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US10038848B2	Image blur correction device and imaging device The image blur correction device is an image blur correction device that corrects a blur of an image of a subject to be captured, and includes a movable frame, a fixed frame, a plurality of connection members, a plurality of actuators, a pair of magnets, and a magnetic body. The movable frame is displaceable along a plane orthogonal to an optical axis. The fixed frame faces the movable frame. The plurality of connection members connects the fixed frame and the movable frame to each other, and supports the movable frame so as to be displaceable. The plurality of actuators changes the position of the movable frame according to displacement of the movable frame. The pair of magnets is mounted on one of the fixed frame and the movable frame, and includes a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole. The magnetic body is mounted on the other of the fixed frame and the movable frame, and disposed to face the pair of magnets. The magnetic body has a flat surface facing the pair of magnets, the flat surface having four sides. A first side out of the four sides is located across the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole of the pair of magnets, and a second side intersecting the first side is located along one of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole of the pair of magnets. The first side is linear, and the second side has a recessed shape or a protruded shape intersecting the first side.
US10038841B1	System for streaming multiple regions deriving from a wide-angle camera A wide-angle camera emulating a PTZ camera via image data processing is used to generate a panoramic image of multiple regions for ease of viewing. A client can specify multiple regions for extraction from the panoramic image to stream to a separate server for further image processing and analysis.
US10038835B2	Image pickup device and still picture generating method An image pickup device includes an optical system, an imaging element, an image processor, an input unit, and a controller. The optical system includes a focus lens. The imaging element generates an image signal from optical information that is input via the optical system. The image processor performs a predetermined process on the image signal generated by the imaging element, and then generates moving picture data including a plurality of frame images. The input unit receives input of a designated region on an image made by a user. The controller causes the image processor to generate the moving picture data while moving a focus position of the optical system, and then extracts a still picture that is in focus on the designated region from among the plurality of frame images included in the moving picture data.
US10038833B2	Method and system for video surveillance system motor overcurrent protection The present invention provides a video surveillance system, having a video camera; a motor operable to move the video camera; and a processor monitoring a value of a signal provided to the motor, the processor terminating the signal to the motor when the monitored signal value exceeds a predetermined value for a predetermined period of time. A network may be coupled to the processor for communication of the signal termination. The processor may reinitiate a signal transmission to the motor sufficient to maintain a position of the motor after a predetermined period of time, and the processor may monitor the signal transmission and adjust at least one of a zoom setting and focus setting of the video camera based at least in part on the monitored signal.
US10038825B2	Image process apparatus for correcting a document based on correction parameter of another document and computer program therefor An image processing apparatus includes: a controller performs: acquiring first original image data generated by optically reading a first document; acquiring first corrected image data generated by executing first correction processing; calculating a feature amount indicative of a difference between the first original image data and the first corrected image data; determining a correction parameter indicative of the specific color by using the calculated feature amount; acquiring second original image data generated by optically reading a second document different from the first document, and generating second corrected image data by executing second correction processing for the second original image data, wherein the second correction processing is processing of changing the pixel value indicative of the specific color specified by using the determined correction parameter into the pixel value indicative of the color different from the specific color.
US10038821B2	Image reading apparatus that performs shading correction, method of controlling the same, and storage medium An image reading apparatus that makes it possible to reduce the influences of dirt on a white reference chart itself, stripes caused by dust, and the like, and thereby generate accurate data for shading correction. An image processor performs shading correction on image data read by a reader unit. The read image data is compared with threshold values set for each pixel, and a pixel which is out of a range of the threshold values is determined as a singular point pixel. Data of a pixel determined as a singular point pixel is interpolated from data around the singular point pixel. Data of a pixel which is not determined as a singular point pixel is adopted as valid shading correction data. An operation controller controls the number of effective sampling lines from start to termination of sampling to be performed.
US10038818B2	Local enhancement of large scanned documents Enhancing image quality of an initial full image of a document includes subdividing the initial full image of the document into a number of segments, determining at least one of the segments for enhancement, directing a user to take photographs with a smartphone to provide a separate segment image for the at least one of the segments by presenting on a screen of the smartphone a view of the document having lines superimposed thereon corresponding to the segments, and merging the separate segment image to provide an enhanced full image. The number of segments may depend upon a size of text in the initial full image and a desired height of text in the enhanced full image. The view of the document having lines superimposed thereon corresponding to the segments may provide a target to the user for photographing the at least one of the segments.
US10038812B2	Imaging apparatus, recording instruction apparatus, image recording method and recording instruction method In a digital camera, burst continuous shooting of continuously capturing a predetermined number of images by an imaging section and retaining and updating them as required is performed. When an instruction to display a live view image is provided, a live view image is generated from frame images acquired by the burst continuous shooting, and transmitted to a remote control device. In the remote control device, when a shutter operation using a touch sensor or a mechanical shutter operation is performed by an operation section, a photographing request is transmitted to the digital camera. In the digital camera, when this request is accepted, whether a live view image has been transmitted is judged. When it has been transmitted, a frame image serving as a source of the live view image at the timing of the shutter operation is extracted, and stored in a recording medium as a processed image.
US10038805B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium An information processing apparatus includes: a detector that detects a voltage of a power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected, from among a plurality of power systems to which are respectively connected a plurality of electrical devices respectively available for communication; a receiver that receives running information expressing running conditions of each of the plurality of electrical devices; and a reporting unit that uses a detection result of the detector and a reception result of the receiver to report whether or not an electrical device corresponding to the running information received by the receiver is connected to the power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected.
US10038803B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which can control to turn on/off a light emitting element depending on a sheet state on a manual sheet tray is provided. The image forming apparatus includes the manual feed tray on which the sheet is placed. The image forming apparatus is configured to be switchable between normal power mode and power saving mode. In the normal power mode, normal power is supplied. In the power saving mode, less power is consumed as compared to the power consumed in the normal power mode. The image forming apparatus includes a manual sheet feeding sensor which detects presence/absence of the sheet on the manual feed tray. The image forming apparatus includes a sheet length sensor S and a sheet length sensor L which include the light emitting element and a light receiving element to detect approximate sheet length of sheet placed on the manual feed tray in a conveying direction.
US10038797B2	Status management system, electronic apparatus, and method of communication in system A multifunction machine of a status management system includes an apparatus-side status change communication unit that transmits a status change notification to a management server when status information that is managed by the multifunction machine is changed by operating the multifunction machine, and an apparatus-side information communication unit that transmits a response to the request notification to the management server when a request notification is received from the management server. The management server of the status management system includes a server-side status change communication unit that receives a status change notification from the multifunction machine, and a server-side information communication unit that transmits a request notification to the multifunction machine and receives a response to the request notification from the multifunction machine when the server-side status change communication unit receives the status change notification.
US10038794B2	System for communicating with an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network A system for communicating with an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an intermediate node having a controller element to receive from a non IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) compliant node a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message having a calling party number and a called party number, and insert in the SIP message a request that instructs a receiving IMS-compliant node to bypass validation of the calling party number. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10038788B1	Self-learning adaptive routing system A method for self-learning adaptive routing can include receiving a contact along with a sequence of events from a customer via a graphical user interface on a web page within a browser window. A universal resource locator (“URL”) of the web page can be captured and mapped with the sequence of events to the contact. A matching routing rule can be used to route the contact to an appropriate customer service queue. An agent associated with the customer service queue can view a co-browsing preview of the customer's desktop, which the agent can use to transfer the contact to a different customer service queue. A machine learning algorithm can create a new routing rule based on the URL of the web page, the sequence of events, the co-browsing preview, the second routing, and the determination that the second agent associated with the second customer service queue resolved the contact.
US10038782B2	System and method for supporting managed call recording services The supporting of the managed call recording is used for a call between a calling party and a called party, where a network node receives an invite message that initiates the call, and it is determined that either the calling party or the called party is a managed call recording (MCR) subscriber. A conference bridge is created for the calling party, the called party, and a session initiation protocol recording server (SRS), after the call has been answered by the called party. The network node transmits instructions to play MCR announcements using the conference bridge, prior to the call being connected between the calling party and the called party, where the call is recorded by the SRS.
US10038777B2	Mobile terminal and event processing method Provided is a mobile terminal having a sensor detecting movement thereof and an event processing method. The mobile terminal includes: an orientation detector for monitoring, in response to detection of an event, movement of the mobile terminal for a preset time duration to identify an orientation of the mobile terminal; and a controller for processing the event in an operating mode corresponding to the identified orientation. As a result, the user can readily switch operating modes of the mobile terminal by changing orientations thereof.
US10038776B2	Apparatus and method for automatic call receiving and sending depending on user posture in portable terminal A method of receiving a call by recognizing a posture of a user in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes identifying whether a call reception event occurs, detecting a motion in which the user brings the portable terminal to an ear by using a posture detecting sensor, when the call reception event occurs, and connecting the call upon detecting the motion.
US10038767B2	Technologies for fabric supported sequencers in distributed architectures Technologies for using fabric supported sequencers in fabric architectures includes a network switch communicatively coupled to a plurality of computing nodes. The network switch is configured to receive an sequencer access message from one of the plurality of computing nodes that includes an identifier of a sequencing counter corresponding to a sequencer session and one or more operation parameters. The network switch is additionally configured to perform an operation on a value associated with the identifier of the sequencing counter as a function of the one or more operation parameters, increment the identifier of the sequencing counter, and associate a result of the operation with the incremented identifier of the sequencing counter. The network switch is further configured to transmit an acknowledgment of successful access to the computing node that includes the result of the operation and the incremented identifier of the sequencing counter. Other embodiments are described herein.
US10038753B2	Network-independent programming model for online processing in distributed systems Systems and methods include a distributed system that uses a declarative language to separate application logic from the network technology used to communicate. For example, in a system with a plurality of processing nodes, each processing node may include at least one processor, a networking layer for communicating with other processing nodes, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing node to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a processing plan using the networking layer and analyzing the processing plan to determine a service to perform and a number of inputs anticipated for the service. The operations may also include performing the determined service. The processing plan defines a processing tree comprising a subset of the plurality of processing nodes, the processing tree having unidirectional communication from the root to a final level of the tree.
US10038740B2	Camera-to-camera interactions, systems and methods Systems and methods of delegating media capturing functionality from one device to another are presented. A first device configured with an object recognition engine captures a media representation of an environment and identifies an object within that environment. Then based on matched object traits from a database, the engine selects a delegation rules set, and delegates certain media capturing functionality to a second device according to the selected delegation rules set.
US10038733B1	Generating a large, non-compressible data stream Generating non-compressible data streams is disclosed, including: receiving an initialization parameter; determining a constrained prime number, wherein the constrained prime number comprises a plurality of component values, wherein each of the plurality of component values comprises a prime number, wherein each of the plurality of component values is different; and generating a non-compressible sequence based at least in part on the initialization parameter and the constrained prime number.
US10038729B1	Cooperative network access One or more cooperative network servers establish connections with a plurality of access points to form a cooperative network. The plurality of access points may be operated by a plurality of different individuals. Incentives such as reciprocal usage, remuneration, and so forth may encourage participants to join the cooperative network. Data may be passed from an originating device through the access point to a datacenter, which may transfer the data to another datacenter which sends the data to another access point which ultimately provides the data to a destination device. The transfer between datacenters may use a high capacity backbone which may provide lower latency, reduced data transfer cost, and so forth.
US10038726B2	Data sensitivity based authentication and authorization Systems, devices, apparatuses, and methods of the present invention distribute authentication across multiple users. A data sensitivity model can define the sensitivity of different types of data. When an application requests access to a particular data item, the sensitivity of that data item can be determined. If the data item has a low sensitivity, access to the data item can be granted. If the data item has a high sensitivity, the system can request authentication before granting access to the data item.
US10038719B2	Single-step custom configuration of a cloud client device In one embodiment, a cloud client device identifies a configuration event. The cloud client device identifies a configuration associated with the configuration event. The cloud client device stores a first security key associated with the configuration and configures the cloud client device in accordance with the configuration.
US10038716B2	System and method for regulating barcode data injection into a running application on a smart device A system and method for regulating the injection of barcode scan data into an application running on a smart device is provided. The system includes a running application on a smart device. The running application has text fields with text field properties. The text field properties designate to either accept access or restrict access to the text fields from barcode scan data. The system further includes a keyboard buffer and a scan wedge having access to the keyboard buffer. The scan wedge is provided with means to discriminate between access and restricted access designations in the text field properties. The means to discriminate is configured to interrogate the text field properties to determine if the text field permits access to barcode scan data. The scan wedge is also configured to begin a barcode scan operation if the text field permits access to barcode scan data and to load barcode scan data into the keyboard buffer. The keyboard buffer is configured to display the barcode scan data as text in the text field of the application. The scan wedge is provided with logic to recognize patterns in barcode scan data. The scan wedge is configured to inspect the barcode scan data for regular patterns consistent with malicious attacks and if present, is configured to instruct the keyboard buffer to insert an error message in the running application.
US10038711B1	Penetration testing of a networked system Methods and systems for penetration testing of a networked system comprising a set of network-nodes by a penetration testing system (e.g. to enforce first and/or second rules) are disclosed herein. The penetration testing system comprises: (i) reconnaissance agent software module (RASM) installed on multiple nodes (each of which is a RASM-hosting node) of the networked system to be penetration-tested and (ii) a penetration testing software module (PTSM) installed on a remote computing device (RCD). Internal data from each of the RASM-hosting nodes is collected and transmitted to the RCD. Analysis of the internal data collected from multiple RASM-hosting network nodes determines a method for an attacker to compromise the networked system. The first and second rules are defined herein. Alternatively or additionally, one or more of the RASM instances are pre-installed on one or more RASM-hosting nodes before the penetration testing commences.
US10038710B2	Efficient identification of log events in enterprise threat detection A first set of log entries is identified. A plurality of log entry classes occurring in the first set of log entries is determined. Each log entry in a given log entry class has a same number, type, and ordering of components. A vector of component type identifiers is determined for each log entry class. Each identifier in a vector for a given log entry class identifies a position and type of a component included in a log entry belonging to the given log entry class. A classification tree is created using the vectors. An unclassified log entry not included in the first set of log entries is identified. A log entry class is assigned to the unclassified log entry using the classification tree to create a classified log entry. One or more security threat patterns are evaluated using the classified log entry.
US10038709B1	Computer network defense system employing multiplayer gaming functionality A computerized network defense system includes a user interface component for displaying an interactive landscape to an agent, including a graphical representation of (1) network components and interconnections within a computer network, (2) activity within the computer network, and (3) threat information associated with the activity. The activity and threat information is presented in visual association with corresponding network components and interconnections. Agent interaction with the landscape includes (a) selectively highlighting specific network components or interconnections, specific activity, and specific threat information represented on the interactive landscape, (b) causing additional more detailed information about a highlighted item to be displayed in a display element separate from the multidimensional graphical representation (e.g., pop-up box), and (c) selecting and directing use of remediation tools for remediation actions to counteract threat-associated activity. A remediation component initiates the remediation actions based on the agent's selecting and directing use of the remediation tools.
US10038706B2	Systems, devices, and methods for separating malware and background events Embodiments relate to systems, devices, and computing-implemented methods for separating malware and background events to classify malware based on traffic data by receiving the traffic data that includes malware events and background noise, converting the traffic data into a feature vector, performing a signal processing algorithm on the feature vector to separate the malware events from the background noise, where the signal processing algorithm is associated with a malware family, determining a score for the malware events using a malware classification algorithm associated with the malware family, and applying a label associated with the malware family to the traffic data based on the score to classify the traffic data. Additionally, the malware application can be contained, removed, and/or the effects of a malware application can be neutralized based on the classification.
US10038705B2	System and method for performing intrusion detection in an information handling system A method and information handling system (IHS) for identifying communication threats in an IHS. The method includes triggering a board management controller (BMC) to transmit a plurality of memory addresses identifying where a plurality of network packets received by the IHS are stored. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) within a processor receives the memory addresses of the network packets and retrieves the network packets. The network packets are analyzed by comparing at least one threat signature that is associated with undesired network behavior with the contents of the network packets. In response to the at least one threat signature matching the contents of at least one of the network packets, an intrusion alert is transmitted to the BMC.
US10038704B2	Systems and methods for correlating and distributing intrusion alert information among collaborating computer systems Systems and methods for correlating and distributing intrusion alert information among collaborating computer systems are provided. These systems and methods provide an alert correlator and an alert distributor that enable early signs of an attack to be detected and rapidly disseminated to collaborating systems. The alert correlator utilizes data structures to correlate alert detections and provide a mechanism through which threat information can be revealed to other collaborating systems. The alert distributor uses an efficient technique to group collaborating systems and then pass data between certain members of those groups according to a schedule. In this way data can be routinely distributed without generating excess traffic loads.
US10038698B2	External platform extensions in a multi-tenant environment Methods and systems are described for allowing third party developers to add extensions to a cloud service provider's software as a service (SaaS) services by editing an ‘empty’ config file according to a schema provided by the cloud service provider to form a delta file and then merging the delta file with an internal, full version of the config file. The full config file is then used to initialize and instantiate objects upon a restart of the cloud provider's services.
US10038696B1	System and method for controlling access to enterprise networks A method in an access control server of controlling access to an enterprise network includes: receiving, at the access control server from a client computing device outside the enterprise network, a request to establish a connection between the client computing device and an enterprise server in the enterprise network; at the access control server, responsive to receiving the request, obtaining a security attribute of the enterprise server from a central repository outside the enterprise network; determining, based on the security attribute, whether the enterprise server meets a predefined security threshold; and when the enterprise server does not meet the predefined security threshold, denying the request to establish a connection between the client computing device and the enterprise server.
US10038695B2	Remotely deauthenticating a user from a web-based application using a centralized login server Provided is a process including: relaying, with a server at a first domain, at least part of a plurality application-layer messages between a client web browser and one or more destination servers; determining to terminate subsequent authenticated access by the client web browser; and sending, from the server at the first domain, instructions that cause the client web browser to delete or modify an access token stored in memory of the client web browser.
US10038693B2	Facilitating secure network traffic by an application delivery controller Facilitation of secure network traffic by an application delivery controller is provided herein. In some examples, a method includes: (a) receiving a data packet with information from a client indicating that the client is a trusted source; (b) embedding in the data packet a transmission control protocol (TCP) options header, the TCP options header comprising information including at least a sequence number for a protocol connection; and (c) forwarding the embedded data packet to a server.
US10038692B2	Characteristics of security associations Authentication of a user or a wireless transmit/receive unit may be based on an obtained measure of authentication strength, which may referred to as an assurance level. For example, a user, via a WTRU, may request access to a service controlled by an access control entity (ACE). The user may be authenticated with a user authenticator and assertion function (UAAF), producing a result. A user assertion may be provided that includes the user authentication result, a user assurance level, and/or a user freshness level. The WTRU may be authenticated with a device authenticator and assertion function (DAAF), producing an associated result. A device assertion may be provided that may include the device authentication result, a device assurance level, and/or a device freshness level. The assertions may be bound together to receive access to a service or resource.
US10038691B2	Authorization of a financial transaction An iris biometric recognition module includes technology for capturing images of an iris of an eye of a person, whether the person is moving or stationary. The iris biometric recognition technology can perform an iris matching procedure for, e.g., authentication or identity purposes, by comparing a digital iris image to a reference iris image and, if at least a portion of the digital and reference iris images match, authenticating a person as authorized to conduct a financial transaction.
US10038689B1	Dynamic password generation Aspects of the present disclosure relate to dynamically generating a security challenge and corresponding password. A set of user activity data may be obtained from one or more data sources. The set of user activity data may then be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a security rating may be generated for the user activity data. The security rating may be compared to a security threshold to determine whether the set of user activity data is secure. In response to the security rating satisfying the security threshold, the security challenge and password corresponding to the security challenge may be generated based on the set of user activity data.
US10038684B2	Relationship-based authorization Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to relationship-based authorization. In general, data characterizing a request for authorization to a computer-based resource is received, and the authorization may be provided based on one or more relationships of a requesting principal. A determination may be made as to whether a requesting principal is authorized, which may include determining whether the requesting user has a relationship with a principal that has management rights of the computer-based resource and determining whether the relationship allows for an access, such as a use of the computer-based resource, if the requesting principal has a relationship with the other principal. If there is no such relationship, a determination may be made as to whether an organization of the requesting principal has a relationship with the other principal that allows for the access.
US10038675B2	Storing decrypted body of message and key used to encrypt and decrypt body of message A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system to at least receive a message, the message including a header, an encrypted symmetric key, and an encrypted body, decrypt the encrypted symmetric key using a private key to generate a decrypted symmetric key, decrypt the encrypted body using the decrypted symmetric key to generate a decrypted body, and store the header, the decrypted symmetric key, and the decrypted body in long-term storage.
US10038669B2	Path control system, control device, and path control method To provide a path control system, a control device and a path control method that can achieve reduction of the load on a gateway device, there are included a communication device, a communication device, a security device that provides a security feature to data transmitted and received between the communication device and the communication device, and a path control device that selects one of a first path through the security device and a second path not through the security device as a communication path of the data based on a path information table where an attribute of the data and a communication path between the communication device and the communication device are associated.
US10038667B2	Method and system of authentication and OTA registration of a new user without a SIM card in multi-operator mobile telephony In a preferred aspect of the present invention there is disclosed method of authentication and over-the-air (OTA) registration of a new user without a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, comprising the steps of transmitting a set of first time registration parameters to a selected service provider by a user device. In response the user device receives a notification to initiate a captive environment for the new user registration. The service provider is provided with a set of temporary session parameters and a temporary key which then validates a set of registration parameters provided by the user. Subsequently storing, at the user device, a set of permanent user profile parameters in a user profile module.
US10038664B2	Terminal status subscription method, apparatus, and system A terminal status subscription method, apparatus, and system. The method includes receiving a notification message sent by a presence server serving a first terminal, acquiring identifiers of N terminals according to the notification message, sending N second subscription messages to a presence server separately serving the N terminals, to separately subscribe to status of the N terminals, receiving a status change notification message that is sent by a presence server serving a second terminal, and sending, according to the status change notification message, a publish message to the presence server serving the first terminal such that the presence server serving the first terminal notifies status of the second terminal of the first terminal, and hence subscription does not need to be separately performed such that subscription to status of multiple terminals of a user is implemented, and user operation complexity is reduced.
US10038658B2	Communication streams Embodiments described herein organize and percolate important messaging and information to the top of a communications pile, and create a high ratio of front-and-center communication versus chatter communication. This is analogous to creating a high signal-to-noise ratio in signal communications. Thus, embodiments described herein raise the desired signal level high above the noise level to obtain a visual at-a-glance level of communication with reduced clutter or no clutter.
US10038656B2	Systems and methods for image sharing Systems and methods are provided for image sharing. For example, a terminal sends to a server a conversation-processing request to request to release a target conversation message from a current user of a messaging application to a conversation group; the server receives the conversation-processing request, acquires the target conversation message from the conversation-processing request, determines whether the target conversation message includes a first image; in response to the target conversation message including a first image, the server stores the first image in a shared album corresponding to the conversation group and forward the target conversation message to members of the conversation group.
US10038653B2	Visual editor for electronic mail A computer-implemented method is provided for generating at least one custom email message based, at least in part, on input from a user of a computer system, the computer system having a display. The method comprises acts of presenting, to the user in the display of the computer system, an editor interface displaying an initial approximation of an email message comprising a plurality of content blocks; accepting, through the editor interface, at least one customization of at least one of a content of at least one of the plurality of content blocks and a layout of the plurality of content blocks; and displaying through the editor interface a customized approximation of the email message based, at least in part, on the initial approximation of the email message and the at least one customization.
US10038650B2	System and method for tunnel stitching transport A first network element (NE) implemented as a network virtualization edge (NVE) includes a receiver configured to receive a packet comprising a destination address, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to obtain a tunnel identifier of an overlay tunnel that communicatively couples a second NE to a third NE on an overlay path toward the destination address, add the tunnel identifier to an encapsulation header of the packet, and add an address of the second NE to an outer header of the packet, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the packet to the second NE, wherein the packet is forwarded from the second NE to the third NE via the overlay tunnel identified by the tunnel identifier.
US10038649B2	Packet generation and injection The present disclosure is related to packet generation and injection. An example testing system for packet generation and injection can include a packet generation and injection apparatus connected to a host. The packet generation and injection apparatus may be configured to cause a plurality of packets, each having a different source address, to be generated at the host, cause the plurality of packets to be injected through a network interface of the host. The example testing system may include a syslog server connected to the host. The syslog server may be configured to ingest and process the plurality of packets.
US10038646B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring port range resource, and method and apparatus for allocating port range resource Provided are a method and apparatus for acquiring a port range resource, and method and apparatus for allocating a port range resource. In the method, a first Router Solicitation (RS) message is sent to a server-end device, wherein information carried in the first RS message includes at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) address multiplexing request and a port range resource allocation request; and a Router Advertisement (RA) message from the server-end device is received, wherein information carried in the RA message includes: a port range resource allocated according to the IP address multiplexing request and/or according to the port range resource allocation request. By virtue of the technical solution, an Address Plus Port (A+P) technology can be applied to an application scenario where stateless configuration of an Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address is performed via Neighbour Discovery (ND), thereby expanding the application range of the A+P technology.
US10038645B2	System and method for portable partitions in a multitenant application server environment In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing portable partitions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system enables a partition to be exported from first or source domain (e.g., a test domain), and imported into another second or target domain (e.g., a production domain). During creation or export of a partition archive, the partition archive is created which includes a partition configuration, resource group or resource group template information, and optionally application binaries. The partition archive can also include an interface that allows access to exportable or configurable values associated with the partition. During deployment or import of the partition archive to the target domain, the information in the partition archive, including the exportable or configurable values associated with the partition, are used to configure the partition for use in the target domain.
US10038640B2	Managing state for updates to load balancers of an auto scaling group A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scaling groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scaling group may be associated with one or more load balancers configured to direct traffic to the computing instances. Furthermore, customers of the computing resource service provider may add or remove load balancer from the auto-scaling groups. The computing resource service provider may track a state of the load balancer in a database in order to enable efficient addition and removal of load balancers to auto-scale groups.
US10038631B1	Traffic on-boarding for acceleration through out-of-band security authenticators A traffic on-boarding method is operative at an acceleration server of an overlay network. It begins at the acceleration server when that server receives an assertion generated by an identity provider (IdP), the IdP having generated the assertion upon receiving an authentication request from a service provider (SP), the SP having generated the authentication request upon receiving from a client a request for a protected resource. The acceleration server receives the assertion and forwards it to the SP, which verifies the assertion and returns to the acceleration server a token, together with the protected resource. The acceleration server then returns a response to the requesting client that includes a version of the protected resource that points back to the acceleration server and not the SP. When the acceleration server then receives an additional request from the client, the acceleration server interacts with the service provider using an overlay network optimization.
US10038627B2	Selective rule management based on traffic visibility in a tunnel One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a storage device, a rule management module, an inner packet module, and a packet processor. During operation, the rule management module obtains a rule associated with a data flow within tunnel encapsulation of a tunnel. This rule indicates how the flow is to be processed at the switch. The rule management module then applies an initial rule to a respective line card of the switch. The initial rule is derived from a virtual network identifier, which is associated with the tunnel, of the obtained rule. The inner packet module determines that a first inner packet, which is encapsulated with a first encapsulation header, belongs to the flow without decapsulating the first encapsulation header. The rule management module applies the obtained rule to a line card associated with an ingress port of the encapsulated first inner packet.
US10038626B2	Multipath routing in a distributed load balancer A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer nodes. The router exposes a public IP address and the load balancer nodes all advertise the same public IP address to the router. The router may implement a per-flow hashed multipath routing technique, for example an equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing technique, to distribute the flows across the load balancer nodes. Thus, the multiple load balancer nodes may service a single public endpoint. The load balancer nodes may advertise to the router according to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Rather than advertising itself, however, a load balancer node may be advertised to the router by one or more neighbor load balancer nodes; the neighbor nodes may terminate the BGP sessions with the router in response to determining that the load balancer node has failed.
US10038625B2	Optimizing bidirectional traffic flows In one embodiment, a device in a network detects a bidirectional traffic flow along a primary path in the network. The device determines that a self-interference condition exists along the primary path. The device selects an alternate path in the network. The device causes the traffic flow to use the primary path for packets of the traffic flow sent in a first direction and to use the alternate path for packets of the traffic flow send in a second direction that is opposite that of the first direction.
US10038622B2	Inline processing of learn actions in a virtual switch Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance inline processing of data packets by a virtual switch. In at least one implementation, a virtual switch receives a data packet and initiates a flow process with a plurality of flow operations on the data packet. In a flow operation of the plurality of flow operations, the virtual switch will determine whether the data packet qualifies for a learn action and, if the packet fails to qualify, forwards the data packet to a next flow operation in the plurality of flow operations, and if the packet does qualify, applies the learn action and forwards the data packet to a next flow operation.
US10038608B2	Leapfrog communications in a TSCH network In one embodiment, a network node monitors communications between a sender node and an intermediary receiver node during a set of time slots of a channel hopping schedule. The sender node, intermediary receiver node, and a final destination node for the communications may all be located along a primary communication path in the network. The network node stores a copy of one of the communications sent from the sender node to the intermediary receiver node during a particular time slot in the set of time slots. The network node forwards the copy of the communication to a listener node configured to monitor communications between the intermediary receiver node and another node located along the primary communication path. The intermediary receiver node is also configured to monitor communications between the network node and the listener node.
US10038599B2	Techniques for guaranteeing bandwidth with aggregate traffic Methods, systems, and apparatus guarantee bandwidth for a network transaction. A network is logically organized as a tree having a plurality of nodes. Each node can guarantee service for a network transaction through the network. Each node monitors its traffic and reserves predefined amounts of unused bandwidth with its adjacent node. If a particular node needs additional bandwidth, that node borrows the bandwidth from its adjacent node.
US10038586B2	Method and system for preamble detection in a baseband modulated digital communication system According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method in a digital communication system comprising, receiving a first data packet comprising a set of preamble bits for transmission, selecting a first modulation parameter in relation with a first bit sequence property of the first data packet, modulating a carrier signal with the first modulation parameter to generate a first baseband signal embedding information in the data packet, receiving a second baseband signal at a receiver, performing correlation of the second baseband signal and a reference baseband signal to generate a correlation result and demodulating the second baseband signal to form a received bits when the correlation result peaks above a threshold value.
US10038583B2	Method and devices for transmitting and receiving multi-carrier symbols A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting time/frequency frames. The method includes: framing and mapping data symbols as input to a multi-carrier multiplexer; transforming pilots with multiple-state data modulation known to a receiver of the frames, the pilot modulation state being selected as a function of data that is not known to the receiver and of coding rules that are known to the receiver; and inserting previously-transformed pilots in distributed manner into the mapped frame.
US10038580B2	Multi-carrier signal transmitter and multi-carrier signal receiver A multi-carrier signal transmission apparatus transmits a transmission stream including at least preamble information necessary for synchronizing a transmission signal and data information as a multi-carrier signal. A modulator generates a transmission symbol stream by modulating an arrangement of the preamble information and the data information. A symbol expanding portion expands the transmission symbol stream on a frequency axis by generating a complex conjugate value of at least one part of the preamble information symmetrically on the frequency axis.
US10038578B2	Multi-modulation transmitter, receiver and methods for handling multi-modulation in wireless communication systems A multi-modulation transmitter configured to transmit a multicarrier signal to multiple different receivers. At least one of the receivers is a receiver using a modulation scheme other than Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM). The multi-modulation transmitter includes a data mapping unit configured to map data targeting the different receivers to mutually orthogonal subcarrier signals, in accordance with the respective modulation schemes of the different receivers. An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform unit is configured to transform the mutually orthogonal subcarrier signals to a multicarrier signal in the time domain. A cyclic prefix unit is configured to determine a Cyclic Prefix length of the multicarrier signal based on a symbol rate of the receiver using a modulation scheme other than OFDM, and to insert the determined Cyclic Prefix in the multicarrier signal. A radio unit is configured to transmit the multicarrier signal to the multiple different receivers.
US10038573B2	Apparatus and methods for adaptive data rate communication in a forward-scatter radio system A transmitter/receiver apparatus and method provide adaptive data rate fading compensation that utilize dual-polarization transmissions at a constant modulation-symbol rate over a forward-scatter radio link and that employ adaptive receiver techniques that operate efficiently at the noisy uncoded signal-to-noise ratio threshold of present-day forward-error correction codes over the range of multipath widths in such forward-scatter environments. The dual-polarization transmissions support both dual transmission and dual diversity configurations. The adaptive receiver techniques include adaptive channel matched filtering and adaptive equalizing at the modulation-symbol rate.
US10038572B1	Programmable tunnel creation for hardware-based packet processing A packet processor may implement programmable tunnel creation. A network packet may be received at a packet processor. A tunneling protocol may be identified for the network packet. The packet processor may access one or more memories to obtain tunnel header data that includes a tunnel header and field identifiers which indicate respective fields in the tunnel header that are determined based on data in the network packet. The tunnel header data may have been stored in the one or more memories prior to receiving the network packet. The network packet may be modified to insert the tunnel header into the network packet including the respective fields indicated by the field identifiers. The modified packet may then be transmitted.
US10038563B2	Systems and methods for secure detokenization A method for requesting a credential associated with token in a multiple token layer environment is disclosed. A tokenization certificate serves to validate the identity of a credential requestor and provide information about the requestor's authorization for de-tokenizing a token. Also, a public key in the tokenization certificate is used to encrypt the credential for secure transmission to the requestor.
US10038561B2	Method and device for generating digital signature Disclosed are a method and device for generating a digital signature. The method comprises: a device generating a digital signature parameter r that meets an effective determining condition; generating a digital signature parameter s according to the following formula s=((1+dA)−1·(r+k)−r)mod n, by using a private key dA, a random number k, r, and an elliptic curve parameter n, a value range of k being [1, n−1]; determining if the generated s is 0; if s is 0, regenerating r that meets the effective determining condition, and regenerating s by using dA, the regenerated k with the value range of [1, n−1] and the regenerated r and n, until s is not 0; converting data types of r and s that is not 0 into byte strings, to obtain a digital signature (r, s). According to the technical solutions provided by embodiments of this application, a digital signature parameter s is obtained by using a simplified calculation formula, and the number of times that big integers are calculated can be reduced, so that the calculation efficiency of generating a digital signature based on an SM2 digital signature generation algorithm is improved.
US10038560B2	Method for validating a cryptographic parameter and corresponding device An electronic device is proposed, which is configured to receive at least one cryptographic parameter and validate the at least one cryptographic parameter. The electronic device is is configured to validating the parameter by determining an imprint from a one-way function and from at least the cryptographic parameter; detecting at least one part of the imprint in a dedicated memory zone of the electronic device, and delivering a piece of information on validation should there be effective detection.
US10038557B2	Secure object access A method of a security system to provide access by a requester to an encrypted data object stored in an object store, the requester being authenticated by the object store, the method comprising: receiving, from the object store: the encrypted object having associated an object identifier; and an identifier of the requester; deriving a first cryptographic key to decrypt the object; deriving a second cryptographic key; re-encrypting the object based on the second key and communicating the re-encrypted object to the requester; wherein each of the first and second keys are based on the object identifier, the requester identifier and a secret key portion generated by the security system, the secret key portion being different for each of the first and second keys, the method further comprising: in response to a second authentication of the requester by the security system, communicating the secret key portion for the second key to the requester.
US10038554B2	Method, apparatus, and system for identity authentication An identity authentication method for a quantum key distribution process includes selecting, by a sender, preparation bases of an identity authentication bit string in accordance with a preset basis vector selection rule; sending, by a sender, quantum states of the identity authentication bit string and quantum states of a randomly generated key bit string by using different wavelengths. The identity authentication bit string is interleaved in the key bit string at a random position and with a random length. The method further includes measuring, by a receiver, the received quantum states in the quantum state information in accordance with the different wavelengths and measurement bases selected according to the preset basis vector selection rule to obtain identity authentication information from the measurement of the identity authentication bit string; and determining, by the receiver, whether the identity authentication information obtained through the measurement corresponds with the preset basis vector selection rule.
US10038552B2	Embedded security architecture for process control systems An apparatus includes a first distributed control system (DCS) node. The first DCS includes at least one interface configured to communicate, over a network, with a second DCS node. The first DCS node also includes at least one processing device. The processing device is configured to exchange a security association policy with the second DCS node. The processing device is also configured to exchange public keys with the second DCS node using the security association policy. The processing device is also configured to send a public key of the second DCS node to a field programmable gate array of the first DCS node. The processing device is also configured to receive a shared secret from the field programmable gate array. The processing device is also configured to generate a hash of a message using the shared secret.
US10038542B2	Method and apparatus for allocating and signaling ACK/NACK resources in a wireless communication system Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving a physical downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. The physical downlink control channel is received. The physical downlink control channel is decoded. A scheduling type is determined using scheduling type information in the physical downlink control channel. Scheduling information is determined for a data channel according to the scheduling type.
US10038540B2	Short training field for WiFi A first training field is generated for a preamble of an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) data unit for transmission via a communication channel according to a first communication protocol. The first training field: i) conforms to a second communication protocol, and ii) has a first periodicity. A second training field is generated for the preamble. The second training field: i) conforms to the first communication protocol, and ii) has a second periodicity that corresponds to a selected transmission mode of the communication channel. The first training field is modulated using a first OFDM tone spacing, and the second training field is modulated using a second OFDM tone spacing, where the second tone spacing is narrower than the first tone spacing. The preamble is generated i) to include the second training field after the first training field, and ii) to indicate the selected transmission mode.
US10038538B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using plurality of carriers in mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A communication method of a User Equipment (UE) in a Dual Connectivity (DC)-based mobile communication system in which a Master Cell Group (MCG) and at least one Secondary Cell Group (SCG) are configured is provided. The method includes receiving measurement gap configuration information relating to a measurement gap used to periodically measure at least one serving cell, determining a first sub-frame included in the measurement gap using a System Frame Number (SFN) of the MCG and the received measurement gap configuration information, and performing a measurement on the at least one serving cell during at least one measurement gap sub-frame determined based on the determined first sub-frame.
US10038537B2	Common search space in secondary ENBS A method is provided for receiving, at a receiving device, a control information message from a transmitting device. An example method includes determining at a user equipment (UE) a status of the UE and monitoring at the UE based on the status either a common search space (CSS) of a cell or a UE-specific search space (USS) of the cell. The cell is a cell of a secondary eNodeB for communicating with the UE. The method may further include monitoring a CSS and a USS of a cell of a master eNodeB (MeNB) simultaneously while monitoring either the CSS or the USS of the cell of the secondary eNodeB. The status may be a status of the UE with respect to a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure with the cell.
US10038531B2	Method of channel access in wireless local area network and apparatus for the same A method for channel access in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes: transmitting, a plurality of Request To Send (RTS) frames over a plurality of subchannels to a receiver, each RTS frame being transmitted over each of the plurality of subchannels; receiving at least one Clear To Send (CTS) frame over at least one subchannel among the plurality of subchannels from the receiver; each CTS frame being transmitted over each of the at least one subchannel, transmitting a data unit to the receiver. The data unit includes at least one data frame. The at least one data frame is transmitted over at least one selected subchannel among the at least one subchannel, each data frame being transmitted over each selected subchannel.
US10038524B2	Coordinated set selecting method and device Disclosed are a coordinated set selecting method and device, which are applicable to a wireless communication system. The coordinated set selecting method comprises the following steps: determining a transmission manner adopted by a wireless communication system, the transmission manner being joint processing or coordinated scheduling/beamforming; and, directed to the transmission manner adopted by the wireless communication system, selecting a coordinated set according to a coordinated set selecting mechanism adapting to the transmission manner. According to the technical solution of the present invention, by considering transmission characteristics of different transmission manners, a reasonable coordinated set is selected to perform coordinated multi-point transmission.
US10038515B2	Optical communication device, optical communication system and optical transmission method [Problem] To provide an optical communication device and the like with which the optical signals output by multiple light output units can be set with an accurate wavelength interval.[Solution] An optical communication device equipped with: multiple light output units that output optical signals of mutually different wavelengths; a multiplexing unit that outputs a wavelength-multiplexed signal by multiplexing the multiple optical signals output from the multiple light output units; a reference light output unit that outputs reference light serving as a reference; a wavelength generation unit that, on the basis of the reference light, outputs multiple light beams having a wavelength interval in accordance with a prescribed frequency; and a wavelength control unit that controls the wavelength of the optical signals output by the light output units in accordance with the interference component between the wavelength-multiplexed signal and light with the wavelength of at least one of the multiple light beams.
US10038506B2	Single-chip transceiver with electronic dispersion compensation for coherent optical channels A transceiver for fiber optic communications. The transceiver can include a transmitter module having a transmitter host interface configured to receive an input host signal; a transmitter framer configured to frame the input host signal and to generate a framed host signal; and a transmitter coder configured to encode the framed host signal to generate an encoded host signal for transmission over a communication channel. The transceiver can also include a receiver module having a bulk chromatic dispersion, fiber length estimation, and coarse carrier recovery circuit configured to equalize a digital input ingress signal to generate an equalized ingress signal; a receiver framer configured to frame the equalized ingress signal to generate a framed ingress signal; and a receiver host interface configured to output the framed ingress signal. The receiver host interface is compatible with a framing protocol of the receiver framer.
US10038493B2	Internet protocol low noise block front end architecture Provided is a packet network adapter operable to receive a satellite intermediate frequency (IF) signal and determine whether the satellite IF signal includes DVB content based upon a network client request. When the satellite IF signal includes the requested DVB content, the satellite network adapter produces packetized data for delivery of the digital content to a network client or clients based upon the network client request.
US10038489B2	System and method for adaptive demodulation of cellular device communications Systems and methods for adaptive demodulation of cellular device communications signals are provided. Cellular communications over a Long Term Evolution network can involve determining a demodulations scheme based on a service cell transmission mode, an interfering cell transmission mode, a modulation order (QAM) of interferer and an interference-to-noise ratio of cellular communications signals.
US10038487B2	CSI feedback method and apparatus in large scale antenna system The present invention relates to a channel state information (CSI) feedback method and apparatus in a large-quantity antenna system. An embodiment provides a method used in a UE of a large scale antenna system, including: detecting a downlink channel; determining, according to a multipath propagation model, a channel response of a first number of strong propagation paths, where the channel response of each propagation path is determined as a matrix related to the following time-varying parameters: an arrival direction, time to arrive, and a path amplitude; and feeding back the first number and indication information of the time-varying parameters of the first number of strong propagation paths. By using the sparsity of channels of the large-quantity antenna system, the present invention reduces a feedback payload and maintains at least equal system performance.
US10038484B2	Systems and methods for enhanced MBMS with MIMO support Systems and methods use multiple spatial layers for physical multicast channel transmission. Certain embodiments introduce additional multimedia broadcast multicast service reference signals that support more than one antenna ports for multicast broadcast single frequency network transmissions. To reduce channel estimation complexity due to the multicast broadcast single frequency network reference signal design, resource elements of the multicast broadcast single frequency network reference signals may have a nested structure. To assist modulation and coding scheme selection, a user according to certain embodiments also independently reports block error rate measurements for each spatial layer of the multicast channel.
US10038481B2	Multi-antenna transmission method, terminal and base station Disclosed are a multi-antenna transmission method, a terminal and a base station, wherein, an eNB sends a UE a SRS transmission mode including new SRS transmission port information and/or a signaling for instructing the UE to perform antenna group alternate transmission as well as a control signaling required by the SRS transmission mode; the UE transmits a SRS using the abovementioned SRS transmission mode, and the eNB estimates a channel information according to the SRS and calculates and transmits a precoding matrix.
US10038477B2	Combined active and passive high-power RF protection circuit An electronic system comprising: 1) an antenna; 2) a transmission line coupled to the antenna; 3) RF electronics circuitry coupled to the transmission line that is sensitive to a high frequency EMI/RF signal on the transmission line; and 4) a protection circuit comprising passive mode circuitry operational when the electronic system is powered off and active mode circuitry operational when the electronic system is powered on.
US10038471B2	Method and apparatus for canceling self-interference There are provided a method and an apparatus for performing a self-interference cancellation by determining a filter coefficient of an analog filter operated in an analog domain; and canceling self-interference generated in a received signal received by the node by a transmitted signal transmitted from the node, based on the filter coefficient.
US10038470B2	Intelligent socket and intelligent system The invention relates to network communication safety, and provides an intelligent socket and an intelligent system. The intelligent socket includes a first control module, and a second control module connected with the first control module. The first control module is configured to receive a data signal, transcode the received data signal, and transmit the transcoded data signal. The second control module is configured to receive a data signal, modulate the data signal, and transmit the modulated data signal. The intelligent socket is configured to achieve communication between a control terminal and a controlled terminal and achieve data transmission, demodulation, transcoding and other functions, thereby reducing the burden on the control terminal, improving the intelligence level of the intelligent socket to a certain extent, and bringing more convenience to users.
US10038466B2	Electronic device including near field communication device and mobile system having the same A mobile system includes an electronic device and a flip cover device. The electronic device communicates with an external device through a near field communication (NFC) scheme. The flip cover device includes a back side cover, which is installed on a back surface of the electronic device to surround the back surface of the electronic device, a front side cover, which selectively covers a front surface of the electronic device and includes a display module, and a connector device, which connects the back side cover and the front side cover. The flip cover device receives power and information data from the electronic device through a first electromagnetic wave emitted from the electronic device and displays the information data on the display module using the power.
US10038460B2	Wireless communication device using time-variant antenna module Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, and systems related to a wireless communication device using time-variant antenna. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10038459B2	Network control device A network control device includes a communicator performing communications via a transmission line at a preset transmission speed in a wake-up mode, a low frequency attenuator attenuating a low frequency component in a transmission signal having a low transmission speed that is lower than the preset transmission speed at a position between the transmission line and the communicator to receive and transmit the transmission signal to and from the communicator, and a wake-up controller receiving and transmitting a wake-up signal for transitioning from a sleep mode to the wake-up mode, at a transmission line side position of the low frequency attenuator, where the wake-up signal at a low frequency band is subject to attenuation by the low frequency attenuator, for a selective wake-up of a network node via the transmission line for network communications.
US10038458B2	Reflection-based radio-frequency multiplexers A radio frequency multiplexer, which supports a plurality of frequency bands, comprises a common node, a plurality of single band nodes, and a plurality of parallel branches. Each of the plurality of parallel branches is designated to one of the plurality of frequency bands and connects the common node and one of the plurality of single band nodes. A particular branch of the parallel branches may comprises a filter for a desired frequency band that passes through the particular branch, a quadrature hybrid coupler coupled to the filter, and a set of one or more other filters for one or more other frequency bands in the plurality of frequency bands respectively. The set of one or more other filters is coupled to the quadrature hybrid coupler for rejecting the one or more other frequency bands by the particular branch.
US10038455B2	Signal modulation for radiofrequency communications A signal modulation device comprising: an input for receiving a complex input signal (106) comprising an in-phase component signal and a quadrature-phase component signal, a sigma-delta modulator (110) for modulating the complex input signal at an oversampling clock rate (F1) into an intermediary signal (112), a numerical oscillator (60) for generating a phase signal (61) oscillating at a selected carrier frequency (FC), wherein the phase signal takes a finite number of quantized states, and a symbol mapping table (114) comprising a predefined quantized symbol for each quantized complex state of the intermediary signal and each quantized state of the phase signal, and operates at each oversampling clock period (F1) to select a quantized symbol (116) as a function of a current quantized complex state of the intermediary signal (112) and a current quantized state of the phase signal (61).
US10038446B2	Reliability of physical unclonable function circuits Techniques and circuits are disclosed for obtaining a physical unclonable function (PUF) circuit that is configured to provide, during a first operational mode, an output signal that is dependent on an electric characteristic of the PUF circuit. Techniques and circuits described herein can cause the PUF circuit to enter a second operational mode by applying a stress signal to the PUF circuit that changes a value of the electric characteristic relative to another value of the electric characteristic during the first operational mode of the PUF circuit; and adjusting, based on changing the absolute value of the first electric characteristic, a bias magnitude of the output signal relative to another bias magnitude of the output signal during the first operational mode of the PUF circuit.
US10038444B2	Reconfigurable system-on-chip and related methods A circuit includes combinational circuit and sequential circuit elements coupled thereto. The circuit includes a multiplexor coupled to the combinational and sequential circuit elements, and a system register is coupled to the multiplexor. At least one portion of the combinational and sequential circuit elements is configured to selectively switch to operate as a random access memory.
US10038442B2	Circuit arrangement for controlling a transistor A circuit arrangement for controlling a transistor with an insulated gate, a gate driver for generating a driver signal, and a capacitor parallel to the gate-source path of the transistor, wherein the gate driver is designed for generating a driver signal greater than or equal to zero volts, an inductor is provided for forming a resonant circuit with the capacitor, and a switching element is provided in the resonant circuit, which is designed for interrupting the resonant circuit after recharging the capacitor. The part of the circuit arrangement downstream of the gate driver is designed for exclusive voltage supply using the driver signal of the gate driver, and the switching element is formed by an additional transistor, a first freewheeling diode is arranged parallel to the switching element, and the inductor of the resonant circuit is arranged between the additional transistor and the gate of the transistor.
US10038439B2	Control circuit and control method for turning on a power semiconductor switch A control circuit for turning on a power semiconductor switch includes an input that receives a signal characterizing a switch-on behavior of the power semiconductor switch. A phase detection circuit detects two or more phases of the switch-on behavior of the power semiconductor switch in response to the signal that characterizes the switch-on behavior of the power semiconductor switch. The phase detection circuit is coupled to generate a phase signal that indicates which of the two or more phases the power semiconductor switch is currently running through. A variable current source is coupled to supply a current with a variable level to a control input of the power semiconductor switch to switch on the power semiconductor switch. The control circuit is coupled to control the variable current source in a closed control loop in response to the signal that characterizes the switch-on behavior of the power semiconductor switch.
US10038434B2	Soft shutdown modular circuitry for power semiconductor switches Circuitry for soft shutdown of a power switch and a power converters that includes circuitry for soft shutdown are described. In one aspect, circuitry for soft shutdown of a power switch includes a sense input to be coupled to a power switch receive a signal representative of current passing through the power switch, a comparator to compare the signal with an overcurrent threshold indicative of an overcurrent condition of the power switch and to output a triggering signal in response to the comparison indicating the overcurrent condition, and a gating transistor to be coupled to a control terminal of the power switch, the gating transistor configured to divert a portion of a drive signal away from the control terminal of the power switch in response to the triggering signal.
US10038425B1	Sum of differences filter Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a low power filter. A low power filter may generate a reference sum from a reference vector in order to reduce the number of additions which are needed to filter an input sample vector. The reference sum may be used as the starting point for filtering the input sample vector. Then, each input sample of the input sample vector may be compared to a corresponding reference vector sample. If an input sample is different from the corresponding reference vector sample, a correction value based on the corresponding filter coefficient value may be added or subtracted from the reference sum. After all input samples have been compared to corresponding reference vector values and all correction values applied to the reference sum, the modified reference sum may be the output of the filter.
US10038412B2	Signal amplification processing method and apparatus The application relates to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a signal amplification processing method and apparatus. The method includes setting multiple groups of parameter values for a signal decomposition parameter group, separately performing signal amplification processing based on each group of parameter values, obtaining a power amplification efficiency corresponding to each group of parameter values, obtaining a group of parameter values corresponding to a maximum power amplification efficiency in the power amplification efficiency corresponding to each group of parameter values, and setting the group of parameter values corresponding to the maximum power amplification efficiency as parameter values of the signal decomposition parameter group. Thus, the power amplification efficiency may be improved.
US10038402B2	Semiconductor device and electronic device An oscillator capable of quick startup is provided. A transistor is provided between an output terminal of a certain stage inverter and an input terminal of the following stage inverter included in the voltage controlled oscillator. With the use of the on resistance of the transistor, the oscillation frequency of the clock signal is controlled. While supply of the power supply voltage is stopped, a signal that is input to the input terminal of the inverter just before supply of the power supply voltage is stopped is stored by turning off the transistor. This operation makes it possible to immediately output a clock signal that has the same frequency as that before supply of the power supply voltage is stopped at the time when the power supply voltage is supplied again.
US10038400B2	Floating structures for floating photovoltaic system and method for connecting floating structures Floating structures for a floating photovoltaic system fixed to fixing blocks or fixing means fixed to the bottom of water, each floating structure having one or a plurality of solar modules disposed thereon, the floating structures comprising: a plurality of ropes or a plurality of connection members having fixing hooks for connecting the floating structures with each other so as to restrain the movements of the floating structures; and connecting and fixing parts disposed below the surface of water under the floating structures in such a manner as to be connected to the ropes or the connection members having the fixing hooks, whereby the ropes or the connection members having the fixing hooks are located below the surface of water to restrain the movements of the floating structures.
US10038396B2	Motor control device and motor drive device A sampling period of information according to a load state of an alternating-current motor is controlled so as to be variable with respect to a carrier period of a PWM circuit, and a predetermined arithmetic operation for aggregating information sampled in one period of the carrier period is performed in a separate arithmetic circuit from a CPU. Thereby, in a situation where the rotation of the alternating-current motor becomes too fast with respect to the carrier period, motor rotation control for suppressing a sudden fluctuation of a motor load can be performed by faster reaction while suppressing an increase in an arithmetic control load of a CPU.
US10038386B2	Magnetron power supply A power supply for a magnetron has a high voltage converter, a microprocessor and a resistor. The high voltage converter comprises an integrated circuit oscillator, switching transistors, an inductance L1, a transformer and a rectifier. A voltage source supplies an augmented DC voltage to the converter. An operational amplifier, arranged as an error signal magnifier with an integrating capacitor and a resistor, compares a control signal from the microprocessor and the resistor and supplies an output signal to the oscillator. The oscillator controls the switching transistors, the output of which is connected to the inductance and the primary winding of the transformer. The secondary winding of the transformer is connected to half bridge diodes and capacitors, which provide DC current from the transformer to the magnetron.
US10038384B2	Control circuit for an inverter with small input capacitor A control circuit for an inverter according to the present invention comprises a PWM circuit and a controller. The PWM circuit generates switching signals in accordance with a PWM control signal. The switching signals are coupled to switch a transformer through transistors for generating an output of the inverter. The controller is coupled to receive a command signal and an input signal for generating the PWM control signal. The input signal is correlated to an input voltage waveform of the inverter. The command signal is utilized to determine a power level of the output of the inverter. The advantages of the control circuit are lower cost, small size, good power factor and higher reliability.
US10038383B2	Low forward voltage rectifier using capacitive current splitting A Low Forward Voltage Rectifier (LFVR) circuit includes a bipolar transistor, a parallel diode, and a capacitive current splitting network. The LFVR circuit, when it is performing a rectifying function, conducts the forward current from a first node to a second node provided that the voltage from the first node to the second node is adequately positive. The capacitive current splitting network causes a portion of the forward current to be a base current of the bipolar transistor, thereby biasing the transistor so that the forward current experiences a low forward voltage drop across the transistor. The LFVR circuit sees use in as a rectifier in many different types of switching power converters, including in flyback, Cuk, SEPIC, boost, buck-boost, PFC, half-bridge resonant, and full-bridge resonant converters. Due to the low forward voltage drop across the LFVR, converter efficiency is improved.
US10038380B2	Apparatus for controlling insulating gate-type semiconductor element, and power conversion apparatus using apparatus for controlling insulating gate-type semiconductor element An apparatus is adapted to drive an insulating gate-type semiconductor element by a first control voltage and a second control voltage, that are supplied to a first insulating gate and a second insulating gate, respectively, and includes a first noise filter inputting a signal about current that passes through the insulating gate-type semiconductor element, a first comparator making a comparison between an output signal of the first noise filter and a first reference signal and outputting a first comparison result, a first control voltage output circuit, and a second control voltage output circuit, the second control voltage output circuit being adapted to reduce the second control voltage when it is determined from the first comparison result that overcurrent passes through the insulating gate-type semiconductor element, the first control voltage output circuit being adapted to reduce the first control voltage after the second control voltage is reduced.
US10038378B2	Device and method to stabilize a supply voltage In a particular implementation, an apparatus to stabilize a supply voltage includes a first current source, a second current source, and a control circuit. The first current source is responsive to a detection signal and has an output coupled to a voltage regulator circuit via an output node. The second current source is also coupled to the output node. The control circuit includes an input responsive to the detection signal and an output coupled to the second current source. The control circuit is configured to enable the second current source based on a delayed version of the detection signal.
US10038375B2	Boost DC-DC converter having digital control and reference PWM generators A boost DC-DC converter operating in pulse frequency modulation (PFM) and pulse width modulation (PWM) modes includes a plurality of PWM signal generators. The PWM signal generators generate PWM signals with different duty cycles. PWM signals with larger duty cycles may be selected for use in undervoltage situations.
US10038373B2	Circuits, devices and methods for bypassing voltage regulation in voltage regulators Circuits, devices, and method for bypassing voltage regulation in voltage regulators. A voltage regulator may include a duty cycle component configured to determine whether a duty cycle of the voltage regulator is greater than a threshold duty cycle. The voltage regulator may also include a first sensing component configured to determine whether an output voltage of the voltage regulator is less than a first threshold voltage. The voltage regulator may further include a regulating component, coupled to the duty cycle component and the first sensing component, the regulating component configured to pass an input voltage to the output of the voltage regulator based on a first determination that the duty cycle is greater than the threshold duty cycle and a second determination that the output voltage of the voltage regulator is less than the first threshold voltage.
US10038372B2	Method and device for controlling a charge pump circuit A charge pump circuit can be controlled by a control signal that is generated from a first signal coming from and output signal of the charge pump circuit, from a reference signal, and from a clock signal. The generation of the control signal includes a comparison of the reference signal and of the first signal in tempo with a timing signal coming from the clock signal.
US10038368B2	Power factor correction device and controlling method thereof, and electronic device PFC device and controlling method thereof, and an electronic device are provided. The device includes: first and second input terminals configured to receive AC input signal including alternating positive and negative half-cycles; an output terminal configured to provide output signal; an inductor a first terminal of which is coupled with the first input terminal; a first bridge arm including first and second switch components whose first connection point is coupled with second terminal of the inductor; a second bridge arm including third and fourth switch components whose second connection point is coupled with the second input terminal; a first current sampling unit configured to sample falling edge of an inductor current flowing through the inductor; a switch controlling unit configured to generate switch control signal based on sampling result to control the first and second switch components to change switch status. Influence of parasitic parameters on the circuit is reduce.
US10038363B2	Voice coil motor A voice coil motor includes a holder, a metal yoke, a carrier, a plurality of magnets, a coil and at least two spring plates. The magnets are disposed in the metal yoke. The coil is wound around the carrier and adjacent to the magnets. The spring plates are coupled to the carrier. The holder includes a first opening, a cylindrical sidewall and at least two radial protrusions. The cylindrical sidewall is disposed around the first opening. The radial protrusions protrude from the cylindrical sidewall. The metal yoke is coupled to the holder and includes a second opening and a plurality of inner walls. The carrier is movably disposed in the metal yoke and includes at least two radial enlarged portions and a plurality of notches. Each of the radial enlarged portions is disposed correspondingly to each of the radial protrusions.
US10038354B2	Arrangement of an electric machine and of a transmission connected downstream thereof An arrangement (1) for driving a wheel of a motor vehicle has an electric machine (6) and a transmission (4). The transmission (4) is downstream of the electric machine (6) and is arranged within the electric machine (6). A common cooling device (14) with a cooling water jacket (15) is utilized for cooling both the electric machine (6) and the transmission (4).
US10038347B2	Automotive rotary electric machine An output terminal portion includes: an output terminal that includes: a shaft portion on which an external screw thread portion is formed; and a head portion; and an intermediary member that includes: a fastening seat on a first axial end of which a nut portion is formed integrally, and that is mounted so as to be fitted over the shaft portion such that a second axial end protrudes axially out of a bushing, the bushing is mounted to the intermediary member such that axial movement of the bushing is constrained, and an external output wire is mounted to a second axial end surface of the fastening seat in a state of contact by a fastening force from a fixing nut that is screwed onto the external screw thread portion such that the external output wire is fixed by fastening between the fixing nut and the fastening seat.
US10038341B2	Techniques for optimizing wireless power transmission New wireless power transmission techniques are disclosed. In some aspects of the invention, an ambient wave or field is used as a scaffold for building new, superposed waveforms, using an additional, intermediate transmitter or resonator. In other aspects of the invention, devices incorporating such intermediate transmitters or resonators are awarded monetary credit and offsets by a management system, according to their contribution to power transmission to a power-receiving device.
US10038338B2	Signal modulation method and signal rectification and modulation device A signal modulation method for a receiving-end module of an induction type power supply system includes configuring a plurality of modulation periods corresponding to a modulation signal; performing modulation on a first terminal of an induction coil of the receiving-end module during the ith modulation period among the plurality of modulation periods, wherein i is an odd number; and performing modulation on a second terminal of the induction coil of the receiving-end module during the jth modulation period among the plurality of modulation periods, wherein j is an even number; wherein the second terminal does not undergo modulation when the first terminal is being modulated, and the first terminal does not undergo modulation when the second terminal is being modulated.
US10038329B2	Monitor and control module and method A method and module for monitoring a voltage of a power cell, sampling and holding a voltage of the power cell, and balancing a voltage of the power cell. In accordance with an embodiment, an interface circuit is capable of operation in a plurality of operating modes. In accordance with another embodiment, the interface circuit is coupled to a filter section.
US10038318B2	Power supply The invention can provide for a power supply, and in particular a fieldbus power supply, comprising a plurality of power supply modules each arranged to output power on a plurality of channels; a current share controller arranged to share an output current requirement across the plurality of power supply modules and wherein; at least a second of the plurality of channels in each module is arranged to track the loading of the first of the plurality of channels in each respective module and so that a multichannel and multimodule power supply with reduced power handling requirements for each module can be provided.
US10038317B1	Rapid disconnect safety system for photovoltaic (PV) systems A system and method for providing a rapid disconnect safety system (RDSS) are disclosed. In a first aspect, the system comprises a rapid shutdown module (RSM) located within a predetermined distance to a photovoltaic (PV) array system and a rapid shutdown controller (RSC) coupled to the RSM, wherein the RSM is remotely located relative to the RSC. When activated, the RSC opens at least one contactor of the RSM to disconnect a PV source circuit of the PV array system. In a second aspect, the method comprises providing a rapid shutdown module (RSM) located within a predetermined distance to a PV array system, coupling a rapid shutdown controller (RSC) to the RSM wherein the RSM is remotely located relative to the RSC, activating the RSC to open at least one contactor of the RSM, and disconnecting a PV source circuit of the PV array system.
US10038315B2	Circuit assembly and electrical junction box Provided is a circuit assembly that enables suppression of a decrease in heat dissipation properties. A circuit assembly includes a circuit board having a conductive path, a heat dissipation member on which the circuit board is placed, and an insulating layer that is interposed between the circuit board and the heat dissipation member. A surface of the heat dissipation member that faces the circuit board is a rough surface having protrusions and recessions, and the circuit board and the heat dissipation member are fixed to each other by the insulating layer penetrating the protrusions and recessions of the rough surface.
US10038304B2	Laser arrays for variable optical properties A VCSEL array device formed of an array of raised VCSELs on an electrical contact and raised inactive regions connected to the electrical contact. The VCSELs can be physically and/or electrically organized to improve power or speed, or in phase and in parallel. The VCSELs and inactive regions are positioned between the electrical contact and an electrical waveguide. The VCSELs may be separated into subarrays and each VCSEL may be covered with an integrated or bonded microlens for directing beams of light without external lenses. The VCSELs may also be electrically selected to form two or more groups, with beams of light from each group have unique divergences, unique power or unique optical power, and each beam of light in a group forming a spot at a point on a line, on the same optical axis, or as part of a pattern.
US10038302B2	Optoelectronic integrated circuit A semiconductor device includes an n-type ohmic contact layer, cathode and anode electrodes, p-type and n-type modulation doped quantum well (QW) structures, and first and second ion implant regions. The anode electrode is formed on the first ion implant region that contacts the p-type modulation doped QW structure and the cathode electrode is formed by patterning the first and second ion implant regions and the n-type ohmic contact layer. The semiconductor device is configured to operate as at least one of a diode laser and a diode detector. As the diode laser, the semiconductor device emits photons. As the diode detector, the semiconductor device receives an input optical light and generates a photocurrent.
US10038289B2	Conversion device A conversion device is configured to include a first connection port that is a connection port of a USB Type C; a second connection port that is a connection port of a USB other than the USB Type C; a third connection port that is a connection port of a power supplying wire; a communication wire that is connected to a communication line between the first connection port and the second connection port; and a power wire that is connected to a power line between the first connection port and the third connection port.
US10038288B2	Adapter for a mobile device An adapter for a mobile device is provided. The adapter comprises a plug including an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface opposite the outer surface. The adapter further comprises a surface mount connection port located at the outer surface. The adapter further comprises a male connector extending from the inner surface. The adapter further comprises one or more electrical connections between the male connector and the surface mount connection port. The plug is configured to mate with a socket of a device, and the male connector is configured to mate with a respective female connection port of the device located within the socket, the outer surface of the plug being flush with a respective outer surface of the device when the plug is mated with the socket.
US10038287B2	Device connector A device connector 10 to be attached to a case C of a device includes: a housing 30 to be fitted in an attachment hole C1 of the case C; a seal groove 41 provided in an inner housing 31 constituting the housing 30, and having a back surface 42 disposed opposite an outer peripheral edge portion C2 of the attachment hole C1 of the case C; a face seal 43 fitted in the seal groove 41 to waterproof a gap between the outer peripheral edge portion C2 of the attachment hole C1 and the back surface of the seal groove 41; and a relief groove 57 disposed adjacently outside the seal groove 41 in an outer housing 50 constituting the housing 30 and along the seal groove 41, and recessed upward relative to a lower surface of the tubular portion 51 of the outer housing 50.
US10038285B2	Electronic device According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a substrate, a male connector, and conductive members. The substrate includes conductors on a surface of the substrate. The male connector is mounted on the substrate and insertable into a female connector complying with a USB Type-C standard. The conductive members are mounted in the male connector, each of the conductive members electrically connecting one of twenty-four terminals complying with the USB Type-C standard mounted in the female connector with one of the conductors when the male connector is inserted into the female connector, and a number of the conductive members being less than twenty-four.
US10038277B2	Card edge connector with metal latch An electrical card edge connector includes an elongated insulative housing forming a central slot with two rows of terminals disposed by two sides of the central slot and retained in the housing. The housing includes two opposite lengthwise side walls and two end walls connected to two opposite ends of the corresponding lengthwise walls, and a bottom wall linked to both the lengthwise walls and the end walls below the central slot. The terminals are disposed in the corresponding side walls. A pair of metal latches are fixed to the corresponding end walls, respectively. Each metal latch include a front restriction piece received in the corresponding through hole, a rear restriction piece received in the notch, and a locking piece located adjacent to the rear restriction piece and downwardly pressing an upper surface of the memory module.
US10038274B2	Deformable electrical connector system Various embodiments provide a connector system including a plug body and a connector body each having one of studs and jacks with parallel misaligned axes. A deformation of one or more of a plug body, studs, jacks, and a connector body is created when plugging together the misaligned studs and jacks. The deformation creates resultant forces between the studs and jacks for electrical contact. The studs and jacks may be solid metal corrosive-resistant parts, such as titanium, Hastelloy, or Inconel.
US10038270B2	Electrical connection device and method for mounting an electrical connection device An electrical connection device includes a housing with a tubular cavity and a contact having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a cylindrical first external surface oriented about a longitudinal axis and is inserted into the tubular cavity of the housing. The second portion extends outside the tubular cavity and has an orientation zone with a second external surface that is partially, but not completely, cylindrical about the longitudinal axis. The electrical connection device further includes an anti-rotation device, displaceable in translation up to a final position, and having a first surface complementary to the second external surface of the orientation zone and abutting thereon when the anti-rotation device is in the final position and the contact is oriented in an operating position. A method of mounting such an electrical connection device is also provided.
US10038268B2	Electrical connector having improved contact module and method for making same An electrical connector includes a number of first contacts and a number of second contacts, an insulative housing, a shielding plate, and a metallic shell. The insulative housing has a base portion, a tongue portion, and a number of receiving grooves running through the base portion to the tongue portion. The tongue portion defines a first surface and a second surface. The receiving grooves are exposed on the first surface and the second surface. The insulative housing, the second contacts, and the shielding plate are insert-molded to form a contact module, and the first contacts are assembled to the receiving grooves.
US10038253B2	High dielectric antenna array A system and method for wirelessly transmitting signals via antenna phased array. In order to decrease the distance between individual antennae in the array, the antennae are submersed in a high dielectric material in addition to being arranged at right angles to one another, both features precluding one or more antennae from coupling. Furthermore, wires are covered in high dielectric material in order to refract RF signals around them, allowing antennae towards the center of the array to successfully transmit signals past other layers.
US10038251B2	Tracking antenna system having multiband selectable feed A tracking antenna system for use in a plurality of discrete radio frequency (RF) spectrums includes a stabilized antenna support configured to direct and maintain the antenna in alignment with a communications satellite; a reflector mounted on the stabilized antenna support, the reflector reflecting radio waves along a first RF path; a first feed for gathering radio waves within a first of the discrete RF spectrums traveling from the reflector; a sub-reflector movable between first and second positions, the first position outside the first RF path and the second position in the first RF path to redirect radio waves traveling from the reflector along the first RF path to a second RF path; a second feed for gathering radio waves within a second of the discrete RF spectrums redirected along the second RF path; and an actuator for moving the sub-reflector between the first and second positions.
US10038247B2	Systems and methods for differential dipole-based waveguide power combining A power combiner system for use in a single-mode waveguide includes an input waveguide, an output waveguide, at least one power amplifier module that includes a plurality of amplifiers, and at least one input dipole antenna extending into the input waveguide. Each input dipole antenna includes two input dipole antenna arms, and each input dipole antenna arm is coupled to an input of a corresponding one of the plurality of amplifiers. The system further includes at least one output dipole antenna extending into the output waveguide. Each output dipole antenna includes two output dipole antenna arms, and each output dipole antenna arm is coupled to an output of a corresponding one of the plurality of amplifiers. Each power amplifier module is disposed in a plane that runs parallel with the direction of propagation.
US10038244B2	Flat antenna for satellite communication A flat antenna for satellite communication includes a radiating board. The radiating board includes at least one radiating line, and an adapter configured to modify the delay of the fields transmitted or received by the radiating line. The adapter includes a horn mobile in rotation between the two metal plates, and a multilayer power supply circuit. The first layer of the multilayer power supply circuit is formed at least one metal plate containing an array of slot sensors and the last layer of the multilayer power supply circuit is provided with at least one coupling slot connected to the radiating line. The first layer and the last layer is linked by at least one transmission line. The length of the transmission line is suitable for introducing a delay required to focus the wave radiated by the radiating line.
US10038240B2	Wide band reconfigurable planar antenna with omnidirectional and directional radiation patterns A planar reconfigurable antenna that is capable of generating omnidirectional and directional radiation patterns over a wide frequency band or over multiple frequency bands includes a substrate, one or more pairs of conductive elements on at least one side of the substrate, a common RF feed point, and respective switches that selectively connects one or all of the conductive elements to the common RF feed point. An omni-directional radiation pattern is generated when all of the conductive elements are connected to the common RF feed point, while a directional radiation pattern is generated when only a pair of conductive elements on opposite sides of the substrate are connected to the common RF feed point. In the directional radiation mode, the conductive elements that are not connected to the common RF feed point act as a reflector for other conductive elements that are connected to the common RF feed point.
US10038238B2	Load-resistant antenna mount A mechanical assembly provides an attachment of an antenna tower to an antenna that includes back ring attached to an antenna reflector. The assembly includes a horizontal beam and a bracket. The bracket includes a first, e.g. planar, portion and a second, e.g. planar, portion that meet at a corner. The first portion is configured to fasten to the antenna back ring and the second portion is configured to attach to the horizontal beam. The second portion includes a pivot slot for receiving a first fastener connecting the bracket to the horizontal beam, and includes a circular hole for receiving a second fastener connecting the bracket to the horizontal beam.
US10038232B2	Semiconductor wafer including an integrated waveguide for communicating signals between first and second integrated circuit dies Embodiments include package structures having integrated waveguides to enable high data rate communication between package components. For example, a package structure includes a package substrate having an integrated waveguide, and first and second integrated circuit chips mounted to the package substrate. The first integrated circuit chip is coupled to the integrated waveguide using a first transmission line to waveguide transition, and the second integrated circuit chip is coupled to the integrated waveguide using a second transmission line to waveguide transition. The first and second integrated circuit chips are configured to communicate by transmitting signals using the integrated waveguide within the package carrier.
US10038220B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte for lithium battery safety A lithium ion electrochemical cell having an electrolyte with reduced carbonate content is described. The reduced carbonate electrolyte minimizes electrolyte out-gassing when the cell is exposed to temperatures above 100° C. The preferred electrolyte comprises a primary solvent of γ-butyrolactone and a secondary solvent comprising an aliphatic or halogen constituent. A most preferred electrolyte consists essentially of γ-butyrolactone as a primary solvent, fluorotoluene as a secondary solvent, and an electrolyte additive formulation of vinylene carbonate, fluorinated ethylene carbonate, and polyvinyl pyridine-co-styrene. An alkali metal salt is added to the solvent admixture.
US10038218B2	Salts of N-containing heterocyclic anions as components in electrolytes Salts of N-containing heterocyclic anions as components in electrolytes Novel uses of salts of N-containing heterocyclic anions, novel salts of fluorinated N-containing heterocyclic anions and method for producing the same are described. Preferred compounds have a pyrimidone or a pyrazole ring structure bearing a trifluoromethyl group and a metal counter ion.
US10038215B2	Method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte A main object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing sulfide solid electrolytes, by which sulfide solid electrolytes whose productivity, recovery rate, and ionic conductivity are improved can be produced. The method of the present invention includes the steps of: pulverizing a mixture that is obtained by mixing a sulfide solid electrolyte containing sulfides and a single type of halides or a raw material thereof, an ether compound, and a solvent to obtain a pulverized product; and carrying out heating treatment wherein the obtained pulverized product is heated to obtain a crystallized sulfide solid electrolyte, wherein formulas “0.44≤C/(A+B+C)≤0.70” and “0.10≤B/(A+B+C)≤0.36” are satisfied, where “A [g]” denotes a weight of the sulfide solid electrolyte or the raw material thereof, “B [g]” denotes a weight of the ether compound, and “C [g]” denotes a weight of the solvent.
US10038214B2	Electrode structures for three-dimensional batteries An electrode structure for use in an energy storage device comprising a population of electrodes, a population of counter-electrodes and a microporous separator separating members of the electrode population from members of the counter-electrode population. Each member of the electrode population comprises an electrode active material layer and an electrode current conductor layer, and each member of the electrode population has a bottom, a top, a length LE, a width WE and a height HE, wherein the ratio of LE to each of WE and HE is at least 5:1, the ratio of HE to WE is between 0.4:1 and 1000:1, and the electrode current collector layer of each member of the electrode population has a length LC that is measured in the same direction as and is at least 50% of length LE.
US10038204B2	Current collector for a fuel cell A fuel cell stack assembly has a plurality of cells in a stack configuration. Each cell comprises a membrane-electrode assembly disposed between an anode flow plate and a cathode flow plate. A current collector plate is disposed at each end of the stack and a compression assembly maintains the stack under compression. At least one of the current collector plates is formed as a printed circuit board having a first face disposed against a cathode flow plate or an anode flow plate of an outermost cell in the stack and a second face opposite the first face. The first face includes an electrically conductive layer disposed on a substrate of the printed circuit board to serve as a stack current collector electrode. Electrical components such as temperature sensors can be mounted on the printed circuit board such that they lie in or adjacent to a flow channel extending along an adjacent face of the anode or cathode flow plate. The printed circuit board can provide laterally extending connection tabs for electrical connection to the current collector electrode and to the electrical components.
US10038203B2	Cooling plates for fuel cells A separator plate in an air-cooled fuel cell comprises a series of airflow channels, each channel extending longitudinally between first and second opposing edges of the separator plate. Each channel has a cross-sectional profile defining an airflow cross-section at points along the length of the channel, and at least selected ones of the channels each have a thermally conductive structure extending into the channel cross-section at selected intermediate longitudinal positions of the channel. The positions are disposed over an active area of the fuel cell, to locally enhance heat transfer from the active area via the plate to airflow moving through the channel.
US10038202B2	Fuel cell separator, fuel cell, and fuel cell battery A fuel cell separator 10 includes a power generation section 10B provided in a central region on a surface of the separator formed into a plate, a plurality of manifolds 11A, 11B, 12A, and 12B provided in a region closer to the outer periphery than the power generation section 10B, and a reinforcing portion 14A provided so as to extend from a manifold beam portion 15 formed between the plurality of manifolds 11A, 11B, 12A, and 12B to a gap region 13 formed between the power generation section 10B and the manifolds 11A, 11B, 12A, and 12B.
US10038195B2	Electrode structure having structured conductive buffer layer An electrode comprising a current collector, a conductive buffer layer composed of a conductive polymer formed on the current collector, and an active material layer formed on the conductive buffer layer. The conductive buffer layer can expand and contract between the non-lithiated and lithiated states.
US10038191B2	Carbonous anode material, method for producing the same, and lithium-ion battery containing the anode material The present invention provides an anode material for a lithium-ion battery, the anode material being excellent in the low resistance and the rate characteristics, and meeting the fast charge/discharge characteristics and the relaxation of the characteristics deterioration due to the volume expansion simultaneously in high levels. In the present invention, there is produced a carbonous anode material comprising a composite (7) of a low-crystalline carbon (6), a fibrous carbon (2) having a smaller diameter than the particle diameter of the low-crystalline carbon (6), and a carbon nanohorn (3), by dispersing a low-crystalline carbon precursor (1), the fibrous carbon (2), and the carbon nanohorn (3) in a disperse medium (4) to form a carrier (5) having the carbon nanohorn (3) supported on the precursor (1) and the fibrous carbon (2), separating the carrier (5) from the disperse medium (4), and thereafter subjecting the resultant to a heat treatment to convert the precursor (1) to the low-crystalline carbon (6).
US10038189B2	Transition metal composite hydroxide capable of serving as precursor of positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries A transition metal composite hydroxide can be used as a precursor to allow a lithium transition metal composite oxide having a small and highly uniform particle diameter to be obtained. A method also is provided for producing a transition metal composite hydroxide represented by a general formula (1) MxWsAt(OH)2+α, coated with a compound containing the additive element, and serving as a precursor of a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. The method includes producing a composite hydroxide particle, forming nuclei, growing a formed nucleus; and forming a coating material containing a metal oxide or hydroxide on the surfaces of composite hydroxide particles obtained through the upstream step.
US10038179B2	Method for producing electrode and method for producing battery According to one embodiment, a method for producing an electrode, includes applying tensile force. The electrode includes a strip current collector, a current collector exposed portion, and an active material-containing layer. In the applying tensile force, arranging a strip electrode plate on a roller including a step portion and a recessed portion such that the current collector exposed portion is positioned on the step portion and the active material-containing layer is positioned on the recessed portion, and then applying tensile force to the strip electrode plate in a longitudinal direction of the strip electrode plate.
US10038174B2	Separator and lithium battery including the separator A separator including a porous base material layer and a coating layer disposed on at least one surface of the porous base material layer, wherein the coating layer includes the binder composition, and a binder film comprising the binder composition has an elongation of 10% or less measured after maintaining the binder film under a load of 50 g at 150° C. for 10 minutes, and a lithium battery including the same.
US10038159B2	Organic electroluminescent device structure and manufacturing for the same An organic electroluminescent device structure and manufacturing method for the same are provided. Surfaces of an anode, an organic electroluminescent structure and a cathode all have arc structures undulating periodically to avoid the total reflection in propagating an exit light to the substrate, increasing the light efficiency. Utilizing a PEDOT:PSS thin film as a material for the anode to replace an ITO material, the cost is reduced. The manufacturing method utilizes a wet coating process to form the PEDOT:PSS thin film as the anode so as to reduce the cost. Utilizing a transfer-printing method to pattern the PEDOT:PSS thin film to form an arc structure undulating periodically on the PEDOT:PSS thin film (the anode) to avoid the total reflection inside the organic electroluminescent device such that most light can be propagated out from the substrate. Accordingly, a light efficiency of the bottom-emitting type organic electroluminescent device is increased.
US10038158B2	Organic light-emitting device In an aspect, an organic light-emitting device is provided.
US10038153B2	Platinum (II) emitters for OLED applications Described herein are novel platinum(II) emitters. These materials show high emission quantum efficiency, a low self-quenching constant, and are stable in thermal deposition processes. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) fabricated from these materials can have pure green emission, high efficiency and low efficiency roll-off. The OLEDs can have a chemical structure of:
US10038148B2	Borylated compounds Borylated compounds are disclosed, as well as their methods of preparation and their applications. The disclosed borylated compounds are highly stable, and have reduced band gap properties, thereby making them attractive candidates for incorporation into semiconducting materials for use in a variety of electronic, optical or electro-optical devices or components.
US10038141B2	Fabrication of correlated electron material devices Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of correlated electron materials used, for example, to perform a switching function. In embodiments, precursors, in a gaseous form, may be utilized in a chamber to build a film of correlated electron materials comprising various impedance characteristics.
US10038140B2	ReRAM using stack of iron oxide and graphene oxide films There is provided a non-volatile memory device comprising: a substrate; a lower electrode disposed on the substrate; a resistance layer disposed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode disposed on the resistance layer, wherein the resistance layer include a stack of a graphene oxide film and an iron oxide film, wherein a resistance value of the resistance layer varies based on a voltage applied to the upper electrode.
US10038139B2	One transistor and one resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure with spacer The present disclosure provides a resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells and methods of making the same. The RRAM cell includes a transistor and an RRAM structure. The RRAM structure includes a bottom electrode having a via portion and a top portion, a resistive material layer on the bottom electrode having a width that is same as a width of the top portion of the bottom electrode; a capping layer over the bottom electrode; a spacer surrounding the capping layer; and, a top electrode on the capping layer having a smaller width than the resistive material layer. The RRAM cell further includes a conductive material connecting the top electrode of the RRAM structure to a metal layer.
US10038135B2	Electrostrictive composite and electrostrictive element using the same An electrostrictive composite includes a flexible polymer matrix and a carbon nanotube film structure. The carbon nanotube film structure is at least partially embedded into the flexible polymer matrix through a first surface. The carbon nanotube film structure includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes combined by van der Waals attractive force therebetween.
US10038133B2	Differential temperature sensor Sensor including a substrate, an assembly of thermoelectric layers including at least one first and one second junction of a thermocouple, at least one first and one second connection pads arranged to transfer heat respectively to each first and each second junction, a support member (2) of the substrate (3) intended to be connected to the hot source (Sc) and to the cold source (Sf), first and second metal connectors arranged to electrically connect the support member (2) respectively to each first and each second connection pad, the support member (2) including a thermal conductor configured to transfer heat from the hot source (Sc) to the first metal connector, and to transfer heat from the second metal connector to the cold source (Sf).
US10038121B2	Light emitting diode with Bragg reflector A light emitting diode including a first-type semiconductor layer, an emitting layer, a second-type semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a Bragg reflector structure. The emitting layer is configured to emit a light beam and is located between the first-type semiconductor layer and the second-type semiconductor layer. The light beam has a peak wavelength in a light emitting wavelength range. The first-type semiconductor layer, the emitting layer, and the second-type semiconductor layer are located on a same side of the Bragg reflector structure. A reflectance of the Bragg reflector structure is greater than or equal to 95% in a reflective wavelength range at least covering 0.8X nm to 1.8X nm, and X is the peak wavelength of the light emitting wavelength range.
US10038118B2	Light emitting element A light emitting element includes: an n-side semiconductor layer; a p-side semiconductor layer; an active layer comprising a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers, and being located between the n-side semiconductor layer and the p-side semiconductor layer. The plurality of barrier layers comprises a final barrier layer, which is a layer of the active layer that is closest to the p-side semiconductor layer. The p-side semiconductor layer comprises, from an active layer-side, a first p-side semiconductor layer, which is a layer of the p-side semiconductor layer that is closest to the active layer, and a second p-side semiconductor layer containing a p-type dopant and having a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the final barrier layer. The first p-side semiconductor layer has a bandgap smaller than the bandgap of the final barrier layer and greater than a bandgap of any of the well layers, and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the final barrier layer.
US10038108B2	Glue bleeding prevention cap for optical sensor packages One or more embodiments are directed to system in package (SiP) for optical devices, such as proximity sensing or optical ranging devices. One embodiment is directed to an optical sensor package that includes a substrate, a sensor die coupled to the substrate, a light-emitting device coupled to the substrate, and a cap. The cap is positioned around side surfaces of the sensor die and covers at least a portion of the substrate. The cap includes first and second sidewalls, an inner wall having first and second side surfaces and a mounting surface, and a cover in contact with the first and second sidewalls and the inner wall. The first and second side surfaces are transverse to the mounting surface, and the inner wall includes an opening extending into the inner wall from the mounting surface. A first adhesive material is provided on the sensor die and at least partially within the opening, and secures the inner wall to the sensor die.
US10038104B2	Normally-off junction field-effect transistors and application to complementary circuits A junction field-effect transistor (JFET) with a gate region that includes two separate sub-regions having material of different conductivity types and/or a Schottky junction that substantially suppresses gate current when the gate junction is forward-biased, as well as complementary circuits that incorporate such JFET devices.
US10038101B2	Memory cell and non-volatile semiconductor storage device A voltage applied to a bit line or to a source line is reduced to a value allowing a first or second select gate structure to block electrical connection between the bit line and a channel layer or between the source line and the channel layer, irrespective of a voltage needed to inject charge into a charge storage layer by a quantum tunneling effect. In accordance with the reduction in voltage(s) applied to the bit line and the source line, thickness of each of a first and second select gate insulating films of the first and second select gate structure is reduced. High-speed operation is achieved correspondingly. With the reduction in voltage(s) applied to the bit and source lines, thickness of a gate insulating film of a field effect transistor in a peripheral circuit controlling a memory cell is reduced. The area of the peripheral circuit is reduced correspondingly.
US10038090B2	Power MOSFETs and methods for forming the same Power Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) and methods of forming the same are provided. A power MOSFET may comprise a first drift region formed at a side of a gate electrode, and a second drift region beneath the gate electrode, adjacent to the first drift region, with a depth less than a depth of the first drift region so that the first drift region and the second drift region together form a stepwise shape. A sum of a depth of the second drift region, a depth of the gate dielectric, and a depth of the gate electrode may be of substantially a same value as a depth of the first drift region. The first drift region and the second drift region may be formed at the same time, using the gate electrode as a part of the implanting mask.
US10038085B2	High electron mobility transistor with carrier injection mitigation gate structure A method includes providing a heterostructure body with a buffer region, and a barrier region disposed on the buffer region, and forming a gate structure for controlling the channel on the heterostructure body, the gate structure having a doped semiconductor region disposed on the heterostructure body, an interlayer disposed on the doped semiconductor region, and a gate electrode disposed on the interlayer. Forming the gate structure includes controlling a doping concentration of the doped semiconductor region such that a portion of the channel adjacent the gate structure is non-conductive at zero gate bias, and controlling electrical and geometrical characteristics of the interlayer based upon a relationship between the electrical and geometrical characteristics of the interlayer and corresponding effects on a static threshold voltage and a dynamic threshold voltage shift of the semiconductor device.
US10038084B2	Energy-filtered cold electron devices and methods Energy-filtered cold electron devices use electron energy filtering through discrete energy levels of quantum wells or quantum dots that are formed through band bending of tunneling barrier conduction band. These devices can obtain low effective electron temperatures of less than or equal to 45K at room temperature, steep electrical current turn-on/turn-off capabilities with a steepness of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, subthreshold swings of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, and/or supply voltages of less than or equal to 0.1 V.
US10038083B2	Semiconductor device with low band-to-band tunneling The invention includes a semiconductor device comprising an interlevel dielectric layer over a buried insulator layer over a semiconductor substrate; a source and drain in the interlevel layer; a channel between the source and drain, the channel including a first region having a first bandgap adjacent to a second region having a second bandgap, wherein the first band gap is larger than the second bandgap; and a gate over the channel.
US10038076B2	Parasitic capacitance reducing contact structure in a finFET In a fin-Field Effect Transistor (finFET), a recess is created at a location of a fin, the fin being coupled to a gate of the finFET, the recess extending into a substrate interfacing with the gate. The recess is filled at least partially with a first conductive material. The first conductive material is insulated from the gate. The fin is replaced with a replacement structure. The replacement structure is electrically connected to the first conductive material using a second conductive material. the second conductive material is insulated from a first surface of the finFET. A first electrical contact structure is fabricated on the first surface. A second electrical contact structure is fabricated on a second surface of the finFET, the second surface being on a different spatial plane than the first surface.
US10038071B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer including a first conductivity type semiconductor region and a second conductivity type semiconductor region joined to the first conductivity type semiconductor region; and a surface electrode connected to the second conductivity type region on one surface of the semiconductor layer, including a first Al-based electrode, a second Al-based electrode, an Al-based oxide film interposed between the first Al-based electrode and the second Al-based electrode, and a plated layer on the second Al-based electrode.
US10038070B2	Nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a nitride semiconductor layer including an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer which is in contact with the electron transit layer and which has a composition different from that of the electron transit layer, a gate electrode on the nitride semiconductor layer and a gate insulating film between the gate electrode and the nitride semiconductor layer. A region whose depth is 250 nm from an interface between the gate insulating film and the gate electrode includes a region which has a deep acceptor concentration equal to or more than 1.0×1016 cm−3.
US10038067B2	Spatially decoupled floating gate semiconductor device A method includes forming a tunneling dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate, a first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is directly above a channel region in the semiconductor substrate and a second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is directly above source-drain regions located on opposing sides of the channel region, the second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is thicker than the first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer, forming a floating gate directly above the first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer and the second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer, and forming a control dielectric layer directly above the floating gate.
US10038066B2	Uniform vertical field effect transistor spacers Aspects of the disclosure include a semiconductor structure that includes a vertical fin structure having a top portion, a bottom portion, vertical side walls, a source area in contact with the vertical fin structure, a drain area in contact with the vertical fin structure, a plurality of spacers comprising a first oxide layer in contact with the source area, and a second oxide layer in contact with the drain area. The first oxide layer can have a thickness that is equal to a thickness of the second oxide layer.
US10038062B2	Circuit configuration and manufacturing processes for vertical transient voltage suppressor (TVS) and EMI filter A vertical TVS (VTVS) circuit includes a semiconductor substrate for supporting the VTVS device thereon having a heavily doped layer extending to the bottom of substrate. Deep trenches are provided for isolation between multi-channel VTVS. Trench gates are also provided for increasing the capacitance of VTVS with integrated EMI filter.
US10038055B2	Substrate structure with embedded layer for post-processing silicon handle elimination The present disclosure relates to a substrate structure with a buried dielectric layer for post-processing silicon handle elimination. The substrate structure includes a silicon handle layer, a first silicon oxide layer over the silicon handle layer, a buried dielectric layer over the first silicon oxide layer, where the buried dielectric layer is not formed from silicon oxide, a second silicon oxide layer over the buried dielectric layer, and a silicon epitaxy layer over the second silicon oxide layer. The buried dielectric layer provides extremely selective etch stop characteristics with respect to etching chemistries for silicon and silicon oxide.
US10038049B2	Display device A display device, includes a substrate; first to fourth subpixels sequentially arranged on the substrate; a first power line on a left side of the first subpixel and shared by the first and second subpixels; a sensing line between the second subpixel and the third subpixel and shared by the first to fourth subpixels; a second power line on a right side of the fourth subpixel and shared by the third and fourth subpixels; and a first data line on the left side of the first subpixel, a second data line on a right side of the second subpixel, a third data line on a left side of the third subpixel, and a fourth data line on the right side of the fourth subpixel. The first and second power lines and the sensing line are disposed on a layer different from the first to fourth data lines.
US10038029B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a growth substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diode units formed on the growth substrate and arranged in a closed loop, an electrode directly formed on the growth substrate, an electrical connection structure formed on the growth substrate and connecting the plurality of light-emitting diode units with the electrode, and a plurality of rectifying diodes connecting to respective nodes of the closed loop.
US10038023B2	Solid-state image sensor and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor, includes forming a first isolation region of a first conductivity type in a semiconductor layer having first and second surfaces, the forming the first isolation region including first implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the first surface, forming charge accumulation regions of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, performing first annealing, forming an interconnection on a side of the first surface of the semiconductor layer after the first annealing, and forming a second isolation region of the first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, the forming the second isolation region including second implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the second surface. The first and second isolation regions are arranged between the adjacent charge accumulation regions.
US10038016B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel, a scanning line, a signal line, a pixel electrode, a first switching element, and a capacitance line producing capacitance together with the pixel electrode. The first switching element includes a first semiconductor layer connected to the signal line and the pixel electrode, and a first gate electrode opposed to the first semiconductor layer and connected to the scanning line. The capacitance line includes a first portion opposed to the scanning line and extending in an extension direction of the scanning line, a second portion connected to the first portion and opposed to the pixel electrode.
US10038015B2	Array substrate and fabrication method thereof, display panel An array substrate, a display panel, and a fabrication method of the array substrate are provided. The array substrate comprises a first thin film transistor including a metal oxide thin film transistor, and a second thin film transistor including an amorphous silicon thin film transistor. The first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor are disposed above a substrate. The first thin film transistor is located in a display region of the array substrate, and the second thin film transistor is located in a peripheral circuit region of the array substrate.
US10038008B1	Integrated structures and NAND memory arrays Some embodiments include an integrated structure having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include primary regions of a first vertical thickness, and terminal projections of a second vertical thickness which is greater than the first vertical thickness. Charge-blocking material is adjacent the terminal projections. Charge-storage material is adjacent the charge-blocking material. Gate-dielectric material is adjacent the charge-storage material. Channel material is adjacent the gate-dielectric material. Some embodiments include NAND memory arrays. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated structures.
US10038004B2	NAND memory cell string having a stacked select gate structure and process for for forming same A memory string is disclosed including a plurality of core cells serially connected between a source select gate and a drain select gate along a channel. Each core cell includes a wordline separated from the channel by a stack of layers including a charge trapping layer. At least one of the source and drain select gates is a stacked select gate with a plurality of components, including a first component adjacent to the plurality of core cells and a second component separated from the core cells by the first component. The first component includes a wordline separated from the channel by a stack of layers including a charge trapping layer, and a distance between the wordline of the first component and the wordline of a first core cell in the plurality of core cells is substantially the same as distances between each wordline in the plurality of word core cells.
US10037995B2	Semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes first-type-channel field effect transistors (FETs) including a first first-type-channel FET including a first gate structure and a second first-type-channel FET including a second gate structure. The first first-type-channel FET has a smaller threshold voltage than the second first-type-channel FET. The first gate structure includes a first work function adjustment material (WFM) layer and the second gate structure includes a second WFM layer. At least one of thickness and material of the first and second WFM layers is different from each other.
US10037987B2	Semiconductor structure of ESD protection device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are a semiconductor structure of an ESD protection device with low capacitance and a method for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure of an ESD protection device, comprising: forming a buried layer with a first doping type and a buried layer with a second doping type in a first region and a second region at a top surface of a semiconductor substrate with a first doping type, respectively; forming an epitaxial layer with a second doping type on the buried layer with the first doping type and the buried layer with the second doping type, wherein the buried layer with the first doping type and the buried layer with the second doping type are buried between the semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer, a first doped region with a first doping type is formed at a top of a third region on the buried layer with the second doping type located on the epitaxial layer.
US10037985B2	Compound micro-transfer-printed power transistor device Embodiments of the present invention provide a compound power transistor device including a first semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor substrate including a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, and a power transistor formed in or on the second semiconductor substrate. In certain embodiments, the second semiconductor substrate is micro-transfer printed on and secured to the first semiconductor substrate.
US10037970B2	Multiple interconnections between die Embodiments of a semiconductor packaged device and method of making thereof are provided, the device including a substrate; a first flip chip die mounted to a first major surface of the substrate; a second flip chip die mounted to the first major surface of the substrate, the second flip chip die laterally adjacent to the first flip chip die on the first major surface; and a wire bond formed between a first bond pad on the first flip chip die and a second bond pad on the second flip chip die.
US10037967B1	Injection molded solder bumping Methods for depositing material on a chip include forming a mold layer on a substrate. The mold layer has one or more openings over respective contact areas on the substrate. The one or more openings are formed from an upper volume and a lower volume, the upper volume having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the lower volume. A material is injected into the one or more openings under pressure, such that gas trapped in the one or more openings displaces into the lower volume until the injected material in the one or more openings makes contact with each respective contact area.
US10037965B2	Semiconductor device having a protective material with a first pH formed around cooper wire bonds and aluminum pads for neutralizes a second pH of an outer encapsulant material A semiconductor device includes a plurality of wire bonds formed on a surface of the semiconductor device by bonding each of a plurality of copper wires onto corresponding ones of a plurality of aluminum pads; a protective material is applied around the plurality of wire bonds, the protective material having a first pH; and at least a portion of the semiconductor device and the protective material are encapsulated with an encapsulating material having a second pH, wherein the first pH of the protective material is for neutralizing the second pH of the encapsulating material around the plurality of wire bonds.
US10037963B2	Package structure and method of forming the same A package structure and method of forming the same includes: a first package including: a first die; a via adjacent the first die; a molding compound encapsulating the via and at least laterally encapsulating the first die around a perimeter of the first die; and a first redistribution structure extending over the first die and the molding compound; a first integrated passive device (IPD) attached to the first redistribution structure, the first IPD disposed proximate the perimeter of the first die; a second IPD attached to the first redistribution structure, the second IPD disposed distal the perimeter of the first die; and an underfill disposed between the first IPD and the first redistribution structure, the second IPD being free of the underfill.
US10037957B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing thereof A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising forming interconnection structures by at least part performing a lateral plating process, and a semiconductor device manufactured thereby.
US10037953B2	Contact pad for semiconductor devices Packaging devices and methods of manufacture thereof for semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a packaging device includes a contact pad disposed over a substrate, and a passivation layer and/or polymer layer disposed over the substrate and a portion of the contact pad. A post passivation interconnect (PPI) line is disposed over the passivation layer and is coupled to an exposed portion of the contact pad. A PPI pad is disposed over the passivation layer. A transition element is disposed over the passivation layer and is coupled between the PPI line and the PPI pad. The transition element includes line having a width greater than the PPI line.
US10037946B2	Package structure having embedded bonding film and manufacturing method thereof A package structure having an embedded bonding film including a redistribution substrate, a bonding film and a core is provided. The redistribution substrate has a top side and a bottom side opposite to the top side. The bonding film disposed at the top side and embedded in the redistribution substrate includes at least one bonding area and a metal circuit is disposed within the bonding area. The bonding area includes an outer top metal pad electrically coupled to an outer end of the metal circuit and an inner top metal pad on a top surface of the bonding film within the bonding area and electrically coupled to an inner end of the metal circuit. The core disposed at the bottom side of the redistribution substrate and electrically coupled to the redistribution substrate. A Young's modulus of the core is greater than a Young's modulus of the redistribution substrate.
US10037934B2	Semiconductor chip package having contact pins at short side edges A semiconductor chip package includes a semiconductor chip, an encapsulation body encapsulating the semiconductor chip, a chip pad, and electrical contact elements connected with the semiconductor chip and extending outwardly. The encapsulation body has six side faces and the electrical contact elements extend exclusively through two opposing side faces which have the smallest surface areas from all the side faces. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the chip pad, and a main face of the chip pad remote from the semiconductor chip is at least partially exposed to the outside.
US10037933B2	Test socket assembly and related methods A socket assembly including a housing that has one or more spring probes therein. The socket assembly further includes a leadframe assembly that has one or more cantilever members, and the leadframe assembly has microwave structures and a flexible ground plane. The socket assembly further includes an elastomeric spacer adjacent the leadframe assembly, the elastomeric spacer having one or more holes receiving the spring probes therethrough.
US10037931B2	3D-microstrip branchline coupler The disclosure is directed to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a three dimensional microstrip branchline coupler and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a plurality of through silicon vias and conductive lines electrically connected to a first end and a second end of respective ones of the plurality of through silicon vias. A first through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a first port of a three dimensional (3D) branchline coupler. A second through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a second port of the 3D branchline coupler. A third through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a third port of the 3D branchline coupler. A fourth through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a fourth port of the 3D branchline coupler.
US10037912B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In a method of forming a semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (FinFET), a first sacrificial layer is formed over a source/drain structure of a FinFET structure and an isolation insulating layer. The first sacrificial layer is patterned, thereby forming an opening. A first liner layer is formed on the isolation insulating layer in a bottom of opening and at least side faces of the patterned first sacrificial layer. After the first liner layer is formed, a dielectric layer is formed in the opening. After the dielectric layer is formed, the patterned first sacrificial layer is removed, thereby forming a contact opening over the source/drain structure. A conductive layer is formed in the contact opening.
US10037908B2	Overhead traveling vehicle system and transfer control method for overhead traveling vehicle system An overhead traveling vehicle includes a hoist and a first sensor that monitors obstacles below, and a local carriage includes a hoist and travels along the track. A buffer is suspended from the track by vertical supports that extend vertically downward, and no members of the buffer are provided directly over load ports. A second sensor, which monitors an obstacle in a vicinity of the load ports and in a passageway-side area on a side opposite to a processing device, is provided on the track and transmits an obstacle detection signal to the overhead traveling vehicle and the local carriage. Upon receiving the obstacle detection signal from the second sensor, the overhead traveling vehicle and the local carriage stop the hoists, and the overhead traveling vehicle does not monitor obstacles in the passageway-side area using the first sensor.
US10037900B1	Underfill stop using via bars in semiconductor packages A device is disclosed. The device includes a baseboard including a first set of metallic contact pads, a semiconductor integrated chip (IC) package including a second set of metallic contact pads and metallic interconnects to connect the first set of metallic contacts pads and the second set of metallic contact pads through metallic interconnects. The second set of metallic contact pads includes a first group of contact pads and a second group of contact pads. The first group of contact pads are designed to carry a high frequency signal. The baseboard includes a plurality of holes that at least partially segregates a first group of metallic interconnects that connects the first group of contact pads to the baseboard and a second group of metallic interconnects that connects the second group of contact pads to the baseboard.
US10037899B2	Semiconductor device with high thermal conductivity substrate and process for making the same The present disclosure relates to a process of forming a high thermal conductivity substrate for an Aluminum/Gallium/Indium (III)-Nitride semiconductor device. According to an exemplary process, a semiconductor precursor including a substrate structure and a buffer structure is provided. The buffer structure is formed over the substrate structure and has a first buffer surface and a second buffer surface. Herein, the second buffer surface is adjacent to the substrate structure and the first buffer surface is opposite the second buffer surface. Next, a high thermal conductivity substrate with a thermal conductivity greater than 400 W/mK is formed over the first buffer surface. A heat sink carrier is then provided over the high thermal conductivity substrate. The substrate structure is then substantially removed to provide a thermally enhanced precursor for the III-Nitride semiconductor device.
US10037896B2	Electro-assisted transfer and fabrication of wire arrays A fabrication method includes: (1) forming a wire array on a fabrication substrate; (2) forming a porous layer within a portion of the fabrication substrate below the wire array; (3) separating the porous layer and the wire array from a remaining portion of the fabrication substrate; and (4) affixing top ends of the wire array to a target substrate.
US10037894B2	Polishing liquid for metal and polishing method The present invention relates to a metal polishing liquid for polishing at least a part of metal in a substrate having the metal, comprising, component A: a metal solubilizer containing amino acids, component B: compounds having the benzotriazole skeleton, and component C: an acrylic acid polymer having the weight average molecular weight of 10,000 or more, and having the mass ratio between the component B and the component C, (component B:component C), to be 1:1 to 1:5. Use of the metal polishing liquid can simultaneously yield high polishing rates and low etching rates at higher level, enabling to form an embedded pattern with higher reliability.
US10037892B2	Multi-chip structure and method of forming same A device includes a redistribution layer over a molding compound layer, a first chip over the fan-out structure, wherein the first chip comprise a plurality of first through vias connected to the redistribution layer and a second chip over the first chip, the second chip being connected to the first chip through a plurality of bumps, wherein the first chip and the second chip are in the molding compound layer, and wherein a center line of the first chip is not vertically aligned with a center line of the second chip.
US10037888B2	Three-dimensional nonvolatile memory devices including interposed floating gates Provided are three-dimensional nonvolatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The memory devices include semiconductor pillars penetrating interlayer insulating layers and conductive layers alternately stacked on a substrate and electrically connected to the substrate and floating gates selectively interposed between the semiconductor pillars and the conductive layers. The floating gates are formed in recesses in the conductive layers.
US10037873B2	Automatic determination of demultiplexing matrix for ion mobility spectrometry and mass spectrometry Multiplexed ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), mass spectrometry (MS) such as time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS), or hybrid IM-MS is carried out on a sample, and the resulting measurement data are deconvoluted. A pulse sequence controlling ion pulsing is utilized in conjunction with the multiplexing. The pulse sequence may be modified based on the raw measurement data acquired. A demultiplexing matrix based on the modified pulse sequence is utilized to improve deconvolution.
US10037872B1	Generation of discovery ion currents and mass spectrometry and uses thereof Systems for the generation of discovery ion currents. One of the systems includes a mass spectrometer providing ion current measurement. The system includes a controller coupled to the mass spectrometer. The system also includes a liquid handler coupled to the controller and the mass spectrometer. The controller is configured to identify a base average ion current of each mass to charge interval, the mass to charge interval comprising at least one mass to charge channel. The controller is configured to calculate a relative change between a current ion current measurement for a charge interval to the base average for the charge interval. The controller is configured to compare the relative change to a threshold. The controller is also configured to, in response to determining that the relative change exceeds the threshold, start fraction collection using the liquid handler.
US10037868B2	Plasma processing apparatus The plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber disposed inside a vacuum vessel; a first high-frequency power supply outputting a first high-frequency power for supplying an electric field to generate a plasma for use in processing a sample to be processed inside the processing chamber; a sample stage disposed inside the processing chamber with the sample placed on an upper surface thereof; a second high-frequency power supply intermittently outputting a second high-frequency power for generating a bias potential to an electrode disposed inside the sample stage and capable of variably adjusting the output time; and a function to adjust operation of the plasma processing apparatus using a result of detection of a temporal change in waveform of current or voltage in a transient state of the second high-frequency power in synchronism with start of the intermittent output of the second high-frequency power.
US10037864B2	High voltage shielding and cooling in a charged particle beam generator The invention relates to a charged particle beam generator. The generator may comprise a high voltage shielding arrangement (201) for shielding components outside the shielding arrangement from high voltages within the shielding arrangement, and a vacuum pump (220) located outside the shielding arrangement for regulating a pressure of a space within the shielding arrangement. The generator may comprise a collimator system with a cooling arrangement (405a/407a-407b/405b) comprising cooling channels inside electrodes of the collimator system.
US10037863B2	Continuous ion beam kinetic energy dissipater apparatus and method of use thereof The invention comprises a method and apparatus for slowing positively charged particles, comprising the steps of: (1) transporting the positively charged particles from an accelerator, along a beam transport line, and into a nozzle system; (2) placing a first liquid in a first chamber in a beam path of the positively charged particles; (3) placing a second liquid in a second chamber in the beam path of the positively charged particles; (4) moving the first and second chamber with the nozzle system; (5) slowing the positively charged particles using the first liquid and the second liquid; (6) moving the first chamber in a first direction to yield a longer first pathlength of the positively charged particles through the first chamber; and (7) moving the second chamber opposite the first direction to yield a longer second pathlength of the positively charged particles through the second chamber.
US10037853B2	Dye-adsorption method and apparatus thereof A dye adsorption method and a dye adsorption apparatus is provided in this disclosure. The dye adsorption method includes a dye adsorption step. In the dye adsorption step, a dye is injected into and flowed through a space between two electrodes of a solar cell facing each other to obtain at least one dye-adsorbed electrode.
US10037849B2	Ceramic capacitor and methods of manufacture A capacitor includes a pair of electrodes and a metalized dielectric layer disposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the metalized dielectric layer has a plurality of metal aggregates distributed within a dielectric material. The distribution is such that a volume fraction of metal in the metalized dielectric layer is at least about 30%. Meanwhile, the plurality of metal aggregates are separated from one another by the dielectric material. A method for forming a metal-dielectric composite may include coating a plurality of dielectric particles with a metal to form a plurality of metal-coated dielectric particles and sintering the plurality of metal-coated dielectric particles at a temperature of at least about 750° C. to about 950° C. to transform the metal coatings into discrete, separated metal aggregates. Contrary to conventional techniques of separating electrodes by a dielectric tape, this inventive system and method demonstrates that a metalized dielectric layer may be formed in-situ during sintering.
US10037848B2	Inductive rotary transmitter An inductive rotary transmitter includes a rotor and a stator, which form a rotary transmitter. A rotor winding is arranged on the rotor, and a stator winding is arranged on the stator. Apart from the rotor winding, the rotor does not have any ferromagnetic or soft-magnetic material parts for inductive coupling to the stator or the stator winding. The annularly closed magnetic field lines for inductive coupling are formed on the stator side via the stator winding and a plurality of separate stator elements, which are produced from ferromagnetic or soft-magnetic material. The stator elements overlap both the rotor winding and the stator winding at a respective mounting point of the stator element and direct the magnetic field lines (M) around the rotor winding and around the stator winding to effect a magnetic coupling.
US10037847B2	Apparatus and method for wirelessly receiving power A wireless power receiver includes a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive power through a resonance between a source resonator and a target resonator. The wireless power receiver further includes a control unit configured to connect the target resonator to at least one capacitor to control a range of a voltage output from the target resonator.
US10037823B2	Fuel assembly A fuel assembly for use in a core of a nuclear power reactor. The fuel assembly can include a frame and a plurality of elongated, extruded fuel elements supported by the frame. The frame can include a lower nozzle that is shaped and configured to mount to an internal core structure of the nuclear power reactor. Each of the fuel elements can include a fuel kernel having fuel material disposed in a matrix of metal non-fuel material, the fuel material including fissile material, and a cladding surrounding the fuel kernel. The fuel assembly can have a moderator: fuel ratio in a region of the fuel elements of 2.4 or less.
US10037821B2	System for integrated protocol and decision support Embodiments of the system support hospital operations, delivery of health care, and improve patient satisfaction. The interactive hospital information system utilizes inputs from a mobile device, eliminating the cost of fixed cameras and sensor systems in the hospital facility. Aspects of the invention facilitate real-time patient care and patient room updates by care providers, validating that prescribed devices, services, and setups are in place per protocol. The system communicates with rounding persons as to specific care management. Network devices, such as an iPad® or smartphone, are utilized to monitor and record ongoing activities in the healthcare setting.
US10037816B2	Memory controller, memory system including the same and operating method thereof A memory controller may include a detector configured for checking whether the number of bits having a first state among a plurality of bits constituting write data is less than a reference value. The memory controller may include an inverter configured for inverting/non-inverting the write data according to the check result of the detector. The detector may generate an error detection signal based on whether or not the number of bits having the first state among a plurality of bits constituting read data is equal to or more than the reference value.
US10037811B1	Integrated circuits compensating for timing skew difference between signals An integrated circuit including semiconductor devices may be provided. The semiconductor device may be configured to compare phases of strobe signals which are generated according to internal delay times of the semiconductor devices and configured to control points of time that an internal command is inputted to the internal circuits of the semiconductor devices according to a comparison result of the phases of the strobe signals.
US10037808B2	Semiconductor device and method for driving semiconductor device A semiconductor device with a reduced area and capable of higher integration and larger storage capacity is provided. A multi-valued memory cell including a reading transistor which includes a back gate electrode and a writing transistor is used. Data is written by turning on the writing transistor so that a potential according to the data is supplied to a node where one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the writing transistor and a gate electrode of the reading transistor are electrically connected to each other, and then turning off the writing transistor and holding a predetermined potential in the node. Data is read by supplying a reading control potential to a control signal line connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the reading transistor, and then detecting potential change of a reading signal line.
US10037789B2	Magnetic memory and method for writing data into magnetic memory element In order to stably write data into a magnetic memory that uses in-plane current-induced perpendicular switching of magnetization to write data, the magnetic memory includes a recording layer formed as a perpendicular magnetization film, an adjacent layer joined to an upper surface or a lower surface of the recording layer, an external magnetic field application part configured to apply a first external magnetic field to the recording layer in a first direction which is an in-plane direction of the recording layer, and a current application part configured to allow a write current to flow through the adjacent layer in the first direction or a second direction which is opposite to the first direction. The external magnetic field application part is configured to switch a direction of a second external magnetic field applied in a direction perpendicular to the first direction in accordance with a direction of the write current.
US10037783B2	Wrapped data storage device for reducing vibration A data storage device (DSD) is assembled with a flexible sheet of barrier material covering at least a portion of the top cover and/or bottom base of the DSD enclosure, whereby a layer of air is between the sheet of barrier material and the cover and/or base. Polyvinlyidene chloride (PVDC) may be used as the barrier material. A wrap-around structure may be used for the barrier material, enveloping the DSD so that an open end can be positioned open to a primary direction of airflow, such that a respective layer of air is created between the barrier material and each of the cover and/or base. An adhesive may be positioned around the outer edge of the cover and/or base, to adhere the sheet of barrier material to the respective cover and/or base while allowing the air layer to fill the space therebetween.
US10037782B1	Storage array enclosure having sidewall step for use with expansion module An enclosure has a sidewall with a step that results in an upper part of the sidewall extending over a slide mounting region. A backplane is located at a base of the enclosure and is configured to receive a plurality of data storage drives. A circuit carrier extends from the backplane to the step in the side of the enclosure. The circuit carrier has one or more connectors proximate an upper surface of the step and is configured to receive one or more expansion modules that expand a functionality of the backplane.
US10037779B1	Read-after-write methodology using multiple actuators moveable over the same magnetic recording disk surface One or more magnetic recording disks are coupled to a spindle motor, each of the disks having opposing recording surfaces. Two or more actuators are moveable independently over at least a first recording surface of the one or more disks. A first actuator of the two or more actuators comprises a first write head and a first read head. A second actuator of the two or more actuators comprises at least a second read head and may include a second write head. A controller is coupled to the two or more actuators and configured to write data to a track on the first recording surface using the first write head, and perform a read operation on the data written to the track using the second read head. The controller is also configured to verify that the data was successfully written to the track in response to the read operation. The read operation can be performed within less than one revolution of the first recording surface after the write operation.
US10037778B1	Indexing zones for storage devices Technologies are provided for using an index in one region of a storage device to track modifications to data stored in another region of the storage device. The index can be stored in a first storage region using a first storage format, and data items can be stored in a second storage region using a second storage format. The index can map logical identifiers for data items to locations in the second storage region where the data items are stored. Instead of modifying a data item in the second storage device region, an entry in the index can be updated to mark the data item as deleted. Requests for data items can be reconciled using the index before returning the requested data items. Storage locations in the second region that are associated with index entries that are marked as deleted can be reclaimed and used to store additional data items.
US10037766B2	Apparatus and method for generating bandwith extension signal An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal includes an anti-sparseness processing unit to perform anti-sparseness processing on a low-frequency spectrum; and a frequency domain high-frequency extension decoding unit to perform high-frequency extension encoding in the frequency domain on the low-frequency spectrum on which the anti-sparseness processing is performed.
US10037761B1	Audio decoder state update for packet loss concealment Techniques are provided for updating state data of an audio decoder for packet loss concealment (PLC). A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes decoding encoded bits in a sequence of audio packets. A decoder history buffer stores the encoded bits and decimated state data associated with the decoding of those bits. The decimation factor of the state data is based on a down-sampling rate of the decoder. The method further includes performing PLC for an invalid audio packet using concealment samples from a PLC history buffer. The state of the audio decoder is updated from the decoder history buffer, based on timing associated with the concealment samples. The method further includes re-decoding the stored encoded bits associated with the updated state data, to further update the state of the audio decoder for subsequent decoding of a valid audio packet following the invalid audio packet.
US10037756B2	Analysis of long-term audio recordings Techniques for analyzing long-term audio recordings are provided. In one embodiment, a computing device can record audio captured from an environment of a user on a long-term basis (e.g., on the order of weeks, months, or years). The computing device can store the recorded audio on a local or remote storage device. The computing device can then analyze the recorded audio based one or more predefined rules and can enable one or more actions based on that analysis.
US10037754B1	Surgical helmet with hearing protection A surgical helmet assembly includes a surgical helmet, headphones mounted on the surgical helmet, and a noise cancellation system configured to supply a noise cancelling audio input to the headphones to mitigate unwanted ambient noise. A gain of the noise cancelling audio input is configurable to permit necessary feedback noise from surgical tools or the like to be heard by the wearer.
US10037750B2	Systems and methods for analyzing components of audio tracks A method is described comprising receiving a stem signal and an audio mix signal, wherein the audio mix signal comprises information of the stem signal. The method includes applying a first transform to the stem signal to provide a first stem spectrum, applying a second transform to the stem signal to provide a second stem spectrum, generating a plurality of mix signals using the audio mix signal, applying a first transform to each mix signal of the plurality of mix signals to provide a corresponding first mix signal spectrum, applying a second transform to each mix signal of the plurality of mix signals to provide a corresponding second mix signal spectrum, and using information of the first stem spectrum, the second stem spectrum, a first mix signal spectrum, or a second mix signal spectrum to detect the information of the stem signal in the audio mix signal.
US10037749B2	Apparatus and methods for a collapsible stand for a stringed instrument A collapsible and height adjustable stand for a stringed musical instrument is described; specifically, a compact, portable and customizable stand for holding stringed instruments in a secure upright position. The stand can be easily used and also collapsed back quickly after use. Padding on the top and bottom cradle handles holds the instrument and cushions the stringed instruments. Also, a bow hook attached to the upper part of the stand allows for hanging the bow. The adjustable height feature allows the stand to hold musical stringed instruments of different sizes.
US10037739B2	Gate driving circuit, display device and gate pulse modulation method A gate driving and modulating circuit, for reduced flicker on a display, includes a first discharge circuit and a plurality of interconnected gate drivers. The plurality of gate drivers is electrically coupled to ground through the first discharge circuit. Each of the plurality of gate drivers includes a second discharge circuit. The gate driving circuit performs a chamfering of a gate signal by being simultaneously discharged through the first discharge circuit and the second discharge circuit.
US10037738B2	Display gate driver circuits with dual pulldown transistors A display is provided that includes an array of display pixels and gate driver circuitry for providing data and gate line signals to the display pixels. Gate driver circuitry may include gate driver circuits that generate the gate line signals. A gate driver circuit may include at least a buffer transistor, a bootstrapping capacitor coupled to the buffer transistor, a pulldown transistor coupled in series with the buffer transistor, and an isolation transistor coupled to the gate of the pulldown transistor. The buffer transistor may directly receive a first clock signal, whereas the isolation transistor may directly receive a second clock signal that is complementary to the first clock signal. The pulldown transistor is substantially larger than the buffer transistor. The buffer transistor is substantially larger than the isolation transistor. Configured as such, clock loading is minimized while the pulldown transistor is sized to provide the desired fall time performance.
US10037735B2	Active matrix display with dual driving modes An active matrix electro-optic display (100) includes capacitor electrodes (110, 112) associated with the pixel electrodes (106, 108) so that the pixel electrode and its associated capacitor electrode form a capacitor. The display (100) also includes switching means (120) having one position in which each capacitor electrode (110, 112) is electrically connected to the light-transmissive front electrode (102) of the display (100) and a second position in which each capacitor electrode (110, 112) is electrically connected to a voltage source having a voltage independent of the voltage on the light-transmissive electrode.
US10037731B2	Driver, electro-optical apparatus, and electronic device A driver includes a power supply circuit including a voltage boosting circuit that generates a boosted voltage by performing a voltage boosting operation, and a driving circuit that receives a power supply from the power supply circuit, and samples a driving voltage to drive a display panel. The voltage boosting circuit has a voltage boosting unit having a voltage boosting transistor, and a voltage boosting control circuit that outputs a voltage boosting clock signal to the voltage boosting unit. The voltage boosting control circuit stops the voltage boosting clock signal in a first period that includes a timing of an end of a sampling period of the driving circuit.
US10037730B2	Pixel circuit, drive method, array substrate, display panel and display device A pixel circuit is disclosed, which includes a charging module, a storage module, an adjusting module, a data-in module, a drive module, and a light-emitting device. A first end of the charging module is configured to receive a first voltage signal, a second end of the charging module is coupled to a first end of the light-emitting device, and a third end of the charging module is coupled to a first end of the memory module, a second end of the light-emitting device and a first end of the drive module. A second end of the storage module is coupled to a first end of the adjusting module. A second end of the adjusting module is coupled to a second end of the data-in module and a third end of the drive module. A first end of the data-in module is configured to receive a data signal.
US10037709B2	Method, system and computer program for decision support A decision support method for use by an operator surrounded by adverse entities in a battlefield environment comprises generating a layered representation of the physical environment surrounding the operator from sensor information by mapping the spherical physical environment of the operator into a geometrical representation suitable for display on a screen, the representation being segmented into a plurality of layers having respective sizes, each layer being associated with a respective category of tactical actions. The representation further comprises visual elements representing adverse entities in the surrounding physical environment of the operator, each visual element being represented so as to be superposed with a given layer.
US10037679B1	Garbage reminder system A garbage reminder system for reminding a user to place a garbage can for pickup includes a garbage can that has an outer wall. An alarm unit is provided and the alarm unit is coupled to the garbage can. The alarm unit is programmable to emit an audible alarm at a selected time and date. In this way the alarm unit issues a reminder to set the garbage can at a curb for pickup.
US10037675B2	Remotely controlling aspects of pools and spas Systems and methods of (remotely) controlling aspects of pools and spas and of modifying water contained therein are detailed. Internet-enabled access to pool and spa controllers may happen without any need for users to create firewall ports or utilize static internet protocol addresses. Certain networking devices may be configured using a USB connection or SD card, avoiding any requirement for an Ethernet cable or supplying separate power to the devices during configuration. Time-varying data may be obtained in respect of one or more installations and analyzed for various information.
US10037672B1	Smart garments that identify user changes Sensor data generated by at least a portion of a plurality of sensors integrated into a smart garment is received. The sensor data can indicate a level at which fabric of the smart garment is stretched when worn by a user. Based on the sensor data, at least one size change parameter indicating a change in a size of the user can be determined. Based on the size change parameter, whether a size of the smart garment is not suitable for the smart garment to be worn by the user can be determined. Responsive to determining that size of the smart garment is not suitable for the smart garment to be worn by the user, a notification can be output. The notification can indicate that the size of the smart garment is not suitable for the smart garment to be worn by the user.
US10037671B2	Human respiration feature extraction in personal emergency response systems and methods A non-wearable Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) architecture is provided, implementing RF interferometry using synthetic aperture antenna arrays to derive ultra-wideband echo signals which are analyzed and then processed by a two-stage human state classifier and abnormal states pattern recognition. Systems and methods transmit ultra-wide band radio frequency signals at, and receive echo signals from, the environment, process the received echo signals to yield a range-bin-based slow signal that is spatially characterized over a plurality of spatial range bins, and estimate respiration parameter(s) of the human(s) by analyzing the slow signal. The antennas may be arranged in several linear baselines, implement virtual displacements, and may be set into multiple communicating sub-arrays. A classifier uses respiration and other derived features to classify the state of the human(s). A decision process is carried out based on the instantaneous human state (local decision) followed by abnormal states patterns recognition (global decision).
US10037667B2	Wristband and application to allow one person to monitor another According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a wearable device includes a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are configured to detect information concerning a wearer or a surrounding of the wearer of the wearable device. At least some of the detected information is automatically communicated from the wearable device to a remote application based on either a request from a user of the remote application or a trigger initiated on the wearable device when the detected information from the one or more sensors indicate an event has occurred. In certain configurations, the event may be an uttered request for help or a detect increase in heart rate above an expected signature. In certain configurations, some of the information is transmitted to a security or law enforcement agency. In certain configurations, some of the information transmitted is prior recorded information that would otherwise be deleted had the request or trigger not occurred.
US10037661B2	Applications of systems and methods for eliciting cutaneous sensations by electromagnetic radiation Disclosed herein are a variety of multimodal sensory stimulation systems and related methods for providing multimodal sensory experiences to users. In various embodiments, a multimodal sensory stimulation may be configured to provide a tactile sensation using an optical stimulation system. The output of the optical stimulation system may selectively directed onto a target area of skin of the user to induct a tactile representation of a simulated object. A multimodal sensory component may provide a component in communication with the controller and configured to selectively deliver a multimodal sensory representation of the simulated object. In various embodiments, the multimodal sensory component may be configured to display a visual representation of the simulated object or to generate an aural representation of the simulated object. The sensory modalities may be adapted in time and intensity to create a sensory experience associated with the simulated object.
US10037653B2	Peer-to-peer (P2P) code exchange facilitation in centrally managed online service Technologies are generally provided for a hybrid architecture of an enhanced networked environment implementing a centralized management of peer-to-peer (P2P) code exchange for secure real-time content distribution. In some examples, central game servers in a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) service may prepare both P2P admission and eviction planning and P2P element integration packages, instructing a game client whom to send data to while also removing exploitable data from the P2P channel. Thus, large amounts of data may be offloaded from a datacenter hosting an MMOG or similar service involving high numbers of users to P2P connections.
US10037641B2	Systems and methods for individual identification and authorization utilizing conformable electronics An identification device includes, but is not limited to, a deformable substrate configured to conform to a skin surface of a body portion of a healthcare provider; a sensor assembly coupled to the deformable substrate, the sensor assembly including one or more identity sensors configured to generate one or more identity sense signals associated with at least one physical characteristic of an individual subject other than the healthcare provider; circuitry configured to compare the one or more identity sense signals generated by the sensor assembly to reference data indicative of one or more physical characteristics associated with an identity; and a reporter configured to generate one or more communication signals associated with a comparison of the one or more identity sense signals generated by the sensor assembly to reference data indicative of one or more physical characteristics associated with an identity of at least one individual.
US10037627B2	Augmented visualization system for hidden structures An augmented visualization system includes a camera operable to capture a base image of a field of view. A spatial sensor is configured to sense a position of the camera and to generate positional information corresponding to the position. A controller is in communication with the camera, the spatial sensor, and a data source having stored geospatial data. The controller is configured to determine when the geospatial data corresponds to a location in the field of view of the camera based on the positional information. The controller is also configured to generate a geospatial image in response to the controller determining that the location corresponding to the geospatial data is in the field of view. A display is in communication with the controller and is operable to display a composite image in which the geospatial image is overlaid with the base image.
US10037621B2	Hierarchical quadrant based coverage testing for rasterization In embodiments described herein, graphics hardware is described to reduce the number of wasted clock cycles expended during rasterization and performs coverage test iteration in a cache coherent manner. An exemplary embodiment comprises block selection logic to select an initial block of pixels associated with edges of a primitive and edge determination logic to analyze the initial block of pixels to determine a set of fully covered quadrants of the initial block of pixels and analyze a block of pixels adjacent to the initial block of pixels to determine whether the block of adjacent pixels is void.
US10037612B2	Three dimensional data acquisition with orthogonal composite pattern for structured light illuminated vision Technologies are generally described for phase measuring profilometry (PMP) using structured light patterns based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In some examples, a composite structured light pattern generated using OFDM may be used to illuminate a surface of interest. The surface may reflect a phase-distorted version of the structured light pattern, and the phase-distorted structured light pattern may be processed to recover image and/or height information about the surface. In some embodiments, fast Fourier transform schemes may be used to generate the composite structured light pattern and process the phase-distorted structured light pattern.
US10037610B1	Method for tracking and segmenting a target object in an image using Markov Chain, and device using the same A method for tracking a target object in frames of video data using Absorbing Markov Chain (AMC), including steps of: (a) acquiring a bounding box containing the target object in a current frame and a segmentation result for the target object in a previous frame; (b) obtaining obtain a region of interest (ROI) in the current frame by enlarging the bounding box to contain a portion of background information surrounding the target object; (c) acquiring information on local regions within the ROI in the current frame; (d) constructing an AMC graph using at least part of the local regions within the region of interest (ROI) in the current frame and local regions within a region of interest (ROI) in the previous frame; and (e) acquiring a segmentation result for the target object within the current frame by thresholding individual nodes in the AMC graph using absorption times thereof.
US10037605B2	Video object tagging using synthetic images and segmentation hierarchies There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to obtain a first frame of a video content including an object and a first region based on a segmentation hierarchy of the first frame, insert a synthetic object into the first frame, merge an object segmentation hierarchy of the synthetic object with the segmentation hierarchy of the first frame to create a merged segmentation hierarchy, select a second region based on the merged segmentation hierarchy, provide the first frame including the first region and the second region to a crowd user for creating a corrected frame, receive the corrected frame from the crowd user including a first corrected region including the object and a second corrected region including the synthetic object, determine a quality based on the synthetic object and the second corrected region, and accept the first corrected region based on the quality.
US10037604B2	Multi-cue object detection and analysis Foreground objects of interest are distinguished from a background model by dividing a region of interest of a video data image into a grid array of individual cells. Each of the cells are labeled as foreground if accumulated edge energy within the cell meets an edge energy threshold, or if color intensities for different colors within each cell differ by a color intensity differential threshold, or as a function of combinations of said determinations.
US10037596B2	In-vehicle optical image stabilization (OIS) Embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for in-vehicle optical image stabilization. In one embodiment, the system includes a first motion sensor rigidly attached to a video capture device mounted in a vehicle; a second motion sensor rigidly attached to an object in the vehicle, the object being within the field of view of the video capture device; and a controller. The controller is operatively connected to the first motion sensor, to the second motion sensor, and to a movable optical element in the video capture device. In one aspect, the first sensor provides a first output signal to the controller, the second sensor provides a second output signal to the controller; and the controller provides a compensation signal to the movable element determined by the first and second output signals.
US10037590B2	Low-power graphics processing using fixed-function unit in graphics processing unit A graphics processing unit and associated graphics processing method are provided. The graphics processing unit includes: an execution unit, for performing shader execution and texture loading; a fixed-function unit, for executing a graphics rendering pipeline; a memory-access unit; a texture unit, for reading texture data from a memory via the memory-access unit according to the data requirement of the execution unit or the fixed-function unit; and a command stream parser, for receiving a draw command from a display driver, and transmitting the draw command to the execution unit or the fixed-function unit to perform graphics processing according to the type of draw command. When the command stream parser determines that the draw command is a specific draw command, the command stream parser transmits the draw command only to the fixed-function unit to perform graphics processing, and turns off power to the execution unit.
US10037585B2	Systems and methods for managing table and seating use in commercial establishments Computerized systems and methods are provided for allocating and managing table and seating inventory at commercial establishments, such as restaurants. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method receives a first request to allocate table inventory at a commercial establishment. In some aspects, the first request may include a first party size and a first requested time. Based on a received request, the method may determine a mode of allocation associated with the commercial establishment. The method may identifying one or more first units of table inventory capable of accommodating the first party size at the first requested time. In certain aspects, the identification may be based on at least the determined allocation mode.
US10037578B2	Route risk mitigation A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed.
US10037574B2	Systems and methods to display chart bars with variable scaling and/or aggregation Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes receiving market data related to a tradeable object offered at an exchange, aggregating a first data subset of the market data for a first period, and aggregating a second data subset of the market data for a second period. The second period represents a period of time different from the first period. The example method includes defining a first bar based on the first data subset and a first bar-width, and defining a second bar based on the second data subset and a second bar-width. The second bar-width is related to the first bar-width based on a width-scaling factor. The example method includes displaying the first bar and the second bar in the window, wherein the first bar and the second bar are separated by a bar-spacing.
US10037572B2	System and method for multi-market risk control in a distributed electronic trading environment A system and method are provided for distributed risk management. According to one example embodiment, a central risk controller is provided that can communicate with a plurality of local risk management modules located at a plurality of gateways. The central risk controller may allocate a portion of a central account balance associated with a trading account to each local risk management module. Then, as the trades are made using the trading account, the local risk management modules may manage risk associated with the trades until the local account balance is insufficient. As the account balance gets low, the local risk management module may query the central risk controller for the additional risk account balance.
US10037571B2	System and method for reducing the risks involved in trading multiple spread trading strategies System and methods for reducing the risks involved in trading multiple spread trading strategies in an electronic trading environment are provided. Specifically, reducing the risks involved in trading multiple spreads that share a leg by, among other things, quoting a single order in the shared leg instead of quoting orders for each of the corresponding spread legs. Based on the computed quote price for the single order, associating the single order with the leaned on price that results in the price closest to the inside market in the shared leg. The single quote order is based on the market conditions in the spread legs and the desired spread price. Once the single order fills, a hedge order is sent to the leg that obtains the most advantageous price for the spread based on the other spread options.
US10037565B2	System and method for prioritization of rendering policies in virtual environments A system and method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, includes receiving one or more bids for at least one of an enhanced rendering quality and an enhanced rendering order of an object in a virtual universe (VU) and performing a bid resolution for the received one or more bids. Additionally, the method includes rendering one or more objects in the VU with the at least one of the enhanced rendering quality and the enhanced rendering order based on the bid resolution.
US10037564B2	Methods and systems to facilitate a purchase of an item on a network-based marketplace Systems and methods to facilitate a purchase of an item on a network-based marketplace are described. A method receives a request via an application program interface that is presented by a network-based marketplace platform in a peer-to-peer architecture and utilized to receive the request from a network-based social platform. The request includes an identifier that identifies an item that is being offered for sale on the network-based marketplace platform. The method generates a virtual gift based on the item and interface information including the virtual gift. The method further communicates the interface information via the application program interface to the network-based social platform in the peer-to-peer architecture. The interface information includes the visually perceptible interface element that is configured to enable, upon selection, a purchase of the item on which the virtual gift is based by utilizing the application program interface to access the network-based marketplace platform.
US10037555B2	Systems and methods to supplement search results returned to a buyer of parts Methods and systems to supplement search results returned to a buyer of parts are described. The system receives a first query from a buyer. The first query includes keywords. The system identifies at least one compatibility keyword included in the keywords. The system further infers that the other keywords in the query are item information that describes a part that is sought for on a network-based marketplace. The system further infers the part has a compatibility based on the compatibility keywords. Next, the system searches a data storage device based on the item information and the compatibility keywords to identify a first listing as matched. Finally, the system presents the first listing describing the matched part. The matched part is indicated as compatible by supplementing the presentation of the first listing with the compatibility keywords from the first query.
US10037553B2	Selecting vehicle type for providing transport A transport arrangement system operates to receive a transport request from a user, and to make a selection of a vehicle type for the user based at least in part on a set of criteria associated with the transport request or user information. For example, the determination of whether an autonomous vehicle is to be provided can be based at least in part on the destination specified with the transport request.
US10037549B2	Methods and systems for detecting home and employment change conversions Systems and methods for providing conversion metrics for ads related to the housing industry or the employment industry are provided. A system can identify a plurality of ads provided for display to a plurality of identifiers. Each of the plurality of ads is related to one of a housing industry or an employment industry. The system can identify, for an advertiser providing a subset of the identified plurality of ads, one or more identifiers to which the subset of the identified plurality of ads are provided for display. The system can determine, from a location database that includes location information of the plurality of identifiers, a number of identifiers of the identifiers to which the subset of the identified plurality of ads are provided for display that changed locations. The system can then provide, to the advertiser, a conversion metric based on the number of identifiers that changed locations responsive to determining that the number of identifiers is greater than a predetermined threshold.
US10037542B2	Automated teller machine (ATM) interface One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US10037529B2	Online machine data collection and archiving process An online machine data collection and archiving process generates a machine data profile of a customer computer accessing a transaction form of a merchant web site and links the machine data profile and a transaction record with customer identifying information using a unique transaction identification string. The process preferably captures parameters typically communicated as a part of web accesses, such as an IP address, an HTTP header, and cookie information. The process additionally causes the customer computer to process self-identification routines by processing coding within the merchant transaction form, the self-identification routines yielding further profile parameters. The process further includes a routine for bypassing an intervening proxy to the merchant web site to reveal the true IP address of the customer computer.
US10037523B2	Over the air update of payment transaction data stored in secure memory A system, apparatus, and method for processing payment transactions that are conducted using a mobile device that includes a contactless element, such as an integrated circuit chip. The invention enables the updating, correction or synchronization of transaction data maintained by an Issuer with that stored on the device. This is accomplished by using a wireless (cellular) network as a data communication channel for data provided by an Issuer to the mobile device, and is particularly advantageous in circumstances in which the contactless element is not presently capable of communication with a device reader or point of sale terminal that uses a near field communications mechanism. Data transferred between the mobile device and Issuer may be encrypted and decrypted to provide additional security and protect the data from being accessed by other users or applications. If encryption keys are used for the encryption and decryption processes, they may be distributed by a key distribution server or other suitable entity to a mobile gateway which participates in the data encryption and decryption operations.
US10037507B2	System and method for improved quality management in a product logistic chain A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of product unit specific indicators, each operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedence of at least one threshold by at least one product quality determining parameter, an indicator reader operative to read the product unit specific indicators and to provide output indications and a product type specific indication interpreter operative to receive the output indications and to provide human sensible, product unit specific, product quality status outputs.
US10037491B1	Context-based sentiment analysis Context-based sentiment analysis includes: determining whether a piece of comment data included in a comment is context-sensitive, the determination being made with reference to a set of comment features; determining a context sentiment type of an associated context related to the piece of comment data, the associated context being distinct from the comment, in the event that the piece of comment data is determined to be context-sensitive, and the determination being made with reference to at least a set of context features; and classifying the comment data in the event that the piece of comment data is determined to be context-sensitive, the classification being based at least in part on the comment data and the context sentiment type.
US10037485B2	Flexible IC tag Provided is an IC tag favorably applicable even to linen products. An IC tag 100 using a magnetic field type tag unit 110 in which an IC chip and a coil antenna to be electrically connected to the IC chip are embedded inside a hard resin material. The IC tag includes: a flexible film made of resin (a base film 121, a cover film 123, and a protective film 124); and an auxiliary antenna 122 formed on the film, wherein the magnetic field type tag unit 110 is fixed to the film by an adhesive 130 with elasticity at a position that enables communication by electromagnetic coupling between the coil antenna and the auxiliary antenna 122.
US10037484B2	System and method for tracking agricultural product units A system for tracking a harvested agricultural product unit includes a magazine configured to be disposed on an agricultural implement and to facilitate insertion of one or more stakes into the harvested agricultural product unit. The magazine is also configured to store the one or more stakes having a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag is configured to identify the harvested agricultural product unit and to associate the harvested agricultural product unit with harvesting data. Further, the system includes an insertion device configured to insert one of the stakes from the magazine into the harvested agricultural product unit.
US10037478B1	Computer architecture for emulating master-slave controllers for a correlithm object processing system A device that includes a master boss and a slave boss. The slave boss is configured to iteratively send execute and output commands to a first plurality of nodes implemented by a node engine identified in a first boss table in response to receiving an execute command from the master boss. The master boss is configured to iteratively send execute and output commands to the slave boss and a second plurality of nodes implemented by the node engine identified in a second boss table. Each node is configured to receive a first correlithm object, fetch a second correlithm object based on the first correlithm object in response to receiving an execute command, and output the second correlithm object in response to receiving an output command.
US10037477B2	Combined intensity and coherent change detection in images Described embodiments detect changes in a scene over time using first and second images of the scene. A non-coherent intensity change detector detects large-scale changes between the first image and the second image and generates a large-scale change value for pairs of corresponding pixel locations in the first and second images. If the large-scale change value for a given pair of pixel locations reaches a threshold, a coherent change detector is used to detect small-scale changes between the first and second images. A small-scale change value is generated for the given pairs of pixel locations in the images. A composite change value is generated by combining the large-scale change value and the small-scale change value for each pixel pair. The change thresholds are used to determine whether a change in the scene has occurred over the time period.
US10037461B2	Biometric authentication, and near-eye wearable device Biometric authentication can comprise: obtaining, in response to an access request, verification information for biometric authentication and a piece of depth information corresponding to a presentation depth of the verification information; presenting the verification information at the presentation depth according to the piece of depth information; acquiring gaze point depth information of an eye of a user during presentation of the verification information; and analyzing whether the gaze point depth information is consistent with the piece of depth information, to determine whether the biometric authentication succeeds. Also, verification information for biometric authentication can be presented at a depth corresponding to the verification information, and whether the biometric authentication succeeds can be determined by determining whether a gaze point depth of an eye of a user during presentation of the verification information is consistent with the depth, thereby improving accuracy of authentication and security of object access.
US10037458B1	Automated sign language recognition A sign language recognizer is configured to detect interest points in an extracted sign language feature, wherein the interest points are localized in space and time in each image acquired from a plurality of frames of a sign language video; apply a filter to determine one or more extrema of a central region of the interest points; associate features with each interest point using a neighboring pixel function; cluster a group of extracted sign language features from the images based on a similarity between the extracted sign language features; represent each image by a histogram of visual words corresponding to the respective image to generate a code book; train a classifier to classify each extracted sign language feature using the code book; detect a posture in each frame of the sign language video using the trained classifier; and construct a sign gesture based on the detected postures.
US10037448B2	Conditional retrieval In one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is disclosed. The method involves: a reader detecting an eye-mountable device within a wireless communication range of the reader, wherein the eye-mountable device includes a transparent material having a concave mounting surface configured to be removably mounted on a corneal surface; wirelessly retrieving from the detected eye-mountable device a first set of data; using the retrieved first set of data to determine that a condition has been satisfied; and responsive to using the retrieved first set of data to determine that the condition has been satisfied, retrieving from the detected eye-mountable device a second set of data.
US10037446B2	Electrical interface module The object of the invention is an electrical interface module. The electrical interface module has a memory device for storing data and an integrated NFC interface that provides data to an external reading device, wherein the electrical interface module contains a carrier on which the memory device and the integrated NFC interface are arranged.
US10037444B1	Weak RFID tag signal recovery from collisions RFID readers may be configured to recover multiple, collided RFID tag signals. An RFID reader may receive a collided reply waveform including at least first and second tag responses. The reader may determine that the collided reply waveform contains multiple tag responses and recover the first and second tag responses from the collided reply waveform. The reader may first recover the first tag response, reconstruct the first tag response, and subtract the reconstructed first tag response from the collided reply waveform to form a modified tag response. The reader may then recover the second tag response from the modified tag response.
US10037442B2	Anti-copy electronic device An anti-copy electronic device contains: a wireless signal controller having a sensor, and the wireless signal controller and the sensor are accommodated in a casing. The sensor has humidity detection, pressure detection, lights detection, color temperature detection, ultraviolet (UV) detection, and special gases detection in an interior space of the casing. After the casing is removed, the sensor detects a change of humidity, pressure, lights, color temperature, ultraviolet (UV), and special gases in the interior space and sends an indication signal to the wireless signal controller so that the wireless signal controller destroys a password setting program of the wireless signal controller, thus avoiding copy of the password setting program.
US10037437B1	Identifying cohorts with anomalous confidential data submissions using matrix factorization and completion techniques In an example, for each value of a plurality of values of a first attribute of members of a social networking service who have submitted confidential data, an allowed range for normalized confidential data values submitted by members having the value for the first attribute, across all values of a second attribute, is calculated, and then shifted based on an inferred median confidential data value relative to a median of confidential data values. Then, anomalous confidential data values can be detected using this information.
US10037436B2	Device using secure storage and retrieval of data An appliance is capable of storing and processing data related to details surrounding its ownership, behavior, and history within itself in a secure and unalterable way. The appliance may experience multiple transfers in ownership during its lifetime. Certain data stored in the appliance may be encrypted such that only qualifying parties (e.g., owners) may be able to access the data. Some data may remain private to an individual owner while other data may be made available to subsequent owners by passing a shared secret that can be utilized to decrypt the other data. Data may be stored in the appliance in chronological order and may be signed by appropriate parties such that it is not possible to alter the data without detection.
US10037430B2	System and method for controlling the on and off state of features of business logic at runtime Methods and systems are provided for controlling the execution of business logic that allows features to be turned on or off at run time for each particular user entity of a plurality of user entities. Prior to run time a library is configured based on an administrator's interaction with an interactive control panel at a computer of the system. For each particular user entity and for each particular code block of an object that comprises a plurality of code blocks each corresponding to a particular feature and having an enabling predicate associated with that particular code block, the library can be configured by defining an on/off state for each feature of that particular code block via an enabling predicate associated with that particular feature. The library can then be cached in a custom settings cache of the system for use at run time.
US10037427B1	Boot blocking of virtual storage appliance A method of controlling startup of a virtual storage appliance includes obtaining resource information about virtual resources (e.g., hardware resources) available in a virtual-computing environment of the host computer, and comparing the resource information with resource profiles describing sets of virtual resources compatible with resource needs of the virtual storage appliance. A comparison result is used to selectively enable or disable remaining startup of the virtual storage appliance, the remaining startup being enabled when the resource information matches one of the resource profiles, and being disabled when resource information does not match any of the resource profiles. A user may be notified using a reporting mechanism, and the virtual machine may be placed into a service mode that includes facilities for examining configuration and other information to determine the cause of a mismatch.
US10037418B2	Pre-boot authentication credential sharing system A pre-boot authentication (PBA) credential sharing system includes a secure subsystem including an off-host processing system and a secure storage. A credential management application is coupled to the off-host processing system. A data protection engine is coupled to the off-host processing system and a PBA database. The data protection engine receives a notification from the off-host processor of the enrollment of an authentication credential in the secure storage by the credential management application, and provides PBA object information for association with the authentication credential to create a PBA object that is stored in the secure storage. Subsequently, while in a pre-boot environment, the data protection engine requests the PBA object from the secure storage, retrieves storage authentication information from the PBA database using the PBA object, and performs a pre-boot authentication process using the storage authentication information.
US10037414B2	Enhanced user control for content protection solutions This disclosure relates to enhanced user control for content protection solutions. An options component determines or infers a set of digital rights management solutions supported by a content source, and a data component determines or infers information associated with respective digital rights management solutions supported by the content source. The set of digital rights management solutions can further be supported by a client device. A prompt component provides a user a set of digital rights management options based at least in part on the set of digital rights management solutions supported by the content source and the information, and enables the user to select zero or more of the digital rights management options. The content source can enable access for a subset of associated content based at least in part on the selections of the user.
US10037411B2	Intelligent alert suppression Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for intelligent suppression of alerts. Alerts may be evaluated prior to presentation to determine whether to present the alert or suppress the alert to reduce alert fatigue. The evaluation includes analysis of the alert including specific alert parameters. Alert parameters include, but are not limited to, an age of the patient, one or more diagnoses of the patient, one or more problems of the patient, etc. Additional parameters that may be evaluated include an alert severity score, a threshold value, and an override rate. Alerts that qualify may be suppressed and the suppressed alerts may be provided as non-interruptive alerts (i.e., alerts that may be presented but do not require action in order to continue with a workflow).
US10037395B2	Systems and methods for improving battery performance A computer-implemented method for modeling the amount of current discharged by a battery is provided. The method is implemented by a computing device communicatively coupled with a memory, and includes generating, by the computing device, a model of at least one battery cell comprising a positive electrode region, a negative electrode region, and a separator region. The method also includes transforming the positive electrode region, the negative electrode region, and the separator region of the battery into a single region in the model. In addition, the method includes generating, by the computing device, a plurality of trial functions associated with the single region, and determining, by the computing device, the amount of current discharged from the battery cell based on the trial functions.
US10037391B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided with a plurality of semiconductor chips, each of which simulates interactions between nodes of an interaction model, and an inter-chip wire, wherein the plurality of semiconductor chips are used to simulate interactions between nodes of a single interaction model; each semiconductor chip includes a connection unit that sends and receives some of the values indicating the state of the nodes, which are retained by a necessary element unit, via inter-chip wire to and from another semiconductor chip or sends and receives the values indicating state of the nodes, which are retained by the necessary element unit to and from the other semiconductor chip while sharing the inter-chip wire by means of time sharing.
US10037389B2	Dynamic window adjustments in a streaming environment A first stream operator can receive a first tuple including a first set of attributes to be stored in a first window and a second tuple including a second set of attributes to be stored in a second window. The first window and the second window can each have an eviction policy. In response to triggering the eviction policy for the first window and the second window, the first tuple stored in the first window can be compared with the second tuple stored in the second window. Based upon the comparing, it can be determined that the first tuple and the second tuple go outside of a join threshold. In response to determining that the first tuple and the second tuple go outside of a join threshold, the eviction policy of the first window can be altered.
US10037386B1	Data replication optimization for online social network cloud computing Systems and methods are provided for optimizing data storage allocation and replication of user data in computing systems. For example, a method includes determining a ranking of each data center in the computing system for a given user of the computing system, and selecting a first data center to store a primary copy of user data, and a second data center to store a replica copy of the user data, based at least in part on the determined rankings of the data centers for the given user. The data centers are ranked using a ranking function which includes an access ratio that is determined as ratio of (i) a number of times that each of a total number of users in the given data center have accessed shared data of the given user to (ii) a number of data uploads that the given user has made to the computing system.
US10037384B2	Method and apparatus for notifying a user of updated content for a webpage An electronic device with one or more processors and memory receives a user input corresponding to a request to monitor a webpage. The electronic device obtains, in accordance with a predetermined monitoring frequency, current summary information corresponding to the webpage. The electronic device determines whether the webpage includes updated content based on the summary information corresponding to the webpage. In accordance with a determination that the webpage includes updated content, the electronic device presents an indication of the updated content.
US10037381B2	Apparatus and method for searching information based on Wikipedia's contents The present invention is to provide an apparatus for searching information based on Wikipedia's contents comprising: a document converting part extracting fulltext documents, section title documents, info-box documents, category documents and definition statement documents from Wikipedia original documents and generating at least one of Wikipedia documents for questions and answers; a document indexing part analyzing the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, extracting POS-based index terms from the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, and generating a Wikipedia document index for questions and answers; a question analyzing part receiving a natural language question, analyzing a question pattern, an answer pattern and a question focus from the natural language question, and extracting document search keywords; a document searching part performing document search by using the document search keywords from the Wikipedia document index for questions and answers and generating document search result from each Wikipedia document index for questions and answers; an answer extracting part extracting first answers by using information about the question pattern, the answer pattern and the question focus from the document search result; and an answer integrating part integrating and prioritizing the first answer and generating a second answer.
US10037376B2	Throughput-based fan-out control in scalable distributed data stores The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system determines a current incoming queries per second (QPS) to one or more components for processing queries of a graph database, wherein the graph database is replicated across multiple clusters and distributed among a set of storage nodes in each of the clusters. Next, the system uses the current incoming QPS to estimate, for the one or more components, an expected QPS associated with fanning out of the queries to the clusters. The system then selects a number of clusters in the multiple clusters for fanning out of a query based on the expected QPS and one or more throughput limits for the one or more components. Finally, the system transmits the query to one or more of the storage nodes in the selected number of clusters.
US10037363B2	Method and device for displaying search result on mobile terminal A method for displaying a search result on a mobile terminal and a device for displaying a search result on a mobile terminal are provided. The method for displaying the search result on the mobile terminal comprises sending a search request; receiving the search result containing a local application call identifier; and calling a local application in the mobile terminal according to the local application call identifier, and displaying the search result via the local application.
US10037359B2	Search results using social routing of content Systems and methods for improving search results using social routing are provided. In example embodiments, an affinity metric and match metric are determined for a plurality of users. The affinity metric indicates an interaction level between a given user and the match metric indicates how well the given user matches parameters of a search string. Based on a correlation between the affinity metric and the match metric, one or more items of content may be transmitted to one or more selected users. Improved search results can then be generated based on interactions with the one or more items of content.
US10037355B2	Mechanisms for merging index structures in MOLAP while preserving query consistency Novel methods are described herein to provide an OLAP database system that performs lock-less bulk insertion while maintaining high query performance and minimizing additional storage requirements. Aspects of the claimed subject matter include novel methods for merging two index structures while maintaining query consistency without the use of a versioning scheme by using copies of vertical segments of an index tree page; a method to prepare and merge two index structures that operates within storage constraints; and a method to execute queries concurrently while index maintenance is in progress while still producing consistent results. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a flexible index merge mechanism is provided that merges data from incremental indices to a primary data index in three phases: a load phase, a copy phase, and a replace phase.
US10037354B2	System for optimizing guide values A system for optimizing guide values, particularly in the field of infant feeding with mother's milk and/or in the field of medical drainage, which includes at least one first data set which has at least one first data group assigned to a first target group. The system also has a second data set, with at least one second data group assigned to a second target group. First data of the first target group are stored in the at least one first data group and second data of the second target group are stored in the at least one second data group. A data processing unit is used for processing the first and second data and for output of the guide values to the second target group. The data processing unit is formed in order to receive new data generated on the basis of the output of the guide values to the second target group and on the basis of the use of these guide values in the second target group and in order to convert the first data set on the basis of these new data for the purpose of optimizing future guide values.
US10037345B2	Clustering method and device A clustering method for applying to a plurality of classes each including one or more images as objects, includes: performing an iterative merge on the classes according to inter-class Rank-Order distances; obtaining an intra-class convergence degree of each class obtained by the iterative merge, based on inter-object distances in the class; and grouping, for each class obtained by the iterative merge, objects in the class that have a distance smaller than the intra-class convergence degree of the class into a new class, thereby to perform an update on the classes.
US10037344B2	Image storage and retrieval based on eye movements Various embodiments are generally directed to creating and using an index based on eye movements of the human eye to store and retrieve images in an image database. An apparatus comprises a processor circuit and a storage communicatively coupled to the processor circuit and storing instructions operative on the processor circuit to receive a first eye movement data associated with a first image provided by the apparatus from an image database stored in the storage; determine a first identity of a first object at a first focus region in the first image indicated by the first eye movement data; search the image database for an image depicting the first object; and provide a second image depicting the first object from the image database. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
US10037340B2	Tiered distributed storage policies A processing device identifies a file (or data block) and selects a storage location for the file based on a plurality of data distribution policies. To select the storage location, the processing device applies, at a top distribution layer, a first data distribution policy to select a first storage pool from a plurality of storage pools based on a first storage criterion. The processing device then applies, at a bottom distribution layer, a second data distribution policy associated with the first storage pool to select a first storage node from a plurality of storage nodes in the first storage pool based on a second storage criterion. The processing device stores at least a portion of the file in the first storage node of the first storage pool.
US10037337B1	Global deduplication Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for deduplicating chunks of data across multiple clusters. A process executing in a storage system identifies one or more chunks in an incoming stream of data. For each chunk, a first fingerprint corresponding to the chunk is generated. The process determines whether the first fingerprint matches a second fingerprint listed in a corresponding entry in a deduplication map. Each entry of the deduplication map corresponds to a chunk stored in a location in one of the storage clusters. Upon determining that the first fingerprint matches the second fingerprint, the process writes, to a local persistent storage, a pointer referencing the location in that storage cluster.
US10037336B1	Performing block deduplication using block sequence classifications A computer-implemented technique performs block deduplication. The technique involves generating a list of candidate blocks and adding classifications to the list of candidate blocks. The classifications classify the candidate blocks on the list into different categories based on a set of block sequence matching criteria. The technique further involves performing, based on the classifications added to the list of candidate blocks, further block deduplication processing on first candidate blocks having a first classification while not performing further block deduplication processing on second candidate blocks having a second classification. Examples of the categories include an “exact long match” category, a “disrupted long match” category, a “loosely long match” category, and a “short match” category.
US10037334B1	Memory management and sharing host OS files for Virtual Machines using execution-in-place A system for memory management for Virtual Machines (VMs), including a host computer system running a host operating system (OS); at least two Virtual Machines (VMs) running on the host computer system, wherein each of the VMs has a Guest OS supporting a guest file system with execution-in-place that allows code execution without an intermediate buffer cache; a hypervisor configured to control the VMs; and a thin provisioning block device configured to store shared pages and formed of at least one delta file. The hypervisor is configured to receive a page fault, and to read the shared pages from the thin provisioning block device. The Guest OS executes the file that is stored on the thin provisioning block device.
US10037332B1	Electronic mail attachments garden A cloud storage system receives information associating a user's cloud storage account with a network service account associated with a service provider. The cloud storage system identifies files associated with the network service account, retrieves metadata associated with the files, and provides a list of the files and their associated metadata to the user. The metadata stored by the cloud storage system may indicate the context of the identified files within the network service account. In response to a user command, the cloud storage system may store one of the identified files in the cloud storage account, and may continue to provide the content of the stored file within the network service account even if the stored file is deleted from the network service account.
US10037331B2	Source type management A data intake and query system provides interfaces that enable users to configure source type definitions used by the system. A data intake and query system generally refers to a system for collecting and analyzing data including machine-generated data. Such a system may be configured to consume many different types of machine data generated by any number of different data sources including various servers, network devices, applications, etc. At a high level, a source type definition comprises one or more properties that define how various components of a data intake and query system collect, index, store, search and otherwise interact with particular types of data consumed by the system. The interfaces provided by the system generally comprise one or more interface components for configuring various attributes of a source type definition.
US10037327B2	Method and apparatus for accurate localization of points of interest Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
US10037320B2	Context-aware approach to detection of short irrelevant texts Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether a short amount of text is irrelevant. Initially, an article is selected having one or more comments of varying length. Depending on the number of comments available, a native context may be constructed based on a given comment and other neighboring comments. In other embodiments, a transferred context may be constructed from the given comment and topically similar comments extracted from other, topically similar articles. A native context-aware feature may be determined from the constructed native context and a transferred context-aware feature may be determined from the constructed transferred context. These features may be leveraged by a language classifier to determine whether a given comment is irrelevant.
US10037313B2	Automatic smoothed captioning of non-speech sounds from audio A content server accessing an audio stream, and inputs portions of the audio stream into one or more non-speech classifiers for classification, the non-speech classifiers generating, for portions of the audio stream, a set of raw scores representing likelihoods that the respective portion of the audio stream includes an occurrence of a particular class of non-speech sounds associated with each of the non-speech classifiers. The content server generates binary scores for the sets of raw scores, the binary scores generated based on a smoothing of a respective set of raw scores. The content server applies a set of non-speech captions to portions of the audio stream in time, each of the sets of non-speech captions based on a different one of the set binary scores of the corresponding portion of the audio stream.
US10037305B2	Computer-implemented systems and methods for time series exploration Systems and methods are provided for analyzing unstructured time stamped data. A distribution of time-stamped data is analyzed to identify a plurality of potential time series data hierarchies for structuring the data. An analysis of a potential time series data hierarchy may be performed. The analysis of the potential time series data hierarchies may include determining an optimal time series frequency and a data sufficiency metric for each of the potential time series data hierarchies. One of the potential time series data hierarchies may be selected based on a comparison of the data sufficiency metrics. Multiple time series may be derived in a single-read pass according to the selected time series data hierarchy. A time series forecast corresponding to at least one of the derived time series may be generated.
US10037300B2	Cloud programming sensor interface architecture An integrated circuit for interfacing with one or more sensors, including a wireless interface configured to connect to a network, an I/O interface configured to connect to sensors; and a microprocessor and memory that are programmed to: connect to a server via the network; wherein the server executes an application for controlling the sensors; transmit identification information and/or location information of the integrated circuit to the application executed by the server; receive commands for the sensors from the application executed by the server; and transfer the commands to the I/O interface for relaying to the sensors; and wherein the integrated circuit is configured to control any sensor that can connect electronically to the I/O interface without changing the programming of the microprocessor and memory.
US10037286B2	Private partition with hardware unlocking Systems and methods for controlling access to a private partition on a storage device are disclosed for. An example system includes a token reader that detects a hardware token storing a private key and obtains the private key stored on the hardware token. The system also includes a partition controller that determines whether the private key unlocks a private partition on a storage device. In response to determining that the private key unlocks the private partition, the partition controller unlocks the private partition on the storage device. The private partition is invisible to an operating system executing in the computer system when the private partition is locked.
US10037285B2	Multi-tiered storage systems and methods for adaptive content streaming The disclosed technology includes techniques for efficiently streaming media content from a multi-tiered storage system. An example implementation may be used for adaptive HTTP streaming of video segments and other content. In some implementations, flash memory SSDs (SLC or MLC) may form an intermediate cache layer between a first layer of DRAM cache and third layer of HDDs. Significant architectural elements of various implementations include optimal write granularity to overcome the write amplification effect of flash memory SSDs and a QoS-sensitive caching strategy that monitors the activity of the flash memory SSDs to ensure that video streaming performance is not hampered by the caching activity.
US10037272B2	Storage system employing MRAM and array of solid state disks with integrated switch A storage system includes a central processing unit (CPU) subsystem including a CPU, a physically-addressed solid state disk (SSD) that is addressable using physical addresses associated with user data, provided by the CPU, to be stored in or retrieved from the physically-addressed SSD in blocks. Further, the storage system includes a non-volatile memory module, the non-volatile memory module having flash tables used to manage blocks in the physically addressed SSD, the flash tables include tables used to map logical to physical blocks for identifying the location of stored data in the physically addressed SSD. Additionally, the storage system includes a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) switch coupled to the CPU subsystem and a network interface controller coupled through a PCIe bus to the PCIe switch, wherein the flash tables are maintained in the non-volatile memory modules thereby avoiding reconstruction of the flash tables upon power interruption.
US10037264B2	Test suite minimization Disclosed is a method and system for classifying test cases. In one implementation, the method comprises creating a test step master list comprising a plurality of test case, one more test step associated with the plurality of test case, and a test step identification number associated with the one more test step. Further, the method comprises generating a sequence diagram for each of the plurality of test cases based on the test step master list. Furthermore, the method comprises classifying, by the processor, each of the plurality of test cases in to an independent test case or an asynchronous test case or a synchronous test case based on the sequence diagram.
US10037260B2	System for expression evaluation at debug time A system for expression evaluation at debug time includes a debugger which receives an executable program with debugging information from a compiler, where the executable program with the debugging information is generated by compiling a source code program and generating debugging information corresponding to the executable program. The compiler embeds at least a first abstract syntax tree of a first expression of the source code program in the debugging information. The debugger receives a first debugging command from a debugger client to evaluate a selected portion of the first expression. The debugger determines one or more nodes of the abstract syntax tree that correspond to the selected portion of the first expression. The debugger then steps through and evaluates the one or more nodes of the abstract syntax tree and returns one or more values generated by the evaluation.
US10037257B1	Examining local hardware using a location-aware peripheral device Provided are methods and peripheral devices for examining local hardware and configuring a location-aware peripheral device accordingly. In some implementations, a peripheral device may be configured to examine, using a bus interface, another device connected to the bus. Examining may include determining characteristics of the other device. In some implementations, the peripheral device may further compare the determined characteristics against information derived from data stored in a memory of the peripheral device. The information may describe acceptable operating parameters for the computing system. In some implementations, the peripheral device may further determine, based on a result of the comparison, a status for the computing system. The status may indicate whether the computing system is operating within acceptable operating parameters. The status may direct an action by the peripheral device.
US10037255B2	Device, method and program for performing system testing In an approach for testing the operations of a host system during a host system migration, a terminal agent exchanges messages already exchanged between the current host system and a terminal with the new host system. A manual operation replay unit replays messages generated by manual operations among the messages sent to the current host system by the terminal. An automatic response unit automatically generates a response message for messages received from the new host system. The automatic response unit also generates screen data for a screen displayed on the terminal on the basis of messages received from the new host system. A comparison unit compares and evaluates screen data generated by the automatic response unit and screen data from a screen generated by the terminal on the basis of messages received from the current host system.
US10037243B2	Feedback signaling error detection and checking in MIMO wireless communication systems A method of feedback in a wireless transmit receive unit includes providing a precoding matrix index (PMI), error checking the (PMI) to produce an error check (EC) bit, coding the PMI and the EC bit and transmitting the coded PMI and EC bit.
US10037241B2	Category dependent pre-processor for batch commands A category dependent pre-processor for categorizes each unprocessed command of a set of batch commands into one of four zone categories and processes them differentially according to the zone categories: ignoring errors while executing unprocessed commands within a first zone category; executing until encountering an error the unprocessed commands within the second zone category; not executing the unprocessed commands within the third zone category; and executing only those of the unprocessed commands identified as within a fourth zone category that have not been successfully executed within a specified time interval from a current time, thus not executing other, remaining ones of the unprocessed commands within the fourth zone category and that have been successfully executed within the specified time interval from the current time.
US10037239B2	System and method for classifying defects occurring in a software environment System and method for classifying defects occurring in a software environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving defect data from at least one data source. The defect data comprises the defects occurring in the software environment. The method further comprises receiving current data and historical data pertaining to the software environment from a current environment database and a historical environment database. The method further comprises analyzing the defect data based on the current data, the historical data, and one or more rules to determine at least one root cause causing the defects in the software environment. The method further comprises classifying each of the defects into one or more categories based on the at least one root cause.
US10037232B1	Alarms with stack trace spanning logical and physical architecture Provided is a process including: receiving, with an infrastructure monitoring application, metrics and events from a plurality of infrastructure agents executing on a plurality of computing devices; receiving an event record from a given computing device among a plurality of computing devices executing the distributed application; accessing a plurality of parameters of a computing device associated with the device identifier; determining one or more network-architecture topology host identifiers based on the plurality of parameters; and storing in memory a correlation between the event record and the one or more network-architecture topology host identifiers.
US10037228B2	Efficient memory virtualization in multi-threaded processing units A technique for simultaneously executing multiple tasks, each having an independent virtual address space, involves assigning an address space identifier (ASID) to each task and constructing each virtual memory access request to include both a virtual address and the ASID. During virtual to physical address translation, the ASID selects a corresponding page table, which includes virtual to physical address mappings for the ASID and associated task. Entries for a translation look-aside buffer (TLB) include both the virtual address and ASID to complete each mapping to a physical address. Deep scheduling of tasks sharing a virtual address space may be implemented to improve cache affinity for both TLB and data caches.
US10037221B2	Management of virtual desktop instance pools Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for management of virtual desktop instance pools are disclosed. A plurality of virtual desktop instances are provisioned in a pool for a client organization. The number of virtual desktop instances does not exceed a number of virtual desktop slots for the client organization. To a first client device associated with a first user, access is provided to a particular virtual desktop instance based (at least in part) on a determination that a current number of connected virtual desktop instances is less than the number. To a second client device associated with a second user, access is denied to the plurality of virtual desktop instances based (at least in part) on a determination that a current number of connected virtual desktop instances meets the number.
US10037220B2	Facilitating software-defined networking communications in a container-based networked computing environment Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for facilitating a software-defined networking (SDN) communication in a container-based networked computing environment. In an embodiment, a SDN policy agent is created in the container-based networked computing environment. This SDN policy agent is created as a container virtual machine (VM) in the container-based networked computing environment. When a request is made by a VM to establish a SDN connection with the SDN controller for the server, the SDN controller forwards the request to the SDN policy agent. The SDN policy agent is responsible for determining whether the VM is eligible to establish the connection. If the SDN policy agent determines that the VM is eligible, the VM is allowed to become part of the SDN network.
US10037216B2	Intelligent disabling of browser plugins Systems and methods for disabling one or more plugins associated with a browser application are provided. In one exemplary method, a plugin is installed on an electronic device, and the device receives data from a data source, where that data is associated with the installed plugin. Whether the installed plugin meets a disabling criteria is determined. In accordance with a determination that that the installed plugin meets a disabling criteria: performance of a function with the installed plugin is foregone; and it is reported to the data source that the installed plugin is not installed on the electronic device. In accordance with a determination that the installed plugin does not meet the disabling criteria, the function is performed with the installed plugin.
US10037211B2	Operation of a multi-slice processor with an expanded merge fetching queue Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices and a plurality of load/store slices, where each load/store slice includes a load miss queue and a load reorder queue, includes: receiving, at a load reorder queue, a load instruction requesting data; responsive to the data not being stored in a data cache, determining whether a previous load instruction is pending a fetch of a cache line comprising the data; if the cache line does not comprise the data, allocating an entry for the load instruction in the load miss queue; and if the cache line does comprise the data: merging, in the load reorder queue, the load instruction with an entry for the previous load instruction.
US10037207B2	Power management of branch predictors in a computer processor A computer processor includes a branch prediction unit that includes a local branch predictor and a global branch predictor. Managing power consumption in such a computer processor includes, for each of a plurality of branch instructions: performing, by the local branch predictor, a local branch prediction; performing, by each of the global branch predictors, a global branch prediction; determining to utilize the local branch prediction over the global branch predictions as a branch prediction for the branch instruction; incrementing a value of a counter; determining whether the value of the counter exceeds a predetermined threshold; and if the value of the counter exceeds the predetermined threshold, powering down at least one of the global branch predictors and configuring the branch prediction unit to bypass the powered down global branch predictor for branch predictions of subsequent branch instructions.
US10037206B2	Methods and systems for state switching Disclosed are methods and systems for state switching. The method is applied to a first hardware system. The first hardware system is connected with a second hardware system. The first hardware system has a first operation state and a second operation state. The second hardware system includes a memory unit. The memory unit has a first access state and a second access state. The memory unit is in the first access state currently. The method includes: the first hardware system sends an access state switching instruction to the second hardware system when the first hardware system enters the second operation state from the first operation state, wherein, the access state switching instruction is adapted to switch the memory unit of the second hardware system from the first access state to the second access state. The application of the present invention can ensure the security of key data, avoid the access of key data by malicious software, reduce the implementation costs and has a higher extensibility.
US10037203B1	Real-time software upgrade The various technologies presented herein relate to upgrading industrial control software in real-time. During utilization of a first software to control an industrial process, a determination can be made that the first software needs to be replaced (e.g., partially or entirely) owing to a newer version of software is ready to be deployed, a vulnerability in the first software has been determined, etc. Rather than closing the industrial process down while the first software is replaced, a second software can be deployed such that the first software and the second software are operating in parallel (e.g., receiving the same operational data, process states). When a critical point (upgrade location) in the first software has been reached, control of the industrial process can be switched to the second software, thereby enabling control of the industrial process to occur without having to temporarily cease operation and/or monitoring of the industrial process.
US10037197B2	Flexible microinstruction system for constructing microprograms which execute tasks, gateways, and events of BPMN models In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a set of Microinstructions define a set of primitives or instructions to execute a business process modeling language in accordance with the semantics defined by the language. The Microinstructions define atomic operations that can be executed as part of a running process. The Microinstructions can be combined into Microprograms which map to business processes of the business process modeling language, for example BPMN. The Microprograms can be compiled using a suitable compiler into any execution language. The Microinstructions thereby provide flexibility for executing business process modeling languages in any business process execution language.
US10037193B2	Extracting entropy from mobile devices to generate random numbers Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for extracting entropy from mobile devices to generate random numbers. In some embodiments, first vibration data may be received from a first device. Second vibration data may be received from a second device. A first piece of entropy data may be generated using the first vibration data and a second piece of entropy data may be generated using the second vibration data. The first piece of entropy data and the second piece of entropy data may be aggregated. The first piece of entropy data and the second piece of entropy data may be stored in an entropy pool.
US10037188B2	Arithmetic processing device and method of controlling arithmetic processing device An arithmetic processing device includes: a first memory configured to store values of a first coefficient of a logarithmic function, where the logarithmic function is decomposed into a series operation term and the coefficient term, depending on respective values of a first bit group included in operand data of a first instruction to calculate the value of the first coefficient; a second memory configured to store values of a second coefficient included in the series operation term depending on the respective values of the first bit group included in operand data of a second instruction to calculate the value of the second coefficient; and a selector configured to select the value of the first coefficient read from the first memory based on the execution of the first instruction and select the value of the second coefficient read from the second memory based on the execution of the second instruction.
US10037187B2	Data flow windowing and triggering A method includes receiving data corresponding one of streaming data or batch data and a content of the received data for computation. The method also includes determining an event time of the data for slicing the data, determining a processing time to output results of the received data, and emitting at least a portion of the results of the received data based on the processing time and the event time.
US10037173B2	Hybrid memory management Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request to access, from a main memory, a first cache line of a page of data; determining that the first cache line is not stored in the main memory and is stored in a secondary memory, and in response: transferring the first cache line of the page of data from the secondary memory to the main memory without transferring the entire page of data, wherein a remaining portion of the page of data remains stored in the secondary memory; updating a page table entry associated with the page of data to point to a location of the page of data in the main memory; and transferring the remaining portion of the page of data from the secondary memory to the main memory.
US10037166B2	Tracking memory allocation Systems and methods for tracking memory allocation within shared memory are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes tracking memory allocation within shared memory. The method includes receiving instructions to execute a process. The method includes assigning a process identifier to the process. The method includes allocating one or more blocks of the shared memory to store process specific data associated with the process, wherein the one or more blocks of the shared memory are addressable with a reference. The method includes storing the process identifier at an index in a first array. The method includes storing, by the one or more processors, the reference to the one or more blocks of the shared memory at the index in a second array.
US10037165B2	Storage system and control method thereof According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a storage which includes a plurality of node memories including a nonvolatile memory and a control unit which controls the nonvolatile memory, a routing unit which controls packet transfer between two or more of the node memories, and a packet control unit which analyzes the packet transferred from the routing unit.
US10037163B2	Self-describing cluster association A cluster association recognition system and related method are described. The system may identify sequences of data clusters in compilations of cluster journals. The system may generate the compilations by populating the cluster journals with cluster identifications associated with host addresses identified in host read requests. Upon receipt of future read requests, the cluster sequences may be used to identify data sets that are associated with a cluster sequence in order to identify further data sets that a host is likely to request.
US10037161B2	Tiered storage system, storage controller, and method for deduplication and storage tiering According to one embodiment, a deduplication controller in a tiered storage system excludes data duplication physical chunk by physical chunk. Based on the input/output statistics of logical chunks, a tiering controller in the system acquires the input/output statistics of physical chunks, each of which is allocated to one or more of the logical chunks. Based on the input/output statistics of the physical chunks, the tiering controller further executes at least an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in a first storage device to a physical chunk in a second storage device that is lower in access speed, or an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in the second storage device to a physical chunk in the first storage device.
US10037153B2	Memory device, electronic system, and methods associated with modifying data and a file of a memory device A memory device, system and method of editing a file in a non-volatile memory device is described. The memory device includes a controller and a memory array configured to copy an existing first file into a second file during editing and to maintain the first file while applying edits to the second file. When editing is completed, a first cluster pointer of the first file is redirected to point at the first cluster of the second file that has been edited.
US10037151B2	Data storage device performing pattern identification operation, operating method thereof, and data processing system including the same A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including first and second memory regions; and a controller suitable for performing a pattern identification operation for write requests, based on a pattern information for one or more patterns, and storing data corresponding to the write requests in one of the first and second memory regions according to a result of the pattern identification operation.
US10037150B2	Memory controller with virtual controller mode In one form, a memory controller has a memory channel controller including a command queue and an arbiter. The command queue stores memory access requests including a sub-channel number in a virtual controller mode. The arbiter is coupled to the command queue to select memory access commands from the command queue according to predetermined criteria. In the virtual controller mode, the arbiter selects from among the memory access requests in each sub-channel independently using the predetermined criteria, and sends selected memory access requests to a corresponding one of a plurality of sub-channels. In another form, a data processing system includes a plurality of memory channels and such a memory controller coupled to the plurality of sub-channels.
US10037148B2	Facilitating reverse reading of sequentially stored, variable-length data A system, method, and apparatus are provided for facilitating reverse reading of sequentially stored variable-length data records. Each record is stored with accompanying size metadata that identifies the size or length of the record. Further, if the length of a given record is greater than a threshold (e.g., 127 bytes when the length is stored with variable-length quantity encoding), such that more than one byte (or other storage unit) is needed to store the record length, an additional byte (or other unit) is configured to store the size/length of the record length (e.g., the number of bytes required to store the record length). The most significant bit of the additional byte is set to 1, so that during reverse reading, the location and size of the record length value can be quickly determined.
US10037147B2	Sharing files in a multisystem environment A file with an exclusive serialization is allocated. The exclusive serialization associated with the newly allocated file is transformed into a shared serialization. The file with the shared serialization is allocated as shared resource for a multisystem environment.
US10037145B1	Performant memory manager for cloud applications A present disclosure provides a garbage collector capable of freeing memory reachable only by a terminated thread immediately upon thread exit without scanning the heap or blocking other threads. A heap, including a plurality of spans, is walked, for example when the heap reaches a predetermined size. Reachable objects are marked in a mark bitmap. A mutator sweeps the mark bitmap without clearing mark bits, and newly allocated objects are not marked. When the thread terminates, sweep pointers in each of the spans owned by the terminated thread are reset. Moreover, a write barrier that makes a first unpublished object reachable from a second published object, also publishes the first object and all objects reachable from the first object.
US10037142B2	Configuration of a physical control unit to support multiple logical control units for different tape drive types in a mainframe native tape attachment storage system Various embodiments of a tape storage system having a physical control unit configured to support multiple logical control units are provided. Each logical control unit supports communication with a single tape drive model type up to a maximum number of drives. A customer obtains a number N of logical control units through purchase, lease or other legitimate avenues. Based on the number of tape drive model types L and the number of tape drives for each type QL, the model types are mapped to the N LCUs. In general, mapping priority is given to the newer generation model types and the model types in which the number of attached tape drives QL exceeds the capacity M of a single LCU.
US10037132B2	Enlargement and reduction of data with a stylus A device and method for enlarging and reducing data is disclosed. Input from a stylus is detected. It is identified whether the input corresponds to enlargement or reduction of the data. A guide is displayed, when the input corresponds to enlargement or reduction of the data. The data is enlarged or reduced based on the input by the stylus on the guide.
US10037131B2	Facilitating object set replication Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to facilitating object set replication. In embodiments described herein, a repeatable object set can be generated. Such a repeatable object set can include one or more objects and a field format indicating a position of the object(s) within a field. The generated repeatable object set can be replicated as replicated object sets into a set of fields within a layout structure, wherein each of the replicated object sets includes a representation of the object(s) placed within a corresponding field in accordance with the field format indicating the position of the one or more objects. The replicated object sets within the set of fields the layout structure can then be presented.
US10037124B2	Vertical profile display including weather icons A vertical profile display includes weather information for an aircraft. In some examples, the vertical profile display includes one or more weather icons, each weather icon indicating a weather condition for a volume of space at a particular altitude. Each weather icon is displayed within the vertical profile display at a portion of the vertical profile display corresponding to the altitude of the weather condition indicated by the particular weather icon.
US10037122B2	Canvas layout algorithm Embodiments are directed to automatic layout organization where various visualizations within a canvas layout can be dynamically rearranged or modified in dimension upon a user specified modification to maximize usability. Some embodiments display a graphical user interface (GUI) including multiple components in a display area, where each component has one or more initial dimensions. In response to an event, embodiments can determine an edge corresponding to the event. Some embodiments determine a box based on the edge, the box enclosing a portion of the display area that is less than the entire display area. Certain embodiments determine a set of components corresponding to the box, the set of components being fewer than all of the components. Embodiments may redraw the GUI such that the set of components is redrawn, where a dimension of each component of the set of components is different from an initial dimension of the component.
US10037109B2	Touch-panel substrate and electronic device with electrodes provided on different plane surfaces and reduced non-uniformity of in-plane light transmittance Provided are (i) a touch panel substrate improved in uniformity of in-plane light transmittance and (ii) an electronic device employing the touch panel substrate. First sensor electrodes (11) are arranged in a first electrode layer (10), and second electrodes are arranged in a second electrode layer. In part of an outer edge of a first sensor electrode (11) which part is arranged side by side with an outer edge of a second electrode when viewed from above, ends of conductor lines (13) of the first sensor electrode (11) have respective wide width parts (40) each of which is wider than the other part of the conductor lines (13) when viewed from above.
US10037108B2	Input tools having vibro-acoustically distinct regions and computing device for use with the same An input tool includes a body in the form of a stylus with plurality of vibro-acoustically distinct regions. The vibro-acoustically distinct regions produce vibro-acoustic responses when the regions touch the surface of the touch screen. The vibro-acoustic responses are used in a computing device to detect what region of the input tool was used.
US10037106B2	Optical sensor arrangement and method for gesture detection An optical sensor arrangement (10) comprises at least two light sensors (35, 36) for providing at least two sensor signals (S1, S2), and an evaluation circuit (12) that comprises an input (16) coupled to the at least two light sensors (35, 36) and is designed to evaluate the at least two sensor signals (S1, S2) for gesture detection in an adaptive manner using previous values of the at least two sensor signals (S1, S2).
US10037103B2	Gate driving circuit, touch display panel and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit in which a node potential compensation unit connected to a touch switch terminal is provided between pull-up nodes of two stages of shift register units of each preset unit group. The node potential compensation unit may compensate for, under the control of both of a pull-up node of a previous stage of shift register unit and the touch switch terminal, a potential of a pull-up node of a next stage of shift register unit, and may enable the potential of the pull-up node of the next stage of shift register unit to be in a stable state, so as to improve the stability of the potential of the gate turn-on signal output by the next stage of shift register unit, thereby enabling a TFT of a pixel region in a corresponding line to be normally turned on and improving a display performance.
US10037102B2	Touch panel A touch panel includes an electrostatic sensor unit in which a plurality of TX lines and RX lines intersect with each other to detect a touch position electrostatically, and a power supply unit configured to selectively apply an AC voltage to the TX lines and the RX lines to induce capacitive coupling between an external LC circuit and the electrostatic sensor unit.
US10037101B2	Touch panel having a filter unit for filtering unintended touches and method thereof A position indicated by a user with a finger or a stylus can be detected even in a case where an edge of a hand on a little finger side, a wrist or the like touches a touch panel. An input device acquires a touch intensity change signal that indicates a change of touch intensity at a plurality of measuring positions on a touch panel, applies a frequency filter, which suppresses a frequency component of the touch intensity change signal generated by a touch other than by a finger or a stylus, to the touch intensity change signal at at least one of the measuring positions, and generates data of a position indicated by a user on the touch panel based on the touch intensity change signal, to which the frequency filter is applied, at the respective measuring positions.
US10037099B2	Method of operating touch module and electronic device supporting same Methods and apparatuses are provided for operating a touch module of an electronic device. A communication related event is received at the electronic device. The touch module is switched from operation at a first operating frequency to operation at a second operating frequency, upon reception of the communication related event. The first operating frequency enables the touch module to receive a touch input. The second operating frequency enables the touch module to detect a specified event.
US10037097B2	Touch determining device and method, and display device A touch determining device and a touch determining method for a touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes multiple touch areas arranged in a matrix. The method includes: detecting whether a touch electrode has a touch area with a capacitance variation value larger than or equal to a predetermined value; if such touch areas exist, acquiring a number of the touch areas with a capacitance variation value larger than or equal to a predetermined value; if the number of the touch areas is one, no electrical signal of a touch area is outputted; if the number of the touch areas is multiple, outputting electrical signals of the multiple touch areas; and determining on the output electrical signals to decide whether to generate a touch signal, or not.
US10037094B2	Carrier touch sensing system capable of performing phase calibration and carrier signal demodulation A carrier touch sensing system includes a demodulation circuit coupled to a touch panel, used for performing in-phase and quadrature demodulations to a plurality of carrier sensing signals to generate and store a plurality of phase delay information if the carrier touch sensing system operates in a phase calibration mode. The demodulation circuit is further used for performing in-phase demodulation to the plurality of carrier sensing signals according to the plurality of phase delay information to generate a plurality of touch signals if the carrier touch sensing system operates in a normal scan mode.
US10037082B2	Physical interaction dependent transactions Systems and methods are provided according to one or more embodiments for conducting transactions based on actions or gestures such as physical interactions between users each having a user device. In that regard, gestures such as a handshake or other physical interactions between users may be detected to determine transaction details such as a payment amount or a value to be transferred from one user via a user device to a recipient via a recipient device. The amount or value may then be transferred based on one or more determinations including proximity between the user or the user device and the recipient or the recipient device, a specific action or gesture, voice commands, facial recognition, preset transfer instructions, a unique identifier, or other close-quarter determinations.
US10037068B2	Configurable digital interface for switching voltage regulators A high-speed, low-latency configurable digital interface for a voltage regulator includes a first hardwired unit, a second hardwired unit and a programmable microcontroller interfaced between the first and second hardwired units. The first hardwired unit is operable to deserialize incoming frames received over the configurable digital interface into commands and data associated with operation of a switching voltage regulator, and serialize outgoing data into new frames for transmission over the configurable digital interface. The second hardwired unit is operable to process the commands included in the incoming frames deserialized by the first hardwired unit, and provide the outgoing data to be serialized into new frames by the first hardwired unit. The programmable microcontroller is operable to change one or more of the commands and data flowing between the first and second hardwired units.
US10037066B2	Power supply unit mismatch detection system A power supply unit (PSU) mismatch detection system that includes a plurality of PSU slots configured to couple to a PSU and transmit power to an auxiliary power rail (APR) and a main power rail (MPR), a controller that is coupled to the MPR and the PSU slots and configured to perform a PSU mismatch check on each PSU coupled to the PSU slots, and a programmable logic device (PLD) that is coupled to the APR, the MPR, and each of the plurality of PSU slots. The PLD enables transmission of power to the MPR from a first PSU coupled to a first PSU slot, receives an indication that the controller has completed the PSU mismatch check, determines valid PSU slots using the results of the PSU mismatch check, and enables the transmission of power to the main power rail from the valid PSUs slots.
US10037065B2	Multi-core processor, information processing method, and program In a multi-core processor having a plurality of processor cores, each of the processor cores is configured to calculate consumed energy on a basis of issued instruction information and power consumption information. The consumed energy is energy consumed in execution of an instruction issued by the processor core. The issued instruction information represents the instruction issued by the processor core. The power consumption information represents change of power consumption resulting from execution of processing corresponding to the instruction.
US10037062B1	Thermal venting device with pressurized plenum A thermal venting device is provided that includes a plenum including an inlet port and a plurality of outlet ports, the plenum being substantially fluidically sealed except for the inlet port and the plurality of outlet ports, the inlet port including an inlet fan configured to pressurize the plenum, each of the plurality of outlet ports being configured to direct airflow from the pressurized plenum toward different electronic components of a plurality of electronic components, and each of the plurality of outlet ports including respective resistive elements having varied airflow resistances configured to bias airflow through the plurality of outlet ports.
US10037059B1	Memory slot filler A memory slot filler for a computer is provided. The slot filler can be used in place of a memory module in a computer system. The slot filler includes at least some exterior dimensions that are smaller than the corresponding exterior dimensions of a memory module.
US10037052B2	Finger-wearable devices and associated systems A finger-wearable computing device may comprise a processor, a ring base, and a display screen. The display screen is coupled to the ring base and coupled to the processor to display an output. The display screen includes a command area configured to receive user input from a wearer's thumb while the finger-wearable computing device is worn on a wearer's finger. The ring base may be resiliently flexible and may define an overlapping loop with a central opening that expands and contracts to fit the wearer's finger. The display screen may be flexibly coupled to the ring base and may have a vertical axis that is canted at an angle relative to a central axis of the ring base to ergonomically position the display screen while the wearable computing device is worn on the finger of the wearer's hand.
US10037044B2	User interface for special purpose controller A temperature controller for controlling the temperature of an inside space that is serviced by one or more pieces of HVAC equipment. The temperature controller may include a controller having a control algorithm for controlling one or more pieces of HVAC equipment as well as a user interface that may be configured to display a hierarchical menu structure and to permit a user to traverse the menu structure. The user interface may be configured to display breadcrumbs that provide an indication to the user of the current location within a hierarchical menu structure, and in some cases, provide instructional information in a designated or common display area that helps instruct the user in using a particular menu or menu option. These and other features may help make the special purpose controller more intuitive to set up, program and operate.
US10037030B2	Directing movement of self-driving vehicles in a delineated vehicular area A method, system, and/or computer program product controls movement of one or more self-driving vehicles within a delineated vehicular area. One or more processor(s) receive an image of a vehicular area in which self-driving vehicles are authorized to travel, which is displayed on a display. Processor(s) receive an input defining a delineated area of the vehicular area on the display, and retrieve a ruleset related to movement of self-driving vehicles within the delineated area. Processor(s) then transmit movement instructions to one or more self-driving vehicles within the delineated area in accordance with the ruleset.
US10037022B1	Methods of adjusting layer print speed on 3D printing machines A method for adjusting print speed during an additive manufacturing process may include receiving at an additive manufacturing machine, information including at least a current layer print speed. The method may further include determining a current layer print time based on at least the current layer print speed and adjusting the current layer print speed to an adjusted current layer print speed based on at least the current layer print time and a minimum layer cooling time. Further, the method may include printing a layer of a part at the adjusted current layer print speed.
US10037021B2	Numerical controller performing speed control with curvature and curvature change amount A numerical controller which controls a machine tool on the basis of a program instruction analyzes the program instruction to generate movement instruction data, and sets a value of a constant used for speed change on the basis of a physical amount regarding a curvature at a current position on a movement path based on the generated movement instruction data. Then, the numerical controller calculates movement speeds of axes of the machine tool using the set value of the constant used for the speed change, and controls the axes on the basis of the calculated movement speeds.
US10037019B2	System comprising development environments and machine controls The invention relates to a system having one or more development environments (2) for creating machine programs (6), in particular robot programs, and one or more machine controls (12), in particular for controlling robots. One or more machine controls (12) are represented in a development environment (2). The system is configured for the regular transmission of data from one development environment (2) to a machine control (12) and/or the reverse. A development environment (2) and a machine control (12) each preferably comprise a database (1a and 1b). The representation of a machine control (12) in a development environment (2) is carried out in that the affected databases (1a and 1b) are synchronized. Furthermore, a development environment (2) can react to changes in a machine control (12) represented therein. The invention further relates to a method for operating in such a system and a related computer program product.
US10037012B2	Power supply device, power supply control method for the same, and recording medium Disclosed is a power supply device capable of optimizing a conversion efficiency of power so as to be able to supply, in accordance with an operation status of a load that is a supply target of power, power necessary for the load.The power supply device (40) includes a control unit (41) that refers to, on the basis of new power prediction information (101R), a storage unit (3) that stores power information (103) in which power prediction information (101S) indicating a prediction value of power and output power information (102S) indicating an output power value, determines a reference value, and controls a power conversion unit (4) to adjusts a power conversion efficiency in accordance with the determined reference value.
US10036999B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner cartridge which is detachably mounted from a first direction to store a toner; and a processing unit which is detachably mounted from a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and is provided with a photoconductor, a developing section for supplying a toner fed from the toner cartridge to the surface of the photoconductor to convert an electrostatic latent image to a toner image and a cleaning section for collecting the toner adhered on the surface of the photoconductor.
US10036998B2	Process unit A process unit includes a drum frame supporting a photoconductor drum and a development frame supporting a development roller. The development cartridge is swingably supported by the drum frame at a coupling joint provided at a first side of the development frame and a support portion provided at a second side of the development frame. A center of rotation of the development roller is located in a position shifted from a line segment connecting a center of rotation of the coupling joint and a center of rotation of the photoconductor drum to an upstream side with respect to a direction of rotation of the coupling joint as viewed in an axial direction of the development roller, such that the development roller is pressed against the photoconductor drum by the action of the rotatory force received by the coupling joint.
US10036995B2	Detachable device for image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus A detachable device includes: a detachable member that is provided to be attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body in which a first rotating member is provided and that includes a second rotating member which is brought into press-contact with the first rotating member; a moving member that is provided in the apparatus main body, that holds the detachable member at an attachment position to the apparatus main body so as to maintain a press-contact load between the first rotating member and the second rotating member, and that is movable to a position at which the detachable member is not held by the moving member; and a release member as defined herein.
US10036989B2	Sheet post-processing apparatus, image forming system and sheet post-processing method According to one embodiment, a sheet post-processing apparatus includes: a supporting member configured to support a trailing end portion in a conveying direction of a sheet; a plurality of paddles configured to rotate around a rotating shaft independently from the supporting member, nip and hold the trailing end portion of the sheet in conjunction with the supporting member from both sides in a thickness direction of the sheet, and nip and hold trailing end portions of following sheets, which are stacked on the sheet, one by one from the thickness direction of the trailing end portion, in the plurality of paddles, a length from the rotating shaft to a distal end of a paddle on a far side from the supporting member in a rotating direction being relatively larger than a length from the rotating shaft to a distal end of a paddle on a near side from the supporting member in the rotating direction; and an arm member configured to press a trailing end portion of an uppermost sheet in a stacking direction of the sheet and the at least one sheet toward the supporting member, and formed in a comb teeth shape that does not interfere with rotation tracks of the plurality of paddles while pressing the trailing end portion of the sheet toward the supporting member.
US10036984B2	Manufacturing method for peeling member To provide a manufacturing method for a peeling member in which a non-adhesive resin film formed by fluororesin resin or the like is adhered to a metal plate, the method capable of manufacturing the peeling member which can prevent adhesion of a paper right after fixing for a long period of time with high productivity and without variations in quality. The manufacturing method for the peeling member provided with a peeling sheet 1a formed by a metal plate 2 and a non-adhesive resin film 4 adhered to the metal plate 2, the manufacturing method including a groove forming step of forming a pattern portion 5 formed by a plurality of recessed grooves on at least a part of a paper passing side surface of the non-adhesive resin film 4 along a longitudinal direction of the non-adhesive resin film 4.
US10036981B2	Toner cartridge having a movable projection for providing installation feedback to an image forming device A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a toner reservoir. An outlet port faces downward on a front of the housing near a first side of the housing. A linkage is positioned on the first side of the housing and has an engagement surface that is accessible at the rear of the housing. A projection is positioned on the first side of the housing and is movable between a first position and a second position. The projection is operatively connected to the linkage such that the projection moves upward from the first position to the second position when the engagement surface receives a forward force that is toward the front of the housing. The projection extends outward sideways from the first side when the projection is in the second position.
US10036977B2	Image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a developing device, a bias applying portion, a driving portion, a transfer device, and a controller. In a case where the length of the recording material is a second length larger than a first length, the controller controls the speed ratio of the driving speed of the developer bearing member to the image bearing member to be a second speed ratio larger than a first speed ratio and controls the residual developer amount born per unit area of the developer bearing member after the developing of the electrostatic image becomes a second developer amount larger than a first developer amount.
US10036976B2	Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process unit incorporating same A developing device includes a developer bearer facing a latent image bearer, to rotate and supply developer to the latent image bearer, and a developer regulator to regulate an amount of the developer on a surface of the developer bearer. The developer regulator is in contact with the surface of the developer bearer. In the developing device, a ratio of a ten-point mean roughness of the developer regulator to a volume average particle diameter of the developer is not greater than 3.5%. The ratio is defined as Rzjis/Dv×100, where Rzjis represents the ten-point mean roughness measured in a nip-adjacent portion of a face of the developer regulator opposing the developer bearer, and Dv represents the volume average particle diameter of the developer. The nip-adjacent portion is adjacent to and downstream a downstream end of a regulation nip in a rotation direction of the developer bearer.
US10036975B1	Determining a pulse timing function for a linear printhead A method is described for controlling a printhead including an array of light sources. An aim exposure function is provided which gives an aim exposure as a function of an integer pulse count. An initial pulse timing function is also provided which defines an exposure time as a function of pulse count. A light output function for the light sources is determined responsive to the pulse timing function, wherein the light output function gives a light output of the light sources as a function of exposure time. The pulse timing function is updated responsive to the light output function and the aim exposure function. The process is repeated until a predefined iteration termination criterion is satisfied. The determined pulse timing function is used to control the printhead, wherein each light source is activated for a pulse count corresponding to a pixel code value of an associated image pixel.
US10036970B2	Magenta toner Provided is a magenta toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin, a wax and a colorant, wherein the colorant contains a specific amount of a compound (1), the colorant also contains one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a naphthol compound, a quinacridone compound and a lake compound thereof in addition to the compound (1), and the binder resin contains a specific amount of a polyester resin.
US10036964B2	Prediction based chucking and lithography control optimization Prediction based systems and methods for optimizing wafer chucking and lithography control are disclosed. Distortions predicted to occur when a wafer is chucked by a chucking device are calculated and are utilized to control chucking parameters of the chucking device. Chucking parameters may include chucking pressures and chucking sequences. In addition, predicted distortions may also be utilized to facilitate application of anticipatory corrections. Controlling chucking parameters and/or applying anticipatory corrections help reducing or minimizing overlay errors.
US10036960B2	Wafer-based light source parameter control A photolithography method includes instructing an optical source to produce a pulsed light beam; scanning the pulsed light beam across a wafer of a lithography exposure apparatus to expose the wafer with the pulsed light beam; during scanning of the pulsed light beam across the wafer, receiving a characteristic of the pulsed light beam at the wafer; receiving a determined value of a physical property of a wafer for a particular pulsed light beam characteristic; and based on the pulsed light beam characteristic that is received during scanning and the received determined value of the physical property, modifying a performance parameter of the pulsed light beam during scanning across the wafer.
US10036957B2	Post development treatment method and material for shrinking critical dimension of photoresist layer A lithography method is provided in accordance with some embodiments. The lithography method includes forming a patterned photoresist on a material layer, applying a first bonding material to a side surface of the patterned photoresist, performing a treatment on the first bonding material to bond the first bonding material to the side surface of the patterned photoresist, wherein the treatment creates a bonding site on the first bonding material configured to bond to a second bonding material, applying the second bonding material to a side surface of the first bonding material, and patterning the material layer by selectively processing a portion of the material layer exposed by the patterned photoresist, the first bonding material, and the second bonding material.
US10036950B2	Photomask blank and photomask for suppressing heat absorption A photomask blank and/or photomask includes a light transmitting substrate, a highly reflective material layer disposed on the light transmitting substrate, and a transfer pattern layer disposed on the highly reflective material layer. The highly reflective material layer reflects light to be transmitted through the light transmitting substrate, with a predetermined reflectivity.
US10036946B2	Light source device, illumination device, and projector with solid-state light source and collimator lens The disclosure relates to a light source device including a solid-state light source, a collimator lens that receives a light beam emitted from the solid-state light source, and a beam width expansion element adapted to expand a beam width of the light beam from the collimator lens.
US10036939B2	Biaxially-tilted digital micromirror projector A projector includes an illumination system, a biaxially-tilted digital micromirror device (DMD), a first prism, a second prism and a lens. The illumination system provides an incident light. The biaxially-tilted DMD having two opposite first long sides and two opposite first short sides receives the incident light and converts the incident light into an image light. The first prism is disposed between the illumination system and the DMD, and includes a first face and a second face connected and adjacent to the first face. The second prism is disposed between the first prism and the DMD and includes a third face, a fourth face and a fifth face; and the third face is connected and adjacent to the fourth face and fifth face. The fourth face has two opposite second long sides and two opposite second short sides. The lens receives and projects the image light.
US10036937B1	Mounting systems for electronic devices Mounting systems can couple cameras to other objects that support the cameras. A secure connection between the mounting system and the camera can help prevent the camera from inadvertently falling off the mounting system. Mounting systems can include multiple protrusions, retention features, and holes that facilitate mounting to power outlets.
US10036932B2	Display element, backlight and portable information device using the display element Provided is to a display element capable of displaying an image on both sides thereof. In the display element, display operation is not constantly performed on both sides, and the display operation is, as necessary, switched to displaying only on one side without lowering the efficiency of a backlight or other light emitting bodies. The structure is made such that a planar light emitting body capable of emitting light in directions of both faces is sandwiched between two light control elements capable of electrically switching, from outside, between a light reflection state and a light transmission state. In such a structure, the faces of the light control elements serving as light reflection surfaces in the light reflection state face the planar light emitting body, and the planar light emitting body and the light control elements are further sandwiched between two liquid crystal elements.
US10036929B2	Electrophoretic display fluid The present invention is directed to an electrophoretic fluid comprising charged particles dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture, wherein (i) one type of particles which is non-white and non-black and formed from an inorganic pigment, (ii) another type of particles which is non-white and non-black and formed from an organic pigment, and both types of particles (i) and (II) are of different colors and carry the same charge polarity.
US10036926B2	Array substrate and display device including the same Disclosed herein are an array substrate and a display device including the same. The array substrate includes a base substrate comprising a display area and a peripheral area; a thin-film transistor disposed in the display area of the base substrate; an insulation layer disposed in the display area of the base substrate, the insulation layer comprising a first portion covering the thin-film transistor and a second portion located on the first portion; and a first protruding pattern disposed in the peripheral area of the base substrate, wherein the first portion, the second portion and the first protruding pattern comprise the same material.
US10036923B2	Ultra-slim bezel display panel An ultra-slim bezel display panel includes a plurality of light blocking walls formed on a peripheral area of a TFT substrate and a plurality of light blocking walls and a plurality grooves formed on a peripheral area of the CF substrate. The heights of the light blocking walls and the widths of the grooves are determined by taking an additional jet quantity resulting from precision error of a machine into consideration so that, through calculation, the laid sizes of the light blocking walls and the grooves can be correctly determined to prevent, during coating of Pl liquid on the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, the Pl liquid coated on an outer circumference of an active area from flowing backward into the active area. The light blocking walls that are provided on the TFT substrate and have different heights are formed through exposure with a half-tone mask.
US10036916B2	Optical composite layer structure with a built-in touch sensitive polymer dispersed liquid crystal structure The invention provides an optical composite layer structure with a built-in touch sensitive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) structure. The optical composite layer structure comprises an upper transparent substrate, a lower transparent substrate, an upper transparent conductive layer, a lower transparent conductive layer and a PDLC layer. A PDLC circuit and a touch sensitive circuit are provided on the upper and lower transparent conductive layers. A cable region that is electrically connected to external soft circuit cables is provided at an end of the upper transparent conductive layer and the lower transparent conductive layer to electrically connect to an external control unit. With a touch sensitive operation of a touch sensitive circuit of the optical composite layer structure, a signal instruction is provided to the control unit. The corresponding PDLC circuit may drive the corresponding regions of PDLC layer to conduct the change of light transmission of local region.
US10036903B2	Photoelastic modulator having symmetric structure and forty-five degree double-drive photoelastic modulator The present invention relates to a Photoelastic Modulator (PEM), particularly to a novel polarized light modulator structure based on a photoelastic effect. The PEM, which controls driving voltages of two groups of piezoelectric actuators, is able to implement polarized light modulation having a relatively large optical path difference, and polarized light modulator having a fast modulation shaft moving circumferentially, and the PEM operates stably without a moving component. The present invention includes the piezoelectric actuators, a light pass crystal and a driver controller. Two light pass faces of the light pass crystal are parallel regular octagons directly facing each other, and identical rectangles are formed by side faces of the light pass crystal. The piezoelectric actuators are in soft connection with middle positions of the rectangles by connection rubber layers. The width directions of the piezoelectric actuators are consistent with the direction of the light pass thickness of the light pass crystal, and the widths are slightly larger than the light pass thickness. The piezoelectric actuators are connected with electric output ends on the driver controller by electric adapters. This aspect is mainly applied to PEMs.
US10036875B2	Wide-angle imaging lens Provided is a wide-angle imaging lens, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens from an object side of the wide-angle imaging lens to an image side of the wide-angle imaging lens in turn. The first lens is of a focal power, an object side surface of the first lens close to an axis is concave; the second lens is of a focal power, an image side surface of the second lens is concave; the third lens is of a positive focal power, an image side surface of the third lens is convex; the fourth lens is of a negative focal power, an object side surface of the fourth lens is concave and in a meniscus shape; the fifth lens is of a focal power, an object side surface of the fifth lens close to the axis is convex.
US10036865B2	Parking door assemblies for use with fiber distribution hubs and methods of installing parking door assemblies A fiber distribution hub includes an exterior cabinet housing, a cabinet door, a distribution panel, and a parking door assembly. The distribution panel located in a cable holding volume defined by the exterior cabinet housing includes a fiber distribution field formed of connector adapters that provide a connection between feeder cables and distribution cables. The distribution panel includes a pivot axis opposite a swinging side, where the swinging side moves about the pivot axis between a partially accessible configuration and a fully accessible configuration. The parking door assembly moveably connects to the swinging side of the distribution panel. The parking door assembly includes a parking door including a connector holder retaining structure configured to retain a plurality of fiber optic connectors and a hinge structure that connects the parking door to the swinging side of the distribution panel.
US10036860B2	Splice-on optical connector for outside plant drop cable A connector assembly for a fiber optic cable comprises a multi-part inner housing adapted to support an optical fiber splice connection structure. A cable clamp is located at a proximal end of the inner housing and is adapted to engage an outer sheath of a fiber optic cable. Preferably, the cable clamp is rotatable with respect to the inner housing.
US10036857B2	Expanded beam connector with discrete alignment assembly An alignment assembly for disposition in an insert for an expanded beam connector, said alignment assembly comprising: (a) at least one cylindrical sleeve having an inner first diameter, and an outer diameter configured to be received in said insert of said connector; (b) a lens disposed in said sleeve, and having a round periphery with a second diameter larger than said first diameter; and (c) wherein said sleeve is configured to at least partially accept a ferrule having a round periphery with a third diameter essentially the same as the second diameter, said ferrule comprising a fiber for optically coupling with said lens.
US10036855B1	Reverse bias modulating waveguide/diode A waveguide/diode is manufactured by taking into account the effect that losses have on a multi-mode optical signal as it transits through the waveguide/diode. In particular, the loss effects that are caused by higher order modes in the optical signal as it passes back and forth through the cross charge region of a PN junction are considered. The consequent stretching of the cross coupling distance for the optical signal is then evaluated to minimize the required length for the waveguide/diode.
US10036853B1	Silicon-based multiplexer/demultiplexer for O-band A multiplexer/demultiplexer for at least two wavelengths in O-band. The multiplexer/demultiplexer includes a silicon waveguide block having a first port, a second/third port respectively in bar/cross position at an opposing end plane relative to the first port. The silicon waveguide block is configured to provide a general interference excitation of a light wave of a first wavelength and a second wavelength respectively selected from two windows in O-band. The light wave is either inputted via the first port and split into a first output light of the first wavelength out of the second port and a second output light of the second wavelength out of the third port, or is combined of a first input light of the first wavelength from the second port and a second input light of the second wavelength from the third port and outputted via the first port with both wavelengths.
US10036847B2	Film-based light fixture with light reflecting layer and fastener In one aspect, a light emitting device comprises a film-based lightguide including folded and stacked strips extending from a lightguide region of the film. In one aspect, the film comprises light extracting features defining light emitting regions that extract light from at least one light source positioned to emit light into the stacked end of strips. The light emitting device may include a light reflecting layer physically coupled to the light emitting device, laminated to a layer of the film, or printed onto a layer of the film proximate the light emitting region of the film. The light emitting device may also include a fastener configured to attach the light emitting device to a wall or ceiling.
US10036846B2	Backlight module, driving method thereof, and display apparatus using the backlight module A backlight module includes a first surface light source assembly, a second surface light source assembly disposed above the first surface light source assembly, a first optical film disposed above the second surface light source assembly and including a plurality of prisms arranged along a first direction, and a light filter element disposed between the first and second surface light source assemblies. Both of the first surface light source assembly and the second surface light source assembly include a light emitting unit and a light guide plate. Each prism has a tip end facing the second surface light source assembly. The light filter element is configured to allow an incident light ray within a predetermined range of incident angle to pass therethrough. The backlight module can be switched between a narrow viewing angle mode and a wide viewing angle mode. Related driving method and display apparatus are also provided.
US10036842B2	Illumination device An illumination device can prevent light from leaking at a bend portion of a light guiding lens. The illumination device can include an LED and the light guiding lens for guiding light from the LED. The light guiding lens can include a light guiding portion extending in a predetermined extension direction and having a first end face and a second end face so as to guide the light entered through the first end face in the extension direction, and a bend portion continued from the second end face of the light guiding portion and bent in an arc shape. An incident face is disposed in the first end face to receive the light from the LED and to be incident on an inner surface of the bend portion on an outer side of the arc shape at an angle of incidence equal to or more than a critical angle.
US10036836B2	Eyewear An actuation mechanism for simultaneous actuation of first and second variable focal length lenses is disclosed. Each lens comprises a distensible membrane bounding a fluid-filled cavity, the focal length varying with the degree of curvature of the membrane as it distends. The actuation mechanism comprises a hydraulic master actuator in fluid communication with a hydraulic slave actuator associated with the first lens and with a hydraulic slave actuator associated with the second lens. Each slave actuator is configured to vary the degree of distension of the membrane of its associated lens in response to operation of the master actuator, whereby the master actuator is operable to cause a variation of the degree of distension of the membranes of both the first and second lenses simultaneously.
US10036831B2	Nanostructured articles and methods to make the same Material comprising sub-micrometer particles dispersed in a polymeric matrix. The materials are useful in article, for example, for numerous applications including display applications (e.g., liquid crystal displays (LCD), light emitting diode (LED) displays, or plasma displays); light extraction; electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, ophthalmic lenses; face shielding lenses or films; window films; antireflection for construction applications; and construction applications or traffic signs.
US10036825B2	System and method to measure or generate currentless electrical field downhole The invention relates to measuring and generating electrical fields downhole. In one embodiment a system is provided that includes an amplifier connected to a first electrode in electrical contact with the Earth via an operative capacitive coupling. An additional electrode and amplifier are disposed in the borehole opposite the first electrode and constitute a first pair of electrodes spaced in a direction orthogonal to the axis. A second electrode is part of a group of counter electrodes spaced from each other and disposed outside the borehole. The first pair of electrodes and the amplifiers are configured to be one of a source that generates an electrical field in a direction substantially orthogonal to the axis of the borehole and a sensor that measures an electric field substantially orthogonal to the axis of the borehole.
US10036824B2	Electromagnetic system utilizing multiple pulse transmitter waveforms The present invention provides a transmitter for an electromagnetic survey system for transmitting signals having a waveform comprising at least a first pulse and a second pulse, wherein the first and second pulses are different in at least one of shape and power. Embodiments of the invention enable combining various distinct pulses that may have been optimized for respective applications to form a transmitter waveform for conducting a geological survey. In effect, the embodiments of the present invention provides an EM system that is substantially equivalent to multiple EM systems operating at the same time for collecting data in relation to different aspects of the geology of interest. Advantageously, the benefits of the present invention can be obtained without the undesirable complexity and cost associated with the simultaneous deployment of multiple EM systems.
US10036814B2	X-ray detector with directly applied scintillator An x-ray image detector includes a light image sensor having a depth, a front side comprising a sensing surface, and a back side. The x-ray image detector further includes a substrate plate on the back side and surrounding the depth of the light image sensor such that the substrate plate forms a lip around the light image sensor. The lip is level with the front side of the light image sensor. The x-ray image detector further includes a scintillator over the sensing surface of the light image sensor and at least a portion of the lip.
US10036812B2	Method and system for three dimensional digital holographic aperture synthesis Laser 3D imaging techniques include splitting a laser temporally-modulated waveform of bandwidth B and duration D from a laser source into a reference beam and a target beam and directing the target beam onto a target. First data is collected, which indicates amplitude and phase of light relative to the reference beam received at each of a plurality of different times during a duration D at each optical detector of an array of one or more optical detectors perpendicular to the target beam. Steps are repeated for multiple sampling conditions, and the first data for the multiple sampling conditions are synthesized to form one or more synthesized sets. A 3D Fourier transform of each synthesized set forms a digital model of the target for each synthesized set with a down-range resolution based on the bandwidth B.
US10036808B2	Wearable alarm system incorporating phased-array radar water sensing A safety system comprised of safety devices each worn by a caretaker and up to three people requiring minding, that alerts using color coded LED lights and audible tones when a monitored person is in danger. The device alerts if the person is beyond a preset distance, is close to or is in a body of water, or signals they are in trouble, using phased-array radar coupled with image processing.The phased-array radar allows the remote sensing of water in either daylight or night. The phased-array radar comprises multiple antenna elements including an independent antenna element phase shifter allowing beamsteering. The device scans an object using a preset beamsteering algorithm independent of movement. The multiple antenna elements and beamsteering improve image data accuracy which is then interpreted and correlated with a body of water characteristics. The phased-array radar is also used for caretaker-monitored person communications.
US10036796B2	Phantom for iron and fat quantification magnetic resonance imaging Phantoms for use in magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) and, in particular, for use in quantifying fat concentration, iron concentration, or both, are provided. The phantoms are constructed to accurately reflect in vivo magnetic resonance signal behavior in the presence of both fat and iron. The phantoms described here can thus be used for phantom-based validation of MRI techniques for the joint quantification of fat and iron concentration, for phantom-based validation of MRI techniques for quantifying fat concentration in the presence of iron overload, and for phantom-based validation of MRI techniques for quantifying iron concentration given the confounding presence of fat.
US10036783B1	Device testing systems and methods Systems and methods for testing a Device Under Test (DUT). A test condition is randomly selected from a plurality of test conditions to test the DUT. The DUT is controlled to attempt to output an output condition matching the randomly selected test condition and an operator is prompted to confirm that the output condition matches the randomly selected test condition.
US10036781B2	Method and apparatus for evaluating the state of health of a lithium battery A method for assessing the health of a lithium battery comprising: a first step of recharging the battery at constant current, until the voltage at its terminals reaches a limit value; a second step of recharging the battery at constant voltage equal to the limit value, until the charging current drops below a threshold value, a plurality of measurements of the charging current being acquired during the second recharging step; and a step of estimating the state of health of the battery from at least one parameter of the second step of recharging at constant voltage, such as the parameter expressing the decrease of an exponential function interpolating charging current measurements, the energy supplied to the battery during the second step of recharging at constant voltage or the duration of the step of charging at constant voltage. A battery management system comprising an apparatus for implementing the method is provided.
US10036780B2	Evaluation apparatus and evaluation method of sheet type cell An electrode probe is brought into contact with a measurement part on an outer surface of at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode of a sheet type cell, and quantity of electricity is measured at the measurement part, so as to evaluate the sheet type cell. The electrode probe may be connected to a voltage meter and to a charge source or a discharge source, and the evaluation made by detecting a charge characteristic that changes the cell from a non-charged state to a fully charged state, a discharge characteristic that changes the cell from a fully charged state to the non-charged state, or a measurement voltage of the voltage meter when the cell is in the fully charged state.
US10036766B2	Method for producing a force-measuring element A method for producing a force-measuring element (10) having at least one articulation point (20) which separates one region of the force-measuring element (10) into two connected subregions (11, 12) which can be deflected in relation to one another. The method includes: providing a force-measuring element blank (10), removing material from the force-measuring element blank (10) in order to produce the articulation point (20), checking whether the deflection behavior of the subregions (11, 12) which is produced by the articulation point corresponds to a predefined specification, defining a correction form (30) which can be produced through material removal and compensates for an ascertained deviation from the predefined specification, correcting the articulation point geometry using a laser and the previously defined correction form (30), through material removal at the articulation point.
US10036760B2	Sample analyzer and sample analysis method A sample analyzer comprises an input to select a sample type to be measured from a plurality of platelet sample types of differing concentrations, a measurement part to obtain optical information of a sample, a processing part that calculates platelet aggregation information from the optical information, and an alarm part. The processing part determines whether the actual measured sample type differs from the inputted sample type based on the optical information from the measurement part, and actuates the alarm part accordingly.
US10036753B2	Identification of surface-associated antigens for tumor diagnosis and therapy The invention relates to identifying tumor-associated genetic products and encoding nucleic acids thereof. A therapy and diagnosis of diseases in which the tumor-associated genetic products are aberrantly expressed, proteins, polypeptides and peptides which are expressed in association with tumor and the encoding nucleic acids for said proteins, polypeptides and peptides are also disclosed.
US10036748B2	Methods and compositions for detecting fungi and mycotoxins The invention relates to a method of identifying a specific fungal species in patient tissue or body fluid. The method comprises the steps of extracting and recovering DNA of the fungal species from the patient tissue or body fluid, amplifying the DNA, hybridizing a probe to the DNA to specifically identify the fungal species, and specifically identifying the fungal species. The invention also relates to a method of identifying a mycotoxin in patient tissue or body fluid. The method comprises the steps of extracting and recovering the mycotoxin from the patient tissue or body fluid, contacting the mycotoxin with an antibody directed against the mycotoxin, and identifying the myocotoxin. Both of these methods can be used to determine if a patient is at risk for or has developed a disease state related to a fungal infection, and to develop an effective treatment regimen for the patient.
US10036746B2	Method for the diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis and/or risk stratification of neuromyelitis optica (abbreviated NMO), wherein a determination from a body sample of a patient/test subject is performed by means of artificial aquaporin-4 peptides. The invention further relates to a kit and to new artificial aquaporin-4 peptides as such.
US10036745B2	Method and kit for analyte determination at acidic conditions A method of quantitatively determining an analyte in a fluid sample by an immunoassay comprises binding of the analyte to a ligand capable of specifically binding to the analyte, wherein at least part of the analyte is present as an analyte complex is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: a) subjecting the sample to a first acidic pH to at least substantially dissociate any analyte complex present and provide substantially all analyte in free form, b) raising the first acidic pH to a second acidic pH where re-formation of complexes is prevented but where binding of analyte to the ligand is permitted, and c) determining the binding of analyte to the ligand to quantitatively determine the analyte in the sample.
US10036728B2	Ultrasensitive ion detector using carbon nanotubes or graphene An ion detection device has a strip of carbon-based nanomaterial (CNM) film and a chamber enclosing the CNM film. A low bias voltage is applied at the ends of the CNM film strip, and ions present in the chamber are detected by a change in the magnitude of current flowing through the CNM film under the bias. Also provided are methods for fabricating the device, methods for measuring pressure of a gas, and methods for monitoring or quantifying an ionizing radiation using the device.
US10036721B2	Method for operating a solid electrolyte sensor element containing a pump cell A method is described for operating a sensor element for detecting at least one concentration of a gas in a measuring gas chamber. The sensor element includes at least one pump cell having at least two pump electrodes connected to each other by at least one solid electrolyte. At least one measuring variable is detected in the method, and at least one compensating variable is determined. The compensating variable is at least partially dependent on capacitive effects on at least one junction between at least one of pump electrodes and the solid electrolyte. At least one corrected measuring variable is determined from the measuring variable and the compensating variable. The concentration of the gas in the measuring gas chamber is determined from the corrected measuring variable.
US10036720B2	Sensor element having a conductor and leadthrough A sensor element for detecting a physical property of a gas includes: a first end region and a second end region opposing one another; a functional element in the first end region interior that is electroconductively connected to a contact area disposed in the second end region exterior; the electrically conductive connection between the functional element and the contact area having a conductor in the interior of the sensor element essentially extending in the longitudinal direction, and having a leadthrough that essentially extends orthogonally to the longitudinal direction of the sensor element. The ratio between an electrical resistance of the conductor and an electrical resistance of the leadthrough is between 3 and 1/3.
US10036715B2	Automatic isothermal titration microcalorimeter apparatus and method of use Automated isothermal titration micro calorimetry (ITC) system comprising a micro calorimeter with a sample cell and a reference cell, the sample cell is accessible via a sample cell stem and the reference cell is accessible via a reference cell stem. The system further comprises an automatic pipette assembly comprising a syringe with a titration needle arranged to be inserted into the sample cell for supplying titrant, the pipette assembly comprises an activator for driving a plunger in the syringe, a pipette translation unit supporting the pipette assembly and being arranged to place pipette in position for titration, washing and filling operations, a wash station for the titrant needle, and a cell preparation unit arranged to perform operations for replacing the sample liquid in the sample cell when the pipette is placed in another position than the position for titration.
US10036710B2	Low-powered system for driving a fuel control mechanism A low powered system for providing sufficient current to a fuel control mechanism drive. The system may have a fuel control mechanism pick circuit that has an energy storage mechanism for providing a large amount of current for a short time to the fuel control mechanism drive. A safety switch may be enabled with a special signal to let current flow to the fuel control mechanism drive to operate a corresponding fuel control mechanism for controlling fuel to a pilot light or heating element. The pilot light or heating element may provide heat to a thermoelectric source that generates electrical power from the heat. The electrical power may go to a single DC-to-DC converter and voltage clamp for providing a voltage source to a microcontroller and other circuits of the system. The pick circuit may prevent a harmful reverse flow of current from the storage mechanism to the thermoelectric source.
US10036706B2	Spectrometry device and spectrometry method A spectroscopic measurement apparatus includes a light source, an integrator, a spectroscopic detector, and an analysis unit. The integrator includes an internal space in which a measurement object is disposed, a light input portion for inputting light to the internal space, a light output portion for outputting light from the internal space, a sample attachment portion for attaching the measurement object, and a filter attachment portion for attaching a filter unit. The filter unit has a transmission spectrum in which an attenuation rate for excitation light is larger than an attenuation rate for up-conversion light, and attenuates the light output from the light output portion. The analysis unit analyzes luminous efficiency of the measurement object on the basis of the transmission spectrum data and the spectroscopic spectrum data acquired by the spectroscopic detector.
US10036705B2	Method for optical detection of bio-contaminants A method for optical detection of residual soil on articles (such as medical instruments and equipment), after completion of a washing or a rinsing operation by a washer. A soil detection system provides an indication of soil on the articles by detecting luminescent radiation emanating from the soil in the presence of ambient light.
US10036704B2	Fluorescence intensity analyzing and fluorescence image synthesizing system A fluorescence intensity analyzing and fluorescence image synthesizing system and method are disclosed. The first fluorescence intensity detection device successively detects the plurality of first fluorescence intensities according to the first timing and the second fluorescence intensity detection device successively detects the plurality of second fluorescence intensities according to the second timing, and then the picture processing device analyzes the first and second timings and synthesizes the first and second fluorescence intensity ranges into the synthesized picture according to the fluorescence intensities, whereby the image processing technology may be used to calculate the fluorescence target range and thus mark the fluorescence target range.
US10036703B1	Portable laser biosensor A hand-held laser based biosensor including modular components, combining absorption spectrophotometry and molecular fluorescence spectrophotometry, and including a sample cell module having an improved absorption path length.
US10036699B2	Parallel flow cytometer using radiofrequency multiplexing An imaging flow cytometry apparatus and method which allows registering multiple locations across a cell, and/or across multiple flow channels, in parallel using radio-frequency-tagged emission (FIRE) coupled with a parallel optical detection scheme toward increasing analysis throughput. An optical source is modulated by multiple RF frequencies to produce an optical interrogation beam having a spatially distributed beat frequency. This beam is directed to one or more focused streams of cells whose responsive fluorescence, in different frequencies, is registered in parallel by an optical detector.
US10036698B2	Time-sequential cytometry An image flow cytometer for observing a microparticulate sample includes a flow chamber having a flow channel that permits the microparticulate sample to travel in a flow direction. An irradiation system scans an irradiation spot across a sensing area of the flow channel in a scan direction different from the flow direction. A detection system detects resultant light from the sensing area and provides a detection signal. An alignment system alters a location of the sensing area with respect to the flow chamber. A control unit causes the irradiation system to scan the irradiation spot during a first measurement interval and operates the alignment system to translate the location of the sensing area along the flow direction. The flow chamber can be mounted to a movable stage in some examples, and the alignment system can move the flow chamber substantially opposite the flow direction using the stage.
US10036697B2	Flow rate balanced, dynamically adjustable sheath delivery system for flow cytometry Disclosed is a sheath delivery system that uses a continuous flow of sheath fluid into a pressurized internal reservoir that substantially matches the outflow of sheath fluid through the nozzle of a flow cytometer. A substantially constant level of the sheath fluid is maintained. If the sheath fluid level falls below a desired level, or goes above a desired level, a dampened control system is used to reach the desired level. In addition, air pressure in the pressurized internal container is controlled so that an external sheath container can be removed and refilled with additional sheath fluid without stopping the sheath delivery system 100. Differences in pressure are detected by a droplet camera, which measures the droplet breakoff point to determine the pressure of the sheath fluid in the nozzle.
US10036696B2	Method and system for detecting an airborne trigger An apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive sensor data from a sensor device. The sensor device includes a resonator including a material having an affinity for a compound, and the sensor data is indicative of a vibrational frequency of the resonator. The apparatus also includes a processor to analyze the sensor data and to generate an output based on the sensor data.
US10036694B2	Vibrating densitometer including an improved vibrating member An apparatus is provided that comprises a vibrating member (402). The vibrating member (402) is for a vibrating densitometer (400). The vibrating member (402) includes one or more apertures (420). The one or more apertures (420) are sized and located in the vibrating member (402) to increase a frequency separation between a resonant frequency of a desired vibrational drive mode and a resonant frequency of one or more undesired vibrational modes.
US10036688B2	Method and assembly for determining and/or producing a drive or parts for a drive and interface and method for determining an operational reliability factor SB An interface and method for determining an operational reliability factor SB for a drive, including gear unit and motor, provided for a load, an operational reliability factor SB is determined for the drive or its gear unit from a load collective that is at least three-dimensional.
US10036684B2	Leakage determination system and leakage determination method In a related fluid leakage detecting device, erroneous leakage determination may occur due to a change in a state of a fluid in piping.A leakage determination system of the present invention includes a first detection means for detecting a prescribed physical quantity indicating a state of a fluid in piping, a second detection means for detecting vibration propagating through the piping, and a leakage determination means for performing leakage determination based on the physical quantity detected by the first detection means and the vibration detected by the second detection means.
US10036683B2	Acousto-microwave system for determining mass or leak of gas in a vessel and process for same An acousto-microwave system to determine a mass M of gas disposed in a vessel includes: a microwave transmitter disposed on the vessel to transmit microwave radiation inside the vessel, a portion of the microwave radiation occurring at a microwave resonance of the vessel; a microwave receiver disposed on the vessel to receive microwave radiation communicated through an interior of the vessel from the microwave transmitter; an acoustic transmitter disposed on the vessel to transmit acoustic radiation inside the vessel, a portion of the acoustic radiation occurring at an acoustic resonance of the gas in the vessel; and an acoustic receiver disposed on the vessel to receive acoustic radiation communicated through the gas from the acoustic transmitter. The mass M of the gas is determined by analyzing the microwave radiation received by the microwave receiver and the acoustic radiation received by the acoustic receiver.
US10036677B2	Method for analyzing stress in an object A method for analyzing stress in an object according to spectrum data is provided. The spectrum data is obtained from an interference fringe pattern of the object that results from performing photoelasticity. The method includes: analyzing the spectrum data to obtain three sets of intensity data related respectively to different wavelengths of light used in photoelasticity; calculating wrapped phases according to the three sets of intensity data, respectively; calculating preliminary stress values according to the wrapped phases, respectively; determining a system of stress equations according to a relation among the preliminary stress values; and calculating an estimated stress value using the system of stress equations.
US10036676B1	Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) force die with buried cavity vented to the edges A force sensor may comprise a sensing die comprising a cap and a support. Generally, a first surface of the support may comprise a buried cavity and one or more channels. The one or more channels may extend from the buried cavity towards the outer edges of the support and may ensure the force sensor is not sensitive to ambient or atmospheric pressure variation. The cap may be bonded to the first surface of the support, thereby forming a sensing diaphragm located above the buried cavity. Additionally, the force sensor may comprise an actuation element to sense a change in force from an external media. The actuation element may transmit the force to the sensing diaphragm causing it to deflect into the buried cavity. The one or more sense elements on the sensing diaphragm may provide an indication of the change in force based on the amount of deflection.
US10036675B2	Piezoelectric film sensor, piezoelectric film sensor circuit and methods for manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a piezoelectric film sensor, a piezoelectric film sensor circuit and methods for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing the piezoelectric film sensor comprises: a step of forming a piezoelectric film on a substrate, and a step of subjecting the piezoelectric film to laser annealing using a laser annealing process so as to complete phase-forming transition of the piezoelectric film. Since the annealing temperature in the laser annealing process can be controlled in a range of 300° C. to 400° C., the manufacturing process can be not only applied to ensure a good performance of a piezoelectric film, but also can be used for manufacturing a flexible piezoelectric film sensor.
US10036670B2	Systems and methods for peak junction temperature sensing and thermal safe operating area protection A peak junction temperature monitoring system for a semiconductor device includes a peak power dissipation sensor for sensing the peak power dissipation in the device. A temperature sensor senses an average temperature of the device, and a peak junction temperature computation circuit generates a signal representative of a peak junction temperature based on input from the peak power dissipation sensor and the temperature sensor.
US10036667B2	Thin-layered devices in compressive sensing spectroscopy A spectroscopic method using either tunable or preset non-tunable thin-layered devices or a combination of both to modulate compressed-sensing-compliant, spectral modulations and to use intensity measurements of each respective spectral modulation to numerically reconstruct an estimated spectral distribution of the spectral signal such that the estimated spectral distribution is characterized by a totality of spectral bands exceeding the number of spectral modulations by about one half an order-of-magnitude or more.
US10036664B2	Method and apparatus for sorting and combining fragile and varying density pieces The system and method combine a large population of varying density pieces into sets that meet a specified target weight range. This is accomplished by creating a sample size of a pre-weighed payload of varying density pieces (“pieces”) for an automated system to determine optimal combinations sets based on piece weight data. The system combines pieces into the sets within a fixed weight tolerance. Significant hurdles overcome with this approach include avoiding damage to the fragile pieces, accurate measuring very low weights. All of this is achieved at extremely high speed and precision.
US10036663B2	Weighing round bales The disclosure relates to weighing a bale formed by a harvester such as a round baler. One or more load sensors located in the tailgate section of the harvester are used to obtain weights when the harvester contains a bale and when the harvester is empty. Other factors, including the slope of the surface on which the harvester is location, the size of the bale, the bale moisture, and the shape of the bale are used to adjust the calculated bale weight.
US10036654B1	Fault tolerant servo sensor with linear hall sensors and discrete hall sensors A first measurement of a magnet that rotates is received from a first set of Hall sensors in a first component. A second measurement is received from a second set of Hall sensors in a second component where the first component and the second component are in a plane that is parallel to an axis of rotation associated with the magnet. An angle associated with the magnet is determined based at least in part on the first measurement and the second measurement.
US10036650B2	Data processing system communicating with a map data processing system to generate a display of one or more segments of one or more vehicle routes Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a display of a navigation map. The system may comprise a historical data source device having, for example, a historical data source computer and a database storing historical data associated with one or more of vehicle accident data, traffic data, vehicle volume data, vehicle density data, road characteristic data, or weather data. The system may comprise a map data processing device having a map data processing computer and memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the map data processing computer, cause the map data processing device to, for example, determine, based on a location determining device, a location of a vehicle. The map data processing system may determine one or more historical factors based on the location of the vehicle. The map data processing system may receive, from the historical data source device and for the location, historical data associated with the one or more historical factors. Based on the location of the vehicle, one or more real time factors and real time data associated with the one or more real time factors may be calculated. The map data processing system may calculate, using the one or more historical factors and the one or more real time factors, a navigation score for each segment of a route from the location to a destination location. The map data processing system may determine one or more colors for each navigation score and/or generate a display of a navigation map comprising the one or more colors.
US10036646B2	Transmitting route data to a motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for transmitting route data to a motor vehicle, wherein the route data describe an area lying ahead. A control device of the motor vehicle carries out the following steps: a) Determining a route section extending between a current position of the motor vehicle and the area; b) Determining a transmission bandwidth, which is expected to be available along the route section; and c) Determining a speed profile of the travel speed which is expected to be achieved along the route section. This results in a start time at which transmission has to be started so that the route data will have been completely transmitted when the area is reached. A trigger location is determined, which corresponds to the start time (23) according to the speed profile.
US10036641B1	Coordinating travel on a public transit system and a travel coordination system A travel coordination system determines a route for a rider using a public transit system and a provider. The travel coordination system may determine a route that describes a public transit stop at which the rider exits the public transit system, and the travel coordination system can route a provider so that the provider transports the rider when the rider arrives at the public transit stop. The travel coordination system may update the rider's route after transmitting the route to the rider. The travel coordination system may determine a public transit vehicle on which the rider is traveling or predict the rider's destination. If multiple riders are traveling on the public transit vehicle and if those riders exit the public transit station using the same public transit stop, the travel coordination system may match those riders together for transport by a provider.
US10036639B1	Systems and methods for determining and displaying a route using information determined from a vehicle, user feedback, and a mobile electronic device The present disclosure provides methods and systems for determined a route or distance traveled of a vehicle. A computer-implemented method for determining a route of a vehicle during a trip comprises obtaining sensor information from a vehicle and obtaining position information from the vehicle using a global positioning system (GPS) component. Next, a route of the vehicle may be determined based at least in part on the position information and route information provided by a user onboard the vehicle during the trip. For portions of the trip in which the GPS component is not available or accurate, at least a portion of a corresponding route segment may be determined using the sensor information without the position information.
US10036636B2	Position determining unit and a method for determining a position of a land or sea based object The present disclosure relates to a position determining unit (800) for a land or sea based object and a method for determining a position. The position determining unit comprises or has access to a three dimensional map (802) comprising three dimensional geo-referenced position data. The position determining unit comprises further map part selector means (803) for selecting a part of the three dimensional map (802) so as to obtain a geo-referenced position associated to the selected part, at least one measurement instrument (805) arranged to obtain bearing and/or distance information related to the land or sea based object, and a computing and control unit (804) arranged to relate each obtained bearing and/or distance information to a corresponding obtained geo-referenced position and to determine a geographical position of the land or sea based object based on the bearing and/or distance information and the corresponding obtained geo-referenced positions.
US10036627B2	Multi-mode portable coordinate measuring machine A multi-mode coordinate measuring machine system can be configured to measure coordinates in a variety of ways with a certain set of components. For example, an articulated arm coordinate measuring machine can measure coordinates on an object using a contact probe or a non-contact measuring device mounted on the articulated arm. Then, a user can remove the non-contact measuring device from the articulated arm coordinate measuring machine, and take additional measurements of the object that can be aligned with measurements taken by the articulated arm and devices attached thereto.
US10036626B2	Vehicle guidance system, method for orientating vehicle, and inspection vehicle Embodiments of the invention disclose a vehicle guidance system, a method for orientating a vehicle, and an inspection vehicle. The vehicle guidance system includes at least two separate reference devices; a laser scanner device, configured to emit a laser beam signals and scan a sectorial region with the laser beam so as to measure a distance of a straight connection line for connecting the laser scanner device to any of the at least two separate reference devices, and an angle between the corresponding straight connection line and a vehicle body of the vehicle, or an angle between the straight connection lines; a processor, configured to process and store data, and to determine whether the orientation of the vehicle body in real time is deviating from an initial orientation of the vehicle body upon the system starts to operate or not, in accordance with the sensed results by the laser scanner device.
US10036625B2	Integrated spectrometers with single pixel detector An integrated waveguide based spectrometer is described. The spectrometer comprises a sensing region for receiving multi-wavelength radiation for irradiating a sample in the sensing region, a wavelength demultiplexing element arranged for capturing said multi-wavelength radiation after interaction with the sample and for providing a number of wavelength demultiplexed radiation outputs or a number of different groups of wavelength demultiplexed radiation outputs, an integrated modulator for differently modulating the different demultiplexed radiation outputs or different groups of demultiplexed radiation outputs, and a multiplexer element for multiplexing the differently modulated demultiplexed radiation outputs or the differently grouped demultiplexed radiation outputs.
US10036611B1	Crosslock assembly A crosslock assembly comprising a base having a chamber formed therethrough, wherein the chamber is surrounded by a distal wall. The distal wall comprises an interior wall oppositely formed with an exterior wall, wherein an opening is formed between the interior and exterior walls. The assembly further comprises a crosslock having a shaft upon which a support member is disposed, and a housing having a channel formed therethrough. When assembled, the housing is disposed within the chamber of the base, and the shaft of the crosslock is disposed through the opening of the exterior and interior walls of the distal wall of the base such that the support member is disposed within the channel of the housing.
US10036602B1	Interchangeable plates for a firearm A firearm and related methods and components are disclosed. The firearm has a chassis, a stock portion coupled to the chassis, and a pair of reversible plates removably coupled to the chassis. Each of the pair of reversible plates is attachable to the chassis at a first location and a second location opposing the first location. A first one of the pair of reversible plates has a recess for receiving a portion of a bolt handle. A second one of the pair of reversible plates has a firearm tool interface.
US10036600B2	Bolt for firearms and cam pin therefor An improved firearm bolt comprising a blind end cam pin bore therein, with closed end within the bolt. Blind bore end and distal cam pin end are in complementary configurations. Alternatives are discussed.
US10036596B2	Combination structure of heat dissipation module A combination structure of heat dissipation module includes a heat dissipation set and at least one heat pipe, which is extended through the heat dissipation set. The heat dissipation set includes a first, a second, and a third portion, which are located respectively corresponding to a heat-dissipation section, a curved section, and a heat-absorption section of the heat pipe. The second and the third portion of the heat dissipation set are respectively provided with a plurality of second and third slots, which are gradually extended according to a length of the curved section and a horizontal length of the heat-absorption section of the heat pipe, and the third portion internally defines a receiving opening communicable with the third slots, so as to effectively remove heat through using the curved section of the heat pipe.
US10036589B2	Apparatus and method for producing low-temperature compressed gas or liquefied gas An apparatus and a method for cooling and compressing a fluid to produce a low-temperature compressed fluid that can efficiently use the cold of LNG and reduce the energy needed, the apparatus using a Rankine cycle system having a first compression device, a first heat exchanger, an expansion device, a second heat exchanger, and a first flow passageway for guiding the heat transfer medium from the second heat exchanger to the first compression device; and at least one second compression device that is coupled to the expansion device, wherein at the second heat exchanger, a low-temperature LNG and the heat transfer medium undergo heat transfer, wherein at the first heat exchanger, a fed material gas and the heat transfer medium undergo heat transfer to produce a low-temperature fluid from the material gas, and the low-temperature fluid is compressed at the second compression device to produce a low-temperature compressed fluid.
US10036588B2	Door alarm system and refrigeration device Door alarm systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed. A door alarm system may monitor a door of a refrigeration device and detect a failed attempt at closing the door. In response to detecting the failed attempt, the door alarm system may generate a notification of the detected, failed attempt so that remedial action may be taken.
US10036577B2	Photovoltaic module mounting and installation system A photovoltaic system comprises a photovoltaic module attached to a photovoltaic mount frame, the mount frame having a rectangular shape. A deflector is attached to the mount frame by a rotatable deflector and mount frame attachment wherein the deflector pivots around the rotatable deflector and mount frame attachment from a nesting position under the photovoltaic module in the mount frame to an installation position raising at least a first side of the mount frame. A mount foot is attached to the deflector by a rotatable mount foot and deflector attachment wherein the mount foot pivots around the rotatable mount foot and deflector attachment from a nesting position in a mount foot nesting indention in the deflector to an installation position planar to a mounting surface.
US10036571B1	Forced air heater burner One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a burner assembly. The burner assembly can comprise a tube that introduces a combustible fuel into a burner chamber, through an opening in a solid back wall plate. The burner chamber can be defined by the solid back wall plate, a solid front wall plate, and a side wall, where the side wall can comprise a mesh layer and/or a ridged porous layer. The fuel can be expelled from pores disposed in the side wall to the outer periphery of the burner's side wall in a substantially uniform manner, where combustion of the fuel can produce a relatively uniform, omni-directional flame at the outer surface of the burner's side wall.
US10036567B2	Ventilator having an electrical connection device The invention relates to a ventilator, having an electrical ventilator motor and an electrical connection device for connecting electrical motor lines leading to the motor to external electrical connecting lines. The connection device has a terminal box mounted to a device part comprising electrical contact elements, and has an additional connection part, to which the motor lines are connected. The terminal box is releasably connected to the additional connection part via electrical plug-in connections.
US10036565B2	Humidifying apparatus A humidifying apparatus comprising a base comprising a chamber, a water tank removably mounted on the base for supplying water to the chamber, an impeller and a motor for driving the impeller to generate an air flow, an inlet duct for conveying the air flow to the chamber, humidifying means for humidifying the air flow with water from the chamber, and an outlet duct for conveying the humidified air flow from the chamber, wherein a lower surface of the water tank, which in use supports the water tank on the base, comprises a recessed portion for receiving water overflow from the chamber.
US10036557B2	Gas burner assembly for a cooking hob A gas burner assembly for a cooking hob, in particular for a domestic cooking hob, includes at least two burner bases arranged side-by-side-and a burner crown element arranged or arrangeable above the burner bases. At least one burner cap is arranged or arrangeable above the burner crown element. The burner bases are adjustable separately. The burner crown element includes a bottom plate subdivided into at least two portions arranged side-by-side. Each portion of the bottom plate is arranged or arrangeable above one of the burner bases. The burner crown element includes at least two side walls. Each side wall encloses one of the portions of the bottom plate. The burner crown element includes flame ports formed in the side walls. The flame ports are arranged in those sections of the side walls arranged opposite to the adjacent portion or portions of the bottom plate.
US10036551B2	Low-firing rate oxy-fuel flat flame burner with oxygen staging A flat flame oxy-fuel burner including a gaseous fuel nozzle having a hydraulic diameter Dh-NG and a width to height ratio w/a of at least 2; a primary oxidant conduit surrounding the fuel nozzle to form an annular primary oxidant nozzle between the fuel nozzle and the oxidant conduit, the oxidant conduit having a height b, the respective outlet ends of the fuel nozzle and the oxidant nozzle being aligned; and a precombustor extending from the outlet end of the fuel and oxidant nozzles and having a length L and a hydraulic diameter Dh; wherein the ratio L/Dh is non-zero and less than or equal to 4; wherein the ratio L/Dh-NG, is non-zero and less than or equal to 12; and wherein the dimensions a, b, and w are sized to yield a primary oxidant Reynolds number from 200 to 22,000 during burner is operation at 0.05 to 1 MMBtu/hr.
US10036549B2	Lighting including integral communication apparatus A light for use in a light fixture includes a light source adapted to produce light in an area including the light and a connector configured for connection to the fixture. The light further includes a communication apparatus configured to generate one or more signals indicative of a presence of a person in the area, and a controller that is operative to control the light source in a normal mode in response to the one or more signals.
US10036548B2	Electronic-cigarette box, LED light guide piece and box body An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, an LED lamp for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamp are disposed on the first printed circuit board, two or more through holes are disposed in the side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinder and push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinder corresponds to the LED lamp, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch. The LED light guide piece has a simple structure and is easy to be installed.
US10036547B2	LED luminaire The technical result of the invention is the creation of a moisture-proof LED luminaire with improved reliability and efficiency resulting from the provision of non-temperature dependent operating conditions for a power supply and LEDs by mounting same on different bodies (a first body and a third body) which are heat-insulated from each other by an end connector and an end cap made of a heat-insulating material; the claimed LED luminaire also exhibits more efficient heat removal from the LEDs as a result of the presence of an additional second body having thermal contact with the first body, and improved usability, particularly a faster and less labor-intensive procedure for replacing the power supply because said power supply is mounted on the third body, which can be easily flipped open.
US10036546B2	Lamp and manufacturing method thereof According to the present disclosure, a first optical system includes a first light source and emits a first illumination light. A second optical system includes a second light source and emits a second illumination light. A controller controls turning-on/off of the first light source and the second light source. The first optical system and the second optical system are configured such that a first illumination standard is satisfied by the first illumination light and the second illumination light. The first optical system is configured such that a second illumination standard is satisfied by the first illumination light. The controller allows the turning-on of the first light source when the turning-on of the second light source is disabled, and prohibits the turning-on of the second light source when the turning-on of the first light source is disabled.
US10036541B2	Canopy for a modular lighting system A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. A canopy with ferrules is used to attach the system to the ceiling or other structural surface. The canopy includes a cup and ferrules extending through the cup wall and supporting hangers attached thereto. The ferrules further provide electric power to the hangers.
US10036540B2	Rotatable and tiltable luminaire In one arrangement, a luminaire, for example a luminaire for outdoor lighting, includes a main portion, a pivot member, a swivel member, and a light head. The pivot member and swivel member cooperate to allow the light head to be positioned in any of a number of rotational positions about a first axis and in any of a number of rotational positions about a second axis. The first axis may be vertical, and the second axis may be horizontal.
US10036539B2	Remotely controlled and monitored followspot A remote follow spot system includes a remote controller that has separately movable parts that are movable in two orthogonal directions, and a display attached to one of said two separately movable parts. The display receives a video feed from a controlled light, that is controlled to move in the same directions as remote controller. The display hence shows the field of view where the light is pointing. In this way, an operator of the follow spot can control the light without physically being near the light.
US10036530B2	Nonlinear optical assembly of an alert light A nonlinear optical assembly of alert light has two nonlinear optical halves obtained by symmetrically dividing the nonlinear optical assembly along an optical reference plane. Each optical half has a base, which takes a nonlinear and curved form with one side thereof corresponding to the optical reference plane and having a junction surface. A light entrance portion and a light exit portion are on two opposite sides of the optical reference plane. The two optical halves are assembled to form the nonlinear optical assembly with the junction surfaces therebetween. The nonlinear optical assembly reduces molding and manufacturing requirements. Given the light exit portions of the optical halves, each light entrance portion corresponds to multiple bulged portions for the nonlinear optical assembly to provide uniform lighting effect.
US10036523B2	Light emitting module with lens A light emitting module includes a reflector, a lens and a light source disposed in the reflector. The lens is disposed in front of the reflector to refract light forwards so that the illuminating area of the light emitting module is adjustable. The light emitting module is particularly suitable for head light of vehicles. The light emitting module has a high illuminating efficiency and prevent light from dazzling a driver's eyes.
US10036520B2	Decorative lighting system The present invention extends to lighting system providing a year round, seasonal decorative lighting solution that is both customizable and essentially permanently installed. A light strand includes a plurality of lighting assemblies containing lighting elements and having posts with exterior attachment mechanisms. The lighting elements emit light through the post such that the light is externally visible. A post of each lighting assembly can be placed through a corresponding hole in a building feature (e.g., a gutter or flashing). In one aspect, the post is self-securing to the building feature. In another aspect, a cap is attached to each post (e.g., screwed or snapped) to secure the lighting assembly to the building feature. A lighting control device can individually address lighting assemblies to control lighting sequences, patterns, colors, hours of operation, etc. of the plurality of lighting assemblies.
US10036519B2	Modular LED retrofit lamp system The modular LED retrofit lamp system includes a high-power LED light engine, together with an integrated optics mount, an integrated yet serviceable LED dimmable driver, and a point of attachment on the center area of the engine for mounting the LED engine. Different mounts for the engine can include, but are not limited to, PAR56, PAR46, PAR64, PAR38, Mini Candelabra, Intermediate Screw Base, Mogul Screwbase, and Fresnel-based Theatrical Fixtures. One LED light engine can replace a wide range of tungsten lamps ranging up to 500 watt equivalents in output performance, as well as dimming performance. Additional brackets and lamp sockets easily retrofit into an existing lighting fixture, while dimming capabilities are retained.
US10036517B2	Lightguide as luminaire A lightguide functioning as a luminaire. The luminaire includes at least one solid state light source, such as an LED, and a lightguide configured to receive light from the solid state light source. Light from the light source is coupled into the lightguide and transported within it by total internal reflection until the light exits the lightguide. A shape of the lightguide causes and directs extraction of the light, and can also be used to create a particular pattern of the extracted light. Such shapes include linear wedges and twisted wedges. Optical films can be included on the light input and output surfaces of the lightguide.
US10036516B2	LED lamp The present invention discloses an LED lamp, which includes an LED light source module including at least one group of LED light source components, and further includes three drive circuits and a control circuit. The LED light source components include a first, a second, and a third LED light source. The first light source includes a first blue LED chip, a green phosphor is coated on the first blue LED chip. The second light source includes a second blue LED chip, a yellow phosphor is coated on the second blue LED chip. The third light source includes a third red LED chip. The control circuit determines drive currents of various LED light sources and drives the LED light sources through the drive circuits.
US10036514B2	Troffer light fixture retrofit systems and methods A retrofitting kit for retrofitting an existing troffer light fixture having a troffer housing includes an adaptor bracket and a door assembly. The adaptor bracket includes a channel configured to rest on a T-bar of a ceiling system, and further configured to be located between the T-bar and the troffer housing, a slot, and a latch surface. The channel defines an open slot configured to receive and retain a portion of the troffer housing thereby facilitating a retrofit installation. The door assembly includes a latch configured to engage the latch surface of the adaptor bracket, a hinge configured to interface with the slot of the adaptor bracket, a housing including the latch and the hinge, and a light source coupled to the housing.
US10036504B2	Branch piece to be used in pipe renovation, and method for renovating branch point in pipe assembly The branch piece is for renovating a pipeline and has a main line pipe and at least one branch pipe connected with the main line pipe. The branch piece is elastic and has an inner sheathing, an outer sheathing and, at least on a part of the branch piece, a flexible reinforcement layer disposed between the inner sheathing and the outer sheathing. The branch piece regains its shape after compression.
US10036502B2	Fluid transmission coupling with independent member pressure relieving cam A fluid transmission fitting (100) includes at least two female couplers (47) inserted within a hydraulic feeding block (1), and at least two respective male couplers (48), which can be coupled to the female couplers (47). The block (1) includes at least two hydraulic lines (49) and at least one draining line (50), and a lever (4) integral with an independent member (82, 83) cam (7) adapted to relieve the pressure from a chamber (54) inside each female coupler (47) and adapted to uncouple the male coupler (48) from the respective female coupler (47). Each female coupler (47) includes a pressure relief valve (51), which puts the chamber (54) into connection with the draining line (50).
US10036499B2	Ear clamp An open ear clamp having a clamping device like a so-called Oetiker ear. To make the installation of the clamp on a pipe easier, the clamp is pre-deformed, for example, in the course of production, to such an extent that the clamp surrounds the pipe for which the clamp is intended without play. Because of the elasticity produced in the clamp by this pre-deformation, the clamp still can be moved effortlessly to the installation location on the pipe and yet is retained there in the position of the clamp and in the desired orientation.
US10036496B1	Fitting with a protrusion A connector is described that comprises a connector body with a connector end extending longitudinally from the connector body. The connector end comprises a generally cylindrical outer surface and a generally cylindrical inner surface. The generally cylindrical outer surface has a protrusion (e.g., a bulbous protrusion) providing a thickened cross-sectional area in the region of the connector end proximate to the protrusion so that the connector end can be connected to a second connector by inserting the second connector into the connector end. The second connector can also comprise a bulbous protrusion, and may be a nebulizer. A tube can be connected to the connector body (e.g., using a threaded connector).
US10036488B2	Method for manufacturing a reinforced composite pipe A process for manufacturing pipes using thermoplastic pipe and “tape” (continuous fiber, fully wetted in a similar thermoplastic as the pipe) that embeds the fibers into pipe surface. In one embodiment, an ambient temperature (72 degrees F.) tape is tightly wrapped around the cold pipe in a dry environment (relative humidity below 30). An external heat source is used to heat up the entire length of the pipe causing the thermoplastic to melt and the pipe to expand due to thermal expansion. Since the fibers have less stretch than the thermal expansion of the pipe the fibers will be embedded into the molten layer of the pipe, creating a permanent bond between the fibers and the pipe. A protective film is applied to the pipe. Portions of the tape and film are scraped from the surface of the pipe creating an area where the end of the pipe is coupled to another pipe using an electronic fusion coupler.
US10036485B2	Dual seal fire safe stem packing orientation A valve with a packing assembly can include a first stem packing circumscribing a first portion of a valve stem, forming a seal between the valve stem and a valve body assembly, and being located in the second bore portion. A first packing retainer can have a collar that limits axial movement of the first stem packing and a first retainer body defining an inner cavity. A second stem packing can circumscribe a second portion of the valve stem and be located in the inner cavity of the first packing retainer. A second packing retainer can limit axial movement of the second stem packing. A piston member can be located axially between the first stem packing and the second stem packing, the piston member being moveable to apply axial force to one of the first stem packing and the second stem packing.
US10036483B2	Electromagnetic valve and fixing structure An electromagnetic valve has: a coil; a casing encircling the coil and having a cylinder portion and nail portions; a movable core moving axially in the wound coil; a fixed core set at an opening end of the casing; a valve body fixed to the opening end of the casing together with the fixed core by bending inwards the nail portions; and a spool valve body moving axially in the valve body. The nail portion is provided with a wide width portion at a root side, a narrow width portion at a top side and a stepped portion between the wide width portion and the narrow width portion. The stepped portion is positioned at a substantially same position as an outer edge of one end portion of the valve body, or positioned at a cylinder portion side with respect to the one end portion outer edge of the valve body.
US10036479B2	Alloy for a fusible plug and a fusible plug A fusible plug employs an alloy which comprises 5-8 mass % of Sn, 31-34 mass % of Bi, 0.2-4 mass % of Sb, and a remainder of In. The alloy melts at approximately 66-70° C. The alloy may further contain at most 2.0 mass % of at least one element selected from strengthening elements consisting of 0.1-1.0 mass % of Cu, 0.1-1.0 mass % of Ge, 0.1-0.7 mass % of Ag, 0.1-0.6 mass % of Au, 0.2-0.6 mass % of Zn, 0.002-0.1 mass % of Ni, and 0.01-0.1 mass % of a lanthanoid.
US10036478B2	Electronic device, wearable device, pressure regulator valve and method for manufacturing pressure regulator valve An electronic device includes a housing and an internal pressure regulator valve. The internal pressure regulator valve includes a valve body of flexible material. The valve body has a valve hole and a hollow. The hollow is continuous with the valve hole and opens into the housing. Through the valve hole, gas is released to outside.
US10036469B2	Neutral controlling method of synchronizer A neutral controlling method of a synchronizer includes: a primary moving step of moving a sleeve in one direction by a shift mechanism until the sleeve contacts a first stopper of a first clutch gear; a secondary moving step of moving the sleeve in the other direction by the shift mechanism until the sleeve contacts a second stopper of a second clutch gear; and a neutral position moving step of moving the sleeve to a neutral position between the two clutch gears. In particular, in the neutral position moving step, the sleeve moves in one direction as much as a half of a stroke and the stroke of the sleeve is a summed value of a straight distance between the first stopper and the second stopper with an invalid stroke formed due to a clearance between parts of the shift mechanism and the synchronizer.
US10036468B2	Hydraulic control system A hydraulic control unit for a transmission includes a lower side housing, an upper side housing and an intermediate plate. The lower side housing and the upper side housing form a hydraulic supply channel section, which is connected in the intermediate plate by an aperture. At the inlet of the aperture, at least one recess with a predetermined depth is provided for bounding an inlet cross-section.
US10036467B2	Axle assembly having a ballast insert assembly and a method of control An axle assembly having a ballast insert assembly and a method of control. The ballast insert assembly may have an inflatable bladder that may be disposed in a cavity. The volume of lubricant in the cavity may be greater when the inflatable bladder is deflated than when the inflatable bladder is inflated.
US10036459B2	Lock-up device for torque converter A lock-up device for a torque converter includes an output rotary member rotatable with respect to an input rotary member. A plurality of large coil springs are disposed in radially outer positions so as to be aligned in a circumferential direction, the large coil springs separately compressed in a rotational direction by relative rotation between the input rotary member and the output rotary member. A plurality of small coil springs are set to have a free length shorter than a free length of the large coil springs, the small coil springs separately disposed in inner peripheral parts of the large coil springs so as to be movable therein. The respective coil springs are compressed in a sequential order of the plural large coil springs and then at least any one of the plural small coil springs by the relative rotation between the input rotary member and the output rotary member.
US10036454B1	Locking device for meter cover An electric meter housing and a cover have adjacent circular flanges reaching circumferentially about a cover axis. A clamping ring has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a cross-section configured for the ring to take an installed position fitted radially over the adjacent circular flanges. A gear moves the first end portion of the clamping ring circumferentially relative to the second end portion upon rotation of the gear. A manual actuator rotates the gear upon rotation of the actuator about an axis that is parallel or substantially parallel to the cover axis when the clamping ring is in the installed position. The gear is movable axially into and out of a blocked position in which a stop member blocks rotation of the gear. The actuator is interconnected with the gear to move the gear rotationally and axially relative to the stop member.
US10036452B2	Continuously variable transmission power bearing A continuously variable speed power bearing includes a bearing driving inner ring, a bearing driven outer ring, and a movable tooth assembly. A circle of movable tooth grooves are arranged on a periphery of the bearing driving inner ring, the movable tooth assembly is embedded into corresponding movable tooth grooves in a one-to-one mode. The bottoms of the movable tooth grooves are connected to a high-pressure oil inlet. An inner peripheral surface of the bearing driven outer ring is a variable diameter surface, and the variable diameter surface is evenly divided into a plurality of equal parts. Each corresponding equal part has an equal variable diameter and the same direction, and an outer end part of the movable tooth assembly fits the variable diameter surface.
US10036445B2	Impact energy absorbing device A device having two glands leading a piston rod the glands being located at one side of a piston, whereas an inner gland divides the chamber inside the closed cylinder into a working chamber limited axially by an inner surface of a bottom and into a lubricating chamber limited axially by the inner surface of the outer gland. The working chamber has a flow zone shaped as the cylinder with its inner diameter increased, placed adjacent to the inner gland, as well as the compression zone, whereas the inner diameter of the cylinder is slidingly fitted with the outer diameter of the piston.
US10036444B2	Damping force controlling shock absorber A damping force controlling shock absorber can generate a hard damping force through disk slits during a low speed operation by adding a disk valve to a chamber, can constantly maintain a pressure of a back pressure compartment by opening a disk valve and discharge the pressure of the back pressure compartment to the outside when the pressure of the back pressure compartment is at a predetermined level or more, thereby generating a harder damping force during a low speed operation, and can adjust a disk valve open pressure during a medium/high speed operation so as to prevent the durability of the equipment from being lowered by an excessive increase of a pressure and prevent an abnormal operation from occurring.
US10036443B2	Methods and apparatus for suspension adjustment Methods and apparatus of a system for vehicles comprising a vehicle suspension, a sensor operable to measure an operational characteristic of the vehicle suspension, and a processor in communication with the sensor that is operable to suggest an operational setting of the vehicle suspension in response to an input from the sensor corresponding to the operational characteristic. A method for adjusting a suspension of a vehicle may comprise receiving suspension data with a processor, calculating a suspension setting suggestion with the processor, communicating the suspension setting suggestion to a user interface device, and adjusting the suspension based on the suspension setting suggestion.
US10036434B2	Selectable one-way clutch A selectable one-way clutch to prevent a selector plate from being rotated undesirably by a drag torque even if an oil temperature is low. An actuator comprises a casing to which the plunger is inserted while being allowed to reciprocate therein, and a chamber holding a return spring for pushing the plunger out of the casing. The plunger is connected to the selector plate through the arm, and a through hole is formed on the chamber to introduce and discharge oil to/from the chamber.
US10036423B2	Cage for double-row spherical bearing A roller bearing comprising an inner ring, an outer ring, and a bearing cage positioned between the inner ring and the outer ring. The bearing cage includes a spine and a plurality of pins disposed one side of the spine that are coplanar or offset with a plurality of pins disposed on an opposite side of the spine. A roller is rotationally coupled to each pin such that each roller is coplanar or offset with another roller on the opposite side of the spine.
US10036421B2	Linear motion guide device There is provided a linear motion guide device that is reduced in a contact surface pressure between a ball and a raceway groove so that an occurrence of an edge load can hardly occur, even when any of a pressing load, a tensile load, and a lateral load is applied to a slider. Upper flanks and lower flanks included in raceway grooves of a guide rail and a slider each include: a main arc portion having an arc-shaped section and placed generally in a center of the flank in a width direction; a groove shoulder side sub-arc portion having an arc-shaped section and formed continuously from a groove shoulder side of the main arc portion; and a groove bottom side sub-arc portion having an arc sectional shape and formed continuously from a groove bottom side of the main arc portion. Further, a curvature radius of the groove shoulder side sub-arc portion is different from a curvature radius of the groove bottom side sub-arc portion.
US10036408B2	Hydraulic valve A spool for a hydraulic spool valve, comprising: a pressure chamber for connecting a pressure line to a hydraulic cylinder; at least one return chamber for connecting the hydraulic cylinder to a reservoir; and an actuator slot for receiving a drive lever; wherein the spool further comprises a fluid path connecting said pressure chamber to said actuator slot and a pressure plate movably mounted in the slot such that in use it is disposed between the fluid path and the drive lever.
US10036407B2	Control method and system for using a pair of independent hydraulic metering valves to reduce boom oscillations A hydraulic system (600) and method for reducing boom dynamics of a boom (30), while providing counter-balance valve protection, includes a hydraulic cylinder (110), first and second counter-balance valves (300, 400), and first and second control valves (700, 800). A net load (90) is supported by a first chamber (116, 118) of the hydraulic cylinder, and a second chamber (118, 116) of the hydraulic cylinder may receive fluctuating hydraulic fluid flow from the second control valve to produce a vibratory response (950) that counters environmental vibrations (960) on the boom. The first control valve may apply a holding pressure and thereby hold the first counter-balance valve closed and the second counter-balance valve open.
US10036404B2	Turbo machine system A turbo machine system having an intake structure for air inflow and a cooling structure for a driving motor, and including a driving unit having a rotor and a stator, a compression unit having an impeller that rotates in conjunction with the rotor, guide piping that guides driving unit cooling fluid that flows into the driving unit and is discharged to the outside through the inside of the driving unit and into the compression unit, and external fluid inflow piping that is provided on one side of the guide piping and is provided to communicate with the guide piping, the external fluid inflow piping guiding the external fluid by the differential pressure between the end of the external fluid inflow piping and the inside of the guide piping so as to flow into the guide piping.
US10036400B2	Centrifugal fan assembly and methods of assembling the same A centrifugal fan assembly having an axis of rotation includes an inlet ring, a back plate, and a plurality of blades coupled between the inlet ring and the back plate. At least one blade of the plurality of blades includes a radially inner edge, a radially outer edge, and at least one flow channel extending obliquely therebetween. The at least one flow channel includes an inlet defined on the radially inner edge and an outlet defined on the radially outer edge, wherein the inlet and the outlet are positioned at different axial locations along a length of the blade.
US10036392B2	Axial fan for industrial use An axial fan comprises a hub and a plurality of blades extending from the hub; wherein each blade comprises a main blade portion and a secondary blade portion and the secondary blade portion has a leading edge adjacent to a leading edge of the main blade portion and forms a flap for the main blade portion; wherein a fluid passage is defined between the leading edge of the main blade portion and the leading edge of the secondary blade portion; wherein the main blade portion has a main chord and the secondary blade portion has a secondary chord; and wherein the main chord and the secondary chord form a relative attack angle comprised between 5° and 35°.
US10036389B2	Magnetic coupling unit for submersible well pumps An electrical submersible well pump assembly includes a rotary pump and a motor. An inner rotor is coupled to the motor shaft. The inner rotor has steel discs stacked together with end caps at each end. The discs have apertures that align to define axially extending slots. Each of the slots has a closed outer wall spaced radially inward from an outer diameter surface of the inner rotor. Inner rotor magnets are located within the slots. Continuous open and thin gaps between rotating components act as hydrodynamic bearings. Damper bars extend axially at points between the outer walls of the slots and the outer diameter surface of the inner rotor. An outer rotor has a bore that receives the inner rotor, the outer rotor being operatively coupled to the pump shaft for rotation therewith. Outer rotor magnets are mounted to the bore of outer rotor.
US10036374B2	Compressor and method for assembling a compressor A compressor and a method for assembling a compressor are provided. The compressor may include a compressor casing coupled to each of a suction inlet, into which a refrigerant may be introduced, and a discharge outlet, through which the refrigerant may be discharged, a compressor body mounted inside the compressor casing to compress the refrigerant suctioned in through the suction inlet, and then discharge the refrigerant through the discharge outlet, a noise reducing member disposed between the compressor body and the compressor casing, and at least one fixing member mounted inside the compressor casing to fix the noise reducing member to an inner wall of the compressor casing.

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