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US10349052B2	Method for coding and an apparatus There is disclosed a method comprising receiving a set of coefficients; and determining whether a sign of a coefficient in the set of coefficients can be embedded in a bitstream. If the determining indicates that the sign of the coefficient in the set of coefficients can be embedded in the bitstream, an indication of the embedded sign is inserted into the bitstream. There is also disclosed a method comprising receiving a set of decoded coefficients; and determining whether a bitstream contains an indication of an embedded sign of a coefficient. If the determining indicates that the bitstream contains the indication of an embedded sign of a coefficient, the sign is determined on the basis of the decoded coefficients; and the sign of the coefficient is modified on the basis of the determined sign.
US10349049B2	Inspecting organic TFT array using differential image To provide an inspection device and an inspection method which are capable of detecting a disconnection defect in an organic TFT array and/or evaluating a variation in the output properties and response speed of each organic TFT element. There are provided a device and a method of optically measuring the presence or absence of the accumulation of carriers in an organic semiconductor thin film which provides a channel layer of an organic TFT element. A source and a drain in each organic TFT are short-circuited to each other, a voltage is turned on and turned off in a predetermined period between this and a gate, and images before and after application of the voltage are captured in synchronization with the predetermined period while radiating monochromatic light, to obtain a differential image.
US10349046B2	Image display apparatus and method of displaying image for displaying 360-degree image on plurality of screens, each screen representing a different angle of the 360-degree image An image display apparatus and an image display method are provided. The image display apparatus for displaying a 360-degree image includes a display; a memory comprising at least one instruction; and a processor, by executing the at least one instruction stored in the memory, is configured to control the display to display at least a part of a 360-degree image on a plurality of screens in which each of the plurality of screens represents images corresponding to different angles of view of the 360-degree image, to change display properties of one or more other screens of the plurality of screens in response to receiving an input that moves an angle of view on one of the plurality of screens, and to control the display to display at least a part of the 360-degree image on the one or more other screens having the changed display properties.
US10349041B2	Focus scanning apparatus A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.
US10349038B2	Dynamic control over structured illumination intensity A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines depth information for a scene in a field of view of the DCA. The DCA includes a structured light (SL) illuminator, a camera, and a controller. The SL illuminator includes a source assembly, a SL element, a liquid crystal (LC) array, and a polarizer. The source assembly generates light, and the SL element generates a SL pattern using the generated light source. The LC array includes a plurality of addressable cells configured to polarize the SL pattern in accordance with adjustment instructions. The polarizer attenuates portions of the SL pattern based on the polarization of the portions of the SL pattern. The camera captures an image of the SL pattern, and the controller identifies portions of the image that are saturated and generates adjustment instructions based in part on the identified portions of the image, and provides the adjustment instructions to the LC array.
US10349037B2	Structured-stereo imaging assembly including separate imagers for different wavelengths The present disclosure describes structured-stereo imaging assemblies including separate imagers for different wavelengths. The imaging assembly can include, for example, multiple imager sub-arrays, each of which includes a first imager to sense light of a first wavelength or range of wavelengths and a second imager to sense light of a different second wavelength or range of wavelengths. Images acquired from the imagers can be processed to obtain depth information and/or improved accuracy. Various techniques are described that can facilitate determining whether any of the imagers or sub-arrays are misaligned.
US10349034B2	Information processing apparatus, stereoscopic display method, and program An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a first spatial position of a portion of an operating tool disposed within a threshold distance of a surface of the determination unit. The first spatial position may be determined relative to the determination unit surface in a depth direction. The apparatus may also include a control unit configured to generate a first signal to display a stereoscopic image to a user at a first display position. The first display position may be disposed within a predetermined distance of the first spatial position.
US10349032B2	Vehicle occupant head positioning system Described are occupant positioning systems, and methods of use thereof, which combine image capture and radar or ultrasonic sensors, determine the head position and/or velocity of a vehicle occupant's head in three dimensions for use in a driver monitoring application. The driver monitoring applications may include features such as driver drowsiness estimation and indication, driver attention monitoring, driver gaze direction and driver gaze positioning, driver identification, head-up display adjustment and automatic sun blocking. These are features that can improve the operational safety of the vehicle.
US10349018B2	Laser projection display device A laser projection display device (1) includes a laser source (5), a laser driver (4) that drives the laser source, a scanning unit (7) that scans and projects laser light generated by the laser source, a liquid crystal element (14) that transmits the laser light at a predetermined transmittance, and a liquid crystal driver (17) that changes the transmittance by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal element. When a light quantity of the laser light generated by the laser source corresponds to a case in which the laser source operates in a nonlinear area, the laser driver shifts an operation point to an area other than the nonlinear area by increasing a driving level of the laser source by a predetermined amount G, and the liquid crystal driver decreases the transmittance of the liquid crystal element by a predetermined amount 1/G.
US10349014B2	Method and system for monitoring and simultaneously displaying a plurality of signal channels in a communication system A system includes a ground segment and a monitoring system displaying first thread view for a first channel and displaying a second thread view for a second channel.
US10349011B2	System and method for improved obstacle awareness in using a V2X communications system A system and method is taught for collaborative vehicle to all (V2X) communications to improve autonomous driving vehicle performance in a heterogeneous capability environment by sharing capabilities among different vehicles. In particular, the system and method are operative to receive an image from a proximate vehicle and to augment a display within the host vehicle by providing a view of objects with an area of obstructed view.
US10349006B2	In-call command control A network-based, e.g., cloud-based, and apparatus based in-call command control for dynamically performing user commands such as voice commands or gesture commands are provided. The result allows for hands free operation of a calling system including one where the user is located separate from a base station, and provides for recognizing both voice and gestural commands. Filtering of commands can be performed dynamically so that commands are not perceived by those participating in the call. Further, the user, who has given the command, can be notified regarding the performance of the requested command.
US10348988B2	Focus detection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium A focus detection apparatus comprises a line sensor including a photoelectric conversion element and an integrating capacitor, a storage unit configured to store information concerning a defective pixel, a first comparison unit configured to compare a signal from the defective pixel with a predetermined threshold, a switching unit configured to switch between a first accumulation mode and a second accumulation mode, and a control unit configured to control the switching unit so as to set the line sensor in the first accumulation mode if the first comparison unit determines that a signal from the defective pixel is not more than the predetermined threshold and set the line sensor in the second accumulation mode if the first comparison unit determines that a signal from the defective pixel is larger than the threshold.
US10348978B2	Processor selecting between image signals in response to illuminance condition, image processing device including same, and related method for image processing An image processing device is provided. The image processing device comprising a first lens, a second lens disposed on one side of the first lens, a third lens disposed on the other side of the first lens, a first image sensor which receives an input of a first image obtained from the first lens to generate a first image signal, a second image sensor which receives an input of a second image obtained from the second lens to generate a second image signal, a third image sensor which receives an input of a third image obtained from the third lens to generate a third image signal, a selector which receives the input of the second image signal and the third image signal, outputs the second image signal under a first condition, and outputs the third image signal, under a second condition different from the first condition and an image processor which performs image processing, using the first image signal and an output signal of the selector.
US10348968B2	Method for producing camera module An optical section (3) and a lens holder (4) are fixed to each other in a state where the lens holder (4) is at an intermediate position within a movable range so that the optical section (3) does not come into contact with an image pickup section (10) in a case where the lens holder (4) is driven within the movable range. This makes it possible to provide (i) a camera module in which it is possible to reduce the influence of a tilt that occurs in the vicinity of an infinite-distance side mechanical end and also reduce the influence of a tilt that occurs at an intermediate position away from the infinite-distance side mechanical end and a macro side and in which image pickup lenses are attachable with high positional accuracy and (ii) a method for producing a camera module.
US10348965B2	Wearable camera system A wearable camera systems according to examples of the present disclosure may include a camera and a mobile charging unit. The camera may include onboard power, memory and control for capturing and storing an image without being connected to the mobile charging unit and the camera body may have a width or a height that is smaller than the length of the camera body. The camera body may include a trigger for initiating image capture. The wearable camera may be attachable to an eyewear temple and the mobile charging unit is configured to recharge the wearable camera without being connected to an external power source.
US10348959B2	Adjusting motion capture based on the distance between tracked objects The technology disclosed relates to adjusting the monitored field of view of a camera and/or a view of a virtual scene from a point of view of a virtual camera based on the distance between tracked objects. For example, if the user's hand is being tracked for gestures, the closer the hand gets to another object, the tighter the frame can become—i.e., the more the camera can zoom in so that the hand and the other object occupy most of the frame. The camera can also be reoriented so that the hand and the other object remain in the center of the field of view. The distance between two objects in a camera's field of view can be determined and a parameter of a motion-capture system adjusted based thereon. In particular, the pan and/or zoom levels of the camera may be adjusted in accordance with the distance.
US10348957B2	Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium for shooting a still image without interrupting shooting of moving images An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to sequentially output one or more frames of image data of moving images and one or more frames of image data of still images as frames on a per-frame basis, each still image being shot between shootings of the moving images; and a control unit configured to control the image capturing unit to shoot the still images at a first shutter speed and shoot the moving images at a second shutter speed, the first shutter speed being higher than the second shutter speed.
US10348951B2	Camera capture for connected devices Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the capture and coordination of audio and/or video data across connected devices in a communications system. The communications system may include at least two media devices in communication via a network. One of the media devices may be a media application device configured to provide one or more media applications. Another of the media devices may be a media input device configured to capture video and/or audio data. Coordination between a media application and a media input device may be facilitated by a driver layer configured to communicate with the applications.
US10348944B2	Modular unit for a motor vehicle A modular unit comprises at least one camera unit for sensing an outside area, and an actuating unit for opening and/or closing a door or gate of a motor vehicle. The modular unit is located on a movable door or gate of the motor vehicle. The camera unit can be brought into an active operating position or a standby position upon activation of the actuating unit.
US10348941B2	Durable flexible circuit assembly A flexible circuit assembly for an endoscope or borescope having an image sensor. The flexible circuit assembly has a flexible circuit with a first end, a second end, and a length between its first and second ends, the first end of the flexible circuit electrically connectable with the image sensor. A strengthening member is adjacent to the flexible circuit and along the length of the flexible circuit. An electrically insulated layer retains the strengthening member adjacent to the flexible circuit and encloses at least of portion of the strengthening member and the flexible circuit. The strengthening member may comprise a nitinol wire, and the nitinol wire may have a neutral position such that the nitinol wire returns to the neutral position after being articulated to a different position.
US10348940B2	Compressed video camera with a moving patterned disk A high-speed video system is disclosed that includes a moving image absorbing disk at an image plane. The disk has a pattern that passes and blocks image data. The disk is located between an event and an image sensor, or reflects an image to the image sensor. The disk is rotated at a speed that matches the desired reconstructed image frame rate. The image sensor frame data is processed using image reconstruction techniques, such as the D-AMP or TWIST algorithm, to recover a time sequence of reconstructed images. Additional images can be reconstructed for each image sensor frame if some spatial resolution is sacrificed. For continuous video, the disk speed is adjusted to the sensor frame rate. For burst mode, a single sensor image is acquired and a short image sequence is reconstructed. This image capture system works with a variety of radiations, including infrared, light, UV and X-rays.
US10348938B2	Display timing determination device, display timing determination method, and program First ratio acquisition means of a display timing determination device acquires, for each voice, a first ratio that relates to intervals between output timings of voices. Second ratio acquisition means acquires, for each piece of character information, a second ratio that relates to intervals between provisional display timings of pieces of character information. Identification means identifies, based on the first ratio of each voice and the second ratio of each piece of character information, an association relationship between the voice and the piece of character information. Display timing determination means determines a definitive display timing of each piece of character information based on the association relationship.
US10348936B2	Measuring color and calibrating printers Methods of measuring colors, methods of calibrating printers and printing systems for implementing the methods are disclosed. Calibration maps are printed on print media. The calibration maps have intertwined contiguous printed and non-printed areas. One or more color signals are measured on contiguous printed areas. One or more noise signals are measured on non-printed areas that are adjacent to the contiguous printed areas. Clear color signals are generated by removing the one or more measured noise signals from the one or more measured color signals.
US10348927B2	Printing apparatus for controlling start of printing process A controller of a printing apparatus causes, in accordance with programs, the printing apparatus to obtain data and temporarily storing the received data in a buffer, create an image to be printed on a printing medium in accordance with the received data, obtain a receiving time period required to receive particular amount of data, obtain an image creating time period to create the image in accordance with the particular amount of data, obtain a total print length of a printing medium on which printing is executed in accordance with the data, calculate an amount of image which can be printed at a designated constant printing speed based on the receiving time period, the image creating time period and the total print length, and, when the calculated amount of image can be created, start a process of printing at the designated constant printing speed in accordance with the created image.
US10348925B2	Image reading apparatus and semiconductor device with a voltage boost circuit and a reading circuit that reduce power consumption An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of image reading chips. Each of the plurality of image reading chips includes, a pixel that includes a light receiving element which receives light and performs photoelectric conversion; a voltage boosting circuit that generates a transmission control signal for transmitting electric charges which are generated on the basis of the photoelectric conversion; and a reading circuit which generates an image signal on the basis of the electric charges which are transmitted. The voltage boosting circuit operates during a period in which the light receiving element receives the light and during a period in which the electric charges that are generated on the basis of the photoelectric conversion which is performed by the light receiving element, and stops an operation during a period in which the reading circuits of the other image reading chips output the image signals.
US10348921B2	Communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium There is provided a communication apparatus to which a telephone is connectable. While the telephone is disconnected from a telephone line, the communication apparatus shifts to a power saving mode. If an incoming call is detected in the power saving mode, the communication apparatus is returned from the power saving mode, and then controls to switch connection between the telephone and the telephone line in accordance with preset setting of an operation at the time of an incoming call.
US10348918B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a shooter where a first mounting surface that is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane is formed thereon, a stacker, a supporting unit that movably supports the stacker in such a manner that the stacker is arranged in a first region or a second region, a conveyance unit that conveys a document from the shooter to the stacker when the stacker is arranged in the first region, and a reading unit that reads an image from the document when the document is conveyed by the conveyance unit, wherein a surface area of a region of the first mounting surface that is covered by the stacker when the stacker is arranged in the first region is greater as compared with that when the stacker is arranged in the second region, and the stacker is formed to be capable of being lengthened or shortened.
US10348917B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having pivotable cover member with opposing wall and side wall An image reading apparatus includes: an image reader that reads an image of a document; a document conveying apparatus including a housing internally including a conveyance path that conveys the document, and a supply tray designed to supply the document to the conveyance path, and a discharge tray designed to receive the document; and a cover member that covers the supply tray and the discharge tray, wherein in a case where a direction orthogonal to a first direction along a document discharge direction and orthogonal to the up-down direction in the discharge tray is defined as a second direction, the cover member includes an opposing wall opposed to one end of the supply tray and one end of the discharge tray, and an upper wall connected to an upper part of the opposing wall and designed to cover a zone above the supply tray and the discharge tray.
US10348908B2	Method and system for a multitenancy telephone network A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including a call queue that stores call requests received from a plurality of users; an expandable and contractible telephony resource duster that establishes call sessions for call requests; a analysis system that calculates capacity requirements of the system; a resource allocator that manages the scaling and operation of the telephony resource cluster; and a plurality of telephony network channels that are used as telephony communication channels for call sessions.
US10348906B2	Method and apparatus for controlling visitor call in home network system Disclosed is a technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure can be used for intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the technology. A method of controlling a visitor's call by a first terminal in a home network system includes: reading home information pre-stored in the communication module when communication with a communication module installed inside the home is possible; transmitting a visit request message including the home information and identification information of the first terminal to the smart home server or a at least on second terminal from among a plurality of second terminals; and communicating with the at least one second terminal when at least one of the plurality of second terminals accepts communication with the first terminal.
US10348899B2	Interaction request processing according to client pre-configured schedule An apparatus is provided and includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that when executed from a non-transitory physical medium by the processor cause the processor to detect when a request for interaction that is configured for a scheduled processing is received or otherwise registered at a service access point associated with a contact center, identify schedule data from the request and add the schedule data along with a request identification and a location identifier to a scheduling and reporting application, consult a contact center interaction routing system in response to determining that the scheduled interaction request is to be processed, and route or cause processing of the interaction request based on the schedule data. According to one embodiment, the schedule data includes a scheduled time and date for processing the request.
US10348893B2	System to deploy a disaster-proof geographically-distributed call center A redundant Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call center system has two data centers each having a first and a second SIP server cooperating as a first SIP-server high availability (HA) pair, a set of SW applications executable at each data center, and a plurality of agent stations each comprising a SIP telephone and a computerized appliance executing a desktop application at each agent station. The HA pairs operate as SIP server peers, the agent SIP phones are configured to maintain simultaneous registration with both SIP server peers, and Agent Desktop applications log in to only one SIP server peer, wherein the SIP Server peers collaborate to deliver calls to individual agent SIP phones via the SIP server peer where the agent is logged in, and wherein, upon failure of either data center agent's desktop applications log in to the other data center, allowing the associated agent to continue working.
US10348891B2	System for real time, remote access to and adjustment of patient hearing aid with patient in normal life environment Real time, remote access to and adjustment of the hearing aid of a patient while the patient is located in a normal life environment that is remote from a hearing professional. A session request initiates a programming session. Adjustable settings from the patient's hearing aid are wirelessly streamed to the patient's mobile device and from the mobile device to a streaming cloud server. The settings are stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to a hearing professional's computer or mobile device and displayed. The hearing professional then changes at least one of the adjustable hearing aid settings and the changed settings are streamed to the cloud, stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to the patient's mobile device, wirelessly transmitted to the hearing aid and stored there. A telephonic voice connection between the hearing professional and the patient's mobile device is used to transmit the patient's evaluation of changed settings to the hearing professional.
US10348886B2	Answering incoming call on dual-screen mobile device A method of answering an incoming call on a dual-screen mobile device comprising a main body, and two screens and two sound openings which are respectively located on two opposite surfaces of the main body is provided. The method includes: upon receiving an incoming call, an incoming call operation option is displayed on a first screen of the dual-screen mobile, an answer option is determined based on an answer operation which is performed by a user in response to the incoming call operation option, where the answer option includes answering on a second screen opposite to the first screen, and a sound of the incoming call is output from the sound opening on the surface where the second screen is located in response to that the answer option indicates answering on the second screen.
US10348884B2	Customized hardware selection for a mobile phone A method of customizing hardware by an end user for a mobile phone is provided. The method includes receiving from an end-user a selection of a mobile phone shell from a set of mobile phone shells, sending to the end-user a subset of interchangeable hardware components having different functions, and receiving from the end-user a selection of at least one hardware component from the subset of interchangeable hardware components. The subset of interchangeable hardware components is generated based on a compatibility between the selected mobile phone shell and the set of available interchangeable hardware components.
US10348883B2	Control device, electronic apparatus, control program, and storage medium Provided is, for example, a control device which prevents notification of information from being provided to a user in a situation for which the user considers it inappropriate to receive notification of information. A control device (1) includes a motion detecting section (22), a brightness detecting section (21), and a notification permission determining section (35). In a case where the motion detecting section (22) detects that a predetermined motion is being given to an electronic apparatus (100) which includes the control device (1), the notification permission determining section (35) determines that notification of information is not to be provided to the user.
US10348879B2	Method and system for processing prompt message of mobile terminal based on intelligent wearable device A method for processing a prompt for an unread message of a mobile terminal using an intelligent wearable device may include: connecting the intelligent wearable device with the mobile terminal; setting a specified operation action on the intelligent wearable device to read the unread message of the mobile terminal; and controlling the mobile terminal to transmit the unread message to the intelligent wearable device for display when the intelligent wearable device receives the specified operation action as an input from a user.
US10348877B1	Smartphone dashboard mount assembly A smartphone dashboard mount assembly for mounting a smartphone on a dashboard of a vehicle includes a vehicle that has a dashboard and an electronic device that has a display. A mount is removably retained on the dashboard and the electronic device is removably retained on the mount has the display being exposed. Thus, the display is visible to a driver without requiring the driver to look away from the road while driving. A communication unit is coupled to the mount and the communication unit is in wireless electrical communication with the electronic device. The communication unit receives an audio signal from the electronic device thereby emitting audible sound corresponding to the audio signal.
US10348871B2	Transmission stack for extremely high frequency wireless communication Disclosed here are systems and methods which enable high-bandwidth communication between a mobile device and an accessory. The high-bandwidth communication uses electromagnetic waves in the extremely high frequency range between 30 GHz and 300 GHz inclusive, also known as millimeter waves. The millimeter waves travel through at least the chassis of the accessory and the chassis of the mobile device without significant scattering and attenuation. The properties of the materials through which the millimeter waves travel determine the attenuation of the millimeter waves. Disclosed here are various materials, and their thicknesses, which form a transmission stack through which the millimeter waves can travel unimpeded. In effect, the transmission stack acts as a dielectric member which facilitates the transmission of the millimeter waves, while attenuating transmission of waves outside of the extremely high frequency range.
US10348869B2	Methods and nodes in a radio communication system with efficient control channel use The present invention generally relates to radio communication systems, relay nodes, controller nodes, user equipment (user terminals), software and methods for said systems and nodes. In one embodiment, a method for operating a control node for a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps: creating a data frame comprising an early part and a later part, wherein the early part comprises first control data for controlling a receiving node; checking whether second control data are to be put into the later part; scheduling payload data for the receiving node into the later part if second control data are not to be put into the later part; and transmitting the data frame to the receiving node.
US10348867B1	Enhanced protocol socket domain An enhanced address domain is presented herein. A system can comprise a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: creating an upper-layer socket of an enhanced address domain; allocating a protocol control block (PCB) and associating the PCB with the upper-layer socket—the PCB storing information representing a private state of the upper-layer socket; creating a lower-layer socket of an existing address domain—the lower-layer socket referenced from the upper-layer socket using the PCB; and installing upcall(s) on the lower-layer socket to be intercepted via the enhanced address domain. In an aspect, the upper-layer socket supports enhancement(s) to the existing address domain and a socket type of the lower-layer socket.
US10348864B2	Information transfer method, client, and server An information transfer method, includes: receiving N pieces of information and N pieces of corresponding identification information sent by a server according to a data obtaining request; obtaining attribute information of at least two pieces of information in the N pieces of information, where the attribute information includes at least one of the following attributes of the at least two pieces of information: content separability or location adjustability; generating to-be-posted information according to the attribute information of the at least two pieces of information and an operation instruction of a user for the at least two pieces of information; and determining identification information corresponding to the to-be-posted information and second indication information corresponding to the to-be-posted information, and sending the server the identification information and the second indication information corresponding to the to-be-posted information.
US10348861B2	Software upgrade method and terminal The present invention relates to a software upgrade method for a terminal. The method includes: receiving, by a second terminal, a first message broadcast by at least one first terminal, where the first message includes information of application software maintained by the first terminal; determining, by the second terminal according to the information of the application software maintained by the first terminal, whether there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal; when it is determined that there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal, sending an upgrade request to the first terminal; receiving, by the second terminal, an upgrade response that is returned by the first terminal according to the upgrade request, and downloading upgrade data of the upgradeable application software; and updating the application software according to the upgrade data of the upgradeable application software.
US10348856B2	Wi-Fi location determination In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a client device to access a communication network. One or more of the computing devices is associated with a social-networking system, and the request includes data identifying the client device based on a certificate signed by one or more of the computing devices associated with the social-networking system. The method also includes associating the access request with a user profile of the social-networking system based on the certificate signed by one or more of the computing devices associated with the social-networking system; and granting the client device access to the communication network based at least in part on the association of the access request to the user profile.
US10348852B2	Method for determining terminal identifier in wireless communication system supporting device-to-device communication and apparatus for same The present invention discloses a method for determining a user equipment identifier in a wireless communication system supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communication; and an apparatus for the method. More specifically, a method for determining an identifier of a UE in a wireless communication system supporting D2D communication comprises receiving, a first UE, a D2D signal including a D2D identifier from a second UE; and determining, the first UE, an identifier of the second UE on the basis of the received D2D identifier and measurement information of a cellular signal and/or information about resources in which the D2D signal is received.
US10348851B1	Proxy server streaming a resource to multiple requesting client devices while the resource is being received at the proxy server A first server receives a request for a file from a first client device. The first server determines that the file is not fully available in a cache that is available to the first server and receives at least a portion of the file from a second server. While the file is being received, the first server writes data of the file to a temporary cache file as it is being received; streams the file to the first client device from the temporary cache file; receives a request for the file from a second client device; and streams the file to the second client device from the temporary cache file without waiting for the requested file to be fully received at the first server and without transmitting an additional request for the file to the second server.
US10348849B2	Automatic delivery of media content to a device A method includes generating, at a media device, a user profile based on first data received from a portable device. The first data indicates media content sent to a display device of the portable device by an application on the portable device. The method includes recording, via the media device, a media content item from a content source, where the media content item is selected based on the user profile. The method also includes sending the media content item from the media device to the portable device via a local area network. The portable device stores the media content item at a pre-cache memory to enable the portable device to playback the media content item from the pre-cache memory when the portable device is not able to communicate via the local area network.
US10348843B2	Must-reply mobile questionnaire system and method The present invention provides a must-reply mobile questionnaire system and method. The system comprises a cloud composed of a database, a server, and a push gateway. The server generates a questionnaire issuing request and sends it as a push notification, via the push gateway and an external push server, to a specific mobile communication device. All executable functions on the mobile communication device are locked until a questionnaire involved in the questionnaire issuing request is replied.
US10348841B1	System and method for event based communications between a mobile application and a server A system and method for event-based communications between a mobile application and a server is disclosed herein. The system comprises a server, a database and mobile communication devices. Users define an event that takes place within a specific geographic region and during a certain period of time. The users either define the event as public, which means that anyone who is present at the location and during that time can participate, or private which means that individuals need authorization to participate.
US10348824B2	Method and apparatus for synchronizing state information of a plurality of terminals Provided are a method of synchronizing state information, the method comprises receiving first state information from a first terminal among a plurality of terminals, setting first synchronization identification information in the received first state information, transmitting the first state information and the first synchronization identification information set in the first state information to the terminals, receiving second state information and second synchronization identification information set in the second state information from a second terminal among the terminals, determining whether the received second state information is a synchronization target by judging whether the received first synchronization identification information matches the received second synchronization identification information and not transmitting the received second state information to the terminals when determining that the received second state information is not the synchronization target.
US10348820B2	Peer-to-peer content distribution Certain embodiments described herein relate to peer-to-peer content distribution. In one embodiment, a method includes a first device receiving content and determining a content categorization of the received content. The first device may detect a second computing device and communicate with that it through a direct wireless connection (e.g., Bluetooth). Through the direct wireless connection, the first device may receive information associated with a user of the second computing device from the second device. Based on the information associated with the user and the content categorization of the content, the first device may determine a likelihood of the user being interested in the content. The first device may push the content to the second computing device through the direct wireless connection based on the likelihood of the user being interested in the content.
US10348813B2	Provisioning a bare-metal server A method and device for provisioning bare-metal servers to tenants of a cloud provider is provided. The cloud provider operating a datacenter receives a profile of a tenant. The cloud provider identifies a set of physical resources subscribed by the tenant based on the tenant's profile and identifies a bare-metal server in the datacenter having sufficient physical resources to provide the subscribed physical resources. The cloud center reports to the tenant a set of physical resources in the BM server that corresponds to the subscribed set of physical resources. The cloud center receives a request from the tenant to provision a tenant bare metal machine in the datacenter. The cloud center enables at least one of the reported physical resources in the bare-metal server for the tenant, based on the request, and disables remaining reported physical resources in the bare-metal.
US10348811B2	Service to invoke companion applications A service to invoke a companion application or service is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to invoke a companion application is received in the context of a display page of a calling application. A service a call comprising a filtered set of data values derived from the display page is sent to an external service. A request associated with the companion application is received from the external service and used to invoke the companion application.
US10348806B2	Transferring data using mobile devices An example method for transferring a data set includes: detecting that a user device is within a first predefined proximity to a first data storage device; determining a next destination of the user device based on user travel information; selecting a data set stored on the data storage device in accordance with the next destination of the user device, wherein the data set is associated with a destination location; transferring the data set from the data storage device to the user device; detecting that the user device is within a second predefined proximity to a second data storage device; determining a location of the second data storage device; determining that a predefined relationship exists between destination location of the data set and the location of the second data storage device; and responsive to the determining, transferring the data set from the user device to the second data storage device.
US10348805B2	Method and system for transferring data Systems, methods and computer programs for transferring data in a communication system are described. The communication system has a first node arranged to send data to a plurality of second nodes using a first protocol. The first protocol allows the transfer of data of a first type. At least one of the second nodes additionally requires data of a second type, which is not included in the data sent according to the first protocol. First data, of the first type, is transferred to a plurality of the second nodes using the first protocol. Second data, of the second type, is stored in a memory. Subsequently, in response to a request, access to the second data is provided to the second node.
US10348803B2	Real-time insertion and reporting of media content A method can include receiving a plurality of unperfected logs via a network, storing the plurality of unperfected logs in a database based on the anticipated broadcast schedule, transmitting at least one unperfected log by the electronic hub, receiving an inquiry into one or more spots in the available inventory, transmitting data associated with the one or more spots the data to be displayed on a graphical user interface in response to the inquiry, receiving a selection of one or more spots in the available inventory in response, and requesting content related to the selected one or more spots. The method can include receiving and associating advertising content with the selection of the one or more spots, creating a perfected log based on the unperfected log and the received content, monitoring a broadcast of the media outlet, detecting a difference between the perfected log and the broadcast, and transmitting status information.
US10348798B2	Rules engine for connected devices In one embodiment, a method includes receiving notifications of events associated with the connected devices, evaluating a plurality of event sequences that include two or more events occurring within a particular time period, and generating a plurality of rules based on the evaluated event sequences. The method further includes receiving a notification of a first event associated with a first connected device on the network, determining that a first rule of the plurality of rules is based on the first event, and sending one or more instructions to connected devices in accordance with the first rule.
US10348795B2	Interactive control management for a live interactive video game stream Technologies are described for enabling interactivity with video games by viewers of a live video game streaming service. For example, messages can be received indicating interactive control events initiated by remote viewers of a live interactive video game stream. A control state data structure can be maintained that comprises control state for the received interactive control events. The control state data structure can maintain separate control state for each of a plurality of time periods (e.g., each time period corresponding to one or more video frames). Actions in the video game can be activated based on the control state data structure.
US10348794B2	Media production system with score-based display feature In one aspect, an example method includes (i) selecting, by a computing system, a media content item from a set of multiple media content items; (ii) identifying, by the computing system, a set of operations that a media production system and/or a media broadcast system performed in connection with the selected media content item; (iii) for each operation in the identified set of operations, determining, by the computing system, a respective operation score; (iv) using, by the computing system, the one or more determined operation scores to determine a media content item score of the selected media content item; (v) repeating (i)-(iv) above for each remaining media content item in the set of multiple media content items; and (vi) displaying a reference to each media content item in the set of multiple media content items, wherein the displayed references are arranged based on the determined media content item scores.
US10348779B2	Data receiving device, data receiving method, and non-transitory computer readable medium There is provided a data receiving device including a reception controller and a read controller. The reception controller controls an access processing device to write data received through a session established with a communication device on a network to a file on a storage. The read controller manages registration information indicating association between the file and the session, and upon receiving a data reception request specifying a session from an application, outputs a read request for data of the file associated with a specified session to the storage and receive the data read from the storage.
US10348777B2	Telehealth video chat mirroring of disparate video chat devices A multi-channel, two-way video chat mirroring communication system capable of mirroring disparate video clients at a central coordinator terminal into a two-way video and audio conversation with one another. The central coordinator mirroring terminal system is functionally placed in the middle between a provider video chat user device, and a patient's video chat user device. The central coordinator mirroring terminal manages an individual video and audio link with a provider's video chat user device using the provider's preferred communication technology, and another individual video and audio link with the patient's video chat user device that uses its own preferred communication technology, which may or may not be the same as that of the provider's video chat user device. Because the video-mirroring system manages those individual video and audio streams, it produces a seamless experience for both the provider's video chat user device and the patient's video chat user device.
US10348771B2	Learned behavior based security The present system and method pertain to the detection of malicious software and processes such as malware. A cloud security policy system receives hashes and behavioral information about applications and/or processes executing on user devices. The cloud security policy system records this information and then evaluates the trustworthiness of the hashes based on the information received from the user devices to provide a security policy for the applications and/or processes. The security policy is sent from the cloud security policy system to user devices to be applied by the user devices.
US10348759B2	Threat detection and mitigation through run-time introspection and instrumentation A graph of a plurality of resources in a computing environment is generated, with the graph associating a first resource of the plurality with a second resource of the plurality. Based at least in part on measurements obtained at a point in a test computing environment that corresponds to a point in the computing environment, a graph representing the relationship between the first resource and the second resource is generated. A threat model identifying potential risks to the computing environment is created from the graph.
US10348757B2	System for the measurement and automated accumulation of diverging cyber risks, and corresponding method thereof Proposed are a system and a method for the automated measurement, accumulation and monitoring of diverging cyber risks, wherein risk components are exposed by electronic means of the risk components to a plurality of cyber risks. An accumulation device is used for the segmentation of the total cyber risk of a risk component by means of parametrizable risk exposure segments, and wherein, in a searchable trigger table, retrievably stored segmentation parameters are associated with corresponding measuring parameters for capturing the risk exposure of a specific risk exposure segment. The system comprises a trigger module that is connected to the risk components by means of capturing devices in order to dynamically defect and capture measuring values for the measuring parameters related to the occurrence of cyber risk events within the data pathway of said electronic means. By means of the accumulation device, the total risk is accumulated, segmentation by segmentation, by sequentially selecting the segmentation parameters from the trigger table and retrieving the associated measuring parameters for each of the segmentation parameters, and then triggering the trigger module based on the retrieved measuring parameters to capture measuring values for the retrieved measuring parameters from the risk components by means of the capturing devices.
US10348751B2	Device, system and method for extraction of malicious communication pattern to detect traffic caused by malware using traffic logs A malicious communication pattern extraction device includes: a statistical value calculation unit that calculates a statistical value for an appearance frequency of each of plural communication patterns, from a traffic log obtained from traffic caused by malware, and a traffic log obtained from traffic in a predetermined communication environment; a malicious list candidate extraction unit that compares between the appearance frequency of the traffic logs for each of the communication patterns, based on the calculated statistical value, and extracts the communication pattern as the malicious communication pattern when a difference between both of the appearance frequencies is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold; and a threshold setting unit that sets a threshold so that an erroneous detection rate probability of erroneously detecting the traffic caused by malware and a detection rate probability of detecting the traffic caused by malware is equal to or more than a certain value.
US10348750B2	TCP bypass interdiction method and device A TCP bypass interdiction method and device are provided. The method comprises: a DPI device between a client terminal and a service terminal acquiring a MSS negotiation value on the basis of a TCP handshake packet; when a suspicious packet is monitored, the DIP device constructing an RST packet according to the suspicious packet and the MSS negotiation value. The RST packet comprises a source direction RST packet and target direction RST packets. The receiving terminal of the source direction RST packet is the same with the transmitting terminal of the suspicious packet. The receiving terminals of the target direction RST packets are the same with the receiving terminal of the suspicious packet. SEQ values of the target direction RST packets are sequentially increased by at least one MSS negotiation value. The method comprises the DPI device transmitting the RST packet to the client terminal and the service terminal respectively.
US10348748B2	Using multiple layers of policy management to manage risk A system for processing a file using a file issue exclusion policy to manage risk is disclosed. If a file does not conform to a set of rules and would otherwise be quarantined, a file issue exclusion policy can be reviewed. If the file issue exclusion policy indicates that the reason why the file did not conform to the set of rules is acceptable, the file can be delivered to the recipient despite not conforming to the set of rules.
US10348740B2	Systems and methods for threat analysis of computer data Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to aggregate a plurality of threat signatures from a plurality of threat signature data sources. The bit stream data is analyzed, based on the plurality of threat signatures, to detect a first threat in the bit stream data. A result of analyzing the bit stream data is logged as threat analysis log data. The threat analysis log data is analyzed to detect a second threat in the bit stream data. The threat analysis log data may be analyzed based on a heuristic. An action is triggered based on analysis of the bit stream data, or based on heuristic analysis of the threat analysis log data.
US10348738B2	System, method and computer readable medium for message authentication to subscribers of an internet service provider An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to provide notification messages such as service updates to subscribers via redirected web pages. In order for the web pages to be treated as originating from the ISP, the ISP provides a shared secret in the browser message. The shared secret may be a secret not derivable by viruses or trojans in the subscriber computer, such as a MAC address of the subscriber modem.
US10348734B2	Security bypass environment for circumventing a security application in a computing environment Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to performing an operation in a computing environment that is prohibited by a security application governing the computing environment. Exemplary embodiments can generate a security bypass environment in a computing environment governed by the security application to provide a bypass to the security application. In exemplary embodiments, a request to perform the operation can be received via the security bypass environment and the operation can be performed through the security bypass environment in response to satisfaction of access control criteria specified for the security bypass environment so that the performance of the operation bypasses the security application.
US10348730B2	Reducing complexities of authentication and authorization for enterprise web-based social applications Authentication based on a target uniform resource identifier (URI) via security proxies. A framework for creating, updating and deleting authentication groups according to a destination URI may be provided. Each of the authentication groups may have a corresponding adaptable authentication scheme. An access from a client to a server may be classified into an authentication group. An authentication request from the client to the server may be intercepted by an authentication scheme based on the authentication group. A session based cookie may be utilized for supporting access between the client and the server.
US10348728B2	Machine-to-machine network assisted bootstrapping The service layer may leverage the access network infrastructure so that applications on a device may bootstrap with a machine-to-machine server without requiring provisioning beyond what is already required by the access network.
US10348727B2	Automatic key management using enterprise user identity management A method forms a key pair for a user. The key pair has a public key and a private key that is unique to the user and that is encrypted using a passphrase formed from an enterprise password of the user and an identification that uniquely identifies in the enterprise a device by which the user gains access. The method stores the private key in the user device and stores the public key in an enterprise server that is accessed by the user. The method provides the private key from the user device to a client, such as a SSH client, in conjunction with the password and the identification, decrypts the private key to obtain the decrypted password and the identification, and allows the user to access the enterprise server only if the decrypted password and the identification match the password and the identification provided with the private key.
US10348718B2	Sharing credentials and other secret data in collaborative environment in a secure manner A system and method for facilitating sharing of credentials and other secret data in a networked computing environment. An example embodiment provides for access to data of an external data source by a software application, wherein the external data source requires use of credentials to allow access to the data, but where the credentials themselves are not to be supplied to the software application. An example method includes storing the credentials in a secure data store; providing a token to the application, the token associated with the credentials and with an indication of the external data source; transferring the token from the application to a secure connector; using the secure connector and the token to retrieve the credentials from the secure data store to the secure connector; using the secure connector and the credentials to request data from the external data source to the secure connector before transfer of the requested data to the application via the secure connector.
US10348705B1	Autonomous communication protocol for large network attached storage Techniques for implementing messaging within a storage service system are described herein. Communication between servers of a storage layer of the storage service system is implemented using encrypted messages exchanged according to a first communication protocol. Communication between servers in a computation layer of the storage service system is implemented using encrypted messages exchanged according to a second communication protocol such that the encrypted messages exchanged according to the second communication protocol are usable to provide an encrypted partition key from a leader to the other servers in the computation layer. Communication between the two layers is implemented using encrypted messages exchanged according to a third communication protocol.
US10348701B2	Protecting clients from open redirect security vulnerabilities in web applications Described embodiments protect clients from open redirect security vulnerabilities in Web applications. A primary application receives a request for an operation to be performed on behalf of a secondary application. The request includes a return location parameter containing i) a return location, and ii) an encrypted portion. After completing the requested operation, the primary application retrieves the return location parameter and a cryptographic key uniquely associated with the secondary application. The primary application decrypts the encrypted portion of the return location parameter to generate a decrypted value, and uses the decrypted value to validate the return location contained in the return location parameter. The primary application transmits a redirect message to the client that causes the client to be redirected to the return location contained in the return location parameter only in response to the return location being successfully validated based on the decrypted value.
US10348700B2	Verifiable trust for data through wrapper composition A method may include, based on a set of capabilities, requesting access to data, metadata or both protected by a composite wrapper comprising a first wrapper and a second wrapper. The wrappers are each defined by different mathematical transformations performed by a component separate from the computing device. Based on an access privilege for the data, the metadata or both determined from the set of capabilities, visibility may be granted through at least one of the first or second wrapper based on independent evaluations of the first and second wrappers relative to the access privilege.
US10348695B1	Secure access to individual information A facility stores a person's personal information (“PI”) on a portable storage device (“PSD”) of the person. In some cases, the PSD bears a fax number mapping uniquely to the person; when a fax containing the person's PI is sent to this fax number, the facility stores an encrypted version of the PI on a relay server (“RS”). When the PSD connects with an access device, the encrypted version of the PI is retrieved from the RS and stored on the PSD. In some cases, the PSD bears a non-textual visual symbol; when its images is captured by a device such as a smartphone, an identifier encoded in the symbol is used to transmit encrypted PI to the RS. In some cases, each access device reports aggregates of personal data to an analysis server. In some cases, the facility statistically obfuscates these aggregates for transmission to/storage on the analysis server.
US10348689B2	Interconnecting external networks with overlay networks in a shared computing environment A method includes obtaining, by one or more processor, data from a virtual network of a tenant and an identifier of the tenant, where the virtual network of the tenant is one of at least two virtual networks in a shared computing environment where the at least two virtual networks overlay a physical network. Based on obtaining the identifier of the tenant, the method includes setting, by one or more processor, the identifier in metadata of the data and based on the identifier in the metadata, identifying, by the one or more processor, a network connection associated with the tenant. The method also includes identifying, by the one or more processor, a policy of the network connection and processing the data with the policy to create processed data and transmitting, by the one or more processor, the processed data through the network connection.
US10348688B2	Streaming one time pad virtual private network A streaming one time Pad cipher using rotating ports for data encryption uses a One Time Pad (OTP) to establish multiple secure point-to-point connections. This can be used to implement a streaming OTP point-to-point firewall, virtual private network or other communications facility for communicating secure information across one or more insecure networks.
US10348681B2	Centralized secure offload of security services for distributed security enforcement points Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems and computer program products for the centralized, secure offloading of security services for distributed security enforcement points. In an embodiment, a network data processing system can be configured for centralized secure offload of security services for distributed security enforcement points and can include a set of security enforcement points controlling communication flows between devices in different less trusted zones of protection. The system also can include a security server communicatively coupled to the security enforcement points and hosting security services logic disposed in a more trusted zone of protection. Each of the security enforcement points can include an interface to the security services logic and program code enabled to offload security related services processing through the interface to the security services logic disposed in the more trusted zone of protection.
US10348679B2	Access point name management A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to select to use an access point name (APN) table to be received from a wireless access network and attach to the wireless access network. The processor may be further configured to execute the instructions to receive a Protocol Configuration Options (PCO) message from the wireless access network; retrieve the APN table from the received PCO message; select an APN from the retrieved APN table; and connect to a packet data network associated with the selected APN via the wireless access network using the selected APN.
US10348675B1	Distributed management of a storage system Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable storage mediums for performing lease-based fencing using a time-limited lease window. During the time-limited lease window, writes to a shared storage medium are permitted, while writes are denied for expired leases. When a successful heartbeat is generated for a primary storage controller, the lease window is extended for the primary storage controller from the time of a previous heartbeat. Accordingly, a prolonged stall between successive heartbeats by the primary storage controller will result in the newly extended lease being expired at the time it is granted. This scheme prevents a split brain scenario from occurring when a secondary storage controller takes over as the new primary storage controller in response to detecting the stall.
US10348674B2	Domain name system CNAME record management A method and apparatus for managing CNAME records such that CNAME records at the root domain are supported while complying with the RFC specification (an IP address is returned for any Address query for the root record). The authoritative DNS infrastructure acts as a DNS resolver where if there is a CNAME at the root record, rather than returning that record directly, a recursive lookup is used to follow the CNAME chain until an A record is located. The address associated with the A record is then returned. This effectively “flattens” the CNAME chain. This complies with the requirements of the DNS specification and is invisible to any service that interacts with the DNS server.
US10348664B2	Method and system for achieving communications in a manner accounting for one or more user preferences or contexts A method and system for selectively communicating information are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a server first information portions regarding one or more preferences, instructions, user profile details, or operational history details. The method also includes receiving an initial version of a message including additional information from a mobile device associated with a user, and determining based upon the first information portions that the additional information should be modified. The method further includes generating a first modified version of the message by modifying the additional information, and sending, for receipt by a further mobile device associated with a further user, the first modified version. Accordingly, in at least some embodiments, the first modified version of the message can include additional relevant content suited for each given recipient, based on (for example) preference, profile, or history information.
US10348657B1	System for delivering notification messages across different notification media A system for delivering notification messages across different notification media comprises a processor. A processor is configured to provide an indication of a new platform notification channel to one or more platform notification services. The indication is provided to one of the one or more platform notification services through a communication module specific to the one of the one or more platform notification services. The processor is configured to create a mapping from a new universal notification channel to a set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers. Each platform notification channel identifier of the set of platform notification channel identifiers is received from a platform notification service. The processor is configured to provide the set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers to a content provider of the new universal notification channel. The processor is coupled to the memory and is configured to store instructions.
US10348650B2	Augmentation of pattern matching with divergence histograms A processor may apply data blocks of a training data set to a pattern matching algorithm to identify whether the data blocks match a pattern, determine points of divergence between the data blocks and the pattern, count a number of times that each of a plurality of positions in the pattern is determined to be a point of divergence, and determine a position with a highest count of a number of times that the position is determined to be a point of divergence. The processor may further receive an incoming data block, compare a data value at the position in the pattern with the highest count to a data value at a corresponding position in the incoming data block, and determine a mismatch when the data value at the position in the pattern and the data value at the corresponding position in the incoming data block are different.
US10348649B2	System and method for supporting partitioned switch forwarding tables in a high performance computing environment System and method for supporting a partitioned switch forwarding table in a high performance computing environment. Described methods and systems can support partitioned switch forwarding tables (e.g., partitioned LFTs) by setting up hardware registers that divide the LFT into at least two partitions, a first partition that supports legacy forwarding (e.g., standard LID based forwarding without the need to use portions of the GRH), and a second partition to support the GRH based forwarding that is described above. In such a manner, switches and other hardware within a core fabric can behave as legacy nodes/switches having standard LFTs, while also being able to support the extended addressing supplied through the use of portions of the GRH.
US10348645B2	System and method for supporting flexible framework for extendable SMA attributes in a high performance computing environment System and method for supporting a flexible framework for extendable SMA attributes in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an information attribute can provide for enhancements in a number of areas. For example, in addition to indicating which version of an interface a queried node supports, the information attribute can additionally provide a mask indicating which vendor specific SMA attributes the node supports. In this way, a subnet manager can identify a version of an interface at each node in a subnet, as well as each node's SMA attribute capabilities. In turn, this allows nodes to run different versions of an interface within a same subnet, without introducing confusion.
US10348638B2	Creating cross-service chains of virtual network functions in a wide area network Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating cross-service chains of virtual network functions in a wide area network. A controller can receive a chain request from a requestor. The chain request can specify functionality that is to be included in a service chain. The functionality can include a first function and a second function. The controller can compute a route associated with the service chain. The route can specify a first site that hosts a first service that provides the first function and a second site that hosts a second service that provides the second function. A first virtual network function can be located at the first site and a second virtual network function can be located at the second site. The controller can configure edge devices and forwarding devices to various entities at the two sites to enable the cross-service virtual network function chain.
US10348637B1	System and method for optimizing user-resource allocations to servers based on access patterns Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating system optimization through the use of user-resource allocations to servers based on determined access patterns. In one embodiment, recurrent patterns of access are identified based on combinations of computer system users and system-hosted resources. In some embodiments, groupings of user-resource combinations can be determined. The groupings are valuable for optimizing the allocation of users and/or resources to a plurality of servers, particularly under conditions of heavy simultaneous resource demand. Patterns may be determined from user-resource pair access time series, and groupings may be determined based on derived strength of association of these. Based on the groupings, users and resources may be allocated to servers efficiently. Allocation optimization can be an effective means for mitigating or preventing Service Level Agreement non-compliance.
US10348615B2	Method and apparatus for pseudowire redundancy Methods and apparatuses for PW redundancy have been provided. A network node across a first domain and a second domain is disclosed. In each domain, the network node and at least one second network node form a first redundancy group (RG) in the first domain and a second RG in the second domain. The network node comprises a first set of interfaces facing the first domain, a second set of interfaces facing the second domain, and a forwarder. In the first set, at least a first and a second interfaces are configured for connecting with PW segments within the first domain; in the second set, at least a first and a second interfaces are configured for connecting with PW segments within the second domain. A third interface in the first set and a third interface in the second set are configured for transferring traffic between the network node and the at least one second network node and between the first domain and the second domain. The forwarder is configured for forwarding traffic selectively between one interface of the first set and one interface of the second set.
US10348585B2	Power efficient control and operation of a data-sensing peripheral device based on location and mode of transport A peripheral device capable of being worn, carried by a user, or used in an in-vehicle computer system operates in conjunction with an application to acquire, store, and present data relevant to a user's health, physical activity, environment, air quality, or other parameters of interest. For power efficient operation and enhanced performance, control parameters of the peripheral device such as duty cycle, sampling rate, and sleep state may be wirelessly and automatically controlled by the mobile device. Furthermore, the mobile application can provide a wireless energy signal to the peripheral device to recharge the battery of the peripheral device. The control parameters may be automatically controlled by the mobile application dependent on the user's location, activity, mode of transportation or other parameters without intervention from a user.
US10348580B2	Communication device, packet monitoring method, communication method, and computer program There is provided a communication device including a plurality of network interfaces connected to a group of network switches, a packet collection unit configured to collect packets transmitted from the plurality of network interfaces and packets received by the plurality of network interfaces, an overlapping resolving unit configured to resolve overlapping of packets that are received by the plurality of network interfaces, a packet recording unit configured to select and record packets to be recorded from packets that are collected by the packet collection unit as recorded information, and a recorded information communication unit configured to communicate the recorded information recorded by the packet recording unit with another device.
US10348579B2	Ubiquitous trouble management and E-service ecosystem for the internet of things Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for an eService ecosystem that provides a common trouble ticket platform for creating and handling trouble tickets generated by and received from an “Internet of Things (IoT).” More specifically, many product vendors are moving to make all of their products internet connected. This move includes not only products that are typically considered to be technology-type products such as personal computers, cellphones, media players, etc., but any and all types of products including but not limited to household appliances, automobiles, medical devices, and a variety of other devices which are increasingly available with processing and communications abilities. Embodiments of the present invention provide a common trouble ticket management platform that all Internet of Things vendors can use.
US10348578B2	Software proof-of-concept platform, including simulation of production behavior and/or data A system comprising a platform configured for communicating with enterprise end-users and for allowing the enterprise end-users to perform proof-of-concept testing for startups which provide respective enterprises with software products to be evaluated by the respective enterprises, the platform including processor functionality configured to analyze available information on enterprise data and, accordingly, generate metadata characterizing the enterprise data; generate artificial enterprise data conforming to the metadata; analyze available information on enterprise APIs and, accordingly, generate metadata characterizing the enterprise APIs; and generate at least one artificial API conforming to that metadata.
US10348573B2	Methods, circuits, devices, systems and associated computer executable code for facilitating local hosting and access of internet based information Disclosed are methods, circuits, devices, systems and associated computer executable code for facilitating local hosting and access of internet based information. Zone Specific Hosting Server(s) host content associated with a specific zone of a wireless or cellular network, while Zone Specific Domain Name System Server(s) store Domain Name System records of content stored on the Zone Specific Hosting Server(s). A Hosting Deployment System deploys content to one or more of the Zone Specific Hosting Server(s) and updates the records of the Zone Specific Domain Name System Server(s) in accordance, and a Transparent Breakout Engine allows access and directs client devices of the wireless or cellular network to content hosted on the Zone Specific Hosting Server(s) based on the Zone Specific Domain Name System Server(s) records.
US10348572B1	Dynamic bandwidth allocation for wireless mesh networks Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamic bandwidth allocation are disclosed. One method includes identifying, by a first distribution node of a wireless mesh network, a communication link with a second distribution node of the wireless mesh network, generating, by the first distribution node, a proposed bandwidth allocation schedule for wireless communication of information between the first distribution node and the second distribution node based on data traffic requirements of the first distribution node, wherein the second distribution node receives the proposed bandwidth allocation schedule, and wherein the second distribution node adjusts the proposed bandwidth allocation schedule based upon data traffic requirements of the second distribution node. The method further includes receiving, by the first distribution node, the adjusted proposed bandwidth allocation schedule from the second distribution node, and communicating, by the first distribution node, information with the second distribution node according to the adjusted proposed bandwidth allocation schedule.
US10348571B2	Methods and apparatus for accessing dynamic routing information from networks coupled to a wide area network (WAN) to determine optimized end-to-end routing paths Techniques are described which apply a method for including a routing stack to provide a timely way to dynamically learn about route changes for an end to end system in the context of an adaptive private network (APN). By allowing learned routes to be assigned different services based on filtering rules, the APN can efficiently manage traffic through the WAN. Techniques for learning routes and to advertise the learned routes in different networks are also described. Upon an APN route change being detected in the APN, a route table is updated with the APN route change, wherein the route table contains routes in a local area network (LAN) and routes in a wide area network (WAN). The APN route change is selected from the route table and configured to a protocol for the LAN. The selected APN route change is advertised in the protocol to local routers in the LAN.
US10348565B2	System and method for rule-based elasticity in a multitenant application server environment In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method rule-based elasticity support in an application server environment. The method can begin with providing, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment, one or more partitions, an administration server, the administration server comprising a diagnostic framework, a rules framework, and an elastic service manager, and a dynamic cluster for use by the one or more partitions. The method can continue with monitoring, by the diagnostic framework, metrics associated with the one or more partition and the dynamic cluster. The method can then trigger, by the rules framework, the action based upon a comparison between one of the one or more rules and the monitored metrics associated with the one or more partitions and the dynamic cluster.
US10348556B2	Method and network infrastructure for a direct public traffic connection within a datacenter A network system includes a datacenter including a gateway router configured to route data transmissions of public network traffic to and from a plurality of VPCs hosted by the datacenter. A first VPC is configured to communicate with the gateway router. The first VPC is accessible and identifiable via a first public IP address. A second VPC is configured to communicate with the gateway router, and the second VPC is accessible and identifiable via a second public IP address. A direct connection transmits a particular data transmission based on the first public IP address and the second public IP address, directly between the first VPC and the second VPC so as to bypass the gateway router. The first public IP address and the second public IP address are assigned from among a group of public IP addresses allocated for assignment to VPCs hosted by the datacenter.
US10348552B2	Service interruption reporting There is provided mechanisms for service interruption reporting of a multicast bearer for group communications. A method is performed by a client node. The method comprises obtaining instruction from a control node of the multicast bearer, where the instruction instructs whether or not the client node is to report service interruption of the multicast bearer. The method comprises detecting service interruption of the multicast bearer. The method comprises selectively reporting the service interruption to the control node in accordance with the instruction.
US10348545B2	Apparatus and method for sending and receiving broadcast signals A broadcast signal transmitter is provided that includes an input formatter, a Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoder, a constellation mapper, a time interleaver, a framer and a waveform generator. The input formatter input processes input data to output Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data. The FEC encoder performs FEC encoding on the PLP data. The constellation mapper performs constellation mapping on the PLP data. The time interleaver is configured to time interleave the PLP data. The framer is configured to generate a signal frame comprising the PLP data. The waveform generator is configured to generate a transmission broadcast signal comprising the signal frame. A number of carriers of the signal frame is determined by the equation: NoC=NoC_max−k*Δ, wherein NoC is the number of carriers, NoC_max is a maximum number of carriers, k is a reducing coefficient, and Δ is a control unit value.
US10348543B2	Uplink transmission in a wireless device and wireless network A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells comprising one or more licensed cells and one or more licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. The wireless device transmitting, in a subframe on an LAA cell of the one or more LAA cells, at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) employing a sounding procedure for the one or more LAA cells. The sounding procedure is independent of transmissions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the one or more licensed cells.
US10348538B2	Transmitter performing an equalizing operation A transmitter may include a driver having a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor connected in series between a first power supply and a second power supply. The driver may be configured to output an output signal. The transmitter may further include a driver control circuit configured to control a gate voltage of the PMOS transistor and a gate voltage of the NMOS transistor based on a level of a data signal, an occurrence of a level transition of the data signal, and a direction of the level transition of the data signal.
US10348527B2	Testing impedance adjustment Methods of operating integrated circuit devices include generating a voltage level at a particular node in response to a first voltage level applied to a termination device and a second voltage level applied to a reference resistance; determining whether a plurality of available resistance values of the termination device satisfy a criterion that each available resistance value is either less than a resistance value of the reference resistance, or each available resistance value is greater than the resistance value of the reference resistance; and, when the plurality of available resistance values of the termination device satisfy the criterion, determining whether a voltage level generated at the particular node for a particular available resistance value of the plurality of available resistance values is between a voltage level of a first reference voltage and a voltage level of a second reference voltage.
US10348523B2	Reference signal configuration method for V2V communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a reference signal by a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) device for V2V communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention comprising the steps of: receiving configuration with respect to one or more reference signals that are shared in a first transmission time interval (TTI) and a second TTI following the first TTI; and receiving the reference signals according to the configuration, wherein the first TTI and the second TTI are composed of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols that are shorter than a subframe, and are configured such that the subframe matches with a symbol boundary.
US10348520B2	Method and gateway for communication between browser and telecommunication network The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and gateway for communication between a browser and a telecommunication network. The method is applied to the gateway, and includes that: a first link with the browser is established, and a second link with a NGN or IMS network is established; first data from the browser is received on the first link, the first data is converted to obtain second data when the first data is call related Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling, and the second data is sent to the NGN or IMS network on the second link; and third data from the NGN or IMS network is received on the second link, and when the third data is call related SIP signaling, and fourth data obtained by converting the third data is transparently transmitted to the browser on the first link. Fusion of an Internet technology and a communication technology is implemented.
US10348504B2	Systems and methods for secure remote identity verification Systems and methods are provided for authenticating an identity of a user requesting a resource or service from an entity. In some embodiments, a system may include at least one processor; and a non-transitory medium containing instructions that cause the system to perform operations. The operations may include receiving credential information associated with the remote user, and receiving, from the server associated with the entity, first hash information. The operations may also include generating second hash information based on information associated with the user, comparing the first hash information with the second hash information, and transmitting an indication based on the comparison to the server associated with the entity.
US10348502B2	Encrypting and decrypting data on an electronic device Systems, methods, and software can be used to encrypt and decrypt data. In some aspects, a first primary secret key based on a primary ephemeral key pair and a primary master public key is generated by a primary data service application on an electronic device. A first primary ciphertext is generated by encrypting a first portion of the data using the first primary secret key. A second primary secret key is generated based on the first primary secret key. The first primary secret key is deleted. The first primary ciphertext is sent from the primary data service application to a secondary data service application. A first encrypted text is received from the secondary data service application. The first encrypted text is generated by encrypting the first primary ciphertext.
US10348497B2	System and method for content protection based on a combination of a user pin and a device specific identifier Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encryption and key management. The method includes encrypting each file on a computing device with a unique file encryption key, encrypting each unique file encryption key with a corresponding class encryption key, and encrypting each class encryption key with an additional encryption key. Further disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encrypting a credential key chain. The method includes encrypting each credential on a computing device with a unique credential encryption key, encrypting each unique credential encryption key with a corresponding credential class encryption key, and encrypting each class encryption key with an additional encryption key. Additionally, a method of generating a cryptographic key based on a user-entered password and a device-specific identifier secret utilizing an encryption algorithm is disclosed.
US10348493B2	Quantum key distribution system, method and apparatus based on trusted relay A quantum key distribution system is provided. The quantum key distribution system includes a plurality of routing devices configured to relay keys and a quantum key distribution device connected with the routing devices and configured to use two or more different paths to perform corresponding quantum key negotiations with another quantum key distribution device to obtain shared keys. The two or more different paths each include one or more of the routing devices.
US10348490B2	Information processing device, authorization system, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing device includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires authorization omission information being information indicating how many save units among a plurality of save units in which object pieces of an object divided into a division number are stored respectively do not need authorization processing, based on the division number indicating how many object pieces the object is to be divided into and a restoration number being a number of object pieces required to restore the object; and a decision unit that decides a save unit which does not need the authorization processing from among the plurality of save units, based on the authorization omission information acquired by the first acquisition unit.
US10348489B2	Internet of things (IOT) method for updating a master key A method is provided for providing a new master key to devices in a Thread network for an Internet of Things (IOT). To provide the new master key, Device Provisioning Key (DPK) is generated from a Network Seed Key (NSK) known to a Commissioner and Leader in a local network. The Commissioner provides the DPK as a unique per-device key to each device in the network to establish a secure session. The DPK is derived from the NSK as follows: DPK=OWF(NSK, ID), wherein OWF is a One Way Function, and ID is a unique device identifier for each device. The new master key can then be sent from the commissioner to the new devices to establish a secure session created using the DPK.
US10348481B1	Clock harmonization in deterministic networks In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a plurality of packets from one or more neighbors of the device. Each of the packets has a scheduled delivery time interval according to a deterministic communication schedule. The device determines an amount of clock drift for each of the one or more neighbors of the device by comparing arrival times of the received packets to their scheduled delivery time intervals according to the deterministic communication schedule. The device calculates a clock adjustment based on the amount of clock drift for each of the one or more neighbors. The device adjusts a clock of the device using the calculated clock adjustment.
US10348475B2	Wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-centric transmission WTRU-Centric Transmission is disclosed. A WTRU may communicate using a set of WTRU-specific cell IDs (WCIDs). A WTRU may be configured with a WCID and/or set of WCIDs, for example, by a serving cell and/or eNB and/or by autonomous selection. A WTRU may be configured with and/or may use one or more WCIDs, for example, based on a resource, channel, subband, time, subframe, signal type, transmission type, function (e.g. sequence generation), service type, etc. A WTRU may indicate its presence by transmitting a WTRU presence indicator, e.g., to enable a network to send appropriate transmissions using one or more WTRU WCIDs. Resources for measurements and/or reporting, e.g., for channel state information (CSI) processes, may be dynamically controlled. A WTRU may be dynamically reconfigured (e.g. without radio resource control (RRC) transmissions) to adapt WTRU-centric communication to changing sets of cooperating transmission points.
US10348472B2	Determination of feedback timing Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and device for determining feedback timing. In example embodiments, the first communication device obtains information indicating at least one of a capability, a timing requirement, and a service type of a second communication device. Based on the obtained information, the first communication device determines feedback timing to be used by the second communication device. Then, the first communication device sends an indication of the feedback timing to the second communication device for communication with the second communication device in accordance with the feedback timing.
US10348471B2	Control information for multi-user transmissions in WLAN systems In wireless communications for multi-users, an access point may generate a first frame for allocating resources to a plurality of stations. The first frame may contain an indication as to whether a station(s) is allocated at least one of a set of resource units (RUs) of a plurality of RUs, such as a center 26-tone RU. The set of resource units may be based on a channel bandwidth of the wireless communications. The indication may be contained in a common block field of signal fields, such as a common block field of high efficiency (HE) signal content channel(s) of an HE signal field. The station(s) may receive the first frame and determine whether the one of the set of RUs is allocated. The station(s) may transmit a second frame to the access point based on resource allocation information in the first frame. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10348470B2	Method of controlling a monitoring operation of physical downlink channel in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and a terminal providing a wireless communication service and to a method by which a base station and a terminal transmit and receive data in an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system evolved from universal mobile telecommunications system or a long term evolution system, and more particularly, to a method of controlling a monitoring operation of a physical downlink channel during a radio resource allocation procedure such that the radio resource allocation procedure can be performed with a minimum power usage by the terminal.
US10348467B2	Effective utilization of cyclic prefix in OFDM systems under benign channel conditions System, apparatus, and methods are provided for effective allocation of cyclic prefix resources in OFDM systems under benign channel conditions. Methods may include a first network device receiving a transmission, from a second network device, comprising a symbol and a cyclic prefix. The first network device determines a first signal for a useable portion of the cyclic prefix and determines a second signal for a portion of the symbol corresponding to the useable portion of the cyclic prefix. The first network device determines a third signal based on the first signal and the second signal.
US10348458B2	Methods and apparatus for LTE coordinated transmission on unlicensed spectrum A method for a coordinated transmission in a wireless communication system. The method includes processing feedback information from multiple transmit points (TPs) operating in license assisted access (LAA) cells, generating scheduling information for the coordinated transmission by the multiple TPs to a user equipment (UE) in accordance with the feedback information, transmitting the scheduling information to the multiple TPs, and receiving the feedback information from the multiple TPs.
US10348450B2	Coding method and apparatus, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present invention provide a coding method and apparatus, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: determining a quantity of polar codes used to code a to-be-transmitted data block and a block length of each polar code of the polar codes used to code the to-be-transmitted data block; and determining, according to a quantity of bits of the to-be-transmitted data block, the block length of each polar code of the polar codes used to code the to-be-transmitted data block, and an input composite channel characteristic corresponding to each input bit position in the polar code of the polar codes used to code the to-be-transmitted data block, allocation information of valid input bits of the polar code of the polar codes used to code the to-be-transmitted data block. The quantity of polar codes used to code the to-be-transmitted data block is not less than two.
US10348446B1	Signaling PHY preamble formats A communication device determines a format for a physical layer (PHY) data unit. The communication device selects i) a length value to be included in a field in a legacy portion of a PHY preamble of the PHY data unit, and ii) a phase of modulation of an orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) symbol in a non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble. The length value and the phase of modulation are selected to correspond to the determined format. A first value of a remainder resulting from dividing the length value by three corresponds to a first subset of formats; a second value of the remainder resulting from dividing the length value by three corresponds to a second subset of one or more formats. When the determined format belongs to the first subset, the phase of modulation of the OFDM symbol in the non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble indicates whether the PHY data unit conforms to a multi-user format.
US10348444B2	Speed dependent transmission format for vehicular transmission A method and system for selecting a transmission format of a first wireless device in a wireless communication network are provided. According to one aspect, a method for selecting a transmission format includes determining a speed of the first wireless device, selecting a transmission format based on the speed of the first wireless device.
US10348441B2	Wavelength indication in multiple-wavelength passive optical networks A method and apparatus for communications in a passive optical network (PON) system are provided. An optical line terminal (OLT) generates a PON downstream Physical Layer (PHY) frame comprising a downstream physical synchronization block (PSBd) that comprises a wavelength identification (ID) of at least one downstream wavelength of the plurality of downstream wavelengths. The OLT sends the PON PHY frame comprising the wavelength ID in the PSBd to ONU for confirming the at least one downstream wavelength.
US10348436B2	Method and apparatus for low power chip-to-chip communications with constrained ISI ratio An efficient communications apparatus is described for a vector signaling code to transport data and optionally a clocking signal between integrated circuit devices. Methods of designing such apparatus and their associated codes based on a new metric herein called the “ISI Ratio” are described which permit higher communications speed, lower system power consumption, and reduced implementation complexity.
US10348435B2	Terminal side and base station side device, terminal device, base station, and wireless communication method A terminal and base station side device, a terminal device, a base station, and a wireless communication method. The terminal side device includes: a searching unit, configured to adopt a synchronization signal sequence corresponding to a target frequency range to be searched to search a target cell; and a synchronization unit, configured to perform synchronization based on the synchronization signal detected by the searching unit to synchronize the device to the target cell, the case the target frequency range belongs to a first frequency range, the searching unit adopts the synchronization signal sequence in a first subset of a synchronization signal sequence set to search the target cell, the first subset being a proper subset of the synchronization signal sequence set. Thereby, a number of synchronization signal sequence matching in a cell searching procedure is reduced and time for user equipment to synchronize to the target cell is shortened.
US10348433B2	Method for suppressing inter-subcarrier interference and noise signal, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver for performing same Disclosed is a method for suppressing an inter-carrier interference and noise signal, and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver for performing the same. Here, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) receiver to suppress an inter-carrier interference and noise signal by using a symbol interference free interval without inter-symbol interference (ISI) in a guard interval (GI) includes: performing a weighting operation between sample data of the symbol interference free interval and sample data of the effective symbol interval by using a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the symbol interference free interval and an SNR of an effective symbol interval corresponding to the symbol interference free interval; and performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on FFT input data configured by including the weighting-operated sample data into the effective symbol interval.
US10348431B2	Methods of discovery and measurements for small cells in OFDM/OFDMA systems A method of small cell discovery and RSRP/RSRQ measurements in OFDM/OFDMA systems is proposed. A discovery reference signal (DRS) with low transmission frequency is introduced to support small cell detection within a short time, multiple small cell discovery, and accurate measurement of multiple small cells. The DRS consists of one or multiple reference signal types with the functionalities including timing and frequency synchronization, cell detection, RSRP/RSSI/RSRQ measurements, and interference mitigation. RE muting is configured for the DRS to reduce interference level from data to DRS for discovery and RSRP/RSRQ measurements for small cells.
US10348426B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for identifying particular media content event of interest that is being received in a stream of media content Obscuring systems and methods are operable to obscure an intervening content segment that a user does not wish to view and/or listen to if that particular intervening content segment is again received at a later time. An exemplary embodiment includes at least a content segment obscuring system that samples the decoded stream of information corresponding to an initial portion of the intervening content segment, determines a vector signature of the sampled initial portion of the intervening content segment, wherein the vector signature corresponds to at least one location and an orientation of a vector in a multi-dimensional vector space, and compares the vector signature with a plurality of predefined reference vector signatures. In response to the vector signature substantially corresponding to at least one of the plurality of predefined reference vector signatures, the intervening content segment is obscured with replacement content.
US10348406B2	Electrical interface module This disclosure provides an electrical interface module including a signal processor, a switch, and a connection component, wherein the signal processor includes a first interface, a second interface, and a third interface; the first interface and the second interface of the signal processor are connected with the connection component through the switch, and configured to output differential signals; the third interface of the signal processor is connected with the switch, and configured to output an enable signal; and the switch is configured to be controlled by the enable signal to be closed so that the differential signals are output through the connection component.
US10348400B2	Method for identifying a device capable of communicating by Li-Fi A method for identifying a device capable of communicating by Li-Fi including the steps of generating and storing a list of first pieces of address data and a list of transmission frequencies each associated with a first piece of address data; selecting second pieces of address data (11) to form a MAC address (10); transforming each second piece of address data into a third piece of address data containing a transmission frequency value associated with the second piece of address data; generating a global address; assigning the global address to the device; and recording the global address in a memory module of the device capable of communicating by Li-Fi.
US10348398B2	Method for supporting SNCP over packet network A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication.
US10348390B2	Backhaul device and backhaul device control method Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of network communications and provide a backhaul device and a backhaul device control method. The backhaul device includes: an access-side baseband transmit module, an access-side baseband receive module, a backhaul-side baseband transmit module, a backhaul-side baseband receive module, a radio frequency channel, a first switch module, a second switch module, an access antenna, and a backhaul antenna. Therefore, problems of low resource utilization of a radio frequency channel and high system development costs in the prior art are resolved, and the radio frequency channel can be shared, so as to improve resource utilization. In addition, considering that the radio frequency channel includes multiple components, the radio frequency channel is shared, which reduces a quantity of components required for a system and development costs of the system.
US10348385B2	Method and apparatus of controlling periodic CSI reporting Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for performing periodic CSI reporting available in a system supporting a TDD-FDD aggregation operation and an FDD-TDD aggregation operation. A periodicity and an offset for periodic reporting of channel quality indicator and precoding matrix inidcator may be determined based on the cell type of a primary serving cell for a TDD-FDD carrier aggregation and an FDD-TDD carrier aggregation.
US10348382B1	Low probability of intercept radio-frequency system using beamforming techniques Systems and methods of preventing interception of radiofrequency (RF) signals can include a first transmitter device (cover signal generator) and a second transmitter device (protected signal generator). The first transmitter device may have a first set of antennae to transmit a first RF signal in plurality of directions. The first RF signal may have a first signal strength in a target direction less than in directions adjacent to the target direction. The second transmitter device may have a second set of antennae to transmit a second RF signal to a target receiver according to an interception prevention configuration. The interception prevention configuration may include having the target receiver located along the target direction and the second RF signal having a second signal strength greater than a detection threshold relative to the first signal strength along the target direction.
US10348381B2	Antenna system configuration There is provided mechanisms for configuring an antenna system having individual antenna elements arranged in at least two antenna subarrays. Each pair of antenna subarrays has a respective first spatial separation. Each pair of the individual antenna elements has a respective second spatial separation. A method is performed by a network device. The method includes obtaining channel measurements for each of the at least two antenna subarrays. Channel covariance information between the subarrays using the obtained channel measurements is determined. Channel covariance information between all individual antenna elements of the antenna system is determined by interpolating the channel covariance information between the subarrays according to a spatial relation between all first spatial separations and all second spatial separations. Combining of the individual antenna elements of the antenna system is controlled based on the determined channel covariance information between all the individual antenna elements.
US10348375B2	Changing steering matrix corresponding to MU-MIMO group to allow access points transmit on wireless communication channel simultaneously Example method includes: receiving, by a first access point, a plurality of beamforming feedback frames from a plurality of client devices in a WLAN; overhearing, by the first access point, a first beamforming feedback frame from a second access point; calculating, by the first access point, a second beamforming feedback frame in response to receiving a sounding frame transmitted from the second access point in the WLAN; selecting, by the first access point, a first subset of the plurality of client devices and the second access point as members of a MU-MIMO group; changing, by the first access point, a steering matrix corresponding to the MU-MIMO group based on both the received plurality of beamforming feedback frames and the calculated beamforming feedback frame to allow the first access point and the second access point transmit on a particular wireless communication channel simultaneously without interfering each other.
US10348371B2	Optimized multi-beam antenna array network with an extended radio frequency range A system, in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter device, dynamically selects one or more reflector devices along a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) radio path based on a defined criteria. Further, the dynamically selected one or more reflector devices are controlled based on one or more conditions. In an RF receiver device, communicates with the dynamically selected one or more reflector devices comprising an active reflector device. The active reflector device comprises at least a first antenna array and a second antenna array. The first antenna array transmits a first set of beams of RF signals to at least the RF transmitter device and the RF receiver device. The second antenna array receives a second set of beams of RF signals from at least the RF transmitter device and the RF receiver device.
US10348365B2	Directional coupling communication apparatus The invention relates to a directional coupling communication apparatus where the coupling impedance can be easily matched to reduce reflections, and thus, the speed of communication channels is increased as compared to that with inductive coupling, and at the same time, the reliability of communication is improved by increasing the signal intensity. Modules having a coupler where an input/output connection line is connected to a first end, and either a ground line or an input/output connection line to which an inverse signal of a signal to be inputted into the input/output connection line connected to the above-described first end is inputted is connected are layered on top of each other so that the couplers are couplers to each other using capacitive coupling and inductive coupling.
US10348363B2	System for interconnecting devices for creating automation systems The various embodiments provide a system for interconnecting a plurality of devices for budding automation systems. The system comprising on or more sensor units to transmit data along with a sensor device address an a network, one or more actuator units to receive the transmitted data, a monitoring unit to receive, monitor and record the transmitted data, a control unit to monitor functioning of devices on the network and transmit data to the actuators, a link unit to extend range of the network by retransmitting the signals received from one cable to other cables and an interface unit to convert signals to and from the network into a format of another communication protocol. The network comprises a plurality of devices connected to a single cable to communicate with other devices on the network by generating charge disturbances and detecting the charge disturbances propagated over the cable.
US10348359B2	Signal processing device and method and program A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.
US10348358B1	Transceivers with dual power amplifiers for wireless communications This disclosure describes techniques for implementing and utilizing a transceiver in a communication device that has two separate radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers that are optimized to transmit signals using separate communication standards. The power amplifiers may be designed to convert a lower-power RF signal into different higher-power signals according to different standard-mandated, output-power limits. In this way, a communication device may arbitrate between two transceiver chains that include respective power adapters in order to convert lower-power RF signals into different higher-power RF signals. The higher-power RF signals may have different output-power levels that are appropriate for the respective communication standards of the separate transceiver chains.
US10348352B2	Expandable device for a portable electronic device An expandable device includes a body with a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis. The body is movable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. A button is coupled to the first end of the body and includes an inner surface and an engaging member carried by the inner surface. A platform includes an outer surface and a collar extending away from the outer surface and the collar defines a cavity. A locking device is carried by the second end of the body, and a portion of the locking device is adapted to be removably disposed in the cavity of the platform for releasably coupling the body to the platform. When the body is in the collapsed configuration, the engaging member of the button engages the locking device such that the locking device is rotatable relative to the platform between an unlocked and a locked configuration.
US10348350B2	Two-way communication system and method of use The two-way communication system comprises a non-invasive and non-implanted system which remains completely invisible to an outside observer when in use by an operator or user and allows for clear two-way communications. This system is generally comprised of a mouthpiece component, relay component, infrastructure communication device, and an optional system control which may interface with the relay component.
US10348346B2	System and method for operating a unified antenna front end module A wireless adapter front end system and method for an information handling system including a wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality antenna systems for connection to a plurality of concurrently operating wireless links with a controller executing code instructions for an antenna optimization system for detecting one or more active wireless links operating via the plurality of antenna systems where the controller receives a trigger input indicating an operating condition to determine whether an antenna adjustment is required among the plurality of antenna systems, wherein the trigger input may be selected from one or more indications of a shared communication frequency band, a radio aggregation operation, SAR proximity detection, or operation of a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs). The controller implementing an impedance adjustment of at least one of the plurality of wireless antenna systems to avoid interference between concurrently operating wireless links.
US10348345B2	Equalization of receiver Methods and systems for equalization of a first receiver. A method may include receiving an input signal at the first receiver. The method may also include receiving the input signal at a second receiver. The method may further include determining, from an output response of the second receiver, an estimate of an out-of-channel interferer present in the input signal. The method may also include determining an estimate, of an undesired in-channel response of the first receiver to the out-of-channel interferer present in the input signal. The method may include applying the estimate, of the undesired in-channel response of the first receiver to the out-of-channel interferer present in the input signal, to an output signal of the first receiver to substantially cancel an instance of an undesired in-channel response of the first receiver to the out-of-channel interferer.
US10348344B2	Noise distribution shaping for signals, particularly CDMA signals, with mitigation of artifact signals Noise distribution shaping for signals, particularly for the application in receivers for CDMA signals. A method for noise distribution shaping for signals comprises the acts of receiving a signal of interest from a signal transmitter, detecting whether the received signal of interest is present, and if the received signal of interest is present iteratively performing the following acts of adapting at least one blanking threshold or the received signal of interest according to an offset value depending on the amplitude of the received signal of interest, and generating a blanking control signal by comparing the received signal of interest with the at least one blanking threshold, modifying the noise distribution of the received signal of interest by applying blanking of the received signal of interest under control of the blanking control signal.
US10348343B1	System and method for digital interference cancellation A system and method for receiving a signal, comprising an input adapted to receive a radio frequency signal having a strong interferer; a signal generator, adapted to produce a representation of the interferer as an analog signal generated based on an oversampled digital representation thereof; and a component adapted to cancel the strong interferer from radio frequency signal based on the generated analog signal to produce a modified radio frequency signal substantially absent the interferer. The system typically has a nonlinear component that either saturates or produces distortion from the strong interferer, which is thereby reduced. The system preferably employs high speed circuits which digitize and process radio frequency signals without analog mixers.
US10348335B2	Miscorrection avoidance for turbo product codes Systems may include a memory storage suitable for storing data, an encoder suitable for encoding data into codewords arranged in an array of a number of rows and a number of columns, and a decoder suitable for receiving the encoded codewords, decoding the encoded codewords, and detecting miscorrections in the decoding.
US10348332B2	Method for accessing flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device A method for accessing a flash memory module is provided. The flash memory module is a 3D flash memory module including a plurality of flash memory chips, each flash memory chip includes a plurality of blocks, each block includes a plurality of pages, and the method includes: configuring the flash memory chips to set at least a first super block and at least a second super block of the flash memory chips; and allocating the second super block to store a plurality of temporary parities generated when data is written into the first super block.
US10348329B2	Low density parity check (LDPC) circular buffer rate matching Aspects of the present disclosure relate to low density parity check (LDPC) coding utilizing a configurable circular buffer for rate matched transmissions. The circular buffer may be configured based on a selected mother code rate and a fixed circular buffer length. For example, the respective sizes of the systematic and parity bit sections of the circular buffer may be variable based on the selected mother code rate.
US10348328B2	Reducing control channel overhead using polar codes Programming of frozen bits of first stage control channel information block enables scheduling information to be included for the second stage of the control channel information. By including some of the scheduling information for the second stage in the first stage frozen bits, the size of the first stage information blocks can be reduced, reducing the overhead required to transmit control information for the traffic channel. In an embodiment, the frozen bits can convey scheduling information that is lower priority than the scheduling information conveyed in the non-frozen bits of the first stage control channel information block. In another embodiment, the frozen bits can include parity bits, or cyclic redundancy check bits that are masked with the scheduling information.
US10348321B2	Digital analog dither adjustment A method and system for data conversion includes an analog noise generator to generate a random, non-deterministic, analog noise signal. An adder adds the analog noise signal to an analog RF signal to produce a dithered analog signal. A first quantizer converts the analog noise signal to digital to produce a digital noise signal. A second quantizer converts the dithered analog signal to a digital equivalent signal. A digital dither adjustment module removes amplitude measurements of the digital noise signal from the digital equivalent signal to obtain a linearized digital representation of the analog RF signal.
US10348312B1	Circuit for and method of implementing a bursty clock and data recovery circuit using an eyescan detection circuit A circuit for receiving data is described. The circuit comprises a phase detector circuit comprising a detector having a first input configured to receive a sum of an oscillator phase and a phase error, and a second input coupled to an output of a first sample selector; a second sample selector having an input coupled to receive the input data and generate output data; and an eye detection circuit comprising a third sample selector having an input coupled to receive the input data and a comparator for comparing outputs of the second sample selector and the third sample selector to determine how much an eye is open for a plurality of channels. A method of implementing a receiver is also described.
US10348310B1	Programmable digital sigma delta modulator An example sigma delta modulator (SDM) circuit includes a floor circuit, a subtractor having a first input coupled an input of the floor circuit and a second input coupled to an output of the floor circuit, and a multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) converter having a programmable order. The MASH converter includes an input coupled to an output of the subtractor. The SDM further includes a programmable delay circuit having an input coupled to the output of the floor circuit, and an adder having a first input coupled to an output of the MASH converter and a second input coupled to an output of the programmable delay circuit.
US10348303B2	Differential level shift circuit In a general aspect, a circuit can include a comparison stage including a plurality of transistors and a current mirror stage including a current mirror. The comparison stage can be configured to produce a cancelling signal before a main signal is produced by the current mirror stage.
US10348291B2	Resistor array, output buffer, and manufacturing method for semiconductor device A resistor array made of a semiconductor includes a plurality of resistor groups and a common line that electrically connects the M-th resistors of the plurality of resistor groups. Each resistor group includes first to M-th resistors connected in series, M being an integer of 2 or greater, and at least one short-circuit line, each short-circuiting at least one, but not all, of the M resistors.
US10348285B2	Detector circuit and wireless communication apparatus A detector circuit includes a first inverter including an input node coupled via a first capacitor to a transmission path for transmitting an AC signal, the first inverter outputting an output voltage in accordance with power of the AC signal, wherein the output voltage increases with increasing temperature, a second inverter including an input node coupled to the transmission path, the second inverter outputting an output voltage in accordance with power of the AC signal, wherein the output voltage decreases with increasing temperature, a third capacitor including one electrode coupled to either an output electrode of the first inverter or an output node of the second inverter, a first resistor coupled between the output node of the first inverter and an output node of the detector circuit, and a second resistor coupled between the output node of the second inverter and the output node of the detector circuit.
US10348279B2	Skew control Disclosed aspects relate to a clock distribution network of a synchronous logic device. The synchronous logic device comprises multiple sub-circuits belonging to different clock domains. The clock distribution network comprises a clock source operable for providing a global clock signal, at least one programmable delay line associated with a certain sub-circuit operable for generating a local clock signal for said sub-circuit by delaying the global clock signal or a signal derived therefrom and a global skew control circuit for managing clock skew between the local clock signals. The global skew control circuit is operable for managing clock skew between at least some local clock signals by regularly adjusting the delay caused by at least one programmable delay line when in a deskewing operating mode, and disabling adjusting the delays of the programmable delay lines when in a locked operating mode.
US10348274B2	Electronic tuning system A system is described for maintaining an inductive-capacitive (LC) network at resonance while the excitation frequency may be varied between a number of discrete frequencies at desired instants controlled by a modulation input, while taking into account component parameter errors due environmental and ageing as well as manufacturing tolerances. Control of the resonance while the excitation frequency changes permits the transmission of frequency modulation (FM) or frequency shift keying (FSK) information through an inductively coupled power transfer system.
US10348273B1	Hybrid digital electronic tuner A hybrid digital electronic tuner (HDET) uses a modified forward signal power injection technique, a variance of a prior art Gamma Boosting Unit (GBU) technique, cascaded with a digital, PIN diode based, electronic tuner, all integrated in the same low loss parallel plate airline (slabline) to create a compact hybrid tuner unit able of generating thousands of high reflection factors (\|Gamma\|≥1) at millisecond tuning speed.
US10348272B2	Adaptive self-tunable antenna system and method Adaptive self-tunable antenna systems and methods are provided including a closed-loop system for sensing near-field RF signals of transmitted RF signals and tuning an antenna or switching between multiple antennas, so that the strength of the transmitted RF signals is maximized. A sensing antenna detects the near-field RF signal, which is filtered and converted to an RF strength control signal that can be used to generate an antenna tuning control signal. An antenna tuner uses the antenna tuning control signal to keep the antenna in resonance by dynamically changing the electrical length of the antenna or switching between multiple antennas to maximize the strength of the radiated RF signal. Such antennas may be less prone to detuning due to interaction with human bodies or other objects. Dynamically matching the antennas to an RF power amplifier and low noise amplifier can improve stability, power efficiency, gain, noise figure, and receiver sensitivity.
US10348270B2	Apparatuses and methods for calibrating adjustable impedances of a semiconductor device Apparatuses and methods for calibrating adjustable impedances of a semiconductor device are disclosed in the present application. An example apparatus includes a register configured to store impedance calibration information and further includes programmable termination resistances having a programmable impedance. The example apparatus further includes an impedance calibration circuit configured to perform a calibration operation to determine calibration parameters for setting the programmable impedance of the programmable termination resistances. The impedance calibration circuit is further configured to program the impedance calibration information in the register related to the calibration operation.
US10348253B2	Radio frequency module and communication device A radio-frequency module includes a substrate, a low-noise amplifier circuit being a first amplifier circuit arranged in a first area in the substrate, a power amplifier circuit being a second amplifier circuit arranged in a second area in the substrate, and a duplexer being a component arranged between the first area and the second area in the substrate and having a heat generating property lower than that of the power amplifier circuit. The low-noise amplifier circuit includes a bias circuit configured to generate a bias current dependent on temperature characteristics of a first diode, a voltage generating circuit configured to generate a voltage dependent on temperature characteristics of a second diode as an operating voltage for the bias circuit, and an amplifier circuit configured to operate at an operating point determined by the bias current.
US10348250B2	Amplifier with noise control and a digital to analog converter with reduced noise bandwidth The noise power of an amplifier or buffer can increase towards the unity gain crossover frequency of the amplifier. The inventor realized that many applications do not require the full bandwidth capability of the amplifier all of the time and hence step could be taken to reduce the bandwidth at the output of the amplifier and hence the noise power can be reduced when appropriate, taking other operating requirements into consideration.
US10348242B2	Tapped inductor voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonator and an amplifier. The resonator includes a capacitive element and an inductive element. The inductive element has a plurality of conductive segments forming a physical loop. The inductive element has electrical connections on the physical loop to the plurality of conductive segments forming at least one electrical loop disposed within an interior space formed by the physical loop. The amplifier has an input and an output, the input coupled to a first conductive segment forming a first impedance and the output coupled to a second conductive segment forming a second impedance.
US10348240B2	Fiber-shaped electric energy harvesting and storage device and method of manufacturing the same A fiber-shaped electric energy harvesting and storage device includes a substrate having a fiber shape, a lithium ion storage unit disposed to surround the substrate, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion units disposed to surround the lithium ion storage unit.
US10348233B2	DC bus ripple reduction An electrical motor system and a method for operating the electrical motor system are disclosed. The electrical motor system comprises a direct current (DC) source, a filter connected in parallel with the DC source and an electric motor with at least two sets of windings. A voltage signal is provided from the DC source to the inverter circuit where the signal is modulated. The modulated signal is then supplied from the inverter circuit to each set of windings with a respective time offset between each set of windings respectively, providing a very efficient DC bus ripple reduction. Hereby, it is e.g. possible to use small filter capacitors/capacitor banks in electrical motor systems.
US10348232B2	Motor system with current sensorless control and method of controlling the same A motor system with a current sensorless control includes a motor, a drive module, and a motor control module. The motor control module controls the motor to rotate through the drive module. The motor control module includes a command generation module, a command conversion module, and an angle generation module. The command generation module generates speed information and transmits the speed information to the angle generation module, and the command generation module generates a voltage command and transmits the voltage command to the command conversion module. The angle generation module generates an electrical angle. The command conversion module converts the voltage command and the electrical angle into a control signal. The motor control module adjusts a phase of a motor input voltage to meet a phase of a motor input current according to the control signal.
US10348229B2	Electric motor current controller with negative sequence harmonic suppression A current controller is provided having a positive sequence controller and a negative sequence controller, where error signals operated on by the positive sequence controller are transformed into a negative sequence reference frame and input to the negative sequence controller. A current controller is also provided having a positive sequence controller, a negative sequence controller, and one or more delay state feedbacks to counter control loop delays, where the delay state feedbacks provide high bandwidth, low current overshoot, small current rise time and good current stability margins. A current controller is also disclosed having a positive sequence controller, a negative sequence controller, and one or more cross coupled gains between a d-axis and a q-axis, where the cross coupled gains are proportional to the speed of a motor associated with the current controller.
US10348225B2	Encoderless motor with improved granularity and methods of use A DC electric motor having a stator mounted to a substrate, the stator having a coil assembly having a magnetic core, a rotor mounted to the stator with permanent magnets distributed radially about the rotor, the permanent magnets extending beyond the magnetic core, and sensors mounted to the substrate adjacent the permanent magnets. During operation of the motor passage of the permanent magnets over the sensors produces a substantially sinusoidal signal of varying voltage substantially without noise and/or saturation, allowing an angular position of the rotor relative the substrate to be determined from linear portions of the sinusoidal signal without requiring use of an encoder or position sensors and without requiring noise-reduction or filtering of the signal.
US10348219B2	Electrostatic induction power generator A board arrangement structure includes a housing, a first board fastened to the housing, a second board arranged in parallel enabling, relative movement with respect to the first board, an electrically charged film, a counter electrode, and an output part outputting electric power generated between the electrically charged film and the counter electrode, at least one of the electrically charged film and the counter electrode being arranged at a first facing surface of the first board and the other being arranged at a second facing surface of the second board facing the first facing surface, and the first facing surface of the first board being, fastened to a reference mounting surface provided at the housing.
US10348205B1	Coupled-inductor cascaded buck converter with fast transient response A cascaded buck converter for receiving input voltage from an input voltage source and for delivering output voltage to a load. The converter includes a first inductor, a second inductor, a coupled inductor having a first winding connected in series with the first inductor and a second winding connected in series with the second inductor, an intermediate decoupling capacitor for receiving energy from the first inductor and the first winding and for supplying energy to the second inductor and the second winding, and an output decoupling capacitor for smoothening the output voltage at the load.
US10348198B2	Systems and methods for generating a feedback current in a DC-DC converter Systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating a stable output voltage for one or more components by checking feedback information for an entire clock period are described. In various embodiments, a power converter generates an output voltage for one or more components. When the load current drawn by the one or more components changes, an inductor current of a low pass filter and monitored by a current sense amplifier also changes. The clock period is divided into a high phase and a low phase with one of the phases being a relatively short phase. During the relatively short phase, the current sense amplifier does not have sufficient time to measure feedback information. Instead of selecting a voltage output of the current sense amplifier, control logic selects a voltage output of a voltage generator, which emulates a voltage ramp with a slope of the inductor current during the relatively short phase.
US10348194B1	Pump circuit in a dram, and method for controlling an overall pump current The present disclosure provides a pump circuit comprising a plurality of first enabling modules. Each of the plurality of first enabling modules is configured to generate a first enable signal and includes a first voltage input, a first comparing unit, a first digital logic gate and a second digital logic gate. The first comparing unit is coupled to the first voltage input and is configured to compare a voltage of the first voltage input with a first reference voltage. The first digital logic gate is coupled to the first comparing unit and is configured to implement a logical operation. The second digital logic gate is coupled to the first digital logic gate and is configured to implement a logical negation. Each of the plurality of first enabling modules generates the first enable signal when the voltage of the first voltage input is less than the first reference voltage.
US10348193B1	Power supply system with non-linear capacitance charge-pump One example includes a power supply system. The system includes a switch system comprising a switch that is configured to generate a switching voltage at a switching node in response to an input voltage. The system also includes a non-linear capacitance charge-pump coupled to the switching node and being configured to provide an output current in response to the switching voltage. The output current can have an amplitude that varies non-linearly with respect to an amplitude of the switching voltage. The switch system further includes an output stage configured to generate an output voltage on an output node in response to the output current.
US10348187B2	DC-DC converter having a reverse flow protection function The present invention realizes a DC-DC converter that is provided with a reverse flow protection function, while reducing conduction loss. A DC-DC converter includes: a voltage conversion unit that steps down a voltage applied to a first conductive path and output the resulting voltage to a second conductive path; a reverse flow state detection unit that detects a reverse flow state of a current flowing through the second conductive path; and a reverse protection control unit that performs a protecting operation when a current flows in a reverse direction. A switching element is provided on a third conductive path that is located between a voltage conversion unit and a reference conductive path, and the reverse protection control unit operates to switch the switching element to an OFF state upon a reverse flow state being detected.
US10348183B2	Semiconductor device and actuator system A semiconductor device includes a plurality of H-bridge circuits and a logic circuit which is commonly used for the plurality of H-bridge circuits. The logic circuit controls driving of each of the plurality of H-bridge circuits on the basis of signals which are input thereinto in such a manner that a combination of respective driving states of the plurality of H-bridge circuits meets a predetermined condition.
US10348178B2	Methods and systems for controllably moving multiple moveable stages in a displacement device Aspects of the invention provide methods and systems for moving a plurality of moveable stages relative to a stator. The stator comprises a plurality of coils shaped to provide pluralities of coil trace groups where each coil trace group comprises a corresponding plurality of generally linearly elongated coil traces which extend across a stator tile. Each moveable stage comprises a plurality of magnet arrays. Methods and apparatus are provided for moving the moveable stages relative to the stator, where a magnet array from a first moveable stage and a magnet array from a second moveable stage both overlap a shared group of coil traces. For at least a portion of the time that the magnet arrays from the first and second moveable stages overlap the shared group of coil traces, currents are controllably driven in the shared coil trace group based on the positions of both the first and second moveable stages. The positions of the first and second moveable stages may be ascertained by feedback.
US10348177B2	Displacement devices, moveable stages for displacement devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same A displacement device comprises a stator comprising non-parallel stator-x and stator-y elongated traces. The device comprises a moveable stage comprising a first magnet array comprising first magnetization segments linearly elongated in a stage-x direction and having magnetization directions generally orthogonal to the stage-x direction. The first magnet array comprises a first pair of adjacent first magnetization segments comprising two first magnetization segments adjacent to one another in a stage-y direction non-parallel to the stage-x direction. Each first magnetization segment in the first pair has a corresponding magnetization direction oriented at a corresponding angle αn about a corresponding stage-x axis as measured from a positive stage-z direction that is generally orthogonal to both the stator-x and stator-y directions. The corresponding angle αn is one of 45°+n90° where n is any integer. Each first magnetization segment in the first pair has a different magnetization direction.
US10348175B2	Rotor, manufacturing method of the rotor, and DC motor Provided are a rotor, a manufacturing method of the rotor, and a DC motor including the rotor, the rotor including: a core around which a winding is wound, the core being rotatable integrally with a shaft; a commutator being fixed to the shaft and having a terminal to be connected to one end of the winding; and a conduction plate being externally fitted onto the shaft via an insulator part between the terminal of the commutator and the core, the conduction plate having a connection part to be connected to the other end of the winding, wherein an axial direction position of the connection part is set in an intermediate portion that is between a winding projection of the winding and the terminal.
US10348166B2	Motor with encoder for robotic camera systems A direct drive servo motor is provided and may include a quadrature encoder and a silicone rubber sleeve affixed to the encoder's shaft that is attached to the rotor hub and may also include an axle fixed to the rotor hub, inner and outer bearings, front and rear bearing plates, an outer stator, and an inner rotor rare earth magnet ring. A computer-controlled camera system is also provided and includes a direct drive camera gimbal; a pan-bar system; a robotic control system; a master interconnect unit; custom control software; and a track and gantry system. A universal camera tripod head adapter is also provided and includes front and rear clamps, a clamp handle, side and rear brackets and a silicone rubber sleeve affixed to the shaft of each encoder that rides on the pan and tilt axis lips of a camera tripod head.
US10348163B2	Stator assembly and engaging type stator core A stator assembly is used to be assembled to form a stator core. The stator assembly includes a tooth and a yoke. One end of the tooth is connected to the yoke. The yoke has an inner side, an outer side, a first coupling side, and a second coupling side. The first coupling side further includes a first engaging structure, and the second coupling side further includes a second engaging structure. The second engaging structure corresponds the first engaging structure. The outer side has a groove. The groove has a side surface and a bottom surface. An angle is defined between the side surface and the bottom surface, and the angle is in a range from 135° to 165°.
US10348160B2	Rotationally activated generator A centrally positioned cylindrical Neodymium magnet that has opposing magnetic poles, radially disposed on either side of a rotational axis extending along the length of the cylindrical magnet and is centered within a central opening of rectangular coil, where it is free to rotate about its axis in either direction. At least one focus magnet (typically a small disk magnet) having axially opposing magnetic poles, each being arrange across each side substantially along a line parallel to the rotational axis of the cylindrical magnet within the frame, to cause the cylindrical magnet's field to be pulled into a more concentrated alignment so that more moving magnetic field lines from the cylindrical magnet can cut through the coil windings when the cylindrical magnet is rotated by an externally applied force.
US10348157B2	Electric motor with a plastic housing An electric motor, in particular a pump motor, made up of a permanent magnet rotor, a wound stator, having a stator laminate package, insulating elements and a stator winding, a motor housing made of plastic material and a component carrying a rotor bearing, in particular a pump head. It is an object of the invention to provide a generic motor with a reliable and economically feasible fastening of the stator to the motor housing, wherein heat expansion cracks are avoided and noise transmissions can be reduced.
US10348154B2	Shock absorption mechanism of steering motor Disclosed is a shock absorption mechanism of a steering motor, comprising an upper cover buffering assembly (1), and an oil distributor (2) disposed below the upper cover buffering assembly (1), the oil distributor (2) being fitted with the upper cover buffering assembly (1) to form a sealed axial cavity (4). A cylinder assembly (5) is fixedly arranged below the oil distributor (2). The cylinder assembly (5) comprises a cylinder (51) opened at both ends, and an elastic oil bag (52) arranged in the cylinder (51) and having an opening at the upper end, the upper end of the elastic oil bag (52) being fixedly connected to an inner wall of the cylinder (51), and the upper end of the elastic oil bag (52) being in communication with the axial cavity (40). The cylinder (51) is further provided internally with a piston (53) axially sliding along the cylinder (51), the piston (53) being connected to the lower end of the elastic oil bag (52). The shock absorption mechanism for a steering motor overcomes the problem of member damage due to friction and the defect of susceptibility to temperature in a traditional hydraulic shock absorption system, so as to prolong the service life of the shock absorption mechanism.
US10348149B2	Stator for rotating electric machine and rotating electric machine including the stator A stator for a rotating electric machine facilitates the assembly of the stator coils and restricts its length in the axial direction. The stator includes a stator iron core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of stator coils each being wound on one of the teeth. The stator coils include terminal stator coils, each having a crossover wire and a lead wire. Each crossover wire is connected to one of the stator coils of the same phase and each lead wire being is connected to an object other than the stator coils of the same phase. Each end of the crossover wires and the lead wires is disposed at a different level; a first level being the closest to the stator iron core. At least one of the lead wires of the terminal stator coils is disposed at least one level apart within the range of levels.
US10348140B2	Apparatus and methods for controlling transmission of data Apparatus to control transmission of data, the apparatus comprising: a controller configured to: receive data from at least a first sensor within an azimuth thruster; control storage of the received data in memory; determine whether at least one criterion is satisfied, the at least one criterion varying with the relative positioning of a first antenna mounted on a lower housing of the azimuth thruster and a second antenna mounted on an upper housing of the azimuth thruster, the lower housing being configured to rotate relative to the upper housing; and control transmission of the stored data from the first antenna in response to determining that the at least one criterion is satisfied.
US10348136B2	Wireless power harvesting and transmission with heterogeneous signals A transmitter, according to some implementations, includes: at least two antennas configured to transmit at least two radio frequency power signals; a power transmission module connected to the at least two antennas, the power transmission module configured to generate the at least two radio frequency power signals; and a power transmitter control module connected to the power transmission module, the power transmitter control module configured to control a first phase and a first amplitude of a first of the at least two radio frequency power signals and a second phase and a second amplitude of a second of the at least two radio frequency power signals to concurrently provide respective summations of the first and second radio frequency power signals at a first wireless power receiver of a first electronic device and at a second wireless power receiver of a second electronic device via constructive interference.
US10348131B2	Couple inductor power transfer system Coupled inductor systems are disclosed in which transmitter and receiver inductors, or coils, are coupled in a configuration for wirelessly transferring power and/or data among them. In preferred implementations, the systems are used for transmitting both power and data in pairs of coupled coils. Primary side circuits in preferred embodiments of the systems of the invention employ Class D or Class G amplifiers.
US10348130B2	Power harvesting for RFID/NFC-applications Disclosed is a circuit apparatus including an input section configured to receive an electromagnetic (EM) transmission, a voltage divider section configured to divide the EM transmission into a plurality of voltage levels, a rectifier portion configured to rectify AC power received in the EM transmission, and a load configured to receive DC power from the rectifier portion, wherein one level of the voltage divider section is configured to supply power to a radio frequency identification integrated circuit (RFID-IC).
US10348129B2	Electric power supply system An electric power supply system, to which the electric field coupling electric power transmission technology is applied, includes an electric power transmission electrode for transmitting electric power from an electric power source, an electric power reception electrode that is disposed so as to contactlessly face the electric power transmission electrode to form a junction capacitance, and receives the electric power transmitted from the electric power transmission electrode through the junction capacitance, and a plasma generation unit for generating a plasma in a space between the electric power transmission electrode and the electric power reception electrode in which the junction capacitance is formed.
US10348125B2	Devices and methods for reliable power supply for electronic devices A power supply system includes an energy storage device electrically connected to a power grid, a power distribution assembly electrically connected to a load, and a power generation device electrically connected to the power distribution assembly. The energy storage device and the power grid are configured to supply electric power having a first voltage range to the power distribution assembly, which in turn, is configured to supply electric power having a second voltage range less than the first voltage range to the load. The energy storage device and the power generation device each are configured to at least temporarily supply a flow of electric power to the power distribution assembly when electric power from the power grid is interrupted such that a substantially uninterrupted flow of electric power is supplied to the load.
US10348118B2	Wireless power transfer system and object power supply device A wireless power transfer system includes: a power supply primary coil capable of performing wireless power transfer; and a power supply secondary coil capable of performing the wireless power transfer between the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil. The power supply secondary coil contains a secondary coil wire for the wireless power transfer and forms a secondary outer shape having a projecting surface on at least a part of the secondary outer shape, and the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil are capable of performing the wireless power transfer, with the projecting surface of the secondary outer shape directed to the power supply primary coil.
US10348116B2	Wireless power source and method for simultaneous, non-radiative, inductive, wireless power transfer to two or more devices to be charged A wireless power source 1 for simultaneous, non-radiative, inductive, wireless power transfer to two or more devices to be charged. The wireless power source 1 comprises a set of transmitter coils for generating an electromagnetic field 3 in a three-dimensional charging space 2 and a controller connected to the set of transmitter coils for controlling the set of transmitter coils to rotate the electromagnetic field 3 in the charging space around a rotational axis.
US10348115B2	Power supply circuit for computing platform A system has a processor, a battery charging circuit, a voltage regulating circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit provides digitalized feedback signals representative of circuit parameters of the battery charging circuit and circuit parameters of the voltage regulating circuit to the processor and receives a first information and a second information from the processor. The processor is able to adjust its operating states in response to the digitalized feedback signals. The control circuit controls the battery charging circuit in response to the circuit parameters of the battery charging circuit and the first information received from the processor, and the control circuit controls the voltage regulating circuit in response to the circuit parameters of the voltage regulating circuit and the second information received from the processor.
US10348112B2	Power management circuit A power management circuit is provided with groups of switches and a single shared inductor and is selectively configured in a first mode to act as a buck regulator and a second mode to act as a buck-boost regulator. There is a two-stage circuit topology, where both charging and regular operation of the device can be optimized. There is a switching charger integrated circuit that can be dedicated to performing a charging function, and there is a DC-DC power management integrated circuit that can be dedicated to regulating the system voltage provided by the battery while the battery is discharging.
US10348111B2	Charging circuit and the method thereof A charging circuit adopts a plurality of feedback control circuits, a constant time signal generator and a logic circuit to control the operation of a power switch. The charge circuit needs no oscillator with high frequency, error amplifier with high speed and high accuracy, or compensation circuit with complicated structure, so the system portability is highly improved.
US10348104B2	Method and apparatus for connecting a plurality of battery cells in series or parallel Methods and systems for selectively connecting a plurality of battery cells in a dual-mode battery pack in series and parallel configurations and/or for individual cell monitoring. A dual-mode battery pack may generally include a housing; a first set of battery cells connected in series; and a second set of battery cells connected in series. The battery pack may also include series connection contacts selectively connectable to the first set of battery cells and to the second set of battery cells and, when engaged, connecting the first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells in a series configuration; and parallel connection contacts selectively connectable to the first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells and, when engaged, connecting the first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells in a parallel configuration.
US10348095B2	Switching circuits having multiple operating modes and associated methods A method for controlling a switching circuit including an input port electrically coupled to a photovoltaic device and an output port electrically coupled to a load includes (1) entering a voltage limiting operating mode and (2) in the voltage limiting operating mode (i) causing a control switching device of the switching circuit to repeatedly switch between its conductive and non-conductive states in a manner which limits magnitude of an output voltage to a maximum voltage value, the output voltage being a voltage across the output port, and (ii) varying the maximum voltage value as a function of magnitude of an output current, the output current being a current flowing through the output port.
US10348089B2	Techniques for controlling A/C power distribution in powered furniture A powered furniture system can include at least a first article of powered furniture having a control circuit, a first number of power outlets, and a first identification circuit, and a second article of powered furniture having a second number of power outlets and a second identification circuit. A method of controlling power distribution in the system can include separately communicating with the first and second identification circuits over a communications channel, receiving data representing the first and second numbers of power outlets, determining, using the received data representing the first and second numbers of power outlets, a total number of power outlets in the system, and controlling application of power to the first and second numbers of power outlets using the determined total number of power outlets in the system.
US10348074B1	Variable depth flush-mounted electrical box A kit for forming and installing an electrical box for housing at least one electrical device. The kit comprises a front segment having a rear and a rear segment having a front. The kit may also comprise at least one cover that is capable of being attached to the front segment. The cover has at least one opening through which an electrical device is accessible. The kit may further comprise a plurality of intermediate segments each having a front and a rear having attachment means that allow the segments to be securely attached in series.
US10348073B2	Power distribution system for remote radiohead installations Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing cable assemblies for cellular base stations having remote radio head units located atop a radio tower. Each installation requires near-custom cabling, as the electrical resistance of the conductors of the cable assembly varies based on the length of the cable assembly, and because different operators and local governments require different color-coding of the conductors which are coupled to the power trunk. Accordingly, a power distribution system is provided herein wherein conductors of a trunk cable may be coupled to power jumper conductors at transitions. The transitions are generally cylindrical and comprise channels into which splicing lugs are seated. The conductors may be electrically coupled together and secured via set screws. Manufacturing costs may be reduced, as common configurations of trunk cables may be manufactured in higher quantity and coupled to power jumper conductors according to local requirements.
US10348071B1	Cable drill bit A method of installing cable through material, for example, concrete, wood, masonry, plastic steel, or the like comprising a drill bit with a distal end having a hollow tip with an attachment mechanism for receiving the cable. The drill bit is drilled through the material, and left in place while the cable is attached to the proximal end of the drill bit. There is no need to remove the drill bit from the aperture or material to attach the cable thereto. After attachment to the drill bit, the cable is inserted through the aperture with the drill bit and removed from the drill bit after it passes through the material so it can be attached to a receiver device.
US10348069B2	Winch and method of use This invention relates to a winch and to a method of using the winch. The winch is ideally adapted for mounting to the boom of a vehicle such as a mini-excavator, and is likely to find its greatest utility in relation to the removal of underground pipes, electricity conduits, fiber optic cables and the like, as well as in the bursting of pipes. The invention provides a winch comprising a support column, a base, a magazine, a drive mechanism and a mounting structure. The drive mechanism is connected to the magazine and is adapted to rotate the magazine in use. The support column connects the magazine to the base. The mounting structure is adapted for mounting to the boom of a vehicle. The winch has a rotatable connection between the base and the mounting structure which is securable in a chosen rotational position, so that the base of the winch can be correctly aligned regardless of the orientation of the vehicle.
US10348067B1	Pressure relief mechanisms for gas insulated switchgear (GIS) housings and related GIS housings Housings for gas in a gas insulated switchgear (GIS) system is provided. The housing includes a pressure relief mechanism incorporated into the housing. The pressure relief mechanism includes a portion of the housing having a first thickness, different from a second thickness of a remaining portion of the housing, the first thickness being less than the second thickness. The pressure relief mechanism is configured to rupture at predetermined overpressure conditions to vent bi-products of an arc fault in the GIS system.
US10348065B1	Method for installation of electrical substation yard wiring A method of connecting electrical substation wiring in an electrical substation provides pre-bundled yard cables configured to connect between field devices in the substation and a yard interface connection cabinet. The yard interface connection cabinet has an outside plug bulkhead plate that is accessible from outside of a control house that houses the yard interface connection cabinet. The outside plug bulkhead plate has a plurality of connectors configured to mate with the yard cables. The yard interface connection cabinet further has internal wires extending from an inside plug bulkhead plate and terminating at a terminal block. The connections and wires in the yard interface connection cabinet are tested with the yard cables before installation of the yard interface connection cabinet and yard cables in the substation. The yard cables are connected between the field devices and the outside plug bulkhead plate from outside of the control house.
US10348063B2	Method and apparatus for multiple input power distribution to adjacent outputs Methods, systems, and apparatuses provide power from multiple input power sources to adjacent outputs efficiently and reliably. Aspects of the disclosure provide a power distribution unit (PDU) that includes a number of power outputs including first and second adjacent power outputs. The PDU includes a printed circuit board having a first conducting layer electrically interconnected to a first power input connection and the first power output, a second conducting layer that is at least partially above the first conducting layer and in facing relationship thereto. The second conducting layer is electrically insulated from the first conducting layer and electrically interconnected with a second power input connection and the second power output, the first and second power outputs thereby connected to different power inputs.
US10348059B2	Light emitting element array and optical transmission device A light emitting element array includes plural semiconductor stacking structures and a light screening portion. The plural semiconductor stacking structures each include a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion that receives light propagated in a lateral direction via a semiconductor layer from the light emitting portion. The light screening portion is provided between the plural semiconductor stacking structures to screen light directed from the light emitting portion of one of the semiconductor stacking structures to the light receiving portion of another semiconductor stacking structure.
US10348057B2	System and method for high power diode laser wavelength spectrum narrowing A high power diode laser system selects the central wavelength and narrows the spectral bandwidth by employing one or more atomic line filters (ALFs) as the wavelength selective element in the external cavity to optimize high power multi-mode operation. The high power diode laser system may include multiple diode laser sources, such as multiple diode laser bar stacks, providing multiple output beams. In an “in-line” or “straight through” configuration, a partially reflective surface terminates the external cavity to feed beam power back through the external cavity and to provide one or more output beams. In a “splitter” or “power divider” configuration, a highly reflective surface terminates the external cavity and one or more beam splitters between the diode laser source(s) and the ALF are used to provide one or more output beams. An afocal telescope may be used to image the diode laser source(s) at the reflective surface terminating the external cavity.
US10348052B1	Tunable laser system and method based on dual sideband locking The present invention relates to a laser system and method which enables fast, accurate laser frequency tuning. In particular, the present invention includes only one laser and only one absolute frequency locking loop to perform the same fast frequency tuning than previous seed laser systems.
US10348049B2	Light source device and information acquisition apparatus Provided is a light source device including a fiber laser, an amplifier, and a nonlinear fiber. Group delay dispersions D1 and D2 are a positive value, the light velocity in a vacuum is denoted as c, a spectral full width at half maximum of the pulse light is denoted as Δλ, the center wavelength of the pulse light is denoted as λ, a coefficient based on a shape of the pulse light is denoted as a, a value of the spectral full width at half maximum Δλ at which a function T(Δλ): T ⁡ ( Δλ ) = ( a × λ 2 c × Δλ ) ⁢ 1 + [ ( D ⁢ ⁢ 1 + D ⁢ ⁢ 2 ) ⁢ ( c × Δλ a × λ 2 ) 2 ] 2 is the minimum is denoted as Δλ_min, and Δλ at which a change amount of T(Δλ) when Δλ increases by 1 nm of λ becomes −3 dB is denoted as Δλ_3 dB, and Δλ satisfies Δλ_3 dB≤Δλ≤Δλ_min×2.
US10348048B2	Use and application method of dielectric lubricant in an electrical connector A method of applying a dielectric lubricant to an electrical connector of a consumer electronic device. The method includes inserting a dielectric lubricant delivery device apertures for delivering the dielectric lubricant to the electrical connector into a receptacle of the electronic device; applying pressure to a chamber including the dielectric lubricant, the chamber being fluidly coupled to the apertures of the lubricant delivery device such that the pressure causes the lubricant to enter the receptacle via the apertures and deposit on contacts of the electrical connector; and pulling vacuum using the lubricant delivery device to remove excess dielectric lubricant from the receptacle and the electrical connector.
US10348039B1	Connector shielding The described technology provides a removable apparatus comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) including a plurality of electrical components, a plurality of contact pads configured on at least one of a top surface of a connector plane and a bottom surface of a connector plane to connect the electrical components to one or more contact pins of a receptacle, and one or more ground pads configured to be connected to the one or more contact pins of the receptacle, wherein the one or more ground pads are placed in between the PCB and the plurality of contact pads and connected to a ground terminal of the PCB.
US10348038B2	Soft lock to secure an EVSE-to-EV charging connector A connector to a soft lock receptacle includes a controller and a memory electrically coupled to the controller. During a user coupling the connector to the receptacle, the controller generates and stores a stored record in the memory. During the user attempting uncoupling the connector, the controller generates a re-obtained record. Responsive to the re-obtained record matching the stored record, the controller unlocks the connector.
US10348035B1	Receptacle unit There is provided a receptacle unit including a plurality of receptacle connectors and mounted on an electronic apparatus, at least two guide reception portions which, when docking with a plug unit including a plurality of plug connectors, before at least one of the plurality of receptacle connectors engages with at least one of the plurality of plug connectors, receiving a guide portion of the plug unit, and a coupling portion which couples the at least two guide reception portions, at least one receptacle connector of the plurality of receptacle connectors which is mounted on a board independently of at least one other of the receptacle connectors, and the at least two guide reception portions and the coupling portion which are fixed to the board after the plurality of receptacle connectors are mounted on the board.
US10348033B2	Linear connection assembly for electrical conductors with high locking reliability The present invention relates to a linear connection assembly (100) for electrical conductors comprising a pair of connectors (1, 2) with mutually complementary shape for the insertion of a first connector (1) into a second connector (2) in an axial direction; each connector (1, 2) being provided with electrical contacts (5, 6) adapted to connect electrically to each other when the first connector (1) is inserted in the second connector (2), at least one connector (2) of the pair of connectors (1, 2) being provided with a ring nut (4) mounted in at least partially rotatable manner manually around its own axis (A) parallel to said axial direction to reach a plurality of alignment positions relative to the other connector (1) of the pair of connectors (1, 2), each alignment position corresponding to a connection condition between the pair of connectors (1, 2); t a first alignment position (17) results from a complete insertion of said first connector (1) into said second connector (2), and corresponds to a first connection condition according to which said connectors (1, 2) cannot be released even if a mutual traction is applied in the axial direction.
US10348026B1	Connector protection device with automatic closing function A connector protection device includes a base plate, two connectors assembled at the base plate, a pivot shaft assembled at the base plate, a protection cover, a torsion spring assembled at the pivot shaft and a pressing button. The protection cover includes a connecting portion assembled at the pivot shaft and two covers, wherein each of the covers corresponds to one of the connectors. The torsion spring has one end abutting against the base plate and the other end abutting against the connecting portion. The pressing button is provided between the two covers, and has one end abutting against the connecting portion. The torsion spring applies a force on the connecting portion such that the covers tilt above and cover the connectors. When pressed downwards, the pressing button pushes the connecting portion to rotate in reverse, further driving the covers to rotate in reverse to expose the connectors.
US10348019B1	Connector assembly with locking feature A connector assembly includes a connector-body having electrical-terminals. The electrical-terminals are inserted into cavities defined by the connector-body through apertures defined in a rear-face of the connector-body. The connector-body includes a lock feature configured to releasably lock the electrical-terminals within the cavities. The lock feature has a planar-member with a first-end and a second-end. The first-end defines a flex-lock feature. The second-end is attached by a hinge to a leading-edge of the outer-surface of the connector-body proximate the front-face. The flex-lock feature defines a hook-side and a wall-side disposed within a slot defined by the connector-body. The hook-side is configured to releasably engage a locking-shelf partially enclosing the slot. The wall-side engages the electrical-terminals when the hook-side engages the locking-shelf. When a removal-force is applied to the electrical-terminals, the removal-force is transferred through the hook-side to the locking-shelf, thereby inhibiting removal of the electrical-terminals from the cavities.
US10348016B2	Connection system suited to connect a plasma cutting torch to a generator A connection system connects a plasma torch to a generator to allow the passage of electric current, the passage of an operating fluid, and of one or more control signals between the generator and the torch. The system includes a first connector and a second connector that are removably connected to each other. The first connector includes a first current-carrying terminal and the second connector having a second current-carrying terminal. The current-carrying terminals are suited to be mutually connected to each other. The first connector includes one or more electric terminals. The second connector includes one or more electric terminals, the connectors being suited to be mutually connected to each other. In the first connector, the electric terminals are movable with respect to the first terminal.
US10348011B2	Composite pane with electrical contact-making means A composite pane with electrical contact-making means is described, having: a first pane and a second pane, which panes are connected to one another over their surface by means of a thermoplastic intermediate layer, at least one electrically conductive coating at least on the inner surface of the first pane, at least one busbar on a region of the electrically conductive coating, and at least one electrically conductive contact strip on at least one region of the busbar, wherein the contact strip is connected to at least one electrical feed line, and at least one region of the contact strip is in direct contact with the busbar.
US10348007B2	Optical control element module There is provided an optical control element module including: an optical control element having an optical waveguide and a control electrode on a substrate and disposed in a housing; an electrical connection part which is electrically connected to the control electrode, extends along a direction intersecting a plane on which the control electrode of the substrate is disposed, and is disposed in the housing; and a wiring substrate which has an input signal line electrically connected to the electrical connection part, at least a part of which is disposed outside the housing, in which impedance of the electrical connection part is set to be smaller than impedance of the input signal line.
US10348006B2	Distribution block and din rail release mechanism An electrical distribution block transfer electrical power from a primary conductor to one or more tap conductors. The distribution block includes a base, a conductor block, first and second sidewalls, and a lid. The conductor block and the first and second sidewalls are connected to the base and the lid is connected to the first and second sidewalls. The conductor block includes one or more apertures for receiving more primary conductors and one or more apertures for receiving tap conductors.
US10347999B2	Item for tightening to the correct torque, and electrical protection device comprising at least one terminal connected by means of such an item An item for tightening including a first part including a first end part forming an end piece to engage with the head of a screw, and a second end part to engage with an actuating member, such that activation of the actuating member causes turning of the screw and the tightening, this first part being able to break into two portions upon reaching the recommended tightening torque, respectively a first portion including the first end part and a second portion including the second end part. A second part is mounted tightly about the first part, a holding device is provided in part on the first part and in part on the second part and being able to retain the second portion of the first part inside the second part of the item in order to prevent this second portion leaving this second part of the item after rupture of the first part.
US10347996B2	Electrical connector and manufacturing method thereof An electrical connector includes a barrel type terminal, having a first connecting area and a second connecting area. The first connecting area has a first non-soldering surface and a first soldering surface. The second connecting area has a second non-soldering surface and a second soldering surface. Each of the first and second soldering surfaces and the first and second non-soldering surfaces has a first solder layer. A sleeve sheathes outside the barrel type terminal, and has a first fixing area and a second fixing area. Two second solder layers are provided between the first fixing area and the first soldering surface and between the second fixing area and the second soldering surface. The amount of solder provided between the first fixing area and the first soldering surface and between the second fixing area and the second soldering surface is greater than that provided on the first and second non-soldering surfaces.
US10347985B2	Antenna device and electronic device including the same An electronic device is provided that includes a circuit board received in the electronic device and in which at least one board is layered, a communication module disposed at one surface of the circuit board and electrically connected to the circuit board, an antenna electrically connected to the communication module, and a metal structure whose one surface is separated from the other surface of the circuit board to form a space within the electronic device by enclosing the circuit board and in which at least one aperture is formed at one side thereof.
US10347975B1	Third brake light antenna mount A third brake light antenna adapter includes an antenna base attached to a spacer that is installed between the vehicle third brake light and the third brake light opening. The spacer is provided with gaskets, substantially identical to the OEM third brake light gaskets, which provide weatherproof seals between the spacer and the vehicle and between the spacer and the third brake light. Special support brackets enable the spacer to grip the inside of the vehicle passenger compartment to hold it securely to the vehicle without extensive modifications to the vehicle structure itself.
US10347971B2	Electronic device including antenna An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first antenna, a first feeding line electrically connected to the first antenna, a second antenna, a second feeding line electrically connected to the second antenna element, a conductive line connecting a point of the first antenna or the first feeding line and a point of the second antenna or the second feeding line, and a sensor module electrically connected to a point of at least one of the first antenna element, the second antenna element, the first feeding line, the second feeding line, and the conductive line.
US10347964B2	Electrically heatable windscreen antenna, and method for producing same An electrically heatable antenna pane includes a transparent pane and an electrical heating layer extending over a portion of a pane surface. The pane serves at least section-wise as a planar antenna for receiving and/or transmitting electromagnetic waves. A first busbar and a second busbar electrically connectable to a voltage source and electrically conductingly connected to the heating layer are also described.
US10347953B2	Battery module having side compression structure with heat exchanger A battery module according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first array of battery cells along a first axis, and a second array of battery cells along a second axis. The battery cells of the first and second arrays each include axially facing walls. The battery module further includes a compression structure providing a heat exchanger. The compression structure is adjacent axially facing walls of a battery cell of the first array and a battery cell of the second array.
US10347949B2	Method for maintenance, repair and/or optimization of a battery and battery having a number of individual cells connected to one another electrically A method for maintenance, repair and/or optimization of a battery. The battery has, as components, individual cells connected to one another in series and/or in parallel, having electrical terminal contacts which are connected to one another positively and/or firmly, directly or by cell connectors, forming an overlapping region, and/or a battery monitoring unit having a number of connection elements which are positively and/or firmly connected to the electrical terminal contacts and/or to the cell connectors, forming a further overlapping region. To exchange a component, the positive and/or firm connection of the component to be exchanged to at least one component not be exchanged is separated directly next to the overlapping region and a replacement component is connected positively and/or firmly to the overlapping regions of the at least one component not be exchanged by the electrical terminal contacts thereof or the connection elements thereof, forming a respectively new overlapping region.
US10347940B2	Electrolyte for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery includes an organic solvent including C3 to C5 alkyl propionate, and the electrolyte further includes a lithium salt and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, k, l, and m are independently integers of 0 to 20, k, l, and m are selected, so that Chemical Formula 1 has an asymmetric structure, n is an integer of 1 to 7, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, or a fluoroalkyl group.
US10347934B2	Shear activated impact resistant electrolyte A passively impact resistant composite electrolyte composition includes an electrolyte solvent, up to 6M of an electrolyte salt, and shear thickening ceramic particles having an outer surface. The shear thickening ceramic particles have an absolute zeta potential of greater than ±40 mV. The shear thickening ceramic particles have a polydispersity index of no greater than 0.1, and an average particle size of in a range of 50 nm to 1 um. The ceramic particles have bonded to the outer surface steric stabilizing polymers. The steric stabilizing polymers have a chain length of from 0.5 nm to 100 nm. A passively impact resistant laminated battery and a method of making the electrolyte composition are also disclosed.
US10347931B2	Microbial fuel cell By a microbial fuel cell including: an anode electrode that includes, as a catalyst, current-generating bacteria supplied from soil or mud, and oxidizes an organic fuel supplied from soil or mud; and a cathode electrode that reduces oxygen supplied from air or water, the microbial fuel cell having an oxygen permeation restricting layer between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode facing each other, it is possible to provide, at low cost, a microbial fuel cell having high power generation performance due to direct power generation from soil or mud and capable of being thinned and miniaturized.
US10347930B2	Perimeter electrolyte reinforcement layer composition for solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes Solid oxide fuel cells and methods for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells include an electrolyte reinforcement (ERI) layer. An ink composition including a ceramic material and a sintering aid, such as a metal or metal oxide material, is applied to select portions of a solid oxide electrolyte and sintered to form an ERI layer. The ERI layer may improve the strength and durability of the electrolyte and may facilitate bonding to a high-temperature seal.
US10347926B2	Apparatus and method for measuring internal ohmic resistance of fuel cell system An apparatus and a method for measuring the internal ohmic resistance of a fuel cell system, in which the resistance can be easily measured through a current interruption method even while the fuel cell system is operated. An interrupter and an external energy consumption device are connected in parallel to each other between a fuel cell and a main energy consumption device such that current to the external energy consumption device is applied and interrupted by switching the interrupter on/off even while the fuel cell system is maintained in operation as is, thereby making it possible to easily measure the internal ohmic resistance of the fuel cell.
US10347919B2	Fuel cell with optimized operation A fuel cell, including: first and second electrochemical cells; a two-pole plate arranged between the first and second electrochemical cells, including a conductor support delimiting a first flow channel facing the first electrochemical cell and extending between an air inlet and a water outlet, and including a first conductive coating attached to the conductor support at the air inlet of the first flow channel and including a second conductive coating fastened to the conductor support at the middle part of the first flow channel, the second conductor coating having an electrical surface resistance greater than that of the first conductive coating.
US10347912B2	Polycrystalline material and production method therefor Provided are a sodium ion secondary battery and a lithium ion secondary battery capable of undergoing a reversible large-capacity charge/discharge reaction. The sodium and lithium ion secondary batteries each have a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The active substance of the positive or negative electrode of these secondary batteries is a single-phase polycrystal represented by the following chemical formula: NaxTi4O9 (2≤x≤3), preferably Na2Ti4O9, having a one-dimensional tunnel type structure, and belonging to a monoclinic crystal system. This polycrystal is obtained by filling a container made of molybdenum or the like with a raw material containing a sodium compound and at least one of a titanium compound and metal titanium, and firing at 800° C. or more but 1600° C. or less.
US10347907B2	Volume change compensated silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite material having nano silicon particles embedded in a silicon:silicon lithium silicate composite matrix, and cyclical ex-situ manufacturing processes A method for producing a volume change compensated (SSLC) material is disclosed. An initially prelithiated SSLC material is produced and delithiated to produce a delithiated SSLC material. Perform at least one iteration involving: (a) re-prelithiating the delithiated SSLC material to produce a re-prelithiated SSLC material; and (b) delithiating the re-prelithiated SSLC material produced in (a). At least one of the following is satisfied: (i) prior to performing the at least one iteration the initially prelithiated SSLC material is essentially completely lithiated; and (ii) at least one iteration produces a re-prelithiated SSLC material that is essentially completely prelithiated. In a final iteration, delithiating the re-prelithiated SSLC material produced in (a) completely delithiates the re-prelithiated SSLC material to produce the volume change compensated SSLC material. The aforesaid process is performed ex situ with respect to fabrication of an anode that contains the produced volume change compensated SSLC material.
US10347899B2	Battery housing A battery housing can include a housing body defining a cavity sized and shaped to receive a cell for a battery, and a breaker coupled with the housing body. The battery housing can comprise a first electrical conductor at a first end portion of the housing body and electrically connected to the switch, the first electrical conductor configured to electrically connect to a first battery cell terminal of the cell. The battery housing can comprise a second electrical conductor at a second end portion of the housing body, the second electrical conductor configured to electrically connect to a second battery cell terminal of the cell to define a first electrical pathway between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor. The battery housing can include a bypass conductor to define a second electrical pathway between the switch and the second electrical conductor.
US10347898B2	Overcharge protection device for a battery module The present disclosure includes a battery module having a plurality of battery cells disposed in a housing. Each of the plurality of battery cells has a positive terminal, a negative terminal, an overcharge protection assembly, and a casing having an electrically conductive material. The overcharge protection assembly includes a vent, a first spring component, a second spring component, and an insulative component. The first spring component is coupled to the positive terminal, the second spring component is coupled to the negative terminal, the insulative component is between the first spring component and a conductive piece and between the second spring component and the conductive piece, and the vent is configured to drive the insulative component from between the first and second spring components and the conductive piece, such that the first and second spring components contact the conductive piece, when a pressure in the casing exceeds a threshold.
US10347891B2	Laminated separator roll In the present invention, in laminated separator rolls 12U and 12L, laminated long separator sheets 12a and 12b are wound such that a surface B (which is of an aramid layer (heat-resistant layer) and is opposite to a surface contacting with the porous film) faces an inner side (core u, l side). From this, it is possible to provide the laminated separator roll which can inhibit change in color of the porous layer included in the porous long separator sheet.
US10347888B2	Battery system housing with underside armor A battery pack for an electric vehicle is disclosed. The battery pack includes an upper tray, a first busbar attached to the upper tray, a lower tray, and a second busbar attached to the lower tray. The battery pack also includes a plurality of battery cells arranged in the upper and lower trays, and an armor layer connected with the lower tray.
US10347885B2	Battery module A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells arranged in one direction, spacers respectively located among the plurality of battery cells, the spacers including upper end portions and upper flange portions along the upper end portions, a housing accommodating the plurality of battery cells and the spacers, a pair of end plates at respective opposite ends in the arrangement direction of the plurality of battery cells, the pair of end plates being outside of the housing, and a top plate over the plurality of battery cells, the top plate including a lower surface and at least one holding member on the lower surface, the at least one holding member on the lower surface corresponding to at least one holding groove portion in the upper flange portions of the spacers.
US10347881B2	Battery module including spacer and insulation sheet A battery module includes battery cells arranged adjacent to each other along a first direction, a spacer between neighboring battery cells, and a multi-layer insulation sheet between the neighboring battery cells together with the spacer, the multi-layer insulation sheet including a plurality of insulation layers extending in parallel with surfaces of the battery cells.
US10347879B2	Recloser battery assembly with torque-limiting cap A circuit interrupting device for use with an electrical power distribution system includes a housing containing a circuit interrupting mechanism. A battery tube is positioned in the housing. A battery assembly is configured to be inserted into the battery tube. The battery assembly includes an assembly body having a first end and a second end and a battery is positioned within the assembly body. A cap is connected to the assembly body and configured to connect the battery assembly to the battery tube. The cap includes a torque-limiting device that prevents overtightening of the cap to the battery tube.
US10347872B2	Systems, devices and methods for the quality assessment of OLED stack films This disclosure provides techniques for assessing quality of a deposited film layer of an organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) device. An image is captured and filtered to identify a deposited layer that is to be analyzed. Image data representing this layer can be optionally converted to brightness (grayscale) data. A gradient function is then applied to emphasize discontinuities in the deposited layer. Discontinuities are then compared to one or more thresholds and used to ascertain quality of the deposited layer, with optional remedial measures then being applied. The disclosed techniques can be applied in situ, to quickly identify potential defects such as delamination before ensuing manufacturing steps are applied. In optional embodiments, remedial measures can be taken dependent on whether defects are determined to exist.
US10347869B2	Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device is provided. The method includes forming a pixel electrode, forming a hydrophobic material layer on the pixel electrode, wherein the hydrophobic material layer includes a hydrophobic material, forming a pixel-defining layer by patterning the hydrophobic material layer, so as to expose at least a portion of the pixel electrode, and removing the hydrophobic material on the exposed portion of the pixel electrode using surface treatment.
US10347867B2	Multilayer barrier film Multilayer film prepared by a layer-by-layer process that is an effective barrier for humidity and oxygen.
US10347864B2	Display device A display device includes a display device, a window, and an adhesive material. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area. The window is on the display panel. The adhesive material is between the display panel and the window. The window includes a base substrate and a blocking barrier. The base substrate includes a first area overlapping the display area, a second area overlapping the non-display area, and a third area protruding outwardly from the display panel. The blocking barrier is on the second area of the base substrate, includes convex patterns and an inner surface facing a central portion of the base substrate. The inner surface of the blocking barrier and the convex patterns contact the adhesive material.
US10347861B2	OLED display device and manufacture method thereof Provided are an OLED display device and a manufacture method thereof. By respectively configuring the first transparent semiconductor layer, the second transparent semiconductor layer and the third transparent semiconductor layer in the anode layers of the red OLED element, the green OLED element, the blue OLED element, and setting the same to have various thicknesses to realize that the luminous efficiencies of the red OLED element, the green OLED element, the blue OLED element respectively achieve the best, and the first transparent semiconductor layer, the second transparent semiconductor layer and the third transparent semiconductor layer are deposited and formed by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition with three masks. The thicknesses of the hole transporting layers in the red OLED element, the green OLED element, the blue OLED element are the same, thus they can be formed in the same evaporation process with one common metal mask.
US10347841B2	Compound for organic photoelectric device and organic photoelectric device image sensor, and electronic device including the same A compound for an organic photoelectric device includes at least one of a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2 and a combination thereof.
US10347837B2	Organic electroluminescent display panel, method for manufacturing the same, and display device The disclosure discloses an organic electroluminescent display panel, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, where organic light-emitting layers of display sub-pixels and virtual sub-pixels may be created on an underlying substrate through evaporation using a fine metal mask and a shielding mask arranged in a stack, and the area of the organic light-emitting layer of a non-rectangular shaped virtual sub-pixel among the virtual sub-pixels is smaller than the area of the organic light-emitting layer of a display sub-pixel capable of emitting light in the same color.
US10347836B2	QLED device and manufacturing method thereof, QLED display panel and QLED display device A QLED device and manufacturing method thereof, a QLED display panel and a QLED display device are disclosed which improve the surface and internal structure of the quantum dot layer in the QLED devices. The method for manufacturing a QLED device includes forming a first electrode layer; forming a quantum dot layer on the first electrode layer; infiltrating a mixed solvent containing a bifunctional molecule into the quantum dot layer so as to improve the structure of the quantum dot layer; and forming a second electrode layer on the quantum dot layer.
US10347829B1	Method for fabricating a damascene self-aligned ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) device structure employing reduced processing steps A method for fabricating a non-volatile, ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) device with a reduced number of masking and etching steps is described. In one embodiment, the method includes forming an opening in an insulating layer over a surface of a substrate to expose a portion of the surface, and forming first spacers on sidewalls of the opening. A conductive layer is formed on the portion of the surface exposed in the opening and separated from the first spacers on the sidewalls of the opening by a gap therebetween. A bottom electrode of a ferroelectric capacitor is formed over the conductive layer and in the gap laterally of the conductive layer, a ferroelectric dielectric formed on the bottom electrode between the first spacers, and a top electrode formed on the ferroelectric dielectric.
US10347827B2	Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy free layers with iron insertion and oxide interfaces for spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory A method of making a spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory device (STT MRAM) device includes forming a tunnel barrier layer on a reference layer; forming a free layer on the tunnel barrier layer, the free layer comprising a cobalt iron boron (CoFeB) alloy layer and an iron (Fe) layer; and performing a sputtering process to form a metal oxide layer on the Fe layer.
US10347820B2	Magnetic memory device According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a conductive layer, first to fourth magnetic layers, first and second intermediate layers, and a controller. The conductive layer includes first, to fifth portions. The first magnetic layer is separated from the third portion. The second magnetic layer is provided between the third portion and the first magnetic layer. The first intermediate layer is provided between the first and second magnetic layers. The third magnetic layer is separated from the fourth portion. The fourth magnetic layer is provided between the fourth portion and the third magnetic layer. The second intermediate layer is provided between the third and fourth magnetic layers. The controller is electrically connected to the first and second portions. The controller implements a first operation of supplying a first current to the conductive layer, and a second operation of supplying a second current to the conductive layer.
US10347818B2	Method for manufacturing ultrasound transducers A manufacturing a process is provided for the bulk manufacture of transducer arrays, including arrays having at least one 3D printed (or otherwise additive manufactured) acoustic matching layers. In certain implementations, the manufactured transducers include a composite-piezoelectric transducer on a de-matching layer. In one implementation, by producing multiple arrays at once on a common carrier, and by using direct-deposit additive processes for the matching layers, the described processes greatly reduce the number of parts and the number of manual operations.
US10347799B2	Stabilized quantum dot composite and method of making a stabilized quantum dot composite A stabilized quantum dot composite includes a plurality of luminescent semiconducting nanoparticles embedded in a matrix comprising an ionic metal oxide. A method of making a stabilized quantum dot composite includes forming a mixture comprising a plurality of luminescent semiconducting nanoparticles dispersed in an aqueous solution comprising an ionic metal oxide. The mixture is dried to form a stabilized quantum dot composite comprising the plurality of luminescent semiconducting nanoparticles embedded in a matrix comprising the ionic metal oxide.
US10347794B2	Gallium nitride wafer substrate for solid state lighting devices and associated systems Gallium nitride wafer substrate for solid state lighting devices, and associated systems and methods. A method for making an SSL device substrate in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure includes forming multiple crystals carried by a support member, with the crystals having an orientation selected to facilitate formation of gallium nitride. The method can further include forming a volume of gallium nitride carried by the crystals, with the selected orientation of the crystals at least partially controlling a crystal orientation of the gallium nitride, and without bonding the gallium nitride, as a unit, to the support member. In other embodiments, the number of crystals can be increased by a process that includes annealing a region in which the crystals are present, etching the region to remove crystals having an orientation other than the selected orientation, and/or growing the crystals having the selected orientation.
US10347789B2	Light emitting device and light emitting device package having same A light emitting device includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer including a first conductivity type dopant, an active layer disposed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer and including a plurality of barrier layers and a plurality of well layers, an electron blocking structure layer disposed on the active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer disposed on the electron blocking structure layer. The active layer includes a first barrier layer adjacent to the electron blocking structure layer and a first well layer adjacent to the first barrier layer. The plurality of barrier layers include a first conductivity type dopant. The electron blocking structure layer includes a plurality of semiconductor layers including a second conductivity type dopant and AlGaN-based semiconductor. The plurality of semiconductor layers include a first semiconductor layer having a first region adjacent to the first barrier layer. The first region of the first semiconductor layer includes AlGaN-based semiconductor having aluminum composition of 95% or more. A light emitting structure including the active layer and the electron blocking structure layer emits different peak wavelengths.
US10347787B2	Method for forming a solar cell electrode with conductive paste A conductive paste for forming a solar cell electrode, including: a conductive powder containing silver as a main component; glass frit; and an organic vehicle, wherein the glass frit contains tellurium glass frit having tellurium oxide as a network-forming component. The conductive paste of the present invention makes it possible to form a solar cell electrode having a low dependence on firing temperature without causing problems due to fire-through into the substrate, and to thereby obtain a solar cell having good solar cell characteristics.
US10347786B2	Optical sensor package including a cavity formed in an image sensor die One or more embodiments are directed to system in package (SiP) for optical devices, including proximity sensor packaging. One embodiment is directed to optical sensor that includes a substrate, an image sensor die and a light-emitting device. A first surface of the image sensor die is coupled to the substrate, and a recess is formed extending into the image sensor die from the first surface toward a second surface of the image sensor die. A light transmissive layer is formed in the image sensor die between the recess and the first surface. The optical sensor further includes a light-emitting device that is coupled to the substrate and positioned within the recess formed in the image sensor die.
US10347775B2	Solar array recombiner box with wireless monitoring capability A system for monitoring and wirelessly transmitting solar array parameters such as current, voltage and temperature in real time is primarily housed within a recombiner box. The system lends itself to retrofitting within some commercially available recombiner boxes. Signals emitted from the RF controller component of the system are received by a central processor, which includes a dashboard interface. Multiple systems in proximity can be linked to form a mesh network with one central processor.
US10347774B2	Electrode provided with UBM structure having a barrier layer for reducing solder diffusion into the electrode and a method for producing the same A problem addressed by an embodiment of the present invention lies in providing a UBM structure which includes thin layers and can prevent diffusion of solder into an electrode. The UBM structure according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first UBM layer on an electrode, a second UBM layer on the first UBM layer, and a passivated metal layer between the first UBM layer and the second UBM layer. The passivated metal layer functions as a barrier layer with respect to solder diffusion.
US10347773B2	Split gate non-volatile memory (NVM) with improved programming efficiency Device and method of forming a non-volatile memory (NVM) device are disclosed. The NVM device includes NVM cells disposed on a substrate in a device region. The NVM cell includes a floating gate (FG) with first and second FG sidewalls disposed on the substrate and an intergate dielectric layer disposed over the FG and substrate. Re-entrants are disposed at corners of the intergate dielectric which are filled by dielectric re-entrant spacers. An access gate (AG) with first and second AG sidewalls is disposed on the substrate adjacent to the FG such that the second AG sidewall is adjacent to a first FG sidewall and separated by the intergate dielectric layer and the re-entrant spacers prevent AG from filling the re-entrants. A first source/drain (S/D) region is disposed in the substrate adjacent to the first AG sidewall and a second S/D region is disposed in the substrate adjacent to the second FG sidewall.
US10347768B2	Semiconductor device having insulating film including low-density region A change in electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating film over a transistor including an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor film is suppressed. The structure includes a first insulating film which includes a void portion in a step region formed by a source electrode and a drain electrode over the semiconductor film and contains silicon oxide as a component, and a second insulating film containing silicon nitride, which is provided in contact with the first insulating film to cover the void portion in the first insulating film. The structure can prevent the void portion generated in the first insulating film from expanding outward.
US10347766B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to a semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack disposed over a channel region of the semiconductor device, the gate stack includes an oxidation layer, a gate dielectric and a gate electrode, the oxidation layer at least covers a portion of the channel region of the semiconductor device and may act as a barrier to prevent damage to the underlying features, such as the source and drain regions, during removal of a dummy gate in a gate last process.
US10347765B2	Split fin field effect transistor enabling back bias on fin type field effect transistors A method of forming the semiconductor device that may include forming a trench in a substrate, and forming a metal nitride in the trench. The method may further include forming a split fin structure from the substrate. The metal nitride is positioned in the split portion of the fin structure. The method may continue with removing the metal nitride from a source region and drain region portion of the split fin structure, in which the metal nitride remains in a channel region portion of the split fin structure. A gate structure may then be formed on a channel region portion of the fin structure. A back bias is applied to the semiconductor device using the metal nitride in the split portion of the fin structure as an electrode.
US10347754B2	Power semiconductor device with dV/dt controllability through select trench electrode biasing, and method of manufacturing the same A power semiconductor device is disclosed. In one example, the device comprises a semiconductor body coupled to a first load terminal and a second load terminal and comprising a drift region configured to conduct a load current between said terminals. The drift region comprises dopants of a first conductivity type. A source region is arranged in electrical contact with the first load terminal and comprises dopants of the first conductivity type. A channel region comprises dopants of a second conductivity. At least one power unit cell that includes at least one first type trench. The at least one power unit cell further includes a first mesa zone and a second mesa zone of the semiconductor body.
US10347753B1	Bipolar transistor with trench structure The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing process therefor. Provided is a method for manufacturing a bipolar transistor with a trench structure, including providing a semiconductor substrate; fabricating a shallow trench isolation structure to define a device active area; forming an N-type well and a P-type well in the active area to define a first region, a second region and a third region of the bipolar transistor; etching a portion, adjacent to the shallow trench isolation structure, in the first region to form a trench; performing ion implantation to form an emitter, a base and a collector of the bipolar transistor; forming a salicide block structure in the trench; and forming a metal electrode of the bipolar transistor, wherein the emitter is formed in the first region. The present disclosure further provides a bipolar transistor with a trench structure.
US10347750B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least one gate, and an insulating structure. The substrate includes at least one semiconductor fin. The gate is disposed on the semiconductor fin. The gate has at least one end sidewall. The insulating structure is disposed adjacent to the gate. The insulating structure has a sidewall facing the gate, and the end sidewall of the gate is in contact with a portion of the sidewall of the insulating structure while leaves another portion of the sidewall of the insulating structure uncovered.
US10347748B2	Methods of forming source/drain regions on FinFET devices One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a fin in a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate structure around the fin and, after forming the gate structure, forming a final source/drain cavity in the fin, wherein the source/drain cavity includes an upper innermost edge and a lower innermost edge, both of which extend laterally under at least a portion of the gate structure, and wherein the lower innermost edge extends laterally further under the gate structure than does the upper innermost edge. The method also includes performing an epitaxial growth process to form an epi semiconductor material in the final source/drain cavity.
US10347744B1	Method and structure of forming FinFET contact Various methods and structures for fabricating a contact for a semiconductor FET or FinFET device. A semiconductor FET structure includes a substrate, a source/drain region layer and source/drain contact. First and second gate spacers are adjacent respective first and second opposing sides of the source/drain contact. The source/drain contact is disposed directly on and contacting the entire source/drain region layer, and at a vertical level thereabove, the source/drain contact being recessed to a limited horizontal area continuing vertically upwards from the vertical level. The limited horizontal area horizontally extending along less than a full horizontal length of a vertical sidewall of the first and second gate spacers, and less than fully covering the source/drain region layer. A method uses a reverse contact mask to form a shape of the source/drain contact into an inverted “T” shape.
US10347742B2	Method of forming gate spacer for nanowire FET device A method of forming a gate-all-around semiconductor device, includes providing a substrate having a layered fin structure thereon. The layered fin structure includes a channel portion and a sacrificial portion each extending along a length of the layered fin structure, wherein the layered fin structure being covered with replacement gate material. A dummy gate is formed on the replacement gate material over the layered fin structure, wherein the dummy gate having a critical dimension which extends along the length of the layered fin structure. The method further includes forming a gate structure directly under the dummy gate, the gate structure including a metal gate region and gate spacers provided on opposing sides of the metal gate region, wherein a total critical dimension of the gate structure is equal to the critical dimension of the dummy gate.
US10347734B2	Semiconductor device, power supply circuit, and computer A semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor layer, a first electrode and second electrode on the nitride semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and a gate insulating layer between the nitride semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. The gate insulating layer has a first oxide region containing at least any one element of aluminum and boron, gallium, and silicon. When a distance between the first end portion and the second end portion of the first oxide region is defined as d1, and a position separated by d1/10 from the first end portion toward the second end portion is defined as a first position, an atomic concentration of gallium at the first position is 80% or more and 120% or less of that of the at least any one element.
US10347733B2	Radiofrequency switch device and manufacturing method thereof A radiofrequency switch device includes an insulation layer, a semiconductor layer, a gate structure, a first doped region, a second doped region, an epitaxial layer, a first silicide layer, and a second silicide layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the insulation layer. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The first doped region and the second doped region are disposed in the semiconductor layer at two opposite sides of the gate structure respectively. The epitaxial layer is disposed on the first doped region. The first silicide layer is disposed on the epitaxial layer. The second silicide layer is disposed in the second doped region.
US10347724B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device A gate insulating film covers a trench penetrating through a source region and a body region and reaching a drift layer in each of a first cell region and a second cell region. The gate electrode is provided in the trench. A high-concentration layer of the first conductivity type is provided between the drift layer and the body region in the first cell region and has a second impurity concentration higher than the first impurity concentration. A current restriction layer is provided between the drift layer and the body region in the second cell region and has the first conductivity type and a third impurity concentration higher than the first impurity concentration and lower than the second impurity concentration.
US10347723B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having graphene material A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a carrier wafer and a silicon carbide wafer; forming a first graphene material on a first side of the silicon carbide wafer; bonding the first side of the silicon carbide wafer with the first graphene material to the carrier wafer; and splitting the silicon carbide wafer bonded to the carrier wafer into a silicon carbide layer thinner than the silicon carbide wafer and a residual silicon carbide wafer, the silicon carbide layer remaining bonded to the carrier wafer during the splitting.
US10347719B2	Nanosheet transistors on bulk material A semiconductor structure. The structure includes first source/drain located in a first source/drain region. The structure includes a second source/drain located in a second source/drain region. The structure includes a plurality of semiconductor nanosheets located between the first source/drain and the second source/drain in a gate region. The structure includes an insulating layer separating the first source drain from a bulk substrate. The bulk substrate may have a first horizontal surface in the gate region, a second horizontal surface in the first source/drain region, and a connecting surface forming an at least partially vertical connection between the first horizontal surface and the second horizontal surface. The insulating layer may be directly on the second horizontal surface and the connecting surface.
US10347713B2	Semiconductor device having a triple region resurf structure A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer having first and second planes; first and second electrodes; a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type between the first semiconductor region and the first plane; and a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type surrounding the second semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. A first region, a second region, and a third region are closer to the second semiconductor region in this order. An amount of second-conductivity-type impurities in the first region, the second region, and the third region is less than that of the second semiconductor region. An amount of second-conductivity-type impurities in the second region is higher than that in the first region and the third region.
US10347712B1	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes: forming a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor on a substrate; forming a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the MOS transistor; removing part of the first ILD layer to form a trench adjacent to the MOS transistor; forming a trap rich structure in the trench; forming a second ILD layer on the MOS transistor and the trap rich structure; forming a contact plug in the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer and electrically connected to the MOS transistor; and forming a metal interconnection on the second ILD layer and electrically connected to the contact plug.
US10347707B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding member, a first cover member, a first light transmitting member, and a second cover member. The display panel includes a display region where a plurality of display structures are arranged and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The light shielding member is in the peripheral region on the display panel, and has a first opening that exposes the display region. The first cover member is arranged on the light shielding member. The first light transmitting member is in the peripheral region on the first cover member, and includes a second opening that overlaps the first opening. The first light transmitting member has a first color. The second cover member is arranged on the first light transmitting member.
US10347704B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a substrate, a first gate electrode on the substrate, a second gate electrode on the first gate electrode and at least partially overlapping the first gate electrode, a semiconductor pattern between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode and at least partially overlapping the first and second gate electrodes, a connecting electrode on the second gate electrode and electrically connected to the semiconductor pattern, and a pixel electrode on the connecting electrode and electrically connected to the connecting electrode.
US10347701B2	Organic light-emitting display panel, display device and organic light-emitting display motherboard thereof An organic light-emitting display panel, a display device, and an organic light-emitting display motherboard are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a base substrate, a metal wire, a first insulation layer, and a conductive portion. The metal wire has an upper surface opposing to the base substrate. A material of the metal wire includes a first metal. The first insulation layer covers the upper surface of the metal wire and includes at least one hollow portion penetrating through the first insulation layer and exposing a portion of the upper surface of the metal wire. The conductive portion is electrically connected to the metal wire, and is not overlapped with the at least one hollow portion. A work function of a material of the conductive portion is G1, a work function of metal silver is G2, a work function of the first metal is G3, and G1>G2>G3.
US10347693B2	Pixel arrangement structure for organic light emitting display device A pixel arrangement structure of an OLED display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square.
US10347690B2	Semiconductor memory device with efficient inclusion of control circuits A semiconductor memory device includes memory cell arrays that include a plurality of memory cells. A first control circuit with control transistors of a first conductivity type is in a first region below the memory cell arrays. A second control circuit includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type connected in parallel to a second transistor of a second conductivity type. One of the first and second transistors is connected to an end of at least one control transistor. The second control circuit delivers a voltage to the plurality of control transistors. The first transistor is disposed in the first region. The second transistor is disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region. The second region is below a gap between adjacent memory cell arrays.
US10347686B2	Optical sensor An optical sensor is disclosed. The optical sensor may include a substrate, a topological insulator layer formed on the substrate, an oxide layer formed on the topological insulator layer, a graphene layer stacked on the oxide layer, and a dielectric layer covering the graphene layer.
US10347682B2	Shallow trench textured regions and associated methods Photosensitive devices and associated methods are provided. In one aspect, for example, a photosensitive imager device can include a semiconductor layer having multiple doped regions forming a least one junction, a textured region coupled to the semiconductor layer and positioned to interact with electromagnetic radiation. The textured region can be formed from a series of shallow trench isolation features.
US10347680B2	Charge storage cell and method of manufacturing a charge storage cell A charge storage cell includes a semiconductor region having charge carriers of a first conductivity type, a first deep trench isolation structure, and a charge storage region located adjacent to the first deep trench isolation structure. The charge storage region has charge carriers of a second conductivity type different to the first conductivity type and extends along substantially all of the first deep trench isolation structure. A second deep trench isolation structure is located adjacent to the charge storage region and opposite the first deep trench isolation structure.
US10347672B2	Image sensor having an interconnection covering a black pixel region surrounding an active pixel region An image sensor of reduced chip size includes a semiconductor substrate having an active pixel region in which a plurality of active pixels are disposed and a power delivery region in which a pad is disposed. A plurality of first transparent electrode layers is disposed over the semiconductor substrate, respectively corresponding to the plurality of active pixels. A second transparent electrode layer is integrally formed across the active pixels. An organic photoelectric layer is disposed between the plurality of first transparent electrode layers and the second transparent electrode layer. An interconnection layer is located at a level that is the same as or higher than an upper surface of the pad with respect to an upper main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The interconnection layer extends from the pad to the second transparent electrode layer, and includes a connector electrically connecting the pad and the second transparent electrode layer.
US10347669B2	Method for manufacturing a flexible display device A flexible display device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes providing a rigid sheet having cutting streets, forming a protective pattern on the rigid sheet, the protective pattern covering the cutting streets, and forming a flexible substrate including a reserved region and an unreserved region on the rigid sheet provided with the protective pattern, where the flexible substrate covers the protective pattern, and boundaries between the reserved region and the unreserved region are within regions occupied by the cutting streets. The method further includes fabricating a display component on the flexible substrate in the reserved region, and cutting the flexible substrate along the cutting streets, removing the unreserved region of the flexible substrate and reserving the reserved region of the flexible substrate, incisions caused by cutting being within a region of the protective pattern, and separating the cut flexible substrate from the rigid sheet.
US10347668B2	Display apparatus and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a plurality of subpixels disposed adjacent each other and forming one pixel which forms a unit for formation of a color image; the plurality of subpixels including a first subpixel which emits light of the shortest wavelength and a second subpixel disposed adjacent the first subpixel; the second subpixel having a light blocking member disposed between the second subpixel and the first subpixel and having a width greater than a channel length or a channel width of a transistor which forms the second subpixel.
US10347666B2	Method for fabricating a TFT backplane and TFT backplane The present application discloses a method for fabricating a TFT backplane and a TFT backplane. The method includes: providing a substrate; subsequently forming a first active region, a first oxide layer, a nitride layer and a first and a second gate independently of each other on the substrate; removing the nitride layer not covered by the first and second gate electrodes; depositing a second insulating layer; forming a second active region with different material from the first active region on the on the second insulating layer above the second gate electrode; forming a first and a second source electrodes, a first and a second drain electrodes respectively. This method can improve the performance of the TFT backplane.
US10347665B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral area located outside the pixel area; pixels located in the pixel area; power supply lines configured to provide an operating power to the pixels; and a plurality of data fanout wires configured to provide data signals to the pixels, wherein, in at least a portion of the peripheral area, the power supply lines and the plurality of data fanout wires are arranged on a same layer.
US10347657B1	Semiconductor circuit including nanosheets and fins on the same wafer A complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device includes a wafer having a bulk semiconductor layer. A fin-type semiconductor device is formed on a first portion of the wafer. The CMOS devices also includes a nanosheet semiconductor device formed on a second portion of the wafer different from the first portion.
US10347656B2	Semiconductor device and monolithic semiconductor device including a power semiconductor device and a control circuit A monolithic semiconductor device has a substrate with a power region and control region. The substrate can be a silicon-on-insulator substrate. An opening is formed in the power region and extends partially through the substrate. A semiconductor material is formed within the opening. A power semiconductor device, such as a vertical power transistor, is formed within the semiconductor material. A control logic circuit is formed in the control region. A first isolation trench is formed in the power region to isolate the power semiconductor device and control logic circuit. A second isolation trench is formed in the control region to isolate a first control logic circuit from a second control logic circuit. An interconnect structure is formed over the power region and control region to provide electrical interconnect between the control logic circuit and power semiconductor device. A termination trench is formed in the power region.
US10347650B1	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate; a memory cell array including memory cells arranged in a first direction intersecting a surface of the substrate; an insulating layer covering the memory cell array; and a transistor provided on the insulating layer. The transistor includes: first and second semiconductor layers provided on the insulating layer; a gate electrode provided between the first and second semiconductor layers, one end in the first direction of the gate electrode being closer to the substrate than the first and second semiconductor layers; a gate insulating film provided on the one end and on side surfaces of the gate electrode; and a third semiconductor layer facing the one end and the side surfaces of the gate electrode. The third semiconductor layer includes a crystal grain larger than a shortest distance between the insulating layer and the gate insulating film.
US10347634B2	Apparatuses including buried digit lines Methods of forming semiconductor device structures include forming trenches in an array region and in a buried digit line end region, forming a metal material in the trenches, filling the trenches with a mask material, removing the mask material in the trenches to expose a portion of the metal material, and removing the exposed portion of the metal material. A plurality of conductive contacts is formed in direct contact with the metal material in the buried digit line end region. Methods of forming a buried digit line contact include forming conductive contacts physically contacting metal material in trenches in a buried digit line end region. Vertical memory devices and apparatuses include metallic connections disposed between a buried digit line and a conductive contact in a buried digit line end region.
US10347631B2	Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same, array substrate, and display device A complementary thin film transistor includes an N-type metal oxide thin film transistor and a P-type metal oxide thin film transistor. A method of manufacturing a complementary thin film transistor is also provided. The method includes forming a complementary thin film transistor including an N-type metal oxide thin film transistor and a P-type metal oxide thin film transistor. An array substrate including the complementary thin film transistor and a display device including the array substrate are further provided.
US10347630B2	Semiconductor chip using logic circuitry including complementary FETs for reverse engineering protection According to one embodiment, a chip has a circuit with at least one p channel field effect transistor (FET); at least one n channel FET; a first and a second power supply terminal; wherein the n channel FET, if supplied with the upper supply potential at its gate, supplies the lower supply potential to the gate of the p channel FET; and the p channel FET, if supplied with the lower supply potential at its gate, supplies the upper supply potential to the gate of the n channel FET; wherein the logic state of the gate of the p channel FET and of the n channel FET can only be changed by at least one of the first and second supply voltage to the circuit; and a connection coupled to the gate of the p channel FET or the n channel FET and a further component of the semiconductor chip.
US10347629B2	FinFET device A semiconductor device includes an active region having a doped region, a first contact member on the doped region, gate structures including a first gate structure having a first gate and a second gate structure having a second gate, the first and second gate structures being adjacent to each other and on opposite sides of the first contact member, an interlayer dielectric layer on the active region and surrounding the first and second gate structures, and the first contact member, a first insulator layer on a portion of the interlayer dielectric layer, a first contact on an upper surface of the first gate and a second contact on an upper surface of the second gate, and a second insulator layer surrounding the first and second contacts each having an upper surface lower than an upper surface of the second insulator layer.
US10347620B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device having an ESD protection diode and a vertical MOSFET in which desired ESD tolerance is obtained without reducing the active region size or increasing the chip size. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a drain region and a source region in the substrate; a base region between the drain region and the source region; a gate electrode comprising a first polysilicon layer, and being in contact with the base region across a gate insulating film so that a channel is formed in the base region; and a bidirectional diode in which the gate electrode, a second polysilicon layer, and a third polysilicon layer are arranged in the stated order in a direction perpendicular to a front surface of the substrate.
US10347617B2	Self-aligned three dimensional chip stack and method for making the same Self-aligned three dimensional vertically stacked chip stacks and processes for forming the same generally include two or more vertically stacked chips supported by a scaffolding structure, the scaffolding structure defined by a first scaffolding trench and at least one additional scaffolding trench, the first scaffolding trench comprising a bottom surface having a width and a sidewall having a height extending from the bottom surface to define a lowermost trench in a scaffolding layer, the at least one additional scaffolding trench overlaying the first scaffolding trench having a sidewall having a height and a width, wherein the width of the at least one scaffolding trench is greater than the first scaffolding trench width to define a first stair between the first scaffolding trench and the at least one additional trench; a first chip secured to the first scaffolding trench having a height less than the first scaffolding trench sidewall height; and at least one additional chip secured to and supported by the first stair, wherein the at least one additional chip is vertically spaced apart from the first chip.
US10347614B2	Solid state transducers with state detection, and associated systems and methods Solid state transducers with state detection, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A solid state transducer system in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a support substrate and a solid state emitter carried by the support substrate. The solid state emitter can include a first semiconductor component, a second semiconductor component, and an active region between the first and second semiconductor components. The system can further include a state device carried by the support substrate and positioned to detect a state of the solid state emitter and/or an electrical path of which the solid state emitter forms a part. The state device can be formed from at least one state-sensing component having a composition different than that of the first semiconductor component, the second semiconductor component, and the active region. The state device and the solid state emitter can be stacked along a common axis. In further particular embodiments, the state-sensing component can include an electrostatic discharge protection device, a thermal sensor, or a photosensor.
US10347611B2	Semiconductor packages having redistribution substrate A semiconductor package is provided which includes a redistribution substrate, an interconnect substrate on the redistribution substrate, a metal layer on the semiconductor chip, a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate and in the hole of the interconnect substrate, and a mold layer in a gap between the semiconductor chip and the interconnect substrate. The interconnect substrate includes a hole penetrating thereinside. The interconnect substrate includes base layers and a conductive member extending through the base layers. A top surface of the interconnect substrate is positioned either above or below the level of the top surface of the metal layer.
US10347610B2	Micro light emitting diode transfer-printing devices The present disclosure relates to a micro light emitting diode (Micro LED) transfer-printing device. A heating device and a movable cooling device are arranged on a rack, wherein a cooling surface of the cooling device is opposite to a heating surface of the heating device. A roller mechanism is arranged between the heating device and the cooling device, and a cyclically rotatable conveyor belt is configured on the roller mechanism. A temperature control glue is configured on an outer surface of the conveyor belt. Compared with the conventional solution, the proposed Micro LED transfer-printing device realizes cyclic absorption and transfer-printing of the Micro LED such that the transfer-printing efficiency may be enhanced.
US10347606B2	Devices employing thermal and mechanical enhanced layers and methods of forming same A method includes attaching a first-level device die to a dummy die, encapsulating the first-level device die in a first encapsulating material, forming through-vias over and electrically coupled to the first-level device die, attaching a second-level device die over the first-level device die, and encapsulating the through-vias and the second-level device die in a second encapsulating material. Redistribution lines are formed over and electrically coupled to the through-vias and the second-level device die. The dummy die, the first-level device die, the first encapsulating material, the second-level device die, and the second encapsulating material form parts of a composite wafer.
US10347604B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device To provide a semiconductor device having improved reliability. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes connecting a wire comprised of copper with a conductive layer formed on the pad electrode of a semiconductor chip, heat treating the semiconductor chip, and then sealing the semiconductor chip and the wire with a resin.
US10347601B1	Power electronics assemblies with metal inverse opal bonding, electrical contact and cooling layers, and vehicles incorporating the same A power electronics assembly includes a substrate, a semiconductor device and a metal inverse opal (MIO) bonding layer positioned between and bonded to the substrate and the semiconductor device. A first electrode is disposed on a first surface, a second electrode is disposed on a second surface, and a third electrode is disposed on a third surface. The first surface may be a top surface of the semiconductor device, the second surface may be a bottom surface of the semiconductor device, the third surface may be spaced apart from the bottom surface of the semiconductor device, and the second electrode is in electrical communication with the third electrode through the MIO bonding layer. A cooling fluid circuit with a cooling fluid inlet, a cooling fluid outlet and a cooling fluid path through the MIO bonding layer may be included.
US10347584B1	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a core member having a through-hole and having first fiducial marks disposed on an upper surface thereof in the vicinity of the through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface having connection pads and second fiducial marks disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the semiconductor chip; and a connection member disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pads of the semiconductor chip, wherein the first fiducial marks are disposed to be symmetrical to each other with respect to a center of the through-hole on a plane view, and the second fiducial marks are disposed to be symmetrical to each other with respect to a center of the semiconductor chip on the plane view.
US10347566B2	Carrier and clip each having sinterable, solidified paste for connection to a semiconductor element, corresponding sintering paste, and corresponding production method and use A carrier and the clip are used to produce a packaging having a lead frame by connection to the chip using sintering of the solidified sintering pastes in one work step. The carrier may be a lead frame and a clip for at least one semiconductor element has at least one functional surface for connecting to the semiconductor element and a plurality of connections. The material of the earlier or of the clip includes a metal and a layer made of a solidified sintering paste. The sintering paste may contain silver and/or a silver compound. The sintering paste is arranged on the functional surface. The carrier or clip and the layer made of sintering paste form an intermediate product that can be connected to the semiconductor element.
US10347559B2	High thermal conductivity/low coefficient of thermal expansion composites A high thermal conductivity/low coefficient of thermal expansion thermally conductive composite material for heat sinks and an electronic apparatus comprising a heat sink formed from such composites. The thermally conductive composite comprises a high thermal conductivity layer disposed between two substrates having a low coefficient of thermal expansion. The substrates have a low coefficient of thermal expansion and a relatively high modulus of elasticity, and the composite exhibits high thermal conductivity and low coefficient of thermal expansion even for composites with high loadings of the thermally conductive material.
US10347547B2	Suppressing interfacial reactions by varying the wafer temperature throughout deposition Disclosed are methods of and apparatuses and systems for depositing a film in a multi-station deposition apparatus. The methods may include: (a) providing a substrate to a first station of the apparatus, (b) adjusting the temperature of the substrate to a first temperature, (c) depositing a first portion of the material on the substrate while the substrate is at the first temperature in the first station, (d) transferring the substrate to the second station, (e) adjusting the temperature of the substrate to a second temperature, and (f) depositing a second portion of the material on the substrate while the substrate is at the second temperature, such that the first portion and the second portion exhibit different values of a property of the material. The apparatuses and systems may include a multi-station deposition apparatus and a controller having control logic for performing one or more of (a)-(f).
US10347546B2	Integrated circuit structure including power rail and tapping wire with method of forming same The disclosure relates to integrated circuit (IC) structures with substantially T-shaped wires, and methods of forming the same. An IC structure according to the present disclosure can include a first substantially T-shaped wire including a first portion extending in a first direction, and a second portion extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; an insulator laterally abutting the first substantially T-shaped wire at an end of the first portion, opposite the second portion; and a pair of gates each extending in the first direction and laterally abutting opposing sidewalls of the insulator and the first portion of the substantially T-shaped wire.
US10347544B2	Co-planar p-channel and n-channel gallium nitride-based transistors on silicon and techniques for forming same Techniques are disclosed for fabricating co-planar p-channel and n-channel gallium nitride (GaN)-based transistors on silicon (Si). In accordance with some embodiments, a Si substrate may be patterned with recessed trenches located under corresponding openings formed in a dielectric layer over the substrate. Within each recessed trench, a stack including a buffer layer, a GaN or indium gallium nitride (InGaN) layer, and a polarization layer may be selectively formed, in accordance with some embodiments. The p-channel stack further may include another GaN or InGaN layer over its polarization layer, with source/drain (S/D) portions adjacent the m-plane or a-plane sidewalls of that GaN or InGaN layer. The n-channel may include S/D portions over its GaN or InGaN layer, within its polarization layer, in accordance with some embodiments. Gate stack placement can be customized to provide any desired combination of enhancement and depletion modes for the resultant neighboring p-channel and n-channel transistor devices.
US10347537B2	Forming insulator fin structure in isolation region to support gate structures A method for forming the semiconductor device that includes forming a plurality of composite fin structures across a semiconductor substrate including an active device region and an isolation region. The composite fin structures may include a semiconductor portion over the active device region and a dielectric portion over the isolation region. A gate structure can be formed on the channel region of the fin structures that are present on the active regions of the substrate, and the gate structure is also formed on the dielectric fin structures on the isolation regions of the substrate. Epitaxial source and drain regions are formed on source and drain portions of the fin structures present on the active region, wherein the dielectric fin structures support the gate structure over the isolation regions.
US10347536B2	Semi-sequential 3D integration Disclosed herein is a semiconductor structure including: a host substrate and one or more bonding layers on top of the host substrate. The structure further includes an entity on the one or more bonding layers, where the entity includes two transistors on opposite sides of a common layer of channel material, where each transistor includes a gate, where both gates overlap each other, where both transistors share the same source and drain regions, and where each transistor have a channel defined within a same portion of the common layer of channel material overlapped by both transistor gates.
US10347531B2	Middle of the line (MOL) contact formation method and structure Disclosed are a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure with robust metal plugs and the resulting IC structure. In the method, openings are formed in an interlayer dielectric layer to expose semiconductor device surfaces. The openings are lined with a two-layer liner, which includes conformal metal and barrier layers, and subsequently filled with a metal layer. However, instead of waiting until after the liner is formed to perform a silicidation anneal, as is conventionally done, the silicidation anneal is performed between deposition of the two liner layers. This is particularly useful because, as determined by the inventors, performing the silicidation anneal prior to depositing the conformal barrier layer prevents the formation of microcracks in the conformal barrier layer. Prevention of such microcracks, in turn, prevents any metal from the metal layer from protruding into the area between the two liner layers and/or completely through the liner.
US10347528B1	Interconnect formation process using wire trench etch prior to via etch, and related interconnect Methods of forming an interconnect of an IC are disclosed. The methods etch a wire trench opening partially into an ILD layer using a hard mask, and form a metal liner sidewall spacer on sidewalls of the wire trench opening, prior to etching via openings that create a via-wire opening with the wire trench opening. The metal liner sidewall spacer protects against chamfering during the via etch and/or removal of an etch stop layer over conductive structures in an underlying ILD layer. In one embodiment, a barrier liner is deposited over the metal liner sidewall spacer, creating a double layered sidewall spacer on the sidewalls of the wire trench opening portion of the via-wire opening. A conductor is deposited to form a unitary via-wire conductive structure. An interconnect includes the double layered sidewall spacer on the sidewalls of a wire trench opening portion of the via-wire conductive structure.
US10347526B1	Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate structure, and a conductive element. The gate structure is on the substrate. The gate structure includes a gate electrode and a cap layer on the gate electrode. The conductive element is adjoined with an outer surface of the gate structure. The conductive element includes a lower conductive portion and an upper conductive portion electrically connected on the lower conductive portion and adjoined with the cap layer. The lower conductive portion and the upper conductive portion have an interface therebetween. The interface is below an upper surface of the cap layer.
US10347524B2	Trench isolation structures and methods for forming the same A trench isolation structure is provided. The trench isolation structure includes a substrate. A polygonal trench is disposed in the substrate. An insulating material is disposed in the polygonal trench, and a polygon top-side contact structure is disposed in the polygonal trench and surrounded by the insulating material. The polygon top-side contact structure has the same shape as the polygonal trench from a top view. A method for forming the trench isolation structure is also provided.
US10347514B2	Device and method for self-adjustment of a component-handling device for electronic components A component-handling device for removing components from a structured component supply and for storing the removed components at a reception device, where the reception device is newly adjusted after being initially put into operation after the replacement of device components or after maintenance work, in order to comply with the precision requirements when handling the components. The component-handling device has a self-adjustment device which permits it to adjust the device efficiently in terms of time and with high precision without manual intervention by an operator. The self-adjustment device is composed of a multiplicity of optical sensors and a controller. Adaptation of the measurement results acquired by means of the optical sensors using position sensors and property sensors installed originally for component inspection during fabrication gives rise to a high degree of process reliability and at the same time permits device components to be inspected for damage.
US10347508B2	Printed adhesion deposition to mitigate integrated circuit delamination A method includes applying a die attach material to a die pad of an integrated circuit. The die attach material is employed as a bonding material to the die pad. The method includes mounting an integrated circuit die to the die pad of the integrated circuit via the die attach material. The method includes printing an adhesion deposition material on the die attach material appearing at the interface of the integrated circuit die and the die pad of the integrated circuit to mitigate delamination between the integrated circuit die and the die pad.
US10347499B2	Method for etching layer to be etched In a method of an embodiment, radicals, which are generated from a processing gas, is adsorbed to a layer to be etched without applying a high-frequency bias to a lower electrode, in an adsorption step. In the subsequent etching step, ions, which are generated from the processing gas, are drawn into the layer to be etched by applying a high-frequency bias to the lower electrode. The adsorption step and the etching step are alternately repeated. In the adsorption step, a density of radicals is 200 or greater times a density of ions. In the etching step, RF energy having a power density of 0.07 W/cm2 or less is supplied to the lower electrode or a high-frequency bias having a power density of 0.14 W/cm2 or less is supplied to the lower electrode for a period of 0.5 seconds or less.
US10347494B2	Devices with multiple threshold voltages formed on a single wafer using strain in the high-k layer A method for adjusting a threshold voltage includes depositing a strained liner on a gate structure to strain a gate dielectric. A threshold voltage of a transistor is adjusted by controlling an amount of strain in the liner to control an amount of work function (WF) modulating species that diffuse into the gate dielectric in a channel region. The liner is removed.
US10347488B2	Titanium compound based hard mask films Methods for forming a titanium-containing hard mask film on a substrate surface by exposing the substrate surface to a titanium-containing precursor. The titanium-containing hard mask comprises one or more of silicon, oxygen or carbon atoms and, optionally, nitrogen atoms.
US10347486B1	Patterning material film stack with metal-containing top coat for enhanced sensitivity in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography A lithographic patterning method includes forming a multi-layer patterning material film stack on a semiconductor substrate, the patterning material film stack including a resist layer formed over one or more additional layers, and forming a metal-containing top coat over the resist layer. The method further includes exposing the multi-layer patterning material film stack to patterning radiation through the metal-containing top coat to form a desired pattern in the resist layer, removing the metal-containing top coat, developing the pattern formed in the resist layer, etching at least one underlying layer in accordance with the developed pattern, and removing remaining portions of the resist layer. The metal-containing top coat can be formed, for example, by atomic layer deposition or spin-on deposition over the resist layer, or by self-segregation from the resist layer.
US10347483B2	Rare earth nitride structure or device and fabrication method Structure or device comprising a hexagonal crystal layer or hexagonal crystal substrate, and a (001)-oriented rare earth nitride epitaxial layer on the hexagonal crystal layer or hexagonal crystal substrate.
US10347480B2	Method for evaluating the quality of mass spectrometric imaging preparations and kit-of-parts therefor The invention relates to a method for evaluating a quality of preparations of analytical tissue sections for mass spectrometric imaging using a reference sample to be processed and measured alongside the analytical tissue sections, and a kit-of-parts for a mass spectrometric imaging experiment including such reference sample.
US10347479B2	Circuit for generating a voltage waveform at an output node A circuit for generating a voltage waveform at an output node includes a first voltage rail configured to be held at a first voltage, the first voltage rail being connected to the output node via a first voltage rail switch, a second voltage rail configured to be held at a second voltage that is different from the first voltage, the second voltage rail being connected to the output node via a second voltage rail switch, at least one anchor node connected to the output node via an inductor and an anchor node switch, and a control unit configured to switch the circuit between: a first voltage outputting state in which the first voltage rail switch is closed and the second voltage rail switch is open, and a second voltage outputting producing state in which the second voltage rail switch is closed and the first voltage rail switch is open.
US10347470B2	Process chamber and semiconductor processing apparatus Embodiments of the invention provide a process chamber and a semiconductor processing apparatus. According to at least one embodiment, the process chamber includes a reaction compartment, a gas introducing system and a wafer transfer device. The reaction compartment is provided in the process chamber and used for performing a process on a wafer, the gas introducing system is used for providing processing gas to the reaction compartment, and the wafer transfer device is used for transferring the wafer into the reaction compartment. A lining ring assembly is provided in the reaction compartment, and is configured such that a flow uniformizing cavity is formed between the lining ring assembly itself and an inner side wall of the reaction compartment, so as to uniformly transport the processing gas, from the gas introducing system, into the reaction compartment through the flow uniformizing cavity.
US10347466B2	Plasma processing apparatus Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus that includes a processing container configured to accommodate a wafer, and a dielectric window provided to hermetically seal an opening formed in a top portion of the processing container, and configured to transmit microwaves into the processing container. The dielectric window has a thickness of 3λ/8 or less (here, λ is a wavelength of the microwaves) at least at a predetermined position where a microwave power is concentrated, and a protrusion is formed at the predetermined position on a bottom surface of the dielectric window to protrude downward from the bottom surface.
US10347461B2	Method for the in situ preparation of microscopic specimens A method relates to the in situ preparation of a microscopic specimen is carried out using a particle beam device, which includes a particle beam column for producing a focused beam of charged particles, a specimen receptacle for receiving a specimen block, and a detector for detecting interaction products of the interaction between particle beam and specimen material. The method includes: providing a specimen block having an exposed structure that comprises a specimen region of interest; producing a bending edge in the exposed structure by the action of the particle beam such that at least some of the exposed structure is shaped in the direction of the incident particle beam; and moving the specimen receptacle, in which the specimen block is received, so that a specimen region, which is enclosed by the shaped structure, is observable and/or processable in the particle beam device.
US10347454B2	Overload release An overload release includes a bimetallic element, a tripping slide, a latch and an energy store. In an overload situation the bimetallic element actuates the tripping slide; as a result, the tripping slide actuates the latch, and as a result, the latch allows the movement of the energy store. The latch is provided with a latch area and the energy store is provided with a latching area, the two areas mechanically interacting in the latched state and the latch area being released from the latching area in the unlatched state, when there is an overload, to allow the movement of the energy store. Further, the latch area or the latching area includes a projection.
US10347448B2	Multifunction switch for use with cleaning device and/or other powered devices A multifunctional switch may include a switch carrier. The switch carrier may include a pushbutton support and a slide switch support. The pushbutton support may be recessed relative to the slide switch support. A slide switch may be supported by the slide switch support. A pushbutton switch may be supported by the pushbutton support. A cap may be slideably coupled to the switch carrier. The cap may include a shuttle for engaging the slide switch and a plunger for engaging the pushbutton switch.
US10347442B1	Illuminated keyboard The illuminated keyboard is a backlit keyboard. The illuminated keyboard comprises a keyboard and a switching network that generates the back lit illumination of the keyboard. The switching network divides the keyboard in to a plurality of zone displays. Each of the plurality of zone displays is used to illuminate a region of the keyboard. Each of the plurality of zone displays is independently controlled. Each of the plurality of zone displays further comprises a plurality of LEDs. Each LED contained within the plurality of LEDs is independently controlled and illuminated. Each LED selected from the plurality of LEDs is differentiated from the LEDs remaining within the plurality of LEDs by the illumination color of the selected LED. The illuminated keyboard comprises a keyboard, a switching network, and a network controller. In one potential embodiment of the disclosure, the illuminated keyboard is remote controlled.
US10347434B2	Enhanced cycle lifetime with gel electrolyte for MNO2 nanowire capacitors A nanowire energy storage device such as a nanowire battery or a capacitor having a cathode comprising a plurality of nanowires and an anode comprising a plurality of nanowires interlaced with the plurality of nanowires of the cathode, and embedded in a PMMA gel electrolyte.
US10347427B2	Multilayer ceramic electronic component including external electrodes having extended band portions on one surface of body of multilayer ceramic electronic component A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes, stacked to be alternately exposed to one end surface and the other end surface of the ceramic body, with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween; and external electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body. The external electrodes include electrode layers connected to the internal electrodes, electrically insulating layers disposed on the electrode layers, and plating layers disposed on one surface of the ceramic body in a thickness direction of the ceramic body and connected to the electrode layers, respectively, and the electrode layers contain nickel.
US10347423B2	Solid multilayer structure as semiproduct for meta-capacitor The present disclosure provides solid multilayer structure having m polarization layers, and m+1 insulating layers disposed in a repeating sequence with the polarization layers, At least one polarization layer is comprised of materials selected from non-linear polarizable composite compounds and side chain polymers with non-linear polarizable pendants, and m is a number greater than or equal to 1. The insulating layer has a breakdown voltage greater than or equal to 0.01 volts (V) per nanometer (nm), and the polarization layer has a dielectric permittivity greater than or equal to 100. The solid multilayer structure may be used as a dielectric layer between two electrodes in capacitor.
US10347418B2	Method of manufacturing rare earth magnet A method includes: manufacturing a sintered compact represented by (Rl)x(Rh)yTzBsMt and has a grain boundary phase; manufacturing a rare earth magnet precursor from the sintered compact; and performing a heat treatment on the rare earth magnet precursor at 450° C. to 700° C. to diffuse and to infiltrate a melt of a modified alloy containing a light rare earth element and either a transition metal element, Al, In, Zn, or Ga into the grain boundary phase. Rl represents a light rare earth element. Rh represents Dy or Tb. T represents a transition metal containing at least one of Fe, Ni, and Co. B represents boron. M represents at Ga, Al, or Cu. x, y, z, s, and t represent mass % of Rl, Rh, T, B, and M. Following expressions are established: 27≤x≤44, 0≤y≤10, z=100−x−y−s−t, 0.75≤s≤3.4, 0≤t≤3. An infiltration amount of the modified alloy is 0 mass % to 5 mass %.
US10347411B2	Stress management scheme for fabricating thick magnetic films of an inductor yoke arrangement Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of fabricating a yoke arrangement of an inductor. A non-limiting example method includes forming a dielectric layer across from a major surface of a substrate. The method further includes configuring the dielectric layer such that it imparts a predetermined dielectric layer compressive stress on the substrate. A magnetic stack is formed on an opposite side of the dielectric layer from the substrate, wherein the magnetic stack includes one or more magnetic layers alternating with one or more insulating layers. The method further includes configuring the magnetic stack such that it imparts a predetermined magnetic stack tensile stress on the dielectric layer, wherein a net effect of the predetermined dielectric layer compressive stress and the predetermined magnetic stack tensile stress on the substrate is insufficient to cause a portion of the major surface of the substrate to be substantially non-planar.
US10347408B2	Magnetic fixings and connectors A mechanism comprising a first component having a first magnetic part, a second component, and a third component having a second magnetic part, the third component being moveable relative to said first component in a given direction to effect connection and or disconnection of the first and second components by causing interaction of the first and second magnetic parts, wherein, when connected, the first and second components are able to move relative to one another in said given direction. The mechanism further comprising a fourth component for engagement with said first component to prevent movement of the third component relative to the first component as a result of relative movement of the first and second components, thereby to prevent unintended disconnection of the first and second components.
US10347392B2	Fluorinated insulated electric wire An insulated electric wire comprising a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor, wherein the insulating layer comprises a fluorinated copolymer (A) having units based on tetrafluoroethylene and units based on a perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether, the content of the units based on a perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether is from 0.1 to 1.9 mol % to the total units in the fluorinated copolymer (A); MRF of the fluorinated copolymer (A) as measured by the method in accordance with ASTM D-3307 is at least 0.1 and less than 15; the melting point of the fluorinated copolymer (A) is at least 260° C.; and the ratio of the thickness Di of the insulating layer to the diameter Dc of the conductor (Di/Dc) is less than 0.5.
US10347391B2	Cold shrink article for electrical device A cold shrink article comprising a shaped,stretched and cured composition comprising (i) a blend of silane-grafted ethylene-α-olefin elastomer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyorganosiloxane, (ii) a vinyl-terminated silicone rubber, and (iii) an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer.
US10347388B2	Conductive copper paste, conductive copper paste cured film, and semiconductor device The purpose of the present invention is to provide a conductive copper paste which is curable in an ambient atmosphere, has a long pot life, and, has a low specific resistance even under a high-temperature and short-time curing condition, wherein the specific resistance after curing does not greatly vary depending on a copper powder content. The conductive copper paste provided is characterized by containing (A) a copper powder, (B) a thermosetting resin, (C) a fatty acid that is liquid at normal temperature, and (D) triethanolamine. Preferably, component (B) is a resol-type phenol resin. More preferably, the content of component (B) is 10 to 20 parts by mass with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of component (A) and component (B).
US10347382B2	Methods and apparatus for geography-based antimicrobial resistance tracking Methods and apparatus for tracking antimicrobial resistance based on geography. An application server receives a query from a client application to provide antimicrobial resistance data for a geographic location. The application server determines a geographic region based, at least in part, on the geographic location included in the query, and antimicrobial data for samples collected from patients residing in the geographic region are retrieved from at least one health information datastore of a health information system. The retrieved antimicrobial data comprises information describing antimicrobial resistance of an infectious organism detected in the biological samples to at least one antimicrobial agent, and is transmitted to a client device on which the client application that issued the query is executing.
US10347380B2	Intra-operative registration of anatomical structures Described herein are methods, systems and devices for image-guided, computer-assisted surgical procedures, in particular for intra-operative registration of anatomical structures. Embodiments of the invention may enable a user to register the surface of an anatomical structure intra-operatively in an interactive, computer-guided process. The user may send information about acquired data points to the computer, and the computer may evaluate the aggregate of data points, optionally provide instructions to the user for acquisition of additional data points, and signal to the user when sufficient data points have been acquired for registration of the surface of the anatomical structure.
US10347375B2	Automatic association of medical elements A system and method of associating a plurality of objects is disclosed. A physical space may be defined and a real-time locating system (RTLS) may be used to determine objects that are within the physical space. The objects may be determined by the RTLS to be within the physical space are associated. The objects may include at least one of a caregiver, a patient, a medical device, a medication, and a medical substance.
US10347368B2	Method and system for microbiome-derived characterization, diagnostics, and therapeutics for cardiovascular disease conditions A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating a cardiovascular disease condition in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the cardiovascular disease condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the cardiovascular disease condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10347366B2	Method and system for microbiome-derived characterization, diagnostics, and therapeutics for cardiovascular disease conditions A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating a cardiovascular disease condition in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the cardiovascular disease condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the cardiovascular disease condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10347362B2	Method and system for microbiome-derived diagnostics and therapeutics for endocrine system conditions A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an endocrine system condition in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the endocrine system condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the endocrine system condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10347358B2	Memory system having impedance calibration circuit A memory system includes: a buffer memory device; and a memory controller configured to communicate data with the buffer memory device, wherein the memory controller includes: an input/output power voltage sensor configured to generate a first signal by sensing a change in input/output power voltage; and an impedance calibration circuit configured to perform an impedance calibration operation in response to the first signal.
US10347355B2	Device and method for repairing memory cell and memory system including the device Provided are a method and an apparatus for repairing a memory cell in a memory test system. A test device detects a fail address by testing a memory device according to a test command, and temporarily stores the fail address in a fail address memory (FAM). The fail address is transmitted to the memory device according to a fail address transmission mode, is temporarily stored in a temporary fail address storage of the memory device, and is then stored in an anti-fuse array, which is a non-volatile storage device. To secure the reliability of data, stored data can be read to verify the data and a verification result can be transmitted in series or in parallel to the test device.
US10347352B2	Discrete-time analog filtering According to an example, discrete-time analog filtering may include receiving an input signal, and sampling the input signal to determine sampled input signal values related to the input signal.
US10347350B2	Dynamic fuse sensing and latch circuit Systems and methods are directed to an integrated circuit to sense a state of a fuse having one of a blown state and an unblown state. The integrated circuit includes a fuse sensing circuit having an input and a plurality of outputs, the input being configured to receive a sense signal having a first state and a second state, and the plurality of outputs including a first output to connect to a first contact of the fuse, a second output to provide a first signal indicative of the state of the fuse, and a third output to provide a second signal indicative of the state of the fuse, the fuse sensing circuit being configured to provide the first and second signals responsive to a change in state of the sense signal, and a latch circuit having a first input to receive the first signal, a second input to receive the second signal, and an output to provide an output signal indicative of the state of the fuse, the latch circuit being configured to store and maintain a value of the output signal.
US10347338B2	Memory device and memory controller According to one embodiment, a memory controller transmits a first instruction to a memory device. The memory device includes cell transistors; word lines coupled to gates of the cell transistors; a first data latch; and a second latch. The first instruction instructs application of a positive voltage to one of the word lines. The memory controller transmits a second instruction after the transmission of the first instruction and before transmitting a third instruction. The third instruction instructs output of data from the memory device. The second instruction is different from the third instruction and a fourth instruction instructing copy of data from the first data latch to the second data latch.
US10347335B2	Node retainer circuit incorporating RRAM A retainer node circuit is provided that can retain state information of a volatile circuit element (e.g., a flip-flop, latch, switch, register, etc.) of an electronic device for planned or unplanned power-down events. The retainer node circuit can include a resistive-switching memory cell that is nonvolatile, having very fast read and write performance. Coupled with power management circuitry, the retainer node circuit can be activated to receive and store a signal (e.g., bit) output by the volatile circuit element, and activated to output the stored signal. Various embodiments disclose non-volatile retention of state information for planned shut-down events as well as unplanned shut-down events. With read and write speeds in the tens of nanoseconds, sleep mode can be provided for volatile circuit elements between clock cycles of longer time-frame applications, enabling intermittent power-down events between active periods. This enables reduction in power without loss of activity for an electronic device.
US10347329B2	Reflow protection Devices and techniques to reduce corruption of preloaded data during assembly are disclosed herein. A memory device can perform operations to store received data, including preloaded data, up to a threshold amount on a memory array in a reflow-protection mode, and to transition from the reflow-protection mode to a normal-operation mode after the initial data exceeds the threshold amount.
US10347307B2	Skew control circuit and interface circuit including the same A data interface circuit includes a first latch corresponding to a first data signal, and suitable for outputting first data based on toggling of a data strobe signal; a second latch corresponding to a second data signal, and suitable for outputting second data based on toggling of the data strobe signal; and a skew control circuit suitable for delaying the first data signal by a predetermined time, applying the delayed first data signal to the first latch, controlling the delayed first data signal based on a result of comparing the first data signal and the second data signal, and applying the controlled delayed first data signal to the second latch.
US10347301B2	Base unit and disk drive apparatus A base member includes a recessed portion extending in radial directions and recessed upward from a lower surface of the base member and a hole extending through the recessed portion in the vertical direction. The recessed portion includes a recessed portion loop-shaped surface defining a loop-shaped surface in the radial direction. A connector is located on a lower side of the recessed portion to cover the hole portion. An adhesive is located between the connector and the recessed portion. A minimum value of a gap distance in the radial direction between an outer end of the connector and an inner end of the recessed portion in which the outer end of the connector and the inner end of the recessed portion are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween is greater than a minimum value of a gap in the vertical direction distance between an upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface, in which the upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween. The adhesive includes an inorganic filler.
US10347292B2	Digital video recorder options for editing content A system for providing digital video recorder options for editing content is disclosed. In particular, the system may include receiving requests for a first version of media content and providing access to the first version of the media content. A user that accesses the first version of the media content may select a portion of the media content, and indicate whether, for example, the portion should be skipped, modified, or emphasized when the media content is accessed on a subsequent occasion. The system, based on the selection and indication, may edit the first version of the media content to create a second version of the media content. When a subsequent attempt is made to access the first version of the media content, the system may provide the user with the option to access the second version of the media content.
US10347284B2	Fragmented data storage bands An implementation of a system disclosed herein provides a method for managing data streams of sequential nature, wherein the method writes the sequential chunks (fragments) directly to an open band in the order these are received from the host and includes determining an end of the incoming data write request related to streaming data and in response to the determination of the end of the incoming data write request related to streaming data, copying remaining data from a current physical band mapped to logical block addresses LBAs related to the data write requests to the allocated (open) band.
US10347281B2	Structures and methods for templated growth of high areal density heat assisted magnetic recording media Methods are disclosed for increasing areal density in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) data storage systems by controlling the media layer grain size, grain size distribution, and pitch via templating techniques that are compatible with the high temperature HAMR media deposition. Embodiments include using current HAMR media seed layers as well as additionally introduced interlayers for the templating process. Topographic as well as chemical templating methods are disclosed that may employ nanoimprint technology or nanoparticle self-assembly among other patterning techniques.
US10347279B2	Magnetic tape having characterized backcoat layer and method of manufacturing the same A magnetic tape has a magnetic layer and a backcoat layer. Each of the magnetic layer and the backcoat layer contains a fatty acid ester. The Ra measured on the magnetic layer side surface is less than or equal to 2.8 nm. The difference between the spacing measured by optical interferometry on the magnetic layer side surface after and before vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 8.0 nm. The FWHMbefore on the backcoat layer side surface is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 10.0 nm. The FWHMafter on the backcoat layer side surface is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 10.0 nm. The difference between the spacing measured on the backcoat layer side surface after and before vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 8.0 nm.
US10347274B2	Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shaping An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal, includes: a spectral domain audio decoder for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions being spectral prediction residual values; a frequency regenerator for generating a reconstructed second spectral portion using a first spectral portion of the first set of first spectral portions, wherein the reconstructed second spectral portion additionally includes spectral prediction residual values; and an inverse prediction filter for performing an inverse prediction over frequency using the spectral residual values for the first set of first spectral portions and the reconstructed second spectral portion using prediction filter information included in the encoded audio signal.
US10347272B2	De-reverberation control method and apparatus for device equipped with microphone Provided are a de-reverberation control method and apparatus for a device equipped with a microphone. The method includes: reverberation parameters which indicate, at respective moments, reverberation levels of a room environment where the device is located are acquired from an audio signal played by the device; and a de-reverberation mode adopted by the device is dynamically adjusted according to the reverberation levels indicated by the reverberation parameters at different moments and preset correspondences between reverberation levels and de-reverberation modes. By adopting a dynamic de-reverberation mode, the method and the apparatus disclosed herein significantly improve the rate of the recognition of a device for the voice of the user.
US10347268B2	Device and method for calculating loudspeaker signals for a plurality of loudspeakers while using a delay in the frequency domain A device for calculating loudspeaker signals for a plurality of loudspeakers while using a plurality of audio sources, an audio source including an audio signal, includes a forward transform stage for transforming each audio signal, block-by-block, to a spectral domain so as to obtain for each audio signal a plurality of temporally consecutive short-term spectra, a memory for storing a plurality of temporally consecutive short-term spectra for each audio signal, a memory access controller for accessing a specific short-term spectrum among the plurality of short-term spectra for a combination consisting of a loudspeaker and an audio signal on the basis of a delay value, a filter stage for filtering the specific short-term spectrum for the combination of the audio signal and the loudspeaker by using a filter provided for the combination of the audio signal and the loudspeaker, so that a filtered shot-term spectrum is obtained for each combination of an audio signal and a loudspeaker, a summing stage for summing up the filtered short-term spectra for a loudspeaker so as to obtain summed-up short-term spectra for each loudspeaker, and a backtransform stage for backtransforming, block-by-block, summed-up short-term spectra for the loudspeakers to a time domain so as to obtain the loudspeaker signals.
US10347257B2	Encoding method and apparatus Present disclosure provide an audio signal encoding method and encoder, which relate to the communications field and can perform proper bit allocation for spectral coefficients of an audio signal. The method includes: splitting spectral coefficients of a current frame into subbands, acquiring quantized energy envelopes of the subbands; adjusting quantized energy envelopes values of some subbands; perform bit allocation according to adjusted quantized energy envelopes of the some subbands; quantizing a spectral coefficient of a subband to which at least one bit is allocated after the bit allocation.
US10347248B2	System and method for providing in-vehicle services via a natural language voice user interface A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact with the user in a cooperative, conversational dialogue to resolve the requests. Through dynamic awareness of context, available sources of information, domain knowledge, user behavior and preferences, and external systems and devices, among other things, the voice user interface may provide an integrated environment in which the user can speak conversationally, using natural language, to issue queries, commands, or other requests relating to the navigation services provided in the environment.
US10347239B2	Recognizing accented speech Techniques (300, 400, 500) and apparatuses (100, 200, 700) for recognizing accented speech are described. In some embodiments, an accent module recognizes accented speech using an accent library based on device data, uses different speech recognition correction levels based on an application field into which recognized words are set to be provided, or updates an accent library based on corrections made to incorrectly recognized speech.
US10347234B2	Selective suppression of audio emitted from an audio source Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement selective suppression of audio emitted from an audio source are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining, at a portable device, data transmitted at a first time by a transmitter associated with an audio source, the data including reference audio data corresponding to a first audio signal to be output by the audio source at a second time after the first time, the data further specifying a time delay corresponding to a difference between the second time and the first time. Disclosed example methods also include generating, based on the reference audio data and the time delay, a suppression audio signal to provide to an audio output driver in communication with a speaker of the portable device to suppress the first audio signal when the first audio signal is output by the audio source at the second time.
US10347229B2	Electronic musical instrument, method of controlling the electronic musical instrument, and recording medium An electronic musical instrument allows a player to operate operators as least number of times as possible to play music, and the player can play music easily and agreeably, using the instrument. Every measure decided by plural beats counted based on a designated meter a prior tone is determined from among automatic playing music data. The prior tone is a musical tone which is made note-on for example at a timing of a downbeat in the measure. If a candidate for the prior tone is one of chord composing tones, and the one of chord composing tones can compose a melody, then such musical tone is decided as the prior tone. The prior tones successively decided from the beginning of the automatic playing music data are indicated to the player as lighted up keys. The player operates the lighted up keys successively to perform the automatic playing music data.
US10347224B2	Key of keyboard instrument A key in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a key body, a hook, a weight, and a stopper. When the weight is accommodated in a hole of the key body, the weight is supported inside of the hole at least at the following two points: a point α where the stopper is caught on the hook; and a point γ where the weight abuts on a wall surface of the hole, when the weight is rotated about the point α.
US10347220B1	Data compression and decompression method for DeMura table Disclosed is a data compression method for DeMura table, including steps of: acquiring an original DeMura table of a display panel; designating compensation data in four neighboring rows in the original DeMura table as a fragment to be fetched in a fetch cycle and periodically fetching compensation data per fetch cycle; permuting fetched compensation data so as to create a compressed DeMura table; and storing the compressed DeMura table in a storage device, wherein the step of periodically fetching compensation data includes sub-steps of: fetching the compensation data in odd-numbered columns from the first row of the original DeMura table; and fetching the compensation data in even-numbered columns from the third row and fetching the compensation data in the first column from the third row of the original DeMura table. Also disclosed is a data decompression method for DeMura table. The invention can save storage space and lower cost.
US10347217B2	Placement of graphic elements of GUI with region of interest Apparatuses, methods, and storage media associated with placing graphical elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) in view of a region of interests (ROI) are disclosed herein. An apparatus may comprise a GUI manager to receive a designation of a region of interest, ROI, of a first graphical element of a GUI to be rendered on a display device; and to place a second graphical element into the GUI in view of the ROI of the first graphical element. The GUI manager may be loaded into the memory and executed by the processor circuitry of a computing device. The first graphical element may have one or more ROIs, and there may be one or more instances of the first graphical element, placed over one or more display devices.
US10347202B2	Driving method and driving device for reducing electromagnetic interference Disclosed are a driving method and a driving device for reducing electromagnetic interference. A method for driving a source-chip on film S-COF and a timing controller TCON is provided as: the timing controller TCON first outputs initial data A stored in the source-chip on film S-COF; it is determined whether data received is correct by comparing transmission data received by the source-chip on film S-COF with initial data A built in the source-chip on film S-COF, and if a determination result is no, a swing value of transmission data mini-LVDS is adjusted by the timing controller TCON.
US10347199B2	Driving methods and driving devices of display panels The present disclosure relates to a driving method and a driving device of display panels. The driving method includes: obtaining three-color sub-pixel data of each of pixels of a current image, obtaining a saturation value corresponding to each of the pixels in accordance with the three-color sub-pixel data of each of the pixels, obtaining a current background-white ratio in accordance with the three-color sub-pixel data and the saturation value of each of the pixels, determining whether the current background-white ratio is within a predetermined adjustment range, and reducing a white grayscale value of four-color sub-pixel data of the current image in accordance with the current background-white ratio and outputting the reduced white grayscale value to a display panel. In this way, the darker pure-color effect due to the high contrast may be reduced, which effectively enhances the darker pure-color issue of the RGBW display panel.
US10347195B2	Display unit, method of driving display unit, and electronic apparatus A display unit includes: a display section having an electrophoretic display device provided among a plurality of first electrodes and a second electrode, and displaying an image by switching a white, black, or gray-scale display state depending on an applied voltage; and a drive circuit driving the display section by varying a voltage applied to the first electrodes, while holding the second electrode at a common potential during a write period including frame period(s). When a first region of the display section has a first display state of white or black during a first write period, and an image of a second region thereof is changed while holding the first display state at the first region upon switchover from the first write period to a temporally-continued second write period, the drive circuit offsets the common potential toward a direction in which a voltage applied to the first region is raised.
US10347194B2	Display device and method for driving same A display device (10) includes a light source (19), a light guide plate (18), a display panel (11), a panel driving unit that outputs, to the display panel (11), a signal for controlling a transmittance of each pixel of the display panel (11), and a light source driving unit (16). Light can pass through a back surface of the light guide plate (18), which is a surface opposed to the emission surface of the light guide plate (18). The light source driving unit (16) drives the light source (19) based on the lighting control data. In a case where an image is displayed when the light source (19) is in ON state, the display panel (11) displays a color image, by controlling, pixel by pixel, a transmittance of light that passes from the light source (19) through the emission surface of the light guide plate. In a case where an image is displayed when the light source (19) is in OFF state, the display panel (11) displays a transmitted light image that includes a transmitting region through which the back of the display device (10) can be seen, by controlling, pixel by pixel, a transmittance of light that passes through the back surface of the light guide plate (18) and is incident on the display panel (11).
US10347193B2	Electronic device including display and method of applying privacy filter A method of applying a privacy filter to display information on a display of an electronic device, includes receiving information for display on the display of the electronic device, detecting a light condition of the display, and applying a privacy filter setting based on the light condition of the display.
US10347171B2	Imaging device including timing generator that generates vertical synchronization signal after number of lines of valid image signal reaches number of valid lines of vertical scanning period A display control device controls an image displayed on a display unit based on an image signal synchronized with a horizontal synchronization signal and a control signal indicating that the image signal is valid or invalid. The device includes: an input unit that inputs a valid image signal based on the control signal; an output unit that outputs the input valid image signal to the display unit; and a comparison unit that compares the number of lines of which the image signal becomes valid with the number of valid lines of one frame.
US10347166B2	Electronic device and operating method thereof Disclosed is a method enabling a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) to manage rendering a screen display transition effect during changing of a display mode. The method enables the DDI to render a screen display transition effect, thereby achieving a smooth display mode transition even when the application processor is in an overload condition.
US10347162B2	Multi-panel display project board with integral header and footer whose panels pivot A multi-panel display board that has a plurality of panels, which include a central panel, two transition panels, two side panels, a header panel and a footer panel. The header panel and the footer panel each flex in an analogous manner with each other between a fold-in orientation and a fold-out orientation and they extend from panel creases that lie between the side panels and the transition panels. The central panel is between the transition panels and separated from them by transition creases. Both the header panel and footer panel have segment creases about which portions of them pivot. A platform extends over the footer panel and simultaneously extends underneath the two transition panels and the central panel.
US10347160B2	Electronic apparatus having rollable display device An electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first body and a second body configured to move with respect to each other, a rollable display, a roller rotatably supported in the first body, wherein a first end portion of the rollable display is fixed to the roller and the rollable display is wound around an outer circumference of the roller, and a tensile force application portion configured to apply an elastic force to the roller to rotate in a direction to wind the display, the tensile force application portion rotating with the roller, in which, as the first body and second body move with respect to each other, the rollable display is wound around the roller to be accommodated in the first body or is released from the roller to expanding between the first body and the second body in a length direction.
US10347158B2	Produce wash label A dissolvable produce washing label includes a dissolvable facestock impregnated with a produce cleanser; an adhesive layer; and a coating to seal and protect from water and humidity. When rubbed and washed with water by the end user the top coating wears and breaks to expose the dissolvable substrate, thereby dissolving the facestock and releasing the produce wash.
US10347157B2	Trauma training system A system for simulating one or more hemorrhages in order to provide a more dynamic and realistic hemorrhage simulation in order to train medical personnel and other critical care givers, such as first responders, medics, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) on treating hemorrhages. The system includes a reservoir, a flow controller, and at least one conduit connected to at least one simulated wound site wherein the system supplies fluid to the simulated wound site in order to simulate a hemorrhage. The system may further include a plurality of wound sites that have their respective fluid flows controlled by the fluid flow controller. In at least one embodiment, the reservoir and the flow controller are housed within a bag. In at least one embodiment, the system further includes an audio system for providing audio cues to the simulation participants to enhance the realism of the simulation.
US10347142B2	Air traffic system using procedural trajectory prediction In one example, a method for generating air traffic alerts includes determining a predicted trajectory for a target air-craft, based at least in part on a comparison of information received on a recent trajectory of the target aircraft with a set of procedural trajectory information. The method further includes determining whether a violation of protected airspace is predicted between the target aircraft and an ownship, based at least in part on the predicted trajectory for the target aircraft and a predicted trajectory for the ownship. The method further includes generating an alert output in response to determining that the violation of protected airspace is predicted.
US10347134B2	System for navigating drivers to selected locations to reduce passenger wait time In one embodiment, passenger demand for transportation by a driver associated with a transportation service is estimated for a first plurality of locations within a geographical region. A wait time parameter is determined for the geographical region, wherein the wait time parameter is based on one or more expected wait times associated with one or more locations of the geographical region, wherein an expected wait time is an estimate of the time that would elapse from a submission of a transportation request from the associated location until a driver of the transportation service will arrive at the associated location. A plurality of drivers are directed to a second plurality of locations within the geographical region based on the estimated passenger demand and the wait time parameter.
US10347132B1	Adjacent pedestrian collision mitigation One general aspect includes a system to send a distress notification, the system including a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to: receive pedestrian movement information from a pedestrian detection sensor; receive third-party vehicle movement information from a vehicle detection sensor; and based at least in part on both the pedestrian movement information and third-party vehicle movement information, provide a collision warning notification.
US10347124B1	Traffic light enhancement device and method A traffic light enhancement device for a traffic light comprises a light bulb having a color which is present in the traffic light for installation at the traffic light to replace an existing lightbulb of corresponding color in the traffic light. A processor is provided and associated with the lightbulb for measuring the duration for which the color is illuminated in the normal operation of the traffic light. A lightbulb display is provided in the light bulb for displaying the color based on processor measurements in changing configurations according to remaining duration for which the color is illuminated.
US10347123B2	Method for controlling the light distribution of a luminaire Method for controlling the light distribution of a traffic route luminaire (1) in a network of luminaires, which is preferably also organized as a mesh network. The luminaire has a luminaire head having a settable light module and a controller, the light distribution of the luminaire being variable. The luminaire communicates luminaire data to at least one server, the luminaire data being luminaire-specific and including the installation location of the luminaire. The method comprises the steps of: —automatically allocating a light distribution to the luminaire (1) in accordance with the communicated luminaire data; —automatically setting the light module on the basis of the allocated light distribution; and determining, by said at least one server, a light distribution class of the traffic route luminaire on the basis of a traffic route topology (2,3,4,5,6).
US10347113B1	Alerting system and method Aspects of the present disclosure relate to alerting. A server accesses a user-provided specification, the user-provided specification indicating an initial alert range for a measured value and a subsequent alert schedule for the measured value. The server monitors a physical measurement of the measured value. The server determines that the physical measurement falls within the initial alert range. The server provides an initial alert in response to the physical measurement falling within the initial alert range. The server provides a subsequent alert according to the subsequent alert schedule in the user-provided specification.
US10347108B2	Monitoring user activity using wearable motion sensing device Facilitation of monitoring and analysis of user motion is performed to facilitate detecting when a user has fallen. A device can comprise a housing configured to attach to a body part of a human, a sensor module configured to capture motion data corresponding to motion of an object to which the device is attached, and a communication module configured to communicatively couple the sensor module to another device and transmit the motion data to the other device, wherein the motion data is configured to be analyzed by the other device to determine a type of the motion of the object, and in response to a determination that the type of motion is a falling motion, the other device is configured to activate a notification mechanism to notify an entity that the human has fallen.
US10347107B1	Method and apparatus for avoiding traffic casualties An apparatus including a motor vehicle; a computer processor; a computer memory; a speaker; and a switch responsive to opening of a door of the motor vehicle. The computer processor, computer memory, speaker, and switch are fixed to the motor vehicle. The computer processor executes computer software stored in the computer memory to cause the speaker to emit a sound message, indicating that a driver should not text and drive, in response to the activation of the switch upon opening of the door of the motor vehicle. Further a combination apparatus including a civilian driver's license apparatus; and a master driver's license apparatus; wherein the master's license apparatus is configured to come in close proximity to the civilian driver's license apparatus to enable the civilian driver's license apparatus to operate a motor vehicle.
US10347104B2	Coded tags encoded using different magnetic materials and systems and methods of detecting coded tags A method includes printing a first magnetic material onto a substrate. The first magnetic material has a first magnetic characteristic and encodes first information based on the first magnetic characteristic. The method further includes printing a second magnetic material onto the substrate. The second magnetic material encodes second information and has a second magnetic characteristic different from the first magnetic characteristic. The second information is encoded based on the second magnetic characteristic.
US10347100B2	Information processing system, method and computer readable medium for determining whether moving bodies appearing in first and second videos are the same or not A similarity computation unit (130) derives a first probability P indicating that a first moving body appearing in the first video is the same as a second moving body appearing in the second video on the basis of similarity of feature value of the moving bodies. A non-appearance probability computation unit (140) derives a second probability Q indicating that the first moving body is not the same as the second moving body on the basis of an elapsed time after the first moving body exits from the first video. A person determination unit (150) determines whether the first moving body is the same as the second moving body by comparing the probability P and Q.
US10347098B2	Wearables security device A merchandise display security device for displaying and protecting a wearable device from theft is provided. In one example, the wearable device includes a body and a band secured thereto. The merchandise security device includes a sensor configured to be coupled to the wearable device between the body and the band. The sensor includes a sensing device configured to detect unauthorized removal of the body from the band.
US10347094B1	Skin stretch instrument A sensor records information about skin stretch perceived by a user based on an interaction with a real object. The sensor includes a mechanical housing configured to be worn on a finger of a user, and a mechanism coupled to the mechanical housing. The mechanism includes a first bearing that rotates in a first direction in response to an interaction with a surface. The mechanism also includes a second bearing coupled to the first bearing, such that rotation of the first bearing causes the second bearing to rotate in a direction opposite to the first direction. The second bearing is in contact with a portion of the finger, and includes a feedback surface that simulates a force associated with the interaction with the surface. The sensor includes a controller configured to monitor rotation of the second bearing and record skin stretch information responsive to the interaction with the surface.
US10347087B2	Systems, apparatuses and methods enhancing gaming outcome opportunities Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing game features. In a game of chance involving at least one outcome, a plurality of alternative outcomes can be derived for a gaming event, such as when one of the outcomes will provide a payout at or above a certain level. The player is presented with an opportunity to select among the alternative outcomes, without being aware of the particular characteristics or values associated with the outcomes. While the player will only select the outcome having the payout at/above the threshold level a certain percentage of the time, the opportunity can be presented to the player more often, while keeping the mathematical probabilities the same or similar if desired, thereby providing the player with the feeling of getting higher value opportunities more often.
US10347086B2	Lottery-type game based upon at least two casino games A lottery-type game is enabled via two or more casino games such as keno or video poker games. If the outcome of the first game is winning, the player may be awarded first winnings. If the outcome of the second game is winning, the player may be awarded second winnings. Regardless of the outcomes of the base games, if designated indicia comprising certain indicia from the first and second games match a selected set of indicia, then the lottery-type game is winning. In the case of a keno game, the designated indicia may be certain player numbers from the keno games and in the case of a poker game, certain player-selected cards. The selected set of indicia may comprise drawn keno numbers or dealt cards.
US10347079B2	Gaming device having advance game information analyzer This concept is directed to methods of operating a gaming device to analyze game information that is part of a gaming event having a player interaction in advance of the player interaction to make a determination about the game play. These methods may be used for a variety of gaming devices such as slot machines, video keno devices, video poker machines, electronic table games, internet gaming terminals, etc. In each type of gaming device, these operation methods evaluate future game information during game play to determine one of multiple manners by which the game play will continue. These continuation manners may include changing the speed of game play, determining display characteristics of the game and outcome, providing tips or information to the player about the future game information, automatically initiating a subsequent game, or otherwise altering an aspect of the game play parameters in response to the evaluated game information.
US10347077B2	Hybrid game element management An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive real credits, including a real world engine configured to provide a randomly generated payout for a gambling game and a game world engine configured to manage an entertainment software engine to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game are provided. In operation, an amount of real world credits are wagered in the real world engine, a randomly generated payout of real world credits is determined based upon the wagered amount using the real world engine, a number of elements are added that are ascribed to a player and that are scaled according to a scaling ratio set by the game world engine relative to the payout of real world credits using the game world engine.
US10347073B2	Systems and methods for three dimensional games in gaming systems An electronic gaming machine, an electronic gaming system, and a computer-implemented method for providing three dimensional selection games in a gaming system are disclosed. The electronic gaming machines includes: at least one processor; at least one persistent data store; at least one receiver to receive game data for storage in the at least one persistent data store; and a display device configured with a user interface to display: 1) a multi-faceted gaming surface comprising at least two gaming surface representations; and 2) a portion of the game data as a first set of 3D game components on one or more of the at least two gaming surface representations in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game, each one of the 3D game components having a symbol associated thereto.
US10347072B2	Enhanced electronic gaming machine with dynamic gaze display A method of operating an electronic gaming machine includes generating an interactive game environment in accordance with game data, the interactive game environment having a viewing area may include a plurality of visible game components as a subset of the interactive game environment, displaying the viewing area with the plurality of visible game components, monitoring eye gaze of a player to collect player eye gaze data, determining a location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area using the player eye gaze data, and in response to the location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area, changing a resolution of a portion of the viewing area other than a portion of the viewing area corresponding to location of the eye gaze of the player on the viewing area. Related electronic gaming machines are also disclosed.
US10347066B2	Monitoring removal and replacement of tools within an inventory control system An inventory control system is described that includes a tool storage device including a drawer or a tray providing a pallet, wherein the pallet includes storage locations for objects; a sensing device configured to form an image of the storage locations; and a data processor configured to determine presence or absence of the pallet and presence or absence of objects within the storage locations of the pallet using the information from the image.
US10347064B2	Digital door lock system using wireless power transmission A digital door lock system includes a receiving antenna matching unit configured to receive a power signal wirelessly transmitted from the wireless power transmitting device; a full-wave rectifying unit configured to convert a sinusoidal signal waveform outputted from the receiving antenna matching unit to one of constant polarity; a voltage regulating unit configured to stabilize a signal outputted from the full-wave rectifying unit; a secondary battery configured to supply a power in case of power outage; an excessive charging/discharging preventing unit configured to charge the secondary battery by a stabilized power of the voltage regulating unit and having an excessive charging/discharging preventing function; and a power supply unit configured to supply the power of the voltage regulating unit to the respective units of the system and to supply the power of the secondary battery to the respective units of the system in the case of power outage.
US10347056B2	Apparatus and method for monitoring vehicle ON/OFF state The presence of a powered CAN bus is a good indicator of whether an aftermarket telematics device powered by a vehicle OBD port should enter a low-power mode to prevent unwanted battery drain, as the vehicle will remove power from the CAN bus when it determines the vehicle is not in use. Circuitry in the telematics device monitors the voltage on the CAN bus wires of the OBD port to determine whether the CAN voltage is above or below some threshold, such as 1V. This enables the vehicle ON/OFF status to be determined reliably without any additional wiring in the vehicle. The circuitry may include a simple, inexpensive, and low-power integrated circuit comparator, an operational amplifier, or an ADC to determine whether the vehicle is ON or OFF based on the CAN voltage. A very simple embodiment uses a single MOSFET and resistor to detect the vehicle ON/OFF state.
US10347042B2	Importance sampling of sparse voxel octrees Techniques are disclosed for generating quality renderings of volumes by sampling a volume light by generating and analyzing a sparse voxel octree. In one embodiment, a volumetric light source may be divided into voxels and importance information stored in an octree. An importance value may be determined for each voxel based on the amount of emitted light in the region associated with that voxel. Importance values regarding the individual voxels may be stored in the leaves of the octree. Each interior node may be associated with an importance value equal to the sum of the importance values of its children. The root node may be associated with the total importance of the entire octree.
US10347040B2	Hybrid streaming The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for displaying a 3D assembly of modeled objects. The method comprises streaming from a first computer to a second computer at least one raster image of a first 3D modeled object, and rendering on the second computer the 3D assembly of modeled objects by merging a second 3D modeled object with the streamed at least one raster image.
US10347033B2	Three-dimensional image display apparatus, method, and program A structure extraction unit extracts a heart region from a three-dimensional image of a chest, an image display control unit displays a volume rendering of the extracted heart region, an information adding unit adds additional information such as text and voice to a VR image displayed according to desired display conditions which include an image orientation. The display conditions when the additional information is added are stored with the additional information as designated display conditions. An allowable range setting unit sets a predetermined allowable range for the designated display conditions. During subsequent display of the VR image, an information reproducing unit enables the added information to be reproduced when display conditions are within the allowable range of the designated display conditions.
US10347030B2	Adjusting depth of augmented reality content on a heads up display Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for adjusting depth of AR content on HUD. A viewing device identifies, based on sensor data, a physical object visible through a transparent display of the vehicle. The sensor data indicates an initial distance of the physical object from the vehicle. The viewing device gathers virtual content corresponding to the physical object and generates an initial presentation of the virtual content based on the initial distance. The viewing device presents the initial presentation of the virtual content on the transparent display at a position on the transparent display corresponding to the physical object. The viewing device determines, based on updated sensor data, an updated distance of the physical object and generates an updated presentation of the virtual content based on the updated distance. The viewing device presents the updated presentation of the virtual content on the transparent display of the vehicle.
US10347026B2	Information processing apparatus with location based display An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that, when position information on a movable object is changed, changes a display size of an image associated with the movable object and displays the image.
US10347015B2	Method for identifying biomarkers using a probability map A method of forming a probability map is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include: (1) obtaining multiple measures of multiple imaging parameters for every stop of a moving window on an image, wherein two neighboring ones of the stops of the moving window are partially overlapped with each other; (2) obtaining first probabilities of an event for the stops of the moving window by matching the measures of the imaging parameters to a classifier; and (3) obtaining second probabilities of the event for multiple voxels of a probability map based on information associated with the first probabilities.
US10347009B1	Self callbrating camera system The present invention describes a system for calibrating a plurality of cameras in an area. The system method and device functions by using moving objects to calibrate, in particular using people. In addition, the system implements automatic re-calibration in a specific way to reduce human intervention, cost and time.
US10347005B2	Object state identification method, object state identification apparatus, and carrier A carrier for carrying an object includes a fork that is vertically movable to carry the object and that is able to be inserted into an opening of a flat portion of the object, a sensor that obtains actual measured values at a plurality of points on the flat portion of the object, and an object state identification device that identifies, based on the actual measured values, an object state including at least one of a position and a posture of the object with respect to the sensor.
US10346990B2	Detecting facial liveliness Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for detecting facial liveliness are provided. Implementations include actions of processing first and second facial images of a subject to determine first and second corneal reflections of an object, the first and second facial images being captured at first and second sequential time points, determining a corneal reflection change of the object based on the determined first and second corneal reflections, comparing the determined corneal reflection change of the object to a motion associated with the first and second time points, and determining facial liveliness of the subject based on a result of the comparison.
US10346989B2	Method and system for calculating a displacement of an object of interest The invention relates to a method of calculating a displacement of an object of interest comprising a step of calculating (101) a displacement model of said object of interest from adjacent images of a set of pre-acquired images of said object of interest, said displacement model reflects the position of said object of interest along the time. The method is characterized in that the method further comprises the following. A step of determining (102) a first sub-set of images (S1) from said set of pre acquired images within one periodical time cycle of said set of pre-acquired images on the basis of the displacement model. A first step of identifying (103) a second sub-set of images (S2) from newly-acquired images, wherein images in said second sub-set of images (S2) are consecutive and have the same most similar image in said first sub-set of images (S1), wherein a first set of similarity levels is determined by comparing a given image in said newly acquired images with each image of said first sub-set of images (S1), and wherein said most similar image has the largest similarity level in said first set of similarity levels. A first step of selecting (104) a given image in said second sub-set of images (S2) as a first reference image (I1). A second step of identifying (105) a third sub-set of images (S3) from said newly-acquired images, wherein images in said third sub-set of images (S3) are consecutive and have the same most similar image in said first sub-set of images (S1), wherein a set of similarity levels is determined by comparing a given image in said newly acquired images with each image of said first sub-set of images (S1), and wherein said most similar image has the largest similarity level in said set of similarity levels. A second step of selecting (106) a given image in said third sub-set of images (S3) as a second reference image (I2). A step of calculating (107) the displacement between said second reference image (I2) and said first reference image (I1). The invention also relates to a corresponding system of displacement calculation.
US10346988B2	Method for generating foreground using multiple background models and apparatus thereof Provided is a method for generating a foreground in a foreground generating apparatus, the method including: extracting a plurality of foregrounds by applying a plurality of background models to an image, the plurality of background models having different ranges of a pixel variance value; generating an intersection foreground based on an intersection region among the extracted plurality of foregrounds; generating a union foreground based on a union region among the extracted plurality of foregrounds; and generating a final foreground based on the intersection foreground and the union foreground.
US10346985B1	Gaze-based control of device operations Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for gaze-based control of device operations. One method includes receiving a video stream from an imaging device, the video stream depicting one or more eyes, determining a gaze direction for the one or more eyes depicted in the video stream, detecting a change in the gaze direction of the one or more eyes, and triggering an operation in a client device based on the change in the gaze direction.
US10346976B2	Adaptive navigation technique for navigating a catheter through a body channel or cavity A method for using an assembled three-dimensional image to construct a three-dimensional model for determining a path through a lumen network to a target. The three-dimensional model is automatically registered to an actual location of a probe by tracking and recording the positions of the probe and continually adjusting the registration between the model and a display of the probe position. The registration algorithm becomes dynamic (elastic) as the probe approaches smaller lumens in the periphery of the network where movement has a bigger impact on the registration between the model and the probe display.
US10346975B2	Computerized analysis of computed tomography (CT) imagery to quantify tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments predict tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) density from pre-surgical computed tomography images of a region of tissue demonstrating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). One example apparatus includes a set of circuits that includes an image acquisition circuit that accesses a radiological image of a region of tissue demonstrating cancerous pathology, where the radiological image has a plurality of pixels, and where the radiological image includes an annotated region of interest (ROI), a feature extraction circuit that extracts a set of radiomic features from the ROI, where the set of radiomic features includes at least two texture features and at least one shape feature, and a classification circuit that comprises a machine learning classifier that classifies the ROI as high tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) density, or low TIL density, based, at least in part, on the set of radiomic features.
US10346966B2	Non-destructive inspection methods and systems A non-destructive inspection method that comprises obtaining one or more images corresponding to an X-ray, scanning electron microscope, or CT scan of an object, assigning numeric values to pixels of the images, comparing the numeric values to reference numeric values, and identifying an anomaly in the object based on the comparison. A non-destructive inspection system that comprises at least one processor, a memory in communication with the processor and storing instructions that causes the processor to obtain an image corresponding to an X-ray, scanning electron microscope, or CT scan of an object, assign numeric values to pixels of the image, compare the assigned numeric values to reference numeric values, and identify an anomaly in the object based on the comparison.
US10346965B2	Conductive film, display device having the same, and method of evaluating conductive film A conductive film has a polygonal wiring pattern which allows an indicator of evaluation of noises to be equal to or less than an evaluation threshold value. Here, from at least one point of view, in frequencies and intensities of noises each calculated for each color from first and second peak frequencies and first and second peak intensities of 2DFFT spectra of transmittance image data of a combined wiring pattern including a random mesh pattern of a plurality of thin metal lines of a wiring portion and luminance image data of a pixel array pattern of each color at the time of lighting on for each single color, the indicator of evaluation of noise is calculated from evaluation values of noises of the respective colors obtained by applying human visual response characteristics in accordance with an observation distance to intensities of the noises equal to or greater than a first intensity threshold value among intensities of the noises at frequencies of noises equal to or less than a frequency threshold value defined by a display resolution of a display unit.
US10346960B2	Apparatus and method for correcting a flicker in a video, and video device The disclosure discloses an apparatus and method for correcting a flicker in a video, and a video device, the method including: determining a correction weight for correcting grayscale values of a current frame of video image according to a ratio of a variance of a histogram of mapped grayscale values of a last frame of video image to a variance of a histogram of grayscale values of the last frame of video image, and a contrast enhancement upper limit parameter input by a user, and/or a largest percentage of the number of pixels with a same grayscale among a total number of pixels in the histogram of the grayscale values of the last frame of video image, and the contrast enhancement upper limit parameter input by the user; and, determining resulting grayscale values of the current frame of video image according to the correction weight.
US10346959B2	Processing apparatus, processing system, image pickup apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A processing apparatus includes a corrector that, when the object is sequentially irradiated with light from three or more light sources with mutually different positions, corrects a light source condition to calculate surface normal information of an object on the basis of brightness of each of the light sources.
US10346958B2	Methods for agronomic and agricultural monitoring using unmanned aerial systems A method for agronomic and agricultural monitoring includes designating an area for imaging, determining a flight path above the designated area, operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) along the flight path, acquiring images of the area using a camera system attached to the UAV, and processing the acquired images.
US10346957B2	Method for image improvement of image data from a dental image generation system In a method for image enhancement of image data of a dental image generation system, comprising a first image generating unit (205, 210) for producing two-dimensional image data and a second image generating unit (250, 255) for producing three-dimensional image data, wherein for an object to be examined (220, 222) the image generation system provides both two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional image data, it is in particular provided that the two-dimensional image data and the three-dimensional image data are merged in such a way that the image quality and/or the information content of the two-dimensional image data or of the three-dimensional image data is improved.
US10346955B2	Image-filtering method and image-filtering device An image-filtering method that includes the steps outlined below is provided. Target image values and an input image having input pixel values are retrieved. A difference function between filtering response values of a desired output image and the target image values is determined, wherein the filtering response values are generated by filtering desired output pixel values of the desired output image based on characteristic filtering coefficients. An optimal solution of a desired output central pixel value of the desired output image is calculated according to a linear equation related to the characteristic filtering coefficients, wherein the optimal solution minimizes a value of the difference function. A corresponding relation between the desired output central pixel values and the input pixel values are retrieved from the optimal solution to calculate optimal filtering coefficients. A filtering circuit performs filtering on each pixel of an image under processing according to the optimal filtering coefficients.
US10346952B2	Automated seamline construction for high-quality high-resolution orthomosaics A system for semi-automated feature extraction comprising an image analysis server that receives and initializes a plurality of raster images, a feature extraction server that identifies and extracts image features, a mosaic server that assembles mosaics from multiple images, and a rendering engine that provides visual representations of images for review by a human user, and a method for generating a cost raster utilizing the system of the invention.
US10346949B1	Image registration Systems and methods for computationally efficient and precise transformation recovery using two image frames are provided. A key image frame and a tracked image frame are selected from a series of image frames, a plurality of points on the key image frame are selected, and the plurality of points are then projected onto the tracked image frame to produce a number of corresponding points. Then, for each corresponding point, a patch of pixels is defined centered on the corresponding point. Each pixel of the patch is reprojected back onto the key image frame to identify a reprojected pixel in that image frame. An intensity value for each reprojected pixel is determined and each patch is parameterized. A normal equation for each patch is determined and then solved for the transformation.
US10346940B2	Robot system and production system A robot system includes an image pickup apparatus that picks up images of a plurality of kinds of articles conveyed by a conveyor; an article controlling portion that controls time and a position of each of the plurality of kinds of articles being supplied onto the conveyor, to limit kinds of articles to be image-picked-up by the image pickup apparatus in advance; a detecting portion that detects the plurality of kinds of articles from among images picked up by the image pickup apparatus, on the basis of the kinds of articles limited in advance by the article controlling portion; and a robot that is configured to take out the plurality of kinds of articles detected by the detecting portion from the conveyor.
US10346937B2	Litigation support in cloud-hosted file sharing and collaboration In embodiments, the disclosure provides a method for managing content, including providing an electronic discovery facility of a secure data exchange environment, wherein at least one of a plurality of users of a first entity utilizes a network-based content storage service of a second entity to store content, and wherein the storage and access of the content with the network-based content storage service is tracked by the electronic discovery facility. The method includes receiving, at the electronic discovery facility, a discovery request, the discovery request comprising a request for a legal counsel of a third entity to access content stored on the network-based content storage service, the discovery request being, for example, in association with a litigation discovery action in relation to the first entity. Further, the method includes identifying and securing, by the electronic discovery facility and as a result of the discovery request, at least one item of content on the network-based content storage service; and providing, by the electronic discovery facility of the secure data exchange environment, access to the identified and secured item of content stored on network-based content storage service to the legal counsel of the third entity.
US10346936B2	Disposition manager for resource recovery A disposition manager configured to identify a damaged component of a damaged assembly by determining a measured first property value of a set of measured property values associated with the damaged component and obtained by a sensor is not within a range of acceptable first property values according to a specification of the damaged component. The disposition manager further configured to estimate a performance characteristic of the damaged component and a salvage value of the damaged component. The disposition manager further configured to present, to a user interface, the performance characteristic and the salvage value for the damaged component.
US10346934B2	Apparatus for power theft detection on an electrical power grid An apparatus reducing power theft on a micro power grid includes a server connected to the micro power grid, the server including a processor, data repository and software executing on the processor from a non-transitory medium the software enabling collection over time of bi-directional current data from smart distribution nodes connected to identified segments of the micro power grid and from smart meters distributed to one or more client demarcation points on the identified segments, processing of the bi-directional current data to determine power theft event frequency and power theft current information, assigning of a class to the individual ones of identified segments according to results of processing, and resetting of the number of packet transmission hop counts between the smart distribution nodes on identified segments and resetting the time period interval between subsequent power theft check routines for each identified segment based upon the classification data.
US10346927B1	Method and system for providing a personalized user experience in a tax return preparation system based on predicted life events for a user A method and system provides personalized user experiences to users of a tax return preparation system, at least partially based on likelihoods of occurrence of life events for the users in a tax year, according to one embodiment. The method and system applies the user data to one or more predictive models to determine the likelihood that one or more available life events occurred in a user's life in a tax year, according to one embodiment. The method and system display life event icons that represent the one or more available life events, and the life event icons are ranked, sorted, and/or emphasized, based on the likelihood that the one or more available life events occurred in a user's life, to increase a user's confidence in the tax return preparations system's capability to address the user's life changes while preparing the user's tax return, according to one embodiment.
US10346923B2	Systems and methods for proactive weather preparedness Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for proactive weather awareness and actions.
US10346921B2	Parametric system for risk sharing of critical illness risks and corresponding method thereof Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system (1) and method for risk sharing of critical illness risks of a variable number of risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by providing a dynamic self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by means of the resource-pooling system (1). The resource-pooling system (1) comprises an assembly module (5) to process risk-related component data (211,221,231) and to provide the likelihood (212, 222, 232) of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components (21, 22, 23, . . . ) based on the risk-related component data (211, 221, 231). The risk exposure components (21,22,23) are connected to the resource-pooling system (1) for the pooling of their risks and resources, and wherein the resource-pooling system (1) comprises an multiple event-driven core-engine (3) with critical illness triggers (31, 32, 33) triggering in a patient dataflow pathway (213,223,233) to provide risk protection for a specific risk exposure component (21,22,23). The operation of the resource pooling system (1) is further supported by a parametric risk-cover related to multiple occurrences of critical illness parameters 71,72,73 triggered in the related patient data flow pathway (213, 223, 233).
US10346919B2	Distributed server side device architecture An electronic trading method is provided. The method includes receiving a trading strategy order having a parent trading strategy including multiple quoting legs; splitting the trading strategy order into multiple child orders; and submitting each of the multiple child orders to exchange systems adapted to fill the quoting legs in the child orders. Each child order includes a child trading strategy having a single quoting leg or a reduced number of quoting legs relative to the parent trading strategy. The child trading strategies are the same as the parent trading strategy except for the number of legs marked as quoting legs. The method may be performed by a trading strategy device disposed between a client device and multiple server side devices.
US10346915B1	Systems and methods for hierarchical dual-dynamic exception management Systems and methods for hierarchical dual-dynamic exception management are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system and method may provide: (1) hierarchical exception modelling, metric algorithms and aggregation; (2) node level exception metric algorithm and high-level status algorithm calculation; (3) node level investigation via “explain” of exception factors (e.g., focusing an analyst on a particular issue); (4) node level tracking workflow management through ability to add commentary, multiple-person signoff, and high-level status calculation overrides; (5) visibility, auditable compliance reporting; (6) dashboard for internal operational analysts/managers with full investigation view; (7) dashboard for external clients with sub views; (8) generic data interface to existing workflow management system; and (9) machine learning component such that the exception metric can be intelligently re-adjusted (for example, if there are too many false positives then make the thresholds more forgiving). Other features and/or advantages may be provided as is necessary and/or desired.
US10346910B2	Systems and methods for providing up-to-date information for transactions In a system for executing transaction requests, a received request for a transaction in an item is delayed prior to matching that request with another request for transaction in that item by a delay based on a communication delay and/or a processing delay. The communication delay represents the time required to receive updated information about the item and the processing delay represents the time required to compute an updated item price using the received updated information.
US10346909B2	System and method for pre-marshalling messages in an electronic trading environment System and methods for pre-marshalling messages in an electronic trading environment are provided. Specifically, pre-marshalling messages allows for client and network devices to create messages in response to a defined first condition. Pre-marshalling messages allows a trading system to do more processing up front before the message is needed and when a second condition is satisfied. Thus, when the message is needed no further or very little processing must be performed to generate and send the message. The client and/or network device may allocate a separate, unused, or under-utilized processing thread to the task of creating pre-marshalled messages. Pre-marshalled messages may be stored in memory at the network device until it is determined that the second condition has been satisfied. Once a pre-marshalled message is sent, the unused pre-marshalled messages that were stored in memory may be deleted or may be overwritten with newly pre-marshalled messages.
US10346908B2	Only-at-best trading orders in an electronic trading system Systems and methods of trading items on an electronic trading system according to the invention are provided. The embodiments of the invention are based at least in part on a new order type. The new order type is an only at best order type, whereby trades are preferably only executed at the best price the item is being bought or sold.
US10346900B1	System for determining content for advance rendering Described are techniques for determining a confidence value associated with the probability that a user will access a particular second user interface by interacting with a first user interface. The confidence value may be determined based on user interaction data indicative of prior interactions by the user. Based on the confidence value, the second user interface may be pre-generated, in advance of user interaction with the first user interface. If the user interacts with the first user interface in a manner that would cause presentation of the second user interface, the user may be provided with the second user interface promptly, avoiding the latency that would normally be experienced during the time that the second user interface is generated. Pre-generation of only the user interfaces indicated by the user interaction data may limit unnecessary use of computing resources.
US10346899B2	Identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines for generating one or more substitute customized food items Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user preference information of a user that indicates one or more customized food preferences of the user including at least one or more ingredient integrity preferences related to integrity of one or more ingredients; determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine present in nearby vicinity of the user that is able to currently generate one or more customized food items in compliance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user; and identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines present in the nearby vicinity of the user that are able to currently generate at least one substitute customized food item that is only in partial compliance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US10346889B1	Determining courier effort for deliveries In some examples, a service provider may receive, from a buyer device, an order for an item from a merchant for delivery to a delivery location. The service provider may determine predicted courier travel times to the merchant location and from the merchant location to the delivery location, and may determine a first payment amount based on the predicted courier travel times. The service provider may further predict other courier time associated with the order, other than travel time, such as based on a courier wait time associated with the merchant. The service provider may determine a second payment amount based on the predicted courier other time. The service provider may send, to a courier device of a courier selected to deliver the order, information about the order including a payment amount for the order based on the first payment amount and the second payment amount.
US10346885B1	Automated approval of generated promotions A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve the process of generating promotions. The method includes identifying a promotion structure for approval, the promotion structure defining a promotion to be displayed via a promotion and marketing service and determining whether the promotion structure satisfies automatic approval requirements, the automatic approval requirements including one or more parameters relating to the promotion structure. The method further includes in an instance in which the promotion structure satisfies the automatic approval requirements, automatically approving the promotion structure for display via the promotion and marketing service, and in an instance in which the promotion structure does not satisfy the automatic approval requirements, indicating that the promotion structure cannot be automatically approved. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US10346881B2	Advertising within social networks An online social network is provided. A sentiment is determined for each of a plurality of users of an online social network (OSN) in relation to a first product. A category is determined for each of the plurality of users based, at least in part, on the sentiment of each of the plurality of users, respectively. A group including a first user and a second user of the plurality of users is generated based, at least in part, on the category of each of the first user and the second user and a relationship within the OSN between the first user and the second user. An advertisement is presented to the first user. An indication is presented to the first user that the advertisement is also presented to the second user.
US10346878B1	System and method of marketing using a multi-media communication system A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for presenting an advertisement message associated with a multi-media message. The multi-media message is prepared by a sender using text and sender inserted emoticons in the text, and delivered audibly by an animated entity. The method uses a plurality of stored advertising messages from which to choose and advertising message to display. The method includes performing an emoticon analysis of the emoticons inserted by the sender, choosing an advertising message from the plurality of stored advertising messages according to the emoticon analysis and displaying the chosen advertising message.
US10346875B2	Advertisements for applications on an online social network In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph, receives a request to generate an advertisement of a third-party application, identifies a set of objects associated with the third-party application, wherein each identified object has been interacted with by one or more first users of an online social network, one or more second users of the online social network, wherein each second user is connected on the online social network with at least one of the first users, and sends to one or more client devices of one or more of the second users, respectively, an advertisement of the third-party application, wherein for each second user the advertisement contains a reference to at least one of the identified objects that has been interacted with by at least one of the first users.
US10346871B2	Automatic targeting of content by clustering based on user feedback data An online system automatically and dynamically determines an audience for content by clustering users across various dimensions, and refining targeting criteria for the content. The online system receives content and initial targeting criteria from a content provider. The content is provided to a group of users that meet the initial targeting criteria. The system collects content response data from the group of users that were provided the content, including user responses to the content and dynamic data relating to time and location of the user responses. The content response data is further integrated with user characteristics, content presentation data, and social response data to generate integrated user-content data of the content. Clusters of users are generated based on features of the integrated user-content data, and refined targeting criteria are identified based on the generated clusters that can then be used for more accurate targeting of the content to users.
US10346869B1	Management of rewards using transaction listening Examples described herein relate to apparatus and methods for managing rewards for a customer of a financial institution, including but not limited to, determining a transaction pattern associated with transactions made by the customer, determining a deviation from the transaction pattern, determining an event associated with the customer based on the deviation, and determining rewards that correspond to the event for the customer.
US10346866B2	System and method for conducting semi-opaque sales with item bundles Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for semi-opaque sales with bundles of items. An example bundle can include hotel lodging and a bonus service, status, or item associated with that hotel. An system can identify a first bundle of a first base and bonus item, and a second bundle of a second base and bonus item. The system can present a semi-opaque offer comprising the first bundle, the second bundle, and a discount price, wherein the semi-opaque offer does not identify which of the first bundle and the second bundle will be sold at the discount price to the user upon acceptance of the semi-opaque offer, and wherein the discount price is a full price of the first base item. After receiving acceptance of the semi-opaque offer from the user, the system can disclose that the user has purchased the first bundle at the discount price.
US10346861B2	Adaptive sampling scheme for imbalanced large scale data Embodiments of the present invention relate to providing business customers with predictive capabilities, such as identifying valuable customers or estimating the likelihood that a product will be purchased. An adaptive sampling scheme is utilized, which helps generate sample data points from large scale data that is imbalanced (for example, digital website traffic with hundreds of millions of visitors but only a small portion of them are of interest). In embodiments, a stream of sample data points is received. Positive samples are added to a positive list until the desired number of positives is reached and negative samples are added to a negative list until the desired number of negative samples is reached. The positive list and the negative list can then be combined, shuffled, and fed into a prediction model.
US10346859B2	System and method for applying tracing tools for network locations A method is disclosed for enabling a network location to provide an ordering process for data relevant to connected network devices' activities. The method includes assembling the data, utilizing the activity data, and associating the data, such that information is derived to enable a desired expansion of at least one designated activity. Another method is disclosed for managing an object assignment broadcast operations for a network location based on a network device's previous activities. This second method includes tracing a network device's conduct to determine that a network device prefers a particular class of content. The method also includes tagging a network device's profile with the respective observation and deciding by a network location as to the classification factor for a network device to be targeted for an object assignment broadcast.
US10346854B2	Feature-value attachment, reranking and filtering for advertisements An approach is provided for associating structured information as feature-value pairs with advertisements at an advertisement system that provides advertisements for presentation with primary content. Feature-value pairs corresponding with advertisements describe features of the products or services associated with the advertisements. The feature-value pairs may be used by the advertisement system in a number of different manners, including, among other things: using the feature-value pairs during selection of advertisements for presentation with primary content: allowing users to sort and/or filter advertisements during presentation with primary content based on the associated feature-value pairs; exposing additional information with the advertisements; facilitating fraud detection for the advertisement system; and enabling a hybrid pricing model.
US10346848B2	Provisioning multiple secure credentials on an electronic device Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for provisioning multiple credentials of a multi-scheme card on an electronic device for selective use in a secure transaction are provided.
US10346847B2	Dynamic financial management system, method and device A dynamic personalizable automated finance management system that provides a financial management platform that enables users to easily generate a plurality of customized rules or conditions associated with one or more accounts thereby creating account plans that intelligently and passively execute the transfer of funds among accounts. The rules with a plan are able to define if, how much, when and where to transfer money to and from the accounts based on user entered criteria or triggers upon which the rules/conditions are based.
US10346845B2	Enhanced automated acceptance of payment transactions that have been flagged for human review by an anti-fraud system An authentication system for electronic transactions occurring over a computerized network is provided that includes: (a) a transaction authentication system interface operatively coupled to the computerized network for receiving proposed transactions information over the computerized network; and (b) a transaction authentication tool, operatively coupled to the transaction authentication system interface, where the tool includes: an automated anti-fraud analysis component for analyzing transactions information from a plurality of proposed transactions and automatically rejecting a first subset of proposed transactions according to automatic rejection criteria and automatically assigning a second subset of transactions for additional review; and an automated acceptance component for analyzing the second subset of transactions and accepting a third subset of transactions from the second subset based upon automatic accepting criteria.
US10346844B2	Methods and systems for providing a decision making platform A computer-implemented method of providing enriched transaction data for a transaction requiring an authorization is provided, the transaction performed using a computer system having a processor and a memory device. The method includes storing transaction data received from an input channel, the transaction data including a transaction identifier. An execution plan is retrieved based at least in part on the transaction identifier. The transaction data is processed across an enrichment processor based on the execution plan to generate at least one fraud score for the transaction. The transaction data is enriched to include at least one of the fraud score and an enriched data object. The enriched data is transmitted to an authorizing party for authorization.
US10346839B2	Systems and methods to process transactions and offers via a gateway A system, configured to integrate the processing of transactions and offers applicable to the transactions, includes: a data warehouse storing an offer in association with a financial payment account; a gateway configured to receive an authorization request that is transmitted from a transaction terminal without going through an acquirer processor, the gateway coupled with the data warehouse to determine whether the offer is applicable to the authorization request and if so, apply a benefit of the offer to the authorization request; and a transaction handler coupled with the gateway to process the authorization request submitted from the gateway, provide an authorization response corresponding to the authorization request, and communicate with the acquirer processor to credit funds according to the authorization request to a merchant account associated with the transaction terminal.
US10346835B1	Systems and methods for presenting recognizable bank account transaction descriptions compiled through customer collaboration A system and methods for leveraging a community of users to collaboratively identify bank or investment account transaction descriptions by providing common, more recognizable description, category and location information used most often by the community. A database may be maintained that is accessible by the customer/user community to view, update and provide understandable descriptions for such cryptic descriptions. The database may be searchable such that a customer/user may search a description to determine or update the source of the transaction.
US10346822B2	Dynamic account selection Embodiments automatically select one of the multiple pre-generated payment cards provisioned on a mobile device. The multiple pre-generated payment cards (real or virtual) may each have a different credit limit. The mobile device may automatically select one of the multiple payment cards based on a transaction value of a transaction that is being conducted. An available credit limit of the selected payment card may be equal to or slightly greater than the transaction value. In some embodiments, the available credit limit of the selected payment card may be closer to the transaction value than the available credit limits of the remaining payment cards. In some embodiments, the different payment cards may be provisioned in a chip-and-pin based smart credit card or mobile wallet.
US10346821B2	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.
US10346815B2	System and method of distributed, self-regulating, asset-tracking cryptocurrencies The system and method disclosed herein includes a family of distributed, self-regulating, asset-tracking cryptocurrencies using blockchain technology. One embodiment, such as a computer-implemented method, may include maintaining a stable value of an asset token relative to a value of an underlying target asset. Further, the computer-implemented method may include minting the asset token in variable quantities, applying stability fees or rewards in variable quantities, and obtaining market feedback to determine the variable quantities of fees to apply, rewards to issue, and asset tokens to mint. Market feedback may include a market price of the asset token and other data obtained from exchanges and oracles. Oracles may be used in certain embodiments to report prices and support smart contracts that aid in regulating price stability. A consensus mechanism may also be used to allow participants in the decentralized system to agree on the advancement blockchain data in an orderly way.
US10346813B2	Intelligent check deposit machine A method for validating the physical parameters of a check to approve or deny the deposit transaction comprising the steps of scanning a physical check with a scanner, comparing the digital scan of the check against preset digital parameters by a field comparator to insure that the digital scan of the check meets predetermined physical check parameters and check fields and preparing a written rejection/acceptance to the check submitted in the form of a deposit receipt.
US10346811B1	Systems and methods for responding to a broken circuit Risk of damage that is caused by the breaking of a circuit may be mitigated. A smart home controller and/or insurance provider remote processor may analyze data, with an insured's permission, received from a smart device disposed on, within, or proximate to a property associated with monitoring the flow of electricity. If it is determined that risk of damage due to the flow of electricity being cut off repeatedly exists, the smart home controller or remote processor may automatically generate a repair request to schedule a repair event that mitigates the risks. The smart home controller may transmit information about the risks to a homeowner and/or an insurance provider. The insurance provider remote processor may interpret the transmitted data and perform insurance activities, such as providing a discount or premium, and/or adjusting an insurance policy associated with the property based upon the insured property being equipped with risk mitigation functionality.
US10346806B2	Yahrzeit system and method A method of and system for providing an electronic Yahrzeit display corresponding to the current date including determining a current date, performing a search in a database storing a plurality of Yahrzeit entries to identify the Yahrzeit entries having an anniversary of the death date corresponding to the current date, and electronically displaying the identified Yahrzeit entries in a rotating manner, wherein each of the identified Yahrzeit entries are displayed for a predetermined amount of time, wherein the method and system may convert dates between a plurality of calendars.
US10346804B2	Determining job applicant fit score Examples of the disclosure are directed toward methods of providing a user interface for a job applicant self-assessment and computing an overall fit score between the applicant and a target job. An ideal job candidate may be specified by an employer on the basis of four categories: competencies, personality traits, motives, and experience levels. Then, an actual job applicant may interact with a user interface to perform a self-assessment on each of the four categories. A fit score may be determined between the applicant and the job for each of the four categories, and the four fit scores may be used to compute an overall fit score between the applicant and the job.
US10346802B2	Trading partner relationship graph for information exchange platform An information exchange platform referred to as a Trading Grid (TG) may perform relationship-based data processing utilizing a trading partner (TP) graph that describes relationships amongst operating units (OUs) on the TG. When the TG receives a request from an OU to exchange data with a TP, the TG accesses the TP graph and determines a relationship between the OU and their TP as reflected in the TP graph. The TP graph is maintained and controlled by the system independently of the OU and the TP. The TG may route the data based on instructions associated with the relationship that is reflected in the TP graph. The instructions associated with the relationship may specify network based services provided by the TG. An orchestration component may operate to orchestrate the performance of the network based services. The TG then communicates the processed and/or produced data to the TP.
US10346801B2	Interpreting categorized change information in order to build and maintain change catalogs Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a monitor server, change data associated with a change captured on a target host, are described herein. In various embodiments, the target host may have provided the change data in response to detecting the change, and the change data may include one or more rules, settings, and/or parameters. Further, in some embodiments, the monitor server may then group the change data into clusters and may correlate the clusters with a change catalog in order to provide a possible reason or cause for the cluster of changes. Once the change data have been classified as clusters, a report may be generated providing classification or categorization and cluster information for the various changes. In various embodiments, the generating may comprise generating a report to the target host and/or to an administrative user. In various embodiments, a reason may be determined for causing a cluster of changes and the change catalog may updated with the reason.
US10346793B2	Systems and methods for order filling In some embodiments, a method can comprise receiving a request for one or more orders, and analyzing the one or more orders. Each of the one or more orders can comprise one or more items and at least a portion of the one or more items are available at a warehouse. The method can further comprise determining one or more pick lists based at least in part on the analyzing the one or more orders and also based at least in part on an inventory layout of the warehouse, determining a first route for a first pick list of the one or more pick lists, and determining a second route for a second pick list of the one or more pick lists, wherein the first pick list and the second pick list each comprise a first common item. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided.
US10346789B1	Gas-filled aerial transport and methods of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles in delivering products Described is an airborne fulfillment center (“AFC”) and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAV”) to deliver items from the AFC to users. For example, the AFC may be an airship that remains at a high altitude (e.g., 45,000 feet) and UAVs with ordered items may be deployed from the AFC to deliver ordered items to user designated delivery locations. As the UAVs descend, they can navigate horizontally toward a user specified delivery location using little to no power, other than to stabilize the UAV and/or guide the direction of descent. Shuttles (smaller airships) may be used to replenish the AFC with inventory, UAVs, supplies, fuel, etc. Likewise, the shuttles may be utilized to transport workers to and from the AFC.
US10346783B2	Electrochemical methods of removing dissolved oxygen from drilling or completion fluids A method of treating a fluid in a subterranean formation comprises injecting a fluid into the subterranean formation, the fluid containing dissolved oxygen; contacting the fluid with an oxygen removal device, the oxygen removal device comprising an anode, a cathode comprising metallic nanoparticles loaded on a support, an ion exchange membrane disposed between, and electrically separating the anode and the cathode, and a power source electrically coupled to the anode and the cathode; and reducing the amount of the dissolved oxygen in the fluid.
US10346778B2	Cross domain integration in product lifecycle management Cross-domain integration within product lifecycle management can include providing a plurality of finite state machines (FSMs), wherein each FSM is associated with one business object of an integration flow between a first enterprise information system and a second enterprise information system. Each FSM defines a plurality of lifecycle states of the associated business object. A business rule can be associated with each lifecycle state of each FSM. For each FSM, the associated business rules are independent of the FSM. For a selected lifecycle state of each FSM, the associated business rule defines a condition causing a transition from the selected lifecycle state to a next lifecycle state of the FSM. A network of the plurality of FSMs is established by providing communication links among individual ones of the plurality of FSMs according to the business rules. The communication links define the integration flow.
US10346777B2	Cross domain integration in product lifecycle management Cross-domain integration within product lifecycle management can include providing a plurality of finite state machines (FSMs), wherein each FSM is associated with one business object of an integration flow between a first enterprise information system and a second enterprise information system. Each FSM defines a plurality of lifecycle states of the associated business object. A business rule can be associated with each lifecycle state of each FSM. For each FSM, the associated business rules are independent of the FSM. For a selected lifecycle state of each FSM, the associated business rule defines a condition causing a transition from the selected lifecycle state to a next lifecycle state of the FSM. A network of the plurality of FSMs is established by providing communication links among individual ones of the plurality of FSMs according to the business rules. The communication links define the integration flow.
US10346776B2	Project plan generation from an information architecture model Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for generating a project plan by creating an association between a development method in a hierarchy of development methods and an architectural element in a hierarchy of architectural elements in a computer-based model of a system, and providing a computer-based user interface configured to facilitate navigation between the development method and the associated architectural element.
US10346771B2	Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing an energy map A method for providing an energy map may include receiving an indication of status for each of a plurality of individual entities with respect to corresponding priorities defined for each respective individual entity, correlating received indications of status to respective group priorities, providing a representation of a plurality of the group priorities, and mapping an amount of energy associated with the group priorities by providing a graphical representation of a respective amount of resources associated with the group priorities based on the received indications.
US10346766B1	Determination and optimization of delivery routes Disclosed are various embodiments for determining and plotting delivery routes in a computing device. A set of solutions to the traveling salesman problem may be determined by applying a convex hull to determine a set of initial solutions. Computational complexity may be reduced by decreasing the dimensions of the initial solutions. The set of initial solutions may be further optimized by applying genetic optimization to determine the most efficient solutions.
US10346756B2	Machine discovery and rapid agglomeration of similar states Novel tools and techniques for the machine discovery and rapid agglomeration of similar states are provided. A system includes a plurality of network devices, and a decision system. The plurality of network devices may be configured to generate a respective data stream. The decision system may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the processor. The system may obtain, via the plurality of network devices, one or more data streams, determine an anomaly has occurred on a data stream of the one or more data streams, determine a set of data streams of the one or more streams sharing at least one of a set of centroids associated with the data stream, and determine, based on the set of data streams, the occurrence of an incident.
US10346754B2	Method and system for psychological evaluation based on music preferences A system and method for determining users personality types, profiles, and infer the likely intent based on the users' musical taste and listening habits. The process involves identifying the listener's musical preferences and linking this to a predetermined scale within the psychological Big 5 that in turn links to a dictionary of descriptors that defines the personality type. This can be further fine tuned by knowing the persons age, gender, and many other lifestyle variables, as well as how a user may use the music.
US10346749B2	System and method for providing interaction between a user and an embodied conversational agent This disclosure relates generally to human-machine interaction. In one embodiment, an interaction device for providing the interaction between the user and the ECA is disclosed. The interaction device comprises a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores processor instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to receive conversation data of a user interacting with the ECA, wherein the ECA is presented on an interface of the interaction device. The processor further determines an emotional state of the user based on one or more behavioral parameters associated with the conversation data of the user. The processor identifies a response state for the ECA corresponding to the emotional state of the user, wherein the response state is identified from a plurality of response states based on a pre-defined probability for each response state. The processor further transitions behavior of the ECA based on the response state.
US10346746B2	Generating a training model based on feedback A method and apparatus for generating a training model based on feedback are provided. The method for generating a training model based on feedback, includes calculating an eigenvector of a sample among a plurality of samples; obtaining scores granted by a user for one or more of the plurality of samples in a round, obtaining scores granted by the user for a first number of samples; obtaining scores granted by the user for a second number of samples in response to detecting, based on the eigenvector, an inconsistency between the scores granted by the user for the first number of samples; and generating a training model based on the scores granted by the user for the first and second numbers of samples. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US10346743B2	Speculative asynchronous sub-population evolutionary computing A tool computes fitness values for a first generation of a first sub-population of a plurality of sub-populations. A population of candidate solutions for an optimization problem was previously divided into the plurality of sub-populations. The population of candidate solutions was created for an iterative computing process in accordance with an evolutionary algorithm to identify a most fit candidate solution for the optimization problem. The tool determines a speculative ranking of the first generation of the first sub-population prior to the fitness values being computed for all candidate solutions in the first generation of the first sub-population. The tool generates a next generation of the first sub-population based, at least in part, on the speculative ranking prior to completion of computation of the fitness values for the first generation of the first sub-population.
US10346737B1	Distributed multisensor system to record spatially diverse events A distributed multisensory system to record spatially diverse events configures a group of sensors searching sensed events utilizing random access search. The system utilizes presence and co-location detection to identify objects or people in an area. The system then processes audio signals utilizing a multimodal network and machine learning tiered with obfuscated text indexing to provide high-speed, high accuracy searching of stored data. In addition, the obfuscated text allows the system to not have to store an audio transcript, increasing the security of the system. The system utilizes beamforming to merge resultant audio streams for the recorded event.
US10346731B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic interchange pricing Methods and systems for dynamically determining interchange fees. In an embodiment, an acquirer computer transmits a payment card account authorization request to a payment processing network, and receives an authorization response authorizing the transaction and comprising a spending history indication reflecting a compilation of spending history data of a group of payment card accounts that qualify for dynamic interchange rate setting. The acquirer computer then stores the spending history indication, transmits the authorization response to a merchant processing system computer, receives a clearing file from the merchant processing system computer, determines that an interchange rate depends on the spending history indication, selects an interchange rate from an interchange rate selection database based on the spending history indication, calculates an interchange fee based on the interchange rate, and transmits the clearing file and the interchange fee to the payment network for clearing of the transaction.
US10346723B2	Neural network for object detection in images Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for identifying and categorically labeling objects within a set of images. The systems and methods receive an image depicting an object of interest, detect at least a portion of the object of interest within the image using a multilayer object model, determine context information, and identify the object of interest included in two or more bounding boxes.
US10346721B2	Training a neural network using augmented training datasets A computer system generates augmented training datasets to train neural network models. The computer system receives an initial training dataset comprising images for training a neural network model, and generates an augmented training dataset by modifying images from the first training dataset. The computer system identifies a representation of a target object against a background from the initial training dataset and extracts a portion of the image displaying the target object. The computer system generates samples for including in the augmented training dataset based on the image. For example, new images may be obtained by performing transformations on the portion of the image displaying the target object and/or by overlaying the transformed portion of the image over a different background. The modified images are included in the augmented training dataset used for training the neural network model to recognize the target object.
US10346719B2	Magnetic resonance image analysis method and method for evaluating the risks of radiotherapy The present disclosure provides a magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis method for a patient who underwent radiotherapy. The method includes the steps: receiving an MR image set of a patient and a dose map of a radiotherapy plan; converting the dose intensity distribution of the dose map into the relative spatial positions in the MR image set; selecting a radiation dose and a radiation exposure region, wherein the radiation exposure region has radiation intensity being equal to or higher than the radiation dose; using the radiation exposure region to determine a region of interest (ROI) in the MR image set; classifying the voxels inside the ROI of the MR image set into different clusters according to the grayscale values of the voxels inside the ROI; and calculating the volume or ratios of the different clusters inside the ROI. The present disclosure also provides a method for evaluating risks of radiotherapy.
US10346718B2	Tablet dishwashing detergent and methods for making and using the same A tablet including a dishwashing detergent composition and a crosslinked acrylic acid polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least 500,000.
US10346682B2	Method of authenticating documents by means of a mobile telecommunications terminal A method for authenticating at least one document having a predetermined format and carrying at least one security pattern of appearance that varies as a function of an angle of observation, the method comprising the steps of: capturing at least one image of the document; determining a camera angle by comparing geometric characteristics detected in the document and stored predetermined geometric characteristics; deducing an expected appearance for the security pattern; comparing the expected appearance with an appearance detected in the image of the document; and declaring the document authentic when the expected appearance matches the detected appearance.
US10346662B2	Fingerprint recognition device and touch control device with fingerprint recognition function A fingerprint recognition device includes a light-transmissible substrate, a plurality of sensing elements, a set of conductive lines and a fingerprint recognition chip. The sensing elements are disposed and the set of conductive lines are an upper surface of the light-transmissible substrate. The fingerprint recognition chip is also disposed on the upper surface of the light-transmissible substrate, and is connected to the sensing elements through the set of conductive lines. The fingerprint recognition chip drives the sensing elements, receives a plurality of sensing results generated by the sensing elements, and accordingly determines a user fingerprint.
US10346658B2	System for identification of a tag on a moving item Provided is a system for identification of an item, wherein the system includes a conveyor belt, a positioning device and a reader operable to receive at least one reading, wherein the positioning-device is configured to retrieve a first position of the item) at a first time instant before the first antenna and a second position of the item at a second time instant after the first antenna, the first and second time instants defining a time window, wherein the reader is configured to extract from each reading retrieved by the first antenna a measurement of the phase of the signal transmitted by the tag and perform a data processing of the phase measurements, whereby the identification of the item is accomplished.
US10346651B2	Low cost, wide area RFID system Techniques for radio-frequency identification systems include sensor systems having a sensor unit and one or more sensors and a server. The sensor system includes one or more antennas at a location configured to receive signals from a tag proximate to an antenna and a processor configured to process tag detection signals based on the received signals. The processing may include selectively storing tag detection signals received from one or more antennas and identify an event related to the presence of a tag proximate to an antenna at the location. Sensor system may include a transmitter configured to transmit a message indicating the event over a network to a server. The server may be configured to process the message by analyzing a feature of the signals related to the event. The analysis may evaluate an adjustment of a configuration parameter used to operate an antenna. The configuration parameter may be updated by the server, and the server may transmit a message indicating the configuration parameter to the sensor system.
US10346648B2	Automatic mode detection in a dual operating mode RFID tag A multi-mode, preferably dual mode, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is adapted for automatic detection of whether a RFID reader located within communication range of the RFID tag is transmitting a continuous wave (CW) or modulated wave types of RF signal, and accordingly, mandating a response from the tag in read-only (RO) mode or read/write (R/W) mode, respectively. The tag includes means for designating one of the RO and R/W operating modes as a default mode of the tag, and for switching the tag from its default mode to its other operating mode, and vice versa, according to a rule for determining the frequency of occurrence of a selected event related to signal type of the reader. A device-implemented method of this automatic detection, and a method of fabricating the tag, are also disclosed.
US10346639B2	Anonymization identifier computing system An anonymization indicator computation system of the embodiment includes a data storing device, an anonymization device, an anonymization degree computation device, and an addition degree computation device. The data storing device stores original data including a value for each item for each person. The anonymization device generates anonymized data from the original data by anonymizing values of part of items in the original data. The anonymization degree computation device computes the anonymization degree indicating a degree of anonymizing data based on the anonymized data. The addition degree computation device computes the data addition degree indicative of a probability of generating the anonymized data from the original data.
US10346613B2	Multiple system images for over-the-air updates In one embodiment, a computing device may execute software from a first portion of memory of the computing device. The computing device may download from a server a new version of the software. The client computing device may receive instructions from the server to request an over-the-air (OTA) download of the new version of the software. The instructions may be an out-of-band message. The new version of the software may be installed into a second portion of memory of the computing device, and the new version of the software is executed from the second portion of memory. The download of the new version of software may be pursuant to a manifest for the download to determine whether the computing device may download the new version of software.
US10346611B1	Detecting malicious software A method for detecting malicious software is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying an unknown application on mobile device, identifying a package name of the unknown application, analyzing the package name of the unknown application in relation to package names of one or more categorized applications, and determining a likelihood the unknown application includes malware based at least in part on analyzing the package name of the unknown application.

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