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US10276745B2	Light emitting diode including wavelength conversion layers A light emitting diode including: a structure for emitting light at a first wavelength λ1, comprising a p-n junction in which is arranged an active zone including a first emissive layer comprising InX1Ga1-X1N arranged between two first barriers; a conversion structure configured for converting the light emitted by the emission structure into a second wavelength different to the first, arranged on the emission structure and including a second InX2Ga1-X2N emissive layer, arranged between two second barriers each including several InX3Ga1-X3N absorption layers separated from each other by a GaN interlayer; in which the indium concentrations X1, X2 and X3 are such that 0
US10276731B2	Schottky barrier diode A Schottky barrier diode comprises a semiconductor layer configured to include a surface and a plurality of recesses that are recessed relative to the surface; and a Schottky electrode arranged to form a Schottky contact with the surface. When the semiconductor layer is viewed from a surface side thereof, the surface is arranged continuously, and distances on the surface between adjacent recesses are substantially identical. This configuration suppresses a photoresist from being left in any unintended portion.
US10276729B2	Wide bandgap semiconductor switching device with wide area Schottky junction, and manufacturing process thereof A switching device including: a body of semiconductor material, which has a first conductivity type and is delimited by a front surface; a contact layer of a first conductive material, which extends in contact with the front surface; and a plurality of buried regions, which have a second conductivity type and are arranged within the semiconductor body, at a distance from the contact layer.
US10276725B2	Gate structure A method of forming a channel of a gate structure is provided. A first epitaxial channel layer is formed within a first trench of the gate structure. A dry etching process is performed on the first epitaxial channel layer to form a second trench. A second epitaxial channel layer is formed within the second trench.
US10276720B2	Method for forming fin field effect transistor (FINFET) device structure A FinFET device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a plurality of fin structures over a substrate, and the substrate includes a first region and a second region. The method includes forming a plurality of isolation structures surrounding the fin structures, and a top surface of each of the isolation structures is lower than a top surface of each of the fin structures, and the isolation structures include first isolation structures over the first region and second isolation structures over the second region. The method includes forming a mask layer on the first isolation structures to expose the second isolation structures and removing a portion of the second isolation structures, such that a top surface of each of the second isolation structures is lower than a top surface of each of the first isolation structures.
US10276706B2	Gated diode in a press-fit housing and an alternator assembly having a gated diode arranged in a load path A gated diode in a press-fit housing includes a base configured to be press-fit into an opening of a diode carrier plate and including a pedestal portion with a first flat surface, and a head wire including a head portion with a second flat surface and a wire portion. The base and the head wire form parts of the press-fit housing. The gated diode in the press-fit housing further includes a semiconductor die, a first solder layer engaging and electrically connecting the semiconductor die with the first flat surface of the base, and a second solder layer engaging and electrically connecting the semiconductor die with the second flat surface of the head wire.
US10276704B1	High electron mobility transistor with negative capacitor gate A high electron mobility transistor includes a semiconductor structure having a channel layer and a cap layer forming a two dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) channel, and a source, a drain, and a gate electrodes. The gate is arranged on the cap layer between the source and the drains, such that the conductivity of the 2-DEG channel is modulated in response to applying voltage to the gate. The cap layer includes III-N material. The gate has a layered structure including a bottom metal layer arranged on cap layer, a ferroelectric oxide (FEO) layer arranged on bottom metal layer, and a top metal layer arranged on the FEO layer. Thickness of FEO layer is less than tcap/(2αεcap), wherein α is a parameter of material of FEO layer, tcap is thickness of cap layer, and εcap is electric permittivity of cap layer.
US10276694B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a group III element and a group V element, and a gate structure on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a first region which contacts a bottom surface of the gate structure and a second region which is disposed under the first region. The concentration of the group III element in the first region is lower than that of the group V element in the first region, and the concentration of the group III element in the second region is substantially equal to that of the group V element in the second region.
US10276693B1	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a bottom semiconductor fin, at least one sidewall structure, a top semiconductor fin, and a gate structure. The bottom semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The sidewall structure protrudes from the semiconductor fin. The top semiconductor fin is disposed on the bottom semiconductor fin. The top semiconductor fin includes a channel portion and at least one source/drain portion. The source/drain portion is disposed between the channel portion and the sidewall structure. The gate structure covers the channel portion of the top semiconductor fin.
US10276685B2	Heterojunction tunnel field effect transistor fabrication using limited lithography steps A structure and method for fabricating a vertical heterojunction tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) using limited lithography steps is disclosed. The fabrication of a second conductivity type source/drain region may utilize a single lithography step to form a first-type source/drain region, and a metal contact thereon, adjacent to a gate stack having a first conductivity type source/drain region on an opposite side.
US10276684B2	Conductive spline for metal gates An integrated circuit may include a metal gate which extends over an active area and onto an isolation dielectric layer. A conductive spline is formed on the metal gate, extending on the metal gate over at least a portion of the isolation dielectric layer, and extending on the metal gate for a length at least four times a width of the metal gate.
US10276681B2	Double gate transistor device and method of operating In accordance with an embodiment, a method include switching on a transistor device by generating a first conducting channel in a body region by driving a first gate electrode and, before generating the first conducting channel, generating a second conducting channel in the body region by driving a second gate electrode. The first gate electrode is dielectrically insulated from a body region by a first gate dielectric, and the second gate electrode is dielectrically insulated from the body region by a second gate dielectric, arranged adjacent the first gate electrode, and separated from the first gate electrode by a separation layer. The body region is arranged between a source region and a drift region, and wherein the drift region is arranged between body region and a drain region.
US10276677B2	Semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same Semiconductor device structures and methods for forming the same are provided. A method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes forming a gate structure over a semiconductor substrate. The method also includes forming spacer elements adjoining sidewalls of the gate structure. The method further includes forming a protection material layer over the gate structure. The formation of the protection material layer includes a substantial non-plasma process. In addition, the method includes depositing a dielectric material layer over the protection material layer. The deposition of the dielectric material layer includes a plasma-involved process.
US10276670B2	Semiconductor devices and methods for forming semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes an array of needle-shaped trenches extending into a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a gate trench grid extending into the semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode of a transistor structure is located within the gate trench grid. A gate wiring structure of the transistor structure is connected to the gate electrode of the transistor structure. A field electrode located within at least one needle-shaped trench of the array of needle-shaped trenches is connected to the gate wiring structure of the transistor structure.
US10276667B1	High voltage breakdown tapered vertical conduction junction transistor A vertical conduction junction transistor apparatus includes a multilayered semiconductor unit cell that has a substrate, epitaxial drift layer, epitaxial channel layer, gate region and channel control region. The substrate is silicon carbide (SiC). The epitaxial drift layer comprises SiC and is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The epitaxial channel layer comprises SiC and is formed on a top surface of the epitaxial drift layer, where a sidewall of the epitaxial channel layer is at an angle to the vertical direction. The gate region is formed in the sidewall of the epitaxial channel layer, the gate region having an inner gate region boundary that is parallel to the sidewall. The channel control region is in the epitaxial channel layer and has a width bounded by the inner gate region boundary. The channel control region has a trapezoidal cross-section in a plane taken in the vertical direction.
US10276661B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a channel-forming region of a first conductivity type; a first main electrode region of a second conductivity type disposed in a portion of an upper part of the channel-forming region; a drift region of the second conductivity type that is disposed in an upper part of the channel-forming region apart from the first main electrode region; a second main electrode region of the second conductivity type that is disposed in a part of an upper part of the drift region; and a stopper region of the second conductivity type that is disposed at an end region of the drift region apart from the first main electrode region and has a higher concentration than the drift region. The stopper region restricts extension of a depletion layer developing at the boundary of the pn junction between the channel-forming region and the drift region.
US10276658B2	FinFET devices FinFET devices and processes to prevent fin or gate collapse (e.g., flopover) in finFET devices are provided. The method includes forming a first set of trenches in a semiconductor material and filling the first set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes forming a second set of trenches in the semiconductor material, alternating with the first set of trenches that are filled. The second set of trenches form semiconductor structures which have a dimension of fin structures. The method further includes filling the second set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes recessing the insulator material within the first set of trenches and the second set of trenches to form the fin structures.
US10276654B2	Semiconductor device with parallel PN structures A semiconductor device including a substrate, an active portion and a well region both formed in the substrate on a first surface side thereof, and a low-resistivity layer formed in the substrate on a second surface side thereof. A first parallel pn structure is formed in the substrate between the active portion and the low-resistivity layer, the first parallel pn structure having a first region and a second region that are repeatedly alternated at a first repetition pitch. A second parallel pn structure is formed in the substrate between the well region and the low-resistivity layer, the second parallel pn structure having a third region and a fourth region that are repeatedly alternated at a second repetition pitch that is smaller than the first repetition pitch, the well region and the second parallel pn structure being isolated from each other.
US10276648B1	Plasma treatment for thin film resistors on integrated circuits A method of fabricating ICs including thin film resistors (TFRs) depositing a dielectric liner layer on a substrate including a semiconductor surface having a plurality of IC die formed therein each including functional circuitry comprising a plurality of interconnected transistors. A TFR layer comprising chromium (Cr) is deposited on the dielectric liner layer. The TFR layer is plasma treated with atomic nitrogen and atomic hydrogen. A dielectric capping layer is deposited on the TFR layer after the plasma treating. A pattern is formed on the capping layer, and the TFR layer is etched to form at least one resistor that comprises the TFR layer.
US10276645B2	Image display device and method for repairing short circuit failure The present invention relates to an image display device and a method for repairing a short circuit failure. The present invention is applicable to, for example, an active matrix type image display device using an organic EL device, and a short circuit location between wiring patterns is able to be repaired. In a scanning line WSL or a signal line DTL, a bypass wiring pattern BP for bypassing a region where the signal line DTL and the scanning line WSL intersect with each other is provided. By using the bypass wiring pattern BP, a short circuit location between wiring patterns is repaired.
US10276640B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate, an encapsulation unit opposite to the substrate, a display unit disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation unit and including a pixel, a camera unit disposed on one side of the substrate and including at least one camera module, and a mirror member disposed on one side of the encapsulation unit.
US10276637B2	Organic EL multi-color light-emitting device An organic EL multi-color emitting device including a substrate, and a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element arranged on the surface of the substrate; the first light-emitting element including, between an anode and a cathode, a first organic layer, a second organic layer and a third organic layer in this sequence in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate; the second light-emitting element including, between an anode and a cathode, a second organic layer and a third organic layer in this sequence in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate; the first organic layer including a first light-emitting dopant; the third organic layer including a second light-emitting dopant; the second organic layer including any of (A) a compound including an arylamine site, and a furan site or a thiophene site, (B) a compound including an arylamine site and a site comprising a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring structure, (C) a compound including a carbazole site, and a furan site or a thiophene site, and (D) a compound including a carbazole site and a site including a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring structure.
US10276624B2	Solid-state imaging element, method of manufacturing the same, and imaging device In pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix fashion in the pixel array unit of a solid-state imaging element, a photoelectric conversion film having a light shielding film buried therein is formed and stacked on the light incident side of the photodiode. The present technique can be applied to a CMOS image sensor compatible with the global shutter system, for example.
US10276617B2	Protection ring for image sensors Some embodiments relate to a pixel sensor array including a plurality of photosensors arranged in a semiconductor substrate. A protection ring circumscribes an outer perimeter of the pixel sensor array. The protection ring includes a first ring neighboring the pixel sensor array, a second ring circumscribing the first ring and meeting the first ring at a first p-n junction, and a third ring circumscribing the second ring and meeting the second ring at a second p-n junction. The first ring has a first width, the second ring has a second width, and the third ring has a third width. At least two of the first width, the second width, and the third width are different from one another.
US10276611B2	Photosensor substrate A photosensor substrate includes: a substrate 31; gate lines arranged on the substrate 31 and extend in a first direction; source lines Si arranged on the substrate 31 and extend in a second direction; transistors arranged in correspondence to points of intersection between the source lines and the gate lines, respectively, and are connected therewith; an insulating layer that covers the transistors; photoelectric conversion elements 4 arranged in correspondence to the points of intersection between the source lines and the gate lines, and are connected with the transistors via first contact holes CH3 in the insulating layer, and bias lines 8 that extend in the second direction, and are connected with the photoelectric conversion elements 4. The source lines are connected with the transistors via second contact holes CH2 in the insulating layer, and have a line width greater than a line width of the bias lines 8.
US10276604B2	Display panel and display device including the same There are provided a display panel and a display device including the same. In the display panel and display device including the same, in a structure in which an insulating layer having a depression point is provided between different conductive layers, another insulating layer may be disposed to cover the depression point. Accordingly, an occurrence of a short circuit may be minimized between the different conductive layers.
US10276591B2	Vertical memory device A vertical memory device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a connection region adjacent to the cell array region, a plurality of gate electrode layers stacked on the cell array region and the connection region of the substrate, and forming a stepped structure in the connection region, a first metal line dividing the plurality of gate electrode layers and connected to the cell array region and the connection region of the substrate, and a second metal line dividing a portion of the plurality of gate electrode layers and connected to the connection region of the substrate. A depth of a lower end portion of the second metal line may be greater than a depth of a lower end portion of the first metal line in the cell array region, based on an upper surface of the substrate.
US10276589B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a mold structure including alternately stacked mold insulating and sacrificial layers on a substrate, forming a vertical structure through the mold structure, forming side openings by removing the sacrificial, forming a preliminary dielectric layer in the side openings, forming a dielectric layer by heat-treating the preliminary dielectric layer, removing a surface layer of the dielectric layer, forming a first conductive layer covering the dielectric layer in the side openings, and forming a second conductive layer covering the first conductive layer and filling the side openings.
US10276587B2	NVM memory HKMG integration technology The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC). In some embodiments, a substrate is provided comprising a memory region and a logic region. A sacrificial logic gate electrode is formed within the logic region together with a control gate electrode or a select gate electrode within the memory region by patterning a control gate layer or a select gate layer. A first inter-layer dielectric layer is formed between the sacrificial logic gate electrode and the control gate electrode or the select gate electrode. A hard mask is formed over the first inter-layer dielectric layer to cover the memory region and to expose the sacrificial logic gate electrode within the logic region. The sacrificial logic gate electrode is replaced with a high-k gate dielectric layer and a metal layer to form a metal gate electrode within the logic region.
US10276586B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate and a semiconductor layer. The device further includes a first electrode layer that is provided on a side surface of the semiconductor layer with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The device further includes a charge storage layer provided on a side surface of the first electrode layer with the second insulating film interposed therebetween.
US10276573B2	FinFET including tunable fin height and tunable fin width ratio A semiconductor substrate includes a bulk substrate layer that extends along a first axis to define a width and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis to define a height. A plurality of hetero semiconductor fins includes an epitaxial material formed on a first region of the bulk substrate layer. A plurality of non-hetero semiconductor fins is formed on a second region of the bulk substrate layer different from the first region. The non-hetero semiconductor fins are integrally formed from the bulk substrate layer such that the material of the non-hetero semiconductor fins is different from the epitaxial material.
US10276572B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first channel region disposed over a substrate, a first source region and a first drain region disposed over the substrate and connected to the first channel region such that the first channel region is disposed between the first source region and the first drain region, a gate dielectric layer disposed on and wrapping the first channel region, a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping the first channel region, and a second source region and a second drain region disposed over the substrate and below the first source region and the first drain region, respectively. The second source region and the second drain region are in contact with the gate dielectric layer. A lattice constant of the first source region and the first drain region is different from a lattice constant of the second source region and the second drain region.
US10276571B2	Circuit design system and semiconductor circuit designed by using the system A system and method may determine the operating parameters, such as voltages, of MOS transistors within a circuit design by testing or simulation, for example and may identify a MOS transistor operating with its drain voltage higher than its gate voltage in the circuit. The design system and method may substitute a smaller transistor, having a high-k dielectric layer, for the original transistor in the circuit design.
US10276569B2	Minimizing shorting between FinFET epitaxial regions The present invention relates generally to semiconductors, and more particularly, to a structure and method of minimizing shorting between epitaxial regions in small pitch fin field effect transistors (FinFETs). In an embodiment, a dielectric region may be formed in a middle portion of a gate structure. The gate structure be formed using a gate replacement process, and may cover a middle portion of a first fin group, a middle portion of a second fin group and an intermediate region of the substrate between the first fin group and the second fin group. The dielectric region may be surrounded by the gate structure in the intermediate region. The gate structure and the dielectric region may physically separate epitaxial regions formed on the first fin group and the second fin group from one another.
US10276568B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a doped layer doped with a first dopant is formed in a substrate. A semiconductor layer is formed on the doped layer. A fin structure is formed by patterning at least the semiconductor layer and the doped layer such that the fin structure comprises a channel region including the semiconductor layer, and a well region including the doped layer. An isolation insulating layer is formed such that the channel region of the fin structure protrudes from the isolation insulating layer and the well region of the fin structure is embedded in the isolation insulating layer. A gate structure is formed over a part of the fin structure and the isolation insulating layer. The semiconductor layer is at least one of a doped silicon layer or a non-doped silicon layer.
US10276565B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first device disposed on the substrate, and the first device includes at least two first gate stacks, in which the two adjacent first gate stacks have a first distance therebetween; a plurality of first gate spacers having a first thickness disposed on opposite sidewalls of the first gate stacks; the semiconductor device further includes a second device disposed on the substrate, and the second device includes at least two second gate stacks, in which the two adjacent second gate stacks have a second distance therebetween, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance; a plurality of second gate spacers having a second thickness disposed on opposite sidewalls of the second gate stacks, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
US10276564B2	Semiconductor device including vertical channel A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region; a first nanowire in the first region in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate; a second nanowire in the second region in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate and having a height less than that of the first nanowire; first source/drain regions at top portion and bottom portion of the first nanowire; second source/drain regions at top portion and bottom portion of the second nanowire; a first gate electrode surrounding the first nanowire between the first source/drain regions; and a second gate electrode surrounding the second nanowire between the second source/drain regions.
US10276557B2	Electrostatic discharge protection device An ESD protection device includes a semiconductor substrate of p-type conductivity, an epitaxial layer of p-type conductivity, a buried layer of n-type conductivity, device isolation layers, a first well of n-type conductivity, an emitter formed by implanting p-type impurities into an upper portion of the first well, a second well of p-type conductivity, a collector formed by implanting p-type impurities into an upper portion of the second well, a first P-body region interposed between the second well and the collector, a third well of n-type conductivity, a base formed by implanting n-type impurities into an upper surface portion of the third well, and a first deep well of n-type conductivity, interposed between the third well and the buried layer.
US10276545B1	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package including a chip stack, at least one conductive wire, a first insulating encapsulant, a second insulating encapsulant, and a redistribution layer is provided, and a manufacturing method thereof is also provided. The chip stack includes semiconductor chips stacked on top of each other. Each semiconductor chip has an active surface that has at least one bonding region, and each bonding region is exposed by the chip stack. The conductive wire is correspondingly disposed on the bonding region. The first insulating encapsulant encapsulates the bonding region and the conductive wire. At least a portion of each conductive wire is exposed from the first insulating encapsulant. The second insulating encapsulant encapsulates the chip stack and the first insulating encapsulant. The first insulating encapsulant is exposed from the second insulating encapsulant. The redistribution layer is disposed on the first and second insulating encapsulant and electrically coupled to the conductive wire.
US10276543B1	Semicondcutor device package and method of forming semicondcutor device package A semiconductor device package includes a lower redistribution structure, an upper encapsulated semiconductor device and an upper redistribution structure. The lower redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer, a RDL, a second dielectric layer, and a second RDL. The first RDL is disposed on the first dielectric layer and includes a circuit portion and an alignment mark portion insulated from the circuit portion. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first RDL, wherein the second dielectric layer covers the alignment mark portion. The second RDL is disposed on the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first RDL. The upper encapsulated semiconductor device is disposed on the lower redistribution structure. The upper redistribution structure is disposed on the upper encapsulated semiconductor device.
US10276539B1	Method for 3D ink jet TCB interconnect control A semiconductor device, semiconductor device assembly, and method of forming a semiconductor device assembly that includes a barrier on a pillar. The semiconductor device assembly includes a semiconductor device disposed over another semiconductor device. At least one pillar extends from one semiconductor device towards a pad on the other semiconductor device. The barrier on the exterior of the pillar may be a standoff to control a bond line between the semiconductor devices. The barrier may reduce solder bridging and may prevent reliability and electromigration issues that can result from the IMC formation between the solder and copper portions of a pillar. The barrier may help align the pillar with a pad when forming a semiconductor device assembly and may reduce misalignment due to lateral movement of the semiconductor devices. Windows or slots in the barrier may permit the expansion of solder in predetermined directions while preventing bridging in other directions.
US10276529B2	Semiconductor devices including conductive pillars A method of forming a conductive material on a semiconductor device. The method comprises removing at least a portion of a conductive pad within an aperture in a dielectric material over a substrate. The method further comprises forming a seed material at least within a bottom of the aperture and over the dielectric material, forming a protective material over the seed material within the aperture, and forming a conductive pillar in contact with the seed material through an opening in the protective material over surfaces of the seed material within the aperture. A method of forming an electrical connection between adjacent semiconductor devices, and a semiconductor device, are also described.
US10276528B2	Semicondcutor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method for the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer, a bump, an etching stop layer and a spacer. The first dielectric layer is disposed over and exposes a conductive structure. The bump is partially disposed in the first dielectric layer to electrically connect the conductive structure. The etching stop layer is disposed over the first dielectric layer aside the bump a spacer and surrounds the bump and disposed between the etching stop layer and the bump.
US10276523B1	Semiconductor logic device and system and method of embedded packaging of same A reconfigured semiconductor device includes a semiconductor device comprising an active surface having a plurality of input/output (I/O) pads spaced at a non-solderable pitch thereon and at least one redistribution layer overlying the active surface of the semiconductor device. Each at least one redistribution layer includes an insulating layer and a patterned conductive layer comprising a plurality of discrete terminal pads formed on the insulating layer, each of the plurality of discrete terminal pads electrically coupled to a respective I/O pad of the plurality of I/O pads by a conductive via formed through the insulating layer.
US10276514B1	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor device, a first seal ring, a second seal ring, and a plurality of through semiconductor vias (TSV). The semiconductor device has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first seal ring is disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor device and is adjacent to edges of the first surface. The second seal ring is disposed on the second surface of the semiconductor device and is adjacent to edges of the second surface. The TSVs penetrate through the semiconductor device and physically connect the first seal ring and the second seal ring.
US10276506B2	Integrated fan-out package A semiconductor device including an integrated circuit, a protection layer, and a conductive via is provided. The integrated circuit includes at least one conductive pad. The protection layer covers the integrated circuit. The protection layer includes a contact opening, and the conductive pad is exposed by the contact opening of the protection layer. The conductive via is embedded in the contact opening of the protection layer, and the conductive via is electrically connected to the conductive pad through the contact opening. A method of fabricating the above-mentioned semiconductor device and an integrated fan-out package including the above-mentioned semiconductor device are also provided.
US10276504B2	Preclean and deposition methodology for superconductor interconnects A method is provided of forming a superconductor interconnect structure. The method comprises forming a dielectric layer overlying a substrate, forming an interconnect opening in the dielectric layer, and moving the substrate to a deposition chamber. The method further comprises performing a cleaning process on the top surface of the dielectric layer and in the interconnect opening while in the deposition chamber, and depositing a superconducting metal in the interconnect opening while in the deposition chamber to form a superconducting element in the superconductor interconnect structure.
US10276487B1	Semiconductor device with flexible circuit for enabling non-destructive attaching and detaching of device to system board A semiconductor device assembly that includes a flexible member having a first portion connected to a substrate and a connector attached to a second portion of the flexible member. The connector is electrically connected to the substrate via a conducting layer within the flexible member. The substrate may be a semiconductor device, such as a chip. The connector may be configured to connect the semiconductor device to another semiconductor device assembly or a system board, such as a printed circuit board. A material may encapsulate at least a portion of the substrate of the semiconductor assembly. The semiconductor device assembly may be formed by selectively connecting the flexible member to a first substrate. A second substrate and connector may then be connected to the flexible member. A release layer may be used to release the assembly of the second substrate, flexible member, and connector from the first substrate.
US10276482B2	Method for reinforcing conductor tracks of a circuit board A method for manufacturing a circuit carrier for electronic components includes making available a carrier material layer made of an electrically insulating material and having at least one connecting layer which is applied at least to a first and/or second surface of the carrier material layer and has in each case a predefined layer thickness. Each connecting layer has a number of electrically conductive connections with a predefined conductor track width. At least some of the connections are strengthened by plasma spraying, at least in certain sections, with additional electrically conductive material. As a result, a greater layer thickness than the predefined layer thickness and/or a larger conductor track width than the predefined conductor track width is obtained. Furthermore, a circuit carrier for electronic components is specified.
US10276481B2	Package structure having a plurality of conductive balls having narrow width for the ball waist A package structure including a circuit substrate, a semiconductor die, a redistribution layer, a plurality of conductive balls and a circuit substrate is provided. The redistribution layer is disposed on the semiconductor die, and being electrically connected to the semiconductor die. The plurality of conductive balls is disposed between the redistribution layer and the circuit substrate. The semiconductor die is electrically connected to the circuit substrate through the conductive balls. Each of the conductive balls has a ball foot with a first width D1, a ball head with a third width D3 and a ball waist with a second width D2 located between the ball foot and the ball head. The ball foot is connected to the redistribution layer, the ball head is connected to the circuit substrate, and the ball waist is the narrowest portion of each of the conductive balls.
US10276478B2	Lead frame A lead frame includes an outer frame. The outer frame includes: an upper surface; a lower surface that is opposite to the upper surface; a side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface; a first recess that is formed to extend from the upper surface to the side surface; a second recess that is formed to extend from the lower surface to the side surface; and a curved surface that is positioned between the side surface and a side wall of the first recess or between the side surface and a side wall of the second recess.
US10276476B1	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same A semiconductor device and a method of forming the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an interconnection structure, an oxide semiconductor (OS) transistor and a contact structure. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The interconnection structure is disposed on the first surface, and the oxide semiconductor (OS) transistor is disposed on the second surface. Also, the OS transistor includes a back gate disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The contact structure is formed between the OS transistor and the interconnection structure, and the contact structure is electrically connected to the back gate. The contact structure penetrates through the substrate for electrically connecting the interconnection structure to the OS transistor.
US10276475B2	Thermal conductive stress relaxation structure A thermal conductive stress relaxation structure is interposed between a high-temperature substance and a low-temperature substance to conduct heat in a heat-transfer direction from the high-temperature substance to the low-temperature substance. The structure includes an assembly configured such that a thermal conductive material gathers in a non-bonded state having stress relaxation effect. Such an assembly is a rolled-up body configured such that a carbon-based sheet material and a metal-based sheet material are alternately rolled up, for example. This structure has one or more interfaces at which adjacent parts can slide, thereby dividing a deformable region to relax the thermal stress. It has a low rigidity and can thus deform to release the thermal stress. The structure can suppress the thermal stresses and the shape changes that would be generated in the high-temperature substance and the low-temperature substance, and each physical body located there between.
US10276474B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor elements; insulating circuit boards each including an insulating substrate, a circuit portion on a front surface of the insulating substrate connected to one semiconductor element, and a metal portion on a rear surface of the insulating substrate; a metal plate joined to the metal portions of the plurality of insulating circuit boards; and a joint member joining the plurality of insulating circuit boards to the metal plate. The metal plate has a front surface in which the insulating circuit boards are arranged apart from each other, and a rear surface including first regions corresponding to positions of the metal portions and second regions other than the first regions. At least a part of a surface of each of the first regions has a surface work-hardened layer, and the second regions have a hardness different from that of the surface work-hardened layer.
US10276459B2	Measurement method, measurement program, and measurement system According to one embodiment, there is provided a measurement method. The method includes acquiring layer information related to a plurality of layers to be superimposed for each of a plurality of shot regions on a substrate. The method includes dividing the plurality of shot regions into a plurality of groups corresponding to a layer attribute based on the acquired layer information. The method includes deciding a measurement condition of a measuring apparatus for each of the plurality of groups. The plurality of layers are sequentially stacked on the substrate to manufacture a semiconductor device.
US10276454B2	Semiconductor substrate having amorphous and single crystalline III-V compound semiconductor layers A semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate and a method of forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor substrate includes a first silicon-containing layer, a single crystalline III-V compound semiconductor layer and an amorphous III-V compound semiconductor layer. The first silicon-containing layer has a first region and a second region. The single crystalline III-V compound semiconductor layer is disposed on the first silicon-containing layer in the first region. The amorphous III-V compound semiconductor layer is disposed on the first silicon-containing layer in the second region.
US10276443B2	Insulating layer next to fin structure and method of removing fin structure A method of removing a fin structure includes providing a substrate. A fin structure extends from the substrate. A mask layer is disposed on a top surface of the fin structure. An organic dielectric layer covers the substrate, the fin structure and the mask layer. A first etching process is performed to entirely remove the mask layer by taking the organic dielectric layer as a mask. Then a second etching process is performed to remove the fin structure. The first etching process is preferably an anisotropic etching process, and the second etching process is an isotropic etching process.
US10276438B2	Marked pixel unit, display device using the same, and method for fabricating the display device A marked pixel unit includes at least one active element, a first dielectric layer, a color filter unit, a second dielectric layer, and at least one pixel electrode. The active element includes a source, a gate, and a drain. The first dielectric layer is configured to cover the gate. The color filter unit is disposed above the first dielectric layer, and has an alignment opening. The second dielectric layer is disposed above the active element and the color filter unit, and has a contact hole. The pixel electrode is disposed above the second dielectric layer, and electrically connected to the drain through the contact hole. The contact hole of the second dielectric layer is located outside the alignment opening.
US10276436B2	Selective recessing to form a fully aligned via A method of forming a semiconductor device having a vertical metal line interconnect (via) fully aligned to a first direction of a first interconnect layer and a second direction of a second interconnect layer in a selective recess region by forming a plurality of metal lines in a first dielectric layer; and recessing in a recess region first portions of the plurality of metal lines such that top surfaces of the first portions of the plurality of metal lines are below a top surface of the first dielectric layer; wherein a non-recess region includes second portions of the plurality of metal lines that are outside the recess region.
US10276429B2	Interconnect structure, interconnect layout structure, and manufacturing method thereof An interconnect layout structure having air gaps includes a plurality of air gaps extended along a direction, and at least a first interconnect unit disposed in between the air gaps. The first interconnect unit includes a first conductive line, a first landing mark situated on the first conductive line and a first via structure situated on the first landing mark. The first via structure penetrates the first landing mark and is electrically connected to the first conductive line. And the first landing mark physically separates the air gaps arranged in a straight line.
US10276428B2	Semiconductor package and method of fabricating semiconductor package A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes providing a substrate having at least one contact and forming a redistribution layer on the substrate. The formation of the redistribution layer includes forming a dielectric material layer over the substrate and performing a double exposure process to the dielectric material layer. A development process is then performed and a dual damascene opening is formed in the dielectric material layer. A seed metallic layer is formed over the dual damascene opening and over the dielectric material layer. A metal layer is formed over the seed metallic layer. A redistribution pattern is formed in the first dual damascene opening and is electrically connected with the at least one contact.
US10276427B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductive substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a shallow trench isolation (STI) including a first portion at least partially disposed within the semiconductive substrate and tapered from the first surface towards the second surface, and a second portion disposed inside the semiconductive substrate, coupled with the first portion and extended from the first portion towards the second surface, and a void enclosed by the STI, wherein the void is at least partially disposed within the second portion of the STI.
US10276415B2	Gas purge unit A gas purge unit introduces a cleaning gas into a container with a main opening there through for taking a housed object in and out. The gas purge unit includes a blowout member and a supply portion. The blowout member with a cylindrical shape has an elongated hollow extending in a longitudinal direction and a discharge portion of a porous body connecting between the elongated hollow and the outside to discharge the cleaning gas. The supply portion is connected to the elongated hollow through a connection hole formed at one end of the blowout member to supply the cleaning gas to the elongated hollow.
US10276411B2	High pressure and high temperature anneal chamber Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for annealing one or more semiconductor substrates. In one embodiment, a processing chamber is disclosed. The processing chamber includes a chamber body enclosing an internal volume, a substrate support disposed in the internal volume and configured to support a substrate during processing, a gas panel configured to provide a processing fluid into the internal volume, and a temperature-controlled fluid circuit configured to maintain the processing fluid at a temperature above a condensation point of the processing fluid. The temperature-controlled fluid circuit includes a gas conduit fluidly coupled to a port on the chamber body at a first end and to the gas panel at a second end.
US10276410B2	Substrate support device A substrate support device formed of a metal and having a high withstand voltage and a high thermal resistance is provided. A substrate support device according to the present invention includes a plate section formed of a metal; a shaft section connected to the plate section and formed of a metal; a heating element provided in the plate section; and an insulating film formed on a first surface of the plate section, the first surface opposite to the shaft section, by ceramic thermal spraying. The substrate support device may further include an insulating film formed on a second surface of the plate section which intersects the first surface of the plate section approximately perpendicularly.
US10276409B2	Sample holder, device and method for detaching of a first substrate A method and device for detaching a first substrate, which is connected to a second substrate by an interconnect layer, from the second substrate by embrittlement of the interconnect layer. A method for bonding of a first substrate to a second substrate with an interconnect layer which can be embrittled by cooling. A use of a material which can be embrittled for producing an interconnect layer between first and second substrates for forming a substrate stack. A substrate stack, formed from a first substrate, a second substrate and an interconnect layer located therebetween, the interconnect layer formed from a material which can be embrittled. A wafer chuck for holding a first substrate when the first substrate is being detached from a second substrate with fixing means which can be activated by lowering the temperature.
US10276407B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method The substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit that holds a substrate horizontally, a substrate rotating unit that rotates the substrate held by the substrate holding unit around a prescribed rotational axis extending along a vertical direction, a processing liquid supply nozzle that moves in a horizontal direction and supplies a processing liquid onto an upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit, a shielding member that shields an atmosphere between the shielding member and the upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit from an ambient atmosphere, an inert gas supply unit that supplies an inert gas between the upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit and the shielding member, and a shielding member rotating unit that rotates the shielding member around the rotational axis. The shielding member includes an annular portion that surrounds the substrate held by the substrate holding unit, and a passage-allowing portion that is provided in the annular portion and allows the processing liquid supply nozzle to pass through the annular portion. The substrate processing apparatus includes a controller that is programmed so as to control the shielding member rotating unit to adjust a position of the passage-allowing portion in the rotational direction such that the processing liquid supply nozzle is to be passed through the annular portion.
US10276401B2	3D shielding case and methods for forming the same A package includes a die, and a molding material molding the die therein. A metal shield case includes a first metal mesh over and contacting the molding material and the die, a second metal mesh underlying the die, and a Through-Assembly Via (TAV) in the molding material and forming a ring encircling the die. The TAV is electrically connected to the first metal mesh and the second metal mesh.
US10276396B2	Method for forming semiconductor device with damascene structure A method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes forming a first dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate and forming an etch stop layer with a hole over the first dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a second dielectric layer over the etch stop layer and forming a first mask element with a trench opening over the second dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a second mask element over the first mask element, and the second mask element has a via opening. In addition, the method includes etching the second dielectric layer through the via opening and etching the second dielectric layer through the trench opening. As a result, a trench and a via hole are formed in the second dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer, respectively. The method includes forming a conductive material in the via hole and the trench.
US10276391B1	Self-aligned gate caps with an inverted profile Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for field-effect transistor. A gate structure includes a work function metal layer, a first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer arranged over the work function metal layer. The second conductor layer has a sidewall and a top surface, and the first conductor layer has a first section arranged between the second conductor layer and the work function metal layer and a second section arranged adjacent to a first portion of the sidewall of the second conductor layer. A dielectric cap is arranged on the gate structure. The dielectric cap has a first section arranged over the top surface of the second conductor layer and a second section arranged adjacent to a second portion of the sidewall of the second conductor layer.
US10276384B2	Plasma shallow doping and wet removal of depth control cap A gas is ionized into a plasma. A compound of a dopant is mixed into the plasma, forming a mixed plasma. Using a semiconductor device fabrication system, a layer of III-V material is exposed to the mixed plasma to dope the layer with the dopant up to a depth in the layer, forming a shallow doped portion of the layer. The depth of the dopant is controlled by a second layer of the dopant formed at the shallow doped portion of the layer. The second layer is exposed to a solution, where the solution is prepared to erode the dopant in the second layer at a first rate. After an elapsed period, the solution is removed from the second layer, wherein the elapsed period is insufficient to erode a total depth of the layer and the shallow doped portion by more than a tolerance erosion amount.
US10276380B2	Method of semiconductor device fabrication A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate, forming a hard mask (HM) layer over the dielectric layer, forming a fin trench through the HM layer and the dielectric layer and extending down to the substrate, forming a semiconductor feature in the fin trench and removing the HM layer to expose an upper portion of the semiconductor feature to form fin features.
US10276377B2	Method for patterning interconnects Various patterning methods involved with manufacturing semiconductor devices are disclosed herein. A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure (for example, interconnects) includes forming a patterned photoresist layer over a dielectric layer. An opening (hole) is formed in the patterned photoresist layer. In some embodiments, a surrounding wall of the patterned photoresist layer defines the opening, where the surrounding wall has a generally peanut-shaped cross section. The opening in the patterned photoresist layer can be used to form an opening in the dielectric layer, which can be filled with conductive material. In some embodiments, a chemical layer is formed over the patterned photoresist layer to form a pair of spaced apart holes defined by the chemical layer, and an etching process is performed on the dielectric layer using the chemical layer as an etching mask to form a pair of spaced apart holes through the dielectric layer.
US10276359B2	Ion mobility spectrometer The present disclosure provides an ion mobility spectrometer, which comprises: a power supply circuit, configured to provide a power supply voltage; a corona discharge configured to generate ions to be subjected to measurement, through corona discharge; an ion migration circuit configured to control migration of the ions; a migration zone structure configured to realize, under control of the ion migration circuit, mobility spectrum measurement of the ions which pass through the migration zone structure; a redundant charge extraction electrode arranged between the corona discharge structure and the migration zone structure, so that the ions which are generated by the corona discharge structure can pass therethrough to reach the migration zone structure; and a redundant charge extraction circuit, wherein the redundant charge extraction electrode is connected to the ground through the redundant charge extraction circuit.
US10276352B2	Pair of electrodes for DBD plasma process The present invention concerns a device (10) for the surface treatment of a substrate (1) by dielectric barrier discharge that enables the generation of a cold filamentary plasma at atmospheric pressure, comprising a reaction chamber, in which are positioned means for supporting and/or moving the substrate (2) and at least two electrodes (3, 4) arranged in parallel on either side of the means for supporting and/or moving the substrate (2), of which one electrode (3) is intended to be brought to high voltage and a counter-electrode (4) to be earthed. It is characterised in that the counter-electrode (4) has a width (lce) and a length (Lce) that are respectively smaller than the width (le) and the length (Le) of the electrode (3), and in that the counter-electrode (4) is positioned so that it is enclosed in an orthogonal projection (5) of the electrode (3) on a plane containing the counter-electrode (4). The invention also concerns a surface treatment process, in particular for layer deposition, that calls for such a device.
US10276351B1	High-frequency power generator with enhanced pulse function Provided is a high-frequency power generator with an enhanced pulse function, which supplies high-frequency power to a plasma load. The high-frequency power generator may include: a rectifier configured to receive AC power and rectify the received AC power; a DC-DC converter configured to adjust an output voltage by switching an output of the rectifier; an RF power amplifier configured to amplify an output of the DC-DC converter, and transfer high-frequency power with a pulse waveform to the plasma load; an RF power controller configured to control the output and pulse waveform of the RF power amplifier; and a DC-DC converter controller configured to receive a pulse signal from the RF power controller, and control a duty ratio of switching elements constituting the DC-DC converter.
US10276344B2	Power supply apparatus able to control output current and power supply method using the same A power supply apparatus able to control an output current for maintaining plasma in a plasma generator includes: a switching power supply including a rectifier, an inverter, and a phase shifter; a plasma source connected to the switching power supply and generating the plasma in the plasma generator; a resonance network connected between the switching power supply and the plasma source and including a resonance inductor connected to a primary winding in series and a resonance capacitor connected to the plasma source in parallel and connected to the resonance inductor in series; and a control unit controlling the switching power supply in order to phase-shift a voltage and a current provided to the resonance network.
US10276341B2	Control method and control program for focused ion beam device The present invention is directed to a technique for correcting processing positional deviation and processing size deviation during processing by a focused ion beam device. A focused ion beam device control method includes forming a first processed figure on the surface of a specimen through the application of a focused ion beam in a first processing range of vision; determining the position of a next, second processing range of vision based on the outer dimension of the first processed figure; and moving a stage to the position of the second processing range of vision thus determined. Further, the control method includes forming a second processed figure through the application of the focused ion beam in a second processing range of vision.
US10276336B2	Circuit breaker assembly including a circuit breaker connector A circuit breaker assembly includes a circuit breaker cassette having a connector receiving zone, and a housing receptive of the circuit breaker cassette. The housing includes a connector mounting member. A circuit breaker connector member snap-fittingly extends into the connector receiving zone through the connector mounting member joining the circuit breaker cassette and the housing.
US10276334B2	Liner arrangement and a circuit breaker with a liner arrangement and method for protecting an insulator body It is proposed a liner arrangement for fitting a tubular insulator body in a circuit breaker. The liner arrangement includes a planar, electric-arc resistant and heat resistant liner layer comprising a first edge portion and a second edge portion that is located opposite the first edge portion, wherein the first edge portion has a first contour extending in a direction transversally to a plane defined by the planar liner layer. The second edge portion has a second contour having a geometry that is complementary to the first contour such that the first edge portion can be attached by way of a form fit to the second edge portion once the planar liner layer is bent to a tubular shape. Further, a circuit breaker including a liner arrangement and an insulator is described. A method for protecting an insulator body of a heat chamber insulator for a circuit breaker is also described.
US10276329B2	Multi-direction switch A switch includes a base on which a bearing body having a bearing part at an upper end is provided in a protruding manner, an operating lever having an operating shaft with a lower end surface rotatably supported by the bearing part, and at least one operating leg extending from the operating shaft toward the base; and at least one contact mechanism having a fixed contact and a movable contact movable by the operating leg during rotation of the operating shaft, the contact mechanism being disposed on an upper surface of the base, with the movable contact opened and closed by the operating leg with respect to the fixed contact.
US10276327B2	Luminous keyboard and luminous keyswitch thereof A luminous keyswitch includes a keycap having a light-transparent portion, a baseplate, an up-down mechanism with two ends respectively moveably connected to the keycap and the baseplate, a function sheet disposed on or under the baseplate, and a light source disposed on the function sheet within a vertical projection of the keycap and connected by a copper wire to provide a light illuminating the light-transparent portion. The function sheet includes a flexible upper circuit layer having a first contact point, a flexible spacer layer having a hole, and a flexible lower circuit layer having a second copper contact point, a third copper contact point, a first copper wire connected to the second copper contact point, and a second copper wire connected to the third copper contact point. When the keycap is pressed, the first contact point passes through the hole to electrically connect the second and third copper contact points.
US10276324B1	Keypad device with rocker button mechanism A keypad device includes a circuit board having raised buttons disposed on a first surface of the circuit board, resilient switches disposed on a periphery of the first surface, and through-holes, wherein each of the raised buttons and switches, when actuated, closes a circuit on the circuit board and affects an input to the device. The keypad device includes a faceplate fastened to the circuit board, the faceplate having an array of openings configured to allow the buttons to pass through, bosses extending from a first surface of the faceplate toward the circuit board and positioned to pass through the through-holes on the circuit board, and plungers aligned above and in contact with the resilient switches such that when the plate is pressed toward the circuit board, in a region at or near a subject plunger, the subject plunger actuates the resilient switch that is in contact with the plunger.
US10276315B2	Operating device for power switchgear An operating device for a power switchgear includes: an output lever coupled to a movable-contact of the switchgear; a torsion bar releasing an accumulated force when the switchgear is opened to rotate the lever in the counterclockwise direction and drive the movable-contact in an opening direction; an opening latch engaged with the lever to hold an accumulated force of the torsion bar; a cam rotating when the switchgear is closed, having contact with the lever to rotate the lever in the clockwise direction, and driving the movable-contact in a closing direction; another torsion bar releasing the accumulated force when the switchgear is closed to rotate the cam; and a closing latch which can be engaged with the cam to hold the accumulated force of the torsion bar. The cam includes opposed cam elements, a pin whose ends are rotatably supported by the elements, and a bolt fastening the elements.
US10276313B2	High-voltage earthing switch A high-voltage earthing switch is disclosed. A static contact of the earthing switch is connected with the first end of a conductive copper busbar. The second end of the conductive copper busbar is connected with a transformer. The conductive copper busbar includes a first segment and a second segment connected with the first segment. The first segment is one straight segment and an end is taken as an end of the first end of the conductive copper busbar. The first segment extends from the static contact in the direction opposite to the instantaneous action direction of the moving contact when the moving contact engages the static contact. The second segment is connected with the other end of the first segment, and extends towards the side of the first segment facing away from the moving contact.
US10276293B2	Electromagnetic coil constructed from conductive traces on printed circuit boards Traces, vias, or other conductive paths are formed on or through printed circuit boards or other insulating substrates to function as loops of an electromagnetic coil. The substrate itself insulates one side of each loop except at the inter-loop connection point, allowing the loops to be connected directly to each other. A ratio of trace width to depth may be selected to prevent or mitigate skin-effect losses at high operating frequencies. Nested sleeves on an insulated housing lengthen the surface distance between the coil and any nearby conductor such as an interior core or winding, presenting an effective obstacle to surface flashover between the coil and the nearby conductor. Optionally, field-shaping electrodes at the ends of the coil may discourage breakdown by reducing the electric field magnitude. Trace-based electromagnetic coils used as secondary windings in high-power transformers may be smaller than traditional wire-wound secondaries meeting similar voltage hold-off requirements.
US10276271B2	Electric fission reactor for space applications Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a power system utilizing a uranium-based reactor for space missions. For example, the power system may include a reactor configured to generate thermal energy using a uranium core. A plurality of heat pipes may be configured to transfer thermal energy from the reactor core to a plurality of Stirling engines to generate electricity for a spacecraft.
US10276264B2	Electronic health record system and method Provided are a system and method for efficiently creating patient health records with help of expert clinical decision support. The system and method also ensures the doctor's documentation and diagnosis comply with the government healthcare quality measures.
US10276254B2	Shift register unit, organic light-emitting display panel and driving method The present disclosure describes a shift register unit, an organic light-emitting display panel and a driving method. The shift register unit comprises a node potential controller and an output unit. The node potential controller comprises a first output end and a second output end. The output unit is configured to output, based on a first control signal from the first output end and a second control signal from the second output end, a first level signal or a second level signal. According to the solutions provided by the application, the potential of each node in the shift register unit is stable and controllable, and contributed to the avoidance of output logic execution problem in the shift register unit caused by unstable node potential when each control signal level of the shift register unit jumps.
US10276231B2	SRAM cell for interleaved wordline scheme Some embodiments relate to an SRAM cell layout including upper and lower cell edges and left and right cell edges. A first power rail extends generally in parallel with and lies along the left cell edge or the right cell edge. The first power rail is coupled to a first power supply. A second power rail extends generally in parallel with the first power rail and is arranged equidistantly between the left and right cell edges. A first bitline extends in parallel with the first power rail and the second power rail and is arranged to a first side of the second power rail. A second bitline, which is complementary to the first bitline, extends in parallel with the first power rail and the second power rail and is arranged to a second side of the second power rail.
US10276229B2	Adjusting signal timing Example circuitry to adjust a rise-fall skew in a signal includes: a latch including a first latch input, a second latch input, and a latch output, each of the first latch input and the second latch input being responsive to a rising edge of a version of a signal to provide a predefined logic level at the latch output; a first delay circuit that is controllable to configure a first delay, the first delay circuit being electrically connected to the first latch input and being for adjusting a rise portion of a skew in a first version of the signal; and a second delay circuit that is controllable to configure a second delay, the second delay circuit being electrically connected to the second latch input and being for adjusting a fall portion of the skew in a second version the signal.
US10276223B2	Memory device for generating word line signals having varying pulse widths A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines, and a word line driver. The word lines are respectively coupled to the memory cells. The word line driver is configured to respectively drive the word lines with word line signals that have varying pulse widths.
US10276222B2	Method for accessing a memory and memory access circuit In accordance with one embodiment, a method for accessing a memory is provided, including carrying out a first access to the memory and charging, for a memory cell, a bit line coupled to the memory cell to a value which is stored or to be stored in the memory cell, holding the state of the bit line until a second access, which follows the first access, and outputting the held state if the second access is a read access to the memory cell.
US10276216B2	Data storage device filter A breather filter for reducing water in a data storage device housing includes an outer layer, an inner layer, and an intermediary layer positioned between the inner and outer layers. The outer layer includes an outer layer of hydrophilic material. The inner layer includes at least one of an inner layer of hydrophobic material and an inner layer of hydrophilic material. The intermediary layer includes a water adsorbing material, and fibers that promote water permeation from the inner layer to the outer layer.
US10276215B1	Data storage device fastener seal system A data storage device fastener seal system can have at least a base, a cover, and a fastener seal. The base may have at least one fastener aperture and a first contact surface while the cover can have a second contact and a fastener hole. The second contact surface may physically contact the first contact surface to enclose a data storage region. The fastener seal can be positioned between the base and cover proximal the fastener aperture with the fastener seal extending less than an inch from the fastener aperture in every direction along a plane parallel to the first and second contact surfaces.
US10276211B2	Immersive virtual reality production and playback for storytelling content Methods for digital content production and playback of an immersive stereographic video work provide or enhance interactivity of immersive entertainment using various different playback and production techniques. “Immersive stereographic” may refer to virtual reality, augmented reality, or both. The methods may be implemented using specialized equipment for immersive stereographic playback or production. Aspects of the methods may be encoded as instructions in a computer memory, executable by one or more processors of the equipment to perform the aspects.
US10276206B2	Storage tape wobble decoder and method Amplitude or phase modulated uncompensated wobble patterns representing address patterns for track addresses of optical media are generated or applied to the media. A filter is applied to the un-compensated wobble patterns to detect a threshold value to signal the existence of a synchronization pattern. A pair of filters can be used to detect the threshold and a zero-crossing. This methodology can detect the existence and timing of the wobble pattern. This can eliminate the need for a timing recovery subfield in the wobble pattern of the prior art.
US10276204B1	Behavioral model for dynamic tension compensation A tape drive-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: detecting a read error, determining whether a current tension setting of the magnetic tape is accurate, determining whether the read error is part of an error burst in response to determining that the current tension setting of the magnetic tape is accurate, sending instructions to perform a first re-read attempt in response to determining that the read error is not part of an error burst, determining whether the first re-read attempt was performed successfully, selecting a range of tension settings in response to determining that the first re-read attempt was not performed successfully, selecting a range of lateral offsets, sending instructions to apply each unique combination of tension settings and lateral offsets, for each of the unique combinations applied, sending instructions to perform a second phase re-read attempt, and determining whether the second phase re-read attempt was performed successfully.
US10276202B1	Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium with rhodium or rhodium-based alloy heat-sink layer A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium has a rhodium (Rh) or Rh-based alloy heat-sink layer. The Rh or Rh-based alloy does not roughen when annealed and thus does not require an intermediate layer between it and the MgO seed layer for the recording layer, so the MgO seed layer can be formed directly on and in contact with the Rh or Rh-based alloy heat-sink layer. The Rh or Rh-based alloy heat-sink layer is formed on a seed layer or multilayer that allows the Rh or Rh-based alloy to grow with the desired face-centered-cubic (fcc) crystalline structure.
US10276200B2	Magnetic recording medium The purpose of the invention is to provide a magnetic recording medium in which the surface roughness of the magnetic recording layer can be reduced without deterioration of the magnetic properties of the magnetic recording layer. The magnetic recording medium of the present invention includes a substrate, a seed layer on the substrate, and a magnetic recording layer on the seed layer, wherein the seed layer contains Mn, Cr, and O, and has a spinel structure.
US10276194B2	Split-shaft pivot with interface spacer for a dual-actuator hard disk drive A split-shaft pivot assembly for a dual-actuator data storage device may include a first pivot shaft around which a first bearing assembly is affixed, a second pivot shaft around which a second bearing assembly is affixed, and whereby the two pivot shafts are coupled together by way of an interface spacer between the shafts. The interface spacer may include a receiving structure at each end of a housing, for receiving an end of a respective shaft, and an annular slot circumscribing the housing between the receiving structures, where an elastomeric damper is positioned within the slot. The interface spacer housing may be composed of a material having a lower elastic modulus than the material of which the shafts are composed, thereby making the interface spacer relatively compliant. Such features may serve to inhibit and/or damp transmission of vibrational energy among the actuators through the shared split-shaft.
US10276192B2	Perpendicular magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium includes an amorphous buffer layer, a hybrid layer including a barrier layer, and a texture control layer. The magnetic recording medium also includes a heat sink layer, an under layer, and a perpendicular recording layer.
US10276191B2	Speech section detection device, voice processing system, speech section detection method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, a speech section detection device includes a reception unit and a detection unit. The reception unit is configured to receive, from an external device, a first voice signal that is a signal in which likelihood indicating a probability of speech is equal to or more than a first threshold. The detection unit is configured to detect, from the first voice signal, a second voice signal that is a signal of a section in which the likelihood is equal to or more than a second threshold that is larger than the first threshold.
US10276190B2	Sentiment analysis of mental health disorder symptoms Monitoring and analysis of a user's speech to detect symptoms of a mental health disorder by continuously monitoring a user's speech in real-time to generate audio data based, transcribing the audio data to text and analyzing the text of the audio data to determine a sentiment of the audio data is disclosed. A trained machine learning model may be applied to correlate the text and the determined sentiment to clinical information associated with symptoms of a mental health disorder to determine whether the symptoms are a symptom event. The initial determination may be transmitted to a second device to determine (and/or verify) whether or not the symptom event was falsely recognized. The trained machine learning model may be updated based on a response from the second device.
US10276188B2	Systems and methods for identifying human emotions and/or mental health states based on analyses of audio inputs and/or behavioral data collected from computing devices Systems and methods are provided for analyzing voice-based audio inputs. A voice-based audio input associated with a user (e.g., wherein the voice-based audio input is a prompt or a command) is received and measures of one or more features are extracted. One or more parameters are calculated based on the measures of the one or more features. The occurrence of one or more mistriggers is identified by inputting the one or more parameters into a predictive model. Further, systems and methods are provided for identifying human mental health states using mobile device data. Mobile device data (including sensor data) associated with a mobile device corresponding to a user is received. Measurements are derived from the mobile device data and input into a predictive model. The predictive model is executed and outputs probability values of one or more symptoms associated with the user.
US10276186B2	Parameter determination device, method, program and recording medium for determining a parameter indicating a characteristic of sound signal A parameter determination device includes: a spectral envelope estimating portion performing estimation of a spectral envelope using a parameter η0 specified in a predetermined method, regarding the η0-th power of absolute values of a frequency domain sample sequence corresponding to a time-series signal as a power spectrum on the assumption that the parameter η0 and a parameter η are positive numbers; a whitened spectral sequence generating portion obtaining a whitened spectral sequence which is a sequence obtained by dividing the frequency domain sample sequence by the spectral envelope; and a parameter acquiring portion determining such a parameter η that generalized Gaussian distribution with the parameter η as a shape parameter approximates a histogram of the whitened spectral sequence.
US10276177B2	Technologies for privately processing voice data using a repositioned reordered fragmentation of the voice data Technologies for privately processing voice data include a compute device configured to continually or periodically capture voice data of a user by the compute device. The captured voice data is processed to remove or reduce the user's privacy-sensitive information. For example, the compute device fragments the captured voice data to generate a set of voice data fragments and further scrambles the voice data fragments to generate scrambled voice data fragments having a sequential order different from the plurality of voice data fragments. To scramble the voice data fragments, the compute device may reorder the voice data fragments such that each fragment is repositioned from its corresponding original sequential position in the voice data by a particular number of words, syllables, or phrases.
US10276174B2	MDCT-based complex prediction stereo coding The invention provides methods and devices for stereo encoding and decoding using complex prediction in the frequency domain. In one embodiment, a decoding method, for obtaining an output stereo signal from an input stereo signal encoded by complex prediction coding and comprising first frequency-domain representations of two input channels, comprises the upmixing steps of: (i) computing a second frequency-domain representation of a first input channel; and (ii) computing an output channel on the basis of the first and second frequency-domain representations of the first input channel, the first frequency-domain representation of the second input channel and a complex prediction coefficient. The upmixing can be suspended responsive to control data.
US10276169B2	Speaker recognition optimization One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, voice data; receiving, at the information handling device, user identification data from at least one user device; determining, using a processor, a voice signature subset from a database of users, wherein the voice signature subset comprises voice signatures associated with a plurality of users identified using the user identification data; and identifying at least one user associated with the voice data by comparing the received voice data to the voice signature subset. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10276168B2	Voiceprint verification method and device Embodiments of the present invention provide a voiceprint verification method and device. The voiceprint verification method comprises receiving verification voice data relating to a verification phrase; generating a verification voiceprint on the basis of said verification voice data; determining whether a similarity value between the verification voiceprint and a reference voiceprint conforms to a preset similarity value; and, if the similarity value between the verification voiceprint and a reference voiceprint conforms to a preset similarity value, then determining there is a match between the verification voiceprint and the reference voiceprint.
US10276158B2	System and method for initiating multi-modal speech recognition using a long-touch gesture A system, method and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for multi-modal interactions with a system via a long-touch gesture on a touch-sensitive display. A system operating per this disclosure can receive a multi-modal input comprising speech and a touch on a display, wherein the speech comprises a pronoun. When the touch on the display has a duration longer than a threshold duration, the system can identify an object within a threshold distance of the touch, associate the object with the pronoun in the speech, to yield an association, and perform an action based on the speech and the association.
US10276153B2	Online chat communication analysis via mono-recording system and methods The methods, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems described herein include recording a mono recording of a software and a customer inquiry communication using a microphone to interpret and respond to the customer inquiry communication, wherein the mono recording is unseparated and includes customer voice data and audio data generated by the software agent, separately and concurrently recording the software agent audio data in an agent recording, and subtracting agent audio data from the unseparated mono recording to provide a separated recording including only customer voice data.
US10276151B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling the electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive a user input, a storage configured to store a recognition model for recognizing the user input, a sensor configured to sense a surrounding circumstance of the electronic apparatus, and a processor configured to control to recognize the received user input based on the stored recognition model and to perform an operation corresponding to the recognized user input, and update the stored recognition model in response to determining that the performed operation is caused by a misrecognition based on a user input recognized after performing the operation and the sensed surrounding circumstance.
US10276150B2	Correction system, method of correction, and computer program product A correction system of the embodiment includes an interface system, a calculator, a generator, and a display controller. The interface system receives correction information for correcting a voice recognition result. The calculator estimates a part of the voice recognition result to be corrected and calculates a degree of association between the part to be corrected and the correction information. The generator generates corrected display information comprising at least one of the correction information and the part to be corrected using a display format corresponding to the degree of association. The display controller outputs the corrected display information on a display.
US10276149B1	Dynamic text-to-speech output Systems, methods, and devices for dynamically outputting TTS content are disclosed. A speech-controlled device captures a spoken command, and sends audio data corresponding thereto to a server(s). The server(s) determines output content responsive to the spoken command. The server(s) may also determine a user that spoke the command and determine an average speech characteristic (e.g., tone, pitch, speed, number of words, etc.) used by the user when speaking commands. The server(s) may also determine a speech characteristic of the presently spoken command, as well as determine a difference between the speech characteristic of the presently spoken command and the average speech characteristic of the user. The server(s) may then cause the speech-controlled device to output audio based on the difference.
US10276141B2	Electronic percussion instrument and control device thereof Provided are an electronic percussion instrument and a control device thereof. The electronic percussion instrument includes central and peripheral sensors, first and second waiting devices, and a sound production instruction device. When the central sensor detects a strike earlier than the peripheral sensor, the first waiting device performs a first waiting process for a first predetermined time after the central sensor detects the strike. When the peripheral sensor detects a strike earlier than the central sensor, the second waiting device performs a second waiting process for a second predetermined time after the peripheral sensor detects the strike. The sound production instruction device instructs production of a striking sound after the first waiting process of the first waiting device ends, or after the second waiting process of the second waiting device ends if the central sensor has not detected a strike within the second waiting process of the second waiting device.
US10276139B1	Musical instrument having diminished chords interlaced with other chords A musical instrument with two or more classes of pitches where at least one class is a diminished chord extended over an arbitrary number of octaves, and another class is another chord extended over the same span of octaves. The pitches of the second class of pitches are interlaced with the pitches of the diminished chord of the first class of pitches. Additional classes are chords similarly interlaced with other classes, with one class of any interlaced pair of classes being a diminished chord.
US10276126B2	Information processing method and electronic device The present disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device has a display unit, and is capable of generating a deformation in response to a stress. The display unit of the electronic device is capable of presenting M window interfaces, each of the M window interfaces being used for displaying a separate display content. The method comprises: determining a first display sub-region of the display unit which is in a presentation state, when it is judged that the electronic device has generated a predetermined deformation; obtaining a first attribute parameter of a first window interface among the M window interfaces; and displaying the first window interface in the first display sub-region if the first attribute parameter satisfies a preset condition.
US10276123B2	Display apparatus and driving method thereof A display apparatus includes: a display panel including pixels respectively connected to gate lines and data lines; a data driving circuit to output a data output signal in response to a data signal; a demultiplexer circuit to provide first and second data lines from among the data lines with the data output signal, in response to control signals; and a driving controller to provide the data signal and the control signals. The demultiplexer circuit includes: a switching transistor including a first electrode to receive the data output signal, a second electrode connected to the first data line, and a gate electrode connected to a first node; and a switching control circuit to charge the first node to turn on the switching transistor during a first interval of a first horizontal period, and to discharge the first node during a second interval of the first horizontal period.
US10276122B2	Unit shift register circuit, shift register circuit, control method for unit shift register circuit, and display device In a forward shift operation, a second input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of a first input signal is input to a second gate terminal in a case that a first gate terminal of a first transistor is charged, and a fourth input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of a third input signal is input to a third gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is discharged. In a backward shift operation, the fourth input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of the third input signal is input to the third gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is charged, and the second input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of the first input signal is input to the second gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is discharged.
US10276119B2	Shift register and display device provided therewith An output control node stabilization portion includes a thin film transistor having a gate terminal to which is provided a fourth clock that changes to an on level at timing at which a scanning signal outputted from a previous stage is to change from an off level to an on level, a drain terminal connected to an output control node, and a source terminal to which the scanning signal outputted from the previous stage is provided; and a thin film transistor having a gate terminal to which is provided a third clock that changes to an on level at timing at which a scanning signal outputted from a subsequent stage is to change from an off level to an on level, a drain terminal connected to the output control node, and a source terminal to which the scanning signal outputted from the subsequent stage is provided.
US10276114B2	Display device and control method thereof A display device and a control method thereof are provided. The display device includes a source module and an array module. The source module includes a receiving unit receiving the image signal and extracting a control signal and a pixel signal from the image signal, a clock signal generating unit generating a plurality of clock signals, wherein periods of each clock signal of the plurality of clock signal are the same and high level periods of each clock signal do not overlap with each other, a level boosting unit boosting a voltage of the extracted control signal and pixel signal to the analog operating voltage, and a digital-to-analog conversion unit converting the voltage of the boosted pixel signal into the grayscale voltage. The array module includes a shift register outputting the pixel signal having the grayscale voltage based on the boosted control signal and the generated plurality of clock signals.
US10276111B2	Mura compensation method for display panel and display panel A mura compensation method for display panel is disclosed, including: storing a plurality of compensation values of the display panel performing mura grayscale compensation, the plurality of compensation values corresponding to compensation by the display panel for different grayscales, the compensation value corresponding to a lowest grayscale gmin among different grayscales being a first compensation value a; obtaining a head compensation value m corresponding to grayscale 0, m being not 0; obtaining a current grayscale of the display panel; if the current grayscale of the display panel being between grayscale 0 and the lowest grayscale gmin, performing linear interpolation based on the first compensation value a and the head compensation value m to obtain a first target compensation value corresponding to the current grayscale; based on the first target compensation value, performing compensation to the current grayscale of the display panel. A display panel is also disclosed.
US10276109B2	Method for driving electro-optic displays A method for driving an electro-optic display having a front electrode, a backplane and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the method comprising of applying a first driving phase to the display medium, the first driving phase having a first signal and a second signal, the first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration, the second signal succeeding the first signal and having a second polarity opposite to the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, and a second duration, such that the sum of the first amplitude as a function of time integrated over the first duration and the second amplitude as a function of time integrated over the second duration produces a first impulse offset. The method further comprising applying a second driving phase to the display medium, the second driving phase produces a second impulse offset, wherein the sum of the first and second impulse offset is substantially zero.
US10276107B2	Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device A semiconductor device with low power consumption is provided. The semiconductor device includes a controller, a register, and an image processing portion. The image processing portion has a function of processing image data using a parameter. The image processing portion takes the image data from a frame memory and takes the parameter from the register. The frame memory has a function of retaining the image data while power supply is stopped. The register has a function of retaining the parameter while power supply is stopped. The controller has a function of controlling power supply to the register, the frame memory, and the image processing portion.
US10276096B2	Organic light-emitting display panel and driving method thereof, and organic light-emitting display device The present application discloses an organic light-emitting display panel and a driving method thereof, as well as an organic light-emitting display device. The display panel includes: an array arrangement including pixel units, wherein each pixel unit comprises a first, a second, a third and a fourth subpixels; a pixel circuit is formed in each subpixel; the first, second, third and fourth subpixels of an identical pixel unit are arranged along a column direction and are electrically connected with a given reference signal line; a color of the first subpixel, a color of the second subpixel, a color of the third subpixel and a color of the fourth subpixel differ from one another, and the color of the first subpixel, the color the second subpixel and the color the third subpixel are red, blue and green, respectively; and the color of the fourth subpixel is not white.
US10276089B2	Electronic device and method for driving the same An electronic device includes a display portion, an imaging portion, a control portion, an input portion, and a sensor portion. The display portion has a first display element that reflects visible light and a second display element that emits visible light. The display portion has a function of displaying an image using one of or both first light reflected by the first display element and second light emitted from the second display element. The imaging portion takes an image of an object, the control portion controls the display portion and the imaging portion, the input portion inputs a signal for controlling the display portion and the imaging portion to the control portion, and the sensor portion outputs sensing data to the control portion, in consideration of illuminance of external light. Such a display device increases the display quality, or keeps high-quality display regardless of environmental conditions and reduces power consumption.
US10276088B2	Pixel array structure A pixel array structure includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of pixel blocks. Each pixel block includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel units, a wireless receiving unit, and a position selection unit. The plurality of pixel units is arranged in an array form, and each pixel unit is coupled to one of the plurality of scanning lines and one of the plurality of data lines. The wireless receiving unit receives a data signal in a wireless manner. The position selection unit transmits the data signal to one of the plurality of data lines according to a position selection signal.
US10276082B2	Color adjustment device, color processing method, and storage medium A color adjustment device includes an environment information acquisition unit that acquires information on an environment of when an object that is displayed as an image by a display device is viewed in an actual use state; and a determination unit that determines a color temperature and a luminance of the display device on the basis of the information on the environment and information on a type of the object.
US10276077B2	Driving circuit A driving circuit includes an amplifier circuit, a control path, and a control circuit. The control path is coupled to the amplifier circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the control path. The control circuit receives a control signal and outputs a modulation signal to the control path according to the control signal.
US10276067B2	Electric motor construction kit and electric motor An electric motor construction kit for assembling a plurality of electric motors includes at least one module and a plurality of assemblies for constructing the plurality of electric motors. At least one assembly of the plurality of assemblies includes one or more modules of the at least one module. Apart from a cooling system of an electric motor of the plurality of electric motors, each module of the at least one module is constructed from carry-over parts.
US10276060B2	Golf club determination method, golf club determination device, and golf club determination program To provide a golf club determination method, a golf club determination device, and a golf club determination program capable of automatically determining the type of a golf club by analyzing a swing of the golf club. A golf club determination device includes a measurement unit that measures a posture of a golf club in an address using an output of an acceleration sensor of an inertial sensor mounted on a golf club; and a determination unit that determines the type of the golf club based on the measured posture of the golf club. Another golf club determination device includes a measurement unit that measures a swing of a golf club using an output of an inertial sensor mounted on the golf club, and a determination unit that determines whether the golf club is a putter based on the measured swing.
US10276043B2	Vehicle system using vehicle-to-infrastructure and sensor information A method includes approaching, with a vehicle, first stretch of road having a reference target. Next, data is obtained regarding the first stretch of road from both an onboard vehicle sensor and an infrastructure signal provided about the reference target. The information from the vehicle sensor is compared to the information from the infrastructure signal. Finally, the vehicle sensor is calibrated based on the infrastructure signal.
US10276029B2	Methods and systems for obtaining more accurate compliance metrics Exemplary embodiments of methodologies of obtaining more accurate compliance metrics are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of determining a compliance metric includes determining a number of dispense events and determining a number of opportunities for obtaining dispense events. The number of opportunities for obtaining dispense events is a function of the time between an entry event and a exit event, in addition, the compliance metric is a function of the number of dispense events and the number of opportunities.
US10276021B2	Patient support apparatus having articulated mattress support deck with load sensors A patient support apparatus comprises a substantially rigid support deck for supporting a patient support element, a first sensing element and a second sensing element arranged on the support deck and separated from one another in a direction along the width of the patient support apparatus. Each sensing element is configured to determine, in use, the force or pressure applied to it by the patient support element and a patient on the patient support element. One or more processors, coupled to the sensing elements, are configured to determine the location of the center of gravity of a patient on the patient support element, along the width of the patient support apparatus, based upon outputs of the first and second sensing elements. An alarm may be activated when the location of the center of gravity along the width of the patient support apparatus is outside a predetermined range of values.
US10276020B2	System and method of biomechanical posture detection and feedback A system and method are described herein for a sensor device which biomechanically detects in real-time a user's movement state and posture and then provides real-time feedback to the user based on the user's real-time posture. The feedback is provided through immediate sensory feedback through the sensor device (e.g., a sound or vibration) as well as through an avatar within an associated application with which the sensor device communicates.
US10276017B2	Alert system capable of indicating the nature of an object, person, or pet A child seat having a sensor configured to determine the presence or absence of a child; a wireless tag in communication with the sensor; and a mobile device including an alert application and configured to communicate with the wireless tag. When the sensor detects a child in the seat, the mobile device including the alert application arms itself, and armed, when the wireless tag and the mobile device at least one of (i) lose communication, (ii) separate a pre-determined distance, or (iii) change proximity by a pre-determined distance, then the armed mobile device communicates a notification to a user.
US10276013B2	Threat detection system having cloud or local central monitoring unit for communicating with internet addressable wireless detectors, and their associated wireless sensor and sub-sensor devices, that blanket a venue using wireless networks and report data, and the non-compliance of data rate of change, detector or device location, and detector or device non-response, against predetermined thresholds, and delivering notifications, enabling related devices and confirming they are enabled A data sensing and threat detection network comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices and their related wireless sub-sensor devices, for communication, with wireless detector units/gateways in a network arrangement to allow transmission of data there between in optimized paths, such wireless detector units to communicate, by secure means, to and front a Central Monitoring Unit that manages the sensing and client alert processes, based upon wireless sensor values/conditions and wireless sub-sensor values/conditions as they relate to pre-determined values/conditions, and sensor device location co-ordinates data (derived from GPS or CTS, or the like) as it relates to pre-determined “location differential values”, data “timeframe-based rate of change” as it relates to pre-determined “rate of change differentials” in a pre-determined timeframe or part thereof, and the like, with the Central Monitoring Unit enabling related devices and alerting clients, and confirming that such related devices have been enabled and alerts have been delivered, as and when required. Notwithstanding, the data sensing and threat detection network provides clients with a powerful, flexible and dynamic central monitoring system and related wireless gateways, sensor and sub-sensors that provide a true data management solution with Homeland Security color coded normal, aware, alert and urgent alert graphic representation, and archiving, of all data, in accordance with client needs.
US10276009B2	Method of reading a barcode and deactivating an electronic article surveillance tag A method for managing the reading of a barcode and deactivation of an EAS tag relative to an EAS effective range and a depth of field (DoF) of the scanner is described. A product may comprise a barcode and a co-located EAS tag. The method uses a distance sensing system to sense how far the product is located from the scanner front window. The method only outputs the decoded data of the barcode when the product is inside an EAS effective distance. When the product is inside the EAs effective distance, the EAS tag on the product is deactivated. When a customer leaves a store with the EAS tag deactivated, a store alarm may not sound. When the product is outside of the EAS effective distance, but inside the DoF, the decoded data of the barcode is discarded.
US10276003B2	Bone conduction tags Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for bone conduction tags. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a device can receive, via a transducer, a vibration signal from a body of a user. The vibration signal can be generated in response to the user interacting with a bone conduction tag. For example, the vibration signal can be generated in response to the user moving one or more fingers across the bone conduction tag. The device can analyze the vibration signal to determine an action that is to be performed. The device can perform the action or can instruct a further device to perform the action.
US10275994B2	Methods and apparatus for enhanced play in lottery and gaming environments Methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a method for game play involves the use of the system electronic system environment described herein, wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized.
US10275992B2	Gaming system and method with a real-time streaming video feed and display A gaming system is disclosed that includes a server connected to automatically control operation of one or more banks of gaming machines. Additionally disclosed are gaming machines with video cameras connected to provide live video feed to one or more displays, such as during tournament play when live video feed of the players and the player tournament positions may be driven in real-time to an overhead display by the server operating in a tournament controller mode.
US10275990B2	Game system, server, and donation control method Provided is a game system which performs control so as to conduct a ranking display of each user based on an amount of a donation made by the each user.A donation management server 40 stores a donation amount when a donation is made by a user operation, determines user ranking based on the amount of the donation made by the each user, and prepares display data.
US10275988B2	Sliding jackpot probabilities A game controller operable to control play of a game. The game controller includes a configuration module, a wager determination module and a trigger module. The configuration module configures a secondary event trigger having a hit rate which is fixed over a plurality of games. The wager determination module determines an amount wagered for play of one of the games. The trigger module triggers a secondary game event in which a higher value prize and lower value prize are each eligible to be awarded upon determining the trigger in the game, such that a probability of awarding the higher value prize increases with the amount wagered in the game, while the probability of awarding the lower value prize decreases.
US10275987B2	Game system, server, and donation control method Provided is a game system which performs control so as to allow a predetermined profit to be provided for a user by a game facility or the like in accordance with an amount of a donation made by said user.A donation management server 40 performs controls so as to provide points in accordance with the donation amount for the user when the donation is made by a user operation.
US10275984B2	Video gaming device having a system and method for completing wagers The present invention is a method for completing wagers and purchases from a gaming device when a player presses or selects the cash out feature on the device. The present invention provides for a more convenient method for players to make additional gaming wagers and purchases directly from a gaming device. The player can select the option to make a wager on a sporting event, lottery game, Keno game or any game of chance offered by the gaming establishment. The present invention also enables the player to select the option to make purchases for among other things show tickets, sporting events, movies, retail items or even credit the proceeds from the gaming device to the players hotel room account.
US10275979B2	Terminal system A terminal system including a device terminal (2) and an operator seat (3) which can be connected together and both having energy and/or signal coupling parts (5) and mechanical positioning coupling parts (6) that are coupled to each other by pushing together the seat (3) and terminal (2), the positioning coupling parts (6) including separately formed vertical and horizontal positioning means for orienting the seat (3) with respect to the terminal (2), the vertical positioning means (7) having a clearance in the horizontal direction transversely to the coupling and decoupling direction (24) and the horizontal positioning means (8) having a clearance (13) in the vertical direction, the vertical positioning means (7) and/or the horizontal positioning means (8) each having at least two pairs of coupling pieces (9, 10) transversely spaced apart with respect to a longitudinal center plane through the seat (3) and/or the terminal (2).
US10275970B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method and information reading apparatus A pattern presence/absence evaluation value generation unit (41) determines the presence or absence of a pattern by comparing sensing data (d3) and correction data (d44). Operating according to a pattern presence/absence evaluation value (d41) obtained from the pattern presence/absence evaluation value generation unit (41), a correction data updating unit (42) outputs correction data (d42) updated by weighted addition of the sensing data (d3) and the correction data (d44), increasing the weighting of the correction data (d44) when an image pattern is present and increasing the weighting of the sensing data (d3) when the image pattern is absent. A correction data subtraction unit (43) subtracts the correction data (d42) from the sensing data (d3) and outputs output sensing data (d4). It consequently becomes possible to reduce the effect of sensing signal level variations of the sensing signal generated within the interval of reading of the object being sensed, and read the pattern accurately.
US10275969B2	Method and system for item authentication and customization A method of illuminating an item is disclosed. The method includes applying adhesive to the item, interspersing a taggant in the adhesive, illuminating the item with an excitation signal, sensing luminescence emitted by the taggant in response to illumination by the excitation signal, and determining the authenticity of the item based on the sensed emitted luminescence. The item can include any item benefited by authentication, and can include a postage stamp. A method of customizing an item is disclosed. This can include the steps of preparing a substrate, applying a security feature to the substrate, printing non-customized information on the substrate, receiving image information, and printing the image information on the substrate.
US10275961B2	Method for optimizing anti-collision and latency for PEPS passive response Methods and apparatus are provided for handling the response sequence with geometric elimination of a plurality of keyless fobs. The remote fobs are interrogated with a body control module. A first signal is issued from a first set of remote fobs in a first time slot in response to the interrogation signal from the body control module. A second signal is issued from a second set of remote fobs in a second time slot in response to the interrogation signal from the body control module. The second time slot differs from the first time slot. A first remote fob is authenticated when the first signal is received by the body control module in a free and clear state. The second remote fob is authenticated when the second signal is received by the body control module in the free and clear state. If neither the first nor second signals are received in the free and clear state, the remote fobs are re-interrogated by the body control module.
US10275958B2	Enhanced modular drawer structures, systems, and methods A modular drawer structure comprises a housing having an interior volume defined therein, and a drawer comprising one or more compartments, wherein the drawer is slidably movable with respect to the interior volume of the housing between a first closed position, wherein the compartments are enclosed within the interior volume, and a second open position, wherein the compartments are at least partially accessible. The drawer structure further comprises a mechanism for controllably locking the drawer in the first closed position, an access pad, e.g. such as but not limited to a keypad and/or a card swipe pad, for entry of a passcode, and a processor for unlocking the drawer when an entered passcode matches a stored passcode value. Some embodiments of the drawer structure include a stored time threshold, wherein if the drawer is unlocked for a time that meets or exceeds the stored time threshold, the drawer is relocked.
US10275940B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program A technique enables intuitive understanding of a directional relationship between a photographed image and a wide area image, such as an electronic map. An image processing device includes a display controlling unit that displays a quadrangular-shaped photographic image, which is photographed from an aerial vehicle, displays a mark indicating a photographing position of the quadrangular-shaped photographic image, on a wide area image, and performs highlight display in accordance with a corresponding relationship between a direction of the quadrangular-shaped photographic image and a direction of the mark.
US10275938B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus including: a real space information input portion into which information about a real space is input; and a signal generating portion that generates a control signal for an image that creates a virtual shadow effect in the real space on the basis of the information about the real space.
US10275930B2	Combined intensity projection The invention relates to a system (100) for rendering an image based on a volumetric image data set, the system comprising: a computation unit (110) for computing an initial pixel intensity of a pixel of the image, defined by a corresponding voxel intensity of a corresponding voxel comprised in the volumetric image data set; and an adjustment unit (120) for computing a final pixel intensity of the pixel, based on the initial pixel intensity and on a location of the corresponding voxel. Thus, the system of the invention enables new visualizations of volumetric image data sets. Advantageously, unlike a system using the VIP technique, which requires adjusting intensities of voxels comprised in the image data set, the system of the current invention is arranged to adjust intensities of pixels. This reduces the computational complexity of the rendering technique employed by the system relative to the computational complexity of the VIP technique.
US10275926B2	Crowd-sourced video rendering system In one embodiment, a method includes distributing rendering tasks to connected client nodes having capable graphics processing units by transmitting viewport state data objects and a unique spatial location to each of the clients, performing path tracing at each of the clients from the starting point of their unique spatial locations, and transmitting their rendered output back to the server. The server generates a composite rendered output from the individual rendered outputs received by the participating clients, and then transmits the composite to all connected clients for display. Thus, as the number of client nodes increases, the scene is rendered more rapidly and at higher quality. In particular embodiments, the rendered output is a lightmap representing the diffuse lighting for the scene, and each client may render the scene's specular highlights from its own viewport.
US10275925B2	Blend shape system with texture coordinate blending A blend shape method and system that modifies the U-V values associated with vertices in blend shapes constructed in a 3-D blend shape combination system. The blend shape method determines the U-V coordinates associated with each vertex in a base shape and the U-V coordinates associated with corresponding vertices in one or more driving shapes. The method calculates U-V delta values that are associated with vertices in the driving shape. The method multiplies the U-V delta values by a weight value associated with the driving shape to determine a transitional U-V delta value for each vertex. The transitional U-V delta value for each vertex is added to the U-V coordinates for the corresponding vertex in the base shape to determine the modified U-V coordinates for the resulting blend shape. Multiple driving shapes may be used with each shape contributing to the modified U-V values according to its relative weight.
US10275924B2	Techniques for managing three-dimensional graphics display modes Techniques for managing a three-dimensional (3D) graphics display mode are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a graphics processing module, and the graphics processing module may be operative by the processor circuit to execute a graphics context in a 3D display mode if a 3D-aware graphics context data structure includes an entry corresponding to the graphics context or to execute the graphics context in a non-3D display mode if the 3D-aware graphics context data structure does not include an entry corresponding to the graphics context. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10275919B1	Preventing transition shocks during transitions between realities A method, system and computer program product for transitioning between different realities. The distance of the objects from a reference point in the first and second reality environments is determined. For example, the distance of the object's location in the first reality environment from a reference point (e.g., camera system) as well as the distance of the object's location in the second reality environment from the reference point is determined. A determination is made as to whether the likelihood of a transition shock event (e.g., motion sickness) occurring as a user transitions between the first and second reality environments exceeds a threshold value. In response to the likelihood of the transition shock event occurring exceeding the threshold value, the distance of the object from the reference point in the first and/or second reality environments is modified so as to prevent users from experiencing transition shocks when transitioning between realities.
US10275907B2	Method and system of managed image reconstruction in medical imaging The invention concerns a method for reconstructing medical image data which has access to free capacities of at least two computers and manages the use thereof for the purposes of the reconstruction. The method is a particularly reliable alternative to the reconstruction of medical image data based on algorithms that would require a working memory of above-average size.
US10275895B2	Mechanism for advanced structure generation and editing Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a mechanism for manipulating images generated by radiotherapy machines used in radiation diagnostic and treatment applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided for intelligent automatic propagation of manual or automatic contouring across linked (e.g., registered) images and image data sets by acquiring one or more images of one or more image data sets; determining the correlation between the images with respect to identified structures; and generating a deformation map that establishes a correspondence for each point in the source image with a point in the target image. Subsequently, the intelligent propagation mechanism applies this deformation map individually to each structure of the source image and propagates the deformed structure to the target image.
US10275891B2	Phase transform for object and shape detection in digital images Object and shape detection in digital images utilizing edge detection is described. In a first edge detection approach, phase transformation is utilized in the frequency domain, such as in response to Fourier transform, followed by use of a frequency-domain phase kernel and inverse-Fourier transform. Edge detection is also provided using a phase transform in the spatial domain utilizing a convolution approach. In a second edge detection approach, phase stretching is utilized, such as in combination with phase histogramming along with thresholding and morphological operations. Numerous example images are provided illustrating benefits of the disclosed technology with different applications and under different conditions.
US10275890B2	Image processing device and method for creating a background image Disclosed herein is an image processing device including a background model creation section adapted to create a plurality of background models based on statistical distribution of a plurality of image frame sets, the image frame sets differing in length of time, and each of the image frame sets including a plurality of input frames; and a background image creation section adapted to create a background image by referring to the plurality of background models.
US10275889B2	Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry recognizes at least one of chest wall, vessels, nodules, and tumors by increasing sensitivity to a gradient and a sensitivity to a cavity structure in three-dimensional data including a lung area. The processing circuitry generates lung image data corresponding to the lung area by performing a data removing process for removing data derived from the chest wall and a data holding process for holding data derived from at least one of the vessels, the nodules, and the tumors on a basis of a result obtained by the recognizing. The processing circuitry outputs the lung image data.
US10275884B2	Methods and systems for identifying anatomical landmarks in image data Systems, devices, and methods are described for locating and identifying anatomical landmarks, such as ligament attachment points, in image data. These systems, devices, and methods may provide an oblique plane that contains an anatomical landmark such as a ligament attachment point to the tibia. For example, the position at which the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), or patellar tendon attaches to the tibia may be identified. The systems, devices, and methods allow for tracing of an anatomical landmark to generate a 3-D marking on a 3-D surface model of a patient's bone. The attachment points may be useful landmarks for patient-matched instrumentation.
US10275878B2	Method for the quantification of the presence of fats in a region of the heart A method for quantifying the presence of fats in a region of the heart includes an acquisition of an image of at least one cavity of the heart and of a wall; a selection of at least one pixel of a section through the heart including a density of pixels included in a first range of values; a growth in the selection of at least one pixel so as to define an extended 3D zone delimited by the cavity; an operation of homogeneous dilation of the extended 3D zone making it possible to define a dilated volume; an operation of extracting a peripheral region arising from the subtraction between the dilated volume and the extended 3D zone; a quantification of the number of pixels of a second range of values within the peripheral region.
US10275868B2	Object analyzing method and object analyzing system An object analyzing method applied to an object analyzing system. The object analyzing method comprises: (a) applying at least one analyzing parameter extracting process according to an object type for an target object, to extract at least one analyzing parameter for the target object; (b) selecting least one analyzing model according to the object type; and (c) applying the analyzing model selected in the step (b), to analyze the analyzing parameter and accordingly generate an analyzing result.
US10275866B1	Extracting overlapping signals from images Image data is obtained. The image data is divided into a plurality of segments. A frequency spectrum is generated for each segment. One or more dominant signals corresponding to the image data are estimated for each segment based on the associated frequency spectrum. A coherent enhancement process is applied to the one or more dominant signals in each segment by performing sequential scanning in one or more directions. For each of the one or more dominant signals, the data resulting from the coherent enhancement of the signal are stored into separate image buffers, wherein an image buffer is configured to store data resulting from the coherent enhancement of the associated dominant signal across multiple segments. Each of the one or more dominant signals are reconstructed based on aggregating the data stored in a corresponding image buffer.
US10275860B2	Image processing device, image capturing device, image processing method, and program An image processing device including a blurring processing unit that performs blurring processing for input image information that is input, includes: a saturation determination unit that calculates saturation of a saturated pixel of the input image information; a first gradation conversion unit that converts gradation of the input image information on a basis of the saturation calculated by the saturation determination unit; and, in which the blurring processing unit performs blurring processing for image information that has been subjected to gradation conversion by the first gradation conversion unit, a second gradation conversion unit that converts gradation of image information that has been subjected to the blurring processing, on a basis that gradation of a saturated region of the blurring-processed image information serves as a gradation of a saturated pixel.
US10275859B2	X-Ray imaging device for an object The invention relates to an X-ray imaging device (10) for an object, an X-ray imaging system (100) for an object, an X-ray imaging method for an object, and a computer program element for controlling such device or system and a computer readable medium having stored such computer program element. The X-ray imaging device (10) comprises a receiving unit (11) and a processing unit (12). The receiving unit (11) is configured to receive attenuation data representing attenuation properties of the object for at least two different X-ray spectra. The processing unit (12) is configured to decompose the attenuation data into decomposed data, to reduce noise in the decomposed data to obtain de-noised data, to back-convert the de-noised data into back-converted attenuation data, to combine back-converted attenuation data and the attenuation data into combined attenuation data, and to decompose the combined attenuation data into combined decomposed data.
US10275858B2	Flattening and rectifying a curved image Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to flatten an image comprising at least one curved or bent edge. An image is received from a capture device and a UI is presented that allows a user to define a general vicinity of an item in the image to be flattened. The system analyzes pixels in the general vicinity to identify the highest probability of a corner in each general vicinity. The gradient of pixels between the corners is calculated and pixels scores are calculated based on the gradient. The pixels with the lowest scores between each corner are used as an edge. Smoothing is applied to each edge. Dimensions of the flat representation are calculated and the system maps pixels bounded by the edges and corners to pixels in the flat representation and copies the mapped pixels to the flat representation.
US10275855B2	Image demosaicing for hybrid optical sensor arrays An imaging device comprises a hybrid optical sensor array including a first and second set of pixels that comprise different numbers of pixels. The first set of pixels is sensitive to infrared light, while the second set of pixels comprises three subsets of pixels sensitive to RGB light. A first set of data for a scene is captured by the first set of pixels and a second set of data for the scene is captured by a second set of pixels. The first and second sets of data are jointly demosaiced, such that the higher resolution data set is utilized to increase the resolution of a lower resolution data set. This allows for high-resolution infrared and RGB images to be produced for a scene without perspective or timing discrepancies inherent in multi-camera machine vision systems.
US10275854B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method, solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and electronic device The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, an electronic device, and a program capable of generating an interpolated pixel such that occurrence of jaggies may be inhibited without blurring an image with a small calculation amount. Two candidate lines are set in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction in positional relationship symmetrical about a current pixel. The candidate lines are narrowed to two lines in the horizontal direction or in the vertical direction according to a pattern to which the current pixel belongs. Furthermore, searched pixels on the candidate line are narrowed according to the pattern. A weight value is calculated on the basis of similarity between a current block and a block in the same phase at the same distance from the block by block matching by a block to which the current pixel belongs. A pixel value of the interpolated pixel is generated by weighted addition of a pixel value on the candidate line and the weight value. The present technology may be applied to an imaging device.
US10275848B2	Graphics processing The sequence of instructions for a shader program 60 to be executed by a shader core of a graphics processor is divided into an initial set of instructions 61 that perform “global” common expressions of the shader program, a set of instructions 62 in the shader program that perform expressions that are common to a given work group within a set of work items that the shader program is to process, and a main instruction sequence 63 that needs to be executed independently for each work item.Execution threads are then able to start executing the shader program either at the beginning of the global common expressions 64, or at the beginning of the work group common expressions 65, or at the beginning of the main instruction sequence 66.
US10275845B2	Luggage retrieval and distribution A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for distributing luggage among a plurality of outlet ports of a luggage distribution unit is provided. The method includes associating, using a processor system, a passenger key and a luggage identification (ID) device of a luggage unit, and assigning, using the processor system, the luggage ID device to a dispensing unit based at least in part on a determination of a desired distribution of luggage units among the plurality of outlet ports. The method also includes detecting a location of the passenger key, providing a status of the luggage ID device of the luggage unit, and signaling the presence of the luggage ID device and the luggage unit at the dispensing unit. The method includes receiving the association to access the at least one luggage unit, and releasing the luggage unit responsive to receiving the association.
US10275841B2	Apparatus and method for efficient business name categorization An energy management system includes a neural network, a predictive model, and a dictionary reducer. The network iteratively calculates weights, resulting in a final set, for each of a plurality of single-word terms taken from training data business names, where each of the weights is indicative of a likelihood of correlating one of a plurality of business categories. The predictive employs sets of the weights to predict a first corresponding one of the plurality of business categories for each of the training data business names until employment of the final set accurately predicts a correct business category for the each of the training data business names, and subsequently employs the final set of the weights to predict a second corresponding one of the plurality of business categories for each of a plurality of operational business names. The dictionary reducer eliminates unessential terms taken to determine the plurality of single-word terms.
US10275838B2	Mapping social media sentiments A computer-implemented method includes accessing social media data, wherein the social media data is associated with one or more profiles and corresponds to a venue. The computer-implemented method further includes determining sentiment information corresponding to each of the one or more profiles based on the social media data. The computer-implemented method further includes, for each of the one or more profiles: identifying a path through the venue, wherein the path represents at least one movement associated with the profile and associating the sentiment information with the path through the venue. The computer-implemented method further includes, responsive to associating the sentiment information with the path through the venue for each of the one or more profiles, identifying one or more trends. The computer-implemented method further includes presenting the one or more trends for review. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10275836B2	Managing group play in lottery draws There is described herein an online lottery application providing single play and group play in a structured and clear manner. Group play is designed to set out playing and winning conditions such that all members of the group are aware of them and adhere to them. Ticket checking and validation for group play is simplified and facilitated by the online lottery application.
US10275815B2	Methods for sample presentation using autonomous vehicles A method and a system to present samples of products to customers by transporting the samples to the customer's location with an autonomous vehicle. The sample can be a product, a component of a product, a material or a device to gather information in defining the product. The autonomous vehicle is adapted for off road travel and may enter buildings, it can be carried to a nearby location by a street adapted vehicle. Information may be transmitted electronically but physical presence is essential. The customer or the customer's agent receives a presentation of the product definer and a selection of a final product is made. In other cases the autonomous vehicle delivery separate or installed technical equipment to examine the presentation location and assist in the final product selection. For example, photographs from multiple locations can measure a room for installation of carpets or draperies, etc.
US10275810B2	Processing and fulfilling natural language travel requests Systems and methods that process natural language travel requests are described herein. According to some embodiments, methods for processing natural language travel requests may include: (a) decoding itinerary components from a natural language travel request, (b) determining a node type for each of the itinerary components, (c) ascertaining dependencies between each of the itinerary components based upon respective node types, (d) generating an unconstrained schedule using the itinerary components and respective dependencies therebetween, and (d) allocating available inventory to each of the itinerary components according to the unconstrained schedule to fulfill the natural language travel request.
US10275788B2	Method and system for avoidance of parking violations A system and method for identifying a potential parking violation for a location includes storing and rating parking violation related data, and notifying a user, by a computing system communicating with a user's computing device, of the potential parking violation and how to avoid receiving the potential parking violation citation. The data is stored in a database and clustered by data types. The user's computing device is used to identify user type, location, and time. A user engagement panel is used to share and rate parking violation related data and notifications, and rewards are allocated to a user for contributing useful data. Highly rated data may be incorporated into the notifications. The data is analyzed to predict or infer a violation. A notification corresponding to a current location and user type are generated when violations are predicted.
US10275786B2	Customized deal generation graphic user interface for point-of-sale device A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals. Lastly, the server communicates data corresponding to the selected deal to the client device, the data including the predicted conversion rate for the selected deal.
US10275783B2	Method for providing personalized information and public information A method for providing information in a content providing system is provided, which includes generating public information and personalized information regarding content, identifying a first display apparatus corresponding to the public information, identifying a second display apparatus corresponding to the personalized information, transmitting the public information the first display apparatus, and transmitting the personalized information to the second display apparatus.
US10275764B2	Transaction data tokenization A system and method of tokenizing sensitive cardholder payment information for use in cashless transactions includes receiving a request to process a cashless transaction between a merchant and a purchaser using first payment data stored with an electronic wallet provider on behalf of the purchaser. First payment data is retrieved from the electronic wallet provider. The first payment data is tokenized into a payment token, and provided to the merchant for use in completing the cashless transaction. The merchant issues a request to process payment for the cashless transaction using the payment token. The payment token is detokenized into second payment data, with correspondence between the first and second payment data being indicative of payment token authenticity. Payment for the cashless transaction is processed using the second payment data, and the merchant is provided with a response indicating either the success or failure of the payment processing.
US10275762B2	Mobile subscriber device for financial transaction tokens There is provided a mobile subscriber unit for a financial transaction token. The subscriber unit interfaces with a financial token or card that is in communication with the subscriber unit. The financial token or card has an onboard energy source so that the card token may operate away from proximity to a merchant terminal (e.g.; a POS terminal). In one implementation, the onboard power storage device includes a rechargeable battery or capacitor such as a thin-film capacitor that stores sufficient energy to power the subscriber unit's onboard electronics and/or the electronics of a financial token in communication with the subscriber unit. The subscriber unit may be a component of another consumer device such as a computing device, communications device, an item of clothing, an item of jewelry, a cell phone, a PDA, an identification card, a money holder, a wallet, a purse, a briefcase, or a personal organizer.
US10275759B2	System for conducting transactions independent of point of sale system A system that allows for conducting merchant transactions independent of a POS system. The system employs both a merchant venue-specific website and a mobile app. A customer at the merchant venue logs into the website with his or her mobile phone, and the mobile app is automatically notified of the login. The venue keeps track of the customer's total bill amount in any way, and enters it into the mobile app, which in turn updates the website with the total amount owed. The customer can then pay his or her bill through the website, via his/her phone. In this manner, a quick and easy payment system is implemented, allowing users to pay with the card or payment method of their choice, without need for a POS system and without need for downloading or installing any additional software on their mobile device.
US10275758B2	System for secure payment over a wireless communication network A method of conducting secure electronic credit payments to a payment acquirer using a credit payment unit, including a smart card, a portable card reader device and a mobile phone, and a payment server. The method is based on using a unique reader key in the card reader device to encrypt all the sensitive smart card information communicated to the payment server, and thus being able to use an unsecure mobile phone to communicate with the payment server. The payment server then completes the transaction with the payment acquirer over a secure line.
US10275756B2	Method of making secure electronic payment using communications devices that make use of a phone number or other alias in lieu of a payment instrument identifier Methods and systems for carrying out financial transactions include creating unique aliases for payment instrument having associated identification numbers, associating the created aliases to the payment instruments and enabling consumer use of the aliases to carry out financial transactions. Various special point-of-sale devices may be employed to carry out the financial transactions.
US10275754B2	Online purchase processing system and method A system and method to use quick response (QR) codes encoded with merchant website identification codes and session GUID to register a user or code scanner with a merchant server, login the user or code scanner with the merchant server, and complete a purchase of an item or service within a virtual shopping cart of the merchant server. A code scanner can scan a QR code displayed on a device connected to the internet. An application server can receive an identification code from the code scanner and then transmit data indicating form fields to be filled in on a merchant webpage. A user profile can include data regarding the user and a payment instrument. The user profile data can prepopulate the form fields and the form field data can be transmitted to the merchant server to use for logging in the user and completing the purchase.
US10275744B2	Enhanced data transfer initiation using image recognition Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for improving ease in initiating information transfers between devices. A user of a communications device accesses an image of a target recipient. With that recipient in view in the image, the user selects the portion of the screen where the recipient is displayed in the image. Pattern recognition is performed to extract one or more features of the selected portion of the screen as a recognized pattern. That recognized pattern is compared against multiple stored patterns that are associated with contacts in contact lists and/or other types of databases. Once a match is found, the user is prompted to confirm the identified recipient corresponding to the matching pattern and the data to transfer. Once confirmed, the data transfer is initiated based on the automatically determined recipient information.
US10275737B2	Enabling and disabling user device configurations based on an account type of the user device A user device may request an account type identifier that identifies an account type associated with the user device. The user device may receive the account type identifier based on requesting the account type identifier. The user device may compare the account type identifier and a set of account type identifiers corresponding to a set of user device configurations to be enabled or disabled by the user device based on the account type identifier. The user device may enable a first subset of user device configurations, included in the set of user device configurations that are associated with the account type identifier. The user device may disable a second subset of user device configurations, included in the set of user device configurations that are not associated with the account type identifier.
US10275732B2	Determining performance level of supervisor There is provided an apparatus caused at least to acquire information of a supervisor identifier allocated to a supervisor who is registered to a network environment accessible by a plurality of supervisors and by a plurality of clients; acquire information of a different client identifier allocated to each client registered to the network environment; associate at least one client identifier with the supervisor identifier on the basis of a notification of whether or not the client is co-operating with the supervisor; acquire at least one activity metric related to the at least one client corresponding to the at least one client identifier associated with the supervisor identifier; and determine a performance level of the supervisor corresponding to the supervisor identifier at least partly on the basis of the acquired at least one activity metric.
US10275727B2	Dynamic location-aware coordination method and system A system, method and computer program product for automatically providing a dynamically updated optimized itinerary (continuous optimization in real-time) which allows one to complete a specified task and also to complete other tasks from a to-do list, providing the user both with a packing list of resources to carry and a list of tasks that must be completed before leaving. The system and method also tracks the time and user's location to provide user with a new itinerary in the event a given task cannot be completed successfully. The method also provides an alert in case no practicable itinerary exists.
US10275726B2	Re-creating the sound of an audience location area from a measured performance space in a live rehearsal space In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a computer-based method for reproducing a performance sound quality in a rehearsal space, the method comprising accessing a computer stored multi-dimensional sound signature for an audience location in a performance space, receiving sound data from a sound input device in the rehearsal space, modifying the sound data to match a sound characteristic of the multi-dimensional sound signature, and transmitting the modified sound data through a sound output device in the rehearsal space.
US10275714B2	Image tagging based upon cross domain context A method described herein includes receiving a digital image, wherein the digital image includes a first element that corresponds to a first domain and a second element that corresponds to a second domain. The method also includes automatically assigning a label to the first element in the digital image based at least in part upon a computed probability that the label corresponds to the first element, wherein the probability is computed through utilization of a first model that is configured to infer labels for elements in the first domain and a second model that is configured to infer labels for elements in the second domain. The first model receives data that identifies learned relationships between elements in the first domain and elements in the second domain, and the probability is computed by the first model based at least in part upon the learned relationships.
US10275706B2	Neuristor-based reservoir computing devices A neuristor-based reservoir computing device includes support circuitry formed in a complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) layer, input nodes connected to the support circuitry and output nodes connected to the support circuitry. Thin film neuristor nodes are disposed over the CMOS layer with a first portion of the neuristor nodes connected to the input nodes and a second portion of the neuristor nodes connected to the output nodes. Interconnections between the neuristor nodes form a reservoir accepting input signals from the input nodes and outputting signals on the output nodes. A method for forming a neuristor-based reservoir computing device is also provided.
US10275704B2	Generating representations of input sequences using neural networks Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating representations of input sequences. One of the methods includes receiving a grapheme sequence, the grapheme sequence comprising a plurality of graphemes arranged according to an input order; processing the sequence of graphemes using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to generate an initial phoneme sequence from the grapheme sequence, the initial phoneme sequence comprising a plurality of phonemes arranged according to an output order; and generating a phoneme representation of the grapheme sequence from the initial phoneme sequence generated by the LSTM neural network, wherein generating the phoneme representation comprises removing, from the initial phoneme sequence, phonemes in one or more positions in the output order.
US10275697B2	Method for automatically triggering data share event between sender device and receiver device Embodiments herein provide a method for automatically triggering a data share event between a sender device and a receiver device. The method includes generating a unique code including at least one data item to be shared with the receiver device, wherein the unique code is encoded with at least one parameter associated with the sender device. Further, the method includes sharing the unique code with the receiver device to automatically trigger the data share event.
US10275694B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming system having binding unit capable of performing binding, and control method for the binding unit Print data in a predetermined format including information for specifying the type of binding and print data in a predetermined format excluding the information for specifying the type of binding are adequately handled, wherein on the basis of reception of print data in a predetermined format including information for specifying the type of binding, control is exerted in such a manner that binding of the specified type is performed on printed matter, and on the basis of reception of print data in a predetermined format excluding the information for specified the type of binding, control is exerted in such a manner that binding of a predetermined type is performed on printed matter.
US10275692B2	Image recognizing method for preventing recognition results from confusion An image recognizing method adopted by a platform is disclosed. The method first receives multiple targets to be recognized at the platform, and inquiries a pre-established semantic tree by reference to the targets for determining if the recognition results of the multiple targets will cause confusion or not. If confusion is not foreseeable, the method obtains respectively a parent-classifier corresponding to each parent-category of each of the targets, and uses the parent-classifiers directly to perform a recognition action to the targets. Otherwise, the method obtains respectively multiple child-classifiers corresponding to multiple subcategories below each of the targets, and uses the multiple child-classifiers to perform such recognition action to the targets.
US10275682B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium When there are a plurality of detection candidate objects, to detect a target object that is appropriately visible as a whole, an information processing apparatus calculates detection likelihoods in a plurality of local areas of each of the plurality of detection target candidates, and a detection reliability of each of the detection target candidates based on a distribution of the detection likelihoods.
US10275680B2	Magnetic resonance maps for analyzing tissue Apparatus for analyzing brain MRI, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving a first and a second MRI scans at the beginning and end of a predetermined time interval post contrast administration; a subtraction map former for forming a subtraction map from said first and said second MRI scans by analyzing said scans to distinguish between two primary populations, a slow population, in which contrast clearance from the tissue is slower than contrast accumulation, and a fast population in which clearance is faster than accumulation; and an output to provide an indication of distribution of said two primary populations, wherein said predetermined time period is at least twenty minutes.
US10275668B1	System for collision detection and obstacle avoidance Described is a system for collision detection and avoidance estimation using sub-region based optical flow. During operation, the system estimates time-to-contact (TTC) values for an obstacle in multiple regions-of-interest (ROI) in successive image frames as obtained from a monocular camera. Based on the TTC values, the system detects if there is an imminent obstacle. If there is an imminent obstacle, a path for avoiding the obstacle is determined based on the TTC values in the multiple ROI. Finally, a mobile platform is caused to move in the path as determined to avoid the obstacle.
US10275659B2	Computer vision and sensor assisted contamination tracking Systems and techniques for computer vision and sensor assisted contamination tracking are described herein. It may be identified that a food item has moved to a monitored area using computer vision. Sensor readings may be obtained from a sensor array. A contamination of the food item may be determined using the sensor readings. The contamination of the food item may be associated with a contamination area in the monitored area using the computer vision. A notification may be output for display in the contamination area indicating the contamination.
US10275652B2	Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that determine whether a target person is an important person based on importance degrees In an information processing method, the importance degree of each person who appears in a first image group and the importance degree of each person who appears in a second image group, containing the first image group, are determined, and, when selecting the image of the output target from the first image group, in a case in which the importance degree of a candidate image of the output target included in the first image group, which is determined from the appearance count in the first image group, exceeds a first threshold, and, in a case in which the importance degree of the candidate image of the output target, which is determined from the appearance count in the second image group, exceeds a second threshold, the candidate image is selected as the output target.
US10275643B2	Electronic device, electronic device control method, and computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon electronic device control program An electronic device includes: a storage unit that stores therein a plurality of images in which a first subject is imaged, and a plurality of images in which a second subject which is different from the first subject is imaged, and stores therein supplementary information about the first subject and the second subject including information about dates and times of imaging, and sites of imaging; and an extracting unit that extracts images whose dates and times of imaging are different from each other, and images imaged at a common site of imaging based on the supplementary information when extracting an image in which the first subject is imaged and an image in which the second subject is imaged. In the electronic device, when the first subject and the second subject are humans, the storage unit stores therein, as the supplementary information, birth dates of the first and second people.
US10275636B2	Fingerprint identifying module A fingerprint identifying module includes a sensing assembly, a cover and a metal ring. The cover has a protruding portion and the metal ring has an accommodation groove. The protruding portion of the cover is engaged with the accommodation groove of the metal ring so that the metal ring is bonded to the cover. Since no liquid glue is required for bonding the metal ring to the module, the step of baking and solidifying the liquid glue is saved and the manufacturing efficiency of the fingerprint identifying module is improved.
US10275633B1	Acoustic imaging system for spatial demodulation of acoustic waves An acoustic imaging system includes multiple acoustic transducers disposed to circumscribe a portion of imaging surface. An acoustic imaging system also includes a controller and an image resolver. The acoustic transducers convert electrical signals into mechanical energy and/or mechanical energy into electrical signals. The controller is adapted to apply an electrical signal to the acoustic transducers which, in response, induce a mechanical wave, such as a surface wave, into the circumscribed portion. The controller is also adapted to receive electrical signals from the acoustic transducers. The image resolver uses the electrical signals received by the controller in order to construct an image of an object in physical contact with the imaging surface.
US10275627B2	Reader device for reading a marking comprising a physical unclonable function The present disclosure relates to the field of anti-counterfeit protection of products. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to a method of reading with a reader device a marking comprising a physical unclonable function, PUF, and a corresponding reader device. In particular, such reader device marking can be used in connection with or can form a component of a multi-component security system, in particular of an anti-counterfeit protection system, which is also disclosed herein as part of an overall security solution for anti-counterfeit protection. The method comprises a stimulation step, wherein a physical challenge according to a predetermined challenge-response authentication scheme corresponding to the PUF is created and applied to a PUF; a detection step, wherein a response generated by the PUF in accordance with the challenge-response authentication scheme in reaction to the challenge is detected and a digital signal representing the response is generated; a processing step, wherein the digital signal is processed in order to generate a hash value of the response by application of a predetermined cryptographic hash function to the digital signal; and an output step, wherein data representing the generated hash value as a first reading result is output.
US10275626B2	Sheet body, steroscopic object, and information code reading system A sheet body 30 includes first and second sheets 40 and 60 that transmit infrared radiation. A rear face of the first sheet 40 is opposed to a front face of the second sheet 60. An information code is marked on a front or rear face of the second sheet 60 by using an infrared absorbing material. The rear face of the first sheet 40 and the front face of the second sheet 60 are stuck together with a highly infrared transmitting adhesive. The front face of the first sheet 40 is marked with a pattern using an infrared transmitting material that is visible when visible radiation is irradiated onto the pattern.
US10275624B2	Hybrid system and method for reading indicia An indicia-reading system is provided that incorporates a hybrid approach to decoding indicia such as barcodes. An indicia-capturing subsystem acquires information about indicia within the indicia-capturing subsystem's field of view. An indicia-decoding module decodes indicia information acquired by the indicia-capturing subsystem. The indicia-decoding module includes a primary, basic signal processor for initially decoding indicia information, and a secondary, advanced signal processor for decoding indicia information that is not decoded by the primary, basic signal processor.
US10275609B2	File sharing system and method According to the present application, systems, devices and methods for sharing media files may promote sharing of media without permitting the media to be downloaded. Such systems, devices and methods for sharing media may further enable lists of files to be shared and responses to be delivered to the media owner during playback by a user. 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.
US10275608B2	Object-centric video redaction Techniques are described for video redaction. In one aspect, techniques include receiving a video for redaction; analyzing the video to generate an appearance model for the video, providing a user interface (UI) allowing a user to modify the appearance model, and responsive to a user selecting an object from the appearance model, extending and completing a trajectory of the selected object with enhanced marking based on the user input.
US10275605B2	System and method for supporting secure document tags for use in traditionally unsupported workflows A system and method to recognize the utilization of an unsupported workflow process to process the document to be rendered; write, when it is recognized that an unsupported workflow process is to be utilized in processing the document, security information, from a document security tag associated with the document, in a supported area in the document, to create a modified document, the modified document having security information, from the document security tag, written therein; process, using the unsupported workflow process, the modified document; and render, by the printing system, the modified document in accordance the security, governance, or tracking measures documented in the document security tag associated with the document.
US10275602B2	Method and apparatus for an end user identity protection suite An end user identity protection suite (IPS) is discussed. In one embodiment, the IPS includes a identity validation system to evaluate a security level of at least one identity tool, the identity tool not related to computer security but rather to the user's identity. In one embodiment, the IPS further includes a security signal logic to generate a security status signal indicating an overall security state of the user, the security status signal comprising a combination of the security levels of each of the plurality of identity tools.
US10275601B2	Flaw attribution and correlation In a system for attributing one or more vulnerabilities in a software application to one or more developers, information identifying the source of a vulnerability is obtained from a vulnerability report. From a repository, developer-related information associated with the identified source is obtained. One or more developers are selected from the developer-related information according to one or more specified rules, and the defect is attributed to the selected developer(s). Attribution of the defect may indicate that the developer(s) contributed to introduction of the defect or to remedying the defect.
US10275594B2	Mitigation of malware Systems and methods are provided in example embodiments for mitigating malicious calls. The system can be configured to determine a series of checksums for a file, compare the series of checksums to a checksum tree, where the checksum tree includes a plurality of nodes that each include a fuzzy checksum of known malware, and assign one or more classifications to the file, where each of the one or more classifications is based on each node of the checksum tree that matches a checksum in the series of checksums and includes whether the file includes malware or benign checksums.
US10275592B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a first manager, a second manager, and a generator. The first manager loads a first class of a first object that requests execution of methods contained in a second object and a third class of a limiter configured to limit access from the first object to the methods. The second manager loads a second class of the second object. The generator generates the second object from the second class upon receiving a generation request for generating the second object from the first object, generates the limiter from the second object and the third class, and transmits the limiter to the first object.
US10275583B2	Expression recognition in messaging systems Some embodiments include a messaging system capable of expression-based communication and/or expression-based actions. The messaging system can run on a computing device. For example, the messaging system monitors a camera feed from a camera of the computing device to detect a biometric signature when a messaging interface of the messaging application is actively being used. The messaging system can match the detected biometric signature against a known profile utilizing a facial recognition process to authenticate an operating user to use the messaging application. The messaging system can determine a human expression based on the detected biometric signature utilizing an expression recognition process to associate a contextual tag with an activity on the messaging interface. The messaging system can then communicate with a message server system to associate the contextual tag with content presented to the operating user or a conversation participated by the operating user via the messaging application.
US10275581B2	Method and apparatus for sharing content between electronic devices A method of a first device and an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving a request signal related to contents stored in the first device from a second device communicatively coupled to the first device; transmitting the contents to the second device in response to the request signal, wherein the contents are security applied contents; and releasing the security of the contents by authenticating a user related to the contents.
US10275575B1	Interactive meal-dataset-based map A method to integrate location signals received from indoor positioning systems in order to generate an interactive dataset-based map is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an identifier and location information from a consumer device. The method comprises determining a current location for the consumer device based on the signal strength received from a beacon. The method comprises determining whether the identifier and the current location are associated with the consumer device in a database. The method comprises generating a set of meal datasets within a predetermined proximity to the consumer device. The method comprises generating a first graphical user interface to display the set of meals on the consumer device and receiving a selection of meals from the consumer device. The method comprises generating a second graphical user interface configured to display instructions to reach physical locations of the selected meal datasets in relation to the consumer device.
US10275574B2	Retail pharmacy customer recognition and sales A retail pharmacy sales system for identifying a customer and identifying which prescriptions the customer is authorized to pick up is disclosed. The system may include a retail pharmacy sales device in communication with a mobile device. The retail pharmacy sales device is configured to identify the customer, receive acknowledgement for the prescriptions, and process the payments for the prescriptions based on communication with the mobile device.
US10275570B2	Closed loop alert management Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for providing closed loop alert management. An alert related to a patient is communicated to a first tier via a messaging application. The first tier comprises one or more clinicians assigned to care for the patient. Upon receiving a response from a clinician in the first tier, an indication the clinician has responded to the alert is communicated to the first tier. Upon receiving no response from a clinician in the first tier, the alert may be communicated to other devices associated with the clinicians in the first tier or to a subsequent tier comprising one or more other clinicians.
US10275559B2	Method for legalizing mixed-cell height standard cells of IC A method for legalizing mixed-cell height standard cells of an IC is provided. A target standard cell is obtained in a window of a global placement. The target standard cell has a first area overlapping a first standard cell located in a first row of the window, and a second area overlapping a second standard cell located in a second row of the window. The target standard cell and the first standard cell are moved until the target standard cell does not overlap the first standard cell in the first row of the window. The target standard cell and the first standard cell are clustered as a first cluster when the target standard cell does not overlap the first standard cell. The first cluster is moved away from the second standard cell in the second row until the second standard cell does not overlap the first cluster.
US10275558B2	Technologies for providing FPGA infrastructure-as-a-service computing capabilities Technologies for providing FPGA infrastructure-as-a-service include a computing device having an FPGA, scheduler logic, and design loader logic. The scheduler logic selects an FPGA application for execution and the design loader logic loads a design image into the FPGA. The scheduler logic receives a ready signal from the FGPA in response to loading the design and sends a start signal to the FPGA application. The FPGA executes the FPGA application in response to sending the start signal. The scheduler logic may time-share the FPGA among multiple FPGA applications. The computing device may include signaling logic to manage signals between a user process and the FPGA application and DMA logic to manage bulk data transfer between the user process and the FPGA application. The computing device may include a user process linked to an FGPA library executed by a processor of the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10275548B1	Interactive diagnostic modeling evaluator Interactive diagnostic modeling evaluator (i-DME) for repairing a diagnostic matrix of a system. The diagnostic modeling evaluator cause steps to be performed comprising: evaluating a first diagnostic performance of a diagnostic unit using supervised data that includes one or more instances of a fault of a system; proposing a repair to the diagnostic unit based on the evaluated diagnostic performance; evaluating a second diagnostic performance of the diagnostic unit having the proposed repair; and upon determining that the second diagnostic performance meets a performance metric criterion, repairing the diagnostic unit according to the proposed repair.
US10275520B2	System, methods and applications for embedded internet searching and result display Systems and methods allow a user of a text or graphics editor to quickly create multiple robust internet search queries by selecting and ranking groups or individual key words from a document. A user who is composing or reading a document can identify and link multiple sets of key words into separate search queries by highlighting and assigning either unique search numbers, colors or other readily ascertained indicators of their logical relation. Each individual search query is routed to selected internet search engines, and the results are returned to the user in the same viewed document. The user may select the form in which the results are displayed. For example, results may be listed within the document by way footnotes, endnotes, or separate hover or pull-down windows accessible from the search terms. In addition, the user can browse, sort, rank, edit or eliminate portions of the results.
US10275519B2	Sensor based context augmentation of search queries A computing device comprising a processor configured to receive a natural language search query and determine a first response to the natural language search query, the first response having a first confidence level. The processor is further configured to determine a sensor class effecting an information gain on the natural language search query according to a table of training data. The processor is further configured to augment the natural language search query to form an augmented search query according to data received from at least one sensor that is a member of the sensor class and determine a second response to the augmented search query, the second response having a second confidence level. The processor is further configured to store information to the table of training data that associates the at least one sensor with a value of a change between the first confidence level and the second confidence level.
US10275515B2	Question-answer pair generation In response to receiving a question, a corpus of textual data having content related to the question is obtained. At least one segment is extracted from the corpus of textual data. At least one question-answer pair is generated from at least one segment. Each question-answer pair comprises a candidate question and an answer corresponding to the candidate question.
US10275508B2	Query hints for caching and replication A method may include receiving a query for data to be provided by a database server, wherein the query includes an indication of a maximum lag. The method may further include determining whether a hint is available to apply to the query, wherein the hint affects an execution of the query. When no hint is available, a baseline database server may be selected to be the database server. When the hint is available, a replication server or a cache server may be selected to be the database server based on the hint and the maximum lag. The query may be processed at the selected database server.
US10275507B2	Replication of a relational database Embodiments are provided for replicating a relational source database associated with a transaction log of the relational source database. In operation, embodiments may perform receiving a request for replicating data of the relational source database to a relational target database and identifying a first start position within the transaction log. Upon having identified the first start position, embodiments may further perform waiting at least a time period for ensuring that each transaction currently executing on the relational source database at a moment of receiving said request has terminated at an end of said time period. After having waited said time period, embodiments may perform an asynchronously creating of a copy of data of the relational source database to produce a created copy. In turn, embodiments may perform writing the created copy to the relational target database and identifying a repair start position within the transaction log.
US10275502B2	System and method for interactive reporting in computerized data modeling and analysis An interactive reporting tool allows the user to define, modify, and selectively execute a sequence of queries in an interactive manner. A sequence of queries is entered into rows of an interactive query code table. When the user selects a given row i or a cell in a given row i, then the data table is updated to show the results of the queries 1 through i, such that the user effectively can step through the queries in any order (i.e., sequential or non-sequential, forward or backward) to see the results of each step.
US10275446B2	Linguistic based determination of text location origin A method and system for determining a location of origin and a time period in which a document was written is disclosed. A text is received and a set of linguistic characteristics for the text are identified. A set of possible locations and time periods for the text are determined based on the set of linguistic characteristics. A set of reference documents are used to determine a proximity rating for the text based upon a determination of how close the text is to the reference documents. The potential locations and time periods are ranked and returned for presentation.
US10275440B2	Setup data extraction for deploying a solution package A user interaction is detected that identifies an environment from which data is to be pulled for deployment in a solution represented by a solution package. Setup data is automatically extracted from an instance of an application that is to be replaced by the solution. An editable representation of the setup data is displayed for user configuration or modification. Application data is then extracted from the instance of the application according to the setup data, including any user modifications represented in the editable representation.
US10275410B2	Customizing tracking changes to user content in an online social network Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently.
US10275407B2	Apparatus and method for executing an automated analysis of data, in particular social media data, for product failure detection An apparatus and a method for executing an automated analysis of analysis input data (e.g. social media data and/or On-Board-Diagnosis data) for product failure detection is proposed. Data analysis processing is performed, including: word count processing to determine word count numbers indicative of occurrence frequencies for keywords of a database in user-created text documents of the social media data; correlation determination processing to determine, for each of a plurality of keyword pairs, a respective correlation coefficient; correlation-link identification processing to identify correlation-linked keyword pairs for which the determined correlation coefficient exceeds a correlation threshold; and correlation group identification processing to identify correlation groups of keywords based on the identified correlation-linked keyword pairs; and, if one or more correlation groups of keywords are identified, analysis result data indicative of at least one of the one or more identified correlation groups of keywords is output.
US10275405B2	Automatically generating suggested queries in a social network environment In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a query form associated with a social network environment, a request from a first user of the social network environment, the request comprising a character string entered by the first user, identifying objects associated with the social network environment matching at least in part the character string of the request, and sending, to the query form for display to the first user, one or more suggested queries responsive to the request, wherein each suggested query comprises the character string of the request and references to one or more of the identified objects.
US10275392B2	Data processing device A data processing device includes a two-dimensional structure including a plurality of stages in a vertical direction, the stages each including basic units in a horizontal direction such that the number of the basic units is equal to the number of ways. The basic units each includes a memory block having a plurality of ports, an address generator for the ports of the memory block, and a calculation unit.
US10275390B2	Pipelined configurable processor A configurable processing circuit capable of handling multiple threads simultaneously, the circuit comprising a thread data store, a plurality of configurable execution units, a configurable routing network for connecting locations in the thread data store to the execution units, a configuration data store for storing configuration instances that each define a configuration of the routing network and a configuration of one or more of the plurality of execution units, and a pipeline formed from the execution units, the routing network and the thread data store that comprises a plurality of pipeline sections configured such that each thread propagates from one pipeline section to the next at each clock cycle, the circuit being configured to: (i) associate each thread with a configuration instance; and (ii) configure each of the plurality of pipeline sections for each clock cycle to be in accordance with the configuration instance associated with the respective thread that will propagate through that pipeline section during the clock cycle.
US10275385B2	Integrated circuit system An integrated circuit system includes a host device; and a memory module suitable for communicating with the host device according to a first protocol, the memory module comprising: at least one memory device suitable for storing data or outputting stored data, and executing communication according to a second protocol; and a protocol converter suitable for transferring information among the host device and the at least one memory device, wherein information to be inputted to the at least one memory device is transferred by being converted according to the second protocol and information to be outputted from the at least one memory device is transferred by being converted according to the first protocol.
US10275369B2	Communication mode control for wearable devices A method, executed by one or more processors, includes monitoring a plurality of ambient condition sensors configured to sense a plurality of ambient conditions that are relevant to a plurality of communication modes provided by at least one user I/O device, deactivating a first communication mode of the plurality of communication modes and activating a second communication mode of the plurality of communication modes in response to determining, via the plurality of ambient condition sensors, that one or more of the plurality of ambient conditions are not conducive to the first communication mode and that the plurality of ambient conditions are collectively more conducive to the second communication mode than the first communication mode. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed herein.
US10275367B2	Command source verification Example implementations relate to command source verification. An example device can include instructions executable to send a command via a predefined path to a predefined location within a memory resource storing instructions executable to verify a source of the command using a predefined protocol and execute the command in response to the source verification.
US10275355B2	Method and apparatus for cleaning files in a mobile terminal and associated mobile terminal A method for cleaning files stored in a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal receives a file cleaning instruction from a user. In response to the file cleaning instruction, the mobile terminal identifies cache files based on the cache files' associated information and past user activities on the cache files and groups the identified cache files and their associated information into multiple cache file categories. At least one of the multiple cache file categories is located in an extended storage device of the mobile terminal (e.g., a SD card). Next, the mobile terminal displays information of the multiple cache file categories on the display, each cache file category having an associated file cleaning option and cleans at least one of the multiple cache file categories from the mobile terminal in accordance with a user choice of the corresponding file cleaning option.
US10275350B2	System and method for performance optimal partial rank/bank interleaving for non-symmetrically populated DIMMs across DDR channels An information handling system includes a processor having a plurality of memory channels. The information handling system also includes a plurality of dual inline memory modules non-symmetrically populated on the memory channels. The dual inline memory modules are divided by bank to create a plurality of interleave groups, and each of the interleave groups spans across all of the memory channels of the processor.
US10275349B2	Data storage device and the operating method thereof A method for operating a data storage device includes determining a valid page distribution characteristic of used memory blocks; and performing a garbage collection operation based on the valid page distribution characteristic of used memory blocks.
US10275342B2	Testing software code in a production environment Embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for redirecting data streams from a production environment to validate non-production software code. In some embodiments, a front-end computer executing a first version of software can receive a request message from a requesting computer, generate a request payload using the request message, transmit the request payload to a processor computer, receive a response payload from the processor computer, generate a reply message using the response payload, and provide, to a validation computer that is executing a second version of the software, the request message, the request payload, and the response payload. The validation computer can generate a modified request payload using the request message and a modified reply message using the response payload. To detect potential errors in the second version, the modified request payload is compared with the request payload and the modified reply message is compare with the reply message.
US10275335B2	Method of reordering condition checks between variables based on a frequency that check is satisfied Described is a computer-implemented method of reordering condition checks. Two or more condition checks in computer code that may be reordered within the code are identified. It is determined that the execution frequency of a later one of the condition checks is satisfied at a greater frequency than a preceding one of the condition checks. It is determined that there is an absence of side effects in the two or more condition checks. The values of the condition checks are propagated and abstract interpretation is performed on the values that are propagated. It is determined that the condition checks are exclusive of each other, and the condition checks are reordered within the computer code.
US10275332B2	System for interacting with a web visitor A system for interacting with a person browsing a web site has an Internet-connected server and a connected data repository, and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium. The software provides an identity function identifying the person, a selection function checking the data repository for stored information regarding the identified person, including any tracking rules associated with the identified person, and one or more tracking functions monitoring and recording behavior of the person browsing the web site. The one or more tracking functions follow the tracking rules, if any, associated with the identified person in monitoring and recording behavior of the browsing person.
US10275327B2	Virtual fibre channel port migration Examples disclosed herein relate to virtual Fiber Channel port migration. In some examples disclosed herein, a failure in a primary physical host bus adapter (HBA) hosting a plurality of virtual HBA ports assigned to a virtual machine may be detected. In response to the detecting, incoming input/output (I/O) requests from the virtual machine may be placed into a wait queue, and the plurality of virtual HBA ports may be migrated to a backup physical HBA. After the plurality of virtual HBA ports have been migrated to the backup physical HBA, the I/O requests in the wait queue may be transferred to an active queue to be processed using the plurality of virtual HBA ports registered on the backup physical HBA.
US10275326B1	Distributed computing system failure detection A technology is described for detecting a failure of a distributed system component. An example method may include registering a declarative file that may identify a distributed computing cluster in a service provider environment and provide failure criteria used to detect a failure of a distributed system component included in the distributed computing cluster. Distributed system components included in the distributed computing cluster may then be identified using information included in the declarative file. A distributed system component included in the distributed computing cluster may then be queried according to query criteria provided by the declarative file and a failure state of the distributed system component included in the distributed computing cluster may be identified based in part on a result of querying the distributed system component.
US10275316B2	Storage system, control method of storage system, server apparatus, and control method of server apparatus A file on file storage is archived as an object on object storage. In this case, a correspondence between UUID which is an identifier of the object and a path or an inode number which is an identifier of the file is recorded. This is referred to as correlation between the file and the object. However, because of changing of the path due to the renaming of the file, or changing of the inode number due to overwriting of the file, the correlation is likely to be lost. The invention provides a technique that restores the lost correlation and causes the correlation between the file and the object to be maintained.
US10275315B2	Efficient backup of virtual data A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. In some embodiments, this includes taking a snapshot of a virtual machine, parsing the virtual machine to determine a header section and a file system, indexing the virtual machine based on the parsing, storing the index in a storage device, and storing the snapshot in a deduplicated data storage device.
US10275313B2	Writing encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network A computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) includes a memory, interface and a processing module operable to identify an encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices to produce an identified encoded data slice. The processing module generates a set of first write requests regarding the set of encoded data slices less the identified encoded data slice, and generates a set of second write requests regarding the identified encoded data slice. The set of second write requests include the identified encoded data slice and replications of the identified encoded data slice. The processing module sends the set of first write requests to storage units of the DSN, and sends the set of second write requests to a set of storage units of the DSN, where each storage unit of the set of storage units is sent a corresponding one of the set of second write requests.
US10275309B2	Multi-layer integrated zone partition system error correction A multi-layer error correction coding (ECC) parity technique involves dividing a data band into sub-data bands, generating a respective 1st-layer sub-data band parity matrix for each associated sub-data band, and generating a respective (qth>1)-layer parity matrix for sets of associated adjacent sub-data bands. In the context of a data storage system, the parity generation may be performed at the system-side, and communicated and written to one or more associated data storage devices (DSDs) along with the corresponding data, whereby the DSDs may further associate track ECC information to the written data. In response to receiving at the system-side, location-identifying information about data errors that are not correctable by the DSD using track ECC information, the system may determine an amount of the multi-layer parity information needed to recover the corrupt data, and make a data/parity read request accordingly.
US10275303B2	Mechanism for running diagnostic rules across multiple nodes Techniques for running diagnostic rules across multiple nodes are disclosed. A root cause of an error occurring on a particular node is determined. A root cause of an error on the particular node is identified based on a metric corresponding to another node and/or based on a previously-reported error on another node. Additionally or alternatively, an error is predicted to occur on a particular node. The error is predicted based on a trend associated with a metric corresponding to another node.
US10275300B2	Systems and methods for prioritizing a support bundle Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for prioritizing a support bundle. In one implementation, a fault indication specifying at least one fault of a storage device is generated. A request for support data for diagnosing a cause of the fault is received at the storage device. Low priority data for diagnosing the fault is identified from the support data. A prioritized support bundle is generated having a low priority bundle subset containing the low priority data and a high priority bundle subset containing remaining data in the support data for the storage device. The high priority bundle subset is sent to a diagnostic device over a network separately from the low priority bundle subset.
US10275297B2	Generating soft read values which optimize dynamic range A plurality of bins and a plurality of soft read values are stored in a lookup table where those bins that are either a leftmost bin or a rightmost bin correspond to soft read values having a maximum magnitude. Bin identification information is received for a cell in solid state storage. A soft read value is generated for the cell in solid state storage, including by: accessing the lookup table, mapping the received bin identification information to one of the plurality of bins in the lookup table, and selecting the soft read value in the lookup table that corresponds to the bin which is mapped to.
US10275296B2	Method and system for resolving one or more errors in an enterprise storage system Disclosed herein is a method and system for resolving one or more errors in an enterprise storage system. The resolution system receives one or more alerts from a management server configured in the enterprise storage system, wherein the one or more alerts are associated with an error in a storage array configured in the enterprise storage system. Upon receiving the one or more alerts, verifying one or more parameters associated with at least one alert from the one or more alerts, using data stored in an internal database configured in the resolution system. Further, storing a data associated with the one or more parameters in a memory, configured in the resolution system, after verifying the one or more parameters. Finally, resolving the error after identifying one or more corresponding root causes from the data associated with the one or more parameters, using one or more error resolving processes.
US10275292B1	Shadow Java classes provide private metadata A method for using shadow Java classes to provide private metadata in an application. An XML schema defining a public API is used by a generator to create the public API data classes and a corresponding set of shadow classes. The shadow classes contain metadata describing each corresponding API class, including overall class metadata, and metadata pertaining to each field in the class. When a public class is to be encoded and sent out over the wire, the encoder looks up the shadow metadata—which includes the class structure and eliminates the need to use Java reflection to expand the class. The encoder then walks through the fields of the class and encodes the object—using shorthand simplifications enabled by the metadata. The encoding process is fast because of the avoidance of reflection, and the encoded data is compact due to the simplifications. A similar process is used for de-serializing.
US10275282B1	Automated rollback A customer having a deployment in a resource provider environment can request one or more changes to the deployment using one or more application programming interface (API) requests. Along with the one or more changes, the customer can specify one or more metrics or behaviors, or a function thereof, to be monitored for the deployment for at least a period of time after the change is implemented. The customer can also specify acceptable or unacceptable values or ranges for the metrics. If the value of a specified metric is determined during the monitoring to have an unacceptable value, the change can be automatically rolled back or undone. The roll back in some embodiments takes the form of a change in state to yet another state that will cause the deployment to operate similar to a state before the change was implemented.
US10275273B2	Efficient computation of address groupings across multiple network interfaces Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to normalizing service rules across multiple virtual interfaces (VIFs). For example, certain embodiments described herein relate to a method for managing service rules. The method may include receiving a plurality of service rules for a set of VIFs, wherein each service rule corresponds to at least one network address and grouping the network addresses into non-overlapping groups of network addresses, wherein the grouping is performed over the service rules corresponding to the set of VIFs. In certain embodiments, flow entries may be generated based on the grouping of the network addresses.
US10275271B2	Virtual machine device access According to one example, to access at least one computer device from a virtual machine, a control domain accesses a list of at least one device. For each device in the list of devices, a determination is made as to whether the device is to be exposed to a virtual machine, and a table of devices determined to be exposed to the virtual machine is created and provided to the virtual machine. Determining whether a device is to be exposed to a virtual machine is based on at least one device attribute.
US10275270B2	Method and apparatus to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools Methods and apparatus are disclosed to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools. An example method disclosed herein includes preparing a virtual machine pool including a virtual machine for use in a scaling operation, the virtual machine prepared in accordance with a blueprint of the application deployed in a deployment environment separate from the virtual machine pool, in response to receiving a request to scale the application, determining by executing an instruction with a processor, whether configuration information of the virtual machine pool satisfies a scaling requirement included in the request, and based on the determination, executing an instruction with the processor to transfer the virtual machine from the virtual machine pool to the deployment environment to perform the scaling operation in accordance with the request to scale.
US10275265B1	Graphical user interface for editing components in graphical user interfaces for industrial control systems A system provides a design interface for designing and implementing graphical user interfaces that users can access through web browsers. Depending on the configuration of the graphical user interfaces, the users may be able to monitor and control industrial processes by interacting with components that correspond to the industrial processes as displayed in user interfaces at client devices. The design interface includes functionality for selecting preprogrammed components, or for generating new components for display. The design interface further allows designers to associate data values received from a variety of sources with properties of the components in the user interfaces. In particular, properties associated with a component of an interface are stored in property tree structures, making dynamic changes to the components possible. Data bindings between subtrees representing components and sets of data from industrial and other sources allows for designs that scale with the availability of the data.
US10275263B2	Emergency video camera system A surveillance system includes one or more camera systems at least some of the camera systems including a camera element comprising optical components to capture and process light to produce images, camera processing circuitry that receives the light and processes the light into electrical signals and encodes the signals into a defined format, power management circuitry to power the camera system, the power management system including first and second power interfaces and first and second video output interfaces.
US10275253B2	Energy efficient processor core architecture for image processor An apparatus that includes a program controller to fetch and issue instructions. The apparatus includes an execution lane having at least one execution unit to execute the instructions. The execution lane is part of an execution lane array that is coupled to a two dimensional shift register array structure, wherein, execution lane s of the execution lane array are located at respective array locations and are coupled to dedicated registers at same respective array locations in the two-dimensional shift register array.
US10275251B2	Processor for avoiding reduced performance using instruction metadata to determine not to maintain a mapping of a logical register to a physical register in a first level register file A processor includes a first level register file, second level register file, and register file mapper. The first and second level register files are comprised of physical registers, with the first level register file more efficiently accessed relative to the second level register file. The register file mapper is coupled with the first and second level register files. The register file mapper comprises a mapping structure and register file mapper controller. The mapping structure hosts mappings between logical registers and physical registers of the first level register file. The register file mapper controller determines whether to map a destination logical register of an instruction to a physical register in the first level register file. The register file mapper controller also determines, based on metadata associated with the instruction, whether to write data associated with the destination logical register to one of the physical registers of the second level register file.
US10275249B1	Method and apparatus for predicting end of loop Embodiments include a method comprising: executing a loop during a first encounter of the loop; tracking a first number of times the loop is iterated while the loop is executed during the first encounter; executing the loop during a second encounter of the loop; tracking a second number of times the loop is iterated while the loop is executed during the second encounter; and in response to the first number being equal to the second number, predicting a behavior of the loop during a third encounter of the loop.
US10275235B2	Adaptable management of web application state in a micro-service architecture A method for controlling a web application state in a micro-service architecture may be provided. The method comprises registering a client-side state client at a client user interface component and loading a current state of the web application via a server-side state micro-service from a server state store upon a navigation to a website relating to a server-side micro-service of the web application. The method also comprises triggering a state change of the web application by a user interface control of the client user interface component, transmitting the changed state from the server-side micro-service of the web application to the server-side state micro-service, storing the changed state by the server-side state micro-service together with a state identifier in a server state store, transmitting the changed state and the state identifier from the server-side state micro-service to the state client, and notifying the client user interface component about the changed state.
US10275228B2	Relaxing user-specified register constraints for improving register allocation A method is provided for relaxing register constraints in a computer program. The method includes identifying, by a processor enabled compiler, unrequired register constraints imposed by a user on the computer program. The unrequired register constraints are unrequired for a proper operation of the computer program. The method further includes automatically relaxing, by the processor enabled compiler, the identified unrequired register constraints to optimize register allocation for the computer program.
US10275220B2	Arithmetic processing device and control method for arithmetic processing device An arithmetic processing device includes: a decode circuit configured to decode instructions; an execution control circuit configured to hold the instructions decoded by the decode circuit and to output the held instructions in an executable order; an instruction transfer circuit configured to sequentially transfer the instructions sequentially output by the execution control circuit; an instruction generation circuit configured to output, to the instruction transfer circuit, an individual instruction generated from a combined instruction in a case where one of the instructions transferred by the instruction transfer circuit is the combined instruction obtained by combining individual instructions; and an arithmetic execution circuit configured to execute the individual instruction transferred by the instruction transfer circuit.
US10275214B2	Connected device voice command support Systems and techniques for connected device voice command support are described herein. A voice command may be received from a user. A set of connected devices proximate to the user may be identified. The voice command may be transformed into a command for the set of connected devices. The command may be communicated to the set of connected devices.
US10275210B2	Privacy protection in collective feedforward Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a processor to generate a personal audio stream by processing an ambient audio stream in accordance with an active processing parameter set, a circular buffer memory to store a most recent snippet of the ambient audio stream, and an event detector to detect a trigger event. In response to detection of the trigger event, a controller may extract audio feature data from the most recent snippet of the ambient audio stream and transmit the audio feature data and associated metadata to a knowledgebase remote from the personal audio system.
US10275209B2	Sharing of custom audio processing parameters Ambient sound is converted into an ambient audio stream. A processed ambient audio stream is generated by processing the ambient audio stream in accordance with a selected set of processing parameters selected from the plurality of processing parameter sets stored in the memory. Trigger data is searched and a new set of processing parameters is requested. The trigger data identifies the new set of processing parameters that is available for use in processing the ambient audio stream. A received new set of processing parameters is selected as the selected set of processing parameters. The processed ambient audio stream is converted into processed output sound.
US10275199B2	Communication device, management server, communication system, and program Provided is technology enabling uploading device management information more appropriately. A communication device that manages a device, including: a storage device configured to store management information related to the device; a communicator configured to execute communication with an external device through a network; and a controller configured to cause the communicator to send the management information to a server specified by address information as the transmission destination when the communicator receives from a management server address information specifying a server to manage the device. The controller causes the communicator to send device identification information to the management server; and the communicator receives the address information corresponding to the identification information from the management server as a response to transmission of the identification information.
US10275193B2	Printing device and information collection and transmission method When a problem occurs in a subset of devices, another device appropriately executes a process instead of the problem device. A printer has a decision unit that determines whether or not a request for specific information was received at a specific time from a specific printer; an information collection device that, when the request is not received at the specific time, collects the specific information of each printer from other printers capable of communicating; and an information transmission device that transmits the specific information that was collected and the specific information about the printer of which it is part to an external server.
US10275177B2	Data layout schemas for seamless data migration Techniques are described for migrating data between storage components. In one or more embodiments, a storage system receives a request to migrate data from a first storage component to a second storage component. Responsive to the request, the storage system initiates migration of the data from the first storage component to the second storage component. While migration is ongoing, the storage system may receive a request to access the data. Responsive to receiving a write request, the storage system executes the write request on the second storage component without executing the write request on the first storage component. Responsive to determining that the second request is a read request, the storage system selects one of the first storage component or the second storage component to execute the read request based on a first attribute associated with the first storage component and/or a second attribute associated with the second storage component.
US10275176B1	Data transformation offloading in an artificial intelligence infrastructure Data transformation offloading in an artificial intelligence infrastructure that includes one or more storage systems and one or more graphical processing unit (‘GPU’) servers, including: storing, within the storage system, a dataset; identifying, in dependence upon one or more machine learning models to be executed on the GPU servers, one or more transformations to apply to the dataset; and generating, by the storage system in dependence upon the one or more transformations, a transformed dataset.
US10275174B2	System and method for pre-conditioning a storage device A method includes: preconditioning a reference solid-state drive (SSD) to a steady state by writing to physical media of the reference SSD; transferring metadata of the reference SSD to an application; storing the metadata of the reference SSD in a persistent storage; normalizing the metadata of the reference SSD to a target SSD; and applying the normalized metadata to the target SSD to precondition the target SSD to the steady state.
US10275170B2	Folding operations in memory systems with single address updates A memory system may be configured to perform immediate folding of data from a low storage density area to a high storage density area. A low storage density target area may be monitored, and when a capacity of the low storage density target area reaches a threshold level, data stored in the low storage density target area may be folded to an associated high storage density target area. The memory system may utilize a pointer system to manage the folding of data. The pointer system may also be utilized for read operations in order to avoid updating address mapping tables for both the low storage density and the high storage density areas.
US10275167B2	Providing service address space for diagnostics collection A system and technique are provided for providing a service address space. The system includes a service co-processor provided with a service address space. The service co-processor is attached to a main processor where the main processor is provided with a main address space. The service co-processor creates and maintains an independent copy of the main address space in the form of the service address space. The service co-processor updates the service address space with storage delta packets received from the main processor, and the service co-processor performs diagnostic services based on command packets received from the main processor.
US10275165B2	Memory controller According to one embodiment, a control unit determines a first physical sector in which first data is to be written among a plurality of physical sectors based on first information that is based on a result of the first data translation and the device characteristics of the plurality of physical sectors. A write unit writes data for which a first data translation is performed into the first physical sector of a nonvolatile memory.
US10275161B2	Distributed storage network for storing a data object based on storage requirements A distributed storage network (DSN) includes a user device and a plurality of DSN memories, wherein each of the DSN memories includes a plurality of storage units. The user device includes at least one network interface to the plurality of DSN memories and at least one processing module that is operable to determine one of the plurality of DSN memories for storing a data object based on a comparison of one or more storage requirements of the data object and one or more DSN attributes of the plurality of DSN memories.
US10275142B2	Managing content displayed on a touch screen enabled device Approaches are provided for managing content displayed on a touch screen enabled device. An approach includes collecting data regarding contents of an electronic document that is opened on a device. The approach further includes separating the contents into individual layers and determining a position of each of the contents within the electronic document. The approach further includes detecting a manipulation of a first piece of content of the contents on the device, and determining the manipulation of the first piece of content has created an obstruction of readability or viewability of at least a portion of a second piece of content of the contents. The approach further includes adjusting the second piece of content such that the readability or viewability of the portion of the second piece of content is not obstructed by the first piece of content.
US10275138B2	Zone recognition An example implementation may involve receiving, via a radio interface, a radio transmission indicating a particular playback device of a media playback system. Based on the received radio transmission, the implementation may further involve determining that the device is within a given proximity to a zone of the media playback system that includes the particular playback device. Based on determining that the device is within the given proximity to the zone of the media playback system, the implementation may also involve causing the graphical interface to display an indication of (i) an identifier of the zone and (ii) a characteristic of the zone.
US10275125B2	Image data generation apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium It is an object to easily edit data having a plurality of pages. A program according to this invention causes a computer to cause a display unit to display at least one page of a plurality of pages arranged in accordance with a predetermined layout and an interchanging operation image for changing the layout by interchanging the position of a first page included in the at least one page with the position of a second page in a mode of specifying the first page and the second page, change the layout so as to interchange the first page with the second page upon accepting an operation on the interchanging operation image, and obtain image data representing one image by arranging images on the plurality of pages in accordance with the layout and connecting the images.
US10275118B1	Radial control system and method A method includes displaying, to a user via an electronic display, a radial control comprising a plurality of concentric arcs, the radial control including a first central section defined by a first arc of the plurality of concentric arcs, and a plurality of child sections collectively defined by the first arc and the other arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, the plurality of child sections being delineated from one another by dividers extending between two or more arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, wherein the first central section is associated with a parent activity and each of the plurality of child sections is associated with a child activity related to the parent activity.
US10275112B2	Computer readable medium, relay device and information processing device A non-transitory computer readable medium causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: acquiring coordinate information indicating a boundary between an operable region and an inoperable region in the operation screen of a server; acquiring, from an operating system of the computer, an arrangement coordinate of a first window displaying the operation screen of the server including a first mouse cursor; detecting positions of the operable region and the inoperable region from the acquired coordinate information and the acquired arrangement coordinate; and interrupting notifying the first window of a coordinate of a second mouse cursor when the coordinate of the second mouse cursor acquired from the operating system of the computer is included in the inoperable region.
US10275109B2	Traversing between nodes A system for traversing between nodes within a user interface receives a directional command from a user. The directional command is a command to move a focus away from a current node. The system also determines a next node to move the focus onto. The determining the next node is based on the relative positioning between the current node and the other nodes. The determining the next node is based on previous movements of the focus that were performed prior to moving the focus onto the current node. The system also performs movement of the focus from the current node onto the next node.
US10275107B2	Display and touch detection method To provide a display capable of achieving downsizing and a touch detection method. The display includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix form, a plurality of scanning lines disposed in each row of the pixel array and supplying scanning signals to the plurality of pixels disposed in corresponding rows, a plurality of signal lines disposed in each column of the pixel array and supplying image signals to the plurality of pixels disposed in corresponding columns, a plurality of common electrodes disposed in each of the columns of the pixel array and supplied with driving signals for detecting touch, and a semiconductor device for touch including a plurality of driving terminals for supplying the driving signals. Here, the plurality of driving terminals of the semiconductor device for touch are smaller in number than the plurality of common electrodes disposed in the pixel array.
US10275103B2	Identifying multiple users on a large scale projected capacitive touchscreen System, method, and computer program products are provided that can support touch interaction from multiple users on a large scale projective capacitive (PCAP) display system, such as a gaming table. According to some embodiments, a system includes a touchscreen coupled to a controller. The controller adjusts performance of the touchscreen through dynamically setting a controller parameter to support altered touch reporting in a first area of the touchscreen compared to a second area of the touchscreen. The controller enables touch detection for the first area according to performance characteristics needed for an application operating in the second area. Some embodiments include the controller identifying a user associated with the first area, where the controller receives and analyzes a watermarked touch signal from the first area that includes a touch signal and a unique signal, detects an associated touch location, and detects the unique signal associated with the user.
US10275101B2	Integrated touch control display panel and display apparatus An integrated touch control display panel and a display apparatus are disclosed. The integrated touch control display panel comprises a touch-control-emitting-electrode-array including a plurality of touch control emitting strip electrodes arranged along a first direction; and a touch-control-sensing-electrode-array including a plurality of touch control sensing strip electrodes arranged along a second direction. An orthogonal projection of any touch control sensing strip electrode to the touch-control-emitting-electrode-array at least partially overlaps with any of the touch control emitting strip electrodes; and the touch control sensing strip electrodes are metal mesh electrodes, the metal mesh electrodes comprising a plurality of metal curves. This can reduce the resistance of the touch control sensing strip electrode, such that the integrated touch control display panel and the display apparatus have a more sensitive touch control sensing effect.
US10275095B2	Glass sheet having a high transmission in the infrared The invention relates to a glass sheet having a composition that comprises, in an amount expressed in percentages by total weight of glass: SiO2: 55-85%; Al2O3: 0-30%; B2O3: 0-20%; Na2O: 5-25%; CaO: 0-20%; MgO: 0-15%; K2O: 0-20%; BaO: 0-20%; Total iron (expressed in Fe2O3 form): 0.002-0.06%; said composition also comprising one of the following components: manganese (expressed in MnO form), in an amount ranging from 0.01 to 1% by weight; antimony (expressed in Sb2O3 form), in an amount ranging from 0.01 to 1% by weight; arsenic (expressed in AS2O3 form), in an amount ranging from 0.01 to 1% by weight; or copper (expressed in CuO form), in an amount ranging from 0.0002 to 0.1% by weight. The invention also relates to the use of such a glass sheet in a device employing infrared radiation propagating essentially inside said sheet. By virtue of its high transmission at infrared wavelengths, said glass sheet may advantageously be used, for example, in a screen or panel or pad, the glass sheet defining a touch surface.
US10275094B2	Photo sensor circuit, photo sensor pixel, and display device having the photo sensor pixel A photo sensor pixel includes a pixel circuit including a driving transistor, a switching transistor having a double gate structure and a photo sensing transistor connected in series with the switching transistor. The pixel circuit drives a light emitting element therein based on a data voltage provided thereto through a data line, the switching transistor includes a top gate electrode and a bottom gate electrode, which are connected to different gate lines, respectively, and the photo sensing transistor senses incident light.
US10275088B2	Systems and methods for identifying faulty touch panel having intermittent field failures An electronic device having a faulty touch panel may be diagnosed and indicated for repair by extracting a log from the electronic device. The log may include a record of touch panel events indicating active and inactive touch panel events divided into time periods. The log may be analyzed for touch panel events in a given time period. If a total number of touch panel events in a given time period exceeds a threshold count, and if a percentage of touch panel events in that given time period exceeds a threshold percentage, the touch panel may be identified as in need of replacement. Further, if a total number of touch panel events for all time periods exceeds a threshold percentage, the touch panel may be identified as in need of replacement.
US10275086B1	Gesture-equipped touch screen system, method, and computer program product In various embodiments, an electronic device, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for storing a plurality of applications including an application, utilizing the memory; displaying indicia; when a first pressure being applied to the touch screen is detected as ceasing in connection with the indicia, performing an operation; when a second pressure being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first pressure is detected without the ceasing, outputting feedback that is perceptible by touch; when the second pressure being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first pressure is detected without the ceasing, performing another operation; when a third pressure being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the second pressure is detected, outputting additional feedback that is perceptible by touch; when the third pressure being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the second pressure is detected, opening content associated with the indicia; and when a slide gesture being applied to the touch screen is detected after the second pressure is detected, displaying at least one menu including a plurality of particular actions.
US10275057B2	Array substrate, display panel and method for detecting and restoring display panel The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a method for detecting and restoring a display panel. The detection and restoring unit is configured to provide signals to the touch sensing units to perform detection and restoring. In the display region, each of the touch sensing units is provided with one first line and one second line, and the first line is connected with the touch sensing unit through a via hole. The first terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first terminal of the first line. The second terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first terminal of the second line. Each of the first terminal of the first line, the first terminal of the second line and the control terminal of the first switch element is connected with the detection and restoring unit.
US10275053B2	Input device with a rotational side button A mouse with multiple side buttons may provide a user with ease of accessing buttons and assigning macro keys to each buttons. However, such a mouse may not take into account the comfort and feel of the user when engaging with the buttons, and manipulation of the side buttons can cause strain or fatigue to the hands. According to various embodiments, an input device comprises: a housing; a plurality of buttons; and an actuator configured to change a position of the plurality of buttons relative to the housing.
US10275051B2	Interaction method, interaction device, and operation stick Embodiments of the present application provide an interaction method, an interaction device, and an operation stick. The interaction method comprises: determining a height of an input position in three-dimensional display content, where the input position is selected by a user by controlling contact between an operation stick and an operation panel by using a partial limb; and controlling a physical property of a first part between a first position in the operation stick and a first contact part at least according to the height, where the operation stick is in contact with the operation panel in the first position, and is in contact with the partial limb at the first contact part, and the physical property is a property that can affect a straight-line distance between the first position and the first contact part. Embodiments of the present application provide a solution for mixed reality (MR) interaction.
US10275048B2	Method and apparatus for configuring and selectively sensing use of a device A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for subdividing a touch-sensitive interface of a mouse accessory into a first plurality of sectors for defining a first plurality of mouse buttons, where each sector of the first plurality of sectors corresponds to a distinct mouse button. The method can further include receiving a first signal from the touch-sensitive interface of the mouse accessory, detecting, from the first signal a selection of a sector of the first plurality of sectors, and generating a second signal indicating the selection of the sector. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10275044B2	Appliance with user presence detection An appliance includes a user presence detector having an emitter and a sensor. The emitter is configured to emit waves having a wavelength, and the sensor is configured to sense waves of the wavelength, such as emitted waves which have been reflected back to the sensor from an object external to the appliance. There is no internal path within the appliance between the sensor and the emitter for either direct or reflected waves. The appliance also includes a user interface panel and a user input device. The user interface panel and the user input device are offset along at least one direction. The sensor is positioned on one of the user interface panel or the user input device and the emitter is positioned on the other of the user interface panel or the user input device.
US10275043B2	Detection of lane conditions in adaptive cruise control systems Method and apparatus are disclosed for detection of lane conditions vehicles in adaptive cruise control systems. An example vehicle includes a communication module for V2V communication, a camera for capturing images, and a controller. The controller is to identify a vehicle type of a lead vehicle based upon the images and determine a lead vehicle speed. The controller also is to send, via the communication module, an alert to the lead vehicle responsive to determining the lead vehicle is a passenger vehicle and the lead vehicle speed is less than a speed setting for activated adaptive cruise control.
US10275040B2	Low-travel illuminated key mechanism Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overmolded wings may pivotally couple to the key cap. A switch housing may surround the support structure and connect each of the first and second wings. A tactile dome may be at least partially positioned within the switch housing and configured to bias the key cap upward. A sensing membrane may be positioned along an underside surface of the tactile dome and configured to trigger a switch event in response to a collapsing of the tactile dome caused by a depression of the key cap. A feature plate may be positioned below the sensing membrane. A light guide panel may define at least one light extraction feature that may be configured to propagate light toward the key cap and cause illumination of the illuminable symbol.
US10275032B2	Pressure-sensitive suspension system for a haptic device Embodiments hereof are directed to a haptic device having a pressure-sensitive suspension system. The haptic device includes a housing, a touch surface component mounted to the housing to be movable relative thereto, and a haptic actuator for providing haptic feedback to the touch surface component. At least one suspension component is disposed between the touch surface component and the housing. The suspension component is formed from an elastomer and includes pressure-sensing particles integrated into the elastomer. The pressure-sensing particles are configured to sense pressure applied to the touch surface component.
US10275013B2	Apparatuses and methods of entering unselected memories into a different power mode during multi-memory operation Disclosed are examples of apparatuses including memory devices and systems comprising memories sharing a common enable signal, wherein the memories may be put into different power modes. Example methods for setting the different power modes of the memories are disclosed. In some examples, different power modes may be set by issuing memory group-level commands, memory-level commands, or combinations thereof.
US10275012B2	Operating method for display corresponding to luminance, driving circuit, and electronic device supporting the same A method for driving a display and an electronic device supporting the same are provided. The method includes determining a luminance setting of an output of a display panel; generating a gamma value corresponding to at least one sub pixel among sub pixels composing a pixel of the display panel when the luminance setting is equal to or lower than a specified value; and supplying the generated gamma value to the at least one sub pixel and at least one other sub pixel.
US10275009B2	Location-based content promotion on online social networks In one embodiment, a computing system may access a plurality of content items shared by a plurality of first users on an online social network. The computing system may calculate a content score for each of content items shared by a first user on the online social network, where each content score is based at least in part on a proximity coefficient between a second user and the first user that shared the content item, where the proximity coefficient is a weighted combination of multiple subpart proximity coefficients over a period of time. The computing system may send, to a client device of the second user for display, one or more of the content items based at least in part on the calculated content scores.
US10275008B2	Methods and apparatus to reduce computing device power consumption Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reduce computing device power consumption are disclosed. Examples determine an idle period based on hardware residency of the computing device, and set a timer to wake up a central processing unit (CPU) from a low power idle state after the idle period, the CPU to exit the low power idle state in response to expiration of the idle period.
US10275004B2	Data center management Techniques for providing power to components of a computer system are described. An example of a computer system includes a plurality of server nodes and a power distribution system that provides power to the plurality of server nodes. The computer system also includes a hardware-based alert signal line that couples the power distribution system to the plurality of server nodes. If a power failure occurs, the power distribution system is to send an alert signal to all of the server nodes through the alert signal line. The alert signal triggers each server node to activate a low power state.
US10274978B2	Dropped ceiling system cooling prediction In one embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented method for evaluating ceiling plenum airflow patterns and cooling performance of equipment in a data center. The method includes receiving data related to equipment in the data center, receiving data related to the ceiling plenum, determining first parameters related to airflow and to pressure in the ceiling plenum using a first airflow model, determining second parameters related to airflow through a plurality of equipment racks and to pressure across the plurality of equipment racks using a second airflow model distinct from the first airflow model, determining a coupling relationship between airflow through the equipment racks and airflow into the ceiling plenum, adjusting the first parameters based on at least the second parameters and the coupling relationship, determining a sufficiency of airflow through the equipment racks, and storing, on a storage device, an indication of the sufficiency of airflow through the equipment racks.
US10274977B2	Active proportional-integral-derivative (PID) gain tuning for controlling a cooling system for an information handling system Control signals, such as PWM control signals, can be used to control aspects of a cooling system and can be generated using proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control. PID control systems for cooling systems are designed based on default environmental and system characteristics and pre-programmed for operation prior to delivery to customers or end users. Changes in environmental and system characteristics, such as component aging, environmental variations, and variation in manufacturing from system to system, such as heat sink effectiveness and application of thermal pastes, can impact system level performance of the control system. Adjusting gain parameters for the P, I, and D components of a PID control signal can reduce negative impact on system performance resulting from such changes and allow the control system to better adjust to external factors.
US10274970B2	Method, and device for controlling the output of the air volume and memory medium Disclosed are a method, device for controlling the output of the air volume and a memory medium. The method includes: determining the temperature difference value according to the current temperature value and the preset temperature value of a cabinet; controlling the opening of an air valve of a variable air volume terminal according to the temperature difference value, so as to adjust the air volume needed by the cabinet. The temperature value needed to be adjusted is determined according to the difference value between the current temperature value and the preset temperature value. The opening of the air valve of the variable air volume terminal is correspondingly adjusted according to the temperature value needed to be adjusted, so as to adjust the air volume needed by the cabinet, and adjust the air volume according to the actual demand.
US10274968B2	Method and device for assisting with the landing of an aircraft during a flare maneuver A device including an acquisition module for acquiring current parameters of the aircraft, a computational module for computing a current load factor of the aircraft, a computational module for computing a minimum load factor, a computational module for computing the difference between the current load factor and the minimum load factor, and an acoustic emission module for emitting a sound signal, the level of which increases gradually as a function of time when the difference between the current load factor and the minimum load factor is less than zero.
US10274964B2	Autonomous mobile robot and control method thereof A control method of an autonomous mobile robot comprises: receiving a dock signal and executing a control program according to the dock signal. The control program includes detecting a first guiding signal, a second guiding signal and a third guiding signal transmitted by the charging station via the first sensing unit, the second sensing unit and the third sensing unit, sensing a measured distance between the autonomous mobile robot and the charging station when the second guiding signal is detected by the second sensing unit, and the autonomous mobile robot moves toward the charging station or away from the charging station according to the measured distance and a first threshold, and re-executing the control program.
US10274960B2	Automatic guided vehicle An automatic guided vehicle comprising a fork carriage with a fork, a propulsion drive system, a sensor to acquire position data of objects located in a detection field and a computer. The vehicle comprises a reference member located in the detection field of the sensor rigidly secured to a common rigid frame with the sensor. The sensor periodically acquires control position data indicative of a position of the reference member. The computer periodically compares the control position data with a reference value stored in a memory.
US10274958B2	Method for vision-aided navigation for unmanned vehicles A method for vision-aided navigation which utilizes an image registration system to update a navigation control system. One exemplary feature of the method includes the use of Enhanced Phase Correlation techniques to create a reference imagery database and register images against the created database. The method may be operated on a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the method for vision-aided navigation which utilizes an image registration system to update a navigation control system.
US10274946B2	Monitoring control apparatus and monitoring control method When identifying a maintenance target device that is subject to maintenance in an information system realized by connecting a plurality of devices including a monitoring target device, a maintenance target device identification unit identifies the maintenance target device on the basis of contents of configuration information in the information system or contents of maintenance target device information, and a filtering target device identification unit identifies a filtering target device to be affected by the maintenance of the maintenance target device on the basis of a distance matrix calculated from an adjacency matrix obtained from the configuration information.
US10274945B2	HVAC system remote monitoring and diagnosis A monitoring system for an HVAC system of a building includes a monitoring server located remotely from the building. The monitoring server receives, from a device installed at the building, (i) time-domain current data based on a measured aggregate current supplied to a plurality of components of the HVAC system, and (ii) data based on frequency-domain current data of the measured aggregate current. Based on the received data, the monitoring server accesses (i) whether a failure has occurred in a first component of the plurality of components and (ii) generates a preliminary advisory in response to determining that the failure has occurred. The monitoring server compares the preliminary advisory to a threshold value based on data stored from prior advisories. If the preliminary advisory is on a first side of the threshold value, the monitoring server provides the preliminary advisory as a first advisory to a technician for review.
US10274939B2	Feed shaft control method and numerical control work device Provided is a feed shaft control method, wherein a speed feedback loop having a speed controller is disposed within a position feedback loop having a position controller, forming a cascade coupling, and an acceleration feedback signal which is outputted from a compensator on the basis of an output signal of an acceleration detector is subtracted from a torque instruction. Furthermore, the method implements control wherein a speed is acquired on the basis of the output signal of the acceleration detector, and a signal obtained by multiplying the acquired speed by a gain is added to a speed instruction which is outputted from the position controller.
US10274934B2	Data generating method for 3D printing, method for printing a 3D object, and system for processing 3D printing data A data generating method is implemented by a computing system for three-dimensional (3D) printing, and includes the steps of receiving a 3D graphic file and a printing profile containing printing parameters associated with 3D printing for the 3D graphic file; recording a correspondence between the 3D graphic file and the printing profile; and combining the 3D graphic file and the printing profile according to the recorded correspondence to generate a printing data file.
US10274927B2	Method of machining workpiece using machine tool, and machine tool A machine tool includes a bed supported on a ground by supporting jigs, a table movable in an X-axis direction, a spindle head movable in a Y-axis direction, a quill provided to be movable in a Z-axis direction, a spindle supported by the quill to be rotatable about its axis, feed mechanisms for moving the table and the like in the axis directions, and a numerical controller controlling operation of the feed mechanisms, and the numerical controller is configured to calculate motion errors based on load values acting on the supporting jigs by a motion locus estimator, an influence coefficient storage, a motion error calculator, and a motion locus storage, generate a correction signal for compensating for the motion errors by a position corrector, and add the generated correction signals to a position control signal transmitted from a position generator to a position controller.
US10274926B2	State machine function block with user-definable actions on a transition between states A control system, a safety system, etc., within a process plant may each use one or more state machine function blocks that can be easily integrated into a function block diagram programming environment. Such a state machine function block may include one or more inputs, which may cause a state machine implemented by the state machine function block to identify a next state as well as one or more transition actions to perform in accordance with transitioning from a current state to the next state. Configuration data associated with the transition actions may be retrieved from a database based on the current and next states of the state machine and at least one of the inputs. The state machine function block may also include one or more outputs that are generated based on the state transition.
US10274925B2	Method and device for generating control command A method and a device are used to generate a control command. A resolution base value and a resolution-tick corresponding function are created. A first operation frequency value, a minimal tick value and a resolution value are received to calculate a resolution ratio and a second operation frequency. A conversional tick value is calculated. If or not the conversional tick value is greater than or equal to the minimal tick value is determined. If the conversion tick value is smaller than the minimal tick value, the minimal tick value, the conversional tick value and the second operation frequency are used to calculate a conversional operation frequency. A conversional resolution ratio is calculated according to the first operation frequency and the conversional operation frequency, and also a modified tick value is calculated. The control command is output according to the modified tick value, the first operation frequency and the conversion operation frequency.
US10274920B2	Method and system for determining energy savings target for distributed sites of an entity Disclosed herein is method and system for determining energy savings target for distributed sites of an entity. Energy profiles of the distributed sites in a service window are identified. Energy coefficients related to the energy profiles are determined by performing optimization of values of operational parameters of the distributed sites. Energy consumption within the service window is predicted using modular transformation of the energy coefficients. Finally, the energy savings target is determined based on modular transformation of the energy coefficients and current energy savings of the distributed sites. The present disclosure discloses a unique framework for defining a generic set of operational energy savings strategies that are applicable to each type of asset and service window of the distributed sites of an entity.
US10274916B2	System for optimising workflow for efficient on-site data collection and determination of energy analysis and method of operation thereof An energy audit system (1400), including at least one controller (1410) which may obtain attribute information (AI) for an energy consuming space, the AI including information related to a plurality of attributes and corresponding attribute choice information for each of the plurality of attributes; determine dependencies of each of the plurality of attributes; determine a ranking of each of the attributes based upon a dependency score of each of the attributes; determine an optimized workflow based upon the ranking of each of the attributes; and/or renders a user interface (UI) in accordance with the optimized workflow.
US10274913B2	Variable length self-locking lifeline system Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for a variable length self-locking lifeline system that prevents a user from falling off an elevated surface. In one example, a variable length self-locking lifeline system includes a processor and a lanyard. The lanyard is coupled between an anchor point and a user. One or more sensors determine, in real time, a current length and orientation of the lanyard as the lanyard responds to a user moving on an elevated surface. The processor is configured to trigger a locking mechanism to selectively lock the lanyard from further extension when a determined current length and current orientation exceeds a predefined safety perimeter of the elevated surface.
US10274910B2	Air-conditioning control system An air-conditioning control system, includes: an air-conditioning apparatus constructed by connecting one or a plurality of indoor units and one or a plurality of outdoor units by refrigerant pipes; a general-purpose device controller to which a general-purpose device that operates in cooperation with the air-conditioning apparatus is connected, configured to control the general-purpose device; and an energy management gateway, which is communicably connected to the air-conditioning apparatus and the general-purpose device controller through a transmission line, configured to control a device to be controlled, based on a signal related to communication.
US10274904B2	Electronic device capable of appropriately using various time displays A smart watch includes a main CPU, a sub CPU, a first display unit, and a second display unit. While the main CPU and the sub CPU cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, time display processing is performed to at least either of the first display unit or the second display unit according to an operation state.
US10274902B2	Electronic device, and control method of an electronic device An electronic device has a reception device; a display device; an input device; a display controller that controls the display device to display the set time zone data when a first operation of the input device instructing displaying time zone data is detected; a positioning driver that operates the reception device to run a reception process and acquire positioning information when a second operation of the input device instructing starting reception in the navigation mode is detected while time zone data is displayed on the display device; and a time zone setter that sets time zone data based on the acquired positioning information.
US10274901B2	Wearable article A wearable article is disclosed. The wearable article includes a body and a connecting portion connected to the body, the body includes a processing device, the wearable article further includes at least one removable device disposed on the connecting portion, the removable device is configured for connecting to the processing device.
US10274896B2	Floating image display device A floating image display device includes a floating-image-formation optical system that forms an image at an opening part as a floating image from an image displayed on an image display unit, an authentication unit that judges whether or not a subject passing through the opening part is an authorized subject, and an image control unit that makes the image display unit switch contents of the image when the subject is judged as the authorized subject. The floating-image-formation optical system can include a beam splitter and a retroreflective sheet. Another floating image display device includes an image display unit that displays a first image, a floating-image-formation optical system that forms an image at an opening part as a floating image from the first image, and an image projection unit that projects a second image onto a subject moving through the floating image when the subject passes through the opening part.
US10274891B2	Solid lubricant application device and image formation apparatus A solid lubricant application device includes: a rotating body; a solid lubricant applied to the rotating body; a resilient urging member that causes the solid lubricant to abut toward a circumferential surface of the rotating body; and a guide mechanism that guides movement of the solid lubricant. When a straight line parallel to a direction in which the solid lubricant abuts against the rotating body is referred to as a first straight line, and a straight line parallel to a direction in which the resilient urging member and the solid lubricant are connected is referred to as a second straight line, the guide mechanism guides the movement of the solid lubricant such that an intersecting angle, which is a smaller one of angles formed by the first straight line and the second straight line, decreases as the solid lubricant is applied to the rotating body and accordingly changed in shape.
US10274885B2	Image forming apparatus having multiple image forming modes An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, an updating device to update toner consumption based on a number of dots corresponding to laser irradiation by which toner is consumed, and an alerting device to alert an alarm concerning a residual amount of the toner based on toner consumption updated by the updating device. Image formation is performed in a first mode at a first peripheral speed ratio representing a ratio of a peripheral speed of the developer bearing member to a peripheral speed of the image bearing member, and in a second mode at a second peripheral speed ratio, which is greater than the first peripheral speed ratio. The alerting device alerts the alarm based on a total number of dots, which is smaller as an operation frequency of the second mode and becomes higher in an operation frequency of the first mode.
US10274873B2	Belt unit First and second abutment portions are disposed in a cleaning container. The first abutment portion is arranged on the outer side relative to a first cleaning member in a width direction of a belt at a position corresponding to the first cleaning member in a circumferential direction of the belt and abuts against the outer peripheral surface of the belt. The second abutment portion is arranged on the outer side relative to a second cleaning member in the width direction at a position corresponding to the second cleaning member in the circumferential direction and abuts against the outer peripheral surface of the belt. The outer end of the first abutment portion is located on the inner side relative to the end of the first roller, and the inner end of the second abutment portion is located on the outer side relative to the end of the second roller.
US10274859B2	Image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a first moving member pressed and moved by an openable/closable member when the openable/closable member is opened, and switching a cartridge from a state where the cartridge is positioned in an image forming position to a state where the positioning is released; and a second moving member pressed and moved by the openable/closable member when the openable/closable member is opened, and moving the exposure member from an exposure position to a retracted position, wherein when the positioning of the cartridge is released, a reaction force applied from the first moving member to the openable/closable member reaches a first peak, when the exposure member is moved to the retracted position, a reaction force applied from the second moving member to the openable/closable member reaches a second peak, and timing of the first peak is different from timing of the second peak.
US10274852B2	Coating compositions for forming toner coatings The present invention provides coating compositions for forming a toner coating on a substrate containing a polymer comprising: (a) a N-vinyl amide monomer, (b) a vinyl acetate monomer, and (c) a solvent. The coating compositions may further comprise an additional hydrophobic monomer moiety. The present invention further provides coating compositions for forming a toner coating on a substrate containing a polymer comprising: (a) a N-vinyl amide monomer, (b) a styrene monomer, and (c) a solvent. The present invention further provides toner substrates coated with the coating compositions.
US10274848B2	Amplitude monitoring system, focusing and leveling device, and defocusing amount detection method An amplitude monitoring system, a focusing and leveling apparatus and a defocus detection method. The method includes: adjusting amplitude of a scanning mirror to a theoretical amplitude value and recording corresponding theoretical output voltage values of a photodetector; adjusting the amplitude of the scanning mirror and sampling real-time amplitude values of the scanning mirror and real-time output voltage values of the photodetector to calculate compensated real-time demodulation results, and recording real-time defocus amounts of a wafer table; subsequent to stepwise displacement of the wafer table, establishing a database based on the compensated real-time demodulation results and the real-time defocus amounts of the wafer table; and in an actual measurement, sampling in real time an actual amplitude value of the scanning mirror and actual output voltage values of the photodetector to calculate a compensated real-time demodulation result and finding an actual defocus amount of the wafer table.
US10274843B2	Exposure apparatus, exposure method and storage medium An exposure apparatus includes: a stage on which a substrate is placed; a plurality of light irradiation units configured to emit light independently of each other, so as to form a strip-like irradiation area; a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the substrate relative to the irradiation area; a stage moving mechanism configured to move the stage relative to the irradiation area in a back and forth direction; and a control unit configured to make the exposure apparatus perform a first step that rotates the substrate relative to the irradiation area having a first illuminance distribution such that the whole surface of the substrate is exposed, and a second step that moves the substrate in the back and forth direction relative to the irradiation area having a second illuminance distribution while rotation of the substrate is being stopped, such that the whole surface of the substrate is exposed.
US10274841B2	Reticle with reduced transmission regions for detecting a defocus condition in a lithography process A reticle for a semiconductor lithography process includes a glass plate having regions with a reduced optical transmission factor. The regions may include arrays of elements comprising defects such as cracks or voids which are formed by laser pulses. The regions may be adjacent to openings in an opaque material at the bottom of the reticle to shield the openings from a portion of the light which illuminates the reticle from the top. As a result, the light which exits the reticle and is used to pattern a substrate has an asymmetric intensity. This allows the substrate to be patterned with an inspection mark which indicates whether a defocus condition exists, and whether there is a positive or negative defocus condition. Related methods use a reticle to form a pattern on a substrate and for adjusting a focus condition using a reticle.
US10274840B2	Adaptive groove focusing and leveling device and method Disclosed is an adaptive groove focusing and leveling device for measuring the height and the inclination of the surface of a measured object (400). The measured object (400) is provided with cyclic grooves (401) in the surface and supported by a moving table; the focusing and leveling device sequentially comprises an illumination unit, a projection unit, a detection unit and a detector (212); the measured object (400) is positioned between the projection unit and the detection unit along the light path, the projection unit comprises a projection slit (203) and is used for forming a plurality of measuring points (501) on the measured object (400), and each measuring point (501) comprises at least three measuring child light spots (502), wherein the at least three measuring child light spots (502) are arranged at unequal intervals, so that when the plurality of measuring points (501) are projected to the surface of the measured object (400), at least two of the at least three measuring child light spots (502) of each measuring point (501) can be positioned outside the grooves (401), and then the height and the inclination of the surface of the measured object (400) are measured.
US10274835B2	Evaluation method and device, processing method, and exposure system Using a substrate on which a structure has been formed with a plurality of sets of processing conditions, the present disclosure provides an evaluation device that evaluates one of said sets of processing conditions with high precision. This evaluation device is provided with an illumination system that uses illuminating light to illuminate a wafer on which a pattern has been provided via exposure using a plurality of sets of exposure conditions, including first exposure conditions and second exposure conditions; a light-receiving system and an imaging unit the detect light coming from the surface of the wafer; and a computation unit that, on the basis of detection results obtained by the imaging unit using first diffraction conditions and second diffraction conditions that differ in terms of illumination conditions and/or detection conditions, and that estimates the first exposure conditions used when the wafer is exposed.
US10274832B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method involving a liquid confinement structure In an immersion lithography apparatus in which immersion liquid is supplied to a localized space, the space is substantially polygonal in plan substantially parallel to the substrate. In an embodiment, two corners of the space have a radius of curvature no greater than the width of a transition zone between the space configured to contain liquid and a surrounding configured not to contain liquid.
US10274822B2	Template and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A template for patterning processes has a first protrusion portion on a first surface with a first step portion in a first region and a second step portion in a second region. The first step portion includes a plurality of first steps, at least one of which has a first step height and a first step width. The second step portion includes a plurality of second steps, at least one of which has the first step height and the first step width. The template includes a first recess portion on the first surface between the first and second regions on the first protrusion portion. The first recess portion has at least one of a recess depth different from the first step height and a recess width different from the first step width.
US10274813B2	Displacement detecting apparatus, lens barrel, and image pickup apparatus A displacement detecting apparatus includes a first electrode having a base electrode segment and a plurality of detecting electrode segments, a second electrode having a plurality of periodically arranged electrode segments, and displaceable relative to the first electrode, and a detector configured to detect a displacement of the second electrode relative to the first electrode based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. An area of an overlapping region between the base electrode segment and the electrode segments in the second electrode is constant.
US10274812B1	Camera module A durable camera module comprises a lens holder and a lens barrel. An opening is defined in the lens holder. The opening passes through the lens holder along an axial direction of the lens holder. At least one notch is defined in a side wall of the lens holder. The at least one notch extends radially through the side wall of the lens holder. The lens barrel is received in the opening. A first adhesive layer is formed between the lens barrel and lens holder. The first adhesive layer is positioned at an end of the lens holder and surrounds the lens barrel. A second adhesive layer is formed in each of the at least one notch, the second adhesive layer is bonded to the lens barrel.
US10274811B2	Edge light device for photography system An edge light device of the present disclosure creates edge light effects, such as spectral highlight or artistic effect, on a subject. The edge light device emits light to provide an illumination zone which can be generally out of the field of view of the camera. The edge light device includes a housing having features for controlling light to create edge light effects on a subject. In certain examples, the housing provides a light blocker for concentrating light toward the subject and blocking the light from illuminating the other areas, such as the camera, in the photography station. The housing further includes at least one aperture that cooperates with the light blocker and defines a light passage through which the light is directed toward the subject.
US10274805B2	Polarization-independent switchable lens system Energized lens systems and methods of fabricating an energized lens system which can be switched from one polarization-independent focal length to another polarization-independent focal length. The energized lens system can include a 90 degree twisted nematic liquid crystal layer with curved boundaries, and with transparent conductive electrodes which allow the application of an electric field to switch the focal length of the twisted nematic liquid crystal layer. The focal length of the energized lens system can be independent of the polarization of light in both of its two states, and only one liquid crystal layer of the energized lens system needs to be switched in order for the focal length of the energized lens system to be switched.
US10274803B2	Electric field driving display device It is an object to provide an electric field driving display device capable of displaying a high quality image and to provide an electric field driving display device in which residual images in an outline of a pixel is prevented from occurring. An insulating film is formed over a second electrode and a plurality of first electrodes are provided over the insulating film. Each of the first electrodes is electrically connected to the second electrode. The second electrode is provided to partly overlap a region between the adjacent two first electrodes. In other words, viewing the top and the bottom of the display device, the adjacent first electrodes are provided apart from each other and the second electrode is provided to embed a space between the adjacent first electrodes.
US10274798B2	Black matrix structure and manufacturing method thereof, array substrate, color filter substrate and display apparatus A black matrix structure and manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, a color filter substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The black matrix structure comprises a first black matrix and a plurality of predefined opening regions arranged in an array and surrounded by lines of the first black matrix, wherein, each of the predefined opening regions is provided with an opening therein, and at least one of the predefined opening regions is provided with a second black matrix therein, edges of shading pattern of the second black matrix are adjacent to the opening or in contact with at least one line edge of the first black matrix, and length of a part of each line edge of the first black matrix being in contact with the edge of shading pattern of the second black matrix is less than length of this line edge of the first black matrix.
US10274795B1	Electronic device comprising first and second conductive layers each having segments separated from each other and a connection line in a peripheral region An electronic device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes at least two first segments and at least one first connection line. The first connection line is connected to the at least two first segments. The second conductive layer includes at least two second segments and at least one second connection line. The at least two second segments do not overlap the at least two first segments in a normal direction of the substrate. The second connection line connects the at least two second segments. The second connection line overlaps the first connection line in the normal direction of the substrate. The third conductive layer includes at least one first connection electrode. The first connection electrode is electrically connected to the at least two first segments and the at least two second segments.
US10274782B2	Backlight unit, liquid crystal display device, and wavelength conversion member Provided is a backlight unit, including: a light source allowing light having a light emission center wavelength of λ nm to exit; and a wavelength conversion member positioned on an optical path of the light exiting from the light source, in which the wavelength conversion member includes a wavelength conversion layer containing a fluorescent material which is excited by exciting light and emits fluorescent light, and a light scattering layer containing particles having a particle size of greater than or equal to 0.1 μm in a matrix, an average refractive index n1 of the wavelength conversion layer satisfies a relationship of n1
US10274779B2	Method for manufacturing display substrate, display substrate, and display device The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a display substrate, a display substrate, and a display device. The method for manufacturing a display substrate comprises: providing a container, which is positioned horizontally and which contains a curable liquid, and the bottom of which is flat; immersing a side of the substrate parallel to the bottom of the container in the horizontal direction into the curable liquid; and performing curing treatment of the curable liquid until the curable liquid is solidified on the side of the substrate to form a film layer.
US10274777B2	Display device, method for manufacturing display device and color filter substrate According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a display function layer, wherein the first substrate comprises an insulating substrate, a color filter layer includes a first color filter provided above the insulating substrate, and a second color filter provided above the insulating substrate and arranged in alignment with the first color filter, and a first inorganic insulating film which is in contact with a top surface of the first color filter, a first side surface of the first color filter opposed to the second color filter, and an under surface of the second color filter.
US10274772B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a back plate; a display panel located at a displaying side of the back plate; a driver circuit board located at a non-displaying side of the back plate; an outer frame; a flexible circuit located at least partially between the back plate and the outer frame to connect the driver circuit board with the display panel; and a heat conductive structure located between the flexible circuit and the outer frame and contacting both of the flexible circuit and the outer frame.
US10274767B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a display device including a flexible substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the substrate including a display region on the first surface and a bending region on a part of the first surface or on a part of the second surface, the display region being arranged with a plurality of pixels, the bending region including an uneven pattern alternately arranged with regions, the thickness of the substrate being different in each region; and a plurality of wirings transmitting a signal for driving the plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of wirings being arranged in a top part or a bottom part of a convex portion in the uneven pattern in the bending region.
US10274761B2	Detecting device for light-emitting property of light source A detecting device for light-emitting property of a light source is provided and the detecting device for light-emitting property of a light source includes: a positioning device configured for fixing the light source; and a detection apparatus configured for acquiring a parameter of an emergent light from the light source. The detecting device for light-emitting property of a light source can detect the light-emitting property of the light source, thus help to select the chrominance and brightness degree, of a light source, required by a display module, and shorten the researching and manufacturing period for a liquid crystal display.
US10274756B2	Meta device A meta device includes a plurality of meta structures that spaced apart from each other and reflect at least a portion of incident light, a plurality of electrodes that are spaced apart from each other, and a controller configured to control a phase shift of reflected light using a voltage applied to the plurality of electrodes.
US10274754B2	Magneto-optical material, method for producing same and magneto-optical device Provided, as a transparent magneto-optical material which does not absorb fiber laser light within a wavelength range of 0.9-1.1 μm and is thus suitable for constituting a magneto-optical device such as an optical isolator wherein the formation of a thermal lens is suppressed, is a magneto-optical material which is composed of a transparent ceramic that contains a complex oxide represented by formula (1) as a main component, or which is composed of a single crystal of a complex oxide represented by formula (1). Tb2xR2(2-x)O8-x (1) (In the formula, 0.800
US10274751B2	Prism ballasted contact lens A contact lens with a toric optical zone has its anterior and posterior optical zone surfaces tilted with respect to one another to forming prism in the optical zone. Thickness profiles of the peripheral region are independent of the tilt angle between the anterior and posterior optical zone surfaces.
US10274735B2	Systems and methods for processing a 2D video A system includes one or more hardware processors, a head mounted display (HMD), a digital camera device, and a path extraction engine. The path extraction engine is configured to receive two-dimensional (2D) video from the digital camera device, the 2D video presenting a 2D view of a three-dimensional (3D) object, the digital camera device moving along a camera path as the digital camera device captures the 2D video, identify a plurality of 2D features associated with the 3D object within the 2D video, track the plurality of 2D features across multiple frames of the 2D video, estimate motion in pixels associated with each 2D feature of the plurality of 2D features, using the estimated motion in the pixels, identify 2D motion caused by the digital camera device moving along the camera path, and compute a first camera position of the digital camera device based on the identified 2D motion.
US10274727B2	Device controlling range of vision An edge of, for example, a windshield which serves as range of vision is defined by front pillars, a roof, and a dashboard. A modification area is provided at a peripheral portion of the windshield. In the modification area, visual saliency (visual conspicuousness) can be partially increased by means of, e.g., liquid crystals.
US10274723B2	Variable shape mirror, ophthalmological apparatus, adaptive optical system and method of manufacturing variable shape mirror Provided is a technology that realizes a variable shape mirror using an actuator having a comb electrode structure, which can be relatively easily manufactured and displaced in two (±) directions perpendicular to a mirror reference plane. A variable shape mirror (100) includes: a mirror base (111) including a reflective surface (110); and an actuator (101) including a first actuator and a second actuator. Each of the plurality of actuators is connected to the mirror base via a connecting portion (121). The first actuator has a first electrode pair (104, 105) of a comb electrode structure for displacing the connecting portion in a first direction perpendicular to the reflective surface. The second actuator has a second electrode pair (108, 109) of a comb electrode structure for displacing the connecting portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the second electrode pair being separately formed from the first electrode pair.
US10274711B2	Microscopic image recognition system and method for detecting protein-based molecule A microscopic image recognition system for detecting a protein-based molecule by presenting a recognition image is provided. The protein-based molecule has a state of a monomer. The microscopic image recognition system includes an image capturing unit, a monomer tracking module and a texture mask. The image capturing unit is configured to capture an original image of the protein-based molecule. The monomer tracking module is configured to capture a monomer image from the original image based on a predetermined size and a predetermined brightness. The predetermined size and the predetermined brightness correspond to the monomer. The texture mask is configured to perform a two-dimensional masking process on the monomer image to form at least two texture images. The recognition image is formed by superimposing the at least two texture images. A microscopic image recognition method is also provided.
US10274684B2	Fiber optic connector sub-assemblies and related methods A fiber optic connector sub-assembly includes a ferrule having a front end, a rear end, and a ferrule bore extending between the front and rear ends along a longitudinal axis. The ferrule bore has a first section extending inwardly from the rear end of the ferrule, a second section extending inwardly from the front end of the ferrule and having a width that is less than the first section, and a transition section located between the first and second sections. The fiber optic connector sub-assembly also includes a bonding agent disposed in at least a portion of both the transition section and the second section of the ferrule bore. At least some of the bonding agent in the second section of the ferrule bore has been melted and solidified.
US10274674B2	Low bend loss single mode optical fiber with chlorine updoped cladding An optical fiber having both low macrobend loss and low microbend loss. The fiber has a central core region, a first (inner) cladding region surrounding the central core region and having an outer radius r2>16 microns and relative refractive index Δ2, and a second (outer) cladding region surrounding the first cladding region having relative refractive index, Δ3, wherein Δ1>Δ3>Δ2. The difference between Δ3 and Δ2 is greater than 0.12 percent. The fiber exhibits a 22 m cable cutoff less than or equal to 1260 nm, and r1/r2 is greater or equal to 0.24 and bend loss at 1550 nm for a 15 mm diameter mandrel of less than 0.5 dB/turn.
US10274665B2	Back light unit for holographic display Provided is a back light unit (BLU) for holographic display. The BLU includes a first diffraction grating attached to a waveguide, a second diffraction grating that supplies light to the first diffraction grating, a light source that supplies light to the second diffraction grating, and a light reflection element that reflects light towards the first diffraction grating. The back light unit may further include a lens that is disposed in front of the waveguide. The light reflection element may be disposed parallel to a rear surface of the waveguide. The light reflection element may be inclined with respect to the rear surface of the waveguide. The light reflection element may be a mirror or a prism array.
US10274659B2	Polarizing plate comprising an optical functional film and a protective film having a specified moisture permeability A polarizing plate including an optical functional film and a polarizing film (polarizer), the polarizing plate being thin and excellent in durability of the polarizing film. The polarizing plate includes an optical functional film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a polarizing film, and a protective film in the stated order, in which: the polarizing film has a thickness of 15 μm or less; the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of 15 μm or less; the optical functional film has a moisture permeability of 200 g/m2/24 h or less; and the protective film has a moisture permeability of 1,000 g/m2/24 h or less.
US10274648B2	Adaptive thermal micro lens The present disclosure relates to a thermally modulated optical lens apparatus that includes an electrically resistive element that has patterned features. The patterned features may be micro-sized or smaller and may create an electrical resistance density across the electrically resistive element. The electrically resistive element is capable of electrically connecting to a controllable electrical source. The apparatus also includes at least one thermo-optical material in thermal contact with the patterned features of the electrically resistive element. The at least one thermo-optical material can have an optical refractive index profile that corresponds to the electrical resistance density.
US10274647B2	Self-cleaning film system and article A self-cleaning film system includes a substrate and an anti-reflection film disposed on the substrate. The anti-reflection film includes a first sheet formed from titanium dioxide, a second sheet formed from silicon dioxide and disposed on the first sheet, and a third sheet formed from titanium dioxide and disposed on the second sheet. The system includes a self-cleaning film disposed on the anti-reflection film and including a monolayer disposed on the third sheet and formed from a fluorinated material selected from the group consisting of fluorinated organic compounds, fluorinated inorganic compounds, and combinations thereof. The self-cleaning film includes a plurality of regions disposed within the monolayer such that each of the plurality of regions abuts and is surrounded by the fluorinated material and includes a photocatalytic material. The system includes an adhesive layer adhered to the substrate and a release liner affixed to and removable from the adhesive layer.
US10274645B2	Manufacturing method of micro-nano structure antireflective coating layer and display apparatus thereof A manufacturing method of micro-nano structure antireflective coating layer and a display apparatus thereof are described. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a silicon oxide layer on the substrate, forming a graphene layer with a hexagonal honeycomb lattice on the silicon oxide layer, and forming a bottom surface of the antireflective coating layer in the nucleation points by serving the graphene layer as a growing base layer, wherein a diffusion length and an atomic mass of diffusion atoms of the antireflective coating layer are decreased with time by a gradient growing manner to form a upper surface of the antireflective coating layer.
US10274642B2	Ultrahigh-resolution photonic-crystal superprism and method for designing the same A method for designing an ultrahigh-resolution photonic-crystal superprism, including the following steps: selecting a medium material, and determining a structure type and parameter of a photonic crystal, obtaining the photonic crystal's equifrequency graph, and looking for an auto-collimation area; obtaining the group velocity distribution of points in the equifrequency graph, and looking for a low group velocity area; optimizing the photonic crystal's structure parameter, facilitating the auto-collimation and the low group velocity area in the photonic crystal's equifrequency graph to be overlapped as much as possible, and defining overlapping area as a work area; obtaining an equal incidence-angle line, rotating the photonic crystal to intersect the equal incidence-angle line with the work area, and selecting the appropriate incidence angle in an intersection point to complete the design of the photonic-crystal superprism. When light makes incidence via the above incidence angle, the photonic crystal may separate light with different frequencies significantly.
US10274639B2	Real-time electromagnetic telemetry system A method for improving a quality of data received from a downhole tool in a wellbore includes receiving a first block of data from a downhole tool in a wellbore. The first block of data represents a first measurement captured by the downhole tool during a first period of time. At least a portion of a bit budget for a second block of data is allocated to the first block of data to produce an updated first block of data. The method also includes receiving the second block of data from the downhole tool in the wellbore. The second block of data represents a second measurement captured by the downhole tool during a second period of time.
US10274623B2	Determining displacement between seismic images using optical flow A method for determining a displacement seismic image between two seismic images may begin with receiving a first seismic image and a second seismic image. The method may then include generating a first scaled image based on the first seismic image and a second scaled image based on the second seismic image and determining a scaled displacement volume between the two scaled images using an optical flow algorithm. The method may then involve calculating a displacement volume based on the scaled displacement volume and a scaling function used to generate the scaled images. The method may then generate a third seismic image by applying the displacement volume to the second seismic image. The method may then involve determining the difference volume between the first seismic image and the third seismic image.
US10274621B2	Seismic receivers as seismic sources Seismic surveying techniques are described in which seismic receivers in a seismic array are used as seismic sources. These receiver-sources may be used to determine the near-surface structures of the Earth, geometric properties of the survey array, receiver locations and operations of the survey array. The receiver-sources may be driven by drive sequences to produce amplified receiver-source signals, plane waves, surface waves converging towards a point inside the seismic array, surface waves sweeping through the seismic array and/or the like. The receiver-sources may comprise geophones, hydrophones, accelerometers and/or the like. A driver may be used to drive the receiver-sources and the driver may be controlled by a processor. By encoding drive sequences, seismic data generated by the receiver-sources may be separated from seismic data generated by another seismic source in the seismic array. Similarly, seismic data can be separated by controlling the frequency of seismic signals produced by the receiver-sources.
US10274617B2	Radiographic imaging device and radiographic imaging method using interpolation from hexagonal to square pixels A radiographic imaging device includes a radiation detection element including plural same sized hexagonal shaped pixels that detect radiation and are arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, and a pixel density conversion section that performs interpolation processing such that first image data obtained from the radiation detection element is converted into second image data representing an image in which plural pixels are arrayed in a square grid pattern, wherein when d1max denotes the length of the longest diagonal of the hexagonal shaped pixels, S1 denotes the surface area of the hexagonal shaped pixels, and d2max denotes the length of the diagonals of the square grid of the second image data, d1max is equal to or greater than d2max, and d2max is equal to or greater than the value of the square root of S1.
US10274616B2	Scintillation crystal including a co-doped rare earth silicate, a radiation detection apparatus including the scintillation crystal, and a process of forming the same A scintillation crystal can include a rare earth silicate, an activator, and a Group 2 co-dopant. In an embodiment, the Group 2 co-dopant concentration may not exceed 200 ppm atomic in the crystal or 0.25 at % in the melt before the crystal is formed. The ratio of the Group 2 concentration/activator atomic concentration can be in a range of 0.4 to 2.5. In another embodiment, the scintillation crystal may have a decay time no greater than 40 ns, and in another embodiment, have the same or higher light output than another crystal having the same composition except without the Group 2 co-dopant. In a further embodiment, a boule can be grown to a diameter of at least 75 mm and have no spiral or very low spiral and no cracks. The scintillation crystal can be used in a radiation detection apparatus and be coupled to a photosensor.
US10274613B2	Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a radiation detection panel, a housing of a cuboid shape that accommodates the radiation detection panel. The housing has a front surface that the radiation enters, a rectangular back surface arranged on a side opposite to a side of the front surface, and four side surfaces configured to connect the front surface and the back surface. The apparatus further includes a grip portion which is concave toward the radiation detection panel, formed in a peripheral region on the back surface. The grip portion has at least one of a depth not less than one-half a distance between the front surface and the back surface, and a depth not less than a distance between the back surface and a center of gravity of the radiation imaging apparatus.
US10274610B2	Structured detectors and detector systems for radiation imaging Detector module designs for radiographic imaging include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.
US10274609B2	Systems and methods for assaying a radioactive gas, and related scintillation cells A radioactive gas assay system comprises a scintillation cell production assembly, a detector assembly, a computer assembly, and a scintillation cell destruction assembly. The scintillation cell production assembly is configured to produce a scintillation cell comprising a glass scintillator shell containing a volume of radioactive gas. The detector assembly is configured to receive the scintillation cell and to detect photons emitted thereby. The computer assembly is configured to receive data from the detector assembly to automatically calculate an absolute activity of the volume of radioactive gas of the scintillation cell and radiation detection efficiencies of the detector assembly. The scintillation cell destruction assembly is configured to receive the scintillation cell and to rupture the substantially non-porous glass scintillator shell to release the volume of radioactive gas. A method of assaying a radioactive gas, and a scintillation cell are also described.
US10274597B2	Driving lane detection device and driving lane detection method A driving lane detection device of the present disclosure includes: an object detector, a vehicle detector, and a driving lane detector. The object detector generates object data relating to a distance and direction from the vehicle to an object and a movement direction of the object based on one or more reflection waves that are a radar signal transmitted by a radar device and reflected by the one or more object. The vehicle detector detects each object as at least one of a parallel-running vehicle running in a same direction as the vehicle or an oncoming vehicle running in an opposite direction to the vehicle, based on the object data. The driving lane detector detects a driving lane based on the distance and direction from the vehicle to at least one of the detected parallel-running and the detected oncoming vehicles and lane information on at least one of lane widths and a number of lanes of a road on which the vehicle is running.
US10274596B2	Method and system for FMCW radar altimeter system height measurement resolution improvement A method of improving height measurement resolution for a radar system is provided. The method includes periodically generating, at a FFT processor, a set of FFT bins across a frequency range based on a periodic ramping of a FMCW radar signal from a first frequency to a second frequency; selecting a subset of bins from at least one set of FFT bins by implementing a leading-edge-tracking algorithm by at least one processor; implementing a second algorithm on the selected subset of bins to determine a power ratio between the leading edge tracked bin and the remaining bins in the selected subset of bins to determine an interpolated bin number within the selected subset of bins; and determining an approximate distance to the target based on the interpolated bin number within the selected subset of bins. The sets of FFT bins are indicative of a respective plurality of distances.
US10274594B2	Direct Doppler-free velocity measurement in linear frequency modulation radar A method and system to estimate a velocity of a target use a radar to transmit a linear frequency modulated chirp from each of a plurality of transmit elements and receive resulting reflections. The system also includes a processor to process the reflections resulting from a frame of chirps at a time and compute the velocity based on determining a number of the frames of chirps for the target to move a specified distance. The processor processes the reflections by performing a range fast Fourier transform (FFT) such that the specified distance is a range spanned by a range bin and each frame of chirps is one transmission of the chirp by each of the plurality of transmit elements.
US10274592B2	System and method for multi-user two-way ranging A node in a wireless network includes a memory, transceiver, and processor operatively coupled to one another. The memory stores a signature of the node. The transceiver is configured to transmit, during an initial frame, the signature to one or more neighboring nodes, and receive, during the initial frame, a first signal that includes one or more signatures of the one or more neighboring nodes. The transceiver is also configured to transmit, during a repetition frame, a scrambled waveform of the first signal received during the initial frame, and receive, during the repetition frame, a second signal that includes a retransmission of signals received by the one or more neighboring nodes during the initial frame. The processor is configured to determine a distance from the node to each of the one or more neighboring nodes based at least in part on the first signal and the second signal.
US10274584B2	Apparatus and method for generating bidirectional chirp signal by using phase accumulation polynomial The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating a bidirectional chirp signal by using a phase accumulation polynomial, and the apparatus for generating a bidirectional chirp signal according to an embodiment may include an extraction unit extracting time interval information from the output of a frequency accumulator, a polynomial handling unit applying the phase accumulation polynomial to the extracted time interval information to generate a polynomial output value, and a bidirectional chirp signal output unit outputting a bidirectional chirp signal on the basis of the generated polynomial output value.
US10274581B2	Method and apparatus for position determination The application relates to a method for positioning a user equipment (UE) in a cell served by a base station (BS), the BS comprises an array antennas capable of forming two or more beams in the cell, the method comprising: receiving beam information indicating which beam is selected, from the two or more beams, for serving the UE; and positioning the UE by determining an area where the UE is located in the cell based on the beam information. A network device, such as a radio network controller, and a base station for implementing the method are also disclosed. The method can be used with an RTT positioning method to improve the accuracy of position.
US10274577B2	Medical device system and a method for locating medical devices and mobile control units of said medical device system A medical apparatus system is provided, the medical apparatus system comprising: at least one medical apparatus (2), at least one mobile control unit (3), for a medical apparatus (2), having a WLAN transmitting module (4) and a further radio transmitting module (5), at least one WLAN access point (6) having at least one antenna, at least one further radio reading module (7), and control device (8) connected to the at least one WLAN access point (7) and the at least one further radio reading module (7) in order to locate the medical apparatus and/or the mobile control unit in a process reliable manner.
US10274558B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and image generating circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry acquires magnetic resonance signals in an imaging region. The image generating circuitry generates an image. The sequence controlling circuitry sets timings of RF pulses such that a first time and a second time are different. Here, the first time is a time since an irradiation of a first RF pulse without selection of region until a start of acquisition. The second time is a time since an irradiation of a second RF pulse with selection of the labeling region until the start of acquisition. The second time is also a time for a liquid present in the labeling region to reach a desired position in the imaging region. The first time is also a time for longitudinal magnetization components of a background tissue to become substantially zero.
US10274556B2	Radio frequency coil apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging system A radio frequency coil apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising an inductor circular carrier, a first capacitor circular carrier, and a second capacitor circular carrier. A plurality of inductor bars are provided at intervals on the inductor circular carrier. A plurality of first capacitor elements are provided on the first capacitor circular carrier, the first capacitor circular carrier being configured to be detachably connected to one end of the inductor circular carrier, the plurality of first capacitor elements being configured to be connected to one end of the plurality of inductor bars. A plurality of second capacitor elements are provided on the second capacitor circular carrier, the second capacitor circular carrier being configured to be detachably connected to the other end of the inductor circular carrier, the plurality of second capacitor elements being configured to be connected to the other end of the plurality of inductor bars.
US10274540B2	Method for identifying the existence of a failure, method for identifying a failed relay device, method for identifying the type of failure and associated power supply system A method for identifying the existence of a failure of a relay device in an electrical power supply system of a device to be supplied with power, the power supply system comprising at least one power generator configured to generate a power supply signal and a load comprising at least one relay device; the power generator comprising a frequency variator; each relay device comprising a quadripole and at least one antenna linked to the quadripole. The identification method comprises the following steps: a) selecting a characteristic frequency, b) determining the impedance of the load, then when the supply signal has the selected characteristic frequency, c) repeating steps a) and b) for several distinct characteristic frequencies, d) identifying the existence of a failure from several impedances determined for different characteristic frequencies.
US10274532B1	Resilient high-voltage interlock loop Systems of an electrical vehicle and the operations thereof are provided. High-voltage interlock (HVIL) determines if a high-voltage system, such as a power source (e.g., vehicle battery), a load (e.g., vehicle motor), and conductors therebetween, have been properly connected. If not, battery contactor is not allowed to be closed or, if already closed, opened. A redundant HVIL system is provided to mitigate the false positives associated with an HVIL component failure.
US10274529B2	Method and device for monitoring and estimating a periodic voltage of a medium voltage electrical circuit A method of estimating a periodic voltage, such as an input voltage, of one of the phases of an electrical circuit with at least two phases including a voltage sensor for each of its phases, each voltage sensor being capable of outputting a signal representative of at least a part of period of the periodic voltage of the phase. The method including the following steps: measure the representative signal starting from the voltage sensor; amplify the representative signal by a gain determined in the absence of an electrical fault in the circuit and based on a reference voltage common to all phases in the electrical circuit (1); use the amplified representative signal to estimate the periodic voltage. A device for estimating a voltage and an electrical circuit including such a device.
US10274527B2	Field strength monitoring for optimal performance Disclosed are various embodiments for adjusting an operational parameter of a guided surface waveguide probe according to measurements received from one or more measuring devices. A measuring device measures the conditions associated with an environment of the measuring device. The measuring devices communicates the measured data to the guided surface waveguide probe. Adjustments can be made to one or more operational parameters of the guided surface waveguide probe according to the measured data.
US10274525B2	Consumption breakdown monitoring through power state sensing Systems and methods are provided for estimating power breakdowns for a set of one or more appliances inside a building by exploiting a small number of power meters and data indicative of binary power states of individual appliances of such set. In one aspect, a breakdown estimation problem is solved within a tree configuration, and utilizing a single power meter and data indicative of binary power states of a plurality of appliances. Based at least in part on such solution, an estimation quality metric is derived. In another aspect, such metric can be exploited in a methodology for optimally placing additional power meters to increase the estimation certainty for individual appliances to a desired or intended level. Estimated power breakdown and energy breakdown—individually or collectively referred to as consumption breakdown—rely on measurements and numerical simulations, and can be evaluated in exemplary electrical network utilizing binary sensors.
US10274508B2	System and method for isolating inertial and non inertial velocities in the ocean Embodiments relate to a system and methods for isolating the inertial and non-inertial components of a velocity field in a body of water, and further provides methods for predicting a path of an object in a body of water and for identifying an initial location in the water at which an object should be placed so that it travels to a desired location. The methods in some cases can partition a time series of velocity fields into inertial and non-inertial components in such a way that accounts for the variation of the inertial period over the range of latitudes within the field and maintains the fidelity of non-inertial variability over both shorter and longer time scales. The embodiments seperate the less-reliable inertial components from the more-reliable non-inertial background, enabling straightforward calculation of transport due to the non-inertial flow and evaluation of the superposition of inertial oscillations.
US10274505B2	Robotic arm An analytical laboratory system and method for processing samples is disclosed. A sample container is transported from an input area to a distribution area by a gripper comprising a means for inspecting a tube. An image is captured of the sample container. The image is analyzed to determine a sample container identification. A liquid level of the sample in the sample container is determined. A scheduling system determines a priority for processing the sample container based on the sample container identification. The sample container is transported from the distribution area to a subsequent processing module by the gripper.
US10274496B2	Biomarkers for detecting and monitoring colon cancer A metabolic profiling approach for identifying biomarkers that provide highly sensitive and specific colorectal cancer (CRC) detection and monitoring using serum samples. The methods can be used for distinguishing CRC patients from both healthy controls and polyp patients, as well as to monitor disease progression or response to therapy. Receiver operator characteristic curves generated based on these models showed high sensitivities for differentiating CRC patients from healthy controls or polyp patients, good specificities, low false discovery rates, and excellent areas under the curve were obtained. Monte Carlo cross validation (MCCV) was also applied, demonstrating the robust diagnostic power of this metabolic profiling approach.
US10274495B2	System and method for separating cells incorporating magnetic separation A cell processing system includes a first processor connectable to a source container filled with a biological fluid, a second processor, and a controller coupled to the processors. The first processor includes a separator configured to separate the biological fluid into at least two streams of material, and a first container configured to receive one of the streams. The second processor includes a magnetic separator configured to select target cells, the target cells being associated with magnetic particles, a second, pass-through container associated with the magnetic separator, the second container connected at a first end to the first container, and a third container connected to a second end of the pass-through container. One of the processors includes at least one pump configured to transfer material between the separator and the first container, and between the first container and the second container.
US10274489B2	Assessing assay analysis development Assessing test results development during assay analysis is shown and described. In one embodiment, an apparatus generates an assessment of diagnostic test development from an assay. The apparatus may include an optical detector aligned in an optical path with the assay. Further, the optical detector may perform continuous image detection of the assay to generate an assessment testing development. In some examples, the assessment is a graphical display of diagnostic development. In yet other embodiments, a method of assessing diagnostic test development may include signaling the optical detector to perform continuing image detection of the assay and generating an assessment of said diagnostic test development. The assessment may include graphing a reflectance detected on the assay on a display board.
US10274488B2	Glycan arrays on PTFE-like aluminum coated glass slides and related methods Aluminum coated glass slides provide a novel glycan array platform. Specifically, aluminum coated glass slides increase sensitivity of fluorescent based assay methods. Additionally, aluminum coated glass slides allows for mass spectroscopic analysis of carbohydrates and provide a platform for examining activity of cellulases. The unique properties of ACG slides include: 1) the metal oxide layer on the surface can be activated for grafting organic compounds such as modified oligosaccharides; 2) the surface remains electrically conductive, and the grafted oligosaccharides can be simultaneously characterized by mass spectrometry and carbohydrate-binding assay; and 3) the slides are more sensitive than transparent glass slides in binding analysis.
US10274486B2	System, device and method for high-throughput multi-plexed detection The present invention relates to a system, device, and method for the high throughput multiplexed detection of a wide number of compounds. The invention comprises of a microwell array coupled to a capture agent array to form a plurality of interfaces between a microwell and a set of immobilized capture agents. The set of capture agents comprises a plurality of distinguishable features, with each feature corresponding to the detection of a particular compound of interest. In certain embodiments, each microwell is configured to contain a single cell. The invention is therefore capable of performing a high throughput analysis of single cell profiles, including profiles of secreted compounds.
US10274484B2	Molecular biosensors with a modular design The invention generally provides molecular biosensors with modular epitope binding constructs. The molecular biosensors are useful in several methods including in the identification and quantification of target molecules.
US10274478B2	Ultra low capacitance glass supported dielectric membranes for macromolecular analysis Provided are suspended solid-state membranes on glass chips with improved capacitance. The membranes include a first cavity formed in the thickness of the glass membrane, the first cavity having a width that increases along the direction extending from the first surface of the membrane to the second surface of the membrane, a first membrane surmounting at least a portion of the first surface of the glass membrane, the first membrane having a pore formed therethrough, and the pore of the first membrane being in fluid communication with the first cavity of the glass membrane. Also provided are related methods of fabricating the disclosed chips and of using the disclosed chips for macromolecular analysis.
US10274472B2	Sensor device for a hazardous waste container Information is obtained from a storage container that houses hazardous or potentially harmful waste. A sensor device is inserted into the container to allow a sensor using a sensor well to extend into the container. The sensor collects information on the conditions of the waste. The sensor well extends through a hole for a filter that vents gasses or vapors from the container. The sensor device also includes a housing with circuitry to perform the sensing as well as transmit and receive signals. In this manner, the sensor device transmits signals with information about the materials within the container for remote monitoring.
US10274459B2	Gene mutation analyzer, gene mutation analysis system, and gene mutation analysis method An aspect of the present invention includes performing electrophoresis of a nucleic acid sample to be analyzed labeled for each base type, generating waveform data of detected intensity by detecting a label signal for the each base type, selecting another peak position for each peak position of the waveform data for each base type, calculating relative signal intensity of signal intensity in each position relative to the signal intensity in the other selected position, and analyzing existence of each base type in a base sequence coordinate position of the nucleic acid sample by comparing the relative signal intensity of the nucleic acid sample to be analyzed and the relative signal intensity of a known nucleic acid sample in each peak position. Accordingly, acquiring information about a gene mutation in trace amounts existing in a target gene region highly sensitively with high precision is realized.
US10274457B2	Gas component concentration measurement device and method for gas component concentration measurement A measuring device for measuring a concentration of a gas component in a gas includes a flow generating device, a first conduit, a second conduit, and an electrochemical detector configured for sensing the gas component concentration in the gas. The first and second conduits are arranged in parallel, and the flow generating device is connected with an inlet of the first conduit and an inlet of the second conduit. The flow generating device is arranged for generating a gas flow in each of the conduits. The measuring device is arranged to alternately couple either an outlet of the first conduit or an outlet of the second conduit to an inlet of the detector, wherein the first conduit is provided with a reactant for absorbing or stripping the gas component.
US10274456B2	Method and system for sensing Systems and methods for sensing target molecules such as redox reactive agents, comprising a sample compartment and a sensing compartment being in fluid communication, are disclosed. A sensing compartment which comprises nanostructures to which a functional moiety is covalently attached and which is such that upon contacting a redox reactive agent a change in electrical property of the nanostructure occurs, and integration of such a sensing compartment with sensing systems as described herein are also disclosed. Methods of monitoring a metabolic activity of cells, and uses thereof, are also disclosed.
US10274455B2	Nanoelectronic sensor pixel An electrical circuit element, defined as “pixel”, can include at least one silicon nanowire open for contact with a medium for sensing; a metal electrode open for contact with said medium and used for feeding a high-frequency sinusoidal stimulation in impedance measurements and for sensing properties of said medium; implanted source and drain electrodes connected to said silicon nanowire and leaving the gate area and parts of said electrode open for contact with said medium; electrical metal contacts for connecting said pixel to an electrical circuit; and a reference electrode open for contact with said medium for creating a three-electrode-cell system and providing a constant gate potential in the circuit. Some embodiments provide a microelectronic sensor and wearable-patch sensor based on the array of these pixels. Also, some embodiments provide methods for performing DC readout, AC readout and a triple readout combining both DC and AC readouts and temperature sensing.
US10274447B2	Thermal conductivity detector and gas chromatograph Detection sensitivity of a single-filament thermal conductivity detector is to be increased. A thermal conductivity detector is a single-filament thermal conductivity detector, and includes a measurement cell, a phase switching mechanism, and a measurement section. The measurement section starts measurement of thermal conductivity of a sample gas after a lapse of a sample gas measurement start time that is set in advance, after a reference phase is switched to a sample phase by the phase switching mechanism, and starts measurement of thermal conductivity of a reference gas after a lapse of a reference gas measurement start time that is set in advance as a length of time different from the sample gas measurement start time, after the sample phase is switched to the reference phase by the phase switching mechanism.
US10274441B2	Generating an image of an object or a representation of data about the object Generating an image of an object and/or a representation of data about the object uses a particle beam apparatus. The particle beam apparatus comprises at least one control unit for setting a guide unit by selecting a value of a control parameter of the control unit. A functional relationship is determined between a first control parameter value and a second control parameter value depending on the predeterminable range of a landing energy of the particles. A desired value of the landing energy is set. The value of the control parameter corresponding to the desired value of the landing energy is selected on the basis of the determined functional relationship and the guide unit is controlled using the value of the control parameter corresponding to the desired value of the landing energy.
US10274432B1	Guided-mode resonance sensors employing angular, spectral, modal, and polarization diversity for high-precision sensing in compact formats A guided mode resonance (GMR) sensor assembly and system are provided. The GMR sensor includes a waveguide structure configured for operation at or near one or more leaky modes, a receiver for input light from a source of light onto the waveguide structure to cause one or more leaky TE and TM resonant modes and a detector for changes in one or more of the phase, waveshape and/or magnitude of each of a TE resonance and a TM resonance to permit distinguishing between first and second physical states of said waveguide structure or its immediate environment.
US10274428B2	Intergration of fluorescence detection capability into light absorbance measurement apparatus Disclosed is apparatus (1) for measuring fluorescence and absorbance of a substance in a sample, said apparatus (1) comprising: a flow cell (2) for containing a sample, a first light source (3), a first conductor (5) for transmitting light from the first light source (3) to the flow cell (2) for irradiating a sample contained therein, a second conductor (7) for transmitting light from the flow cell (2) to a sample detector (9) arranged to detect an electromagnetic radiation that has passed through said cell (2), and a processing unit (16) arranged to receive a first signal (31) from a reference detector (15) and a second signal (32) from the sample detector (9) and to determine an absorbance based on said first and second signals (31,32), said apparatus (1) further comprising a second light source (4), a third conductor (6) for transmitting light from the second light source (4) to the cell (2) and wherein the sample detector (9) is further arranged to also detect fluorescence signals in the light that has passed through the flow cell (2). The invention also relates to a method for measuring the absorbance and the fluorescence of a substance in a sample.
US10274427B2	Emission lifetime measuring method and apparatus for measuring a mean lifetime of electronically excited states An emission lifetime measuring method, in particular for measuring a mean lifetime of electronically excited states of a sample, comprises the steps of illuminating the sample with at least one excitation light pulse, time-resolved detecting an emission response from the sample and creating a temporal detector response function, and calculating the mean lifetime of the electronically excited states on the basis of the detector response function, wherein the at least one excitation light pulse is shaped such that the sample achieves an equilibrium excited steady-state including a linearly increasing or constant number of the electronically excited states, the detector response function has a linear response function section with a constant slope, and the mean lifetime (τ) of the electronically excited states is calculated on the basis of at least one of a time position of the linear response function section relative to a reference time of the at least one excitation light pulse and the slope of the linear response function section. Furthermore, an emission lifetime measuring apparatus (100) is described.
US10274417B2	Fibre optic monitoring installation and method The invention relates to installations for fiber optic monitoring of articles, and apparatus and methods for forming such installations, including a modular system and components for forming a fiber optic monitoring installation. Applications of the invention include the monitoring of vessels, chambers, and fluid conduits in industrial processing plants, and the invention has particular application to monitoring large vessels, for example temperature monitoring of vessels used in catalytic reforming processes. Convenient installation on or removal from the article being monitored is achieved by providing a support structure for the fiber optic length, which presents the fiber optic length in a preconfigured orientation suitable for monitoring the article. In a particular embodiment of the invention, the fiber optic length is disposed on a panel in a plurality of dense spiral patterns.
US10274416B2	Peel adhesion test specimens and method for their preparation A method of preparing specimens for peel-adhesion testing. The method includes applying a first predetermined amount of light-curable material to a substrate coupon, placing a first surface of a substantially transparent peel media in contact with the light-curable material disposed on the substrate coupon, where the substantially transparent peel media includes a second surface spaced from the first surface, and exposing the first predetermined amount of light-curable material disposed between the substrate coupon and the first surface to a light source to cure the first predetermined amount of light-curable material, with light from the light source passing through the substantially transparent peel media to the substrate coupon.
US10274415B2	Method for preparing a surface with a controlled coverage of nanograde particles The present invention regards nano surfaces and particularly a gradient based nano surface. According to embodiments of the invention a surface bound gradient is created by distributed nanoparticles along a plane surface. This procedure greatly reduces the number of prepared surfaces needed, as well as the methodological error of analysis of adsorption and adhesion phenomena.
US10274413B2	Beam shaping optics of flow cytometer systems and methods related thereto In some aspects, a flow cytometer system is provided that includes beam shaping optics positioned to manipulate a light beam and produce a resulting light beam that irradiates the core stream at the interrogation zone of the flow cell. The beam shaping optics include an acylindrical lens positioned to receive and focus light in a direction of a first axis orthogonal to a direction of light travel, and a cylindrical lens positioned to receive the light output from the acylindrical lens and to focus the light output from the acylindrical lens in a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and to the direction of light travel. The resulting light beam output has a flat-top shaped intensity profile along the first axis, and a Gaussian-shaped intensity profile along the second axis. Related methods of shaping a light beam at an interrogation zone of a flow cell are also provided.
US10274406B2	Accelerated Wright-Giemsa and May-Grünwald staining methods The present disclosure provides methods for carrying out Romanowsky-type stains, specifically Wright-Giemsa and May-Grünwald stains, quickly and efficiently. The methods greatly reduce the overall amount of time required to complete a Wright-Giemsa stain or a May-Grünwald stain of sufficient quality on a biological sample. The subject methods can be applied to both manual and automated staining procedures.
US10274396B2	Flexible pipe body and sensing method having a curvature sensor and tensile armour wire A flexible pipe body comprising an elongate curvature sensor and a tensile armor layer. The elongate curvature sensor incorporates a strain sensor arranged to provide an indication of bending strain applied to the curvature sensor. The tensile armor layer comprises helically wound tensile armor wires. The curvature sensor is positioned within the tensile armor layer helically wound adjacent to at least one tensile armor wire such that bending strain applied to the flexible pipe body is transmitted to the curvature sensor. The curvature sensor is smaller than an adjacent tensile armor wire in at least one of depth and width and arranged to slide longitudinally relative to the adjacent tensile armor wire.
US10274386B2	Retroreflective multi-axis force torque sensor The present application discloses implementations that relate to devices and techniques for sensing position, force, and torque. Devices described herein may include a light emitter, photodetectors, and a curved reflector. The light emitter may project light onto the curved reflector, which may reflect portions of that projected light onto one or more of the photodetectors. Based on the illuminances measured at the photodetectors, the position of the curved reflector may be determined. In some implementations, the curved reflector and the light emitter may be elastically coupled via one or more spring elements; in these implementations, a force vector representing a magnitude and direction of a force applied against the curved reflector may be determined based on the position of the curved reflector.
US10274385B2	Apparatus for detecting torque value A torque detecting apparatus includes a first shaft; a second shaft; an elastic member coaxially linking the first and second shafts; and a magnet attached to the first shaft; a pair of magnetic yokes composed of a first magnetic yoke and a second magnetic yoke, the first and second magnetic yokes being fixedly installed on the second shaft; and a magnetic sensor. Each magnetic yoke includes an opposing portion and a wall portion. The opposing portion is opposed to the magnet and displaced circumferentially relatively to the magnet when the elastic member is subjected to a torsional displacement. The wall portions of the first and second magnetic yokes are separated and positioned outside the opposing portions in the radial direction. The wall portions of the first and second magnetic yokes extend to be mutually opposed. The magnetic sensor is positioned between the wall portions.
US10274383B2	Zero-heat-flux, deep tissue temperature measurement system A zero-heat-flux, deep tissue temperature measurement system measures internal body temperature by way of a probe having a heater and thermal sensors arranged in a zero-heat-flux construction. The measurement system includes control mechanization that determines heater and skin temperatures based upon data obtained from the probe and uses those temperatures to calculate a deep tissue temperature. The measurement system includes a signal interface cable having a connector where a probe can be releasably connected to the system. The cable and attached connector are a removable and replaceable part of the system, separate from the probe. The measurement system provides an output signal imitating a standard input signal configuration used by other equipment.
US10274378B1	Method and apparatus for determining wave characteristics using constrained interactions of waves A frequency resolved optical gating (FROG) system receives an ultrafast laser pulse as the “unknown wave” input to the system. The FROG system preferably generates a spectrogram (FROG trace) of the input pulse using a polarization gate, second harmonic generation or other FROG geometry. The system or method preferably analyzes the spectrogram using constrained outer products and principal component generalized projections to find characteristics of the unknown wave such as intensity and phase. Examples of constrained outer products include outer products that incorporate an external constraint such as spectral information or an internal constraint such as a relationship between the probe and gate components derived from the unknown wave.
US10274377B1	Spectral shearing ladar A ladar device that has a linear frequency-modulated laser source that produces a primary beam. An optical shear generator spectrally shears the primary beam into no less than three sensing beams. An optical output delivers at least one of the sensing beams toward a target. The sensing beams reflect from the target to produce reflected beams. An optical receiver receives the reflected beams and produces reflected beam signals corresponding to characteristics of the reflected beams. A processor receives the reflected beam signals and produces a deviation matrix, without the use of a local oscillator. The deviation matrix is used to produce a reconstruction of the target, which is output on an electrical signal output.
US10274375B2	Temperature measurement system for furnaces A method for measuring furnace temperatures. The method includes obtaining radiance measurements from a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) using a plurality of thermal imaging cameras, and measuring a surface temperature using a radiance measurement obtained from an ROI selected from the plurality of ROIs. Measuring the surface temperature includes determining an effective background radiance affecting the selected ROI using radiance measurements obtained from ROIs different from the selected ROI, obtaining a compensated radiance by removing the effective background radiance from the radiance measurement obtained from the selected ROI, and converting the compensated radiance to the measured surface temperature.
US10274374B2	Infrared sensor and infrared solid-state image pickup apparatus An infrared sensor includes an infrared sensor pixel in which a contact hole is formed to electrically connect a metal wiring layer and a support leg metal wiring layer that is located inside a support leg. The metal wiring layer is electrically connected to a signal reading circuit. The contact hole is formed by etching an insulating layer that is formed by deposition so as to cover the metal wiring layer, and has a bottom portion and a side wall portion that are each shaped into a forward tapered shape.
US10274372B2	Hair colorant system and method A system and method for improving the outcome and consistency of hair coloring is provided. In an example method, an image of hair having a sample color may be received. A color space characteristic associated with the hair sample may be determined. An indication of a target color may be received. A colorant formulation may be identified for changing the hair from the sample color to the target color.
US10274371B2	Spectral imaging camera and applications There is provided a method for analyzing optical properties of an object, including utilizing a light illumination having a plurality of amplitudes, phases and polarizations of a plurality of wavelengths impinging from the object, obtaining modified illuminations corresponding to the light illumination, applying a modification to the light illumination thereby obtaining a modified light illumination, analyzing the modified light illumination, obtaining a plurality of amplitudes, phases and polarizations maps of the plurality of wavelengths, and employing the plurality of amplitudes, phases and polarizations maps for obtaining output representing the object's optical properties. An apparatus for analyzing optical properties of an object is also provided.
US10274365B2	Optical module package structure and method thereof The present disclosure discloses an optical module package structure and method thereof. The optical module includes a substrate, a shield, a photosensitive unit and a cover. The shield is disposed on the top of the substrate and forms a first housing space with the upper surface of the substrate. The photosensitive unit is disposed on the substrate and located in the first housing space. The shield has a light-receiving part above the photosensitive unit. At least one notch is on the outer surface of the shield. A cushion is disposed on the notch and protrudes on the upper surface of the shield. The cover is disposed on the cushion(s) and kept a constant distance to the upper surface of the shield by contacting with the cushion(s).
US10274361B2	Device for weight measurement of a moveable article An embodiment of the present invention relates to a weight measurement system capable of conveniently measuring the weight of an object being measured in real time. Particularly, in the present embodiment, a weight measurement device is formed as a structure arranged between the object being measured and a wheel. The weight measurement device comprises: an upper frame provided at the bottom of the object being measured; a lower frame provided at the top of the wheel; an elastic transformable body of which one end is connected to the upper frame and of which the other end is connected to the lower frame; and a transformation amount sensor provided to the elastic transformable body so as to sense the transformation amount of the elastic transformable body.
US10274360B2	Mobile device vehicle weight determination In various example embodiments, a system and method for using a mobile device to determine a haul weight are disclosed. A method includes: providing predetermined calibration settings relating force to engine speed for a vehicle travelling at various speeds, altering accelerometer data based on filtered vehicle pitch and roll data, determining that one or more vehicle performance parameters fall within a threshold range, storing a plurality of data pairs that include longitudinal acceleration and drive force, and determining a slope of a line that linearly approximates the plurality of data pairs, the slope indicating a total weight, the total weight comprising a weight of the vehicle and a weight being hauled by the vehicle; and transmitting the total weight to a display.
US10274353B2	Flow sensor with hot film anemometer A flow sensor includes a tube having a tube wall with a window in it. A thermally-conductive base covers the window and has mounted to it a heater and a sensor of a hot film anemometer flow sensor. The base is sealed to the window to resist leakage of fluid from the flow path through the window under normal operating pressures. The hot film anemometer flow sensor is used to measure fluid flow through the tube.
US10274347B2	Acoustic detector An acoustic detector provides a planar arrangement of microphones. A windshield is arranged over the microphones, with a view to reducing the impact of environmental effects. A void is therefore defined over the microphones, and the interior surface of the windshield, which defines the void, is shaped suitably to reduce the potential for acoustic waves propagating within the void to reflect back onto the microphones.
US10274346B2	Determining quality of a location-determination algorithm associated with a mobile device by processing a log of sensor data Methods and systems for evaluating the quality of a location-determination algorithm of a mobile device are described. An example method may involve receiving a log of sensor data that may include sensor values output by given sensors of a mobile device over a time period, and at least one location estimate for at least one respective point in time within the time period. One or more processors may then determine, using the sensor values, an estimated trajectory that includes a plurality of computed ground-truth locations of the mobile device over the time period. Further, the method may involve determining a difference between a given location estimate and a computed ground-truth location of the plurality of computed ground-truth locations. And the method may involve providing an output indicative of whether the determined difference satisfies a predetermined threshold.
US10274343B2	Rotary encoder with staggered encoder wheels A rotary encoder includes a rotating shaft, first and second encoder wheels, first and second detectors and a processor. The first encoder wheel includes coaxially disposed first and second portions. The first portion has first graduation features. The second portion has a first positioning structure. The second encoder wheel includes coaxially disposed third and fourth portions. The third portion has second graduation features. The fourth portion has a second positioning structure meshing with the first positioning structure, so that the first graduation features and the second graduation features are staggered, and the first encoder wheel and the second encoder wheel are coaxially mounted on the rotating shaft. The first and second detectors detect the first and second graduation features and output first and second signals, respectively. The processor calculates a rotating angle of the rotating shaft according to the first and second signals.
US10274340B2	Intelligent electronic device with expandable functionality An intelligent electronic device (IED) is provided. The IED includes a metering sub-assembly and an input base module sub-assembly. The metering sub-assembly is hinged to the input base module sub-assembly, where when in an open position, various cables, connectors, and input/output cards/modules are accessible. Various input/output cards/modules are interchangeable to add/change functionality and/or communication capabilities to the IED.
US10274337B2	Method and system for dynamic estimation and predictive route generation The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for dynamic route estimation and prediction using discrete sampled location updates from various mobile devices for the purpose of providing a graphical representation of a mobile device's route along a known network path of map data. The embodiments also provide supplemental route metrics, such as traveled distance, elapsed time, etc., and the capability to assign destination points for the purpose of providing the ability to modify location update points in an application, such as a route planner, and/or to store the dynamically generated route based on various preferences for later retrieval.
US10274334B2	Route guidance method, navigation terminal and vehicle including the same A route guidance method for executing voice route guidance for a route to a destination set by a user includes: executing a first voice route guidance at an interval according to a current guidance level; receiving a suppress command or a request command of the user during the execution of the first voice route guidance; determining a new guidance level on the basis of count results for the suppress command and the request command; and executing a second voice route guidance at an interval according to the new guidance level.
US10274327B2	Configurable routes An example configurable route based on a distance input includes causing a device to access location relevant cartographic data and present the location relevant cartographic data on a display on the device. The instructions are executable to receive a plurality of input selections to the location relevant cartographic data, convert the plurality of input selections to a plurality of coordinates, receive a distance input and deliver the plurality of coordinates and the distance input to a routing algorithm, and to receive a route generated therefrom that begins at a starting location and ends at the starting location and has a length substantially equal to the distance input.
US10274325B2	Systems and methods for robotic mapping Systems and methods for robotic mapping are disclosed. In some exemplary implementations, a robot can travel in an environment. From travelling in the environment, the robot can create a graph comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a scan taken by a sensor of the robot at a location in the environment. In some exemplary implementations, the robot can generate a map of the environment from the graph. In some cases, to facilitate map generation, the robot can constrain the graph to start and end at a substantially similar location. The robot can also perform scan matching on extended scan groups, determined from identifying overlap between scans, to further determine the location of features in a map.
US10274320B2	Method and device for providing safe zone information for incident area Method and device for providing safe zone information. The method includes receiving a map of an incident area sensor information from at least one sensor at the incident area. The method also includes determining a multi-dimensional model of the incident area based on the map of the incident area and the sensor information and determining a first threat location based on the sensor information, the map of the incident area, and the multi-dimensional model of the incident area. The method further includes determining a plurality of safe zone shadow areas based on the first threat location. The method also includes updating the multi-dimensional model of the incident area to include the plurality of safe zone shadow areas and to generate a safe zone shadow representation of the incident area and transmitting the safe zone shadow representation to at least one user device in the incident area.
US10274318B1	Nine-axis quaternion sensor fusion using modified kalman filter A system for determining and correcting a calculated orientation of a computing device based on data from an accelerometer and a gyroscope. The system utilizes a modified Kalman filter that updates covariance to reduce decay over time based on a residual of the filter. Gyroscope bias is tracked and offset based on the updated covariance and the residual. The residual is based on an observational orientation determined from an angle between a measured acceleration vector and an expected acceleration vector, rotating a predicted frame based on the angle.
US10274315B2	Three-wheeled vehicle alignment rack system A vehicle wheel alignment rack is described herein that includes at least one laser and a target. The laser is removably coupled to a wheel of a vehicle. The target corresponds to the laser and is disposed at an opposite end of the vehicle from the laser. The target is directly and removably coupled to a frame of the vehicle such that the target is aligned with the frame at a known angle. The wheel is aligned to the frame by comparing the known angle to an expected and actual position on the target where a beam of light from the laser strikes the target. Some embodiments of the claimed invention include at least a second laser and a second target similarly disposed. Various means of coupling the target or targets to the frame are also disclosed herein.
US10274313B2	Measurement method and measurement program for calculating roughness of a curved surface According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of measuring a surface of an object having a curved shape by measuring a distance from a measurement head to the object, includes: setting a measuring region of the object and a threshold value of concave and convex; acquiring shape reference data including the curved shape of the object; acquiring three-dimensional data of the surface of the object by measuring the distance between the object in the measuring region and the measurement head; acquiring curve removed data by removing the shape reference data from the three-dimensional data; calculating second reference data by calculating first reference data based on the curve removed data, by removing data exceeding the threshold value with respect to the first reference data, from the curve removed data, and by averaging the curve removed data; and calculating shape data of the concave and convex.
US10274308B2	Precision optical height gauge An optical height gauge including a housing, a mounting bar coupled to, and maintained partially in, the housing, a mounting bracket connected to the mounting bar, the mounting bracket including at least one light source holder, a camera mount connected to the mounting bracket, and a tilt bar connected to the mounting bracket and contacting the mounting bar.
US10274306B2	Optical probe having an integrally formed interface and protection unit Some embodiments include a measuring probe adapted to be attached to a probe head of a coordinate measuring machine for determination of at least one spatial coordinate of a measurement point on an object to be measured, the measuring probe comprising an optical measuring unit adapted to provide distance measurements of measuring points at the object and a probe interface which provides modular mounting of the measuring probe to a probe head of the coordinate measuring machine and transmission, in particular bidirectional transmission, of optical signals between the probe and the coordinate measuring machine. The probe interface is designed as an integrally formed module providing a reproducible mountability of the measuring probe at the probe head and comprising a one-sided component of a ball bearing.
US10274304B2	Method for controlling an electrical device and an electrical device An electrical device includes a magnetic sensor circuitry (101) for detecting magnetic field and for generating a detection signal in response to the detected magnetic field, and a control circuitry (102) for controlling operation of the electrical device in accordance with the detection signal. The magnetic sensor circuitry is configured to detect a direction related to a deviation of the magnetic field from the magnetic field of the earth, and the control circuitry is configured to control the operation of the electrical device in accordance with the detected direction. The electrical device can be controlled by using e.g. a permanent magnet (105) for directing, to the magnetic sensor circuitry, magnetic field deviating from the magnetic field of the earth and having a desired orientation. Thus, the electrical device can be controlled without an electrical connector or a radio interface.
US10274300B2	Device and method for measuring the thickness and position tolerance of a wheel bolt hole A device and method for measuring the thickness and position tolerance of a wheel bolt hole. The device includes a screw, a handle, a detection pillar and a base plate, where the handle and the base plate are fixed via the screw; the detection pillar is fixed onto the base plate through interference fit; and the detection pillar a bolt hole. The position tolerance and thickness of a bolt hole are measured simultaneously, and the labor intensity is reduced, and the existing bolt hole position tolerance detection tool can be modified for the use as the tool of the device, saving costs. The tool can detect the thickness of a bolt hole and qualitatively determine the range where the difference between the value of bolt hole thickness and the standard value approximately lies, and can be used for the grading of bolt hole thickness values based.
US10274290B2	Systems and methods for calibrating a conducted electrical weapon Systems and methods for calibrating a conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”) to provide a predetermined amount of current for each pulse of the stimulus signal. Providing the predetermined amount of current, close thereto, increases the effectiveness of the stimulus signal in impeding locomotion of a human or animal target. The calibration process enables a CEW to calibrate the amount of charge in a pulse of the stimulus signal in the environmental conditions where the tester operates and also in the field where the environmental conditions may be different from the environmental conditions during calibration.
US10274289B1	Body armor ventilation system A body armor ventilation system comprising a plurality of projections located between a body armor carrier and a wearer's body. The system may further comprise a plate for retrofitting an existing carrier or may be integrated into the carrier. The projections may allow space between the body armor carrier and the wearer's body, allowing air to flow therethrough, which in turn allows the wearer's body heat to dissipate and keeps the wearer cooler. The projections may also provide increased protection from blunt force trauma.
US10274285B2	Weapon sight light emission system Disclosed herein are embodiments of a sighting device, and methods of making and using such a sighting device, whereby the sighting device comprises a chamber coupled to the sighting device; and a light-emitting element contained within the chamber; wherein the chamber contains only non-radioactive material; and wherein the light-emitting element emits a first amount of visible light to provide a viewable aiming indicium in low light conditions.
US10274284B2	Holster dock assembly Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a mounting dock assembly to receive and to support an implement (such as a handgun, for example) or an implement holster (such as a handgun holster, for example), in a variety of configurations. The dock assembly comprises a plurality of dock units, each dock unit including a substantially planar hard mount component having one or more guide ridges and a mounting portion for temporarily or permanently coupling the dock unit to a desired surface.
US10274276B2	Folding pistol A folding pistol has a frame having slide rails adapted to receive a slide, a grip defining a magazine passage pivotally connected to the frame at a first pivot and having a free end extending away from the first pivot, the grip being movable between an extended position in which the pistol is operable, and a stowed position in which the free end of the grip is adjacent the frame, a forward trigger guard element pivotally connected to the frame at a second pivot, a lower trigger guard element connected to the forward trigger guard element at a third pivot, and the lower trigger guard element connected to the grip at a fourth pivot. The first, second, third, and fourth pivots may be at different locations. There may be a trigger connected to the frame at a selected one of the first, second, third, and fourth pivots.
US10274266B2	Fluid heat exchange sytems A fluid heat exchanger includes: a heat spreader plate including an intended heat generating component contact region; a plurality of microchannels for directing heat transfer fluid over the heat spreader plate, the plurality of microchannels each having a first end and an opposite end and each of the plurality of microchannels extending substantially parallel with each other microchannel and each of the plurality of microchannels having a continuous channel flow path between their first end and their opposite end; a fluid inlet opening for the plurality of microchannels and positioned between the microchannel first and opposite ends, a first fluid outlet opening from the plurality of microchannels at each of the microchannel first ends; and an opposite fluid outlet opening from the plurality of microchannels at each of the microchannel opposite ends, the fluid inlet opening and the first and opposite fluid outlet openings providing that any flow of heat transfer fluid that passes into the plurality of microchannels, flows along the full length of each of the plurality of microchannels in two directions outwardly from the fluid inlet opening. A method of cooling a heat generating component uses a fluid heat exchanger that splits a mass flow of coolant.
US10274256B2	Vessel transfer systems and devices A system for removing molten metal from a vessel is disclosed. The system includes a vessel having a first section and a second section and a pump positioned in the first section of the vessel. As the pump operates it moves molten metal through a pump discharge and through an opening into the second section of the vessel, where the molten metal reaches a vessel outlet and exits the vessel. The pump discharge is preferably formed at an angle to the vessel outlet. The outlet may be attached to a launder.
US10274250B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator equipped with a door that becomes transparent as necessary to make the interior thereof visible is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment defined therein, a lighting device for illuminating the interior of the storage compartment, a door, which is hingedly coupled to the cabinet to open and close the storage compartment, and has an opening and a panel assembly including a front panel disposed on the front surface thereof, a sensor for detecting sound waves, which are generated by a knock input applied to the door and are transmitted through the front panel, and a controller for controlling the lighting device to allow light to be transmitted through the panel assembly, thus making the storage compartment visible from outside the door through the opening when a predetermined knock input is detected.
US10274249B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes: a cabinet having a cabinet liner; a partition plate assembly disposed in the cabinet liner and configured to partition an inner space of the cabinet liner into a plurality of compartments spaced apart from one another; and a door having a door liner, mounted to the cabinet, and configured to open or close the plurality of compartments simultaneously, in which the door liner is configured to be sealingly fitted with the partition plate assembly so as to isolate the plurality of compartments hermetically.
US10274230B2	Annular portions protruding from a displacer and expansion space of a cryocooler In a cryocooler, a displacer includes an internal space, and a working gas flows through the internal space. A cylinder reciprocally accommodates the displacer, and an expansion space for the working gas is formed between the cylinder and a bottom portion of the displacer. A plurality of annular protruding portions are provided on a bottom surface of the expansion space such as to form a multiplex structure. A plurality of annular recessed portions are provided on the bottom portion of the displacer such as to receive the plurality of annular protruding portions.
US10274228B2	Packaged HVAC unit with secondary system capability Disclosed is a system for independently controlling the climate within a primary zone and at least one secondary zone of a building. The system comprises a primary packaged unit comprising a primary indoor coil and a primary variable speed indoor fan blowing over the primary indoor coil to serve the primary zone of the building. The system further comprises a secondary unit comprising a secondary indoor coil circulating the refrigerant and a secondary variable speed indoor fan blowing over the secondary indoor coil to serve a secondary zone of the building. The primary unit and the at least one secondary unit shares a common variable speed compressor, outdoor coil, and an outdoor fan that are disposed within the primary unit. First and second solenoid valves in the primary unit selectively control refrigerant flow to the primary and secondary units to enable independent control of the zones.
US10274218B2	Air-conditioning control system This system correctly obtains a thermal sensation of a person in a room to provide a comfortable environment. A first parameter deriver derives, as a first parameter, a ratio of a low frequency component to a high frequency component in a variation of R-R intervals of a person, based on his/her body movement. A second parameter deriver derives, as a second parameter, any one of a coefficient of variation of R-R intervals, a respiration rate, or a heart rate of the person, based on the body movement of the person. An estimator estimates a thermal sensation of the person, based on the first parameter and the second parameter. A CPU for air-conditioning control controls an air-conditioning capacity of the air conditioner, based on a result of the estimation by the estimator.
US10274210B2	Heat pump humidifier and dehumidifier system and method A heat pump system for conditioning outside air supplied to a building is provided. The system includes a pre-processing module that receives and cools air when the system is operating in a summer mode. A supply air heat exchanger is in flow communication with the pre-processing module. The supply air heat exchanger receives and cools air from the pre-processing module in the summer mode. A processing module is in flow communication with the supply air heat exchanger. The processing module receives and dehumidifies saturated air from the supply air heat exchanger in the summer mode.
US10274201B2	Fuel injector with dual main fuel injection A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The fuel injector includes two primary tubes, a secondary tube, a primary gas gallery, and a secondary gas gallery. The two primary tubes are connected in a parallel configuration to provide a main gas fuel to the primary gas gallery. The secondary tube provides the main gas fuel to the secondary gas gallery independent from the two primary tubes and the primary gas gallery. The primary gas gallery and the secondary gas gallery provide the main gas fuel to a premix passage independently allowing for robust control of the gas turbine engine.
US10274194B2	Methods and systems for reducing emissions of nitrogen oxides from ribbon burners Methods and systems for improving burner, particularly ribbon burner performance, involving admixing a portion of the combustion products from the flue gas resulting from the burner to at least one of a primary and a secondary oxidizer supply to the burner. Admixing a portion of a carbon dioxide-containing flue gas combustion product formed upon combustion of a fuel gas by a ribbon burner significantly reduces NOx emissions resulting from operation of the burner.
US10274190B2	Multi-directional, multi-functional wearable safety lighting apparatus A multi-functional, multi-directional wearable safety lighting device is disclosed herein that includes a main light housing and a magnetic mounting assembly coupleable to a bottom surface of the main light housing. The mounting assembly is configured to secure the wearable safety lighting device to a user. The main light housing includes warning light elements coupled front and rear side surfaces. A directional work light is coupled to the front side surface of the main housing and is distinct from the warning light elements. A power source supplies power to the warning light elements and the work light. A controller is programmed to energize the warning light elements in select subgroups following depression of a first control button or a second control button, and energize the directional work light following depression of a third control button.
US10274188B2	Lantern with heater A lantern comprises a light source configured to emit visible light, as well as a heater configured to emit heat separate from the visible light of the light source. The lantern may have a housing defining a lighting section and a heating section, with the lighting section being arranged above the heating section. The light source may be positioned in the lighting section, or the light source may be positioned outside of the lighting section and adapted to project visible light at least partially into the lighting section, such as from a base below the lighting section or from a top above the lighting section. The heating section may contain the heater, which may be a convection heater adapted to blow heated air out of the housing in a desired direction. The housing may include a suspension structure for supporting the lantern.
US10274187B2	Cabinent apparatus and cabinet light assembly A cabinet light includes a light emitting element, a light housing, conductive terminals, a cabinet body, and conductive rails. The light emitting element and the conductive terminals are fixed on the light housing. The conductive rails are fixed on the cabinet body. One end of the conductive terminal is electrically connected to the light emitting element. At least one positioning element is disposed on the cabinet body corresponding to the light housing. When the light housing is fixed on the cabinet body through the positioning element, the other end of the conductive terminal is elastically and electrically connected to the conductive rail. The cabinet body has advantages of simple wiring and use flexibility.
US10274166B2	Solid-state linear lighting arrangements including light emitting phosphor A solid-state linear lamp comprises a co-extruded component, the co-extruded component comprising an elongate lens and a layer of photoluminescent material. The elongate lens is for shaping light emitted from the lamp and comprises an elongate interior cavity. The layer of a photoluminescent material is located on an interior wall of the elongate interior cavity. The lamp further comprises an array of solid-state light emitters configured to emit light into the elongate interior cavity.
US10274161B2	LED spot with customizable beam shape, beam color and color uniformity The invention provides a lighting unit (1000) comprising a lighting device (100), wherein the lighting device (100) comprises a light source (10) configured to provide light source light (11) and beam shaping optics (20) configured to shape the light source light into a lighting device beam (101), wherein the lighting device (100) comprises a window (30) comprising an upstream face (31) directed to the light source (10) and a downstream face (32), wherein the lighting unit (1000) further comprises a beam modifier (200) configured adjacent to the window (30) and configured to intercept at least part of said lighting device beam (101), wherein the lighting device (100) and the beam modifier (200) are configured to modify said lighting device beam (101) to provide a lighting unit beam (1001) downstream from said beam modifier (200), wherein the beam modifier (200) comprises a printed beam modifying element (210).
US10274157B2	LED apparatus A LED apparatus has a LED plate, a lens plate, a cup body, a driver plate and two metal pins. The lens plate has a central lens and a plurality of micro optical structures. The cup body has a dome portion, a tube portion and a bottom portion. The dome portion and the tube portion are manufactured together as a single body. A portion of light emitting from the LED plate runs through the central lens of the lens plate to form a focus light beam and another portion of light emitting from the LED modules running through the plurality of micro optical structures to form soft light. Two input terminals of the driver plate are inserted into the two metal pins.
US10274138B2	Lighting device and lighting system A lighting device is provided which includes: a wavelength converter that emits, from laser light, light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light; and a reflector surrounding the wavelength converter and including a surface of revolution that reflects the light emitted from the wavelength converter. The reflector includes, in the surface of revolution, a through-hole through which the laser light passes.
US10274134B2	Modular fuel storage system Methods and systems for modular fuel storage and transportation are provided. In an embodiment, a fuel storage system includes one or more fuel containers each supported by a fuel container support assembly. The fuel storage system may be mounted to a transportation device such as a vehicle or used in a stand-alone fashion. Each support assembly may include a plurality of detachable end support members such as end support members configured to support the end portions of the fuel container and side support members configured to support the body portion of the fuel container. Some of the end support members may include neck grooves such that when the end support members are coupled, the neck grooves form an enclosure around the neck portion of the fuel container. In an embodiment, the support assembly is configured to facilitate release of excess pressure in the fuel container.
US10274133B2	All-in-one skid assembly Disclosed is an assembly that is an all-in-one combination of piping and equipment systems designed to provide a compact, simple, pre-fabricated assembly on single skid platform to meet all the functional needs of a petrochemical gas compression facility. The skid platform assembly provides a traveling pathway for the fluid generated from a well and is designed to provide all required pre-compressor and post-compressor functional equipment needs for each individual installed gas compressor. The skid platform assembly comprises an integrated liquid separator that also functions as a common liquid sump for all liquid generated by the pre-compressor and post-compressor functional equipment.
US10274126B2	System and method for servicing rotor of generator using universal support device A system and method for servicing a generator rotor of a turbine are presented. The system includes a support device for supporting the rotor. The support device has a surface. A contact point is established on the surface where the rotor contacts the surface. A location of the contact point along the surface may be variable based on a diameter of the rotor. The support device may be able to accommodate a plurality of different rotors having a plurality of different diameters.
US10274125B2	Quick detach connector A quick detach connector for an imaging device.
US10274116B2	Environmental conditioning systems and methods utilizing polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) foam ducts Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for providing a durable and thermally insulated duct network. A duct network may be provided by coupling two or more foam ducts to each other. In one example, a system includes a plurality of foam ducts and a plurality of foam bellows configured to couple the foam ducts to each other. The foam bellows include one or more bellow folds to allow an expansion and contraction of the foam ducts. A plurality of structural fastening systems couple the duct network to a structure of a vessel. The structural fastening systems allow for an axial movement of the duct network as the foam ducts expand and contract. Additional systems and methods are also provided.
US10274114B2	Torque retention arrangement A torque retention arrangement for a flange bolt connector for use with pipe. The torque retention arrangement a carrier body and a plurality of springs. The carrier body can include a plurality of spring holes equi-spaced around a circumference. A plurality of springs in a vertical stack can be mounted in each of the plurality of spring holes in the carrier. Each spring is in a convex orientation in a pre-torque condition and is in a planar orientation in a post-torque condition.
US10274111B2	Pipe holder and guide A pipe, hose and wiring holder and support is provided which is made of a rigid body, itself made of a primary ring of a diameter adapted to fit around a first pipe (or hose or wiring), and one or more secondary rings attached to the primary ring by arms, each secondary ring of a size to fit around secondary pipes (or hoses or wiring), with all rings lying in the same plane and being laterally disposed from one another, and where fitting the pipe holder to the primary and secondary pipe or pipes serves to stabilize, support, and position the set of pipes, hoses or wires relative to one another.
US10274109B2	Engine block clamp assembly An engine block clamp assembly is provided. The engine block clamp assembly may comprise an engine block clamp frame configured to clamp around the axially outward edge of a silicone insert. The silicone insert may comprise a series of apertures configured to removably receive external engine tubes and electrical harnesses. The engine block clamp frame may comprise a tabbed clamp half and a slot clamp half. The tabbed clamp half may have a tabbed end and a mounting end. The tabbed end may comprise a tabbed hinge. The slot clamp half may comprise a slot end and a mounting end. The slot end may comprise a slot. The tabbed hinge may be configured to operatively fit within the slot to couple the tabbed clamp half to the slot clamp half.
US10274107B2	Fairing and method A fairing device for the reduction of vortex-induced vibrations or motions, and for minimizing the drag about a substantially cylindrical element immersed in a fluid medium, comprising; a fairing rotatably mounted about the cylindrical element, the fairing comprising a shell with a mainly cylindrical cross-sectional shape with an outer diameter (D) following the outer diameter of the cylindrical element from an upward stagnation point of 0 degrees to at least +/−90 degrees, and which at +/−90 degrees continues as two fin-like portions in an aft direction, whereby the fin-like portions are convexly curved aft of +/−90 degrees thus tapering towards each other and are defining a tail end opening or gap less than the fairing standoff height. A method for mounting, storage, and deployment of the fairing device is also disclosed.
US10274105B2	Spool valve A spool 220 is provided with a second land section 224 that blocks a portion between the spool 220 and the valve sleeve 210 at a position between the output port P21 and the lead-in port P22 when the spool 220 is located in a position for connecting the channel for input T1 and the channel for output T2 via the input port P10 and the output port P21 and blocking a channel leading from the channel for output T2 to the channel for discharge T3, and when the spool 220 is located in a position for connecting the channel for output T2 and the channel for discharge T3 via the lead-in port P22 and the discharge port P30 and blocking a channel leading from the channel for input T1 to the channel for output T2.
US10274097B2	Fuel limit vent valve having vapor permeable membrane A fill limit vent valve configured for use with a reductant tank includes a valve body, a float and a vapor permeable membrane. The valve body can define an inner chamber and has a valve outlet. The float has a float body configured to be received within the inner chamber and configured to sealingly engage the valve body. The vapor permeable membrane can be configured to permit vapor to pass through while inhibiting liquid from passing through. The float is movable between (i) an open position wherein vapor flows along a first flow path through the valve inner chamber and out of the valve body; and (ii) a closed position wherein the float sealingly engages the valve body and precludes vapor from flowing along the first flow path while allowing flow along a second flow path through the vapor permeable membrane and out of the valve body.
US10274096B2	Touch faucet A touch faucet contains: a body, a temperature control valve, a water control valve, and an actuation member. The body includes an inlet segment, an outlet segment, and a first cavity which has a first hole. The temperature control valve is housed in the first cavity and includes a water inflow portion configured to flow cold water and hot water, a mixing chamber in which the cold water and the hot water are mixed to form a mixing water, and a water outflow portion configured to flow the mix water. The water control valve includes an operation post touched to turn on the water control valve, such that the mixing water flows into the water outflow portion from the mixing chamber, and the actuation member partially exposes outside the body so as to be operated by a user to drive the operation post to move.
US10274073B1	Oil pressure supply system of automatic transmission An oil pressure supply system of automatic transmission may include mechanical oil pump discharging the pumped oil pressure to line pressure passage, line regulator valve controlling the oil pressure of the line pressure passage and supplying the controlled oil pressure to first passage, line regulator valve controlling the oil pressure of the first passage and supplying the controlled oil pressure to second and third passages, torque converter lock-up clutch control valve changing over passage to supply the oil pressure of the second passage and supply the oil pressure through the third passage to cooling/lubrication portion through sixth passage, electric oil pump discharging the oil to seventh passage, first switch valve to selectively opening the oil pressure supplied to eighth passage, second switch valve selectively supplying some of the oil pressure supplied to the eighth passage to the cooling/lubrication portion through ninth passage, and four solenoid valves for controlling the valves.
US10274071B2	Gearbox planet squeeze film damper An epicyclic gearing arrangement includes a planet gear rotatable on a planet bearing that is mounted via a support pin to a carrier of the epicyclic gearing arrangement. A spring film damper is disposed between the outer surface of the bearing's outer ring and the opposing inner surface of the planet gear and includes an annular gap. The support pin and/or outer ring include oil feed holes that open into the respective annular gap(s).
US10274063B2	Secondary drive coupling for use with a shaft A secondary drive coupling may comprise at least one coupling member having a first mating portion and a second mating portion. The first mating portion is configured to engage a first section of a shaft on one side of a region of weakness of the shaft, whereas the second mating portion is configured to engage a second section of the shaft on an axially opposite side of the region of weakness. Both the first mating portion and the second mating portion are each configured to prevent rotation of the at least one coupling member about the shaft. In another embodiment, the at least one coupling member comprises a first coupling member comprising the first mating portion and a first contact surface and a separate, second coupling member comprising a second mating portion and a second contact surface that is configured to engage the first contact surface.
US10274058B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle A planetary gear train is provided. The gear train includes input and output shafts and first to fourth planetary gear sets that respectively have first to third, fourth to sixth, seventh to ninth, and tenth to twelfth elements. A first shaft is connected with the first and fourth elements and selectively connected with the input shaft, a second shaft is connected with the sixth element and selectively connected with the input shaft, a third shaft is connected with the eighth element and the output shaft, a fourth shaft is connected with the second, fifth, and ninth elements, and a fifth shaft is connected with the third and eleventh elements. A plurality of shafts are each selectively connected to the transmission housing and connected to an element of the third and fourth planetary gear sets that is not connected with any of the first to seventh shafts.
US10274057B1	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle A planetary gear train may include input and output shafts, first to third planetary gear sets respectively having first to third, fourth to sixth, and seventh to ninth elements, a first shaft connected to the second element and the input shaft, a second shaft connected to the sixth and eighth elements and the output shaft, a third shaft connected to the third and seventh elements, a fourth shaft connected to the fourth element, and a plurality of shafts each selectively connecting a corresponding element to a transmission housing, the corresponding element being an element of the first, second and third planetary gear sets which is not interconnected.
US10274054B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for vehicles provides forward ten speed stages and one reverse speed stage. The planetary gear train includes: an input shaft; an output shaft; five planetary gear sets each having three rotation elements; three clutches; three brakes; and nine shafts. Some of the nine shafts may directly connect or selectively connect a plurality of rotation elements among the rotation elements via the clutches, and some of the nine shafts selectively connect selected rotation elements to a transmission housing H via the brakes. In particular, the selected rotation elements are not connected to another rotation element of the five planetary gear sets.
US10274051B2	Multi-speed dual clutch transmission A transmission is connectable to an input member and includes an output transfer gear, first and second transmission input shaft members, first and second countershaft members, a plurality of co-planar gear sets, and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. The torque transmitting devices include a plurality of synchronizer assemblies and a dual clutch assembly. The transmission is operable to provide at least one reverse speed ratio and a plurality of forward speed ratios between the input member and the output member.
US10274039B2	Oil seal holder for shock absorber An oil seal holder for a shock absorber contains: a body, plural push members, and plural resilient elements. The body includes a first semi-circular ring and a second semi-circular ring, and a rear end of the first semi-circular ring is connected with a rear end of the second semi-circular ring. The body also includes a retainer configured to retain with or remove from a front end of the first semi-circular ring and a front end of the second semi-circular ring. The plural push members are mounted and radially move on the first semi-circular ring and the second semi-circular ring, and each push member includes an abutting post extending out of the first semi-circular ring or the second semi-circular ring. The plural resilient elements are connected with the first semi-circular ring and the second semi-circular ring so as to push the plural push member inward.
US10274037B2	Vibration-damping device and attachment structure for vibration-damping device Included are an outer attachment member 12, which is coupled to one of a vibration generator 16 and a vibration receiver, an inner attachment member 11, which is coupled to the other one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver, and an elastic body 13, which is positioned on the outer side of the inner attachment member 11 to couple the outer attachment member 12 and the inner attachment member 11. The outer attachment member 12 is disposed in at least one pair on the outer side of the elastic body 13, with the inner attachment member 11 being interposed between the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12. Each of the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12 includes an attachment surface 14, which is attached to the one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver.
US10274033B2	Electronic disc brake Disclosed is an electronic disc brake. The electronic disc brake includes a disc configured to rotate with vehicle wheels, a caliper housing configured to operate pad plates installed at both sides of the disc, and an actuator having a piston provided inside the caliper housing to come into close contact with the disc, a spindle rotatably installed at the caliper housing to reciprocate the piston, an electric motor configured to rotate the spindle, and a decelerator configured to transmit a rotational force of the electric motor to the spindle, in which the decelerator includes a power connection unit directly connected to the electric motor, and first and second deceleration gear units sequentially connected to the spindle, and the first deceleration gear unit includes a worm gear.
US10274032B2	Process for producing a brake disk and brake disk A brake disk includes a circular base body having a circumferential outer brake rim, a friction layer in certain regions on the base body and an adhesion-promoter or functional layer arranged over an entirety of the base body.
US10274030B2	Brake disc for a bicycle A brake disc having a first component made of a first material, a braking track configured to cooperate with brake pads, and a second component made of a second material and having (i) a radially inner annular portion for coupling with a hub of a bicycle wheel and (ii) a plurality of radially outer portions for connecting to the first component at a respective plurality of connection portions of the first component. The first component comprises a plurality of connection arms that extend from the braking track towards the predetermined rotation axis (X) and that are distinct from the plurality of connection portions, wherein at least one of the connection arms of the first component and at least one of the radially outer connection portions of the second component are coupled together through at least one shape coupling.
US10274027B2	Sealed actuator with internal clutching A sealed actuator with internal clutching assembly including an output shaft, output detent ring, moving detent ring, and a wave spring, which is fit inside a sealed housing. The moving detent ring is able to move axially to the output shaft and the output detent ring is able to rotate on the output shaft. Intermeshing ramped teeth of these rings are held together by a wave spring and allow the output shaft to rotate and transmit torque of a motor through a main gear operably coupled to an output gear mounted on the output shaft to the outside of the housing. During predetermined high loads, the output and moving detent rings ramped teeth create an axial force that overcomes the load from the wave spring, which allows moving detent ring to disengage and output shaft to rotate freely to help prevent damage to the actuator.
US10274025B2	Clutch compensation piston A balance module 10 for a clutch comprises a first annular piston part 11, a second annular piston part 12, which is arranged opposite the first piston part 11 in the axial direction and spaced therefrom, at least three spring elements 13 operating in the axial direction, which are arranged axially between the first 11 and the second piston part 12, and a sealing element 14 with at least one radially outwardly directed sealing lip 15, which is attached on the first piston part 11. The spring elements 13, the first 11 and the second piston part 12 are connected to one another in a loss-proof manner, in order to form an integral module 10.
US10274024B2	Dual clutch apparatus A dual clutch device is provided with a first piston for engaging a first clutch by using hydraulic pressure supplied to a first hydraulic chamber and disengaging the first clutch by using a first spring, a second piston for engaging a second clutch by using hydraulic pressure supplied to a second hydraulic chamber and disengaging the second clutch by using a second spring, first supply lines for supplying hydraulic pressure to the first hydraulic chamber and a second hydraulic canceling chamber, second supply lines for supplying hydraulic pressure to the second hydraulic chamber and a first hydraulic canceling chamber, a first valve for allowing or blocking the hydraulic pressure supply to the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic canceling chamber, and a second valve for allowing or blocking the hydraulic pressure supply to the second hydraulic chamber and the first hydraulic canceling chamber.
US10274015B2	Bearing for a pump and method of retrofitting a bearing for a pump A bearing for a pump with a shaft rotating around an axial direction includes a housing and a bearing cover fixed to the housing, a bearing structure for supporting the shaft of the pump, a reservoir for a lubricant and an oil ring for transporting the lubricant and for supplying the lubricant to the bearing structure wherein the oil ring is arranged for being moved by the rotating shaft and wherein a retaining element is provided for that is fixed with respect to the housing or the cover, the retaining element being designed and arranged such that it restricts a movement of the oil ring at least in the axial direction.
US10274005B2	Induction-softened thermoplastic shims A shim assembly includes a shim material configured to be positioned between a first component and a second component. A wire is in contact with the shim material. The wire is configured to heat the shim material to above a predetermined temperature, and the shim material becomes moldable above the predetermined temperature such that the shim material is able to conform to the first component and the second component.
US10274004B2	Thread locks and devices incorporating same Thread locks that can be used to secure a threaded bolt within an aperture are disclosed. Devices including a threaded aperture, such as a T-bolt, are also disclosed, which can optionally utilize thread locks disclosed herein. Embodiments disclosed herein are particularly useful in farm animal containment structures, however, the scope of the disclosure is not limited to such applications.
US10273990B2	Fixed wobbler for hydraulic unit A fixed wobbler of a hydraulic unit includes a body having a first end and an opposite second end, the first end defining a first surface, and the second end defining a second surface oriented at an angle relative to the first surface, the body having an outer diameter and an inner wall defining an inner diameter, wherein the outer diameter is approximately 2.1655+0.0000−0.0007 inches (5.5004+0.000−0.0018 cm), and wherein the inner diameter is approximately 1.043±0.003 inches (2.6492±0.0076 cm).
US10273989B2	Valve actuator device with driving arm having a modular structure A valve actuator device includes a supporting body, a driving shaft, and a fluid cylinder having a body connected to one side of the supporting body. The cylinder has a rod that controls rotation of a driving arm rigidly connected to the driving shaft. Linear movement of the rod is converted into rotation of the driving arm by engagement of a cam-follower pin carried by the rod within a slot formed in the driving arm. The slot is formed in an insert that constitutes an element separate from the driving arm body and that is received and held within a seat of the driving arm body. Thus, a single main body for the driving arm is provided, having a plurality of inserts for selective mounting within the seat and are differentiated from one another in the dimensions and shape of the slot and/or in the material of the insert.

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