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US10022218B2	Tricuspid regurgitation model and methods of evaluating intraluminal medical devices Animal models useful in the evaluation of medical devices, such as intraluminal medical devices, including intraluminal valve prostheses, are described. An example animal model comprises an animal in which a chordae tendineae attached to at least one of the leaflets of the tricuspid valve has been cut during an interventional procedure. Methods of evaluating intraluminal medical devices are also described. An example methods comprises cutting chordae tendineae attached to a leaflet of a tricuspid valve of an animal; allowing the animal to recover from the step of cutting the chordae tendineae; implanting an intraluminal medical device at a target site within a body vessel of the animal; allowing the animal to recover from the step of implanting an intraluminal medical device; and monitoring in vivo performance of the intraluminal medical device.
US10022214B2	Sheet tissue products The present disclosure provides a tissue product comprising a tissue sheet. The sheet can be formed from a plurality of tissue matrix fragments.
US10022211B2	Valve holder and loading integration A device for holding an implantable medical device includes a jar for receiving the implantable medical device, and a ring coupleable to the jar. The ring has a plurality of channels adapted to receive retaining features of the implantable medical device to stabilize the medical device within the jar.
US10022203B2	Handpiece for endodontic treatment Handpiece (1) for endodontic treatment, characterized in that it comprises an irrigation device for conveying an irrigation solution from a reservoir (10) to a head (5) for the purpose of ejecting the solution into a root canal, and in that it comprises an agitator device for setting in motion an endpiece (2) intended to penetrate inside a root canal in order to promote the action of the irrigation solution.
US10022199B2	Registration correction based on shift detection in image data The invention relates to a data processing method of determining a positional transformation (T, M) for correcting the registration of an anatomical body part with a medical imaging apparatus, the method being executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring initial body part position data comprising initial body part position information describing an initial relative position (1) between the medical imaging apparatus and the anatomical body part; b) acquiring, from the medical imaging apparatus, body part medical image data comprising body part medical image information describing an image of the anatomical body part; c) acquiring, based on the body part medical imaging data, actual body part position data comprising actual body part position information describing an actual relative position (2, 4) between the anatomical body part and the medical imaging apparatus; d) determining, based on the actual body part position data and the initial body part position data, body part position transformation data comprising body part position transformation information describing a transformation (T, M) between the initial relative position (1) between the anatomical body part and the medical imaging apparatus, and the actual relative position (2, 4) between the anatomical body part and the medical imaging apparatus.
US10022195B2	User interface for a robot A robotic system including: a robot arm; a camera for capturing motion of the robot arm; an input mechanism for detecting user input; a display device; and a controller. The controller can operate in (i) a first mode configured to drive the display device to display a video stream captured by the camera in a first format and to drive the robot arm such that motion by the user in a first direction causes the robot arm to move a reference part in a second direction; and (ii) a second mode configured to drive the display device to display the video stream in a second format reflected with respect to the first format and to drive the robot arm such that motion by the user in the first direction causes the robot arm to move the reference part in a direction opposite to the second direction.
US10022190B2	Optical force transducer Force transducer (10) include two structural members (11, 12) spaced apart to define a gap (101) and being linked to each other. Optical fibers (13) are to the members and are freely suspended in the gap. The optical fibers are configured to provide a change in a detectable optical property responsive to a change in relative position between the two members in one or more predetermined degrees of freedom. Each of the optical fibers (13) is fixed to both structural members and continuous between the members to link the two structural members to each other. The optical fibers are substantially the only structure forming a link between the two structural members (11, 12), such that the arrangement of the optical fibers defines substantially the stiffness of the link between the two structural members in the one or more predetermined degrees of freedom, which stiffness is mainly, such as for at least 95%, determined by the optical fibers.
US10022188B2	Hair removing laser shaver A shaver is disclosed that comprises a handle (12) and a cutting head (13) that are arranged to move relative to each other via a rotational and/or translational axis (16,17). This movement facilitates skin contour following during shaving to achieve a close cut. The handle (12) comprises a laser source that emits a laser beam and the shaver has an optical system that includes optical elements (23,25,26,37,40,42) to direct a part of a laser beam so that it coincides with the rotational axis and/or is parallel to the translational axis. In this way, when the cutting head (13) is moved the optical alignment between the laser source, optical elements (23,25,26,37,40,42) and cutting zone (28) does not change.
US10022183B2	Temperature-responsive irrigated ablation electrode with reduced coolant flow and related methods for making and using The present invention provides an irrigated ablation electrode that includes a plurality of high L/d interior fluid passageways and/or slit-shaped apertures to provide for a lower rate of fluid flow and a more uniform distribution of fluid over an exterior surface of the electrode and reduce propensity for aperture blockage. In some embodiments, the slit-shaped apertures have an aspect ratio of at least three, at least five, at least ten, or at least fifteen. Some embodiments include maintaining a pressure drop of at least 345 pascals between irrigation fluid inside the irrigated ablation electrode and fluid immediately outside the electrode when the irrigation fluid has a flow rate of no more than five milliliters per minute (5 ml/min). Some embodiments include a low-density insert with a plurality of fluid channels on its exterior surface to more efficiently cool the electrode and provide a faster thermal response.
US10022178B2	Expandable mesh platform for large area ablation An ablation device and a method of ablating a tissue are provided. The ablation device includes a first elongate shaft having a proximal portion, a distal portion and a lumen extending at least partially therethrough and a second elongate shaft having a proximal portion, a distal portion and a lumen extending at least partially therethrough. The first elongate shaft is coaxially positioned and longitudinally movable relative to the second elongate shaft. The ablation device further includes a mesh member including a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal portion of the mesh member is operably connected to the distal portion of the second elongate shaft and the distal potion the mesh member is operably connected to an inner surface of the distal portion of the first elongate shaft. The mesh member includes a conductive portion configured to contact a surface for ablation.
US10022174B2	Methods and devices for surgical guide pin placement Methods and devices are provided for placing surgical guide pins, reamers, and ligament grafts into bone. In one exemplary embodiment, the method can include advancing a guide pin that includes a proximal rigid portion and a flexible distal portion. The rigid proximal portion can be advanced into a femoral tunnel such that the flexible distal portion extends across an intra-articular space. The flexible portion of the guide pin can be bent to adjust a distance between the guide pin and articular cartilage. A cannulated reamer can be advanced over the flexible portion of the guide pin and the reamer can be manipulated to avoid contact with the articular cartilage in the intra-articular space. A ligament graft can be secured in the femoral tunnel created by the guide pin and the reamer.
US10022172B2	Minimally invasive posterolateral fusion A percutaneous system in which tubular retractors are utilized as a means of access, visualization, and a controlled orientation for preparation of posterior spinal elements and delivery of graft material for posterior spinal fusion. The tubular retractors are affixed to screw extensions to rotate and articulate relative to multi-axial screws percutaneously inserted into respective pedicles of vertebral bodies. The procedure is done bilaterally, although it could be performed unilaterally in cases where the anatomy or surgeon preference dictates. A number of different deployable graft concepts are disclosed, the primary features being to allow for creation of a graft space volume and a means for delivery of the graft material preferred by the surgeon.
US10022169B2	Closing member for sternal closure, sternal closure system comprising such closing member and sternal closure The invention relates to a closing member for a sternal closure which is adapted to be mounted on a human or animal body in the region of the sternum for closing a cleft therein, wherein the closing member includes a first rear engaging area and a second rear engaging area, wherein, on the one hand, the first rear engaging area is prepared for positive securing on a first mounting area of the sternal closure on the one side of the cleft and, on the other hand, the second rear engaging area is prepared for positive securing on a second mounting area of the sternal closure on the other side of the cleft; to a sternal closure system comprising two first and second securing portions spaced apart from each other and adapted to be mounted on the human or animal body on both sides of a cleft in the region of a sternum as well as such closing member; and to a sternal closure.
US10022166B2	Method and apparatuses for angular and rotational correction of the femur Methods, systems and apparatuses including an assembly for changing an orientation of a first portion of a femur relative to a second portion of the femur are disclosed. The assembly can include an intramedullary nail and a jig. The intramedullary nail can be insertable into an intramedullary canal of both the first portion of the femur and the second portion of the femur. The intramedullary nail can have a first section disposed between a proximal end and a distal end thereof. The first section can have at least one surface that is angled relative to an axis of the intramedullary nail. The jig can be coupled to and rotatable about the intramedullary nail to change a rotational position of the first portion of the femur relative to the second portion of the femur.
US10022137B2	Device for a patient-specific acetabulum reaming and cup positioning guide A device for use in total hip arthroplasty surgery is provided. The device includes a first guide member which includes a body having a top surface and a bottom surface, a plurality of first guide legs protruding from the body, and a plurality of protrusions extending from the body. The plurality of first guide legs include a contact area disposed on the open end of the first guide leg. The device also includes a third guide member which includes a tube, a plate configured to engage with the first guide member, and a plurality of holes disposed on the plate configured to receive the plurality of protrusions of the first guide member to couple the first guide member with the third guide member.
US10022135B2	Method and apparatus for orthopedic fixation A dual reconstructive wire system for use with an anatomy can include a first guide wire, a second guide wire, a first guide instrument, a first cannulated insertion instrument, and a second cannulated insertion instrument. The first guide wire can pass through the first cannulated insertion instrument such that a first end and a second end of the first guide wire extends beyond the first end and the second end, respectively of the first cannulated insertion instrument. The second guide wire can pass through the second cannulation insertion instrument such that a first end and a second end of the second guide wire extends beyond the first end and the second end, respectively of the second cannulated insertion instrument.
US10022131B1	Flexible drill bit and angled drill guide for use with the same A flexible drill bit comprising: a proximal shaft portion for connecting to a source of turning; a distal cutting tip portion for boring into a material; and an intermediate shaft portion extending between the proximal shaft portion and the distal cutting tip portion, the intermediate shaft portion being characterized by (i) sufficient longitudinal flexibility so as to permit the flexible drill bit to be passed along a curve, and (ii) sufficient torsional strength to permit the flexible drill bit to bore into the material. Apparatus for drilling a hole in material, the apparatus comprising: an angled drill guide comprising a curved distal section, a less-curved proximal section, and a lumen extending therebetween, wherein the less-curved proximal section comprises a flat extending therealong for reducing the effective diameter of the less-curved proximal section so as to minimize interference between the angled drill guide and the side wall of an access cannula.
US10022130B2	Polymer 4-in-1 femoral cutting block An orthopedic surgical instrument including a polymer 4-in-1 femoral cutting block having a chamfer cutting slot defined therein, and a chamfer cutting guide assembly secured within the chamfer cutting slot. The chamfer cutting guide assembly includes a first planar surface, a second planar surface spaced apart from, and extending parallel to, the first planar surface, a third planar surface connected to the second planar surface and extending at an angle relative to the first planar surface and a fourth planar surface connected to the first planar surface and extending parallel to the third planar surface. The first planar surface and the second planar surface define a first metallic planar cutting guide, and the third planar surface and the fourth planar surface define a second metallic planar cutting guide. The chamfer cutting guide assembly may include a pair of metallic bushings.
US10022126B2	Loading unit locking collar A system for securing a loading unit to an adapter includes a loading unit, an adapter, and a retention clip. The loading unit includes a shell having a proximal end portion having a radial surface that defines a radial groove. The adapter has a proximal end that is configured to selectively couple to a handle and a distal end that is received within the proximal end portion of the shell. The retention clip is disposed radially about the radial surface of the proximal end portion within the radial groove. The retention clip has a first and a second and a body therebetween. The first end of the body includes a lock that releasably secures the loading unit to the distal end of the adapter.
US10022121B2	Method and apparatus for guiding a suture thread A suture device is configured to guide a suture thread. The device includes a sleeve that defines an opening, and a plunger to which a suture thread can be attached. The plunger can be inserted into the opening of the sleeve, and movable between a retracted position and an advanced position. When the plunger is in the retracted position, a distal portion of the suture thread is located proximal with respect to the distal end of the suture device. When the plunger is in the advanced position, the distal portion of the suture thread is driven out the distal end of the suture device.
US10022117B2	Method of treating urinary incontinence A method of treating urinary incontinence in a patient includes forming one and only one incision in the patient and implanting a base of a support by placing an anchor into tissue of an obturator foramen. The anchor is attached to the base of the support by a continuous suture loop that is looped through an eyelet of the anchor and engaged through the base of the support. The method includes breaking the continuous suture loop, tying a knot in the suture, and fixating the base of the support in the patient. An arm of the support is implanted by placing a second anchor into periosteum tissue lateral to a pubic symphysis with a second continuous suture loop looped through an eyelet of the second anchor and engaged through the arm of the support.
US10022108B2	Bowel care collection bag Disclosed is a human waste collection device capable of collecting the human waste products into a collection bag for bedridden and incontinent patients, comprising the first female component, comprising a rectangular shaped base, with triangular sides, front and rear sides and hexagonal top, to adhere with the hexagonal shaped second male component, which thereby adhere together to a single united structure. the female component comprises the slit for receiving the guided barrel of the second male component and the adherent material for attachment with the said second male component at hexagonal top; the circular viewing window, built-in occult for blood testing strip and atleast one of the plurality of gas release holes to release the toxic gases at the first front side. The male component comprises the adhesive liner at the top and bottom sides to adhere with the human anus and first female component respectively. A human waste collection device is sealable, bio-degradable, portable, simple and convenient to use; and adheres to the human skin while in use, providing a sanitized and hygienic environment.
US10022106B2	Holder for a transesophageal echocardiography probe A device includes a first retainer plate, a second retainer plate, a connector link, and a clamp. The second retainer plate has a clearance aperture. The connector link has a first end and a second end. The first retainer plate is coupled to the first end and the second retainer plate is coupled to the second end. The first retainer plate and second retainer plate are in parallel alignment. At least one of the first retainer plate and the second retainer plate are elastically urged to converge. The clamp is coupled to the connector link by a joint. The joint is configured to articulate in at least two degrees of freedom and configured to retain a selected fixed alignment as to the connector link relative to the clamp.
US10022104B2	Markers, phantoms and associated methods for calibrating imaging systems Embodiments of the present invention provide markers, phantoms, and associated methods of calibration which are suitable for use in both magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic imaging systems. A marker includes a first marker component having a first hydrogen proton density and a first mass density; and a second marker component having a second hydrogen proton density different than the first hydrogen proton density, and a second mass density different than the first mass density. The first marker component and the second marker component are non-magnetic.
US10022095B2	Support structure with raisable cover A support structure is disclosed. The support structure has at least one cover installed to cover a side of the support structure. The cover is raised pivotally by at least one primary support mechanism. The cover may be secured in place by an additional support mechanism. The additional support mechanism may be set in two different positions, one that allows for load on the primary support mechanism and another that does not allow for load on the primary support mechanism.
US10022089B2	Measuring device for determining cerebral parameters The invention relates to a device and a method for noninvasive measurement of parameters of a bodily tissue, the measuring device having a sensor unit and a sensor mat for detachable placement of the device on a body surface. The sensor unit (1) has a receptacle (6), the interior of which accommodates a sensor arrangement, wherein the receptacle (6) has a sensor surface (15) in the direction of the body surface. The sensor mat (8) has a cutout (11) for accommodating the sensor unit (1) and a contact surface (14), at least partially surrounding the sensor unit (1), for placement on the body surface (9). A cover (12) is provided for closing the cutout (11) over an upper side of the sensor unit (1) and the sensor mat (8) during a measurement of parameters. The sensor unit (1), the sensor mat (8) and the cover (12) are detachable from one another.
US10022087B2	Swim stroke counter A stroke counter and a method of analyzing strokes of swimmer are provided. The stroke counter and method use changes in pressure proximate the arms and legs of the swimmer to determine when the swimmer performs a swimming stroke using either the arms or legs.
US10022086B1	Extended band system A method and apparatus to provide an extended band is described. The method comprises pairing a body-worn device and a host device and establishing a low-power connection between the body-worn device and the host device to form an extended band. The method further comprises monitoring a user's status with a plurality of sensors on the host device and/or the body-worn device, and using the extended band to do one or more of: provide alerts to the user, based on the sensor data, control the extended band from one of the devices, and share data with third parties using the extended band.
US10022082B2	Apparatus and method for detecting a state of a driver based on biometric signals of the driver An apparatus and a method is provided for detecting biometric signals of a driver and classifying the driver into a normal state or a fatigued state based on the biometric signals. An apparatus may include: a biometric signal measuring part configured to measure the biometric signals including a blood flow rate of a brain of the driver using an electro-encephalography (EEG), an electro-cardiography (ECG), and a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of the driver; a biometric signal integral part configured to integrate the measured biometric signals, to extract characteristics of the respective biometric signals from the measured biometric signals and to then integrate the extracted characteristics, or to classify the extracted characteristics of the biometric signals and to then integrate the classified characteristics; and a driver state detecting part configured to detect the state of the driver based on the integrated biometric signals.
US10022081B2	Sampling device and sampling method The present invention relates to a sampling device, a sampling system and a method of sampling, and in particular a method of analysis, for application to a living entity.
US10022080B2	Analyte sensors, systems, testing apparatus and manufacturing methods In some aspects, an analyte sensor is provided for detecting an analyte concentration level in a bio-fluid sample. The analyte sensor may include one or more conductors received in a hollow portion of a hollow member. The first conductor may be made, at least in part, of a semiconductor material and an active region may be provided in contact with at least the first conductor. The analyte sensor may, in one aspect, include a lancet and an integrated sensor. Manufacturing methods and apparatus and systems utilizing the analyte sensors are provided, as are numerous other aspects.
US10022079B2	Syringe systems and methods for bodily fluid collection and sampling Embodiments of a syringe-based device for procuring bodily fluid samples can include a housing having a port that can be coupled to a lumen-defining device for receiving bodily fluids, an actuator mechanism retained at least partially within the housing, the actuator mechanism including a pre-sample reservoir, a plunger operably coupled with pre-sample reservoir, a plunger cap, a plunger tube, a valve, a plunger seal, an a selectively attachable collection vial for capturing a bodily fluid sample.
US10022058B2	System and method for pulse rate calculation using a scheme for alternate weighting Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for analyzing pulse data. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a signal containing data representing a plurality of pulses, the signal generated in response to detecting light scattered from blood perfused tissue. Further, one embodiment includes performing a pulse identification or qualification algorithm on at least a portion of the data, the pulse identification or qualification algorithm comprising at least one constant, and modifying the at least one constant based on results obtained from performing the pulse identification or qualification algorithm, wherein the results indicate that a designated number of rejected pulses has been reached.
US10022055B2	Blood pressure information measurement device cuff and blood pressure information measurement device provided therewith A blood pressure information measurement device cuff includes a wide blood pressure value measurement air bladder wrapped around a fitting area when in a fitted state, and a narrow pulse wave measurement air bladder disposed so as to be closer to the fitting area than the blood pressure value measurement air bladder when in the fitted state, and covered by the blood pressure value measurement air bladder when wrapped around the fitting area. The pulse wave measurement air bladder includes an anchored portion anchored to the blood pressure value measurement air bladder so as to be immobile relative to the blood pressure value measurement air bladder and a mobile portion that is not anchored to the blood pressure value measurement air bladder so as to be mobile relative to the blood pressure value measurement air bladder along a wrapping direction in which the cuff is wrapped around the measurement area.
US10022054B2	Implantable wireless sensor systems In some embodiments, a cardiac monitoring system includes multiple sensors configured for implantation in a cardiovascular system of a user. Each sensor includes a sensing unit configured to be disposed in sensory communication with the location for measuring a biological parameter in the at least one heart chamber. The sensing unit is also configured to generate a sensory signal associated with the biological parameter. Each sensor also includes a wireless transceiver configured to receive the sensory signal from the sensing unit. The wireless transceiver is further configured to wirelessly transmit the sensory signal to an external processing device disposed outside a body of the user. The external processing device monitors, based on the sensory signal received from at least two sensors from the plurality of sensors, cardiac health associated with at least one of an implanted device or a surgery.
US10022051B2	Information provision system, electronic device, method and storage medium According to one embodiment, an information provision system including a biological sensor device including a sensor and an information transmitting terminal communicably connected to the biological sensor device is provided. The information transmitting terminal includes a detector. The detector detects an action of the user. The biological sensor device includes an obtaining module. The obtaining module obtains, when the action of the user is detected, biological data by driving the sensor during a measurement period included in a measurement information in association with the action.
US10022038B2	Dishwasher guide rail assembly In one aspect, a dishwasher includes a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber and defining an access opening, a dishrack, and a guide rail assembly slidably mounting the dishrack to the tub. The guide rail assembly has a guide rail mounted to the dishrack or to the tub and has upper and lower tracks, which are spaced from each other by a predetermined height, and at least one pair of wheels comprising upper and lower wheels, which are rotatably mounted to the other of the dishrack or the tub.
US10022035B2	Dishwasher illuminating system In one aspect, a dishwasher having sidewalls at least partially defining a treating chamber and defining an access opening, a rack rail mount, and a rack rail coupled to the tub mount slidably mounting a dishrack. The tub mount includes at least a light source and an electrical connection configured to provide electrical connection from the light source to a wiring harness adjacent the sidewall.
US10022029B2	Electric vacuum cleaner An electric vacuum cleaner, including a cleaning unit includes a body case including a dust container opening, and a primary dust container including: a container body detachably provided to the body case accumulating dust collected by the cleaning unit; a connecting part exposed from or facing the dust container opening, when attached to the body case; a disposal port provided in the connecting part, for discharging dust from inside the container body; and a disposal lid opening and closing the disposal port. The station includes a dust transfer pipe contacting the connecting part of the primary dust container and connected to the disposal port, and a secondary dust container in which dust discharged from the primary dust container through the dust transfer pipe is accumulated.
US10022028B2	Cleaner The self-propelled cleaner (1) of the present invention includes an event detecting section (101) for detecting an event which relates to cleaning and has occurred in the cleaner, a feeling selecting section (201) for selecting, from a plurality of options, an operation mode with which the cleaner carries out an operation in response to the event, in accordance with measured information which relates to the cleaning and is measured by the cleaner, and a response operation control section (301) for controlling the cleaner to carry out the operation based on the operation information which is associated with the event and the operation mode.
US10022018B2	Device for use in a blender A device for use in a blender comprises a rotatably arranged tool (10) for moving through food to be processed by means of the blender, and a tool cage (20) for partially covering the tool (10). The tool cage (20) is shaped like a hollow cylinder having a longitudinal axis and an inner surface (24) with exclusively non-convex areas, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the tool cage (20) deviates from a circular shape and has at least one protruding area which is outside of an imaginary circle being centrally positioned about the longitudinal axis and touching the inner surface (24) while having a minimum radius. The inner surface (24) of the tool cage (20) may have a triangular shape or a square shape about the longitudinal axis. A dimensionless characteristic value and a range for the value are defined for predicting quality of performance of the device.
US10022010B2	Method, system and capsule for preparing a beverage The method comprises a first step during which with a capsule inserted into a percolation element and of the type presenting different chambers each of which containing a corresponding infuse, a water flow coming from a tank is caused to reach a predetermined temperature and a second step during which the water flow is directed towards a plurality of channels each of which is defined by a respective chamber and by a respective outlet area of said capsule.
US10022008B1	Cooking assistive device and method for making and using same A cooking assistive device comprises a portable housing configured to be disposed on or proximate a food item. The device includes a plurality of sensors situated within the housing, a dispenser, and a utensil holder. The device has a memory storing computer-readable instructions, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to: (a) obtain a wireless input from a mobile device; (b) access data stored in a remote database; (c) obtain a reading from at least one of the plurality of sensors; and (d) cause the dispenser to dispense a substance in response to the reading.
US10022002B2	Extensible Z accessorized travel head rest A travel aid device and system are disclosed comprising an upper platform adapted to receive a pillow thereon and a plurality of accessories therein. The disclosed device and system also include a lower platform base adapted to rest on a flat supporting surface and receive a plurality of accessories via a plurality of accessory ports therein. The disclosure also includes a pair of extension arms configured to connect the upper platform and the lower base in a “Z” shape via at least two points on each platform. The disclosure additionally includes use with a travel pillow shaped like a donut to receive a traveler's face therein, the travel pillow received onto a top surface of the upper platform. The upper and lower platforms are collapsible into a single laptop-like shell for compact transport and the pillow is detachable therefrom. A ratcheting hub and an angle lock knob or lock button are included.
US10021990B2	Cooler with fold out bed A convertible cooler comprises a cooler body, a lid having a top surface and a rear connector part, a bed extension having an adjoining edge and a sleeping surface, a bed extension connector pivotally connecting the adjoining edge to the rear connector part to rotate the bed extension between a stowed position, in which the bed extension rests flat upon the top surface of the lid, and an extended position, in which the sleeping surface of the bed extension is substantially coplanar with the top surface of the lid, and a leg assembly connected to the bed extension and adjustably supporting the bed extension above ground at a level that places the sleeping surface substantially coplanar with the top surface of the lid when in the extended position. The lid top surface and the sleeping surface of the bed extension are sized to permit a person to sleep thereon.
US10021982B2	No-tools chair having detachable height and tilt control paddles A chair is disclosed herein of the kind that is shipped disassembled in a compact shipping package to be assembled by the end user without the use of tools. The chair has a pair of user actuated height and tilt control paddles by which the elevation of the seat and the tilt of the seat and back of the chair can be adjusted relative to the base which holds the seat above the ground. In one embodiment, the height and tilt control paddles are removably attached to the seat at respective paddle receivers connected to the bottom of the seat. In another embodiment, the height and tilt control paddles are removably received by respective paddle cavities formed in the arms of the chair. By removing the paddles from their paddle receivers or paddle cavities, the parts of the disassembled chair may be more efficiently packaged for shipment.
US10021978B1	Clutch for furniture parts A clutch includes a first transmission member, a second transmission member, at least one abutting member, a control base and an engaging member. The second transmission member is movably connected to the first transmission member. The at least one abutting member is movably mounted between the first transmission member and the second transmission member. The control base provides a limited space. The engaging member is movably mounted in the limited space. Wherein, the engaging member is not engaged with the second transmission member when the control base is in a first state relative to the second transmission member. Wherein, the engaging member is engaged with the second transmission member when the control base is in a second state relative to the second transmission member.
US10021973B1	Closet partition system and method of assembly A closet partition system for mounting on a wall includes first and second vertical partitions with a back panel extending therebetween to define a storage area A bracket is mounted to the first vertical partition to support the back panel relative to the first vertical partition. The bracket includes a seat adapted to receive the rear edge of the first vertical partition and a support leg extending orthogonal to the seat to support the back panel relative to the rear edge of the first vertical partition. When the rear edge of the first vertical partition is disposed within the seat, the support leg offsets the first back panel from the rear edge of the first vertical partition to define a raceway between the first back panel and the rear edge of the first vertical partition.
US10021966B2	Paint brush with modified handle A paint brush with a modified handle features a handle that is elongated in comparison to a conventional paint brush, and provides hooks for hanging the brush on the rim of a paint can. The lower end of the handle provides a threaded socket for affixing the brush on the end of a painting pole, enabling quick and easy touch-ups of any spots high above the floor or scaffold that were missed.
US10021963B2	Dispensing toothbrush assembly A dispensing toothbrush assembly includes a toothbrush that may be manipulated. The toothbrush has a conduit therein. The conduit transports a fluid into the toothbrush thereby facilitating the toothbrush to clean teeth. A dispensing unit is provided and the dispensing unit contains toothpaste. The dispensing unit may be manipulated thereby facilitating the dispensing unit to urge the toothpaste outwardly from the toothbrush.
US10021960B1	Paintbrush and method of use A paintbrush includes a bristle assembly which has a bristle housing to which a plurality of bristles are connected. The bristle housing has a first connector which is spaced apart from a second connector. A handle includes a holder which has cavity which is shaped and dimensioned to removably receive the bristle housing. The handle also includes spaced apart first and second resilient arms, the first resilient arm has a first arm connector and the second resilient arm has a second arm connector. The bristle housing is positionable in the cavity of the holder so that the first connector engages the first arm connector and the second connector engages the second arm connector thereby locking the bristle housing within the cavity. The first resilient arm and the second resilient arm are also positionable to a release position so that the first arm connector is disengaged from the first connector and the second arm connector is disengaged from the second connector so that the bristle housing can be removed from the holder.
US10021957B1	Laptop support An apparatus for supporting a laptop or tablet computer when being used by someone in a reclining position with their knees bent up. It suspends the computer by a main strap that is wrapped around the knees, and two support straps that hang from the front of the main strap. The laptop is held in a secure position on a user's thighs by resting front corners of the laptop within the two support straps. The laptop support is also usable in a second position with the laptop resting between a user's thighs.
US10021953B2	Liquid cosmetic container A liquid cosmetic container includes a housing portion and a leading tube. The leading tube has an inclination portion at a tip end side. The inclination portion inclines with respect to an axis center of the container main body. A front end forms a side close to the axis center of the container main body in the opening of the inclination portion. A front end forms a side far from the axis center of the container main body in the opening. The front end is positioned on a front side with respect to the front end with a vertical cross section as a reference. The front end on a side to which the intermediate core warps extends forward in the inclination portion. This reduces the warp of the applying portion, further improving the usability.
US10021942B2	Footwear lacing system A lacing system for an article of footwear may include a lateral series of lace-receiving elements and a medial series of lace-receiving elements. A first lace extends consecutively through a first lateral lace-receiving element, a second lateral lace-receiving element, a fourth medial lace-receiving element, a fifth lateral lace-receiving element, a third medial lace-receiving element, and again through the first lateral lace-receiving element. A second lace extends consecutively through a first medial lace-receiving element, a second medial lace-receiving element, a fourth lateral lace-receiving element, a fifth medial lace-receiving element, a third lateral lace-receiving element, and again through the first medial lace-receiving element.
US10021924B2	Glove finger attachment system A glove apparatus is disclosed comprising a substantially glove-shaped first layer, a substantially glove-shaped second layer, and an attachment tab comprising a lower portion, an upper portion, and an extension portion. The attachment tab is attached to a finger portion of the second layer along the lower portion and along the upper portion. The extension portion extends from the attachment tab at a location distal from a fingertip of the second layer and overlies the upper portion to an attachment region on the first layer proximate a fingertip of the first layer, the fingertips of the first layer and of the second layer thereby lying substantially near or in contact with one another.
US10021923B2	Glove with polymer encapsulation of purpose-driven components A work glove with a hand-receiving cavity and a thumb tube and four elongated finger tubes. A resilient pad attaches in a portion selected for providing resistance to industrial loading. A polymer coating encapsulates at least a portion of an exterior surface and the resilient pad within a continuous film, the resilient pad and the polymer coating defining in situ an interfacial miscible layer comprising portions of the resilient pad bonded with the polymer coating, which continuous film resists chemical penetration therethrough while the resilient pad resists industrial loading during use of the work glove.
US10021921B2	Jeans garment having body contouring and shape-enhancing functions The invention discloses contoured, shape-enhancing jeans garments having permanent inner structures of a buttocks enhancing contoured form at the posterior waistband portion and torso region; and, an anterior tummy slimming and smoothing pocket structure system, eliminating the need for additional or separate buttocks expanding, or shaping devise, or girdle type undergarments. The buttocks system is affixed at strategic points to the posterior of the jeans garment; and the tummy system is similarly incorporated at the anterior of the garments. The buttocks system is comprised of a tapered open cell foam pad with a stretchable posterior casing and anterior minimal stretch lining allowing for flexibility, comfort and conformity to the individuals physique with a free floating lower edge. The tummy system is specifically positioned to slim and smooth by covering and containing the tummy of the wearer.
US10021919B2	Method and device for protecting the human body from foot strike shock A shock-absorbing sock is shown and described. In one embodiment, the sock is a shock-absorbing athletic sock generally conforming to the shape of a human foot that includes a heel portion, a mid-foot portion and a shock absorbing assembly. The shock absorbing assembly may include a cavity assembly and a shock absorbing material. In other embodiments, the sock may include a slip-avoidance system.
US10021917B2	Atomizer and electronic cigarette having same An atomizer includes a main body and an atomizing device detachably connected to the main body. The main body defines a liquid chamber. The atomizing device includes an atomizing core and a first connecting holder. The first connecting holder is configured for supporting the atomizing core. The first connecting holder is configured for connecting with the main body in a rotatable manner. The atomizing device further includes a second connecting holder movable between a first position and a second position along an axial direction. When the second connecting holder is in the first position, the second connecting holder is rotatable relative to the first connecting holder. When the second connecting holder is in the second position, the second connecting holder is capable of driving the first connecting holder to rotate, so that the first connecting holder can be detached from the main body.
US10021912B2	Non-burning type flavor inhaler and method used for non-burning type flavor inhaler A non-burning type flavor inhaler includes a control unit that controls power supplied from a power source to an atomizer. The control unit controls, in one puff action in a standard mode, controls the power source to supply standard power amount to the atomizer in a duration before a first duration elapses. The control unit, in one puff action in the reduced mode, controls the power source to supply first power amount greater than the standard power amount to the atomizer in a duration before a second duration elapses, and controls the power source to supply second power amount smaller than the first power amount to the atomizer in a duration after the second duration elapses and before a third duration elapses.
US10021911B2	Disposable cartridge with resealable trapdoor A resealable disposable microvaporizer cartridge having an outer casing and an inner casing that is radially inwards of the outer casing, a trapdoor, and a tank defined between a radially inward surface of the outer casing and a radially outward surface of the inner casing. The cartridge is sealed by the trapdoor on one end, and the trapdoor is resealable. A disposable mouthpiece can also be provided on the disposable cartridge.
US10021907B2	Hookah bowl A bowl for a water pipe comprising: an interior space defined by an inner surface of the bowl; and one or more walls separating the inner space into a plurality of compartments for holding organic matter to be smoked by a user.
US10021901B2	Antimicrobial mixture of aldehydes, organic acids and fatty acid esters An antimicrobial composition and method for extending the shelf-life of water, food/feed or food/feed ingredients, comprising: 5-25 wt. % nonanoic acid, 1-25 wt. % organic acid ester, 1-50 wt. % of a single or mixture of C1-C24 aldehydes, a mixture of C1-C24 organic acids, and water.
US10021900B2	Carbohydrate composition and food and beverage producing gradual rise in blood glucose levels Novel findings have been made that a carbohydrate composition in which a highly branched dextrin and isomaltulose are mixed at a specific ratio, wherein the highly branched dextrin has a structure in which glucose or isomaltooligosaccharide is bound to a non-reducing terminus of a dextrin via an α-1,6 glycosidic bond, and has a DE value of 10 to 52, enhances an suppressing effect on digestion of the highly branched dextrin by isomaltulose, that is, synergistically suppresses the digestion, thereby leading to the completion of the present invention.
US10021899B2	Stevia composition Stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
US10021898B2	Airflow-regulated smokers and methods of using the same Smokers can enclose smoking subjects for production of trapped smoke with limited airflow. Optimal airflow rates and resulting smoking effects can be achieved through smokers. If a smoker has approximately 60 cubic inches volume, four 2-millimeter holes at an air inlet point achieves desired airflow and oxygen consumption in typical fills and cooking temperatures. Smokers may include a lid or other seal or access point to permit placement and enclosure of smoking materials. Smokers are useable with conventional grills and may be shaped to sit on grill racks without blocking desired airflow by grill components or smoking materials. Smokers may include a detachable handle for safer handling and heating.
US10021896B2	Production of pulse protein product with reduced astringency Pulse proteins of reduced astringency are obtained by fractionating pulse protein products which are completely soluble and heat stable in aqueous media at acid pH value of less than about 4.4 into lower molecular weight, less astringent proteins and higher molecular weight, more astringent proteins.
US10021895B2	Method for quickly preparing a marshmallow based snack A method of coating a wide variety of foodstuffs with tasty marshmallow material simply by enclosing foodstuffs with marshmallows in the same container that permits gaseous venting, but otherwise secures the enclosed foodstuffs. Microwaving the container for one minute or less causes the marshmallow, responding to the microwaves, to radically expand many times its original size. The expanding marshmallow quickly and conveniently coats the secured foodstuffs in the container with a layer of marshmallow material to produce a tasty food treat. The addition of a stick or other handling means is highly desirable, as is a means of easily extracting the food treat from the enclosure and aids in keeping hands clean while eating the food treat.
US10021887B2	Stand-alone gas-fired smoker with mechanical temperature control A stand-alone gas-fired smoker constitutes a cabinet for holding food products to be cooked. A gas burner in the bottom of the cabinet is connected to a source of flammable gas by means of a variable gas valve. The gas burner heats the cabinet and thereby cooks the food products. An oil filled temperature sensing bulb is connected by means of a capillary tube to the variable gas valve in order to modulate the gas delivered through the variable gas valve to the gas burner and thereby modulate the temperature within the cabinet. A safety/ignition valve is connected between of the gas source and the variable gas valve. The safety/ignition valve is connected to a flame sensor, and the safety/ignition valve closes if the flame sensor senses that the gas burner has been extinguished.
US10021883B2	High speed rinsing solution application The present disclosure includes various method, and apparatus embodiments for high speed rinsing solution application. One such apparatus embodiment includes a substructure having an elliptical track, a catheter delivery system including a plurality of carriages coupled to the track, wherein each of the carriages includes a respective catheter delivery mechanism, a carousel drive system configured to drive the carriages such that the carriages circulate about the substructure on the track, a rotary timing valve positioned above a central portion of the substructure, the rotary timing valve including a plurality of outlets each positioned at a respective radial position on the rotary timing valve, wherein each of the plurality of outlets is connected to a respective catheter delivery mechanism by a hose, and a hose table positioned between the rotary timing valve and the substructure and configured to support the hoses.
US10021881B2	Vaporized administration of pesticides The present disclosure relates to methods for administering vaporized pyrimethanil as an antimicrobial to inhibit pathogens of agricultural crops.
US10021875B2	Repellant system and method Some embodiments provide an illumination system with an outer housing including a base, a central housing pivotably coupled to the base including a fluid inlet, and an upper housing including a fluid outlet. The inner housing defines a chamber and is coupled to the base, and includes a fluid aperture adjacent to the base, and a fluid aperture adjacent to the upper housing and a viewing aperture. The chamber houses an evaporator system not visible through the outer housing, and an illumination device. Some embodiments include a repellent system with a base including a fluid inlet pivotably coupled to a main housing enclosing an inner region, and including an upper portion with at least one fluid outlet. In some embodiments, an evaporator system within the inner region is not visible through the main housing. Some embodiments include an evaporator assembly that includes a lockable evaporator support to render the system non-refillable.
US10021871B1	Mobile insect killing system A base assembly has an upward plate, a downward plate, a side wall, a front, a back, and laterally spaced sides. A drive assembly has drive wheels which extend downwardly from the downward plate and has a caster wheel. The drive assembly also has proximity sensors. A vacuum assembly has a vacuum slit formed in the downward plate between the laterally spaced sides. A source of vacuum pulls a vacuum through the vacuum slit. A tower assembly attracts and kills insects while the base assembly and tower assembly are driven by the drive assembly and the vacuum assembly vacuums up insects.
US10021870B2	Real-time counting insecticidal lamp A real-time counting insecticidal lamp includes a rainproof cover, a LED lamp body, an insect receiver, and a high-voltage grid; the rainproof cover is arranged above the lamp body, the insect receiver is arranged below the lamp body, and the high-voltage grid is arranged at the periphery of the lamp body; the high-voltage grid includes a high-voltage direct current power supply and N-1 wires, and the N-1 wires are arranged in parallel in each interval to form a circle, wherein, N is no less than 10; top ends of the wires are all connected to the power supply end of the power supply, but one of two adjacent wires is electrically connected to the positive end of the power supply while the other is electrically connected to the negative end; the real-time counting insecticidal lamp also includes a counting unit.
US10021841B2	Local and integrated remote control system and method for retrofitting existing electric center irrigation pivots A system and method for retrofitting an electric center irrigation pivot to have a standardized user interface and remote control functionality. A local control element having a standardized local user interface is installed at a pivoting point of the pivot by bypassing an existing control logic of an original control system while using an existing transformer of the original control system. A remote control element having a standardized remote user interface is also installed at the pivoting point of the pivot, and is functionally integrated with the local control element. A position-determining element is mounted on a movable portion of the electric pivot. Retrofitting multiple pivots provides each with the same standardized user interfaces. Because existing elements of the original control system are either bypassed or used, uninstalling the system and reverting to the original control system can be quickly and easily accomplished.
US10021839B2	Various improvements to stump cutting tool discs The present invention is generally directed to a bit assembly that includes, but is not limited to: a bit securing sub-assembly including a bit holder member that defines a recess having a first portion extending in a first direction, and a second portion extending from the first portion along a second direction that is not parallel to the first direction; a bit mechanically connected to the bit holder member and positioned within the recess by a fastening hardware that extends through co-axially aligned holes formed in the bit holder member and the bit; and a bit shielding sub-assembly comprising a bit shielding member mechanically connected to and extending from the second portion of the bit holder in a third direction that is substantially parallel to and spaced from the first direction; wherein the bit shielding member is structured, positioned, and/or located to at least partially shield the bit in the first direction.
US10021834B2	Plunger slot cleaner for an agricultural baler An agricultural baler includes a pre-compression chamber having an outlet, and a main bale chamber adapted to receive crop from the pre-compression chamber. A plunger is reciprocally disposed within the main bale chamber, and includes a plurality of plunger slots which are structured and arranged to allow a plurality of needles to intermittently pass therethrough. The baler is characterized by a plunger cleaner which is structured and arranged to provide the dual functionality of: 1) cleaning the plunger slots, and 2) opening and closing the outlet of the pre-compression chamber.
US10021833B1	Power distribution arrangement for a stand-on mower A mower includes mower frame, an engine and a drive arrangement as well as first and second drive wheels and at least one non-drive wheel. A jackshaft assembly is mounted to the frame and is belt powered by the engine. The jackshaft carries a deck drive pulley. The deck drive pulley is operably connected to the cutting deck by a deck drive belt. The deck drive pulley is spaced away from the cutting deck farther than an engine mounted pulley would be spaced away from the cutting deck. This allows the height of the cutting deck to be adjusted while limiting misalignment of the cutting deck drive belt.
US10021830B2	Blade assembly for a grass cutting mobile robot A grass cutting mobile robot includes a body and a blade assembly connected to the body and rotatable about a drive axis. The blade assembly includes blades, a housing to hold the blades, and a spring that connects the blade to the housing. The housing includes a slot in which to mount a blade so that a portion of the blade is movable through the slot towards another blade in response to an impact. The slot slopes upwards in the housing towards the body, thereby enabling the blade to move upwards relative to a ground surface toward the body in response to the impact. The spring is for constraining movement of the blade relative to the housing.
US10021827B2	Twin row planter A multi-row planting unit includes a first planting assembly coupled to a mounting plate and a second planting assembly coupled to the mounting plate. Each of the first planting assembly and the second planting assembly are configured to dispense a solid from a metering unit. The metering unit of the first planting assembly is positioned to dispense the solid at a predetermined spacing with respect to the solid dispensed from the metering unit of the second planting assembly.
US10021824B2	Superabsorbent polymer seed coatings and associated methods Superabsorbent polymer products for use in agricultural applications, and methods of making the same, are provided. The superabsorbent polymer is used in a seed coating along with an active ingredient, and optionally a singulating substance, to improve seed germination and/or blooming; improve germination under dry conditions; decrease irrigation requirements; increase propagation, crop growth, and crop production; and improve the efficacy of the active ingredient.
US10028419B2	Electromagnetic gaskets for a cable connection A gasket assembly structure including a frame which includes a front half and a back half joined together with a plurality of interlocking tabs located around a perimeter of the frame, defining a window, and an electromagnetic gasket, constrained between the front half and the back half of the frame; where the electromagnetic gasket lines an interior perimeter of the window and partially extends from the frame into the window, and a passageway through the window of the frame with boarders defined by the constrained electromagnetic gasket. A housing structure including a receptacle recessed within an opening on a front side of the housing, the receptacle is rigidly attached to the housing, and a gasket assembly recessed within the opening and located between the front side of the housing and the receptacle, where the gasket assembly is directly secured to the housing.
US10028415B1	Electronic equipment data center and server co-location facility configurations and method of using the same Described herein is an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, as well as efficient wire routing, and in particular a configuration in which electronic equipment cabinets are arranged in rows within thermal compartments where the cabinets may be rolled in and out of place as required and a frame supports thermal shields of the thermal compartment.
US10028413B2	Heat transfer management apparatuses having a composite lamina Heat transfer management apparatuses are disclosed. In one embodiment, a heat transfer management apparatus includes a composite lamina having an insulator substrate and a plurality of thermal conductor traces coupled to the insulator substrate. The plurality of thermal conductor traces are arranged into a first enhanced thermal conduction region and a second enhanced thermal conduction region. The heat transfer management apparatus also includes a heat generating component mount and a temperature sensitive component mount in electrical continuity with the heat generating component mount, where a shielding path projection extends from the heat generating component mount towards the temperature sensitive component mount, and at least one of the thermal conductor traces is transverse to the shielding path projection between the heat generating component mount and the temperature sensitive component mount to steer heat flux away from the temperature sensitive component mount.
US10028402B1	Planar expansion card assembly The disclosed technology includes an assembly of two planar expansion card cards, which provides functionality to be leveraged by an upper planar expansion card. The base planar expansion card includes a first connector A, a first connector B, a connector C, a first pass-through connector A configured to connect to the first connector A, and a first pass-through connector B configured to connect to the first connector B. An upper planar expansion card includes a second connector A and a second connector B. The second connector A and the second connector B connect to the first pass-through connector A and the first B connector pass-through, respectively. In some implementations, the second connector A and second connector B are configured for a PCI-E and the connector C is configured for Ethernet KR signals.
US10028399B2	Compressor protection module A compressor may include a shell, a terminal assembly and an electronics module. The terminal assembly may engage the shell and may include an outwardly extending conductor and a terminal fence at least partially surrounding the conductor. The electronics module may include a back plate having an opening through which the terminal fence may be received. The back plate may include an engagement feature and a spring element. The engagement feature may removably engage the terminal fence. The spring element may contact the shell and bias the back plate away from the shell.
US10028395B2	Foldable display device and holding structure thereof A foldable display device includes a holding structure and a flexible display panel. The holding structure includes a housing, a first supporting stage, a second supporting stage, a supporting element, and a first flexible element. A third portion of the housing is pivotally connected to a first portion and a second portion of the housing. The third portion of the housing has an accommodating space. The first supporting stage is located on the first portion of the housing. The second supporting stage is located on the second portion of the housing. A gap is formed between the portion of the second supporting stage and the portion of the first supporting stage. The supporting element is located in the accommodating space. Two ends of the first flexible element are respectively connected to the supporting element and the third portion of the housing.
US10028391B1	Bussed electrical center A bussed electrical center includes an electrical-assembly and a single fastening feature. The electrical-assembly includes a lower-housing, a printed-circuit-board, an upper-housing, and electrical-devices. The lower-housing engages an outer-housing that retains electrical-connectors having a plurality of electrical-terminals. The printed-circuit-board has a plurality of corresponding-electrical-terminals configured to mate with the plurality of electrical-terminals of the electrical-connectors. The electrical-assembly defines a guide-hole that passes through the upper-housing, the printed-circuit-board, and the lower-housing, wherein the guide-hole defines a shoulder in the upper-housing. The single fastening feature consists of one first-fastener element positioned within the guide-hole that has a flange and a shank. The shank is operable to engage one second-fastener element in the outer-housing. The flange engages the shoulder, wherein the electrical-assembly is drawn into the outer-housing when the first-fastener element and the second-fastener element are tightened together to mate the electrical-terminals with the corresponding-electrical-terminals.
US10028386B2	Composite electronic component and board having the same A composite electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor; a tantalum capacitor; a lead frame disposed between the multilayer capacitor and the tantalum capacitor and electrically connecting the multilayer capacitor and the tantalum capacitor to each other; and an encapsulation member encapsulating the multilayer capacitor and the tantalum capacitor so that a portion of the lead frame is exposed.
US10028385B2	Method of manufacturing a processor An inductor is integrated into a multilevel wiring network of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The inductor includes a planar magnetic core and a conductive winding. The conductive winding turns around in generally spiral manner on the outside of the planar magnetic core. The conductive winding is piecewise constructed of wire segments and of VIAs. The wire segments pertain to at least two wiring planes and the VIAs are interconnecting the at least two wiring planes. Methods for such integration, and for fabricating laminated planar magnetic cores are also presented.
US10028377B2	Resin composition, prepreg and metal foil-clad laminate Provided are a resin composition having excellent electrical characteristics and heat resistance after moisture absorption, and being also excellent in flowing characteristics at the time of production of a laminate, and a prepreg, a metal foil-clad laminate and a resin sheet using the same. Used is a resin composition comprising a bifunctional phenylene ether oligomer (a) having a polyphenylene ether skeleton, an aralkyl-based cyanate ester compound (b), a bisphenol-based cyanate ester compound (c), an epoxy resin (d), a brominated carbonate oligomer (e), an inorganic filler (f), an alkoxynaphthol-based polymerization inhibitor (g) and/or a thioether-based polymerization inhibitor (h).
US10028371B2	Heat radiation member, heat radiation circuit board, and heat emission device package A heat radiation member, a heat radiation circuit board, and a heat emission device package are provided. The heat radiation circuit board includes a printed circuit board in which a heat radiation region is defined, and a heat radiation member inserted into the heat radiation region and including a bottom surface attached to the heat radiation region and a lateral surface bent from the bottom surface to pass through the printed circuit board. The heat radiation member is inserted into a region of the heat radiation circuit board adjacent to the heat emission device so that the heat radiation effect is improved. The heat radiation member having the spatial structure is formed to obtain the superior heat radiation effect. The structure of the heat radiation member is simplified so that the heat radiation member is automatically assembled, thereby reducing the failure of the heat radiation member.
US10028369B2	Particle acceleration in a variable-energy synchrocyclotron by a single-tuned variable-frequency drive Ions are released over time from an ion source into a beam area proximate a central axis. A radiofrequency (RF) system with a variable frequency and variable voltage accelerates the ions in orbiting trajectories expanding outward from the central axis. The ions are accelerated to different extraction energy levels within a given design range at a shared extraction radius from the central axis. An RF-frequency versus ion-time-of-flight scenario is set such that the frequency versus time scenario is the same for any ion extraction energy from the given design range, and a constant-or-variable-RF-voltage versus ion-time-of-flight scenario is adjusted to provide ion acceleration from injection to extraction for ions with different respective extraction energy levels within the given design range; and the ions are extracted at the different energy levels at the shared extraction radius.
US10028368B2	Induction plasma torch with higher plasma energy density An induction plasma torch comprises a tubular torch body, a tubular insert, a plasma confinement tube and an annular channel. The tubular torch body has upstream and downstream sections defining respective inner surfaces. The tubular insert is mounted to the inner surface of the downstream section of the tubular torch body. The plasma confinement tube is disposed in the tubular torch body, coaxial therewith. The plasma confinement tube has a tubular wall having a thickness tapering off in an axial direction of plasma flow. The annular channel is defined between, on one hand, the inner surface of the upstream section of the tubular torch body and an inner surface of the insert and, on the other hand, an outer surface of the tubular wall of the plasma confinement tube. The cooling channel carries a fluid for cooling the plasma confinement tube.
US10028365B2	Chamber device, target generation method, and extreme ultraviolet light generation system A chamber device may include a chamber, and a target generation device assembled into the chamber and configured to supply a target material into the chamber, the target generation device including a tank configured to store the target material, a temperature variable device configured to vary temperature of the target material in the tank, and a nozzle section in which a nozzle hole configured to output the target material in a liquid form is formed, and the chamber device may further include a gas nozzle having an inlet port facing the nozzle section and configured to introduce gas into the chamber, a gas supply source configured to supply gas containing hydrogen to the gas nozzle to supply the gas containing the hydrogen to at least periphery of the nozzle section, and a moisture remover configured to remove moisture at least in the periphery of the nozzle section in the chamber.
US10028358B2	Light management system with an integrated energy function The invention relates to the integration of an energy function into a light management system, particularly for saving energy and monitoring energy consumption. According to an embodiment of the invention, a light management system (10) with an integrated energy function is provided, wherein the system is adapted to receiving energy information about light fixtures (12-16) of a lighting system (18), and to processing the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system (18). The energy function may be for example used to automatically configure a lighting system to low energy consumption, to allow further configurations of the lighting system with regard to lowering energy consumption, or to provide a user with a sensible set of lights that can be turned off and will amount to significant energy savings when turned off.
US10028343B2	Average current and frequency control Apparatuses, systems and methods for regulating the output currents of a power supply at a target output current include a buck converter module operably connected to a power source and a load. A first switch couples the power source to the buck converter module during a first period of a given operating cycle, while the buck converter module stores and provides electrical power to the load. During a second period, a second switch may discharge, the electrical power stored during the first period. A current sensor senses the currents during at least one of the first period and the second period and, over the operating cycle, the switching times are adjusted so the average output current equals the target output current. Adjustments to the first and second period durations result in maximum and a minimum currents symmetrically disposed about the average current provided to the load during the operating cycle.
US10028342B2	Circuit for driving a load A driver circuit comprising: output circuitry for connecting the circuit to a load, the output circuitry comprising one or more energy-storing components; switching circuitry arranged to supply power from a power supply to the load by supplying a current through at least one of the energy-storing components that resists a change in current, or applying a voltage across at least one of the energy-storing components that resists a change in voltage; and control circuitry arranged to control the switching circuitry, to cause the above-mentioned current or voltage to oscillate between an upper envelope and a lower envelope. The control circuitry is configured to modulate data into this current or voltage by shifting the upper envelope between at least a first amplitude level and a second amplitude level, and by shifting the lower envelope by the same amount in the same direction at the same time.
US10028333B2	Radial fin heat sink for remote radio heads and the like In one embodiment, an apparatus includes three remote radio heads (RRHs) mounted on a pole using one or more triangular brackets, each RRH connected to a corresponding antenna. Each RRH includes an electronics module, a heat sink mounted on the electronics module, and a cover attached to the heat sink. The heat sink comprises a base, a plurality of attached forward-facing fins, and a pair of backward-facing fins. Each forward-facing fin and backward-facing fin comprises a proximal end attached to the base and an opposite distal end. The proximal ends of the plurality of forward-facing fins are collinear. The distal ends of the plurality of forward-facing fins and the backward-facing fins define an arc of an ellipse.
US10028332B2	Hierarchical clustering framework for inter-cell MIMO systems A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes forming a first set of wireless components into a master cluster that provides upper level service functionality to a subset of user devices. The method includes forming a second set of wireless components into a nested cluster that is associated with the master cluster, where the nested cluster provides data transfer to and from the subset of user devices.
US10028330B2	Load power consumption management in discontinuous reception An example method is disclosed that is implemented by a base station that supports a plurality of UEs configured to use DRX. The base station transmits respective individual scheduling assignments to each UE in a group of the UEs during an initial, on Duration portion of a DRX cycle, thereby preventing the group of UEs from immediately entering a DRX mode after the onDuration of the DRX cycle. For each UE in the group, the scheduling assignments schedule a respective first data transmission during the onDuration, and also schedule a respective second data transmission after the onDuration but within the DRX cycle. The base station transmits the scheduled first data transmissions during the onDuration of the DRX cycle, and transmits the scheduled second data transmissions after the onDuration but within the DRX cycle. For each UE in the group, its second data transmission includes more data than its first data transmission.
US10028329B2	System information change notification for extended discontinuous reception A UE in an eDRX cycle may miss an SI change notification because the UE's receiver may be powered down during the entire modification period prior to the SI change. An apparatus for wireless communication at a base station may transmit SI, change the SI during a period of eDRX by a UE, and transmit the changed SI. The apparatus ensures that a UE receives an SI change notification, even when performing eDRX, by transmitting at least one notification associated with the changed SI after the transmission of the changed SI and during a paging occasion for the UE. In another aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication at a UE enters into an eDRX cycle and receives, after an SI change, a notification associated with the SI change.
US10028326B2	Coexistence management of bluetooth with WLAN A method for setting up and operating a multiple communication link in a wireless communication apparatus, which includes a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver, includes setting up a first communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.15.1 using the first wireless transceiver. The method also includes setting up a second communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.11 using the second wireless transceiver, and setting up a third communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.15.1 using the first wireless transceiver, on a channel of the second communication link. Moreover, the method includes simultaneously operating the first communication link, the second communication link and the third communication link, wherein the second communication link and the third communication link are both simultaneously operated on the same channel of the second communication link.
US10028325B2	Medical communication system and commuication method The invention relates to a medical communication system, comprising at least one medical device (2a, 2b, 2c); a gateway (31) configured for establishing at least one wireless link to an access point; wherein the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) comprises a unit (22a, 22b, 22c) for establishing a communication connection to the gateway (31) and a unit (21a, 21b, 21c) for establishing a direct wireless link to the access point, and wherein the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) is configured to detect whether or not a communication connection to the gateway (3) is established and to set up a direct wireless communication link to the access point if a communication connection to the gateway (31) is not established, wherein the medical communication system is configured to set up a communication link between the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) and the access point via the gateway (31) if a communication connection between the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) and the gateway (31) is established.
US10028320B2	Contactless information transfer in CT imaging modality Among other things, a communication system and technique for transferring information between a stationary unit and a rotating unit of a computed tomography (CT) system is provided. The communication system comprises a transceiver and a contactless data-link comprising at least one physical channel. The transceiver is configured to create at least two logical channels from a single physical channel to provide for transmitting at least two types of information in a single direction and/or to provide for transmitting information bi-directionally. In this manner, an amount of data that can be transmitted over a single physical channel can be increased.
US10028316B2	Network discovery and selection A device for network discovery and selection includes at least one processor circuit that is configured to determine a number of networks available for connection within a configurable set of frequency bands. The at least one processor circuit is further configured to, when a single network is available for connection, and the single network being open, automatically connect to the single network. The at least one processor circuit is further configured to, when multiple networks are available for connection, the multiple networks comprising at least one open network and at least one private network: initiate a timer. The at least one processor circuit is further configured to initiate a connection with the at least one private network when a protected setup is initiated for the connection prior to the timer reaching a timeout value, otherwise connect to the at least one open network.
US10028315B2	User apparatus and signal transmission control method A user apparatus configured to perform discontinuous reception control for discontinuously receiving a signal transmitted from a base station, including: a reception unit configured to receive information, from the base station, specifying a transmission cycle of a control signal in discontinuous reception performed at a predetermined discontinuous reception cycle; and a transmission control unit configured, when performing the discontinuous reception at the predetermined discontinuous reception cycle, to transmit the control signal in an active period in the discontinuous reception at a cycle longer than the discontinuous reception cycle based on the information specifying the transmission cycle.
US10028314B2	Device-to-device resource pattern signaling A first communication device 100 is configured for device-to-device (D2D) communications with a second communication device 102. A method by the first communication device 100 includes obtaining 300 information on duplex configuration of a radio network node 110 that may affect resource allocation by the first communication device 100 for D2D communication with the second communication device 102. The method further includes deriving 302 a set of resource patterns (RPTs) based on the information, selecting 304 one RPT among the set of RPTs based on scheduler information, and signaling 306 an index that is used to identify the selected RPT to the second communication device 102. Related methods by a communication device to derive resources to be used for D2D reception from another communication device based on a selected RPT are disclosed.
US10028312B2	Communication apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium A communication apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with external communication apparatuses; a storage unit configured to store history information related to an external communication apparatus with which connection has been established in the past; and a display control unit configured to, during display for selection of an external communication apparatus, display information indicating one or more services provided by the external communication apparatuses, wherein the communication unit receives information related to the services provided by the external communication apparatuses, and based on the received information related to the services provided by the external communication apparatuses and on the history information, the display control unit changes a display appearance used in displaying the information indicating one or more services provided by the external communication apparatuses.
US10028311B2	Method for processing received PDCP PDUs for D2D communication system and device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing received PDCP PDUs for D2D communication system, the method comprising: establishing a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) entity for transmitting a PDCP PDU (Protocol Data Unit) to a peer UE; receiving a PDCP SDU (Service Data Unit) from an upper layer; setting a COUNT for the PDCP SDU using a fixed value and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) associated with the PDCP SDU; ciphering the PDCP SDU using the COUNT; generating a PDCP PDU including the PDCP SDU and a header including the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU; and transmitting the PDCP PDU to the peer UE.
US10028310B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting information on device-to-device resources in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for indicating a resource pool for device-to-device (D2D) transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A first evolved NodeB (eNB) transmits information on a resource pool of the first eNB for D2D transmission to a second eNB. The second eNB also transmit information on a resource pool of the second eNB for D2D transmission.
US10028308B2	Mobile communication system, user terminal, processor, and base station A mobile communication system, which supports D2D communication that is direct device to device communication, comprises: a user terminal that transmits a discovery signal that is used for discovering a communication partner terminal in the D2D communication, wherein the user terminal transmits the discovery signal when the user terminal accepts start of communication and the user terminal has difficulty to establish a connection with a base station.
US10028303B2	Clear channel assessment (CCA) in wireless networks This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to providing a source device more degrees of freedom in the performing CCA, and in using CCA for communicating with neighboring devices. Before accessing the channel, a source device may need to perform carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), the CSMA/CA additionally comprising CCA. In various embodiments, CCA can be performed either using quasi-omnidirectional receiving antenna(s), or using directional receiving antenna(s). In one embodiment, one or more requisite conditions for performing directional CCA can be specified. In another aspect, sensitivity level adjustments can be provided when performing directional CCA and/or quasi-omnidirectional CCA.
US10028301B2	Device to-device (D2D) communications Technology for performing device-to-device (D2D) communications is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) can identify D2D data to be transmitted from the UE. The D2D data can be identified when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle. The UE can be limited to using a defined resource allocation mode to transmit the D2D data from the UE. A service request procedure can be initiated at the UE. The service request procedure can trigger the UE to perform an RRC connection establishment procedure with an evolved node B (eNB) to switch the UE from the RRC idle mode to an RRC connected mode. The UE can receive an uplink (UL) grant from the eNB for communicating the D2D data from the UE. The UE can send the D2D data using the UL grant provided by the eNB.
US10028291B2	Quality of service access device A device is configured to determine quality of service information and determine a set of service classes, associated with a wireless local area network, based on the quality of service information. The device is configured to determine an association between the set of service classes and a set of service identifiers. The device is configured to receive data traffic and to determine a service class, of the set of service classes, associated with the data traffic based on the association between the set of service classes and the set of service identifiers. The device is configured to schedule delivery of the data traffic based on the service class and to deliver the data traffic via the wireless local area network.
US10028282B2	Peer-to-peer sharing of network resources A first mobile device determines a second mobile device losing connectivity to a second network or a communication link between the second mobile device and the second network degrading below a threshold value, the second mobile device assigned a role of sharing broker that brokers sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices via the second network, the first mobile device and the plurality of other mobile devices participating in a sharing group. Responsive to the determination, the role of sharing broker is activated on the first mobile device.
US10028272B2	Method and apparatus for exchanging frame for a low-power device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method for exchanging a frame for a low power device and an apparatus therefor in a wireless LAN system. A method for enabling an access point (AP) to exchange a frame with a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving the information of the maximum awake time from the STA. When the frame exchange is expected to be accomplished within the maximum awake time, the frame exchange can be performed. When the frame exchange is expected to exceed the maximum awake time, the frame exchange is stopped, and a new back-off procedure can be invoked.
US10028264B2	Method for transmitting and receiving control information for device-to-device (D2D) communication in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving control information of a terminal for device-to-device (D2D) ProSe in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving information on radio resources which are semi-statically configured for device-to-device proximity service (D2D ProSe); and receiving downlink control information (DCI) indicating whether or not D2D ProSe is activated on a specific radio resource of the radio resources, wherein the downlink control information is available only in a search procedure in which a resource for transmitting a terminal-specific search signal is allocated.
US10028257B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting device-to-device related information in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting device-to-device (D2D) related information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits a D2D-related identifier (ID) to a network during a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment procedure, and transmits D2D-related group information to the network.
US10028254B2	Techniques for improved decoding of system information blocks Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to managing decoding of system information blocks (SIBs) at a user equipment (UE) and managing SIB transmissions at a base station. For example, the described aspects at the UE may include detecting a trigger event for decoding one or more SIBs received from a cell and determining to avoid decoding of at least one SIB received from the cell in response to the detected trigger event and a mobility pattern of the UE. The described aspect at the UE may further include using a stored version of the at least one SIB for communication with the first cell.
US10028242B2	Transmission method and access point applied to a cooperative transmission The present disclosure provide a transmission method and a device, which relate to the technical field of communications and reduce overhead and improve work efficiency in an application of cooperative transmission in aspects of synchronization, sharing of information such as data and the like, obtaining of channel information and data transmission. Meanwhile application scenarios may also be extended. The method specifically includes: obtaining, by an access point AP, a parameter value, wherein the parameter value is a frequency difference between a crystal oscillator frequency of the AP and a reference crystal oscillator frequency of a reference AP or a delay difference of the AP with respect to the reference AP; compensating, by the AP, a phase difference or a time difference according to the parameter value when both of the AP and the reference AP send data. The present disclosure is applied to an application of a cooperative transmission.
US10028239B2	Method and system for precise temperature and timebase PPM error estimation using multiple timebases Methods and systems for precise temperature and timebase ppm error estimation using multiple timebases may comprise measuring a temperature corresponding to the plurality of timebases. The frequencies of the timebases may be compared to generate error functions for the timebases, and generating a more accurate reading of the temperature based, at least in part, on the measured temperature and the error functions for the timebases. The timebases may be calibrated utilizing the generated more accurate reading. The plurality of timebases may comprise different order temperature dependencies. The models of temperature dependencies of each of the plurality of timebases may be updated based, at least in part, on the fine reading of the temperature corresponding to the plurality of timebases. A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) clock signal may be utilized periodically to improve the accuracy of the calibration of the plurality of timebases.
US10028234B2	Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a device Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a wireless device (100) are disclosed. The apparatus (100) includes a main receive antenna (112) associated with a first receive signal strength, a diversity receive antenna (114) associated with a second receive signal strength, and a transmit antenna (116). Each of the antennas (112, 114, and 116) is operatively coupled to a controller (102). The controller (102) determines (i) a difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength, (ii) a correction factor based on the difference, and (iii) the transmit antenna gain based on the correction factor. In addition, the difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength may be used, along with other sensor data (e.g., accelerometer), to estimate the spatial mode (e.g., orientation and hand grip) of the device (100). This spatial mode estimation may be then be used, among other things, to more accurately determine transmit antenna gain.
US10028233B2	Systems and methods for downlink power control and scheduling in a wireless network Methods and systems for providing joint power control (PC) and scheduling in a wireless network are provided. In one example, a method includes generating a near-optimal power pattern for PC and scheduling in accordance with long term channel statistics. The near-optimal PC solution may be generated by first generating a set of possible power patterns in accordance with likely scheduling scenarios, then statistically narrowing the set of possible power patterns to identify the most commonly used power patterns, and finally selecting one of the most commonly used power patterns as the near-optimal power pattern. In another example, a table of optimal PC solutions are provided for performing distributed PC and scheduling in an adaptive and/or dynamic manner.
US10028227B2	Mobile terminal and motion-based low power implementing method thereof Disclosed are a mobile terminal capable of implementing an always-on function with a lower power, based on a motion, and a motion-based low power implementing method thereof. The method includes sensing a motion of a user by using an acceleration sensor in a low-power always-on that only the acceleration sensor is activated; a selectively activating an always-on function according to the sensed motion and deactivating the always-on function when no motion is sensed in an always-on state and automatically entering to the low-power always-on function.
US10028226B2	Efficient usage of internet services on mobile devices Communications systems including multiple computer devices where: (i) for a set of computer devices, used by a common user, it is determined which computer device the user is most actively using; and (ii) an operational mode of a “wireless service” (see definition, below) on one of the other computer devices (that is, a non-most-active computer device) is changed in its operational mode. For example, if a user has two smart phones and the user's first smart phone is determined to be more active than the second smart phone, then on the second smart phone (that is, the non-most-active computer device) a social media home page updating service is turned off. In some embodiments, the change from first operational mode to second operational mode will mean that wireless transceiver hardware (such as an antenna) is turned off for the non-most-active device(s).
US10028225B2	Efficient usage of internet services on mobile devices Communications systems including multiple computer devices where: (i) for a set of computer devices, used by a common user, it is determined which computer device the user is most actively using; and (ii) an operational mode of a “wireless service” (see definition, below) on one of the other computer devices (that is, a non-most-active computer device) is changed in its operational mode. For example, if a user has two smart phones and the user's first smart phone is determined to be more active than the second smart phone, then on the second smart phone (that is, the non-most-active computer device) a social media home page updating service is turned off. In some embodiments, the change from first operational mode to second operational mode will mean that wireless transceiver hardware (such as an antenna) is turned off for the non-most-active device(s).
US10028220B2	Systems and methods for providing wireless asymmetric network architectures of wireless devices with power management features Systems and methods for implementing power management features while providing a wireless asymmetric network are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes a hub having a wireless control device that is configured to control communications and power consumption in the wireless asymmetric network architecture and sensor nodes each having at least one sensor and a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the wireless control device of the hub. The wireless control device is configured to determine a scheduled timing of operating each sensor node during a first time period that is close in time with respect to a transmit window of the transmitter and during a second time period that is close in time with respect to a receive window of the receiver for each wireless device to reduce power consumption of the wireless devices of the sensor nodes.
US10028205B2	Techniques for wireless local area network (WLAN) scanning in coexistence scenarios The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for techniques used for wireless local area network (WLAN) scanning in coexistence scenarios. For example, a method for is provided for WLAN scanning in which a scan of a WLAN is initiated at a wireless device configured to share an antenna for WLAN operations and Bluetooth (BT) operations while a voice call is in progress over the WLAN and packets from the voice call are routed between the wireless device and a BT device. A clear-to-send-to-self (CTS2Self) packet may be broadcast to reserve a communication channel for the wireless device after the scan is initiated. Moreover, a probe request may be broadcast after the broadcast of the CTS2Self packet, where the CTS2Self packet and the probe request are broadcast during a same WLAN interval of the WLAN operations and while the voice call is in progress over the WLAN.
US10028196B2	Method and apparatus for selecting an access point based on direction of movement A method, system and apparatus for selecting an access point includes detecting a location and direction of motion of a mobile device, detecting a strength of signal from candidate access points and determining a location of such access points based upon at least one of the (i) location and direction of motion of the mobile device, (ii) access point location information known to the mobile device, and (iii) monitoring of the change in detected signal strength from candidate access points that occurs upon the movement of the mobile device. Embodiments of the system and apparatus may include a mobile terminal device or may include such a device and a plurality of access points that provide access to a network, such as a base station or a router that provide access to an enterprise network or a local area network that is connected to the internet.
US10028192B2	Access point selection Disclosed aspects relate to access point selection. A set of beacon frame transmission data for a set of access points may be collected by a computing device. The computing device may use the set of beacon frame transmission data for the set of access points to determine to establish a connection utilizing a first access point of the set of access points. The computing device may establish the connection utilizing the first access point.
US10028190B2	Mobile terminal A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN 10) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.
US10028184B2	User equipment and methods for measurement of reference signal received quality Embodiments of UE and methods for measurement of Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) are generally described herein. The UE may be configured to determine an RSRQ of a serving cell and an RSRQ of a target cell based on an indicated RSRQ measurement type. The measurement type may be received as part of a measurement configuration Information Element (IE) that indicates a first or second RSRQ measurement type. For the first RSRQ measurement type, the RSRQ may be determined based on a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) over common reference signals (CRS). For the second RSRQ measurement type, the RSRQ may be determined based on an RSSI that is based on a received power of one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols received at the UE.
US10028183B2	Methods and network nodes in a wireless communication network for handling of uplink signals sent by a user equipment A method performed by a first network node of a wireless communication network for handling uplink signals sent by a UE. The wireless communication network comprises a serving network node responsible for transmitting downlink signals to the UE, and a non-serving network node capable of receiving uplink signals sent by the UE. The non-serving network node is the first network node and the serving network node is a second network node of the communication network, or vice versa. The method comprises receiving an uplink signal from the UE, measuring signal quality on the received uplink signal, and receiving signal quality information from the second network node regarding signal quality measured by the second network node on the uplink signal received by the second network node, to detect imbalances in experienced signal quality between the first network node and the second network node.
US10028181B2	Method, apparatus for configuring neighboring cell, and for reporting neighboring cell information The embodiments of the present application provide a method for configuring a neighboring cell, and for reporting neighboring cell information. The embodiments of the present application can implement automatic configuration of neighboring cell information, which does not require manual test and configuration of a live network.
US10028165B2	Reverse link reliability through re-assembling multiple partially decoded connectionless frames in wireless communication networks Techniques, devices, and systems that include mechanisms for connectionless communications in wireless communication networks or systems include a base station controller, a plurality of base stations and a mobile station. The base station controller combines connectionless transmissions received by the base stations, including decoded and un-decoded frames, into a complete message.
US10028164B2	Methods and devices for controlled data upload in mobile cellular networks Methods, devices and software enable uploading a file from a user equipment to an Internet storage service server via a mobile cellular network. A method includes (A) uploading sequential chunks of the file from the user equipment via a cell of the mobile cellular network, (B) sending a first message requesting to pause the uploading, to the user equipment upon receiving an indication that the cell is overloaded, (C) storing a length corresponding to the sequential chunks that have been uploaded until the uploading has been paused, and (D) sending a second message requesting to resume the uploading, to the user equipment. The user equipment pauses the uploading upon receiving the first message and resumes the uploading using an offset from the beginning of the file corresponding to the length upon receiving the second message.
US10028157B2	Device and method for handling bit allocation A bit allocation device includes: a channel estimation unit, performing a channel estimation to generate a plurality of channel qualities of a plurality of subcarriers; a processing unit, coupled to the channel estimation unit, generating a first plurality of bit numbers of the plurality of subcarriers according to the plurality of channel qualities; and a control unit, coupled to the processing unit, generating a second plurality of bit numbers of the plurality of subcarriers according to the first plurality of bit numbers and an upper limit of a total bit number.
US10028156B2	Congestion based roaming in a wireless local area network Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communications. A device may utilize enhanced roaming techniques to identify a candidate channel for roaming. In one example, a device determines whether a candidate channel is congested by calculating a congestion metric associated with traffic over the shared channel. In some examples, the congestion metric is calculated based at least in part on an amount of energy measured over the candidate. For instance, the calculated congestion metric can be an instantaneous congestion level measured during a CCA. The device may then determine whether to roam to the candidate channel based at least in part on the calculated congestion metric.
US10028152B2	Device and method for performing communication via a plurality of component carriers A device enabling a frequency band shared between wireless communication of a cellular system and other wireless communication to be more appropriately used in the cellular system. The device includes a control unit configured to occupy a frequency band shared between wireless communication of a cellular system and other wireless communication for the wireless communication of the cellular system during a first period and release the frequency band from the wireless communication of the cellular system during at least a second period corresponding to the first period.
US10028151B2	Uplink channel access, reservation and data transmission for licensed assist access long term evolution (LAA-LTE) A mobile device obtains data to be wirelessly transmitted over a shared spectrum in an uplink channel to a base station. The uplink channel is formatted with a frame/subframe structure with a predetermined timing. The mobile device determines whether the shared spectrum is free for transmission according to a Listen Before Transmit procedure. When the shared spectrum is free for transmission, the mobile device selects a start time in the uplink channel that mitigates interference from other mobile devices in proximity to the mobile device. Beginning at the start time, the mobile device transmits the data over the shared spectrum in the uplink channel to the base station.
US10028145B2	Blocking undesirable communications in voice over internet protocol systems Blocking of undesirable voice over internet protocol (VOIP) communications is disclosed. A communication screening service initiates operations to block a threat posed by a VOIP communication upon receiving the communication from a gateway server. The communication may include an audio/video conversation and/or an audio/video conference. Next, metadata and content of the communication is analyzed to detect a threat, such as a scamming scheme and/or a phishing scheme, from a sender of the communication. A rejection of the communication is generated to disrupt the threat associated with the communication. The rejection is transmitted to the gateway server to prompt the gateway server to block the communication.
US10028143B2	Electronic device and method for executing application or service Disclosed is a method and apparatus for executing an application or a service. The method includes determining a security level associated with an application or a service of which execution is requested, changing at least part of a graphic object based on the determined security level, and displaying the changed graphic object, obtaining an input through a body of rotation that is included in the electronic device, and executing the application or the service when the input corresponds to security information associated with the application or the service.
US10028142B2	Apparatus and methods for channel access in WLAN A method implemented by an Access Point (AP) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to facilitate an unassociated station (STA) to participate in an uplink multi-user simultaneous transmission. The method includes receiving a request frame from the unassociated STA and generating a response frame, where the response frame includes timing information regarding a future transmission, by the AP, of a trigger frame. The trigger frame includes scheduling information for scheduling an uplink multi-user simultaneous transmission, where at least one transmission resource unit allocated for the uplink multi-user simultaneous transmission allows random access. The method further includes transmitting the response frame to the unassociated STA through a wireless medium.
US10028130B2	Methods for updating a cache memory of a telecommunications terminal The invention relates to methods and devices for updating a cache memory in a telecommunications terminal suitable for co-operating with a subscriber identity module. Some implementations of the subscriber identity module may perform operations that include detecting a modification of an elementary file and generating update data associated with the modified elementary file. During a starting stage, the operations may further include receiving a start message from the terminal; receiving a request serving to identity an elementary file for processing; sending the update data associated with the elementary file for processing; and reading the elementary file in compliance with a read command from the terminal. The invention also provides corresponding methods and devices for the terminal, and the corresponding module and terminal.
US10028122B2	Method and system for emergency safety checks via payment systems A method for facilitating a safety check in emergency situations includes: storing a plurality of account profiles, each including a primary account number, account details, and sets of communication data; receiving a transaction message including a specific primary account number and an indication that an associated individual is safe; identifying a specific account profile that includes the specific primary account number; and transmitting a safety notification including the account details stored in the specific account profile the indication of the associated individual's safety for at least one of the sets of communication data stored in the specific account profile.
US10028120B2	Identification card holder with personal locator An ID card and/or cell phone holder provides position identification, 2-way communication, and panic control features for emergency communication. Contemplated holders include those configured as a wallet, arm band, belt clip, or money clip, and can additionally or alternatively be adapted for use with a key ring, lanyard, or other carrying adapter. Position identification circuitry, the communication circuitry, and the panic control interface can be physically distributed between or among at least first and second cards or other components.
US10028118B2	Intelligent security identification apparatus and system The present disclosure discloses an intelligent security identification apparatus and system, to improve the security of the intelligent security identification apparatus and system. The intelligent security identification apparatus comprises: a body portion; an annular belt portion comprising a first annular belt and a second annular belt, wherein the body portion has one end connected to one end of the first annular belt and the other end connected to one end of the second annular belt, the first annular belt has a first conductor arranged therein and the second annular belt has a second conductor arranged therein; and a latch portion comprising a latch plug and a latch socket, wherein the other end of the first annular belt is connected to the latch plug, and the other end of the second annular belt is connected to the latch socket. The body portion comprises: an IC module, wherein the first conductor has one end connected to the IC module and the other end connected to the latch plug, the second conductor has one end connected to the IC module and the other end connected to the latch socket, and the latch portion, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the IC module form a circuit loop when the latch plug is engaged to the latch socket.
US10028115B2	Method and apparatus of providing messaging service and callback feature to mobile stations Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. One example method may include determining via a hosted server that an action needs to be performed by a mobile device under management. The method may further include generating a message via the hosted server, the message includes the action, and transmitting the message to the mobile device under management, and receiving a result message from the mobile device under management responsive to the transmitted message, the result message indicating that the action has been satisfied.
US10028112B2	Event triggered messaging Apparatuses, techniques, and methods for a security and/or automation system are described. In some cases, these may include a first user recording a message and the message being broadcast or conveyed to a second user based on the second user's identity and/or location and/or a relevant time of recording or broadcasting, among other things. The methods may include receiving a first communication from a first user, storing the first communication in memory, identifying a second user at a first location, retrieving the first communication from memory, the retrieving based at least in part on the identification of the second user, and conveying the first communication to the second user at the first location.
US10028109B2	Group communication over LTE eMBMS A method of supporting group communication over LTE MBMS is provided. A UE first establishes a unicast Evolved Packet Service (EPS) bearer in an LTE network for group communication. The UE belongs to a communication group having a communication group ID. The UE receives access information from the network for monitoring downlink (DL) multicast traffic of the DL group communication based on a multicast decision. The UE is then ready for monitoring a multicast Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) bearer for receiving the DL multicast traffic. The multicast MBMS bearer is associated with a Temporary Mobile Group Identifier (TMGI), and wherein the TMGI is associated with the communication group ID. In one embodiment, the access information comprises mapping information between the TMGI and the communication group ID.
US10028102B2	Localization of a device using multilateration Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining the geographic location of an end-user device using a multilateration calculation. The end-user device collects a depth map at a location in a path network. Two-dimensional feature geometries are extracted from the depth map, and a number of control points are identified in the extracted feature geometries. Distances are calculated between the end-user device and the identified control points. Location reference information is received for each identified control point from an external database. A geographic location of the end-user device in the path network is determined through a multilateration calculation using the location reference information of the identified control points and the calculated distances between the end-user device and each identified control point.
US10028101B2	Predicted-location notification In one embodiment, a method includes determining a geo-location of a first user; and identifying a second user that the geo-location of the first user is of interest to. The second user is identified based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to a mobile client computing device associated with the second user a notification associated with the geo-location of the first user.
US10028099B2	Bio-powered locator device A locator assembly is provided. The locator assembly includes an article of wear and a location sending device embedded in the article of wear. A bio-related electric generator is connected to the location sending device for providing power for the location sending device. A system for locating a person and a locating method are also provided.
US10028095B1	Quantifying mobility of mobile devices via a privacy preserving mobility metric Embodiments of the invention generate metrics quantifying the mobility of a mobile device without persisting information related to the device's specific location at any given time. Specifically, at multiple intervals, a value of a mobility metric is computed based on the distance between the current location of the mobile device and a previously identified origin location of the mobile device. The values of the mobility metric computed over a period of time quantify the overall mobility of the mobile device. The mobility metric does not provide any information regarding the specific location of the mobile device at any given time.
US10028093B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method To cause a specific device to stay in a specific location. An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit in the information processing apparatus performs control that transmits a stay request to request a stay in a specific location to a first information processing apparatus included in a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a network in which the plurality of information processing apparatuses perform one-to-one wireless communication to be connected to each other. In addition, the control unit in the information processing apparatus performs control that gives an incentive to the first information processing apparatus under a condition that the first information processing apparatus stays in the specific location.
US10028090B2	Methods, devices, and computer readable storage devices for providing optimized location information Optimized location information is provided for a location based service. An event is detected which is indicative of an error in the location based service which degrades the performance of the location based service. A cause of the error is determined, and resolution of the error is initiated based on the determined cause.
US10028089B2	Method and apparatus for estimating location in a terminal The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.A method and apparatus for estimating a location in a terminal are provided. The method includes calculating locations of the terminal and a tag, calculating information about movement of the terminal using a motion sensor, and correcting the calculated location of the tag based on information about the movement of the terminal.
US10028081B2	User authentication Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media configured to determine a location of a user, identify the user and provide additional services based on the determined location and/or identity are provided. In some examples, a signal emitted from a beacon may be detected by a personal computing device of a user within a predefined proximity of the beacon. The location of the beacon, and the device detecting the signal, may be determined and the identity of the user associated with the device may be determined. Authentication information may be requested from the user. The request for authentication information may be transmitted to the personal computing device and the user may provide the authentication information via the device. If the received authentication information matches pre-stored authentication information, the user may be authenticated and/or authorized to conduct one or more transactions or types of transactions based on the determined location, identity, and authentication information.
US10028071B2	Binaural sound reproduction system having dynamically adjusted audio output A binaural sound reproduction system, and methods of using the binaural sound reproduction system to dynamically re-center a frame of reference for a virtual sound source, are described. The binaural sound reproduction system may include a head-mounted device, e.g., headphones, having a device sensor to provide device orientation data corresponding to a direction of the head-mounted device. The system may use the orientation data to determine whether the head-mounted device has moved over an angle within a range of movement, and may adjust an audio output to render the virtual sound source in an adjusted source direction based on the range of movement. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10028068B2	Metalized microphone lid with integrated wire bonding shelf A MEMS microphone package and a method of manufacturing a MEMS microphone package having a lid and a substrate cap. The lid includes a wire bonding shelf that provides a surface internal to the MEMS microphone for connection points for internal wire bonds. One or more conductive traces deposited on the bonding shelf are provided to connect internal electronic components via the wire bonds to a substrate cap. The substrate cap is configured to connect to external devices or components. The internal electronic components include a MEMS microphone die and an application specific integrated circuit. The internal electronic components are configured to transmit signals to external electronics indicative of acoustic energy received by the MEMS microphone die by the configurations described herein.
US10028061B2	Speaker surround structure for maximizing cone diameter A surround that is generally arched in shape and that includes a radial exterior flange that extends downward from exterior side of the arched portion of the surround and that adhesively attaches to the inner wall or edge of the mounting ring of the frame or the loudspeaker.
US10028060B2	Temperature stable membrane plate structure for a loudspeaker The present invention relates to a membrane plate structure for generating sound waves. The membrane plate structure comprises a first skin layer, a second skin layer, a foam core layer which is interposed between the first skin layer and the second skin layer, and two binding layers. At least one of the first skin layer and the second skin layer is attachable to a vibrating element for generating sound waves. The elastic modulus of the core layer and its density are lower than the elastic modulus and the density of the first skin layer and the second skin layer, so that a sandwich structure is achieved. The Young modulus and the shear modulus of first skin layer, the second skin layer, the core layer and the binding layers are not variating between each other of more than 30% between a temperature 20° C. and 150° C., particularly between 20° C. and 170° C., more particularly 20° C. and 180° C.
US10028056B2	Multi-channel pairing in a media system Technology for grouping, consolidating, and pairing individual playback devices with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment is disclosed. Particularly, the embodiments described herein enable two or more playback devices to be paired, such that multi-channel audio is achieved. Such embodiments may be used to produce stereo and multi-channel audio environments for television and movies.
US10028045B1	Combined microphone and lighting device and computing device having same A computing device may include a multi-functional port in a base housing of the device. The multi-functional port may include an audio input device that can receive and process external audio input signals through an opening in the base housing. The multi-functional port may include a light source that can output light through the opening in the base housing. The multi-functional port may include a microphone boot. The microphone boot may guide external audio input signals into to the audio input device for processing. The microphone boot may also guide light, emitted by the light source, out of the base housing.
US10028036B1	Systems and methods for generating a set of custom keywords based on a media asset Systems and methods for generating a set of custom keywords based on a media asset. The systems and methods may receive a media asset viewed by a user, receive a set of base keywords, and determine a character in the media asset. Further, the systems and methods may determine a set of custom keywords based on dialog in the media asset corresponding to the character and determine for a custom keyword, from the set of custom keywords, an equivalent base keyword from the set of base keywords. The systems and methods may determine a response to a received user request, wherein the response includes the base keyword from the set of base keywords, and generate a modified response to the user request based on the response to the user request, wherein the modified response replaces the base keyword with the custom keyword.
US10028031B2	Vehicle entertainment system capable of wireless reception of media content A mobile entertainment system, comprising: a video system in combination with a media source, the video system and media source are attached to a housing secured within an automobile; the media source includes a storage medium upon which audio and video media content is stored for display upon the video system as desired by a user; an access point configured for wireless retrieval of audio and video media content for display upon the video monitor; a remote library of audio and video media content in wireless communication with the media source via the access point, the remote library including storage space for uploading of media content from a personal collection of audio and video media content from a user for subsequent transmission to the media source.
US10028015B2	Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method A signal processing apparatus includes: a signal input unit that receives inputs of a plurality of signals, the plurality of signals having a first temporal order different from each other; a transmission unit that sequentially transmits the plurality of signals as data to outside of the signal processing apparatus; and a reception unit that receives a plurality of output signals from outside of the signal processing apparatus, the plurality of output signals being generated by processing the data, the plurality of output signals having a second temporal order corresponding to the first temporal order.
US10028010B2	Method and apparatus for building a hardware root of trust and providing protected content processing within an open computing platform A system architecture provides a hardware-based root of trust solution for supporting distribution and playback of premium digital content. In an embodiment, hardware root of trust for digital content and services is a solution where the basis of trust for security purposes is rooted in hardware and firmware mechanisms in a client computing system, rather than in software. From this root of trust, the client computing system constructs an entire media processing pipeline that is protected for content authorization and playback. In embodiments of the present invention, the security of the client computing system for content processing is not dependent on the operating system (OS), basic input/output system (BIOS), media player application, or other host software.
US10027987B2	Image processing apparatus and method The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US10027982B2	Segmented-block coding The current application is directed to flexible methods for motion-vector-based encoding of macroblocks within video frames. The flexible methods for encoding video-frame macroblocks provide for segmentation of a video-frame block and encoding the segmented video-frame block by a segmented-block motion vector that includes a reference to a segmentation-defining region of a segmentation map and that also includes references to sources of intensity-and-color data for each segment. Segmented-block motion vectors provide for flexible segmentation-based encoding of video-frame blocks without sacrificing the coding efficiencies attendant with conventional motion-vector-based video encoding.
US10027978B2	Video decoder with signaling A method of decoding a video bitstream is disclosed. The method includes: using a set of previously decoded pictures for decoding a subsequent picture; receiving a delta_poc_msb_present_flag indicating whether a delta_poc_msb_cycle_lt is present or not present, wherein the delta_poc_msb_cycle_lt being present indicates that more than one reference picture in the set of previously decoded pictures having same value, wherein the first previously decoded picture has a temporal ID being equal to zero, is not a RASL picture, not a RADL picture, not a sub-layer non-reference picture.
US10027972B2	Video encoding method and video encoding apparatus and video decoding method and video decoding apparatus, which perform deblocking filtering based on tree-structure encoding units A method of encoding a video is provided, the method includes: determining a filtering boundary on which deblocking filtering is to be performed based on at least one data unit from among a plurality of coding units that are hierarchically configured according to depths indicating a number of times at least one maximum coding unit is spatially spilt, and a plurality of prediction units and a plurality of transformation units respectively for prediction and transformation of the plurality of coding units, determining filtering strength at the filtering boundary based on a prediction mode of a coding unit to which pixels adjacent to the filtering belong from among the plurality of coding units, and transformation coefficient values of the pixels adjacent to the filtering boundary, and performing deblocking filtering on the filtering boundary based on the determined filtering strength.
US10027961B2	Encoding, decoding, and representing high dynamic range images Techniques are provided to encode and decode image data comprising a tone mapped (TM) image with HDR reconstruction data in the form of luminance ratios and color residual values. In an example embodiment, luminance ratio values and residual values in color channels of a color space are generated on an individual pixel basis based on a high dynamic range (HDR) image and a derivative tone-mapped (TM) image that comprises one or more color alterations that would not be recoverable from the TM image with a luminance ratio image. The TM image with HDR reconstruction data derived from the luminance ratio values and the color-channel residual values may be outputted in an image file to a downstream device, for example, for decoding, rendering, and/or storing. The image file may be decoded to generate a restored HDR image free of the color alterations.
US10027958B2	Coding apparatus and method for encoding image data An image processing apparatus comprising an acquiring unit configured to acquire an encoding target block having a plurality of groups each including a predetermined number of pixels, a deciding unit configured to decide, for each group, a quantization parameter used to quantize image data of the group and an encoding scheme so that a code length of the encoding target block does not exceed a predetermined value corresponding to a target code amount of the encoding target block, and an encoding unit configured to generate encoded data by encoding image data of the encoding target block in accordance with the quantization parameters and the encoding schemes decided for the respective groups by the deciding unit.
US10027957B2	Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding video using multiple reference pictures A method of encoding video using a plurality of reference pictures is provided. The method includes: writing one of a parameter or a flag into one or more reference pictures of the plurality of reference pictures, creating a first list of reference pictures comprising the plurality of reference pictures sorted based on the parameter or flag, and encoding a current picture of the video using at least the first list of reference pictures. A method of decoding video using a plurality of reference pictures is also provided. The method includes parsing one of a parameter or flag from one or more reference pictures of the plurality of reference pictures, creating a first list of reference pictures comprising the plurality of reference pictures sorted based on the parameter or flag, and decoding a current picture of the video using at least the first list of reference pictures. In addition, there are provided corresponding apparatuses for encoding and decoding video.
US10027952B2	Mapping and tracking system with features in three-dimensional space LK-SURF, Robust Kalman Filter, HAR-SLAM, and Landmark Promotion SLAM methods are disclosed. LK-SURF is an image processing technique that combines Lucas-Kanade feature tracking with Speeded-Up Robust Features to perform spatial and temporal tracking using stereo images to produce 3D features can be tracked and identified. The Robust Kalman Filter is an extension of the Kalman Filter algorithm that improves the ability to remove erroneous observations using Principal Component Analysis and the X84 outlier rejection rule. Hierarchical Active Ripple SLAM is a new SLAM architecture that breaks the traditional state space of SLAM into a chain of smaller state spaces, allowing multiple tracked objects, multiple sensors, and multiple updates to occur in linear time with linear storage with respect to the number of tracked objects, landmarks, and estimated object locations. In Landmark Promotion SLAM, only reliable mapped landmarks are promoted through various layers of SLAM to generate larger maps.
US10027948B2	Methods and apparatus including or for use with one or more cameras Camera related methods and apparatus which are well suited for use in capturing stereoscopic image data, e.g., pairs of left and right eye images, are described. Various features relate to a camera rig which can be used to mount multiple cameras at the same time. In some embodiments the camera rig includes 3 mounting locations corresponding to 3 different directions 120 degrees apart. One or more of the mounting locations may be used at a given time. When a single camera pair is used the rig can be rotated to capture images corresponding to the locations where a camera pair is not mounted. Static images from those locations can then be combined with images corresponding to the forward direction to generate a 360 degree view. Alternatively camera pairs or individual cameras can be included in each of the mounting locations to capture video in multiple directions.
US10027944B2	Methods and apparatus for receiving and/or using reduced resolution images Methods and apparatus for using selective resolution reduction on images to be transmitted and/or used by a playback device are described. Prior to transmission one or more images of an environment are captured. Based on image content, motion detection and/or user input a resolution reduction operation is selected and performed. The reduced resolution image is communicated to a playback device along with information indicating a UV map corresponding to the selected resolution allocation that should be used by the playback device for rendering the communicated image. By changing the resolution allocation used and which UV map is used by the playback device different resolution allocations can be made with respect to different portions of the environment while allowing the number of pixels in transmitted images to remain constant. The playback device renders the individual images with the UV map corresponding to the resolution allocation used to generate the individual images.
US10027932B2	Intercom system and communication method There is provided an intercom system which realizes high-quality image display and communication with low cost.In the intercom system, front door slave unit 300 having an attached camera and master unit 400 are connected to each other through a two-wire cable, and communication between front door slave unit 300 and master unit 400 is performed with transmission and reception of an image signal. Front door slave unit 300 packetizes a control signal, an image signal, and a sound signal of front door slave unit 300, generates an uplink signal, and transmits the generated uplink signal to master unit 400. Master unit 400 packetizes a control signal and a sound signal of master unit 400, generates a downlink signal, and transmits the generated downlink signal to front door slave unit 300. Front door slave unit 300 and master unit 400 perform transmission of the uplink signal and transmission of the downlink signal in a manner of time division duplex using the two-wire cable.
US10027925B2	Transitioning video call between devices A flip signal is received from a first device, at a signaling server, during a video chat between the first device and a second device. The flip signal indicates that media packets from the second device intended for the first device are to be sent to a third device. Responsive to the signaling server receiving the flip signal, the signaling server sends a call request to the third device; and the signaling server sends a message to the second device to cause the second device to send the media packets to the third device. In another aspect, at the first device, during the video chat, a gesture is detected which indicates that media packets from the second device intended for the first device are to be sent to the third device; and, responsive to the detecting, the flip signal is sent.
US10027921B2	Display device with movable stand A display device includes a panel module including a display cell; a front side exterior panel and a rear side exterior panel which sandwich the panel module therebetween from back and front; a driving circuit which drives the display cell; and a stand which is separately provided from the rear side exterior panel, includes a speaker box inside which a first speaker is built-in, and is located on a lower rear side of the rear side exterior panel when placing the panel module.
US10027919B2	Signal processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control apparatus, signal processing method, and control method A signal processing apparatus comprising: an analog-digital converter that converts an analog signal output from a pixel section of an image sensor to a digital signal using a plurality of reference signals having different slopes from each other; and a determination unit that determines a signal level at which the plurality of reference signals are changed based on a distribution of the converted digital signal, wherein the analog-digital converter performs the conversion using a reference signal having a steeper slope when the analog signal is equal to or greater than the signal level than when the analog signal is smaller than the signal level.
US10027906B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit that stops power supply to at least a storage area of a first SRAM in a power-saving mode, and control method of semiconductor integrated circuit The image forming apparatus of the present invention is a semiconductor integrated circuit including: a first image processing module; a second image processing module; a first SRAM configured to temporarily store image data for which the first image processing has been performed by the first image processing module; a second SRAM configured to store a parameter for performing the second image processing for image data that is input to the second image processing module; and a control unit. The control unit stops power supply to the first SRAM, continues to supply power to a storage area of the second SRAM in which the parameter is stored, and stops power supply to a control area for writing data to the storage area of the second SRAM based on that a condition to cause the semiconductor integrated circuit to make a transition into a power-saving mode is satisfied.
US10027896B2	Image display system, operation method of the same, and electronic device To provide an image display system in which an imaging device and a display device are combined. The image display system includes the imaging device including a plurality of pixel blocks and the display device including a plurality of display regions. Image data obtained in the first imaging mode is displayed on the display device as an image, and then, the imaging device switches to the second imaging mode to obtain data of whether an object is changed or not. If the object is changed, the imaging device switches to the first imaging mode, obtain image data newly, and then display the new image on the display device. If the object is not changed, display of the image stored in the display region is maintained and image rewriting is not performed.
US10027893B2	Real-time video stabilization for mobile devices based on on-board motion sensing Real-time video stabilization for mobile devices based on on-board motion sensing. In accordance with a method embodiment of the present invention, a first image frame from a camera at a first time is accessed. A second image frame from the camera at a subsequent time is accessed. A crop polygon around scene content common to the first image frame and the second image frame is identified. Movement information describing movement of the camera in an interval between the first time and the second time is accessed. The crop polygon is warped to remove motion distortions of the second image frame is warped using the movement information. The warping may include defining a virtual camera that remains static when the movement of the camera is below a movement threshold. The movement information may describe the movement of the camera at each scan line of the second image frame.
US10027892B2	Distance measurement device, distance measurement control method, and distance measurement control program A distance measurement device includes an emission unit, a detection unit, a first reduction unit that reduces, based on a detection result of the detection unit, influence of variation of an optical axis of the image formation optical system on a subject image received as light by a light receiving section, a second reduction unit that reduces variation of an optical axis of the directional light with respect to the subject based on the detection result of the detection unit, and a control unit that, in the case of operating the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit at the same time, controls the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit to reduce variation of an irradiation position of the directional light in the subject image received as light by the light receiving section.
US10027891B2	Distance measurement device, distance measurement control method, and distance measurement control program A distance measurement device includes an emission unit, a detection unit, a first reduction unit that reduces, based on a detection result of the detection unit, influence of variation of an optical axis of the image formation optical system on the subject image received as light by the light receiving section, a second reduction unit that reduces variation of an optical axis of the directional light with respect to the subject based on the detection result of the detection unit, and a control unit that, in the case of operating the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit at the same time, controls the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit to reduce variation of an irradiation position of the directional light in the subject image received as light by the light receiving section.
US10027890B2	Motion detecting device, motion detecting method, and non-transitory recording medium A motion detector calculates a camera shake matrix H(t) applied for a coordinate conversion for a camera shake correction. At this time, the motion detector calculates a motion vector (MV) for each block obtained by dividing a frame, and excludes an object motion vector (MV-B) from the MV. In addition, when a camera shake matrix H_mv that represents a camera shake between the frames is not calculable based on the MV, the motion detector calculates and adjusts a camera shake matrix H_sensor that represents a camera shake in accordance with a motion of an image picker, and settles this matrix as the camera shake matrix H(t).
US10027876B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same A mobile terminal including a camera; a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a display; and a controller configured to display a first preview image on the display corresponding to image data input through the camera, detect an external device located within a preset range of the mobile terminal via the wireless communication processor, display an icon on the display corresponding to the detected external device by overlapping the first preview image, execute a communication connection with the external device, in response to a touch input applied to the icon, while the communication with the detected external device is not connected, and release the communication connection with the external device, in response to the touch input applied to the icon, while the communication with the detected external device is connected.
US10027868B2	Sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging A spectral imaging device is configured to capture color images synchronized with controlled illumination from different color light emitting diodes. A processor in the device applies a coupling factor to sampled color images to convert sampled pixels into spectral channels corresponding to LED color and color filter. Multi-spectral spectricity vectors produced at pixel locations are used along with spatial information to classify objects, such as produce items.
US10027867B2	Image pickup apparatus that is capable of bounce emission photographing, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An image pickup apparatus capable of focusing correctly and of setting a bounce angle accurately. A lighting device that changes an irradiation angle is attached to an apparatus body. A first control unit drives the lighting device to perform pre-emission when the irradiation angle is controlled for bounce emission photographing where an object is photographed while being illuminated by a reflected light emitted from the lighting device and reflected by reflection material. A first distance measuring unit measures a first distance to the object and a second distance to the reflection material using the pre-emission. A second control unit sets up the irradiation angle based on the first and second distances and controls the lighting device to the set irradiation angle. A second distance measuring unit measures a third distance to the object during focus control. A prohibition unit prohibits the pre-emission when the second distance measuring unit measures the third distance.
US10027866B2	Refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same Example refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example refrigerator includes a cabinet, an internal compartment disposed within the cabinet, a closing member operatively coupled to the cabinet providing selective access to the internal compartment, two cameras disposed in the compartment and positioned to capture images of different portions of the compartment, two light sources disposed in the compartment, and a controller communicatively coupled with the cameras and light sources and configured to control the light sources to provide two different illuminations for respective ones of the two cameras.
US10027864B2	Optical assembly and method for manufacturing same An optical assembly is described. The optical assembly comprises a transparent front cover, a lens having a lens surface facing the front cover, wherein the lens surface is designed to be essentially planar and has a central region and a transparent medium. The optical assembly optically couples at least the central region of the lens surface extensively to the front cover by the fact that the refractive index of the transparent medium differs from the refractive index of the front cover and the refractive index of a segment of the lens adjacent to the lens surface by less than 0.5. Furthermore, an electronic device having the optical assembly, a motor vehicle comprising the electronic device and a method for manufacturing the optical assembly are described.
US10027853B2	Printer cartridge and memory device containing a compressed color table A printer cartridge includes a memory device and at least one compressed color table stored on the memory device. A compressed color table includes a losslessly compressed neutral axis, a number of nodes that correspond to seed color table nodes and a number of delta nodes that correspond to a number of delta tables. The number of delta tables indicate differences between interpolated color table nodes and corresponding actual color table nodes.
US10027851B2	Color patch generation for visual selection in the color adjustment of a color print apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to select an adjustment color, a print control unit configured to cause a printer to print a chart including a patch corresponding to the adjustment color selected and patches corresponding to respective neighboring colors of the adjustment color, a second selection unit configured to select a target color from the colors corresponding to the respective patches on the chart, a generation unit configured to generate a color conversion table to the used for converting a color to be printed by the printer, by using the adjustment color selected and the target color selected, and a determination unit configured to determine an arrangement of the patches to be included in the chart to be printed by the printer, based on a color value of the adjustment color selected.
US10027844B2	Control method for an image forming apparatus which performs transmission of information A control method for an image forming apparatus configured to perform transmission of information includes performing retransmission of the information a predetermined number of times in a case where the transmission of the information fails, wherein an entry about the retransmission of the information is added to a notification table managed by the image forming apparatus, clearing the entry from the notification table, in a case where the retransmission of the information is completed the predetermined number of times or a case where the image forming apparatus receives a response to the retransmission of the information, and clearing the entry from the notification table in a case where user information necessary for the retransmission of the information is changed.
US10027836B2	Display apparatus for displaying shift state of power saving mode, display method and storage medium A display apparatus comprises a control section and a display section. The control section is capable of switching a mode to each mode of a normal mode and a power saving mode that consumes less power than the normal mode, shifting an apparatus from the normal mode to the power saving mode in a case in which a shift period during which an operation or a job is not executed lasts a certain time, and totalizes times the apparatus enters the shift period, times the apparatus shifts to the power saving mode and dwell time when the apparatus is in the normal mode for each time zone. The display section displays each value totalized by the control section for each time zone.
US10027835B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus includes: a movable body configured to illuminate a document with light; and an apparatus body configured to wirelessly transmit power to the movable body, wherein the movable body includes receiver coils, and a feed circuit in which the receiver coils uses receiving power to supply power to a load, the apparatus body includes transmitter coils placed along a track of the receiver coils, the transmitter coils and the receiver coils are placed such that power supply efficiency of any receiver coil with the transmitter coil placed along the track of the receiver coil fluctuates, and power supply efficiency related to one receiver coil increases at a position where power supply efficiency related to the other receiver coil drops, and the feed circuit supplies power sequentially using the receiving power of the receiver coil whose power supply efficiency is increased to highest among the receiver coils.
US10027818B2	Seamless codec switching In various embodiments, a corpus of codecs may be correlated with different, partially overlapping ranges of transmission characteristics. As channel conditions degrade or improve, the system may select a new codec with which to continue the connection based upon the corresponding overlapping range. Codecs may not be switched immediately when the transmission characteristics enter overlapping ranges, to avoid degrading the user's experience. If the characteristics remain in the overlap, or manifest a likely progression toward another region, then the transition may be effected.
US10027812B1	Matching using agent/caller sensitivity to performance A method, system and program product, the method comprising: obtaining for each call in one set of calls a respective pattern representing multiple different respective data fields; obtaining performance data for the respective patterns of the calls; obtaining performance data for the respective agents; determining agent performance sensitivity to call pattern performance for agents in a set of agents comprising the agent performance data correlated to call performance data for the calls the agent handles; and matching a respective one of the agents from the set of agents to one of the calls based at least in part on the performance data for the respective pattern of the one call and on the agent sensitivity to call performance for the respective one agent of the set of agents.
US10027801B1	Methods and systems for controlling inter-agency, incident scene communications Methods and systems for controlling inter-agency, incident scene communications. One method includes storing, in a memory of a first dispatch device of a first agency, subscription information from a second agency. The method further includes establishing a geo-fence surrounding an incident and a talk group that allows communication devices to communicate with each other within the geo-fence. The method further includes identifying the second agency based on the geo-fence and transmitting a request to the second agency based on incident information and the subscription information. The request includes role information based on the incident information. The method further includes receiving information relating to an available communication device affiliated with the second agency. The available communication device is selected based on the role information. The method further includes transmitting instructions to the available communication device to control the available communication device to join the talk group.
US10027798B2	Connection of a user device to multiple accounts or phone numbers Multiple mobile device numbers (MDNs) may be associated with a single user device. For outgoing communications, the user may choose which of the accounts are to be used. For incoming communications, application layer processes may perform an arbitration function to ensure that that the communication state, associated with each MDN, is correctly updated both at the user device and in the telecommunications network.
US10027790B2	Method for performing cooperative function automatically and device using the same A device for performing a cooperative function with another device is provided. The device includes a communication unit, and a controller that determines whether the other device is in a surrounding area of the device based a signal received through the communication unit, selects one cooperative function from among a plurality of cooperative functions according to a relative position of the device with respect to the other device and performs the selected cooperative function with the other device.
US10027784B2	Speaker back cavity An apparatus including a sound transducer; and a housing having the sound transducer connected thereto. The housing forms a substantially sealed air space back cavity acoustically coupled to the sound transducer. The housing includes a housing member having a first dividing structure located in the back cavity to connect two adjacent air mass sections of the back cavity, where the dividing structure includes at least one aperture to permit travel of sound waves through the at least one aperture between the air mass sections.
US10027781B2	TCP link configuration method, apparatus, and device Embodiments of the present invention disclose a TCP link configuration method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: acquiring data information in a data packet transmitted on a target TCP link or transmission information generated in a process of transmitting the data packet; determining, according to the data information or the transmission information, a target network type of a network on which the target TCP link is located; searching a pre-established configuration library for a target TCP configuration file corresponding to the target network type; and configuring the target TCP link by using the searched target TCP configuration file. According to the method, the configured target TCP link is better adapted to a network on which the target TCP link is located; use of network bandwidth can be maximized; and TCP transmission efficiency can be improved.
US10027780B2	Method and system for data demultiplexing A method and system for demultiplexing packets of a message is provided.The demultiplexing system receives packets of a message, identifies a sequence of message handlers for processing the message, identifies state information associated with the message for each message handler, and invokes the message handlers passing the message and the associated state information. The system identifies the message handlers based on the initial data type of the message and a target data type. The identified message handlers effect the conversion of the data to the target data type through various intermediate data types.
US10027778B2	Skills endorsements Disclosed in some examples is a method comprising determining a first set of high ranking skills, the first set containing skills possessed by a member of the social networking service based upon the member's user profile; determining a second set of high ranking skills, the second set containing skills for a second member of the social networking service based on the second member's user profile; determining a third set of high ranking skills, the third set being the intersection between the first and second set of high ranking skills; and suggesting one or more of the skills in the third set of high ranking skills to the member for endorsement of the second member with respect to that skill.
US10027767B2	Method for providing SNS-based file aging service An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for providing an SNS-based file aging service executed in a SNS-based file aging service providing server, and the method includes receiving a SNS registration event for at least one user of at least one user, checking whether a content upload event is being occurred on a SNS of the at least one user at which the SNS registration event is received, mapping the content at which the content upload event is occurred with the SNS registration event of the at least one user for the storage thereof, and expiring the content uploaded on the SNS, the content being stored by mapping it with the SNS registration event, when an SNS deregistration event is being occurred for the at least one user from the at least one user.
US10027763B2	Abort messages for position location message flows Provided is an enhanced LPP transport that may improve performance where a sender or receiver of messages processes certain messages that include requests to abort transactions or sessions, or processes certain messages that might otherwise result in the sending of abort messages. Embodiments may reduce unwanted system actions such as, for example, the unwanted termination of a transaction or session, or the unnecessary use of system resources.
US10027759B2	Vehicle human-machine interface (HMI) device operation of a handheld mobile device A method and device for providing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) human-machine interface (HMI) device operation of a non-OEM handheld mobile device is provided. The method and/or device operate to process an access request received via a vehicle network, and transmits, in response to the access request, a HMI configuration request that corresponds to the OEM HMI device. The method and/or device receive, in response to the HMI configuration request, a HMI mapping assignment that corresponds with the OEM HMI device, and applies the HMI mapping assignment to OEM HMI device data to produce non-OEM HMI data, in which the OEM HMI device data being operable to manipulate at least one application function of the non-OEM handheld mobile device.
US10027756B2	Unified-interface for storage provisioning Systems and methods are provided for storage platform-independent storage provisioning. The systems and methods may include receiving a storage provisioning request from a user interface, processing the storage provisioning request to determine one or more of a plurality of storage resources utilized to complete the storage provisioning request, generating an instruction to provision a data storage space among the one or more of the plurality of storage resources, and provisioning the data storage space based on the instruction. Each of the plurality of storage resources may include an interface configuration, and at least two interface configurations are different from one another. Each of the plurality of storage resources may be accessible and operational in accordance with the interface configuration thereof. The processing of a storage provisioning request may include determining at least one of a nature of the storage provisioning request, or an application associated with the storage provisioning request.
US10027750B1	Utilizing network identifiers that are based on media items Disclosed are various embodiments for utilizing a network identifier that is based on a media item. A computing device receives a network identifier for a network. The computing device detects that the network identifier is based on a media item and generates a user interface having information related to the media item.
US10027745B2	System and method for signaling and data tunneling in a peer-to-peer environment An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to use a tunneling server to bypass a network address translation (NAT) device that is blocking messages to an endpoint on the other side of the NAT device.
US10027744B2	Deployment of a network resource based on a containment structure Systems and methods for the deployment of network resource information based on a containment structure are herein disclosed as comprising, in an implementation, determining, using a configuration item representative of a resource within the configuration management database, a first set of properties associated with a resource type, wherein the first set of properties comprises a subset of the global property set, determining a second set of properties based on deployment rules, such as a containment relationship defining properties included within a parent configuration item of the configuration management database, wherein the second set of properties comprises a subset of the first set of properties, provisioning the resource with the second set of properties, and communicating the provisioned resource for activation within the computer network. In an implementation, a deployment agent can be configured to provision a resource with the second set of properties.
US10027742B2	Techniques for sharing application states A server is in communication with a first computing device that can access an application. The server includes a processing device that executes instructions from a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The instructions include receiving a resolution request. The resolution request includes information indicative of a state of the application as accessed by a second computing device. The instructions include generating, based on the information in the received resolution request, at least one of (i) an application resource identifier indicative of a native edition of the application and (ii) a web resource identifier indicative of a web edition of the application. The instructions include determining an instruction set including instructions for accessing at least one of the native edition and the web edition. The instructions include, to at least one of the first and second computing devices, transmitting the instruction set and the application/web resource identifier.
US10027732B2	Method and system for negotiation of media between communication devices for multiplexing multiple media types A method of negotiation of media between a source communication device and a destination communication device for multiplexing multiple media types on an IP transport address comprises the source communication device generating an offer message comprising an extension to the ICE protocol according to RFC 5245 to specify the IP transport address whereon the multiple media types can be multiplexed, wherein the offer message comprising the extension indicates support for both the multiplexing and a non-multiplexing of the multiple media types, and sending the offer message from the source communication device to the destination communication device.
US10027731B2	Selective capture with rapid sharing of user computer or mixed reality actions, states using interactive virtual streaming A method for streaming interactive media between clients includes streaming a first series of packets from a server to a first client. The packets include data, instructions and timestamps for executing the instructions. At least one of the instructions requests capture of client-based events. A second series of packets is received from the first client device. The second series of packets includes one or more captured client-based events generated in response to the instructions requesting capture of one or more client-based events. The second series of packets further includes one or more timestamps associated with each of the client-based events. The first series of packets is merged with the second series of packets based on the time-stamps included with the first and second series of packets to form a merged series of packets. The merged series of packets are streamed to a second client device.
US10027724B2	Methods and apparatus for implementing a conference call According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of implementing a conference for a user of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The method comprises, at a Telephony Application Server (TAS) that provides IMS multimedia supplementary services to the user, receiving a request for a conference from the user, designating a Public User Identity (PUI) of the user as an identifier for a conference service provided by the TAS that is to host the conference for the user, receiving signalling relating to a call intended for the user, and using the designated PUI to determine if the call can be connected to a conference hosted by the TAS for the user.
US10027723B2	Method and apparatus for initiating communication and sharing of content among a plurality of devices An approach for communication and sharing of content among user devices includes a method for determining a request for sharing of at least one content item between at least one device and one or more other devices, wherein the request is determined by at least one content sharing component. The method also comprises causing an initiation of at least one communication component to cause an establishment of a communication session between the at least one device and the one or more other devices. The method further comprises causing a transfer of one or more tokens to the at least one device for facilitating the sharing of the at least one content item, wherein the transfer of the one or more tokens is over the communication session, and wherein the sharing is performed over at least one other communication session.
US10027719B2	Resolving competing handover conditions in wireless networks One aspect includes a method of operating a user terminal adapted for wireless telecommunications using any of a plurality of different radio access technologies including a Circuit Switched, CS, access and a Packet Switched, PS access. The PS access includes access via a Long Term Evolution, LTE, network and WiFi access via a Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN. The method includes: (i) making a determination to switch from a PS LTE access to a WiFi access, (ii) switching to WiFi access, and (iii) ignoring or rejecting a command received to hand over to a CS access. Other aspects include a user terminal, a telecommunications network entity, and a method of operating a telecommunications network entity.
US10027712B2	System and method for distributed load balancing with distributed direct server return Embodiments may include a load balancer that receives a request packet sent by a remote client to an original destination address of multiple network addresses serviced by the load balancer, and selects according to a load balancing protocol, a host computer of a plurality of host computers to process the request. The load balancer may, from among a plurality of ports on the selected host computer, select a particular port having a one-to-one association with the original destination address, the association specified by mapping information accessible to the load balancer, and send the request packet to the selected port on the selected host computer. The mapping information accessible to the selected host computer specifies a one-to-one association between the selected port and the original destination address. Sending the request packet to the selected port conveys that address to the selected server without that address being included in that packet.
US10027710B2	NAT traversal for local IP access A node is provided that includes a home base station collocated with a local gateway (L-GW) providing access to a local Internet Protocol (IP) network. The node performs an establishment procedure with a security gateway (SeGW), and discriminates a packet. The node uses a first interface configured at the L-GW and a second interface which is configured between the home base station and a gateway for the home base station. The first and second interfaces are tunneled through a same IP security (IPsec) tunnel opened between the home base station and the SeGW. The home base station for the first interface uses a first IP address that is either same as or different from a second IP address used by the home base station for the second interface. The node uses either distinct ranges of Tunnel Endpoint Identifiers (TEIDs) or the first and second IP addresses to discriminate the packet.
US10027707B2	System and method for anti-phishing authentication A method and system for providing security against phishing attacks. The method can include receiving a login ID from a client, and providing an encrypted commitment to the client. The method can also include receiving a one-time password (OTP) from the client, and validating the OTP. The method can also include sending a commitment key, to be authenticated by the client, receiving a static password from the client and authenticating the client. Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system for providing security against phishing attacks. The system can include one or more servers configured to receive a login ID from a client, and provide an encrypted commitment to the client. The processors can be configured to receive a one-time password (OTP) from the client, validate the OTP, send a commitment key, to be authenticated by the client, receive a static password from the client and authenticate the client.
US10027692B2	Modifying evasive code using correlation analysis An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, via a processor, an application to be tested, a set of intrusive monitoring capabilities, and a set of external monitoring capabilities. The method includes executing, via the processor, the application in a clean environment to generate unmonitored application behavior. The method includes executing, via the processor, the application with intrusive monitoring based on two randomly generated seeds to generate trigger events and external monitoring to detect changes of application behavior in response to the intrusive monitoring. The method includes computing, via the processor, a correlation measure between the trigger events and the detected changes in the application behavior. The method includes modifying, via the processor, the application in response to detecting the application is evasive based on the correlation measure.
US10027690B2	Electronic message analysis for malware detection An electronic message is analyzed for malware contained in the message. Text of an electronic message may be analyzed to detect and process malware content in the electronic message itself. The present technology may analyze an electronic message and attachments to electronic messages to detect a uniform resource location (URL), identify whether the URL is suspicious, and analyze all suspicious URLs to determine if they are malware. The analysis may include re-playing the suspicious URL in a virtual environment which simulates the intended computing device to receive the electronic message. If the re-played URL is determined to be malicious, the malicious URL is added to a black list which is updated throughout the computer system.
US10027679B2	Secondary asynchronous background authorization (SABA) A system for identify threats to the security of an owner's electronic information by performing a secondary background authorization (SABA) that is transparent to the requester to verify or flag unauthorized access to systems, data or company offices being requested. The secondary background authorization relies on a proprietary security, big data pattern-matching, and modeling approach made possible by the creation, expansion, and analysis of new “data streams” that, together with Operating systems, applications, and devices data, uniquely allows the system to determine a security access risk and provide information to the owner.
US10027676B2	Method and system for multi-user, multi-device login and content access control and metering and blocking A method and system for multi-user, multi-device content access metering and control is provided. In one embodiment, a system implements a method such that in response to user login requests, the system controls login access by providing multiple users login access to plural electronic devices capable of communicating via a communication system. Further, in response to user content access actions, the system controls access to content by selectively providing content to said one or more users via said one or more electronic devices based on content access policies.
US10027675B2	Determining virtual adapter access controls in a computing environment A control component of a computing environment initiates sending of request(s) over a network of the computing environment by an activated virtual adapter. The activated virtual adapter is hosted on a physical adapter of a host system coupled to the network, and is for use by a guest, hosted by the host system, in performing data input and output. The request(s) retrieve access control information from the network indicative of access control(s) enforced in controlling access by the activated virtual adapter to network component(s). The initiating provides indication(s) to the physical adapter, absent involvement of the guest, that the request(s) be sent by the virtual adapter. Based on the initiating, the control component obtains the access control information from the physical adapter, and determines, based on that information, the access control(s) being enforced by the network in controlling access by the activated virtual adapter to the network component(s).
US10027671B2	Restricting access to content based on a posterior probability that a terminal signature was received from a previously unseen computer terminal A method by a content server includes maintaining a historical repository of terminal signature tuples received from computer terminals. Each of the terminal signature tuples contains a terminal identifier for a computer terminal and a terminal signature characterizing a measured operation by the computer terminal. An access request message is received from a source computer terminal and contains a terminal signature tuple. The terminal signature tuple in the access request message contains a terminal identifier for the source computer terminal and a terminal signature characterizing a measured operation by the source computer terminal. A posterior probability value is generated based on processing a combination of the terminal signature tuple contained in the access request message and the terminal signature tuples contained in the historical repository. The content server controls access for the access request message to a resource controlled by the content server based on the posterior probability value.
US10027668B2	Information protecting apparatus An information protecting apparatus includes: a storage configured to store data; a communication device configured to perform communication over a network by using first setting information; and a controller configured to control reading and writing of the data from and to the storage. The controller stores the first setting information into the storage. The controller determines whether second setting information is identical to the first setting information stored in the storage. The second setting information is acquired over the network after the first setting information is stored into the storage. The controller restricts the reading and writing of the data from and to the storage when the first setting information and the second setting information are not identical to each other.
US10027663B2	Anonymizing biometric data for use in a security system An anonymized biometric representation of a target individual is used in a computer based security system. A detailed input biometric signal associated with a target individual is obtained. A weakened biometric representation of the detailed biometric signal is constructed such that the weakened biometric representation is designed to identify a plurality of individuals including the target individual. The target individual is enrolled in a data store associated with the computer based security system wherein the weakened biometric representation is included in a record for the target individual. In another aspect of the invention, a detailed input biometric signal from a screening candidate individual is obtained. The detailed biometric signal of the screening candidate is matched against the weakened biometric representation included in the record for the target individual.
US10027662B1	Dynamic user authentication Systems, methods, and devices for dynamically authenticating a user are disclosed. A speech-controlled device captures a spoken command, and sends audio data corresponding thereto to a server. The server determines the audio data includes a spoken command to receive content, and therefrom determines a source storing the content. The server also determines threshold user authentication confidence score data associated with the content source. Based at least in part on the threshold user authentication confidence score data, the server determines a user authentication technique, and a device configured to capture user authentication data. The server determines user authentication confidence score data using user authentication data received from the device, and determines weighted user authentication confidence score data therefrom. If the weighted user authentication confidence score data satisfies the threshold user authentication confidence score data, the server receives the requested content from the content source.
US10027657B1	Authentication/authorization without a password A method for authenticating a user on the electronic computing device includes receiving a request to authenticate the user. First data is received from the electronic computing device. The first data comprises selections of the user of a plurality of locations from a picture displayed on the electronic computing device. The first data also comprises force data representing forces applied by the user when making the selections. The first data is compared with second data. A determination is made as to whether aspects of the first data correspond to aspects of the second data. When the aspects of the first data correspond to the aspects of the second data, the user is authenticated.
US10027654B2	Method for authenticating a client device to a server using a secret element The invention relates to an authentication method for authenticating a client device having an authentication token generated by means of a pseudo-homomorphic function and based on a secret element (PIN) known only by the client device, to a server, comprising: the generation (A1), by the client device, of proof of knowledge of the secret element based on a proof generation key masked with a first mask data item, said masked proof generation key being dependent on said secret element, the transmission to the server by the client device, of said generated proof of knowledge of the secret element (A2) and of the authentication token (J) masked using the mask data item (A3), the verification of the validity of the masked authentication token (A4) and of the validity of the proof of knowledge by the server (A6) by a zero-knowledge proof, proving the knowledge of said secret element by the client device without revealing it.
US10027651B2	Shaping I/O traffic by managing queue depth in fractional increments A method for managing input/output (I/O) traffic in an information handling system. The method may include receiving electronic I/O requests from a network-attached server, determining a queue depth limit, monitoring latency of processed electronic I/O requests, and processing received electronic I/O requests. The number of electronic I/O requests permitted to be processed over a period of time may be based on a mathematical combination of the queue depth limit and a latency of processed electronic I/O requests. The determined queue depth limit may be a fractional value.
US10027649B2	Credential-free user login to remotely executed applications Provided is a process including: receiving, with an intermediary server, a request to access web content at a web server; submitting, from the intermediary server a value by which possession of an access credential is demonstrated, wherein the value is withheld from the client web browser; receiving, by the intermediary web browser, instructions to store in web browser memory an access token; and sending, from the intermediary server, to the client web browser executing on the client computing device, instructions to store the access token in browser memory of the client web browser, thereby authenticating the client web browser without the client web browser having access to the value by which possession of the access credential is demonstrated.
US10027643B2	Authenticating home device using device token issued based on identifier of terminal To solve the problems that may occur due to the leakage of user account information, the present disclosure may manage the security using the device token that is used independently of that of the server, that is generated by a home device, and that can be used for device authentication when a smart phone controls home appliances. With the use of the device token, the present disclosure may solve the problems that the status information of home appliances is exposed by another person or the home appliances are controlled by another person, even though the user account information is leaked.
US10027631B2	Securing passwords against dictionary attacks Described herein are various technologies pertaining to constructions of a password-based authentication protocol that are configured to allow a user to register with and authenticate to an online service without the online service receiving a password or a deterministic function of the password of the user. When registering with an online service, a client computing device establishes a cryptographically strong random secret and stores an encryption of such secret with a data storage device. The storage device also never receives the password or a deterministic function of the password. When the user wishes to authenticate to the online service, the user employs her password to retrieve the encrypted secret from the storage device, decrypts such secret, and utilizes the decrypted secret to answer a cryptographically strong challenge provided to the user by the online service upon the online service receiving a username pertaining to such user.
US10027619B2	Messaging centre for forwarding e-mail A method for forwarding an e-mail message from an e-mail server to a mobile terminal is provided. An e-mail address of the mobile terminal is associated with an identifier and encryption information, receiving the e-mail message associated with the e-mail address and sent by the e-mail server. The method includes encrypting the e-mail message using the encryption information associated with the e-mail address and transmitting the encrypted e-mail message to the mobile terminal.
US10027616B2	Proximity discovery system and method A proximity discovery system enabling a person to quickly and efficiently discover colleagues within their proximity without visual contact. The system comprises a mobile computing device including an antenna and transceiver for exchanging messages with a plurality of other mobile devices within approximately 100 meters of the user device, a user detection module for detecting the messages from the other mobile devices, a proximity detector for estimating a distance between the user device and each of the mobile devices, a connection module for sharing biographic and professional information with the plurality of mobile devices based on one of a plurality of connection levels. At a first level, the users exchange name and initial corporate affiliation data, while at a second level they exchange more detailed professional data and social media contact data.
US10027610B2	Management of dynamic email content Systems and methods to manage dynamic content in email via an image server. The image server being configured to communicate and receive requests from an email client regarding dynamic content. The image server is also configured to load data regarding the email client from an asset database, and to communicate with a decision engine. Further, the image server is configured to communicate with a content acquisition server, to communicate an analytics database, and to cause display of dynamic content in an email.
US10027606B2	Method and apparatus for determining a notification representation indicative of a cognitive load A method comprising determining to provide a notification to a user, the notification being associated with notification content, determining a cognitive load associated with the notification content, determining a notification representation associated with the notification such that the notification representation is indicative of the cognitive load is disclosed.
US10027599B2	Determining capacity of virtual devices in a voice over internet protocol system A method for determining a capacity of a virtual machine in a VoIP system includes determining a resource configuration of the virtual machine including a number of CPU cores, a CPU clock rate, or a memory size. The virtual machine may be configured as a trunk, conference bridge, phone switch, session border controller, router, or another device in the VoIP system. The method also includes sending the resource configuration from the virtual machine to a VoIP system configuration application. The VoIP system configuration application may be an application running on the virtual machine or an application running on a server separate from the virtual machine. At the VoIP system configuration application, a capacity of the virtual machine is determined based on the resource configuration. The capacity may determine a number and type of telephony features supported by the telephony device in the VoIP system.
US10027598B2	Providing network resources based on available user information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing network resources based on available user information. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining a set of user information, receiving a request to access a network resource, and in response to receiving the request to access the network resource, determining user information requested by the network resource. Additional actions include determining whether the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the network resource and in response to determining that the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the network resource, selecting a particular network resource to provide in response to the request. Further actions include in response to selecting the particular network resource, providing the particular network resource in response to the request.
US10027594B1	Congestion control for label switching traffic One pre-configured code point from of a plurality of code points for a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) traffic class represents a congestion marked code point associated with traffic congestion and the remaining code points represent not-congestion marked. Congestion associated with a label switching path can be determined based on a congestion notification from a router queue and on a pre-determined congestion indicator from a packet header.
US10027592B1	System to facilitate data transfer in wireless networks A group of computing devices use a wireless channel for communication, resulting in congestion. Within that group, some devices may need to exchange time sensitive application data, such as data indicative of control inputs received from a user. A destination device may transmit a clear to send (CTS) frame over the channel that indicates a CTS interval indicative of a time to suspend transmission. Other computing devices respond to the CTS frame by suspending transmission for the specified CTS interval. However, a source device in the group of many computing devices receives the CTS frame and initiates transmission of application data instead of suspending transmission. As a result, the source device transmits while other computing devices are not transmitting. In some implementations a beacon frame may be transmitted before a CTS frame. The destination device may confirm receipt of the application data by transmitting an acknowledgement to the source device.
US10027591B1	Apparatus, system, and method for applying policies to network traffic on specific days The disclosed apparatus may include a storage device that stores at least one policy for handling certain network traffic exchanged between multiple computing devices during at least one specific day. The apparatus may also include a policy-enforcement unit communicatively coupled to the storage device. The policy-enforcement unit may receive, at a network device that facilitates network traffic within a network, at least one packet to be exchanged between the multiple computing devices on the specific day. The policy-enforcement unit may then determine, due at least in part to receiving the packet on the specific day, that the policy applies to the packet. In response to determining that the policy applies to the packet, the policy-enforcement unit may handle the packet in accordance with the policy. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10027590B2	End to end flow control A network device implementing the subject system for end to end flow control may include at least one processor circuit that may be configured to detect that congestion is being experienced by at least one queue of a port and identify another network device that is transmitting downstream traffic being queued at the at least one queue of the port that is at least partially causing the congestion. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to generate an end to end flow control message that comprises an identifier of the port, the end to end flow control message indicating that the downstream traffic should be flow controlled at the another network device. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to transmit, out-of-band and through at least one intermediary network device, the end to end flow control message to the another network device.
US10027572B2	Path finding in a mesh network with adaptive bitrate A station (100, 330) for use in a mesh network comprising at least one first station (100a) and a second station (100b) wherein the station comprises a controller (210) configured to receive a path request for a path from the first station (100a) to the second station (100b); determine a proposed path between the first station (100a) and the second station (100b); and determine a cost for the proposed path, wherein the controller (210) is characterized in that it is configured to retrieve a number of jumps and a bit rate, and to include the number of jumps and a bit rate in the determination of the cost for the proposed path, wherein an increase in number of jumps and/or decrease in bit rate leads to an increase in cost for the proposed path.
US10027558B2	Disaster recovery as a dynamic service A system, method and program product that provides a disaster recovery (DR) brokerage infrastructure. A system is described that includes: a network of intermediate storage nodes and peering points; and a brokerage manager that periodically evaluates a set of DR as a service (DRaaS) providers and selects a cost optimal DRaaS provider for a subscriber, wherein the brokerage manager replicates DR related data for the subscriber in an intermediate storage node prior to delivery to the cost optimal DRaaS provider.
US10027552B2	Discovery of a set of nodes in a network Methods and systems for discovery of a set of nodes in a network. The method comprises selecting a node amongst nodes in a group of nodes to be processed; and instructing to implement a discovery procedure for the selected node. The procedure comprises broadcasting a neighbor discovery request from a node currently selected on a shared transmission medium of the network; and receiving at the node currently selected replies sent by neighbor nodes on the shared transmission medium and adding the neighbor nodes to the group of nodes to be processed; and repeating the steps of selecting and instructing for other nodes in the group of nodes to be processed, until all nodes of the set are discovered.
US10027551B1	Access controls through node-based effective policy identifiers Techniques for implementing a node-based access control system are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer stores a node based policy system wherein each node identifies a resource and a policy for the resource. The server computer identifies a policy for a first node and an identifier of a second node wherein the second node is a parent node to the first node. The server computer maps an effective policy identifier to the policy for the first node and the identifier of the second node. The server computer stores data associating the effective policy identifier with the first node. The server computer identifies a policy for a third node and an identifier of the second node, wherein the second node is a parent node to the third node and wherein the policy for the third node is equivalent to the policy for the first node. The server computer then stores data associating the effective policy identifier with the third node.
US10027547B1	Autonomic self-optimization of protection storage A network system comprises a first component, a second component, and a system for self-optimization. The system for self-optimization comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a performance indication from the first component. The processor is configured to determine a configuration change for the second component according to a set of configuration rules.
US10027542B2	Sketch based monitoring of a communication network A node of a communication network determines a hash-based sketch. The sketch may for example correspond to a Count-Min (CM) sketch. The sketch summarizes a number of occurrence of an event for a group of UEs. Further, the node receives information representing the number of occurrence of the event for said group of UEs from one or more further nodes of the communication network, e.g., in a further hash-based sketch. The node updates the sketch with the information received from the further and provides the updated sketch to the further nodes.
US10027539B2	Radio node, wireless device, and methods therein for configuring the wireless device Method in a radio node (101) for configuring a wireless device (120). The radio node (101) and the wireless device (120) operate in a wireless communications network (100). The radio node (101) configures the wireless device (120) with a plurality of Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH, resource units. The plurality of PUCCH resource units is associated with a number of downlink, DL, aggregated carriers.
US10027538B1	Hybrid communications system and method of operation A method includes providing account enable data from a multi-tenant hosted communication system to a premises based communications system. The method also includes receiving user configuration data at a remote portal of the hosted communications system, the configuration data including the account enable data and user data describing properties of each of a plurality of users in the premises based communications system including at least one user group to which a subset of the users belongs. The method also includes providing enablement data to the premises based communications system via the portal to identify which resources in the multi-tenant hosted system are enabled for the plurality of users in the premises based communications system based on the user configuration data. Changes in the enablement data further can be synchronized based on changes in the user configuration data received from the premises based communications system via the portal.
US10027536B2	System and method for affinity-based network configuration Embodiments are provided to perform affinity analysis and management of network services. The embodiments use model-driven engineering to capture more generic affinity-based relationships, including between applications and endpoints and between customers and the network infrastructure. In an embodiment method, upon receiving at a network component a request for an application, affinity analysis is performed on the application. A network configuration is then determined according to results of the affinity analysis. The affinity analysis is performed and the network configuration is determined according to business rules defining application and customer priorities. The business rules are defined using a single information model and implemented using at least one data model. The network infrastructure is then configured according to the affinity analysis and the network configuration.
US10027535B1	Systems and methods for managing device configurations at various levels of abstraction A computer-implemented method for managing device configurations at various levels of abstraction may include (1) receiving a request to transform configuration details of at least one computing device into configuration details for an abstraction of the computing device, (2) using at least one compiler to transform the configuration details of the computing device into configuration details of the abstraction, and (3) returning the configuration details of the abstraction. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10027526B2	Method and apparatus for high-speed data transfer employing self-synchronizing quadrature amplitude modulation Methods and apparatus for wired communications are disclosed. A method for transmitting a data stream through a wired communications channel includes encoding the data stream to produce a first baseband modulating signal I(t) and a second baseband modulating signal Q(t) whose amplitudes together represent a time series of complex symbols (I, Q) each selected from a two-dimensional (2-D) constellation of symbols distributed on the phase plane about the origin such that at least one of the baseband modulating signals has a substantially non-zero mean amplitude, modulating the baseband signals I(t) and Q(t) to produce a modulated signal, wherein the I(t) and Q(t) components of the modulated signals are generally fixed in quadrature, and providing the modulated signal to a wired communications channel.
US10027522B2	Transmission system According to one embodiment, a transmission system may include a plurality of signal processing apparatuses. The signal processing apparatus are connected in series. The signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of signal processors, and a switcher. The signal processors generate an output signal by performing signal processing of an input signal from an earlier-stage signal processing apparatus. The signal processors supply the output signal into which is included an abnormality signal if the input signal does not include the abnormality signal and also the output signal does not satisfy the criteria. The switcher receives a plurality of output signals output from the plurality of signal processors. The switcher supplies an output signal of the plurality of output signals.
US10027516B2	Receiver with offset calibration An on-chip AC coupled receiver with offset calibration. The receiver includes AC coupling circuitry to couple a differential input signal into a coupled differential signal having a first signal and a second signal. The receiver includes a first comparator to generate a first error signal indicative of whether a first reference signal is greater or smaller than a signal derived from the coupled differential signal. The receiver includes a second comparator to generate a second error signal indicative of whether a second reference signal is greater or smaller than the signal derived from the coupled differential signal. The receiver further includes feedback circuitry to adjust a voltage offset between the first signal and the second signal of the coupled differential signal based on the first error signal and the second error signal.
US10027514B2	Transmitting signals between modules A system comprises a first module and a second module, connected by a transmission line comprising first and second wires. The first module includes common mode voltage circuitry, for imposing a common mode voltage onto the first and second wires. The first module includes signal generation circuitry, for generating a signal voltage in response to first data, and for imposing the signal voltage as a differential signal onto the first and second wires during periods when the first module has first data to transmit. The second module includes current generation circuitry, for generating a signal current in response to second data, and for injecting the signal current as a differential current onto the first and second wires during periods when the second module has second data to transmit. The first module includes respective resistances connected to the first and second wires. The first module includes a first detector for obtaining first output data based on voltages across the resistors resulting from the signal current injected by the current generation circuitry of the second module; and the second module includes a second detector for obtaining second output data based on differential signal imposed by the signal generation circuitry of the first module.
US10027513B2	Anti-aliasing channel estimation apparatus and method and receiver An anti-aliasing channel estimation apparatus and method and a receiver where the anti-aliasing channel estimation method includes: performing clock recovery and data synchronization on a received multicarrier signal with channel aliasing, to obtain a synchronized time-domain signal and a sampling phase; calculating an estimation signal after passing through a channel and being aliased based on a training sequence and the sampling phase, and obtaining a channel response and an aliasing signal response of each subcarrier of the multicarrier signal based on the estimation signal and the frequency-domain signal. Therefore, channel estimation may be performed on the multicarrier signal with channel aliasing, influence of the channel aliasing on the bit error rate may be lowered, and transmission quality of the system may be improved.
US10027512B2	Method and apparatus for sounding in wireless communication system Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for sounding in a wireless communication system. A method for sounding in a wireless local area network (WLAN) may comprise: a step of receiving, by an STA, an NDPA frame from an AP; a step of receiving, by the STA, an NDP frame on the basis of identification information included in the NDPA frame; and a step of transmitting, by the STA, channel state information determined on the basis of the NDP frame to the AP, wherein the NDPA frame may be demodulated on the basis of a first FFT and the NDP frame may be demodulated on the basis of a second FFT.
US10027510B2	Large-scale data center based on a contiguous network A large-scale data center is based on orthogonal connectivity of a distributed single-stage connector, having a large number of disjoint primary switches, to a large number of access nodes and a large number of secondary switches. The secondary switches are coupled to a large number of servers forming a server farm. The orthogonal-connectivity scheme yields a contiguous network providing single-hop paths from each access node to each other access node, from each secondary switch to each other secondary switch, from each access node to each secondary switch, and from each secondary switch to each access node.
US10027503B2	Integrated door locking and state detection systems and methods Arrangements of integrated door lock and position sensor devices are presented. A wireless interface may be configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more remote computerized devices. A sensor may be incorporated into the device that detects when the door is open or closed. A lock may be incorporated into the device that, when engaged and the door is closed, prevents the door from being opened from at least one side of the door may be incorporated into the device. A controller may be configured to determine when the door is open, shut, locked, and/or unlocked using information from the lock and the sensor.
US10027501B1	Systems and methods for pre-configuring a payment vehicle Methods and systems for pre-configuring a payment vehicle are described. In some embodiments, transaction criteria pertaining to a payment vehicle is proactively received in advance of an anticipated transaction. A transaction authorization request may be received from a point of sale device and may be generated by the point of sale device in response to an attempted use of the payment vehicle. Information about the transaction in the transaction request may be compared with the transaction criteria to determine whether to authorize the transaction.
US10027498B2	Methods and apparatuses for delivering user-assisted data using periodic multicast Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for delivering user-assisted multimedia data using periodic multicast, which provide stable high-capacity Video-On-Demand (VOD) streaming service by proposing a user-assisted video transfer scheme capable of replacing a client-server configuration in providing high-capacity VOD streaming service.
US10027488B2	Numeric pattern normalization for cryptographic signatures A system for numeric pattern normalization for cryptographic signatures is provided. The system includes a resolving client, and an at least one signature server. The at least one signature server includes at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable media having encoded thereon computer software comprising a set of instructions executable by the at least one processor. The set of instructions may be executed by the signature server to generate a message to be transmitted to a resolving client, normalize the message via numeric pattern normalization, generate a hash value for the normalized message, and generate a cryptographic signature based on the hash value. The signature server may then generate a signed message having the message signed with the cryptographic signature, and transmit the signed message to the resolving client.
US10027481B2	Management of cryptographic keys An electronic device for management of cryptographic keys, and a corresponding method implemented in a computing device comprising a physical processor, transmit feature data of the device to a key generation module, wherein the feature data comprises information corresponding to an identifier or an attribute of the device, and receive, by the device from the key generation module, a digital signature of the transmitted feature data. The device installs the received digital signature as a cryptographic private key for communication, and performs a cryptographic operation using the installed digital signature as the cryptographic private key.
US10027476B2	Method for generating a secret or a key in a network A method for generating a secret or a key in a network, the network including at least one first and one second member and a transmission channel between at least the first and the second members. The first and second members being able to place at least one first value and one second value on the transmission channel. The first member causes a first member value sequence and the second member causes a second member value sequence to be transmitted over the transmission channel largely synchronously with each other. The first member and the second member generate a shared secret or a shared key on the basis of information about the first member value sequence and the second member value sequence and on the basis of an overlap value sequence resulting from the overlap of the first member value sequence with the second member value sequence on the transmission channel.
US10027472B2	Non-linear physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit with machine-learning attack resistance Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for a physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit. The PUF circuit may include an array of PUF cells to generate respective response bits of an authentication code in response to a challenge bit string. The PUF cells may include a pair of cross-coupled inverters, the individual inverters including independently selectable pull-down or pull-up legs. One of the pull-up or pull-down legs of each inverter may be selectively activated based on the challenge bit string. The PUF cells may further include first and second configurable clock delay circuits to pass respective clock signals to pre-charge transistors of the PUF cell. A dark bit masking circuit may generate a soft dark bit mask for the PUF circuit. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10027471B2	Synchronization and training stage operation A primary device implementing the subject system of link establishment for single pair Ethernet may include at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to transmit a first synchronization sequence to a secondary device and to subsequently detect a second synchronization sequence, different than the first, transmitted by the secondary device. The synchronization sequences may be pseudo-noise sequences that have strong autocorrelation characteristics. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to wait a predetermined amount of time after completing the detection of the second synchronization sequence, and then may initiate a training stage. The training stage may include exchanging scrambler states of additive scramblers used by the primary and secondary devices. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to enter a data mode upon completion of training. In the data mode, data is forward error correction encoded and then scrambled.
US10027469B2	Synchronous transfer of streaming data in a distributed antenna system Method and apparatus for generating a jitter reduced clock signal from signal transmitted over a communication medium includes receiving, with high speed data interface circuitry, a modulated signal that includes a binary encoded data stream. A recovered clock signal is generated from the modulated signal and tracks the long-term drift in the modulated signal. A jitter reduced clock signal is generated by filtering the recovered clock signal with a filtering circuit having a bandwidth sufficient to remove jitter while allowing the jitter reduced clock signal to track the drift in the modulated signal.
US10027466B2	Full duplex radio communication A method performed under control of a first device capable of full duplex radio communications may include receiving a first part of a first data from a second device capable of the full duplex radio communications; determining that the second device has transmitted the first data to the first device, based, at least in part, on the received first part of the first data; and transmitting a second data to the second device, while receiving a second part of the first data from the second device.
US10027462B2	Unified frame structure A unified frame structure design includes multiple structures to support multiple access requirements. In some aspects, different access requirements may relate to different access terminal categories and/or different applications. In some aspects, different access terminal categories may relate to different performance requirements of different access terminals. In some aspects, the disclosed unified frame structure design could support, for example, and without limitation, at least one of: a low latency mode, a low overhead mode, a low power mode (e.g., for micro-sleep and/or dynamic bandwidth switching), an access terminal with narrowband capability operating in wideband, or ultra-low-latency and nominal multiplexing. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US10027457B2	Methods and apparatus for providing soft and blind combining for PUSCH CQI processing Methods and apparatuses for providing soft and blind combining for PUSCH CQI processing are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes generating a plurality of hypothetical rank indicator (RI) values associated with a user equipment (UE), and concurrently soft-combining channel quality information (CQI) and RI information associated with the UE that is contained in a received subframe of symbols. The RI information is soft-combined to generate a soft-combined RI bit stream and the CQI information is soft-combined based on the plurality of hypothetical RI values to generate a plurality of soft-combined CQI bit streams, respectively. The method also includes decoding the soft-combined RI bit stream to generate a decoded RI value, and decoding a selected soft-combined CQI bit stream based on the decoded RI value to generate a decoded CQI value.
US10027443B2	Method and device for frame acknowledgment The present disclosure is a method for frame acknowledgment. The method includes upon completion of downlink service data scheduling and resource allocation, allocating feedback resources in the uplink of the present physical frame; or, upon completion of the uplink service data scheduling and resource allocation, allocating feedback resources in the downlink of the next frame for sending a Group ACK response. The method further includes according to the allocated feedback resources, encapsulating the corresponding control signaling used for indicating feedback resource allocation; sending the feedback resource control signaling in a control channel of the physical frame. Also disclosed is a device for frame acknowledgement. In a centralized wireless communication system having an uplink and downlink frame structure, the method and device of the present disclosure realize data packet sending and acknowledgment in the form of MAC frames at the MAC level, and achieve the least acknowledgment delay and high reliability by providing group acknowledgment with minimum complexity, thus facilitating resource scheduling and retransmission scheduling.
US10027439B1	Launcher and coupling system to support desired guided wave mode Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a launcher that includes a hollow waveguide that guides a first electromagnetic wave conveying data from a transmitting device. A dielectric stub coupler receives the first electromagnetic wave from the hollow waveguide to form a second electromagnetic wave that propagates along a portion of the dielectric stub coupler adjacent to a transmission medium, wherein second electromagnetic wave propagates along the dielectric stub coupler via a first guided wave mode and a second guided wave mode, and wherein the portion has a length that supports a coupling of the second guided wave mode for propagation along an outer surface of the transmission medium.
US10027436B2	Service and application layer optimization using variable rate optical transmission Apparatus and methods are provided for application layer optimization in a modern data network. The optimization incorporates variable rate transmission across one or more optical data channels. Data throughput is maximized by enabling quality of service profiles on a per transmission channel basis. According to one aspect, a system is provided in which the application layer is aware of and controls the underlying transmission rate and quality of the transmission. This enables the system to fully utilize the transmission capacity of the channel. The application layer may map different applications to different transmission classes of service. The services can be classified based on data throughput rate, guaranteed error rates, latency and cost, among other criteria. This provides flexibility to the application layer to map some loss tolerant applications to a lower cost (per bit) transmission class.
US10027423B1	Adaptive demapper An adaptive demapper adaptively demaps an input symbol. An input symbol is received and demapped in a hard-output demapper to generate a current detected symbol corresponding to a constellation point on a current constellation closest to the input symbol. A corrected inverse of a current noise power estimate is determined by updating a previous noise power estimate based on a difference between the input symbol and the current detected symbol. In a soft-output demapper, a log likelihood ratio corresponding to the current detected symbol is determined based on the corrected inverse of the current noise power estimate. The constellation point in the current constellation corresponding to the current detected symbol is then updated to generate an updated constellation based on a difference between the constellation point and the received input symbol.
US10027419B2	Polarization-controlled optical channel and memory device including the same A memory system includes a memory controller, a plurality of memory modules, and a memory bus connecting the memory controller and the plurality of memory modules. The memory bus includes at least one polarization-controlled optical channel configured to control a polarization of transmission light in response to a plurality of selection signals in order to transfer the transmission light to a target memory module among the plurality of memory modules. The transmission light is linearly-polarized light provided from the memory controller, and the plurality of selection signals correspond to the plurality of memory modules, respectively.
US10027418B2	Mitigating inter-symbol interference in coded light A method of controlling an input signal supplied from an encoder to a modulator, wherein the input signal causes modulation of a current flowing through a light source in order to embed data in light emitted by the light source. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of possible logical transitions allowed by the encoding scheme from an adjacently preceding symbol to a present symbol, determining a respective observed value for the current level of the present symbol; for each of the plurality of logical transitions, determining an associated error between the respective observed value and a corresponding one of a set of nominal values for the current levels; and based on the respective error for each of the plurality of logical transitions, applying a respective compensation to the corresponding input in order to bring the resulting current level closer to the corresponding nominal value.
US10027415B2	Apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving control signal in analog radio-over-fiber (ROF)-based mobile fronthaul An apparatus for transmitting a control signal in a radio-over-fiber (RoF)-based mobile fronthaul includes: a data channel transmitter configured to generate a data signal at a preassigned frequency or wavelength; a control channel transmitter configured to generate a control signal at a designated frequency or wavelength that is shared with other apparatuses; and a combiner configured to combine the data signal with the control signal.
US10027395B2	Method and device for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system A method and device for reporting channel state information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: measuring a first reference signal transmitted from a first subset of antenna ports from among a plurality of antenna ports in a base station; measuring a second reference signal transmitted from a second subset of antenna ports from among the plurality of antenna ports; and reporting the CSI to the base station based on at least one of the measurement of the first reference signal and the measurement of the second reference signal, wherein at least one of the plurality of antenna ports is included in both the first subset and the second subset.
US10027390B2	Precoding method, precoding device Disclosed is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals that are transmitted in the same frequency bandwidth at the same time. According to the precoding method, one matrix is selected from among matrices defining a precoding process that is performed on the plurality of baseband signals by hopping between the matrices. A first baseband signal and a second baseband signal relating to a first coded block and a second coded block generated by using a predetermined error correction block coding scheme satisfy a given condition.
US10027387B2	Method and apparatus in a wireless communication system There is disclosed a method performed by a User Equipment, UE, for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, retransmission of data in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. The method comprises, receiving Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement, ACK/NACK, feedback information relating to data transmitted on two streams, and performing, upon rank reduction where only one stream is available for transmission, retransmission of data on a cancelled stream over the remaining stream. There is furthermore disclosed a UE configured for performing the method. A transmission method together with an arrangement for a UE is also disclosed.
US10027378B2	Power reception device, power transmission device, and wireless power transmission system According to one embodiment, a power reception device includes: a power receiver that wirelessly receives power from a power transmission device; a power storage that stores the power received by the power receiver; and a signal transmitter configured to transmit a detection signal, the signal transmitter being independent of a power system operating with power fed from the power storage.
US10027376B2	Guided near field communication for short range data communication A system is provided in which a set of modules each have a substrate on which is mounted a radio frequency (RF) transmitter and/or an RF receiver coupled to a near field communication (NFC) coupler located on the substrate. Each module has a housing that surrounds and encloses the substrate. The housing has a port region on a surface of the housing. Each module has a field confiner located between the NFC coupler and the port region on the housing configured to guide electromagnetic energy emanated from the NFC coupler through the port region to a port region of an adjacent module.
US10027375B2	Device for near-field radiofrequency communication with a portable element on board a motor vehicle Disclosed is a device (D′) for near-field radiofrequency communication with a portable element, the device including: at least one near-field communication primary antenna (A0) having a predetermined communication frequency (Fc); and a microcontroller (30′) electrically connected to the primary antenna, including a power supply source for the primary antenna and a receiver unit for the data (20′) received by the primary antenna. The communication device further includes: at least one passive relay antenna (A1 . . . A8), juxtaposed with the primary antenna, relay frequencies (F1 . . . F8), lying within a range of values around the predetermined communication frequency (Fc), but different from the predetermined communication frequency (Fc), electrically connected to the data receiver unit. Also included is a unit (C4) for adjusting the relay frequency. The communication device can be used to enlarge the near-field communication surface of the communication device.
US10027370B2	Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and information processing method [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and information processing method which enable a wireless device to carry out wireless transmission with less power consumption. [Solution] A transmission apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to transmit a transmission signal from the transmission apparatus to a reception apparatus via wireless communication; and a signal processing unit configured to generate the transmission signal in which transmission information is spread by using a spreading code selected according to identification information of the transmission apparatus, in order to enable the reception apparatus to acquire the identification information on the basis of an estimation result of the spreading code used for the transmission signal.
US10027369B2	Remote unit for communicating with base stations and terminal devices A remote unit of a distributed antenna system includes: a transceiver configured to communicate RF signals between a master unit of the distributed antenna system and a terminal device, and receive downlink RF signals from a base station; and signal processing circuitry configured to provide downlink signals to the master unit. The remote unit receives instructions from a host unit of the distributed antenna system to establish a communication link with the base station in response to detecting a malfunction with respect to an additional communication link between the master unit and an additional base station.
US10027366B2	High power radio frequency (RF) antenna switch A technology is provided for handling signals with defined power levels that are received at an antenna port. The signals can be received at a first antenna port, wherein the first antenna port is coupled to a plurality of PIN diodes positioned in parallel in between one or more transmission lines with a defined impedance. The defined power levels associated with the signals can be determined to exceed a predetermined threshold. The signals with the defined power levels that exceed the predetermined threshold can be redirected to a second antenna port, wherein the second antenna port is coupled to the plurality of PIN diodes positioned in parallel in between the one or more transmission lines with the defined impedance.
US10027365B2	Radio frequency (RF) transceiver and operating method thereof A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a first oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation frequency associated with an RF signal, a second oscillator configured to generate a second oscillation frequency associated with a clock frequency, a counter configured to generate a counter output signal using the first oscillation frequency and the second oscillation frequency, and a comparer configured to generate a digital output signal associated with the RF signal by comparing an output value of the counter output signal to a reference value.
US10027353B2	High-frequency front end circuit A high-frequency front end circuit includes a duplexer, a phase adjustment circuit, and a power amplifier. The phase adjustment circuit is connected between the power amplifier and a transmission filter of the duplexer. The phase adjustment circuit carries out phase adjustment so that a quadrant in which an impedance ZRX (fr0) seen from the transmission filter toward the power amplifier at the fundamental frequency of a reception signal is present and a quadrant in which an impedance ZTX (fr0) seen from the power amplifier toward the transmission filter at the fundamental frequency of the reception signal is present are not in a conjugate relationship with respect to the phase.
US10027351B1	Virtualized hardware support for mobile devices A mobile device may include a plurality of physical antennas configured to receive and transmit data. The physical antennas may be virtualized to enable efficient access and utilization of the computing resources of the physical antenna. Furthermore, the mobile device may support containerization of application executed by the mobile device. The virtualized physical antennas may be provided to various containers executed by the mobile device. Furthermore, a priority mechanism may be used to manage container access to the physical antennas.
US10027349B2	Extended error correction coding data storage A memory management system and a method of managing a memory device are described. The system includes a memory device with a memory array to store data and associated error correction coding (ECC) bits and an extended correction table. The extended correction table stores error information additional to the ECC bits for one or more of the data in the memory array. The system also includes a controller to control the memory device to write and read the data.
US10027342B1	Pipelined analog-to-digital converter and operating method thereof A pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an operating method are provided. The pipelined ADC includes a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) and a sub-ADC. The MDAC alternatively operates in an amplifying phase and a sampling phase according to two non-overlapping clocks, and performs operations on an input signal in the amplifying phase according to a target voltage determined by a digital code. The sub-ADC includes multiple comparators, a determination circuit, and an encoding circuit. The comparators generate multiple comparison results by comparing the input signal with multiple predetermined voltages. The determination circuit generates multiple comparison completion signals in a non-overlapping interval of the two clocks according to the comparison results. The comparison completion signals respectively indicate whether the comparators complete the comparison. The encoding circuit determines the digital code according to the comparison results and the comparison completion signals.
US10027340B1	Method and apparatus to digitize pulse shapes from radiation detectors A field programmable gate array based multi-channel flash ADC unit combined with a high speed multi-lane data communications channel/Ethernet-like modular intercommunication providing a complete but easily expandable high-speed data acquisition system. This apparatus and method permits high-speed pulse-shape digitalization allowing position resolution imaging of particles having a range of energies and is scalable to achieve the efficient capture of coincident data from large electromagnetic detector arrays.
US10027334B2	Computing apparatus and computing method According to an embodiment, a computing apparatus includes spin torque oscillators, an interaction unit, a variable direct-current supply device, and a measuring unit. The interaction unit controls an interaction between the spin torque oscillators. The variable direct-current supply device supplies a current to induce oscillations of the spin torque oscillators. The measuring unit measures AC signals obtained from the spin torque oscillators.
US10027332B1	Referenceless clock and data recovery circuits Referenceless clock and data recovery circuits are described that operate to align the clock/data strobe with each data eye to achieve a low bit error rate. The appropriate frequency and phase to be used is determined by an edge counter based frequency error detector and a phase error detector.
US10027331B2	Oscillator, electronic apparatus, and moving object An oscillator includes a resonator; an oscillation circuit which oscillates the resonator; a D/A conversion circuit which receives digital data for controlling a frequency of the oscillation circuit; a first temperature sensor; and a temperature compensation circuit which is connected to the first temperature sensor. The oscillation circuit includes a first variable capacitor element and a second variable capacitor element. An output voltage of the D/A conversion circuit is applied to the first variable capacitor element. An output voltage of the temperature compensation circuit is applied to the second variable capacitor element.
US10027329B2	NOR gate circuit, shift register, array substrate and display apparatus Provided are an NOR gate circuit, a shift register, an array substrate and a display apparatus, wherein the NOR gate circuit comprises a first inverter and a second inverter, each of the first inverter and the second inverter having an input terminal (VIN), a high voltage terminal (VGH), a low voltage terminal (VGL) and an output terminal (VOUT), the output terminal (VOUT) of the first inverter being connected to the high voltage terminal (VGH) of the second inverter, and wherein at least one of the first inverter and the second inverter comprises: a first transistor (T1; T5) having a gate connected to a first node (VA), a first electrode connected to the high voltage terminal (VGH) and a second electrode connected to the output terminal (VOUT), a first capacitor (C1; C2) having a first terminal connected to the first node (VA) and a second terminal connected to the output terminal (VOUT), a pulling-up module being configured to pull up a potential at the first node (VA) by a potential at the high voltage terminal (VGH) in a case where the high voltage terminal (VGH) is at a high level, and a pulling-down module being configured to pull down a potential at the first node (VA) and a potential at the output terminal (VOUT) by a potential at the low voltage terminal (VGL) under a control of a signal received by the input terminal (VIN). The threshold loss existing in the NOR gate circuit formed by an Oxide TFT can be eliminated.
US10027327B2	Routing and programming for resistive switch arrays Various structures and methods are disclosed related to routing and programming circuitry on integrated circuits (“IC”) that have arrays of programmable resistive switches. In some embodiments, routing structures utilize densely populated resistive switch arrays to provide for efficient selection circuits that route into and out of logic regions. In other embodiments, programming circuitry is provided to help maintain relatively consistent programming current throughout an array of resistive switches to be programmed. In other embodiments, methods are provided for programming resistive switches without violating given power constraints. These and other embodiments are described further herein.
US10027319B2	Circuit arrangement for controlling power transistors of a power converter A circuit arrangement for controlling power transistors of a power converter includes a logic circuit configured to generate a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal and a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal. A first and a second isolator are configured to galvanically isolate transmission of the PWM signal and the clock signal into a high-voltage portion of the power converter so as to produce a galvanically isolated PWM signal and a galvanically isolated clock signal. The first isolator for the PWM signal is configured transmit both DC voltage signals and AC voltage signals. A correction circuit is configured to correct jitter of the galvanically isolated PWM signal based on the galvanically isolated clock signal. The second isolator for the clock signal exhibits a jitter lower than that of the first isolator by a factor of at least two.
US10027310B2	Low-loss tunable radio frequency filter A method of constructing an RF filter comprises designing an RF filter that includes a plurality of resonant elements disposed, a plurality of non-resonant elements coupling the resonant elements together to form a stop band having a plurality of transmission zeroes corresponding to respective frequencies of the resonant elements, and a sub-band between the transmission zeroes. The non-resonant elements comprise a variable non-resonant element for selectively introducing a reflection zero within the stop band to create a pass band in the sub-band. The method further comprises changing the order in which the resonant elements are disposed along the signal transmission path to create a plurality of filter solutions, computing a performance parameter for each of the filter solutions, comparing the performance parameters to each other, selecting one of the filter solutions based on the comparison of the computed performance parameters, and constructing the RF filter using the selected filter solution.
US10027292B1	Compact dual diode RF power detector for integrated power amplifiers An apparatus includes a first directional coupler, a second directional coupler, a first detector, and a second detector. A through port of the first directional coupler is coupled to a through port of the second directional coupler. An isolated port of the first directional coupler is coupled to an isolated port of the second directional coupler. A coupled port of the first directional coupler is coupled to the first detector. A coupled port of the second directional coupler is coupled to the second detector. A detected power signal is generated by combining an output of the first detector and an output of the second detector.
US10027286B2	Systems and methods to control transimpedance amplifier A system to program parameters of one or more stages of a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) in an optical sub-assembly (e.g. TO-can package) is disclosed. With this invention, users have the option/flexibility to discretely program any of the stages of the TIA after production of the sub-assembly, i.e. they can still change the TIA settings once the TIA has been installed in a system and the system is in use.
US10027283B2	Universal RF amplifier controller Various methods and circuital arrangements for controlling an RF amplifier while reducing size, cost and power consumption are presented. Included is an amplifier controller unit that provides different current amplification stages that can be used for calibrating an output power of the RF amplifier based on a reference current. Order of the current amplification stages starting from the reference current allow reduction in size, cost and power consumption.
US10027273B2	Plunger and puck mounting system for photovoltaic panels A photovoltaic (PV) mounting hardware support system having a base portion. A foot has an elongated body adapted to connect to at least one PV module frame mounting component. A latch is located between the foot and the base portion and comprising first and second flexible flanges adapted to extend into fixed connection with the top portion of base portion. A plunger having first and second extensions, the plunger is located between the latch and the base portion and moveable from a first position to a second position. In the first position of the plunger, the first and second flexible flanges of the latch are not in fixed connection with the base portion. In the second position of the plunger, the first and second extensions of the plunger respectively apply forces to the first and second flexible flanges such that the first and second flexible flanges are placed into fixed connection with the base portion.
US10027270B2	Motor control device To provide a motor control device capable of properly compensating the fluctuation in inverter output voltage during a dead time. The motor control device is for an inverter including switching elements composing upper and lower arms to convert a direct-current voltage to an alternating-current voltage and apply the alternating-current voltage to a motor thereby controlling a current of the motor to be a current target value, the motor control device including a dead time compensation unit that compensates fluctuation in inverter output voltage during a dead time with each switching between the upper and lower arms by a dead time compensation voltage, wherein the dead time compensation unit acquires an input parameter that determines a polarity of motor current during the dead time in a half-cycle of a fundamental wave of the motor current, and varies the dead time compensation voltage according to magnitude of the input parameter.
US10027264B2	Method for generating control signals for managing the operation of a synchronous motor, control device and actuator The invention relates to a method for generating control signals for managing the operation of a synchronous motor with one or more permanent magnets (1) comprising a stator (2), the stator comprising a number P of phases (3, 4, 5), a rotor, the rotor comprising said permanent magnet or magnets, a switching module (6) provided with a plurality of switches (K1-K6), a number N of Hall-effect sensors sensitive to a rotating electromagnetic field induced by said permanent magnet or magnets, N being no lower than 2 and strictly lower than P, the method comprising a step of acquiring status information transmitted by the sensors (9, 10) and a step of estimating at least one piece of complementary information on the basis of status information transmitted by the sensors (9, 10), the complementary information characterizing the status variation of at least one virtual sensor. The invention also relates to a control device (10) comprising a module for estimating a piece of complementary information (11) and a module for generating control signals (12) configured to implement the method. The invention further relates to an actuator (9) comprising a synchronous motor with permanent magnets (1) and a control device (10).
US10027263B2	Method for detecting a fault in a motor arrangement with an electrical machine and motor control unit A method for detecting a fault in an electrical machine, e.g., a synchronous motor, a motor control unit for controlling an electrical machine, and a motor arrangement having such a motor control unit are disclosed. According to the method, rotation angle data are determined, which data are dependent on a rotation angle of a rotor of the electrical machine in the absence of the fault. In addition, additional data are determined and allow conclusions to be drawn on the fault. A fault is detected if the rotation angle data satisfy a first criterion and the additional data satisfy a second criterion.
US10027262B2	Pseudorandom PWM variation based on motor operating point An electric drive for a vehicle uses an inverter circuit configured to provide a multi-phase AC drive signal to an electric machine according to a PWM drive signal. A PWM controller monitors an operating point of the electric drive and is configured to identify an operating region of the electric drive from a plurality of predetermined regions in response to the monitored operating point. A sequence memory stores a plurality of sequences, each sequence optimized for a respective one of the predetermined regions to reduce audible noise and switching losses. The PWM controller generates the PWM drive signal according to a respective sequence corresponding to the identified operating region. Thus, the reduction of audible noise and switching losses is optimized based on torque and/or speed of the motor.
US10027260B2	Method of controlling rotary electric machine A method of controlling a rotary electric machine, which is configured to supply an electric control amount to a power conversion unit, which is configured to convert a DC voltage from a power source into a drive current to the rotary electric machine in accordance with the electric control amount, the method including: using a conversion map, which is used to calculate the electric control amount based on a rotation speed of the rotary electric machine at a particular DC voltage of the rotary electric machine and a required command value; and calculating the electric control amount in accordance with a ratio between the particular DC voltage and the rotation speed of the rotary electric machine in determining the electric control amount in accordance with the conversion map.
US10027250B2	Semiconductor device with power elements and current detection portion A semiconductor device includes: power elements that configures an inverter; a conductive plate that electrically connects the power elements; and a current detection portion. The power elements include a first power element and a second power element. The conductive plate includes: a first carrying portion; a second carrying portion; a third carrying portion; a fourth carrying portion; a first connection portion that electrically connects the second carrying portion and the third carrying portion to connect the first power element and the second power element in series; and an output terminal electrically connected with the second carrying portion or the third carrying portion. The first carrying portion is connected with a first power source and the fourth carrying portion is connected with a second power source. The current detection portion is fixed to the output terminal and the magnetic field permeates the current detection portion.
US10027249B2	Method for connecting a photovoltaic installation to a power supply The disclosure relates to a method for connecting a photovoltaic installation to a power supply grid, the photovoltaic installation comprising a photovoltaic generator, a direct voltage intermediate circuit with at least one capacitor, and an inverter. The method including connecting the direct voltage intermediate circuit to the photovoltaic generator and the capacitor is pre-charged to a first voltage. The direct voltage intermediate circuit is then separated from the photovoltaic generator and the capacitor is discharged to or below a second voltage that corresponds to a maximum operating voltage of the inverter. The inverter is then connected to the power supply grid, an inverter bridge of the inverter is clocked, and the direct voltage intermediate circuit is connected to the photovoltaic generator.
US10027233B2	Isolated single-ended primary inductor converter with voltage clamp circuit A single-ended primary-inductor converter (SEPIC) circuit has at least a circuit input node and a circuit common node, and includes an inductor, a first coupling capacitor, an isolation transformer, a controllable switch, a second coupling capacitor, and a clamp diode. The inductor is electrically connected in series between the circuit input node and the first coupling capacitor. The first coupling capacitor is connected in series between the inductor and the first primary input terminal. The controllable switch is electrically connected in series between an internal circuit node and the circuit common node, and the internal circuit node is located between the inductor and the first coupling capacitor. The second coupling capacitor is electrically connected in series between the second primary input terminal and the circuit common node. The clamp diode is electrically connected in series between the internal circuit node and the second primary input terminal.
US10027226B2	Circuit device, switching regulator, and electronic apparatus A circuit device includes: a comparator that outputs an output signal that is activated when a potential of an input terminal is lower than a determination level; a switch circuit that is electrically connected between an output node connected to a switching element that enters a conduction state or a non-conduction state according to a drive signal and the input terminal of the comparator, and is in a non-conduction state when the switching element is in a conduction state; and a control circuit that controls a level of the drive signal such that the switching element will not enter a conduction state again based on a period during which or the number of times the output signal of the comparator is activated after the switching element has transitioned from a conduction state to a non-conduction state.
US10027225B2	Switched mode power supply having a staircase current limit Disclosed is switching power supply that includes a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode of operation current feedback control. A reference current source is configured to output a reference current at one of several selectable levels. The level of the reference current may vary during operation of the current feedback control loop.
US10027222B2	System and method providing over current protection based on duty cycle information for power converter System and method for protecting a power converter. An example system controller for protecting a power converter includes a signal generator, a comparator, and a modulation and drive component. The signal generator is configured to generate a threshold signal. The comparator is configured to receive the threshold signal and a current sensing signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the threshold signal and the current sensing signal, the current sensing signal indicating a magnitude of a primary current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The modulation and drive component is coupled to the signal generator.
US10027219B1	Switching controller circuit A switching controller circuit for a power converter includes analog and digital control circuits, a clock enable circuit, and a digital pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit. When the power converter is in a standby mode, the switching controller circuit operates in an analog control mode by activating the analog control circuit. When the power converter is not in standby mode, the switching controller circuit activates the digital control circuit and operates in a digital control mode. The switching controller circuit uses inexpensive electronic components and consumes less power in the analog control mode, thereby reducing standby mode power consumption.
US10027216B2	Hybrid machine for sustainable energy The present invention discloses an apparatus that includes a motor, flywheel, transmission, and generator. The motor converts an input energy into mechanical energy to rotate an output shaft coupled to a shaft of a flywheel. The design characteristics of the flywheel provide substantially uniform rotational speed to its shaft when the flywheel rotates. The rotating shaft of the flywheel connects to an input shaft of a transmission that includes a gear train that transfers the rotational speed of the flywheel to an output shaft of the transmission. The output shaft of the transmission drives an input shaft of a generator that converts the rotational speed to an output energy. After an initial start period, the output energy is sufficient to sustain mechanical operation of the apparatus, and provide power to external devices.
US10027215B2	Bistable electromagnetic actuator and surgical instrument A bistable electromagnetic actuator including: a tube; a stator arranged outside of the tube; and a rotor mounted in the tube so as to be displaceable along the longitudinal axis, the rotor at least partially comprises one or more of a paramagnetic and a ferromagnetic material and can be reversibly displaced between a first position and a second position by applying an electromagnetic field; wherein the stator comprises two ring permanent magnets, a coil for producing the electromagnetic field, and a back-iron element having two stator pole shoes; and the two ring permanent magnets comprise hard magnetic particles that are embedded in a plastic matrix.
US10027212B2	Hollow brushless motor structure A hollow brushless motor is provided. The hollow brushless motor includes a hollow shape rotor to be rotatable about a rotation axis, a hollow shape stator spaced apart from the rotor by a distance in a direction of the rotation axis and arranged to face the rotor, and a first support to maintain a gap between the rotor and the stator, and arranged between the rotor and the stator to support the rotor and the stator such that the rotor rotates with respect to the stator.
US10027210B2	Dual-output generators A dual-output generator includes a first generator with a rotor, a second generator with a rotor, and first and second power converters. The rotor of the first generator is coupled to the rotor of the second generator for common rotation with the rotor of the first generator. The first power converter connects electrically to the first generator for converting rotation of the first generator rotor into direct current power. The second power converter connects electrically to the second generator for converting rotation of the second generator rotor into constant frequency alternating current power.
US10027201B2	Reciprocating tool A reciprocating tool includes a motor, a reciprocating member, and a crank mechanism. The motor is disposed in a housing. The reciprocating member projects from the housing. The crank mechanism converts rotation of a rotation shaft of the motor into reciprocation of the reciprocating member. The crank mechanism rotates around an axis ma lateral direction by rotation transmission from the rotation, shaft, and the crank, mechanism includes a crank member having an eccentric pin, a connecting rod coupling the eccentric pin to the reciprocating member, and a balancer coupled to the eccentric pin, and the balancer is supported by the eccentric pin alone in the housing.
US10027181B2	Layers of safety and failsafe capability for operation of class IV laser in consumer electronics devices An optical power transfer device includes a transmitter circuit, including a laser light source that is configured to emit coherent light responsive to operation above a lasing threshold, and is configured to emit incoherent light responsive operation below the lasing threshold. A proximity sensor circuit is coupled to the transmitter circuit and is configured to output a detection signal therefrom responsive to authentication of an optical receiver including at least one photovoltaic cell having surface area of about 4 square millimeters or less within a proximity thereof. The transmitter circuit is configured to operate the laser light source below the lasing threshold to emit the incoherent light responsive to an absence of the detection signal from the proximity sensor circuit. Related devices and methods of operation are also discussed.
US10027179B1	Continuous wireless powering of moving biological sensors A system and method for continuous wireless monitoring and powering of at least one sensor is presented. The system is generally comprised of at least one sensor, at least one RF transmitter, an energy harvester, an energy storage unit, a microprocessor and a receiving antenna. Multiple RF transmitters may be positioned in an orthogonal orientation within reach of the receiving antennae to provide equally strong RF fields. The system may additionally include metal shielding around the area in which the system is operating.
US10027178B1	Wireless power transmitting and receiving device, apparatus including the same, and method A wireless power transmitting and receiving device includes: a coil including a first section having a first number of turns and configured to receive power and a second section having a second number of turns different from the first number of turns and configured to transmit power and a converting and rectifying unit configured to: rectify the power received through the coil, convert externally-supplied power into alternating current power, and apply the alternating current power to the coil.
US10027177B2	Load shedding in a guided surface wave power delivery system Disclosed are various embodiments of load shedding techniques for a guided surface wave power delivery system. In one embodiment, among others, a guided surface wave receive structure is configured to obtain electrical energy from a guided surface wave traveling along a lossy conducting medium. A user device is coupled to the guided surface wave receive structure as an electrical load, where a load shedding application of the user device is configured to receive load shedding instructions from a controller device coupled to the guided surface waveguide probe and is configured to regulate user device consumption of the electrical energy provided by the guided surface wave.
US10027174B2	Resonance-type contactless power supply and power receiver The present disclosure relates to a resonance-type contactless power supply and a power receiver. A high-frequency power supply provides a high-frequency AC current with a predetermined frequency. A transmitter-side resonant circuit includes a transmitting coil for receiving the high-frequency AC current from the high-frequency power supply. A receiver-side resonant circuit includes a receiving coil which is separated from but coupled to the transmitting coil in contactless manner. The receiver-side resonant circuit receives electric energy from the transmitting coil. A receiver-side parallel capacitor is connected in parallel at an output terminal of the receiver-side resonant circuit. The receiver-side parallel capacitor has a capacitance value which is in inversely proportional to the product of a square of an angular frequency of the predetermined frequency and a predetermined mutual inductance. The predetermined mutual inductance is determined in a case that the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are coupled to each other in a predetermined coupling coefficient. The resonance-type contactless power supply provides a stable output voltage when operating in the predetermined frequency.
US10027170B2	Wireless interaction with access control devices A user of a mobile communication apparatus (160) seeks permission to operate an access control device (110) by placing an active mobile power source unit (150), which is controlled by the mobile communication apparatus (160), within an operation range of a wireless power transmission interface (116) in the access control device (110). In response thereto, a wireless power transfer link is established between the mobile power source unit (150) and the access control device (110). Thereafter, a wireless communication link (WL2) is established between the mobile communication apparatus (160) and the access control device (110). Data are then exchanged between the access control device (110) and the mobile communication apparatus (160) over the wireless communication link (WL2). The exchanged data pertain to at least one access-related service implementable via the access control device (110); and provided that the user is authorized, the requested services are effected.
US10027168B2	Systems and methods for generating and transmitting wireless power transmission waves using antennas having a spacing that is selected by the transmitter Embodiments disclosed herein may generate and transmit power waves that, as result of their physical waveform characteristics (e.g., frequency, amplitude, phase, gain, direction), converge at a predetermined location in a transmission field to generate a pocket of energy. Receivers associated with an electronic device being powered by the wireless charging system, may extract energy from these pockets of energy and then convert that energy into usable electric power for the electronic device associated with a receiver. The pockets of energy may manifest as a three-dimensional field (e.g., transmission field) where energy may be harvested by a receiver positioned within or nearby the pocket of energy.
US10027167B2	Load control system An energy management system controls electrical load operation to maintain the loads' energy usage below a maximum energy limit. An OFF priority list specifies enabled loads that can be disabled, with an enabled load having higher priority if further from the load's action threshold (such as a desired operating temperature). An ON priority list specifies disabled loads that can be enabled, with a disabled load having higher priority if closer to the load's action threshold. If the collective loads' energy consumption is below a control energy level set below the maximum energy limit (preferably by an amount approximating the projected consumption of the largest disabled load), the load atop the ON priority list is enabled and moved to the OFF priority list. If the collective loads' energy consumption is above the control energy level, the load atop the OFF priority list is disabled and moved to the ON priority list.
US10027165B2	Power supply circuit with secondary side to primary side communication An electrical circuit for a power supply includes a primary-side controller integrated circuit (IC) that outputs a drive signal on a switch pin to control a switching operation of a switch that is coupled to a primary winding of a transformer. The primary-side controller IC places the switch pin at high impedance during a sense window and turns on the switch in response to sensing a dynamic detection signal on the switch pin during the sense window. The dynamic detection signal is induced by a secondary-side controller IC by controlling switching of a switch that is coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer when the output voltage drops below a predetermined threshold during standby or other low load conditions.
US10027164B2	Power determining apparatus and electronic appliance including the same A power determining apparatus is disclosed. The power determining apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a current or voltage supplied from a commercial power source or an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and a controller for analyzing a current or voltage signal sent from the sensor, and determining which one of the commercial power source and the UPS supplies power, based on results of the analysis.
US10027162B2	Solar battery controller A solar battery controller is provided which includes a solar battery module that is mounted on a moving object, a control unit that calculates a maximum power point of the solar battery module, and a speed detecting unit that detects a speed of the moving object. The control unit controls a maximum power point calculating timing depending on the speed of the moving object.
US10027161B2	Ultra-slim inductive charging A base station for providing inductive transfer of energy to a mobile device that includes a base unit having an inductive transmitter coil configured to generate an electromagnetic field in response to an electrical charge being applied to the inductive transmitter coil with an adapter separate from the base unit. The adapter can include an inductive charging circuitry for controlling the current transmitted through the inductive transmitter coil.
US10027159B2	Antenna for transmitting wireless power signals An antenna may include an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) ground plane, and a plurality of unit cells that are periodically spaced and inclusive of respective dipole antennas, and positioned over the EBG ground plane.
US10027158B2	Near field transmitters for wireless power charging of an electronic device by leaking RF energy through an aperture Disclosed is a system including RF circuitry configured to generate an RF signal; a plurality of unit cells configured to receive the RF signal and to cause an RF energy signal having a center frequency to be present within the unit cells; and receiver circuitry configured to charge an electronic device in response to an antenna of the electronic device receiving the RF energy signal when the antenna is tuned to the center frequency and positioned in a near-field distance from one or more of the unit cells.
US10027148B2	Portable electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) system An electrified vehicle includes a surface, an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) system attachable to the surface, and a retention assembly configured to removably secure the EVSE system to the surface. The retention assembly includes a first segment affixed to the surface and a second segment affixed to the EVSE system.
US10027133B2	Scalable highly available modular battery system A modular battery pack system including a plurality of battery sub-modules operably connected in parallel and an isolation system configured to discretely isolate any one of the battery sub-modules from the remaining battery sub-module(s). The isolation system, in one embodiment, may utilize an ORing FET for each of the battery sub-modules, with each ORing FET operably connected at its input with an output of a corresponding battery sub-module and operably connected at its output with the output of the other ORing FETs. The modular battery pack system may further include a conditioning system for conditioning a battery sub-module by discharging at least a portion of the battery sub-module. Each battery sub-module may be operably and discretely connected to the conditioning system, such that conditioning is selectively applicable to any one or more of the battery sub-modules.
US10027131B2	Classification of transmission Disclosed are various embodiments for distributing power to loads and classifying loads that receive electrical energy in the form of guided surface waves that are transmitted by guided surface waveguide probes along a terrestrial medium.
US10027130B2	Apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly There are provided an apparatus apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly. The apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly may include a boosting unit boosting an input voltage, and an inverter unit inverting the boosted voltage output from the boosting unit to transmit power wirelessly. The inverter unit and the boosting unit are controlled by the same switching element.
US10027129B2	Redundant server system with an optimized failover arrangement Methods and platforms may include a common bus, and a set of redundant power supply modules coupled to the common bus. Each power supply module can have a conversion circuit, an AC fault detector coupled to the conversion circuit, and a DC fault detector coupled to the conversion circuit. The platform may also include a system coupled to the common bus.
US10027121B2	Method and apparatus for controlling stability of a local power grid The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for controlling the stability of a local network (3). The local network (3) comprises a plurality of outgoing circuits (41, 42, . . . , 4M,), each having at least one load (5) and/or at least one decentralized energy generation system (6). Said device is provided with an on-load tap-changer (14) for adjusting an output voltage of the local network transformer (10). The device is characterized in that a unit (16) for measuring current, connected to at least one of the plurality of outgoing circuits (41, 42, . . . , 4M,), and a unit (18) for measuring voltage, connected to a busbar (8) of the local network (3), are arranged in a transformer housing (20).
US10027120B1	System and method for high efficiency power quality correction A high-efficiency system for conducting power factor (PF) and harmonics correction in an electrical network, comprising a controller; a digital PFC capacitor array comprising two or more passive PFC capacitors, providing fine steps increments in the PF correction; and linear PFC capacitor arrays, providing coarse steps increments in the PF correction. The PF correction in coarse steps increments and fine steps increments allow a total or near total PF correction without overcompensation. Optionally, the system further comprises a lower power active power filter (APF) configured to only target and eliminate or minimize harmonics in the electrical network.
US10027111B1	Auxiliary circuit for overvoltage protection An auxiliary circuit for providing current to an external device includes a first switch disposed between a first node and a second node. The first switch is configured to electrically couple the first node to the second node when a first voltage exceeds a first threshold. A comparison circuit has an input coupled to the second node and is configured to compare a second voltage at the input to a second threshold. A second switch has a control terminal coupled to an output of the comparison circuit, a first terminal coupled to a source, and a second terminal for coupling to the external device. The comparison circuit is configured to provide a third voltage at control terminal when the second voltage exceeds the second threshold. The second switch is configured to provide the current from the source to the external device when the third voltage exceeds a threshold of the second switch.
US10027102B2	Material and associated arrangements, systems and methods A cable surround material for a cable of an electricity transmission system comprising a mixture of: an additive containing carbon; sand; and cement, wherein the material comprises, by weight, approximately 60-80% carbon containing additive, approximately 5-10% cement, and a remainder of sand.
US10027093B2	Spark plug A spark plug includes an insulator having an axial hole formed in a direction of an axis, a center electrode held in one end side of the axial hole, a metal terminal held in the other end side of the axial hole, an electrical connection part arranged to establish electrical connection between the center electrode and the metal terminal within the axial hole, and a metal shell disposed around an outer circumference of the insulator and having a thread portion formed on at least a part of an outer circumferential surface thereof. The electrical connection part has a resistor, and a conductive seal layer provided between the resistor and the center electrode to seal and fix the insulator and the center electrode together. In a half or more of a region in which the seal layer is provided in the direction of the axis, the spark plug satisfies predetermined conditions.
US10027087B2	Techniques for laser alignment in photonic integrated circuits Techniques for efficient alignment of a semiconductor laser in a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) may include a semiconductor laser that includes a laser mating surface, and a substrate that includes a substrate mating surface. A shape of the laser mating surface and a shape of the substrate mating surface may be configured to align the semiconductor laser with the substrate in three dimensions.
US10027083B2	Amplifying pulsed laser radiation for EUV radiation production Systems, methods, and apparatus, including non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, for amplifying pulsed laser radiation in an EUV laser driver are provided. An example EUV laser driver includes a beam source configured to produce the pulsed laser radiation with at least one laser frequency, an amplifier arrangement with at least one optical amplifier for amplifying the pulsed laser radiation, the at least one optical amplifier having a frequency-dependent gain with a maximum gain at a maximum frequency, at least one frequency shifter configured to produce a frequency shift for the laser frequency of the pulsed laser radiation relative to the maximum frequency, and a controller configured to set the frequency shift such that a gain of the at least one optical amplifier for the pulsed laser radiation is reduced to less than a percentage, e.g., 90%, 70%, or 50%, of the maximum gain.
US10027081B2	Method of stranded electrical wire connection A method of stranded electrical wire connection involves stripping the insulation of the ends of stranded wire and inserting a compression member over the ends of the wire, and applying constant, irreversible ratcheting pressure to the compression member to compress the compression member over each end of the stranded wires. The compressed stranded wires and compression member are then inserted into a tube connector which is filled with a dielectric gel. The tube connector has a cover with a snap connector member. When the compressed wire connection is fully encased within the connector tube, the cover is closed over the top of the connector tube and snapped and locked shut, to ensure for a waterproof electrical connection.
US10027077B2	Contact point for connecting a flat conductor to a conductor element A contact point for establishing a connection to a conductor element according to the present disclosure comprises a flat conductor having first and second ends, and a contact element connected to the flat conductor in a terminal area of the flat conductor, wherein the contact element is also configured to connect to the conductor element. The contact point comprises a multi-shell housing attached to the flat conductor and configured to cover the contact element and the terminal area. The housing comprises at least three openings, wherein first and second openings enable passage of first and second ends of the flat conductor, and a third opening enables passage of the conductor element. A gasket is attached to at least one of the openings for sealing the housing.
US10027073B2	Coaxial connector with electromagnetic shield The coaxial connector is provided with a contact, an internal housing, a shell and an electromagnetic shield plate. The contact has a connecting portion which can connect with a mating side contact, and a crimping portion which crimps the central conductor. The internal housing has a contact receiving chamber opened at a rear end portion, and the connector is retained in the contact receiving chamber. The shell has a shell main body covering an external perimeter of the internal housing, and a cable clamp. The cable clamp fixes an end of the coaxial cable. The shell main body has a lock piece. A pair of slits is provided at both sides of the lock piece. The electromagnetic shield plate is disposed at an upper face of the internal housing, and has one piece which shields a portion of the pair of slits with respect to the internal housing.
US10027071B2	Cable connection device Cable connection device for connecting a power cable to an electrical installation of a power network, comprising a conductor element having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a middle portion disposed between the first and the second end portion. The conductor element comprises a connector socket arranged at the first end portion, for mating with a cable plug. The connector socket is integrally formed with the middle portion.
US10027067B2	Hazardous area coupler device for high frequency signals A hazardous area coupler is provided which uses arrays of diodes to permit low voltage alternating current signals to pass through while shunting to ground any voltages greater than the clamping voltage of the diodes.
US10027065B1	Electrical connector with edge protective structure and tongue board module thereof An electrical connector with an edge protective structure is provided, which includes a shielding housing and a tongue board module. The shielding housing has a receiving space for receiving the tongue board module therein. The tongue board module has an insulated retaining member, a protection board and a plurality of terminals. The insulated retaining member has a front edge and two side edges. The insulated retaining member has a slit, which passes through the front edge and extends toward the two side edges. The protection board is disposed in the slit. The terminals include at least two elongated terminals and at least two shortened terminals. The elongated terminals are used to transmit power or to ground. The protection board has a protrusive edge, which is protruded outside the front edge of the insulated retaining member and is exposed to an outside of the two side edges.
US10027057B2	Electronic device with magnetic connector A device may comprise a housing having a straight rounded edge. A self-aligning connector at the straight rounded edge may comprise a cylindrical magnet oriented with its axis substantially parallel to the straight rounded edge. The cylindrical magnet is for magnetically engaging a magnet of another connector so as to align and connect the self-aligning connector with the other connector. The self-aligning connector may comprise mounting structure configured to mount the cylindrical magnet at the straight rounded edge of the housing with the axis of the cylindrical magnet being substantially parallel to the straight rounded edge of the housing. The device may include two such self-aligning connectors, spaced apart from one another, along a single straight rounded edge of the device housing.
US10027054B2	Connector having integrated housing and shield shell A connector includes a female terminal; a female housing; a shield shell which is formed in a tubular conductive material in which both ends are opened, the shield shell being integrated with the female housing in a state in which at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of an end portion on an insertion direction side to the male connector is exposed as an annular exposed surface, and the female terminal and/or the electric wire being disposed inside the shield shell; and a sealing member which has a tubular sealing portion interposed between the male housing of the fitted male connector or the shield shell and the exposed surface as a seal side exposed surface opposed to the male housing or the shield shell, and suppresses entry of liquid therebetween by the sealing member.
US10027048B2	Electrical component and electronic device An electrical component includes a connection portion that is to be in contact with other electrical component and is to establish an electrical connection with the other electrical component. The connection portion includes a plating film that defines a surface of the connection portion. The plating film includes a metal as a main constituent and an aromatic compound that is dispersed in the plating film. The aromatic compound has pi-acceptability and causes ligand field splitting equal to or greater than that of 2,2′-bipyridyl in spectrochemical series. A content of the aromatic compound in the plating film is equal to or greater than 0.1 weight percent, in terms of carbon atoms, with respect to the metal of the plating film.
US10027044B2	Secured integrated circuit connector The technology relates to a secured integrated circuit connector. More particularly, the technology relates to a connection blade for an integrated circuit connector, comprising a contact zone for the reading of an integrated circuit. According to the technology, said connection blade comprises at least one electrically insulated zone.
US10027043B2	Electrical connector having reinforcing shell for mounting and operation An electrical connector includes an insulative cover enclosing the terminal module via an overmolding process. The cover includes a base and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base and forming opposite mating surfaces thereon. The terminal module includes a plurality of terminals retained in the insulator wherein a contacting section of the terminal is exposed upon the mating surface. A pair of reinforcing metal plates are disposed upon the terminal module and enclosed by said cover except front portions of said reinforcing metal plates exposed outside of the cover.
US10027036B2	Antenna array and method for synthesizing antenna patterns An antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements is disclosed. The antenna array comprises: a plurality of transceiver modules; an active antenna element subset of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the active antenna element subset comprises at least one active antenna element being actively coupled to an associated transceiver module of the plurality of transceiver modules; and at least one passively combined sub-array of at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements. A method for generating antenna patterns with the antenna array is also disclosed.
US10027031B2	Horn antenna device Lower-limit frequency reflection characteristics of a horn antenna are improved even though element spacing, of less than or equal to one wavelength, is a spacing at which grating lobes do not occur in an antenna radiation pattern. The horn antenna includes a horn antenna and a conductor grid that divides an aperture A of the horn antenna in a grid pattern and that electrically connects to an inner surface of the horn antenna at the aperture A of the horn antenna. Width of the conductor grid in a direction orthogonal to a horn antenna aperture plane differs from electrical length of the path of the horn antenna of the conductor grid portion at the frequency of power supplied to the horn antenna.
US10027021B2	Three-dimensional antenna apparatus Provided is a three-dimensional antenna apparatus formed through a curved substrate for a portable terminal, which can be implemented by a first antenna pattern formed on one side surface of the curved substrate, a second antenna pattern formed on the other side surface opposite to the one side surface of the curved substrate, and an antenna connection pattern electrically connecting the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern.
US10027008B2	Irreversible circuit element and module An irreversible circuit element includes first and second high pass isolators each including first and second center electrodes intersecting with and being insulated from each other on a ferrite to which a direct-current magnetic field is applied with a permanent magnet. One end of the first center electrode is an output port and the other end thereof is an input port, and one end of the second center electrode is another output port and the other end thereof is a ground port. A pass frequency band of the first isolator is higher than a pass frequency band of the second isolator. Respective output portions of the first and second isolators are electrically connected and defined as one output terminal, and a low pass filter LPF is inserted between the output terminal and the output port of the second isolator.
US10027001B2	Battery system A battery system that includes a battery cell. The battery cell includes a proximal end and a distal end, where the proximal end is both a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The system also includes a first busbar that electrically couples to the negative terminal or the positive terminal. A second busbar is electrically coupled to the negative terminal or the positive terminal. An energy transfer plate couples to the distal end of the battery cell.
US10026990B2	Lithium-ion conductive garnet and method of making membranes thereof A gallium doped garnet composition of the formula: Li7-3yLa3Zr2GayO12 where y is from 0.4 to 2.0, and as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method for making a dense Li-ion conductive cubic garnet membrane, comprising one of two alternative lower temperature routes, as defined herein.
US10026989B2	All solid lithium battery An Object of the invention is to obtain an all solid lithium battery having an excellent output performance. To achieve the object, a sulfide based solid electrolyte is used as an electrolyte; an oxide containing lithium, a metal element that acts as a redox couple, and a metal element that forms an electron-insulating oxide is used as a cathode active material; and the concentration of the metal element that forms the electron-insulating oxide on the surface of the cathode active material (oxide) that is in contact with the sulfide solid electrolyte is made high.
US10026988B2	Lithium ion secondary battery Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery including a power generation element, the power generation element including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution, the positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode active material layer provided for the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material and binder, the negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided for the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material and binder. The positive electrode has a volume resistivity in a range of 100 Ωcm or more and 700 Ωcm or less after at least one charging and discharging cycle.
US10026979B2	Apparatus and method for controlling fuel cell system using reconfigurable switch network Disclosed herein is an apparatus for controlling a fuel cell system, which includes multiple hot boxes including multiple fuel cell stacks, using a reconfigurable network having linear switching complexity, includes: a power conversion system for supplying outputs of normal stacks among the multiple fuel cell stacks to a load; at least one auxiliary power conversion system for supplying an output of at least one deteriorated stack among the multiple stacks to a load; a reconfigurable switch network for connecting in series or in parallel stacks of any hot box to stacks of another hot box; and a control unit for controlling an operation of the reconfigurable switch network by detecting a state of each of the stacks.
US10026977B2	Humidification device for humidifying process gases and fuel cell arrangement comprising same A humidification device for humidifying process gases, in particular for fuel cells, having a stack of repeating components, including a steam-permeable membrane, a first layer arrangement arranged on a first side of the membrane having a first flow layer for conducting a process gas to be humidified, a multiplicity of flow channels running parallel to the membrane, a second layer arrangement arranged on a second side of the membrane having a second flow layer for conducting a humidified gas including a multiplicity of flow channels running parallel to the membrane, and two protective films which adjoin the second flow layer on both sides and have a multiplicity of through-openings.
US10026973B2	Metallic plate with at least one measuring structure and method of producing a metallic plate with at least one measuring structure A metallic plate for an electrochemical system is provided. The plate has at least one measuring structure formed in one piece with the plate. The measuring structure has at least two cuts through the plate and a first deformation of the plate arranged between the cuts. The cut edges are spaced apart from one another in sections by the first deformation so that the cut edges form at least two windows in the plate. The measuring structure has at least a second deformation of the plate. The plate is deformed by the second deformation in the region of the plate adjacent to the windows in such a manner that the windows allow light that falls on the plate orthogonally to the main plane of the plate to pass through. As described is a method of producing a metallic plate including at least one measuring structure.
US10026972B2	Fuel cell system with interconnect The present invention includes an integrated planar, series connected fuel cell system having electrochemical cells electrically connected via interconnects, wherein the anodes of the electrochemical cells are protected against Ni loss and migration via an engineered porous anode barrier layer.
US10026966B2	Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, lithium secondary battery, and manufacturing methods thereof A lithium secondary battery which has high charge-discharge capacity, can be charged and discharged at high speed, and has little deterioration in battery characteristics due to charge and discharge is provided. A negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer. The current collector includes a plurality of protrusion portions extending in a substantially perpendicular direction and a base portion connected to the plurality of protrusion portions. The protrusion portions and the base portion are formed using the same material containing titanium. A top surface of the base portion and at least a side surface of the protrusion portion are covered with the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer may be covered with graphene.
US10026965B2	Method for manufacturing electrode structure for flexible energy storage device, electrode structure manufactured thereby, and energy storage device including same An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a manufacturing method of an electrode structure for an energy storage device, the method including: forming a polymer substrate configured to have a first uneven pattern on a first surface; forming an electrode active material layer on the first uneven pattern in a state that an tensile force is applied to the polymer substrate; and forming a second uneven pattern on the polymer substrate and the electrode active material layer by removing the tensile force.
US10026958B2	Carbon dioxide assisted metal-oxygen battery and related method A non-aqueous Na-oxygen battery utilizes a gas mixture of CO2 and O2 as fuel. The battery exhibits a comparatively high specific energy of 6500-7000 Whkg−1 over a range of CO2 feed compositions. The energy density achieved is higher, by 200% to 300%, than obtained with pure oxygen feed. Ex-situ FTIR and XRD analysis confirm Na2O2, Na2C2O4 and Na2CO3 as discharge products. The Na—O2/CO2 battery provides a promising approach for CO2 capture and conversion into electrical energy. The Na—O2/CO2 battery may be extended to other metals. In addition, operation of a metal battery fueled at least in-part by carbon dioxide within an optimal temperature range is considered.
US10026956B2	Anode including spherical natural graphite and lithium secondary battery including the anode Provided are an anode including spherical natural graphite having a surface coated with an amorphous carbon layer, wherein a crystal orientation ratio is in a range of 0.06 to 0.08 at a compressed density of 1.40 g/cc to 1.85 g/cc, and a lithium secondary battery including the anode. Initial efficiency, electrode adhesion, and capacity characteristics of the lithium secondary battery may be improved by using the anode of the present invention in the lithium secondary battery.
US10026953B2	Mixed electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte battery, and manufacturing method for the same A mixed electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes: a first active material; a second active material that reacts with water more easily than the first active material; an organic moisture capture agent; and an organic binder that binds the first active material and the second active material. The organic moisture capture agent is present in the organic binder and the first active material has a smaller specific surface area than the second active material. Thus, the storability of the mixed electrode is improved and when the mixed electrode is applied to the battery, the cycle characteristics of the battery are improved.
US10026952B2	Method of manufacturing electrode for lithium secondary battery and electrode manufactured using the same Disclosed are a method of manufacturing an electrode for secondary batteries that includes surface-treating a current collector so as to have a morphology wherein a surface roughness Ra of 0.001 μm to 10 μm is formed over the entire surface thereof, wherein the surface-treating is performed by chemical or electrical etching using a wet method or by reactive gas or ion etching using a dry method to enhance adhesion between an electrode active material and the current collector and an electrode for secondary batteries that is manufactured using the method.
US10026948B2	Safety element for battery cell A galvanic element includes a housing, a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and a collector associated with each terminal. The collectors are configured to make contact with an electrode assembly in the interior of the housing. The housing is a stainless steel housing which has a negative potential or a neutral potential.
US10026947B2	Battery terminal and method for manufacturing battery A battery terminal is made of a clad material in which a first metal layer made of an Al-based alloy, a second metal layer made of a Cu-based alloy, and a third metal layer made of a Ni-based alloy are bonded to each other in a state where the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the third metal layer are stacked in this order. The battery terminal includes a shaft portion and a flange portion that radially expands from the shaft portion, and has the third metal layer at least in an end of the shaft portion on a first side in a shaft direction in which the shaft portion extends.
US10026932B2	Battery module A battery module includes: a stacked body that includes a plurality of battery cells; a restraint including a metal band that extends from one end of the stacked body to the other end of the stacked body and that is electrically grounded; a voltage sensor configured to detect a voltage of the portion of battery cells; a first wire that is connected to the voltage sensor and extends in a stacking direction; a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the stacked body or a current sensor configured to measure a current that flows into and out of the stacked body; and a second wire that is connected to the temperature or current sensor, and extends in the stacking direction. A voltage lower than that of the first wire is applied to the second wire, and the metal band is arranged between the first wire and the second wire.
US10026930B2	Method of manufacturing display apparatus A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes forming a flexible substrate on a first surface of a carrier substrate, forming a display device on the flexible substrate, and ablating the carrier substrate by radiating a plurality of laser beams on a second surface of the carrier substrate, the second surface being opposite the first surface, such that the plurality of laser beams is incident on the second surface at different angles, passes through the carrier substrate, and is overlappingly focused on a first region of a boundary surface between the carrier substrate and the flexible substrate.
US10026924B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, a sealing substrate on the display unit, a sealing member around the display unit and bonding the substrate and the sealing substrate, and a filler inside the sealing member and filling a gap between the substrate and the sealing substrate, wherein the filler is a non-hardening type, and a molecular weight of the filler is from about 100 kg/mol to about 5,000 kg/mol.
US10026919B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a first low work function layer, a second low work function layer, a conductive etching-resistant layer, a first hole-injection layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a second electrode. The first light-emitting layer is disposed over the first electrode. The first low work function layer is disposed over the first light-emitting layer. The second low work function layer is disposed over the first low work function layer, and a work function of the second low work function layer is greater than a work function of the first low work function layer. The conductive etching-resistant layer is disposed over the second low work function layer. The first hole-injection layer is disposed over the conductive etching-resistant layer. The second light-emitting layer is disposed over the first hole-injection layer. The second electrode is disposed over the second light-emitting layer.
US10026917B2	Light-emitting element, display module, lighting module, light-emitting device, display device, electronic appliance, and lighting device An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance, a separation layer containing a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds that form an exciplex and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that a light-emitting element in which light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission spectrum peak on the shorter wavelength side than an emission spectrum peak of the second light-emitting layer is more effective.
US10026904B2	Organic light emitting devices The present invention relates to monochromatic organic light emitting devices. The organic light emitting device includes a substrate, an anode, a cathode and an organic electroluminescent medium disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic electroluminescent medium includes compound monochromatic luminescent layer; and the compound monochromatic luminescent layer includes host A doped with monochromatic dopant and host B doped with monochromatic dopant, wherein the host A is consisted of two kinds of materials with different transporting characteristics, one is hole-transporting material, and the other is electron-transporting material. In addition, the present invention further relates to white organic light emitting devices, wherein the organic electroluminescent medium is consisted of at least one compound monochromatic luminescent layer, which includes host A doped with monochromatic dopant and host B doped with monochromatic dopant. The present invention provides a design to improve the lifetime of the organic light emitting device markedly.
US10026898B2	Methods and compositions for enhancing processability and charge transport of polymer semiconductors and devices made therefrom Methods of making solid-state semiconducting films. The methods include forming a mixture by mixing at least two monomers in a pre-determined proportion such that at least one of the at least two monomers contains at least one non-conjugation spacer. Polymerization of the mixture is achieved by reacting the monomers with one another resulting in a solid state polymer which is then purified. The purified solid state polymer is dissolved in an organic solvent to form a homogenous solution which is then deposited onto a substrate, forming a solid-state semiconducting film by evaporating the solvent. Alternatively, the purified solid state polymer is deposited onto a substrate and heated to form a liquid melt, and cooling the liquid melt results in a solid state semiconducting thin film. Also, films comprising a semiconducting polymer composition containing a minimum of one non-conjugation spacer and devices comprising such films.
US10026897B2	Method for manufacturing organic EL apparatus, organic EL apparatus, and electronic device A method for manufacturing an organic EL apparatus includes forming an organic EL element and a mounting terminal on a substrate of an element substrate as a first substrate, forming sealing films so as to cover at least the organic EL element and the mounting terminal, adhering a sealing substrate as a second substrate with respect to the element substrate using a filler, and etching the sealing films so as to expose at least a part of the mounting terminal, in which, in the etching of the sealing films, the second substrate, which is formed with a composition which reacts with an etching gas and vaporizes, or a protective member, which covers at least a part of the second substrate, is used as a mask.
US10026895B2	Superlattice memory and crosspoint memory device According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a superlattice structure portion containing first chalcogen-compound layers and second chalcogen-compound layers differing in composition from the first chalcogen-compound layers are alternately deposited, a first layer provided on one of main surfaces of the superlattice structure portion in a deposition direction thereof, which has a larger energy gap than that of the superlattice structure portion, and a second layer provided on the other main surface of the superlattice structure portion in the deposition direction, which has a larger energy gap than that of the superlattice structure portion.
US10026892B2	Precessional spin current structure for MRAM A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is disclosed. MRAM device has a magnetic tunnel junction stack having a significantly improved performance of the free layer in the magnetic tunnel junction structure. The MRAM device utilizes a precessional spin current (PSC) magnetic layer in conjunction with a perpendicular MTJ where the in-plane magnetization direction of the PSC magnetic layer is free to rotate.
US10026886B2	System for thermoelectric energy generation A system includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is arranged to be thermally coupled to a first surface and the second plate is arranged to be thermally coupled to an environment. The environment has a temperature that is different than the first surface. The system also includes a thermoelectric device that includes a plurality of thermoelectric elements. The thermoelectric device includes a third plate coupled to the plurality of thermoelectric elements and thermally coupled to the first plate. The thermoelectric device also includes a fourth plate coupled to the plurality of thermoelectric elements and thermally coupled to the second plate. The system also includes a dielectric fluid arranged between the first plate and the second plate. The thermoelectric elements are submersed in the dielectric fluid.
US10026875B2	Light-source device and light-emitting device In a light-source device (10) of this invention, integrated light emission intensity from 460 nm to 500 nm is higher than integrated light emission intensity from 415 nm to 460 nm in an emission spectrum of white light. This allows provision of a light-source device which emits white light easy on a human eye.
US10026874B1	Narrow-band red phosphors for LED lamps A light emitting device (LED-Filament) comprises: a light-transmissive substrate; at least one blue LED chip mounted on a face of the light-transmissive substrate; and a photoluminescence material at least partially covering the at least one blue LED chip. The photoluminescence material comprises phosphor particles of at least one Group IIA/IIB selenide sulfide-based phosphor material that generates red light with a peak emission wavelength in a range of 600 nm to 640 nm and a full width at half maximum emission intensity of 50 nm to 55 nm. The LED-filament can be incorporated in a lamp, with a yellow to green-emitting phosphor that generates yellow to green light with a peak emission wavelength in a range of 520 nm to 570 nm, to provide light with a color temperature in a range of 1500 K to 4000 K and a General Color Rendering Index (CRI Ra) of greater than or equal to 90 and a CRI R9 greater than or equal to 50.
US10026873B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting device A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: mounting at least one light emitting element on a support member with a first surface of the light emitting element facing upward; applying an adhesive to the first surface of the light emitting element by holding the support member and dipping the first surface of the light emitting element in the adhesive; and disposing a light-transmissive member on the first surface of the light emitting element via the adhesive.
US10026866B2	III-nitride nanowire LED with strain modified surface active region and method of making thereof A light emitting diode (LED) device includes a semiconductor nanowire core, and an In(Al)GaN active region quantum well shell located radially around the semiconductor nanowire core. The active quantum well shell contains indium rich regions having at least 5 atomic percent higher indium content than indium poor regions in the same shell. The active region quantum well shell has a non-uniform surface profile having at least 3 peaks. Each of the at least 3 peaks is separated from an adjacent one of the at least 3 peaks by a valley, and each of the at least 3 peaks extends at least 2 nm in a radial direction away from an adjacent valley.
US10026863B2	Method of manufacturing a sensor array A method of manufacturing a sensor array includes providing a carrier glass substrate, forming an amorphous silicon layer over the carrier glass substrate, forming a first heat buffer layer over the amorphous silicon layer; forming a mirror layer over the first heat buffer layer; forming a second heat buffer layer over the mirror layer; forming a flexible substrate over the second heat buffer layer; and forming an active device layer over the flexible substrate. The method of the present invention further comprises exposing the sensor array to light from a flash lamp and then detaching the carrier glass substrate from the sensor array. The method of the present invention optionally further comprises filtering the light from the flash lamp to wavelengths below 350 nm.
US10026861B2	Photovoltaic device and method of formation An improved photovoltaic device and methods of manufacturing the same that includes an interface layer adjacent to a semiconductor absorber layer, where the interface layer includes a material in the semiconductor layer which decreases in concentration from the side of the interface layer contacting the absorber layer to an opposite side of the interface layer.
US10026860B2	Metamorphic layers in multijunction solar cells A method of forming a multijunction solar cell comprising an upper subcell, a middle subcell, and a lower subcell comprising providing first substrate for the epitaxial growth of semiconductor material; forming a first solar subcell on said substrate having a first band gap; forming a second solar subcell over said first subcell having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; and forming a grading interlayer over said second sub cell having a third band gap larger than said second band gap forming a third solar subcell having a fourth band gap smaller than said second band gap such that said third subcell is lattice mis-matched with respect to said second subcell.
US10026859B2	Small gauge wire solar cell interconnect Disclosed are wire assemblies for solar cells. One wire assembly includes a first polymer film and a second polymer film overlaying the first polymer film. The second polymer film has a wire embedded in it such that a surface of the wire that is facing away from the first polymer film is exposed. The gauge of the wire is about 36 to 46 gauge. The thickness of the second polymer film is about ¼ to ½ the diameter of the wire and about 0.5 to 1.5 mils.
US10026858B2	Adhesive tape and solar assembly and article made thereof The invention provides a frameless photo-energy assembly including a photo-energy converter, wherein an edge of the photo-energy converter is sealed by an adhesive tape, comprising an adhering layer for adhesion and cushioning; and an aging-resistant protective layer. The adhering layer is used to contact the edge of an article and comprises: a substrate layer; optionally, a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer situated at both sides of the substrate layer oppositely, wherein the first adhesive layer being used to be contact with the article. The aging-resistant protective layer is situated on the adhering layer, which comprises: an optional primer layer, which is situated on the adhering layer; and a film layer, which is situated on either the primer layer or the substrate or the second adhesive layer. The invention further provides an adhesive tape for sealing an edge of an article and an article made of the assembly.
US10026855B2	Process for making powder alloys containing cadmium and selenium A process for preparing alloy products powders is described using a self-sustaining or self-propagating SHS-type combustion process. Binary, ternary and quaternary alloy having cadmium, selenium and optionally a third element X or Y selected from Group VIA (such as S or Te) or from group IIB (such as Zn or Hg). The alloy products may be doped or not with a wide variety of other elements. The process involves heating to ignition, maintaining an elevated temperature less than melting for homogenization, followed by cooling and crushing. An optional de-oxidation process may follow to further purify the alloy and balance the stoichiometry.
US10026849B2	Structure and process for overturned thin film device with self-aligned gate and S/D contacts Processes and overturned thin film device structures generally include a metal gate having a concave shape defined by three faces. The processes generally include forming the overturned thin film device structures such that the channel self-aligns to the metal gate and the contacts can be self-aligned to the sacrificial material.
US10026848B2	Semiconductor device One of the objects is to improve display quality by reduction in malfunctions of a circuit. In a driver circuit formed using a plurality of pulse output circuits having first to third transistors and first to fourth signal lines, a first clock signal is supplied to the first signal line; a preceding stage signal is supplied to the second signal line; a second clock signal is supplied to the third signal line; an output signal is output from the fourth signal line. Duty ratios of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are different from each other. A period during which the second clock signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal after the first clock signal is changed from an H-level signal to an L-level signal is longer than a period during which the preceding stage signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal.
US10026844B2	Electronic device and method for fabricating the same Provided is a method for fabricating an electronic device, the method including: preparing a carrier substrate including an element region and a wiring region; forming a sacrificial layer on the carrier substrate; forming an electronic element on the sacrificial layer of the element region; forming a first elastic layer having a corrugated surface on the first elastic layer of the wiring region; forming a metal wirings electrically connecting the electronic element thereto, on the first elastic layer of the wiring region; forming a second elastic layer covering the metal wirings, on the first elastic layer; forming a high rigidity pattern filling in a recess of the second elastic layer above the electronic element so as to overlap the electronic element, and having a corrugated surface; forming a third elastic layer on the second elastic layer and the high rigidity pattern; and separating the carrier substrate.
US10026840B2	Structure of semiconductor device with source/drain structures Structures of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure over the substrate, and a first recess and a second recess in the substrate and at opposite sides of the gate structure. The semiconductor device also includes two source/drain structures over the first recess and the second recess respectively. At least one of the source/drain structures includes a first doped region partially filling in the first recess, a second doped region over the first doped region, and a third doped region over the second doped region. The second doped region contains more dopants than the first doped region or the third doped region.
US10026838B2	Fin-type field effect transistor and manufacturing method thereof A fin-type field effect transistor comprising a substrate, at least one gate structure, spacers and strained source and drain regions is described. The at least one gate structure is disposed over the substrate and on the isolation structures. The spacers are disposed on sidewalls of the at least one gate structure. First blocking material layers are disposed on the spacers. The strained source and drain regions are disposed at two opposite sides of the at least one gate structure. Second blocking material layers are disposed on the strained source and drain regions. The first and second blocking material layers comprise oxygen-rich oxide materials.
US10026835B2	Field boosted metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor A trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (TMOSFET) includes a plurality of mesas disposed between a plurality of gate regions. Each mesa includes a drift region and a body region. The width of the mesa is in the order of quantum well dimension at the interface between the gate insulator regions and the body regions The TMOSFET also includes a plurality of gate insulator regions disposed between the gate regions and the body regions, drift regions, and drain region. The thickness of the gate insulator regions between the gate regions and the drain region results in a gate-to-drain electric field in an OFF-state that is substantially lateral aiding to deplete the charge in the drift regions.
US10026830B2	Tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) having a semiconductor fin structure A tunneling field effect transistor is formed from a fin of semiconductor material on a support substrate. The fin of semiconductor material includes a source region, a drain region and a channel region between the source region and drain region. A gate electrode straddles over the fin at the channel region. Sidewall spacers are provided on each side of the gate electrode. The source of the transistor is made from an epitaxial germanium content source region grown from the source region of the fin and doped with a first conductivity type. The drain of the transistor is made from an epitaxial silicon content drain region grown from the drain region of the fin and doped with a second conductivity type.
US10026826B2	Method of forming semiconductor device having gate dielectric surrounding at least some of channel region and gate electrode surrounding at least some of gate dielectric A semiconductor device includes a first type region including a first conductivity type and a second type region including a second conductivity type. The semiconductor device includes a channel region extending between the first type region and the second type region. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode surrounding at least some of the channel region. A first gate edge of the gate electrode is separated a first distance from a first type region edge of the first type region and a second gate edge of the gate electrode is separated a second distance from a second type region edge of the second type region. The first distance is less than the second distance.
US10026819B2	High voltage semiconductor devices including main conductive pattern, auxiliary conductive pattern, and spacer therebetween The semiconductor device including a device isolation layer disposed in a substrate and defining an active region, a first conductive pattern on the active region, an impurity region in the active region on a side of the first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern on the active region between the impurity region and the first conductive pattern, a first spacer between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern, and a contact plug disposed on and electrically connected to the first conductive pattern may be provided. The second conductive pattern may have a width less than a width of the contact plug.
US10026814B2	P-doping of group-III-nitride buffer layer structure on a heterosubstrate An epitaxial group-ill-nitride buffer-layer structure is provided on a heterosubstrate, wherein the buffer-layer structure has at least one stress-management layer sequence including an interlayer structure arranged between and adjacent to a first and a second group-ill-nitride layer, wherein the interlayer structure comprises a group-ill-nitride interlayer material having a larger band gap than the materials of the first and second group-ill-nitride layers, and wherein a p-type-dopant-concentration profile drops, starting from at least 1×1018 cm−3, by at least a factor of two in transition from the interlayer structure to the first and second group-ill-nitride layers.
US10026812B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a layer, including columns, the columns extend a first direction parallel to the surface of the layer, the columns are arranged at intervals, interdigitally sandwiching other columns so as to implement a superjunction structure so the columns and the other columns are side by side; forming well regions in the layer; forming source regions in the well regions; forming an insulating film on the well regions; and forming gate electrodes on the gate insulating film, the gate electrodes bridging corresponding source regions in neighboring well regions, a temperature detection diode at an area in the gate electrodes, one column has a first width in a second direction, the temperature detection diode has a second width in the second direction, and the first width equal to the second width, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
US10026811B2	Integrated circuit structure and method with solid phase diffusion A method includes forming fin semiconductor features on a substrate. A dopant-containing dielectric material layer is formed on sidewalls of the fin semiconductor features and the substrate. A precise material modification (PMM) process is performed to the dopant-containing dielectric material layer. The PMM process includes forming a first dielectric material layer over the dopant-containing dielectric material layer; performing a tilted ion implantation to the first dielectric material layer so that a top portion of the first dielectric material layer is doped to have a modified etch characteristic different from an etch characteristic of a bottom portion of the first dielectric material layer; and performing an etch process to selectively remove the top portion of the first dielectric material layer and the top portion of the dopant-containing dielectric material layer.
US10026810B2	Co-integration of silicon and silicon-germanium channels for nanosheet devices Nanosheet semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a first nanosheet stack in a first device region with layers of a first channel material and layers of a sacrificial material. A second nanosheet stack is formed in a second device region with layers of a second channel material, layers of the sacrificial material, and a liner formed around the layers of the second channel material. The sacrificial material is etched away, but the liner protects the second channel material from the etch. Gate stacks are formed over and around the layers of first and second channel material to form respective first and second semiconductor devices in the first and second device regions.
US10026809B1	Semiconductor device Active patterns protrude from a substrate. The active patterns include a first active pattern, a second active pattern spaced apart from the first active pattern at a first distance, and a third active pattern spaced apart from the second active pattern at a second distance greater than the first distance. A gate spacer is disposed on sidewalls of a gate electrode running across the active patterns. Source/drain regions include a first to a third source/drain regions disposed on a region of one of the active patterns. The region of one of the active patterns is disposed adjacent to a side of the gate electrode. First and second protective insulation patterns are disposed on the substrate between the first and second active patterns below the first and second source/drain regions and between the second and third active patterns below the second and third source/drain regions, respectively.
US10026795B2	Organic EL element and method for manufacturing organic EL element An organic EL element including: a TFT substrate having a TAOS-TFT; and an organic EL unit having a lower electrode. The lower electrode includes an aluminum containing metal layer, a transition metal containing oxide layer disposed between the aluminum containing metal layer and the TFT substrate, and an aluminum containing oxide layer disposed between the aluminum containing metal layer and the transition metal containing oxide layer and in contact with both the aluminum containing metal layer and the transition metal containing oxide layer. The aluminum containing oxide layer contains aluminum oxide. The transition metal containing oxide layer contains tungsten oxide and has a density of 6.5 g/cm3 or more.
US10026794B2	Display device having an insulating pattern covered via and electrode holes A display device is discussed. The display device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a display region disposed over the substrate and including a plurality of subpixels, and a data pad part disposed in regions other than the display region. The data pad part includes a data signal line extended from the display region, an insulating film disposed on the data signal line and insulating the data signal line, a data pad electrode disposed on the insulating film and connected to the data signal line through the via hole, and an insulating pattern configured to cover the via hole. The data pad electrode can include at least one electrode hole.
US10026793B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode display including a substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, an organic light emitting member disposed in the display area, dams disposed in the peripheral area, a thin film encapsulation layer covering a portion of a first dam among the dams and the organic light emitting member, a touch sensing member disposed on the thin film encapsulation layer of the display area, and a first crack sensing member disposed at a position corresponding to the first dam.
US10026788B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: an organic light-emitting device including a plurality of sub-pixels respectively emitting lights of different colors; a color filter formed on the organic light-emitting device in a region corresponding to each of the sub-pixels; a spacer color filter formed in the color filter between red, green, and blue color filters at locations corresponding to non-emitting areas; and a substrate provided on the color filter to encapsulate the organic light-emitting device.
US10026764B2	Solid-state image pickup device and image pickup system having light shielding portion with first and second films on respective under face and upper face sides A solid-state image pickup device has an image pickup pixel including a first photoelectric conversion portion and a first transistor and a focus detection pixel including a second photoelectric conversion portion, a second transistor, and a light shielding portion, in which a reflection preventing portion is provided on the underface side of the light shielding portion.
US10026762B2	Image pickup device having an arrangement of lines that does not hinder realization of an increased read rate A first signal line, a second signal line, a first line, and a second line are disposed in an identical direction on an identical layer. A distance between the first signal line and the second signal line is larger than a distance between the first signal line and the first line or larger than a distance between the second signal line and the second line.
US10026760B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method According to one embodiment, a substrate processing apparatus (1) includes: a support (4) configured to support a substrate (W); a rotation mechanism (5) configured to rotate the support (4) about an axis that crosses the substrate (W) supported by the support (4) as a rotation axis; a nozzle (6) configured to supply a treatment liquid to a surface of the substrate (W) on the support (4) being rotated by the rotation mechanism (5); a heater (8) configured to heat the substrate (W) supported by the support (4) at a distance from the substrate (W); and a movement mechanism (9) configured to move the heater (8) in directions toward and away from the substrate (W) supported by the support (4).
US10026757B1	Micro-light emitting display device A display device includes an array substrate, the bottom conductive lines, the micro light emitting devices, the conductive layers, the upper conductive lines, and a filling material. The bottom conductive lines are present on the array substrate. The conductive layers are respectively present between the micro light emitting devices and the bottom conductive lines. The upper conductive lines cross the bottom conductive lines at the micro light emitting devices. Each of the micro light emitting devices is present between at least one of the bottom conductive lines and at least one of the upper conductive lines. The filling material is present on the array substrate and has at least four openings to respectively expose the micro light emitting devices. The upper conductive lines are electrically connected to the micro light emitting devices respectively through the openings.
US10026747B2	Non-volatile memory device with first gate structure in memory cell region and second gate structure in peripheral circuit region and non-volatile memory system including the same A non-volatile memory device is provided as follows. A substrate has a peripheral circuit. A first semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The first semiconductor layer includes a memory cell region. A first gate structure is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The first gate structure includes a plurality of first gate electrodes stacked in a perpendicular direction to the first semiconductor layer and a plurality of vertical channel structures penetrating the plurality of first gate electrodes. The first gate structure is arranged in the memory cell region. A second gate structure is disposed on the substrate. The second gate structure includes a plurality of second gate electrodes stacked in the perpendicular direction to the first semiconductor layer. The second gate structure is arranged outside the memory cell region.
US10026731B1	Compound semiconductor transistor integration with high density capacitor A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor includes a compound semiconductor substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a collector contact layer on the compound semiconductor substrate, a first dielectric layer on the collector contact layer, a conductive electrode layer on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer on the conductive electrode layer. The MIM capacitor includes a first conductive interconnect on the second dielectric layer, a third dielectric layer on the first conductive interconnect, and a second conductive interconnect on the third dielectric layer. A first capacitive component includes the collector contact layer, the conductive electrode layer, and the first dielectric layer. A second capacitive component includes the first conductive interconnect, the conductive electrode layer and the second dielectric layer. A third capacitive component includes the second conductive interconnect, the first conductive interconnect, and the third dielectric layer. The first, second, and third capacitive components are arranged in parallel with each other.
US10026729B2	Surge-protection circuit and surge-protection method A surge-protection circuit for a chip is provided. The surge-protection circuit includes a detection element and a protection element. The detection element is embedded on the chip and arranged between a first terminal and a second terminal, and the detection element is utilized to detect whether an abrupt voltage variation occurs due to a surge or not and generate an enabling signal when the abrupt voltage variation occurs. The protection element is embedded on the chip and coupled to the detection element, and the protection element is utilized to adjust and reduce the abrupt voltage variation through bypassing high energy generated by the surge after receiving the enabling signal.
US10026728B1	Semiconductor device having biasing structure for self-isolating buried layer and method therefor A semiconductor device includes a floating buried doped region, a first doped region disposed between the floating buried doped region and a first major surface, and a semiconductor region disposed between the floating buried doped region and a second major surface. Trench isolation portions extend from the first major surface and terminate within the semiconductor region to define an active region. An insulated trench structure is laterally disposed between the trench isolation portions, terminates within the floating buried doped region, and defines a first portion and a second portion of the active region. A biasing semiconductor device is within the first portion, and a functional semiconductor device is within the second portion. The biasing semiconductor device is adapted to set a potential of the floating buried doped region and adapted to divert parasitic currents away from the functional semiconductor device.
US10026720B2	Semiconductor structure and a method of making thereof An integrated circuit package including a substrate having a cavity and one or more semiconductor devices assembled within the cavity of the substrate. The one or more semiconductor devices electrically coupled using redistribution layers, wherein the cavity is a first cavity, the substrate includes the first cavity and a second cavity, the one or more semiconductor devices are fully embedded within the first cavity of the substrate, the one or more semiconductor devices are fully embedded between the substrate and a first redistribution layer of said redistribution layers, bumps are fully embedded within the second cavity of the substrate, the bumps are fully embedded between the substrate and the first redistribution layer of said redistribution layers, and the first redistribution layer is fully embedded between the substrate and a semiconductor interposer.
US10026718B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, a substrate, and a light reflective covering member. A first land is provided in a substrate front surface and includes a first terminal and a second terminal. A second land is provided in the substrate front surface and includes a third terminal and a fourth terminal. An intermediate wiring is provided between the first land and the second land in the substrate front surface. A first wiring is provided in a substrate back surface and is electrically connected to the first terminal through a first through-via. A second wiring is provided in the substrate back surface and is electrically connected to the fourth terminal through a second through-via. A third wiring is provided in the substrate back surface and is electrically connected to the second terminal and the third terminal through a third through-via.
US10026717B2	Multiple bond via arrays of different wire heights on a same substrate Apparatuses relating generally to a substrate are disclosed. In such an apparatus, first wire bond wires (“first wires”) extend from a surface of the substrate. Second wire bond wires (“second wires”) extend from the surface of the substrate. The first wires and the second wires are external to the substrate. The first wires are disposed at least partially within the second wires. The first wires are of a first height. The second wires are of a second height greater than the first height for coupling of at least one electronic component to the first wires at least partially disposed within the second wires.
US10026708B2	Strong, heat stable junction Provided among other things is an electrical device comprising: a first component that is a semiconductor or an electrical conductor; a second component that is an electrical conductor; and a strong, heat stable junction there between including an intermetallic bond formed of: substantially (a) indium (In), tin (Sn) or a mixture thereof, and (b) substantially nickel (Ni). The junction can have an electrical contact resistance that is small compared to the resistance of the electrical device.
US10026685B2	Metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitor with reduced magnetic coupling to neighboring circuit and high series resonance frequency Metal-oxide-metal (MOM) type capacitors include a first terminal configured to receive a first voltage, the first terminal being formed on a first dielectric layer; a first set of fingers formed on the first dielectric layer, the first set of fingers being coupled to the first terminal via a conductive trace formed on a second dielectric layer; a second terminal configured to receive second voltage, the second terminal being formed on the first dielectric layer; and a second set of fingers formed on the first dielectric layer, the second set of fingers being coupled to the second terminal, wherein the fingers of the second set are interspersed with the fingers of the first set.
US10026680B2	Semiconductor package and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor package includes an interconnect component surrounded by a molding compound. The interconnect component comprises a first RDL structure. A second RDL structure is disposed on the interconnect component. A plurality of first connecting elements is disposed on the second RDL structure. A polish stop layer covers a surface of the interconnect component. A plurality of second connecting elements is disposed on and in the polish stop layer. At least one semiconductor die is mounted on the second connecting elements.
US10026679B2	Process for manufacturing a package for a surface-mount semiconductor device and semiconductor device A process for manufacturing a surface-mount electronic device includes forming a plurality of preliminary contact regions of a sinterable material on a supporting structure, the supporting structure being of a soluble type. A chip including a semiconductor body is mechanically coupled to the supporting structure. The sinterable material is sintered such that each preliminary contact region forms a corresponding sintered preliminary contact, and the chip and the plurality of preliminary contact regions are coated with a dielectric coating region, and the supporting structure is removed using a jet of liquid.
US10026674B2	Cooling structure for integrated circuits and methods for forming such structure A method for forming a cooling structure having a plurality of cooling members. The method includes: providing a template having a plurality of features, such members projecting outward from a base of a template or holes passing into the template, the features being arranged in a predetermined pattern, such pattern being selected in accordance with the predetermined pattern of cooling members; and forming a conformal coating of diamond over the features.
US10026673B2	Semiconductor device and power module A semiconductor device of a double-side cooling structure having a bus bar electrically connected, and coolers independently arranged on both sides of the semiconductor device for cooling is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip including an element, and has a first main surface and a second main surface; a sealing resin body having a first surface and a second surface and also having a side surface; a first heatsink arranged facing the first main surface and electrically connected to the first main electrode; and a second heatsink arranged facing the second main surface and electrically connected to the second main electrode. The first heatsink is exposed only to the first surface. The second heatsink is exposed only to the second surface. An exposed surface of a heatsink to be electrically connected to the bus bar has a heat dissipation region, and an electrical connection region.
US10026671B2	Substrate design for semiconductor packages and method of forming same An embodiment device package includes first die and one or more redistribution layers (RDLs) electrically connected to the first die. The one or more RDLs extend laterally past edges of the first die. The device package further includes one or more second dies bonded to a first surface of the one or more RDLs and a connector element on the first surface of the one or more RDLs. The connector element has a vertical dimension greater than the one or more second dies. A package substrate is bonded to the one or more RDLs using the connector element, wherein the one or more second dies is disposed between the first die and the package substrate.
US10026659B2	Methods of forming fin isolation regions under tensile-strained fins on FinFET semiconductor devices One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a composite fin structure that is comprised of a first germanium-containing semiconductor material having a first concentration of germanium and a tensile-strained second semiconductor material (having a lesser germanium concentration) positioned on the first germanium-containing semiconductor material and performing a thermal anneal process to convert the first germanium-containing semiconductor material portion of the composite fin structure into a germanium-containing oxide isolation region positioned under the second semiconductor material that is a tensile-strained final fin for an NMOS FinFET device.
US10026658B2	Methods for fabricating vertical-gate-all-around transistor structures Systems and methods are provided for fabricating nanowire devices on a substrate. A first nanowire and a second nanowire are formed on a substrate, the first nanowire and the second nanowire extending substantially vertically relative to the substrate. A first source region and a first drain region are formed with n-type dopants, the first nanowire being disposed between the first source region and the first drain region. A second source region and a second drain region are formed with p-type dopants, the second nanowire being disposed between the second source region and the second drain region.
US10026656B2	Metal gate features of semiconductor die A semiconductor die comprises two or more active regions over a substrate. A first set of dummy blocks are over the substrate, in contact with one another, and completely surrounding at least one of the two or more active regions. A second set of dummy blocks are over the substrate and farther from the at least one active region surrounded by the first set of dummy blocks than the dummy blocks of the first set of dummy blocks. Each of the dummy blocks of the first set of dummy blocks has individual surface areas, each of the dummy blocks of the second set of dummy blocks has individual surface areas, and the individual surface areas of each of the dummy blocks of the second set of dummy blocks is larger than the individual surface areas of each of the dummy blocks of the first set of dummy blocks.
US10026655B2	Dual liner CMOS integration methods for FinFET devices An integrated circuit product includes an NFET FinFET device having a first fin that is made entirely of a first semiconductor material and a PFET FinFET device that includes a second fin having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the lower portion is made of the first semiconductor material and the upper portion is made of a second semiconductor material that is different from the first semiconductor material. A silicon nitride liner is positioned on and in contact with the lower portion of the second fin, wherein the silicon nitride liner is not present on or adjacent to the upper portion of the second fin or on or adjacent to any portion of the first fin.
US10026646B2	Packages with through-vias having tapered ends A package includes a device die, a molding material molding the device die therein, a through-via substantially penetrating through the molding material, wherein the through-via has an end. The end of the through-via is tapered and has rounded sidewall surfaces. The package further includes a redistribution line electrically coupled to the through-via.
US10026645B2	Multiple patterning process for forming pillar mask elements A method includes forming a stack of hard mask layers above a process layer. The stack includes first, second and third hard mask layers. The third hard mask layer is patterned to define therein a first mask element and to expose portions of the second hard mask layer. The second hard mask layer is patterned to define therein a second mask element below the first mask element and a third mask element, and to expose portions of the first hard mask layer. The first hard mask layer is patterned to define therein a fourth mask element below the second mask element, a fifth mask element below the third mask element, and a sixth mask element, and to expose portions of the process layer. The process layer is etched to remove portions of the process layer not covered by the first hard mask layer.
US10026644B2	Fabricating method of non-volatile memory device Provided is a fabrication method of a non-volatile memory device having a zigzag body wiring. First word lines and second word lines are formed on a substrate, wherein the first word lines and the second word lines are arranged periodically and extend in a first direction. Bit lines are formed over the first and second word lines, wherein a first distance from the first word lines to the substrate is smaller than a second distance from the second word lines to the substrate.
US10026642B2	Semiconductor on insulator structure comprising a sacrificial layer and method of manufacture thereof A method is provided for preparing a semiconductor-on-insulator structure comprising a sacrificial layer.
US10026623B2	Thin film transistor substrate, display panel, and laser annealing method A thin film transistor substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors arranged in columns and rows respectively on a substrate. Each of the thin film transistors includes a laser annealed part in which an amorphous silicon layer that forms a channel region is laser annealed to be a polysilicon layer, each laser annealed part is disposed with a designed pitch in a scanning direction in which a laser light for laser annealing and the substrate move relatively to each other, and the laser annealed part is provided within a channel width formed in a direction orthogonal to the scanning direction and being narrower than the channel width.
US10026622B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a hole extending in a first direction in a workpiece. The method includes forming a first film on an upper surface of the workpiece and an upper portion of a side wall of the hole. The method includes forming a second film on the first film. The method includes removing portions of the first and second films from the upper surface of the workpiece so that at least a part of the first and second films formed on the upper portion remain. The method includes removing at least a part of a portion of the workpiece which is exposed through the hole using a second etchant. An etching rate of the first etchant for the first film is higher than an etching rate of the first etchant for the second film.
US10026621B2	SiN spacer profile patterning Processing methods may be performed to form recesses in a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include oxidizing an exposed silicon nitride surface on a semiconductor substrate within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming an inert plasma within the processing region of the processing chamber. Effluents of the inert plasma may be utilized to modify the oxidized silicon nitride. A remote plasma may be formed from a fluorine-containing precursor to produce plasma effluents. The methods may include flowing the plasma effluents to the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may also include removing the modified oxidized silicon nitride from the semiconductor substrate.
US10026608B2	Array substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display device A method for manufacturing an array substrate comprises forming a pattern including an active layer, a gate insulating layer and a gate on a base substrate, and forming a pattern including an interlayer dielectric layer, a source, a drain and a pixel electrode through a single patterning process on the base substrate formed with the pattern of the active layer, the gate insulating layer and the gate. An array substrate and a display device are further provided.
US10026604B2	Semiconductor cleaner systems and methods In an embodiment, the present invention discloses a EUV cleaner system and process for cleaning a EUV carrier. The euv cleaner system comprises separate dirty and cleaned environments, separate cleaning chambers for different components of the double container carrier, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for holding different components at different locations, horizontal spin cleaning and drying for outer container, hot water and hot air (70 C) cleaning process, vertical nozzles and rasterizing megasonic nozzles for cleaning inner container with hot air nozzles for drying, separate vacuum decontamination chambers for outgassing different components, for example, one for inner and one for outer container with high vacuum (e.g., <10−6 Torr) with purge gas, heaters and RGA sensors inside the vacuum chamber, purge gas assembling station, and purge gas loading and unloading station.
US10026598B2	Signal amplitude measurement and calibration with an ion trap Approaches for a measurement system for measuring or calibrating the amplitude of a signal of a signal generator, where the measurement system employs an ion trap, are provided. The measurement system comprises a signal generator operable to generate an output signal, and a measuring apparatus operable to determine an amplitude of the output signal. The measuring apparatus includes an ion trap operable to trap at least one ion, a signal supply device operable to supply the output signal of the signal generator to the ion trap, whereby a path of motion of the at least one trapped ion is influenced by the output signal, and a measuring device operable to determine the amplitude of the output signal based on a path of motion of the at least one trapped ion. The determined amplitude may be fed back to the signal generator for calibration purposes.
US10026587B2	Sample holder for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) The present invention refers to a two-systems compact specimen holder (SH) easy to use which enables to analyze the same sample by employing either an atomic force microscope (AFM) or a scanning electron microscope (SEM), by preserving the setting reference of the details for both microscopies, so that it satisfies the requirements of size, conductivity, magnetization, tidiness, reference and adaptability.The capacity of preserving the location reference of the details for both microscopies, in the scope of correlational microscopy, results essential to obtain information and images in both fields of microscopy, which can be correlated in order to acquire valuable combined information.
US10026580B2	Compact modular fuse block with integrated fuse clearance A fuse block assembly includes a nonconductive base formed with pedestal surfaces attachable to terminals from a location above the base, while providing a clearance between the body of a fuse and the middle portion of the base when a fuse is installed.
US10026578B2	Breaker facilitating rapid movement and elongation of arc A breaker comprises a static contact, a moving contact, and an arc-extinguishing chamber. A contact surface of an electrical contact of the static contact and an electrical contact of the moving contact and a bottom plane of a base form an acute angle that is located in the first quadrant. The moving contact comprises a conducting rod having a projecting portion, and the electrical contact which is welded on an end surface of the projecting portion in a direction facing the electrical contact of the static contact. A bottom arc-ignition grid plate on the bottom of the arc-extinguishing chamber is arranged lower than the electrical contact of the static contact. A top arc-ignition grid plate on the top of the arc-extinguishing chamber is arranged higher than the maximum position of the electrical contact of the moving contact when the moving contact is opened.
US10026577B2	Contact switching device There is provided a contact switching device which has high productivity and in which operation characteristics hardly vary. The contact switching device includes an electromagnetic unit, a holder, a movable shaft, a movable yoke, a movable contact piece having movable contacts at both ends, fixed contacts, and a fixed yoke. At the time of excitation of the electromagnetic unit, the movable shaft moves to the holder side along a direction of an axis center. A magnetic circuit is formed of the fixed yoke and the movable yoke due to a magnetic field generated by a current that flows into the movable contact piece as a result of the movable contacts coming into contact with the fixed contacts. The movable yoke is then attracted to the fixed yoke.
US10026564B2	Precious metal switch contact component and its preparation method This invention discloses a preparation method for precious metal switching contact components by means of plating masking, plating and etching processes. The plating masking process is performed by using a plating mask ink with or without a photo exposure machine. Plating of precious metals is performed by electroless plating or electro plating methods. Etching is carried out with etching solutions containing weak organic acids, weak inorganic acids or acidic buffering agents. Improvement of the etched surface gloss and prevention of the side etching are realized with the sulfur-contained compounds. The dust- and oil stain-resistances of the switch contacts are improved by increasing the etching depth. The switch contacts made by this invention are featured with the advantages of good reliability, good resistance to dust and oil stain, short contact bounce time, long service life, low cost of raw materials and so on.
US10026562B2	High voltage battery composed of anode limited electrochemical cells An electrochemical storage device including a plurality of electrochemical cells connected electrically in series. Each cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and an aqueous electrolyte. The charge storage capacity of the anode electrode is less than the charge storage capacity of the cathode.
US10026554B2	Multilayer capacitor with (1) an element body having internal electrodes and (2) opposing terminal electrodes A length in a first direction of the element body is smaller than a length in a second direction of the element body and smaller than a length in a third direction of the element body, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction, the third direction being perpendicular to the first and second direction. Each of a first terminal electrode and a second terminal electrode includes a sintered conductor layer formed on the element body, a first plated layer formed on the sintered conductor layer, and a second plated layer formed on the first plated layer. In each of a first electrode portion disposed on a principal face and a third electrode portion disposed on a principal face, a maximum thickness of the sintered conductor layer is larger than a thickness of the first plated layer and not more than a thickness of the second plated layer.
US10026546B2	Apparatus with 3D wirewound inductor integrated within a substrate An apparatus includes a substrate and a three-dimensional (3D) wirewound inductor integrated within the substrate. The apparatus further includes a capacitor coupled to the 3D wirewound inductor.
US10026542B2	Shielding for an inductive device with central first winding connection An inductive device including a first and second concentric winding wound around a center axis of the inductive device, where the second winding is placed outside of the first winding and provided in two separate parts a first upper part and a second lower part, wherein there is an opening between the first and second parts of the second winding and the first winding has a first winding connection that passes through said opening, the inductive device further including a concentric electric shielding element around the center axis and stretching all the way between the upper and the lower part of the second winding, the shielding element including a metal shield layer.
US10026520B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery Provided is a cathode active material for a secondary battery, specifically, a cathode active material for a secondary battery including sodium transition metal pyrophosphate satisfying Na3.12−x2Acx1M1ay1M2by2 (P2O7)z, which has an advantage of structural stability due to a strong P—O bond of sodium transition metal phosphate having an olivine structure, and also performs proper intercalation and deintercalation of Na ions having a large ion radius, thereby significantly improving reversibility during charging and discharging, and a charge and discharge rate.
US10026518B2	Low-haze transparent conductors This disclosure is related to low-haze transparent conductors, ink compositions and method for making the same.
US10026507B2	Apparatus and method for managing a care service A method manages a care service by a terminal apparatus of a caregiver. The method includes recognizing a smart card of a patient, receiving encrypted data including encrypted time information from the smart card, the encrypted time information being generated at the smart card by encrypting time information corresponding to a point in time when the terminal apparatus recognizes the smart card, and transmitting the encrypted data to a management server. The encrypted data is generated by the smart card using an encryption key and decrypted by the management server using a decryption key corresponding to the encryption key. A time corresponding to time information acquired from the decrypted data is stored in the management server as a care service providing time.
US10026502B2	Method and memory controller A method includes setting a first logical value in a control register provided in a variable delay control circuit that is included in a memory controller, detecting a first stuck-at fault of a second logical value that is a value except for the first logical value, the first stuck-at fault having occurred in one of a plurality of control lines, in accordance with a result of a comparison between a logical value output from the memory controller and an expected value of the logical value, setting the second logical value in the memory controller, and detecting a second stuck-at fault of the first logical value, the second stuck-at fault having occurred in one of the plurality of control lines, in accordance with a result of a comparison between a logical value output from the memory controller and an expected value of the logical value.
US10026497B2	Charge injection noise reduction in sample-and-hold circuit A sample-and-hold circuit includes a first transistor; a second transistor disposed between a gate electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor; a sampling capacitor, an electrode of the sampling capacitor being connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor; and a first current source connected to the drain electrode of the first transistor, where a gate electrode of the second transistor receives a gate control signal. A minimum voltage of the gate control signal is Vth2+Vsat2+Vth1+Vsat1, where Vth1 is a threshold voltage of the first transistor, Vsat1 is a saturation voltage of the first transistor, Vth2 is a threshold voltage of the second transistor, and Vsat2 is a saturation voltage of the second transistor.
US10026495B2	Method of controlling magnetization state using imprinting technique A method of controlling a magnetization state using an imprinting technique may be provided. The method may include moving first and second magnetic structures, which have different magnetization states, toward each other and changing a magnetization state of the first or second magnetic structure, when a distance between the first and second magnetic structures is reduced. A magnetic field, which is produced by a magnetization state of one of the first and second magnetic structures, may be used to align a magnetization state of the other, when the magnetization state of the first or second magnetic structure is changed.
US10026481B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided that is capable of reducing the possibility of change in state of memory elements formed over a semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. The semiconductor device includes nonvolatile memory elements and a bias circuit. Each of the nonvolatile memory elements includes a drain region and a source region arranged so as to sandwich a semiconductor region where a channel is formed, a gate electrode, and a charge storage layer arranged between the gate electrode and the semiconductor region. The nonvolatile memory elements are arranged over the semiconductor substrate with the insulating layer interposed therebetween. When electrons are stored in the charge storage layer, the bias circuit reduces the potential difference between the gate electrode and at least one of the drain region and source region in order to decrease holes stored in the channel of a nonvolatile memory element.
US10026480B2	Memory device including multiple select gates and different bias conditions Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods using first and second select gates coupled in series between a conductive line and a first memory cell string of a memory device, and third and fourth select gates coupled in series between the conductive line and a second memory cell string of the memory device. The memory device can include first, second, third, and fourth select lines to provide first, second, third, and fourth voltages, respectively, to the first, second, third, and fourth select gates, respectively, during an operation of the memory device. The first and second voltages can have a same value. The third and fourth voltages can have different values.
US10026470B2	SRAM arrays and methods of manufacturing same An embodiment static random access memory (SRAM) array includes a first SRAM mini array having a first plurality of functional SRAM cells in a first column of the SRAM array. Each of the first plurality of functional SRAM cells share a first bit line (BL). The SRAM array further includes a second SRAM mini array having a second plurality of functional SRAM cells in the first column. Each of the second plurality of functional SRAM cells share a second BL independently controlled from the first BL. The SRAM array further includes and a SRAM dummy array between the first SRAM mini array and the second SRAM mini array. The SRAM dummy array includes a plurality of SRAM array abut dummy cells in the first column. A first endpoint of the first BL and a second endpoint of the second BL are disposed in the SRAM dummy array.
US10026465B2	Nonvolatile memory According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a conductive line including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion therebetween, a storage element including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer therebetween, and the first magnetic layer being connected to the third portion, and a circuit flowing a write current between the first and second portions, applying a first potential to the second magnetic layer, and blocking the write current flowing between the first and second portions after changing the second magnetic layer from the first potential to a second potential.
US10026464B2	Devices, systems, and methods for increasing the usable life of a storage system by optimizing the energy of stored data In certain aspects, a device may include a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller may be configured to process data to form codewords and to send the codewords to the memory to be stored at locations of the memory. The controller may encode and tag the incoming data (from the host) to minimize the charge that is required to be stored in the non-volatile memory.
US10026461B2	Semiconductor devices and semiconductor systems including the same A semiconductor device may include a strobe signal buffer, a strobe signal division circuit, and a drive control circuit. The strobe signal buffer may buffer a first data strobe signal and a second data strobe signal to generate a buffer output signal and an inverted buffer output signal. The strobe signal division circuit may divide the buffer output signal and the inverted buffer output signal to generate internal strobe signals which are used in capturing data when receiving data. The drive control circuit may drive the buffer output signal to a predetermined logic level during an initial section of time from a point of time when a write operation is performed.
US10026460B2	Techniques to mitigate bias drift for a memory device Examples may include techniques to mitigate bias drift for memory cells of a memory device. A first memory cell coupled with a first word-line and a bit-line is selected for a write operation. A second memory cell coupled with a second word-line and the bit-line is de-selected for the write operation. First and second bias voltages are applied to the first word-line and the bit-line during the write operation to program the first memory cell. A third bias voltage is applied to the second word-line during the write operation to reduce or mitigate voltage bias to the second memory cell due to the second bias voltage applied to the bit-line to program the first memory cell.
US10026456B2	Bitline positive boost write-assist circuits for memory bit cells employing a P-type Field-Effect transistor (PFET) write port(s), and related systems and methods Write-assist circuits for memory bit cells (“bit cells”) employing a P-type Field-Effect transistor (PFET) write port(s) are disclosed. Related methods and systems are also disclosed. It has been observed that as node technology is scaled down in size, PFET drive current (i.e., drive strength) exceeds N-type Field-Effect transistor (NFET) drive current for like-dimensioned FETs. In this regard, in one aspect, it is desired to provide bit cells having PFET write ports, as opposed to NFET write ports, to reduce memory write times to the bit cells, and thus improve memory performance. To mitigate a write contention that could otherwise occur when writing data to bit cells, a write-assist circuit provided in the form of positive bitline boost circuit can be employed to strengthen a PFET access transistor in a memory bit cell having a PFET write port(s).
US10026448B2	Case video log data generating apparatus, case video processing system, and case video log data generating method A log generator generates log data including a processing time and processing contents, as data indicating a history of each of processes including input of video data recorded in a storage of a case video management system by a video input unit, image processing including a masking process to be performed on the video data by an image processor, and output of the video data by an encoder and a video output unit, at the time of performing processing for the video data, and records the log data in the case video management system in association with the processed video data.
US10026444B2	Recording tape cartridge configured to suppress damage to guide wall portions that are orthogonal to a loading direction A recording tape cartridge includes two first guide wall portions formed in a direction orthogonal to a loading direction of the case into a drive device and between which a first protruding wall portion formed at a brake member is insertable, and two second guide wall portions and two third guide wall portions formed at regular intervals from the first guide wall portions in a circumferential direction. A second protruding wall portion at the brake member is insertable between the second guide wall portions, and a third protruding wall portion at the brake member is insertable between the third guide wall portions. An interval, α, between each first guide wall portion and the first protruding wall portion, and an interval, β, between each second guide wall portion and the second protruding wall portion and between each third guide wall portion and the third protruding wall portion satisfy “α≥2×β”.
US10026441B2	Method and apparatus for joint adaptation of two-/multi-dimensional equalizer and partial response target The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for processing of multi-dimensional readback signal from magnetic recording or optical, physical data recording so as to reduce/control Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) and noise within acceptable limits. The method is based on Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) detection and takes care of time varying channel conditions. In an embodiment, the filter coefficients of both the equalizer and the partial response (PR) target are jointly adapted to account for the channel condition for both separable and non-separable targets thus reducing signal detection complexity. In an aspect, the disclosure provides an apparatus that incorporates an adaptation engine along with the equalizer and the PR target that updates filter coefficients of both the equalizer and the PR target following the formulated mathematical equations.
US10026440B2	Recording medium, playback method, and playback device A recording medium includes a video stream of a standard-luminance range and a video stream of high-luminance range, which are used selectively in accordance with a playback environment. The recording medium also includes a subtitle stream of the standard-luminance range and a subtitle stream of the high-luminance range, which are used selectively in accordance with the playback environment. A playlist file includes a management region where playback control information relating to a main stream is stored, and includes an extended region. The management region stores first playback control information specifying playing of the video stream of the high-luminance range and the subtitle stream of the high-luminance range in combination. The extended region stores second playback control information specifying playing of the video stream of the standard-luminance range and the subtitle stream of the standard-luminance range in combination.
US10026438B2	Information processing apparatus for reproducing data based on position of content data There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reproduction section which acquires reproduction data corresponding to a reproduction position of content data by reproducing the content data, an output section which causes the reproduction data acquired by the reproduction section to be output from a region of an output device, the region corresponding to the information processing apparatus, a control signal acquisition section which acquires a control signal generated and output by a control device based on a predetermined input recognized by a recognition device, and an output control section which controls output of the reproduction data to the output device performed by the output section in accordance with the control signal acquired by the control signal acquisition section.
US10026436B2	Apparatus and methods for supporting workpieces during plasma processing Apparatus and methods for simultaneously supporting multiple workpieces inside a processing space of a plasma processing system for simultaneous two-sided plasma processing. The apparatus may be a fixture having a carrier plate configured to be supported inside the processing space and a plurality of first openings extending through the thickness of the carrier plate. The carrier plate is configured to contact each of the workpieces over an annular region at an outer peripheral edge so that the first and second sides of each of the workpieces is exposed to the plasma through a respective one of said plurality of first openings.
US10026429B2	Perpendicular magnetic recording medium A perpendicular type of magnetic recording medium has a multi-layered recording structure made up of a plurality of ferro-magnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer interposed between the plurality of ferro-magnetic layers, and the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy of the lower ferro-magnetic layer is greater than the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy of the upper ferro-magnetic layer. Accordingly, the lower ferro-magnetic layer may be easily magnetically reversed by a magnetic field applied during a write operation. Thus, the perpendicular type of magnetic recording medium exhibits an enhanced thermal stability and write-ability.
US10026416B2	Audio system, audio device, mobile terminal device and audio signal control method Provided is an audio system in which an audio signal to be heard can be automatically set to an appropriate volume or sound quality. The audio system is provided with: a mobile terminal device provided with a microphone unit that collects surrounding sound waves, and a transmission unit that, on the basis of the sound waves collected by the microphone unit, sets the volume or sound quality of an audio signal to be amplified by an audio device, and transmits the set audio signal volume or sound quality information to the audio device; and an audio device provided with an amplification unit that amplifies the audio signal, a control unit that adjusts the audio signal volume or sound quality by means of the amplifier, and a receiving unit that receives the audio signal volume or sound quality setting information from the mobile terminal device. The control unit controls the amplification unit so as to adjust the audio signal volume or sound quality on the basis of the audio signal volume or sound quality setting information received by the receiving unit.
US10026415B2	Noise suppression A noise suppressor comprises a first (401) and a second transformer (403) for generating a first and second frequency domain signal from a frequency transform of a first and second microphone signal. A gain unit (405, 407, 409) determines time frequency tile gains in response to a difference measure for magnitude time frequency tile values of the first frequency domain signal and magnitude time frequency tile values of the second frequency domain signal. A scaler (411) generates a third frequency domain signal by scaling time frequency tile values of the first frequency domain signal by the time frequency tile gains; and the resulting signal is converted to the time domain by a third transformer (413). A designator (405, 407, 415) designates time frequency tiles of the first frequency domain signal as speech tiles or noise tiles; and the gain unit (409) determines the gains in response to the designation of the time frequency tiles as speech tiles or noise tiles.
US10026414B2	Speech processing system, vehicle, speech processing unit, steering wheel unit, speech processing method, and speech processing program A speech processing system placed in a vehicle to effectively acquire a voice of a driver includes a first microphone that is provided on a surface facing the driver of the vehicle out of a steering wheel of the vehicle, and inputs a voice of the driver, a second microphone that is provided at a position where the voice of the driver of the vehicle is blocked by at least part of the steering wheel in the vehicle, and inputs noise in the vehicle, and a noise suppressor that suppresses an estimated noise signal based on a first signal corresponding to the sound input to the first microphone and a second signal corresponding to the sound input to the second microphone, and generates and outputs a pseudo speech signal.
US10026402B2	Business or personal listing search A method of searching a business listing with voice commands includes receiving, over the Internet, from a user terminal, a query spoken by a user, which includes a speech utterance representing a category of merchandize, a speech utterance representing a merchandize item, and a speech utterance representing a geographic location. The method includes recognizing the geographic location with a speech recognition engine based on the speech utterance representing the geographic location, recognizing the category of merchandize with the speech recognition engine based on the speech utterance representing the category of merchandize, recognizing the merchandize item with a speech recognition engine based on the speech utterance representing the merchandize item, searching a business listing for businesses within or near the recognized geographic location to select businesses responsive to the query spoken by the user, and sending to the user terminal information related to at least some of the responsive businesses.
US10026400B2	Generating dialog recommendations for chat information systems based on user interaction and environmental data Disclosed is the technology for dynamic and intelligent generation of dialog recommendations for the users of chat information systems based on multiple criteria. An example method may include receiving a speech-based user input, recognizing at least a part of the speech-based user input to generate a recognized input, and providing at least one response to the recognized input. The method may further include identifying at least one triggering event, generating at least one dialog recommendation based at least in part on the identification, and presenting the at least one dialog recommendation to a user via a user device.
US10026396B2	Frequency warping in a speech recognition system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a sequence representing an utterance, the sequence comprising a plurality of audio frames; determining one or more warping factors for each audio frame in the sequence using a warping neural network; applying, for each audio frame, the one or more warping factors for the audio frame to the audio frame to generate a respective modified audio frame, wherein the applying comprises using at least one of the warping factors to scale a respective frequency of the audio frame to a new respective frequency in the respective modified audio frame; and decoding the modified audio frames using a decoding neural network, wherein the decoding neural network is configured to output a word sequence that is a transcription of the utterance.
US10026392B2	Acoustic lens, method for producing the same, ultrasonic probe, and ultrasonic imaging device An acoustic lens for an ultrasonic probe includes a vulcanization-molded article of a rubber composition including a first silicone rubber composition having a plasticity number of 100 or less, and a second silicone rubber composition having a plasticity number of 150 or more and 300 or less.
US10026390B2	Sound absorption plate with unit structure Disclosed is a sound absorption plate with a unit structure. The sound absorption plate comprises an ultramicropore sound absorption front plate (1), a side plate (2) and a sound absorption back plate (3). Edge parts of the ultramicropore sound absorption front plate (1) are connected to the sound absorption back plate (3) through the side plate (2), thereby forming a sound absorption resonant cavity (4). The material of the ultramicropore sound absorption front plate (1) is a metal material carrying nano microspheres (5). A sound absorption metal thin film (6) carrying nano microspheres (5), parallel to the ultramicropore sound absorption front plate, is disposed inside the sound absorption resonant cavity (4). A pore size of the nano microspheres in the ultramicropore sound absorption front plate (1) and the sound absorption metal thin film (6) is 100-1000 nm. The sound absorption plate has a simple structure, simple and convenient manufacture and assembly, a wide sound absorption frequency band and a good noise reduction effect, and is suitable for ceiling and wall decoration of buildings.
US10026385B2	Smart music device and process that allows only key correct notes and scales to be played A smart music device and process provide users with an interface to play a selected song in the correct song key. The device includes a graphical user interface with areas demarcated by translucent conductive ink printed on the layer's underside. A layer of force sensor resistors (FSRs) are under the areas. Touching one of the areas closes a circuit between then conductive ink and FSR triggering a note to be played. The demarcated areas are illuminated to guide the user on scale and root node position. Metadata in memory storage includes the song key which is used during song playback to trigger assignment of the key correct scale across the FSRs and illuminate its root position of musical notes. Touching an area triggers a signal sent to a connected musical instrument to play the note.
US10026372B2	Alternating current-direct current converter, power supply board and display apparatus An AC-DC converter, power supply board and display apparatus is disclosed. The AC-DC converter comprises: an AC-DC converting circuit; a transformer, whose primary coil has a first terminal coupled to a positive output terminal of the AC-DC converting circuit, and second terminal connected to a load; a voltage monitoring circuit, whose input terminal is coupled to the first terminal of the secondary coil, and second terminal of the secondary coil connected to a ground; and a control circuit, whose input terminal is coupled to an output terminal of the voltage monitoring circuit, and output terminal coupled to the AC-DC converting circuit; wherein the voltage monitoring circuit outputs a control voltage when a voltage outputted by the first terminal of the secondary coil of the transformer exceeds a first threshold; the control circuit controls the AC-DC converting circuit to stop providing power supply when the control voltage exceeds a second threshold.
US10026366B2	Liquid crystal TV set, and method and apparatus for adjusting backlight driving voltage thereof This disclosure relates to a liquid crystal TV set, and a method and apparatus for adjusting backlight driving voltage thereof, and the method for adjusting backlight driving voltage includes: comparing backlight driving current with reference driving current to obtain voltage feedback data, while a backlight source is being driven; making overvoltage adjustment to the voltage feedback data to generate overvoltage feedback data; and adjusting backlight driving voltage using the overvoltage feedback data to overvoltage-drive the backlight source by the adjusted backlight driving voltage. The liquid crystal TV set, and the method and apparatus for adjusting backlight driving voltage thereof according to this disclosure can improve the response speed of backlight in the liquid crystal TV set while the backlight source is being driven.
US10026362B2	Organic light-emitting display panel and driving method thereof, and organic light-emitting display device The present application discloses an organic light-emitting display panel, and a driving method for the display. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a plurality of pixel driving circuits, each of the pixel driving circuits comprises a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, a scanning signal terminal, a data signal terminal, a first control signal terminal, a second control signal terminal, a potential collecting terminal, a driving module, an organic light-emitting device, a luminance control module, a data write module, and a potential collecting module. The driving module is configured to drive the organic light-emitting device to emit light under control of the control terminal based on voltage provided by the first voltage terminal. The method therefore mitigates a threshold voltage drift in advanced organic light-emitting display panel technology.
US10026353B2	Image display device having voltage selection circuit An electro-optic device includes a voltage selection circuit configured to select a higher electric potential side voltage and a lower electric potential side voltage that correspond to upper bits of data, a first output circuit configured to output a first output voltage corresponding to lower bits of data to a data line, a second output circuit having a driving capability higher than that of the first output circuit and configured to output a second output voltage corresponding to upper bits of data among the lower bits of data to the data line, and a control circuit configured to allow the first output circuit and the second output circuit to be driven during a first period, and configured to bring an output of the second output circuit into an OFF state or an almost OFF state during a second period.
US10026352B2	Method for controlling a display panel, a circuit of controlling a display panel and a display apparatus The application provides a method for controlling a display panel, a circuit of controlling a display panel and a display apparatus. The method comprise: classifying sub sets of sub pixels in a same row according to an arrangement of the gate lines, the sets of sub pixels and the multiplexers of the display panel; for each received frame of original image data, inserting gate control data according to different types of the sub sets of sub pixels, wherein a gate control data is inserted preceding the image displaying data corresponding to each sub set of sub pixels, for the image displaying data corresponding to the nth row of sub pixels in each frame of the original image data, so as to generate sets of control and display data. The source driving circuit can apply signals corresponding to the data from the generated sets of control and display data to the corresponding multiplexers by using a time sharing method, based on the generated set of control and display data, so as to perform the displaying.

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