound component. The thinned flip-chip die is attached to the module substrate and includes a device layer with sensor structure integrated at a top portion of the device layer. Herein, the sensor structure is below the first surface portion and not below the second surface portion. The first mold compound component is formed over the second surface portion to define a first cavity over the upper surface of the thinned flip-chip die. The first mold compound component is not over the first surface portion, and the first surface portion is exposed at the bottom of the first cavity.
US09899542B2	Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency A method of fabricating a solar cell can include forming a dielectric region on a silicon substrate. The method can also include forming an emitter region over the dielectric region and forming a dopant region on a surface of the silicon substrate. In an embodiment, the method can include heating the silicon substrate at a temperature above 900 degrees Celsius to getter impurities to the emitter region and drive dopants from the dopant region to a portion of the silicon substrate.
US09899541B2	Semiconductor devices Provided are semiconductor devices. A semiconductor device includes a first well formed in a substrate; an element isolation layer formed on the first well; a second well formed in the first well on a first side of the element isolation layer; a third well formed in the second well, the third well has a higher concentration of impurities than the second well; a first electrode electrically connected to the third well; a fourth well formed in the first well on a second side of the element isolation layer; a fifth well formed in the fourth well, the fifth well has a different conductivity type from the fourth well; a second electrode electrically connected to the fifth well; and a sixth well overlapping the fourth well, the sixth well has a lower concentration of impurities than the fourth well.
US09899538B1	Non-volatile memory device and operation method thereof The present invention provides a non-volatile memory device, including a source region and a drain region, a channel region, a floating gate, an enhance hot carrier (hole or electron) injection gate and an erasing gate. The floating gate is disposed on the channel region and the source region and a first dielectric layer is disposed therebetween. The enhance hot carrier injection gate is disposed on the floating gate and the substrate wherein the enhance hot carrier injection gate has an L-shape cross-section. A second dielectric layer is disposed between the enhance hot carrier injection gate and the floating gate, and a fourth dielectric layer is disposed between the enhance hot carrier injection gate and the substrate. The erasing gate is disposed on the drain region. A third dielectric layer is disposed between the erasing gate and the substrate.
US09899534B2	Thin-film transistor and method for forming the same A TFT includes a substrate, a gate, a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor oxide layer, a source/drain layer, a passivation layer, and a transparent conducting layer arranged from bottom to top. An etching block layer is formed after the source/drain layer arranged on the semiconductor oxide layer is etched. A method for forming for the TFT includes: depositing and photo-etching a gate on a substrate; depositing a gate insulating layer on the gate; depositing and photo-etching a semiconductor oxide layer on the gate insulating layer; depositing and photo-etching a source/drain layer on the semiconductor oxide layer; etching the source/drain layer on the semiconductor oxide layer for forming an etching block layer; depositing a passivation layer on the source/drain layer and the semiconductor oxide layer; depositing a transparent conducting layer on the passivation layer.
US09899530B2	Low temperature poly-silicon thin-film transistor and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a low temperature poly-silicon thin-film transistor, as well as a manufacturing method thereof, which includes: a substrate (1), a light shield layer (2) formed on the substrate (1), a pad layer (3) formed on the light shield layer (2), a dielectric layer (4) formed on the pad layer, an active layer (5) formed on the dielectric layer, a gate insulation layer (6) formed on the active layer (5), and a gate layer (7) formed on the gate insulation layer (6). The light shield layer (2) includes a planar section (21) formed on the substrate (1) and a raised section (22) formed on the planar section (21). The active layer (5) has a projection that covers at least a partial area of an upper surface of the raised section (22) and one of sidewalls (224) of the raised section (22). Without varying an aperture ratio of a display device, the channel width can be effectively increased and the width-to-length ratio can be increased so as to increase an open state current and enhance driving power of the LTPS TFT and device performance.
US09899523B2	Semiconductor structure The present invention provides a semiconductor structure, comprising a substrate, a gate structure, a source/drain region and at least a dislocation. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate. The source/drain region is disposed in the substrate at two sides of the gate structure. The dislocation is located in the source/drain region, and is asymmetrical relating to a middle axis of the source/drain region.
US09899521B2	FinFET low resistivity contact formation method The invention relates to a contact structure of a semiconductor device. An exemplary structure for a contact structure for a semiconductor device comprises a substrate comprising a major surface and a trench below the major surface; a strained material filling the trench, wherein a lattice constant of the strained material is different from a lattice constant of the substrate, and wherein a surface of the strained material has received a passivation treatment; an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer having an opening over the strained material, wherein the opening comprises dielectric sidewalls and a strained material bottom; a dielectric layer coating the sidewalls and bottom of the opening, wherein the dielectric layer has a thickness ranging from 1 nm to 10 nm; a metal barrier coating an opening of the dielectric layer; and a metal layer filling a coated opening of the dielectric layer.
US09899517B2	Dislocation stress memorization technique (DSMT) on epitaxial channel devices The present disclosure relates to a transistor device having epitaxial source and drain regions with dislocation stress memorization (DSM) regions that provide stress to a channel region. In some embodiments, the transistor device has an epitaxial source region arranged within a substrate. An epitaxial drain region is arranged within the substrate and is separated from the epitaxial source region by a channel region. A first DSM region, which has a stressed lattice configured to generate stress within the channel region, extends from below the epitaxial source region to a location within the epitaxial source region. A second DSM region, which has a stressed lattice configured to generate stress within the channel region, extends from below the epitaxial drain region to a location within the epitaxial drain region.
US09899512B2	Silicon carbide device and method of making thereof Embodiments of a silicon carbide (SiC) device are provided herein. In some embodiments, a silicon carbide (SiC) device may include a gate electrode disposed above a SiC semiconductor layer, wherein the SiC semiconductor layer comprises: a drift region having a first conductivity type; a well region disposed adjacent to the drift region, wherein the well region has a second conductivity type; and a source region having the first conductivity type disposed adjacent to the well region, wherein the source region comprises a source contact region and a pinch region, wherein the pinch region is disposed only partially below the gate electrode, wherein a sheet doping density in the pinch region is less than 2.5×1014 cm−2, and wherein the pinch region is configured to deplete at a current density greater than a nominal current density of the SiC device to increase the resistance of the source region.
US09899503B2	Semiconductor device having first and second gate electrodes In mesa regions between adjacent trenches disposed in an n−-type drift layer and in which a first gate electrode is disposed via a first gate insulating film, a p-type base region and a floating p+-type region of which a surface is partially covered by a second gate electrode via a second gate insulating film are disposed. An emitter electrode contacts the p-type base region and an n+-type emitter region, and is electrically isolated from first and second gate electrodes and the floating p+-type region by an interlayer insulating film covering the first and second gate electrodes and a portion of the floating p+-type region not covered by the second gate electrode. Thus, turn-on dV/dt controllability by the gate resistance Rg may be improved.
US09899498B2	Semiconductor device having silicon-germanium layer on fin and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device is provided, including a substrate with an isolation layer formed thereon, wherein the substrate has a fin protruding up through the isolation layer to form a top surface and a pair of lateral sidewalls of the fin above the isolation layer; a silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer epitaxially grown on the top surface and the lateral sidewalls of the fin; and a gate stack formed on the isolation layer and across the fin, wherein the fin and the gate stack respectively extend along a first direction and a second direction. The SiGe layer formed on the top surface has a first thickness, the SiGe layer formed on said lateral sidewall has a second thickness, and a ratio of the first thickness to the second thickness is in a range of 1:10 to 1:30.
US09899481B2	Electronic component and switch circuit In an embodiment, an electronic component includes a compound semiconductor transistor device having a first current electrode, a second current electrode and a control electrode, a die pad, a first lead, a second lead and a third lead. The first lead, the second lead and the third lead are spaced at a distance from the die pad. The control electrode is coupled to the first lead, the first current electrode is coupled to the die pad and the second current electrode is coupled to the second lead. The third lead is coupled to the compound semiconductor transistor device and provides a source sensing functionality.
US09899480B2	Single transistor random access memory using ion storage in two-dimensional crystals A single-transistor random access memory (RAM) cell may be used as universal memory. The single-transistor RAM cell generally includes a first gate, a 2D-crystal channel, a source, a drain, an ion conductor, and a second (back) gate. The single-transistor RAM cell is capable of drifting ions towards the graphene channel. The ions in turn induce charge carriers from the source into the graphene channel. The closer the ions are to the graphene channel, the higher the conductivity of the graphene channel. As the ions are spaced from the graphene channel, the conductivity of the graphene channel is reduced. Thus the presence of the charged ions adjacent to the channel is used to modify the channel's conductivity, which is sensed to indicate the state of the memory.
US09899479B2	Semiconductor devices with superlattice layers providing halo implant peak confinement and related methods A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of field effect transistors (FETs) on the semiconductor substrate. Each FET may include a gate, spaced apart source and drain regions on opposite sides of the gate, upper and lower vertically stacked superlattice layers and a bulk semiconductor layer therebetween between the source and drain regions, and a halo implant having a peak concentration vertically confined in the bulk semiconductor layer between the upper and lower superlattices.
US09899471B2	Compact CMOS device isolation An integrated circuit uses a compact CMOS device isolation scheme which forms a ring of N-well housing PMOS devices to encircle the P-well housing NMOS devices in a circuit block. An N-type buried layer is formed under the P-well and extends partially under the surrounding N-well. The compact CMOS device isolation scheme eliminates the use of a deep N-well ring around the circuit block. Therefore, the circuit blocks of the integrated circuit can be formed with reduced silicon area and the die size for implementing the integrated circuit is reduced.
US09899470B2	Method for forming a power semiconductor device and a power semiconductor device A method of forming a power semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type extending to a first side and having a first doping concentration of first dopants providing majority charge carriers of a first electric charge type in the layer, and forming a deep trench isolation including forming a trench which extends from the first side into the semiconductor layer and includes, in a vertical cross-section perpendicular to the first side, a wall, forming a compensation semiconductor region of the first conductivity type at the wall and having a second doping concentration of the first dopants higher than the first doping concentration, and filling the trench with a dielectric material. The amount of first dopants in the compensation semiconductor region is such that a field-effect of fixed charges of the first electric charge type which are trapped in the trench is at least partly compensated.
US09899466B2	Head resistance buffer An integrated circuit with first and second resistors comprised of resistor bodies, resistor heads, and resistor buffer regions wherein the resistor buffer regions are disposed between the resistor body and the resistor heads. The width of the first and second resistors is different. The length of the first and second resistor buffer regions is different. The total head resistance which is equal to the resistor head resistance plus the resistor buffer region is equal for both the first and second resistors. A method is described for forming an integrated circuit with first and second resistors comprised of resistor bodies, resistor heads, and resistor buffer regions disposed between the resistor body and the resistor head wherein the width of the first and second resistors is different, wherein the length of the resistor buffer regions of the first and second resistors is different, and wherein the total head resistance which is equal to the resistor head resistance plus the resistor buffer region is equal for both the first and second resistors. A method is described for calculating the length of a resistor buffer region as a function of resistor width so that the resistance of the resistor head plus the resistor buffer region remains the same as resistor body width changes.
US09899460B2	Organic light emitting display device Discussed is an organic light emitting display device that can include a bank that defines the periphery of an emission area; a structure disposed on the bank; a first electrode disposed in the emission area; an organic layer disposed on the bank, the structure, and the first electrode, an organic layer disposed on the structure being separated from other organic layers; and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer.
US09899450B2	Memristors and method for fabricating memristors There are disclosed memristors and memristor fabrication methods. A memristor may include a stack of four functional elements including, in sequence, a first electrode, a barrier layer, an oxygen-deficient switching layer, and a second electrode.
US09899449B2	Solid-state imaging device and imaging system A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.
US09899447B2	Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and imaging device a CMOS image sensor including a pixel array unit having pixels arranged in even-numbered pixel rows and odd-numbered pixel rows. A reading operation performed such that a first signal of a first pixel group is read in a first accumulation time, and a second signal of a second pixel group is read in a second accumulation time shorter than said first accumulation time.
US09899431B2	Array substrate, display panel and display device An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises: an active area, a package area and a drive circuit area, wherein the drive circuit area is located between the active area and the package area. A package metal layer is provided at the package area, and at least one groove structure is provided on a side of the package metal layer in a proximity to the drive circuit area. At least one drive unit is provided at the drive circuit area and comprises at least one element, wherein the element is provided in the groove structure.
US09899423B2	Semiconductor device and display device including the semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a transistor and a connection portion is provided. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a first insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film and at a position overlapping with the gate electrode, and source and drain electrodes electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film; and the connection portion includes a first wiring on the same surface as a surface on which the gate electrode is formed, a second wiring on the same surface as a surface on which the source and drain electrodes are formed, and a third wiring connecting the first wiring and the second wiring. The distance between an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the second wiring is longer than the distance between an upper end portion and a lower end portion of each of the source and drain electrodes.
US09899422B2	Thin film transistor substrate and display device including the same A thin film transistor substrate includes a base substrate, a first metallic layer including a gate electrode of a thin film transistor and an island electrode spaced apart from the gate electrode on the base substrate, a semiconductor layer of which a portion thereof overlaps the gate electrode of the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer including a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor which are spaced apart from each other on the portion of the semiconductor layer. The source electrode of the thin film transistor overlaps the island electrode.
US09899418B2	Display device and method for producing a display device The invention relates to a display device, comprising a layer stack, which comprises a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region for producing radiation and comprises a circuit layer. The semiconductor layer sequence forms a plurality of pixels. For each pixel, a respective switch connected in an electrically conductive manner to the pixel is formed in the circuit layer. The invention further relates to a method for producing a display device.
US09899411B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device and method for fabricating the same A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device and a method for fabricating the same, the device including insulating layers stacked on a substrate; horizontal structures between the insulating layers, the horizontal structures including gate electrodes, respectively; vertical structures penetrating the insulating layers and the horizontal structures, the vertical structures including semiconductor pillars, respectively; and epitaxial patterns, each of the epitaxial patterns being between the substrate and each of the vertical structures, wherein a minimum width of the epitaxial pattern is less than a width of a corresponding one of the vertical structures.
US09899401B2	Non-volatile memory devices including vertical NAND channels and methods of forming the same A non-volatile memory device can include a plurality of immediately adjacent offset vertical NAND channels that are electrically coupled to a single upper select gate line or to a single lower select gate line of the non-volatile memory device.
US09899395B1	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a pair of erase gate lines, a pair of control gate lines and a pair of word lines. The pair of control gate lines are disposed on the erase gate lines. Each one of the control gate lines includes a plurality of segments between which portions of one of the pair of erase gate lines are seen in a plan view. In a plan view of the semiconductor device, the pair of word lines are disposed between the control gate lines and extending along edges of the control gate lines.
US09899393B2	Integrated circuit devices including fin shapes Integrated circuit devices are provided. An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having first and second fin-shaped Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) bodies protruding from the substrate. The first and second FinFET bodies have different respective first and second shapes in a first region and a second region, respectively, of the integrated circuit device.
US09899383B2	Forming gates with varying length using sidewall image transfer A chip includes multiple first transistors in a first region and multiple second transistors in a second region. A gap between adjacent first transistors has a same width as a gap between adjacent second transistors. Gates of the second transistors have a length substantially the same as twice a length of two adjacent first transistors plus the distance between said two adjacent first transistors.
US09899378B2	Simultaneously fabricating a high voltage transistor and a finFET Forming a semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, a top surface of the semiconductor layer above a fin in a second region is higher than a top surface of the semiconductor layer in a first region, etching the semiconductor layer and a mask in the first region to expose a top surface of the semiconductor substrate to form a first stack, and etching the semiconductor layer and the mask in the second region to expose a top surface of the fin to form a second stack, epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on a top surface of the fin not covered by the second stack, recessing the first and second stack to expose a top surface of the semiconductor layer, a portion of the mask remains above the semiconductor layer in the first stack, top surfaces of each of the first and second stacks each are substantially flush with one another.
US09899369B2	Layout structure for electrostatic discharge protection A layout structure is provided. The layout structure includes a substrate, a gate conductive layer, a first doped region having a first conductivity, a second doped region having the first conductivity, and a third doped region having a second conductivity. The gate conductive layer is formed on the substrate. The first doped region the second doped region are formed in the substrate and located at two sides of the gate conductive layer. The third doped region is formed in the substrate and adjacent to the second doped region. The third doped region and the second doped region form a diode. The gate conductive layer, the first doped region, and the third doped region are connected to ground, and the second doped region is connected to an input/output pad.
US09899363B1	Fin-FET resonant body transistor Circuit structures including a FinFET resonant body transistor are disclosed. One circuit structure includes: a plurality of fins over a substrate and a plurality of gate structures over the plurality of fins, the plurality of gate structures comprising at least one voltage sensing gate, and at least two of the plurality of fins comprising multiple pn-junctions disposed on opposing sides of the at least one voltage sensing gate, the multiple pn-junctions being fabricated to operate as driving units; at least one phononic crystal, wherein the at least one phononic crystal is arranged to confine vibrational energy arising from electrically induced mechanical stresses in the fins comprising driving units; and, wherein the electrically induced mechanical stresses modulate carrier mobility in the at least one voltage sensing gate to produce a current extractable by the circuit structure.
US09899353B2	Off-chip vias in stacked chips A microelectronic assembly includes first and second stacked microelectronic elements, each having spaced apart traces extending along a front face and beyond at least a first edge thereof. An insulating region can contact the edges of each microelectronic element and at least portions of the traces of each microelectronic element extending beyond the respective first edges. The insulating region can define first and second side surfaces adjacent the first and second edges of the microelectronic elements. A plurality of spaced apart openings can extend along a side surface of the microelectronic assembly. Electrical conductors connected with respective traces can have portions disposed in respective openings and extending along the respective openings. The electrical conductors may extend to pads or solder balls overlying a face of one of the microelectronic elements.
US09899350B2	Flip chip module with enhanced properties A flip chip module having at least one flip chip die is disclosed. The flip chip module includes a carrier having a top surface with a first mold compound residing on the top surface. A first mold compound is disposed on the top surface of the carrier. A first thinned flip chip die resides over a first portion of the first mold compound with interconnects extending through the first portion to the top surface wherein the first portion of the mold compound fills a region between the first flip chip die and the top surface. A second mold compound resides over the substrate and provides a first recess over the first flip chip die wherein the first recess extends to a first die surface of the first flip chip die. A third mold compound resides in the first recess and covers an exposed surface of the flip chip die.
US09899341B2	Antenna on integrated circuit package An antenna on integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed. In an embodiment, an IC package comprises: a substrate; a radio frequency (RF) transceiver attached to the substrate; mold compound encapsulating the substrate; a shield layer formed on the mold compound; and one or more vias extending vertically through the shield layer and the mold compound, providing a conductive path to the RF transceiver. In another embodiment, a method comprises: attaching a radio frequency (RF) transceiver to a substrate; encapsulating the substrate with mold compound; forming a shield layer on the mold compound; and forming one or more vias through the shield layer and mold compound, providing a conductive path to the RF transceiver.
US09899340B2	Microelectronics package with inductive element and magnetically enhanced mold compound component The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with an inductive element and a magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a process for making the same. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a thinned flip-chip die with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, the magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a mold compound component. The thinned flip-chip die is attached to the module substrate and includes a device layer with an inductive element embedded therein. Herein, the inductive element is underlying the first surface portion and not underlying the second surface portion. The magnetically enhanced mold compound component is formed over the first surface portion. The mold compound component is formed over the second surface portion, not over the first surface portion, and surrounding the magnetically enhanced mold compound component.
US09899331B2	Fan-out semiconductor package and method of manufacturing same A fan-out semiconductor package includes a redistribution layer, the redistribution layer including a first insulating layer, a first wiring disposed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and covering the first wiring, a line via passing through the second insulating layer continuously and connected to the first wiring, and a second wiring disposed on the second insulating layer and connected to the line via; a semiconductor chip disposed on one side of the redistribution layer, and having an electrode pad electrically connected to the first wiring, the second wiring, and the line via; and an encapsulant disposed on the one side of the redistribution layer, and encapsulating the semiconductor chip.
US09899325B2	Device and method for manufacturing a device with a barrier layer In various embodiments a method of forming a device is provided. The method includes forming a metal layer over a substrate and forming at least one barrier layer. The forming of the barrier layer includes depositing a solution comprising a metal complex over the substrate and at least partially decomposing of the ligand of the metal complex.
US09899323B2	Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing the same An integrated circuit device includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line that are spaced apart from each other and extend in a first direction to be parallel to each other; and a contact pad including a pad body including a first branch portion from which the first conductive line branches and a second branch portion from which the second conductive line branches and a loop branch portion that is located between the first branch portion and the second branch portion and protrudes from the pad body. Related devices and fabrication methods are also discussed.
US09899320B2	Interconnection and manufacturing method thereof An interconnection and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. The interconnection includes a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer, a second conductive layer, an insulation layer, and a plurality of air gaps. The first conductive layer is disposed over a semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed over the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer penetrates through the dielectric layer to electrically connect with the first conductive layer. The insulation layer is located between a portion of the dielectric layer and the second conductive layer, and a material of the insulation layer and a material of the dielectric layer are different. The air gaps are located between another portion of the dielectric layer and the second conductive layer.
US09899316B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed thereover as a mask, and interconnect trenches are formed by terminating etching at the surface of a stopper film formed in the interlayer insulating film. The stopper film is made of an SiCN film having a low optical reflectance, thereby causing it to serve as an antireflective film when the photoresist film is exposed.
US09899305B1	Semiconductor package structure A semiconductor package structure is disclosed. The semiconductor package structure includes: a substrate having a front surface and a back surface; a chip-on-interposer structure mounted on the front surface of the substrate; a back side stiffener mounted over the back surface of the substrate and surrounding a projection of the chip-on-interposer structure from a back surface perspective; and a plurality of conductive bumps mounted on the back surface of the substrate.
US09899303B2	Electronic package and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating an electronic package is provided, which includes the steps of: providing an insulating layer having at least an electronic element embedded therein; forming at least a first via hole on one side of the insulating layer; forming a first conductor in the first via hole of the insulating layer; forming on the insulating layer a first circuit structure electrically connected to the electronic element and the first conductor; and forming a second via hole on the other side of the insulating layer, wherein the second via hole communicates with the first via hole. As such, the second via hole and the first via hole constitute a through hole. Since the through hole is fabricated through two steps, the aspect ratio (depth/width) of the through hole can be adjusted according to the practical need so as to improve the process yield.
US09899300B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a semiconductor element provided with a functional surface on which a functional circuit is formed and with a back surface facing in the opposite direction to the functional surface, while also having a lead supporting the semiconductor element and electrically connected to the semiconductor element, and a resin package covering at least a portion of the semiconductor element and the lead. The semiconductor element has a functional surface side electrode formed on the functional surface and equipped with a functional surface side raised part that projects in the direction in which the functional surface faces. The functional surface side raised part of the functional surface side electrode is joined to the lead by solid state bonding.
US09899298B2	Microelectronic packages having mold-embedded traces and methods for the production thereof Methods for fabricating microelectronic packages, such as Fan-Out Wafer Level Packages, and microelectronic packages are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes placing a first semiconductor die on a temporary substrate, forming an electrically-conducive trace in contact with at least one of the first semiconductor die and the temporary substrate, and encapsulating the first semiconductor die and the electrically-conductive trace within a molded panel. The temporary substrate is removed to reveal a frontside of the molded panel through which the electrically-conducive trace is at least partially exposed. At least one redistribution layer is formed over the frontside of the molded panel, the at least one redistribution layer comprises an interconnect line in ohmic contact with the electrically-conducive trace.
US09899295B2	Method of manufacture for a semiconductor device A method of manufacture for a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor stack structure that includes a device terminal of a semiconductor device, and having a first surface and a buried oxide (BOX) layer attached to a wafer handle. Another step includes disposing a polymeric layer that includes a polymer and an admixture that increases thermal conductivity of the polymer onto the first surface of the semiconductor stack structure. Another step involves removing the wafer handle from the BOX layer to expose a second surface of the semiconductor stack structure, and yet another step involves removing a portion of the semiconductor stack structure to expose the device terminal.
US09899292B2	Top-side cooling of RF products in air cavity composite packages Top-side cooling of Radio Frequency (RF) products in air cavity packages is provided. According to one aspect, an air cavity package comprises a substrate, a RF component mounted to the substrate, and a lid structure comprising a first material and being mounted to the substrate that covers the RF component such that a cavity is formed within the lid structure and about the RF component. At least one opening is provided in a top portion of the lid. The air cavity package also comprises a heat transfer structure comprising a second material and comprising a heat path extending from the top surface of the substrate through the opening(s) in the lid to the top outer surface of the air cavity package to provide a top-side thermal interface. In one embodiment, the lid is comprised of a molded material that absorbs RF signals and the heat transfer structure is metal.
US09899291B2	Method for protecting layer by forming hydrocarbon-based extremely thin film A method for protecting a layer includes: providing a substrate having a target layer and forming a protective layer on the target layer, said protective layer contacting and covering the target layer and containing a hydrocarbon-based layer constituting at least an upper part of the protective layer, which hydrocarbon-based layer is formed by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) using an alkylaminosilane precursor and a noble gas without a reactant.
US09899286B2	Semiconductor device and method of self-confinement of conductive bump material during reflow without solder mask A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a die bump pad. A substrate has a conductive trace with an interconnect site. A conductive bump material is deposited on the interconnect site or die bump pad. The semiconductor die is mounted over the substrate so that the bump material is disposed between the die bump pad and interconnect site. The bump material is reflowed without a solder mask around the die bump pad or interconnect site to form an interconnect structure between the die and substrate. The bump material is self-confined within the die bump pad or interconnect site. The volume of bump material is selected so that a surface tension maintains self-confinement of the bump material substantially within a footprint of the die bump pad and interconnect site. The interconnect structure can have a fusible portion and non-fusible portion.
US09899285B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming small Z semiconductor package A semiconductor device has a plurality of first semiconductor die. A plurality of first bumps is formed over the first semiconductor die. A first protection layer is formed over the first bumps. A portion of the first semiconductor die is removed in a backgrinding operation. A backside protection layer is formed over the first semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited over the first semiconductor die and first bumps. A portion of the encapsulant is removed to expose the first bumps. A conductive layer is formed over the first bumps and encapsulant. An insulating layer and plurality of second bumps are formed over the conductive layer. A plurality of conductive vias is formed through the encapsulant. A plurality of the semiconductor devices is stacked with the conductive vias electrically connecting the stacked semiconductor devices. A second semiconductor die having a through silicon via is disposed over the first semiconductor die.
US09899282B2	Robust high performance semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a suspended substrate having one or more semiconductor devices thereon, a metallic case covering the suspended substrate, the suspended substrate being supported by a plurality of mechanical leads on opposing sides of the semiconductor package, at least one of the plurality of mechanical leads having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that substantially matches a CTE of the suspended substrate, where at least one of the plurality of mechanical leads is electrically connected to the suspended substrate, and where the plurality of mechanical leads absorb mechanical shocks so as to prevent damage to the semiconductor package. The semiconductor package also includes a thermal gel between the suspended substrate and the metallic case. The suspended substrate can be a printed circuit board. The metallic case includes mounting ears for transferring heat away from the semiconductor package.
US09899281B2	Integrated circuits protected by substrates with cavities, and methods of manufacture Dies (110) with integrated circuits are attached to a wiring substrate (120), possibly an interposer, and are protected by a protective substrate (410) attached to a wiring substrate. The dies are located in cavities in the protective substrate (the dies may protrude out of the cavities). In some embodiments, each cavity surface puts pressure on the die to strengthen the mechanical attachment of the die the wiring substrate, to provide good thermal conductivity between the dies and the ambient (or a heat sink), to counteract the die warpage, and possibly reduce the vertical size. The protective substrate may or may not have its own circuitry connected to the dies or to the wiring substrate. Other features are also provided.
US09899272B2	Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices including complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistors Methods of fabricating semiconductor device are provided including forming first and second material layers for a first transistor using epitaxial growth processes. A recess region is formed by partially etching the first and second material layers. Third and fourth material layers for a second transistor are formed using epitaxial growth processes.
US09899261B2	Semiconductor package structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor package structure having a substrate, wherein the substrate has a front side and a back side, a through silicon via (TSV) interconnect structure formed in the substrate, and a first guard ring doped region and a second guard ring doped region formed in the substrate. The second guard ring doped region is disposed between the first guard ring doped region and the TSV interconnect structure.
US09899256B2	Self-aligned airgaps with conductive lines and vias A conductive line structure comprises a first conductive line arranged in a first dielectric layer, a second conductive line arranged in the first dielectric layer, a cap layer arranged on the first conductive line and the second conductive line, and an airgap arranged between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, the airgap defined by the first dielectric layer and the cap layer.
US09899253B2	Fabrication of silicon germanium-on-insulator finFET A method of making a structurally stable SiGe-on-insulator FinFET employs a silicon nitride liner to prevent de-stabilizing oxidation at the base of a SiGe fin. The silicon nitride liner blocks access of oxygen to the lower corners of the fin to facilitate fabrication of a high-concentration SiGe fin. The silicon nitride liner is effective as an oxide barrier even if its thickness is less than about 5 nm. Use of the SiN liner provides structural stability for fins that have higher germanium content, in the range of 25-55% germanium concentration.
US09899245B2	Conveying method and substrate processing apparatus Provided is a method of conveying a storage container from a placing table to a conveyance place using a conveying mechanism in a substrate processing apparatus. The storage container hermetically stores a substrate and includes a flange portion formed on the top thereof. The conveying mechanism includes a hand portion provided with a flange insertion portion. The substrate processing apparatus is provided with at least two placing tables arranged side by side in a first horizontal direction. The method includes moving the placing table to the conveyance place in the second horizontal direction by a predetermined distance; sliding the hand portion from a side of a placing table neighboring to the placing table in the first horizontal direction such that the flange portion is inserted into the flange inserting portion; and conveying the storage container from the placing table to the conveyance place through the hand portion.
US09899242B2	Device and method for substrate heating during transport A system for heating substrates while being transported between processing chambers is disclosed. The system comprises an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed in the transfer chamber. The LEDs may be GaN LEDs, which emit light at a wavelength which is readily absorbed by silicon, thus efficiently and quickly heating the substrate. A controller is in communication with the LEDs. The LEDs may be independently controllable, so that the LEDs that are disposed above the substrate as it is moved from one processing chamber to another are illuminated. In other words, the illumination of the LEDs and the movements of the substrate handling robot may be synchronized by the controller.
US09899240B2	Substrate treatment apparatus A substrate treatment apparatus is provided, which includes: a seal chamber including a chamber body having an opening, a lid member provided rotatably with respect to the chamber body and configured to close the opening, and a first liquid seal structure which liquid-seals between the lid member and the chamber body, the seal chamber having an internal space sealed from outside; a lid member rotating unit which rotates the lid member; a substrate holding/rotating unit which holds and rotates a substrate in the internal space of the seal chamber; and a treatment liquid supplying unit which supplies a treatment liquid to the substrate rotated by the substrate holding/rotating unit.
US09899239B2	Carrier ultra thin substrate Method of forming ultra thin coreless substrates are described. In an embodiment, the method utilizes a debond layer including high and low adhesion surface areas to the carrier substrate, and cutting through the low adhesion surface areas to remove a build-up structure from the carrier substrate. An electrical short layer may be formed as a part of or on the debond layer to facilitate electrical testing of the build-up structure prior to debonding, and aid in the formation a “known good” substrate on a support substrate.
US09899236B2	Semiconductor package with cantilever pads One or more embodiments are directed to semiconductor packages with one or more cantilever pads. In one embodiment a recess is located in a substrate of the package facing the cantilever pad. The cantilever pad includes a conductive pad on which a conductive ball is formed. The cantilever pad is configured to absorb stresses acting on the package.
US09899235B2	Fabrication method of packaging substrate A packaging substrate is disclosed, which includes: a dielectric layer; a circuit layer embedded in and exposed from a surface of the dielectric layer, wherein the circuit layer has a plurality of conductive pads; and a plurality of conductive bumps formed on the conductive pads and protruding above the surface of the dielectric layer. As such, when an electronic element is disposed on the conductive pads through a plurality of conductive elements, the conductive elements can come into contact with both top and side surfaces of the conductive bumps so as to increase the contact area between the conductive elements and the conductive pads, thereby strengthening the bonding between the conductive elements and the conductive pads and preventing delamination of the conductive elements from the conductive pads.
US09899230B2	Apparatus for advanced packaging applications The embodiments disclosed herein pertain to novel methods and apparatus for removing material from a substrate. In certain embodiments, the method and apparatus are used to remove negative photoresist, though the disclosed techniques may be implemented to remove a variety of materials. In practicing the disclosed embodiments, a stripping solution may be introduced from an inlet to an internal manifold, sometimes referred to as a cross flow manifold. The solution flows laterally through a relatively narrow cavity between the substrate and the base plate. Fluid exits the narrow cavity at an outlet, which is positioned on the other side of the substrate, opposite the inlet and internal manifold. The substrate spins while in contact with the stripping solution to achieve a more uniform flow over the face of the substrate. In some embodiments, the base plate includes protuberances which operate to increase the flow rate (and thereby increase the local Re) near the face of the substrate.
US09899227B2	System, method and apparatus for ion milling in a plasma etch chamber A system and method of ion milling performed in a plasma etch system including a plasma etch chamber, multiple process gas sources coupled to the plasma etch chamber, a radio frequency bias source and a controller. The plasma etch chamber including a substrate support. The substrate support being a non-pivoting and non-rotating substrate support. The substrate support capable of supporting a substrate to be processed on a top surface of the substrate support without use of a mechanical clamp device. The plasma etch chamber also including an upper electrode disposed opposite from the top surface of the substrate support. The radio frequency bias source is coupled to the substrate support. The controller is coupled to the plasma etch chamber, the multiple process gas sources and the radio frequency bias source. The controller including logic stored on computer readable media for performing an ion milling process in the plasma etch chamber.
US09899223B2	Apparatus and method for bonding substrates including changing a stoichiometry of oxide layers formed on the substrates A device and method for producing an electrically conductive direct bond between a bonding side of a first substrate and a bonding side of a second substrate with the following features: a workspace that can be closed, gas-tight, against the environment and can be supplied with a vacuum, the workspace comprises: a) at least one plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and at least one bonding chamber for bonding the bonding sides, and/or b) at least one combined bonding/plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and for bonding the bonding sides.
US09899221B2	Method for preparing electrode The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing electrode including: providing a substrate; forming a buffer layer on the substrate; forming a patterned photoresist on the surface of the buffer layer away from the substrate, the photoresist has a bottom surface and a top surface disposed opposite and a side connected between the bottom surface and the top surface, the bottom surface is bonded to the buffer layer; by dry etching, the portions of the photoresist not covered by the buffer layer is removed to form a receiving area; depositing a conductive film, the conductive film layer includes a waste material forming on the top surface and an electrode filling in the receiving area; and stripping the waste material and the photoresist. The yields of the method for preparing electrode of the present disclosure is high.
US09899218B2	Resist under layer film composition and patterning process The present invention provides a resist under layer film composition containing a novolak resin having a repeating unit shown by the formula (1) and either or both of a novolak resin having a repeating unit shown by the formula (2) and a bisnaphthol derivative shown by the formula (3). There is provided a resist under layer film composition that is excellent in filling property, generates little outgas, and has excellent dry etching resistance and heat resistance.
US09899214B1	Method for fabricating a vertical heterojunction of metal chalcogenides The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a vertical heterojunction of metal chalcogenides. The method includes steps of providing a multi-layer material, performing an ion implantation and performing an annealing. The multi-layer material has a carrier and a metal layer, in which the metal layer covers the carrier to form an interface. The carrier includes an oxide of a first metal element, and the metal layer includes a second metal element. The step of performing the ion implantation is to inject a chalcogen ion source into the multi-layer material to allow a plurality of chalcogen ions to be implanted in a depth area of the multi-layer material, and the depth area includes the interface. The step of performing the annealing is to form a first metal chalcogenide and a second metal chalcogenide at two sides of the interface, respectively.
US09899213B2	Group III nitride semiconductor, and method for producing same On an RAMO4 substrate containing a single crystal represented by the general formula RAMO4 (wherein R represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Sc, In, Y, and a lanthanoid element, A represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Fe(III), Ga, and Al, and M represents one or a plurality of divalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Mg, Mn, Fe(II), Co, Cu, Zn, and Cd), a buffer layer containing a nitride of In and a Group III element except for In is formed, and a Group III nitride crystal is formed on the buffer layer.
US09899212B2	Methods for depositing a monolayer on a substrate Methods and compositions for depositing a monolayer onto a surface of a substrate are described. The method can include contacting the surface with a vapor phase comprising a carbene source, and reacting a carbene group from the carbene source with a functional group on the surface, to obtain a covalently bound monolayer on the surface of the substrate. The carbene source can be a diazirine compound. The functional group on the surface can be a C—H containing group, a Si—H containing group, among others, or combinations thereof. The method can further involve removing physisorbed molecules from the surface of the substrate.
US09899210B2	Chemical vapor deposition apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device using the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a transistor on a substrate. Precursor gases are provided from a showerhead of a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) apparatus to form a contact etch stop layer (CESL) to cover the transistor and the substrate. A temperature of the showerhead is controlled in a range of about 70° C. to about 100° C. to control a temperature of the precursor gases.
US09899207B2	Vibration resistant automotive front lighting lamp A lamp for automotive front lighting and a vehicle headlight comprising the lamp are described, as well as a method of manufacturing the lamp. The lamp 10 comprises a base 12 for mechanical and electrical connection to an automotive headlight 50. A burner 14 is fixed to the base 12 and comprises a sealed transparent vessel 22. A first filament 34 is arranged within the vessel 22. A holding wire 30c is arranged within the vessel, and a baffle 40 is arranged proximate to the first filament 34 to partially shield light emitted from the first filament 34. The baffle 40 is fixed to the holding wire 30c. The transparent vessel 22 comprises a vessel wall including a cylindrical portion 24 surrounding the first filament 34. In order to obtain a lamp which may withstand vibration, a support member 38, 138, 238 is provided including at least a first part 39 fixed to the baffle 40 or to the holding wire 30c and a second part 43 which is in contact with the cylindrical portion of the vessel 22. The support member 38, 138, 238 comprises a flexible intermediate part 37 connecting the first and second parts, such that the baffle 40 or the holding wire 30c is supported resiliently against the vessel 22.
US09899206B2	Method of producing a halogen lamp and halogen lamp The present invention relates to a method for producing a halogen lamp, including the following steps: providing a glass tube blanket; dip-coating of the glass tube blanket using a sol gel process having an inorganic coating; forming a lamp bulb from the coated glass tube blanket. The present invention relates further to a halogen lamp produced accordingly.
US09899205B2	System and method for inhibiting VUV radiative emission of a laser-sustained plasma source A system for forming a laser-sustained plasma includes a gas containment element, an illumination source configured to generate pump illumination, and a collector element configured to focus the pump illumination from the pumping source into the volume of the gas mixture in order to generate a plasma within the volume of the gas mixture that emits broadband radiation. The gas containment element may be configured to contain a volume of a gas mixture including a first gas component and a second gas component. The second gas component suppresses at least one of a portion of the broadband radiation associated with the first gas component or radiation by one or more excimers associated with the first gas component from a spectrum of radiation exiting the gas mixture.
US09899190B2	Method and apparatus for transferring pixel data for electron beam lithography A method of manufacturing a substrate is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of pixel elements, wherein each of the pixel elements includes data members; and transferring the data members to a plurality of exposing devices that are configured to conditionally expose the substrate with an incident energy beam when coupled with the data members, wherein different data members of one pixel element are transferred at different system cycles.
US09899188B2	Selective processing of a workpiece using ion beam implantation and workpiece rotation Systems and methods for the selective processing of a particular portion of a workpiece are disclosed. For example, the outer portion may be processed by directing an ion beam toward a first position on the workpiece, where the ion beam extends beyond the outer edge of the workpiece at two first locations. The workpiece is then rotated relative to the ion beam about its center so that certain regions of the outer portion are exposed to the ion beam. The workpiece is then moved relative to the ion beam to a second position and rotated in the opposite direction so that all regions of the outer portion are exposed to the ion beam. This process may be repeated a plurality of times. The ion beam may perform any process, such as ion implantation, etching or deposition.
US09899185B1	Resolving ambiguities in an energy spectrum A system, computer readable medium and a method for material analysis, the method may include (i) receiving or generating (a) an estimated composition of a microscopic element; wherein the estimated composition is responsive to an energy spectrum of, at least, the microscopic element; wherein the energy spectrum is obtained by an energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) detector; additional information related to, at least, the microscopic element, wherein the additional information is not obtained by the energy dispersive X-ray detector; and (ii) resolving an ambiguity in the estimated composition in response to the additional information, wherein the ambiguity occurs when the energy spectrum comprises a predefined energy peak that is attributed to a predefined material of ambiguous EDX composition determination.
US09899177B2	Delay time generation apparatus for air circuit breaker A delay time generation apparatus for an air circuit breaker according to the present invention can provide an effect of ensuring a delay time as long as possible even in a narrow space upon outputting a signal related to a conductive state, by virtue of interaction of a main shaft, a pin portion, a first rotating unit, a second rotating unit and a spring member.
US09899175B2	Safety switching device with failsafe inputs A fail-safe safety switching device comprises first and second input channels for receiving first and second input signals, and a first testing arrangement for testing the first and second input channels. The first input channel comprises a first entry circuit and a first threshold element connected via a first coupling element to a second testing arrangement and a first transition circuit in a galvanically isolated manner. The second input channel comprises a second entry circuit and a second threshold element connected via a second coupling element to a third testing arrangement and a second transition circuit in a galvanically isolated manner. The first testing arrangement comprises a third coupling element, a ground terminal and a group testing terminal. The first and second threshold elements are connected to the ground terminal and via the third coupling element to the group testing terminal in a galvanically isolated manner.
US09899166B1	High voltage folding disconnect switch with locking device A high voltage folding disconnect switch including a folding switch blade that folds as it opens or closes and which is divided into a fixed blade portion attached to a rotating insulator and a folded blade portion having an electric contact surface engaging a break jaw contact surface. A trigger lever-locking bar is mounted to the fixed blade portion. The trigger lever-locking bar includes a trigger finger for contacting a trigger surface mounted on a stationary insulator. The trigger lever-locking bar has a cam slot for interaction with a cam follower pin that locks the movement of the folding blade so that premature straightening of the blade is prevented until any ice build-up on the switch has been alleviated.
US09899164B1	Luminous keyboard having plural light guide covers corresponding to key structures A luminous keyboard includes a membrane wiring board, plural key structures, and plural light-emitting elements and plural light guide covers corresponding to the plural key structures. Each key structure includes a keycap and an elastic element. Each light guide cover is disposed under the corresponding keycap and surrounds the corresponding elastic element. Each light guide cover receives plural light beams from the corresponding light-emitting element. The plural light beams are guided to the corresponding keycap by the light guide cover and outputted from plural light-transmissible regions of the corresponding keycap. Consequently, the plural light-transmissible regions have uniform luminous efficacy.
US09899160B2	Low-profile electronic circuit breakers, systems, and methods A low-profile electronic circuit breaker includes first and second electrical branches coupled to respective first and second load terminals. The electronic circuit breaker also includes an electronic processing circuit configured to monitor an electrical condition in the first and second electrical branches. The electronic circuit breaker is packaged in a housing sized to occupy a standard single-pole breaker panelboard location. In some embodiments, the electronic circuit breaker has no load neutral terminals associated with the first and second load terminals. Methods of assembling an electronic circuit breaker are provided, as are other system and method aspects.
US09899159B2	High thermal efficiency electric switch and method for interrupting electric current The present invention relates to an electric switch comprising a first switch assembly (1) with several electric breaker elements (2a, 2b, 2c) connected in series between two connection terminals (5, 6), and a second switch assembly (4) with a electric breaker element (3) connected in parallel to the first switch assembly (1). The second switch assembly (4) has less electrical resistance than the first switch assembly (1). The switch is configured so that the second switch assembly (4) closes in a delayed manner with respect to the closing of the first switch (1). Current interruption operations are performed with the first switch assembly (1) to facilitate arc quenching, whereas in permanent working of the switch, current flows through the low electrical resistance second breaker element (4) to reduce losses due to heating. The invention also relates to a method for controlling current flow.
US09899158B2	Cooling device for gases occurring in installation equipment A cooling device for hot gases occurring during and after a switching process in electrical installation equipment, preferably in low-voltage circuit breakers, includes a window, with narrow passage openings, arranged in the flow path of the hot switching gases, wherein the window is made from a material with high thermal conductivity and high heat capacity. The passage openings in the window are planar in shape and are arranged parallel to the flow direction of the switching gases such that no deflection of the switching gases takes place.
US09899156B2	In-line reed relay and integrated circuit board An inline reed relay comprises at least one reed assembly, at least one pair of metal pins, a housing and a control pin disposed on the housing. The reed assembly comprises at least two reed switches, each having two pins. The metal pins are respectively connected to the two pins of the reed switches. One end of each metal pin extends out of the housing. The inline reed relay allows the reed switches to be integrated through the injection molded housing, and the reed switches are connected to an external circuit board via the metal pins, because the metal pins can be maintained a fixed shape and difficult to deform. The processing size and position tolerances of the inline reed relay can meet the requirements of mechanized automatic welding, thereby improving welding efficiency and production assembly efficiency and reducing labor costs.
US09899134B2	Burst protector for high-voltage device The invention relates to a bursting device (1) for a high-voltage device (2). The bursting device (1) is suitable in particular for on-load tap changers or high-voltage transformers filled with a filling medium such as gas or oil. The bursting device (1) according to the invention has a bursting cork (3) with support blocks (7) arranged on the inner surface (3B). A shear pin (8) is in arranged in each receiving block (7), said shear pin being divided into a first portion (8A) and a second portion (8B). The first portion (8A) of the shear pin (8) protrudes into the receiving block (7). The second portion (8B) of the shear pin (8) is arranged below the circumferential edge (9) of an opening (5) of the high-voltage device (2).
US09899132B2	Magnetically latching two position actuator and a clutched device having a magnetically latching two position actuator An actuator can include a housing, core assembly, and first and second electromagnets. The housing can have a first pole piece, second pole piece, and central pole piece disposed between the first and second pole pieces. The central pole piece can have a central body and a bridge. The bridge can be between the first and second pole pieces and axially movable relative thereto. The core assembly can be received in the housing. The core assembly can be movable along a first axis between a first core position and a second core position. The core assembly can include a permanent magnet, a first core, and a second core. The first and second cores can be coupled to the permanent magnet for common axial movement. The first and second electromagnets can be spaced axially apart by the central body and can have opposite polarities.
US09899130B2	Anchoring clamp for an insulated electrical cable An anchoring clamp for an insulated electrical cable, includes a body defining a housing for receiving the cable, a securing loop fastened to the body and configured to be attached to a support, and a cam rotatable relative to the body between a first position in which the cam is at a distance from the housing, and a second position in which the cam is in immediate proximity to the housing and is configured to clamp the cable in the housing, the anchoring clamp being configured to prevent the cam from passing freely from its second position to its first position and including a holding member which is distinct from the body, from the cam and from the securing loop, which is connected both to the body and to the cam and which is configured to prevent the cam from passing freely from its second position to its first position.
US09899125B2	Medium- or high-voltage electrical appliance having a low environmental impact and hybrid insulation The present invention relates to medium- or high-voltage equipment having low environmental impact, including a leaktight enclosure in which there are located electrical components covered with a solid dielectric layer of varying thickness and a gaseous medium for providing electrical insulation and/or for extinguishing electric arcs that are likely to occur in said enclosure, and that comprises heptafluoroisobutyronitrile in a mixture with a dilution gas.
US09899120B2	Graphene oxide-coated graphitic foil and processes for producing same A graphene oxide-coated graphitic foil, composed of a graphitic substrate or core layer having two opposed primary surfaces and at least a graphene oxide coating layer deposited on at least one of the two primary surfaces, wherein the graphitic substrate layer has a thickness preferably from 0.34 nm to 1 mm, and the graphene oxide coating layer has a thickness preferably from 0.5 nm to 1 mm and an oxygen content of 0.01%-40% by weight based on the total graphene oxide weight. The graphitic substrate layer may be preferably selected from flexible graphite foil, graphene film, graphene paper, graphite particle paper, carbon-carbon composite film, carbon nano-fiber paper, or carbon nano-tube paper. This graphene oxide-coated laminate exhibits a combination of exceptional thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, surface smoothness, surface hardness, and scratch resistance unmatched by any thin-film material of comparable thickness range.
US09899119B2	Electric wire apparatus An electric wire apparatus includes an electric wire including an aluminum alloy wire rod having an outer periphery portion coated, and a crimp terminal crimped to an end portion of the electric wire, the crimp terminal having a barrel portion crimped with the aluminum alloy wire rod, the barrel portion having a one-end closed tubular shape. The aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition including 0.10 mass % to 1.00 mass % of magnesium (Mg), 0.10 mass % to 1.00 mass % of silicon (Si), 0.01 mass % to 2.50 mass % of iron (Fe), 0.000 mass % to 0.100 mass % of titanium (Ti), 0.000 mass % to 0.030 mass % of boron (B), 0.00 mass % to 1.00 mass % of copper (Cu), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of silver (Ag), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of gold (Au), 0.00 mass % to 1.00 mass % of manganese (Mn), 0.00 mass % to 1.00 mass % of chromium (Cr), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of zirconium (Zr), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of hafnium (Hf), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of vanadium (V), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of scandium (Sc), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of cobalt (Co), 0.00 mass % to 0.50 mass % of nickel (Ni), and the balance including aluminum and inevitable impurities.
US09899110B2	Method and plant for the wet-route oxidation treatment of hazardous organic waste, notably radioactive waste, containing mineral fillers A method and plant for wet-route oxidation treatment of hazardous organic waste products, notably radioactive wastes, which may contain mineral fillers, the waste products being treated in a secure environment. The plant comprises a closed space, with a mechanism for bringing a volume of hazardous organic waste products containing mineral fillers, adding a given quantity of water mixed with a base to the predetermined volume in order to adjust the pH to a determined value so as to make a solution and/or a liquid suspension, with a pressure reactor and with mechanism for transferring the solution and/or liquid suspension into the pressure reactor, and a device for introducing an oxygen atmosphere into the pressure reactor and for pressurizing the atmosphere. A heating mechanism is provided for subjecting the contents of the pressure reactor to heat treatment at a temperature between 150° and 350° C. to complete the wet-route oxidation.
US09899107B2	Rod assembly for nuclear reactors One embodiment provides a multi-segment rod that includes a plurality of rod segments. The rod segments are removably mated to each other via mating structures in an axial direction. An irradiation target is disposed within at least one of the rod segments, and at least a portion of at least one mating structure includes one and/or more combinations of neutron absorbing materials.
US09899099B2	Electronic device including fuse element having three or more junctions for reduced area and improved degree of integration A fuse element includes a gate; first to Nth junction regions disposed in an active region, where N is a natural number of 3 or more; and a dielectric layer interposed between the gate and the first to Nth junction regions, wherein a dielectric breakdown between the gate and each of the first to Nth junction regions is independently performed.
US09899094B2	Nonvolatile memory device for supporting fast checking function and operating method of data storage device including the same A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells which are coupled to a plurality of word lines; and a control unit configured to perform a read operation in response to a read command for target memory cells which are coupled to a target word line, wherein the control unit performs the read operation by applying a read bias voltage to the target word line, applying a first pass bias to a monitoring word line, applying a second pass bias to one or more adjacent word lines adjacent to the target word line, and applying a third pass bias to remaining word lines.
US09899087B1	Content addressable dynamic random-access memory with parallel search functionality An extremely dense, high speed, and low power content addressable DRAM is presented. To enable a parallel searching, a data word to be searched may be driven onto column select lines (CSLs) of a DRAM array. Although two or more primary sense amplifiers typically are not connected at the same time to the same local data line during operation of a DRAM, in various embodiments presented herein, some or all sense amplifiers in a DRAM can be activated simultaneously to enable maximum parallelism with local data line sharing being explicitly allowed. Using this architecture, a data word can be simultaneously searched in all banks and with multiple wordlines. Since no input/output transactions are required and no data needs to be driven from the bank during execution of a search, overall current, and thus power usage, can be reduced.
US09899086B2	Method and device to reduce leakage and dynamic energy consumption in high-speed memories A microcomputer comprising a microprocessor unit and a first memory unit is disclosed. In one aspect, the microprocessor unit comprises at least one functional unit and at least one register. Further, the at least one register is a wide register comprising a plurality of second memory units which are capable to each contain one word, the wide register being adapted so that the second memory units are simultaneously accessible by the first memory unit, and at least part of the second memory units are separately accessible by the at least one functional unit. Further, the first memory unit is an embedded non-volatile memory unit.
US09899081B2	Resistive memory device and a memory system including the same A memory device includes a memory cell array, a read circuit, and a control logic. The memory cell array includes a memory cell having a resistance level that varies depending on data stored therein. The memory cell is connected to a first signal line and a second signal line. The read circuit is configured to read the data. The control logic is configured to precharge a sensing node, connected to the first signal line through a first switching device, and a first node, connected to the second signal line through a second switching device, to different voltage levels during a first period, and develop a voltage of the sensing node based on the resistance level of the memory cell during a second period.
US09899079B2	Memory devices A device is disclosed that includes memory cells, bit lines and a source line. The bit lines and the source line are electrically connected to the memory cells. In the I/O memory block, the source line and the bit lines are configured to provide logical data to the memory cells.
US09899074B2	Fine granularity refresh A data processing system includes a memory channel and a data processor coupled to the memory channel. The data processor is adapted to access at least one rank and has refresh logic. In response to an activation of the refresh logic, the data processor generates refresh cycles to a bank of the memory channel. The data processor selects one of a first state corresponding to a first auto-refresh command that causes the data processor to auto-refresh the bank, and a second state corresponding to a second auto-refresh command that causes the data processor to auto-refresh a selected subset of the bank. The data processor initiates a switch between the first state and the second state in response to the refresh logic detecting a first condition related to the bank, and between the second state and the first state in response to the refresh logic circuit detecting a second condition.
US09899070B2	Modified decode for corner turn Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for performing a corner turn using a modified decode. An example apparatus can comprise an array of memory cell and decode circuitry coupled to the array and including logic configured to modify an address corresponding to at least one data element in association with performing a corner turn operation on the at least one data element. The logic can be configured to modify the address corresponding to the at least one data element on a per column select basis.
US09899067B2	Efficient calibration of a data eye for memory devices A system and method for efficient data eye training reduces the time and resources spent calibrating one or more memory devices. A temporal calibration mechanism reduces the time and resources for calibration by reducing the number tests needed to sufficiently determine the boundaries of the data eye of the memory device. For one or more values of the voltage reference, the temporal calibration mechanism performs a minimal number of tests to find the edges of the data eye for the hold and setup times.
US09899066B2	Priority based backup in nonvolatile logic arrays A processing device selectively backups only certain data based on a priority or binning structure. In one approach, a non-volatile logic controller stores the machine state by storing in non-volatile logic element arrays a portion of data representing the machine state less than all the data of the machine state. Accordingly, the non-volatile logic controller stores the machine state in the plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays by storing a first set of program data of the machine state according to a first category for backup and restoration and storing a second set of program data of the machine state according to a second category for backup and restoration.
US09899055B1	Optical storage system divider based draw verification An optical storage system includes an optical head and controller arrangement. The arrangement is configured to write data to an optical medium via a higher power main beam, to read, directly after writing, feedback from the medium containing the written data and noise resulting from the higher power main beam, to remove the noise from the feedback by dividing the feedback with data indicative of the higher power main beam, and to generate output indicative of the written data.
US09899054B2	Apparatus and system to secure and maintain integrity of a physical disc Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein include apparatus, systems, and methods for securing the information contained on information discs, such as CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray discs, or any optical media used for carrying information. The apparatus includes a security device that prevents unauthorized users from accessing the protected disc, discs, or spindle. The apparatus is such that any unauthorized attempts to unlock the locking device will result in damage to the disc, making it unreadable and/or unrenderable. The security device may be part of a system that also includes a network and a remote authentication server. Authentication data is transmitted over the network between the security device and the remote authentication server. The authentication data is then used to determine whether or not to unlock the security device.
US09899053B1	Protecting against unauthorized firmware updates using induced servo errors Method and apparatus for data security in a data storage device. In some embodiments, a first version of firmware is installed in a memory of the device. The firmware is used by a programmable processor to control accesses to a rotatable data recording medium on which is written pre-recorded servo positioning data used to position a data transducer. A newer, second version of the firmwave is subsequently installed in the memory to replace the first version of firmware. The second version of the firmware includes an instruction to corrupt a selected portion of the servo positioning data on the medium in order to authenticate the second version of the firmware. During a subsequent initialization of the device, host access is granted based on detection of the corruption of the selected portion of the servo positioning data.
US09899050B2	Multiple layer FePt structure One embodiment described herein is directed to a method involving depositing a seed layer on a substrate, the seed layer comprising A1 phase FePt with a ratio of Pt of Fe greater than 1:1. A main layer is deposited on the seed layer, the main layer comprising A1 phase FePt with a ratio of Pt to Fe of approximately 1:1. A cap layer is deposited on the main layer, the cap layer comprising A1 phase FePt with a ratio of Pt to Fe of less than 1:1. The seed, main and cap layers are annealed to convert the A1 phase FePt to L10 phase FePt having a graded FePt structure of varying stoichimetry from approximately Fe50Pt50 adjacent a lower portion of the structure proximate the substrate to Fe>50Pt<50 adjacent an upper portion of the structure opposite the lower portion.
US09899047B2	Bond pad sharing for powering a multiplicity of electrical components A bond pad set includes at least one ground pad and at least one electrical bond pad configured to bias and send/receive signals. The bond pad set is electrically connected to a multiplicity of electrical components. At least one electrical bond pad of the bond pad set is shared between two or more of the electrical components.
US09899038B2	Electronic notebook system An electronic notebook system is described that comprises a housing, a computing device, wireless interfaces, antennas, sensors, a touch display configured to receive input via a stylus and/or human digit input, the stylus comprising a pressure and/or an inclination sensor, a microphone, camera, the notebook system configured to provide a user condition interface, receive a user selection of a first user condition, provide an interface configured to receive user details, receive audible user details via the microphone, convert the audible user details received via the microphone to text, perform natural language processing to identify text keywords utilizing sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, paraphrase recognition, and/or co-reference resolution, identify a condition based at least in part on the identified one or more keywords, dynamically generate an alert based at least in part on the identified condition, wirelessly transmit the generated alert to one or more destinations via at least a first wireless interface and antenna.
US09899037B2	System and method for emotion assessment A method of determining an emotion of an utterance. The method can include receiving the utterance at a processor-based device comprising an audio engine. The method also can include extracting emotion-related acoustic features from the utterance. The method additionally can include comparing the emotion-related acoustic features to a plurality of emotion models that are representative of emotions. The method further can include selecting a model from the plurality of emotion models based on the comparing the emotion-related acoustic features to the plurality of emotion models. The method additionally can include outputting the emotion of the utterance, wherein the emotion corresponds to the selected model. Other embodiments are provided.
US09899034B2	Technologies for robust crying detection using temporal characteristics of acoustic features Technologies for identifying sounds are disclosed. A sound identification device may capture sound data, and split the sound data into frames. The sound identification device may then determine an acoustic feature vector for each frame, and determine parameters based on how each acoustic feature varies over the duration of time corresponding to the frames. The sound identification device may then determine if the sound matches a pre-defined sound based on the parameters. In one embodiment, the sound identification device may be a baby monitor, and the pre-defined sound may be a baby crying.
US09899030B2	Systems and methods for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion A method for recognizing an audio sample locates an audio file that matches the sample from a database indexing original recordings. Each indexed file is represented in the database index by a set of landmark timepoints and associated fingerprints. Landmarks occur at reproducible locations within the file, while fingerprints represent features of the signal at or near the landmark timepoints, and the fingerprints are invariant with respect to time stretching of the sample. To perform recognition, landmarks and fingerprints are computed for the unknown sample and used to retrieve matching fingerprints from the database. For each file containing matching fingerprints, the landmarks are compared with landmarks of the sample at which the same fingerprints were computed. If a large number of corresponding landmarks are linearly related, i.e., if equivalent fingerprints of the sample and retrieved file have the same time evolution, then the file is identified with the sample.
US09899021B1	Stochastic modeling of user interactions with a detection system Features are disclosed for modeling user interaction with a detection system using a stochastic dynamical model in order to determine or adjust detection thresholds. The model may incorporate numerous features, such as the probability of false rejection and false acceptance of a user utterance and the cost associated with each potential action. The model may determine or adjust detection thresholds so as to minimize the occurrence of false acceptances and false rejections while preserving other desirable characteristics. The model may further incorporate background and speaker statistics. Adjustments to the model or other operation parameters can be implemented based on the model, user statistics, and/or additional data.
US09899004B2	Method and device for generating graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying Methods and devices for generating Graphical User Interface (GUI) for displaying are provided, wherein the GUI is generated based on a plurality of windows. The method for generating GUI includes the step of: separately drawing a plurality of pictures into the plurality of windows, separately composing each of the plurality of windows with pictures into a corresponding one of a plurality of buffers, and mixing the plurality of pictures in the plurality of buffers to obtain the GUI for displaying on a screen.
US09899000B2	Display, display control method, display control device, and electronic apparatus A display device configured to display at least one image. The display device includes at least one light emitter configured to emit a plurality of colored light beams, each of the plurality of colored light beams being a respective color different than the others; and a light emission controller configured to determine, based on at least one characteristic of the at least one image, one or more light beams of the plurality of colored light beams to emit in a frame period corresponding to the at least one image.
US09898997B2	Display driving circuit The display driving circuit including a type detector for receiving a data packet including a 2-bit embedded signal, in which a clock signal embedded in a data signal, and outputting a first reference clock or a second reference clock different from the first reference clock according to a type of the data packet, a window generator for receiving multi-phase clocks and providing to the type detector a first window reference and a second window reference different from the first window reference to be used in determining the type of the data packet, a buffer for delaying the first reference clock by a first interval and delaying the second reference clock by a second interval different from the first interval, and a multiplexer for multiplexing the delayed first and second reference clocks and outputting a multiplexed reference clock may be provided.
US09898981B2	Liquid crystal driving apparatus and liquid crystal display comprising the same Provided herein is a liquid crystal driving apparatus and a liquid crystal display comprising the same, the liquid crystal driving apparatus including a gate driver configured to sequentially supply a basic scan pulse to gate lines for 2H period of time using a first clock signal (CPV1); and a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to liquid crystal cells, wherein the gate driver provides an additional scan pulse before or after the 2H period of time using a second clock signal (CPV2), the additional scan pulse being provided for a period of time overlapping a basic scan pulse being supplied to a neighboring gate line.
US09898972B2	Field-sequential display panel, field-sequential display apparatus and driving method A field-sequential display panel, a field-sequential display apparatus and a driving method are provided. The field-sequential display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel and an OLED light source arranged at one side of the liquid crystal display panel where light is incident to provide trichromatic light for pixel cells of the liquid crystal display panel. The OLED light source includes multiple groups of trichromatic light sources, each of the groups of trichromatic light sources includes a first color sub-light source, a second color sub-light source and a third color sub-light source, and each sub-light source includes an anode, a cathode and a light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode.
US09898969B2	Drive control device, display device including the same, and drive control method Low frequency drive is performed that provides, after a charging period for refreshing a screen, a pause period for pausing the refresh. The length of the charging period is, for example, one frame and the length of the pause period is, for example, 59 frames. When new image data IMD is transmitted from a host to an LCD driver IC during the pause period, an interrupt process where the pause period is allowed to transition to the charging period is performed immediately thereafter. By performing the interrupt process, without waiting for the pause period with the predetermined length to end, the next charging period where refresh based on the new image data IMD is to be performed starts.
US09898968B2	OLED array substrate with switch arrangement configured to switch on during light emitting stage, display panel and display device The present disclosure provides an OLED array substrate, and a display panel and a display device including the OLED array substrate. A VDD grid is provided in an existing AMOLED array substrate with a compensation function, VDD lines are connected with the VDD grid via switches, which are applied with corresponding voltages to be switched on during a light emitting stage, such that the VDD lines are electrically connected in parallel to the VDD grid, thus a total resistance of the VDD lines and the VDD grid connected in parallel is decreased relative to the own resistance of the VDD line, so as to reduce the voltage drop on the VDD line in a direction in which the scanning control lines extend, and in turn to decrease a variation in a OLED driving voltage signal effectively, ensuring uniformity of luminance across the display area.
US09898963B2	Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof An organic light emitting display device is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a plurality of pixels provided at a region sectioned by scan lines and data lines and an initialization power unit. The plurality of pixels are configured to control the amount of a current flowing from a first power source to a second power source through an organic light emitting diode in response to a data signal. The initialization power unit supplies initialization power to a driving transistor within each pixel circuit. The initialization power unit further controls the voltage of the initialization power supply to maintain a substantially constant voltage difference between the second power source and the initialization power.
US09898962B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is disclosed, which may increase sensing accuracy by solving a problem that a difference between sensing data output from sensing units is generated due to a difference in sensing capability between the sensing units. The organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including data lines, scan lines, sensing lines, and pixels connected to the data lines, the scan lines and the sensing lines; a sensing data output unit outputting first sensing data by sensing currents flowing to the sensing lines; a scan driver supplying scan signals to the scan lines; and a source drive integrated circuit (IC) including a data voltage supply unit supplying data voltages to the data lines and a switching unit connecting the sensing lines to the sensing data output unit in a predetermined order.
US09898960B2	Pixel circuit, its driving method, OLED display panel and OLED display device The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, its driving method, an OLED display panel and an OLED display device. The pixel circuit includes row pixel units each including subpixel units. The row pixel unit includes an auxiliary compensating circuit, which is configured to generate a switching control signal inputted to a subpixel driving circuit according to a scanning signal from a gate driving circuit, and generate a compensating control signal inputted to the subpixel driving circuit according to a control signal from the gate driving circuit. The subpixel driving circuit is configured to receive a data voltage from a data line accordance to the switching control signal, control a driving transistor to drive an OLED to emit light according to the data voltage, and compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor according to the compensating control signal when the driving transistor drives the OLED to emit light.
US09898953B2	Offset method and equipment of RGBW panel subpixel The invention discloses an offset method and equipment of a RGBW panel subpixel. The method includes: inputting data of pixels based on RGB color space in an image; determining the most similar pixels of each of the pixels in the image according to the data of the pixels based on RGB color space; when the resolution of pixels is the same, converting the data of the pixels based on RGB color space to data of the pixels based on RGBW color space, determining data based on RGBW color space corresponding to the most similar pixels of the pixels; three fourths subsampling the pixels in the image according to the data of the pixels based on RGBW color space, the data based on RGBW color space corresponding to the most similar pixels of each of the pixels; outputting data of pixels in the image after being sampled.
US09898952B2	Data compensation device compensating data based on average current, bus voltage drop information, and array voltage drop information and display device including the same A data compensation device includes a current calculator which calculates an average current of each of blocks included in a pixel array based on an input data, a data enable signal, a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical synchronization signal, a voltage drop info provider which provides a bus voltage drop information of predetermined bus points and an array voltage drop information of predetermined array points, the bus points being included in a power supply bus wiring which is connected to the pixel array, the array points being included in the pixel array, a data compensation circuit configured to provide a compensation data corresponding to the input data based on the average current, the bus voltage drop information and the array voltage drop information, and an adder configured to provide a compensation result data by adding the input data and the compensation data.
US09898943B2	Liquid crystal display module The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display module, which includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driver integrated circuit, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes a testing pad, a first pad and a second pad, the first pad includes a first sub pad and a second sub pad which are separately disposed, the second sub pad is electrically connected to the testing pad, the driver integrated circuit includes at least two third pads, the third pads are respectively bonded to the first pad and the second pad; the first sub pad and the second sub pad are commonly bonded to one of the third pads, so as to achieve a short circuit between the first sub pad and the second sub pad. In the liquid crystal display module of the present disclosure, the space occupied by the bonding area is small.
US09898941B2	Modular flush-mount sign channel track system and method A system and method for magnetically mounting a sign flush at a ceiling, window, or wall location that includes modular panels that are removably connected to one another to form a sign board stack. The sign board stack is mounted or unmounted from a prominent display location using a pole end gripper without the need for a ladder. The sign stack extends from a mounting strip having a holder at which the sign stack is fastened, and the gripper engages the mounting strip at an offset grasping portion disposed laterally of the holder. The panels have flanges at the top edge to fit into the holder of the mounting strip and clips at the bottom edge to hold a flange of a panel connected below it. Channel tracks are formed on the panels to hold strip sign elements, some of which may include accordion or spiral bound numbers or messages.
US09898936B2	Recording, monitoring, and analyzing driver behavior A system that monitors, records and analyzes driver performance includes a server having: a map data access module that retrieves map data elements indicating various features associated with at least one path of at least one vehicle including a set of previously-defined segments having a set of associated points including a set of associated attributes having a set of fixed attributes; a communication module that receives information from the at least one vehicle, the received information including data from an in-vehicle system including sensors associated with the at least one vehicle; a driver behavior engine that monitors and evaluates driver performance based on the received information by: generating evaluation curves based on the retrieved set of map data elements; and calculating mathematical differences between each evaluation curve and corresponding performance curves generated based on the set of measured driving characteristics for a particular driver and a particular trip.
US09898934B2	Prediction of vehicle maneuvers A system is described that is configured to receive surveillance data from a vehicle, determine a location of the vehicle based at least in part on the received surveillance data, and determine a course of the vehicle based at least in part on the received surveillance data. The system is further configured to predict a future vehicle maneuver for the vehicle based at least in part on the location and the course of the vehicle, and based at least in part on a set of protocol data indicating one or more standard procedures for one or more vehicle maneuvers. The system is further configured to determine, based at least in part on the predicted future vehicle maneuver, a modified protection volume for the vehicle that is modified relative to a baseline protection volume for the vehicle. The system is further configured to generate an output based on the modified protection volume.
US09898933B2	Method and a device for assisting low altitude piloting of an aircraft A method of assisting low altitude piloting of an aircraft and comprising determining at least one main guard curve, determining all of the obstacles present in at least one search zone, and performing a comparison between a top of each obstacle of a search zone and the main guard curve. In order to perform the comparison, if at least one “potentially dangerous” obstacle is situated above the main guard curve in a search zone, then, for each potentially dangerous obstacle, a sight angle (α) is determined for the top of the potentially dangerous obstacle, and it is considered that the most dangerous obstacle is the potentially dangerous obstacle presenting the greatest sight angle (α).
US09898932B2	Unmanned vehicle movement path assignment and management Mechanisms are provided for monitoring an area utilizing an unmanned vehicle. These mechanisms identify an area to be monitored by an unmanned vehicle and identify an unmanned vehicle assigned to monitoring the identified area. The mechanisms further generate, for the unmanned vehicle, a travel path to be traversed by the unmanned vehicle using a function to randomize generation of the travel path. Moreover, the mechanisms program the unmanned vehicle to traverse the generated travel path and initiate operation of the unmanned vehicle to collect data about the area while traversing the generated travel path. In addition, the mechanisms monitor the area utilizing the unmanned vehicle based on the data collected by the unmanned vehicle while traversing the generated travel path.
US09898929B2	Vehicle driving assistance apparatus A vehicle driving assistance apparatus has a sensor that detects an object around an own vehicle; and a processing apparatus that determines whether the object detected by the sensor is a static vehicle or a roadside static object, carries out driving assistance if a first driving assistance carrying-out condition is satisfied when determining as a static vehicle and carries out the driving assistance if a second driving assistance carrying-out condition is satisfied when determining as a roadside static object. A threshold concerning the first driving assistance carrying-out condition is lower than a threshold concerning the second driving assistance carrying-out condition.
US09898924B2	Method for the reliable transport of alarm messages in a distributed computer system The invention relates to a method for the reliable transport of alarm messages in a distributed computer system, said computer system comprising components, in particular a plurality of components, the components being node computers, distributor units, sensors—preferably intelligent sensors—and actuators—preferably intelligent actuators—and all components having access to a global time of known precision, and the node computers, intelligent sensors and intelligent actuators exchanging messages via the distributor units. It is provided that the computer system includes intelligent alarm sensors or intelligent alarm sensors are assigned to the computer system, and an intelligent alarm sensor transmits two types of time-triggered messages, alarm messages having an alarm transport period prescribed a priori, and error detection messages having an error detection period prescribed a priori, and the time stamps for the occurrence of alarm events are included in an alarm monitoring interval, the alarm monitoring interval ending directly before the transmission of the alarm message and being at least twice as long as the alarm transport period, and an alarm message only being transmitted if at least one time stamp of an alarm event is included in the alarm message, and the current states of all alarms that are active immediately before the transmission of the error detection message are included in the periodic error detection messages.
US09898916B2	Alarm system A system including a working environment and a control center separated from the working environment and configured to monitor systems in the working environment, the control center having an odor alarm system configured to deliver at least a first odor to the control center and alert an operator to an alert condition. In an embodiment, the odor alarm system is configured to deliver a second odor associated with a second alarm condition, wherein the first alarm condition is different than the second alarm condition. In an embodiment, the odor alarm system is configured to be used in conjunction with the one or more visual or audio alarm systems.
US09898915B2	Tracking and monitoring apparatus and system A programmable mobile unit for a portable host, such as a person, comprising a microcontroller in communication with each of a detachable freespace communication module for communication with a control center, a GPS unit for communication with at least a GPS satellite system and a biometric sensor for monitoring and identifying the host.
US09898914B2	Technology for detecting a fall of a person A technology for detecting a fall of a person is provided. A corresponding device (100) comprises an interface (102) which is designed for capturing a time-dependent air pressure signal (600) that is determined by means of at least one air pressure sensor (104, 106) worn on the body of the person. The device (100) also comprises an evaluation unit (108) which is designed for determining a fall height (λ) with respect to an evaluation time (te) by means of a window-based signal analysis of the time-dependent air-pressure signal. The window-based signal analysis includes a first time window (702) before the evaluation time and a second time window (704), which does not overlap with the first time window, after the evaluation time. The fall height is determined from a difference between a first filter value that is computed based on the time-dependent air pressure signal in the first time window, and a second filter value that is computed based on the time-dependent air pressure signal in the second time window.
US09898913B2	Medical alert message pre-configuration and mission handling method A medical alert message handling method for a medical communication device is disclosed. The medical alert message handling method includes receiving a shift, a medical alert message classification configuration and a medical alert message priority configuration, receiving at least one medical alert message, filtering the medical alert message according to the shift to generate a personal alert message, displaying the personal alert message, filtering the medical alert message according to the medical alert message classification configuration and the medical alert message priority configuration, receiving a selection command to select one of the medical alert message, and noting a handling status and a handling problem of the selected medical alert message.
US09898910B2	System and method for remote monitoring based on LED lighting device A system for remote monitoring based on an LED lighting device is provided. The system includes a smart terminal configured to check regularly data and status of the LED lighting device stored in a cloud server and a wireless router configured to provide a wireless network. The LED lighting device includes a Wi-Fi module and a microwave sensor module, where the Wi-Fi module is configured to connect the LED lighting device to the wireless network, perform real-time data acquisition on the microwave sensor module, and upload the acquired data to the cloud server in real time; and the microwave sensor module is configured to detect object movement within an effective range. Further, the system includes the cloud server configured to receive information about an abnormal object moving within the effective range sent from the Wi-Fi module, and send the received information to the smart terminal.
US09898899B2	Gaming machine Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machine comprises: a lower image display panel configured to variably display a plurality of symbol arrays with a plurality of symbols including normal symbols and specific symbols more advantageous than the normal symbols, and then display a game result by rearranging the symbols in a symbol display region containing a matrix of cells; bet buttons capable of receiving a bet; and a controller configured to run a normal game which rearranges symbols on the symbol display device on condition that a bet is placed, the controller is configured to modify the symbols arrayed in the plurality of symbol arrays, so that the ratios of the specific symbols to the total number of the symbols in all the symbol arrays increases with an increase in the bet amount.
US09898894B2	Method of managing a lottery A method is provided of managing awards to players in a lottery where players purchase lottery access tickets, each of which is assigned a predetermined prize in the lottery and each of which provides access to a selected one of a series of accessible video games on a computer medium. Each game has a plurality of game images in which the player can enter a selected action from a number of options based on different skill levels where the selected action can have a token value different from other options. The system displays a table to the player of an accumulation of the tokens and controls the accumulation of the tokens in order that the final prize matches the predetermined prize but may allow other awards to more skilled players. The prize must be validated using a code from the ticket and from an image in the displayed game.
US09898890B2	Methods and systems for determining a batch run of sessions In accordance with some embodiments, a batch run of sessions is executed. The batch run comprises a plurality of sessions characterized by at least one common parameter and value thereof. A session comprises a plurality of outcomes of a wagering game. A video presentation may be created based on each such session of a batch run. The video presentation may be recorded onto a game disc (e.g., a DVD or CD-ROM) and sold to a player for viewing at a location remote from a casino.
US09898889B2	Remote game play in a wireless gaming environment A system employs a server computing system with an integrated database and wireless communications devices. The wireless communications devices permits players to take a position on a potential outcome of a game and includes remote game play and remote backline playing (taking a position on a potential outcome of a position on game outcome taken by a primary player occupying a player position at a gaming table) and other types of positions not involving money. In response to the electronic indication that the primary player is no longer occupying the player position at the gaming table the system automatically initiates a period locking out players taking positions on the potential outcome of the game such as a position on game outcome lock out period for such proposed backline positions on game outcome and modifies the user interface on a wireless device of the dealer accordingly.
US09898886B2	Methods and apparatus for providing communications services at a gaming machine In a first aspect, a method is provided that includes the steps of (1) providing an auxiliary unit adapted to allow a gaming machine to be retrofitted to provide communications services; and (2) retrofitting a non-communications-enabled gaming machine with the auxiliary unit so that the non-communications enabled gaming machine is adapted to provide communications services based on game play at the non-communications-enabled gaming machine. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US09898884B1	Method and system of personal vending A system and method for vending products to a customer that encompasses a group of vending machines managed by a vending company, a database of the inventory of products in the vending machines and information about customer purchase history from the vending machines; and the use of a personal electronic device by the customer. Embodiments include the customer selecting either products or vending machines from a list of options provided via the user interface of the personal electronic device, wherein the list of options depends on the actual available inventory on vending machines co-located with customer, and the customer purchase history. Methods are described to permit advance purchases with deferred dispensing, and methods of payment that are both fast and automatic. Also described are methods of identifying vending machines and ordering a group of products as single request.
US09898878B2	Entry control system An integrated security system which seamlessly assimilates with current generation logical security systems. The integrated security system incorporates a security controller having standard network interface capabilities including IEEE 802.x and takes advantage of the convenience and security offered by smart cards and related devices for both physical and logical security purposes. The invention is based on standard remote authentication dial-in service (RADIUS) protocols or TCP/IP using SSL, TLS, PCT or IPsec and stores a shared secret required by the secure communication protocols in a secure access module coupled to the security controller. The security controller is intended to be a networked client or embedded intelligent device controlled remotely by to an authentication server. In another embodiment of the invention one or more life cycle management transactions are performed with the secure access module. These transactions allow for the updating, replacement, deletion and creation of critical security parameters, cryptographic keys, user data and applications used by the secure access module and/or security token. In another embodiment of the invention a security access module associated with the security controller locally performs local authentication transactions which are recorded in a local access list used to update a master access list maintained by the authentication server.
US09898865B2	System and method for spawning drawing surfaces A method for operating a computing device is described herein. The method includes determining a user's gaze direction based on a gaze input, determining an intersection between the user's gaze direction and an identified environmental surface in a 3-dimensional environment, and generating a drawing surface based on the intersection within a user interface on a display.
US09898863B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sound output control unit configured to generate localization information of a sound marker based on a virtual position, and a sound output unit configured to output a sound associated with the sound marker, based on the localization information, wherein the virtual position is determined based on a position of a real object present in a space.
US09898857B2	Blending between street view and earth view In one aspect, computing device(s) may determine a plurality of fragments for a three-dimensional (3D) model of a geographical location. Each fragment of the plurality of fragments may correspond to a pixel of a blended image and each fragment has a fragment color from the 3D model. The one or more computing devices may determine geospatial location data for each fragment based at least in part on latitude information, longitude information, and altitude information associated with the 3D model. For each fragment of the plurality of fragments, the one or more computing devices may identify a pixel color and an image based at least in part on the geospatial location data, determine a blending ratio based on at least one of a position and an orientation of a virtual camera, and generate the blended image based on at least the blending ratio, the pixel color, and the fragment color.
US09898856B2	Systems and methods for depth-assisted perspective distortion correction Systems and methods for automatically correcting apparent distortions in close range photographs that are captured using an imaging system capable of capturing images and depth maps are disclosed. In many embodiments, faces are automatically detected and segmented from images using a depth-assisted alpha matting. The detected faces can then be re-rendered from a more distant viewpoint and composited with the background to create a new image in which apparent perspective distortion is reduced.
US09898854B1	Hybrid binding of meshes The disclosure provides an approach for a hybrid binding of meshes. Multiple meshes having levels of detail appropriate for different regions of a model are topologically connected by binding them together at simulation time. In one embodiment, a simulation application creates both geometric and force bindings between vertices in meshes. The simulation application identifies embedded vertices of a first mesh to be bound to a second mesh as being “best” bound vertices, such as vertices coincident with vertices in the second mesh, and geometrically binds those vertices to appropriate vertices of the second mesh. The simulation application then binds each of the remaining embedded vertices which cannot be geometrically bound to vertices of the second mesh via a force binding, in which a zero-length spring force based technique is used to transfer forces and velocities between the force bound vertex of the first mesh and vertices of the second mesh.
US09898849B2	Facial expression based avatar rendering in video animation and method Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with creating an avatar video are disclosed herein. In embodiments, the apparatus may one or more facial expression engines, an animation-rendering engine, and a video generator. The one or more facial expression engines may be configured to receive video, voice and/or text inputs, and, in response, generate a plurality of animation messages having facial expression parameters that depict facial expressions for a plurality of avatars based at least in part on the video, voice and/or text inputs received. The animation-rendering engine may be configured to receive the one or more animation messages, and drive a plurality of avatar models, to animate and render the plurality of avatars with the facial expression depicted. The video generator may be configured to capture the animation and rendering of the plurality of avatars, to generate a video. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09898845B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium In a case where a position of a recognized cell is shifted from a position of a ruled line of an actual cell, if the recognized cell is deleted, a part of the ruled line of the actual cell is deleted. According to an aspect of the present invention, straight lines are detected from regions around four sides constituting the recognized cell, and an inside of a region surrounded by the detected straight lines is deleted.
US09898839B2	Medical image diagnosis apparatus and mammography apparatus A medical image diagnosis apparatus emits radiation to a breast as a subject, detects radiation that has passed through the subject, and generates three-dimensional image data including a plurality of tomographic images of the subject. The medical image diagnosis apparatus includes an image generator, a setting unit, an image detector, and a display controller. The image generator projects the three-dimensional image data in a predetermined direction to generate a two-dimensional image. The setting unit sets a region of interest in the two-dimensional image. Based on the region of interest and a corresponding region that corresponds to the region of interest in each of the tomographic images, the image detector detects a tomographic image including the corresponding region that is similar in pixel value to the region of interest from the three-dimensional image data. The display controller displays the tomographic image detected by the image detector on a display unit.
US09898809B2	Systems, methods and techniques for inputting text into mobile devices using a camera-based keyboard Systems, methods and techniques are provided for interacting with mobile devices using a camera-based keyboard. The system comprises a processor system including at last one processor. The processor system is configured to at least capture a plurality of images in connection with the keyboard and at least one hand typing on the keyboard via the camera. Based on the plurality of captured images, the processor system is further configured to locate the keyboard, extract at least a portion of the keys on the keyboard, extract a hand, and detect a fingertip of the extracted hand. After that, a keystroke may be detected and localized through tracking the detected fingertip in at least one of the plurality of captured images, and a character corresponding to the localized keystroke may be determined.
US09898806B2	Correction image creation device, radiographic imaging device, imaging device, computer readable medium and correction image creation method A correction image creation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires at least one original image, which is a basis when creating a correction image used in offset correction with respect to an image that has been obtained by imaging; a determination unit that determines whether or not noise from the exterior is superimposed on the original image; and a cancellation unit that cancels creation of the correction image in a case in which it has been determined by the determination unit that noise from the exterior is superimposed on the original image.
US09898802B2	Cut line steering methods for forming a mosaic image of a geographical area Systems and methods for creating a ground confidence map of a geographic area, comprising the steps of creating a ground confidence map of a geographic area, the ground confidence map having a plurality of pixels with each pixel corresponding to a particular geographic location; assigning the pixels in the ground confidence map with pixel values indicative of composite ground confidence scores by calculating composite ground confidence scores for the pixel values of common geographic regions within the overlapping portions of the source images within a kernel corresponding to the particular geographic location of the pixels; and storing pixel values indicative of a statistical probability that the geographical location represented by the particular pixels represent the ground.
US09898801B1	Computing device independent and transferable game level design and other objects A system which employs a method of creating transferable map schemas, storing the map schemas to storage devices, receiving target device settings, re-sampling the map schemas to fit the target devices using the target device settings, delivering the re-sampled map schemas to the target devices is described. Thereby providing the innovation that map schemas may be accessed by more than one type of device, the method by which maps are scaled from a created map dimension with given details to either a larger map having the ability to be utilized on a more capable playing device or to a map or a smaller map having the ability to be utilized on a less capable device without losing the important game-specific required data is also described.
US09898798B2	Electronic apparatus, external apparatus and method of controlling the same An electronic apparatus includes a locking unit to selectively lock a physical connection with an external apparatus and a control unit to control an operation mode of the electronic apparatus, according to a connection state with the external apparatus, in which the control unit controls the locking unit to lock the connection with the external apparatus, when the electronic apparatus is in an operation mode of using a graphic processing unit of the external apparatus.
US09898796B2	Collaborative graphics rendering using mobile devices to support remote display Systems, devices and methods are described including receiving a policy from a secure storage device, where the policy may be used to implement collaborative rendering of image content. The image content may include multiple portions of image content. The policy may be used to determining rendering assignments for multiple mobile devices where the assignments may specify that a mobile device is to render one content portion while another mobile device is to render another content portion. The rendering assignments may be provided to the mobile devices and rendered output corresponding to the different content portions may be received from the mobile devices. The rendered output may then be assembled into one or more image frames and wirelessly communicated to a remote display.
US09898789B2	Method and a system for providing hosted services based on a generalized model of a health/wellness program One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for creating a health/wellness program on a generic health/wellness platform. During operation, the system receives, at the generic health/wellness platform, a set of definitions for the health/wellness program, constructs a program model for the health/wellness program, generates a program instance to be executed on the generic health/wellness platform, and associates the program instance to a number of health/wellness modules provided by the health/wellness platform.
US09898765B1	Pricing usage of software products Functionality is disclosed herein for charging for the use of software products based upon billable units defined by a software provider. The software product identifies the occurrences of the billable units as the software product is executing. The software product also sends billing data to a billing service identifying an occurrence of a billable unit, or billable units, such that an invoice may be created that charges for use of the software product based, at least in part, on the occurrence of the billable units.
US09898762B2	Managing bids in a real-time auction for advertisements A method and system conduct an auction for advertising across multiple markets. A first market conducts a first auction for a first advertising impression. A first bid is selected as the auction winner and a ratio is computed as the first bid plus a spread to the second highest bid. The price to be paid is the lower of the first bid or the first bid multiplied by the ratio. The first bid, second bid, and spread are transmitted to a second market for a second advertising impression auction. The second market respects the rules of the first market's auction where such that if the first bid is selected as the winner, a ratio is computed as the first bid plus the spread to the next highest bid. The price to be paid for the second impression is the first bid multiplied by the new ratio.
US09898760B2	Digital plaque media panel and infrastructure A digital plaque media panel that displays a certificate, the educational institution associated with the certificate currently displayed on the digital plaque media panel is an alma mater associated with the individual user. The digital plan media panel receives and displays alma mater related news and information, periodically or as needed, to the individual user based on a configuration. An alumni updates and advertisement infrastructure provides alma mater related news and information.
US09898757B2	Purchase support server, purchase support method, purchase support program, and computer-readable recording medium for recording said program A mediation server (30) includes a second request receiving unit (35) that receives first store information for identifying a store visited by a user as a visited store and second store information for identifying a designated store designated as a place to purchase an item recognized by the user at the visited store from a mobile terminal (10) of the user, a response information generating unit (36) that compares the first and second store information and determines whether the visited store and the designated store match, and generates bargaining information indicating a specified service offered for the item by the visited store when the two stores do not match, and a response information transmission unit (37) that transmits the generated bargaining information to the mobile terminal (10).
US09898755B2	System and method for verifying non-human traffic The present invention provides improved techniques that can be used to verify illegitimate non-human users that are accessing content. For example, a method of verifying a non-human user of a computerized device may comprise receiving information identifying a potential non-human user of a computerized device, altering a browser page to be used by the potential non-human user, and verifying whether or not the potential non-human user is an actual non-human user based on a behavior of the potential non-human user with the altered browser page.
US09898748B1	Determining popular and trending content characteristics Features are disclosed for analyzing requests for network accessible content, including but not limited to web pages, to determine which topics and other characteristics are popular or are gaining in popularity (“trending”). Content items or sources may be profiled to determine characteristics that two or more content items or sources may have in common. Content requests from multiple client devices may be tracked and analyzed to determine the trending or popular characteristics. Data feeds or reports regarding the summarized content requests may be generated and distributed to content servers, advertisers, and other entities. The data feeds may be used to tailor content, such as by highlighting or featuring content associated with the most-requested content characteristics, or utilizing demographic data to tailor content for different users.
US09898743B2	Systems and methods for automatic generation of a relationship management system A method and apparatus for the automatic creation of a relationship management system is described. The method may include receiving a request from a user to create a relationship management system, and receiving specification of one or more electronic communication systems and user access credentials that provide access to each of the corresponding accounts. Furthermore, the method may include obtaining past electronic communications using the received user access credentials and analyzing the past electronic communications to extract contact data. The method may also include creating the relationship management system for the user and adding the contact data as contacts associated with the user in the created relationship management system.
US09898735B2	Dynamic checkout button apparatuses, methods and systems The DYNAMIC CHECKOUT BUTTON APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DCB”) transforms product page checkout request input and user identification input via DCB components such as offer/discount determination component and checkout button embedding component, into dynamic checkout button outputs.
US09898731B2	Donation device and method An electronic, hand-held, and portable donation device and method are disclosed for collecting financial donations. The donation device may include a plurality of electronic payment processors, each payment processor corresponding to a different monetary amount.
US09898724B2	Method and apparatus for determining item based on interaction environment A method and an apparatus for using a device to determine an item, such as, for example, a card based on an interaction environment, such as, for example, a settlement environment, are provided. The method by which a device determines a card to be used in a settlement includes: acquiring a card use history of a card, which is stored in the device; acquiring information which relates to a settlement environment of the device; determining a card to be used in the settlement, based on the acquired information relating to the settlement environment and the acquired card use history; and providing settlement information which relates to the determined card to a point of sale (POS) terminal.
US09898721B2	Display system with security features The present disclosure provides a display system which includes an electronic device and a user-side auxiliary viewing module. The electronic device may include a device-side display module, which includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a first polarizer adhered onto a surface of the array substrate away from the liquid crystal layer. A second polarizer may be arranged on the user-side auxiliary viewing module, and have a polarization axis in a direction substantially perpendicular to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.
US09898715B2	Systems and methods for creating, manipulating and processing rights and contract expressions using tokenized templates System and methods for manipulating rights expressions for use in connection with a rights management system include one or more tokenized templates. Each tokenized template includes one or more rights expression language statements and one or more tokens associated with at least one of the rights expression language statements. Further, the tokens can be place holders for data items or rights expression elements. The system further includes a license template module that creates the tokenized templates, and a license instance creation module that replaces at least one of the tokens in one or more selected license templates with one or more of the data items or rights expression elements to generate a license instance. Additionally, the system includes a license instance analysis module having sub-modules for validating and interpreting license instances, and a data parsing module for extracting data from created license instances.
US09898713B1	Methods systems and computer program products for monitoring inventory and prices Methods, systems, and computer program products for an inventory monitor are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed method involves predicting a number of inventory items on a future date based at least in part upon a number of the inventory items on the current date and a rate of consumption of the inventory items, which is determined based on prior sales of the inventory items. The method also involves determining a price trend of the inventory items. In addition, the method involves determining whether to purchase the inventory items on the current date based at least in part upon the predicted number of inventory items, a rate of consumption of the inventory items, and a price trend of the inventory items. Further, the method involves displaying to the user an indicator of whether to purchase the inventory items on the current date or on a later date.
US09898694B2	Tri-layer transaction cards and associated methods A transaction card having three layers, wherein the first layer is metal, the second layer is a polymer, and the third layer is a carbon-containing layer.
US09898689B2	Nonparametric model for detection of spatially diverse temporal patterns A computer-implemented method of generating a spatio-temporal pattern model for spatio-temporal pattern recognition includes receiving one or more training trajectories. Each of the training trajectories includes diverse data points that represent a spatio-temporal pattern. The received training trajectories define an area that is partitioned into one or more observed clusters, and a unpopulated complementary cluster. The spatio-temporal pattern model is generated so as to include both of the observed clusters and the unpopulated complementary cluster.
US09898688B2	Vision enhanced drones for precision farming Methods, apparatuses and systems may provide for a neural network that analyzes and classifies agricultural conditions based on depth data and color data recorded by one or more drones, and generates an annotated three dimensional (3D) map with the agricultural conditions. Additionally, an object recognition model may be trained for use by a drone controller to trigger drones to conduct a collection of depth data at an increased proximity to crop-related objects based on agricultural conditions.
US09898684B2	Multi-camera device Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with multi-camera devices are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-camera device may include 3 or more camera sensors disposed on a world facing side of the multi-camera device. Further, the multi-camera device may be configured to provide a soft shutter button at a location on an opposite side to the world facing side, coordinated with locations of the 3 or more camera sensors that reduces likelihood of blocking of one or more of the 3 or more camera sensors. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US09898683B2	Robust method for tracing lines of table A method for image processing includes obtaining a mask of a stroke from an image and identifying a plurality of cross edges for the stroke based on the mask and a reference line. The plurality of cross edges includes a group of adjacent cross edges that intersect the reference line. The method further includes (a) calculating a first vector based on positions of at least two of the cross edges in the group, (b) expanding the group, based on the first vector, to include cross edges adjacent to the group that do not intersect the reference line, (c) calculating a second vector based on positions of at least two of the cross edges in the expanded group, and (d) expanding the expanded group, based on the second vector, to include a second group of adjacent cross edges nearby the expanded group that do not intersect the reference line.
US09898676B2	Method for determining the level of degradation of a road marking A method for determining a level of degradation of a road marking is executed by a determination unit. The method includes generating a plurality of reference images by an image capturing device photographing a reference road marking with a plurality of shutter speeds. The reference images are stored in a database. The method further includes generating an image by the image capturing device photographing an examined road marking according to a selected shutter speed, retrieving one of the reference data from the database that has the same shutter speed as the examined road marking by a processor, and performing a difference determination procedure between the retrieved reference data and the examined data by the processor, and outputting a determined result of the level of degradation of the examined road marking by the processor. As such, accurate determination on the level of degradation of the examined road marking can be achieved.
US09898672B2	System and method of detection, tracking and identification of evolutionary adaptation of vehicle lamp A system of detection, tracking and identification of an evolutionary adaptation of a vehicle lamp includes an image capture device and a processor. The image capture device captures an image of a vehicle. The processor processes the image of the vehicle to generate a detection result of the vehicle lamp, analyzes and integrates vehicle lamp dynamic motion information and vehicle lamp multiple scale variation information based on the detection result, and then tracks the position of the vehicle lamp by applying a multiple scale vehicle lamp measurement model.
US09898645B2	Fingerprint sensor device and method A fingerprint sensor package and method are provided. Embodiments include a sensor and a sensor surface material encapsulated within the fingerprint sensor package. An array of electrodes of the sensor are electrically connected using through vias that are located either in the sensor, in connection blocks separated from the sensor, or through connection blocks, or else connected through other connections such as wire bonds. A high voltage die is attached in order to increase the sensitivity of the fingerprint sensor.
US09898633B2	Method and system for determining the position and movement of items using radio frequency data A data reading system, and associated methods of operation, for locating and tracking a position of tagged items on a conveyor system. The system includes a data reader and a conveyor system operable to transport the tagged items through a read region of the data reader. A processor, in operative communication with the data reader, obtains data from an item tag being passed through the read region at a first time, at a second time, at a subsequent third time, and so forth. Based on the readings, the processor estimates an initial position of each item tag and determines an order at which each item reaches a reference position on the conveyor system.
US09898629B1	Dynamic quick response code branding In an approach to managing a quick response code branding device and management of a quick response code branding device, one or more computer processors receive one or more quick response code configuration parameters. The one or more computer processors determine one or more program instructions corresponding to the one or more quick response code configuration parameters based on one or more task-specific factors. The one or more computer processors send the one or more program instructions to a quick response code branding device. The one or more computer processors receive quick response code branding device status data. The one or more computer processors determine whether the quick response code branding device status data meets the one or more quick response code configuration parameters.
US09898627B2	Secure and extensible pay per action online advertising Systems and methods are provided to allow advertisers to make ads available to publishers through an advertising system. The advertising system provides tamper proof tracking of conversion activity between publishers and advertisers. Further, advertisers can define plural different conversions to be associated with a single ad click through.
US09898623B2	Method for performing an encryption with look-up tables, and corresponding encryption apparatus and computer program product An encryption method includes accessing a look-up table (LUT) to implement countermeasures against side-channel attacks, such as embedding masks. The LUT is initialized by writing initialization values in the LUT by applying an address-mask to input data that identify a location of said LUT and a data-mask to data to be stored at a location of the LUT. The method includes carrying out an initialization of the LUT that includes providing at least one second address-mask and one second data-mask; and computing corresponding initialization values as a function of a logic combination of the aforesaid first address-mask and second address-mask and of a logic combination of the aforesaid first data-mask and second data-mask. In the resulting table the address data are masked only by the second address-mask and the data are masked only by the second data-mask. The structure of the LUT may allow convenient implementation by initializing all the values of the LUT in parallel in one cycle.
US09898622B1	Systems and methods for scrubbing confidential data Methods and systems for scrubbing confidential insurance account information are provided. According to embodiments, a scrubbing server can receive a request to scrub confidential insurance data that includes the contents of an insurance account information database and an indication of the category of confidential data stored in the database. The scrubbing server can scrub the valid data contained in the received database, replacing confidential information with “scrambled” data that is not confidential. The scrubbing server can transmit the contents of the scrubbed database back to the requesting party.
US09898620B2	Information management method and information management system An information management method includes: receiving, from a manufacturer server via a network, device history information indicating a history of an operation of a device used by a first user and first anonymized user information generated by anonymizing, according to a predetermined rule, first user information including attribute information which allows identification of the first user; receiving, from a service provider server different from the manufacturer server via the network, service history information indicating a history of service used by a second user and second anonymized user information generated by anonymizing, according to the predetermined rule, second user information including attribute information which allows identification of the second user; and associating the device history information and the service history information and managing them as composite information, when the first anonymized user information and the second anonymized user information are determined to be identical or similar.
US09898606B1	Preventing uninstallation of applications A method for preventing application uninstalls on devices is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying granted device administrator permissions in association with an application installed or being installed on a device, monitoring the device relative to the granted device administrator permissions, and suspending a callback function to prevent the device from enabling revocation of the granted device administrator permissions.
US09898601B2	Allocation of shared system resources Techniques are described for allocating resources to a task from a shared hardware structure. A plurality of tasks may execute on a processor, wherein the processor may include one or more processing cores and each task may include a plurality of computer executable instructions. In accordance with one technique for allocating resources to a task from a shared hardware structure amongst multiple tasks, aspects of the disclosure describe assigning a first identifier to a first task from the plurality of tasks, associating a portion of the shared hardware resource with the first identifier, and restricting access and/or observability for computer executable instructions executed from any other task than the first task to the portion of the hardware resource associated with the first identifier.
US09898595B2	Monetized online content systems and methods and computer-readable media for processing requests for the same One aspect of the invention provides a computer system having processing and memory means operable to provide a monetized online content system. The computer system is coupled to one or more resource modules each having data in the memory means and includes: an interceptor module configured to receive a request from a client for one or more resources available from one or more resource modules, refer the request to one or more of the resource modules configured to fulfill the request, receive one or more responses from one or more of the resource modules, at least one of said one or more responses having one or more events associated therewith, and transform the one or more responses by removing the one or more events associated with the one or more responses prior to presentation of the one or more responses to the client.
US09898591B2	Authentication method for authenticating a first party to a second party An authentication method authenticates a first party to a second party, where an operation is performed on condition that the authentication succeeds. If the first party is not authenticated, then if the first party qualifies for a sub-authorization, the operation is still performed. Further, a device that includes a first memory area holding a comparison measure, which is associated with time, and which is also used in said authentication procedure, a second memory area holding a limited list of other parties which have been involved in an authentication procedure with the device, and a third memory area, holding compliance certificates concerning parties of said list.
US09898584B2	System and method for providing a common medical device architecture Systems, methods, and computer readable storage medium for providing a genericized medical device architecture common to a plurality of medical devices are disclosed. The architecture may comprise at least one diagnostics module associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, wherein the at least one diagnostics module is configured to monitor an operational status of the at least one medical device. At least one hardware abstraction layer may be associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, and may be configured to provide abstracted access to hardware of the at least one medical device.
US09898573B2	Rule and process assumption co-optimization using feature-specific layout-based statistical analyses Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products that, during new technology node development, perform design rule and process assumption co-optimization using feature-specific layout-based statistical analyses. Specifically, the layout of a given feature can be analyzed to determine whether it complies with all of the currently established design rules in the new technology node. When the layout fails to comply with a current design rule, statistical analyses (e.g., Monte-Carlo simulations) of images, which are generated based on the layout and which illustrate different tolerances for and between the various shapes in the layout given current process assumption(s), can be performed. Based on the results of the analyses, the current process assumption(s) and/or the design rule itself can be adjusted using a co-optimization process in order to ensure the manufacturability of the feature within the technology.
US09898565B2	Clock jitter emulation An emulator emulating a DUT emulates a clock generator for generating clock signals of the DUT with jitter. As part of generating clock signals, the emulator generates a jitter clock value for each clock signal. To generate a jitter clock value for a clock signal, the emulator identifies a clock parameter stored for the clock signal and sums the clock parameter with a jitter value randomly selected from the jitter range of the clock signal. When a system fast clock cycle starts, the emulator determines the lowest value from the generated jitter clock values. The emulator outputs an edge on clock signal having the lowest jitter clock value. The emulator generates a new jitter clock value for each clock signal and the process repeats during the next system fast clock cycle.
US09898563B2	Modeling memory in emulation based on cache Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques for modeling memories in emulation. An emulator is configured to implement an emulation model for a circuit design and a cache memory model for a memory accessible by the circuit design. A workstation coupled to the emulator is configured to implement a main memory model for the memory. The cache memory model is a hardware model while the main memory model is a software model. The cache memory model stores a subset of data that are stored in the main memory model and is synchronized with the main memory model.
US09898559B2	Method for predicting changes in properties of a formation in a near-wellbore area exposed to a drilling mud In order to predict properties of a formation in a near-wellbore area exposed to a drilling mud rheological properties of the drilling mud, of a filtrate of the drilling mud and of a reservoir fluid are determined. Properties of an external mudcake, porosity and permeability of the core sample are determined. A mathematical model of the external mudcake is created. The drilling mud is injected through a core sample and dynamics of pressure drop across the sample and dynamics of a flow rate of a liquid leaving the sample are determined. Using an X-ray micro Computed Tomography a profile of concentration of particles of the drilling mud penetrated into the sample is determined. A mathematical model is developed for the internal mudcake to describe dynamics of changes in concentration of the particles of the drilling mud in a pore space of the core sample. A coupled mathematical model of the internal and the external mudcakes is created and parameters of the mathematical model of the internal mudcake are determined providing matching of simulation results to the experimental data on injection the drilling mud through the core sample and to the concentration profile of the particles of the drilling mud.
US09898556B2	Immersive dimensional variation A computing device is used for creating a dimensional model of at least a portion of a product, the dimensional model including a range of possible conditions with respect to at least one component in the product. The dimensional model is used to create a set of geometries for the product, a geometry being a representation of at least a portion of the product, wherein each of the geometries corresponds to one or more of the conditions. A display is provided of a first one of the geometries, and then, upon receiving an input requesting a second one of the geometries, a display is provided of the requested second one of the geometries.
US09898553B2	Capturing run-time metadata A processor captures, during the run-time of a first event, run-time metadata associated with the first event, the run-time metadata comprising a data lineage and a data provenance. The data lineage identifies input data existing before the first event and resulting data of the first event. The data provenance identifies an agent executing the first event. The processor then generates a property graph with the property graph comprising a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes comprises a first node, a second node, and a third node. The first node comprises an identification of the input data existing before the first event. The second node comprises an identification of the agent executing the first event, and the second node is coupled to the first node. The third node comprises an identification of the resulting data of the first event, and the third node is coupled to the second node.
US09898530B2	Ontology driven contextual mediation A method for ontologically driving context mediation in a computing system can include collecting events arising from a solution in a computing environment, loading operational meta-data for the solution, contextually mediating, for example context interchange (COIN) mediating, the collected events with the operational meta-data to produce context sensitive events, and correlating the context sensitive events with corresponding symptoms in a display to an end user in the computing environment.
US09898523B2	Tabular data parsing in document(s) One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for parsing tabular data of a document. That is, a document may comprise arbitrarily formatted content (e.g., an equipment inspection report generated by an engineer). Respective rows of the document may be clustered into one or more row clusters based upon row proximity and/or numeric content (e.g., rows having similar numeric content may comprise logically related information). One or more vertical clusters may be generated within respective row clusters based upon vertical overlap. In this way, row clusters and/or vertical clusters may be searched for one or more values that may be assigned to a search term. For example, a row cluster may comprise a search term “Average temp”. One or more vertical clusters within the row cluster may be searched for a word that matches a pattern criteria (e.g., a two digit number), which may be assigned to the search term.
US09898516B2	Verification of transformed content A computer manages methods for determining accurate document transformation by rendering the source document into a non-rasterized format, where the non-rasterized format is a rendered source document. The computer rendering the target document into a non-rasterized format, where the non-rasterized format is a rendered target document. The computer comparing one or more aspects of the rendered source document to corresponding one or more aspects of the rendered target document. The computer determining, based, at least in part, on the compared one or more aspects, whether or not the source document was accurately transformed to the target document.
US09898514B2	System and method for aggregating query results in a fault-tolerant database management system A redundant array of independent nodes are networked together. Each node executes an instance of an application that provides object-based storage. Metadata objects are stored in a set of regions distributed among the nodes across the array. A given region is identified by hashing a metadata object attribute and extracting a given set of bits of a resulting hash value. A method of managing query results comprises: receiving, by a first node of the plurality of independent nodes from a client application, a request for a list of objects with a criterion; issuing by the first node a query to all the nodes based on the received request; processing the query by each node over the regions in the node using the metadata objects stored in the regions; aggregating and filtering by the first node results of the query from all the nodes; and returning by the first node the aggregated and filtered results to the client application.
US09898511B2	Method of manipulating vocabulary depending on the audience A system for recommending content based on the audience, implemented by a computing processor, detects content that is to be transmitted to an audience. The system receives a user profile associated with the audience, and scores the content against the user profile to produce a rating. The content is weighted based on at least one attribute associated with the user profile. The system invokes an action in response to the rating.
US09898509B2	Malicious activity detection system capable of efficiently processing data accessed from databases and generating alerts for display in interactive user interfaces Various systems and methods are provided that retrieve raw data from issuers, reorganize the raw data, analyze the reorganized data to determine whether the risky or malicious activity is occurring, and generate alerts to notify users of possible malicious activity. For example, the raw data is included in a plurality of tables. The system joins one or more tables to reorganize the data using several filtering techniques to reduce the processor load required to perform the join operation. Once the data is reorganized, the system executes one or more rules to analyze the reorganized data. Each rule is associated with a malicious activity. If any of the rules indicate that malicious activity is occurring, the system generates an alert for display to a user in an interactive user interface.
US09898507B2	Pre-fetching information in anticipation of a user request A system may pre-fetch search result information in anticipation of a user request for the search result information. The system may receive a user search query and request initial search results from a server based on the search query. The system may receive the initial search results from the server and render the initial search results for display to the user. In anticipation of a user request for additional search results, the system may request additional search results from the server. The additional search results may then be pre-fetched for potential display to the user in response to a user request to render the additional search results.
US09898506B2	Runtime optimization for multi-index access Optimization of a multi-index database access at runtime. A processor receives a query. A processor determines a plan and a record identifier (RID) results threshold for the plan, wherein the plan includes an access to the index. A processor determines a static risk threshold, a static risk for the access, and whether the static risk exceeds the static risk threshold. Responsive to the static risk exceeding the static risk threshold, a processor determines a risk bound for the access, and links the access to the risk bound. A processor accesses the index with the key. Responsive to the access being linked to a risk bound, a processor determines a dynamic risk for the access. A processor receives one or more RID results during the execution of the plan. A processor aborts the execution of the plan if a quantity of the RID results is less than the RID results threshold.
US09898504B1	System, method, and computer program for accessing data on a big data platform A system, method, and computer program product are provided for accessing data on a big data platform. In use, a request associated with a data processing job to process data stored in a big data store is identified, the data being stored in a plurality of rows with each row being associated with a unique key. Additionally, a data processing job input associated with the request is received, the data processing job input including a set of keys required to be read for processing. Further, the set of keys is translated into one or more queries, the one or more queries including at least one of a request to read an individual key or a request to read a range of keys. Moreover, the data is loaded from the big data store based on the one or more queries.
US09898502B2	System and method for executing a SPARQL query The present disclosure provides system and method for executing SPARQL query on a SPARQL engine. For executing the SPARQL query, a function may be instantly integrated with the SPARQL query which leads to extension of the SPARQL query. The extension may be achieved through a user friendly interface which may allow transparent integration of code (i.e., the function) in any language such as JAVA, C, C++ and the like, supporting a particular functionality. The system may integrate the code by addition of newly added code to the SPARQL library after validation. Further, the system may analyze the functionality associated with the code to optimize decision making of a user. The system may further support auto compilation and rating of the functions based on the user feedback and re-usability of the code working in a collaborative environment. Further the system may enable also enable to integrate external tools and web services.
US09898490B2	Systems and methods for supporting multiple database server versions on a database machine Techniques are described herein for supporting multiple versions of a database server within a database machine comprising a separate database layer and storage layer. In an embodiment, the database layer includes compute nodes each hosting one or more instances of a database server. The storage layer includes storage nodes each hosting one or more instances of a storage server, also referred to herein as a “cell server.” In general, the database servers may receive data requests, such as SQL queries, from client applications and service the requests in coordination with the cell servers of the storage layer.
US09898489B2	Preserving high value entries in an event log A first entry is received at an event log interface. The event log interface is configured to store received entries in an event log. It is determined that there is not enough storage space to store the first entry in the event log. A second entry is identified. The second entry is the oldest entry in the event log based on when the second entry was written to the event log. It is determined that the second entry contains an indicator to preserve. A copy of the second entry is sent to the event log interface to be written to the event log. One or more entries are deleted from the event log. The one or more entries includes the second entry. The first entry is written to the event log. The copy of the second entry is written to the event log.
US09898482B1	Managing stream connections in storage systems A method is used in managing stream connections in storage systems. A set of criteria is evaluated for managing flow control characteristics of a stream connection in a storage system. The flow control characteristics indicates the rate at which requests are processed by the stream connection. Based on the evaluation, management of the flow control characteristics is affected.
US09898477B1	Writing to a site cache in a distributed file system A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for providing a site cache manager is discussed. Data objects may be read from a site cache rather than an authoritative object store. This provides performance benefits when a client reading the data has a better connection to the site cache than to the authoritative object store. The site cache manager controls the volume of stored data on the site cache to enhance performance by increasing the frequency of data object being read from or written to the site cache rather than the authoritative object store.
US09898474B1	Object sharding in a host-side processing device for distributed storage A host-side network processing device coupled between a storage system and a host machine may encode a data object according to a sharding technique. Encoding the data object may include receiving, from the host machine, a data object and a request to store the data object. The network processing device may send a request for a plurality of storage locations to the storage system. The network processing device may receive a location list including a plurality of location identifiers from the storage system, where each location identifier corresponds to a respective storage location. The network processing device may determine an encoding matrix and encode the data object into a plurality of shards based on the encoding matrix according to a sharding technique. The network processing device may generate a plurality of storage requests that each specify a different location identifier and that each includes a respective shard.
US09898468B2	Single pass file system repair with copy on write Example apparatus and methods concern identifying an error in a file system. The error is identified during one or more b-tree traversals through the file system. A fix for the error is produced upon detecting the error. Data or metadata associated with the fix is not initially written to the file system, but instead is stored somewhere other than the file system using a copy on write approach. After the traversals are complete, the file system may be fixed using the data or metadata stored using the copy on write approach.
US09898459B2	Integration of domain information into state transitions of a finite state transducer for natural language processing The invention relates to a system and method for integrating domain information into state transitions of a Finite State Transducer (“FST”) for natural language processing. A system may integrate semantic parsing and information retrieval from an information domain to generate an FST parser that represents the information domain. The FST parser may include a plurality of FST paths, at least one of which may be used to generate a meaning representation from a natural language input. As such, the system may perform domain-based semantic parsing of a natural language input, generating more robust meaning representations using domain information. The system may be applied to a wide range of natural language applications that use natural language input from a user such as, for example, natural language interfaces to computing systems, communication with robots in natural language, personalized digital assistants, question-answer query systems, and/or other natural language processing applications.
US09898455B2	Natural language understanding cache Disclosed methods and systems are directed to natural language understanding cache usage. The methods and systems may include receiving a first natural language input comprising a set of one or more terms, and parsing the first natural language input to determine a first pretag result comprising a first string comprising at least one term from the set of one or more terms. The methods and systems may also determine that if the first pretag result corresponds to a key stored in a cache, then retrieve one or more cached NLU results corresponding to the at least one key. The methods and systems may also determine that if the first pretag result does not correspond to a key stored in the cache, then determine, based on the set of one or more terms, a first NLU result corresponding to the first natural language input.
US09898454B2	Using text messages to interact with spreadsheets Text messages are used to interact with objects in a spreadsheet. For example, text messages may be used to enter/receive data in the spreadsheet. One or more text messages may be associated with a spreadsheet. Text messages may be associated with cells, tables, charts and other objects of the spreadsheet. When the spreadsheet receives a text message, the text message is parsed and information that is contained within the text message is used to interact with one or more objects within the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet may also generate and send text messages that provide information about the spreadsheet and/or request information to be entered within the spreadsheet. For example, the spreadsheet may send out an update of one or more values/objects within a spreadsheet and/or send a request within a text message requesting information to update a table.
US09898450B2	System and method for repagination of display content A method and system for repaginating content displayed on a display screen of a computing device when upon receiving indication of an object superposed on the content. The content comprises display of one page in a series of digitally constructed pages. The repaginated content is re-flowed or line-wrapped around an identified keep out boundary to counteract any obscuration of displayed content. The repagination forces reconstruction of a next one of the series of pages for display.
US09898447B2	Domain specific representation of document text for accelerated natural language processing Provided are techniques for a domain specific representation of document text for accelerated natural language processing. A document is selected from a set of documents to be analyzed. A character stream from the document is converted into a token stream based on tokenization rules. Irrelevant tokens are removed from the token stream. The tokens remaining in the token stream are converted into an integer domain representation based on a domain specific ontology dictionary. The integer domain representation are stored to a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing queue of each of one or more GPUs. Then, a result set is received from the one or more GPUs.
US09898446B2	Processing a webpage by predicting the usage of document resources Browser systems and methods of loading/rendering a webpage include preprocessing the web document (HTML page) using speculation/prediction techniques to identify the resources that are likely to be required from an incomplete set of information, and requesting/pre-fetching the resources that are determined to have a high probability of being required for proper rending of the web document. The speculation/prediction techniques may include the use of heuristics to improve the efficiency and speed of document loads and network communications.
US09898441B2	Matrix processing apparatus Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a system for transforming sparse elements into a dense matrix. The system includes a data fetch unit that includes a plurality of processors, the data fetch unit configured to determine, based on identifications of the subset of the particular sparse elements, a processor designation for fetching the subset of the particular sparse elements. The system includes a concatenation unit configured to generate an output dense matrix based on a transformation that is applied to the sparse elements fetched by the data fetch unit.
US09898437B2	Host for use with dual interface card with backward and forward compatibility A host device includes a slot configured to receive a first type of memory card having an indentation and a mechanical structure. The mechanical structure includes a pivot structure and a lever arm. The lever arm is configured to pivot on the pivot structure and a portion of the lever arm is configured to at least partially fit into the indentation to distinguish the first type of memory card from a second type of memory card.
US09898430B2	Tracking virtual machine memory modified by a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) device Techniques for tracking, by a host system, virtual machine (VM) memory modified by a physical input/output (I/O) device that supports I/O virtualization are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can receive a hardware interrupt from the physical I/O device, where the hardware interrupt indicates that a virtual function (VF) of the physical I/O device has completed a direct memory access (DMA) write to a guest memory space of a VM running on the host system. In response to the hardware interrupt, the hypervisor can invoke a function implemented by a physical function (PF) driver of the physical I/O device, where the function is configured to inspect the VF's state in order to identify memory portions modified by the DMA write. The hypervisor can then mark, in a hypervisor-level page table, one or more memory pages corresponding to the identified memory portions as dirty pages.
US09898429B2	Method and devices for controlling operations of a central processing unit Control circuitry controls the operations of a central processing unit, CPU, which is associated with a nominal clock frequency. The CPU is further coupled to an I/O range and configured to deliver input to an application. The control circuitry controls the CPU to poll the I/O range for input to the application. The control circuitry also monitors whether or not each poll results in input to the application and adjusts a clock frequency at which the CPU operates to a clock frequency lower than the nominal clock frequency if a pre-defined number of polls resulting in no input is detected. Methods and a central computer server of an automated exchange system are also provided.
US09898420B2	Electronic device, operating system and access control method for protection of a register through an application programming interface An electronic device includes a memory protection unit configured to protect an access to a register of a device arranged in an address space. An operating system sets an access right to the register by using the memory protection unit. A process requests the operating system to operate the device when the process operates the device, and the operating system makes an access to the corresponding register in accordance with the request for the operation to operate the device.
US09898419B2	Enhancing data caching performance For a cache in which a plurality of frequently accessed data segments are temporarily stored, reference count information of the plurality of data segments, in conjunction with least recently used (LRU) information, is used to determine a length of time to retain the plurality of data segments in the cache according to a predetermined weight, where notwithstanding the LRU information, those of the plurality of data segments having a higher reference counts are retained longer than those having lower reference counts.
US09898410B2	Hybrid main memory using a fine-grain level of remapping Accessing a hybrid memory using a translation line is disclosed. The hybrid memory comprises a first portion. The translation line maps a first physical memory address to a first line in the first portion. Said mapping provides an indication that the first line is not immediately accessible in the first portion.
US09898405B2	Working set adjustment in a managed environment An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for working set adjustment receives a request to use less heap memory than an original maximum forming a new maximum, and determines whether a garbage collection will move objects in response to the request. Responsive to a determination the garbage collection will move objects, add a first callback triggered by initiation of the garbage collection and invoking a handler for the first callback notifying a memory manager to free objects allocated by balloon. The first callback completes and the garbage collection starts. A handler for a second callback is invoked which notifies the memory manager to allocate balloon objects and frees backing memory to an operating system. Completion of the second call back allows the garbage collection to proceed as usual.
US09898403B2	Voltage control circuit for providing two voltages generated based on a parameter corresponding to an input signal Disclosed is a nonvolatile storage system including: a memory block having a plurality of flash memories; a flash memory power supply circuit outside of the memory block; and a flash memory controller. The flash memory power supply circuit has a plurality of types of power supply circuits for process execution, the power supply circuits for process execution generating and supplying power at a plurality of voltage levels needed to execute processes in the flash memories. The flash memory controller monitors changes of the internal states of the flash memories by communicating with the flash memories, thereby controlling the power supply circuits for process execution and the flash memories.
US09898393B2	System for distributed software quality improvement Provided is a system for building and validating an application (including e.g., various software versions and revisions, programming languages, code segments, among other examples) without any scripting required by a system user. In one embodiment, an SDLC system is configured to construct a build and test environment, by automatically analyzing a submitted project. The build environment is configured to assemble existing user code, for example, to generate an application to test. Code building can include any one or more of code compilation, assembly, and code interpretation. The system can include a user interface provided to clients, users, and/or customer environments to facilitate user interaction and control of build and test validation. The system can accept user specification of configurations that controls the way the system runs the user's tests. The system can also provide flexible billing models for different customers.
US09898385B1	Systems, methods, and devices for vertically integrated instrumentation and trace reconstruction In an embodiment, a system is configured to replay and/or reconstruct execution events and system states in real time or substantially in real time starting from the point when execution of a target program has stopped to the point when the user desires to step through the target program's execution in order to debug the software. In an embodiment, a system is configured to efficiently collect trace data that is sufficient to reconstruct the state of a computer system at any point of time from the start of execution to the time execution was stopped. Efficient and effective debugging of the software can be performed using embodiments of the disclosed methods, systems, and devices.
US09898384B2	Automated problem determination for cooperating web services using debugging technology In an approach to problem determination for cooperating web services, a computing device executes a debug script. The computing device discovers one or more web services based on a web service discovery mechanism. The computing device connects, by the debug daemon, with a debug probe to set a breakpoint on a web service. The computing device receives a file containing connection parameters. The computing device initiates a debug session with the web service using a designated connection channel. The computing device invokes a breakpoint handler function for the web service. The computing device sends commands to the debug probe, which forwards the debug commands to the web service. The computing device closes the debug session with the web service when the breakpoint handler function has run to completion.
US09898382B2	Hyperlink-induced topic search algorithm lock analysis A system is described for identifying key lock contention issues in computing devices. A computing device is executed and lock contention information relating to operations during execution of the computing device is recorded. The data is parsed and analyzed to determine blocking relationships between operations due to lock contention. Algorithms are implemented to analyze dependencies between operations based on the data and to identify key areas of optimization for performance improvement. Algorithms can be based on the Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search algorithm or the PageRank algorithm.
US09898378B2	Smart selection of a storage module to be excluded Provided are a computer program product, computer system, and method for smart selection of a storage module to be excluded when a connection between two storage modules is broken. An indication is received from a first storage module that a connection between the first storage module and a second storage module is broken. In response to determining that the second storage module is accessible, values of exclusion criteria for the first storage module are determined and summed to identify a first exclusion total. Then, values of exclusion criteria for the second storage module are determined and summed to identify a second exclusion total. In response to determining that the first exclusion total exceeds the second exclusion total, the second storage node is excluded from the cluster. In response to determining that the second exclusion total exceeds the first exclusion total, the first storage node is excluded from the cluster.
US09898376B2	Recovery of a transaction after XA end Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for recovery of a two-phase commit transaction. A computer receives an end command prior to completing execution of a prepare command for a transaction identifier. The computer determines if a failure and restart occurred within a distributed data processing environment after a resource manager receives an end command. The computer responds to a determination that the failure and restart did occur within the distributed data processing environment by retrieving the first transaction identifier from a data store. The computer transmits a rollback command for the retrieved first transaction identifier to the resource manager.
US09898372B2	Backing up a computer application A method and associated systems for backing up a target computer application that comprises identifying and backing up databases and other information repositories upon which the target application depends. The target application is identified and related to a backup requirement that specifies a minimum application-backup frequency. The application's “dependencies” are automatically identified from sources that include configuration files, where each dependency identifies one or more databases or other information repositories that store information upon which the application directly or indirectly depends. If any of these databases or repositories is associated with a backup frequency less than the application's minimum backup frequency, the database or repository is flagged. Each flagged entity's backup schedule is then revised so that the flagged entity's backup frequency is equal to or greater than the application's minimum backup frequency.
US09898365B2	Global error correction A method that includes evaluating, with a controller, local error detection (LED) information in response to a first memory access operation is disclosed. The LED information is evaluated per cache line segment of data associated with a rank of a memory. The method further includes determining an error in at least one of the cache line segments based on an error detection code and determining whether global error correction (GEC) data for a first cache line associated with the at least one cache line segment is stored in a GEC cache in the controller. The method also includes correcting the first cache line associated with the at least one cache line segment based on the GEC data retrieved from the GEC cache in the controller without accessing GEC data from a memory.
US09898360B1	Preventing unnecessary data recovery A method that prevents unnecessary data recovery includes receiving, at a data processing device, a status of a resource of a distributed system. When the status of the resource indicates a resource failure, the method includes executing instructions on the data processing device to determine whether the resource failure is correlated to any other resource failures within the distributed system. When the resource failure is correlated to other resource failures within the distributed system, the method includes delaying execution on the data processing device of a remedial action associated with the resource. However, when the resource failure is uncorrelated to other resource failures within the distributed system, the method includes initiating execution on the data processing device of the remedial action associated with the resource.
US09898353B2	Type agnostic data engine Systems and methods for processing and/or presenting data are disclosed. In an aspect, one method can comprise receiving a request for information and detecting a type of data representing the information requested. The data can be processed via a type-dependent agent and the processed data can be provided via an agnostic data engine.
US09898345B2	Resource substitution and reallocation in a virtual computing environment A host system reallocates resources in a virtual computing environment by first receiving a request to reallocate a first quantity of a first resource type. Next, potential trade-off groups are evaluated and a trade-off group is selected based on the evaluation. The selected trade-off group includes a set of applications running in the virtual computing environment that can use one or more alternate resource types as a substitute for the first quantity of the first resource type. After the selection, the host system reallocates the first quantity of the first resource type from the trade-off group. This reallocation may be made from the trade-off group to either a first application running in the virtual computing environment or the host system itself. If the reallocation is to the host system, then the total quantity of the first resource type allocated to applications running in the virtual computing environment is thereby reduced.
US09898337B2	Dynamic workload deployment for data integration services An approach for deploying workload in a multi-tenancy computing environment is provided. The approach generates, by one or more computer processors, a tenant ID and a plan ID for a tenant based, at least in part, on a tenant registration request. The approach stores, by one or more computer processors, the tenant ID and the plan ID into a shared system record. The approach receives, by one or more computer processors, a request to update a first tenant service plan. The approach determines, by one or more computer processors, one or more resource pools supporting a second tenant service plan based at least in part, on an association between the tenant ID and the plan ID. The approach deploys, by one or more computer processors, one or more resources from the one or more resource pools supporting the second tenant service plan.
US09898333B2	Method and apparatus for selecting preemption technique Provided is a method and apparatus of selecting a preemption technique for a computation unit included in a processor to execute a second task before the at least one computation unit finishes executing a first task. The method includes receiving a preemption request, predicting a cost of preemption techniques based on a progress of the first task until receipt of the preemption request, and selecting one of the preemption techniques based on the predicted cost.
US09898329B1	Flexible processor association for virtual machines The present disclosure relates to flexible processor association for virtual machine instances. One example method includes initializing a virtual machine instance on a particular computing device, the particular computing device including a plurality of physical processors, determining a maximum number of the physical processors available to be associated with the virtual machine instance; initializing a number of virtual processors for use by the virtual machine instance, the same as the maximum number of the physical processors; associating the virtual machine instance with a number of the physical processors less than the maximum number of the physical processors; during execution of the virtual machine instance: identifying a change in a demand metric associated with the virtual machine instance; and adjusting the number of the physical processors associated with the virtual machine instance based on the identified change in the demand metric while maintaining the number of virtual processors.
US09898308B2	Computing apparatus and method for initiating automatic booting process when cover is opened Disclosed is a method for controlling a computing apparatus including a cover having a display on one surface facing into a keyboard when the cover is in a closed state. The method comprises, in response to receiving a command to turn on an automatic booting mode of the computing apparatus, storing a configuration value corresponding to an ON state of the automatic booting mode in a memory; when the cover is in the closed state, detecting an opening of the cover via a sensor of the computing apparatus; and, in response to detecting the opening of the cover when a system status of the computing apparatus is an S5 state defined by the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard, performing, via a controller of the computing apparatus, an operation of entering from the S5 state to an S0 state defined by the APCI standard based on the configuration value stored in the memory.
US09898306B2	Computing performance and power management with firmware performance data structure In some embodiments, a PPM interface for a computing platform may be provided with functionality to facilitate, to an OS through the PPM interface, firmware performance data.
US09898298B2	Context save and restore Processor context save latency is reduced by only restoring context registers with saved state that differs from the reset value of registers. A system agent monitors access to the design blocks and sets a dirty bit to indicate which design block has registers that have changed since the last context save. During a context save operation, the system agent bypasses design blocks that have not had context changes since the latest context save operation. During a context restore operation the system agent does not restore the context registers with saved context values that are equal to the reset value of the context register.
US09898297B2	Issuing instructions to multiple execution units A single chip sequential processor comprising at least one ALU-Block, where said sequential processor is capable of maintaining its op-codes while processing data such as to overcome the necessity of requiring a new instruction in every clock cycle.
US09898294B2	Selectively blocking branch prediction for a predetermined number of instructions Embodiments relate to selectively blocking branch instruction predictions. An aspect includes computer implemented method for performing selective branch prediction. The method includes detecting, by a processor, a branch-prediction blocking instruction in a stream of instructions and blocking, by the processor, branch prediction of a predetermined number of branch instructions following the branch-prediction blocking instruction based on the detecting the branch-prediction blocking instruction.
US09898288B2	Methods and systems for managing an instruction sequence with a divergent control flow in a SIMT architecture A computer-implemented method of executing an instruction sequence with a recursive function call of a plurality of threads within a thread group in a Single-Instruction-Multiple-Threads (SIMT) system is provided. Each thread is provided with a function call counter (FCC), an active mask, an execution mask and a per-thread program counter (PTPC). The instruction sequence with the recursive function call is executed by the threads in the thread group according to a program counter (PC) indicating a target. Upon executing the recursive function call, for each thread, the active mask is set according to the PTPC and the target indicated by the PC, the FCC is determined when entering or returning from the recursive function call, the execution mask is determined according to the FCC and the active mask. It is determined whether an execution result of the recursive function call takes effects according to the execution mask.
US09898278B2	Release and management of composite applications on PaaS A solution descriptor comprises a set of component workload units, a workload unit describing a deployable application component with application binary, configuration parameters and dependency declarations. An environment descriptor specifies a set of target platforms and plugins in an execution environment. A deployer interprets the solution descriptor and the environment descriptor, and generates a list of tuples comprising compatible workload-plugin-platform combinations. The deployer determines an execution order for the list of tuples, and invokes the plugins in the list of tuples in the execution order, wherein each of the plugins executes a corresponding compatible workload on a corresponding compatible target platform specified in the list of tuples.
US09898277B2	Replacing an accelerator firmware image without operating system reboot The present disclosure relates to updating a firmware image on a coherent hardware accelerator concurrently with executing operations on the coherent hardware accelerator. According to one embodiment, while executing accelerator-enabled operations on the coherent hardware accelerator, a system stores a firmware update package in a local memory on the coherent hardware accelerator. Once the firmware update package is stored in local memory on the coherent hardware accelerator, the system restarting the coherent hardware accelerator by pausing the execution of at least a first operation initiated on the coherent hardware accelerator and applying the firmware update package to the firmware image on the coherent hardware accelerator. Once the firmware update package is applied to the coherent hardware accelerator, the system resumes the operation on the coherent hardware accelerator.
US09898263B2	System and method for resource-definition-oriented software generation and development A system and method for productively developing web services and associated client software to access web services across entire development lifecycle is disclosed. In various aspects, collections of resource definitions stored and managed in a repository and configured and published as network addressable/accessible resources, serve as a platform with application programming interfaces and/or user-interfaces to enable software professionals to continuously define, design, construct, test, publish and access web services.
US09898262B2	User interface event orchestration Methods, systems and computer program products for user interface event orchestration are provided. A computer-implemented method may include defining a business domain object, associating the business domain object with a user interface component type, defining a rule for an event of the user interface component type, generating an event handling routine providing the defined rule in a programming language, and associating the generated event handling routine with a user interface component of an application interface.
US09898257B2	Automatic probe construction system and method thereof An automatic probe construction system and the method thereof are provided. The automatic probe construction system includes a data dereference analysis module, a probe selection module, and a probe verification module. The data dereference analysis module dereferences a plurality of target data of an electronic apparatus according to a plurality of pointers, and constructs a plurality of candidate probes. The probe selection module constructs a control flow graph according to the candidate probes and an instruction code of an executable image file, to select via the control flow graph from the candidate probes at least one dedicated probe. The probe verification module searches the executable image file for an instruction code corresponding to the dedicated probe, to verify the dedicated probe. Therefore, the dedicated probe can be constructed automatically, and the number of the dedicated probes is thus limited.
US09898248B2	Method and device for playing modified audio signals A method and a device are provided for modifying audio signals in accordance with hearing capabilities of an individual who is listening to audio signals played by a music player. The method comprises the steps of: providing a music player operative to play audio signals, wherein the music player comprises a processor configured to modify audio signals that are about to be played, by taking into account the hearing capabilities of the individual; providing information that relates to the hearing capabilities of the individual; forwarding the information that relates to the hearing capabilities of the individual, from an electronic device to the music player; and using the music player processor to modify audio signals when the individual is listening to audio signals being played by the music player, wherein the audio signals are modified before they are played by taking into account the individual's hearing capabilities.
US09898242B2	Ultrasound image display set-up for remote display terminal An ultrasound system enables simplified setup of a remote terminal for display of ultrasound images acquired by the ultrasound system. An image acquired by the ultrasound system is processed by or with display parameters for different viewing conditions or devices, such as display gamma correction, ambient lighting, or image quality. A plurality of versions of an image with slightly different display appearances are exported to the remote terminal, where a viewer can view all of the image versions simultaneously. The viewer selects the best image, and the display characteristics of the selected image are used for images subsequently exported from the ultrasound system to the remote terminal.
US09898227B2	Synchronous input/output virtualization Technical solutions are described for executing a plurality of computer-executable synchronous input/output (I/O) commands received by a storage control unit in a multiple virtual storage system. An example method includes receiving a set of synchronous I/O commands, each of the commands received from a respective operating system from a plurality of operating systems. The method further includes selecting, from the set of synchronous I/O operations, a subset of synchronous I/O commands, and allocating a shared resource to the subset of synchronous I/O commands. The method further includes executing each synchronous I/O command from the selected subset of synchronous I/O commands concurrently.
US09898224B1	Automatic adjustment of capacity usage by data storage optimizer for data migration When migrating data, a first message is received at a target data storage system from a source data storage system. The target data storage system includes a data storage optimizer that performs automated data movement optimizations. The first message requests a reservation of a first amount of storage on a first storage tier for performing a data migration to migrate data from the source to the target data storage system. A first capacity limit of the first storage tier is reduced by the first amount thereby representing the reservation of the first amount of storage for performing the data migration. If the first storage tier does not include an amount of available storage of at least the first amount, processing is performed to increase the amount of available storage of the first storage tier.
US09898219B1	Allocating a device to a container In one aspect, a method includes associating disk devices with containers based on a policy, allocating a disk device to a container based on the policy and allowing access to the disk device from the container. In another aspect, an apparatus includes electronic hardware circuitry configured to associate disk devices with containers based on a policy, allocate a disk device to a container based on the policy and allow access to the disk device from the container. In a further aspect, an article includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores computer-executable instructions. The instructions cause a machine to associate disk devices with containers based on a policy, allocate a disk device to a container based on the policy and allow access to the disk device from the container.
US09898218B2	Memory system with switchable operating bands An aspect includes determining a configuration change to at least one memory device of a memory system. A band switch enable command is sent from a memory controller to the at least one memory device indicating the configuration change. One or more internal circuits of the at least one memory device are set into a quiescent mode based on receiving the band enable command. One or more of a voltage and a frequency of the at least one memory device are adjusted to implement the configuration change. A band switch disable command is sent from the memory controller to the at least one memory device based on completing the adjusting. The one or more internal circuits are enabled to operate using the adjustment based on receiving the band switch disable command from the memory controller.
US09898212B1	Method and apparatus for selecting a memory block for writing data, based on a predicted frequency of updating the data Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for programming a flash memory having a plurality of memory blocks, wherein each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks is either a single-level cell (SLC) memory block or a multi-level cell (MLC) memory block, the method comprising assigning a weighting factor to each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks based on whether the memory block is an SLC memory block or an MLC memory block, tracking a number of write-erase cycles for each memory block, and selecting one or more memory blocks for writing data based at least in part on the weighting factor and the tracked number of write-erase cycles of each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09898202B2	Enhanced multi-streaming though statistical analysis A system and method for using a Solid State Drive (SSD) (505) are described. Reception circuitry (510) may receive write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) and invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640) from a first stream (305, 320, 335, 350). The write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) may request that data be written to storage (520) on the SSD (505); invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640) may invalidate data written to the storage (520). A statistics calculation logic (1705) may calculate statistics (1410, 1415, 1510) for the stream based on the write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) and the invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640). A performance logic (1710) may use the calculated statistics (1410, 1415, 1510) to improve the performance of the SSD (505).
US09898201B2	Non-volatile memory device, and storage apparatus to reduce a read retry occurrence frequency and prevent read performance from lowering A non-volatile memory device includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller which executes read from the non-volatile memory using a read option. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory area units (e.g. dies described below), and each memory area unit includes a plurality of memory areas (e.g. pages). The memory controller holds management information in which a read option is recorded per memory area unit which is a unit larger than a memory area which is a read unit. The memory controller specifies a memory area unit including a read source memory area, selects a read option matching the specified memory area unit, and executes read from the read source memory area using the selected read option.
US09898200B2	Memory device having a translation layer with multiple associative sectors A method for providing a memory translation layer includes: receiving write request streams from a host computer; selectively storing each write request stream into a sequential zone, a K-associative zone, and a random zone of log blocks of a nonvolatile memory based on the characteristics. A first group of the write request streams that are sequential and start from a header page of a log block are stored in the sequential zone. A second group of the write request streams that are sequential but do not start from a header page of a log block are stored in the K-associative zone. A third group of the write request streams that are random are stored in the random zone.
US09898194B2	Semiconductor device with volatile and non-volatile memories to retain data during power interruption An object is to solve all of the following problems caused when a volatile register and a non-volatile register are used as registers in a processor: degradation of the integrity of data stored in the non-volatile register; loss of data security due to the processor and a non-volatile memory device that are provided apart from each other; and slow data processing speed due to wiring delay or the like caused by these devices provided apart from each other. When data maintained in the volatile register is stored in the non-volatile register before supply of power supply voltage is stopped, the data is encrypted by an encryption circuit and stored in a non-volatile memory device that is provided separately from the processor. Then, the data stored in the non-volatile register is compared with the compressed and encrypted data stored in the non-volatile memory device.
US09898182B2	Gesture control for monitoring vital body signs The present invention reuses an accelerometer, or, more precise, sensed accelerations of a body sensor for user control of the body sensor. This is achieved by detecting predefined patterns in the acceleration signals that are unrelated to other movements of the patient. These include tapping on/with the sensor, shaking, and turning the sensor. New procedures are described that make it possible to re-use the acceleration sensing for reliable gesture detection without introducing many false positives due to non-gesture movements like respiration, heart beat, walking, etc.
US09898180B2	Flexible touch-based scrolling A computer-implemented method includes receiving user input comprising a gesture on a touchscreen, the gesture having a gesture velocity. The gesture velocity is compared with an inertia movement threshold. Based on the comparing, the gesture is determined to be an inertia gesture. When the gesture velocity is greater than or equal to the inertia movement threshold, simulated inertia is applied to visual information displayed on the touchscreen.
US09898179B2	Method and apparatus for scrolling a screen in a display apparatus A method of scrolling a screen in a display apparatus includes initiating a screen-scroll according to a speed of a currently generated flick input when the flick input is generated, comparing a tilt of an axis of a corresponding apparatus with an initial location at a time of generation of the flick input to determine whether a change amount of a change is within a reference value, maintaining a current screen-scroll speed if the change amount deviates from the reference value, and stopping a screen-scroll operation when a scroll stop condition is met.
US09898177B2	Display processing method and portable mobile terminal A display processing method that is applied in a portable mobile terminal, to display multiple objects on a touch screen of the portable mobile terminal. The method includes obtaining a touch point that is a point created when an operating object contacts/almost touches the touch screen; determining a preset area with the touch point being the center; determining a first object and a second object, among multiple objects, each intersecting with the preset area on at least one point; determining a first information of the movement of the first object, the first information indicating moving the first object from a first position to a second position, the first position being the original position of the first object displayed on the touch screen; and moving the first object from the first position to the second position according to the first information.
US09898175B2	Home network manager for home automation A method and/or system of managing a plurality of elements of a premise having a plurality of areas via an electronic management interface. The method and/or system includes grouping via the electronic management interface a number of said elements consuming one or more commodity within said areas, and displaying via the electronic management interface a list of said areas. The method and/or system also includes selecting via the electronic management interface one or more of said areas from said displayed list, monitoring via the electronic management interface commodity data indicative of commodity consumed by said number of elements within said selected one or more areas, displaying via the electronic management interface a plurality of visualization modes of said monitored data, and displaying via the electronic management interface said monitored data based on one or more of said visualization modes.
US09898164B2	Method for moving object between pages and interface apparatus A method and apparatus for moving an object between pages is provided. The method includes displaying a first page including an object; generating a first signal in response to the object on the first page being moved to a predetermined area of the first page; displaying a plurality of pages, including the first page, in response to the first signal; generating a second signal in response to the object being moved to overlap with a second page; and moving the object to the second page in response to the second signal.
US09898160B2	Customized design for an article of footwear A method of making an article of footwear is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a customer with a pre-selected set of graphics, allowing a customer to choose a set of input graphics, and generating a set of morphed graphics based on a set of input graphics. The user can select a morphed graphic and apply it to an article. The user may select the characteristics of the morphed graphic with a slider. The method may further include the step of limiting the number of times a customized graphic may be selected and applied to an article. The customized graphic could be shared with other users.
US09898152B2	Capacitive touch panel with low impedance that includes disconnected electrode strings A capacitive touch panel and a display device using the capacitive touch panel are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between two layers. The first electrode layer has a plurality of first A electrode strings and first B electrode strings extended along a first direction. The first A electrode string and the first B electrode string respectively has a plurality of first direction electrodes. The second electrode layer has a plurality of second direction electrodes connected in series along a second direction. The first A and B electrode strings are disconnected in the first electrode layer while they are simultaneously detected for presence of signal variation.
US09898151B2	Capacitive touch screen sensor and corresponding method of fabrication A capacitive touch screen sensor 104 is disclosed. The sensor 104 comprises an array of drive electrodes 100, an array of sense electrodes 102 separated from the array of drive electrodes by a dielectric layer 200, each sense electrode 102 being offset from each drive electrode 100 to define respective overlapping regions 112 and first non-overlapping regions 113, and a plurality of non-electrically connected electrodes 402, each non-electrically connected electrode 402 being arranged to correspond to each first non-overlapping region 113 and spaced from adjacent drive 100 or sense electrodes 102 by a perimeter gap 404. The perimeter gap 404 may have a width of about 100 um or less. A related touch panel and method of fabricating the same are also disclosed.
US09898147B2	Mesh electrode matrix having finite repeat length An array of electrodes is comprised of a plurality of electrodes. Each electrode extends along a first direction X, and is periodically arrayed along a second direction Y perpendicular to X at a pitch pe. Each electrode further comprises a continuous periodic metal mesh having a square unit cell of edge length pm, the square unit cell having axes displaced by an oblique angle θ from X and Y The array is configured such that θ=arctan (a/b) and pm=npe/(msqrt(a2+b2)), where a, b, m, and n are positive integers. In this way, the electrodes repeat with a finite repeat length, while rendering the common edges of the repeating units visually imperceptible by a user.
US09898137B2	Object positioning method for a touch panel An object positioning method for touch panel is disclosed. In the method, an amount of sensing of a sensing signal can be detected and a sensing coordinate of an object can be obtained based on the detection. A positioning coordinate of the object can be locked in a point-locked mode when the amount of sensing of the sensing signal decreases continuously to be larger than a first threshold time and the amount of sensing of the sensing signal is smaller than a first sensing threshold value. Otherwise, the point-locked mode of the positioning coordinate of the object can be unlocked when the amount of sensing of the sensing signal is larger than a first sensing threshold value.
US09898133B2	Touchscreen Malfunction of a large-sized touchscreen is prevented. In particular, malfunction of a large-sized touchscreen is prevented by reduction of wiring delay between a detection region and a controller. In a touchscreen, in which a detection area is divided, including a plurality of detection regions and a plurality of sensors, controllers are provided for the respective divided detection regions, and all the controllers are electrically connected to one central control device. It is preferable that a wiring between each of the divided detection regions and the corresponding controller be shorter than a wiring between the controller and the central control device.
US09898132B2	Electrode sheet and touch input device In one embodiment, a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface includes a display panel and an electrode disposed under the display panel. An electrical characteristic detected at the electrode is changed by the bending of the display panel. A magnitude of the pressure applied to the touch surface is detected according to the change amount of the electrical characteristic. The display panel includes a first area and a second area. A pressure detection sensitivity of the first area is higher than a pressure detection sensitivity of the second area. When the first area and the second are bent to the same degree, a change amount of the electrical characteristic detected when a pressure is applied to the second area is greater than a change amount of the electrical characteristic detected when a pressure is applied to the second area.
US09898131B2	Display apparatus and control method of display apparatus A display apparatus including a flexible display device includes a touch detection unit that detects a touch operation to the display device, a bending detection unit that detects a bending state of the display device, and a control unit that controls an operation according to a touch operation depending on the detected bending state, where the control unit differentiates the operation according to the touch operation between a case where a portion of the display device, which is less than a predetermined bending amount, is a greater than a predetermined threshold area and a case where the portion that is less than the predetermined bending amount is less than the predetermined area.
US09898128B2	Sensor signal processing circuit and sensor signal processing method A sensor signal processing circuit is connected to a sensor including first and second conductors arranged in different directions. The sensor signal processing circuit includes: a signal supply circuit configured to supply a first signal to the first conductor; a first signal detecting circuit connected to the second conductor; and a control circuit configured to perform control of detecting a proximity of an indicator to the sensor based on a change in a capacitance between the second conductor and a ground, and detecting a position indicated by the indicator based on a change in a capacitance at an intersection point of the first and second conductors by controlling the signal supply circuit and the first signal detecting circuit based on a comparison between a predetermined value and a detection result based on the change in the capacitance between the second conductor and the ground.
US09898121B2	Integrated capacitive sensing and displaying A display device having an integrated capacitive proximity sensor comprises a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed as part of a display element of the display device. The plurality of sensor electrodes is configured for performing both sensor and display functions of the display device. The display device also comprises a sensor drive mechanism coupled with the plurality of sensor electrodes and configured for driving a first electrical signal on a first at least one sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor drive mechanism comprises at least one memory element that is configured for selecting drive excitation information for the first at least one sensor electrode. The display device also comprises a display drive mechanism coupled with the plurality of sensor electrodes and configured for driving a second electrical signal on a second least one sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes.
US09898120B2	Watch type mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal Disclosed is a watch type mobile terminal wearable on a wrist. The watch type mobile terminal includes a main body, a band unit, a sensing unit and a controller. The main body has a display unit. The band unit is connected to the main body so that the mobile terminal is worn on the wrist, and surrounds the wrist. The sensing unit senses at least one tap applied to at least one of the main body and the band unit. The controller configured performs a function corresponding to a pattern to which the tap is applied.
US09898118B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a position detecting substrate includes a first base material, a sensing electrode formed of metal on the first base material and configured to detect a position, an adhesive layer facing the first base material and the sensing electrode and including a resin, and a second base material adhered to the sensing electrode by the adhesive layer, wherein assuming the force required to peel the sensing electrode from the first base material to be A, the force required to peel the adhesive layer from the first base material to be B and the force required to peel the second base material from the adhesive layer to be C, then A>B, or A>C.
US09898107B1	Tactile input contol data modifying system, device, and method A tactile control device and method for generating a modifier through the use of fuzzy logic for modifying control data responsive to a user's tactile input with the device are disclosed. The system may include one or more measurements corresponding to one or more interfering factors, a source of control data representative of a command generated in response to the user's tactile interaction, and a processing unit (PU). The PU may be configured to receive input data representative of at least one measurement corresponding to a measurement(s) of an interfering factor, determine a plurality of values based upon the measurement(s) and a plurality of first functions, determine a control data modifier based upon the plurality of values, and generate data representative of the modifier, where the modifier may be applied to the control data or data correspond to the control data.
US09898105B2	Position indicator A position indicator includes a first electrode receiving an alternating current (AC) signal from a position detecting sensor and a second electrode transmitting an AC signal to the position detecting sensor. The position indicator includes: a tubular pen-shaped chassis; a central electrode provided such that one end protrudes outside of the chassis from an opening of the chassis, and formed of an electrically-conductive member forming a first one of the first and second electrodes; a peripheral electrode surrounding the central electrode and formed of an electrically-conductive member forming a second one of the first and second electrodes; and a shield member having a hollow part housing at least a part of the central electrode surrounded by the peripheral electrode. The shield member includes a tubular part electrically connected to ground and an insulating layer formed on an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface of the tubular part.
US09898102B2	Broadcast packet based stylus pairing Examples are disclosed herein that relate to pairing styluses to an interactive display. One example provides a stylus comprising a processor and memory holding instructions executable by the processor. The instructions are executable by the processor to, before sending a pairing request to a display, receive a broadcast packet indicating an occupancy of a set of stylus communication slots of the display, determine that at least one stylus communication slot is available based on the broadcast packet, and responsive to determining that the at least one stylus communication slot is available, selectively send the pairing request to occupy a stylus communication slot based on a pairing request history.
US09898098B2	Magnetic battery charging system for stylus Embodiments are disclosed for a stylus comprising an energy storage device for powering active functionality of the stylus, and a charging circuit electrically coupled to the energy storage device and configured to provide charging current for recharging the energy storage device. The stylus further comprises a magnetically-attractable element comprising ferromagnetic material disposed in a ring formation on an outer surface of the stylus, the magnetically-attractable element being electrically coupled to the charging circuit to form a terminal of the charging circuit, and the magnetically-attractable element being configured to be received on a dock via magnetic attraction to a permanent magnet of the dock to bring the stylus into a docked position in which the magnetically-attractable element contacts a charging contact of the dock to thereby cause the charging circuit to receive charging current from the dock.
US09898095B2	Low-profile capacitive pointing stick In an example, an isometric input device configured to control a user interface indicator of an electronic device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed on a sensor substrate. The input device further includes a control member mechanically coupled to the sensor substrate over at least a portion of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The input device further includes a conductive support substrate and a compliant member disposed between the sensor substrate and the conductive support substrate. The input device further includes a securing component extending through the conductive support substrate and the compliant member and engaging with the control member, the securing component defining a gap between the sensor substrate and the conductive support substrate.
US09898093B2	Gesture control Gesture control uses electromagnetic power signatures. A signal is received and a power of the signal is determined. The power is associated to a command, and the command is executed in response to a gesture.
US09898091B2	Virtual reality system with head-mounted display, camera and hand-held controllers A virtual-reality system includes a head-mounted display (HMD), a forward-looking camera coupled to the HMD and a hand-held controller communicatively coupleable to the HMD. The hand-held controller includes a first user-input key, a grip, and an outward-facing surface coupled to the grip. The outward-facing surface includes a plurality of illumination sources which provide light that is detectable by the camera for sensing a position of the controller based on a user motion.
US09898084B2	Enhanced dynamic haptic effects A system is provided that generates a dynamic haptic effect that includes one or more key frames, where each key frame includes a first interpolant value and a first haptic effect. The system further receives an interpolant value, where the interpolant value is between at least two interpolant values of at least two key frames. The system further determines the dynamic haptic effect from the interpolant value. The system further distributes the dynamic haptic effect among a plurality of actuators.
US09898077B2	Playback system for synchronised soundtracks for electronic media content A method for displaying electronic text and synchronizing the playback of a soundtrack for the electronic text. The soundtrack contains multiple audio regions configured for playback during corresponding text regions of the electronic text. Playback of the audio regions of the soundtrack over an audio output system is based on a reading position counter indicative of the user's estimate reading position, and which increments based on a user reading speed variable. The user reading speed variable is updated by processing eye tracking signals from an eye tracker to determine the user's reading scan rate.
US09898071B2	Processor including multiple dissimilar processor cores In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more processors. Each processor may include multiple processor cores, and each core has a different design/implementation and performance level. For example, a core may be implemented for high performance, but may have higher minimum voltage at which it operates correctly. Another core may be implemented at a lower maximum performance, but may be optimized for efficiency and may operate correctly at a lower minimum voltage. The processor may support multiple processor states (PStates). Each PState may specify an operating point and may be mapped to one of the processor cores. During operation, one of the cores is active: the core to which the current PState is mapped. If a new PState is selected and is mapped to a different core, the processor may automatically context switch the processor state to the newly-selected core and may begin execution on that core.
US09898069B1	Power reduction methods for variable sized tables Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for the use of memory including a data table configured to store a plurality of elements, wherein the plurality of elements are arranged into a plurality of buckets and each of the plurality of buckets comprising a plurality of entries. A first power domain can be associated with an entry of each bucket or with a first bucket. A second power domain can be associated with a second entry of each bucket or a second bucket. Processing logic can be configured to search for a particular value stored in an element of the plurality of elements by selecting buckets of the plurality of buckets and selecting at least one entry of each of the buckets. A programmable register can be used to select a powered state of the second power domain based on a configuration of the programmable register.
US09898067B2	Method and apparatus to configure thermal design power in a microprocessor A technique to change a thermal design power (TDP) value. In one embodiment, one or more environmental or user-driven changes may cause a processor's TDP value to be changed. Furthermore, in some embodiments a change in TDP may alter a turbo mode target frequency.
US09898063B2	Touch input determining method which can determine if the touch input is valid or not valid and electronic apparatus applying the method An electronic apparatus comprising an environment sensing device, a display, a touch sensing device, and a processing module comprising a main controller and a sub-controller is disclosed. The main controller performs a predetermined function based a touch input. The sub-controller computes a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus, and activates the touch sensing device without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, while the main controller is in the sleep mode. The processing module performs following steps when the display is off: determining the touch input is valid or invalid; keeping the display off if the touch input is invalid. The sub-controller wakes and activates the main controller to turn on the display and to control the electronic apparatus to perform the predetermined function according to a gesture formed by the touch input if the touch input is valid.
US09898055B1	Securing mechanism for data storage device A data storage device securing mechanism includes a rack and a securing module. The rack includes a shell and two side plates connected to the ends of the shell. The securing module includes a slidable bracket on the rack and a magnetic latching member. The bracket includes two magnets of opposing poles against two magnetic blocks, and the latching member is rotatably installed on the side plate. When the bracket is slid in the rack, the two magnetic blocks are displaced adjacent to the latching member, to attract or to repel the latching member. The latching member is thereby rotated to approach or to move away from the side plate.
US09898051B2	Hinge device According to the hinge device of the present invention, a hinge part connecting a first body part and a second body part forming a multimedia apparatus for the hinge device is provided, where the hinge part includes a plurally-arranged hinge blocks.
US09898048B2	Interconnectable electronic device with magnetic rail An electronic device includes a plurality of magnetic guide rails proximate its surface. The electronic device may be interconnected to a second electronic device in a configuration in which the second electronic device is located at a pre-defined position relative to the electronic device. The plurality of magnetic guide rails in the electronic device interact with at least one magnetic element on the second electronic device to magnetically guide relative movement of the two electronic devices. As one electronic device is urged along a surface of the other toward the pre-defined position, the electronic devices are positioned in the configuration of the pre-defined position.
US09898045B2	Curved display apparatus A curved display apparatus includes an upper panel, a lower panel coupled to a lower portion of the upper panel, and a first stress reducing layer deposited on a panel facing surface of at least one of the upper panel and the lower panel to generate a force which bends the upper panel or the lower panel downward.
US09898039B2	Modular smart necklace A smart necklace includes a first pod having a proximate connector and a component electrically coupled to the proximate connector that can receive input data or output data. The necklace also includes a second pod having a proximate connector and a component electrically coupled to the proximate connector that can receive input data or output data. The necklace also includes a curved main unit having a first connector removably, pivotably and electrically coupled to the proximate connector of the first pod and a second connector configured to be removably, pivotably and electrically coupled to the proximate connector of the second pod. The main unit also includes a mobile processor for receiving the input data from at least one of the first pod or the second pod, determining output data based on the input data, and outputting the output data via the first pod or the second pod.
US09898029B2	Temperature-compensated reference voltage generator that impresses controlled voltages across resistors An apparatus and method for generating a temperature-compensated reference voltage are disclosed. The apparatus generates substantially equal temperature-compensated currents by controlling (through negative feedback) voltages across separate resistors through which the currents flow, respectively. Two of the temperature-compensated currents are formed by combining (e.g., summing) a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current (ICTAT) and a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current (IPTAT). A reference voltage VREF is produced by configuring the other the temperature-compensated current to flow through an output resistor.
US09898025B2	Balancing power supply and demand A method and apparatus to balance adapter power supply and computing device power demand. In one embodiment, power to/from battery pack(s) maybe controlled by adjusting the output voltage of the power adapter via the current input to the power adapter through a feedback pin to meet power demand of electrical loads. Another embodiment provides a way to adjust the activities of the electrical loads such that neither adapter power rating nor the electrical load power limit is exceeded while avoiding system shutdown.
US09898020B2	Power supply voltage priority based auto de-rating for power concurrency management Particular embodiments include logic that can reduce an voltage output of a regulator to multiple subsystems in response to detecting high power conditions in an electronic device. When the power being monitored goes up, the logic detects the increase in power. Then, the logic can compare the power to a plurality of thresholds. The plurality of thresholds may be set below an absolute limit threshold in which the electronic device may not operate properly if the absolute limit is met. When a first threshold is met, the output voltage of the regulator may be decreased until a minimum voltage level is reached. When a second threshold is met, the output voltage may be increased until a maximum voltage level is reached. The minimum and maximum voltage levels may be based on voltage levels requested from a set of subsystems and also priority levels associated with those subsystems.
US09898019B2	Thyristor assisted on-load tap changer and method thereof A terminal I thereof is respectively connected with transition switches, and a terminal II is respectively connected with transition switches; the other terminals of the transition switches are jointly connected and are connected with the terminal through a saturable reactor and a thyristor switch; the other terminals of the transition switches are jointly connected and are connected with the terminal through a linear reactor, a saturable reactor and an overvoltage triggering thyristor circuit; an odd-numbered side main contact is respectively connected with the terminal I and a common terminal, and an even-numbered side main contact is respectively connected with the terminal II and the common terminal; the terminals of non-common terminals of a main path and a transition path are further connected with a bidirectional voltage stabilizing circuit.
US09898016B2	Variable product agrochemicals application management Methods and products are provided for facilitating application of variable-product agrochemicals, such as fertilizer, to an application area, such as a field. The fertilizer or agrochemical may include a single fertilizer or agrochemical type or a mixture. In one embodiment, a fertilizer-application area is divided into application cells, and a fertilizer product is determined for each cell, based on zones of the application area with a similar characteristic, such as topographic wetness index levels. Based on a determined product for each cell, instructions for controlling an agrochemical applicator are automatically generated.
US09898011B2	Driving assistance system and program for driving according to operations management Provided is a technology that, when an unmanned haulage vehicle and a manned haulage vehicle are allowed to exist together and are subjected to fleet operations management, can provide driving assistance to an operator of the manned vehicle by using control data similar to those to be transmitted to the unmanned haulage vehicle. To this end, the manned vehicle is provided with a terminal-side communication control unit, a control command value conversion unit and a control command value providing unit. The terminal-side communication control unit receives, from a fleet operations management server that performs operations management of the unmanned haulage vehicle, a control command value for allowing the unmanned haulage vehicle to travel autonomously. The control command value conversion unit converts contents of the control command value to perceivable information. The control command value providing unit provides the perceivable information to the operator.
US09898009B2	Autonomous travel vehicle An autonomous travel vehicle includes a platform, a traveler, a storage, an arrival position predictor, a corrected speed calculator, and a reproduction travel command calculator. The traveler controls the platform to travel in accordance with a travel control command. The storage stores travel route data, which stores subgoal points, arrival times, and traveling speeds in association with each other. In the reproduction travel mode, the arrival position predictor predicts a predicted arrival position. In the reproduction travel mode, the corrected speed calculator calculates a corrected traveling speed based on a predicted traveling distance and a required traveling distance. The reproduction travel command calculator calculates a reproduction travel control command based on the corrected traveling speed, as the travel control command.
US09898004B2	Method and system for operating a vehicle when an occupant experiences a potential medical condition There is provided a method and system for operating a vehicle when a vehicle occupant experiences a potential medical condition. The system may include an external object control module (EOCM) configured to wirelessly receive diagnostic signals from an occupant-coupled device, such as a smart watch or implanted cardiac pacemaker. The method and system process the diagnostic signals, for example by determining the nature and/or severity of the potential medical condition and carrying out one or more responses in reaction thereto. The type of response carried out can depend on whether the occupant is a driver or passenger, as well as the nature and/or severity of the potential medical condition, and can range from giving medical instructions to vehicle occupants to automatically slowing the vehicle down and bringing it to a safe stop in the event that the driver is unable to do so.
US09898002B2	Method for operating a fieldbus protocol capable field device A method for operating a fieldbus protocol capable field device, wherein the fieldbus protocol includes at least one command, which serves, depending on a value of an auxiliary variable, for performing a first function, respectively for performing a second function, of field device, wherein the first and second functions differ from one another.
US09898001B2	Systems and methods for enhancing monitoring of an industrial automation system In one embodiment, a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer instructions configured to receive image data from an apparatus, wherein the image data comprises a person within a proximity to an industrial automation device, determine whether the person is wearing a set of personal protection equipment (PPE) based on the image data, disable one or more operations of the industrial automation device when the person is not wearing the set of PPE, and track a usage of the set of PPE.
US09897988B2	Method, controller, and computer program product for controlling a voltage in a power grid For controlling a voltage in a power grid including a PV bus and a PQ bus, a first tolerance range for an active power of the PV bus and a second tolerance range for an active power of the PQ bus are received. A first value for a reactive power of the PQ bus is received. With that, a robust optimization process is run for a set of power flow equations. The first and second tolerance ranges and the first reactive power value are input to the robust optimization process using the first and second tolerance ranges as robust optimization uncertainty. With that, the robust optimization process determines a voltage set point for the PV bus so that the set of power flow equations is fulfilled for the first and second tolerance ranges. According to the determined voltage set point, a voltage at the PV bus is controlled.
US09897983B2	Control of a machine using relaxed abduction method A method and apparatus for actuating a machine is provided in which a relaxed abduction problem is determined in order to explain the greatest possible part of the observations with the fewest possible assumptions. Based upon two preference orders over a subset of observations and a subset of assumptions, tuples are determined so that the theory together with the subset of assumptions explains the subset of observations. On the basis of the formal validity of the approach certain characteristics of the set of results (such as correctness, completeness, etc.) are checked. By the choice of underlying representational language and the preference relations, the complexity of the problem-solving process is influenced and thus flexibly adapted with regard to domain requirements. The invention may be used for any machines, e.g. gas turbines or steam turbines.
US09897974B2	Watch bracelet A watch including a bracelet or strap and a watch case, the bracelet including a first arm in which is housed a first printed circuit portion and a second arm in which is housed a second printed circuit portion, the first arm being connected to the second arm via a median part configured to act as a seat for the watch case and which includes a mechanism ensuring electrical continuity between the first printed circuit portion and the second printed circuit portion. The first and second printed circuit portions carry at least one electronic component and an electrical energy source supplying the electronic component with electrical current.
US09897973B2	Pivoting assembly for a timepiece A pivoting assembly includes an arbor rotatably mounted between two bearings, a member mounted between a shoulder of the arbor and a resilient washer, at least one of the two bearings including a limit stop which is arranged to enter into direct contact with the resilient washer in order to restrict the relative movement between the arbor and its bearings.
US09897969B2	Image forming apparatus having developing device movable between first position close to drum and second position far from drum An image forming apparatus includes a main casing, a drum frame detachably attached to the main casing and including a photosensitive drum, a developing device supporting structure having a groove at an inner surface thereof, and a developing device detachably attached to the main casing and including a developing roller and a protruding portion. The developing device supporting structure is configured to support the developing device such that the protruding portion of the developing device is inserted into the groove of the developing device supporting structure and the developing device is guided between a first position close to the photosensitive drum and a second position far from the photosensitive drum. When the developing device is in the first position, the developing device is disposed below the photosensitive drum and is swingable with respect to the photosensitive drum.
US09897956B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a converting unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition; an image forming unit; a measurement unit; and a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form a plurality of measurement images including a first measurement image and a second measurement image. The controller obtains first output characteristics based on a current measurement result of the first measurement image and a previous measurement result of the second measurement image to generate the conversion condition, and the controller obtains second output characteristics based on a current measurement result of the second measurement image and a previous measurement result of the first measurement image to generate the conversion condition.
US09897952B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprises a paper feeding unit which feeds a sheet-shaped recording medium, an image forming unit which forms a toner image on the recording medium fed from the paper feeding unit, a fixing unit which fixes the toner image formed by the image forming unit on the recording medium, a stacking unit which stacks the recording medium on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit, a temperature sensor which detects the surface temperature of the recording mediums stacked on the stacking unit and a control unit which determines, according to the printing information of the recording medium, whether or not to feed a new recording medium from the paper feeding unit when the surface temperature of the recording mediums detected by the temperature sensor is above a threshold temperature.
US09897950B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotator rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation and a heater that heats the fixing rotator. A nip formation pad is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator presses against the nip formation pad via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A low-friction member is sandwiched between the nip formation pad and the fixing rotator and bears a lubricant that flows in a flow direction. A thermal absorber is mounted on the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. At least one irregular portion, mounted on the thermal absorber, blocks the lubricant flowing in the flow direction.
US09897947B2	Image forming apparatus executing charge removal for photoconductor thereof and control method for same An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed by irradiation of the photoconductor with light, a charger, a developing device, a transfer device, a charge removal execution determiner, and a power supply controller. The charger receives a superimposed voltage of a DC voltage and an AC voltage to charge the photoconductor. The developing device develops the electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor into a toner image. The transfer device transfers the developed toner image to a recording medium. The charge removal execution determiner issues a charge removal command when a flow of electric charge from the transfer device into the photoconductor has occurred in an image forming outputting operation. The power supply controller applies only the AC voltage to the charger for a predetermined period in a state in which the photoconductor is rotated, when the charge removal command is issued.
US09897943B2	Belt unit, transfer unit, and image forming apparatus including a pressing member that presses an edge of a belt A belt unit is detachably attachable to a body of an image forming apparatus. The belt unit includes a belt, a pressing member, and a frame. The belt is wound around a plurality of supports to travel in a belt travel direction. The belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer. The pressing member presses warping on an edge of the belt. The frame supports the plurality of supports. The pressing member is positioned on the frame.
US09897941B2	Developing apparatus, process cartridge and image forming apparatus With a first line segment being a line segment that joins an axis line of a developer carrier and an axis line of an image carrier, a second line segment being a line segment that joins a position, which is a position on the surface of the developer carrier at which the magnetic flux density of a magnetic pole is maximal, and the axis line of the developer carrier, and a third line segment being a line segment that joins a downstream end portion, in a rotation direction of the developer carrier, then among angles in the rotation direction of the developer carrier, a first angle formed by the first line segment and the second line segment is larger than 0° and equal to or smaller than a second angle formed by the first line segment and the third line segment.
US09897934B2	Toner Provided is a toner that achieves low-temperature fixability, storability and charging performance all at a high level, in which a toner containing a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin, wherein a standard deviation of hydrogen nuclear relaxation times (HT1ρ-C) of the toner as measured by solid-state 13C-NMR is from 0.0 to 5.0, and a hydrogen nuclear relaxation time (HT1ρ-C1) of a 13C peak with the longest relaxation time out of the hydrogen nuclear relaxation times (HT1ρ-C) and a hydrogen nuclear relaxation time (HT1ρ-A1) of a 13C peak with the shortest relaxation time out of the hydrogen nuclear relaxation times (HT1ρ-A) satisfy 3.0≦{(HT1ρ-C1)/(HT1ρ-A1)}≦6.0.
US09897930B2	Optical element comprising oriented carbon nanotube sheet and lithographic apparatus comprising such optical element A lithographic apparatus includes an optical element that includes an oriented carbon nanotube sheet. The optical element has an element thickness in the range of about 20-500 nm and has a transmission for EUV radiation having a wavelength in the range of about 1-20 nm of at least about 20% under perpendicular irradiation with the EUV radiation.
US09897924B2	Illumination optical unit for projection lithography An illumination optical unit for projection lithography serves for illuminating an object field. A first transmission optical unit serves to guide illumination light emanating from a light source. An illumination-predetermining facet mirror is disposed downstream of the first transmission optical unit and comprises a multiplicity of illumination-predetermining facets. The facet mirror generates a predetermined illumination of the object field via an arrangement of illuminated illumination-predetermining facets. This results in an illumination of an illumination pupil of the illumination optical unit, which predetermines an illumination angle distribution in the object field. The illumination pupil has an envelope deviating from a circular form. The illumination pupil is subdivided into sub-pupil regions, which are present arranged in a line-by-line and/or column-by-column manner.
US09897923B2	Micromirror array A micromirror array has the form of a sheared rectangle. In an arrangement in an illumination optical unit, one side is aligned perpendicular to a scanning direction.
US09897921B2	Compositions comprising mineral spirits and methods related thereto This invention relates to a composition comprising mineral spirits in combination with an alcohol or diisopropylbenzene or both, and methods directed to the preparation and use of this composition. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US09897916B2	Compound, polymer compound, resist composition, and patterning process The present invention provides a compound shown by the formula (1), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a methyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group; A represents a single bond or a linear divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms or a branched or cyclic divalent hydrocarbon group having 3 to 30 carbon atoms, in which the hydrocarbon group may contain a heteroatom, and a part or all of hydrogen atoms in the hydrocarbon group may be substituted with a group containing a heteroatom; “n” represents 0 or 1, provided that “n” is 0 when A is a single bond; and M+ represents a cation. This compound is suitable as a raw material of a polymer compound usable for a base resin of a resist composition that has high resolution and high sensitivity and is excellent in balance of lithography properties such as LWR and CDU.
US09897915B2	Photosensitive resin composition, method for producing heat-resistant resin film and display device The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition which uses a polyimide precursor that has excellent solubility in organic solvents and is capable of reducing the viscosity of a resin composition obtained therefrom. The solution according to the present invention is a photosensitive resin composition which contains: an aromatic amide resin that has, as a main repeating unit, a specific structure having an amide group, a trifluoromethyl group and an aromatic ring; (b) a sensitizer; and (c) a solvent.
US09897913B2	Radiation-sensitive composition A radiation-sensitive composition containing a resist compound having a high sensitivity, a high resolution, a high etching resistance, and a low outgas which forms a resist pattern with a good shape is described.
US09897911B2	Halftone phase shift photomask blank, making method, and halftone phase shift photomask A halftone phase shift photomask blank is provided comprising a transparent substrate and a halftone phase shift film thereon having a phase shift of 150-200° and a transmittance of 9-40%. The halftone phase shift film consists of a transition metal, Si, O and N, has an average transition metal content of at least 3 at %, and is composed of a plurality of layers including a stress relaxation layer having an oxygen content of at least 3 at % and a phase shift adjusting layer having a higher oxygen content of at least 5 at %.
US09897909B2	Mask blank substrate, substrate with multilayer reflection film, transmissive mask blank, reflective mask blank, transmissive mask, reflective mask, and semiconductor device fabrication method Disclosed is a mask blank substrate for use in lithography, wherein a main surface of the substrate satisfies a relational equation of (BA70−BA30)/(BD70−BD30)≧350 (%/nm), and has a maximum height (Rmax)≦1.2 nm in a relation between a bearing area (%) and a bearing depth (nm) obtained by measuring, with an atomic force microscope, an area of 1 μm×1 μm in the main surface on the side of the substrate where a transfer pattern is formed, wherein BA30 is defined as a bearing area of 30%, BA70 is defined as a bearing area of 70%, and BD70 and BD30 are defined to respectively represent bearing depths for the bearing area of 30% and the bearing area of 70%.
US09897908B2	Ebeam three beam aperture array Lithographic apparatuses suitable for, and methodologies involving, complementary e-beam lithography (CEBL) are described. In an example, a blanker aperture array (BAA) for an e-beam tool is described. The BAA includes three distinct aperture arrays of different pitch.
US09897901B2	Light source system and related projection system A light source system comprises: a light-emitting device for emitting a first light and a second light in sequence; a beam splitting system with which the first light is divided into one beam in a first range of wavelength and the other beam in a second range of wavelength, respectively emitted along a first optical path and a second optical path, and also with which at least a part of the second light is emitted along the first optical path; a first spatial light modulator for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system along the first optical path; a second spatial light modulator for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system along the second optical path. The light source system has the advantages of high light-emitting efficiency and low cost. A projection system comprising the aforementioned light source system is also provided.
US09897897B2	Heat management system for use in an image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus, having a casing including an image pickup device, includes: a casing that surrounds a shooting light flux and has a length in a direction of the shooting light flux; an image pickup device that receives the shooting light flux at a terminal end of the shooting light flux in the casing and picks up an image; a planar electric substrate arranged in parallel to an optical axis of the shooting light flux, outside an image pickup surface of the image pickup device; an electronic element mounted on the electric substrate, the electronic element generating heat along with operation of an electronic circuit; a heat transmission sheet placed on the electronic element; and a heat sink placed on the heat transmission sheet so that the heat transmission sheet is held together with the electronic element between the electric substrate and the heat sink.
US09897894B2	Morphable identity, networkable photonic quantum logic gate system and method Systems and methods of performing logical operations with photonic quantum logic gates. The logic gates utilize photon states, usually orthogonal linearly polarized states, to selectively enact self-interference operations whose outputs can be altered by inducing phase shifts in one or more portions of the section of the logic gate where the photon states undergo self-interference. The polarization direction switchings are differentially enacted and/or not enacted, in groupings of switches, to perform various logic operations. Additionally, networked logic gates with interrelated self-interference section phase shifts and output states are described that provide additional capabilities.
US09897892B2	Non-mechanical beam steering tracking system A non-mechanical optical beam steering device includes one or more polarization gratings (PG) coupled to one or more Steerable Electro-Evanescent Optical Refractors (SEEOR). It provides the coarse steering advantage of the PG and also the continuous fine steering advantage of the SEEOR. The result is far less complexity, size, weight, and cost over the alternative non-mechanical beam steering approaches as well as considerably less complexity, size, weight, cost, scanning-time, and mechanical breakdown over the more traditional gimbaled mirrors commonly used.
US09897885B2	Electrochromic panel and control device An electrochromic panel for a control device is disclosed. The electrochromic panel includes a first conduction layer for receiving a positive drive voltage, a second conduction layer for receiving a negative drive voltage, an electrolyte layer disposed on the second conduction layer, and a coloration layer having a pattern and disposed between the electrolyte layer and the first conduction layer, wherein an electron current generated by the negative drive voltage flows from the second conduction layer, the electrolyte layer, the coloration layer to the first conduction layer, such that the coloration layer performs a reduction-oxidation reaction and the pattern of the coloration layer changes from transparent to a non-transparent color.
US09897881B2	Thin film transistor array substrate and liquid crystal display panel The present invention provides a thin film transistor array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The thin film transistor array substrate comprises: a substrate; a light shielding layer, located at a middle part on a surface of the substrate; a buffer layer, covering the light shielding layer; a Low Temperature Poly-silicon layer, being located on the buffer layer, and corresponding to the light shielding layer; an isolation layer, covering the Low Temperature Poly-silicon layer, and the isolation layer comprises a through hole, wherein a width of the through hole is smaller than a width of the light shielding layer; a metal layer, located on the isolation layer, and the metal layer is connected with the Low Temperature Poly-silicon layer via the through hole. The thin film transistor array substrate and the liquid crystal display panel have a higher aperture ratio.
US09897879B2	Display panels A display panel includes a substrate. A scan line and a data line intersect with each other and are disposed on the substrate. An active layer is disposed on the substrate and between the data line and the substrate. A transparent conductive layer is disposed on the substrate and above the active layer. The active layer includes a contact region electrically connected to the data line, a second contact region electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer, and an intermediate region disposed between the first and the second contact regions. A portion of the intermediate region overlapping with the scan line is a channel region. A portion of the intermediate region not overlapping with the scan line is a non-channel region. The width of the non-channel region is greater than the width of the channel region.
US09897869B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates disposed to be opposed to each other; a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates, formed of a p-type liquid crystal material, and configured to take a vertical alignment in a state in which no electric field is applied; one or a plurality of linear pixel electrodes provided on the first substrate; a first common electrode provided on the first substrate, and formed in a manner to surround or sandwich the pixel electrode with a predetermined spacing; and a second common electrode provided on the second substrate, having substantially the same planar shape as the first common electrode, and formed such that at least a part of the second common electrode overlaps the first common electrode in planar projection.
US09897858B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a spacer. The first substrate includes pixel areas including first and second pixel areas adjacent to each other and arranged in a matrix form defined by first and second directions substantially perpendicular to each other. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The spacer is disposed on the second substrate to extend toward the first substrate. Each of the pixel areas includes a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode through a contact hole.
US09897847B2	Display device A display device includes a display member and a backlight unit, where the display member includes a base substrate, a cover layer that is on the base substrate, extends in a first direction, and includes a plurality of portions defining a first cavity and a second cavity that are spaced apart from the base substrate and adjacent to each other in the first direction, a first display element and a second display element that respectively correspond to the first cavity and the second cavity, a color conversion filter that is disposed on the cover layer, and includes a first filter which overlaps the first cavity and converts incident light into a first color light, and a second filter which overlaps the second cavity and converts incident light into a second color light, and an optical member which is disposed between the color conversion filter and the cover layer.
US09897843B2	Optical film for enlarging viewing angle and TFT-LCD device including the same The viewing angle enhancement film contains a substrate and a prism layer fixedly attached to the substrate. A light emission face of the prism layer contacts a light incident face of the substrate. The prism layer and the substrate are both made of transparent materials. Multiple separate triangular prisms are configured along a light incident face of the prism layer with a flat face between neighboring triangular prisms. The TFT-LCD device contains a first polarizer film, a LCD panel, a color filter film, a second polarizer film, and a viewing angle enhancement film described above, arranged sequentially along a light propagation direction. A light incident face of the viewing angle enhancement film faces a light emission face of the second polarizer film. The TFT-LCD device equipped with the viewing angle enhancement film is able to provide enlarged viewing angle and superior image quality.
US09897840B2	Seamless splicing multi-panel display devices A seamless splicing multi-panel display device includes a plurality of first liquid crystal panels being spaced apart, at least one second liquid crystal panel between every two the first liquid crystal panels, and a backlight module opposite to the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel includes a first display portion and first non-display portions extending from edges of the first display portion. The second liquid crystal panel includes a second display portion and second non-display portions extending from edges of the second display portion. The second non-display portion is fixed on an area between the first display portion and the first non-display portion. In this way, the multi-panel display device realizes the seamless splicing display so as to enhance the display performance.
US09897838B2	Display unit and display apparatus having the same Disclosed are a display unit and a display apparatus, and more particularly, a display unit and a display apparatus having a middle mold bump provided with a second middle mold bump so that the light, which is penetrated a space between an opening of an optical sheet and a first middle mold bump inserted into the opening of the optical sheet, is limited from reaching at an active area of the display panel. Some of the present embodiments provide the display unit and the display apparatus having the middle mold bump provided with a second middle mold bump positioned under the display panel and configured to limit the light, which is penetrated through a space between an opening of the optical sheet and a first middle mold bump inserted into the opening of the optical sheet, from reaching at the active area of the display panel.
US09897835B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a backlight unit which is disposed under the display panel and configured to provide a light to the display panel, a mold frame which surrounds the display panel and the backlight unit, and in which a top cover combining groove and a bottom cover combining groove are defined, a top cover including a top cover protrusion which is protruded from the top cover and received in the top cover combining groove of the mold frame, and a bottom cover on which a bottom cover protrusion is protruded, the bottom cover protrusion being received in the bottom cover combining groove of the mold frame.
US09897828B2	Apparatus for packaging liquid crystal glass substrates The present invention discloses an apparatus for packaging liquid crystal glass substrates, comprising multiple housings, a cover and a unit forming member, wherein the multiple housings are overlapped together in vertical direction, the cover covers the topmost housing of the multiple housings, each housing comprises a cavity for receiving a liquid crystal glass substrate, the unit forming member is configured to clamp at least two housings of the multiple housings together as a housing unit, the unit forming member comprises at least one clamp. According to the present invention, even when there are many layers of housings, the center of gravity of housings can be align with each other, and the risk of overturning can be avoided.
US09897815B2	Optical alignment device and spatial beam splitting prism thereof An optical alignment device and a spatial beam splitting prism thereof are provided. The optical alignment device includes a polarized UV light source and a spatial beam splitting prism including a light-transmissive substrate. At least one of top and bottom surfaces of the substrate has a prism structure which is disposed by areas to have at least two refraction directions. When light rays emitted from the polarized UV light source are incident perpendicular to the spatial beam splitting prism, the light rays in a same area are deflected along a same slanting direction after being refracted by the prism structure, and the light rays in neighboring areas are deflected along different slanting directions after being refracted by the prism structure. The invention can achieve the purpose of performing multi-area alignments by only one time UV light irradiation, and also can save production time, reduce production difficulty and thereby increase productivity.
US09897814B2	Device for sampling a large, high-energy laser beam combined with a compressor comprising a sample-taking device with a sampling diopter A device for the sampling of a pulsed laser beam of high energy, typically greater than 1 J, and of large size, having a diameter typically greater than 1 cm, combined with a compressor, comprises, upstream of the compressor: a sample-taking device provided with a sampling diopter capable of transmitting T % of the pulsed laser beam, T being greater than 90, and of reflecting (1−T) % of the pulsed laser beam, the reflected beam being called sampled beam, an afocal capable of reducing the size of the sampled beam, the compressor having a determined useful aperture, a device for reinjecting the reduced sampled beam into this useful aperture.
US09897809B2	Data-display glasses comprising an anti-glare screen A pair of spectacles equipped with at least one lens and intended to be worn by a user, the spectacles comprising displaying means allowing data to be projected into a field of view of the user, and an anti-glare screen provided with a variable transmission coefficient allowing the intensity of incident light intended to pass through the lens toward the user to be attenuated, the spectacles being configured to adapt the transmission coefficient of the anti-glare screen depending on the intensity of the incident light.
US09897808B2	Smart glass A smart glass may include a glass having a transparent display function, a first camera obtaining a front image, a second camera obtaining an image of a user's eyes, and a controller which analyzes the front image and the image of the user's eyes, determines a specific object selected by the user's gaze from a plurality of objects included in the front image based on the result of an analysis, obtains information about the specific object, and displays the information about the specific object on a transparent display area of the glass. The smart glass may provide information about the specific object selected by the user's gaze, and/or may execute a specific function corresponding to user's eye gesture.
US09897799B2	Piezoelectric element A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode having a film shape and provided on a base portion, a second electrode having a film shape and opposed to the first electrode on an opposite side of the first electrode from the base portion, a piezoelectric film interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and partially covered with the second electrode, and an insulation film covering the second electrode and the piezoelectric film with extending over at least a part of an outer edge of the second electrode. The insulation film may cover a whole of the outer edge of the second electrode without covering an inner region of the second electrode. Accordingly, a withstand voltage of the piezoelectric film can be increased.
US09897792B2	Method and system for extended depth of field calculation for microscopic images The invention relates to an image processing method and system for constructing composite image with extended depth of field. The composite image may be constructed from a plurality of source images of a scene stored in an image stack. The method includes aligning the images in the image stack such that every image in the image stack is aligned with other images in the stack, performing illumination and color correction on the aligned images in the image stack, generating an energy matrix for each pixel of each illumination and color corrected image in the image stack by computing energy content for each pixel, generating a raw index map that contains the location of every pixels having maximum energy level among all the images in the image stack, generating degree of defocus ma and constructing the composite image.
US09897788B2	Optical system, image pickup apparatus, and optical device An optical system includes an aperture stop, a unit A configured to move during a distortion adjustment, and a unit B disposed at an image side relative to the unit A and configured to move with a locus different from a locus of the unit A during the distortion adjustment, the optical system changes from a first optical state having a first distortion to a second optical state having a second distortion larger than the first distortion, and focal lengths of the units A and B, moving amounts of the units A and B during a change from the first to second optical states, distances from the aperture stop to the units A and B, distances from a lens surface of the unit A closest to the object side to an image plane, and a total optical length of the optical system satisfy a predetermined condition.
US09897786B2	Two-surface narrow field-of-view compounds lens A two-surface narrow field-of-view (FOV) compound lens for producing an image of an object at an image plane of an imaging system includes a biplanar substrate between a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens having a common optical axis. The plano-convex lens has a first planar surface on a first side of the biplanar substrate and is formed of a material having a first Abbe number. The plano-concave lens has a second planar surface on a second side of the biplanar substrate opposite the first side, and is formed of a material having a second Abbe number less than the first Abbe number. The first and second lens have respective focal lengths F1 and F2 that may satisfy −1.4
US09897784B2	Camera lens A camera lens includes, arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies specific conditions.
US09897769B2	Vision-based passive alignment of an optical fiber subassembly to an optoelectronic device A vision-based passive alignment approach to optically couple input/output of optical fibers in optical alignment to optoelectronic components that are supported on a substrate. An optical bench supporting an optical fiber is physically and optically coupled to an optoelectronic device mounted on a submount via an optically transparent alignment block. The transparent alignment block having a first set of optical fiducials for aligning optical fiducials defined on the optical bench with the alignment block, and a second set of optical fiducials for aligning the alignment block with optical fiducials defined on the submount.
US09897757B2	Fluorescence excitation illumination fiber Fluorescence imaging illumination fiber including a first fiber, a second fiber, and a diffuser, the second fiber concentrically enfolding the first fiber, the diffuser is coupled at the end of the first fiber and the second fiber, the first fiber having a first angular output, the second fiber having a second angular output, the diffuser increasing the first angular output by a first value and increasing the second angular output by a second value, the first value exceeding the second value.
US09897753B2	Optical device and method of manufacturing the same An optical device includes a substrate; a trench in a portion of the substrate; a clad layer arranged in the trench; a first structure arranged on the clad layer to have a first depth; and a second structure arranged on the clad layer to have a second depth different from the first depth.
US09897744B2	Backlight assembly having assymetric light leakage promoting features An electronic device may have a display including an array of display pixels and a backlight assembly that provides backlight for the array of pixels. The backlight assembly may include a light guide layer having first and second opposing sides. The first side of the light guide layer may receive light from a first light source and the second side of the light guide layer may receive light from a second light source. To avoid overheating the first light source, the light emitted by the first light source may be less bright than the light emitted by the second light source. To compensate for the reduced brightness of the first light source, light leakage promotion features on the light guide layer may have a peak density that is closer to the first side of the light guide layer than the second side of the light guide layer.
US09897742B2	Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device including the same Provided is a backlight unit in which a light blocking film is attached between a reflective sheet and a circuit board of a light source unit to shield a space between the reflective sheet and the circuit board, thus suppressing the reflective sheet from being stripped and minimizing light leakage. The backlight unit includes the light source unit, a light guide plate, the reflective sheet, and the light blocking film.
US09897741B2	Light guide structure, backlight module, and display device A light guide structure (10), a backlight module (20) and a display device are disclosed, which can reduce loss of light in travelling and increase utilization rate of light. The light guide structure (10) including: a light guide plate (1) including a light-exiting surface (11) and a reflection surface (12) that are opposite to each other and a side surface (13) connecting the light-exiting surface (11) with the reflection surface (12), a material of the light guide plate (1) being an isotropic material; a reflection type brightness enhancement film (2) that is disposed at a side where the light-exiting surface (11) of the light guide plate (1) is located; a quarter wavelength plate (3) that is disposed between the light-exiting surface (11) of the light guide plate (1) and the reflection type brightness enhancement film (2), with an angle of 45 degree existing between a slow axis of the quarter wavelength plate (3) and a transmission axis of the reflection type brightness enhancement film (2); and a reflection film (4) that is disposed at a side where the reflection surface (12) of the light guide plate (1) is located.
US09897737B2	Quantum dot backlight module A quantum dot backlight module is disclosed. The quantum dot backlight module comprises a light source; a quantum dot layer, which emits fluorescence after being excited by light that is emitted by the light source; and a light guide plate, which guides the fluorescence that is emitted by the quantum dot layer to a needed direction, wherein the quantum dot layer is arranged on a light-entering side of the light guide plate, and a colloid layer is arranged between the light source and the quantum dot layer so as to enable the light source and the quantum dot layer to be bonded with each other closely, whereby the light source, the quantum dot layer, and the light guide plate are assembled together. According to the present disclosure, the light transmission mode of the light source after entering into the light guide plate is changed through changing the structure of the quantum dot backlight module, so that the light loss thereof can be reduced, and the light-emitting efficiency of the backlight module can be improved.
US09897735B2	Wire grid polarizer and fabrication method thereof, and display device A wire grid polarizer (20) and a fabrication method thereof,and a display device are provided. The fabrication method of the wire grid polarizer (20) includes: applying a mixture (100) including a polymeric monomer (101) and a metal particle (102) on a surface of a base substrate (01); performing a curing treatment on the mixture (100) at a predetermined position; and forming a wire grid pattern including protrusions (110) arranged at intervals on the surface of the base substrate (01). Problems of a complicated process, great difficulty and high cost in a fabrication process of the wire grid polarizer (20) are solved.
US09897733B2	Spatial light modulator including nano-antenna electrode and display apparatus including the spatial light modulator A spatial light modulator including an electrode having a nano-antenna structure, and a display apparatus including the spatial light modulator are provided. The spatial light modulator includes a refractive index changing layer, and a pixel electrode and a common electrode which are configured to apply an electric field to the refractive index changing layer, and at least one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode include a nano-antenna pattern structure configured to resonate light.
US09897720B2	Container with detection device for determining a status of the container and monitoring system for dynamic status monitoring with at least one such container A container for the transport and/or the storage of objects is described. A container of this type features a detection device for determining information on the occupancy status and/or the filling status of the container. The detection device is capable of detecting different light intensities in the region of the inner container wall and of generating corresponding sensor signals. Furthermore, an interface is provided for producing a connection with a signal processing unit, in which image information on the filling status and/or occupancy status of the container can be generated based on the sensor signals.
US09897710B2	Borehole seismic acquisition tools, systems and methods A tool is described for seismic data collection which may have sensors mounted along its entire length to sample both geophysical signal and noise including at least one of acoustic noise, system noise, and noise resulting from the interaction between the two. Systems and methods for acquiring borehole seismic data are also described. In contrast to conventional systems which attempt to avoid introducing noise into the collected data stream, the present systems include a sufficient type, number, and spacing of sensors to intentionally sample at least one source of noise. The methods include operating a borehole seismic acquisition system to sample both a target signal and at least one source of noise and using a processor with machine-readable instructions for separating the noise from the signal.
US09897701B2	Method for efficiently detecting impairments in a multi-constellation GNSS receiver Methods and apparatuses for a receiver of signals from one or more satellite navigational systems to detect and/or eliminate impaired satellites from the set of estimated/acquired satellites in view are described. One method includes acquiring coarse position, time, and frequency values for each of a plurality of satellites from one or more satellite navigational systems, the plurality of satellites being those currently estimated to be in view of the receiver; determining whether one or more of the acquired coarse values are within a minimum range; and if it is determined that the one or more acquired coarse values are within the minimum range: determining a pseudo-true peak of a position domain correlogram comprising Line of Sight (LOS) vectors of each of the plurality of satellites; and identifying any satellite whose cross-correlation peak is beyond a maximum distance from the pseudo-true peak as an impaired satellite.
US09897699B2	Methods and apparatus for virtual sensor array A time-of-flight camera images an object around a corner or through a diffuser. In the case of imaging around a corner, light from a hidden target object reflects off a diffuse surface and travels to the camera. Points on the diffuse surface function as a virtual sensors. In the case of imaging through a diffuser, light from the target object is transmitted through a diffusive media and travels to the camera. Points on a surface of the diffuse media that is visible to the camera function as virtual sensors. In both cases, a computer represents phase and intensity measurements taken by the camera as a system of linear equations and solves a linear inverse problem to (i) recover an image of the target object; or (ii) to compute a 3D position for each point in a set of points on an exterior surface of the target object.
US09897697B2	Distance measuring method using dynamic pulse width adaptation A method for measuring a distance to an object with emitting pulsed laser light with defined measurement pulse width is disclosed. In some embodiments, the pulse width of the laser light is dynamically adjustable. The method may include receiving at least a part of the pulsed laser light with defined measurement pulse width reflected from the object, and precisely determining the distance to the object by means of the received laser light. Some embodiments may include pre-adjusting an actual pulse width of the emitted laser light in an automated and continuous manner for providing the defined measurement pulse width by performing a test measurement by emitting an amount of adjusting laser light with the actual pulse width. Some embodiment may include receiving at least a part of the adjusting laser light reflected from the object and determining a test distance to the object using the received adjusting laser light.
US09897681B2	Calibration method and calibration arrangement The present invention relates to a calibration method and a calibration arrangement for a RF test apparatus for testing a RF device under test. Instead, a calibration board is provided and connected to each of the cables of the RF test apparatus. A calibration board is configured to provide a plurality of connection loops by connecting the input/output channel terminals of the test apparatus one after the other with each other. This results to a bunch of different connection loops. Then a physical parameter, such as the attenuation over frequency, is measured for each of these connection loops. Since each physical parameter can be described by a single equation, this results to an amount of different equations which form an equation system. The idea underlying the present invention is that the amount of equations of this equation system, which amount corresponds to the different connection loops, is at least equal or higher than the amount of unknown parameters of the equation system. Consequently, the equation system is overdetermined and—as a consequence of that—mathematically solvable.
US09897680B2	Ultrasound bone phantom material compatible with MRI A method of fabricating ultrasound bone phantom material compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is provided. The bone phantom material has ultrasound and physical parameters that are characteristic of human cortical and trabecular bones, and is well suited for the fabrication of bone phantoms intended for the development and testing of ultrasound medical diagnostic imaging techniques as well as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy methods and other MRI imaging applications.
US09897678B2	Magnetic resonance imaging data correction methods and systems Systems and methods for correcting magnetic resonance (MR) data are provided. One method includes receiving the MR data and correcting errors present in the MR data due to non-uniformities in magnetic field gradients used to generate the diffusion weighted MR signals. The method also includes correcting errors present in the MR data due to concomitant gradient fields present in the magnetic field gradients by using one or more gradient terms. At least one of the gradient terms is corrected based on the correction of errors present in the MR data due to the non-uniformities in the magnetic field gradients.
US09897674B2	Method and magnetic resonance apparatus to determine a B0 field map In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus to determine a B0 field map describing the local deviation from a nominal Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance apparatus, magnetic resonance data are acquired at at least two different dephasing times after an excitation, in measurements implemented at two different echo times whose difference forms a dephasing time, and a phase change used to determine the B0 field map is determined from a difference of phases measured at different echo times. The phase changes of different dephasing times are evaluated to at least partially reduce an ambiguity due to Nyquist phase wrapping. The measurements for different dephasing times are implemented at least in part with excitations that generate different excitation fields.
US09897668B2	Coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging A magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The system includes a solenoid magnet configured to generate a static magnetic field and an annular coil assembly housed within at least a portion of the solenoid magnet. The coil assembly includes a gradient coil, wherein the annular coil assembly has an aperture formed therein.
US09897644B2	Method and system for testing a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge A method of testing a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge includes operating the semiconductor device, and, while operating the semiconductor device, monitoring a functional performance of the semiconductor device. The monitoring includes monitoring one or more signal waveforms of respective one or more signals on respective one or more pins of the semiconductor device to obtain one or more monitor waveforms, and monitoring one or more register values of one or more registers of the semiconductor device to obtain one or more monitor register values as function of time. The method includes applying an electrostatic discharge event to the semiconductor device while monitoring the functional performance of the semiconductor device. The method can further comprise determining a functional change from the one or more monitor waveforms and the one or more monitor register values as function of time.
US09897643B2	Apparatuses, systems and methods for detecting corona Apparatuses, systems and methods for detecting corona using audio data are disclosed. A method of processing audio data to detect corona includes determining an indicator of energy at a substantially fundamental frequency in the audio data, determining an indicator of the energy at a plurality of harmonic frequencies in the audio data, determining an indicator of the noise energy in the audio data, determining a comparison indicator of the noise energy relative to the energy at the harmonic frequencies, determining a masking indicator having thresholds for each of the harmonics relative to the fundamental frequency, and determining a corona detection indicator. An apparatus for detecting corona includes a memory, an audio detector configured to obtain the audio data near an electrical conductor in an AC system, and a processor to process the audio data, fundamental and harmonic frequencies of the audio data and their corresponding thresholds to detect corona.
US09897641B2	Method for real-time monitoring of the operational state of a capacitive sensor A method for real-time monitoring of an operational state of a capacitive sensor capable of being mounted on a rotating machine, and connected to an electronic measuring module via a high frequency transmission line. The method includes generating, within the electronic module, a signal for compensating in capacitance parasitic effects from the transmission line and the sensor, generating, within the electronic module, a signal for compensating in conductance parasitic effects from the transmission line and the sensor, extracting a signal representative of the capacitance compensation and of a signal representative of the conductance compensation so as to determine an operating point of the sensor and analyzing the operating point so as to check if it is located in a predetermined area.
US09897626B2	Scanning probe microscope with a reduced Q-factor A scanning probe microscope is provided comprising a scanning probe (10), a holder (5) for holding a sample (SMP) in an environment free from liquid. A scanning arrangement (20) is provided therein for inducing a relative motion of the scanning probe (10) with respect to said sample (SMP) along a surface of the sample (SMP). A driver (30) generates a drive signal (Sd) to induce an oscillating motion of the scanning probe (10) relative to the surface of the sample to be scanned. A measuring unit (40) measure a deflection of the scanning probe (10), and provides a deflection signal (Sδ) indicative for said deflection. An amplitude detector (50) detects an amplitude of the oscillating motion as indicated by the deflection signal (Sδ) and provides an amplitude signal (Sa) indicative for the amplitude. The scanning probe (10) is at least partly arranged in a liquid (L) to dampen motion of said scanning probe, and therewith has a quality factor Q which is less than or equal than 5. The scanning probe (10) is accommodated in a casing (90) comprising said liquid (L), the scanning probe (10) comprising a flexible carrier (11), the flexible carrier having a movable part provided with a tip (12), which tip (12) extends through an opening (91) in said casing.
US09897622B2	Automatic analyzer A detergent reservoir reserves detergent for cleaning of a sample probe and includes a cleaning liquid supply port, a detergent supply port, and a waste liquid port When a predetermined condition for execution of cleaning of the detergent reservoir is not satisfied, and a remaining amount of the detergent reserved in the detergent reservoir is a predetermined amount or less, a pump is operated to increase the remaining amount of the detergent to the predetermined amount; and when the predetermined condition for execution of cleaning of the detergent reservoir is satisfied, a solenoid valve is opened to dispose of the detergent in the detergent reservoir. Then, after the detergent in the detergent reservoir is disposed of, the solenoid valve is closed, and a pump is operated to supply cleaning liquid to the detergent reservoir.
US09897620B2	Gas detection device and gas inlet module thereof A gas detection device and a gas inlet module thereof are provided. The gas detection device includes a case, a flow disturbing element, a check film and a detector. The case includes a cavity and an exhaust hole. The flow disturbing element is for making a to-be-measured gas vertically enter the cavity. The check film is connected to the flow disturbing element for make the vertical to-be-measured gas flow into the cavity in one-way. The detector is disposed within the cavity and positioned between the exhaust hole and the check film for detecting a property of the to-be-measured gas. The exhaust hole is for making the to-be-measured gas be exhausted.
US09897619B2	Analyte extraction apparatus and method Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining a concentration of a glycopeptide antibiotic containing a phenol moiety such as Vancomycin in a complex sample matrix by extracting the glycopeptide antibiotic from a metered portion of the complex sample matrix by exposing said metered portion to an extraction material having an affinity with the glycopeptide antibiotic; and exposing the extraction material to a metered portion of an eluent for releasing the glycopeptide antibiotic from the extraction material; and by determining a concentration of the glycopeptide antibiotic by adding a Gibbs reagent (2,6 dichloroquinone-4chloroimide) to the metered portion of the complex sample matrix or the eluent; activating the Gibbs reagent and, after the reaction between the activated Gibbs reagent and the antibiotic has stabilized; detecting the reaction product of the activated Gibbs reagent and the antibiotic in said eluent; and determining the concentration of the antibiotic in the complex sample matrix from the detected reaction product. A method of designing a personalized drug administration regime using the thus obtained concentration is also disclosed.
US09897617B2	Analysis of direct factor Xa inhibitors The present invention relates to a method for detecting at least one direct factor Xa inhibitor in a sample other than citrate plasma, comprising the step of mixing a sample containing a factor Xa inhibitor with a composition containing factor Xa under conditions which allow the factor Xa to release a detectable substance from a chromogenic substrate.
US09897615B2	Immunoassay for free vitamin D Disclosed is the invention to conduct immuno-adsorption of free 25(OH) vitamin D from blood or blood components, notably serum or plasma, after which the absorbed material is measured. A fluoro-alkyl surfactant is used to enhance the solubility of Vitamin D and allow the measurement of free Vitamin D. The invention thus employs a binding protein to absorb the free 25(OH) vitamin D. Thereafter the binding protein comprising the 25-OH vitamin D is subjected to a competitive binding assay with a labeled vitamin D compound, preferably radiolabeled, fluorescent labeled, luminescent labeled, biotin labeled, gold labeled or enzyme labeled. Alternatively the immunocaptured 25-OH vitamin D can be quantitated by mass spectrometry.
US09897613B2	Mass spectrometric measurement of microbial resistances Microorganisms, particularly bacteria, are identified and characterized on the basis of a mass spectrometric measurement of their protein profiles with ionization by matrix-assisted laser desorption. In order to measure the microbial resistance to antibiotics, the protein profiles of microorganisms are measured after cultivation for a short time duration in nutrient media containing the antibiotics.
US09897611B2	Molecule library constructed on the basis of backbone structure of microprotein Disclosed is a molecular library comprising a group of a plurality of molecules, wherein each member of the library is a polypeptide having a randomized sequence moiety and a microprotein moiety. The microprotein is a protein comprising an amino acid sequence of 30 or less amino acid residues having the ability to form a particular conformation by spontaneous folding in a solution and is, for example, chignolin comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1. Also, disclosed is a method for identifying a novel functional molecule using the library of the present invention.
US09897606B2	Reagents and methods for detecting influenza Two universally conserved sequences from influenza type A neuraminidases were identified by large scale sequence analysis then chemically modified and conjugated to carrier proteins to generate mono-specific and monoclonal antibodies. The two antibodies, one targeting the N-terminus of the type A neuraminidase and the other sequence close to enzymatic active site, were capable of binding to all 9 subtypes of neuraminidase while demonstrating remarkable specificity against the viral neuraminidase sequences since no cross-reactivity against allantoic proteins was observed. Quantitative analyses of NA using slot blot suggest that the antibodies can be used for NA antigen quantitation in vaccines. These represent the first time the antibody-based immunoassay can be used for NA quantitative determination.
US09897605B2	Porcine torque teno virus vaccines and diagnosis The present invention provides four purified preparation containing a polynucleic acid molecule encoding porcine Torque teno virus (PTTV) genotypes or subtypes PTTV1a-VA, PTTV1b-VA, PTTV2b-VA, and PTTV2c-VA. The present invention also provides infectious DNA clones, biologically functional plasmid or viral vector containing the infectious nucleic acid genome molecule of the same. The present invention further provides live, attenuated, vector-expressed and purified recombinant capsid subunit or killed viral vaccines for protection against PTTV infection. The present invention additionally provides subunit vaccines comprising PTTV specific gene products, especially ORF1 capsid gene product for protection against PTTV infection. Further, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing PTTV infection via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific primer for PTTV1, PTTV2, and individual PTTV1 genotypes. Finally, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing PTTV infection via immunological methods, e.g., enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot using PTTV specific antigens for detecting serum PTTV specific antibodies.
US09897603B1	Nanodiamond counting Methods and systems for detecting the locations of individual instances of an analyte (e.g., individual cells, individual molecules) in an environment are provided. The environment includes functionalized fluorophores that are configured to selective interact with (e.g., bind with) the analyte and that have a fluorescent property that can be modulated (e.g., a fluorescence intensity that can be affected by the presence of a magnetic field). Detecting the location of individual instances of the analyte includes illuminating the environment and detecting signals emitted from the fluorophores in response to the illumination during first and second periods of time. Detecting the location of individual instances of the analyte further includes modulating the modulatable fluorescent property of the fluorophores during the second period of time and determining which individual fluorophores in the environment are bound to the analyte based on the signals detected during the first and second periods of time.
US09897601B2	Test kit The present invention provides a test kit capable of rapid and highly sensitive detection.The test kit has a dropping region, which contains a portion onto which a liquid sample drops, a labeling substance holding region, at least a portion of which is connected downstream of the dropping region in the developing direction, and in which a labeling substance with a label immobilized on a substance that specifically binds with the substance to be detected is held, a developing region, which has a detection zone where the labeling substance is captured through the substance to be detected, at least a portion of which is connected downstream of the labeling substance holding region in the developing direction, and which allows the labeling substance having been made to flow out from the labeling substance holding region by the liquid sample, to develop into the detection zone, and retention inhibition means for inhibiting retention of the labeling substance in the labeling substance holding region when the liquid sample develops downstream.
US09897600B2	Flow-through sensor In one general aspect, a flow-through sensor can include a carbon nanotube structure including a parallel array of micro-channels, a catalyst coupled to an inner surface of at least one of the micro-channels, and a functionalizing material disposed within the micro-channels.
US09897597B2	High-throughput structure determination using nucleic acid calipers Provided herein are compositions and methods for determining the structure of individual targets using nucleic acid caliper by determining long-range distances within such targets.
US09897571B2	Size marker and method for controlling the resolution of an electropherogram The invention concerns a size marker for electrophoresis, characterized in that it contains several pairs of molecules the sizes of which are selected to allow the generation of a succession of double-peaks in one same electropherogram, said double-peaks being spaced apart two by two by a distance greater than the distance separating the two peaks of a double-peak. The invention also concerns a method for controlling the resolution of an electropherogram produced with a said marker.
US09897568B2	NW-FET sensor comprising at least two distinct semiconducting nanowire detectors NW-FET sensor comprising: first and second semiconducting nanowires; a first semiconducting source portion, of which the first and second parts doped differently from each other are connected to the first ends of the nanowires; a second semiconducting drain portion, of which the first and second parts doped differently from each other are connected to the second ends of the nanowires; a first electrical contact placed on the first semiconducting portion and electrically connected to the first and second parts of the first semiconducting portion; a second electrical contact placed on the second semiconducting portion and electrically connected to the first and second parts of the second semiconducting portion;
US09897567B2	Detection method for detecting blood glucose and hemoglobin of blood sample A detection method for detecting blood glucose value and blood hemoglobin value includes the steps: applying a first voltage to a blood sample and obtaining a first blood glucose value; applying a second voltage to the blood sample and obtaining a second blood glucose value; applying a third voltage to the blood sample and obtaining a hematocrit index and a hemoglobin index; transforming the hematocrit index into a hematocrit value and calibrating the second blood glucose value according to the hematocrit value; and transforming the hemoglobin index into a hemoglobin value. The detection method is advantageous for simultaneously detecting the blood glucose and hemoglobin by a single meter with a single strip.
US09897563B2	Amperometric sensor system A sensor system that measures at least one parameter of water includes an electronics subsystem and includes a sensor housing electrically and mechanically coupled to the electronics subsystem. The sensor housing encloses a chamber that receives water via at least one inlet and that releases water via at least one outlet. At least one sensor has at least one electrode exposed to water in the chamber. A flow generator causes water to flow through the chamber. A plurality of objects within the chamber move in response to the water flow and abrasively clean the at least one electrode. Preferably, the sensor system includes a chlorine sensor having at least two electrodes. The electronics subsystem applies a first differential voltage between the two electrodes during a measurement interval and then applies a second differential voltage between the two electrodes during an interval following the measurement interval.
US09897562B2	Dryness sensing circuit and sensing method of dryness A dryness sensing circuit and a dryness sensing method are provided. The dryness sensing circuit and the dryness sensing method set a time constant of a resistor and capacitor short for liquidity of dryness determination algorithm and minimize a noise effect of a power supply.
US09897560B2	Screening of electronic components for detection of counterfeit articles using automated inspection system A method includes selecting one or more analysis algorithms to be used to verify an authenticity of an electronic component. Each analysis algorithm identifies a type of data to be analyzed and/or a manner in which the data is to be collected. Each analysis algorithm also defines how the data is to be analyzed to verify the authenticity of the electronic component. The method also includes obtaining data associated with the electronic component. The method further includes analyzing the data associated with the electronic component using the one or more selected analysis algorithms to determine whether the electronic component is authentic. In addition, the method includes generating an output based on the analysis. One or more characteristics of the electronic component could be compared against one or more characteristics of at least one reference component, or variations in one or more characteristics of multiple electronic components could be identified.
US09897557B2	X-ray photographing apparatus and method of operating the same An X-ray photographing apparatus and a method of operating the X-ray photographing method are disclosed. The X-ray photographing apparatus includes a plurality of X-ray generators configured to generate an X-ray; a plurality of X-ray detectors facing the plurality of X-ray generators and configured to detect X-rays that are transmitted through an object; and a plurality of sensors, which are provided between the plurality of X-ray generators and the plurality of X-ray detectors, and which are configured to sense the object.
US09897553B2	Optical phase measurement method and system A method and system are presented for use in optical measurements on patterned structures. The method comprises performing a number of optical measurements on a structure with a measurement spot configured to provide detection of light reflected from an illuminating spot at least partially covering at least two different regions of the structure. The measurements include detection of light reflected from said at least part of the at least two different regions comprising interference of at least two complex electric fields reflected from said at least part of the at least two different regions, and being therefore indicative of a phase response of the structure, carrying information about properties of the structure.
US09897541B1	Attenuated total reflection flow cell An attenuated total reflection flow cell includes: a source prism; an internal reflection member that produces attenuated reflected light in response to attenuated reflectance of a source light; an exit prism that receives the attenuated reflected light from the internal reflection member; a flow member mechanically coupled to the internal reflection member to provide a flow of fluid to a surface of the internal reflection member.
US09897539B2	Apparatus and method for measuring deposition rate An apparatus for measuring a deposition rate includes a light source unit in a deposition region between a deposition source and a substrate in a vacuum chamber, the light source unit emits a monochromatic light toward a deposition material released from the deposition source, a photosensor unit that measures at least one of light absorption, scattering, and emission in the deposition region when light emitted from the light source unit passes through the deposition region, and a multi-pass forming unit defining a multi-pass path between the light source unit and the photosensor unit.
US09897537B2	Gas sensor with integrated optics and reference cell A method of fabricating a gas sensor on a substrate and a gas sensor fabricated on a substrate that includes optical and electronic components are described. The method includes fabricating a laser to output light over a range of wavelengths within a waveguide, fabricating a splitter to split the light output by the laser to a reference waveguide and to a detection waveguide, fabricating a reference cell to house the reference waveguide and a reference gas. An output of the reference waveguide is coupled to a first optical detector and an output of the detection waveguide is coupled to a second optical detector to identify or quantify an ambient gas.
US09897532B2	Method and device for high throughput cell deformability measurements A system is disclosed that enables the automated measurement of cellular mechanical parameters at high throughputs. The microfluidic device uses intersecting flows to create an extensional flow region where the cells undergo controlled stretching. Cells are focused into streamlines prior to entering the extensional flow region. In the extensional region, each cell's deformation is measured with an imaging device. Automated image analysis extracts a range of independent biomechanical parameters from the images. These may include cell size, deformability, and circularity. The single cell data that is obtained may then be used to in a variety of ways. Scatter density plots of deformability and circularity may be developed and displayed for the user. Mechanical parameters such as deformability and circularity may be gated or thresholded to identify certain cells of interest or sub-populations of interest. Similarly, the mechanical data obtained using the device may be used as cell signatures.
US09897528B2	Particulate detection system A particulate detection system (1) for detecting the quantity of particulates S in a gas under measurement EG includes first heater energization means S2 to S3, current convergence determination means S4 to S5, S7 to S8, second heater energization means S6, and detection start means S10. S2 to S3 performs low-temperature energization of heater (78) for a predetermined period after operation of ion source (11) is started by ion source drive circuit (210) such that gaseous discharge current Id becomes equal to a predetermined target current It. S4 to S5, S7 to S8 determines, after elapse of the predetermined period, whether or not Id has converged to an allowable range IR. When S4 to S5 determines that Id has not yet converged, S6 performs high-temperature energization of the heater (78) until Id converges. Then, S10 starts detection of particulates S using signal Is detected by a detection circuit (230).
US09897521B2	Rotating device A rotating device includes a carrier, a rotating plate, and a driving unit. The rotating plate rotatably connected with a pivot portion of the carrier contains a test liquid. The rotating plate or the driving unit has a stopping portion. When the driving unit drives the rotating plate to rotate so the stopping portion moves to a first position and interferes with the carrier, the driving unit applies driving force to the pivot portion of the carrier along a first rotation direction through the rotating plate. When the carrier rotates along the first rotation direction and the driving unit applies driving force to the rotating plate along a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, the rotating plate rotates relative to the carrier, the stopping portion moves to a second position and interferes with the carrier, and the driving unit applies driving force to the pivot portion of the carrier along the second rotation direction through the rotating plate.
US09897511B2	Can growth/buckling tester The growth/buckle tester relates to a device for testing strength of metal cans. Using the position of the can on top of Belleville spring and expandable rubber bushing, holding by sectional clamps with turning cams and middle central part from outside, permitted create uniform holding and clamping force in horizontal direction. Using chamfers on holding plates and turning cams for holding the testing can vertically create necessary space around the stand for growth/buckle tests. The chamber created inside the can with almost the same volume of volume of air for the test reducing dispersion of measurement values. Cuts around of Bellville spring make path for delivering testing air pressure for the growth/buckle tests. Angle of rotation turning cams depend and control by outside diameter of testing can.
US09897490B2	Temperature measurement device, integrated circuit, and temperature measurement method In a first sensing state in which a first current flows in a forward direction with respect to a pn junction of a first semiconductor element and a second current of a different magnitude from the first current flows in a forward direction with respect to a pn junction of a second semiconductor element, a difference between a forward direction voltage of the pn junction of the first semiconductor element and a forward direction voltage of the pn junction of the second semiconductor element is converted into a digital value by a computer and acquired as a first digital value. In a second sensing state in which the second current flows in the forward direction in the pn junction of the first semiconductor element and the first current flows in the forward direction in the pn junction of the second semiconductor element, a difference between the forward direction voltage of the pn junction of the first semiconductor element and the forward direction voltage of the pn junction of the second semiconductor element is converted into a digital value by the computer and acquired as a second digital value. A temperature measurement value is computed based on an average value of the first digital value and the second digital value by the computer.
US09897487B2	Combined leg structure of micro bridge unit of focal plane array A combined leg structure of a micro bridge unit of a focal plane array adopts a conductive polymer film or a doped conductive polymer film to serve as an extraction electrode in the micro bridge unit of the focal plane array, which contacts a vanadium oxide thermosensitive film or a doped vanadium oxide thermosensitive film of a bridge surface layer, so as to electrically connect the thermosensitive film of the micro bridge unit with a read-out circuit. The combined leg structure includes three layers: respectively an upper SiNx film layer, a lower SiNx film layer and a middle layer of the conductive polymer film or the doped conductive polymer film. The present invention adopts the conductive polymer film or the doped conductive polymer film having a low thermal conductivity to serve as an electrode material. A bridge leg absorption structure is arranged in the combined leg structure.
US09897484B1	Measuring wideband spectrum information in mobile devices via an integrated optical system that uses multiple spectral sensors, multiple light sources and MEMS actuation Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for a light collector to capture an inbound optical signal and a plurality of detectors, wherein each detector is associated with a wavelength detection range that differs from one or more wavelength detection ranges associated with one or more remaining detectors in the plurality of detectors. Additionally, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device may include a plurality of mirrored columns, wherein each mirrored column is coated with a material that is associated with a wavelength reflection range that differs from one or more wavelength reflection ranges associated with one or more remaining mirrored columns in the plurality of mirrored columns. In one example, the MEMS device positions the plurality of mirrored columns to route the inbound optical signal to one or more of the plurality of detectors based on an input signal from a user input device.
US09897483B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus, focus detection apparatus, and image capturing system A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a signal line, a circuit block, and a control circuit. The circuit block includes a differential amplifier circuit including a feedback path, a first switch that controls conduction between an output terminal and the signal line, a second switch that controls conduction between an inverting input terminal and the signal line, and a third switch that controls conduction between the inverting input terminal and the output terminal. The control circuit controls a signal for controlling the first switch and a signal for controlling the third switch to have the relation of logical NOT.
US09897481B2	Laser power sensor A low-cost laser power sensor having sufficient measurement accuracy with respect to received light intensity of the power sensor. The power sensor has a sensor substrate which receives monitor light, and a filter which attenuates the intensity of the laser beam before being received by the sensor substrate. The filter is constituted from a material having a laser transmissivity equal to zero, and has a plurality of openings within an irradiation range where the monitor light is irradiated. A summation of opening areas of the openings is equal to or more than 50% of the irradiation range. A part of the laser beam, which is irradiated to the filter and passes through the openings, is directly received by the sensor substrate.
US09897477B2	Delivery unit with fill level sensor for a liquid additive, tank for storing liquid additive, motor vehicle and method for monitoring a fill level A delivery unit for extracting liquid additive from a tank can be mounted on the tank and includes a fill level sensor for measuring the fill level of liquid additive in the tank. The fill level sensor is set up to emit waves into an emission region of the tank, and the fill level can be measured by using a propagation time measurement of the waves reflected by a liquid surface and striking the fill level sensor again. At least one first reference surface extends at least partially into the emission region and is at a first distance from the fill level sensor. The at least one first reference surface is disposed on a separate calibration component mounted on an outer side of a housing of the delivery unit. A tank for storing liquid additive, a motor vehicle and a method for monitoring a fill level are also provided.
US09897468B2	Position detection device A processor of a position detection device intermittently performs an acquisition process during a measurement period to acquire a detection signal induced in a detection coil depending on the position of an object by driving an excitation coil. The processor configured to monitor whether or not the processor is executing the acquisition process without driving the excitation coil during a monitoring period set before the measurement period of the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a predetermined process when the processor is executing the acquisition process.
US09897466B2	Rotor position sensor signal correction A motor control system includes a shaft configured to be rotationally driven by a motor. A rotor position sensor is configured to detect rotation of the shaft and output a rotor position signal. A controller is in communication with the motor and the rotor position sensor. The controller converts the rotor position signal to an angle with error, tracks the angle with error to provide an angle that retains mechanical dynamics as stationary reference frame signals, transforms the stationary reference frame signals and the angle with mechanical dynamics to rotating reference frame signals, filters the rotating reference frame signals, transforms the filtered rotating reference frame signals to provide filtered stationary frame signals, and takes an arctangent of the filtered stationary reference frame signals to create a corrected motor control angle. The controller commands the motor based upon the corrected motor control angle.
US09897463B2	Method for operating a sensor system, sensor system and measurement signal The invention proposes a method for operating a sensor system comprising at least one sensor unit which provides signals, in which the signals comprise primary measurement value signals which are measurement values of the sensor unit or are generated from measurement values of the sensor unit and in which the signals comprise coefficient signals which characterize the measurement value capture.
US09897455B2	Travel route information generation apparatus A server acquires location information data and direction information data. The location information data indicates a travel path of vehicles with discrete locations. The direction information data indicates a traveling direction at each location indicated by the location information data. The server generates information about a new travel route that does not exist in the map data, based on off-route location information data indicative of a travel path deviated from travel routes existing in map data. The server estimates partial travel routes indicative of parts of the new travel route, based on the off-route location information data and the direction information data indicative of associated traveling directions of vehicles. The server then estimates the shape of the new travel route, based on the estimated partial travel routes.

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