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US10076340B2	Surgical tool system with a tool unit that includes a power generating unit and a battery and control module that is releasably attached to the tool unit for energizing and controlling the power generating unit A battery and control module to which a powered surgical tool is releasably attached. Internal to the module there is: a cell for energizing the tool; a sensor for monitoring an operational state of the tool; a sensor for monitoring a trigger external to the module; and a control circuit. Based on the signals output by the sensors, the control circuit selectively applies energization signals from the cell to the power generating unit internal to the surgical tool. In some versions of the invention, the trigger is attached to the module.
US10076334B2	Surgical instrument and method for performing a resection An end effector for use with a surgical instrument comprising an anvil shaft, a first anvil assembly disposed at a distal portion of the anvil shaft and a second anvil assembly mountable on the anvil shaft proximally of the first anvil assembly. Also, a method for performing a surgical procedure is provided including the steps of providing a surgical instrument including a first cartridge assembly and a first anvil assembly having an anvil shaft, approximating the first anvil assembly and first cartridge assembly and ejecting staples from the first cartridge assembly. The method further includes removing the first cartridge assembly from the tubular organ, and inserting a second anvil assembly into the tubular organ to engage the anvil shaft of the first anvil assembly and ejecting staples from a second cartridge assembly towards the second anvil assembly.
US10076331B2	Device and method for forming an anastomotic joint between two parts of a body A device and method for forming an anastomotic joint between two parts of a human or animal body having a hollow connector with at least two proximal arms biased towards an open position; and at least two distal arms biased towards an open position, wherein in use when pressure is applied to the proximal arms to overcome the bias into a position in which the proximal arms are closer to each other; similarly pressure is applied to the distal arms to overcome the bias into a position in which the distal arms are closer to each other; the distal end can be pushed into a passage in the first human or animal body part until the distal arms are located in the first lumen of the first body part and released allowing the distal arms to move to the biased position to urge against the first lumen of the first body part; and the proximal end can be pushed into a passage in the second human or animal body part until the proximal arms are located in the second lumen of the second body part and released allowing the proximal arms to move to the biased position to urge against the second lumen of the second body part.
US10076329B2	Adjunct material to promote tissue growth in a colon Adjunct material to promote tissue growth is provided. In general, an implantable adjunct can be configured to be applied to tissue by a surgical stapler in conjunction with staples. The adjunct can have one or more medicants releasably retained therein that are effective to provide a desired effect on tissue in-growth in a predetermined manner. One or more characteristics associated with the adjunct can be altered between various implementations to promote organized tissue remodeling in a desired manner during wound healing, such as by encouraging tissue growth to be in a certain direction and/or by discouraging tissue growth in a certain area and/or on a certain structure.
US10076307B2	Echogenic article with compound indentations The present invention provides an article or an interface having a distribution of a first partially spherical indentation and at least a second partially spherical indentation contained within the first indentation to form a multi-component or “compound” shape that is referred to as a “compound” or “nested” dimples or indentations. These compound dimples or indentions may be concentric and are etched or otherwise formed into a surface or interface of an article to enhance the ultrasonic imaging. Exemplary articles may be needles of the type used to conduct nerve blocks or the interface may be the surface of such a needle, cannula, catheter, catheter tip or similar article.
US10076306B2	Electric toothbrush with ultrasound sensor An electric toothbrush includes a handle and a brush head attached to one end of the handle. The brush head includes a bristle unit and an ultrasound sensor. The bristle unit cleans teeth and the ultrasound sensor acquires ultrasound data of the teeth. A portable tooth decay detection device includes a handle and an ultrasound sensor attached to one end of the handle. The ultrasound sensor emits and receives ultrasound signal at a frequency of higher than 20 KHz and acquires ultrasound data of teeth.
US10076290B2	X-ray imaging apparatus and control method for the same An X-ray imaging apparatus and control method for the same relate to a mobile X-ray imaging apparatus that allows a user to recognize whether the X-ray imaging apparatus is in an appropriate imaging distance from an object. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source, an input unit that receives distance information between the X-ray source and an X-ray detector, a reference light emitter that irradiates a light from the X-ray source in a direction where the X-ray detector is placed, at least one auxiliary light emitter that irradiates a light that overlaps with a light from the reference light emitter; and a controller that determines an auxiliary light emitter corresponding to the distance information among the at least one auxiliary light emitter, and controls the reference light emitter and the determined auxiliary light emitter so that the reference light emitter and the determined auxiliary light emitter irradiate a light.
US10076288B2	Medical treatment or examination device A medical treatment or examination device includes at least one device component that may move relative to at least one other device component via a drive device. A measuring device is provided for detecting a load acting on the movable device component. The measuring device includes a support that bends due to the load. The support, at least in a bending region, has a section producing a magnetic field. The measuring device also includes at least one coil that is assigned to the section and in which the magnetic field undergoing a change as a result of bending due to a load induces an induction current that serves as measurement signal describing the load.
US10076279B2	System and method for a compact EEG headset An EEG headset including an amplifier assembly, a headband assembly formed of a right and a left headband arm and an amplifier platform, a right and left lateral support assembly, at least one hinge assembly connecting at least one of the right or left lateral support assemblies to at least one of the right or left curved arms, and at least one EEG electrode assembly formed of a lead and an electrode. The electrode is in electrical communication with the amplifier assembly via electrical connections within the headset assembly and one of the right and left lateral support assembly.
US10076269B1	Devices and methods for sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment The present invention relates to an integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device, and more particularly to an integrated apnea diagnosis and treatment device. The present invention additionally relates to method of sleep diagnosis and treatment.
US10076262B2	Localized physiologic status from luminosity around fingertip or toe Systems and methods are directed to generating and analyzing light. Spatial light response around a human fingertip in response to electrical stimulation is associated with the status of various body organs. A system that provides a particularized response indication based on spatial light response includes a camera, an electrical signal generator, a light source, a circuit, and a computer. The signal generator stimulates emission of light from the finger when the finger is at a position relative to the camera. The light source illuminates the finger at the position. The circuit activates the light source and the camera to obtain a first image of the finger at the position, activates the signal generator and the camera to obtain a second image of the emission of light from the finger at the position, determines a direction from the first image, determines a centroid from the second image, and determines a description of the second image in accordance with the direction and the centroid. The computer receives indicia of the description and provides the particularized response indication in accordance with the description, wherein the particularized response indication describes a status of various body organs.
US10076241B2	Vision system responsive to a presence of a wearable ophthalmic element Described embodiments include a vision system and a method. A vision system includes a receiver circuit configured to receive data indicative of a presence of a wearable ophthalmic element in an optical path incident on a vision correction device. The vision correction device includes an electronically controllable vision parameter and configured to be placed in an eye of a human subject. The vision system includes a controller circuit coupled to the vision correction device and configured to change the electronically controllable vision parameter of the vision correction device at least partially in response to the received data indicative of the presence of the wearable ophthalmic element in the optical path.
US10076240B2	Foldable ophthalmic system There is a need for robust and portable system, and apparatus for ophthalmology. We propose use of foldable ophthalmic system. Our system will have a chin-rest (or face-rest or forehead rest) that can be folded so that the ocular device could be transported in a brief-case type casing. Our system can be used for many modalities including optical coherence tomography.
US10076235B2	Steerable, follow the leader device A highly articulated robotic probe (HARP) is comprised of a first mechanism and a second mechanism, one or both of which can be steered in desired directions. Each mechanism can alternate between being rigid and limp. In limp mode the mechanism is highly flexible. When one mechanism is limp, the other is rigid. The limp mechanism is then pushed or pulled along the rigid mechanism. The limp mechanism is made rigid, thereby assuming the shape of the rigid mechanism. The rigid mechanism is made limp and the process repeats. These innovations allow the device to drive anywhere in three dimensions. The device can “remember” its previous configurations, and can go anywhere in a body or other structure (e.g. jet engine). When used in medical applications, once the device arrives at a desired location, the inner core mechanism can be removed and another functional device such as a scalpel, clamp or other tool slid through the rigid sleeve to perform. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US10076231B2	Surgeon controlled endoscope device and method A medical apparatus including an endoscopic tool including first and second members longitudinally slideable relative to each other; and a control connected to a proximal end of the endoscopic tool. The control includes a housing and an actuation mechanism. The actuation mechanism is longitudinally slideably connected to the housing. The actuation mechanism has the first member and/or the second member connected thereto. The housing includes a connector configured to removeably connect the housing to a control section of an endoscope.
US10076229B2	Endoscopic overtube An over-tube was developed for receiving and guiding endoscopic instruments into a patient's anus, through the colon, and into the peritoneum. The over-tube has a flexible sheath adapted for insertion into the anus through the colon and out the peritoneum of a patient. A stiffened region is used to protect the colonic wall from injury during insertion of medical instruments through the patient's lower gastrointestinal tract. The proximal end of the over-tube is surrounded by two narrow inflatable balloons on either side of the colotomy to keep the device in place with its lumen open into the peritoneum and further prevent leakage of insufflation. The device may comprise two channels, one for duel channel endoscopes and larger medical instruments or single lumen endoscopes, and an additional channel for surgical instruments. A distal valve prevents insufflation leakage, making the device especially useful in NOTES surgeries.
US10076222B2	Cleaning tool Provided is a cleaning tool with which a cleaning sheet can be efficiently used during cleaning. A cleaning sheet is provided with holding spaces through which a cleaning-body holder is inserted. The cleaning-body holder is provided with: cleaning-body holding parts which are inserted into the holding spaces to hold the cleaning sheet; and a handle part which is connected to the cleaning-body holding parts, and which is to be held by a user. The cleaning-body holding parts are provided with: base parts connected to the handle part; tip parts at an opposite side to the base parts; and intermediate parts which extend from the base parts towards the tip parts. In a state in which the cleaning-body holding parts have been inserted into the holding spaces to hold the cleaning sheet, sections of the cleaning sheet corresponding to the intermediate parts are configured so as to be thicker, in the thickness direction of the cleaning sheet, than sections of the cleaning sheet corresponding to the base parts.
US10076221B2	Cleaning device for bathroom cleaning applications A device for bathroom cleaning applications includes an extension, a head, and a cleaning utility. The extension defines an extension axis and including a first extension component and a second extension component. The head is fixedly coupled to the extension, and defines a head plane transverse to the extension axis. The head includes at least one resilient member disposed parallel to the head plane, and a receiving surface configured to receive the cleaning utility. Force applied to the extension is transmitted to the cleaning utility via the head to conform the cleaning utility to a remote surface to be cleaned.
US10076203B1	System and method for compression garment removal A system for compression garment removal includes a frame with a first ring-shaped portion having a forward portion, a rearward portion, and an opening therein to permit an individual's foot and lower leg to be placed through the opening, the rearward portion including a hook for engaging a compression garment; a handle coupled to the rearward portion of the first ring-shaped portion; and an elongated pushing rod adapted at one end to engage the forward portion of the first ring-shaped portion.
US10076196B2	Pot stand with removable water tray A device is disclosed including a pot stand configured to hold a plant within a pot. The device includes a first platform configured to hold the pot and to permit runoff water from the pot to drain through the first platform and a second platform rigidly attached below the first platform holding a removable runoff collection container collecting water from the first platform, wherein the runoff collection container is removable without moving the pot.
US10076192B2	Air-circulating mat An air-circulating mat for a seating device is disclosed. At a lower end part of a bag-shaped body, an opening portion for mounting an air blower is formed. A spacer ensures an air path through which the air flows inside the bag-shaped body and is contained in the bag-shaped body. This spacer is made of plastic and includes a plurality of convex parts and a plurality of flexible connection portions with flexibility for connecting the adjacent convex parts. At an upper end part on the right side of the bag-shaped body is an air circulating portion for discharging the air flowing through the air path to the outside. A battery containing portion for containing a battery that supplies electric power to the air blower is provided so as to continue to a predetermined end portion of the spacer located on a back portion side of a user in use.
US10076182B2	Method of providing a visual indication of depletion of a fluid A method of providing a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid. In one aspect, the method provides a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid contained within a reservoir of an oral care implement having a delivery member formed of a capillary material. The method includes: a) providing an indicator fluid in the reservoir with the oral care fluid, the oral care fluid being a different color than the indicator fluid and immiscible with respect to the indicator fluid; and b) upon depletion of the oral care fluid from the reservoir, delivering the indicator fluid to a visible portion of the deliver member.
US10076178B2	Independent hammock suspension system An improved hammock suspension system is provided which is both laterally stable and flat, and suspended between two spaced trees by longitudinally elongated web straps coupled to an independent anchor strap, one at each end. These longitudinally elongated web straps are affixed to each longitudinal side edge and extend a distance beyond the opposing hammock body ends, creating four web extensions. These web extensions extend a distance to accommodate spreader member receptacles which secure horizontal, rigid spreader members, thus transferring load forces along opposing longitudinal edges, creating a flatter sleeping platform. The extensions also accommodate fasteners, creating four points of connection and coupling the elongated web strap extensions to an independent web strap anchored to a tree by passing the strap around the tree at minimum 540 degrees, fully encircling and anchoring the strap to the tree and preventing slippage, while also alleviating torsional roll.
US10076173B1	Embedded member nail clipper An apparatus for cutting nails includes single and dual blade embodiments with a frame formed primarily of plastic that includes upper and lower frame members. Numerous variations of a reinforcing member are disclosed. The reinforcing member is embedded in or attached to at least one of the frame members so that a portion, thereof, is preferably disposed in vertical alignment with a force that is applied to at least one of the frame members during use to reduce a magnitude of shear experienced and to also improve an ability to withstand shear. Optional integrally-formed sidewalls provide a container for capturing clippings and also reinforce the frame member thereby reducing flexing while also increasing its ability to withstand shear. Other disclosed innovations include improvements to the lever and blade, automatically file the nail, enhance safety and function, allow customization, improve aesthetics, and lower cost. Numerous other significant improvements are also disclosed.
US10076163B2	Electric slide fastener system To provide an electric slide fastener system that can operate appropriately according to a state of an electric slider. An electric slide fastener system includes a slide fastener chain that includes a pair of fastener tapes and element rows including a plurality of elements fixed to the respective fastener tapes, a slider that moves with respect to the slide fastener chain, a power supply that supplies power for the slider to move with respect to the slide fastener chain, and a driving part to which the power is supplied from the power supply and that moves the slider with respect to the slide fastener chain. The elements pass through the slider to open or close the element rows. The slider is powered from outside.
US10076161B2	Apparatus and method for an adjustable strap securing device An adjustable strap securing device having a first side adapted to contact the adjustable strap and having a loop end and a tail end, a second side attached to the loop end of the first side at an angle relative to the first side and having a second side distal end, a second side fastener disposed adjacent to the second side distal end, a third side attached to the straight end of the first side at an angle relative to the first side and having a third side distal end, a third side fastener disposed adjacent to the third side distal end. The second side fastener and the third side fastener are adapted to releasably engage the adjustment device of the adjustable strap. A method for providing an adjustable strap securing device and securing the adjustable strap securing device around an adjustable strap.
US10076157B2	Article of footwear with soil-shedding performance The disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil on the outsoles. In particular, the disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof including an outsole with a ground-facing crosslinked polymeric material having a wet-state glass transition temperature more than 6° C. less than its dry-state glass transition temperature. The outsoles can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil on the footwear during wear on unpaved surfaces such as sporting fields. When the outsoles are wetted with water, the outsoles can become more compliant and/or can rapidly uptake and/or expel water, which can prevent soil from adhering to the outsole and/or can assist in shedding soil present on the outsole.
US10076155B2	Article of footwear with soil-shedding performance The disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil on the outsoles. In particular, the disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof including an outsole with an external hydrogel film having a water uptake capacity at 24 hours greater than 40% by weight. The outsoles can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil on the footwear during wear on unpaved surfaces such as sporting fields. When the outsoles are wetted with water, the outsoles can become more compliant and/or can rapidly uptake and/or expel water, which can prevent soil from adhering to the outsole and/or can assist in shedding soil present on the outsole.
US10076154B2	Article of footwear with soil-shedding performance The disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil on the outsoles. In particular, the disclosure relates to articles of footwear and components thereof including an outsole with an external hydrogel film that compositionally includes crystalline regions and amorphous hydrophilic regions, where the amorphous regions are covalently bonded to the crystalline regions with carbamate linkages and/or polyamide linkages. The amorphous regions are present in the hydrogel at a ratio of at least 20:1, by weight, relative to the crystalline regions. The outsoles can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil on the footwear during wear on unpaved surfaces such as sporting fields. When the outsoles are wetted with water, the outsoles can become more compliant and/or can rapidly uptake and/or expel water, which can prevent soil from adhering to the outsole and/or can assist in shedding soil present on the outsole.
US10076149B2	Adjustable facial protection systems Devices, systems, and methods, etc., that provide, in certain aspects, a two-point, adjustable, partially pliable, and releasable tensioning suspension that supports an anti-blunt-force frame connected to a protective helmet. The protective devices herein can be, for example, “sport-level” and “military/law enforcement-level.” The anti-blunt-force frame is positioned and balanced on the wearer's face by an impact absorbing face padding system, including a chin strap, cup or pad comprised of an impact protection material. Thus, in one aspect, the present devices, systems, methods, etc., include an adjustable facial protection system for a human comprising a crescent-shaped face protection element configured to withstand blunt force impact and a ballistic material element to prevent the penetration of ballistic and fragmentation projectiles at various force levels to meet different ballistic hazards. The systems can also include a protective helmet.
US10076144B2	Elongated wrist towel with elastic rim and seam An elongated wrist towel for wearing on a user's wrist without exerting circumferential pressure over a large portion of the user's arm includes a towel body defining a hollow, elongated sleeve and is sized to encircle the distal arm of a user. The towel body includes an elastic distal edge which allows the elongated wrist towel to be secured to a user's wrist, a non-elastic proximal edge, and an elastic seam which runs longitudinally between the proximal edge and the distal edge. In this regard, when in place on a wearer's arm, the elongated wrist towel can be retained on the wrist through compression from a single rim and selectively moved between extended and compacted positions on a user's arm.
US10076141B2	Halter bib athletic garment A halter bib athletic garment is described herein. A halter bib athletic garment may be removed or lowered without removing a jersey by simply pulling a halter strap over the head of a wearer. One or more embodiments of a halter bib allow wearers to more readily urinate or have a bowel movement because the halter bib may be easily lowered or removed. A halter bib athletic garment may include a lower body section, a chamois coupled to the lower body section, and an upper body section. The upper body section comprises a halter strap forming a portion of a loop of a head opening on the upper body section. The halter strap includes two front side portions and a rear side portion positioned between the front side portions. The rear side portion is coupled to the athletic garment only with the front side portions of the halter strap.
US10076137B2	Vaporizer and vaporizer cartridges Disclosed herein are methods and systems to vaporize extract, plant material containing organic material and the like, including utilizing a cartridge which may be disposable. The cartridge may be heated in zones or portions. The cartridge may form the inhalation pathway thereby reducing the accumulation of dirt and odor in the heating device. One disclosed vaporizer system has a base with a cartridge interface, a heater element, an on/off switch, a battery, a temperature sensor in proximity to the heater element; a controller in signal communication with the heater element, battery, temperature sensor and the on/off switch; that mates with a disposable cartridge.
US10076135B2	Biodegradable cigarette filter tow and method of manufacture A biodegradable cigarette filter tow includes a mixture of at least two or more natural materials selected from the group consisting of hemp fiber, flax fiber, abaca fiber or pulp, sisal fiber or pulp, wood pulp, and cotton fiber or cotton flock. The mixture may also include regenerated cellulose fibers. The mixture may include a natural binder or may be hydroentangled.
US10076131B2	Metabolic imprinting The present invention generally relates to the field of nutrition. In particular the present invention relates to infant nutrition in the post natal period and in early life, more particular during the age period of 6-36 months or during a part thereof. One embodiment of the present invention is a kit of diet compositions for children during the age period of 6-36 months or during a part thereof, wherein the macronutrient content of the compositions is gradually changing in the form of a straight line from a composition that comprises about 40-50% energy from fat and about 40-49% energy from carbohydrates for children at the age of 6 months to a composition that comprises about 30-35% energy from fat and about 50-55% energy from carbohydrates for children at the age of 36 months, and its use to prevent obesity later in life.
US10076127B2	Process for modifying protein digestion of ruminant feeds and products produced therefrom Processes for increasing rumen undegraded protein in protein containing compositions, fermentation by-products or combinations thereof are disclosed. Uses of alkaline crystalline solids to increase rumen undegraded protein in protein containing compositions, fermentation by-products or combinations thereof are further disclosed. Products produced from such processes are also disclosed.
US10076121B2	Method of baking Disclosed is the making of baked products, more particularly making of baked products using polypeptides having lipolytic activity and at least one emulsifier. The invention also relates to compositions comprising polypeptides having lipolytic activity and at least one emulsifier.
US10076120B2	Seed-origin endophyte populations, compositions, and methods of use This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
US10076119B2	Pesticidal mixtures The present invention relates to pesticidal mixtures comprising one biological compound and at least one fungicidal, insecticidal or plant growth regulating compound as defined herein and respective agricultural uses thereof.
US10076118B2	Methods of making antimicrobial poly(methyl methacrylate) /silver nanocomposites and inhibiting bacterial growth with poly(methyl methacrylate) /silver nanocomposites A method of making an antimicrobial poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/silver nanocomposite comprising PMMA and silver nanoparticles. The method includes reacting at least one silver salt with a methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer in at least one organic solvent free of water and in the presence of at least one organic free radical initiator to polymerize the MMA monomer to form the PMMA by free radical polymerization while reducing in-situ the silver salt to form the silver nanoparticles, wherein the silver nanoparticles have an average particle size of 35-60 nm, and wherein the PMMA forms a matrix that encloses the silver nanoparticles.
US10076115B2	Naturally-derived surface sanitizer and disinfectant Food processing equipment, food contact surfaces, and non-food contact surfaces are sanitized or disinfected using an acid-anionic surfactant solution that has efficacy in hard water, is non-corrosive, and is stable at elevated temperatures. The sanitizing/disinfecting solution is prepared as a highly concentrated liquid and diluted to end use concentrations prior to application to food processing equipment or food or non-food contact surfaces. Efficacy in hard water is important for sanitizers and disinfectants that are diluted by the end user using potentially hard water. Stability at elevated temperatures is important for long-term storage and transportation. The diluted sanitizing/disinfecting solution exhibits strong antimicrobial activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria even when diluted in hard water. The sanitizing/disinfecting solution exhibits low toxicity to humans and the environment since it is prepared from low toxicity ingredients that are readily biodegradable.
US10076113B2	Methods for obtaining stem cells The present invention relates to methods for obtaining stem cells from mammalian cadavers, methods for obtaining or purifying stem cells from a sample likely to contain non-stem cells, methods of regeneration of injured tissues and methods of treatment.
US10076112B2	Ex vivo organ care system The invention generally relates to systems, methods, and devices for ex vivo organ care. More particularly, in various embodiments, the invention relates to caring for a liver ex vivo at physiologic or near-physiologic conditions.
US10076106B2	Fishing line of core-sheath structure comprising short fiber A yarn which contains a composite yarn composed of a core part containing a short fiber and a sheath part containing a synthetic fiber filament yarn, the core part and the sheath part being integrated via fluff of the short fiber getting between or entangled with the long fibers, the specific gravity of the yarn being adjustable in the range of 1.0 or more, a fishing line containing the yarn, and a method for producing the fishing line. The present invention provides an ideal fishing line which has a strong core-sheath structure, does not allow separation or detachment of the core part and the sheath part, is easy to handle, and also is excellent in strength, weatherability, and water resistance.
US10076105B2	Darting fishing lure A fishing lure having planar sides is provided. The fishing lure having substantially planar sides such that the fishing lure can be made to dart and stop by a user while maintaining the lure's position in the water column. The fishing lure may also include chambers for weights and attractants or any combination thereof. The fishing lure may also include a user-flexible tail that allows a user to control motion within the fishing column.
US10076104B2	Alimentary composition comprised of insects and tetrahydrocannabinol Variable-scale, modular, easily manufacturable, energy efficient, reliable, and computer operated Insect Production Superstructure Systems (IPSS) may be used to produce insects for human and animal consumption, and for the extraction and use of lipids for applications involving medicine, nanotechnology, consumer products, and chemical production with minimal water, feedstock, and environmental impact. An IPSS may comprise modules including feedstock mixing, enhanced feedstock splitting, insect feeding, insect breeding, insect collection, insect grinding, pathogen removal, multifunctional flour mixing, and lipid extraction. An IPSS may be configured to be constructed out of a plurality of containerized modules.
US10076102B2	Bovine rumination and estrus prediction system (BRES) and method A bovine monitoring system may include a rumination sensor, a motion sensor, a posture sensor. The rumination sensor may detect chewing by sensing jaw motion. The motion sensor may detect motion. The posture sensor may detect orientation of the bovine asset through detection of gravitational acceleration, detection of gyroscopic rotation, or a combination of gravitational acceleration and gyroscopic rotation. Using the recorded rumination, motion, and posture sensors, the bovine asset monitoring system may identify aberrations in the estrous cycle or physical or mental health of the bovine assets. A bovine monitoring system may include a thermal scanning device to detect localized heating of the vulva area of the bovine asset, which may be used to identify aberrations in the estrous cycle or physical or mental health of the bovine assets.
US10076095B1	Lettuce cultivar Portola A lettuce cultivar, designated Portola, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Portola and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Portola with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Portola, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Portola and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Portola with another lettuce cultivar.
US10076092B2	Tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and parents thereof The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10076090B2	Growing systems and methods Growing systems may include a number of modular growing chambers adapted to be configured in a stacked arrangement with each growing chamber surrounding a corresponding portion of the plant. The grow chambers may be selectively added or removed during plant growth, such that different sections of the growing plant may be influenced differently using aeroponic, hydroponic or other growing techniques. The grow chamber stack may be portable and provided with integrated or independent lifting devices to assist an operator in adding or removing chambers from the stack. Three growing processes may be facilitated using such systems. These include a process for producing assorted product from a single plant for simultaneous harvest, a process for producing an extended harvest of a desired size product from a single plant, and a process for extending the productive life of a plant and provide for multiple, continued, and perpetual harvest.
US10076086B2	Apparatus for breeding plants The present invention relates to an apparatus for breeding plants having at least two units arranged in the apparatus for the reception of a plant, wherein at least two units are arranged in a first row and at least one of these units is movable relative to at least one further unit of the first row so that their spacing from one another is changeable.
US10076083B2	Plant cultivation method To provide a technique whereby, in cultivating a crop, factors relating to differentiation into flower buds and leaf buds, sprouting, flowering and fruiting, growth of young shoots, etc., are regulated. For example, the invention addresses the problem of regulating the growth of a crop so that leaf buds sprout in tandem and with the sprouting of flower buds and flowering and fruiting are repeated under fresh foliage. [Solution] A plant cultivation method which comprises environmentally stimulating a plant to regulate differentiation into flower buds and/or differentiation into leaf buds. In a typical embodiment, the plant is help in an environment at a temperature of 16-40° C. at a photoperiod of 8-13 hours immediately after harvesting fruits. As another environmental stimulus, the plant is held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 3-7° C. As still another environmental stimulus, the plant as held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 16-23° C. at a photoperiod of 8-11 hours.
US10076071B2	Machine for harvesting fodder A machine for the harvesting of plants comprises an arm movable between work and transport configuration, a tool comprising lateral ends and being able to occupy a work position and another position, a connecting device via which the tool is connected to the arm and enabling a first movement of the tool relative to the arm, during which the lateral ends move vertically relative to the arm in the same vertical direction relative thereto, the connecting device can operate a second transverse and horizontal movement of the tool relative to the arm and making it possible to operate this second movement independently of the first movement. The connecting device comprises an arm articulated on the support arm about a first transverse and horizontal axis when the support arm is in the work configuration, and this arm can, by pivoting about the first axis, moved vertically relative to the support arm.
US10080318B2	Safety shield for charging Methods, devices, and systems are provided to shield a passenger compartment of an electric vehicle from electromagnetic fields present during a wireless charging process. A charging system may include a power source and a charging plate wirelessly coupled to the power source, where the power source wirelessly transfers power to the charging plate. The system may further include at least one shield portion between the charging plate and a passenger compartment of the electric vehicle, where the at least one shield portion is configured to attenuate an electromagnetic field provided by the charging system.
US10080313B2	Power module and method for manufacturing the same A power module or the like is provided in which lower inductance and miniaturization are achieved. The power module includes: main body units (11 to 13), cooling units (21 to 24) which cool the main body units (11 to 13), busbars (51, 52) connected to power terminals (1i, 1j) of the main body units (11 to 13), a casing (W) in which at least contact parts with the busbars (51, 52) are insulative, and a metal member (30) which supports the casing (W). The metal member (30) tightly contacts the casing (W), thereby forming a box with one side opened. At least the main body units (11 to 13) and the busbars (51, 52) are arranged inside the box. An insulating sealant is provided to fill the inside of the box.
US10080311B1	Modular enclosure with angled heat sink fins An apparatus and a system including the apparatus. The apparatus may include a modular electronics enclosure. The modular electronics enclosure may be configured to house an electronics device. The modular electronics enclosure may include a side portion. The modular electronics enclosure may further include angled external heat sink fins extending from the side portion.
US10080305B2	Information processing device with electronic-component unit preventing erroneous insertion of electronic parts An information processing device (e.g. a server) is designed to install a plurality of electronic components (e.g. server modules) connectible to a plurality of connectors arranged in the bottom of a casing. A stopper is attached to the casing at a deviated position slightly deviated from the electronic component in its thickness direction perpendicular to the insertion direction of the electronic component. An interference member is disposed in an interference area asymmetrically located on a first face of the electronic component relative to a second face of the electronic device in its thickness direction with respect to the electronic device. The interference member interferes with the stopper only when the electronic component is inserted into the connectors at an irregular position or in a reverse manner.
US10080297B2	Power supply module A power supply module and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The power supply module includes: a coil including a coil body and a connecting terminal; electronic components at least including an integrated circuit chip; a connector configured to be electrically connected with the coil and the electronic component; and a magnetic conductor configured to enclose in and around the coil body and the electronic component, wherein the connector is integrally formed with the integrated circuit chip when manufacturing the latter. The present disclosure can make the structure of the power supply module be more compact to further meet the needs of miniaturization design, reduce material consumption, simplify procedure, and therefore reduce the production costs.
US10080293B2	Electronic component-embedded board and electronic component device An electronic component-embedded board includes: a core substrate; a cavity which penetrates the core substrate; a wiring layer formed on one face of the core substrate; a component mounting pattern formed of the same material as the wiring layer and laid across the cavity to partition the cavity into through holes in plan view; an electronic component mounted on the component mounting pattern and arranged inside the cavity; a first insulating layer formed on the one face of the core substrate to cover one face of the electronic component; and a second insulating layer formed on the other face of the core substrate to cover the other face of the electronic component. The cavity is filled with the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
US10080290B2	Stretchable embedded electronic package An embedded electronic package includes a stretchable body that includes at least one electronic component, wherein each electronic component includes a back side that is exposed from the stretchable body; and a plurality of meandering conductors that are electrically connected to one or more of the electronic components. In some forms, the embedded electronic package includes a stretchable body that includes an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the stretchable body includes at least one electronic component, wherein each electronic component is fully embedded in the stretchable body and the same distance from the upper surface of the stretchable body; and a plurality of meandering conductors that are electrically connected to one or more of the electronic components.
US10080286B2	Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic structure and method for producing same A spar includes a conductive layer laminated and formed on a carbon-fiber prepreg, and a jumper formed of a conductor which penetrates through the conductive layer and the carbon-fiber prepreg.
US10080284B2	Circuit board structure A circuit board structure includes an inner circuit structure and a first build-up circuit structure. The inner circuit structure includes a core layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, a first patterned circuit layer disposed on the upper surface, a second patterned circuit layer disposed on the lower surface and a conductive through hole connecting the first and the second patterned circuit layers. The first build-up circuit structure at least has a cavity and an inner dielectric layer. The inner dielectric layer has an opening communicating the cavity and a pad of the first patterned circuit layer is located in the opening. A hole diameter of the opening is smaller than a hole diameter of cavity. An inner surface of the inner dielectric layer exposed by the cavity and a top surface of the pad are coplanar or have a height difference.
US10080283B1	Interface for limiting substrate damage due to discrete failure An apparatus is provided with a component configured with an interface comprising a resilient material. In a first state, the component is mechanically and/or electrically attached to a substrate. Exposure of the interface to the temperature that meets or exceeds the transition temperature of interface causes the resilient material to undergo a state change. The state change of the interface alters the position of the component, including separation of the component from the substrate. The separation disrupts the attachment thereby mitigating damage to the substrate and/or component.
US10080276B2	Irradiation apparatus with limited swivel rotator An irradiation apparatus with a limited swivel rotator includes a drive ring and at least one mount affixed thereto. The drive ring has a defined drive axis of rotation being configured to rotate about a source container, like an X-ray tube. The mounts are affixed to the drive ring. Each of the mounts is configured to mount a material holder to the drive ring for rotating the material holder about the source container. The limited swivel rotator is in communication with each of the mounts and is configured to maintain a radial planetary position of the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto to maintain an initial horizontal orientation of the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto on the drive ring as the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto are moved around the source container by the drive ring.
US10080267B2	Alternating current-driven light emitting element lighting apparatus An AC-driven LED lighting apparatus includes: a triac dimmer to generate a modulated AC voltage by modulating a phase of AC power according to a selected level of dimming; a rectifying circuit to generate drive voltage by full-wave-rectifying the AC voltage having the phase modulated by the triac dimmer; a dimming level detector to detect a dimming level according to the drive voltage; a phase cut reference setting unit for setting a phase cut reference value; and a LED driving module for constant-current-controlling a plurality of LED groups by comparing the detected dimming level with the phase cut reference value, wherein the light emitting element driving module comprises a LED current blocking unit for blocking a drive current supplied to the plurality of LED groups when the dimming level is lower than the phase cut reference value.
US10080263B2	Cooking device A cooking appliance includes at least one housing assembly and at least one cooking chamber formed in the housing assembly. The at least one cooking chamber includes at least one loading opening. At least one cooking chamber door closes the at least one loading opening. The at least one cooking chamber door includes at least one frame assembly and at least one window assembly. The at least one frame assembly includes a plurality of edges, with at least one contact face at each of the edges on a side of the at least one cooking chamber door that faces the at least one cooking chamber when the at least one cooking chamber door is closed. At least one of the contact faces is an at least one extended contact face that is significantly larger than the remaining contact faces with respect to at least one geometric dimension.
US10080260B2	Fine heating wire and heating unit using the same A fine heating wire having a small diameter and applicable to various products. The fine heating wire is bendable, densely installed, and has high thermal efficiency. It includes a core formed with synthetic fiber material and a coil spirally wound around the outer portion of the core. The core connects one or more pairs of polyaramid fiber units. Each unit is formed by braiding dozens to hundreds of fine polyaramid fiber strands to maintain the diameter within 200-600 denier. The coil is formed of copper or copper alloy to withstand temperature rising up to 60° within five minutes when 3.7-12V power is supplied to maintain a resistance per unit length value equal to or greater than 0.5 Ω/m. The diameter of the fine heating wire is minimized to be installed inside a slim fiber, and is bendable and densely installed to be applied to products, such as gloves and socks.
US10080259B2	Three-dimensional ceramic heater A three-dimensional ceramic heater, such as a cylindrical ceramic heater, is proposed in which the conductive ceramic heating element is multi-furcated into lanes at least in the folded-back sections so that the electric current tends to flow in a more uniform and hence laminar manner with the effect that the localized over heating is suppressed greatly.
US10080248B2	System, method and apparatus for sensor virtualization in mobile devices A method and system for virtualizing mobile device sensors includes requesting from a first mobile device a virtual connection with a mobile device having a specific type of sensor, receiving a response from a second mobile device having the sensor, establishing a trusted temporary communication connection between the first and second mobile devices, sending a control signal from an application program on the first mobile device to the second mobile for operating the sensor on the second mobile device and receiving device sensor data from the sensor on the second mobile device. The operating system of the first mobile device is coupled with the application program by a virtual machine monitor running on the first mobile device such that the first mobile device is a host machine and the second mobile device is a guest machine.
US10080247B2	Base station, terminal, and communication method Even when a terminal goes out of a macro cell, data communication in the small cell can be caused to continue while the mobile management in a macro cell is continued. When a first determination unit (205) determines that a terminal exists outside the cell of a base station (200), an existence recognition packet transmission/reception unit (207) transmits a recognition packet, which is used for recognition, to the terminal via a small cell, and thereafter receives a response to the recognition packet from the terminal via the small cell. When a second determination unit (206) determines, because of the reception of the response, that the terminal exits inside the cell of the base station (200), a radio resource control unit (204) causes the connection of the control plane between the terminal and the base station (200) to continue.
US10080243B2	Mechanisms to facilitate random access by link-budget-limited devices Mechanisms enabling link-budget-limited (LBL) devices to more effectively perform random access may include: (1) broadcasting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration index (PCI) reserved for LBL devices; (2) configuring LBL devices to use a PCI that is offset from the conventional PCI of current cell; (3) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages using an alternative set of subframes, different from conventionally-defined subframe set; (4) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages on odd frames when the conventional PRACH configuration specifies even frames; (5) configuring LBL devices to generate and use extra PRACH preambles that are not used by non-LBL devices; (6) configuring LBL devices to use group B preambles while non-LBL devices are configured to use group A preambles; and (7) boosting power of a random access response message after an Nth random access failure with preamble conforming to an LBL-reserved pattern of preambles.
US10080231B2	Channel bandwidth optimization for dynamic network conditions Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for optimizing channel bandwidth usage in a communication network from a sender. In a particular embodiment, a method provides transmitting first data on a first data channel from the sender to a receiver at a first rate that does not exceed an available amount of bandwidth on the communication network. The method further provides determining that the first data channel is attempting to transmit at a second rate that is higher than the first rate. Also, the method provides continuing to transmit the first data on the first data channel while increasing from the first rate to the second rate in increments until either the second rate is achieved or the available amount of bandwidth is reached.
US10080228B2	Radio communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus and radio communication method It is realized to transmit a reference signal for channel estimation a predetermined number of times with one signaling. In a radio communication system including a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, the base station apparatus transmits a radio resource control signal including information indicating a number of times of transmission of the reference signal for channel estimation to the mobile station apparatus, and transmits a physical downlink control channel including information indicating transmission of the reference signal to the mobile station apparatus, and the mobile station apparatus transmits the reference signal to the base station apparatus until a number of times of transmission of the reference signal reaches the number of times of transmission, according to information indicating the number of times of transmission, which is included in the radio resource control signal, when the information indicating transmission of the reference signal is included in the physical downlink control channel.
US10080218B2	Method of receiving control information for receiving discovery reference signal and apparatus thereof The present specification provides a method and UE for receiving configuration usable for a discovery, which can be used in a small cell scenario. In detail, the UE is configured for receiving measurement configuration for a discovery signal, wherein the discovery signal includes CRS, PSS, and SSS. The discovery may further include a channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on a configuration of the CSI-RS. The measurement configuration may include at least one set of configuration elements. The UE performs a measurement on the discovery signal based on the received configuration. Further, the UE receives channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration including at least one set of CSI-RS configuration elements used for a zero power CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS configuration includes at least one set of CSI-RS configuration elements, each set of CSI-RS configuration elements includes CSI-RS interval information and CSI-RS offset information.
US10080215B2	Transportation of user plane data across a split fronthaul interface This specification describes a method comprising generating a first packet based on user plane data relating to a single user which is output by a first L1 PHY processing stage, the first packet including a proper subset of the user plane data which is to be transmitted to the user equipment during a first time-slot symbol; passing the first packet to a second L1 PHY processing stage across a split fronthaul interface in a first time period having a duration corresponding to a duration of transmission of the first time-slot symbol; and passing one or more subsequent packets including the remainder of the user plane data across the split fronthaul interface in one or more successive time periods which are immediately subsequent to the first time period.
US10080214B2	Signaling and decoding with cross-transmission time interval (TTI) or cross-carrier referencing Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for wireless communication. In certain aspects, the method generally includes transmitting first control information during a first transmission time interval (TTI), wherein the first control information indicates resources within a TTI allocated for a data transmission, and transmitting the data using the indicated resources. The method further includes transmitting second control information, wherein the second control information also indicates the resources for the data transmission.
US10080212B2	Method and device for updating system information, method and device for acquiring system information A method and a device for updating system information, a method and a device for acquiring system information, the method for updating a system information includes: when the system information changes, informing a UE that the system information changes, the system information includes essential system information and non-essential system information; from a next cycle, in each of N cycles, broadcasting the essential system information and the non-essential system information, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; after the successive N cycles, in response to a request from the UE through a dedicated channel of the UE, sending at least a part of the non-essential system information to the UE through the dedicated channel of the UE, where the request indicates that the UE fails to receive the non-essential system information from the broadcasting. Accordingly, system resource consumption is reduced.
US10080203B2	Power headroom reporting method in wireless communication system supporting change in use of wireless resource and apparatus for same The present invention proposes a power headroom reporting method and apparatus of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a change in use of wireless resources. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: determining whether power headroom reporting is triggered; and transmitting power headroom reporting (PHR) information for first upper link wireless resource and second upper link wireless resource to a base station, wherein the first upper link wireless resource is configured to allow the use of the wireless resource to be dynamically changed and the second upper link wireless resource is configured to prevent the use of the wireless resources from being dynamically changed.
US10080201B2	Technologies for controlling mobile communication devices for low reception areas Technologies for controlling mobile communication devices in a low reception area includes predicting a future location of the mobile communication device and determining reception data for the predicted future location. The reception data is indicative of an expected level of reception by the mobile communication device while in the future location. Transmission power of a communication circuit of the mobile communication device may be reduced in response to a determination that the expected level of reception is less than a reference threshold.
US10080198B2	Method and apparatus for determining that an almost-contiguous resource allocation A-MPR applies to an uplink transmission A method and apparatus determine that an almost-contiguous resource allocation Additional Maximum Power Reduction (A-MPR) applies to an uplink transmission power. An indication of a resource allocation of resource blocks for a transmission can be received. The resource allocation can be ascertained to be a non-contiguous allocation of resource blocks. An almost-contiguous resource allocation Additional Maximum Power Reduction (A-MPR) can be determined to apply to an uplink transmission power for the transmission. An almost-contiguous resource allocation can be defined as a contiguous resource allocation of resource blocks from which resource blocks are punctured and the punctured resource blocks are contained in a contiguous region overlapping a boundary between the lower frequency carrier and the adjacent upper frequency carrier. The punctured resource blocks can be resource blocks that are not allocated for the transmission. The transmission can be performed based on the uplink transmission power with the applied A-MPR.
US10080194B2	Method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for awaking electronic equipment A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for awaking electronic equipment. The method for awaking the electronic equipment includes monitoring whether a first processor needs to be awaked, when the first processor is powered off; and controlling a power supply module to supply power to the first processor to awake the first processor, if the first processor needs to be awaked. The monitoring whether the first processor needs to be awaked can be performed by a wireless module included in the electronic equipment, rather than by an additional Microcontroller Unit (MCU).
US10080191B2	Wireless device, method, and computer readable media for transmitting and receiving beacon frames on different sub-channels Wireless devices, methods, and computer-readable media for transmitting and receiving beacon frames are disclosed. A master station is disclosed. The master station may include circuitry configured to operate in accordance with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) on a plurality of sub-channels and a primary channel. The circuitry may be further configured to assign a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) station to a sub-channel and transmit a legacy beacon on the primary channel with a first period. The circuitry may be further configured to transmit a HEW beacon on the sub-channel with a second period, wherein the second period is greater than the first period. The circuitry may be further configured to determine that the HEW station has data at the master station, and to transmit the HEW beacon on the sub-channel with an indication that the HEW station has the data. A HEW station is disclosed for receiving HEW beacons.
US10080190B2	Multi-band envelope tracking circuit A multi-band envelope tracking circuit is disclosed. The multi-band envelope tracking circuit includes a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a second RF transceiver, each configured to communicate one or more RF signals in one or more RF bands, and an envelope tracking signal corresponding to the one or more RF signals. The multi-band envelope tracking circuit includes a first envelope tracking signal path and a second envelope tracking signal path, each configured to amplify RF signal(s) in RF band(s) based on corresponding envelope tracking signal(s). Switching circuitry is provided and configured to provide the corresponding envelope tracking signal(s) to selected one or more of the first envelope tracking signal path and the second envelope tracking signal path. As such, the multi-band envelope tracking circuit can perform envelope tracking power amplification in various RF band combinations, thus supporting multi-band wireless communications with reduced power consumption and heat dissipation.
US10080176B2	Secure user plane location (SUPL) redirection and mobile location protocol (MLP) tunneling to a discovered SLP Systems and methods for Secure User Plane (SUPL) Redirection and Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) Tunneling to a Discovered SUPL Location Platform (D-SLP) are disclosed. For example, a method for SUPL redirection by a SET, may include: receiving an initiation message at a SET from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP); establishing a secure connection with the H-SLP, and returning a response message; receiving a redirect message from the H-SLP; establishing a SET initiated SUPL session with a D-SLP; obtaining a location of the SET using the D-SLP; and returning the location to the H-SLP.
US10080171B2	Continuous communication for prioritized user device applications Continuous communication during network handovers may ensure the sending and receiving of mission-critical data by over-the-top (OTT) applications is performed without interruption using multiple communication networks. A request from an OTT application to establish a communication session with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core of a wireless carrier network for routing communication traffic to the IMS core may be received. Subsequently, an access point name (APN) designated by an APN parameter of the OTT application may be determined. Accordingly, in response to a determination that the APN parameter designates a continuous link APN, the communication traffic may be routed via a communication session that seamlessly switches between a continuous link APN bearer on a radio access network of the wireless carrier network and a continuous link APN tunnel on a remote network that connects to an Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) of the wireless carrier network.
US10080170B2	Network handover method, apparatus, device, and system Embodiments provide a network handover method, apparatus, device, and system and relate to the communications field. The method is used in a control node and include: acquiring first state information of a WLAN AP that UE accesses and second state information of a cellular network corresponding to a location of the UE. If it is determined that the first state information and the second state information meet a preset first handover condition, the method includes generating first handover information, and sending the first handover information to a handover node, so that the handover node sends, to the UE, a first handover command that is generated according to the first handover information, and the UE attaches to the cellular network indicated by the first handover command, receives an IP address of the UE in the cellular network, and implements a handover from a WLAN to the cellular network.
US10080168B2	Handover in software defined networking Handover in software defined networking The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media usable for handover in software defined networking, for example X2 and/or S1-MME handover at source eNB and target eNB. The method includes requesting, by a first entity in a first plane, a first entity in a second plane to report a parameter to the first entity in the first plane, receiving, at the first entity in the first plane, the reported parameter, and forwarding, by the first entity in the first plane, the parameter to a second entity in the first plane.
US10080162B2	Network sharing and reverse single radio voice call continuity Certain networks can operate using circuit switched infrastructure, while other networks may operate using infrastructure for the long term evolution (LTE) of the third generation partnership project (3GPP). Devices can operate across the boundaries of these networks. Thus, such devices as well as the networks may benefit from network sharing in reverse single radio voice call continuity. For example, a method may include requesting handover of a user equipment from a source network to a target network. The method may also include providing a network identification corresponding to the source network while requesting the handover. Alternatively, or in addition, a method may include requesting handover of a user equipment from a source network to a target network. The method may also include determining the target network based on a network identification received previously.
US10080161B2	Processing data units A method, a transmitter and a computer program product for processing data units at the transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, data units are transmitted to a receiver according to a protocol and with respective sequence numbers. The protocol indicates that the receiver is to use a reordering window to determine whether a data unit which is newly received from the transmitter is a new or repeated data unit the data stream by comparing the sequence numbers of the newly received data unit and a previously received data unit. A status report is received and based thereon, the sequence number of a next data unit to be transmitted in a new cell following a handover is selectively adjusted such that the next data unit will be determined to be a new data unit. The next data unit is transmitted with the adjusted sequence number to the receiver.
US10080160B2	Method for resource reservation executed by a network element of a mobile communication network for a communication connection between a mobile device and a communication destination A method for resource reservation executed by a network element of a mobile communication network for a communication connection between a mobile device and a communication destination includes: receiving a request for establishing the communication connection between the mobile device and the communication destination originating from an application of the mobile device; determining the type of application requesting the communication connection between the mobile device and the communication destination; estimating the required Quality of Service (QoS) for the requested communication connection with respect to the upload and/or download requirements under consideration of the type of application requesting the communication connection between the mobile device and the communication destination; checking whether the communication connection between the mobile device and the communication destination can provide the estimated required QoS; and reserving if possible the resources for the communication connection between the mobile device and the communication destination to provide the required QoS.
US10080141B2	Method and device for assigning spectral resources in a cellular network A technique for assigning spectral resources in a cellular network for wireless communications is described. The spectral resources are partly utilized by other applications. As to a method aspect of the technique, a controller (100) of the cellular network receives information (702) indicative of one or more geographical areas and restrictions within the one or more geographical areas (1002). The spectral resources are assigned based on the received information (702).
US10080138B2	Systems and methods for automatic device detection, device management, and remote assistance In some embodiments, a network regulator device protects a local network of client systems (e.g. Internet-of-things devices such as smartphones, home appliances, wearables, etc.) against computer security threats. When introduced to the local network, some embodiments of network regulator take over some network services from a router, and automatically install the network regulator as gateway to the local network. The network regulator then carries out an automatic device discovery procedure and distribute device-specific utility agents to the protected client systems. An exemplary utility agent detects when its host device has left the local network, and in response, sets up a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel with a security server to maintain protection of the respective device.
US10080137B2	System and method for authenticating local CPE Systems, methods, apparatus and other mechanisms for authenticating wireless customer premises equipment (CPE) at a service location by transmitting an authentication trigger signal via a first communication mechanism associated with the service location toward CPE associated with the service location; monitoring a second communication mechanism associated with the service location to detect therefrom any received authentication trigger response signals; and authenticating only CPE associated with a received authentication trigger response signal, wherein at least one of the first and second communication mechanisms comprises a local infrastructure element.
US10080130B2	Methods, apparatuses, system, related computer programs and data structures for subscription information delivery A method and corresponding apparatus are configured to transmit, during terminal attachment to an evolved packet system and in at least a portion of a diameter command, centralized service-related subscription information. The method and apparatus are also configured to transmit, in an initial message of a call continuity procedure, received centralized service-related subscription information. The method and apparatus are configured to operate according to the received centralized service-related subscription information in the initial message of the call continuity procedure.
US10080116B2	Offline charging for group communications using multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) delivery Systems and methods for performing offline charging for group communications. One embodiment is an application server that identifies data for a group communication, identifies an encryption code assigned to the group, encrypts the data for the group communication using the encryption code, and initiates delivery of the encrypted data for the group communication to the group of mobile devices over an MBMS bearer. The application server collects charging information related to the group communication using MBMS delivery, formats the charging information into an offline charging communication, and transmits the offline charging communication to an offline charging system.
US10080108B2	Electronic device and method for updating point of interest An electronic device includes a memory, which stores one or more pieces of schedule information of a user corresponding to the electronic device, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain location information corresponding to the electronic device, to select at least one schedule information, which is associated with a location corresponding to the location information, from among the one or more pieces of schedule information, to determine whether an event corresponding to the location occurs, based at least on the at least one schedule information, and to set the location to a POI corresponding to the user based at least on the occurrence of the event.
US10080103B2	Range-free proximity determination Techniques of range free proximity determination are described. A mobile device can determine an entry into or exit from a proximity fence upon determining that the mobile device is sufficiently close to a signal source. The proximity fence can be a virtual fence defined by the signal source and associated with a service. The mobile device can detect signals from multiple signal sources. The mobile device can determine that, among the signal sources, one or more signal sources are located closest to the mobile device based on a ranking of the signal sources using signal strength. The mobile device can determine a probability indicating a confident level of the ranking. The mobile device can determine that the mobile device entered or exited a proximity fence associated with a highest ranked signal source satisfying a confidence threshold.
US10080098B1	Systems and methods for uplink high efficiency transport of location information in a wireless network Uplink high efficiency transport of location information from a user equipment (UE) may include initiating a periodic or triggered location session in a UE by a location server (LS) in a wireless network. The UE may enter an idle state and monitor for a triggering event. After detecting an event, the UE may obtain location information, determine a nearby base station, and obtain a temporary signaling channel from the base station. The UE transmits the location information to the base station and includes a UE identification (ID), an ID for the LS, and an authentication code (AC). The location information may be ciphered but other information is unciphered. The base station transfers the received information to the LS which may authenticate the UE ID using the AC, determine the UE location using the location information and transfer the UE location to an external client.
US10080097B2	System and method for managing interference in a network environment based on user presence An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining a presence of user equipment (UE) in relation to small cell radio(s) of a small cell network based on information obtained through the small cell network and one or more parallel networks; and adjusting transmit power for the small cell radio(s) based on the presence of UE in relation to the small cell radio(s). Another example method can include determining that a UE in cell paging channel mode has changed its selected macro cell radio; determining that the UE is allowed service on a small cell radio located in a vicinity of a macro cell coverage area of a selected macro cell radio; and adjusting a transmit power of the small cell radio based on a presence of the UE in a surrounding macro cell coverage area of the small cell radio.
US10080088B1	Sound zone reproduction system A system capable of directing audio output to a portion of a shared acoustic environment. For example, the system may divide the environment into two or more sound zones and may generate audio output directed to one or more sound zones. The system may distinguish between target sound zones and quiet sound zones and may determine a set of global filter coefficients with which to direct the audio output. The system may generate a first set of filter coefficients that increase audio volume in the target sound zones and a second set of filter coefficients that increase a ratio of audio volume between the target sound zones and the quiet sound zones. The system may generate the set of global filter coefficients using a combination of the first set and the second set. The system may also direct audio from multiple audio sources in different directions.
US10080077B2	Ear cushion for headphone A headphone comprises at least one cushion constructed and arranged for contact with a wearer, the at least one cushion comprising an interior region; an electro-acoustical driver that transmits a sound towards an ear canal of the wearer of the headphone; and a plurality of segments comprising a sound absorbing material that at least partially fill the interior region of the cushion.
US10080072B2	Microphone A microphone includes a tubular microphone case having conductivity, a circuit board on which a circuit is configured, the circuit being used for an operation of a microphone unit that converts an audio signal into an electrical signal, a light source that is accommodated in a position close to a first end of the microphone case and emits light, a light source mounting board on which the light source is placed, a holding member that has conductivity, holds the light source mounting board and the circuit board, and is fixed to the microphone case, and a light guide member including a protrusion. The holding member includes a light source mounting board accommodating portion that accommodates the light source mounting board, a circuit board accommodating portion that accommodates the circuit board, and a hole that can accept the protrusion.
US10080069B2	Collection of telemetry data through a meter reading system Disclosed are apparatus and related methodologies for transmitting data related to utility conditions between monitoring locations and a central and/or data collection facility using a meter reading system. Collection of both corrected and uncorrected data from meters is achieved to thereby provide backup data in case of corrector failure. The presently disclosed subject matter also provides for the collection of telemetry data and alarms from correctors and recorders over a meter reading system. Two-way communications over a meter reading system is also provided to permit data transmission to selected endpoint devices.
US10080067B2	Heat relay network system for telecommunication equipment An apparatus, comprising a linecard including a circuit board having a front side connectable to a pluggable optical module and a back side opposite the front side; a heat relay apparatus comprising a heat pipe on the circuit board; a pluggable optical module generating a first amount of heat and being in thermal contact with the heat pipe; and a cooling module including a heat sink in thermal contact with the heat pipe, the cooling module generating a second amount of heat in a range from the first amount of heat to no heat; and wherein heat from the pluggable optical module is transferable through the heat pipe to the cooling module for dispersal from the heat sink.
US10080063B2	Method of sharing personal media using a digital recorder A method and apparatus for sharing personal media using a digital recorder allows a plurality of multimedia devices to view content stored on a DVR across a local network. The DVR records video content from broadcast signals and records video content downloaded via the Internet.
US10080061B1	Distributing audio signals for an audio/video presentation A mobile communication device and an “app” for a mobile communication device for synchronizing audio with a delayed video displayed on a display device, including (a) receiving an audio signal over a wireless communication system, the audio signal containing audio information corresponding to delayed video information displayed on a display device, wherein the audio information is received at the mobile communication device prior to the corresponding delayed video information being displayed on the display device; (b) providing a user interface to the user including an audio delay control allowing the user to control an amount of delay added to the audio information for synchronizing output of the audio information with the delayed video information displayed on the display device; and (c) outputting the audio information via an audio interface of the mobile communication device delayed by the amount of delay added via the audio delay control.
US10080058B2	Communication system, information processing device, and communication method In communication system which includes server, information processing device and receiving device that performs transfer of a content item, information processing device includes a display broadcast station list receiver that receives display information for displaying a list of one or more content items from server through a first connection made based on a first communication mode. Moreover, information processing device includes a P2P connection implementation unit that establishes, between receiving device and information processing device, a second connection made based on a second communication mode for performing communication between receiving device and information processing device without passing via server. Furthermore, information processing device includes: a broadcast station selector that selects at least one content item out of the one or more content items based on the display information; and an already converted broadcast receiver that receives the transfer of the at least one selected content item from receiving device through the established second connection.
US10080057B2	System and method for providing program-related content in a multi-services distribution system In an embodiment of the present invention, programming content and program-rated content (PRC) cues are delivered to a subscriber via an interactive multi-service distribution network. The PRC cues comprise interactive visual elements that may be used to create a PRC object that is selectable by a subscriber. Upon selection of a PRC object, the subscriber receives PRC through a communication service separate from the video programming delivery service, VOD service, PVR service, and NDVR service.
US10080025B2	Data processing system modifying motion compensation information, and method for decoding video data including the same A data processing system includes a first core configured to decode a first picture and generate decoding history information of the decoded first picture, and a second core configured to modify first motion compensation information included in a second picture based on the decoding history information of the decoded first picture and decode the second picture based on the decoded first picture and the modified first motion compensation information.
US10080016B2	Codeword space reduction for intra chroma mode signaling for HEVC Intra prediction is used in state-of-the-art video coding standards such as AVC. The intra prediction modes are coded into the bitstream. Luma and chroma components could potentially have different prediction modes. For chroma components, there are 5 different modes defined in AVC: vertical, horizontal, DC, diagonal down right, and “same as luma”. Statistics show that the “same as luma” mode is frequent used, but in AVC, this mode is encoded using more bits than other modes during entropy coding, therefore the coding efficiency is decreased. Accordingly, a modified binarization/codeword assignment for chroma intra mode signaling is able to be utilized for high efficiency video coding (HEVC), the next generation video coding standard.
US10080011B1	Light field imaging apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a light field imaging apparatus and method. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise one or more imaging modules that may include a lens array, to receive a light field of a surface of an object or scene, and a fiber optic image transferring device having a first end and a second end. The fiber optic image transferring device may be coupled with the lens array at the first end, to transfer the light field to the second end. The apparatus may further include an image sensor coupled with the second end of the fiber optic image transferring device, to register the transferred light field and provide the registered light field for processing. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10080002B2	Projection apparatus, projector, and projector controlling method A projection system including a first projector and a second projector project images side by side, wherein the first projector includes a first projection section that projects a first image and a first control section that causes the first projection section to project an identification image containing identification information, and the second projector includes a second projection section that projects a second image, an imaging section that captures an image of a range including the projection range of the second projection section to produce a captured image, and a second control section that causes the imaging section to capture an image of the identification image projected by the first projector, acquires the identification information on the first projector based on the captured identification image, and determines the position of the first image relative to the second image based on the position of the identification image in the captured image.
US10079997B2	Multi-video stream transmission method and device A multi-video stream transmission method and a device, where an access point sets an initial sending time and a sending period of an intra frame (I frame) of each station (STA) associated with the access point, and allocates an I frame service period and a predictive frame (P frame) service period to each STA according to the initial sending time and the sending period of the I frame of each STA, where each STA exclusively occupies a channel in the I frame service period and the P frame service period such that I frame sending time of STAs are staggered, network load balance is achieved, and it is ensured that a latency of each STA meets a quality of service (QoS) requirement.
US10079991B2	Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: a light reception unit that receives a light emission signal from a transmission apparatus via a pixel; a detection unit that detects whether or not an output based on the light emission signal received by the light reception unit is a first threshold value or more; and a correction unit that corrects a luminance of the pixel when the output based on the light emission signal is the first threshold value or more based on a result detected by the detection unit.
US10079982B2	Determination of an absolute radiometric value using blocked infrared sensors Various techniques are provided for using one or more shielded (e.g., blinded, blocked, and/or obscured) infrared sensors of a thermal imaging device. In one example, a method includes capturing a signal from a shielded infrared sensor that is substantially blocked from receiving infrared radiation from a scene. The method also includes capturing a signal from an unshielded infrared sensor configured to receive the infrared radiation from the scene. The method also includes determining an average thermographic offset reference for the shielded and unshielded infrared sensors based on the captured signal of the shielded infrared sensor. The method also includes determining an absolute radiometric value for the scene based on the average thermographic offset reference and the captured signal of the unshielded infrared sensor.
US10079981B2	Image dynamic range adjustment method, terminal, and storage medium Disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention is an image dynamic range adjustment method, the method comprising: decoding a to-be-adjusted image selected by a user into YUV data; performing regional partition on the to-be-adjusted image according to a predetermined division policy and the YUV data, and obtaining a Y component reference value corresponding to at least one region; adjusting the YUV data corresponding to each region of the at least one region according to an adjusting coefficient, to obtain the adjusted YUV data of each of the regions, the adjusting coefficient being obtained on the basis of the Y component reference value; obtaining the image after the dynamic range adjustment on the basis of the adjusted YUV data. Also disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention are a terminal and a storage media.
US10079979B2	Camera arrangement for a vehicle and method for calibrating a camera and for operating a camera arrangement The invention relates to a camera arrangement for a vehicle, comprising a camera (12), wherein by means of the camera arrangement a brightness of the surroundings of the camera is determinable. The camera arrangement comprises a storage device (38) in which is stored at least one brightness reference value (34) capturable by the camera. This reference value (34) is correlated with a corresponding value (36) indicative of a photometric quantity measurable by means of a photometer (14) at this brightness. An evaluation unit of the camera arrangement is designed for comparing a brightness value determined by the camera with the brightness reference value (34). Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for calibrating a camera (12) and for operating a camera arrangement.
US10079977B2	Mobile terminal and control method thereof A mobile terminal includes a camera generating a preview image including a first object corresponding to a first subject and a second object corresponding to a second subject, a display unit displaying the preview image, and a controller capturing the preview image as a still image or video on the basis of an image capture command, wherein the controller links a first portion video to a region including the first object and links a second portion video to a region including the second object in the still image such that the first portion video including the first object and the second portion video are played in response to a play command regarding the still image.
US10079975B2	Image distortion correction of a camera with a rolling shutter Correcting image distortion during camera motion using a system including a processor and a camera having a rolling shutter. Multiple image frames are captured by the camera equipped with the rolling shutter. The captured image frames include a base image frame and a previous image frame. Multiple time stamps are recorded respectively for multiple corresponding image points in the previous and base image frames. For the corresponding image points, multiple ego-motions are computed responsive to the time stamps of the corresponding image points of the base image frame and the previous image frame to correct the image distortion caused by the rolling shutter.
US10079972B2	Method for controlling graphical user interface of camera application A method for controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) of a camera application on a portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a camera, a touch screen, and a sensor. The method includes the steps of: executing the camera application on the portable electronic device, wherein the GUI includes one or more shutter buttons that control the camera to take a photo; detecting whether the portable electronic device is in a portrait mode or a landscape mode according to sensor data from the sensor; determining positions of the shutter buttons of the GUI in response to the detection result; and rendering the shutter buttons at the determined positions on the GUI displayed on the touch screen.
US10079968B2	Camera having additional functionality based on connectivity with a host device Embodiments may be directed to lens cameras which may be cameras arranged as a sensor in a lens cap. A lens camera may comprise a printed circuit board with a digital image sensor and associated components enclosed in a cylindrical body that may be constructed of metal, plastic, or the like, or combination thereof. Lens cameras may be fitted with lens mounts for attaching host devices, cameras, interchangeable lens, or the like. Lens mounts on a lens camera may be arranged to be compatible with one or more standard lens mounts. Accordingly, a lens camera may be attached to cameras that have compatible lens mounts. Also, interchangeable lens having lens mounts compatible with the lens camera may be attached to the lens camera. Further, lens cameras may communicate with host devices using wired or wireless communication facilities.
US10079966B2	Systems and techniques for capturing images for use in determining reflectance properties of physical objects Systems and techniques are disclosed that use an image capture device to capture images of an object under specified image capture conditions for use in determining reflectance properties of the object. Images of the object are captured from a variety of different camera directions and with the object illuminated from a variety of different light directions. To capture these images, a camera of the image capture device is moved relative to the object and lights of the device are selectively illuminated. The image capture device has various features that increase the variety and number of different image capture conditions that can be captured. For example, using planar arrays of individually addressable lights in the image capture device allows tens, hundreds, or even thousands of lights to be used. Using planar arrays of lights provides light from many different directions without adding substantial complexity or cost to the device.
US10079963B1	Display method and display system for video wall A display method and a display system for a video wall are proposed. The method is applicable to a display system having a server and multiple player devices. Each of the player devices is connected to the server and a video wall having multiple displays, and each of the player devices corresponds to a different one of the displays and a different one of regions in a video stream. The method includes to receive the video stream from the server by each of the player devices, to send a broadcast command by a master player device among the player devices to other player devices, and to start displaying the corresponding region in a first frame of the video stream on the corresponding display of the video wall by each of the player devices after a preset delay time interval according to the broadcast command.
US10079954B2	Displaying functions of an image forming apparatus in order of priority Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a hardware processor configured to: recognize a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus, and determine a priority function to be preferentially introduced to a user among the plurality of functions recognized; and a first transmitting unit configured to transmit function introducing information indicating the functions of the image forming apparatus, which are recognized by the hardware processor, and the priority function, to a terminal device.
US10079944B2	Colorant change prediction Methods and apparatus for predicting colorant usage by printing devices are provided. A prediction server can receive a request to predict colorant usage for a first printing device. The prediction server can determine first plurality of functions to predict colorant usage for the first printing device. The first plurality of functions can include at least one linear function and at least one non-linear function. The first plurality of functions can be based on colorant-usage rates indicating historical rates of change in colorant used by the first printing device. The prediction server can determine a prediction of colorant usage for the first printing device using the first plurality of functions. The prediction server can provide an output involving the prediction of colorant usage for the first printing device, where the prediction of colorant usage can include a confidence interval related to the prediction.
US10079941B2	Audio capture and render device having a visual display and user interface for use for audio conferencing A method in a soundfield-capturing endpoint and the capturing endpoint that comprises a microphone array capturing soundfield, and an input processor pre-processing and performing auditory scene analysis to detect local sound objects and positions, de-clutter the sound objects, and integrate with auxiliary audio signals to form a de-cluttered local auditory scene that has a measure of plausibility and perceptual continuity. The input processor also codes the resulting de-cluttered auditory scene to form coded scene data comprising mono audio and additional scene data to send to others. The endpoint includes an output processor generating signals for a display unit that displays a summary of the de-cluttered local auditory scene and/or a summary of activity in the communication system from received data, the display including a shaped ribbon display element that has an extent with locations on the extent representing locations and other properties of different sound objects.
US10079933B2	System and method for user-privacy-aware communication monitoring and analysis Methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing and acting upon voice calls in communication networks. An identification system receives monitored voice calls that are conducted in a communication network. Some of the monitored voice calls may be conducted by target individuals who are predefined as suspects. In order to maintain user privacy, the system selects and retains only voice calls that are suspected of being conducted by predefined targets. The techniques disclosed herein are particularly advantageous in scenarios where the network identifiers of the terminal used by the target are not known, or where the target uses public communication devices. In accordance with the disclosure, context-based identifiers such as speaker recognition or keyword matching are used.
US10079932B2	Method and system for logging and reporting call detail information A method and apparatus for logging call detail information in an email message are provided herein. The method for logging call detail information in an email message includes (i) receiving, from a service provider, information associated with a first call event for a telecommunication session; (ii) creating a call record using the information associated with the first call event for the telecommunication session; (iii) receiving, from the service provider, information associated with an additional call event for the telecommunication session; (iv) updating the call record using the information associated with the additional call event; (v) repeating steps (iii) and (iv) until the information associated with one of the additional call events indicates the telecommunication session has ended; and (vi) sending a request to insert the call record into a user's email account using one or more email provider application programming interfaces (APIs).
US10079926B1	Virtual telephony assistant Examples are disclosed for screening an inbound telephony call to a called party. At a communications server, an inbound telephony call intended for a called party's telephone number is received and checked against a whitelist database and a blacklist database. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the blacklist database, the communications server automatically routes the call to a voicemail system or spam folder associated with the called party's telephone number. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the whitelist database, the communications server determines whether the called party is available to receive the call. Otherwise, when the caller ID of the inbound call does not match a telephone number contained in either the whitelist database or the blacklist database, the communications server prompts the caller for additional information.
US10079917B2	Method and apparatus for synthesized address detection A method and apparatus for synthesized address prefix detection is provided. One example method includes generating a request for a first protocol address record of a name that has been assigned an address in accordance with a second protocol, causing the request to be sent to a domain name system server, and analyzing a response to the request for the first protocol address record to determine whether the domain name system server generated a synthesized address for the name in accordance with the first protocol. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided.
US10079915B2	Methods of processing data corresponding to a device that corresponds to a gas, water, or electric grid, and related devices and computer program products Methods of operating a communication node are provided. A method of operating a communication node may include receiving data from an electric grid device via a network interface. The method may include processing the data from the electric grid device at the communication node. Moreover, the method may include transmitting a filtered portion of the data to an electric utility head end system, after processing the data at the communication node. In some embodiments, a method of operating a communication node may include using a message broker controlled by a virtual machine in the communication node to provide a protocol to interface with a field message bus that includes a standards-based or open-source Application Programming Interface (API). Related communication nodes and computer program products are also described.
US10079914B2	Method for the secure and dynamic reloading of additional software from a webRTC server to a webRTC client A computer arrangement and a computer-implemented method for the secure and dynamic reloading of additional software from a WebRTC server to a WebRTC can include use of a WebRTC data channel to transfer the software.
US10079890B2	System and method establishing an adhoc network for enabling broadcasting A system and method for dynamically establishing an adhoc network amongst plurality of communication devices in a beyond audible frequency range is disclosed. The system comprises a first communication device to transmit a quantity of data to a second communication device. The first communication device comprises of an input capturing module to receive the quantity of data from a broadcaster in a format and converts the quantity of data received into a quantity of modulated data, an identity generating module to generate a temporary identity for a broadcasting user. The second communication device then receives the data broadcasted from the first communication device and determines a probabilistic confidence level of the quantity of modulated data. A transreceiver implemented in the first communication device and second communication device transmits and receives the quantity of data in conjugation with the temporary identity within a predefined proximity of each device.
US10079887B2	Expanding storage capacity of a set of storage units in a distributed storage network A method begins by a processing module determining that storage of a set of storage units has been expanded and determining, for a plurality of sets of a desired number of encoded data slices, updated storage properties. For each set of the desired number of encoded data slices of at least some of the plurality of sets of the desired number of slices, the method continues with the processing module performing a scoring function using the updated storage properties to produce a per set storage resultant, identifying a sub set of storage units of the set of storage units for storing the set of the desired number of encoded data slices based on the per set storage resultant, and storing the set of the desired number of encoded data slices in the sub set of storage units.
US10079885B1	Multi-channel distributed predictive edge cache A system for distributing data to a user's device leveraging locally shared cache and multiple communication pathways. A content server of the system may pre-cache content in the shared cache in anticipation that a user will want to access the content. Among other things, pre-caching enables a user to access content on-demand that would require a faster connection to the Internet than the user may have. The system can leverage different communications pathways to the various devices utilizing the shared cache, providing timely delivery of content even if each device's individual connection to the internet is too slow to support timely delivery.
US10079884B2	Streaming digital content synchronization Streaming digital content synchronization techniques are described. A response is received to a request to stream the digital content. The response includes a time at which the digital content was last modified (e.g., a last-modified header) and a time at which the response was generated, e.g., a date header. An age is calculated by subtracting the time at which the digital content was last modified, e.g., the last-modified header, from the time at which the response was generated, e.g., the date header. An age describing an amount of time the response spent in one or more caches, if available, is added as part of this age. The time is determined by subtracting the age from a predefined setback time and the stream of the digital content is rendered based at least in part on the determined time.
US10079873B2	Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus having a cooperation function for causing a first application and a second application to cooperate, the first application operating on a network, the second application operating in the information processing apparatus, includes a holding unit configured to, in a case where the cooperation function gives an instruction to call the second application, hold data from the first application in association with predetermined specifying information, and an issuance unit configured to cause the cooperation function to issue to the second application a request to acquire data from the first application, wherein according to the request, the second application performs data acquisition using the specifying information, without using communication via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
US10079867B2	Apparatus, system, and method of controlling output of content data, and recording medium The communication terminal determines whether a delay in output of an output signal based on first content data is detected, the first content data being received from a first counterpart communication terminal through a network, generates a first request for changing a code quantity of the first content data being received based on a determination indicating that the delay is detected, the first request including a reduction coefficient for determining an amount of reduction in the code quantity of the first content data being received, and transmits the first request to the first counterpart communication terminal that transmits the first content data, through the network.
US10079864B2	Communicating media data Communicating media data over a communication system in which a first communication instance for a user of the communication system is implemented at a first user terminal, and a second communication instance for the user of the communication system is implemented at a second user terminal. The user is simultaneously logged into the communication system via: (i) the first communication instance at the first user terminal, and (ii) the second communication instance at the second user terminal. A media communication session is established between the first and second communication instances, wherein the media communication session is authenticated on the basis of the same user being simultaneously logged into the communication system via both the first and second communication instances. Media data is communicated in the media communication session from the first communication instance at the first user terminal to the second communication instance at the second user terminal.
US10079861B1	Custom traffic tagging on the control plane backend Custom traffic tagging on a control plane backend is disclosed. Information associated with a video session is obtained. Based at least in part on at least some of the obtained information associated with the video session, additional metadata to associate with the video session is determined. The additional metadata is determined from metadata obtained from one or more disparate sources. The video session is associated with the determined additional metadata.
US10079849B2	Risk assessment of open Wi-Fi networks For assessing a risk associated with a Wi-Fi network, an analysis to evaluate a risk element associated with the Wi-Fi network is performed at a mobile device. From a result of the analysis, a risk value is determined. An overall risk value of the Wi-Fi network is to the risk value. Whether the overall risk value exceeds a risk tolerance threshold is evaluated. An activity on the device is prevented from using the Wi-Fi network at least when the overall risk value exceeds the threshold, and permitted when the overall risk value does not exceed the threshold. A visual attribute is assigned to the risk value according to a scale on which the risk value is measured. The visual attribute is presented on the device as a reason for preventing the use. The Wi-Fi network, the risk element, and the overall risk value are reported to a repository.
US10079844B2	Insider attack resistant system and method for cloud services integrity checking An insider attack resistant system for providing cloud services integrity checking is disclosed. In particular, the system utilizes an automated integrity checking script and virtual machines to check the integrity of a service. The system may utilize the integrity checking script and virtual machines to execute a set of operations associated with the service so as to check the integrity of the service. When executing the set of operations, the system may only have access to the minimum level of access to peripherals that is required for each operation in the set of operations to be executed. After each operation is executed, the system may log each result for each operation, and analyze each result to determine if a failure exists for any of the operations. If a failure exists, the system may determine that a change in an expected system behavior associated with the service has occurred.
US10079818B2	Providing domain-joined remote applications in a cloud environment Embodiments are directed to provisioning private virtual machines in a public cloud and to managing private virtual machines hosted on a public cloud. In one scenario, a virtual network is established at a public cloud environment based on a request received from a private domain, and an authenticated session is established between the virtual network and the private domain. A virtual machine is hosted within the virtual network. The virtual machine is configured to be accessible to a user authenticated to the virtual machine, and is configured to run an application using data received from the private domain. Private data is received from the private domain over the authenticated session, and the authenticated user is provided access to the application running at the virtual machine, including providing the authenticated user access to the private data.
US10079816B2	Method and device for managing profile An electronic device and a method for operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a secure memory including at least one profile, a processor configured to generate profile extended information for each of the at least one profile, based on profile information, update the profile extended information based on network information obtained by a network search, a memory configured to store the profile extended information, and a communication interface configured to perform the network search.
US10079814B2	Secure node-to-multinode communication The present disclosure relates to communication sessions between a first node and a plurality of other nodes. Two cryptographic keys are generated. A first cryptographic key is generated (113A) in a first node (10), e.g. Node A. A second cryptographic key is generated (113B) by a second node (22), which is a virtual and temporary node which is executed on a server (20). The second cryptographic key is transmitted to several other nodes (30). The first and second cryptographic keys, which are the same, may then be applied in communication sessions between the first node (10) and the several other nodes (30). Hereby it is made possible to allow for node-to-multinode communication sessions that offer the same, or substantially the same, security as conventional node-to-node communication sessions.
US10079810B1	Decryption and analysis of network traffic using key material collected from endpoint devices of a computer network An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a first endpoint device having a processor coupled to a memory. The first endpoint device is adapted for communication with other endpoint devices over a network, and implements a key capture agent configured to interface with an operating system of the first endpoint device. The key capture agent is configured to collect key material associated with a session key utilized to encrypt packets sent by the first endpoint device to a second endpoint device over the network as part of a corresponding session. The key material and an identifier of the corresponding session are transmitted for delivery to a decoder that is not part of the first or second endpoint devices, so as to permit the decoder to be configured to decrypt the encrypted packets in intercepted network traffic. For example, the key capture agent may be configured to transmit the key material.
US10079797B2	Methods, systems and apparatus to remotely start a virtual machine Methods and apparatus to remotely start a virtual machine are disclosed herein. An example method to remotely start a virtual machine includes requesting, at a network device, allocation of a network address to the network device, the network address formerly being allocated to the virtual machine and generating, with the network device, a user interface. The user interface presents an option to start at least one of the virtual machine and an operating system installed in the virtual machine. Some example methods also include requesting, at the network device, release of the network address based on a selection of the option to start the virtual machine. Release of the network address causes the network address to be available for re-allocation to the virtual machine. The example methods can further include generating an instruction to start the virtual machine when the option to start the virtual machine is selected.
US10079794B2	Generating a content item based on user information maintained by a first online system for present on a second online system A first online system allows a user to create content items for presentation in a second online system without having an account in the second online system. The first online system maintains identifying information associated with users of the first online system. The first online system may also maintain a set of permissions identifying users of the first online system authorized to create content items associated with each user of the first online system. Based on the information, the first online system enables its users to create content items for presentation to users of the second online system without requiring the users to create accounts on the second online system. The content items may include one or more types of objects maintained by the first online system that help identify the user associated with the content item.
US10079790B2	Method for controlled sharing of content among mobile devices A digital content sharing and control method using a relay transceiver (i.e., a relay server), a byte constructor and a packaged byte strips is provided. A media file is stripped and packaged from the primary mobile device via object processor and packaging manager to be relayed to the secondary mobile device. A method for sharing pictures and media content that includes accessing images from a first primary mobile device and an ability to push and pullback images to and from a secondary mobile device is provided. A first mobile device has an ability to control the media content sent to the secondary mobile device. The primary mobile device has a control over content push forward and pullback operations performed in real time to and from a secondary mobile device.
US10079788B2	Method and apparatus for managing data using plural processors A method for managing data in an electronic device including a first processor and a second processor, the method comprising: receiving data transmitted by a first external device by using the first processor; identifying, by the first processor, a service or content corresponding to the data; in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a first service or a first content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to the second processor; and in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a second service or a second content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to a second external device.
US10079784B2	Managing email content in an activity stream Managing email content in an activity stream includes receiving a selection of a number of criteria that indicate content to be presented in an activity stream, retrieving email content based on the number of criteria, and displaying the email content in an activity stream by referencing email data related to the metadata.
US10079779B2	Implementing logical router uplinks Some embodiments provide a method for defining a gateway component of a logical router. The method assigns each of several uplinks to different gateway machines. For one of the uplinks, the method defines a first centralized gateway component of the logical router for implementation on a first gateway machine to which the uplink is assigned. The method defines a first local interface for the first gateway component configured according to the uplink. The first local interface for the first gateway component forwards traffic to a network external to the implementation of the logical router. The method defines a second interface for the first gateway component configured according to a second uplink. The second interface is for redirecting traffic processed according to the second uplink configuration to a second centralized gateway component implemented on a second gateway machine. The second gateway component forwards the traffic to the external network.
US10079770B2	Junk information filtering method and apparatus A junk information filtering method, including: detecting an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request data packet set generated according to that a user visits a target uniform resource locator (URL) by using a browser of a client, where the HTTP request data packet set includes at least one junk information request data packet and at least one non-junk information request data packet; identifying the junk information request data packet in the HTTP request data packet set according to a preset classification rule; and preventing, according to a preset interception policy, a destination host corresponding to the junk information request data packet from returning a junk information response data packet to the client. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose a junk information filtering apparatus. According to the present invention, accuracy of web page junk information filtering can be improved and user traffic can be saved.
US10079766B2	Methods and packet network devices for forwarding packet data traffic A method performed by a packet network device for enabling forwarding of packet data traffic among a plurality of physical links from the packet network device towards a destination packet network device, e.g. in an unequal split ratio. A number of virtual links are established 504 alongside at least one physical link of the plurality of physical links. The packet data traffic is routed 506 among the physical links and the established virtual links, utilizing a shortest path routing protocol with load balancing. By establishing virtual links alongside physical links packet the data packet traffic may be routed on the total number of links, thereby achieving a more effective use of available communication resources.
US10079760B2	Proximity routing for session based applications using anycast Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise automatically providing content to an information device from a content distribution node of a plurality of content distribution nodes. The information device can be adapted to send a request for the content from the first content distribution node utilizing an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the content distribution node.
US10079753B2	Multi-drop unidirectional services in a network Systems and methods for a multi-drop, unidirectional service in a network include, responsive to a source point, one or more drop points, and a routing consideration, computing a path in the network; causing establishment of the multi-drop, unidirectional service on the computed path, through one of a control plane and a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller; and managing the multi-drop, unidirectional service through the one of the control plane and the SDN controller. The multi-drop, unidirectional service has the source point at an originating node, one or more drop points at associated intermediate nodes, zero or more intermediate nodes with no drop points, and one or more drop points at associated terminating nodes.
US10079751B2	Flexible network building method for remote-programmable monitoring and controlling system applied to smart home A flexible network building method for a remote-programmable monitoring and controlling system including an intelligent network device, a local area network router, and a dominant host in communication with the local area network router, including: sending a dominant host beacon containing router connection data for the local area network router through the dominant host; the intelligent network device receiving the dominant host beacon sent from the dominant host, and logining to the local area network router; the dominant host logining to the intelligent network device; sending a control command to the intelligent network device through the dominant host; receiving and executing the control command using the intelligent network device; and the intelligent network device responding to the dominant host with an executing status message after the execution of the control command.
US10079735B2	Optimization of web page download duration based on resource key performance indicator and network performance metric Summarizing, the application relates to a network server system, a computer program product and a computer-implemented method for an efficient determination of one or more web page KPIs from a client device via a network, for an efficient determination of a correlation value of the derived resource KPIs and a predetermined network performance metric and for enabling an optimization of the web page download duration based on the determined correlation value. In particular the application relates to a network server system, a computer program product, and a computer implemented method suitable for down-load time determination and optimization.
US10079731B2	Client-space network monitoring A method is provided for client-side monitoring in a cloud provider environment including a network having a plurality of nodes. The method includes estimating a logical topology of the network by clustering source-destination node pairs from among the plurality of nodes based on end-to-end performance measurements between various ones of the plurality of nodes. The method further includes estimating a performance state of the network for a client application based on end-to-end performance measurements. The method also includes at least one of scheduling and customizing a workload within the network based on the estimated logical topology and the estimated performance state of the network.
US10079724B2	Consensus-based network configuration management Computer nodes in a network manage the configuration of neighbor nodes and enforce policy compliance by scanning neighboring nodes and taking corrective action based on consensus. A testing node scans a neighboring target node and identifies if the target node violates the policy. The testing node requests common neighbors of the target node to repeat the scan. If the common neighbors agree that the target node violates the policy, a corrective action is taken to ensure compliance with the policy. Corrective action includes reconfiguration of the target node. Nodes also perform negative checking to ensure adherence to separation rules restricting interaction between neighboring nodes. A testing node attempts to perform a restricted action with a neighboring restricted node. If the restricted action is successful, the testing node takes corrective action on the target node to ensure that subsequent attempts to perform the restriction action are denied access in compliance with the policy.
US10079719B2	Automatically tuning middleware in a mobilefirst platform running in a docker container infrastructure An approach is provided for tuning middleware. Performance-related settings are loaded. Performance data of the middleware of a MobileFirst Platform (MFP) running in a docker container infrastructure is received. The performance data is collected by agents installed in container groups. Based on the performance data, a performance issue in one of the container groups is identified and a server included in the one container group is identified as a source of the performance issue. Recommendations are generated for tuning the middleware by modifying one or more of the performance-related settings. While the middleware is running in the docker container infrastructure, one of the recommendations is applied to modify one of the performance-related settings which dynamically tunes the middleware, thereby resolving the performance issue.
US10079718B1	Network traffic processing system A network traffic processing device (NTPD) implements a plurality of virtual network traffic processing devices (VNTPDs), a control plane, and an NTPD manager. The plurality of VNTPDs are configured to perform respective versions of a network processing function on network transmissions, where at least two of the respective versions are different. The control plane is configured to select, for a network transmission based on a management policy, one or more of the VNTPDs to perform respective versions of the network processing function. The NTPD manager is configured to monitor results of the selected VNTPDs performing the respective versions of the network processing function and, based on the monitored results, to determine a configuration change for one or more of the VNTPDs or to control output of the network transmission.
US10079715B1	Methods, systems and computer readable mediums for performing metadata-driven data collection Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for performing metadata-driven data collection are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for performing metadata-driven data collection includes receiving a request for system related data, wherein the request includes metadata indicating a protocol and identifying information for obtaining the system related data. The method also includes configuring, using the metadata, at least one data collector for obtaining the system related data. The method further includes obtaining, by the at least one data collector, the system related data and storing the system related data in a memory.
US10079708B2	System discovery and signaling An extensible communication system is described herein. The system includes a first module for receiving a root index value and for generating a constant amplitude zero auto-correlation sequence based on the root value. The system further includes a second module for receiving a seed value and for generating a Pseudo-Noise sequence based on the seed value. The system further includes a third module for modulating the constant amplitude zero auto-correlation sequence by the Pseudo-Noise sequence and for generating a complex sequence. The system further includes a fourth module for translating the complex sequence to a time domain sequence, wherein the fourth module applies a cyclic shift to the time domain sequence to obtain a shifted time domain sequence.
US10079704B2	Transmission apparatus for a wireless device using delta-sigma modulation A transmission apparatus for a wireless device, comprising: an antenna for receiving an original signal and for backscattering a modulated signal containing information from the wireless device; a variable impedance coupled to the antenna, the variable impedance having an impedance value; a delta-sigma modulator coupled to the variable impedance for modulating the impedance value, and thereby a backscattering coefficient for the antenna, in accordance with the information to generate the modulated signal; and, a decoder coupled to the delta-sigma modulator for generating the impedance value from the information.
US10079698B1	Apparatus and method for calibrating a receiver with a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) Aspects of the disclosure are directed to determining an offset calibration step size of a sample latch. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure relate to a Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) input section including a E sample latch to output a target signal sample; a E sample digital to analog converter coupled to the E sample latch to input a target voltage to the E sample latch; a sample latch to output a signal sample; and a voltage digital to analog converter coupled to the E sample latch and the sample latch to generate a bias voltage, wherein the bias voltage is inputted to the E sample latch and the sample latch. The DFE input section may further include a latch offset decoder to scale the bias voltage and a summing amplifier to receive an analog input waveform to the DFE input section.
US10079690B2	Method for operating one or more service systems A method for operating one or more service systems includes receiving, by an input interface of the AE, one or more control requests for controlling one or more resources of one or more service systems, anticipating, by the AE, one or more future control requests (ACR), based on the one or more received control requests (RCR), prior stored control requests, and/or served control requests, and assessing, by the AE, an impact on the one or more service systems by checking an effect of selected control requests (CR), on resources of the one or more service systems, wherein the CR include at least one of the RCR, one or more already served control requests (SCR), and the ACR, when the CR would be performed on one or more of the resources of the at least one of the one or more service systems.
US10079681B1	Securing service layer on third party hardware Techniques for securely instantiating applications associated with computing resource service provider services on hardware that is controlled by third parties and/or customers of the computing resource service provider are described herein. A request to instantiate an application is received and fulfilled by selecting a computer system from computer systems that are controlled by a third party and/or a customer of the computing resource service provider. The computer system is selected based at least in part on the hardware capabilities of the computer system associated with instantiating a secure execution environment. The application is then instantiated within a secure execution environment operating on the computer system.
US10079676B2	Optical cryptography systems and methods Systems and methods for restoring or recovering linear polarization state of an optical signal as it exits the far end of an optical fiber are disclosed. The optical signal may have an expected pattern of polarization states through a birefringent material of the optical fiber from a first node to a second node. The optical signal may be received by the second node and resulting polarization states may be measured. In certain non-limiting examples, the measured polarization states may be compared to expected polarization states to determine a characterization angle indicative of an axis of the optical fiber.
US10079669B2	Selection of acknowledgment timing in wireless communications Disclosed is a method including communicating, by a mobile device, with a base station via first and second component carriers having different frequency bands and time division duplexing (TDD) configurations. The method may include receiving one or more downlink transmissions via the second component carrier. The method may include selecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing sequence based on the TDD configurations of the first and second component carriers. The method may include transmitting one or more positive acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signals, associated with the one or more downlink transmissions, according to the selected HARQ timing sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10079659B2	Processing method and system for hybrid automatic repeat request data transmissions In data transmissions, a processing method for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is applied to a transmitter transmitting a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packet to a receiver. The receiver receives the first SPS data packet and transmits feedback to the transmitter. The transmitter which receives the feedback message can determine that a transmission of a repeat SPS data packet is required when the feedback message is a negative acknowledgement, and a repeat SPS data packet together with a HARQ ID corresponding to the repeat SPS data packet is transmitted to the receiver. If the receiver can match the repeat SPS data packet with the first SPS data packet according to the HARQ ID, a combination of the first SPS data packet and the repeat SPS data packet can be decoded.
US10079657B2	Techniques for HARQ retransmission skipping The disclosure provides for selectively utilizing an inactive mode for saving power during wireless communications. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a first data packet for a first bearer using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) process to a base station on a first channel. The UE may receive at least two acknowledgments, for the HARQ process on a second channel different than the first channel indicating that the first data packet was successfully received by the base station. The UE may determine whether a second data packet is communicated for the first bearer or a second bearer. The UE may also determine, based at least in part on the determination of whether the second data packet is communicated, whether to enter into an inactive mode in which at least the second channel is not decoded.
US10079655B2	Radio node, wireless device and methods therein, for configuring a plurality of channel quality information values A method performed by a radio node (101) for configuring a plurality of Channel Quality Information (CQI) values. The radio node (101) operates in a wireless communication network (100). The radio node (101) configures (301) the plurality of CQI values. Each of the plurality of CQI values are configured in association with a first indication for a number of repetitions of data transmission. Also described is a method performed by a wireless device (120) for receiving configuration data from the radio node (101). The wireless device (120) operates in the wireless communication network (100). The wireless device (120) receives (401) the configuration data from the radio node (101). The configuration data indicates configuration for the plurality of CQI values.
US10079645B2	Optical telecommunications devices, systems, and methods Optical telecommunications devices, systems, and methods. In some implementations, an optical networking unit (ONU) includes a multi-rate receiver having an operating bandwidth that is selected operationally based on physical layer characteristics of received signals and information received from a MAC. The ONU can also include an upstream laser circuit having an output impedance that differs from a characteristic impedance of a system in which the laser circuit is implemented. The ONU can also include a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) having at least one tap weight that is fixed to facilitate convergence of the DFE when signals received by the DFE would otherwise fail to meet characteristics required for DFE convergence.
US10079642B2	Transporting multiple low-speed data streams across a high-speed communication link A method and apparatus for transporting multiple low-speed data streams across a high-speed communication channel or link. In one embodiment of the method, first and second data streams are transmitted at first and second data transmission rates, respectively, via an optical cable, wherein the first and second data transmission rates are distinct. Components of the first data stream are transmitted via the optical cable between transmission of components of the second data stream via the optical cable, and components of the second data stream are transmitted via the optical cable between transmission of components of the first data stream via the optical cable.
US10079640B1	Window heater with reduced wavefront distortion An optical communication system includes a free space optical transceiver within a housing to transmit and receive optical communication signals along an optical pathway through a window in the housing. Heating elements applied to the interior surface of the window substantially uniformly heat the window such that the window is kept free from condensation and ice without introducing significant distortions in the wavefront. Accordingly, the heating elements are designed and placed on the window such that the obscuration caused by the presence of the heating elements within the optical pathway and the wavefront distortion caused by temperature gradients within the cross-section of the window in the optical pathway cause less than 1 decibel (dB) in transmission loss as compared to the same system without the heating elements on the window.
US10079636B2	Satellite for end-to-end beamforming with access node clusters Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams.
US10079635B1	Network capacity management An example embodiment may involve receiving a request to provide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based wireless coverage to a particular geographical location. Possibly in response to the request, a UAV may fly to the particular geographical location. A first wireless interface of the UAV may define a wireless coverage area that covers at least part of the particular geographical location. A second wireless interface of the UAV may establish a wireless backhaul link to a data network. The UAV may provide wireless data transfer services to at least one device in the particular geographical location, where the wireless data transfer services allow the device to exchange data communication with the data network via the UAV.
US10079629B2	Apparatus and method for pre-coding data based on channel statistics Provided are an apparatus and method for pre-coding data based on quantized channel state information and channel statistics. In use, channel statistics are collected. Further, one or more reference signals are sent to a wireless device via at least one channel. Thereafter, quantized channel state information is received that corresponds to the at least one channel, where the quantized channel state information is sent by the wireless device based on the one or more reference signals. Data is pre-coded based on the quantized channel state information and the channel statistics. Further, the pre-coded data is transmitted to the wireless device.
US10079626B1	Method for enabling confirmation of expected phase shifts of radio frequency signals emitted from an antenna array A method for assessing receiver signal reception performance during wireless beam steering operation of a radio frequency (RF) data packet signal transceiver capable of multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) operation. In response to transmissions of a sounding packet (SP) from a beamforming device (“beamformer”), a receiving device (“beamformee”) transmits a response data packet containing matrix data representing a beamforming feedback matrix (BFM) related to signal attenuation by the wireless signal path environment through which the beamformer and beamformee are communicating. Using the matrix data, a statistical variation can be computed which is indicative of signal reception performance of the beamformee.
US10079623B2	Coordinated beamforming method and apparatus based on partial interference alignment A coordinated beamforming method and apparatus based on partial interference alignment, the method includes: selecting an optimal partial interference alignment mode from selectable partial interference alignment modes of terminals covered by base stations in a coordinating cluster of a coordinated multiple points transmission according to a chordal distance criterion; and transmitting, by the base stations, signals to the terminals by adopting the optimal partial interference alignment mode.
US10079615B2	Multilayer body and communication apparatus A branch circuit includes a common antenna port and separates a first communication signal including a signal in a low band and a signal in a high band and a second communication signal that is a signal in a frequency band between the low band and the high band. The branch circuit includes a first-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and a second-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and SAW filter.
US10079614B2	Noise canceler In a noise canceler, interference signals received by sub-antennas 12 are cross-correlated by a first correlation-value calculation unit and the peaks of the interference signals are detected by a first peak detector. Interference signal information is acquired by a first-interference-signal information acquisition unit and the interference signals are synthesized by an interference signal synthesizer. A signal received by a main antenna and the synthesized interference signal are correlated by a second correlation-value calculation unit and the peak of the synthesized interference signal is detected by a second peak detector. The interference signal information is acquired by a second interference-signal-information acquisition unit and an interference signal replica is generated by an interference signal replica generator. The interference signal replica is subtracted by an interference signal removal unit from the signal received by the main antenna.
US10079610B2	Built-in self-test for ADC Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a built-in self-test (BIST) for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Stimuli needed to test an ADC are generated within the chip containing the ADC. Evaluation circuitry is also available on-chip. Generation and evaluation circuits and systems are based on existing circuits and/or components of the chip.
US10079608B2	Time-to-digital converter and method therefor Time-to-digital converter system including: an event detector configured for detecting an event and generating an event detection signal upon detection of the event; and a time-to-digital converter coupled or connectable to the event detector and including a fine resolution part configured for counting fine time intervals, organized such that the fine resolution part is activated in response to the event detection signal and deactivated in response to a reference clock. 3D imager including an array of pixels, with in each pixel such a time-to-digital converter system, and further including a reference clock generator.
US10079601B2	Keyswitch with adjustable tactile feedback and switch thereof A keyswitch includes a base having a pillar, a cap having a rib and movable relative to the base, a sleeve rotatably sleeving the pillar and having first and second top surfaces and convex and concave portions, an elastic member abutting against the sleeve and the base, and a resilient arm abutting against a first or second position on the convex portion with rotation of the sleeve. When the resilient arm abuts against the first position, the rib abuts against the first top surface to prepress the elastic member for generating a first preload. When the cap is pressed for moving the sleeve downward, the resilient arm moves from the first or second position to the concave portion. When the resilient arm abuts against the second position, the rib abuts against the second top surface to prepress the elastic member for generating a second preload larger than the first preload.
US10079600B2	Low-power activation circuit with motion detector The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus to perform a low power activation of a system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a sensor element configured to output a sensor output signal corresponding to a sensed quantity to a digital difference detection circuit. The digital difference detection circuit has a digital measurement element configured to track the sensor output signal and generate a digital signal therefrom, a digital storage element configured to store previous digital signals corresponding to the sensor output signal generated over time, and a difference detector configured to detect a difference between a current digital signal and at least one of the previous digital signals. If the difference is larger than a digital reference level, the difference detector causes an activation signal generator to generate an activation signal that awakens a system from a sleep mode or a low-power mode.
US10079598B2	Gate driving circuit and display device including the same A gate driving circuit includes: a plurality of stages configured to output a plurality of gate signals, wherein an Nth stage of the plurality of stages includes: an output pull-up unit including a control electrode connected to a first node, wherein the output pull-up unit is configured to increase an electric potential at the first node and is further configured to receive a clock signal and to output a gate signal of the Nth stage; a control node pull-up unit configured to charge the first node according to an (N−1)th control signal and an (N−2)th control signal; a control node pull-down unit configured to discharge a voltage of the first node as a first low voltage according to an (N+1)th control signal; and an output pull-down unit configured to discharge a gate signal of the Nth stage as the first low voltage according to the (N+1)th control signal.
US10079597B1	Circuit tuning scheme for FDSOI A method of circuit tuning, including: applying a first positive voltage and a second positive voltage to a circuit structure, the circuit structure including a p-type metal-oxide semiconductor (PMOS) device with a flipped well transistor and an n-type metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) device; adjusting a first threshold voltage in response to the first positive voltage being applied to a p-well region of the NMOS device and adjusting a second threshold voltage in response to the second positive voltage being applied to the p-well region of the PMOS device; and compensating the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage through a backgate of the PMOS device and the NMOS device relative to a same common mode voltage.
US10079580B2	Proximity sensor A proximity detector circuit that receives a single-ended sensor signal includes (a) an adaptive level control circuit maintaining the single-ended sensor signal within a predetermined voltage range relative a common mode reference signal; and (b) a programmable gain amplifier receiving the single-ended sensor signal and the common mode reference signal as a differential input signal, and providing an output signal derived from amplifying the differential input signal.
US10079576B2	Envelope tracking modulator with feedback There is disclosed an envelope tracking modulated supply arranged to generate a modulated supply voltage in dependence on a reference signal, comprising a low frequency path for tracking low frequency variations in the reference signal and including a switched mode power supply, a correction path for tracking high frequency variations in the reference signal and including a linear amplifier, a feedback path from the output of the linear amplifier to the input of the linear amplifier, and a combiner for combining the output of the switched mode power supply and the output of the linear amplifier to generate a modulated supply voltage.
US10079575B2	Low distortion multiple power amplifier power supply A PA power supply, which includes a first ET power supply, power supply control circuitry, a first PMOS switching element, and a second PMOS switching element, is disclosed. During a first operating mode, the power supply control circuitry selects an OFF state of the first PMOS switching element, selects an ON state of the second PMOS switching element, and adjusts a voltage of a first switch control signal to maintain the OFF state of the first PMOS switching element using a voltage at a source of the first PMOS switching element and a voltage at a drain of the first PMOS switching element; the PA power supply provides a first PA power supply signal; and the first ET power supply provides a first ET power supply signal, such that the first PA power supply signal is based on the first ET power supply signal.
US10079567B2	Monitor and control systems for a motor shaft A system monitors physical characteristics of or near a motor shaft, such as strain, temperature, voltage, and/or stress. The sensors can sense or measure these characteristics and transmit the measured values wirelessly to a remote user, who can monitor the motor shaft for signs of inefficiency or malfunction. Furthermore, the system can support communications between the remote user and a controlling element of the motor to monitor and adjust the motor shaft to operate with greater efficiency and safety.
US10079565B2	Electrically-driven vehicle An electrically-driven vehicle includes: a battery; an induction motor connected to the battery; a synchronous motor connected to the battery that is connected to the induction motor; and at least one electronic control unit configured to change a slip frequency command of the induction motor based on a predetermined frequency of current fluctuation when a temperature of the battery is low such that an amplitude of the current fluctuation increases, the current fluctuation being any one of current fluctuation of a battery current or current fluctuation of a battery-related current that relates to the battery current.
US10079561B1	Energy harvesting components and devices A unique, environmentally-friendly energy harvesting element is provided for generating autonomous renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, in electronic systems, electronic devices and electronic system components. The energy harvesting element includes a first conductor layer, a low work function layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer that are particularly configured in a manner to promote electron migration from the low work function layer, through the dielectric layer, to the facing surface of the second conductor layer in a manner that develops an electric potential between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer. Electric leads are provided to connect the energy harvesting element to a load to power the load with the energy harvesting element. An energy harvesting component is also provided that includes a plurality of energy harvesting elements electrically connected to one another to increase a power output of the electric harvesting component.
US10079544B2	Method and apparatus for implementing an unregulated dormant mode with an event counter in a power converter A method for controlling an output of a power converter with a control circuit includes generating a drive signal to control switching of a switch to regulate the output of the power converter. It is detected if a switching period of one switching cycle of the drive signal exceeds a threshold switching period. The drive signal is disabled when a period of a switching cycle of the drive signal exceeds the threshold switching period for a threshold consecutive number of switching cycles.
US10079540B2	System and method to improve standby efficiency of LLC converter A system includes an LLC converter to convert an input DC voltage to an output DC voltage. A burst generator generates a switching signal having a burst time and a sleep time to operate the LLC converter when output load current of the LLC converter is below a predetermined threshold. A burst power calculator adjusts the sleep time for the switching signal such that output power of the LLC converter during the burst time is held substantially constant with respect to changes in the output load current.
US10079534B2	Superconducting electrical machine with rotor and stator having separate cryostats A superconducting electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes rotor windings configured to superconduct when cooled in a rotor cryostat to a temperature no greater than a rotor superconducting temperature. The stator includes a stator windings configured to superconduct when cooled in a stator cryostat to a temperature no greater than a stator superconducting temperature. The rotor cryostat surrounds the rotor and is configured to allow transport of a first coolant through a plurality of conduits adjacent to the rotor windings in order to draw heat from the rotor windings and reduce the temperature of the rotor windings to a temperature no greater than the rotor superconducting temperature. The stator cryostat surrounds the stator and is configured to allow transport of a second coolant through a plurality of conduits adjacent to the stator windings in order to draw heat from the stator windings and reduce the temperature of the stator windings to a temperature no greater than the stator superconducting temperature.
US10079521B2	Motor actuator A motor actuator includes a housing and an electric motor contained in the housing. The electric motor has a motor casing and a motor shaft protruding from a front face of the motor casing. The housing has a back wall behind a rear face of the motor casing. A gap space, which continues in a motor shaft direction, is formed between the back wall of the housing and the rear face of the motor casing. A counter region, which defines the gap space, is provided in the rear face of the motor casing. The motor actuator further includes a sound insulating member placed in the gap space, and covers the counter region in its entirety from behind.
US10079516B2	Power transmission apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program A power transmission apparatus includes a power transmission unit configured to wirelessly transmit power to a power reception apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect an object present in a range of the power transmission apparatus where the power is transmitted based on an intermittent power transmission, and an authentication unit configured to authenticate whether the object detected by the detection unit is the power reception apparatus that receives the power, wherein the authentication unit authenticates the object detected as being present in the range where the power is transmitted at each of a plurality of times of the power transmission for detection during a predetermined period, and wherein the power transmission unit transmits the power to the power reception apparatus that has been successfully authenticated.
US10079511B2	Testing device for wireless power transfer, and associated method A testing device for use in testing of wireless power transfer is disclosed. The testing device has a housing, a wireless power receiver coil provided in the housing, and a cable extending from the housing at a first end and having a cable connector at a second end. The cable accommodates connection wiring of the wireless power receiver coil. The cable connector comprises a data storage configured to contain characteristic information about the wireless power receiver coil.
US10079500B2	Apparatus, method, and program product for powering a device using a USB connection Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for powering a device using a universal serial bus (“USB”) connection. One apparatus includes a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to: detect a USB connection between a first device and a second device; determine to provide power between the first device and the second device via the USB connection based on information transmitted between the first device and the second device; select a direction to provide power between the first device and the second device based on the information transmitted between the first device and the second device; and control power to be provided between the first device and the second device after determining to provide power and selecting the direction to provide power.
US10079497B2	Charge device for a drone A charge device for a drone includes a base and a covering mechanism. The base has a charge portion. The covering mechanism includes two covers, two first position-limiting components and two second position-limiting components. The two covers are movably disposed on the base. The covers are adapted to move toward each other to become a closed state and cover the charge portion, and the covers are adapted to move away from each other to become an expanded state and expose the charge portion. The first position-limiting components are connected to the covers respectively. Each of the second position-limiting components is connected between the covers. When the covers are in the closed state, the first position-limiting components and the second position-limiting components are located above the charge portion. When the covers are in the expanded state, the first position-limiting components and the second position-limiting components are away from the charge portion.
US10079494B2	Removably attachable portable device apparatus with integrated wireless power receiving facilities Embodiments of the present disclosure describe removably attachable portable device apparatuses with integrated wireless power receiving facilities (also referred to as wireless power reception apparatuses herein). In some embodiments, a wireless power reception apparatus for a portable electronic device is described. The wireless power reception apparatus can include a housing, one or more antennas, and a wireless power receiver. The housing is configured to be removably attachable to the portable electronic device. The one or more antennas are situated on or within the housing and are configured to receive wireless power from a wireless charging (or wireless power transmission) system. The wireless power receiver is disposed within the housing and is configured to process the wireless power received via the one or more antennas and provide the received power to the portable electronic device via a power interface port.
US10079493B2	Parallel modular converter architecture A system and method for providing power to a vehicle is disclosed. The system can include a plurality of parallel module converter modules (“modules”) each capable of supplying a predetermined electrical load. The plurality of parallel module converter modules can be networked to form a parallel module converter (“converter”) for prioritizing and allocating each electrical load to one or more parallel module converter modules. Each module can include an internal protection controller and a logic controller. The individual modules can provide power to various loads in the vehicle either alone, or in concert with other modules. The system can enable fewer power controllers to be used, saving weight and time. The controllers in the system can also be utilized at a higher level reducing unnecessary redundancy.
US10079491B2	Dispersed power supply system and power conditioner The disclosed dispersed power supply system includes a power conditioner configured to control output of a power supply apparatus, a current sensor, another power conditioner configured to control output of another power supply apparatus and another current sensor, and when a forward power flow threshold for preventing a reverse power flow of the power conditioner is lower than that of another power conditioner, the power conditioner controls the output of the power supply apparatus to adjust the forward power flow that is higher than the forward power flow threshold to the forward power flow threshold, and then, if the forward power flow is higher than the forward power flow threshold when another power conditioner controls the output of another power supply apparatus based on another forward power flow threshold, increases the forward power flow threshold.
US10079490B2	Method and device for determining safe threshold for power grid voltage of wind farm converging area Disclosed are a method and a device for determining safe threshold for power grid voltage of a wind farm converging area, The method includes: obtaining ground state voltage; obtaining upper and lower limit voltage of the output bus, first lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices, and lower and upper limit of active power fluctuations; obtaining second lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices; determining whether voltage error is greater than a predetermined threshold; replacing the first lower and upper limit of the reactive powers of fans and the reactive powers of compensation devices with the second lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices respectively, and repeating above steps if the voltage error is greater than the predetermined threshold, else defining the upper and lower limit voltage of the output bus as a safe threshold.
US10079480B2	Water resistant arc resistant outdoor switchgear air vent An arc resistant air vent for a switch gear cabinet comprises a plenum stacked with spaced corrugated plates, the plates being perforated by slots at the corrugation turning points. Air and water can enter through a front grille of the vent. Air is allowed to pass through to the cabinet while water entering the vent is returned through the perforations to a bottom wall of the plenum which drains at the grille. The plates are held in frangible connections to the side walls of the plenum and the slots produce an accordion hinge to allow a release and a folding of the plates together under the pressure of an arc blast in the switchgear cabinet to seal the grille.
US10079464B1	Systems and methods for generating electric power with an electric motor The present invention uses a traditional electrical motor with a rotor to generate electricity or power. By manipulating the magnetic fields within a rotor, large amounts of electricity are generated by the rotation of the rotor within an external magnetic field. Oppositely charged rare-earth magnets are placed around the rotor to create a strong magnetic field that the rotor can spin or rotate within. A battery or other power source supplies power to the rotor at positive and negative terminals (brushes) that are connected to commutator. The positive and negative terminals contact the commutator close to each other, such that only a few windings or coils are charged or magnetized, and the remaining windings or coils are free to generate electricity within the external magnetic field. The few coils that are charged in combination with the external magnetic fields create sufficient rotation, while enabling the remaining “free” coils to generate electric power. This power or electricity that is generated is then collected at a terminal about 150-200 degrees from the positive and negative terminals from the power source. The rotor may be offset or closer to one set of magnets, which further improves power generation.
US10079461B1	Reversible plug A swap logic unit including a set of outputs configured to be in a first configuration or a second configuration, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to connect to a swap indication contact, wherein a voltage of the swap indication contact is configured to indicate an orientation of a reversible plug in a cable unit, and configure the set of outputs in the first configuration or the second configuration based on the voltage of the swap indication contact, wherein the first configuration corresponds to a first orientation of the reversible plug and the second configuration corresponds to a second orientation of the reversible plug.
US10079454B1	Assembly structures of connector module A connector module includes a base, a conduct module and a pair of handles. The base includes a housing, an insertion space, and a pair of resilience arms. The conduct module is installed in the insertion space and is pressed and positioned by the pair of resilience arms. The conduct module includes a plug body and a plurality of conducting terminals disposed on the plug body. The pair of handles are coupled to opposite sides of the plug body and are capable of sliding with respect to the plug body respectively, the pair of handles are slidable in a direction away from the insertion space to take the conduct module disengaged from a press and a position of the pair of resilience arms so as to move out of the base.
US10079448B2	Cable connector assembly having seizing structure and method of making the same A cable connector assembly includes a first connector having a mating portion and a rear portion; a cable connected with the first connector; and a seizing structure bundling the cable. The seizing structure includes a metal wire wrapping the cable, a middle insulative layer cladding the metal wire, and an outer insulative layer wrapping the middle insulative layer.
US10079447B1	Coaxial cable connector with an expandable pawl A coaxial cable connector includes a body having a longitudinal axis, a front end, an opposed rear end, and an interior. A pawl is carried in the interior of the body for engaging with a cable applied to the interior and preventing retraction of the cable after being so applied to the interior. The pawl is corrugated to allow the pawl to deform circumferentially when the cable is applied to the interior.
US10079444B2	Electrical connector having conductive balls An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a number of receiving grooves, a number of terminals secured to the insulative housing, and a number of conductive balls received in the receiving grooves. Each receiving groove defines a through hole. Each conductive ball is urged by a corresponding terminal to partially protrude from an associated through hole.
US10079442B2	Transceiver and mechanism for receiving the same A mechanism (100) mounted on a printed circuit board for insertion of a transceiver, includes a frame structure; a pair of lead screws (30) mounted on and turnable with respect to the frame structure; a pair of cam units each coupled to a corresponding lead screw, the cam unit being actuatable by a turning movement of the lead screw; and a rail follower (50) disposed between the pair of cam units and confined to the frame structure, the rail follower having a receiving room for inserting the transceiver along a first direction, the rail follower being movable by the cam units actuated by the lead screws to move along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10079439B2	Metal surface coating composition and terminal-equipped covered electrical wire using same A composition for a metal surface coating that does not require a posttreatment such as heating, has flexibility to be able to follow deformation of a member to be coated, hardly peels off from a metal surface, and can be used for the purpose of corrosion protection, and a terminal-equipped covered electric wire using the same. The composition contains an adduct and a base oil. The adduct contains an acidic phosphate ester consisting of one or more kinds of compounds represented by General Formulae (1) and (2), and a metal, P(═O)(—OR1)(—OH)2 . . . (1), P(═O)(—OR1)2(—OH) . . . (2), where R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms.
US10079426B2	Chip antenna Provided is a chip antenna (1), including: an antenna pattern (3); and a base body (2), which has a hexahedral shape, the antenna pattern (3) including: an antenna part (31), which is held on an upper surface of the base body (2); and a plurality of terminal parts (32), which are held on a lower surface of the base body (2), each of the plurality of terminal parts (32) being soldered to a circuit board (10), in which the antenna pattern (13) further includes a band-shaped protruding part (34), which extends in a long-side direction of the antenna part (31), and is embedded in the base body (2), and the band-shaped protruding part (34) is provided at least along a range of each of two long sides of the antenna part (31) excluding a range in which the plurality of terminal parts (32) are arranged.
US10079422B2	Dual-circular polarized antenna system In an example embodiment, an azimuth combiner comprises: a septum layer comprising a plurality of septum dividers; first and second housing layers attached to first and second sides of the septum layer; a linear array of ports on a first end of the combiner; wherein the first and second housing layers each comprise waveguide H-plane T-junctions; wherein the waveguide T-junctions can be configured to perform power dividing/combining; and wherein the septum layer evenly bisects each port of the linear array of ports. A stack of such azimuth combiners can form a two dimensional planar array of ports to which can be added a horn aperture layer, and a grid layer, to form a dual-polarized, dual-BFN, dual-band antenna array.
US10079416B2	Microwave filter system including feedback structure Provided is a microwave filter system having a feedback structure. The microwave filter system may include an input hybrid coupler configured to output first output signals having a phase difference with respect to an input signal; filters disposed to be in parallel with an output end of the input hybrid coupler, and configured to filter the first output signals; and an output hybrid coupler configured to output second output signals having a phase difference with respect to each of signals filtered through the filters. An output signal of the output hybrid coupler is applied to an input end of the input hybrid coupler along a feedback path.
US10079414B2	Switched multiplexer with flat group delay and channelized limiting Systems and method are provided for a switching circuit that enables attenuation of high power signals in relatively small band(s) without attenuating information in other bands. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide switching circuits with intrinsically switched filters that enable channelized limiting without affecting adjacent channels. Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a unique filter coupling topology that enables filters to be switched on or off without changing the input impedance of the filters.
US10079405B2	Battery based on organosulfur species Metal-sulfur batteries, such as lithium-sulfur batteries, are prepared using one or more organosulfur species such as organic polysulfides and organic polythiolates as part of the liquid or gel electrolyte solution, as part of the cathode, and/or as part of a functionalized porous polymer providing an intermediate separator element.
US10079401B2	Symmetric redox flow battery containing organic redox active molecule A redox flow battery comprising: a positive compartment containing a positive electrode in contact with a liquid electrolyte comprised of an organic redox active molecule dissolved in a solvent; a negative compartment containing a negative electrode in contact with a liquid electrolyte comprised of said organic redox active molecule dissolved in a solvent; electrical communication means for establishing electrical communication between said positive electrode, said negative electrode and an external load for directing electrical energy into or out of said symmetric redox flow battery; a separator component that separates the electrolyte solutions in the positive and negative compartments while permitting the passage of non-redox-active species between electrolyte solutions in positive and negative compartments; and means capable of establishing flow of the electrolyte solutions past said positive and negative electrodes, respectively. Methods of using the above-described redox flow battery for storing and releasing electrical energy are also described.
US10079395B2	Method and apparatus for simultaneous controlling of fuel concentration and temperature of liquid fuel by sensor-less and temperature-control based feed-back control, liquid fuel cell apparatus using the same A concentration of a fuel supplied to a fuel cell and a heat exchange rate of a heat exchanger are controlled simultaneously in order to maintain a temperature of fuel cell stack and a diluted fuel concentration that is supplied to the fuel cell stack in a target level. Further, by appropriately responding to an exterior temperature changes or unexpected fuel cell performance changes, it is possible to improve a system efficiency and stability of fuel cell operation and to regulate the fuel concentration quickly and accurately compared to a prior sensor-less concentration controller.
US10079393B1	Method of fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell stack Methods for fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell stack that include providing a protective layer over at least one surface of an interconnect formed by powder pressing pre-alloyed particles containing two or more metal elements and annealing the interconnect and the protective layer at elevated temperature to bond the protective layer to the at least one surface of the interconnect.
US10079390B2	Secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector including elemental zinc, and a negative electrode layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode layer includes a negative electrode active material including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an oxide of titanium, a lithium-titanium oxide, and a lithium-titanium composite oxide. The electrolyte solution includes an aqueous solvent and an electrolyte.
US10079386B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a pressure-sensitive current shut-off mechanism, wherein a positive electrode core body exposed portion is disposed at one end portion of a flat rolled electrode assembly, a negative electrode core body exposed portion is disposed at the other end portion, lithium carbonate is contained in a positive electrode mix layer, and a protective layer is disposed along the border with the positive electrode mix layer at the position opposite to a separator on the positive electrode core body exposed portion.
US10079385B2	Positive electrode for alkaline storage battery and alkaline storage battery using the same Provided is a positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery, capable of achieving a high charge efficiency over a wide range of temperature including high temperatures. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode material mixture including: a nickel oxide as a positive electrode active material; a first additive; and a second additive differing from the first additive. An amount of sulfate ions SO42− remaining in the nickel oxide is 0.45 mass % or less. The first additive is a compound including at least one selected from the group consisting of ytterbium, indium, calcium, barium, beryllium, antimony, erbium, thulium, and lutetium. The second additive is a compound including at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium, vanadium, scandium, niobium, zirconium, and zinc.
US10079372B2	Secondary battery and fabricating method thereof A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, a can accommodating the electrode assembly, and a cap assembly coupled to and sealing the can, wherein a top end and a bottom end of the can each have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of a middle portion of the can.
US10079371B2	Electrochemical multi-cell and method therefor An electrochemical storage multi-cell may comprise: a housing, including a plurality of concentric annular cell chambers; a plurality of electrochemical storage cells, wherein each of the plurality of annular cells are positioned in one of the plurality of annular cell chambers, and the plurality of annular cells are electrically connected in series; and conductive electrolyte filling each of the annular cell chambers.
US10079364B2	Display device A display device includes: a display panel including a display substrate having an active area and a non-active area outside the active area and a thin film encapsulation layer covering the display substrate; a printing film on the display panel and including a base film, a printing layer on one surface of the base film, and a plurality of reflectors arranged in a reflective area of the base film corresponding to the non-active area; a cover window on the printing film; and an adhesive layer between the printing film and the cover window.
US10079357B2	Organic light emitting pixel and organic light emitting display device including the same An organic light emitting pixel and an organic light emitting display device, the pixel including a first organic light emitting diode to emit light with a nth order resonance mode of a first wavelength, n being a natural number of at least 1; a second organic light emitting diode to emit light with the nth order resonance mode of a second wavelength, the second wavelength being shorter than the first wavelength; and a third organic light emitting diode to emit light with a mth order resonance mode of a third wavelength, the third wavelength being shorter than the first and second wavelengths, and m being a natural number that is larger than n.
US10079356B2	Perovskite schottky type solar cell The invention provides devices such as photovoltaic cells which are free of scaffold structure layers.
US10079354B2	Vertically aligned carbon nanotube trapezoid FIN structure A transistor device includes an array of fin structures arranged on a substrate, each of the fin structures being vertically alternating stacks of a first isoelectric point material having a first isoelectric point and a second isoelectric point material having a second isoelectric point that is different than the first isoelectric point; one or more carbon nanotubes (CNTs) suspended between the fin structures and contacting a side surface of the second isoelectric point material in the fin structures; a gate wrapped around the array of CNTs; and source and drain contacts arranged over the fin structures; wherein each of the fin structures have a trapezoid shape or parallel sides that are oriented about 90° with respect to the substrate.
US10079351B2	Method of preparing organic electronic device A method of preparing an organic electronic device, an organic electronic device prepared using the same, and a use thereof are provided. For example, the method of effectively preparing an organic electronic device using a flexible substrate, the organic electronic device prepared using the same, and the use thereof may be provided.
US10079339B2	Magnetoresistive stack/structure and method of manufacturing same A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive stack/structure comprising (a) etching through a second magnetic region to (i) provide sidewalls of the second magnetic region and (ii) expose a surface of a dielectric layer, (b) depositing a first encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region and over a surface of the dielectric layer, (c) thereafter: (i) etching the first encapsulation layer which is disposed over the dielectric layer using a first etch process, and (ii) etching re-deposited material using a second etch process, wherein, after such etching, a portion of the first encapsulation layer remains on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region, (d) etching (i) through the dielectric layer to form a tunnel barrier and provide sidewalls thereof and (ii) etching the first magnetic region to provide sidewalls thereof, and (e) depositing a second encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the tunnel barrier and first magnetic region.
US10079338B2	Magnetic memory element with perpendicular enhancement layer The present invention is directed to a magnetic memory element including a magnetic free layer structure having a variable magnetization direction perpendicular to a layer plane thereof; an oxide layer formed adjacent to the magnetic free layer structure; an insulating tunnel junction layer formed adjacent to the magnetic free layer structure opposite the oxide layer; a first magnetic reference layer formed adjacent to the insulating tunnel junction layer opposite the magnetic free layer structure; a second magnetic reference layer separated from the first magnetic reference layer by a perpendicular enhancement layer; an antiferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the second magnetic reference layer; and a magnetic fixed layer structure formed adjacent to the antiferromagnetic coupling layer. The first and second magnetic reference layers have a first invariable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof. The magnetic fixed layer structure has a second invariable magnetization direction substantially opposite to the first invariable magnetization direction.
US10079331B2	High index dielectric film to increase extraction efficiency of nanowire LEDs Various embodiments include semiconductor devices, such as nanowire LEDs, that include a plurality of first conductivity type semiconductor nanowire cores located over a support, a plurality of second conductivity type semiconductor shells extending over and around the respective nanowire cores, and a layer of a high index of refraction material over at least a portion of a surface of at least one of the nanowire cores and the shells, wherein the high index of refraction material has an index of refraction that is between about 1.4 and about 4.5. Light extraction efficiency may be improved.
US10079316B2	Split gate embedded memory technology and method of manufacturing thereof Semiconductor devices and methods for forming a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a memory cell region. A first gate structure is formed on the memory cell region. An isolation layer is formed on the substrate and over the first gate structure. A second gate structure is formed adjacent to and separated from the first gate structure by the isolation layer. The first and second gate structures are processed to form at least one split gate structure with first and second adjacent gates. Asymmetrical source and drain regions are provided adjacent to first and second sides of the split gate structure.
US10079315B2	Planar dual-gate non-volatile memory device The present invention provides a semiconductor structure, including a substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, a charge storage layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer, and at least two poly silicon layers, disposed on the gate dielectric layer respectively, and covering parts of the charge storage layer simultaneously.
US10079312B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A metal element of a metal film is introduced into the oxide semiconductor film by performing heat treatment in the state where the oxide semiconductor film is in contact with the metal film, so that a low-resistance region having resistance lower than that of a channel formation region is formed. A region of the metal film, which is in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, becomes a metal oxide insulating film by the heat treatment. After that, an unnecessary metal film is removed. Thus, the metal oxide insulating film can be formed over the low-resistance region.
US10079311B2	Thin film transistor substrate and method for making same A TFT substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of TFTs on the substrate. Each TFT includes a channel layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode on opposite sides of the channel layer. An ohmic contact layer is applied between the channel layer and the source electrode, and between the channel layer and the drain electrode. Both the channel layer and the ohmic contact layer are made of a metal oxide containing zinc. The channel layer has a zinc atomic percentage of less than 35%, and the ohmic contact layer has a zinc atomic percentage of more than 65%.
US10079305B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The device may include an active pattern protruding from a substrate, gate structures crossing the active pattern, and a source/drain region provided between adjacent ones of the gate structures. The source/drain region may include a source/drain epitaxial layer in a recessed region, which is formed in the active pattern between the adjacent ones of the gate structures. Further, an impurity diffusion region may be provided in the active pattern to enclose the source/drain epitaxial layer along inner surfaces of the recessed region.
US10079293B2	Semiconductor device having a gap defined therein A method includes forming a first spacer structure on a dummy gate of a semiconductor device and forming a sacrificial spacer on the first spacer structure. The method also includes etching a structure of the semiconductor device to create an opening, removing the sacrificial spacer via the opening, and depositing a material to close to define a gap.
US10079291B2	Fin-type field effect transistor structure and manufacturing method thereof A fin-type field effect transistor including a substrate, insulators, a gate stack, a seal spacer, a first offset spacer, and a second offset spacer is described. The substrate has fins thereon. The insulators are located over the substrate and between the fins. The gate stack is located over the fins and over the insulators. The seal spacer is located over the sidewall of the gate stack. The first offset spacer is located over the seal spacer. The second offset spacer is located over the first offset spacer.
US10079285B2	Semiconductor device, power circuit, computer, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a nitride semiconductor layer, an insulating layer provided on the nitride semiconductor layer, a first region provided in the nitride semiconductor layer, and a second region which is provided between the first region and the insulating layer in the nitride semiconductor layer and has a higher electric resistivity than the first region.
US10079278B2	Bipolar transistor with carbon alloyed contacts A method for forming a bipolar junction transistor includes forming a collector intrinsic region, an emitter intrinsic region and an intrinsic base region between the collector intrinsic region and the emitter intrinsic region. A collector extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the collector intrinsic region; an emitter extrinsic contact region is formed on the emitter intrinsic region and a base extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the intrinsic base region. Carbon is introduced into at least one of the collector extrinsic contact region, the emitter extrinsic contact region and the base extrinsic contact region to suppress diffusion of dopants into the junction region.
US10079258B2	Optical detector and imaging apparatus An optical detector includes a sensor device chip including a substrate and a sensor device that is provided at a front face side of the substrate and detects light entering from a back face side of the substrate. The sensor device chip has, at the back face side of the substrate, a region in which a refractive index varies so as to increase from a light incident face toward a thicknesswise direction.
US10079257B2	Anti-reflective layer for backside illuminated CMOS image sensors A method of forming an image sensor device includes forming a light sensing region at a front surface of a silicon substrate and a patterned metal layer there over. Thereafter, the method includes depositing a metal oxide anti-reflection laminate on the first surface of the substrate. The metal oxide anti-reflection laminate includes one or more composite layers of thin metal oxides stacked over the photodiode. Each composite layer includes two or more metal oxide layers: one metal oxide is a high energy band gap metal oxide and another metal oxide is a high refractive index metal oxide.
US10079256B2	Image sensor pixels with light guides and light shield structures A front-side illuminated image sensor with an array of image sensor pixels is provided. Each image pixel may include a photodiode, transistor gate structures, shallow trench isolation structures, and other associated pixel circuits formed in a semiconductor substrate. Buried light shielding structures that are opaque to light may be formed over regions of the substrate to prevent the transistor gate structures, shallow trench isolation structures, and the other associated pixel circuits from being exposed to stray light. Buried light shielding structures formed in this way can help reduce optical pixel crosstalk.
US10079241B2	Method of manufacturing an EEPROM device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate, forming a first dielectric layer having a first thickness on the semiconductor substrate, forming a first opening having a first width in the first dielectric layer and exposing a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a spacer on opposite sidewalls of the first opening, forming a second dielectric layer having a second thickness on the exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate in a middle region of the first opening, removing the spacer to form a second opening having a first opening portion and a second opening portion on opposite sides of the second dielectric layer, and forming a third dielectric layer having a third thickness on the first and second opening portions of the second opening. The third thickness is smaller than the first thickness and the second thickness.
US10079237B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device may include: a substrate having a cell area defined thereon, the cell area including a cell block area and an edge area; a plurality of bottom electrodes, on the substrate, which are in parallel with a top surface of the substrate and a first direction in parallel with a top surface of the substrate, and are arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a support structure pattern, in a flat plate shape, which connects the bottom electrodes to each other, supports the bottom electrodes onto the substrate, and includes a plurality of open areas, wherein a first profile, which is a horizontal cross-sectional profile in the edge area of the support structure pattern, has a wave shape.
US10079232B2	FinFET CMOS with silicon fin n-channel FET and silicon germanium fin p-channel FET An advanced FinFET structure is described. A FinFET device includes a set of n-type FinFET devices and a set of p-type FinFET devices disposed on a substrate. The set of n-type FinFET devices have silicon channels and the set of p-type FinFET devices have silicon germanium channels. A set of punchthrough stop isolation regions are disposed under and isolate the n-type FinFET devices. A set of oxide isolation regions are disposed under and isolate the set of p-type FinFET devices.
US10079230B2	Double-sided vertical semiconductor device with thinned substrate A vertical semiconductor device is formed in a semiconductor layer having a first surface, a second surface and background doping. A first doped region, doped to a conductivity type opposite that of the background, is formed at the second surface of the semiconductor layer. A second doped region of the same conductivity type as the background is formed at the second surface of the semiconductor layer, inside the first doped region. A portion of the semiconductor layer is removed at the first surface, exposing a new third surface. A third doped region is formed inside the semiconductor layer at the third surface. Electrical contact is made at least to the second doped region (via the second surface) and the third doped region (via the new third surface). In this way, vertical DMOS, IGBT, bipolar transistors, thyristors, and other types of devices can be fabricated in thinned semiconductor, or SOI layers.
US10079228B1	Tight integrated vertical transistor dual diode structure for electrostatic discharge circuit protector An electric static discharge (ESD) diode pair is disclosed. The first diode of the device includes a first diode junction portion having vertically orientated and horizontally oriented portions of a first conductivity and a second diode junction portion of a second conductivity in direct contact with both of the vertically orientated and horizontally orientated portions of the first diode junction portion. The second diode of the device includes a first diode junction portion having vertically orientated and horizontally oriented portions of a second conductivity and a second diode junction portion having a first conductivity in direct contact with both of the vertically orientated and horizontally orientated portions of the first diode junction portion. A common electrical contact is in direct contact first diode junction portion for each of the first diode and the second diode.
US10079223B2	Clips defining electrical pathway on a flexible sheet A conductive pathway mounted on an electrically insulating sheet having an upper face and an opposed lower face, said sheet having a plurality of pairs of apertures; a plurality of electrically conductive clips, each clip being separated spatially from an adjacent said clip; each electrically conductive clip comprising a first body portion and first and second depending legs defining a sheet-receiving recess therebetween, said first body portion being disposed in contacting relation with said upper face of said sheet and said legs being disposed in contacting relation with said lower face of said sheet; each leg of one of said electrically conductive clips extending through one of said apertures of a pair of said apertures from said upper face to said lower face; and a plurality of electrical components each mounted in conductive relationship to two adjacent said conductive clips and bridging said insulating sheet.
US10079215B2	Electronic chip An electronic chip including: a plurality of first semiconductor bars of a first conductivity type and of second semiconductor bars of a second conductivity type arranged alternately and contiguously on a region of the first conductivity type; two detection contacts arranged at the ends of each second bar; a circuit for detecting the resistance between the detection contacts of each second bar; insulating trenches extending in the second bars down to a first depth between circuit elements; and insulating walls extending across the entire width of each second bar down to a second depth greater than the first depth.
US10079199B2	Through-substrate via structure and method of manufacture A through-substrate vias structure includes a substrate having opposing first and second major surfaces. One or more conductive via structures are disposed extending from the first major surface to a first vertical distance within the substrate. A recessed region extends from the second major surface to a second vertical distance within the substrate and adjoining a lower surface of the conductive via. In one embodiment, the second vertical distance is greater than the first vertical distance. A conductive region is disposed within the recessed region and is configured to be in electrical and/or thermal communication with the conductive via.
US10079193B2	Semiconductor module A semiconductor module comprises a semiconductor device; a substrate, on which the semiconductor device is attached; a molded encasing, into which the semiconductor device and the substrate are molded; at least one power terminal partially molded into the encasing and protruding from the encasing, which power terminal is electrically connected with the semiconductor device; and an encased circuit board at least partially molded into the encasing and protruding over the substrate in an extension direction of the substrate, wherein the encased circuit board comprises at least one receptacle for a pin, the receptacle being electrically connected via the encased circuit board with a control input of the semiconductor device.
US10079190B2	Methods of fabricating an electronic package structure A method of fabricating a package structure is provided, including forming a plurality of openings by removing a portion of the material on one side of a conductive layer, forming an insulating material as an insulating layer in the openings, removing a portion of the material on the other side of the conductive layer to serve as a wiring layer, disposing an electronic component on the wiring layer, and forming an encapsulating layer to cover the electronic component, thereby allowing the single wiring layer to be connected to the electronic component on one side and connected to solder balls on the other side thereof to shorten the signal transmission path. The present invention further provides a package structure thus fabricated.
US10079185B1	Semiconductor pattern for monitoring overlay and critical dimension at post-etching stage and metrology method of the same A semiconductor pattern for monitoring overlay and critical dimension at post-etching stage is provided in the present invention, which include a first inverted-T shaped pattern with a base portion and a middle portion extending from the base portion and a second pattern adjacent and spaced apart from the base portion of the first inverted-T shaped pattern, wherein the first inverted-T shaped pattern and the second pattern are composed of a plurality of spacer patterns spaced apart from each other.
US10079183B2	Calculated electrical performance metrics for process monitoring and yield management Methods and systems of process control and yield management for semiconductor device manufacturing based on predictions of final device performance are presented herein. Estimated device performance metric values are calculated based on one or more device performance models that link parameter values capable of measurement during process to final device performance metrics. In some examples, an estimated value of a device performance metric is based on at least one structural characteristic and at least one band structure characteristic of an unfinished, multi-layer wafer. In some examples, a prediction of whether a device under process will fail a final device performance test is based on the difference between an estimated value of a final device performance metric and a specified value. In some examples, an adjustment in one or more subsequent process steps is determined based at least in part on the difference.
US10079174B2	Composite contact plug structure and method of making same An embodiment contact plug includes a bilayer structure and a diffusion barrier layer on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the bilayer structure. The bilayer structure includes a conductive core and a conductive liner on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the conductive core. In the embodiment contact plug, the conductive liner comprises cobalt or ruthenium.
US10079172B2	Wiring structure and method of forming a wiring structure A method of forming a mask layout includes forming a layout of a first mask including a lower wiring structure pattern and a dummy lower wiring structure pattern. A layout of a second mask overlapping the first mask and including an upper wiring structure pattern and a dummy upper wiring structure pattern is formed. A layout of a third mask including a first via structure pattern and a first dummy via structure pattern is formed. A layout of a fourth mask including a second via structure pattern and a second dummy via structure pattern is formed. The second via structure pattern may commonly overlap the lower wiring structure pattern and the upper wiring structure pattern, and the second dummy via structure pattern may commonly overlap the dummy lower wiring structure pattern and the dummy upper wiring structure pattern. The fourth mask may overlap the third mask.
US10079163B2	Unit for supplying treatment liquid and apparatus for treating substrate Disclosed is an apparatus for treating a substrate. The apparatus includes a support unit that supports the substrate, and a treatment liquid supply unit that supplies a treatment liquid to the substrate, and the treatment liquid supply unit includes an injection unit that supplies the treatment liquid to the substrate supported by the support unit, a tank that accommodates the treatment liquid, a pipe connected to the tank, and a static electricity removing member that removes static electricity from the treatment liquid.
US10079162B1	Method for making lead frames for integrated circuit packages Disclosed examples include a method of making a semiconductor die package comprising arranging at least one preformed die attach pad and at least two preformed leads on a lead frame carrier in a predetermined configuration to form a lead frame, attaching a semiconductor die to the at least one preformed die attach pad, wire bonding the semiconductor die to the at least two preformed leads, forming a molding structure including at least part of the semiconductor die and the at least two preformed leads, and removing the molding structure from the lead frame carrier.
US10079158B2	Vertical trench routing in a substrate An interconnect topology that includes vertical trench routing in a substrate is disclosed. In one embodiment, the interconnect comprises a substrate having a plurality of layers including a first ground plane layer; a pair of signal conductors that form a differential signal pair, each conductor of the pair of signal conductors having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion extending from the first portion into at least one of the plurality of layers, wherein width of the second portion is less than width of the first portion; and wherein the first ground plane layer is only a first partial layer and has a first void region that is closer to the pair of signal conductors than the first partial layer.
US10079156B2	Semiconductor package including dielectric layers defining via holes extending to component pads The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package and method of making the same. The semiconductor package includes an encapsulation layer, a component within the encapsulation layer, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a first patterned conductive layer, and a second patterned conductive layer. The component includes pads on a front surface of the component. The first dielectric layer is disposed on a surface of the encapsulation layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on a surface of the first dielectric layer. The first and second dielectric layers define via holes extending from the second dielectric layer to respective ones of the pads. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed within the first dielectric layer and surrounds the via holes. The second patterned conductive layer is disposed within the second dielectric layer and surrounds the via holes.
US10079151B2	Method for bottom-up deposition of a film in a recessed feature Embodiments of the invention provide a processing method for bottom-up deposition of a film in a recessed feature. According to one embodiment, the method includes a) providing a substrate containing a recessed feature having a bottom and a sidewall, b) depositing a film on the bottom and on the sidewall of the recessed feature, and c) covering the film at the bottom of the recessed feature with a mask layer. The method further includes d) etching the film from the sidewall, and e) removing the mask layer to expose the film at the bottom of the recessed feature. Steps b)-e) may be repeated at least once until the film at the bottom of the recessed feature has a desired thickness. In one example, the recessed feature may be filled with the film.
US10079150B2	Method and apparatus for dry gas phase chemically etching a structure According to the invention there is provided a method of dry gas phase chemically etching a structure comprising the steps of: positioning the structure in an etch chamber, the structure comprising a first material and a second material, wherein the first material is selected from silicon, molybdenum, germanium, SiGe and tungsten, the second material is silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and at least one surface of the first material is exposed so as to be contactable by a gas phase chemical etchant; etching the first material with a noble gas fluoride or halogen fluoride gas phase chemical etchant; and exposing the etch chamber to water vapour so that the step of etching the first material is performed in the presence of water vapour.
US10079146B2	Resist underlayer film forming composition containing silicon containing cyclic organic group having hetero atom A resist underlayer film composition for lithography, including: a silane: at least one among a hydrolyzable organosilane, a hydrolysis product thereof, and a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, wherein the silane includes a silane having a cyclic organic group containing as atoms making up the ring, a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, and a hetero atom other than a carbon and nitrogen atoms. The hydrolyzable organosilane may be a hydrolyzable organosilane of Formula (1), wherein, at least one group among R1, R2, and R3 is a group wherein a —Si(X)3 group bonds to C1-10 alkylene group, and other group(s) among R1, R2, and R3 is(are) a hydrogen atom, C1-10 alkyl group, or C6-40 aryl group; a cyclic organic group of 5-10 membered ring containing atoms making up the ring, a carbon atom, at least one of nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen atoms; and X is an alkoxy group, acyloxy group, or halogen atom.
US10079126B2	Card operated power plug interrupter/monitor and method of use A device that is placed between the electrical power source and electrical equipment such that power going to the equipment can be controlled, regulated, and monitored. An individual may request access to use the electrical equipment by means of unique identification. The device is able to compare the user's request for authentication via a locally stored list (database) or remotely situated list. The device contains audio and visual indications of the current status of power going to the electrical device. An apparatus is used to prevent a user from disconnecting electrical equipment from the device and reconnecting it directly to the power source. A related method of use is also claimed.
US10079115B2	Multi-notched anode for electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes an anode body, a dielectric overlying the anode body, a solid electrolyte that contains one or more conductive polymers and overlies the dielectric, and an external coating that overlies the solid electrolyte, is provided. The external coating includes at least one carbonaceous layer and at least one metal layer. In addition to the aforementioned layers, the external coating can also include at least one conductive polymer layer that can be disposed between the carbonaceous and metal layers. Among other things, such a conductive polymer layer can reduce the likelihood that the carbonaceous layer will delaminate from the solid electrolyte during use. Further, the notched geometry of the anode body itself is selected to minimize the risk of delamination of the external coating layers from the anode body. This combination of characteristics can increase the mechanical robustness of the part and improve its electrical performance.
US10079104B2	Capacitor A capacitor includes an outer electrode extends over first and second main surfaces from exposed portions of inner electrodes on a first side surface and exposed portions of the inner electrodes on a second side surface. An outermost layer of the outer electrode includes a Cu-plated layer.
US10079097B2	Capacitor structure for power delivery applications A passive discrete device may include a first asymmetric terminal and a second asymmetric terminal. The passive discrete device may further include first internal electrodes extended to electrically couple to a first side and a second side of the first asymmetric terminal. The passive discrete device may also include second internal electrodes extended to electrically couple to a first side and a second side of the second asymmetric terminal.
US10079096B2	Ceramic capacitor In a planar view of a ceramic capacitor that has low ESL and is embeddable into a substrate, lengths of first and second external electrodes are L1, lengths from portions of the first and second external electrodes farthest from a capacitor main body to portions closer to the capacitor main body by about 40% of a thickness of the first or second external electrode in a laminating direction are L2, a ratio L2/L1 is about 80% or more and about 90% or less. In the planar view, a length of a third external electrode is L3, a length from a portion of the third external electrode farthest from the capacitor main body to a portion closer to the capacitor main body by about 40% of a thickness of the third external electrode in the laminating direction is L4, a ratio L4/L3 is about 80% or more.
US10079093B2	Inductive component, and device, and method for winding a wire for an inductive component An inductive component, a device, and a method for winding a wire for an inductive component are disclosed. In an embodiment a device includes an advancing arrangement configured to advance a wire and a shaping arrangement and a pitch-producing arrangement configured to bend the wire, wherein the shaping arrangement and the pitch-producing arrangement are arranged in such a way that the wire, as it is advanced by the advancing arrangement, is introduced into the shaping arrangement and the pitch-producing arrangement, and wherein the shaping arrangement and the pitch-producing arrangement are formed in such a way that the wire, as it is advanced, is bent in a coiled manner in the shaping arrangement and the pitch-producing arrangement.
US10079089B1	Coil electronic component and board having the same A coil electronic component includes: a body; first and second external electrodes disposed on opposite surfaces of the body in a first direction parallel to a mounting surface of the body; a support member disposed in a second direction, perpendicular to the mounting surface of the body and including a protrusion portion extending in the second direction; and a coil disposed on at least one surface of the support member.
US10079087B2	Dither current power supply control method and dither current power supply control apparatus In the dither current power supply control method, in order to prevent occurrence of a difference between the target average current and the detected average current, which is caused when a medium current (I0) between a dither large current (I2) and a dither small current (I1) and a waveform average (Ia) of the dither current are different from each other depending on a response time difference (a−b) between a rise time (b) and a fall time (a) of the dither current, negative feedback control is carried out by using a command medium current corresponding to the target average current corrected by a correction parameter based on experimentally measured data, thereby suppressing occurrence of a transient fluctuation error by the negative feedback control, so that a highly precise and stable load current is acquired.
US10079086B2	Processing of bound and unbound magnetic particles The invention relates to an apparatus (100) and a method for the processing of magnetic particles (MP) provided in a processing chamber (114) with a binding region (116) to which said magnetic particles (MP) can (specifically) bind. Removal of unbound magnetic particles (MP) from the binding region (116) is achieved by first separating them from the binding region (116) by gravitational forces and then moving them further away by magnetic forces. Gravitational forces can for example be generated by tilting the binding region with a tilting unit (156). The prior separation by gravitational forces prevents that unbound magnetic particles (MP) are captured in a cluster with bound magnetic particles.
US10079077B2	Water-cooled reactor system for generating electricity A nuclear reactor system for generating electricity includes a nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and a moderator, and generates thermal energy through nuclear fission. The reactor includes a reactor vessel and a reactor core. The reactor core comprises a plurality of fuel assemblies and one or more core baffles. In an embodiment the reactor core is square-shaped with a hollow center portion, and is concentric with the reactor vessel. The reactor permits decay-heat removal from the fuel assemblies in the absence of the coolant. A power conversion system is arranged to indirectly receive thermal energy generated by the reactor core and to generate electricity. A refueling water storage tank is useable when the reactor core is refueled with nuclear fuel. A containment surrounds the reactor vessel and the refueling water storage tank.
US10079073B2	Test apparatus and methods for ST2 cardiac biomarker The technology described in this document can be embodied in a test strip for use in measuring a level of an ST2 cardiac biomarker in a blood plasma sample. The test strip includes a base, and a plurality of conjugates, wherein each conjugate includes a reporter group bound to a first antibody that binds to ST2. A conjugate pad disposed along a length of the base and is configured to hold the plurality of conjugates that bind with ST2 to produce conjugate-ST2 complexes. The conjugate pad is further configured to receive the blood plasma sample. The test strip also includes a plurality of second and third antibodies that bind to ST2, and the conjugate-ST2 complexes, respectively. The plurality of second antibodies are bound to a membrane in a test location and the plurality of third antibodies are bound to the membrane in a control location.
US10079072B2	Biologically inspired intelligent body scanner An intelligent medical imaging scanner system includes an image scanner, an operator interface, a database, processors, and a storage medium. The database includes a learning model for relating configurations of the image scanner to operator input requirements. The storage medium contains programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to determine whether the learning model may be used to generate a configuration of the image scanner corresponding to the new input requirements. If the configuration can be generated, the processors use that configuration to acquire images of a patient using the image scanner. If the configuration of the image scanner cannot be generated, the processors perform an accommodation process comprising (a) modifying the learning model to generate a new configuration of the image scanner corresponding to the new input requirements, and (b) using the new configuration to acquire the images of the patient using the image scanner.
US10079071B1	Method and system for whole body bone removal and vascular visualization in medical image data A method and apparatus for whole body bone removal and vasculature visualization in medical image data, such as computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans, is disclosed. Bone structures are segmented in the a 3D medical image, resulting in a bone mask of the 3D medical image. Vessel structures are segmented in the 3D medical image, resulting in a vessel mask of the 3D medical image. The bone mask and the vessel mask are refined by fusing information from the bone mask and the vessel mask. Bone voxels are removed from the 3D medical image using the refined bone mask, in order to generate a visualization of the vessel structures in the 3D medical image.
US10079069B2	Array substrate and method for forming the same An array substrate and a method for forming the same are provided. The array substrate includes: a gate driver in a non-display area, wherein the gate driver includes M shift register circuits and each shift register circuit includes two shift register groups, which includes N shift registers each, where M is a positive even number and N is a positive integer greater than 2; in each of the shift register groups, a gate output end of an nth shift register has signal wires; along a direction perpendicular to the non-display area, at least one of the signal wires of one shift register group are stacked above at least one of the signal wires of another shift register group. Accordingly, a display panel using this array substrate may realize a narrow side frame design.
US10079067B1	Data read method and a non-volatile memory apparatus using the same A data read method and a non-volatile memory apparatus using the same are provided. The data read method includes: obtaining a first read current and a second read current from a memory cell pair of the non-volatile memory; performing a calculation operation according to the first read current and the second read current to obtain a calculation result; and determining a logical state of the memory cell pair according to the calculation result. The calculation operation includes at least a signal addition operation and a signal multiplying operation.
US10079063B2	Apparatuses and methods for charging a global access line prior to accessing a memory Apparatuses and methods for charging a global access line prior to accessing a memory are described. An example apparatus may include a memory array of a memory. A plurality of global access lines may be associated with the memory array. The global access line may be charged to a ready-access voltage before any access command has been received by the memory. The global access line may be maintained at the ready-access voltage during memory access operations until the receipt of a post-access command. The post-access command may reset the global access line to an inactive voltage.
US10079062B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first memory mat (1L) including a plurality of split type memory cells (250L), a second memory mat (1R) including a plurality of split type memory cells (250R), a first control gate line (CGL) connected to a control gate (CG) of a split type memory cell (100L), and a second control gate line (CGR) connected to a control gate (CG) of a split type memory cell (100R). The semiconductor device further includes a first memory gate line (MGL) connected to a memory gate (MG) of the split type memory cell (100L), and a second memory gate line (MGR) connected to a memory gate (MG) of the split type memory cell (100R).
US10079061B2	System and method for programming split-gate, non-volatile memory cells The disclosed embodiments comprise a flash memory device and a method of programming the device in a way that reduces degradation of the device compared to prior art methods.
US10079055B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device and system A semiconductor integrated circuit which can respond to changes of the amount of retained data at the time of standby is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a logic circuit (logic) and plural SRAM modules. The plural SRAM modules perform power control independently of the logic circuit, and an independent power control is performed among the plural SRAM modules. Specifically, one terminal and the other terminal of a potential control circuit of each SRAM module are coupled to a cell array and a local power line, respectively. The local power line of one SRAM module and the local power line of the other SRAM module share a shared local power line. A power switch of one SRAM module and a power switch of the other SRAM module are coupled in common to the shared local power line.
US10079048B2	Adjusting access of non-volatile semiconductor memory based on access time A non-volatile semiconductor memory is disclosed comprising a first memory device and control circuitry operable to issue an access command to the first memory device. A command status is requested from the first memory device after a status delay. When the command status indicates the first memory device has completed the command, a first access time of the memory device is measured. An access sequence of the first memory device is then modified in response to the access time.
US10079045B2	Sense amplifier, memory apparatus and system including the same A sense amplifier may be provided. The sense amplifier may include an amplification circuit and/or a cell current control circuit. The amplification circuit may be configured to compare a voltage level of a signal line with a level of a read voltage. The cell current control circuit may be configured to decrease the voltage level of the signal line based on an output signal.
US10079041B2	Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a display controller for displaying first content on a display unit; and an image generator for generating second content based on a photographing signal input, which may be from a user, and third content related to the second content.
US10079032B2	Device and recording apparatus A combination of a semiconductor member and a metal member is selected appropriately from a view point of increasing an enhancement factor of a near-field light. A device (1) has a semiconductor member (101) and a metal member (102), a near-field light is generated at the metal member when an energy is supplied to the semiconductor member, the metal member is made of an alloy including a first metal and a second metal, a condition of Rm1
US10079027B2	Sound signal detector One example discloses an apparatus for sound signal detection, comprising: a first wireless device including a first pressure sensor having a first acoustical profile and configured to capture a first set of acoustic energy within a time window; wherein the first wireless device includes a wireless signal input; wherein the first wireless device includes a processing element configured to: receive, through the wireless signal input, a second set of acoustic energy captured by a second pressure sensor, having a second acoustical profile, within a second wireless device and within the time window; apply a signal enhancement technique to the first and second sets of acoustic energy based on the first and second acoustical profiles; search for a predefined sound signal within the enhanced sets of acoustic energy; and initiate a subsequent set of sound signal detection actions if the search finds the sound signal.
US10079019B2	Always-on audio control for mobile device In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more CPUs, a memory controller, and a circuit configured to remain powered on when the rest of the SOC is powered down. The circuit may be configured to receive audio samples from a microphone, and match those audio samples against a predetermined pattern to detect a possible command from a user of the device that includes the SOC. In response to detecting the predetermined pattern, the circuit may cause the memory controller to power up so that audio samples may be stored in the memory to which the memory controller is coupled. The circuit may also cause the CPUs to be powered on and initialized, and the operating system (OS) may boot. During the time that the CPUs are initializing and the OS is booting, the circuit and the memory may be capturing the audio samples.
US10079017B1	Speech-responsive portable speaker An electronic device may operate in different modes of operations. In a first mode of operation, the electronic device may receive user speech via a microphone, generate audio data that represents the user speech, and then send the audio data to one or more remote computing device for analysis. In a second mode of operation, the electronic device may receive user speech via the microphone, generate audio data that represents the user speech, and then analyze the audio data using speech processing. In some instances, the electronic device may operate in the first mode of operation and/or the second mode of operation based on whether the electronic device is receiving power from an external source.
US10079008B2	Magnetically secured cymbal trigger and choke assembly An apparatus, system, and method for a magnetically and releaseably attachable trigger for an instrument is provided along with a choking device for use of the trigger in connection with a cymbal or like percussion device. The trigger and securing device are disposed on either side of a cymbal surface or a cymbal stand via magnetic force and the choking mechanism is in electrical connection with the trigger to interrupt the signal for choking purposes and is mounted on a surface of the cymbal to be choked.
US10078995B2	Gate driver and display device including the same A gate driver includes a plurality of stage circuits to output a clock signal from the outside as gate signals. A jth stage circuit includes an input unit to charge a first node at an initial voltage when a first input signal is input to a first input terminal, a buffer unit to output the clock signal as a gate signal to an output terminal when the initial voltage is supplied to the first node, a holding unit to maintain the first node at a reset power source level when the clock signal is supplied to the holding unit, and an inverter unit to supply the clock signal or the reset power source to the holding unit. The input unit maintains the first node at a second input signal input voltage to a second input terminal when a third input signal is input to a third input terminal.
US10078991B2	Liquid crystal driving circuit having a main pixel and a subpixel and liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal driving circuit for providing power to the pixel units of a liquid crystal display device. The present invention further provides the liquid crystal display device, which comprises pixel units and the liquid crystal driving circuit.
US10078990B2	Timing controller and display device including the same A timing controller includes: a compensator to receive an image signal and to output a compensation image signal; a dimming range adjustor to receive a backlight dimming signal and to output a dimming range signal to adjust an active section of the backlight dimming signal; a smoothing processor to output a smoothing image signal to smooth the compensation image signal in response to the dimming range signal; and a data output part to output an image data signal by adding the smoothing image signal to the image signal.
US10078981B2	Organic light emitting display and method for driving the same A controller for a display device includes an adjuster and a compensator. The adjuster adjusts at least one parameter of a modeling equation based on a measured current of a pixel. The modeling equation including the at least one adjusted parameter is indicative of a real time degree of degradation of the pixel. The compensator compensates for image data corresponding to emission of light from the pixel.
US10078977B2	Optically determining messages on a display A verifiable display is provided that enables the visual content of the display to be detected and confirmed in a variety of ambient lighting conditions, enviroments, and operational states. In particular, the verifiable display has a display layer that is capable of visually setting an intended message for human or machine reading, with the intendended message being set using pixels. Depending on the operational condition of the display and the ambient light, for example, the message that is actually displayed and perceivable may vary from the intended message. To detect what message is actually displayed, a light detection layer in the verifiable display detects the illumination state of the pixels, and in that way is able to detect what message is actually being presented by the display layer.
US10078974B2	Color coding system for PVC pipes and couplings A system of visual and non-visual marks for PVC pipes and couplings which allows users to group PVC pipes and couplings by type, size, and composition with a series of colors, shapes, swirls, patterns. The series of colors, shapes, swirls, patterns are applied to the PVC pipes and couplings by etching, painting, applying stickers, and or molding into the PVC itself. The non-visual mark utilize the magnetic and radio reflective nature of the marks to allow remote identification of the plumbing pipes and couplings after being buried.
US10078970B2	Hardware management and reconstruction using visual graphics In an approach for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, a processor populates a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model. A processor receives the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components. A processor couples the machine model with a set of vital product data. A processor associates a set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and the vital product data file. A processor generates a visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model.
US10078967B2	Apparatus and system for and method of registration, admission and testing of a candidate The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for and method of registering, admitting and testing of a candidate. Test candidate can be registered and admitted through verification of identity using biometric comparisons and third party identification systems. Scanning of identification documents and comparison with security information database can authenticate the validity and authenticity of identification documents. Authentication of testing candidates can be accomplished by comparison of biometric data of candidate against biometric data contain in identification document. Testing can be conducted on an apparatus remotely located from a proctor monitored administrative station or apparatus. The remote testing station can detect and prevent individuals from cheating, detect unauthorized objects, and can prevent or detect unauthorized copying of an examination or portions thereof.
US10078951B2	Method and process for determining whether an individual suffers a fall requiring assistance A method for monitoring an individual in a dwelling so as to know when such individual falls or indicates the need of assistance. A plurality of 3D motion and sound sensors are located in the dwelling and provide data to a computerized monitoring system. The sensors are configured to recognize one or more biometric identifiers of the individual being monitored. When the monitoring system detects that the individual has fallen or gestured, a computerized communication system contacts the individual to determine the need to send assistance to help the individual. Where assistance is required the system automatics contacts the previously designated caregiver for the individual and can also contact emergency personnel.
US10078947B2	Control tag with environmentally selected conditional response Systems (100) and methods (300) for selective device responsiveness using a plurality of control tags (132) affixed to a plurality of objects (102). The methods involve: receiving, by a plurality of control tags, a reporting command signal sent from an interrogation device via a communications link; and communicating a response to the reporting command signal from only those of the plurality of control tags which are (1) currently being moved, (2) have been moved within a first specified period of time, and/or (3) have a surrounding environment with at least one characteristic that has recently changed.
US10078946B2	Commissioning of electro-optical detector An electro-optical detector is provided. The detector includes a mounting support adapted to be secured to a fixed structure and an alignable component which is connected to the mounting support through an adjustment mechanism capable of altering the relative position of the alignable component during commissioning of the detector. The detector further has a detachable controller unit including a communication module which receives instructions from a remote communication device in response to which the adjustment mechanism alters the alignable component's position relative to the mounting support.
US10078939B2	Interactive gaming among a plurality of players systems and methods A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system or gaming platform via a network. The plurality of player terminals may be located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals may be configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals can include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US10078936B1	Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller Systems and methods of electronic gaming are disclosed. In various embodiments, a gaming system may implement a method for electronic gaming, which may comprise receiving a credit wager to initiate play of a game, selecting a plurality symbols from a plurality of reel strips stored in the memory, displaying the selected plurality of symbols in a plurality of adjacent columns of symbol display positions, dividing the symbol display positions in each of the plurality of columns into a first subset of symbol display positions and a second subset of symbol display positions, determining whether an evaluation change condition has been met with respect to a column in the plurality of columns, a first game evaluation based upon the evaluation change condition, and performing a second game evaluation based upon the evaluation change condition.
US10078934B2	Beverage preparation machine supporting a remote service functionality The present invention relates to a method for remotely providing service functionalities for a beverage preparation machine (1). The beverage preparation machine (1) is adapted for preparing a beverage by receiving a capsule in a capsule extraction unit, circulating a carrier liquid, such as water in particular heated water, through said capsule in the extraction unit and by dispensing a resulting beverage. The machine is in data communication with a remote server (50) via a communication network (511, 501, 502). The machine (1) monitors (S1, S2, S3, S4) parameters related to the machine and submits (S5) the monitored parameters to the server (5). The server (5) initiates (S8, S9) a service functionality depending on the submitted parameters. The present invention further relates to a beverage preparation machine (1) adapted to support such a method and to a system (100) for remotely providing service functionalities for a beverage preparation machine (1) at a customer location (150).
US10078932B2	Remote control device, vehicle, and method for controlling the vehicle A vehicle includes: a timer measuring a time; a receiver receiving data from a remote control device; a storage storing a unique value of a vehicle, a timer count value of the vehicle, and a timer difference value between the remote control device and the vehicle; and a controller increasing the timer count value of the vehicle after lapse of a predetermined time. In particular, the controller compares a unique value of the remote control device contained in the data with the unique value of the vehicle stored in the storage, and determines whether a user command contained in the data is approved based on a result of the comparison.
US10078930B2	Networked door closer and auto-operator An access control system for a plurality of door operators that are each respectively coupled to one of a plurality of doors providing an entrance to or exit from a building. A system controller monitors the status of each of the doors real time and controls the operation of each of the door operators based on the monitored status. The system controller adjusts the status of one or more door operators as a function of the determined status of one or more other door operators. Door operator commands are provided by the system controller to selected door operators to, for example, extend the opening time of one or more doors due to current activity by other door closers. The system controller is configured adjust the status of an entire group of doors or a sub-group group of doors depending on the status of the door operators.
US10078925B2	Segmenting operational data Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for segmenting operational data and identifying events of interest in the segmented operational data. With the events of interest identified, a total time between the events of interest can be determined.
US10078919B2	Interactions with 3D virtual objects using poses and multiple-DOF controllers A wearable system can comprise a display system configured to present virtual content in a three-dimensional space, a user input device configured to receive a user input, and one or more sensors configured to detect a user's pose. The wearable system can support various user interactions with objects in the user's environment based on contextual information. As an example, the wearable system can adjust the size of an aperture of a virtual cone during a cone cast (e.g., with the user's poses) based on the contextual information. As another example, the wearable system can adjust the amount of movement of virtual objects associated with an actuation of the user input device based on the contextual information.
US10078916B2	Pick to augmented reality The embodiments provide an augmented reality device for increasing human efficiency in navigating a distribution site and retrieving different customer order items from distinct locations within the distribution site. The augmented reality device uses at least one camera to scan reference points distributed across the distribution site. From the scanning, the device determines its position relative to a destination within the distribution site. The device layers over a real-world view, navigational information directing movement of a device user along a most efficient path to the destination. The camera further scans items falling within its field of view. The device performs feature matching in order to identify a particular item of interest within the field of view. The device layers over the real-world view, visual makers distinguishing the particular item from other items as well instructions or other identifying information relating to the particular item.
US10078913B2	Capturing an environment with objects Method for capturing an environment with objects, using a 3D camera, wherein the images of the cameras captured at different moments in time are used to generate 3D models, and wherein accuracy values are assigned to segments of the models allowing efficient refining of the models using the accuracy values.
US10078901B2	Camera arrangement for measuring distance A camera arrangement includes at least one illuminating device for illuminating a plurality of fields of vision. At least one object to be detected is in each of the fields of vision. The camera arrangement also includes at least one objective lens for focusing a beam path which includes at least one of the plurality of fields of vision or for focusing a plurality of beam paths each including at least one of the plurality of fields of vision. A TOF sensor is also provided. The at least one illuminating device, the at least one objective lens and the TOF sensor are arranged with respect to one another and with respect to the fields of vision and the objects in the latter in such a manner that images of the objects can be imaged on the one TOF sensor at the same time or in temporal succession.
US10078898B2	Noncontact metrology probe, process for making and using same Disclosed is a noncontact metrology probe including: a first camera including a first field of view; a second camera including a second field of view and arranged such that the second field of view overlaps the first field of view to form a prime focal volume; a third camera including a third field of view and arranged such that the third field of view overlaps the prime focal volume to form a probe focal volume; and a tracker including a tracker field of view to determine a location of the probe focal volume in the tracker field of view. Further disclosed is a process for calibrating a noncontact metrology probe, the process including: providing a noncontact metrology probe including: a first camera including a first field of view; a second camera including a second field of view; a third camera including a third field of view; and a tracker including a tracker field of view; overlapping the first field of view with the second field of view to form a prime focal volume; overlapping the prime focal volume with the third field of view to form a probe focal volume; and overlapping the a tracker field of view with the probe focal volume to calibrate the noncontact metrology probe.
US10078895B2	Prediction of recurrence of non-small cell lung cancer with tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) graphs Methods and apparatus predict non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) recurrence using radiomic features extracted from digitized hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained slides of a region of tissue demonstrating NSCLC. One example apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit that acquires an image of a region of tissue demonstrating NSCLC, a segmentation circuit that segments a cellular nucleus from the image, a feature extraction circuit that extracts a set of features from the image, a tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) identification circuit that classifies the segmented nucleus as a TIL or non-TIL, a graphing circuit that constructs a TIL graph and computes a set of TIL graph statistical features, and a classification circuit that computes a probability that the region will experience NSCLC recurrence. The classification circuit may compute a quantitative continuous image-based risk score based on the probability or the image. A treatment plan may be provided based on the risk score.
US10078894B2	Method and apparatus for restoring image Disclosed is a method and apparatus for restoring an image. The method and apparatus may detect boundary information associated with a boundary in an image, generate a reproducing kernel used to restore a hole in the image based on the detected boundary information, estimate hole information using the generated reproducing kernel, and restore the hole based on the estimated hole information.
US10078888B2	Through-focus image combination Aspects of the disclosure are directed toward systems and methods for combining aspects of a plurality of indexed images taken at different focus distances in order to generate a final image having objects at a variety of depths remain in focus. High frequency frames associated with each of the plurality of images can be generated, each high frequency frame being representative of the high frequency content of the associated image. The high frequency content in a plurality of regions in each of the plurality of high frequency frames can be analyzed to determine which regions include valid high frequency content. A final image can be generated comprising, for each of the plurality of regions, image data from the image having like index as the high frequency frame having the greatest valid high frequency content in that region.
US10078883B2	Writing graphics data from local memory to system memory This disclosure is directed to graphics data storage. A graphics processing unit (GPU) may determine pixels of a tile for which the GPU generated graphics data during the rendering of the tile. The GPU may store the generated graphics data in a local memory, and use the information of the pixels of the tile for which the GPU generated graphics data to limit the amount of graphics data stored in the local memory that the GPU is to write to an external memory.
US10078882B2	Priority-based command execution A method of processing commands is provided. The method includes holding commands in queues and executing the commands in an order based on their respective priority. Commands having the same priority are held in the same queue.
US10078878B2	Methods and arrangements for identifying objects In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery of such packaging can be analyzed to detect digital watermarking. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving imagery representing two packaged item from a digital camera, each of the packaged items including digital watermarking encoded in packaging on the items; each of the packaged items including digital watermarking encoded in packaging on the items; using one or more programmed electronic processors, analyzing the imagery to detect the digital watermarking; accessing a spatial template associated with the digital watermarking when two or more instances of digital watermarking are detected in a single image frame; comparing spatial areas containing the two or more instances of digital watermarking within the imagery to the spatial template; carrying out an action based on the comparing. Of course, other claims, methods, apparatus and systems are described in this patent document.
US10078877B2	Method and system for efficiently embedding a watermark in a digital image for mobile applications The invention provides a method and system for embedding a watermark in a digital image and recovering the watermark from the digital image. The method includes representing the plurality of binary bits in the watermark using a plurality of symbols, wherein each symbol of the plurality of symbols represents at least two binary bits. The plurality of symbols are then transformed into a plurality of pseudo noise (PN) sequences, wherein a symbol transformed into a PN sequence represents one or more PN sequence vectors from a set of PN sequence vectors. Once the transformation is done, the plurality of PN sequences are embedded in the digital image to generate a watermarked image. During recovery, the watermark is recovered from the watermarked image by identifying the plurality of PN sequences in the watermarked image for recovering the corresponding plurality of symbols associated with the watermark.
US10078861B1	Methods and apparatus for a centralized customer order processing system with automatic detection of customer arrival Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing a centralized customer order processing system. A customer order entry may be received by a central server. The customer order entry may be routed to a local store server at an identified store location. Upon arrival at the identified store location, a mobile device of the customer may detect a proximity signal located at the identified store location, and a mobile application may be invoked on the mobile device. An order activation signal may be transmitted to a server, the order activation signal indicating customer arrival at the identified store location. The customer order entry may be activated at the local store server. The customer may arrive at the identified store location and pick up their order. Methods and apparatus are also disclosed for implementing the centralized customer order processing system on a mobile device.
US10078860B1	Method, medium, and system for managing orders based on expiration date Past order history of a user of an electronic marketplace may be obtained, the past order history indicating at least one-previously delivered item. A particular item of the item type may be selected based at least part on an expiration date associated with the particular item and one or more replenishment dates associated with the previously-delivered item. An automated order may be generate that cases the selected item to be shipped to the user.
US10078844B1	Method and system for combining offline and online identities with associated purchasing intention indicators in view of a geographic location A system and method for generating purchasing interest values in relation to purchasing a product or service, by category, brand, make, or model. The method includes associating a user identity with recordations of activity in requesting information from assets accessible by addressing universal resource locators, such as applying a web browser to render web pages addressable by registered domain names of the World Wide Web; additional information such as purchasing history, residence address and income level; and estimations of proximity and ease of travel between a geographic location associated with the user identity and a point of sales or services of a product or service type, category, brand, make, or model. The product or service may be related to or comprise an automobile. A map is rendered that separately associates geographic locations with individual user identities. Marketing communications are sent to electronic and/or postal addresses associated with user identities.
US10078843B2	Systems and methods for analyzing consumer sentiment with social perspective insight The present invention relates to systems and methods for cloud based consumer sentiment analysis with social insights. Data is integrated from a plurality of data sources, including a structured data source, an unstructured data source, a social data source, and a syndicated data source. Key attributes are selected from the integrated data, and may be name value pair requests. From these key attributes, consumer segments, sentiments and attribute correlations may be generated. The segments are generated from the social data. The correlation is generated using clustering algorithms. In some embodiments, generating sentiment and generating correlations dynamically utilizes models according to attributes of the integrated data. Polarity, emotion and topicality may be calculated for the generation of visualizations.
US10078839B1	Centralized system for data retrieval This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for storing transaction data at a central service, and techniques for querying information associated with the data from the central service when authorizing payment instruments for transactions. For instance, a central service may receive historical transaction data from multiple payment services that authorize payment instruments for merchants, and then store the historical transaction data in one or more databases. A payment service may then receive a request to authorize a payment instrument for a transaction between a merchant and a customer. Based on receiving the request, the payment service can send the central service a message that includes a query for information associated with historical transaction data corresponding to the payment instrument. In response, the payment service can receive the information from the central service and authorize the payment instrument using the information.
US10078837B2	Systems and methods to generate a receipt for a transaction A system includes a transaction terminal that is configured to examine an authorization response for an indicator, which, when set, causes the transaction terminal to communicate with a portal to obtain content relevant to the receipt for the transaction approved by the authorization response. The content may identify the benefit of an offer applied to the transaction, which is not reflected in the authorization response. The content may direct the user to select an option regarding the delivery of the receipt. Options presented for selection include suppression of the printing of the paper receipt in favor of an electronic receipt transmitted to a communication reference of the user, printing a mini paper receipt in addition to transmitting an electronic receipt, and/or printing the full paper receipt at the transaction terminal.
US10078834B2	Method and system of contactless interfacing for smart card banking A method and system of smart card banking utilizes a contactless communication interface, such as infrared or a wireless or radio frequency interface, including, for example, a proximity interface. A contactless communication is initiated for a smart card user between a smart card application and the on-line system of a financial institution, such as a bank, the system verifies authorization for the communication, the information is communicated for the user to the on-line system. The contactless communication is initiated, and the information is communicated, for example, between a contactless interface transceiver of a personal data assistant, into which the smart card is inserted, and the contactless interface transceiver of an on-line terminal. Alternatively, the contactless communication is initiated, and the information is communicated between a contactless interface transceiver of the smart card and the contactless interface transceiver of the terminal.
US10078827B2	Item substitution fraud detection Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and devices, such as product scanners e.g., barcode scanners) enabled to detect item substitution fraud during a checkout process at facilities, such as retail outlets. One method embodiment that may be performed in part on a product scanner, includes detecting, on a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, an event occurrence associated with at least one validation process. The method may then receive an image from each of at least one camera of a plurality of cameras of the product scanner. The method further includes processing at least one of the received images according to the at least one validation process to obtain a result and providing the result to the POS terminal.
US10078822B2	Data storage and access systems Data storage and access systems enable downloading and paying for data such as audio and video data, text, software, games and other types of data. A portable data carrier has an interface for sending and receiving data, data memory for storing received content data, and payment validation memory for providing payment validation data to an external device. The carrier may also store a record of access made to the stored content, and content use rules for controlling access to the stored content. Embodiments store further access control data and supplementary data such as hot links to web sites and/or advertising data. A complementary data access terminal, data supply computer system, and data access device are also described. The combination of payment data and stored content data and use rule data helps reduce the risk of unauthorized access to data such as compressed music and video data, especially over the Internet.
US10078819B2	Presenting favorite contacts information to a user of a computing device Systems and methods to present information to a user regarding favorite contacts of the user. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons referenced in communications received by a user of a computing device; selecting, using at least one processor, a set of contacts from the plurality of person profiles based on a relevancy ranking, wherein the set of contacts is selected for display to the user on the computing device; and organizing, using the at least one processor, the set of contacts into at least two time groups, each time group associated with a different time period, wherein contacts will be displayed to the user within each time group based on a relevancy ranking for each contact within the time group.
US10078811B2	Determining node location based on context data in a wireless node network Methods and systems for determining an improved location of a node in a wireless node network based on context data are described. A network device, such as a master node or server, accesses a first type of the context data related to a proximate environment of the node being located. The first type of the context data includes signal degradation information for a second node (similar to the first node) in a similar environment to the proximate environment of the first node. Based upon this first type of context data, the network device adjusts a communication distance related to the first node, such as a transmission distance or receiver sensitivity range distance. The network device then determines the improved location of the first node based upon the adjusted communication distance that accounts for signal degradation known to affect the similar second node in the similar environment.
US10078807B2	Methods and systems for providing a discussion thread to key performance indicator information Systems and methods for providing a discussion thread to key performance indicator information displayed on a dashboard are disclosed. The system may include a renderer for rendering a dashboard displaying a key performance indicator value corresponding to at least one business value. The system may also include a comment module that is configured to: receive a comment corresponding to the displayed key performance indicator value, and generate a discussion thread including the received comment. The generated dashboard can then be rendered by the renderer in association with the displayed key performance indicator value. In some cases, the discussion thread can include a plurality of related comments.
US10078806B2	Business process model analyzer and runtime selector In a method for determining appropriate runtime environments for execution of a process model, a computer receives a process model. The process model includes a plurality of activities, wherein two activities are linked by a relationship. The computer determines that the two activities linked by a relationship match a process pattern. The computer determines one or more runtime environments for execution of the process model, wherein each of the one or more runtime environments is capable of executing the process pattern.
US10078802B2	Method and system of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in microblog A method and system of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in a microblog is provided in this invention. The method of discovering and analyzing structures of the user groups in a microblog comprises: acquiring information on behavior data of microblog users of a target group; constructing a microblog user association network based on the information on behavior data of the microblog users of the target group; acquiring at least one maximal clique from the microblog user association network; acquiring at least one core clique based on the maximal clique; and conducting behavior analysis on the user groups in the microblog based on the acquired maximal clique and/or the acquired core clique. Using the method and system of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in a microblog provided in this invention, complicated relationships among microblog users may be sufficiently identified and the speed of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in a microblog may be improved to meet the demand for large scaled data processing.
US10078801B2	System, method and software for representing decision trees A method for representing decision trees that avoids the common problem of congestion and overlapping of the nodes in the tree. This problem has traditionally limited the number of nodes and uncertainties that can be represented using decision trees. The approach provides a method and formulation for plotting the coordinates of the decision tree in a way that avoids the problem of congestion of the nodes by drawing the tree in reverse chronological order.
US10078798B2	Method of generating transformed print jobs A method of generating transformed print jobs includes inputting a page description language print job and receiving a selection of one or more transformation features and one or more transformation feature settings for each selected transformation feature. For each transformation feature selected, all dependent transformation features are identified. For each dependent transformation feature identified, all dependent feature settings are identified. All combinations of transformation features, transformation feature settings, dependent transformation features, and dependent feature settings are determined. For each combination, the inputted print job is transformed according to the transformation features, transformation feature settings, dependent transformation features, and dependent feature settings of the combination and a transformed print job is outputted.
US10078795B2	Systems and methods for non-contact tracking and analysis of physical activity using imaging Systems and methods for tracking and analysis physical activity is disclosed. In some aspects, a provided method includes receiving a time sequence of images captured while with an individual is performing the physical activity, and generating, using the time sequence of images, at least one map indicating a movement of the individual. The method also includes identifying at least one body portion using the at least one map, and computing at least one index associated with the identified body portions to characterize the physical activity of the individual. The method further includes generating a report using the at least one index.
US10078792B2	Method for automatically assessing the quality of a dispensed beverage A method automatically evaluates the quality of milk foam dispensed by a machine for dispensing milk-based beverages through the analysis of an image of the free surface of the frothed milk contained in a container, wherein the analysis uses automatic procedures for processing images for identifying and quantifying, in the processed image, a physical characteristic representative of the texture of the surface of the frothed milk and hence indicative of the quality of milk foam, the physical characteristic being the plurality of air bubbles.
US10078778B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for in vitro single-cell identification and recovery Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for automatically identifying and recovering individual cells of interest from a sample of biological matter, e.g., a biological fluid. Also described are methods of enriching a cell type of interest. These systems, methods, and apparatus allow for coordinated performance of two or more of the following, e.g., all with the same device, thereby enabling high throughput: cell enrichment, cell identification, and individual cell recovery for further analysis (e.g., sequencing) of individual recovered cells.
US10078772B2	Scanning system for scanning objects in radioactive environment A system for manufacturing radionuclide generators includes an enclosure defining a radioactive environment. The enclosure includes radiation shielding to prevent radiation within the radioactive environment from moving to an exterior of the enclosure. The system also includes a barcode positioned on an object within the enclosure and a scanning system for scanning the barcode. The scanning system includes a camera on the exterior of the enclosure, a mirror, and a conduit extending through a wall of the enclosure for light to travel between the camera and the mirror.
US10078769B2	Method for controlling peripherals, associated peripheral driver(s) and computer program Method for controlling peripheral(s) (13) in a system comprising a server (6), user terminals (2), a peripheral driver (11) connected to a peripheral device (13), and a telecommunications network (7) connecting the server and the driver,which comprises the transmission, via the telecommunications network, of a message to the server by a user terminal or by the server to the user terminal, comprising the following steps interception of said message by said driver; control of an operation of a peripheral device by said driver, in accordance with said intercepted message; modification of said intercepted message by said driver, in accordance with the controlled operation; and transmission of said modified message to the server or to the user terminal by said driver.
US10078766B2	Labeling and authenticating using a microtag An identifier made using a silicon film fragment. The silicon film has a varying optical index of refraction. The varying optical index of refraction reflects one or more spectral peaks when illuminated with light. The one or more spectral peaks includes a reference peak. The silicon film is fragmented to generate the silicon film fragment.
US10078764B2	Tamper responsive sensor There is provided a tamper responsive sensor comprising a carrier printed circuit board, carrier PCB, holding a mesh of one or more electrically conductive tracks. The sensor also holds a pressure or force sensitive switch contact arranged on top of the carrier PCB, which contact has first and second electrical contact connections. Furthermore, the sensor has a tamper detecting circuitry arranged at the carrier PCB, which circuitry is powered via two electrical power lines, and which circuitry is connected to one or more electrically conductive signal lines. One of the power lines or one of the signal lines is electrically connected to the tamper detecting circuitry via a first tamper line holding the switch contact, and one of the power lines or one of the signal lines is electrically connected to the tamper detecting circuitry via a second tamper line holding a conductive track of the carrier PCB mesh, thereby enabling the tamper detecting circuit to detect an interruption of the signal path through the first tamper line and/or an interruption of the of signal path through the second tamper line.
US10078763B2	Programmable unit for metadata processing A system and method for metadata processing that can be used to encode an arbitrary number of security policies for code running on a stored-program processor. This disclosure adds metadata to every word in the system and adds a metadata processing unit that works in parallel with data flow to enforce an arbitrary set of policies, such that metadata is unbounded and software programmable to be applicable to a wide range of metadata processing policies. This instant disclosure is applicable to a wide range of uses including safety, security, and synchronization.
US10078757B2	File sharing system and method A file sharing system and method for sharing media files facilitates sharing of media without permitting the media to be downloaded, or stored on web servers. The file sharing system may further enable lists of files to be shared and responses to be delivered to the media owner during playback by a user. A communication function exists within the system to enable users to communicate with other users within the system. Sharing of digital content may be accepted or rejected by users of the system, and a local device may be utilized to enable the storing and sharing of media that is hosted off the cloud. Streaming from the file sharing system or the local device is facilitated through the system.
US10078753B2	Advanced threat protection cross-product security controller A system for securing electronic devices includes a processor, non-transitory machine readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, and a security controller. The security controller includes computer-executable instructions on the medium that are readable by the processor. The security controller is configured to determine a suspicious file from a client using security applications, identify whether the suspicious file has been encountered by other clients using the security applications, calculate a time range for which the suspicious file has been present on the clients, determine resources accessed by the suspicious file during the time range, and create a visualization of the suspicious file, a relationship between the suspicious file and the clients, the time range, and the resources accessed by the suspicious file during the time range.
US10078748B2	Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices A computing device can perform operations to unlock encrypted volumes of the computing device while the computing device is in a recovery environment. In some examples, the computing device can work in conjunction with a test computing device to unlock the encrypted volumes using an unlock token and a PIN. In other examples, the computing device can perform operations without a test computing device. For example, the computing device can, while in the recovery environment, use credentials associated with a user of the computing device to obtain a recovery password to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. In some examples, the computing device can use a shortened recovery password in conjunction with anti-hammering capabilities of a Trusted Platform Module in order to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. These and other operations can facilitate secure unlock of volumes of encrypted data on a consumer device.
US10078742B2	Mobile communications device providing heuristic security authentication features and related methods A mobile communications device includes a plurality of first input devices capable of passively collecting input data, a second input device(s) capable of collecting response data based upon a challenge, and a processor capable of determining a level of assurance (LOA) that possession of the mobile communications device has not changed based upon a statistical behavioral model and the passively received input data, and comparing the LOA with a security threshold. When the LOA is above the security threshold, the processor may be capable of performing a given mobile device operation without requiring response data from the second input device(s). When the LOA falls below the security threshold, the processor may be capable of generating the challenge, performing the given mobile device operation responsive to valid response data, and adding recent input data to the statistical behavioral model responsive to receipt of the valid response data.
US10078740B2	Method to fetch functionality across applications A method and system for fetching functionalities across various user interfaces and providing, for execution, instructions to invoke a function that is not present at a particular user interface are disclosed. The method implemented in the system can include receiving i) data identifying a first function associated with a first user interface, and ii) instructions for invoking the first function in one or more user interfaces; receiving, from a second user interface, a request for invoking the first function; selecting, using a processor, an instruction configured to invoke the first function in the second user interface; transmitting the instruction to the second user interface; and invoking, using the transmitted instruction, the first function in an application associated with the second user interface.
US10078735B2	Atomic structure optimization Electronic design automation modules simulate the behavior of structures and materials at atomic scale with parameters or a configuration that varies across iterative transformations.
US10078731B2	System and methods for displaying medical data Systems and methods for displaying medical or physiologic data are disclosed. The system can receive medical data such as a physiologic trend indicative of worsening of heart failure. The system can generate a graphical representation of the medical data in a two-dimensional or a higher-dimensional coordinate space. The graphical representation can include line segments indicating temporal variation of the medical data. The system can determine a desired range, including lower and upper bounds, for displaying the medical data using signal statistics and a correction factor, and specified number of tickmarks between the desired LB and UB. The desired lower and upper bounds can enhance visual perception of temporal variation of the medical data, and thus to facilitate data interpretation and clinical decision making. A display unit can display the graphical representation of the medical data within the desired lower and upper bounds.
US10078724B2	Methods and systems for genotyping genetic samples The invention provides methods and system for making specific base calls at specific loci using a reference sequence construct, e.g., a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that represents known variants at each locus of the genome. Because the sequence reads are aligned to the DAG during alignment, the subsequent step of comparing a mutation, vis-à-vis the reference genome, to a table of known mutations can be eliminated. The disclosed methods and systems are notably efficient in dealing with structural variations within a genome or mutations that are within a structural variation.
US10078717B1	Systems and methods for estimating performance characteristics of hardware implementations of executable models Systems and methods automatically generate optimized hardware description language code for a model created in a modeling environment. A training tool selects and provides scripts to a hardware synthesis tool chain that direct the tool chain to synthesize hardware components for core components of the modeling environment. A report generated by the tool chain is evaluated to extract performance data for the core components, and the performance data is stored in a library. An optimization tool estimates the performance of the model using the performance data in the library. Based on the performance estimate and an analysis of the model, the optimization tool selects an optimization technique which it applies to the model generating a revised. Estimating performance, and selecting and applying optimizations may be repeated until a performance constraint is satisfied or a termination criterion is met.
US10078711B2	Data driven shrinkage compensation A method and system are provided for data driven shrinkage compensation. The method includes subdividing, by a polygon subdivider, polygons in a three-dimensional file into facets. The method further includes calculating, by an axis dimension calculator, dimensions of an object from an x-directional strand disposed between two facets of a first predetermined facet pair, a y-directional strand disposed between two facets of second predetermined facet pair, and a z-directional strand disposed between two facets of a third predetermined facet pair. The object is formed from at least some of the polygons. The method also includes predicting, by a dimension change predictor, dimensional changes in the strands based on a shape shrinkage model. The method additionally includes correcting, by a dimension change compensator, x-coordinate data, y-coordinate data, and z-coordinate data of at least one facet of the predetermined facet pairs to compensate for the dimensional changes in the strands.
US10078702B1	Personalizing aggregated news content A system customizes a news document associated with a user of a news aggregation service. The system includes a remote news aggregation server configured to create a news aggregation service document based on a request received from the user. The remote news aggregation server identifies news content from a plurality of news source servers based on the received request and presents the identified news content in the news aggregation service document. The remote news aggregation server is further configured to receive a request from the user to remove a news item from the presented news content and removing the requested news item from the identified news content. Updated news content is presented in an updated news aggregation service document.
US10078699B2	Field mappings for properties to facilitate object inheritance A method includes receiving a request for a property of an object, where the property has a property type and includes a property value and a property name, and the property does not conform to a property specification for the property type. The method also includes determining a field mapping for the property of the object, where the field mapping is derived from the property specification, and accessing the property of the object. The method further includes modifying the property of the object according to the field mapping. The method also includes providing as a response to the request the property of the object as modified according to the field mapping.
US10078698B2	Identifying client states A method for identifying client states, receives a set of paths representative of a document object model (DOM) associated with a web page of a rich internet application and for each path in the set of paths received, extracts a subtree, as subtree X, for a current path. The method traverses all known sub-paths under the current path and delete corresponding subtrees from subtree X and reads contents of and determines states of subtree X to form a state X. The state X is added to a set of current states and responsive to a determination no more paths exist, returns the set of current states of the rich internet application.
US10078693B2	People searches by multisensor event correlation A data indexing system and method includes acquiring activity data in a context and indexing the activity data in accordance with contextual conditions. The activity data is stored in accordance with indices. An event is correlated with the activity data by using the indices to review the activity data in the context.
US10078682B2	Differentiated secondary index maintenance in log structured NoSQL data stores There are provided a system and a computer program product for operating multi-node data stores. The system stores a data table in a first computing node and stores an index table in a second computing node. The index table provides keys used for accessing data in the first computing node and other multi-node data stores. The system performs operations that update or read the data table accessed from the first computing node and the index table accessed from the second computing node. The operations optimizes between latency in updating or reading the data table and the index table and data consistency maintained between data entries in the data table and data entries pointed by indices in the index table.
US10078674B2	Integrated workflow and database transactions A computer-implemented method and system to integrate workflow and database transactions is provided. Also provided is a computer readable storage medium that includes a program. The computer-implemented method includes assigning a data structure stored in a database to one or more workflow processes. The computer-implemented method also includes automatically creating an instance of the workflow in response to the data structure being populated with a new record.
US10078672B2	Search device, search method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword.
US10078671B2	Data hub architecture to provide actionable data from remote sensor feeds Systems and methods are provided for data hub architecture to provide actionable data from remote sensor feeds. An exemplary method includes receiving, by a master hub of a plurality of data hubs, a request to access at least one first sensor in a first location and at least one second sensor in a second location from a data client, wherein the master hub is closest to the data client of the plurality of data hubs on a network, determining a first data hub that is closest to the at least one first sensor on the network, and determining a second data hub that is closest to the at least one second sensor on the network. The method further includes querying the first data hub and the second data hub for data and communicating the data to the data client.
US10078663B2	Dual overlay query processing An example method of processing a query at a plurality of storage devices includes receiving a dual query from a client and generating a synchronous query and an asynchronous query based on the dual query. The dual query includes a set of conditions for selecting data from a set of database tables. The method further includes sending the synchronous query to a first storage device, sending the asynchronous query to a second storage device, and receiving a result set of the synchronous query. The result set of the synchronous query includes data selected from a set of database records in a set of primary database tables, which is stored in the first storage device and is a subset of the set of database tables. The method further includes marking a database record. A marked database record indicates usage of the data selected from the database record within a time period.
US10078659B2	Semantic database driven form validation Embodiments of the present invention provide a means for validating electronic forms using one or more semantic databases. The invention includes processing an electronic form into individual elements and generating entities for the individual elements. The closest matching ontology is found for each entity and the pairings are grouped into a general formal ontology tree. The entities in the general formal ontology tree are traversed using generated rules. This analysis yields validation results that are combined with the original form to create an annotated form.
US10078658B2	Systems and methods for electronic data distribution A computer-implemented method is disclosed that comprises receiving, at a data provider computing system, a data contribution from a client device associated with a user, and based on the received data contribution, determining a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user. The method comprises performing a data validation operation to validate the data contribution. The method comprises, based on validating the data contribution, storing the data contribution in association with the user identifier. Further, the method comprises receiving a data request from a data consuming system. Based on the data request, the stored data contribution is identified and distributed to the data consuming system. Based on distribution of the data contribution to the data consuming system, a distribution value associated with the data contribution is generated. An indication of the distribution value is stored in association with the user identifier.
US10078652B2	Reducing latency in performing a task among distributed systems Among other things, at a client computer system in communication with a computer network, a request object is generated that includes logic to control the handling of requests. At least one of the requests depends on (for example, simply by being part of a sequence) a result of at least one of the other of the requests. The request object is sent to a server computer system that is in communication with the computer network. A response object is received that includes results of at least some of the requests.
US10078649B2	Pre-caching of relational database management system based on data retrieval patterns A processor tracks a frequency of access requests of a first index corresponding to a first data page of a plurality of data pages stored in a database. The processor determines the first index corresponding to the first data page having a frequency of access requests that exceeds a configurable target, and the processor retains, with preference, the first data page that corresponds to the first index, within the cache memory.
US10078631B2	Entropy-guided text prediction using combined word and character n-gram language models Systems and processes are disclosed for predicting words in a text entry environment. Candidate words and probabilities associated therewith can be determined by combining a word n-gram language model and a character m-gram language model. Based on entered text, candidate word probabilities from the word n-gram language model can be integrated with the corresponding candidate character probabilities from the character m-gram language model. A reduction in entropy can be determined from integrated candidate word probabilities before entry of the most recent character to integrated candidate word probabilities after entry of the most recent character. If the reduction in entropy exceeds a predetermined threshold, candidate words with high integrated probabilities can be displayed or otherwise made available to the user for selection. Otherwise, displaying candidate words can be deferred (e.g., pending receipt of an additional character from the user leading to reduced entropy in the candidate set).
US10078630B1	Multilingual content management Disclosed aspects relate to multilingual content management. A set of language usage data for a set of languages may be ingested from a set of mobile computing devices by a multilingual content management engine. A language profile for a group of users that indicates relative usage of the set of languages with respect to the group of users by may determined by the multilingual content management engine using the set of language usage data for the set of languages. A multilingual message may be generated based on the language profile for the group of users by the multilingual content management engine. The multilingual message may be provided to the group of users by the multilingual content management engine.
US10078627B2	Collaboration cards for communication related to a collaborated document Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.
US10078618B2	Accessing shared content using collaboration attribute partitioning Systems for managing shared content in a cloud-based service platform. A method commences upon identifying one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects. The storage devices may be partitioned into geographically distant locations. A first partition in one geography is associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition is associated with a second set of content objects. An inviter-collaborator generates a set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition. The outgoing collaboration attributes are stored on the inviter's partition. An invitee-collaborator accepts the invitation and generates a set of incoming collaboration attributes that derive from the set of outgoing collaboration attributes. The set of incoming collaboration attributes are stored on the invitee's partition. The invitations can be sent and received through operation of a web application that facilitates offering invitations and acceptance of those invitations.
US10078616B2	System, USB Type-C connector and method to transmit encoded data A system, USB Type-C connector and method are provided herein to transmit encoded data across a USB cable from a transmitter circuit included within a transmitting port of a USB Type-C connector. The method described herein may generally include detecting a voltage generated at a configuration channel (CC) pin of a transmitting port of a USB Type-C connector, setting a voltage at an output node of the transmitter circuit equal to the voltage detected at the CC pin before the output node of the transmitter circuit is connected to the CC pin, subsequently connecting the output node of the transmitter circuit to the CC pin, and transmitting the encoded data from the transmitter circuit through the CC pin to the USB cable.
US10078615B1	Ethernet controller with integrated multi-media payload de-framer and mapper A method of operation in a system is disclosed. The system includes a system processor, main memory coupled to the system processor, and a serial input/output (IO) interface coupled to the processor. The method includes de-framing multi-media packet data with a local area network peripheral device such as Ethernet, the multi-media packet data having a timing reference. The packet data is mapped to the main memory with the Ethernet peripheral device. The multi-media packet data is then transferred to the main memory as multi-media data, and stored in storage locations of the main memory in accordance with the mapping. The mapping information is accessed from device Host operating system with a second peripheral device via the serial I/O interface. The second peripheral device directly accesses the main memory storage locations. Significant power savings is realized for the CPU.
US10078612B2	Mode selective balanced encoded interconnect An apparatus is described herein. The apparatus includes a plurality of conductors, wherein at least one conductor is a common-mode conductor. The apparatus also includes an encoder to encode data to be transmitted on the plurality of conductors, wherein a data speed of the common-mode conductor is limited and a data speed of other conductors is maximized according to an encoding matrix.
US10078611B1	Smart handling of input/output interrupts Aspects include computing devices and methods implemented by computing devices for smart of handling input/output interrupts associated with device setting levels. Various aspects may include receiving a hardware input/output interrupt from a hardware interface, updating an adjusted feature setting level, determining whether the adjusted feature setting level equals a feature setting level limit, and changing an interrupt service routine address stored at a first location of a hardware input/output register corresponding with an interrupt service routine associated with the hardware input/output interrupt to a first data in response to determining that the adjusted feature setting level of the computing device equals the adjusted feature setting level limit.
US10078608B2	USB-C multiple connector support for host and device mode configurations Various techniques for enabling the control and monitoring of a USB device mode controller to a USB-C connector, for the performance of a USB device mode data connection, are disclosed herein. In an example, a computing system that includes multiple USB-C connectors but a single USB device mode controller may manage the mapping of the controller to a particular connector, through operations that identify the mapping and the characteristics of the connector, process a request to change the mapping of the device mode controller, and perform the change to the mapping of the device mode controller. Such a change may include a disconnection or reassignment of a particular USB-C connector to the controller. Further examples to determine the availability of a USB device mode controller, and respond to a scenario where the USB device mode controller is not available, are also disclosed.
US10078600B2	Apparatus and method for vector-based signal routing An apparatus includes a memory, and a control circuit. The memory stores a vector that identifies a signal that is to be provided by an input/output (I/O) interface to a peripheral and indicates a time value. The control circuit is adapted to process the vector and route the identified signal to the peripheral and regulate a time that the signal is routed to the peripheral based on the time value.
US10078595B2	Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache destage rates and thresholds for storage write cache A method and controller for implementing storage adapter enhanced write cache management, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. The controller includes a hardware write cache engine implementing hardware acceleration for storage write cache management. The hardware write cache engine monitors cache levels used for managing cache destage rates and thresholds for destages from storage write cache substantially without using firmware for greatly enhancing performance.
US10078590B2	Technique to share information among different cache coherency domains A technique to enable information sharing among agents within different cache coherency domains. In one embodiment, a graphics device may use one or more caches used by one or more processing cores to store or read information, which may be accessed by one or more processing cores in a manner that does not affect programming and coherency rules pertaining to the graphics device.
US10078582B2	Non-volatile memory system having an increased effective number of supported heat levels A method, according to one embodiment, includes assigning data having a first heat to a first data stream, assigning data having a second heat to a second data stream, and writing the data streams in parallel to page-stripes having a same index across a series of planes of memory. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US10078579B1	Metrics-based analysis for testing a service Techniques are described for determining test cases to test a service, such as a service to manage a purchase contract in an e-commerce environment. Log data may be generated during execution of the service to process requests, the log data indicating a plurality of code segments that executed during the execution of the service. The log data may be analyzed to generate metrics data comprising a plurality of records corresponding to the processed requests. A record may include any number of counters that each indicates whether, or how many times, a particular code segment executed during processing of a request. The metrics data may be analyzed to identify a subset of records comprising representative combinations of the counters in the metrics data. The requests corresponding to one or more of the subset of records may be replayed to test the service.
US10078576B2	Remotely debugging an operating system Remotely debugging a non-responsive operating system (OS) of a computer system. Central processing units (CPUs) in a computer system are bound to receive queues of a network adapter. Interrupts for a CPU is disabled, wherein the CPU is not available to process hardware interrupt requests queued in the bound receive queues. A debugging message including debugging commands is received by the network adapter, wherein the debugging message is stored in a first receive queue of the network adapter bound to a first CPU. If the first CPU is available, the debugging commands in the debugging message stored in the first of the one or more receive queues of the network adapter are identified by a debugger of the computer system. The identified debugging commands are executed by the CPU to debug the non-responsive OS of the computer system.
US10078558B2	Database system control method and database system This database system includes a first site that provides a database and a second site that stores a copy of said database. A first computer for the first site performs database processing and updates the data in the database. A first original storage for the first site transmits data to a second original storage for the second site asynchronously with respect to a database management unit, and a first duplicate storage for the first site transmits data to a second duplicate storage for the second site asynchronously with respect to the database management unit. A second computer for the second site compares the data in the second original storage with the data in the second duplicate with prescribed timing and restores the database if the data in the second original storage and the data in the second duplicate storage do not match.
US10078556B2	Data replication between databases with heterogenious data platforms A system and method for data replication for databases using an intermediary server, the intermediary server choosing the order in which databases are replicated, the utilities used for each of the steps in the data replication process, the timing of the replication, and/or the timing each step of the data replication process is performed.
US10078555B1	Synthetic full backups for incremental file backups First and second virtual hard disk files are accessed. The first virtual hard disk file corresponds to a backup of a file and includes a first set of payload blocks to store data associated with the backup. The second virtual hard disk file corresponds to an incremental backup of the file and includes a second set of payload blocks to store data associated with the incremental backup. Data from a payload block of the first set of payload blocks is merged with data from a payload block of a corresponding payload block of the second set of payload blocks to form a merged payload block. The merged payload block is streamed for storage as a synthetic full backup of the first and second virtual hard disk files. The merging does not alter the first and second virtual hard disk files.
US10078550B2	Memory system, error correction device, and error correction method According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory and a computation unit. Into the memory, data are written. The memory stores therein multiple check matrices. Each of the check matrices is associated with the number of errors in the written data. The computation unit is configured to perform a first error correction on the written data by selectively using, from among the check matrices, a check matrix associated with the number of errors recognized in the written data.
US10078544B2	Apparatus and method for an on-chip reliability controller An apparatus and method are described for an on-chip reliability controller. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a set of one or more cores to execute instructions and process data; a reliability controller to perform one or more self-test/diagnostic operations, the reliability controller to aggregate reliability data resulting from the self-test/diagnostic operations; a reliability estimator integral to the reliability controller to use the aggregated reliability data to perform a probability analysis to determine reliability estimates for one or more components of the processor; and a control unit integral to the reliability controller to adjust one or more variables and/or circuitry related to operation of the processor responsive to the reliability estimates.
US10078541B2	Validate written data Data and a first error detection code related to the data is received. That the received data is written correctly to a memory is validated based on the first error detection code and/or a comparison of the written data to the received data. An alert is generated if it is determined that the written data is incorrect.
US10078538B2	Web application integration with dialogue based scripts Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to scripting integration in a Web application environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for Web application integration with dialog based scripts. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for integrating a Web application with dialog-based script input can be provided. The method can include receiving a script input request from an executing script; formatting the script input request from the executing script into a Web form for a Web page and providing the Web page to a content browser; receiving form input in the Web form in the Web page from the content browser and transforming the form input into script input for the executing script; and, providing the script input to the executing script.
US10078537B1	Analytics platform and associated controller for automated deployment of analytics workspaces An apparatus in one embodiment comprises an analytics platform and a controller. The controller is associated with the analytics platform and configured to control automated deployment of analytics workspaces of the analytics platform. The analytics platform includes or otherwise has access to sets of at least data ingestion engines, data containers, analytics tools and virtual resources. The controller is configured to deploy a given one of the analytics workspaces of the analytics platform as an at least partially user-specified combination of particular selected ones of the data ingestion engines, data containers, analytics tools and virtual resources. The controller may additionally be configured to monitor usage of the combination of particular selected ones of the data ingestion engines, data containers, analytics tools and virtual resources of the given analytics workspace, and to alter the combination responsive to the monitoring.
US10078533B2	Coordinated admission control for network-accessible block storage The estimated rate of work requests expected during a time period at a first block storage device, implemented at a particular server of a storage service, exceeds a provisioned rate of the first device. At a client-side component of the storage service, a different storage server is identified, at which the rate of work requests directed during the time period to a second block storage device is anticipated to be less than the provisioned rate of the second device. At least one admission control parameter of the first device is modified to enable the first storage server to accept work requests at a rate that exceeds the provisioned rate of the first device.
US10078527B2	Securing a managed forwarding element that operates within a data compute node Some embodiments provide a method for securing a managed forwarding element (MFE) that operates in a data compute node (DCN) executing in a host machine. The method receives a notification that the MFE is loaded on the DCN. The MFE is for implementing a set of logical forwarding elements of a logical network that logically connects the DCN to several other DCNs. The method secures the MFE by isolating, in a physical memory of the host machine, executable code and data of the MFE from executable code and data of other applications that execute in the DCN.
US10078519B2	Apparatus and method for accelerating operations in a processor which uses shared virtual memory An apparatus and method are described for coupling a front end core to an accelerator component (e.g., such as a graphics accelerator). For example, an apparatus is described comprising: an accelerator comprising one or more execution units (EUs) to execute a specified set of instructions; and a front end core comprising a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) communicatively coupled to the accelerator and providing memory access services to the accelerator, the memory access services including performing TLB lookup operations to map virtual to physical addresses on behalf of the accelerator and in response to the accelerator requiring access to a system memory.
US10078514B2	Techniques for dynamic sequential instruction prefetching A technique for operating a processor includes allocating an entry in a prefetch filter queue (PFQ) for a cache line address (CLA) in response to the CLA missing in an upper level instruction cache. In response to the CLA subsequently hitting in the upper level instruction cache, an associated prefetch value for the entry in the PFQ is updated. In response to the entry being aged-out of the PFQ, an entry in a backing array for the CLA and the associated prefetch value is allocated. In response to subsequently determining that prefetching is required for the CLA, the backing array is accessed to determine the associated prefetch value for the CLA. A cache line at the CLA and a number of sequential cache lines specified by the associated prefetch value in the backing array are then prefetched into the upper level instruction cache.
US10078511B2	Generating and managing applications using any number of different platforms At least one application is received from a user. The at least one application is stored on a communication platform. A catalog is received. The catalog includes at least one service. Each service of the at least one service is associated with a platform. An indication of a selection, from the user, is received. The selection comprises a first service associated with a first platform, and a second service associated with a second platform. The first service stores the at least one application from the user. The second service runs the at least one application from the user. Responsive to receiving the indication, the at least one application is deployed to the indicated first platform. Additionally, responsive to receiving the indication, a service bridge from the communication platform to the second platform is deployed. The at least one application is run, on the first platform utilizing the service bridge.
US10078501B2	Domain specific language modeling framework in a development environment A computing system comprises, in one example, a user interface component and a domain specific language (DSL) type generation system configured to control the user interface component to display type generation user input mechanisms, detect user actuation of the type generation user input mechanisms, and, in response to the detected user actuation, generate a set of DSL types and relations between types in the set, and wherein the domain specific language type generation system is configured to output the set of DSL types and relations for use in a use environment.
US10078497B2	Bridging a module system and a non-module system A bridge module is generated to bridge standard modules in a module system and non-module code in a non-module system. The bridge module includes explicit dependencies associated with a namespace, such as a dependency path corresponding to the non-module code. The bridge module exposes packages of the non-module code at least to the standard modules. Operations are performed on a code base that uses standard modules, bridge modules, and non-module code.
US10078489B2	Voice interface to a social networking service A machine may be configured to generate and provide, for example, a voice-user interface to a social networking service. The voice-user interface may enable a member of the social networking service to access member profile information for other members of the social networking service. Using the voice-user interface, a first member of the social networking service can speak a natural language command or request to receive an aural response that includes information regarding a second member of the social networking service. In this manner, the first member can request and receive specific member profile information of a second member. In another aspect, the first member can record audio notes to be assigned to his or her own member profile or assigned to a member profile of the second member. The first member may subsequently use the voice-user interface to have such audio notes played back when desired.
US10078488B2	Structures and methods for controlling the playback of music track files A mix instructions file for controlling the playback of at least one music track file, the mix instructions file comprising one or more instructions including an indication of the at least one music track file at the point in time when the at least one music track file is to be accessed, and at least one effect for manipulating the playback of the at least one music track file. The indication of the at least one music track file and the at least one function comprise the state of the music mix at the point in time. The mix instructions file comprising at least a first and a second packet, that may be transmitted independently of each other, the second packet holding information about the playback state of the mix at the corresponding end of the first packet.
US10078485B2	Display apparatus and display system According to an embodiment, a display block is a display apparatus including a plurality of surfaces. The display block includes a display device, a plurality of transmitting/receiving sections that perform communication within a predetermined distance, and a control section. The display device is provided on at least one surface of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of transmitting/receiving sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces. The control section performs control of the plurality of transmitting/receiving sections and the display device.
US10078481B2	Secondary display mechanism A computing device is described. The computing device a processor, a bus coupled to the processor, a graphics display device, coupled to the bus, to display graphics data, an interactive display device, coupled to the bus, to display bitmap image data and a manager module to manage the bitmap image data and transmit the bitmap image data to the interactive display device.
US10078476B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a display section, an operation acceptance section, a printing section, an external terminal, a display control section, a readout control section, an interpreter section, and a control section. The readout control section reads metadata on a print job from a USB memory connected to the external terminal. The display control section uses a result of analysis of the metadata in the interpreter section to allow the display section to display a display prompting a user to specify a print target area in document data generated as the print job. The readout control section uses the result of analysis to read from the USB memory a portion of data corresponding to the specified print target area. The control section allows the printing section to perform print processing based on the read portion of data corresponding to the print target area.
US10078469B1	Preparing for cache upgrade in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of write buffer devices Migrating data in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of write buffer devices, including: detecting, by the storage array, an occurrence of a write buffer device evacuation event associated with one or more source write buffer devices; responsive to detecting the occurrence of the write buffer device evacuation event, determining, by the storage array, whether the storage array includes at least a predetermined amount of write buffer resources in addition to the one or more source write buffer devices; and responsive to determining that the storage array includes at least a predetermined amount of write buffer resources in addition to the one or more source write buffer devices, reducing, by the storage array, write access to the one or more source write buffer devices.
US10078465B1	Systems and methods for policy driven storage in a hyper-convergence data center Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system architecture for a policy driven disk IO throughput control for a hyper-converged storage provider. The computing architecture provides a flexible and real-time feature to the IO throughput management of a hyper-converged or converged infrastructure. In particular, through the use of centrally applied policy driven controls, the disk IO throughput allocation of different applications/clients of the converged infrastructure is gauged or otherwise controlled over the network bandwidth that link to the storage pool of the infrastructure. Through the use of the system architecture, the converged infrastructure may not utilize hard-coded disk resource allocation for each application/client in an isolated fashion, thereby allowing the IO throughput management to be flexible and agile in response to executed applications. Further, the IP throughput controlling and storage IP capacity of the converged infrastructure may be maintained separately.
US10078462B2	Methods and systems for providing hardware security functions using flash memories Methods and system for providing a security function, such as random number generation, fingerprinting and data hiding, using a Flash memory. The methods and systems do not require carefully design specific circuits, can be implemented in all flash memory device. The fingerprinting methods and systems do not require a long time to generate a read and the data hiding is decoupled from Flash memory content.
US10078461B1	Partial data replay in a distributed memory buffer system A host divides a dataset into stripes and sends the stripes to respective data chips of a distributed memory buffer system, where the data chips buffer the respective slices. Each data chip can buffer stripes from multiple datasets. Through the use of: (i) error detection methods; (ii) tagging the stripes for identification; and (iii) acknowledgement responses from the data chips, the host keeps track of the status of each slice at the data chips. If errors are detected for a given stripe, the host resends the stripe in the next store cycle, concurrently with stripes for the next dataset. Once all stripes have been received error-free across all the data chips, the host issues a store command which triggers the data chips to move the respective stripes from buffer to memory.
US10078459B1	Ransomware detection using I/O patterns A computer program product, system, and method for generating coded fragments comprises initializing historical I/O activity data structures and recent I/O activity data structures associated with a logical unit (LU) of storage; receiving an I/O request from a host, the I/O request associated with one or more chunks within the LU; adding metadata about the I/O request to the recent I/O activity data structures; generating a ransomware probability by comparing the recent I/O activity data structures to the historical I/O activity data structures; and if the ransomware probability exceeds a first threshold value, taking one or more first actions to mitigate the effects of ransomware within the host.
US10078451B1	Deduplicating data based on boundary identification Among other things, we describe a technique used in data deduplication that includes receiving a single data file designated to be written to a file storage system configured to store data in the form of blocks. The technique also includes identifying boundaries between portions of data within the single data file, and providing an indication to the file storage system to allocate blocks to the single data file based on the identified boundaries. Each block is allocated to, at most, one of the portions of data. The technique could also be used with objects instead of files.
US10078443B2	Control system for virtual mouse and control method thereof A control method for virtual mouse is provided. The control method is run on an electronic device. The control method includes a plurality of steps. Control a touch unit of the electronic device to display a user interface, a virtual mouse and a cursor on the user interface. Recognize a slide gesture dragging the virtual mouse. Compare the slide gesture with a plurality of predefined gestures stored in a storage unit of the electronic device. Obtain a control order corresponding to one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the slide gesture is the same as the one of the plurality of predefined gestures. Control the cursor to move a motion vector according to the control order. Recognize a click gesture clicking the virtual mouse. Control the electronic device to activate an application program or enter into a link of a text or a picture.
US10078436B2	User interface adjusting method and apparatus using the same The disclosure provides a method for adjusting a user interface (UI) of an electronic apparatus. The method includes following steps: analyzing color information of an image; generating a first palette having at least one first pilot color based on the color information of the image; and performing a color scheme in at least one page of the user interface according to the first palette having the at least one first pilot color.
US10078435B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for interacting with electronically displayed presentation materials Systems, methods, and computer program products for interacting with electronically displayed presentation materials are described. A display system includes, at least, a digital processor, an electronic display, and a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium into which is loaded a computer program product that includes, at least, processor-executable instructions and/or data. The processor-executable instructions and/or data, when executed by the processor, cause the display system to respond to user inputs indicative of pointer commands and magnification setting commands. In response to such commands, the display system causes; i) a dynamic cursor to display over top of content on the electronic display; and ii) a digital copy image of the content to be displayed over top of the content on the electronic display, the digital copy image displayed at a greater magnification level than the content.
US10078429B2	Method for disguising a computer system's login interface A method for securing a computer system comprising a step of: disguising a password entry screen.
US10078426B2	Electronic apparatus, method for executing application, and computer-readable recording medium A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a display, a memory to store a first set of applications and a second set of applications, the first set of applications and the second set of applications to be executed in a first operation mode and a second operation mode of a same operating system, respectively, and a processor. The processor is adapted to display a background screen and a first icon via the display, at least temporarily, while the portable electronic device is operated in the first operation mode, identify a first input received with respect to the first icon, display one or more rectangular indications on a first portion of the background screen based at least in part on the first input, each of the one or more rectangular indications indicative of an application of one or more of the second set of applications, identify a dragging input received with respect to a rectangular indication selected from the one or more rectangular indications, display a second icon corresponding to a respective application of the one or more of the second set of applications indicated by the selected rectangular indication on a second portion of the background screen where the dragging input is released, and execute the respective application based at least in part on a second input received with respect to the second icon.
US10078415B2	Systems and methods for enhancing user interaction with displayed information A method of enhancing user interaction with content displayed on a display of a touch screen device is provided. The method includes displaying at least one enhanced cursor within a viewable area of the display, the at least one enhanced cursor having a predefined action associated therewith, and receiving a selection of the at least one enhanced cursor. The method also includes detecting movement of the selected at least one enhance cursor onto displayed content, and executing the predefined action on the content. The method may further include detecting a subject matter of content being displayed on a display of a device coupled to the processor. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for execution by a processor that cause the processor to perform the provided method may also be provided.
US10078410B1	System to locomote an entity in three dimensional space The disclosure includes embodiments directed to a system for controlling the operation of the character that can recognize and process touch inputs at any location on the touchscreen. The system can track the movement of a touch input and generate a game command, such as movement of a character, based on the received touch input. The game command can be stored in a movement buffer. If the position of the touch input changes, the system can update the game command based on the movement of the touch input. If the movement of the touch input exceeds a directional threshold, the system can clear the movement buffer and initiate a new game command based on the touch input. This allows for new game commands to correspond to quick changes in direction provided by the user.
US10078405B2	Displays with gate driver circuitry for discharging display pixels A touch screen display may include gate line driver circuitry coupled to a display pixel array. The gate driver circuitry may include gate drivers connected in a chain. A given one of the gate drivers may include a set-reset latch. The set-reset latch may have a set input and a reset input. A logic gating circuit such as a logic NOR gate may have an output directly connected to the set input. The NOR gate may have a first input coupled to an output of a preceding gate driver in the chain and a second input coupled to an output of a succeeding gate driver. The reset input may be coupled to the output of the preceding gate driver. Gate line output signals may be simultaneously asserted for each of the drivers without generating unstable scenarios where logic high signals are provided to the set and reset inputs.
US10078400B2	Touch sensor panel and method correcting palm input The present invention calculates a first detected position influenced by the palm and an accurate second detected position from which the influence of the palm is eliminated immediately after a touch-on is judged, and calculates a correction value based on the first detected position and the second detected position. In a period from the point at which the touch-on is judged to the point at which a touch-off is judged, the first detected position influenced by the palm is calculated once successively, and the first detected position is corrected by the correction value to calculate a third detected position to improve the position accuracy at the time of the drag operation thereby.
US10078398B2	Display substrate, display device and remote control system A display substrate, a display device and a remote control system are provided in order to solve a problem that the existing touch technology is not capable of touching and controlling accurately any region in the display device distant from a user. The display substrate comprises a base substrate, color filters located on the base substrate and at least one optical recognition structure which is located at least partially in non-display regions of the display substrate and is configured to sense an irradiation of a predefined light beam to generate a voltage signal and transmit the voltage signal to an external circuit through a signal line connected to the optical recognition structure.
US10078395B2	Differential sensing in touch screen controller with improved noise rejection Disclosed herein is an electronic device including a display layer generating display noise based on scanning thereof and a sensing layer including a plurality of sense lines. The display noise is capacitively coupled from the display layer to each of the plurality of sense lines of the sensing layer. A differential charge converter circuit has first and second differential inputs respectively coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of sense lines, and first and second reference inputs. The first and second reference inputs of the differential charge converter circuit are coupled to voltage references during a reset period, and are decoupled from the voltage references during a scan period.
US10078377B2	Six DOF mixed reality input by fusing inertial handheld controller with hand tracking Systems and methods are described that provide a wireless hand-held inertial controller for use with a head-mounted, augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) display or other conventional display that operates with six degrees of freedom by fusing (i) data related to the position of the hand-held inertial controller derived from a depth camera located on the display with (ii) data relating to the orientation of the hand-held inertial controller derived from an inertial measurement unit located in the hand-held inertial controller.
US10078372B2	Performing an action associated with a motion based input A method implemented by a computing device having a memory and a motion sensor detection sensor is disclosed. The memory stores an input model associated with a gesture input. The method includes detecting a motion of the computing device; matching the detected motion with the input model; and determining a confidence level associated with the match. If the confidence level is above a pre-determined threshold, an action associated with the gesture input is performed automatically by the processor; and if the confidence level is below the pre-determined threshold, the action is performed by the processor responsive to receiving a positive confirmation of the gesture input.
US10078370B2	Devices and methods for modifying haptic effects Devices and methods for modifying haptic effects are provided. The devices may include computer systems and haptic enabled devices. A haptic output command configured to produce desired haptic effects may be determined. Fatigue levels may be determined according to haptic effect density of performed haptic effects and inputs received from control devices. According to fatigue levels, modified haptic effects may be determined to replace the desired haptic effects and corresponding haptic output commands may be generated and output to haptic output devices.
US10078366B2	Head-mountable apparatus and system A head mountable display (HMD) is provided that has a head motion detection function and one or more operations that depend upon detected head motion. Detected head motion is stored as motion data in memory. The way in which detected head motion is applied to a current operation depends upon the stored motion data. In one embodiment, the HMD includes a gaze detector configured to detect eye orientation of a user of the user so as to detect image regions at which the user is looking, and a detector configured to detect item data indicative of items represented by the detected image regions.
US10078362B2	Power delivery information over data interface It is inter alia disclosed to transmit a signal between a communication pin (112) of a first data interface (110) of the apparatus (103) and a second data interface (120) of the apparatus, wherein the signal at least provides information related to a power transmission between a power supply pin (111) of the first data interface (110) and a power supply pin (121) of the second data interface (120), wherein the first data interface (110) is configured for a connection with a first apparatus (101) and the second data interface (120) is configured for a connection with a second apparatus (102).
US10078357B2	Power gating functional units of a processor In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a core including functional units each to execute instructions of a target instruction set architecture (ISA) and a power controller to control a power mode of a first functional unit responsive to a power identification field of a power instruction of a power region of a code block to be executed on the core. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10078351B1	Electronic device having automatic elevating assembly In an electronic device, a lift structure, composed by electromagnets, magnetic components, and support piece, is disposed at a rear end of an electronic part and a housing. The magnetic components can be permanent magnets and disposed at the rear end of the electronic part and the support piece. The electromagnets are controlled by driving device to a configuration so as to have repulsion and attraction to the rear end and to the support piece respectively, thereby configuring the rear end to a lifted position, or to another configuration so as to have attraction and repulsion to the rear end and to the support piece respectively, thereby configuring the rear end to a retracted position. An adjusting component is further used to adjust the position of the electromagnet to determine the height of the rear end of the electronic part when set in the lifted position.
US10078347B2	Information handling system folded display assembly A portable information handling system display has an OLED film disposed over front and rear faces of a substrate, such as a carbon fiber material. A protective cover is disposed over the OLED film with a folded portion along an end of the substrate, the protective cover hardened at the front and rear faces and left unhardened along the folded portion. In one example embodiment, a transparent bezel is placed over the folded portion with the OLED film presenting system information through the bezel, such as battery state, etc.
US10078333B1	Efficient mapping of robot environment Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for efficient mapping of a robot environment. In various implementations, a group of data points may be sensed by a three-dimensional sensor. One or more voxels of a three-dimensional voxel model that are occupied by the group of data points may be identified. For each occupied voxel, a column of the three-dimensional voxel model that contains the occupied voxel may be identified. Occupied voxels contained in each column may be indexed by elevation. In various implementations, one or more sparse linked data structures may be used to represent the columns.
US10078326B2	Apparatus and method for event detection to support mobile notifications related to industrial process control and automation system A method includes obtaining information associated with multiple events in an industrial process control and automation system, where the information is obtained from one or more sources of data related to the industrial process control and automation system. The method also includes outputting the information to a notification system configured to generate multiple notifications for mobile end-user devices using the retrieved information. Obtaining the information associated with the multiple events includes using one or more queries to obtain at least part of the information from at least one of the one or more sources. The one or more queries support detection of events from the at least one source that is not configured or able to provide event information to the notification system.
US10078321B2	Device, system and methods for automatic development and optimization of positioning paths for multi-axis numerically controlled machining Optimized positioning paths for multi-axis CNC machining can be generated based on the machine tool kinematics, machine axes travel limits, machine axis velocity and acceleration limits, and machine positioning methodologies. Machine axes travel limits and machine positioning methodologies are incorporated in order to ensure that the developed positioning paths do not violate machine axes travel limitations. Multi-axis positioning paths are developed to avoid collisions with dynamically changing in-process stock and other surroundings, including fixtures and both moving and non-moving components of the machine. Positioning tool path customizations give the user the flexibility to apply safety based constraints to the automatically generated tool paths. The disclosed automatic positioning path planning and optimization methods are used to develop a process for part manufacturing using CNC machining in order to reduce the manufacturing cycle time.
US10078320B2	Automatically guided tools A position correcting system, method and tool for guiding a tool during its use based on its location relative to the material being worked on. Provided is a system and tool which uses its auto correcting technology to precisely rout or cut material. The invention provides a camera which is used to track the visual features of the surface of the material being cut to build a map and locate an image on that map used to reference the location of the tool for auto-correction of the cutting path.
US10078309B2	Moon phase display mechanism Moon phase display mechanism including an input pinion which makes three revolutions, or respectively two revolutions, in 24 hours, and drives a 19-tooth or respectively 29-tooth drive pinion, which drives a 59-tooth lower wheel bearing a moon disc with a two-colored depiction including a lighted area and at least one background sky area and also drives a 57-tooth or respectively 58-tooth, upper wheel, coaxial to this lower wheel and which makes one revolution per day and which includes a sky disc with a depiction of the sun, and an aperture opposite this sun, through which is visible one part of this moon disc illustrating the current appearance of the moon.
US10078303B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the fixing device A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a pressure rotator, a cooling assembly, and an air regulation plate. The cooling assembly blows air onto an outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator to cool the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator. The air regulation plate is disposed opposing the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator with a clearance between the air regulation plate and the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator, to regulate a flow direction or amount of one of air to be blown onto the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator and air having been blown onto the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator. The air regulation plate has a leading end opposing the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator. The leading end has a shape following the outer circumferential face of the pressure rotator.
US10078300B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotator including a primary portion and a secondary portion disposed outboard from the primary portion in an axial direction of the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator contacts the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A primary heater heats the primary portion of the fixing rotator. A secondary heater heats the secondary portion of the fixing rotator. A primary temperature detector is isolated from the fixing rotator and detects a temperature of the primary portion of the fixing rotator. A secondary temperature detector contacts the fixing rotator and detects a temperature of the secondary portion of the fixing rotator. The primary temperature detector has a thermal time constant that is smaller than a thermal time constant of the secondary temperature detector.
US10078282B2	Toner compositions and processes Disclosed are toner compositions that include an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, a colorant and a wax, and where the amorphous polyester resin contains in excess of zero weight percent of dodecylsuccinic anhydride to less than 16 weight percent of dodecylsuccinic anhydride, or where the amorphous polyester resin contains in excess of zero weight percent of dodecylsuccinic acid to less than 16 weight percent of dodecylsuccinic acid.
US10078279B2	Toner and method of producing toner A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax, wherein in a cross sectional image of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope, the toner satisfies the following formulas (1) and (2) 18.0%≥As≥1.5% (1) 10.0≥Ac/As≥2.0 (2) where As represents the proportion for the area taken up by the wax present in the surface layer region having distance 1.0 μm in a radial direction inward from the surface of the toner, and Ac represents the proportion for the area taken up by the wax present in the inner region positioned further inside than the surface layer region.
US10078276B2	Positively chargeable single-layer electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A positively chargeable single-layer electrophotographic photosensitive member is used as an image bearing member in an image forming apparatus including a charging section configured to be in contact with the image bearing member to apply a voltage thereto. The positively chargeable single-layer electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. The hole transport material contains a triarylamine derivative represented by the following general formula (I). In general formula (I), R1, R2, m and n have the same meaning as R1, R2, m, and n defined in the description.
US10078273B2	Lithographic apparatus with data processing apparatus A lithographic apparatus applies a pattern onto a substrate using an optical projection system. The apparatus includes an optical level sensor and an associated processor for obtaining a height map of the substrate surface prior to applying the pattern. A controller uses the height map to control focusing with respect to the projection system when applying the pattern. The processor is further arranged to use information relating to processing previously applied to the substrate to define at least first and second regions of the substrate and to vary the manner in which the measurement signals are used to control the focusing, between the first and second regions. For example, an algorithm to calculate height values from optical measurement signals can be varied according to differences in known structure and/or materials. Measurements from certain regions can be selectively excluded from calculation of the height map and/or from use in the focusing.
US10078264B2	Resist composition, patterning process, and barium, cesium and cerium salts A resist composition comprising a base resin comprising acid labile group-containing recurring units and preferably acid generator-containing recurring units, and a sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, rubidium, strontium, yttrium, cesium, barium or cerium salt of α-fluorinated sulfonic acid bonded to an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aryl group exhibits a high resolution and sensitivity and forms a pattern of satisfactory profile with minimal LWR after exposure and development.
US10078262B2	Patterning devices using branched fluorinated photopolymers A fluorinated photopolymer composition is disclosed having a branched copolymer provided in a fluorinated solvent. The copolymer includes a branching unit, a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group, and a second repeating unit having a solubility-altering reactive group. The branched fluorinated photopolymer composition is particularly suited for the fabrication of organic electronic and bioelectronic devices, or other devices having sensitive active organic materials.
US10078232B1	Advanced optical modulation generation by combining orthogonal polarized optical signals Optical modulators and modulation techniques for advanced optical modulation formats are described. An optical modulator may include two optical modulators in parallel optical paths, and optical powers in the two paths may be unequal. Polarization in the two paths may be orthogonal, and modulated outputs from each path may be combined to produce multilevel modulation formats.
US10078225B1	Inflatable light box An inflatable light box includes decorative securing plates and plastic panels in association with upper and lower interior connecting planks when coupled to a cylindrical barrel in which an inflatable airbag is disposed, and encompassed by a decorative cover, form a housing for an inflatable light apparatus.
US10078224B2	See-through computer display systems Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.
US10078192B2	Fiber distribution hub with outside accessible grounding terminals The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications distribution hub having a cabinet that defines a primary compartment. The cabinet also includes one or more main doors for accessing the primary compartment. Telecommunications equipment is mounted within the primary compartment. The distribution hub further includes a secondary compartment that can be accessed from an exterior of the cabinet without accessing the primary compartment. A grounding interface is accessible from within the secondary compartment.
US10078191B2	Optical fiber cable with internal periodic coupling structure An optical cable is provided. The optical cable includes a tubular, elongate body having an inner surface defining a cavity extending between first and second ends of the elongate body and an optical transmission element located with the cavity. The optical cable includes a coupling or bonding structure non-permanently and non-rigidly joining the outer surface of the optical transmission element to the elongate body at a plurality of periodic contact zones such that relative movement between the optical transmission element and the elongate body is resisted.
US10078189B2	Optical module An optical module includes a lens sheet having one or more lenses, a substrate having a photoelectric conversion device mounted on a first face thereof and having a first penetrating hole formed therethrough between the photoelectric conversion device and the one or more lenses, and an adhesive layer configured to bond a face of the lens sheet to a second face of the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer has a second penetrating hole formed therethrough between the one or more lenses and the photoelectric conversion device, and a pathway is provided to connect a space constituted by the first penetrating hole and the second penetrating hole to an outside of the space.
US10078188B1	Springless push/pull fiber optic connector A fiber optic connector having a push/pull tab where the tab is biased forward by a middle arm pushing on a chamfered surface of a widthwise recess without the use of a secondary spring to push forward the push/pull tab into said hook. The hook secures said connector in an adapter receptacle.
US10078185B2	Mechanical fiber switch A switch for selectively coupling light from two input fibers to a selected two of plurality of output optical fibers. The switch was designed to handle standard Fiber optical connectors which have been polished and meet the specifications for the optical performance. The duplex mechanical switch creates a method to physically switch two fibers (Duplex) to another two fibers (Duplex). The performance regarding insertion losses, back reflection, crosstalk, immunity against backscattering of light and insensitivity to the wavelength of the light is consistent with this mechanical switch.
US10078176B2	Planar illumination device A planar illumination device includes: a frame including a side wall; a circuit board including a mounted portion arranged on the side wall, and a folded portion folded with respect to the mounted portion; a plurality of point light sources arranged on the mounted portion; a light guiding plate that includes an incoming surface facing the plurality of point light sources and that is accommodated in the frame; and a fixing nail that is formed in the light guiding plate, protrudes from the incoming surface towards a part of the mounted portion where the plurality of point light sources are not arranged and arranges the mounted portion on the side wall.
US10078174B2	Curved light guide unit and display device having low restoring force A light guide unit includes: a light guide plate curved about a center of curvature, and including a first outer circumferential surface and a first inner circumferential surface disposed closer to the center of curvature than the first outer circumferential surface; and a restoring force-offset layer coupled to at least one of the first outer circumferential surface and the first inner circumferential surface. The light guide plate includes a first material having a first thermal expansion coefficient, and the restoring force-offset layer includes a material having a thermal expansion coefficient different from the first thermal expansion coefficient to offset a restoring force of the light guide plate.
US10078172B2	Prism plate, display device having the same, and method of manufacturing prism plate A display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which provides light to the display panel. The backlight unit includes a light source which emits the light, a light guide plate which guides the light emitted from the light source toward the display panel, and a prism plate. The prism plate includes a base film disposed on the light guide plate and a plurality of prisms disposed on the base film. Each of the prisms has an isosceles trapezoidal section, two base angles of which are obtuse angles, when viewed from a cross-sectional view in a width direction.
US10078166B2	Light guide plate and manufacture method of light guide plate The present invention provides a light guide plate and a manufacture method of the light guide plate. The light guide plate comprises an illuminating surface and a plurality of quantum dot modules, and the quantum dot module is filled with quantum dots, and the quantum dot module is embedded in the light guide plate, and the quantum dot modules are located close to the illuminating surface and the quantum dot modules are distributed in an array.
US10078156B2	Precipitation sensor A technique for characterizing precipitation includes receiving an impedance signal that is indicative of the impedance in a predetermined area on a measurement surface, deriving, on basis of the impedance signal, a first precipitation rate that is descriptive of accumulated mass of precipitation particles falling on the predetermined area during a calculation period, receiving an acoustic signal that is indicative of acoustic impacts caused by the precipitation particles in vicinity of the measurement surface, deriving, on basis of the acoustic signal, a second precipitation rate that is descriptive of accumulated mass of the precipitation particles during the calculation period, and designating, in response to receiving an indication regarding a presence of precipitation, current precipitation type as one of predetermined precipitation types at least in part on basis of a first precipitation indicator value derived on basis of the first and second precipitation rates.
US10078155B2	Real-time precipitation forecasting system A computerized method of processing data for use in weather modeling is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first data source, by a first server, microwave link data including signal attenuation information. The method also includes pre-processing, in real time, by the first server, the microwave link data, thereby producing pre-processed microwave link data, The method also includes storing the pre-processed microwave link data in a first data store. The method also includes receiving, from the first data store, by a second server, the pre-processed microwave link data. The method also includes processing, on a scheduled routine, by the second server, the pre-processed microwave link data using a data transform, thereby producing first weather data.
US10078152B2	Gravity transducer system and method including junctions with a first metal and a second metal An airborne gravity-based transducer is disclosed as two embodiments with similar physical structures but different operating principles. The first design includes a particle acting as an active interface characterized by internal vibrations relating to its de Broglie wave, a resonant cavity for trapping the particle, and a phonon-wave source wherein the de Broglie and phonon waves interact over a junction area. In the second design, mechanical displacements between the transducer elements can be monitored through electromechanical transduction.
US10078151B2	Method for detecting and identifying nuclear material in a container and radiation monitoring arrangement for conducting the method The invention relates to an improved method for detecting and possibly identifying and/or characterizing nuclear and/or radiological material in a container, vehicle, or on a person, comprising the steps of: a. providing at least one detector, which is capable of detecting radiation events being interrelated to nuclear or radiological material; b. bringing the at least one detector in the vicinity of the container, vehicle or person to be monitored; c. detecting radiation events being interrelated to the container, vehicle or person to be monitored; d. assigning each detected radiation event an individual time stamp in order to generate a time pattern of the detected radiation events; and e. analyzing the time pattern with respect to time correlation structures in order to identify a presence and/or characteristics of the nuclear or radiological material.
US10078150B2	Detecting and quantifying materials in containers utilizing an inverse algorithm with adaptive regularization A method, system and computer program product for automatically detecting and quantifying materials in containers (e.g., luggage, storage containers, equipment or componentry for processing or handling). An X-ray radiograph of a container is generated. A set of materials of interest (e.g., plutonium, steel) is selected to determine if the object comprises or contains materials of interest. An estimate of the areal densities or thicknesses of each of the selected materials of interest is obtained by minimizing an objective function with respect to the areal densities or thicknesses for each of the selected materials of interest. Adaptive regularization is implemented in the objective function to improve optimization results by adding a constraint to the objective function, where the constraint penalizes the objective function for solutions that do not line up with a prior belief about the solution form (e.g., the solution should not be negative or especially noisy).
US10078147B2	Detector Various embodiments are described that relate to a detector. The detector can include a loop functioning at a high frequency that emits a magnetic field. The magnetic field can be retrieved and a comparison can be made between the emitted magnetic field and the retrieved magnetic field. If there is substantially little difference between the emitted and retrieved field, then a determination can be that no object is present. Conversely, if there is a substantial difference between the emitted and retrieved field, then the determination can be that an object is present and thus the object is detected. If the object is present, the returned magnetic field can be further analyzed to determine the type of object that is detected.
US10078146B2	Seismic acquisition system and technique An apparatus includes an array of seismic sensor units that are adapted to acquire measurements in connection with a land surface-based seismic survey. Each seismic sensor unit includes a particle motion sensor and a rotation sensor.
US10078138B2	Doppler shift correction using three-dimensional building models Techniques for GNSS positioning using three-dimensional (3D) building models are described. A processor can determine a probable path for a signal from a GNSS space vehicle (e.g., a satellite) to reach the GNSS receiver. The probable path can include one or more specular reflections. The processor can determine a Doppler correction based on the probable path, including inverting a sense of a vector of the Doppler correction for each reflection. The processor can then incorporate the Doppler correction in an estimated velocity of the mobile device, an estimated position of the mobile device, or both.
US10078133B2	Method and system for ladar transmission with closed loop feedback control of dynamic scan patterns Various embodiments are disclosed for improved scanning ladar transmission, including but not limited to an example embodiment where closed loop feedback control is used to finely control mirror scan positions.
US10078114B2	Test point circuit, scan flip-flop for sequential test, semiconductor device and design device It is possible to reduce the number of test point circuits to be inserted necessary to accomplish a target fault coverage, to suppress an increase in an area overhead, and to reduce a test time. A test point circuit according to an embodiment constitutes a scan chain, and captures, in one capture operation period of a clock sequential test, a first operation result in a second capture clock that comes after a first capture clock, the first operation result having been captured by a test point circuit at a previous stage or a last stage of the scan chain in the first capture clock.
US10078112B2	Security system and methods for integrated devices A method is provided for implementing a security mechanism in an integrated MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System) device having a MEMS sensor with an output register associated with a sensing operation, the integrated MEMS device being electrically coupled to a computing system programmed to perform the method. The method includes, in normal operation, reading from the output register an output of the sensing operation, and in a test mode, determining, by a processor disposed within the computing system, a random value. Determining the random value can include reading from the output register, which in the test mode or provides a value from an internal pattern generator. The method also includes determining, by the processor, a validation value, reading, by the processor, the random value stored in the output register; and determining, by the processor, whether the integrated device is valid using the validation value and the random value stored in the output register.
US10078111B2	Handler and management method thereof A handler includes a loading unit transporting substrates and sockets coupled to the substrates, a test unit including a printed circuit board, the sockets being mounted on the printed circuit board, and latches fixing the sockets to the printed circuit board, and an unloading unit unloading the substrates and the sockets from the test unit.
US10078105B2	Electrical system with arc fault detection A unique electrical system includes a first electrical component and a second electrical component. A conductor electrically couples the first electrical component with the second electrical component. A sensor is constructed to sense an AC power flow in the conductor and output an AC signal proportional to the AC power flow. A band-pass filter is in electrical communication with the sensor and constructed to receive and filter the AC signal and to generate an AC voltage proportional on the AC signal. A controller is in electrical communication with the band-pass filter, and is operative to receive and sample the AC voltage. The controller is configured to execute program instructions to sum sequential AC voltage values received from the band-pass filter over a sample time period, and to determine whether an arc fault has occurred based on the summed AC voltage values.
US10078104B2	Load drive circuit A load drive circuit incorporated into an onboard electronic control device, the load drive circuit housing a diagnosis circuit for diagnosing load abnormalities, wherein diagnosis circuit failures are detected without affecting load drive control. When a failure has occurred in the diagnosis circuit, vehicle operation is not affected because the diagnosis circuit does not have a function for controlling the vehicle, and there may be cases in which occupants riding an the vehicle do not notice the failure. Additionally, when a failure has occurred in the diagnosis circuit, the occurrence of the failure cannot be detected even by a vehicle control system as long as there is no function for detecting occurrences of failure in the diagnosis circuit. Specifically, when a failure has occurred in the diagnosis circuit, there is a possibility that the failure is unrecognizable to occupants and undetectable by a vehicle control system. When there is no need for the diagnosis circuit to diagnose load abnormalities, a determination of whether or not the diagnosis circuit is failing is made by sending a pseudo abnormality signal to the diagnosis circuit and confirming whether the diagnosis circuit can detect the sent pseudo abnormality signal as a failure.
US10078101B2	Wafer level integrated circuit probe array and method of construction A testing device for wafer level testing of IC circuits is disclosed. An upper and lower pin (22, 62) are configured to slide relatively to each other and are held in electrically biased contact by an elastomer (80). To prevent rotation of the pins in the pin guide, a walled recess in the bottom of the pin guide engages flanges on the pins. In another embodiment, the pin guide maintains rotational alignment by being fitted around the pin profile or having projections abutting the pin. The pin guide (12) is maintained in alignment with the retainer 14 by establishing a registration corner (506) and driving the guide into the corner by elastomers in at least one diagonally opposite corner.
US10078096B2	Computer assisted ergonomic workstation designs and methods Aspects of this invention include new measures of hip-torso posture and strength of the legs. These new measures are made using new tools. Measurement of hip-torso posture can be made using simple tools. One such tool can be applied to the hips, and indicates relative angle of the spine. Photographic tools can be used to analyze posture relative to vertical references. Measurement of leg strength can be made using a device incorporating accelerometers and computer implemented instructions to quantify forward/backward, left/right, or rotational acceleration when the legs are challenged. Other aspects include devices with computer implemented instructions to quantify leg strength. Using the new devices and methods, one can objectively determine postures that are ergonomically appropriate for persons sitting and working at workstations.
US10078093B2	System for improved tissue handling and in line analysis of the tissue A system for analysis of biopsy samples includes a tissue sample transport mechanism linking a biopsy sample excision tool to a tissue sample holder disposed in a staging area of an analysis unit. The tissue sample is automatically transported from the excision tool to the specimen holder, where the tissue sample is analyzed in the staging area of the analysis unit. The transport mechanism may include tubing and a vacuum source. The tissue sample holder may be configured to slow or temporarily stop a tissue sample for individual analysis, or collect multiple tissue samples for analysis as a group. A tissue sample sorting mechanism may be employed that allows separation of specimens that can be correlated to the analysis.
US10078086B2	Use of interleukin-27 as a diagnostic biomarker for bacterial infection in critically ill patients Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of diagnosing bacterial infection in a critically ill patient. The methods include obtaining a sample from the patient and determining the patient's level of IL-27 expression. Embodiments of the invention are also directed to methods that include determining both the patient's levels of IL-27 expression and PCT expression and using the combined result to provide a diagnosis of bacterial infection in a critically ill patient.
US10078081B2	Isotopically labeled glycans and methods for producing the same The present invention relates to methods for creating isotopically-labeled glycans or glycoconjugates for use in the analysis of glycans, and compositions produced from such methods. The present invention also relates to the use of isotopically labeled glycans or glycoconjugates as standards in glycan identification and/or quantification methods. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention can be used to accurately determine the levels of glycans in a sample based upon the addition of a known quantity of a standard comprising isotopically-labeled glycans to the sample prior to analysis. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a composition for an analytical standard comprising one or more isotopically-labeled glycans or glycoconjugates.
US10078079B2	Device for detecting an analyte This invention relates to a device for detecting an analyte in a sample comprising: a radiation source adapted to generate a series of pulses of electromagnetic radiation; a transducer having a pyroelectric or piezoelectric element and electrodes which is capable of transducing energy generated by non-radiative decay into an electrical signal; a detector which is capable of detecting the electrical signal generated by the transducer; a first reagent proximal to the transducer, the first reagent having a binding site which is capable of binding a labelled reagent proportionally to the concentration of the analyte in the sample, which labelled reagent being capable of absorbing the electromagnetic radiation generated by the radiation source to generate energy by non-radiative decay; a second reagent proximal to the transducer, the second reagent having a lower affinity for the labelled reagent under the conditions of the assay than the first reagent; and a third reagent proximal to the transducer, the third reagent having a binding site which is capable of binding the labelled reagent, wherein the third reagent has an affinity for the labelled reagent which is less influenced than the first reagent by the concentration of the analyte or the complex or derivative of the analyte.
US10078074B2	Portable metabolic analyzer system A system for measuring and tracking metabolic rate, physical activity and calorie intake. The metabolic rate is measured with a design that features an adaptive sampling mechanism for accurate breath sample collection, optimized flow rate measurement for minimizing backpressure while maximizing accuracy, humidity regulation and water condensation reduction mechanism for reliable performance, as well as breath temperature measurement for volume and humidity corrections. The system further comprises an improved algorithm for determining physical activity such as related energy expenditure, and a mechanism for tracking changes in food intake over time.
US10078069B2	Device for detecting change in underground medium The inventive concept relates to a device that detects a leak of a liquid leaked from a sinkhole, water pipe or oil pipeline under the ground. In the detection device of the inventive concept, a plurality of reception devices disposed on the surface of the earth simultaneously receive an ultrasonic signal transmitted from a transmission device under the ground and a radio frequency (RF) signal synchronized with the ultrasonic signal. Also, by measuring an arrival time of the ultrasonic signal by using the wireless signal received by each reception device as a triggering signal, a leak range of a liquid leaked from a sinkhole, water pipe or oil pipeline on a signal path between the transmission device and the reception device is detected.
US10078061B2	Flow-measuring differential calorimeter A differential calorimeter with flux measurement to measure a heat flux emitted by radioactive materials contained in a container, including: a measurement cell including measurement plates distributed around a container reception containment; and a reference cell including reference plates and a reference sample. The reference plates are placed behind the measurement plates from the container when the container is in the reception containment and the reference sample is under the reception containment.
US10078052B2	Reflective surface treatments for optical sensors An electronic device includes one or more light emitters for emitting light toward an object and one or more light detectors for collecting light exiting the object. A reflective coating, surface, or surface finish can be applied adjacent to the area to which light is emitted and/or through which light exits in order to increase the light collected by the light detector. The reflective coating can be oriented so as to reflect light back into the object.
US10078051B2	Compensating turbidity measuring device Embodiments of the present invention can be implemented to (i) verify that a liquid within a turbidity measuring device during an assay process is of the same origin of that upon which the assay was performed, (ii) verify a flow through the turbidity measuring device including, but not limited to, a turbidimeter, a nephelometer, a fluorimeter, or the like, and (iii) enact an alteration to measurement step(s) and/or determination step(s) of an assay process in correlation with one or more variables associated with the liquid sample including, but not limited to, flow rate, temperature, and pressure to reduce a standard error of the assay.
US10078026B2	Multi-component force-torque sensing device with reduced cross-talk for twist-compression testing machine A multi-component force-torque sensing device contains force- and torque-sensitive elements mounted on a common base so that the axis of rotation of the measured torque coincides with the direction of action of the force being measured. The force and the torque are applied to a test specimen holder simultaneously. For reducing cross-talk between the sensitive elements installed on the base the test specimen holder is connected to the sensitive elements via a cross-talk reducing member with respective adapters which translate the force and the torque to the sensitive elements independently, without affecting or disturbing each other measurements.
US10078023B2	Plasmonic nanoparticle-based colorimetric stress memory sensor The development of a stress-responsive colorimetric film that can memorize the stress it has experienced is disclosed. The system can use the plasmonic shift associated with the disassembly of one-dimensional plasmonic nanoparticle chains driven by the plastic deformation of the surrounding polymer matrix. By modifying the plasticity of the polymer, the plasmonic shift and colorimetric change can respond to a large range of stresses. The pressure indicating film can be used to capture and record the pressure distribution and magnitude between two contacting or impacting surfaces by outputting color information.
US10078021B2	Body core temperature measurement An apparatus for measuring body core temperature includes a light guide. The light guide can be coupled to an earpiece, or it can be a standalone device. The apparatus also includes a sensor positioned at one end of the light guide, and a processor coupled to the sensor. The sensor is operable to sense infrared radiation from an infrared source at the opposite end of the light guide. The processor is operable to determine a temperature of the infrared source at the opposite end of the light guide via a transfer function that correlates a measurement of the infrared radiation observed by the sensor and an effect of radiation of the light guide.
US10078015B2	Temperature detection circuit and semiconductor device Provided is a temperature detection circuit having less manufacturing fluctuations in detection temperature and capable of easily adjusting the manufacturing fluctuations in detection temperature. The temperature detection circuit includes: a constant current circuit configured to output a constant current; a voltage-controlled current circuit, which is controlled by a voltage output from a heat sensitive element and is configured to output a current corresponding to temperature; and a current comparator configured to compare the constant current and the current corresponding to temperature, and output a detection signal indicating that a predetermined temperature is detected. Temperature characteristics of the constant current circuit and temperature characteristics of the voltage-controlled current circuit have a correlation with each other. The temperature detection circuit is configured to detect temperature based on a result of comparing the output current of the constant current circuit and the output current of the voltage-controlled current circuit.
US10078012B2	Measurement apparatus with adjustment for spectral shift A measurement apparatus comprises: a light emitting means for emitting a light; a light receiving means for receiving a reflected light from a measurement target, the light receiving means comprises a plurality of light-receiving elements; a detection means for detecting a temperature of the light emitting means; a determination means for determining a correspondence between each light-receiving element of the light receiving means and a wavelength of the reflected light from the measurement target based on a result of receiving the reflected light from a reference element and the temperature of the light emitting means detected by the detection means; and an output means for outputting spectral reflectance information for the measurement target based on a result of receiving the reflected light from the measurement target and the correspondence determined by the determination means.
US10078007B2	Infrared sensor An infrared sensor includes an infrared detecting device, a lens, a member, a gap and a spacer. The lens is disposed above the infrared detecting device. The member forms an external surface and includes a first opening having a maximum internal diameter. The gap is disposed between the member and the lens. The spacer is disposed between the member and the lens so as to form the gap, and that is directly contact with lens. The spacer has a circular inner periphery, in planar view, which has a larger internal diameter than the maximum internal diameter of the first opening of the member.
US10078004B2	System and method for monitoring weight of material in reservoir The present invention provides a way to monitor using a weight sensor to a high degree of precision the rate of material consumption from a reservoir while in operation by alleviating perturbations due to extraneous forces exerted on the reservoir by the connecting tubes and conduits that carry the material and transmit electrical signals between the reservoir and the other components of the dispensing system.
US10077992B2	Tip clearance probe including anti-rotation feature A tip clearance probe includes at least one anti-rotation feature within the probe housing that prevents a sensor component from rotating when the tip clearance probe fails due to extraordinary wear and tear.
US10077989B2	Navigation device, navigation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A navigation device navigating a moving body based on position information includes a coordinated operation unit that initiates and ends a coordinated operation among a plurality of navigation devices; a guiding unit that performs navigation in at least one of the navigation devices performing the coordinated operation, while providing a screen display based on a designated position; and a second operating unit that performs a second operation in a navigation device other than a currently navigating navigation device performing the coordinated operation, the second operation including receiving an operation for a function that is not displayed on the screen of the currently navigating navigation device, and reflecting a position acquired as a result of the operation, to the other navigation devices performing the coordinated operation.
US10077985B2	Wireless positioning system, wireless positioning terminal, and point information transmitter A wireless positioning system is provided which includes a point information transmitter and a wireless positioning terminal carried by a user to communicate wirelessly with the point information transmitter. The point information transmitter is installed at a predetermined installation position and transmits point information including at least magnetic correction information to correct a geomagnetic bias at the installation position. The wireless positioning terminal includes an orientation detector to detect an orientation based on geomagnetism and a correction section to correct the orientation detected by the orientation detector based on the magnetic correction information included in the point information received from the point information transmitter.
US10077984B2	Indoor positioning system training In an approach for collecting data, a computer identifies a virtual map of an environment. The computer determines a location associated with one or more autonomous devices within the identified virtual map. The computer provides to a first autonomous device of the one or more autonomous devices, navigation instructions from a determined location associated with the first autonomous device to a first training point. The computer collects training data associated with the first training point through the first autonomous device.
US10077983B2	Information display device and method An information display device is provided. The information display device includes a memory configured to store information along with its position, a display unit configured to display the information, and a controller configured to control the display unit. The controller controls the display unit to simultaneously display first and horizontal plot sections. In the perspective plot section, part of the information is displayed such that its display position in vertical directions becomes higher as a distance from the information display device or a movable body to which the device is mounted, to the position becomes longer. In the horizontal plot section, other part of the information is displayed such that its display position is changed in lateral directions according to an azimuth of the position with respect to the information display device or the movable body, and the display position is fixed in the vertical directions regardless of the distance.
US10077980B2	Method and control unit for determining an angle between longitudinal axes of component vehicles of a tractor-trailer combination A method for determining an angle between a longitudinal axis of a first, leading component vehicle and a longitudinal axis of a second, trailing component vehicle. For at least one wheel axle or wheel axle group of the first, leading component vehicle a travel speed and/or an angular speed of the wheel axle or wheel axle group concerned is determined, and for at least one wheel axle or wheel axle group of the second, trailing component vehicle a travel speed and/or an angular speed of the wheel axle or wheel axle group concerned is determined. From the travel speeds and/or angular speeds determined for the wheel axles or wheel axle groups of the first, leading component vehicle and of the second, trailing component vehicle, the angle between the longitudinal axes of the first, leading component vehicle and the second, trailing component vehicle is then calculated.
US10077973B2	Ballistic shield for a firearm A ballistic shield apparatus for a weapon includes: a flexible ballistic shield made of penetration-resistant material, the ballistic shield having opposed front and rear faces, spaced-apart side edges connecting spaced-apart top and bottom edges, and a central area bounded by the side edges; one or more flexible securing members extending laterally outward from each of the side edges, each of the one or more flexible securing members including a releasable connector disposed on a distal portion thereof; and at least one releasable connector disposed on the ballistic shield, the releasable connectors collectively configured such that the distal portion of each of the one or more flexible securing members can be releasably secured to the central area of the ballistic shield, or to a distal portion of one of the one or more flexible securing members.
US10077971B1	Risley prism line-of-sight control for strapdown missile An optical system and method comprising refracting light with a pair of Risley prisms and employing a line-of-sight control unit to adjust the pair.
US10077966B2	Abrasive entrainment waterjet cutting The use of abrasive entrainment waterjet technology to cut improvised hazardous devices, such as improvised explosive devices (IEDs), located above or below ground. Abrasive is conducted to an entrainment abrasive waterjet cutting head under the control of an abrasive feed and metering system that monitors the flow rate of abrasive.
US10077960B2	Trigger mechanism for a firearm A trigger mechanism for a firearm provides modified and/or adjustable trigger pull length, reduced sear pressure, reduced reset trigger slap, and/or improved engagement of the trigger safety.

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