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US10597105B2	Snowmobile fuel tank and frame A snowmobile having a frame, a seat, at least one ski, a front suspension assembly connected to the frame and the at least one ski, a rear suspension assembly connected to the frame and to an endless track and an engine operatively connected to the frame and the endless track. The frame includes a longitudinal tunnel, an engine cradle connected thereto and extending forwardly therefrom. A front suspension module connected to the engine cradle and extending forwardly therefrom, is connected to the front suspension assembly. A forward support, connected either to the front suspension module or the engine cradle, extends rearwardly and upwardly therefrom. A fuel tank connected to the tunnel extends forwardly and upwardly from the tunnel to the forward support so as to form a structural connection between the tunnel and the forward support for transmitting loads therebetween. Frames for the snowmobile are also disclosed.
US10597104B2	Scooter with foot rest arrangement A scooter has a foot rest arrangement with a left foot rest surface and a right foot rest surface, a steerable front wheel guide mounted in a head tube so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation, and a steering column that can be rotated about a second axis of rotation. The steering column and the front wheel guide are spaced apart from each other and are operatively coupled to each other to transfer a steering movement. The second axis of rotation intersects the foot rest arrangement at an intersection point in such a way that the left and right foot rest surfaces are arranged on either side of the intersection point.
US10597098B2	Suspension system for a track-driven work vehicle with resilient roller wheel bushings A roller suspension system for a track-driven work vehicle may generally include a support beam and a resilient bushing configured to be coupled to the support beam. The resilient bushing may define a shaft opening. In addition, the system may include a roller wheel assembly having a roller wheel and a roller shaft. The roller wheel may be rotatable relative to the roller shaft. In addition, the roller shaft may be received within the shaft opening of the resilient bushing such that the roller shaft is coupled to the support beam via the resilient bushing.
US10597093B2	Double sided clip with seal An apparatus, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a clip body having a vehicle side and a panel side. A first clip is on the vehicle side and a second clip is on the panel side. A seal is on the vehicle side. A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, attaching the first clip to a vehicle body, and subsequently attaching a panel to the second clip such that the seal is positioned between the clip body and the vehicle body.
US10597087B2	Vehicle side portion structure A vehicle side portion structure that includes: a rocker provided at a vehicle width direction outer side end portion of a lower portion of a vehicle body, the rocker extending in a vehicle front-and-rear direction; and a pillar that extends in a vehicle vertical direction, a lower end portion of the pillar being joined to the rocker. A bellows portion is provided at the lower end portion of the pillar. The bellows portion is provided at a vehicle upper side of a joining portion of the pillar with the rocker, and protrusions and recesses are formed in the bellows portion to alternate in the vehicle vertical direction.
US10597086B2	Vehicle body structure An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle body structure with improved rigidity of a vehicle body. The vehicle body structure includes a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and having at least a side sill inner member, a side sill reinforcing member disposed outside in a vehicle width direction of the side sill inner member at a rear portion of the side sill inner member, and a wheel arch member disposed behind the side sill, wherein the side sill reinforcing member includes a first fixing portion fixed to an outer surface of the wheel arch member from the outside in the vehicle width direction, and a second fixing portion fixed to a front surface of the wheel arch member from the front.
US10597074B2	Materials handling vehicle obstacle scanning tools A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
US10597069B2	Control unit and electric power steering device employing control unit A connector structure that is joined to a housing so as to form the control unit includes a connector main body in which a connector is formed, a terminal including a power supply system and a signal system, and a component mounting portion including at least one of a capacitor and a coil, wherein the component mounting portion is provided parallel to a motor output shaft on the exterior of a motor or the housing, and the at least one of the capacitor and the coil included in the component mounting portion is electrically connected directly to the connector of the connector main body via the terminal.
US10597061B2	Mounting arrangement for a steering column of a vehicle and vehicle with a mounting arrangement of this type A bearing arrangement for a steering column of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, is provided, among other things, comprising a cross member running within a vehicle interior of the vehicle as well as having a bulkhead part disposed in front of the cross member, viewed in the direction of travel of the vehicle, a cross member support strut being provided, which supports the cross member on the bulkhead part, and the steering column being firstly supported on the cross member and secondly on the bulkhead part with the aid of a steering column support strut. A reinforcing part is fastened to the bulkhead part on the interior side of the vehicle, and both the cross member support strut and the steering column support strut re supported on the bulkhead part with the aid of the reinforcing part.
US10597060B2	Steering wheel and method of manufacturing same A steering wheel is provided with a heater element on the rim. The heater element is mounted at least on a part of a core of the rim, and a cladding layer formed from synthetic resin foam covers an outer circumference of the heater element. The heater element includes a cord-shaped heater and a base material. The base material includes an insulation sheet that is formed from synthetic resin foam and disposed to face towards the core and a permeable sheet that is formed from non-metal which allows permeation of the cladding layer. The insulation sheet and permeable sheet are bonded together and sandwich and support the cord-shaped heater there between.
US10597057B1	Construction safety railing assemblies, components, and methods for storage, transport, and installation The construction industry ranks among the largest and most dangerous industries in the world. To promote worker safety, government regulations require use of fall protection equipment, such as railings, many of which are expensive, wasteful, and/or time consuming to use. Accordingly, the present inventor devised some alternatives. One exemplary system incorporates a dual post base plate configured for attachment to a concrete floor via a single concrete anchor bolt, instead of the multiple bolts used conventionally, thereby reducing assembly time and cost. Another embodiment includes a rolling cart assembly which stores the rails in a side-by-side vertical arrangement and the base plates in an interleaved sequence, promoting easy access during installation and inventory control during disassembly and storage. Additionally, some embodiments include four stacking posts that extend upward from the cart, enabling multiple carts to be stacked vertical on atop the other to save space on construction sites.
US10597030B2	Vehicle running control apparatus The vehicle running control apparatus (driving support ECU 10) determines whether or not the driver of the vehicle is in an abnormal state in which the driver has lost an ability to drive the vehicle, and stops the vehicle by reducing the vehicle speed to 0 after an abnormality determination time point when the driver is determined to be in the abnormal state. The vehicle running control apparatus predicts a position at which the vehicle stops when the vehicle speed is reduced at a predetermined deceleration, when the predicted stop position is not within a stop prohibited area (for example, a curved road and a section within a predetermined distance from a point at which the road changes from the curved road to the straight road), it decelerates the vehicle with the deceleration and stops the vehicle. In contrast, the vehicle running control apparatus makes the vehicle ran with a constant speed when the predicted stop position is within the stop prohibited area.
US10597025B2	System and method for improving vehicle driveline operation Methods and systems for operating a hybrid driveline that includes an engine and an electric machine are presented. In one non-limiting example, the engine and electric machine are operated according to a solution of a Hamiltonian that includes a first co-state and a second co-state, an engine fuel flow parameter, a rate of change of battery state of charge parameter, and an emissions flow rate parameter.
US10597018B2	Pneumatic ship and pneumatic ship system A pneumatic boat is provided. The pneumatic boat includes a floating body which is suitable for floating on a water surface and a pneumatic propulsion device arranged on the floating body, wherein the pneumatic propulsion device is suitable for forming airflow to generate a propulsive force, so as to push the floating body to move. Technical solutions of the present invention have a higher flexibility.
US10597015B2	Braking system and vehicle A braking system includes an electric motor configured to output a braking force, and a controller configured to control the electric motor. The controller is supplied with electric power from both a main power source and an auxiliary power source. The electric motor has a first state in which the electric motor is supplied with electric power from the main power source when the main power source has a voltage V1 equal to or higher than a threshold value Va; a second state in which the electric motor is supplied with electric power from the auxiliary power source, and the voltage V1 of the main power source is lower than the threshold value Va; and a third state in which the electric motor is supplied with electric power from the main power source, and the voltage V1 of the main power source is lower than the threshold value Va.
US10597006B2	Parking assistance system A parking system for a vehicle provides a self-contained vehicle lift with jacks on wheels and mounted on a vehicle frame, wherein the jacks are operable between a retracted position permitting the vehicle to move in a normal fashion, and an extended position effective to raise the entire vehicle off the ground to allow the wheels move the vehicle into the parking position.
US10597004B2	Windshield wiper connector A wiper blade connector releasably secures a wiper blade to a wiper arm, thereby forming a windshield wiper blade assembly. The wiper blade connector comprises an elongate body member having opposite facing side walls, a front end, and a rear end. The opposite facing sidewalls include means for receiving and releasably securing to the mounting base on a wiper blade. At the front end of the elongate body member, a first tongue receiving opening is sized to receive the corresponding front tongue of a wiper arm. At the rear end of the elongate body member, a second tongue receiving opening is sized to receive the corresponding rear tongue of a wiper arm. A locking mechanism, such as a slidable cap provided proximate to the front end of the elongate body member, releasably locks the wiper blade member to the wiper arm.
US10596990B2	Head-protecting airbag device A head-protecting airbag device includes: an airbag loaded in a vehicle as a completely folded body folded to be storable in the storage portion; and a regulation member, to be arranged near a bent portion in the completely folded body at a time of conveyance. The regulation member is formed of a belt-shaped body having flexibility, and capable of regulating a twist of the completely folded body at the bent portion when the completely folded body is assembled into the vehicle. In a state where a protrusion part is engaged with a periphery of an assembly hole, both front and rear sides of the protrusion part are wrapped together with the completely folded body by a wrapping material. A length dimension of a portion between the assembly holes is set to be a length dimension which disenables one turn of twist in a circumferential direction of the completely folded body.
US10596976B2	Accessory assembly for attachment to a seatback An accessory assembly includes a support structure configured to attach to a seat of a vehicle. The accessory assembly also includes an electronic device supported by the support structure. The electronic device includes a screen. The accessory assembly further includes a hanger coupled to the support structure and spaced from the screen such that the hanger does not obstruct the screen.
US10596974B2	Hydraulic pallet jack box actuation system for a refuse truck an Methods and systems for assembling and using a hydraulic pallet jack box actuation system for a refuse truck are disclosed. The system includes an assembly that supports a pallet jack box sized and configured to contain at least a portion of a pallet jack. The assembly includes a top portion including a linkage connection portion that connects to a cross member of a truck frame, a bottom portion that includes a pallet box support member configured to be raised and lowered between the truck frame and a ground, and a hydraulic cylinder disposed between and connecting the top portion and the bottom portion. The hydraulic cylinder includes a top cylinder portion and a bottom portion configured to extend between an extended position to place the assembly in an extended configuration closer to the ground and a retracted position to place the assembly in a retracted configuration.
US10596972B2	Back rest of a vehicle seat having a pocket A backrest of a vehicle seat, which includes a pocket. It is provided that the rotation axis, which is formed in the area of the lower edge of the cover and around which the cover is pivoted when an object is stored in the pocket, is variable with respect to its distance from the vehicle seat or the backrest. This takes place, for example, in that the cover is connected to a double joint in the area of its lower edge, and the double joint, in turn, is connected to the vehicle seat.
US10596960B2	Transparent member for automobile interior parts The present invention relates to a transparent member for an automotive interior part. In one embodiment, the transparent member for the automotive interior part includes: a light source; an optical pattern layer formed over the light source; and a first light-transmitting skin layer formed on the optical pattern layer and including about 1 part by weight to about 25 parts of a first inorganic filler dispersed in 100 parts by weight of a first transparent resin matrix, wherein the first inorganic filler includes spherical calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
US10596955B2	Multifunctional vehicle alarm lamp A multifunctional automobile alarm lamp includes an LED lighting device, a lamp housing, a rod mounting base and a lighting control device. The LED lighting device is installed in the lamp housing; the rod mounting base includes a connecting rod, a connecting board and a fixing bracket; the connecting board is for connecting the lamp housing; the connecting rod is for connecting the connecting board; the connecting rod is connected to the fixing bracket by a sliding sleeve method; the fixing bracket is installed to the top of the police car at where the alarm lamp is situated; the lighting control device is connected to the LED lighting device for controlling the lighting method of the LED lighting device. The present invention can expand the application functions of the LED alarm lamp.
US10596952B2	Intelligent lighting system for automobile lamp, automobile lamp assembly and automobile An intelligent illuminating system for a vehicle lamp comprises a lens, a circuit board, a plurality of LED light sources on the circuit board distributed in an array, and a hollow reflector disposed between the LED light sources and the lens. The hollow reflector has reflection cavities disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the LED light sources. The reflection cavity has an incident opening, an emergent opening, and a reflection surface extending between the incident opening and the emergent opening. The LED light source is disposed at the incident opening. The emergent opening is located on a focal plane of the lens or has a defocusing amount from the focal plane of the lens.
US10596939B2	Polymeric seat cushion frame integrated module attachment system A seating assembly includes a seat frame and a seating support cushion. An adjustable cushion pan is rotatably coupled with the seat frame. A plurality of downwardly-extending connection members are integral with and extend from a bottom surface of the cushion pan. An electronic seating module is operably coupled directly to select ones of the plurality of downwardly-extending connection members.
US10596934B2	Configurable transit seating systems and methods A system, method and apparatus for a transit seating system including multiple seat frames, each seat frame including, at least one forward support and at least one rearward support. The at least one forward support and the at least one rearward support are capable of being detachably secured to a transit vehicle floor. A seat back height track system is vertically and slideably coupled to the seat frame. A seat back subframe is coupled to the seat back height track system. A seat base frame is coupled to the seat back height track system through a seat hinge. The at least one forward support is capable of overlapping the at least one rearward support when at least two of the seat frames are in a nested or fully compressed or stowed configuration.
US10596928B2	Seat frame for a height-adjustable and tiltable seat pan A seat frame is disclosed for a height-adjustable and tiltable seat pan of a motor vehicle seat. The seat frame has two side rails, a first cross bar, a second cross bar, and a drive unit. The first cross bar is supported in the two side rails and the second cross bar serves to support the seat pan. The second cross bar is mounted so as to be rotatable about fixed first axis in the two side rails. The second cross bar is rotated by the drive unit. The drive unit has an actuating motor and an actuator that is displaceable via the actuating motor and connected to the second cross bar outside the first axis. The drive unit is mounted on the first cross bar and rotatable about a second axis of the first cross bar which is fixed in the two side rails.
US10596919B2	Fuel cell system with grid independent operation and DC microgrid capability A fuel cell system includes grid independent operation with DC microgrid capability. This fuel cell system has a capability of operation with and without the grid, and with DC micro-grid capability.
US10596918B2	Power reception apparatus, vehicle, power transmission apparatus, power transmission and reception system, and control method A power reception apparatus includes a secondary coil which receives electric power in a non-contact manner from a primary coil which is provided on a plane defined by a front-rear direction and a left-right direction which are at right angles to each other, a drive part which can change a relative position on the plane of the secondary coil relative to the primary coil, a display unit, and a processing unit for processing an image to be displayed on the display unit. The processing unit calculates a relative position and a gradient of the secondary coil relative to the primary coil based on a coupling coefficient between the primary coil and the secondary coil, and a change with time in the coupling coefficient.
US10596916B2	Electrified powertrain with integrated charger A vehicle has an electric machine including two sets of galvanically isolated windings, first and second inverters each coupled with only one of the sets, and a traction battery. The vehicle also has a switching arrangement that, during charge, couples the first inverter with a port such that current from a remote source flows through one of the sets and induces a voltage in the other of the sets to charge the battery while isolating the source from the battery.
US10596915B2	Dispatching vehicle-to-grid ancillary services with discrete switching Techniques for controlling dispatch of electric vehicles (EVs) to perform vehicle-to-grid regulation of power of an electric grid are presented. An aggregator component can individually control transitioning respective EVs of a set of EVs between a charging state and a not-charging state. The aggregator component includes a dispatch controller component (DCC) that can employ a defined dispatch algorithm for EVs to facilitate enabling the DCC to perform unidirectional regulation. The DCC can switch EV charging stations on and off using remote switches to meet a system regulation signal. The DCC can use the dispatch algorithm to make determinations regarding which EV to switch using charging priorities, in accordance defined power regulation criterion(s). The aggregator component can reduce communication signals used to adjust dispatch by sending switching signals to only those EVs of the set of EVs that are changing their charging state at a given time.
US10596912B2	Electrically driven vehicle and notification system therefor An electrically driven vehicle and a notification system therefor are provided. The electrically driven vehicle includes a high-voltage battery and an inlet, a charging connector of an external power source is connected to the inlet, and power can be supplied from the external power source to the high-voltage battery. The electrically driven vehicle includes a battery heater unit heating the high-voltage battery by using power supplied from the external power source; and a charging ECU detecting an alighting preparing operation of a user, acquiring an environmental temperature at a time of detection in accordance with detection of the alighting preparing operation, and causing a meter panel to display a message prompting a driver to connect the charging connector to the inlet when the acquired environmental temperature is equal to or lower than an output decline temperature set for the high-voltage battery.
US10596910B2	Power receiving unit and power supply system having the same Provided are a power receiving unit suppressing temperature rise of at least one of a coil and a capacitor, and a power supply system having the power receiving unit. The power receiving unit includes a coil and a capacitor body used for noncontactly receiving the power transmitted from the power supply device, and a receiving side case including therewithin a space housing the coil and the capacitor body. A pace K inside the receiving side case is wholly filled with heat conduction member.
US10596908B1	Input apparatus for vehicle An input apparatus for a vehicle includes: a knob rotatably disposed in a plate; a driving device allowing the knob to protrude from or move downward into the plate; and a switching mechanism movable disposed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the knob protruding from the plate and disposed along a circumference of the knob moved downward into the plate.
US10596906B2	Finger strip and use of said finger strip The present disclosure relates to an infotainment system, to a locomotion vehicle, and to a user interface. The user interface may comprise: an input device for detecting swipe gestures of a user guided by a structure in respect of two dimensions, called “finger strip” in the following, a display device, and an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit may be configured to evaluate swipe gestures detected by means of the finger strip for substantially continuously variable adjustment to an output variable and to evaluate tap inputs detected by means of the finger strip for selection and/or definition of favorites.
US10596900B2	Filling neck A fuel filling neck includes a closure flap pivotably mounted thereon to be pivoted between a neck closed position and a neck open position. The flap is preloaded into the closed position by spring pretension. A mis-filling prevention device is in the filling neck between the closure flap and an insertion opening for a fuel pump nozzle and has a closed position that prevents the closure flap from being pivoted into the open position, and an enabling position permitting the closure flap to be pivoted into the open position. The mis-filling prevention device is mounted with axial play so as to be first axially forced against the closure flap by the fuel pump nozzle as the nozzle is inserted, the closure flap being moved into a partly open position, and, during subsequent further insertion of the nozzle, the mis-filling prevention device being moved into the enabling position.
US10596898B2	Muffler assembly including a center muffler and two satellite mufflers An exhaust assembly includes first and second exhaust devices, and first, second, and third mufflers that are disposed at first, second, third, fourth, and fifth heights, respectively. The first and second heights are greater than the third, fourth, and fifth heights. The first muffler includes a first housing, first and second inlets, and first and second outlets. The first inlet receives exhaust gas from at least one of the first and second exhaust devices. The second inlet receives exhaust gas from at least one of the first and second exhaust devices. The first and second inlets and first and second outlets all fluidly connected. The second muffler includes a second housing, a third inlet that receives exhaust gas from the first outlet, and a third outlet. The third muffler includes a third housing, a fourth inlet that receives exhaust gas from the second outlet, and a fourth outlet.
US10596894B2	Vehicle lower portion structure A vehicle lower portion structure has an internal combustion engine that is disposed on one side in a vehicle width direction in a power unit compartment, an inverter that is disposed on another side in the vehicle width direction in the power unit compartment, an exhaust pipe that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction through a dash panel separating the power unit compartment from a vehicle cabin, and is disposed within a floor tunnel that is provided in a central portion in the vehicle width direction at least at a position of the dash panel, and whose one end portion is connected to the internal combustion engine, a battery that is provided on a vehicle rear side of the dash panel, high-voltage power cables that extend in the vehicle front-rear direction on another side in the vehicle width direction and connect the inverter and the battery together.
US10596891B1	Protective cover arrangement for vehicle The present invention is a protective cover arrangement for a vehicle. The protective cover arrangement includes a housing and a cover cartridge positioned inside the housing. The housing is installed substantially in a middle of a roof of the vehicle. The cover cartridge includes two coiled-up rolls, namely a first roll including a cover sheet and a second roll including a cover sheet. When the cover sheets are pulled out, it causes the corresponding first roll and the second roll to unroll from spiral configuration to be disposed in deployed configuration, thus covering the vehicle. The cover sheets are rolled back into the corresponding rolls to dispose the protective cover arrangement in retracted configuration.
US10596874B2	Vehicle air conditioner A vehicle air conditioner includes: a condenser that internally circulates a high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant which is discharged from a compressor and that heats air passing around the condenser; an evaporator that internally circulates a low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant and that absorbs heat from the air passing around the evaporator; and a switching portion that switches flows of air in response to a heating time, a cooling time, and a dehumidifying-heating time of a vehicle. Also, the switching portion causes the air passing around the condenser to flow into a vehicle compartment during the heating time of the vehicle, causes the air passing around the evaporator to flow into the vehicle compartment during the cooling time of the vehicle and causes the air sequentially passing through the evaporator and the condenser to flow into the vehicle compartment during the dehumidifying-heating time of the vehicle.
US10596864B1	Tire inflation system safety valve A tire inflation system safety valve includes at least an air line disposed between a rotary union and a tire communicating with an axle supporting a hubcap, the rotary union axially aligned with the axle and mounted to the hubcap. The air line facilitating pressurized air transferred between the rotary union and the tire. The tire inflation system safety valve including at least a valve housing providing a valve activation chamber, a fluid conduit, supported by the valve housing, having a downstream end and an upstream end and in fluid communication with the valve activation chamber, and a diaphragm disposed within the valve activation chamber and communicating with the fluid conduit. The diaphragm, in response to the pressurized air of a predetermined pressure, automatically precludes air transfer between the upstream end of the fluid conduit and the downstream end of the fluid conduit.
US10596863B1	Tire pressure management system A tire pressure management system includes at least an axle, a hubcap supported by the axle and having an interior and an exterior, and a rotary union mounted to the hubcap. The rotary union includes at least rotary union housing providing a central bore, a fluid conduit having upstream and downstream ends, and a bearing in contact engagement with the fluid conduit via an inner race of the bearing, and in sliding engagement with a bearing sleeve via an outer race of the bearing. The bearing sleeve in pressing contact with the central bore; and a seal, is disposed between the bearing and the downstream end of the fluid conduit.
US10596862B1	Dynamic wheel management system A tire pressure management system includes at least an axle, which houses pressurized fluid, and is supported by a tire. A vehicle frame supported by the axle, by way of a suspension is disposed between frame and the axle. Also included is a pressure management controller (PMC) supported by the frame, which communicates with the tire. A load detection device (LDD) interacting with the suspension determines a value for a load supported by the suspension. The PMC provides at least a central processing unit (CPU) programmed with a lookup table that associates the value determined by the LDD with a predetermined pressure for the tire. The CPU directs an inflation, else a deflation of of the tire based on the determined value.
US10596857B2	Pneumatic tire First direction ridge patterns and second direction ridge patterns are lined-up alternately at a decorative concave portion 18. Plural main ridges 22A through 22D and sub-ridges 26A through 26D, which project-out from a bottom surface 18A, are formed at a first direction ridge pattern 20. The respective ridges are disposed in parallel such that ridge extending directions are a same direction. Light reflection patterns are different at a main ridge region 24, 34 and a sub-ridge region 28, 38.
US10596851B2	Bead lock systems and methods Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a bead lock wheel line in scaled vehicles. The bead lock wheel line may include a wheel center section and a bead lock ring. The bead lock ring may be configured to be overlaid on the wheel center section, wherein screws may be inserted through orifices positioned within the bead lock ring and into orifices positioned on the wheel center section.
US10596849B2	Wheel rim protector This is a cover acting as a solid space of protection to protect the embellished surface of a wheel rim when installing a tire on it. The cover includes a circular structure designed in such way as to be held detachably on a wheel rim, the circular structure being made of two semi-annular sub-structures connected by at least one resilient element bringing the two sub-structures towards each other, a fastening system with motion limiting device, an inwardly curved circular contour and handles fixed to the circular structure for its handling. The elements are configured in order to fasten the circular structure and to be held detachably in an adjustable manner on a wheel rim.
US10596846B2	Greeting card having compressed object therein and method of selectively controlling deformation thereof A greeting card having a transparent and flexible pouch enclosing a deformable object is disclosed. The transparent and flexible pouch is vacuum sealed with the deformable object inside, such that the deformable object compresses. A transparent insert may be placed inside of the transparent and flexible pouch, in order to minimize disfiguration of the deformable object during the compression process.
US10596843B2	Printing apparatus, printing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for printing There is provided a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a memory storing a program; and at least one hardware processor configured to execute a process in the program. The process includes: performing at least one printing operation of pre-printing and post-printing of overprinting which is an operation of performing pre-printing on a medium and then performing post-printing on the medium; and printing one of charts indicating reference positions by the intersection points of reference lines, during test printing related to each of the at least one printing operation, wherein the directions of reference lines corresponding to pre-printing are different from the directions of reference lines corresponding to post-printing.
US10596834B2	Light irradiation device and printer The disclosure relates to a light irradiation device which can improve curability of photo-curable materials. A light irradiation device includes a first supply section having a porous portion, the first supply section being capable of supplying a gas to a photo-curable material through the porous portion; and an irradiation section disposed in alignment with the porous portion or disposed downstream from the porous portion, the irradiation section being capable of irradiating the photo-curable material with light.
US10596830B1	Substrate package having variable marking Disclosed are a substrate package, a method of fabricating the substrate package, and a system including the substrate package. The substrate package includes a stack of substrate sheets in an individual form, a continuous form, or a roll form. The stack has a sidewall defined by edges of the substrate sheets and a mark on the sidewall includes mark segments on respective edges. The mark segments vary such that one or more of the mark segments have a respective segment characteristic, such as a length. The segment characteristic can encode information about an attribute of the substrate sheet, such as a physical characteristic of the sheet.
US10596828B2	Tablet printing apparatus and tablet printing method According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a conveying path where a tablet is conveyed; a drying device configured to dry the tablet in the conveying path; and a print head device located on the downstream side of the drying device in the conveying path. The print head device is configured to perform printing on the tablet dried by the drying device.
US10596825B2	Printer and printer control method According to one embodiment, a thermal head is provided opposite to a platen roller. A ribbon transport unit transports an ink ribbon between the thermal head and the platen roller. A transport unit transports a sheet carrying a label between the thermal head and the platen roller. A clamping mechanism clamps the ink ribbon, a printing area of the label and the sheet in the thermal head and the platen roller. An acquisition unit acquires first print data to be printed on a first label and second print data to be printed on a second label. A non-printing area specifying unit specifies a non-printing area on the sheet, based on the first print data and the second print data. The control unit separates the ink ribbon and the sheet when it is transported between the thermal head and the platen roller, and stops the transport of the ink ribbon.
US10596814B2	Selectively firing a fluid circulation element According to an example, a printing apparatus may include two drop ejecting elements, a fluid circulating element, and a logic device. The logic device may determine whether one or both of a first drop ejecting element and a second drop ejecting element have been fired within a predetermined period of time prior to a current time. In response to the determination, the logic device may selectively transmit an output signal that is to cause the fluid circulating element to be selectively fired, in which the fluid circulating element is positioned to circulate fluid adjacent to both the first drop ejecting element and the second drop ejecting element.
US10596813B2	Liquid discharge apparatus and liquid discharge method A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge liquid to print an image on a recording medium according to image data while the liquid discharge apparatus is moved; a sensor configured to detect movement of the liquid discharge apparatus in a predetermined period and output movement information including at least one of a movement amount and an angular velocity of the liquid discharge apparatus; a heater configured to heat the head; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the head; and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to instruct liquid discharge from the head based on the image data and the movement information from the sensor, detect floating of the liquid discharge apparatus based on a detection result generated by the sensor, and control heating of the head based on a result of detection of the floating.
US10596808B2	Method for density compensation by drop size adaptation A method for modifying color density values in a dot-based printing system uses a control unit. The control unit implements the modification of the color density values after a raster image has been created and modifies the number and/or size of print dots to be applied to a printing substrate in order to attain pre-defined color density target values.
US10596807B2	Capacitive load driving circuit and image forming apparatus A capacitive load driving circuit includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element, a fourth switching element and voltage dropper elements. The first switching element is provided on a first charging path extending from a power supply to a capacitive load. The second switching element is provided on a second charging path extending from a capacitor to the capacitive load. The third switching element is provided on a first discharging path extending from the capacitive load to a ground. The fourth switching element is provided on a second discharging path extending from the capacitive load to the capacitor. The voltage dropper elements are provided on each of control signal power supply paths to the first switching element, to the second switching element, to the third switching element and to the fourth switching element. The voltage dropper elements are configured to make electric current flow more easily through the second charging path than through the first charging path when charging the capacitive load and to make electric current flow more easily through the second discharging path than through the first discharging path when discharging the capacitive load by a potential difference.
US10596806B2	Method for detecting and compensating for defective printing nozzles in an ink jet printing machine A method for detecting and compensating for defective printing nozzles in an ink jet printing machine by using a computer includes printing printing nozzle test charts next to an actual print in a production run, subsequently recording and digitizing the printed printing nozzle test charts by using at least one image sensor, evaluating recorded test charts and, based thereon, defining characteristic values for all printing nozzles contributing to the printed printing nozzle test charts by using the computer, calculating a failure probability for every contributing printing nozzle based on the determined characteristic values by applying a statistical prediction model using the computer, and switching off and compensating for all printing nozzles exceeding a first defined threshold for the calculated failure probability. A printing operation is then carried out on the ink jet printing machine with printing nozzle compensation.
US10596805B2	Printing device and printing method A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a solid print nozzle discharging solid-color printing ink; a color printing nozzle discharging color printing ink; and a main scan driver prompting the nozzles to perform main scans in which the nozzles discharge the ink droplets while moving in a main scanning direction previously set, wherein with a density of ink dots formed on the medium by one nozzle in a preset number of the main scans being defined as a main scan dot density, the main scan driver prompting the solid print nozzle to form ink dots at a first main scan dot density, the main scan driver further prompting the color printing nozzle to form ink dots at a second main scan dot density lower than the first main scan dot density.
US10596802B2	Calibration systems for calibrating build platforms of additive manufacturing systems and related program products Additive manufacturing systems (AMS) are disclosed. The AMS may include a movable build platform, and a calibration system operably connected to the build platform. The calibration system may include a reflective element operably coupled to the build platform, a first calibration model positioned above and vertically offset from the reflective element, and a first camera substantially aligned with the first calibration model. The first camera may be visually aligned with the reflective element to capture a first reflective image of the first calibration model as reflected by the reflective element. The calibration system may also include at least one computing device operably connected to the build platform and the first camera, and configured to calibrate the build platform by: adjusting an actual inclination of the build platform in response to determining the first reflective image differs from a predetermined image of the first calibration model.
US10596800B2	Three-dimensional shaped article production method, three-dimensional shaped article production apparatus, and three-dimensional shaped article A three-dimensional shaped article production method according to the invention includes a step of forming a layer by ejecting a composition containing particles using a dispenser, a step of determining the height of the layer, wherein a stacked body includes a layer which has a first portion corresponding to a portion to become an actual body part of the three-dimensional shaped article to be formed using an actual body part forming composition, and a second portion corresponding to a portion to become a sacrificial part to be formed using a sacrificial part forming composition, the supply amount of the sacrificial part forming composition to be ejected onto the second portion of the n-th layer in the step of forming the (n+1)th layer is adjusted based on the information of the height of the surface of the second portion of the n-th layer.
US10596794B2	Releasable polyester high gloss metal transfer film method A carrier film of thermoplastic polyester has releasable metal adhesive properties suitable for a metal transfer in which the polyester film is metalized and the metal layer is subsequently transferred to a permanent adhesive-coated substrate. The metal layer is in direct contact with the polyester carrier film and no intermediate release layer is present. Desired metal adhesion is provided by dispersing an suitable surfactant, and optionally, a hydrocarbon wax, uniformly into the polyester film. Surfactant on the outer surface of the carrier film modifies metal adhesion to the polyester such that the metal can be removed in a metal transfer operation.
US10596790B1	Multilayered elastomeric articles and methods thereof Disclosed is a multilayered elastomeric article with hydrophobic polymers as a patient contacting surface, hydrophilic polymers as a wear contacting surface, and a blend of the hydrophobic and the hydrophilic polymers as an intermediate layer between two contacting surfaces. The article has low water absorption of the patient contacting surface to prevent virus penetration and a textured surface of the wear contacting surface to reduce the friction force between hand and glove surface. The hydrophilic polymers in wear contacting and intermediate layers of the article can increase water absorption and boost leaching effectiveness. High water absorption minimizes the uncomfortable feelings from excessive sweating. Increased effectiveness in leaching makes the article less cytotoxic. A method for making the disclosed elastomeric article is also provided.
US10596785B2	Intermediate film for laminated glass, and laminated glass There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which a low yellow index value, low excitation purity and high heat shielding properties can be achieved in spite of the thickness varying with places. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a two or more-layer structure, has a thickness of one end thinner than a thickness of the other end at the opposite side of the one end and includes a first layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a second layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness in the first layer is smaller than the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness in the second layer, and the first layer contains a heat shielding compound.
US10596778B2	Fiber-reinforced composite material Briefly, a variety of embodiments of composite materials including part fabrication using composite materials is described.
US10596777B2	Honeycomb sandwich panel A honeycomb sandwich sheet or panel, based on thermoplastic polypropylene, includes a structure having two flat outer films, thermowelded to a central film that includes a thermoformed blister film, with blisters repeated in a regular and continuous pattern, the flat outer films including a coextruded two-layer film, based on thermoplastic polypropylene, wherein the inner layer faces the central thermoformed film, and the central thermoformed blister film includes a coextruded three-layer film, based on thermoplastic polypropylene, wherein the two outer layers face the flat outer films, and wherein the structure includes and additional layer C thermowelded to the outer layer of the two flat outer films.
US10596758B2	Gas phase integrated multimaterial printhead for additive manufacturing Sputtering printheads, additive manufacturing systems comprising the same, and methods for additive manufacturing are provided. Sputtering printheads of the present invention use a plasma to sputter a feedstock material which is directed towards a target. A printhead can include a heater to heat the feedstock to, or near, the material's melting point as it is being sputtered to increase the deposition rate. A convergent nozzle can also increase the deposition rate. Printheads of the present invention are readily reconfigurable such that the same printhead can be used to deposit different materials, such as metals and non-metals, in succession by replacing the feedstock material and making changes to a few settings. Additive manufacturing systems of the present invention can be operated at normal room temperatures and pressure.
US10596749B2	System and method for perforating paint-roller cover fabric In an embodiment, a paint roller manufacturing system and method uses a fabric-coating applicator to apply a fabric adhesive onto a portion of a perforated paint roller cover fabric material having a plurality of perforations through which adhesive may flow, and into the plurality of perforations and into interstitial spaces of the fabric material, to yield a length of coated fabric. An inner strip and an outer strip are wound about a mandrel in offset relation. A strip-coating applicator is used to apply a strip adhesive to the outer strip as it is wound about the mandrel. Simultaneously with the step of applying the strip adhesive to the outer strip, a portion of the coated paint roller fabric material is received at the outer strip and the length of coated fabric is wound about at least the outer strip to form a paint roller tube.
US10596733B1	Apparatus and system for creating mandrels with voids for expansion control during curing A method and apparatus for forming a tool is provided. A number of members comprised of a thermoplastic material is positioned within a hollow portion of a structure. The tool is formed within the hollow portion of the structure with the number of members positioned within the hollow portion of the structure. Heat is applied within a selected range to the number of members to reduce a size of each of the number of members. The number of members is removed from the tool such that the tool is left with a number of voids.
US10596729B2	Method for manufacturing a flexible mold with peripheral stiffener, and mold resulting from said method A food mold includes a food mold body made of a mold body material, having one or more cells with flexible wall, the cells being open on a common access face itself having a peripheral rim extending radially outward from an inner edge, marking the boundary with the cell or cells and to a free outer edge, the peripheral rim being provided with a peripheral stiffening element in the form of a continuous annular reinforcement with, if necessary, one or more intermediate stiffening elements. The peripheral stiffening element is entirely embedded in the mold body material. Around the peripheral stiffening element, the mold body material has no through passages free or blocked between the peripheral stiffening element and the outer surface of the material.
US10596717B2	Methods of cutting fiber reinforced polymer composite workpieces with a pure waterjet Methods of trimming fiber reinforced polymer composite workpieces are provided which use a pure waterjet discharged from a cutting head in liquid phase unladened with solid particles at an operating pressure of at least 60,000 psi and in combination with other cutting parameters to provide a final component profile without delamination, splintering, fraying or unacceptable fiber pullout or fiber fracture.
US10596716B2	Generating a guidance indicator and indicator signal According to an aspect, there is provided a method comprising generating (202) a guidance indicator relating to a portion of a user; determining (204) a position of a portion of a portable device relative to the portion of the user; and generating (208) an indication signal when it is determined that at least a portion of the portable device is in a defined position relative to the guidance indicator. According to other aspects, apparatus and a machine readable medium are provided.
US10596715B2	Blade set and hair cutting appliance A hair cutting appliance including a blade set including a first wall portion and a second wall portion, each wall portion defining a first surface, a second surface, and at least one toothed leading edge including a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections provided with respective tips, wherein the first surfaces of the first wall portion and the second wall portion face each other, at least at their leading edges, wherein facing projections, along the leading edges of the first and second wall portions are mutually connected at their tips to define a plurality of teeth, wherein the first surfaces of the first wall portion and the second wall portion define therebetween a guide slot for a movable blade and wherein the second surface of the first wall portion includes a smoothed transitional region at least at the forwardly extending projections.
US10596705B2	Mobile robot with collision anticipation The invention relates to a mobile robot having running gear and at least one robot arm mounted on the running gear, a sensor system for sensing obstacles in the surroundings of the robot and a navigation unit for laying down a route along which the running gear can be moved while avoiding the obstacles, and a control unit for the robot arm which is adapted to lay down a permissible position for the robot arm by reference to the obstacles sensed and the route.
US10596701B1	Robotic system with enhanced scanning mechanism A method for operating a robotic system including determining an initial pose of a target object based on imaging data, wherein the initial pose is for estimating a resting orientation of the target object in a pickup area; calculating a confidence measure associated with the initial pose, wherein the confidence measure is for representing a likelihood of the initial pose being correct; and calculating a motion plan according to the confidence measure, the motion plan for executing a task based on picking up the target object from a start location, transferring the target object to a task location, and scanning one or more object identifiers between the start location and the task location.
US10596700B2	System and calibration, registration, and training methods A method for manipulating a multi-link robotic arm includes: at a first time, recording a first optical image through an optical sensor arranged proximal a distal end of the robotic arm proximal an end effector; detecting a global reference feature in a first position in the first optical image; virtually locating a global reference frame based on the first position of the global reference feature in the first optical image; calculating a first pose of the end effector within the global reference frame at approximately the first time based on the first position of the global reference feature in the first optical image; and driving a set of actuators within the robotic arm to move the end effector from the first pose toward an object keypoint, the object keypoint defined within the global reference frame and representing an estimated location of a target object within range of the end effector.
US10596694B2	Apparatus with hand grip and method for mounting hand grip An apparatus having a handle with a mounted hand grip is described. A first end wall surface of the hand grip is tapered from a base surface to a top surface of the hand grip. A second end wall surface of the hand grip is tapered from the base surface to the top surface of the hand grip. A first end wall of the recess engages the first end wall surface of the hand grip and prevents movement of the first end wall surface away from the base surface of the recess. A second end wall of the recess engages the second end wall surface of the hand grip and prevents movement of the first end wall surface away from the base surface of the recess.
US10596693B2	Power tool with detachable auxiliary handle A power tool with an auxiliary handle which is easily securable to and removable from the tool. The auxiliary handle provides additional functionality, beyond being merely a handle. The auxiliary handle is detachably engaged to the power tool for working as a side handle via a “quick-connect” mechanism, which locks the handle in place either automatically or with a simple movement, and which can be released by a simple movement. The handle also serves a secondary function. For example, its quick-connect mechanism can be so configured as to receive a screwdriver bit. When removed from the power tool, the handle can act as a screwdriver handle. The handle may include compartments or slots to retain a variety of screwdriver bits or other components. The handle could be a screwdriver with auto lock bit or bit holder.
US10596691B2	Devices and methods of using them to assemble two or more workpieces to each other Certain embodiments described herein are directed to devices which can be used to safely secure two or more workpieces to each other, e.g., to secure a cabinet face frame to a cabinet frame. In some examples, the device comprises a base configured to engage a first surface of the first workpiece and to receive an attachment device. The base can also be configured to engage a first surface of a second workpiece. The device may also comprise piston means configured to engage the second workpiece at a second surface. The device may comprise one or more plungers that can be used to actuate the attachment device to permit fastening of the workpieces once properly arranged. Methods of using the device are also described.
US10596685B2	Engaging portion for a hand tool A hand tool includes a body which is a cylindrical body and has a hexagonal mounting portion defined in one end thereof. The mounting portion includes six side faces, and each side face includes a function portion which is connected between two contact faces. Six curved recess are defined alternatively between the side faces. Each function portion includes two consecutive V-shaped recesses. The first length is defined between two respective outer ends of the two contact faces of each side face. The mounting hole is defined by an imaginary hexagonal column which includes an axis and six sides. Each side of the imaginary hexagonal column is located corresponding to each contact face. The length of each side is defined as the third length. The first length is 0.5 to 0.65 of the third length.
US10596684B2	Expandable torque tool A tool has a body with an axially extending cavity containing partly cylindrical receptacles. Each receptacle has an opening facing inward toward the axis. A partly cylindrical cam portion of a jaw fits within each of the receptacles. Each jaw has a workpiece engaging portion protruding from the body. Each of the cam portions has a pair of flat flanks that protrude inward from the opening of one of the receptacles. The flat flanks intersect each other at an inner corner. Each flank abuts one of the flanks of another of the cam members. Each of the engaging portions has an outer surface configured to engage a hole within the workpiece. An increment of rotation of the body relative to the jaws causes the inner corners of the flanks to move outward from the axis and the outer surfaces of the engaging portions to move from a contracted position to an expanded position.
US10596677B2	Machine tool control system capable of obtaining workpiece origin and workpiece origin setting method A machine tool control system according to the present invention includes: a three-dimensional coordinate computing unit which calculates three-dimensional coordinates of a workpiece based on a plurality of images of the workpiece, the images being taken by the imaging apparatus from a plurality of different directions, and which calculates, from the three-dimensional coordinates, three-dimensional coordinates of a specified machining start point on the workpiece; and a coordinate converting unit which converts three-dimensional coordinates that includes the machining start point on the workpiece calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate computing unit into coordinates in the machine coordinate system for the machine tool, and which sets the converted three-dimensional coordinates of the machining start point on the workpiece, as a workpiece origin, into the machining program for the machine tool.
US10596663B2	High-precision laser machining method for sapphire submicron-order section The present disclosure relates to a method for high precision laser processing of sapphire with submicron-order section plane using a picosecond-order pulse laser which has high transmittance wavelength to sapphire. The laser triggers ultrafine phase transformation points or electronic state removal points from a lower surface of sapphire. After elevating focal points, a trace which is parallel to laser incident direction is formed. Under a chemical corrosion environment, points of the laser trace are arranged to intersect with other another according to the cutting route to form the corresponding phase transformation region and electronic state removal region. At the same time, by utilizing the catalysis effect of microthermal effect of picosecond laser on chemical corrosion, separation of the sapphire sample along the processing path is obtained. The present disclosure overcomes the limitation of Gaussian beam focusing mode and realizes high precision sapphire cutting with zero tapers and no heat-affected zone. Cutting of hyperfine sapphire and other materials with the high quality cutting surface in micron and submicron ranges with no limitation on the thickness and process path is achieved.
US10596659B2	Conveyor system and method for high speed material sheet processing A conveyor system for rapidly moving and simultaneously processing material sheets through several processing stations, the conveyor system including a chain that moves in an endless loop, and noncontiguous operational and standby skid sections for supporting material sheets and moving with the chain in the endless loop; wherein the conveyor indexes through the processing stations, such that, after each indexing, the conveyor has one skid section that is in operational position associated with each of the processing stations, thus allowing each of the processing stations to operate simultaneously on the associated skid section, during each time period when the conveyor is stopped, after each indexing.
US10596657B2	Friction stir welding apparatus, friction stir welding control device, and friction stir welding method A friction stir welding apparatus includes a FSW tool that is held by a housing and welds to-be-welded members to each other by friction stir, and a gradual cooling device that gradually cools a weld site of the to-be-welded members welded by the FSW tool. The gradual cooling device is a contactless heat source that heats the weld site without coming into contact with the weld site. The contactless heat source is a high-frequency heat source.
US10596655B2	Magnetic pulse actuation arrangement for downhole tools and method A method for installing a tool in a downhole system including running the tool to a target location within a tubular structure, creating a magnetic pulse, and urging the tool toward the tubular structure at a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second with the magnetic pulse. A method for actuating a downhole tool including creating a magnetic pulse, coupling the magnetic pulse to a workpiece and moving the workpiece with the pulse, the workpiece achieving a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second.
US10596651B2	Methods and apparatus to communicate via a welding arc Methods and apparatus to communicate via a welding arc are disclosed. An example welding-type power supply includes a power converter, a weld monitor, and an arc modulator. The power converter outputs welding power to sustain a welding-type arc at a welding-type torch. The weld monitor monitors one or more aspects of a weld performed using the welding-type arc and the welding-type torch, and selects an audio message based on the one or more aspects. The arc modulator configured to modify the welding-type arc to output the selected audio message as a plasma speaker.
US10596639B1	Precision drilling platform A method and apparatus for controlling lateral drilling for accurate placement of laterally running conduit for electrical, fluid or gas piping. The disclosure provides a stable platform which is adjustable and may be quickly assembled in a basement or subterranean building area to allow accurate placement of lateral deep drilling to provide connection between a below grade space, through a foundation wall and through soil to place the termination point of the desired hole very close to a target location. The apparatus can be driven with an internal drill or a hand drill to drive a screw-like mechanism forward once the geometry of the intended conduit drilling is set up.
US10596637B2	Tool A cutting edge tip of a cubic boron nitride sintered body has improved joint strength to a substrate of a cemented carbide. A cutting edge tip of a cubic boron nitride sintered body has improved crater wear resistance. A tool 10 of the present invention includes a substrate 12 of a cemented carbide and a cutting edge tip 14 of a cubic boron nitride sintered body joined to the substrate 12. The cutting edge tip 14 has a thickness covering an upper surface 12a to a lower surface 12b of the substrate 12. The cubic boron nitride sintered body contains 50 volume % or more and 95 volume % or less of cubic boron nitride and 5 volume % or more and 50 volume % or less of a binder phase. The cubic boron nitride has an average grain size of 1.0 μm or more and 6.0 μm or less.
US10596629B2	System for increasing the bulk density of metal powder An apparatus for increasing the bulk density of metal powder includes a sealed chamber, a nozzle, and a target. The sealed chamber has an inert environment. The nozzle is coupled to an inert gas source and is configured to introduce raw metal powder into a flow of the inert gas for discharge as a cold spray mixture of the raw metal powder and the inert gas into the sealed chamber. The target is housed within the sealed chamber and is configured to receive an impact of the cold spray mixture. The nozzle and the target are configured to flatten the raw metal particles into flattened metal particles in response to the cold spray mixture impacting the target.
US10596628B2	Systems and methods for creating nanocrystalline alloy articles using additive manufacturing Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems and methods for using nanocrystalline metal alloy particles or powders to create nanocrystalline and/or microcrystalline metal alloy articles using additive manufacturing. In some embodiments, a manufacturing method for creating articles includes disposing a plurality of nanocrystalline particles and selectively binding the particles together to form the article. In some embodiments, the nanocrystalline particles can be sintered to bind the particles together. In some embodiments, the plurality of nanocrystalline particles can be disposed on a substrate and sintered to form the article. The substrate can be a base or a prior layer of bound particles. In some embodiments, the nanocrystalline particles can be selectively bound together (e.g., sintered) at substantially the same time as they are disposed on the substrate.
US10596620B2	Mold for producing cast parts A mold for production of cast parts, having two mold parts in the form of mold plates, which mold parts arc movable with respect to each other from an open position into a closed position, wherein the mold parts in their closed position define a mold cavity which may be filled with liquid casting compound and in their open position enable removal of a cast part which has solidified by at least partial cooling, and are lockable in their closed position by a locking device which joining the two mold parts so as to be releasable, and which mold parts may also be swung, wherewith in the closed position the locking device produces the locking of the mold plates with the stipulation that the locking pressure is maintained. The locking device has an energy storage means with a gas pressure spring for maintaining the closing pressure which presses the mold plates together after they have initially been pressed together.
US10596618B2	Method for producing heat sink Provided is a method for producing a heat sink that can easily and effectively form a heat radiating film on the surface of a substrate without requiring enormous heat energy for increasing the temperature of the substrate. The method is a method for producing a heat sink having a substrate and a heat radiating film formed on the surface of the substrate, including a first step of casting a substrate by injecting molten metal into a cavity of molding dies; and a second step of applying a heat radiating coating to the substrate through spraying or dropping in the period from when the molding dies are opened after the casting until when the temperature of the substrate that has been cast becomes lower than the deposition temperature that is a temperature necessary to deposit the heat radiating coating on the substrate.
US10596613B2	Producing method, producing apparatus and producing equipment line of press formed product A producing method of the press formed product includes a preparation step of preparing a metal sheet as a starting material; and a press working step of performing press working on the starting material. The press working step includes: during a time period from when pushing-in of the starting material into the die by the punch is started or immediately thereafter until the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die reaches a predetermined distance short of a bottom dead point for the pushing-in, holding the pad at a position distant from the punch by the predetermined distance; when the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die reaches the predetermined distance short of the bottom dead point, receiving the pad in the die; and continuing the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die and the pad to the bottom dead point.
US10596611B2	Method for producing press-formed product A production method includes a placement step, a first pressing step, and a second pressing step. In the placement step, a blank plate is placed in press tooling. In the first pressing step, the blank plate is caused to undergo bend forming in such a way that concave ridges, a concave area, and areas of concave-correspondence vertical wall areas that are areas adjacent to the concave ridges are formed in the blank plate. In the second pressing step, the resultant plate is caused to undergo draw forming in such a way that convex ridges, a convex area, areas of convex-correspondence vertical wall areas that are areas adjacent to the convex ridges are formed in the resultant plate.
US10596607B2	Bioremediation composition with time-release materials for removing energetic compounds from contaminated environments A composition useful for removing energetic compounds from contaminated environments. The composition includes a supported reactant including an adsorbent with high affinity for energetic compounds. Further, the composition includes a first bioremediation material comprising at least one organism capable of degrading an energetic compound and a polymeric substance fueling the first bioremediation material during the degrading of the energetic compound. Additionally, the composition includes a second bioremediation material breaking the polymeric substance into smaller molecules over a degradation time period to provide the fueling of the first bioremediation material in a time-release manner.
US10596602B2	Delivery and routing management based on multi-identifier labels Systems and methods for sorting, grouping, routing and delivering packages or products to end user customers comprises network-based routing and trip assignment. The packages or products are labeled with a using a plurality visual identifiers that are easily distinguished without requiring either the fulfillment staff or the delivery personnel to review the label for customer names or addresses.
US10596601B2	Imaging system for sorting poultry meat with wooden breast myopathy The image sorting system sorts normal chicken breast meat fillets from chicken fillets that exhibit wooden breast myopathy (i.e. WB fillets). In the preferred embodiment, a camera and associated controller gather data and construct a digital image of a chicken breast fillet as it travels on a conveyer belt. The digital image is used to calculate a centroid (i.e. center of mass) of the fillet. As the fillet moves over a nose of the conveyor belt and free-falls to a lower conveyor belt, the controller determines the distance between the fillet centroid and a reference point (preferably the conveyer belt axis of rotation). If the distance exceeds a predetermined minimum distance, the fillet is designated a WB fillet.
US10596596B2	Vibration device and electronic device including the same A vibration device, including a housing having accommodating space, a vibrator, a stator and an elastic member, the elastic member is configured to suspend the vibrator in the accommodating space; the vibrator, the stator and the elastic member are accommodated in the housing, the elastic member includes two elastic plate components disposed at two opposite sides of the vibrator, each elastic plate component includes at least two V-shaped elastic plates parallelly arranged perpendicular to vibrating direction, each elastic plate component includes a first fixing portion fixedly connected with the housing, a second fixing portion fixedly connected with the vibrator, and a V-shaped elastic arm connecting the first fixing portion with the second fixing portion, the first and second fixing portions are opposite to and spaced from each other to form an opening end, and the opening ends of two V-shaped elastic plates faces away from each other.
US10596581B2	Actuator, liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus An actuator includes a diaphragm, a lower electrode on the diaphragm, an electromechanical transducer film on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the electromechanical transducer film. The diaphragm includes a first silicon oxide film having a thickness of 0.5 μm or more, a silicon layer on the first silicon oxide film, a thickness of which is 3 μm or more, and a second silicon oxide film on the silicon layer, a thickness of which is 0.5 μm or more. A volume resistivity of the silicon layer is 103 Ω·cm or more and 106 Ω·cm or less.
US10596569B2	Systems and methods including a rotary valve for at least one of sample preparation or sample analysis Systems and methods for conducting designated reactions that include a fluidic network having a sample channel, a reaction chamber, and a reservoir. The sample channel is in flow communication with a sample port. The system also includes a rotary valve that has a flow channel and is configured to rotate between first and second valve positions. The flow channel fluidically couples the reaction chamber and the sample channel when the rotary valve is in the first valve position and fluidically couples the reservoir and the reaction chamber when the rotary valve is in the second valve position. A pump assembly induces a flow of a biological sample toward the reaction chamber when the rotary valve is in the first valve position and induces a flow of a reaction component from the reservoir toward the reaction chamber when the rotary valve is in the second valve position.
US10596567B2	Microfluidic ratchets for displacing particles Embodiments of the invention include a microfluidic device, which comprises a substrate with a channel defined therein, on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein a bottom wall of the channel comprises several contiguous steps having an asymmetric profile along a main direction of the channel, so as to form a ratchet topography. The device further comprises a lid, opposite to and at a distance from the upper surface of the substrate, so as to face the bottom wall of the channel. The bottom wall and the lid are designed to allow like sign charges to accumulate thereat, in presence of a polar liquid confined in the channel between the bottom wall and the lid, so as to allow displacement of nanoscale particles in the polar liquid, along said main direction of the channel, under application of an alternating force to said nanoscale particles, in operation of the device.
US10596563B2	Sinter-resistant stable catalyst systems by trapping of mobile platinum group metal (PGM) catalyst species Methods of preparing a sinter-resistant catalyst include forming a dual coating system. A surface of a particulate catalyst support contacts a first liquid precursor including a metal salt with an element selected from the group consisting of: aluminum (Al), cerium (Ce), zirconium (Zr), titanium (Ti), silicon (Si), magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn), and combinations thereof. The first liquid precursor precipitates or is adsorbed as an ion on a portion of the surface forming a first coating including a porous metal oxide on the surface. The surface may be contacted with a second liquid precursor including a metal oxide sol including a metal selected from the group consisting of: aluminum (Al), cerium (Ce), zirconium (Zr), iron (Fe), titanium (Ti), silicon (Si), and combinations thereof. A second coating is formed from the second liquid precursor on a portion of the surface to create the sinter-resistant catalyst system.
US10596561B2	Halometallate ionic liquid micro-emulsions A micro-emulsion and a method of making the micro-emulsion are described. The micro-emulsion includes a hydrocarbon component, an ionic liquid component, and a co-solvent. The ionic liquid comprises a halometallate anion and a cation. The micro-emulsion can optionally include a surfactant, and a catalyst promoter. The co-solvent has a polarity greater than the polarity of the hydrocarbon. The ionic liquid is present in an amount of about 0.05 wt % to about 40 wt % of the micro-emulsion.
US10596558B2	Naphtha reforming catalyst and processes thereof The present invention provides catalyst comprising metal modified zeolite, particularly Group IIIA or Group IIB metal modified zeolite, or a Group IIIA metal and Group IIB metal modified zeolite for reforming of heart cut naphtha stream. The present disclosure also relates to a process for synthesis of the catalyst. The present disclosure further relates to a process for reforming of heart cut naphtha stream, with high selectivity towards aromatics and good activity using the catalytic system, in the absence of hydrogen.
US10596557B2	Method for preparing molecular sieve-multielement oxide composite integrally extruded denitration catalyst A preparation method for a molecular sieve-multiple oxide composite integral extrusion type denitration catalyst includes constructing an organic structure coating on the surface of a metal ion-exchanged molecular sieves and synchronously adding multiple oxide components, thus obtaining an ion-exchanged molecular sieve-multiple oxide composite denitration catalyst active component; and then mixing, kneading into paste, staling, carrying out integral extrusion forming, drying, and calcining, thus obtaining the integral extrusion type denitration catalyst. The molecular sieve-multiple oxide composite integral extraction type denitration catalyst has a denitration efficiency more than 80% at the temperature ranging from 250° C. to 420° C. in the presence of 10% steam and 500 ppm sulfuric dioxide.
US10596553B2	Methods, catalysts, and devices for biological object degradation The present disclosure provides a method for biological object degradation. The method may include: providing a first biological object; providing a catalyst that forms a mixture with the first biological object and includes a copper element; and obtaining a first liquid phase and a first solid phase by heating the mixture in an atmosphere including hydrogen. The first liquid phase may include a sugar. The present disclosure also provides a system and a catalyst for biological object degradation.
US10596552B2	Catalyst for preparing cumene and use thereof Provided is a catalyst for preparing cumene and use thereof. The catalyst provided includes a carrier and an active ingredient. The active ingredient includes: ingredient (1), which is palladium element; and ingredient (2), which is one or more selected from a group consisting of alkali metal elements, alkaline earth metals and molybdenum element. When the catalyst is used for preparing cumene by α-methyl styrene hydrogenation, AMS conversion rate is high, and a product cumene has high selectivity.
US10596551B2	Reforming catalyst and a method of preparation thereof The present disclosure relates to a reforming catalyst composition comprising a spherical gamma AI2O3 support; at least one Group VB metal oxide sheet coated on to the AI2O3 support; and at least one active metal and at least one promoter metal impregnated on the AI2O3 coated support. The reforming catalyst composition of the present disclosure has improved activity, better selectivity for total aromatics during naphtha reforming and results in less coke formation. The reforming catalyst composition has improved catalyst performance with simultaneous modification of acidic sites as well as metallic sites through metal support interaction. The acid site cracking activity of the catalyst is inhibited because of the use of chloride free alumina support modified with solid acid such as Group VB metal oxide and impregnated with active metals. The present disclosure provides a process for naphtha reforming in the presence of the reforming catalyst composition of the present disclosure to obtain reformates of naphtha.
US10596549B2	Activated carbon monolith catalyst, methods for making same, and uses thereof Activated carbon monolith catalyst including a finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith having at least one passage therethrough, and including a supporting matrix and substantially discontinuous activated carbon particles dispersed throughout the supporting matrix and at least one catalyst precursor on the finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith. A method for making, and a method for use, of such an activated carbon monolith catalyst in catalytic chemical reactions.
US10596542B2	Method and device to synthesize boron nitride nanotubes and related nanoparticles Methods and apparatus for producing chemical nanostructures having multiple elements, such as boron and nitride, e.g. boron nitride nanotubes, are disclosed. The method comprises creating a plasma jet, or plume, such as by an arc discharge. The plasma plume is elongated and has a temperature gradient along its length. It extends along its length into a port connector area having ports for introduction of feed materials. The feed materials include the multiple elements, which are introduced separately as fluids or powders at multiple ports along the length of the plasma plume, said ports entering the plasma plume at different temperatures. The method further comprises modifying a temperature at a distal portion of or immediately downstream of said plasma plume; and collecting said chemical nanostructures after said modifying.
US10596540B2	Flow cell array and uses thereof Apparatus and methods for using a flow cell array are provided herein. A method includes delivering multiple items of chemical matter independently to multiple reaction sites of a flow cell array across multiple distinct instances of time; imaging multiple parallel chemical reactions at the multiple reaction sites of the flow cell array; and recording an emission from each of the multiple chemical reactions site.
US10596539B2	Method for carrying out a heterogeneously catalysed reaction A process for performing a heterogeneously catalysed reaction in a three-phase reactor, where there is at least one liquid phase, at least one gaseous phase and at least one solid phase in the reactor and the reactor has at least two zones, with the reaction mixture being conveyed downward in zone 1, the reaction mixture being conveyed upward in zone 2, zones 1 and 2 being separated from one another by a dividing wall, and in that the ratio between the average catalyst concentrations in zone 2 and in zone 1 is greater than 2.
US10596534B2	Apparatus for dispensing and mixing blended composition for skin treatment An apparatus is provided for dispensing a cosmetic composition, including: a cartridge holder configured to hold at least one cartridge that stores a cosmetic composition, the cartridge holder being configured to move the cartridge to a predetermined location; a container receiving area configured to hold a output container beneath the predetermined location; circuitry configured to determine the cosmetic composition in the cartridge holder, control the cartridge holder to move the cartridge holder to the predetermined location based on the determination, and control the cartridge to dispense the cosmetic composition into the output container; and a mixer configured to hold the output container and subject the output container to a predetermined movement to cause contents of the output container to mix together.
US10596532B2	Isolatable automatic drug compounding system A low-cost drug compounding system that can practically fit inside of a fume hood or the like is provided. The system can use a single pump operable in forward and reverse directions (or multiple pumps) to compound complex mixtures particularly including those requiring the creation of solutions from dry or powdered ingredients. A wireless link allows operation of the system remotely. In one embodiment, the system uses a disposable mixing tube set that can be discarded after mixing while still attached to the base ingredient containers used for the compounding thereby minimize the chance of personnel exposure.
US10596514B2	Acid-gas capturing apparatus and acid gas capturing method An acid-gas capturing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an absorption unit configured to discharge an absorption-unit exhaust gas, and a regeneration unit configured to discharge a regeneration unit exhaust gas. The regeneration unit exhaust gas is compressed in a compression unit. The absorption-unit exhaust gas or the regeneration unit exhaust gas before it is compressed by the compression unit is cleaned in a first cleaning unit by means of a first cleaning liquid. A compression-condensate liquid, which is generated by the compression of the regeneration unit exhaust gas in the compression unit, is mixed into the first cleaning liquid through a first compression-condensate-liquid line whose one end is connected to the compression unit.
US10596512B2	Method to prepare a CO2 adsorbent and capture CO2 A CO2 adsorbent that includes MIL-100(Fe) and various amounts of carbon nanotubes that are dispersed therein, and a method of capturing CO2 with a CO2 adsorbent that includes an adsorbent matrix of a zeolite and/or a metal organic framework and carbon nanotubes that are dispersed within the adsorbent matrix. Various embodiments of the CO2 adsorbent and the method of capturing CO2 are also provided.
US10596510B2	Filter element, in particular for gas filtration A filter element is provided with a filter medium body that is a folded filter of filter paper. The filter medium body has an inflow side and an outflow side. A sealing element is arranged on the filter medium body. At an end edge face, the filter medium body has an adhesive bead filling at least partially intermediate fold spaces at end edges of the folds. The filter medium body has a lateral band adhesively connected to and covering the end edge face positioned at an angle relative to the inflow and outflow sides. The lateral band is connected to end edges of the folds at the end edge face and extends all the way to the inflow and outflow sides. The lateral band has at least one leg resting on the inflow side or the outflow side adjacent to a rim area of the filter medium body.
US10596500B2	Device and method for purifying and recycling shower water The present invention describes a hybrid device (1) for a recirculation shower, allowing purification and either recycling of water or discarding of water, wherein said hybrid device (1) comprises a recirculation loop (2), a filter system (4) with a nano-filter (5) such as for instance an electropositive nano-ceramic filter, e.g. a nano alumina (fiber) filter, at least one filter quality sensor (3), at least one pre-filter (6), and wherein the hybrid device (1) is arranged to redirect the water from recirculation to drainage when the at least one filter quality sensor (3) indicates the need thereof.
US10596497B2	Filter scraper A filter apparatus and method for cleaning filter elements. The filter elements, each including a filter body with an external surface enclosing a filter passage, extend along a longitudinal axis of a vessel housing. A scraper element is disposed about the external surface of each filter body and travels along the longitudinal length of the filter body via a rotational screw to remove deposits. A lower air inlet is included on the vessel to loosen deposits on the filter surfaces, such as during or prior to scraping.
US10596496B2	Systems and methods comprising smart auto cleaning pipe screen for drilling operations An auto cleaning system for cleaning a drilling fluid in a drilling operation, includes a controller configured to determine the difference between a pressure reading by a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor is above a predetermined threshold value, and at least partially open an entrance valve on a second line to divert drilling fluid intake from a first line to the second line, and close the entrance valve on the first line to stop the drilling fluid from entering the first line.
US10596493B2	Support structure for a filter element A support structure (16) for a filter element includes at least one surface part (10), in which one or more fluid passage openings (12a-12e) with predetermined opening cross-sections are formed. The opening cross-section of at least one fluid passage opening (12a-12e) is at least partially elliptical-shaped.
US10596488B1	Lithium ion extraction methods Described herein are compositions for non-aqueous lithium ion extraction and methods of non-aqueous lithium ion extraction. In some embodiments, Octolig® or a methyl derivative thereof can be used to extract lithium and/or other ions from a non-aqueous substrate.
US10596486B2	Plant matter fractional distillation system using heated air induction into precisely heated chamber to extract a plant's organic compounds without use of solvents The present disclosure provides a system for extracting terpenes and cannabinoids from plant matter without use of volatile solvents and without use of lipids as solvents. The system uses heated air, drawn through plant matter for volatilizing desired compounds, where the air is at a predetermined temperature, followed by collecting the desired compounds in a condenser.
US10596481B2	Compact wastewater concentrator using waste heat A compact and portable liquid concentrator includes a gas inlet, a gas exit and a flow corridor connecting the gas inlet and the gas exit, wherein the flow corridor includes a narrowed portion that accelerates the gas through the flow corridor. A liquid inlet injects liquid into the gas stream at a point prior to the narrowed portion so that the gas-liquid mixture is thoroughly mixed within the flow corridor, causing a portion of the liquid to be evaporated. A demister or fluid scrubber downstream of the narrowed portion removes entrained liquid droplets from the gas stream and re-circulates the removed liquid to the liquid inlet through a re-circulating circuit. Fresh liquid to be concentrated is also introduced into the re-circulating circuit at a rate sufficient to offset the amount of liquid evaporated in the flow corridor.
US10596475B2	Plush stuffed with molded or sculpted foam A plush toy system comprises a foam inner, formed into a character shape, made with a compressible foam. A flexible outer covering surrounds the foam inner and has an inner surface for contacting the foam inner. The foam inner and the flexible outer covering combine to form a plush toy. The system may include a package having at least one open side through which the plush toy traversed when compressed to fill an interior space of the package. In use, when the plush toy is compressed and contained within the package, upon opening of the at least one open side the plush toy at least partially expands out of the at least one open side of the package. When removed completely from the package the plush toy expands to the natural size of the plush toy, preferably three times its size or more when compressed.
US10596473B2	Communication system, server, and information-processing method Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.
US10596467B2	System and method for determining curved path of travel for a character in cover mode in a game environment A computer system comprising a memory storing data and program instructions, the data representing a game environment including a character and a plurality of cover segments; a player interface; and a processor configured to execute the program instructions stored in the memory. Execution of the program instructions causes the computer to implement a method that comprises determining a selected subset of the cover segments; determining a curved path that passes through control points associated with the selected subset of the cover segments; and rendering images for display via the player interface, the images showing movement of the character along the curved path while the character is in cover mode.
US10596466B2	Apparatus and method for adapting audio signals A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an audio control apparatus having a game audio port for receiving a gaming audio signal generated by a gaming application, a chat port for receiving a chat signal comprising audio information generated by at least one gamer, and an audio system coupled to the game audio port and the chat port. The audio system can be operable to detect an energy level in the chat signal that exceeds a threshold, reduce a magnitude of the gaming audio signal to a desired audio energy level responsive to the aforementioned detection, generate a mixed audio signal comprising a combination of the gaming audio signal having the reduced magnitude and the chat signal, and transmit the mixed audio signal to a listening apparatus. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10596463B2	Information processing system including device having motion sensing function, storage medium storing program directed thereto, and information processing device An information processing system including a device capable of transmitting sensing information in accordance with a result of sensing of motion and receiving data for performing various types of processing in accordance with the sensing information is provided. In a character selection screen, in addition to a “course 1” and a “course 2”, additionally obtained “course 3” and “course 4” are displayed in a selectable manner. Namely, the number of steps or the like sensed as a user walks while wearing a pedometer in advance is returned from the pedometer to a game device, so that a new course in addition to a course determined depending on a stage in a get and growth game in the game device can be selected.
US10596460B2	Controlled dynamic multi-axis virtual reality system An improved virtual reality system comprises a chair 110 integrated with a pedestal 120, which contains a motion platform 150 and base 160. The chair 110 can be rotated continuously in the yaw axis by a stepper motor 230 and substantially in the pitch axis by an additional stepper motor 240 in coordination with the content of the VR display as directed by a chair controller located on the motion platform 150.
US10596459B2	Systems, methods, and/or computer readable storage medium having program, for localized haptic feedback based on position of virtual object Provided is an example system in which an operation device includes a vibrator configured to vibrate at a specified frequency. When the vibrator vibrates at a first frequency, an upper portion of the operation device vibrates strongly. When the vibrator vibrates at a second frequency, a lower portion of the operation device vibrates strongly. When a cursor is located at an upper portion in a list, the vibrator is vibrated at the first frequency, whereby the upper portion of the operation device is caused to vibrate strongly. When the cursor is located at a lower portion in the list, the vibrator is vibrated at the second frequency, whereby the lower portion of the operation device is caused to vibrate strongly.
US10596455B2	Games controller A game controller for controlling electronic games comprising a controller chassis and an actuator system including: an actuator body pivotally mounted to the controller chassis; a strike plate coupled to the actuator body; a trigger adjustment system having an arm; and an actuator adjustment control screw received in a screw thread disposed within said arm. A portion of the actuator adjustment control screw may engage with a portion of the strike plate and said portion of the actuator adjustment control screw creates an end stop to limit movement of the actuator body.
US10596451B2	Program and information processing device A replay data acquisition section acquires replay data for reproducing a play status of a game. A replay image generation section generates a replay image of a game scene on the basis of the acquired replay data. A user determination section determines a user to be included in a combined image. A user image acquisition section acquires a user image obtained by imaging the determined user. A combination processing section generates the combined image by combining the acquired user image with the replay image.
US10596450B2	Magnetic toss game A magnetic toss game with a three-dimensional target capable of generating a magnetic field, a support mechanism having two ends, the first end operably coupled to the three-dimensional target, and a three-dimensional backdrop having at least one side surface and a bottom surface, the three-dimensional backdrop spaced apart from the three-dimensional target and operably coupled to the support mechanism, wherein the three-dimensional backdrop envelops the three-dimensional target on at least two sides, including the bottom side.
US10596449B2	Card shooter device and card storage method A card shooter device includes a main unit with a card storage section storing cards constituting a predetermined number of decks, a removable top face cover, arranged on top of the card storage section, for covering the card storage section, a bottom face, inclined forward, for guiding the cards onto a game table from the card storage section, and a front cover, arranged in front of the main unit so that the cards can be extracted one by one from the card storage section, in which the front cover is removable from the main unit in cooperation with an engagement member provided in front of the main unit, and is adapted to be able to store the cards constituting the predetermined number of decks in the card storage section when the front cover is removed.
US10596446B2	System and method of fitness training in virtual environment A system for fitness training in a virtual environment. The system includes a cardiovascular training equipment, a head mounted device for presenting a video content associated with the virtual environment, and at least one computing device communicably coupled to the cardiovascular training equipment and the head mounted device. The at least one computing device is operable to provide the video content to the head mounted device, and modify at least one setting of the cardiovascular training equipment based on a metadata associated with the video content.
US10596439B2	Swim spa having a wall insert An improved swim spa is described which has a tank having a head end and a foot end filled with water. A forward current is created by pumping equipment which directs the forward current from a head end of the tank, past a swimmer in the water to a foot end of the tank. The pumping equipment may be attached to a removable wall insert to which may be removed to allow easy repair and maintenance. The forward current allows the swimmer to swim in place. The width of the forward current is chosen to be at least twice its depth. A diverter at the foot end of the tank has a curved surface for redirecting the forward current toward the sidewalls and then back toward the head wall in a horizontal plane and downward and back toward the head wall in a vertical plane.
US10596422B2	Method, apparatus, and system for golf product reconfiguration A wood-type golf club head includes first and second ribs projecting from a bottom club head wall portion, the wall portion, the first rib, and the second rib forming an elongate recess defining a weight path. A weight element is translatable along the weight path and includes a first weight portion, a second weight portion, and a fastener, the first and second ribs each being interposed between the first weight portion and the second weight portion such that the first weight portion is located proximate the club head wall portion and the second weight portion is located distal the club head wall portion. The second weight portion has a contact surface that includes a recessed region, and when the weight element is in a secured position, at least a portion of the first weight portion is located within the recessed region.
US10596421B1	Golf club head with adjustable hosel A golf club head having an adjustable hosel assembly and a plug assembly that can reversibly secure the hosel assembly in a chosen configuration within the club head is disclosed herein. In particular, the hosel assembly includes a shaft sleeve that is trapped within a hosel opening with a screw that extends through an interior flange. The plug assembly includes a wedge-shaped flange that is inserted into an opening in the body and fits between the interior flange and the head of the screw to temporarily immobilize the shaft sleeve. The plug assembly preferably completely fills the opening in the body so as to preserve a smooth outer mold line of the club head and allow graphics or decorations to extend across the exterior surface without disruption.
US10596419B2	Multi-layer core golf ball Golf balls comprising a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core comprises a center, an intermediate core layer, and an outer core layer. At least one layer of the multi-layer core is a high specific gravity layer.
US10596418B2	Aquatic exercise device A fin assembly for aqua resistance exercise comprises a strap having an inner strap and an outer strap, and with fastener(s) provided to an outside of the inner strap and an inside of the outer strap to releasably attach the inner and outer straps together. One or more fins are received on the outer strap and a longitudinal position of the one or more fins is secured by engagement of the inner strap to the outer strap. The length of the inner strap is longer than a length of the outer strap, so that an extending end portion of the outer strap can overlap and engage an opposite end of the outer strap to secure the fin assembly about the user's limb.
US10596415B2	Running analysis device A running analysis device includes a processor and a storage. In the storage, a program to be executed by the processor is stored. The processor performs an analysis process by which running of a user is analyzed using sensor data output from a sensor attached to the user. The analysis process includes an indicator identifying process of identifying, in a swing phase in a running cycle, a period that serves as an indicator.
US10596412B2	Forearm exercise grip device A forearm exercise grip device that implements a frame with a gripping portion, bearings, and a band is used to exercise at least a user's forearm muscles. A connecting portion extends from opposing ends of the gripping portion and includes an arcuate bend that extends to bearings on each side of the connecting portion. An elastic band with a loop wraps around each respective bearing. A user places the gripping portion of the frame in his hand, and then extends his fingers to, depending on size of hand and strength, one or both of a proximal or distal section of the band. The user squeezes the band directionally toward the gripping portion, which thereby exercises the user's forearm and hand muscles.
US10596408B2	Bi-directional resistance exercise machine Disclosed is a bi-directional resistance exercise machine. The bi-directional resistance exercise machine is comprised of two flywheels that provide constant and variable resistance against the movement of a trolley during a push or pull movement. The bi-directional resistance allows a user to work antagonistic muscles in an efficient manner and in one single machine. Accordingly, the present invention provides resistance against a user while pulling a trolley along a track to work the core, legs, back, and biceps, and resistance against a user while pushing a trolley along a track to work the core, chest, triceps, and shoulders.
US10596406B2	Leg stretching and raising workout apparatus A leg stretching and raising workout apparatus include: a load bearing unit having a base for underpinning a shoe/foot and cord-penetrating openings disposed at the base; at least one fastening unit having a cord connected to the cord-penetrating openings to fasten the shoe or foot, and two anchoring portions disposed bilaterally; and two pulling cord members each having a pulling cord, and a cord connecting portion connected to a corresponding one of the anchoring portions. Another leg stretching and raising workout apparatus includes: a load bearing unit having a base for underpinning a shoe/foot, cord-penetrating openings disposed at the base, and two anchoring portions disposed bilaterally; at least one fastening unit having a cord connected to the cord-penetrating openings to fasten the shoe or foot; and two pulling cord members each having a pulling cord and a cord connecting portion connected to a corresponding one of the anchoring portions.
US10596402B2	Ozone cleaning system An ozone cleaning system includes a first chamber, a second chamber coupled to the first chamber, and a utility assembly disposed within the second chamber. The utility assembly includes an ozone generator configured to provide ozone to the first chamber, a humidifying unit configured to provide water vapor to the first chamber, and a blower configured to at least one of (i) reduce air pressure within the first chamber or (ii) draw the ozone from the first chamber following a decontamination process.
US10596392B2	Dermatology radiotherapy system with hybrid imager A radiotherapy system including a radiotherapy component, a structural imaging component, a functional imaging component, and a workstation coupled to the radiotherapy component, the structural imaging component, and the functional imaging component. The workstation includes a processor which combines the structural imaging data and the functional imaging data to produce a fused model for a least a portion of the region of interest, to generate a plan for radiotherapy treatment of the region of interest based on the fused model, and apply, via the radiotherapy component, the radiotherapy treatment.
US10596388B2	Therapeutic light-emitting module A light-emitting module includes a carrier, a plurality of light-emitting units, and a protection layer. The carrier has a lighting portion and an extending portion. The plurality of light-emitting units is disposed on the lighting portion. The protection layer covers the plurality of light-emitting units and the lighting portion, and exposes the extending portion.
US10596387B2	Tumor imaging with X-rays and other high energy sources using as contrast agents photon-emitting phosphors having therapeutic properties A system and method for imaging or treating a disease in a human or animal body. The system provides to the human or animal body a pharmaceutical carrier including one or more phosphors which are capable of emitting ultraviolet or visible light into the body and which provide x-ray contrast. The system includes one or more devices which infuse a diseased site with a photoactivatable drug and the pharmaceutical carrier, an initiation energy source comprising an x-ray or high energy source which irradiates the diseased site with at least one of x-rays, gamma rays, or electrons to thereby initiate emission of said ultraviolet or visible light into the body, and a processor programmed to at least one of 1) produce images of the diseased site or 2) control a dose of said x-rays, gamma rays, or electrons to the diseased site for production of said ultraviolet or visible light at the diseased site to activate the photoactivatable drug.
US10596381B2	Physiologic response to posture An implantable or other ambulatory medical apparatus comprises a posture sensing circuit, a physiologic sensing circuit that senses a time varying physiologic signal, and a processor circuit. The processor circuit includes a posture calculation circuit and a measurement circuit. The posture calculation circuit determines a posture of the subject using posture data obtained using the posture signal and determines when the posture of the subject is steady state. The measurement circuit derives a physiologic measurement using physiologic data extracted from the physiologic signal during at least one time period when posture is determined to be steady state and provides the physiologic measurement to at least one of a user and a process in association with the determined steady state posture.
US10596377B2	Seizure detection, prediction and prevention using neurostimulation technology and deep neural network A method for neuromodulation includes monitoring brain activity of a patient using one or more electrodes attached to the patient, and using a first machine learning model to predict whether a patient will have a seizure based on the monitored brain activity of the patient. The method also includes, responsive to the first machine learning model predicting that the patient will have a seizure, using a second machine learning model to determine a neuromodulation signal pattern for preventing the predicted seizure. The method further includes using a neurostimulator to apply the determined neuromodulation signal pattern to the patient. The method also includes, after applying the determined neuromodulation signal pattern to the patient, detecting whether the patient had the predicted seizure based on the monitored brain activity of the patient. The method further includes adjusting at least the second machine learning model based on whether the patient had the predicted seizure.
US10596372B2	Targeted steerable transcranial intervention to accelerate memory consolidation Described is a system to accelerate memory consolidation using a steerable transcranial intervention. During operation, the system generates a unique transcranial and steerable stimulation tag to associate with memory of a task or event. Once the tag is generated, the system activates a plurality of electrodes (e.g., as few as four) to apply the unique transcranial stimulation tag during the occurrence of the event or task to be consolidated.
US10596370B2	Device for electrochemically releasing a composition in a controlled manner According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a device (10) for electrochemically releasing a composition and comprising: one working electrode (30) comprising an electroactive conjugated polymer (40) containing or doped with said composition, a counter electrode (50), and a reference electrode (60). The device (10) is characterized in that it comprises electrical means (95, 100; 320; 165, 180) connected to the working electrode (30) and to the counter electrode (50) for obtaining at said working electrode (30) at least one composition releasing sequence (65) with respect to said reference electrode (60), each composition releasing sequence (65) comprising: a first voltametric pulse (70), followed by a rest period (80) during which no current is able to flow through said working electrode (30), followed by a second voltametric pulse (90), followed by an intermediate period (160) during which no current is able to flow through said working electrode (30).
US10596366B2	Oral muscle training A trans mucosal neuromuscular electrical stimulation device including a mouthpiece, electrodes associated with the mouthpiece. The device and/or mouthpiece incorporates electrical circuitry operatively connecting to the electrodes to a power source and is configured to provide, in use, electrical stimulation to one or more palate and/or tongue muscles via the electrodes through the oral mucosa. The treatment regime, including the location of stimulation and the parameters used, is designed to increase resting muscle tone and/or muscle tone during sleep.
US10596362B2	Percutaneous drug delivery apparatus An implantable percutaneous fluid delivery device is described that includes a subcutaneous base portion having one or more ports for supplying fluid to one or more implanted catheter devices and a percutaneous portion including an extracorporeal surface. The one or more ports of the subcutaneous base portion are accessible from the extracorporeal surface of the percutaneous portion. The subcutaneous base portion is at least partially insertable into a complementary recess formed in a bone, the subcutaneous base portion including one or more features for gripping the internal surface of such a complementary recess thereby directly anchoring the subcutaneous base portion to the bone. The device may be used to route fluid to neurosurgical catheters optionally via a router unit.
US10596348B2	Conductive tip catheter A conductive tip catheter includes a flexible tubular member defining a lumen that extends between a proximal end and a distal end. The conductive tip catheter also includes an electrically conductive metallic coil at least partially located within the lumen of the flexible tubular member. The electrically conductive metallic coil includes a first region located at a distal end of the metallic coil and having a first pitch, a second region proximal to the first region and having a second pitch that is greater than the first pitch, and a third region proximal to the second region and having a third pitch that is different from the first pitch and the second pitch. A conductive tip is located at the distal end of the flexible tubular member, and the conductive tip defines a tip lumen in fluid communication with the lumen.
US10596345B2	Systems and methods for humidity control Systems, methods, and devices for humidifying a breathing gas using a vapor transfer unit are presented. The method includes providing a first vapor transfer unit having a gas passage and a liquid passage, delivering a liquid to the liquid passage, delivering a gas to the gas passage, humidifying the gas by delivering vapor from the liquid in the liquid passage to the gas in the gas passage, exiting the humidified gas outside the vapor transfer unit at first relative humidity and at a high gas flow rate, and reducing the gas flow rate through the first vapor transfer unit to less than a low gas flow rate, while preventing the relative humidity from exceeding the first relative humidity by more than an acceptable margin.
US10596342B2	Breathing mask for feeding a breathing gas to a mask user and discharge device for discharging breathing gas Breathing mask for supplying a breathing gas to a user of a mask includes a sealing lip to seal a mask support zone, a mask base body to form a mask interior chamber and a connector to connect at least one breathing gas line. The mask base body and/or the connector is provided with at least one de-coupling structure formed of an elastomer material. The de-coupling structure allows a relative movement between a mask body-sided circumferential foot portion of the sealing lip and the breathing gas line in at a tilt angle of at least 5°.
US10596339B2	Intubation devices and methods of use Intubation devices and methods of intubating a patient are provided. The intubation devices include a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) component having a mask portion and a tube portion and an endotracheal tube (ETT) component positioned in the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) component having a translatable and/or rotatable endotracheal tube. The endotracheal tube can be translated and/or rotated by a manipulation rod extending through the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) component and mounted to the endotracheal tube (ETT). The intubation devices may include inflatable cuffs adapted to manipulate the positioning or orientation of the endotracheal tube and/or to seal openings about the endotracheal tubes. Various ports, passages, and conduits are provided to enhance the use and manipulation of the intubation device.
US10596335B2	Gas supply apparatus with improved control A gas supply apparatus with improved control is provided. The gas supply apparatus provides gas at an outlet junction. The apparatus includes a gas mixer for gasses from primary and secondary supplies to a given ratio. The apparatus also includes a gas reservoir supplied by the gas mixer. A tertiary supply valve is also included and connected in parallel with the reservoir. The tertiary supply valve is adapted to connect the outlet junction to a tertiary gas supply when gas is not being supplied to a mixer by the primary and/or secondary supply.
US10596327B2	Injection device with a dosing member and a pretensioned discharge spring A drive and dosing device is described for an injection device for administering a fluid product, in particular a medication, wherein the drive and dosing device can be adjusted to a product dose to be administered. The drive and dosing device has, among other things, a coupling which, upon activation of an activation element, enables rotation of a rotation element relative to a housing, wherein by disengaging the activation element, the rotation of the rotation element relative to the housing is blocked.
US10596321B2	Aspiration and injection device An aspiration and injection device is provided that can allow for ergonomic, safe, and precise aspiration of a target site and ejection of a medicament to the target site. The device can include a syringe barrel, a flange extender couplable to the barrel, and plunger that can be engaged by a hand and/or one or more finger of a user to perform aspiration and injection at a target site.
US10596318B2	Systems and methods for inter-app communications Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
US10596312B2	System for improving fluid drainage A low-cost and simple-to-use system and method to facilitate a prophylactic pleural lavage protocol at the time of thoracostomy tube placement for traumatic hemothorax in order to reduce the need for secondary intervention for the management of retained hemothorax. The invention may be used in conjunction with existing chest tubes and be administered at the time of initial chest tube placement, and continued at the bedside (by a bedside nurse) over the duration of chest drainage, as necessary. The system includes an operator device that semi-automatically administers a pleural lavage protocol consisting of saline instillation, and suction to slow the clotting process, prevent “gelling” of blood, and maintain drainability.
US10596311B2	Fiber-optic clot detector with an ultrasonic clot neutralizer A method and system for detecting and neutralizing blood clots during dialysis (e.g., hemodialysis) is provided. A fiber-optic sensor is provided in a hemodialysis machine to detect vibration of blood cells, and the hemodialysis machine can be configured to prevent blood clotting by sounding an alarm, agitating the blood cells, infusing saline, raising temperature and/or infusing heparin.
US10596302B2	Catheter tubing with tailored modulus response Catheter tubing comprises: an elongate body comprising a base thermoplastic polyurethane; and a compounded thermoplastic polyurethane co-extruded with the base thermoplastic polyurethane to provide a section of catheter tubing discrete from the elongate body, the compounded thermoplastic polyurethane comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane and a radiopaque material, wherein the catheter tubing comprises a first elastic modulus under first conditions prior to entry into a patient; and wherein when exposed to second conditions comprising two or more in vivo stimuli for a duration of time the catheter tubing comprises a second elastic modulus that is not more than fifty percent of the first modulus.
US10596300B2	Methods and compositions relating to biocompatible implants Biocompatible hydrogel compositions according to aspects of the present invention are provided wherein the biocompatible hydrogel composition is or includes a physical hydrogel, a chemical hydrogel or both a physical hydrogel and a chemical hydrogel, along with biocompatible hydrogel compositions encapsulating a therapeutic agent and methods of use thereof.
US10596297B2	Method for preparing a fibrillar collagen matrix The present invention relates to a method for preparing a fibrillar collagen matrix, which is advantageously transparent or composite, suitable for being used as a biomaterial, in particular as a corneal substitute.
US10596294B2	Air cleaner The present invention relates to an air cleaner and, more particularly, to an air cleaner provided with a housing divided into an outer housing and an inner housing, wherein the outer housing and the inner housing are separated from one another, a photocatalytic filter and a collection filter are installed in the inner housing, and air flows even through the space between the inner housing and the outer housing. The present invention provides an air cleaner comprising: an outer housing defining an inlet and an outlet; an inner housing disposed in the outer housing and formed to be separated from the outer housing; a fan installed in the inner housing to forcibly discharge air in the outlet direction; a photocatalytic filter installed in the inner housing and disposed in the direction in which air from the fan is discharged or in the direction opposite to that in which the air is discharged; and an ultraviolet light source disposed upstream of the photocatalytic filter in the direction of airflow created by the fan in order to irradiate the photocatalytic filter with ultraviolet rays.
US10596274B2	Methods and compositions for transducing lymphocytes and regulated expansion thereof The present disclosure provides methods for genetically modifying lymphocytes and methods for performing adoptive cellular therapy that include transducing T cells and/or NK cells without prior ex vivo stimulation. The methods typically include engineered signaling polypeptides that can include a lymphoproliferative element, and/or a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), for example a microenvironment restricted CAR. Additional elements of such engineered signaling polypeptides are provided herein, as well as vectors, such as retroviral vectors, packaging cell lines and methods of making the same. Furthermore, recombinant retroviruses and methods of making the same are provided. Numerous controls are provided, including riboswitches that are controlled, for example in vivo, by nucleoside analogues.
US10596272B2	Vaccines against Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5 The present invention relates to well-defined synthetic saccharides of general formula (I) that are related to the repeating unit of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5 capsular polysaccharide and conjugates thereof. The conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions containing said conjugates are useful for prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae, and more specifically against diseases associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5. Furthermore, the synthetic saccharides of general formula (I) are useful as marker in immunological assays for detection of antibodies against Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria.
US10596267B2	Method and process for quantitative evaluation of pharmacokinetics, therapeutic effects and safety of delivery of drug compounds to the inner ear for treatment of auditory disease The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating an auditory disease in a subject in need thereof comprising administering an effective amount of a gel-based precursor that includes an inner ear-specific therapeutic compound directly into the cochlea of the subject.
US10596266B2	Stable liquid formulations for pharmaceuticals and supplements comprising an herbal mixture A liquid composition comprising: a primary component being an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), a nutritional supplement, or combinations thereof: a base; and a preservative blend is provided along with a method of making said composition.
US10596263B2	Pazopanib formulation A granulation formulation of 5-[[4-[(2,3-dimethyl-2H-indazol-6-yl)methylamino]-2-pyrimidinyl]amino]-2-methylbenzenesulfonamide or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is adapted for reconstitution with an aqueous vehicle, and associated oral suspension.
US10596259B2	Tumor radiosensitization with monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) and derivatives thereof Disclosed herein, the invention pertains to methods and compositions that find use in radiosensitization of tumors and tumor samples based on the ability of a tumor sample to cleave a MTS molecule of the present invention. The MTS molecules of the present invention have a formula as disclosed herein and wherein A is a peptide with a sequence comprising 5 to 9 consecutive acidic amino acids, wherein the amino acids are selected from: aspartates and glutamates; B is a peptide with a sequence comprising 5 to 20 consecutive basic amino acids; X and Y are linkers; P is an optional pre-targeting moiety; M is an optional macromolecular carrier; and T is a radiosensitization agent for delivery to a target, including for example a therapeutic compound.
US10596258B2	Method for binding active agents to activated autologous blood nosodes and device for performing said method A method for binding an active substance or an active agent to an activated autologous blood nosode comprises a) dissolving blood of a patient in an aqueous or aqueous/ethanol medium or triturating blood of a patient with an excipient approved for globules according to HAB [Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia] in order to obtain a first mixture; b) activating the first mixture by exposure of the first mixture to magnetic pulses having frequencies of the magnet field periods within a range from approximately 0.01 to approximately 20,0000 Hz and maximum field strengths of 50 μT; c) adding an active substance and/or active agent or one or more active substances and/or active agents to the activated first mixture in order to obtain a second mixture; d) succussing the second mixture by mechanical action, wherein steps c) and d) are conducted under the continuous action of the magnetic pulses, and wherein steps c) and d) can be repeated once or several times; and e) activating the succussed second mixture by further continuous exposure to the magnetic pulses and by irradiation with visible light of changing colors produced by LEDs into the succussed second mixture, whereby an increase of the binding capacity of the HSA [human serum albumin] in the blood to the active substance(s) and/or to at least some of the active agent or active agents is achieved. A device for performing the method is also described.
US10596251B2	Nanoemulsion respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) subunit vaccine The present application relates to the field of immunology, in particular, a vaccine composition of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surface proteins, Fusion (F) and Glycoprotein (G) proteins subunit vaccine preferentially mixed with the immune cell targeting and enhancer, nanoemulsion to induce a protective immune response and avoid vaccine-induce disease enhancement.
US10596250B2	Methods of treating and preventing influenza infections The invention relates to composite antigens comprising a peptide with contiguous amino acid sequence derived from a plurality of antigenic epitopes of one or more pathogens that induces an immune response in a mammal that is protective against infection by the one or more pathogens. In addition, the invention relates to vaccines comprising composite antigens and to method for treating and preventing an infection.
US10596233B2	Use of pertussis toxin as a therapeutic agent The present application relates to the use of pertussis toxin, and its derivatives, analogs, salts and pharmaceutical equivalents. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of treating or preventing a neurological disease or injury by administering pertussis toxin to the individual.
US10596232B2	Methods and compositions related to long half-life coagulation complexes Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to coagulation factor complexes comprising a coagulation factor; a fusion protein; and a modifying molecule, wherein the modifying molecule is coupled to the coagulation factor in such a way as to allow binding by the fusion protein, thereby creating a modified coagulation factor; wherein the modified coagulation factor and the fusion protein interact in at least two independent sites.
US10596229B2	Method of treating diabetes mellitus by administration, at specifically defined intervals, of a derivative of a naturally occurring insulin or insulin analogue, the derivative having a prolonged profile of action The present invention relates to methods for treatment of a condition or disease where administration of insulin will be of benefit, comprising administering, to a patient in need thereof, effective dosages of an insulin, insulin analogue or derivative thereof, which exhibits a prolonged profile of action, wherein said dosages are administered at intervals of varying length.
US10596205B2	Topical medicament for skin and mucosal injuries Dental, vaginal and anal cream composed of exclusively natural active principles containing glycerides and Vitamin A and D, easily retained and preserved when in contact with the inflamed mucosa due to its adhesive mucosal base.
US10596204B2	Use of propolis for combating pathological conditions associated with obesity The use of propolis or an extract of propolis as a food supplement for preventing and/or combating pathological conditions associated with diet-induced obesity, and in particular type II diabetes, and a specific a composition suitable for this use.
US10596203B1	Customized repair constructs and method of preparation Customized, three-dimensionally printed constructs useful for promoting tissue repair and methods of preparing the same are provided.
US10596201B2	Delipidated, decellularized adipose tissue matrix An acellular soft tissue-derived matrix includes a collagenous tissue that has been delipidated and decellularized. Adipose tissue is among the soft tissues suitable for manufacturing an acellular soft tissue-derived matrix. Exogenous tissuegenic cells and other biologically-active factors may be added to the acellular matrix. The acellular matrix may be provided as particles, a slurry, a paste, a gel, or in some other form. The acellular matrix may be provided as a three-dimensional scaffold that has been reconstituted from particles of the three-dimensional tissue. The three-dimensional scaffold may have the shape of an anatomical feature and serve as a template for tissue repair or replacement. A method of making an acellular soft tissue-derived matrix includes steps of removing lipid from the soft tissue by solvent extraction and chemical decellularization of the soft tissue.
US10596194B2	Powder compositions for generating cross-linked protein foams and methods of using thereof In one embodiment, the present invention provides a composition, wherein the composition is a porous scaffold, wherein the pores of the scaffold are from 2 to 500 microns, the composition comprising: a) a cross-linkable protein selected from the group consisting of collagen and gelatin; b) a cross-linker which induces cross-linking of the cross-linkable protein; and c) a liquid.
US10596193B2	Copper (I) complexes with glycine, pyruvate, and succinate The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical and/or dietary supplement composition comprising an effective amount of a copper (I) complex with glycine, pyruvate, or succinic acid and methods of treating mitochondrial, neuromuscular, and other diseases. Also provided are pharmaceutical treatment regimes and kits comprising a copper (I) complex with glycine, pyruvate, or succinate.
US10596191B2	Polymer conjugate of hexa-coordinated platinum complex A DDS preparation of a platinum complex, which selectively releases a highly active platinum complex in cells that are under reducing conditions, and exhibits high antitumor activity that is required from a medicine, is still not available, and there is a demand for a novel DDS preparation of a platinum complex that may be used in clinical fields. There is provided a polymer conjugate of a hexa-coordinated platinum complex, the polymer conjugate comprising a block copolymer having a polyethylene glycol structural moiety and a polyaspartic acid moiety or a polyglutamic acid moiety; and a hexa-coordinated platinum complex having a halogen atom and a hydroxyl group at the axial positions, the hexa-coordinated platinum complex being bonded, directly or via a spacer, to a side-chain carboxyl group of the block copolymer.
US10596188B2	Use of nitrite salts in treating tissue damage A method of treating neuropathy in a subject, the method comprising identifying a subject who has neuropathy; and administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising one of inorganic nitrite and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10596175B2	Compounds and compositions for the treatment of parasitic diseases The present invention provides compounds of Formula A: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, or stereoisomer, thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds for treating, preventing, inhibiting, ameliorating, or eradicating the pathology and/or symptomology of a disease caused by a parasite, such as leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease.
US10596169B2	Cancer treatment with combination of plinabulin and taxane This invention provides a novel cancer treatment method in which plinabulin (t-butyl-dehydrophenylahistin or NPI-2358) and a taxane compound (such as docetaxel) are used in combination. Our study has shown that the optimum combination of injecting plinabulin after taxane compound has unexpected enhanced efficacy in large tumor populations in animal model and in NSCLC cancer patients compared to taxane compound treatment alone. In addition, this optimum combination can achieve unexpected safety effect in lowering unbearable side effects of taxane compound, including decreasing its neutropenia rates at all grades and decreasing G-CSF use in cancer patients.
US10596164B2	Anti-clostridium compounds The present invention relates to compounds having a backbone structure for use as antibiotic, more specifically use against infections with Gram positive bacteria, preferably Clostridium, more preferably C. dfficile or C. perfringens. The compounds of the invention are particularly useful against spores of these bacteria.
US10596160B2	Compositions, methods and uses for the treatment of diabetes and related conditions by controlling blood glucose level The present invention relates to compositions and methods for controlling glycemia in a mammalian in need thereof. The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of diabetes and related disorders. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel therapies or combinatorial therapies for diabetes and related disorders, based on compositions controlling the blood glucose level.
US10596159B2	Method and composition for treating cachexia and eating disorders The invention provides treating cachexia and eating disorders in humans and veterinary animals by administering a composition including: (i) cyproheptadine (CYP); and (ii) a cannabis compound selected from the group of cannabidiol (CBD) and mixtures of CBD and up to 50% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
US10596158B2	Solid forms of {[5-(3-chlorophenyl)-3-hydroxypyridine-2-carbonyl]amino}acetic acid, compositions, and uses thereof Provided herein are solid forms comprising {[5-(3-chlorophenyl)-3-hydroxypyridine-2-carbonyl]amino}acetic acid, compositions comprising the solid forms, methods of making the solid forms and methods of their use for the treatment of various diseases and/or disorders.
US10596156B2	Parasiticidal oral veterinary compositions comprising systemically-acting active agents, methods and uses thereof This invention relates to oral veterinary compositions for combating ectoparasites and endoparasites in animals, comprising at least one systemically-acting active agent in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. This invention also provides for improved methods for eradicating, controlling, and preventing parasite infections and infestations in an animal comprising administering the compositions of the invention to the animal in need thereof.
US10596151B2	Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing arterial stiffness with a combination of a therapeutic agent blocking the angiotensin receptor and a therapeutic agent inhibiting the NEP enzyme The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing arterial stiffness in a human patient showing at least one symptom selected from increased pulse wave velocity (PWV) and increased pulse pressure (PP) comprising administration to said patient of a therapeutically effective amount or a prophylactically effective amount of a combination of a therapeutic agent blocking the angiotensin receptor and a therapeutic agent inhibiting the NEP enzyme, in particular of a combination of sacubitril or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and valsartan or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in a 1:1 molar ratio.
US10596139B2	Oxybutynin transdermal therapeutic system muscarinic agonist combination Pharmaceutical compositions and combinations containing a muscarinic receptor antagonist, such as oxybutynin in a transdermal therapeutic system, and a muscarinic receptor agonist, optionally with an acetyl cholinesterase inhibitor, and methods of using the same for treatment of hypocholinergic disorders of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer type dementia. The respective pharmaceutical compositions and combinations of the present invention allow for safe administration of high doses of muscarinic receptor agonist, and improved efficacy of the muscarinic receptor agonist for treatment of hypocholinergic disorders of the central nervous system. The pharmaceutical compositions and combinations also allow for a maximum supply of acetylcholine to the central nervous system, when an acetyl cholinesterase inhibitor is used in combination with a muscarinic receptor antagonist and a muscarinic receptor agonist.
US10596137B2	Medium chain fatty acids and their triglycerides for treating anxiety The present invention provides a medium chain fatty acid (MCFA) for use in treating and/or preventing anxiety.
US10596135B2	Method, composition and package for bowel cleansing The present invention provides a highly palatable colon cleansing formulation that utilizes a low chloride electrolyte-replenishing base solution. When formulated with polyethylene glycol and a selected sugar alcohol, the formulation offers the advantages of superior palatability without undesirable concomitant side effects or a decrease in cleansing efficacy.
US10596130B2	Non-racemic beta-hydroxybutyrate compounds and compositions enriched with the S-enantiomer and methods of use Ketogenic compositions including a non-racemic mixture of beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) enriched with the S-enantiomer are formulated to control ketone body levels in a subject. The non-racemic mixture of BHB is enriched with the S-enantiomer to modulate the effect of ketone bodies in the subject and control the rate at which ketosis is achieved. In some aspects a composition for controlling ketone body level in a subject contains a dietetically or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a non-racemic mixture of S-beta-hydroxybutyrate and R-beta-hydroxybutyrate, wherein the non-racemic mixture contains from about 52% to 99% by enantiomeric equivalents of S-beta-hydroxybutyrate enantiomer and from about 48% to about 1% by enantiomeric equivalents of R-beta-hydroxybutyrate enantiomer.
US10596126B2	Transdermal therapeutic system comprising active ingredient particles and having increased active ingredient flux The present invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system, preferably a transdermal patch, having an active ingredient-containing matrix formed substantially of a water-insoluble base material, such as rubber and synthetic polymers, into which is incorporated water-soluble and/or water-swellable inclusion bodies, e.g. inclusion bodies formed from polyvinyl alcohol or polyethylene glycol, that further include micronized or nanoscale active ingredient particles.
US10596123B2	Exosome delivery technology A method of delivering exosomes and other micro vesicles to a biological target includes the steps of 1) providing blood, (2) separating plasma from the provided blood, and (3) separating the solution with the exosomes therefrom, (4) encapsulating the exosomes, and (5) delivering the exosomes. The step of encapsulation may be accomplished by water bead process, alginate bead process, spray drying bead formation, or plating. The biological target may be a human or animal heart, bone/joint, wound or skin. A method of encapsulating an exosome, a method of using an encapsulated exosome, compositions including encapsulated exosomes, and an encapsulated exosome per se are also disclosed.
US10596116B2	Metal bisphosphonate nanoparticles for anti-cancer therapy and imaging and for treating bone disorders Metal-bisphosphonate nanoparticles are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions including the metal-bisphosphonate nanoparticles, methods of preparing the metal-bisphosphonate nanoparticles and materials comprising the nanoparticles, and methods of using the compositions to treat cancer or bone-related disorders (e.g., bone-resorption-related diseases, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and bone metastases) and as imaging agents.
US10596114B2	Liposome composition for use in peritoneal dialysis The present invention is directed to a liposome composition for use in the peritoneal dialysis of patients suffering from endogenous or exogenous toxicopathies, wherein the pH within the liposomes differs from the pH in the intraperitoneal cavity and wherein the pH within the liposome results in a liposome-encapsulated charged toxin. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising said liposomes. A further aspect of the present invention relates to a method of treating patients suffering from endogenous or exogenous toxicopathies, preferably selected from drug, metabolite, pesticide, insecticide, toxin, and chemical warfare toxicopathies, more preferably hyperammonemia, comprising the step of administering liposomes of the invention in a therapeutically effective amount into the peritoneal space of a patient in need thereof. Next to human, the present invention is particularly suitable to veterinary aspects.
US10596103B2	Drug delivery system for delivery of anti-virals Described herein is a vaginal ring drug delivery system comprising (i) a core comprising a first thermoplastic polymer and a first therapeutic agent, wherein the first therapeutic agent is dissolved in the first thermoplastic polymer, and (ii) a skin surrounding the core comprising a second thermoplastic polymer and a second therapeutic agent, wherein the second therapeutic agent is in solid form.
US10596102B2	Emollient composition The present invention relates to an emollient composition comprising emu oil, jojoba oil, a dermatological base and a metal or metalloid oxide, hydroxide or carbonate. The composition has efficacy in the prevention or treatment of a range of skin conditions.
US10596098B2	Durable dental film-forming composition and uses thereof Disclosed is a durable dental film-forming composition including an acrylate/octylacrylamide copolymer, wherein the acrylate/octylacrylamide copolymer is present in an amount of about 0.1% to about 50% by weight, an adhesive, and an orally acceptable solvent. Methods of using the composition are also disclosed.
US10596097B2	Method for multi-tonal color modification of keratinous fibers The subject matter of the present disclosure is a method for treatment keratinous fibers which make it possible to color the hair in a single treatment session and simultaneously achieve a multi-tonal coloring with sections (strands) having different colors, more particularly lighter (“highlights”) sections (strands), wherein the use of solid, flat separating aids, more particularly foils from solid materials such as aluminum, paper or Styrofoam and similar materials is not required.
US10596094B2	Compositions and methods for reducing skin pigmentation The present invention provides compositions and methods for reducing skin pigmentation. The invention comprises inhibitors of sialyltransferase, inhibitors of oligosaccharide formation or oligosaccharide activity, and methods of using such inhibitors. In certain embodiments, the invention comprises inhibiting the formation and/or activity of Neu5Ac(α2,6)Gal/GalNAc-containing oligosaccharides.
US10596079B2	High efficiency sunscreen composition Disclosed herein are oil-in-water dispersions and sunscreen compositions that contain them, which exhibit high in vivo sun protection factor (SPF) efficiency due to the ability of the dispersions to both absorb and scatter ultraviolet (UV) light. These high efficiency sunscreen compositions include discrete oil particles that are enclosed within a solid coating and dispersed in an aqueous phase, wherein each oil particle contains an organic ultraviolet A (UVA) and/or an organic ultraviolet B (UVB) absorbing compound, and optionally a photo stabilizer.
US10596068B2	Drug container connector and male member cover A drug container connector (1) is provided with a puncture needle (20) capable of puncturing a plug (186) that seals a mouth (183) of a container (180); and a cover (90) that covers an opening, on a tip side, of a flow channel (21) formed in the puncture needle (20). The puncture needle (20) is configured to penetrate the cover (90) and puncture the plug (186). The puncture needle (20) is provided on a connector main body (10). The cover (90) is held by a slider (50). The slider (90) is movable with respect to the connector main body (10) in a longitudinal direction of the puncture needle (20). The slider (50) is provided with claws (66, 76) capable of engaging with a flange (182) at the mouth of the container (180).
US10596067B2	Coaxial needle cannula with distal spiral mixer and side ports for fluid injection Disclosed is a multi-lumen mixing device that includes a first and second lumen constructed and arranged to separately pass a first and second reagent to a mixing chamber in the device, where the mixing chamber includes a mixing feature that mixes the first and second reagents. The disclosed multi-lumen mixing device may also include a port in fluid communication with the reaction mixing to permit the product of the combined reagents to be injected into a patent.
US10596066B2	Package comprising means for opening blisters The present invention relates to a package (7) for pharmaceutical blister packs (12) comprising means (11) for removing the protecting foil of the blister packs. The package protects the blister packs (12) and at the same time provides an easy and convenient way of opening the blister pack for people at all level of ability and dexterity.
US10596065B2	Treatment of allergies and autoimmune diseases The present disclosure provides a method of treating allergies and autoimmune diseases using microsystem acupuncture. Methods provided herein for treating allergies and autoimmune diseases using microsystem acupuncture involving a novel allergy zone. In embodiments, the method includes identifying an allergy zone (AZ) (Soliman Allergy Zone (SAZ)) (FIG. 1 A) in an acupuncture microsystem of a subject in need of treatment and treating the zone to treat the allergy or autoimmune disease. In embodiments, treating the zone includes introducing an acupuncture needle in the zone. In particular embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more active points in the liver projection site of the AZ and treating the active point or points.
US10596060B2	Frame assembly and motion assistance apparatus including the same A frame assembly including a first longitudinal member, a second longitudinal member spaced apart from the first longitudinal member, a third longitudinal member configured to diagonally connect the first longitudinal member and the second longitudinal member, a plurality of first distance maintaining members configured to connect the first longitudinal member and the second longitudinal member, and a plurality of second distance maintaining members configured to connect the second longitudinal member and the third longitudinal member is disclosed.
US10596056B2	Upper limb rehabilitation robot system The present invention discloses an upper limb rehabilitation robot system comprising a computer (8) and a rehabilitation robot (7), wherein the computer (8) is used for performing information interaction (11) with the rehabilitation robot (7), recording training information, sending control command to the rehabilitation robot (7), showing the virtual training environment, providing rehabilitation training visual feedback (14), and showing the control interface and rehabilitation training information; wherein the rehabilitation robot (7), acting as a system actuator, is connected to the computer (8) for receiving the control command from the computer (8) to complete the motion control and terminal force output, and sending sensor data to the computer (8) at the same time. The upper limb rehabilitation robot system according to the present invention may provide a various ways of active and passive training of upper limb rehabilitation, which can enhance enthusiasm for trainings of a patient and increase the efficiency of rehabilitation.
US10596055B1	Reusable transparent casket assembly A casket assembly includes a floor structure, transparent side walls and end walls extending upwardly from a lower rail to define side panels and end panels, and a transparent lid attached to at least one of the side walls. A cardboard insert container made of a material suitable for cremation is sized for receipt within the enclosed casket interior. At least one of the side panels or end panels is movable between a closed position to completely enclose the casket interior and an open position to allow horizontal movement of the insert container holding a deceased human body into and out from the casket interior without having to lift the insert container over the top edge of the side and end panels.
US10596054B2	Infant warming system and method An infant warming system includes a body temperature probe, a peripheral temperature probe, and at least two identical input jacks, each input jack configured to receive either one of the first connector or the second connector. The body temperature probe has a body temperature sensor removably fixable to an infant's torso to measure a body temperature of the infant, and a first connector configured to connect to an input jack to transmit the body temperature measurement. The peripheral temperature probe includes a peripheral temperature sensor removably fixable to the infant's extremity to measure a peripheral temperature of the infant, and a second connector configured to connect to an input jack to transmit the peripheral temperature measurement. The system further includes a probe detection module to automatically detect whether each input jack is connected to the peripheral temperature probe or the body temperature probe.
US10596032B2	System and method for controlling a transverse phacoemulsification system with a footpedal A method and system for controlling an ultrasonically driven handpiece employable in an ocular surgical procedure is provided. The method includes operating the ultrasonically driven handpiece in a first tip displacement mode, such as a longitudinal mode according to a first set of operational parameters, and enabling a user to alter the ultrasonically driven handpiece to employ a second tip displacement mode, such as a transversal or torsional mode, using a second set of operational parameters. Enabling the user to alter performance of the handpiece comprises the user being enabled to dynamically select operational parameters for the first tip displacement mode relative to the second tip displacement mode by using, for example, a switching apparatus such as a footpedal.
US10596030B2	Cryogenic enhancement of joint function, alleviation of joint stiffness and/or alleviation of pain associated with osteoarthritis A method in which a location is determined on the skin that is proximate to a sensory nerve that is associated with a painful condition. At least one needle of a cryogenic device is inserted into the location on the skin such that the needle is proximate to the sensory nerve. The device is activated such that the at least one needle creates a cooling zone about the sensory nerve, thereby eliminating or reducing severity of the painful condition.
US10596029B2	Intravascular heat exchange catheter with rib cage-like coolant path An intravascular heat exchange catheter has serpentine-like supply and return conduits circulating working fluid with a heat exchange system to warm or cool a patient in which the catheter is intubated.
US10596027B2	Apparatus for improved breathing According to one embodiment, an apparatus for improved breathing is provided. The apparatus may include an improved oral appliance, an improved mask, an improved coupler to couple an oral appliance to a mask, and/or a combination of these improvements.
US10596025B2	Method and apparatus for tensile colonoscopy compression A method and apparatus for applying pressure to the abdomen of a patient to facilitate the insertion of a colonoscope is characterized by the use of a tensile compression device in the form of an elastic band which is wrapped around the patient's abdomen and secured in place. The tension of the band is adjusted to apply a desired degree of pressure to the patient's abdomen to reduce loops in the patient's colon so that the colonoscope can be fully inserted into the colon with minimal discomfort to the patient. The ends of the device are connected together when the desired degree of tension is obtained so that constant pressure and support are provided to the patient's colon. Addition pressure can be manually applied simultaneously with the pressure from the tensile device to reduce or eliminate more distal loops in the colon.
US10596015B2	Intraluminal vascular prosthesis The invention relates to an intraluminal vascular prosthesis, preferably for implanting in the aortic arch. The prosthesis has a hollow cylindrical body with a first end and a second end; a first vascular prosthesis portion; a second vascular prosthesis portion; and a stent portion which is provided between the first and the second vascular prosthesis portion and which is rigidly connected to said vascular prosthesis portions, said stent portion being free of prosthesis material.
US10596005B2	Frictionless hip joint An orthopedic prosthesis includes a proximal member which internally accommodates the major motion of a patient, e.g., during walking, thereby reducing wear against a cup or liner. A distal member may be utilized which rotates within a proximal member about an axis aligned with the major motion of the patient. The orthopedic prosthesis may also include a head and neck, the neck being rotatably mounted within the head, the head being rotatably mounted within the acetabulum region of a patient.
US10595997B2	Native valve repair devices and procedures A system for implanting a repair device onto a native valve of a natural heart to repairing the native valve of a patient during a non-open-heart procedure. The system includes a pair of paddles and a pair of gripping members. The paddles are movable between an open position and a closed position. Each of the gripping members has a barbed portion for securing the gripping members to the native valve of a patient. Each gripping member is slidably attached to a corresponding paddle. Each gripping member can be moved in a first direction along the paddle before the barbed portion of the gripping member pierces the native valve of the patient. Each gripping member can be moved in a direction substantially opposite the first direction after the barbed portion pierces the native valve of the patient such that the gripping members create a tensioning force on the native valve of the patient.
US10595995B2	Device and method for improving function of heart valve A device for improving the function of a heart valve comprises a first loop-shaped support, which is configured to abut a first side of the heart valve, and a first flange unit being connected to said first loop-shaped support. The flange unit is configured to be arranged against said annulus when said first loop-shaped support is abutting said heart valve.
US10595988B2	Cosmetic corneal inlay and implantation method thereof Disclosed is an intrastromal insert, already preformed, of solid, transparent, impermeable, biocompatible, physiologically inert and chemically resistant material, with notches allowing the passage of metabolites, substances, cells or portions thereof, and drugs, configured to receive printing, which is adapted in the space of the corneal stroma to change the eye color and/or to solve the problem of insufficient pigmentation of the iris. The method and the related component to change, permanently and reversibly, the eye color for aesthetic purposes are described as well.
US10595983B1	Constructs and methods for repairing a tendon with a reduced risk of reinjury A method of effecting a tendon repair in a patient comprising providing a suture tape, using the suture tape to connect tendon tissue to bone of the patient such that the suture tape lays flat on the tendon, and permitting ingrowth of the tendon tissue into the suture tape as the absorbable fibers are absorbed into the patient's tissue. The suture tape is a flat braid of elastic, absorbable fibers and high strength fibers, the tape being at least 1 mm wide and 2 cm long, and less than 1 mm high. The suture tape includes at least 4 absorbable fibers and at least 4 high strength fibers. Further, the suture tape is capable of being stretched at least 10% from its shortest length to the length at which it breaks and is capable of withstanding a load of at least 260 Newtons before breaking.
US10595966B2	Methods and apparatuses for dental images Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.
US10595965B2	Interproximal reduction planning The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for IPR planning as described herein. One method includes identifying a first tooth and a second tooth in a digital dental model with an overlap in a target final position in a treatment plan and identifying a reference line on each of the first tooth and the second tooth; revising the treatment plan wherein a position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth is determined in which the reference line of each of the first tooth and the second tooth are aligned and the first tooth and second tooth are not overlapping; and prescribing IPR based on the determined position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth.
US10595963B2	Dispenser, and dispenser and cartridge A dispenser includes a guide shaft, a housing, accommodating the guide shaft, and supporting the guide shaft movably frontward and rearward along an axial direction, a slide block slidably mounted on the guide shaft, a piston shaft having one end mounted on the slide block, and another end projecting from the housing as the slide block moves frontward, a handle projecting from the housing, a slide bar having one end rotatably supported on the housing, and another end approaching the handle when rotated, and an engaging piece provided on the one end of the slide bar and engaging a guide groove formed in the guide shaft, wherein the engaging piece moves the guide shaft frontward when the other end of the slide bar is rotated to approach the handle due to an operation of a user.
US10595961B2	Endodontic instruments displaying compressibility Endodontic instruments are used to clean and enlarge the endodontic cavity space (ECS), also known as the root canal system, of a human tooth. This document describes novel endodontic instruments that are radially compressible, and methods for their use. Some embodiments include a shank and a body with a working surface. At least a portion of the working surface may define a center of mass path that spirals. The center of mass of a transverse cross-section of the working surface at the shank end can be offset from the axis of rotation of the instrument.
US10595956B2	Marker loading assembly A marker loading assembly for transferring an elongated positioning marker from a loader needle of said assembly into an insertion needle of a medical insertion device, the marker loading assembly comprises an elongated hollow housing having a manoeuvring end and a marker transfer end, and a loader needle mounted within said loading assembly along a longitudinal axis of said assembly, said loader needle being adapted to receive and hold said positioning marker until the positioning marker is transferred to said insertion needle, a transfer opening provided at the marker transfer end and being adapted to receive a distal end of the insertion needle, said transfer opening being provided with a shape gradually opening up in a direction away from said manoeuvring end, and said transfer opening at its narrow end leading to a transfer channel arranged along said longitudinal axis, and wherein the transfer channel has a circular cross-sectional shape having a diameter slightly larger than an outer diameter of the insertion needle or of an outer protective sleeve provided on the outside of the insertion needle, and wherein a loading end of the loader needle is concentrically arranged in the transfer channel such that an annular space having a predetermined length along the longitudinal axis is provided around the loading end, and wherein the outer diameter of the loader needle is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the insertion needle, which enables the distal end of the insertion needle to be inserted into said annular space in the transfer channel and simultaneously the loading end of the loader needle to be inserted into the distal end of the insertion needle to set said assembly in a marker loading ready state, and wherein the loading assembly further comprises a transfer mandrel, said transfer mandrel being adapted to be arranged within said loading needle and being arranged to receive a force in the direction towards the insertion needle and thereby achieve transfer of the marker from the loader needle into the distal end of the insertion needle.
US10595949B2	Splayed cable guide for a medical instrument An apparatus includes a housing, a cable guide, a first cable, and a second cable. The housing is coupled to a shaft of a medical instrument. The cable guide is coupled to the housing, and defines a shaft opening into a passageway defined by the shaft. A first guide groove and a second guide groove are defined by the cable guide, with each of the first guide groove and the second guide groove being splayed outward from the shaft opening. The first cable is routed within the first guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the first guide groove. The second cable is routed within the second guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the second guide groove.
US10595947B2	Surgical instrument shaft with embedded optical fiber A surgical instrument shaft is provided that includes a hollow tube formed of a base material and including an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface; reinforcing glass material is embedded between the inner surface and outer wall surface; an optical fiber is embedded within the base material between the inner wall surface and the outer wall surface.
US10595945B2	Robotic surgical assemblies A surgical assembly for use with and for selective connection to a robotic arm includes an electromechanical instrument and an instrument drive unit. The instrument drive unit includes a motor and a feedback assembly. The motor is configured to effect rotation of the electromechanical instrument. The feedback assembly includes control circuitry and first and second annular members. The control circuitry is configured to sense a change in a condition of the motor. The first annular member has a surface feature projecting therefrom. The second annular member is disposed adjacent the first annular member and has a first surface feature projecting therefrom, circumferentially aligned with the surface feature of the first annular member. Upon a threshold amount of rotation of the first annular member, the surface feature of the first annular member abuts the first surface feature of the second annular member to change the condition of the motor.
US10595942B2	Techniques for generating a bone plate design A computer-implemented technique for generating a data set that geometrically defines a bone plate design is presented. A method implementation of this technique comprises visualizing, based on shape data of a bone, a bone model on a display device, deriving, responsive to a user interaction signal that is indicative of a user interaction relative to the bone model, plate design data representative of a plate-specific design property, and generating a data set that geometrically defines a bone plate design from at least the plate design data and one or more generic plate parameters.
US10595937B2	System for optimized coupling of ablation catheters to body tissues and evaluation of lesions formed by the catheters A system for diagnosis or treatment of tissue in a body is provided. The system includes an ablation catheter having a deformable, elongate shaft having proximal and distal ends. The catheter further includes an ablation delivery member disposed proximate the distal end of the shaft and configured to deliver ablation energy to ablate the tissue. In one embodiment, the ablation delivery member comprises an ablation electrode and may also be configured to generate a signal indicative of electrical activity in the tissue. The catheter further includes one or more sensing electrodes disposed proximate the ablation delivery member. The sensing electrodes are configured to generate signals indicative of electrical activity in the tissue. The system further includes an electronic control unit configured to control delivery of ablation energy from the ablation delivery member responsive to one or more of the generated signals indicative of electrical activity in the tissue.
US10595935B2	Safe ablation of Eustachian tube epithelum Described embodiments include a method that includes inserting an ablation catheter into a Eustachian tube of a subject, and, using the ablation catheter, while the subject is awake, passing an ablating signal, which is audible to the subject, through epithelial cells that line the Eustachian tube, while controlling an amplitude of the ablating signal responsively to a loudness of the ablating signal as perceived by the subject. Other embodiments are also described.
US10595933B2	Multifunctional vessel sealing and divider device An electrosurgical forceps includes an end effector including a first jaw member having a proximal portion including a first jaw guide member and a distal portion including a first tissue contacting surface, and a second jaw member having a proximal portion including a second jaw guide member and a distal portion including a second tissue contacting surface. The first and second tissue contacting surfaces each include a shear edge disposed between stepped surfaces. The jaw members are vertically movable between an open position and a first approximated position in which the tissue contacting surfaces vertically oppose and laterally align with each other, and laterally movable between the first approximated position and a second approximated position to laterally displace the tissue contacting surfaces with respect to each other. The jaw guide members control an open angle between the jaw members during movement between the first and second approximated positions.
US10595929B2	Surgical instruments with firing system overload protection mechanisms A surgical instrument that includes an end effector and a trigger that is actuatable between a first position and a second position. An actuation drive is movable between an unactuated position and an actuated position in response to actuation of the trigger. A toggle assembly is transitionable between a folded configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein the toggle assembly is configured to motivate the actuation drive to effectuate a movement in the end effector in the folded configuration. The toggle assembly being configured to bypass the actuation drive when in the expanded configuration. A resetting member is operable to return the toggle assembly to the folded configuration.
US10595928B2	Combination unilateral/bilateral jaws on a surgical instrument A surgical instrument includes a housing supporting first and second actuators thereon, and an elongated shaft extending distally from the housing. First and second drive members extend through the elongated shaft to operatively couple respective actuators to respective jaw members such that independent manipulation of one of the actuators may induce pivotal movement of an individual jaw member. A locking member is operatively associated with the first and second drive members, and is selectively movable between locked and unlocked positions. When the locking member is in the locked position, the first and second drive members are coupled to one another and move concurrently to drive the jaw members in a bilateral manner. When the locking member is in the unlocked position, the drive members are decoupled from one another and move independently to permit operation of the instrument in a unilateral manner.
US10595923B2	Method and system related to electrosurgical procedures Electrosurgical procedures. At least some of the example methods that include: supplying energy to an active electrode of an electrosurgical wand, the supplying energy to the active electrode by an electrosurgical controller; monitoring an electrical parameter associated with the energy; and determining, based on the electrical parameter, the presence of a wand condition of the electrosurgical wand, the wand condition being at least one selected from the group consisting of: a surface area of the active electrode is less than a predetermined threshold surface area; the surface area of the active electrode is approaching the predetermined threshold surface area; and that the electrosurgical wand is affected by a blockage.
US10595918B2	High-pressure balloon catheter with pressure regulating valve An inflatable bone tamp includes an outer shaft defining a passageway. An inner shaft is positioned within the passageway. The inner shaft defines a lumen. A balloon has a first end coupled to the outer shaft and a second end coupled to the inner shaft such that material can flow through the lumen and into the balloon and exit the balloon through a channel between the inner and outer shafts. A valve is positioned within the channel. The valve is configured to move from a closed orientation in which the valve blocks the channel and an open orientation in which the does not block the channel. Kits, systems and methods are disclosed.
US10595910B2	Dynamically stabilizing vertebral implant, and surgical kit comprising same Disclosed is a dynamically stabilizing intervertebral implant composed of a stabilizing wedge (1), a blocking pin (2), a locking screw (3), and a flexible link in the form of a strap. The stabilizing wedge includes a recess (12) through which the strap can pass. The blocking pin can come into engagement with the wedge by movement inside the recess in the direction of the main axis of the body of the wedge in such a way that the longitudinal axis of the blocking pin firstly coincides with the longitudinal axis of the recess, secondly is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the first strap portion inside the recess, and thirdly is parallel to the surface of the first strap portion inside the recess. The strap is immobilized with respect to the stabilizing wedge by being clamped between the blocking pin and the inner wall of the recess.
US10595899B2	Automatic dilator Automatic dilator devices for generating minimally invasive access apertures for surgical procedures or endoscopic surveillance. The automatic dilators comprise a number of spreader tubes nested one inside the other. The devices deploy automatically by means of coupled mechanical mechanisms which insert one spreader after the other distally into the patient's tissue. Each spreader moves distally into the tissue by means of a screwing action, by which rotation is converted into linear motion of the neighboring spreader, immediately external to it, by means of interaction between a helical thread form on a surface of a spreader being engaged by a section of thread, or by one or more protrusions on the opposing face of the next spreader external to the rotating spreader. Such a combination of helical thread and follower enables a rotatory mechanism to be used to deploy one nested spreader tube after the other, by continuous rotary motion.
US10595895B2	Rotational medical device with airfoil A rotational medical device comprising an airfoil on a rotational drive shaft to generate lift forces generally directed radially away from a rotational axis of the drive shaft, thereby enabling the drive shaft and/or a working element thereon to achieve a working diameter during rotation that is greater than the resting diameter of the drive shaft and/or a working element thereon.
US10595890B2	Minimally invasive laparoscopic tissue removal device A minimally invasive laparoscopic tissue removal device, namely a morcellator. The device includes, from proximal end to distal end, a handle, handle guard, elongate sheath, and mouth, finally terminating in a safety tip. The elongate sheath and mouth are concentric, such that two elongate, rotating cutting/shredding blades/teeth and one elongate auger feed screw can be positioned along the length of the sheath and mouth. The teeth are opposingly disposed and staggered, such that contact with tissue mass grabs and pulls tissue inwards toward the auger, which transports the tissue proximally toward the outside of the patient's body. A motor unit and gear assembly can be coupled to the teeth and auger to drive rotation of the teeth and auger. A cup assembly can be disposed in overlying relation to the mouth for guiding the tissue mass towards the mouth. Various mechanisms of safely covering the mouth are contemplated as well.
US10595887B2	Systems for adjusting end effector parameters based on perioperative information A surgical system includes a surgical instrument, an end effector, a control circuit, and a sensor configured to transmit a sensor signal indicative of a closure parameter of the end effector. The control circuit is configured to adjust a closure rate of change parameter and the closure threshold parameter based on perioperative information received from one or more data sources and a sensor signal received from the sensor.
US10595875B2	Device for restricting blood flow to aneurysms A non-occlusive blood-restricting device is provided for use with a microcatheter and for treating a vascular malformation. The device includes a first section, a second section, and an intermediate section. The first section is configured to assume a first shape when deployed from the microcatheter within a portion of the vascular malformation so as to at least partially cover an orifice of the vascular malformation. The first shape defines a sequence of loops having a gradually decreasing diameter. The second section is configured to assume a second shape when deployed from the microcatheter, wherein the second shape defines a sequence of one or more loops having a constant or gradually decreasing diameter. The intermediate section connects the first and the second sections and is configured to space apart the first and the second sections when deployed from the microcatheter. Other embodiments are also described.
US10595869B2	Self-assembling magnetic anastomosis device having an exoskeleton The invention is an implantable magnetic anastomosis device having an exoskeleton that directs self-assembly. The design allows the device to be delivered in a linear configuration using a minimally-invasive technique, such as endoscopy or laparoscopy, whereupon the device self-assembles into, e.g., a polygon. A coupled set of polygons define a circumscribed tissue that can be perforated, or the tissue can be allowed to naturally necrose and perforate. The device can be used to create anastomoses in a variety of tissues, such as tissues found in the gastrointestinal, renal/urinary, and reproductive tracts. New procedures for using anastomoses, e.g., surgical bypass are also disclosed.
US10595862B2	Staple cartridge including a compressible member A staple cartridge comprising a cartridge body, a surgical staple, and a compressible member is disclosed. The surgical staple is movable from an unfired position to a fired position. The surgical staple is deformable from a first shape in the unfired position to a second shape in the fired position during a firing stroke. The surgical staple is ejected from the cartridge body during the firing stroke. The surgical staple comprises a crown, a first deformable member extending from the crown, and a second deformable member extending from the crown. The compressible member is positioned intermediate the first deformable member, the second deformable member, and the crown after the surgical staple has been deformed into the second shape. The compressible member is at least partially positioned between the first deformable member and the second deformable member of the surgical staple when the surgical staple is in the unfired position.
US10595858B2	Knotless suture anchor with unthreaded nose A suture anchor has a tubular body having an axial bore therethrough with one or more purchase enhancements on an exterior surface of the body adapted to enhance purchase of the body within a bone hole. These are preferably screw threads. A distal nose of the suture body has a smooth exterior surface. A length of suture passes down along the exterior surface over the purchase enhancements, over the distal nose, and up into the bore. The smooth exterior surface of the distal nose allows tension of the suture to be held by the engagement of the nose within the bone hole thus making it easier to obtain proper tension as the remaining portion is engaged into the bone hole to provide final fixation.
US10595833B2	Surgical device The present invention relates to a surgical device. The surgical device may include: a needle device; an aspiration device, which is attached to or detached from the needle device, for tissue sampling; an injection device, which is attached to or detached from the needle device, for drug injection; and an electrode device, which is attached to or detached from the needle device, for thermal treatment. Therefore, any one of the aspiration device, the injection device, and the electrode device is attached to or detached from the needle device, thereby being capable of performing tissue sampling, drug injection, and thermal treatment. Thus, the time and costs required for tissue sampling, drug injection, and thermal treatment are reduced and foreign substances can be prevented from flowing into a surgical site in advance.
US10595829B2	Sample recovery and collection device A sample recovery and collection device comprises a tube, a cap, an insert, and an opening. The cap includes an O-ring and is removably secured to the tube for sealing the tube. The insert includes a first end having a ring that is adhered to the tube and second end opposite the first end. The insert also includes a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg, each coupled to and extending from the ring to the second end. The opening extends from the ring to the second end and the insert defines a diameter.
US10595825B2	Method of providing copy image and ultrasound apparatus therefor An ultrasound measurement method includes: providing a first object and a second object within an ultrasound image displayed on a touch screen; activating the first object and the second object, to be movable to perform a measurement on the ultrasound image; receiving a touch-and-drag input with respect to at least one of the first and second objects; and displacing a corresponding one of the first and second objects on the ultrasound image in correspondence with the received touch-and-drag input.
US10595824B2	Image processing apparatus, ultrasonic imaging apparatus, and imaging processing method for the same Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus collects volume data which relates to an object, generates volume-rendered image data from the collected volume data, acquires a projection image of the object at a position at which virtual illumination is emitted toward the object, based on the volume-rendered image data, and corrects the projection image by using at least one conversion function, thereby obtaining a result image.
US10595819B2	Ablation device with articulated imaging transducer A system for imaging and treating tissue comprises a probe having a deflectable distal tip for carrying an imaging array and a delivery needle for advancement within a field of view of the imaging array. Optionally, the needle will carry a plurality of tines which may be selectively radially deployed from the needle. The imaging array will preferably be provided in a separate, removable component.
US10595811B2	X-ray computed tomography apparatus According to one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a gantry main body, a base, a first support frame, a second support frame and gantry control circuitry. The gantry control circuitry controls a tilt of the gantry main body, a movement of the table top by the first support frame, and a movement of the first support frame by the second support frame. The gantry control circuitry executes switching between a first tilt mode in which the gantry main body is tiltable in a first angle range and a second tilt mode in which the gantry main body is tiltable in a second angle range in which a tilt angle is greater than in the first angle range.
US10595809B2	Medical imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same A medical imaging apparatus may include an image processor configured to generate an image based on data acquired by an X-ray detector, wherein the image processor determines a magnitude of a noise signal of a scout image of an object, determines a physical quantity of the object corresponding to the determined magnitude of the noise signal, determines an energy value of a monochromatic image by comparing the determined physical quantity of the object and a preset reference physical quantity, and generates the monochromatic image corresponding to the determined energy value.
US10595808B2	System and method of computed tomography signal restoration via noise reduction An imaging system includes a computer programmed to estimate noise in computed tomography (CT) imaging data, correlate the noise estimation with neighboring CT imaging data to generate a weighting estimation based on the correlation, de-noise the CT imaging data based on the noise estimation and on the weighting, and reconstruct an image using the de-noised CT imaging data.
US10595804B2	Image processing apparatus, radiography system, image processing method, and image processing program A control unit acquires first radiographic image data and second radiographic image data and derives bone density from an image of a derivation region of a DXA image which is a difference image between a first radiographic image and a second radiographic image. Then, the control unit derives an evaluation value of the accuracy of derivation of the bone density, on the basis of at least one of the first radiographic image, the second radiographic image, and a bone part ES image, a soft part ES image, and a DXA image which are generated using the first radiographic image and the second radiographic image.
US10595802B2	Apparatus for the flexible positioning of a radiation source and a radiation detector An apparatus for medical examinations includes a first arm that is rotatable about an axis, the first arm being configured to carry a radiation source or a radiation detector. The apparatus for medical examinations also includes a second arm that is rotatable about the axis, the second arm being configured to carry a radiation source or a radiation detector. The second arm is attached to the first arm and is rotatable relative to the first arm.
US10595799B2	X-ray assembly including a plurality of X-ray facilities System and methods are provided for an X-ray assembly including at least two X-ray facilities each with a control facility and a recording assembly including an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. At least one of the X-ray facilities is a mobile X-ray facility with a mobile carrier carrying the recording assembly. The control facility of least one of the at least one mobile X-ray facility is configured to control the image recording operation of the respective X-ray facility using control data received from another control facility via a communication connection and/or to transfer at least one recorded image dataset to at least one further control facility via the communication connection.
US10595794B2	Devices and methods for facilitating imaging of rotating animals, specimens, or imaging phantoms An animal, specimen, or imaging phantom is imaged in precise increments over at least 360 degrees. The animal, specimen, or imaging phantom is supported within a subject holder. The subject holder has an elongated portion or tube for holding securely the animal, specimen or imaging phantom. The subject holder is connected to an actuator motor driver. The actuator motor driver causes the subject holder to rotate at the precise increments, and an image of the animal, specimen, or imaging phantom is captured at each increment. The subject holder limits movement of the subject being imaged at each increment.
US10595793B2	Patient status notification device, notification method in patient status notification device and program For each biological information, a caution level range and a warning level range as to the biological information value are stored. When the acquired biological information value of the biological information of a patient falls within the caution level range, a notice of the status of the patient is given to a first notice destination. When the aforementioned biological information value falls within the warning level range, the notice of the status of the patient is given to a second notice destination. Thus, by switching the notice destinations based on the status of the patient, it is possible to provide a patient status notification device or the like that can appropriately and promptly perform notification.
US10595787B2	Apparatus and systems for event detection using probabilistic measures Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining probabilistic measures of seizure activity (PMSA) values based on a plurality of seizure detection algorithms and/or body signals used as inputs by the seizure detection algorithms. Use of the PMSA values to detect seizure activity based on a consensus of the algorithms and/or body signals, and/or warn, log, administer a therapy, or assess the efficacy of a therapy.
US10595779B2	Ventilation measurement devices, methods and computer program product A ventilation measurement device includes a fastening mechanism capable of permanently or detachably fastening the ventilation measurement device to a belt which can be worn around a person's chest. The device includes a substrate coupled to the fastening mechanism and capable of receiving tensional forces transmitted from the flexible belt through the fastening mechanism. A strain gauge is mounted on said substrate and is configured to output a signal with a functional relationship with said tensional forces to a controller unit. The controller unit is configured to receive and process the signal to produce processed data from the strain gauge signal, and to control a transmitter configured to transmit processed data to an external receiver.
US10595778B2	Wearable garment as well as a system and method for determining the support provided by a wearable garment A solution is offered to providing wearable garment, which provides a continued support for the wearer. A novel system is proposed including a wearable garment and a sensor module attached to the wearable garment. The sensor module has an oscillation sensing element, which measures oscillations experienced by the wearable garment, and an interface provided to the oscillation sensing element for outputting measurement data to a processor.
US10595772B2	Anaesthesia and consciousness depth monitoring system Methods and systems incorporating non-linear dynamic (NLD) analysis such as entropy or other complexity analysis monitoring continuous or evoked signals from a biological subject are presented, where such a system comprises of processing steps including: a) the combination of a biological signal evoked as a result of patient stimulation presented to a biological subject and a non-linear analysis method capable of capturing temporal changes in signal order or regularity; b) any combination of processed evoked or continuous central nervous or peripheral physiological mechanisms b) a means to generate a measure indicative of a patient's level of anaesthesia and consciousness depth (A&CD), sedation or sleep/wake state. Methods and systems incorporating a NLD analysis means to improve the discrimination between different signals origins including any combination of: a) central nervous system (CNS), b) peripheral control or nervous system (PNS), c) autonomic control or nervous system (ANS), d) arousals, and e) artifacts.
US10595762B2	Blood sample management using open cell foam A specimen transfer device adapted to receive a blood sample is disclosed. The specimen transfer device includes a housing and an actuation member. A deformable material is disposed within the housing and is deformable from an initial position in which the material is adapted to hold the sample to a deformed position in which at least a portion of the sample is released from the material. A viscoelastic member is disposed within the housing between the material and the housing and between the material and the actuation member. The viscoelastic member is engaged with the actuation member and the material such that movement of the actuation member from a first position to a second position deforms the material from the initial position to the deformed position.
US10595759B2	Salivary biosensors and biofuel cells Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed mouth-based biosensors and biofuel cells. In one aspect, an electrochemical sensor device for detecting analytes in saliva includes a substrate including an electrically insulative material, a first electrode disposed on the substrate at a first location, in which the first electrode includes a surface including a chemical agent (e.g., a catalyst or a reactant) corresponding to an analyte in saliva; and a second electrode disposed on the substrate at a second location separated from the first electrode by a spacing region, the first and second electrodes capable of sustaining a redox reaction involving the chemical agent and the analyte to produce an electrical signal, such that, when the device is present in the mouth of a user and electrically coupled to an electrical circuit, the device is operable to detect the analyte in the user's saliva.
US10595750B2	Orthopedic measurement devices, systems and methods A device for orthopedic measurements includes a main housing, a center member, a measurement indicator, and a flexible member. The main housing has a proximal end with a top opening and a distal end with a side opening, and defines a longitudinal axis and includes a main housing cavity. The center member is disposed along the longitudinal axis within the main housing cavity. The measurement indicator is operatively connected to the center member, and is configured and adapted to display a measurement of a distance. The flexible member is threaded through the main housing cavity, and includes a first end and an opposed second end with an eyelet disposed proximate the side opening of the main housing. The eyelet is configured to be drawn away from the main housing, extending the flexible member outward with respect to the side opening to display a measurement on the measurement indicator.
US10595747B2	Respiration processor Respiratory rate can be calculated from an acoustic input signal using time domain and frequency domain techniques. Confidence in the calculated respiratory rate can also be calculated using time domain and frequency domain techniques. Overall respiratory rate and confidence values can be obtained from the time and frequency domain calculations. The overall respiratory rate and confidence values can be output for presentation to a clinician.
US10595733B2	Non-invasive blood pressure monitors, methods and computer program product of operating the same Method of operating a non-invasive blood pressure, NIBP, monitor to measure the blood pressure of a subject, the NIBP monitor comprising a cuff, a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in the cuff and for outputting a pressure signal representing the pressure in the cuff and a physiological parameter sensor, the method comprising obtaining a first measurement of pulse rate or heart rate for the subject during inflation of the cuff, the first measurement being obtained from the pressure signal; obtaining a second measurement of the pulse rate or heart rate for the subject during inflation of the cuff, the second measurement being obtained from the physiological parameter sensor; comparing the first measurement and the second measurement; and estimating the reliability of a blood pressure measurement obtained by the NIBP monitor during inflation of the cuff based on the result of the step of comparing.
US10595732B2	Pulse wave detection device and pulse wave detection program A pulse wave detection device color converts a frame image of a moving image from RBG components to YIQ components, and identifies an eye section using the eye color of a user prepared in advance with a Q component. Next, the pulse wave detection device uses the Y values of the eye section to detect the brightness of the imaging environment. Then, the pulse wave detection device detects a pulse wave signal Qm on the basis of the average of the Q-values of a skin section in the frame image, corrects a change in the brightness by subtracting from Qm the average value Ye of the Y values of the eye section, and thereby outputs a post-brightness-correction Qm. As a result, a pulse wave can be successfully detected even if the brightness is changing because the user is moving in a vehicle or the like.
US10595731B2	Methods and systems for arrhythmia tracking and scoring A dashboard centered around arrhythmia or atrial fibrillation tracking is provided. The dashboard includes a heart or cardiac health score that can be calculated in response to data from the user such as their ECG and other personal information and cardiac health influencing factors. The dashboard also provides to the user recommendations or goals, such as daily goals, for the user to meet and thereby improve their heart or cardiac health score. These goals and recommendations may be set by the user or a medical professional and routinely updated as his or her heart or cardiac health score improves or otherwise changes. The dashboard is generally displayed from an application provided on a smartphone or tablet computer of the user.
US10595724B2	Adaptor for an image capture device for fundus photography An adaptor for attachment to an image acquisition device, the image acquisition device having one or more camera apertures for enabling capture of one or more images entering the image acquisition device via the one or more camera apertures. The adaptor has a housing defining a passage along which light waves may travel, an objective lens arrangement within the passage, a secondary lens arrangement within the passage positioned such that, when the adaptor is attached to an image acquisition device, the secondary lens arrangement is along a possible light pathway between the objective lens arrangement and one or more camera apertures. The lens arrangements are together configured to magnify an image of a pupil of the eye in proximity to a plane of one or more camera apertures and to focus light waves from a light source at a point external of the adaptor and offset from the optical axis of the objective lens.
US10595714B2	Multi-jet controller for an endoscope The present specification describes a control mechanism to control fluid flow through one or more fluid channels that supply fluid to the distal tip of an endoscope. A pump is provided with an endoscope to control the flow of fluid from an external source to a combination of fluid channels within the endoscope, which supply fluid to front and side jets of a multi-jet endoscope assembly. The pump is preferably dual-direction pump that enables control of fluid to either the front jet or to the front and side jets of the endoscope.
US10595713B2	Ocular for a surgical instrument An ocular device for a surgical instrument having an ocular mount for an optical assembly. The ocular device including: an optical flat; and a holder for accommodating the optical flat, wherein the holder is configured to be connected to the ocular mount; wherein the optical flat having a widened side edge provided with a first contact surface for the ocular mount and a second contact surface for the holder, and a surface normal of the optical flat and the first contact surface of the optical flat facing the ocular mount form an angle different than 0° relative to each other.
US10595703B2	Method of determining whether process water is present in a circulation pump of an appliance for washing and rinsing goods, and appliance and computer program therewith Provided herein is a method of determining whether process water is present in a circulation pump of an appliance for washing and rinsing goods, and an appliance performing the method. The method of determining whether process water is present in a circulation pump of an appliance for washing and rinsing goods may include measuring a minimum value of a property representing load of the circulation pump at a predetermined first speed, measuring a maximum value of a property representing load of the circulation pump at a predetermined second speed, the second speed being higher than the first speed, determining a relation between said minimum value and said maximum value, and determining, from said relation, whether process water is present in the circulation pump.
US10595701B2	Raising apparatus for cleaning portion in cleaning tool and raising method for cleaning portion in cleaning tool A raising device for a cleaning part in a cleaning tool and a raising method for a cleaning part in a cleaning tool are provided. The raising device is capable of raising the fibers of the cleaning part to a state in which waste can be collected. A raising device for raising the fibers in a fiber layer constituting a cleaning part in a cleaning tool is configured by providing a blowing part which blows compressed air at the fiber layer to raise the fibers of the fiber layer.
US10595694B2	Autonomous vacuum cleaner An autonomous vacuum cleaner includes an autonomously moveable housing carrying a vacuum collection system for generating a working air flow for removing dirt from the surface to be cleaned and storing the dirt in a collection space. Distance sensors for position sensing are mounted to the housing, behind a sensor cover. The distance sensors can be staggered and/or positioned above a brush chamber for a brushroll.
US10595691B2	Vacuum cleaner A handheld vacuum cleaner includes a cyclonic separating unit and a body that includes a suction generator, a battery and a handle by which the vacuum cleaner is supported during use. The handle is provided with an actuator in the form of a finger-operated trigger for actuating the vacuum cleaner and a trigger guard disposed below the trigger. The battery is disposed below the trigger guard such that the center of gravity of the vacuum cleaner is located below the trigger guard.
US10595687B2	Dispenser assembly with storage compartment A dispenser assembly with a compartment for storing clean tissues and a compartment in the assembly for storing used tissues. A partition wall separates the compartments and can move to enlarge the space for the storage of used objects such as tissues. The dispenser assembly may be sized to fit within an automobile cup holder.
US10595686B2	Foam producing apparatus and method A foam dispenser includes a dispensing outlet, a pre-mixing chamber receiving liquid from a liquid source and air from an air source, a mixing chamber downstream of the pre-mixing chamber and proximate the dispenser outlet, and a first conduit coupling the pre-mixing chamber to the mixing chamber.
US10595684B2	Bathing apparatuses and methods of making and using the same The apparatuses and methods of making and using the same are directed to bathing apparatus to support an object while bathing the object with a fluid. The bathing apparatus may comprise a support assembly constituting a support structure of the apparatus; a support surface to support the object, the support surface supported by the support portion; and a fluid catch disposed on at least three sides of the support surface, the fluid catch serving as a basin for the fluid in such manner to contain the fluid separate from the support surface.
US10595681B2	Bath cover for child A bath cover for comforting a child during a bathing process is disclosed. The bath cover includes a body portion at least partially formed of an absorbent material and configured to cover at least a portion of the torso of the child. The body portion has an upper end with a contour corresponding to the neck of the child. The bath cover also includes first and second support portions extending outwardly at the upper end of the body and positionable over the shoulders of the child. The relatively absorbent material is configured to be wetted and positioned adjacent to the child to warm the child during the bathing process.
US10595677B2	Portable biomass stove A portable biomass stove includes a tubular seat unit and an insulation unit. The tubular seat unit includes an inner tubular seat and an outer tubular seat. The outer tubular seat surrounds the inner tubular seat, cooperates with the inner tubular seat to define an internal space therebetween, and is formed with an air inlet located under the tubular body. A top end portion of the outer tubular seat is connected to a top end portion of the tubular body in a sealing contact manner. The insulation unit is disposed in one of the internal space and an ambient space outside the outer tubular seat so as to prevent dissipation of heat out of the outer tubular seat.
US10595671B2	Coffee machine and relevant coffee extraction method A coffee machine includes a weighing system to measure the weight of the liquid coffee extracted in a cup and a coffee grinding machine having a weight system to measure the weight of the ground coffee dispensed in a filter-holder. The coffee machine has a control unit provided with a memory, wherein infusion ratios for different types of coffees are saved and the coffee grinding machine includes a control unit operatively connected to the control unit of the coffee machine to send information about the weight of the ground coffee contained in the filter-holder. The control unit of the coffee machine uses the information received from the coffee grinding machine to extract a coffee that satisfies an infusion ratio selected by the operator.
US10595670B2	Coupling of a device for connecting a beverage machine to a distribution network A connecting device is arranged for connecting a beverage machine (2) with an external liquid delivery system (3) to supply such liquid to the machine (2). The connecting device (1) has: a device body (16); an inlet (10) for a fluid connection to the external system (3); an outlet (13) for delivering liquid from the external system (3) via the inlet (10) to the machine (2); a valve arrangement (12a, 12b) switchable between an open configuration for establishing a fluidic connection between the inlet (10) and the outlet (13) and a closed configuration for interrupting the fluidic connection; and a control unit (14) for switching the valve arrangement (12a, 12b) between its open configuration and its closed configuration. The device body (16) has an assembly arrangement (16c; 16b, 16d, 16e, 16f) for reversibly or irreversibly assembling the device body (16) to the machine (2).
US10595645B2	Sand-filled mattress The invention provides an improved mattress for sleeping which is to be filled with sand to recreate a sleep experience predating the invention of the modern spring-type, or bladder-type mattress (i.e. air or water-filled). For example, by filling the mattress with sand, it recreates the essence of sleeping on the earth itself. The mattress is composed of a hollow, fillable shell, the bottom and sides of which are constructed from a single piece of heavy duty, durable synthetic fabric; the top panel (or sleeping surface) is constructed from natural fiber fabric.
US10595643B2	Mattress foundation with slidably attached components A mattress foundation includes: a head end panel assembly; a foot end panel assembly; a left side panel assembly; and a right side panel assembly, all slidably attaching to each other using sliding mechanisms. At least one of the sliding mechanisms includes an elongated slot and an elongated protruding element that fits within the elongated slot. A horizontal cross-section of the elongated slot and/or the elongated protruding element includes thin elongated flexible arms, attached at their proximal ends to a common surface, but otherwise extending away from such common surface and separated from each other. When viewed from the horizontal cross-section, the average thickness of the thin elongated flexible arms is substantially less than the length of the thin elongated flexible arms.
US10595637B2	Medical support apparatus A chair includes a seat, a backrest, and a leg rest. A tilt actuator and lift actuator tilt and lift the seat, respectively. A leg rest actuator extends and retracts the leg rest. A backrest actuator pivots the backrest with respect to the seat. A controller simultaneously controls the actuators such that they move sequentially between multiple predefined states. A control panel enables a user to automatically move the chair to any of the predefined states. A controller controls the actuators such that they simultaneously arrive at each state. One or more functions on a control panel may also be automatically disabled and/or automatically enabled as the chair moves into or out of certain ones of the predefined states. When transitioning between some states, all of the actuators are activated, and when transitioning between other states, only a subset of the actuators is activated.
US10595632B2	Furniture frame structural system with interlocking members A furniture frame structural system with interlocking members includes a first face frame, a second face frame, and a plurality of frame members. At least one joining feature for each frame member allows the frame members to arrange into a skeletal configuration as the joining feature includes a male interlocking portion and a female interlocking portion. More specifically, the male interlocking portion for each frame member is engaged with the female interlocking portion of an adjacent member from the frame members. Resultantly, the frame members complete the skeletal configuration. The first face frame and the second face frame are then oppositely mounted to the skeletal configuration completing the basic frame structure. Additional components such as post-tensioned fasteners, inner liners, outer panels held in side rails, a top, legs, and baseboard can be optionally integrated with the basic frame structure to improve the functionality and appearance of the resulting furniture.
US10595624B2	Cleaning roller for cleaning robots A cleaning roller is mountable to a cleaning robot. The cleaning roller includes a sheath comprising a shell, an outer diameter of the shell tapering from a first end portion of the sheath and a second end portion of the sheath toward a center of the roller. The cleaning roller further includes a core including a central portion interlocked with the sheath to rotationally couple the core to the sheath and inhibit relative translation of the sheath and the core along an axis of rotation. An inner surface of the sheath and an outer surface of the core define an air gap therebetween, the air gap extending from the central portion of the core longitudinally along the axis of rotation toward the first end portion or the second end portion.
US10595621B2	Floral apparatus and method of assembling the same An attachment device for coupling a floral arrangement to an article such as a lapel of a jacket, a floral apparatus that includes at least a portion of the attachment device and the floral arrangement, and a method of assembling such a floral apparatus. The attachment device may include a support element and a retaining element that are detachably coupled together. The support element includes a rib member and first and second posts extending from a bottom surface of the rib member in a spaced apart manner. The rib member and the first and second posts collectively define a receiving cavity that is configured to receive a portion of a stem of a floral arrangement. The retaining element includes one or more pins that extend into the rib member of the support element to couple the retaining element to the support element.
US10595614B2	Device for dispensing a product A device to distribute a product which includes a sheath, a cup and a spiral body having at least one helical groove for guiding. The sheath is rotatable with respect to the spiral body and fitted into the spiral body. The sheath includes at least one opening having at least two portions non-parallel to the generatrix of the inner cylinder of the sheath and forming between them an obtuse angle strictly less than one hundred eighty degrees. The cup includes at least one guiding pin inserted into the helical guiding groove and into the opening. The guiding pin being displaced simultaneously along the helical groove and the opening when the sheath is set into rotation with respect to the spiral body.
US10595608B2	Luggage system employing a telescopically-extendable handle and battery power supply assembly equipped with a semi-automatic battery power module ejection mechanism A luggage system employing a telescopically-extendable handle and rechargeable battery power supplying assembly. The assembly includes a pair of spaced-apart stationary guide tubes for supporting a pair of telescopically-extendable rods joined to a handle structure. A base housing component is mounted in an aperture formed in the rear housing portion, and has a top surface. A battery module casing is mounted to and beneath the base housing component, and disposed substantially in the same plane as and between the pair of spaced-apart guide tubes. A rechargeable DC battery power module is contained in the battery module casing, and provides a DC battery recharging port and a set of DC power supplying ports. A semi-automatic battery power module ejection mechanism is mounted within a battery module casing mounted beneath the telescopically-extendible handle and battery power supplying assembly.
US10595607B1	Luggage having two brakeable wheels A luggage includes a pull handle unit, a pressing unit mounted in the pull handle unit, a driving unit connected with the pressing unit, a transmission unit connected with the driving unit, and a wheel unit connected with the transmission unit. The pull handle unit includes an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The wheel unit includes two wheels and a brake member. When the inner pipe is moved downward in the outer pipe, the two wheels are braked and cannot be moved anymore, and when the inner pipe is moved upward in the outer pipe, the two wheels are unlocked and moved freely. Thus, when the inner pipe is retracted into the outer pipe, the two wheels are braked by the brake member, such that the luggage is locked and cannot be moved when not in use.
US10595604B1	Folio including magnetic hinge for computing device Example implementations relate to a folio including a covering portion, a flexible hinge portion, and a first magnetic element and a second magnetic element. The first magnetic element and the second magnetic element may be disposed in the flexible hinge portion. The first magnetic element may be configured to move with respect to the second magnetic element. The folio may be configured to move between an open configuration and a closed configuration such that when the folio is in the open configuration, a portion of the first magnetic element is attached to a portion of the second magnetic element, and when the folio is in the closed configuration, the portion of the first magnetic element is separated from the portion of the second magnetic element.
US10595602B2	Case assembly for an electronic device A sleeve and case assembly selectively encase and protect an electronic device such as a tablet computer or smart phone. Each of the sleeve and case assemblies is constructed from materials having high impact resistance or toughness qualities. The sleeve assemblies comprise two substantially identical half shells each of which are constructed from the impact-resistant material and are internally configured or contoured to together define a device-receiving volume operable to simultaneously prevent internal device shift or movement while providing the impact-resistant casing. The case assemblies each provide an impact resistant device-encircling material usable in combination with a device-receiving and positioning cradle to cooperably and selectively display an electronic device when in an open case configuration and protect the electronic device when in a closed case configuration. The posterior cradle and cover portions of each case assembly face in opposite directions when in the closed case configuration.
US10595601B2	Trolley mechanism for wheeled luggage There is provided a trolley mechanism for wheeled luggage, the wheeled luggage comprising four luggage wheels at a lower surface of the wheeled luggage and a deployable trolley handle at an upper surface of the wheeled luggage such that, in use, the wheeled luggage may be manoeuvred about by the deployable trolley handle in a substantially upright orientation supported by the luggage wheels and wherein the trolley mechanism comprising a deployable trolley deck, the trolley deck being pivotally coupled substantially at the lower surface of the wheeled luggage at a proximal edge of the trolley deck and having at least one trolley wheel at an opposite distal end of the trolley deck such that the deployable trolley deck is pivotally configurable between: a stowed configuration wherein the trolley deck lies against a surface of the wheeled luggage; and a deployed configuration wherein the trolley deck is deployed at a substantial right angle to the surface such that, when the wheeled luggage is in the substantially upright orientation and supported by the luggage wheels, the trolley deck defines an upper load bearing surface for supporting additional luggage thereon and wherein the trolley deck is supported at the distal end thereof by the at least one trolley wheel.
US10595594B2	Rapid release device for wearable articles A rapid release device (1) for wearable articles (2) comprising: a first body (3) having a portion (3a) for coupling to a first part (2a) of said article (2) and defining at least one through cavity (6); a second body (4) associated with the first body (3) in a reversible manner and having a portion (4a) for coupling to a second part (2b) of said article (2) and at least one interlocking element (7) housed in said cavity (6); release means (8) obtained in said first and second body (3, 4) to allow the interlocking element (7) to slide outside of said cavity (6) and define a decoupling condition of the first body (3) from the second body (4); said interlocking element (7) and said cavity (6) slide with respect to each other along a respective direction (A) corresponding to the lateral development direction of the first and second body (3; 4); said interlocking element (7) and said cavity (6) extending along a same longitudinal axis (Y) for a dimension (D) smaller than the dimension (L) of the first and second body (3; 4) along said lateral development direction.
US10595587B2	Article of footwear with a segmented plate having a heel region An article of footwear includes a sole having a first plate and a second plate. The first plate includes a first edge, and the second plate includes a second edge, where the first edge faces the second edge. The first edge has a first contour corresponding to a second contour of the second edge. The first plate includes a heel region, where the heel region includes a first heel region and a second heel region. A notch region separates the first heel region and the second heel region, where the notch region extends from an outer edge of the heel region toward the midfoot portion of the article of footwear. The first plate and the second plate may improve an amount of energy return while running by increasing a rigidity of the sole.
US10595584B2	Adjustable article system The present invention is directed to an adjustable footwear system to provide varying degrees of tightness in different areas of the footwear before and after the footwear is received on the foot. The footwear is, in its initial form, tightest on the inner cavity with an upper comprised of one or more elastic materials. An extensor system is activated to create a rigid infra-structure to open a cavity of the footwear between the upper and an insole. A decrease of pressure in the extensor system decreases the cavity volume and allows for the elastic upper to apply pressure to the foot.
US10595572B2	Shower garment A shower garment for providing scrubbing and privacy while showering includes a shell that is meshed so that the shell is configured to allow water to enter and to exit. The shell is flexible and has a bottom that is open. A pair of first holes is positioned in the shell proximate to a top of the shell. A second hole is positioned in the top of the shell between the first holes. The shell is configured to position a body of a user with a head and arms extending through the second hole and first holes, respectively. The shell covers a torso and a pelvic region of the user. A plurality of scrubbers that is selectively couplable to an inner surface of the shell is configured to scrub the user and to screen the user's breasts, genitals, and buttocks from viewing by persons proximate to the user.
US10595570B1	Apparel with body mapped waterproof-breathable portions A garment includes a first material layer including a first surface, a second material layer laminated to the first material layer, where the second material layer includes a second surface, and a laminate material disposed in a non-continuous manner between the first and second surfaces of the first and second material layers. An amount of laminate material disposed between the first and second material layers varies at different zones defined along the first surface of the first material layer. The laminate material can be applied via a dot lamination process so as to form an array of laminate dots that varies by one or more of spacing between laminate dots, dimensions of laminate dots and shapes of laminate dots at the different zones.
US10595567B2	Child jumpsuit A child jumpsuit includes a back part, a front part with a fastener, and legs; the fastener is designed from the neck on the front part with a shift to the side from the central front line across the sitting line up to the lateral seam near the waist line level on the back. The proposed child jumpsuit provides for a more convenient use of the child jumpsuit, simplifying its design and increasing the wearer's comfort.
US10595563B2	Monolithic plane with electrical contacts An electrically operated aerosol-generating device is provided, including an electrical power supply; an electronic circuit board; an external electrical power contact; an electrical power line, configured to electrically couple the external electrical power contact to the electronic circuit board; and a ground plane including an elongate conductive member connected to a negative terminal of the electrical power supply and being configured to electrically couple the power supply to the electronic circuit board, and to structurally retain the electrical power supply and the electronic circuit board, configured to electrically couple the power supply to the electronic circuit board and to structurally retain the power supply and electronic circuit board, the ground plane being further configured to electrically insulate the electrical power line from the elongate conductive member, and to mechanically couple the electrical power line to the elongate conductive member.
US10595558B2	Smoking article comprising a wrapper with a plurality of projections provided on an inner surface thereof A smoking article is provided, including a combustible heat source; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the combustible heat source; and a wrapper circumscribing at least a rear portion of the combustible heat source and at least a front portion of the aerosol-forming substrate, wherein a plurality of inwardly extending projections are disposed on an inner surface of the wrapper overlying the combustible heat source, and the plurality of inwardly extending projections cover between about 10 percent and about 70 percent of a surface area of the inner surface of the wrapper overlying the combustible heat source.
US10595556B2	Method and apparatus for filling transport containers with rod-like articles of tobacco industry The object of the invention is an apparatus for filling transport containers (1) with rod-like articles of the tobacco industry, provided with an area (2) receiving the rod-like articles in the form of a mass flow, a rod-like article storage area (3) comprising at least two sidewalls, a filling unit (4) constituting the bottom wall of the storage area for transferring the rod-like articles from the storage area to the transport container, a lowering conveyor (5) working together with the filling unit (4), adapted to lower the transport container while filling with the rod-like articles. The apparatus is characterised by being further provided with a counting module (6) designed to count the rod-like articles in the transport containers, adapted so that the individual rod-like articles being in the transport container are counted.
US10595548B2	Method for processing non-pasteurized grape juices to prepare soft wines and the product obtained thereby A method for processing non-pasteurized grape juices to prepare soft wines, characterized in that said method comprises a step of processing said grape juices by high frequency radio waves to microbically deactivate said grape juices in absence of any thermal effects.
US10595545B2	Compositions comprising a casein and methods of producing the same Disclosed herein are methods and compositions including casein, and methods for making these compositions.
US10595544B2	System, machine and method for the preparation of cooled edible products A system, machines and consumables for the preparation of portioned amount of a cooled edible product constituting a defined number of servings which may be 1, 2, 3, etc. are provided. One example of such an edible product is ice cream.
US10595535B2	Bio-derived compositions for use in agriculture Described is a composition, which is a natural and organic pesticide, specifically for mitigating, controlling and treating fungicidal, virucidal and bactericidal pathogenic microorganisms in agricultural products such as root crops, fruits and vegetables. Examples of such disease-causing microorganisms are Mycosphaerella fijensis causing black Sigatoka disease in Cavendish (banana), Ralstonia solanacearum causing Moko disease in Cavendish (banana), Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing soft rot or fruit rot in crops and fruits, Fusarium oxysporum causing Panama wilt in fruits and crops, and many others. The composition is a fermented product of tropical plants, carbon source, protein (nitrogen) source, and a carrier agent. The fermented product may help strengthen the plant's immune system to fight pathogenic diseases. Since all the major constituents of the composition are generally regarded as safe, this natural pesticide is found to be non-toxic and safe to humans and animals, and environmentally benign.
US10595526B1	Big-game towing hitch yoke Big-game towing hitch yoke system for use in the standard hitch receiver of a motorized vehicle, such as a UTV. Some embodiments of the invention comprise big-game towing hitch yoke systems that are collapsible for increased versatility and easy storage and transportation.
US10595520B1	Fishing accessory container An accessory container that comprises an outer container and at lease one inner container resting therein. The outer container having an outside wall and a floor that define the outer container interior space; the inner container having an inside wall and an outside wall and a floor, the inside wall and the outside wall defining an inner container interior space, and the inside wall and the outside wall defining a aperture to allow access from the outside of the accessory container to the outer container interior space; and a lid that covers at least a portion of the inner container.
US10595519B1	Motorized tackle system for fishing A powered fishing lure includes a lower body forming a fluidly sealed cavity; a battery carried within the cavity of the lower body; an upper body forming a fluidly sealed interior area; an electric motor carried within the fluidly sealed interior area and conductively coupled to the battery; a propeller positioned outside the upper body and secured to the electric motor via a drive shaft; and a hook secured to the lower body.
US10595517B2	Insect spawning container, facility and method for breeding insects The present invention relates to an insect spawning container in which at least one spawn structure is provided in which the mother insects will spawn their eggs. The spawn structure has a scalable face such that the mother beetles can crawl from the bottom onto and up along the scalable face of the spawn structure, the spawn structure comprising a multitude of crevices accessible from the scalable face, the crevices having dimensions tuned to the egg-laying tube of the mother beetles.
US10595516B2	Precision water delivery system for insects A water delivery system for supplying water to an insect habitat. The water delivery system including a water tray equipped with a sensor to monitor an amount of water within a water tray. The sensor to cause water to be delivered to the water tray when the amount of water within the tray falls below a predefined threshold amount.
US10595512B2	Safe and humane animal head collar A safe and humane head collar for an animal includes a clasp and a head strap extending through first and second channels formed in the clasp. The head strap has a first end secured to a slip loop and a second end secured to a lead attachment. The head strap passes once through the slip loop to form a head loop for passing over a head of the animal. The safe and humane head collar also includes a nose strap extending through third and fourth channels formed in the clasp to provide a nose loop for passing over a nose of the animal, the nose strap having first and second ends terminating below the clasp. When fitted to the animal, the clasp secures a portion the first and second ends of the nose strap and a portion of the head loop below a lower jaw of the animal, and the head loop is positioned so that the slip loop is situated behind an ear of the animal.
US10595490B1	Rice cultivar Calaroma-201 A rice cultivar designated Calaroma-201 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar Calaroma-201, to the plants of rice Calaroma-201 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar Calaroma-201 with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to rice cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from rice cultivar Calaroma-201, to methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from rice cultivar Calaroma-201 and to the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar Calaroma-201 with another rice cultivar.
US10595489B2	Lettuce cultivar chamisal A lettuce cultivar, designated Chamisal, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Chamisal and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Chamisal with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Chamisal, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Chamisal and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Chamisal with another lettuce cultivar.
US10595488B2	Lettuce variety 41-277 RZ The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-277 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-277 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-277 RZ.
US10595479B2	Induced mutagenesis Presented herein are methods for creating a desired genetic variant at a high efficiency from a seed. In one aspect, a method for creating a desired genetic variant at a high efficiency from a seed is presented. The method involves subjecting isolated pollen to a chemical mutagen to produce a first generation seed, planting the first generation seed in (n) plots to produce first generation plants, recovering mutagenized pollen from the first generation plants, pollinating a female parent with the recovered mutagenized pollen to produce a next generation seed, subjecting pollen from the next generation seed to mutagenesis to pollinate the first generation plant, resulting in a new next generation seed, planting the new next generation seed to produce a new next generation plant, and subjecting pollen from the new next generation plant to mutagenesis to pollinate the new next generation plant.
US10595476B2	Emitter and drip irrigation tube This emitter (120) has a first valve seat part (174) provided around a hole (173) which forms a portion of a flow path between a reduced-pressure flow path and a discharge part. The first valve seat part (174) is formed by a three-step recessed circumferential surface, and is provided with one groove (175) which intersects said three-step recessed circumferential surface, and becomes shallower as said groove approaches the hole (173). As the external liquid pressure increases, a film (140) gradually bends towards the first valve seat part (174), and the open area of the groove (175) gradually decreases. The flow rate of an irrigation liquid is adjusted to an amount capable of passing through the opening of the groove (175).
US10595475B1	System and method for providing sprout incubation, air flow, hydration, and drainage Disclosed is a system for seed sprouting. An example system may include a jar having a top opening and a bottom opening, a seal lid, and a perforated lid. The system may include a seed packet containing seeds. A quantity of the seeds is calibrated based on a volume of the jar. The system may include a stand to support the jar vertically when the seeds are placed into the jar and moistened with water after the seal lid is secured at the bottom opening. The perforated lid includes holes to allow draining of the water after the perforated lid is secured at the top opening and the jar is positioned with the top opening down. The system may include a further perforated lid to be secured at the bottom opening after the jar is positioned with the top opening down to allow air to flow through the jar.
US10595472B2	Film for agricultural greenhouse and agricultural greenhouse Objects of the present invention are to provide a film for an agricultural greenhouse that can maintain a CO2 concentration necessary for the photosynthesis of plants even when ventilation is not performed and to provide an agricultural greenhouse using the film. The film for an agricultural greenhouse of the present invention is a cellulose film which contains a cellulose acylate resin and has an equilibrium moisture content of 4% to 8% at a temperature of 25° C., a relative humidity of 80% and a thickness of 60 to 200 μm.
US10595458B2	Powered hand-held spreader A powered hand-held spreader device is disclosed that has a handle that allows a user to grip and hold the device with one hand. The spreader includes an adjustable shutter, controlled by a rotary dial, to allow for distribution of a range of different granular products that require different flow rates for distribution. The granular product is contained in a hopper. The product can be distributed over various types of terrain, including, but not limited to, lawns, gardens, and paths. The spreader is driven by an electric motor actuated by a trigger. A spinning rotor plate distributes the granular product fed from the hopper. A trigger lock is optionally available to lock the trigger in the “on” position during use and to prevent actuation when the trigger is in the “off” position. An adjustable side deflector optionally can be used to control the distribution pattern of the granular product.
US10595457B2	Flow control assembly for an agricultural metering system A flow control assembly for an agricultural metering system includes a first gate control rod configured to couple to a first gate of a seed meter and a second gate control rod configured to couple to a second gate of the seed meter. The flow control assembly also includes a locking assembly configured to block translation of the first gate control rod at least while the second gate control rod is in a positioned that corresponds to an open position of the second gate and to block translation of the second gate control rod at least while the first gate control rod is in a position that corresponds to an open position of the first gate.
US10595455B2	Planning system for an autonomous work vehicle system A planning system for an autonomous work vehicle system includes a controller configured to determine a plan for the autonomous work vehicle system by reducing a cost function, and to output one or more signals indicative of the plan and/or instructions to execute the plan. The plan includes a route of the autonomous work vehicle system through a field, and the cost function includes multiple costs associated with operation of the autonomous work vehicle system.
US10602647B2	Electromagnetic shield component and wire harness An electromagnetic shield component that includes a tube that is electrically conductive and has an internal space through which an electrical wire is to be inserted, wherein the tube includes: a first half-split tube that has a half-split tubular shape and has two first ends in a circumferential direction; a second half-split tube that has a half-split tubular shape and has two second ends in the circumferential direction that are provided so as to face the two first ends of the first half-split tube in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of connectors that contain a crystal refining agent, and are provided between, and are welded to, the two first ends of the first half-split tube in the circumferential direction and the two second ends of the second half-split tube in the circumferential direction.
US10602642B2	Back cover unit applied to portable device and having heat conduction function A back cover unit applied to portable device and having heat conduction function includes a ceramic back cover having an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface faces an external environment, while the inner surface faces a receiving space of a portable electronic device. A heat contact section is disposed on the inner surface in a position corresponding to at least one heat source disposed in the receiving space. The heat contact section has a contact face in contact with the heat source, whereby the heat generated by the heat source can be transferred through the heat contact section to the ceramic back cover to dissipate the heat.
US10602641B2	Housing assembly and electronic device A housing assembly has an insertion opening adapted for insertion of an electronic unit and includes a first housing, a second housing, a thermal pad, and a guide structure. The second housing is opposite to the first housing, a space is formed between the first housing and the second housing, and the space is in communication with the insertion opening. The thermal pad is disposed on one side of the first housing facing the second housing. The guide structure is disposed inside the space and is adapted to guide the electronic unit to move towards the first housing when the electronic unit is inserted into the space through the insertion opening and moves, so that the electronic unit comes into contact with the thermal pad.
US10602614B2	Power supply module and power supply device A power supply module includes first and second outer surfaces that are adjacent to and perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to each other. The power supply module includes a substrate that includes a first surface and a side surface, electronic components mounted at least on the first surface, a first resin material provided on the first surface, and terminal electrodes exposed at least at the first outer surface. The first resin member seals the electronic components mounted on the first surface. In the substrate, the first surface is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first outer surface, which extends at least across the side surface of the substrate and the first resin member. The area of the first outer surface is smaller than the area of the second outer surface.
US10602609B2	Flexible electrical conductor device A flexible conductor device (1) includes an electrically insulating flexible carrier substrate (2) and a printed electrical conductor (12) situated on the flexible carrier substrate. The electrical conductor is defined by at least one elongate circuit (3) which extends between opposite ends (6). The carrier substrate (2) is provided with at least an incision or cut-out (4) extending through the full thickness of the carrier substrate (2) so as to provide enhanced flexibility.
US10602606B2	Radio-frequency antenna, radio-frequency substrate with radio-frequency antenna, and production method A method for producing a radio-frequency antenna in a conductor structural element with an encompassing layer sequence, including: providing a rigid carrier having an underside and a top side; defining an antenna assignment section on the rigid carrier; applying at least one electrically insulating layer with a recess in such a way that the antenna assignment section is exposed; placing a radio-frequency substrate above the antenna assignment section with formation of a cavity between the rigid carrier and the radio-frequency substrate; aligning and fixing the radio-frequency substrate relative to the rigid carrier; laminating the layer construction prepared in this manner such that resin material of the at least one electrically insulating layer liquefies and encloses the radio-frequency substrate with the cavity being left free; cutting the antenna assignment section out of the rigid carrier from the outer underside (remote from the layer construction) of the rigid carrier.
US10602591B2	Mechatronic transforming luminaire swarm A robotic agent swarm system having first robotic luminaire agents, and at least one control processor. Each agent has a suspension configured to hold the agent against an architectural surface, which includes a holonomic operational area; at least one propulsion motor configured to enable holonomic movement of the agent different locations on the architectural surface; a communication system configured to communicate with at least one other agent; a power supply operatively connected to the at least one propulsion motor and the communication system; and a light source oriented to illuminate a region around the architectural surface. The control processor is operatively associated with the agents and configured to transmit operating instructions, via at least one of the agent's respective communication system. The operating instructions include instructions for operating one or more agent's respective propulsion motor to move the agent holonomically within the holonomic operational area.
US10602587B2	Load control system having a visible light sensor A sensor for sensing environmental characteristics of a space may include a visible light sensing circuit for recording an image of the space and a control circuit responsive to the visible light sensing circuit. The control circuit may detect an occupancy or vacancy condition in the space in response to the visible light sensing circuit, and measure a light level in the space in response to the visible light sensing circuit. The control circuit may also include a low-energy occupancy sensing circuit for detecting an occupancy condition in the space. The control circuit may disable the visible light sensing circuit when the space is vacant. The control circuit may detect an occupancy condition in the space in response to the low-energy occupancy sensing circuit and subsequently enable the visible light sensing circuit. The visible light sensor may be configured in a way that protects the privacy of the occupants of the space.
US10602585B2	Devices having calibrated LEDs The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for calibrating LED(s). In one aspect, an electronic device includes: a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs); one or more processors; and memory storing a plurality of color correction matrices, each color correction matrix of the plurality of color correction matrices corresponding to an LED of the plurality of LEDs and generated based on a desired color value for the corresponding LED, wherein the electronic device is configured to relay status of the electronic device via the plurality of LEDs operating in conjunction with the plurality of color correction matrices.
US10602580B2	Constant voltage dimming power supply and dimming system for lighting device The invention relates to a constant voltage dimming power supply for lighting device, which is used for adjusting output voltage regulated by dimmer to realize constant voltage PWM output, including a rectifying circuit performing rectifier filtering to output voltage regulated by dimmer; a constant voltage circuit electrically connected to output end of the rectifying circuit; a constant current load circuit electrically connected to output end of the rectifying circuit; a frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit electrically connected to output end of the constant current load circuit and constant voltage; and a switching circuit for controlling lighting load illumination; the frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit converts an output signal of the constant current load circuit into a duty cycle signal suitable for controlling the switching circuit and detects the output abnormality of the constant voltage circuit in real time, and the switching circuit is controlled to be turned on and off accordingly. Compared with the prior art, the constant voltage dimming power supply provided by the invention can provide a stable current and voltage and can well protect the lighting load.
US10602573B2	Establishing RF excitation signal parameters in a solid-state heating apparatus In a solid-state heating system, once a load with specific load characteristics has been placed in a heating cavity, a processing unit produces control signals that indicate an excitation signal frequency and one or more phase shifts, which constitute a combination of parameter values. Multiple microwave generation modules produce RF excitation signals characterized by the frequency and the phase shift(s). Multiple microwave energy radiators radiate, into the heating cavity, electromagnetic energy corresponding to RF excitation signals received from the microwave generation modules. Power detection circuitry takes reflected RF power measurements, and the processing unit determines a reflected power indication based on the measurements. The process is repeated for different combinations of the parameter values, and an acceptable combination of parameter values is determined and stored in a memory of the heating system. Acceptable combinations of parameter values similarly may be determined and stored for other loads with different load characteristics.
US10602572B2	Cooking device Provided is a cooking device capable of being provided with a radio communication device so that the radio communication device establishes a satisfactory communication, instead of (i) further providing any special configuration in which the radio communication device is provided and (ii) making any change in structure of the cooking device. According to a cooking device (1), a space for providing a radio communication adapter is secured in a frame (3b) of a door (3) or in a circuit storing section (50), made of a nonmetal, which is configured to store a driving circuit of a display operation section (5).
US10602563B2	Method and apparatus for supporting RLC UM mode operation in next generation mobile communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services.
US10602561B2	Support capability in communications networks for CS/PS coordination There is provided a method for providing support capability of a core network (CN) node. The method is performed by the CN node. The method comprises setting up a connection to a radio access network (RAN) node. The method comprises, in response thereto, providing an indication regarding whether the CN node supports at least one of operator coordinated area (OCA) and query to the RAN node, according to which indication the CN node provides information to be used by the RAN node for selecting a serving operator such that the same operator is selected for the wireless device in both Circuit Switched (CS) domain and in Packet Switch (PS) domain.
US10602560B2	First network node and methods therein, for determining whether a second multi path transmission control protocol connection is to be initiated Method performed by a first network node (611) for determining whether a second Multi Path Transmission Control Protocol, MPTCP, connection (622) between the first network node (611) and a second network node (612) is to be initiated. The second MPTCP connection is part of a connection path (640) between a first device (631) and a second device (632). The second MPTCP connection (622) is in accordance with a second communication technology. The first network node (611) and the second network node (612) have an ongoing first MPTCP connection (621) in accordance with a first communication technology. The first network node (611) determines (701) an amount of resources associated with a usage of the first MPTCP connection (621). The first network node (611) determines (702) whether the second MPTCP connection (622) is to be initiated, based on whether the determined amount of resources meets a first criterion.
US10602559B2	Method for establishing connection between devices A method performed by a first device to establish a connection to a second device includes: obtaining identification information of the second device by using a first communication method; obtaining the identification information of the second device by using a second communication method; obtaining first distance information regarding the second device based on characteristics of the first communication method and the second communication method; and determining whether to transmit a connection request to the second device based on the obtained first distance information.
US10602558B2	Information processing apparatus, method and system for coordinating a maximum multi-touch number in WLAN A detection result acquiring apparatus includes a first operation object detection unit, a comparison section, and a processing section. The first operation object detection unit is configured to detect a first number of operation objects. The comparison section is configured to compare the first number with a second number representing a number of operation objects a second operation object detection unit is can detect obtain a comparison result. The processing section is configured to perform processing based on the comparison result.
US10602557B2	Discovering and protecting data streams in multi-path communication environments Methods and apparatus are disclosed for device discovery, pairing, and transmission of audio and video media, using two or more communication paths between a media sender/source node and a media receiver/sink node. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method performed with a sink node adapted to receive data via a peer-to-peer communication and a different, second communication path, includes selecting at least a portion of a second communication path to the sink node, determining whether the second communication path is secure, and, if the second communication path is determined to be secure, then accepting connections via the second communication path.
US10602553B2	Methods providing timer operation and related wireless devices and network nodes According to some embodiments of inventive concepts, methods may be provided to operate a wireless terminal (UE) in a radio access network (RAN). A request to report a cell identifier of a neighbor cell may be received from the RAN, and a timer may be started responsive to receiving the request to report the cell identifier. System information may be obtained from the neighbor cell, with the system information indicating that the neighbor cell does not broadcast a cell identifier. The timer may be stopped before expiration of the timer responsive to obtaining the system information including the indication that the neighbor cell does not broadcast the cell identifier of the neighbor cell.
US10602541B2	Device, method, and system for processing random access procedures This application relates to wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a random access device, method, and system. In a network device provided in this application, a processing module is configured to determine a same processing result for random access procedures initiated by N terminal devices in M terminal device sets, where M and N are positive integers; and a sending module is configured to send a same random access control message to the N terminal devices, where the random access control message indicates the same processing result determined by the processing module, the message includes terminal set identification information, and the terminal set identification information identifies the N terminal devices. The network device uses a same random access reject message to indicate the same processing result for the random access procedures to the N terminal devices.
US10602538B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system and device for performing same A method for receiving a signal by a terminal, having a plurality of cells configured, in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: assuming a first uplink subframe of a first cell, having a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure among a plurality of cells, to be a downlink subframe on the basis of a predetermined condition and blind-decoding same; and, if a downlink grant with respect to a second cell, located in an unlicensed band among the plurality of cells, is detected by means of the blind-decoding, receiving downlink data through the second cell, wherein the first uplink subframe is indicated as an uplink subframe by means of a first uplink-downlink subframe configuration in an enhanced interface mitigation and traffic adaptation (eIMTA) fallback comprised in a system information block type 1 (SIB 1) and at the same time is indicated as a downlink subframe by means of downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) reference configuration in the eIMTA fallback.
US10602537B2	Method and user equipment for receiving downlink channel, and method and base station for transmitting downlink channel According to the present invention, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a second PDCCH can be transmitted to user equipment. A first physical downlink data channel (PDSCH) corresponding to the first PDCCH, and a second PDSCH corresponding to the second PDCCH can be transmitted to the user equipment. When the first PDSCH has a lower decoding priority than the second PDSCH, and the decoding timing of the first PDSCH and the decoding timing of the second PDSCH overlap, the user device may decode the second PDSCH and not the first PDSCH at the decoding timing, and transmit information with respect to the first PDSCH as first ACK/NACK information. As a reply to the first ACK/NACK information, a third PDCCH not having a corresponding PDSCH may be transmitted to the user equipment.
US10602534B2	Uplink information sending method and apparatus This application provides a method for sending uplink information in a wireless communication system that supports various services such as ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC). A terminal device receives a timing advance coefficient from a network device. The terminal device determines value of a first timing advance based on a first time length and the timing advance coefficient. The first time length is one of at least two different time lengths that are supported by the terminal device. The terminal device sends the uplink information to the network device based on the first timing advance. With this method, the terminal device can uses different timing advances in different scenarios, so that diversified requirements of the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems for uplink synchronization are satisfied.
US10602533B2	Method, apparatus, and system for implementing data scheduling A method, an apparatus, and a system for implementing data scheduling are provided. By adopting the method, the apparatus, and the system in embodiments of the present invention, a BSR is generated when uplink data that needs to be sent exists; and by using the BSR and correspondence between a logical channel and a base station, a UE can transmit the uplink data on a logical channel that corresponds to a base station, thereby avoiding a problem that data cannot be processed because a radio resource and a logical channel correspond to different base stations, so that the UE can transfer data to be uploaded to a correct base station corresponding thereto, which greatly improves efficiency of data scheduling in a mode of carrier aggregation between base stations.
US10602509B2	Data transmission processing method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission processing method and apparatus. The data transmission processing method in the embodiments includes successfully reserving, by a first station, a time-frequency resource, and allocating, by the first station, at least a partial time-frequency resource of the time-frequency resource to a third station, so that the third station performs data transmission on the allocated time-frequency resource, where the third station is a non-associated neighboring station of the first station.
US10602500B2	System and method for downlink transmission in a wireless network A method of communicating in a wireless network includes transmitting, by a station, a null data packet (NDP) power save (PS)-Poll frame including a short training field and a long training field. Also, the NDP PS-Poll frame includes a signaling field including a message type indicator, a transmitter address (TA), a receiver address (RA), and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). Additionally, the method includes receiving, by the station, buffered data in accordance with the NDP PS-Poll frame.
US10602498B2	Method and apparatus for signaling different short TTI (transmission time interval) band in shortened TTI in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first UE. In one embodiment, the method includes a first UE configured with TTI(s) shorter than one subframe; wherein there are X TTIs in one subframe. The method further includes the first UE receiving a downlink control information which indicates resource allocation for first resources and second resources; wherein there are X TTIs in the first resources.
US10602497B2	Signaling processing method, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signaling processing method. The method includes: in a downlink subframe set, generating a downlink assignment index (DAI) respectively for a downlink subframe that has a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to be sent, where a value of the DAI is generated according to a preset rule and a sequence of carrier first and then subframe; and sending the PDCCH to the user equipment, where the PDCCH carries the DAI. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a transmission delay is shortened and transmission efficiency is improved.
US10602496B2	Channel quality index (CQI) reporting for superposition transmissions schemes Technology for an UE operable to report channel state information (CSI) for multi-user superposition transmissions (MUST) is disclosed. The UE can process a plurality of power offset parameters that are received from an eNodeB, for the MUST. The UE can perform a downlink channel measurement at a user equipment (UE). The UE can scale the downlink channel measurement using at least one of the plurality of power offset parameters to form one or more scaled downlink channel measurements. The UE can calculate CQI values for the one or more scaled downlink channel measurements. The UE can process, for transmission to the eNodeB, the CQI values for the one or more scaled downlink channel measurements to enable the UE to receive data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using multi-user superposition transmission.
US10602492B2	Method and apparatus of configuring downlink timing and transmitting random access response in mobile communication system using carrier aggregation A method of configuring downlink timings and transmitting a random access response message is provided for a random access procedure in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting carrier aggregation. The method for adjusting timing of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation of at least one carrier includes transmitting a Random Access Preamble to a base station, and receiving a Random Access Response with a Timing Advance Command (TAC) for commanding uplink timing adjustment from the base station, wherein the Random Access Response comprises information indicating a Timing Advance Group (TAG) to which the TAC is applied.
US10602490B2	Communication system It is possible to efficiently transmit and receive signals containing uplink control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus.eREG is configured with a plurality of resources into which one DL PRB pair is divided, eCCE is configured with an aggregation of a plurality of eREGs, a second PDCCH is configured with an aggregation of one or more eCCEs, a PUCCH resource corresponds to each eCCE, a first reception processing unit receives information indicating a plurality of second PDCCH regions and information indicating a PUCCH resource in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region for each second PDCCH region is started, from the base station apparatus, and a first control unit configures a PUCCH resource, in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region is started, for each second PDCCH region, based on the received information.
US10602489B2	Self-contained uplink for reduced duration transmission time interval Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a resource allocation associated with a low latency time interval (TTI). The low latency TTI may be a two-symbol TTI. The UE may transmit, responsive to the resource allocation, a two-symbol TTI that includes a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) symbol and a data symbol. In some cases, the two-symbol TTI may precede the transmission of another two-symbol TTI from the same UE that includes data and excludes DM-RS. In some cases, the two-symbol TTI includes DM-RS from another UE. In such cases, data from the other UE may be transmitted in a subsequent two-symbol TTI.
US10602487B2	HARQ-ACK signal transmission in response to detection of control channel type in case of multiple control channel types Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information comprising a resource start offset is received. Downlink control information (DCI) transmitted using a first antenna port of a base station is received on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs). A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the at least one of the CCEs, the first antenna port, information in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information, in response to a transmission type of the EPDCCH being localized transmission. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal is transmitted on the resource to the base station.
US10602485B2	Multicast broadcast service between base stations A first base station receives configuration parameters employed by a second base station for at least one broadcast multicast service. The configuration parameters comprise a first discontinuous reception inactivity timer value; and a first scheduling period start offset. The first base station determines, based on the configuration parameters, a second discontinuous reception inactivity timer value and a second scheduling period start offset. The first base station transmits, to at least one wireless device, first transport blocks for the at least one broadcast multicast service based on the second discontinuous reception inactivity timer value and the second scheduling period start offset.
US10602469B2	Transmission method and device The present disclosure provide a transmission method and a device, which relate to the technical field of communications and reduce overhead and improve work efficiency in an application of cooperative transmission in aspects of synchronization, sharing of information such as data and the like, obtaining of channel information and data transmission. Meanwhile application scenarios may also be extended. The method specifically includes: obtaining, by an access point AP, a parameter value, wherein the parameter value is a frequency difference between a crystal oscillator frequency of the AP and a reference crystal oscillator frequency of a reference AP or a delay difference of the AP with respect to the reference AP; compensating, by the AP, a phase difference or a time difference according to the parameter value when both of the AP and the reference AP send data. The present disclosure is applied to an application of a cooperative transmission.
US10602464B2	Bluetooth assisted nan cluster discovery Disclosed herein are techniques to enable discovery of a NAN cluster using low-power communication. According to such techniques, a NAN discovery beacon including information indicative of a schedule for communication using a first radio is transmitted using a second radio that utilizes a lower amount of power relative to the first radio.
US10602461B2	Method for power control for supporting reduced TTI in wireless communication system, and device therefor The present application discloses a method for transmitting uplink signals through multiple cells in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the uplink signal transmission method comprises: a step of receiving a first downlink signal at a first timing through a first cell and receiving a second downlink signal at a second timing through a second cell; a step of transmitting a first uplink signal, corresponding to the first downlink signal, through the first cell after a first processing time has elapsed since the first timing; and a step of transmitting a second uplink signal, corresponding to the second downlink signal, through the second cell after a second processing time has elapsed since the second timing, wherein, if the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal are transmitted at the same timing, uplink transmission power is allocated first to the uplink signal corresponding to the downlink signal received at the preceding timing between the first timing and the second timing.
US10602455B2	Power control method and apparatus for uplink control channel A power control method and apparatus for an uplink control channel are provided. The method includes: determining, by user equipment, to send first uplink control information on a first PUCCH and in a subframe i; determining transmit power for sending the first uplink control information on the first PUCCH and in the subframe i. In the embodiments of the present invention, the transmit power is determined by using a sum of a base power adjustment value and any one of a first power adjustment value determined according to a quantity of bits of the first uplink control information. Therefore, a method for determining the transmit power is provided.
US10602441B2	Service capability server / EPC coordination for power savings mode and paging The present application is directed to computer-implemented apparatus for controlling a power savings mode characteristic of a device on a network. The apparatus includes a non-transitory memory with instructions for controlling power saving mode characteristic of the device and a processor operably coupled thereto. The processor performs the step of receiving a request to update the characteristics of the device. The processor also performs the step of updating the characteristics of the device based upon the request. The processor further performs the step of sending an acknowledgment that the characteristic has been updated. The application is also directed to a computer-implemented apparatus on a network for supporting buffering and data handling for a power savings mode of a device on the network.
US10602437B2	Intelligent network selection Systems and techniques that allow a mobile device to intelligently steer wireless data traffic among various wireless networks, including cellular networks and/or wireless local area networks (WLAN), is disclosed. The mobile device selects a wireless network to steer the data traffic by following a set of wireless network selection rules or policies. Such rules and policies may include rules for deciding whether to use WLAN, which WLAN hotspots to use, whose WLAN hotspot to use, etc. The policies or rules for steering wireless data traffic may be provided in accordance with Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF), which is a framework for specifying and delivering access network selection policies to mobile devices. The network selection is based on (i) account information associated with the mobile device, (ii) network metrics measuring data processing capacity for at least one of the wireless networks, and (iii) location of the mobile device.
US10602434B2	Implicit spatial replay protection A terminal device obtains grid location information relating to a cell of a predetermined grid in which the terminal device is located. The terminal device then calculates a message integrity code based on the grid location information and transmits a proximity service discovery message. The discovery message includes the calculated message integrity code and does not include the grid location information. A second terminal device receives the proximity service discovery message. The second terminal device then obtains grid location information relating to at least one cell of a predetermined grid within a predetermined distance of a location of the second terminal device, calculates at least one message integrity code based on the grid location information, and determines whether a calculated message integrity code matches the message integrity code in the received discovery message. The second terminal device then acts on the received discovery message only if there is a match.
US10602433B2	Method and apparatus for receiving OSI block in wireless communication system Provided are a method for receiving an on-demand system information (OSI) block by a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a network, an on-demand system information (OSI) configuration including information on mapping between the OSI block and information on a system information request (SIR) preamble; determining an OSI block of interest; selecting an SIR preamble corresponding to the OSI block of interest on the basis of the OSI configuration; transmitting the selected SIR preamble to a serving cell so as to request the determined OSI block of interest; and receiving the requested OSI block of interest.
US10602432B2	Method and apparatus for searching networks An electronic device and network scan method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a communication module connected to an antenna capable of transmitting signals to and receiving signals from a network, a memory configured to store a database including a plurality of items of network identification information and country information corresponding to each item of network identification information, and a processor configured to control the communication module to perform a first network scan with respect to a specified frequency band of a specified radio access technology (RAT), determine country information using network identification information obtained by the first network scan and the database, and perform a second network scan with respect to a RAT and a frequency band determined based at least an the determined country information.
US10602431B2	User terminal, radio base station, and radio communication method To perform communication using a plurality of cells using different transmission time intervals (TTIs) in an appropriate manner, a user terminal includes a control section for controlling the communication using the plurality of cells including at least a first cell and a second cell using a shorter TTI than a TTI of the first cell, and a reception section for receiving information broadcasted from each of the first and second cells. The user terminal receives system information and/or paging information as the information broadcasted from each cell.
US10602429B2	Access control in new radio A method executed by a wireless device for network access of the wireless device to a network node is disclosed. The method includes initiating an access attempt to the network node; reading a first layer of access control information (ACI) from the network node to determine whether an access control indicator in the first layer for an access category is ON, wherein the access control indicator for the access category is associated with a characteristic/classification of the access attempt by the wireless device to the network node; in response to the access control indicator in the first layer for the access category being ON, reading a second layer of the ACI from the network node to determine whether the access attempt to the network node is allowed based on one or more specific parameters associated with the access category in the second layer of the ACI.
US10602419B1	Terminal device, communication system and communication quality measurement method To shorten time required to measure communication quality levels, a terminal device selects one of a or second measurement scheme based on an amount of available bandwidth provided by a current cell in which the terminal device is currently present and other information. When the current cell is provides a largest amount of available bandwidth, the terminal device selects the first scheme, and when the current cell provides a smallest amount of available bandwidth, the terminal device selects the second scheme. When the first scheme is selected, the terminal device measures communication quality levels of communication with all peripheral cells, and when the second scheme is selected, the terminal device acquires current location information on the terminal device, and then extracts one or more of the peripheral cells based on current location information and historical communication information, and measures communication quality levels of communication with the extracted peripheral cells.
US10602415B2	Method of processing anchor user plane function (UPF) for local offloading in 5G cellular network Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The present disclosure can be applied to 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 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method of processing an anchor UPF for local offloading when a UE moves in a 5G cellular wireless communication system.
US10602410B2	Network backhaul access A communication system can provide an independent mobile cellular network to devices within a covered area. In addition, the system can determine whether user equipment within a covered area of the communication system are to have backhaul access to another communication system and/or whether to adjust the point of presence of the user equipment.
US10602406B2	Multiband data delivery device and method In a communication device and communication method, channel quality information for first and the second communication protocols is calculated. Further, allocation information can be generated for the first and the second communication protocols based on the corresponding channel quality information. Sequence numbers of corresponding data frames to be transmitted by the communication device can be generated. Further, the data frames and corresponding sequence numbers can be allocated to the first and the second communication protocols based on the allocation information.
US10602394B2	Method and apparatus for handling prohibit timer for scheduling request (SR) in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed for handling prohibit timer for SR in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes triggering a BSR due to a first UL data becoming available in the UE. The method also includes starting a timer associated with the BSR. The method further includes stopping the timer if a specific event relevant to an arrival of a UL grant occurs.
US10602393B2	Front-haul communications system for enabling communication service continuity in a wireless distribution system (WDS) network Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a front-haul communications system for enabling communication service continuity in a wireless distribution system (WDS) network. A WDS network includes a front-haul communications system and a plurality of remote WDSs. In this regard, a front-haul link control circuit is provided in the front-haul communications system to detect failed front-haul communication link(s). In response to detecting the failed front-haul communication link(s), the front-haul link control circuit reroutes a disrupted communication service(s) to operational front-haul communication link(s) based on bandwidth capacity requirements of the disrupted communication service(s) and unused bandwidth capacity of the operational front-haul communication link(s). By detecting the failed front-haul communication link(s) and rerouting the disrupted communication service(s) communicated on the failed front-haul communication link(s), it is possible to enable communication service continuity in the WDS network, thus enhancing efficiency and performance of the WDS network.
US10602390B2	RRM reporting method in wireless communication system, and apparatus supporting same The present invention discloses a method for a terminal reporting radio resource management (RRM) to a base station, and an apparatus supporting the same. More specifically, the present invention discloses a method for a terminal, if a base station transmits signals including an RRM reference signal (RS) by using one or more analogue beams for each symbol, performing RRM measurement in correspondence with the same, and reporting the measured RRM information; and an apparatus supporting the same.
US10602389B2	Method for reporting channel state information of terminal in wireless communication system and device using the method Provided are a method for reporting channel state information of a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device using the method. A terminal receives at least one or more A-CSI request message that triggers aperiodic CSI reports for a plurality of CSI processes of a first cell, and as a response to the at least one or more A-CSI request message, updates at least one of the plurality of CSI processes that were triggered, wherein, if a CSI process capability is defined as the maximum number of CSI processes that the terminal may operate for a specific cell, and if the CSI process capability for the first cell is less than the number of the triggered aperiodic CSI reports, and the CSI process capability for a second cell is more than the number of aperiodic CSI reports triggered for the second cell, the residual CSI process capability for the second cell is used for updating the CSI process for the first cell.
US10602387B2	Method, system and device for detecting a silence period status in a user equipment A second device that is in communication with a first device receives transmissions of the first device and detects a SILENCE period status of the first device, which corresponds to a status wherein the first device has no speech samples to be transmitted towards the second apparatus. The second device determines the type of the received transmissions, counts the number of received transmissions of a first type, and times a time interval between the last received transmission of the first type and the last received transmission of a second determined type. At reception of a transmission of the first type, the second device detects whether the first device is in the SILENCE period status on an evaluation of the counted number of transmissions of the first type and the time interval of the last received transmission of the first type and the last received transmission of the second type.
US10602386B2	Method for measuring service transmission status of user equipment and service station In a method for measuring a service transmission status of a user equipment provided in an embodiment of the present invention, a first service station transmits a first data packet for a user equipment; the first service station determines at least one second service station that transmits a second data packet for the user equipment; and the first service station instructs the at least one second service station to measure a service transmission status of the user equipment, where the first data packet and the second data packet are different data packets of a same service of the user equipment or data packets of different services. According to this method, a service transmission status of a user equipment can be measured in a multi-station transmission scenario.
US10602385B1	Positioner for antenna testing An antenna test positioner is disclosed that supports a transmission antenna and moves the antenna between two or more positions relative to a stationary electronic device. The antenna test positioner moves the antenna in a linear motion along one or more axes and/or in a rotational motion about one or more axes. The stationary electronic device receives radio signal transmissions from the antenna as the antenna moves between positions. The effect of the movement of the antenna on reception of the radio waves by the electronic device can be measured. This simulates testing that normally requires an electronic device to be moved relative to an antenna, which can induce errors that reduce accuracy.
US10602384B2	Systems and methods for emergency call route failover A system and method for performing an emergency call route failover between an Emergency Call Session Control Function (E-CSCF) and multi-homed remote end-point functions such as Border Gateway Control Function (BGCF)/Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) or Interconnection Border Control Function (IBCF) in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) uses Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and/or Domain Name System (DNS) methods. The E-CSCF and/or a DNS server monitors the availability of the remote end-points to create a peer list of route options. The E-CSCF or the DNS server selects a route option from the peer list to route an emergency call to an appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). In the event that the route option fails, the E-CSCF fails over to the next available route option to route the emergency call.
US10602382B2	Radio link failure processing method and apparatus therefor The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for processing a radio link failure (RLF) by a user equipment (UE) supporting a dual-connectivity communication system is provided. The method includes determining a state of a radio link with a first base station using a reference signal, transmitting to a second base station, when the radio link with the first base station fails, a message indicating that the radio link with the first base station fails, redetermining the state of the radio link with the first base station using a reference signal of the first base station during a predetermined time, and switching, after the predetermined time, a data transmission line when the radio link with the first base station fails.
US10602377B2	Dual mode communications device with null steering and methods for use therewith In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes a dual-band antenna array configured to transmit first radio frequency (RF) signals to a remote device in an RF band and to transmit first millimeter wave (MMW) signals to the remote device in a MMW frequency band, wherein the MMW frequency band is above the RF band. A base transceiver station is configured to generate a consolidated steering matrix in accordance with the transmission of the first RF signals to the remote device in the RF band. A remote radio head is configured to convert the consolidated steering matrix to a converted steering matrix that facilitates the transmission of the first MMW signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band via the dual-band antenna array in accordance with an antenna beam pattern having at least one selected null direction, and further configured to generate the first MMW signals in accordance with the converted steering matrix.
US10602374B2	User equipment (UE) and methods for dynamic millimeter wave pencil cell communication Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), an Evolved Node-B (eNB), small-cell access point (AP), and methods for dynamic millimeter wave pencil cell communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive access point reference signals (APRS) from one or more small-cell access points (AP), and may transmit APRS signal quality measurements to a macro-cell Evolved Node-B (eNB). The UE may receive, from the macro-cell eNB, a message that indicates candidate pencil cells for which the UE is to determine signal quality measurements, the candidate pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs. The UE may receive beam reference signals (BRS) for the candidate pencil cells and may refrain from reception of BRS for pencil cells not included in the message. In some cases, beam-widths of the APRSs may be larger than beam-widths of the BRSs.
US10602367B2	Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus is provided that is capable of performing setting of a wireless LAN access point so that frequency utilization efficiency of an entire wireless communication system that includes wireless LAN access points of different manufacturers and different model numbers is improved. A wireless communication system which performs setting necessary for a wireless LAN access point constituting a wireless communication network to operate includes: an information collection unit which collects setting information set in the wireless LAN access point and wireless environment information in the wireless LAN access point, a parameter calculation unit which obtains a parameter to be set for the wireless LAN access point, which is a collection source, based on the collected setting information and the collected wireless environment information, and a parameter setting unit which transmits the obtained parameter to the wireless LAN access point, which is a collection source, over a network and performs setting of the parameter.
US10602362B2	Gateway, gateway setup method, and IoT device setup method in IoT system A gateway, a gateway setup method, and an IoT device setup method are provided. The gateway setup method includes to detect received signal strength indicator (RSSI) between a user device and a gateway to determine whether a distance between the two devices is less than a distance threshold. If yes, authentication information is exchanged between the gateway and the user device so that the gateway is able to connect to the server through an access point and the user device is able to connect to the server and the gateway. The IoT device setup method includes to detect RSSI between an IoT device and the gateway device to determine whether a distance between the two devices is less than a distance threshold. If yes, authentication information is exchanged between the gateway and the IoT device so that the two devices are able to connect to each other.
US10602358B2	Cross-device login to improve service efficiency A server receives a login request from a first device. The login request includes login information used for an application login. In response to receiving the login request from the first device, the server transmits, to a second device different from the first device, a first message including a verification code. The first message instructs the second device to broadcast an audio signal including the verification code. The verification code is used to verify the first device by the server.
US10602357B2	Mobile device-based community corrections supervision system An exemplary embodiment provides for a method for providing a mobile device-based community corrections supervision system. The method includes receiving an alert, from a remote server, via an enrollee's mobile device, to perform a check-in and receiving acknowledgement of the alert from the enrollee. Additionally, the method then requests the enrollee to recite displayed text and records the enrollee as the displayed text is recited.
US10602348B2	System and method for updating dataset versions resident on a wireless device A system and method for selectively updating the versions of stored datasets on a wireless device that selectively communicates to a wireless network and downloads datasets, such as software applications and information, from download servers on the wireless network. The wireless device has a resident dataset version summary file that identifies the version of each resident dataset, and upon the wireless device attempting to communicate with the download server, the wireless device compares the version of each specific resident dataset listed in the resident dataset version summary file with the version of downloadable datasets resident on the download server to thereby determine if the version of a wireless device resident dataset is different from the version of a download server resident dataset. If the download server resident dataset is more recent, the wireless device can download it to overwrite the wireless device resident dataset.
US10602340B2	Proximity detection of mobile devices for VOIP calling An initiating device receives an initiation of a packet-based call to a service. The initiating device may detect a failure of the packet-based call and determine whether a proxy device is in proximity to the initiating device. The proxy device may be cellular-enabled and capable of communicating with a cellular network. Upon a determination that the proxy device is in proximity to the initiating device, the initiating device instructs the proxy device to communicate with the service using the cellular network. The initiating device then communicates with the service via the proxy device and the cellular network.
US10602339B2	Systems and methods for improving alert messaging using device to device communication A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in accordance with an example embodiment in order to initiate a message and communication on behalf of one or more tracking devices or initiate a request for location information associated with one or more tracking devices. In the context of a method, the method includes pairing at least a first device with at least one tracking device that is associated with a user; wherein the first device is configured to interact with the at least one tracking device. The method further includes detecting an alert condition with respect to the at least one tracking device and initiating a message request to the at least one tracking device. The method further includes causing an alert message comprising the location information associated with the at least one tracking device to be transmitted.
US10602337B2	Route configuration method and apparatus for contactless application A route configuration method and apparatus for a contactless application, where the method includes receiving, by a near field communication (NFC) controller (NFCC), a data frame from a peer device using a first NFC communications technology, and sending, by the NFCC, the data frame to a determined target NFC execution environment (NFCEE) in a target route entry. A plurality of communication channels exist between the NFCEE and the NFCC, and therefore a route entry includes indication information indicating that a first communication channel corresponding to the first NFC communications technology is in an active state such that when determining the target route entry, the NFCC can determine, based on the indication information in the route entry, that the route entry in which the first communication channel corresponding to the first NFC communications technology is in the active state is the target route entry.
US10602333B2	Systems and methods for providing an interactive community through device communication A wave device is disclosed. The wave device may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a unique identifier associated with a community and generate a communication including the unique identifier associated with the community and enabling a second wave device to join the community. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the communication to the second wave device based on geographic proximity to the second wave device, and share information with the second wave device based on the second wave device joining the community.
US10602332B2	Programming organizational links that propagate to mobile applications The ability for an organization's administrator to customize assets and content that, their users have access to is a substantial capability. This capability is not just to facilitate delivery of the correct content to the relevant audience, but is also important to ensure that the content is appropriate for the endpoint. The administrator may curate organizational links that are provided as a hierarchical directory of sites and applications for the organization. Embodiments are directed to programming the organizational links that propagate to mobile applications. A server side application programming interface (API) may be provided to access a organization's curated links, a web user experience may be provided to enable the administrator to manage and curate the organizational links, and a mobile-specific user experience may be provided for viewing the links in a manner that enables quick access to the most relevant content to users of the organization.
US10602331B2	Inter-vehicle communication system, vehicle system, vehicle illumination system and vehicle An inter-vehicle communication system includes: a first vehicle including a message generator configured to generate a message and a first wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly transmit the generated message; a second vehicle including a second wireless communication unit configured to receive the message transmitted from the first vehicle; and a display device that is located in the second vehicle and is configured to display the message.
US10602318B2	Method, apparatus and network device for user data transmission A method, an apparatus and a network device for user data transmission are provided, where the method includes: transmitting a multicast frame for acquiring a user scheduling request to users in a user group, the multicast frame includes a long training sequence and a spread spectrum sequence(s) allocated to all users in the user group; receiving the user scheduling request(s) fed back by a user(s) with data transmission in the user group, the user scheduling request(s) is fed back by the user(s) using at least one of the long training sequence(s) and the spread spectrum sequence(s) allocated to the user(s); scheduling user data transmission according to the user scheduling request(s). According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the delay of users with data transmission is reduced, and the quality of service for the system is improved.
US10602299B2	Modifying an apparent elevation of a sound source utilizing second-order filter sections One embodiment provides a method comprising determining an actual elevation of a sound source. The actual elevation is indicative of a first location at which the sound source is physically located relative to a first listening reference point. The method further comprises determining a desired elevation for a portion of an audio signal. The desired elevation is indicative of a second location at which the portion of the audio signal is perceived to be physically located relative to the first listening reference point. The desired elevation is different from the actual elevation. The method further comprises, based on the actual elevation, the desired elevation and the first listening reference point, modifying the audio signal, such that the portion of the audio signal is perceived to be physically located at the desired elevation during reproduction of the audio signal via the sound source.
US10602295B2	Method to expedite playing of binaural sound to a listener A method expedites processing and playing of binaural sound during an electronic communication between a first user and a second user. An electronic device of the first user convolves sound into binaural sound for the second user before the binaural sound transmits to the electronic device of the second user. In this way, the binaural sound is already convolved and ready to play upon receipt at the electronic device of the second user.
US10602288B1	System and method for compensating for non-linear behavior for an acoustic transducer In at least one embodiment, an audio amplifier system including a memory and an audio amplifier is provided. The audio amplifier includes the memory and is programmed to receive an audio input signal and to generate a target current signal based on the audio input signal. The audio amplifier is further configured to generate a first predicted position of a voice coil of a loudspeaker and to generate a first corrected current signal based on the target current signal and on the first predicted position of the voice coil. The audio amplifier is further configured to determine a pressure within a loudspeaker enclosure based at least on the first predicted position of the voice coil and determine a position of a passive radiator based at least on the pressure within the loudspeaker enclosure. The audio amplifier is further configured to generate a second predicted position of the voice coil.
US10602286B2	Controlling multi-site media playback systems Systems and methods for controlling multi-site media playback systems include, among other features, a computing system (i) receiving, from a first media playback device connected to a first network, a first registration message, (ii) in response to receiving the first registration message, assigning a system identifier and a first subsystem identifier to the first media playback device, (iii) receiving, from a second media playback device connected to the first network, a second registration message, (iv) in response to receiving the second registration message, assigning the system identifier and the first subsystem identifier to the second media playback device, (v) determining that the second media playback device is disconnected from the first network and connected to a second network, and (vi) in response to determining that the second media playback device is connected to the second network, assigning a second subsystem identifier to the second media playback device.
US10602283B2	Hearing device comprising switched capacitor DC-DC converter with low electromagnetic emission The present disclosure relates to a head-wearable hearing device which comprises a magnetic inductance antenna having a predetermined resonance period for receipt of wireless data signals and a switched capacitor DC-DC converter configured for converting a DC input voltage into a higher or lower DC output voltage in accordance with a clock signal. The charge pump circuit is configured to charge an output capacitor by output current pulses where the output current pulses at least comprise first and second consecutive output current pulses having a mutual pulse delay corresponding to substantially one-half of the predetermined resonance period of the magnetic inductance antenna.
US10602279B2	Linear actuator A linear actuator may include a movable element having a plurality of permanent magnets stacked in a direction of an axis line; a stationary element comprising a plurality of coils surrounding a circumferential section of the permanent magnets, the plurality of coils being placed along the axis line; and viscous elastic members inserted between the movable element and the stationary element. The plurality of permanent magnets are arranged such that, among adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets, sides of the adjacent permanent magnets facing each other have a same polarity. The viscous elastic members are provided at a plurality of locations being separate in the direction of the axis line, in a space sandwiched in a radial direction by the movable element and the stationary element.
US10602269B2	Throwable microphone Some embodiments of the invention include a throwable microphone device. The throwable microphone device may comprise a housing. The throwable microphone device may include a microphone, a communication unit, a motion sensor, an orientation sensor, and a processor disposed within the housing. In some embodiments, the microphone may receive sound waves and generate a corresponding electrical audio signal. The communication unit may wirelessly transmit at least a portion of the electrical audio signals. The motion sensor may detect changes in acceleration of the throwable microphone device. The orientation sensor may detect changes in orientation of the throwable microphone device. The processor may be electrically coupled with the microphone, the communication unit, the motion sensor, and the orientation sensor. The processor may mute the throwable microphone device in response to data from the motion sensor and may also unmute the throwable microphone device in response to data from the orientation sensor.
US10602264B2	Systems and methods for directing audio output of a wearable apparatus The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for directing the audio output of a wearable device having a plurality of speakers. In one implementation, the system may include an image sensor configured to capture one or more images from an environment of the user of the wearable apparatus, a plurality of speakers, and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device may be configured to analyze the one or more images to determine at least one indicator of head orientation of the user of the wearable apparatus, select at least one of the plurality of speakers based on the at least one indicator of head orientation, and output the audio to the user of the wearable apparatus via the selected at least one of the plurality of speakers.
US10602263B2	Planar loudspeaker manifold for improved sound dispersion An acoustic manifold for altering a sound wavefront shape from a loudspeaker having a substantially planar driver, comprising a mounting surface configured to attach to a front surface of a case surrounding the driver and having two vertical openings matching corresponding vertical openings in the case to allow sound from the driver to project therethrough, and a waveguide portion coupled to the mounting surface and having a structure channeling sound projected from the driver through the two vertical openings to be combined in one output area. The structure has a plurality of reflective surfaces configured to create output sound that has a consistent dispersion pattern over a defined area. The manifold is configured to increase a vertical and/or horizontal beamwidth of the projected sound so that listeners positioned off an axis of the loudspeaker will hear a wide range of audible frequencies at a substantially similar sound level.
US10602259B1	TWS earphone with multiple speakers and crossover circuit embedded therein A TWS earphone with multiple speakers and a crossover circuit embedded therein includes a body and a circuit unit set in the body. The circuit unit includes a Bluetooth module, a crossover circuit electrically connected to the Bluetooth module, at least two dynamic speakers or an assembly of at least one dynamic speaker and at least one balanced armature, with different response features, electrically connected to the crossover circuit, and a battery module supplying power for the circuit unit. The Bluetooth module is configured to wirelessly receive audio signals and then output the audio signals to the crossover circuit for frequency division. The crossover circuit is configured to transmit medium-low frequency audio signals after frequency division to one dynamic speaker and high frequency audio signals to the other dynamic speaker or the balanced armature.
US10602256B1	Earphone and a method of operating the earphone At least an embodiment discloses an earphone comprising a shell, a signal generator and a first speaker, wherein the signal generator is electrically connected to the first speaker and both the signal generator and the first speaker are within the shell; a first earphone tube including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the first earphone tubes is connected to the shell, and the first end of the earphone tube is approximate to the first speaker; and a first earplug connected to the shell via the first earphone tube, wherein a sound generated by the first speaker is transmitted to the first earplug through the first earphone tube.
US10602253B2	Open audio device with reduced sound attenuation An open audio device with a housing that is configured to be worn on the torso and an acoustic transducer carried by the housing, the acoustic transducer configured to either radiate sound outwardly of the housing or convert received sound into an electrical signal. A structure is coupled to the housing. The structure is proximate to the acoustic transducer. The structure is constructed and arranged to inhibit radiated sound or received sound from being interrupted by a flexible sheet material, such as clothing, located over the housing.
US10602247B2	Loudspeaker with metallic organic framework material A loudspeaker, comprising an enclosure; at least one dynamic driver mounted in the enclosure; and a porous sound adsorber material disposed within the enclosure, the sound adsorber material at least comprising a Metallic Organic Framework material.
US10602240B2	Decoding method switching for preview image processing using a bundle of preview images In one embodiment, a method receives a portion of a bundle of preview images for a video being played and starts to decode the portion of the bundle of preview images. An input is received for a location in the video. The method determines if a preview image corresponding to the location has been decoded from the bundle of preview images. When the preview image corresponding to the location has been decoded, the preview image corresponding to the location is displayed. When the preview image corresponding to the location has not been decoded, the method switches from decoding the portion of the bundle of preview images at a first position to decoding the portion of the bundle of preview images at a second position corresponding to the location.
US10602235B2	Video segment detection and replacement A method of video segment detection within a transport stream of a video asset is provided. Boundaries of candidate video segments of interest (i.e., advertisements, sports highlights, news highlights, content summaries, etc.) within a video asset are detected with a media analysis detector and are separately detected based on statistical models generated from historic transport control event data collected from a population of viewers of the video asset. The above referenced information concerning the candidate video segments of interest is used to identify beginning and end boundaries of selected candidate video segments within the transport stream. A transcoder is provided with parameters corresponding to the selected candidate video segments and performs group of pictures (GOP) and chunk boundary alignment of chunks of the transport stream with the boundaries of the selected candidate video segments. A system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US10602234B2	Systems and methods for gamification of real-time instructional commentating Systems and methods for providing a viewer with relevant commentary for a live video. For example, a media guidance application may receive, during playback of a live video, a request for clarification regarding an aspect (e.g., a play, a score, a player, a strategy, etc.) of the live video. In response to receiving the request, the media guidance application may identify the aspect and identify videos generated by other viewers explaining the aspect. The media guidance application may further select one of the videos based on a preference of the viewer, and cause a user device to play back the selected video to the viewer.
US10602226B2	Ranking carousels of on-line recommendations of videos The recommendation system provided with an on-line connection system identifies on-line recommendations of videos and generates a user interface (UI) by including into the resulting presentation selected recommendations of videos. The recommendations of videos presented in the UI are organized into groups that are topically coherent, where each group is decorated with a context annotation—an explanation of why the recommendations in a given carousel are relevant for a member. Each video that is being evaluated by the recommendation system with respect to a subject member profile is assigned an annotation that is selected from a plurality of potentially applicable annotations. The technical problem of optimizing an order of presentation of recommendations grouped by context annotations, in a UI where annotations drive the layout, is addressed by deriving ranks for different context annotations based on global and personalized click through rates and using these values assigned to respective context annotations in constructing the UI.
US10602219B2	Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, editing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, an editing device and a method, a storage medium, and a program which can perform encoding and decoding so that buffer failure does not occur. Information, such as a minimum bit rate, a minimum buffer size, and a minimum initial delay time, is contained in a random access point header contained in an accessible point in a bitstream. A bitstream analyzing unit 72 analyzes an input bitstream, sets the above-mentioned information, and outputs the resulting information to a buffer-information adding unit 73. The buffer-information adding unit 73 adds the input information to the input bitstream and outputs the resulting bitstream. The present invention is applicable to an encoding device and a decoding device which process bitstreams.
US10602204B2	Advanced data cell resource mapping An example method of mapping a plurality of modulation symbols of a plurality of physical layer pipes present in a frame to a resource grid of data cells for the frame is described. The modulation symbols of the plurality of physical layer pipes are represented by a two-dimensional array comprising the modulation symbol values for the plurality of physical layer pipes and the resource grid of data cells is represented by a one-dimensional sequentially indexed array.
US10602201B2	Systems and methods for identifying a sports player of interest to a user despite the user being disinterested in the player's athletic accomplishments Systems and methods are provided herein for connecting a user with a sports competitor whose athletics the user is not interested in, but with whom the user shares a personal connection. In some embodiments, a media guidance application determines that a user is viewing playback of a media asset comprising a sporting event, identifies competitors featured in the sporting event, and retrieves, from a information identifying competitors in which the user is interested. The media guidance application determines therefrom competitors featured in the sporting event in which the user is not interested, and compares interests of the user that are not commonly shared by a general population to interests of the determined competitors. An uncommon interest is identified as common between a competitor and the user, and the user is provided an option to perform an action associated with the competitor.
US10602200B2	Switching modes of a media content item Systems and techniques are provided for switching between different modes of a media content item. A media content item may include a movie that has different modes, such as a cinematic mode and an interactive mode. For example, a movie may be presented in a cinematic mode that does not allow certain user interactions with the movie. The movie may be switched to an interactive mode during any point of the movie, allowing a viewer to interact with various aspects of the movie. The movie may be displayed using different formats and resolutions depending on which mode the movie is being presented.
US10602193B2	Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus An image decoding method of decoding, on a per-block basis, a coded image included in a bitstream, includes: performing arithmetic decoding on a current block to be decoded; determining whether or not the current block is at the end of a slice; determining, when it is determined that the current block is not at the end of the slice, whether or not the current block is at the end of a sub-stream which is a structural unit of the image that is different from the slice; and performing arithmetic decoding on a sub-last bit and performing arithmetic decoding termination, when it is determined that the current block is at the end of the sub-stream.
US10602191B2	Apparatus and methods for video compression Panoramic content may be characterized by a wide field of view and large image size. Panoramic image may be mapped to cube projection. When encoding/decoding cube-projected images, the disclosure exploits content continuity between cube facets. One facet may be encoded/decoded independently from other facets to obtain a seed facet. One or more transformed versions of the seed facet may be obtained, for example, one corresponding to a 90° counterclockwise rotation, another to a 90° clockwise rotation, and one to an 180° rotation. Transformed versions may be used to form an augmented image. The remained facets of the cube may be encoded using transformed versions within the augmented image. Boundary filtering may be applied to one or more edges of one or more facets.
US10602190B2	Temporal sub-layer descriptor A method for decoding a video bitstream comprising the steps of: receiving said video bitstream that includes a plurality of different layers, where one of said plurality of different layers includes a plurality of temporal sub-layers; receiving a value of a value attribute associated with one of the plurality of temporal sub-layers where said value includes a first part and a second part separated by a delimiter; decoding said bitstream based upon said value attribute.
US10602180B2	Motion vector prediction A video coder may determine a motion vector of a non-adjacent block of a current picture of the video data. The non-adjacent block is non-adjacent to a current block of the current picture. Furthermore, the video coder determines, based on the motion vector of the non-adjacent block, a motion vector predictor (MVP) for the current block. The video coder may determine a motion vector of the current block. The video coder may also determine a predictive block based on the motion vector of the current block.
US10602178B1	Systems and methods for frame context selection Content to be encoded by an encoder may be defined by a sequence of values chosen from a set of possible values. Individual values of the set of possible values may have a probability of occurrence in the sequence of values. The content may form a sequence of frames, such as a video sequence. The encoder may allocate sets of buffers for storage of reference frames, frame contexts (including probability tables), and encoded frames. Individual context buffers (including individual probability tables) may be associated with individual reference frames. Encoding of a particular frame may be based on selecting a particular frame context from a context buffer, the particular probability table therein, and the content of the particular frame.
US10602176B2	Coding interpolation filter type Decoding a video stream may include decoding a first block of a current frame by decoding a first motion vector from the encoded video stream, decoding an identifier of a first interpolation filter from the encoded video stream, and reconstructing the first block using the first motion vector and the first interpolation filter. Decoding a second block of the current frame may include identifying the first motion vector from the first block as a selected motion vector for predicting the second block in response to decoding an inter-prediction mode identifier for decoding the second block, identifying the first interpolation filter as a selected interpolation filter for predicting the second block in response to identifying the first motion vector from the first block as the selected motion vector for predicting the second block, and reconstructing the second block using the first motion vector and the first interpolation filter.
US10602174B2	Lossless pixel compression for random video memory access A system for lossless pixel compression for random video memory access is described herein. The system includes an encoder and a decoder. The system also includes a memory that is to store instructions and that is communicatively coupled to the encoder and decoder. Further the system includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the camera, the display, and the memory. When the processor is to execute the instructions, the processor is to predict a data value based on values of local neighbors and generate an error term based on the predicted data value. The processor is also to losslessly compress a plurality of cachelines based on the error term and predictions.
US10602168B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding multilayer video signal A scalable video signal decoding method, according to the present invention, determines a corresponding picture belonging to a lower layer used for an inter-layer prediction of a current picture belonging to an upper layer, performs the inter-layer prediction of the current picture by using the corresponding picture of the determined lower layer, restores the current picture by using a prediction sample acquired through the inter-layer prediction and a residual sample of the current picture, and selectively applies a loop filter to a tile boundary of the restored current picture on the basis of a layer filter flag for the upper layer.
US10602166B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding scalable video signal A method for decoding a scalable video signal, according to the present invention, comprises: determining a corresponding picture belonging to a lower layer, which is used for inter-layer prediction of a current picture belonging to an upper layer; and performing inter-layer prediction of the current picture by using the determined corresponding picture in the lower layer, wherein the inter-layer prediction is limitedly performed depending on tile alignment between the upper layer and the lower layer.
US10602156B2	Devices and methods for identifying a leading picture An encoded bitstream of data including a plurality of encoded pictures is received. It is determined whether a first instantaneous decoding refresh (IDR) picture has one or more subsequent leading pictures included in the plurality of encoded pictures based on a Network Access Layer (NAL) unit type associated with the first IDR picture. The first IDR picture occurs at a random-access point in the encoded bitstream of data. When the NAL unit type of the first IDR picture is a first value indicating that the first IDR picture has one or more subsequent leading pictures, (i) the one or more subsequent leading pictures are decoded with reference to the first IDR picture based on the NAL unit type of the first IDR picture being the first value, and (ii) an output order is generated for the first IDR picture and the one or more subsequent leading pictures such that the one or more subsequent leading pictures precede the first IDR picture in the output order.
US10602139B2	Embedded multimedia systems with adaptive rate control for power efficient video streaming A system includes an image sensor and a sending controller. The image sensor to generate video data at a source bit rate. The sending controller is coupled to the image sensor to transmit communication data representative of the video data. The sending controller includes one or more processors coupled to memory. The memory includes instructions, which when executed by the sending controller causes the system to perform operations. The operations include determining a first bit rate to encode a first portion of the video data, generating a first video packet representative of the first portion by encoding the first portion at the first bit rate, and determining whether to transmit the first video packet as the communication data with the sending controller based on at least one of a transmission rate threshold, a transmission interval threshold, or a buffer fill threshold.
US10602138B2	Method and device for chroma sample intra prediction in video coding system An intra prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring information on a luma prediction mode of a current block and information on a chroma prediction mode of the current block from a bit stream; deriving a luma intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the information on the luma prediction mode; determining a chroma intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of information on the luma intra prediction mode and the information on the chroma prediction mode; and generating a chroma prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the chroma intra prediction mode. According to the present invention, it is possible to reflect the difference between the ratio of the width to the height of a luma component and the ratio of the width to the height of a chroma component, and thus to more accurately perform intra prediction in units of samples and improve intra prediction performance.
US10602135B2	Video processing method, device and terminal The present disclosure discloses a video processing method, comprising: receiving a video file; decoding the video file using a first decoding mode; and when an occurred decoding exception is detected in a first decoding process using the first decoding mode, switching the current first decoding mode to a second decoding mode automatically, and continuing to decode a remaining part of the video file using the second decoding mode; wherein one of the first decoding mode and the second decoding mode is a hardware decoding mode, and the other is a software decoding mode.
US10602130B2	Image display device for displaying composite image An image display device for displaying a composite image, includes a transparent first display panel located in front of eyes of viewers for displaying a first image and a second display panel disposed so as to be spaced apart from the first display panel for displaying a second image, the image display device being configured to display a composite image obtained by composing the first image displayed by the first display panel and the second image displayed by the second display panel, the composite image being viewed.
US10602124B2	Systems and methods for providing a cubic transport format for multi-lens spherical imaging Apparatus and methods for providing a frame packing arrangement for the encoding/decoding of, for example, panoramic content. In one embodiment, the frame packing arrangement utilizes overlapping imaging data so as to enable, for example, a post-decode stitching operation to be performed. The frame packing arrangement may utilize a number of projection formats, such as a cubemap projection, and may utilize any number of differing aspect ratios such as, without limitation, 4×3, 3×2, 4×2, 2×4 aspect ratios. Additionally, the overlapping imaging data may be positioned within the frame packing arrangement chosen so as to improve upon coding efficiency. For example, the overlapping imaging data may be positioned within the frame packing arrangement so as to emphasize image continuity. An encoder apparatus and decoder apparatus for use with the aforementioned frame packing arrangements are also disclosed.
US10602121B2	Method, system and apparatus for capture-based immersive telepresence in virtual environment An apparatus for capture-based telepresence in a virtual environment session, comprises 3D capture devices to continuously capture image data of a first user. A processing unit comprises: an image processor for continuously producing a first 3D representation of the first user based on the image data, the first 3D representation having at least punctually a user specific position in a virtual environment. A data transmitter transmits the first 3D representation for remote use in the virtual environment session. A data receiver continuously receives a second 3D representation of a second user, image data for the virtual environment, and at least punctually receiving user specific position of the second 3D representation relative to the virtual environment. A rendering engine outputs for display the 3D representation of the second user positioned relative to the first user as inserted in the virtual environment based on said user specific positions. A method for participating in a virtual environment session is also provided.
US10602120B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting image data, and method and apparatus for generating 3D image Transmitting image data, and generating a three-dimensional (3D) image, may include generating one or more images associated with corresponding fields of view of one or more viewpoints that a display is configured to provide to a user, generating image data based on the images, and transmitting the image data to a target device. The one or more images may be generated based on weaving one or more images to generate one or more panel images. An image device that may receive the image data may generate one or more first images based on the image data, select one or more second images from the first images, and generate a panel image based on weaving the selected second images.
US10602119B1	System and method for multiplexing MIPI multispectral imaging devices It is contemplated that the present invention can provide methods and systems for the near-simultaneous frame acquisition from multiple cameras. This can be achieved in two different ways. If the cameras are set to work in triggering mode, the triggering of a first camera and a subsequent camera are adjusted by overlapping the trigger signals and image communication control signals of each camera in order to capture near-simultaneous images from each of the cameras. If the cameras are in video mode, they will be kept synchronous by using a common clock and starting them at the same time. As each camera generates frames, individual, corresponding frames are sampled from each camera in a sequential manner upon receiving a triggering signal. In this way, near simultaneous images can be sampled and saved from multiple cameras in video mode.
US10602117B1	Tool for onsite augmentation of past events In one embodiment, at an initial time, a capture system records a 3D video stream and an audio stream of a first user interacting with the physical environment. A processing device receives the 3D video stream and the audio stream, isolates the first user from the physical environment, and stores at least a portion of the isolated representation and a portion of the audio stream. At a subsequent time, a second user uses a camera of an augmented reality device to capture a scene. The augmented reality device loads the portion of the isolated representation of the first user and the portion of the audio stream, aligns the 3D video stream with the captured scene, and calculates a pose of the augmented reality device. The augmented reality device then produces an augmented scene, which is displayed to the second user while the portion of the audio stream is played back.
US10602113B2	Medical imaging device and medical observation system A medical imaging device includes: a left eye imaging element including a left eye light receiving surface configured to receive left eye observation light from an observed region of a subject; and a right eye imaging element including a right eye light receiving surface configured to receive right eye observation light being an observation light from the observed region and having a parallax from the left eye observation light. The left eye imaging element and the right eye imaging element are arranged such that: short sides of the left eye light receiving surface and the right eye light receiving surface are along a direction in which an optical axes of the left eye observation light and the right eye observation light are juxtaposed with each other; and long sides of the left eye light receiving surface and long sides of the right eye light receiving surface oppose each other.
US10602102B2	Projection system, image processing apparatus, projection method A projection system for projecting an image onto a projection body having a curve in one direction by projection units includes processors and memory, which upon execution, causes the projection system to extract a set of grid points indicating distortion of a projected image from captured calibration images; to convert each set of grid points of a target projection unit commonly extracted from captured calibration images having a calibration pattern projected on the projection body in different imaging ranges in association with the one direction onto a common coordinate system; to combine the converted sets of grid points on the common coordinate system in accordance with position; and to calculate a correction coefficient based on the combined sets of grid points.
US10602099B2	Cogen-mom integration using tabulated information recognition The present disclosure describes methods and systems for integrating third party automation systems. One computer-implemented method includes calculating, by at least one of a first device and a second device, a risk level, and controlling, by the at least one of the first device and the second device, a switch based on the risk level. If the risk level is less than a predetermined value, the switch is controlled to power on an image display and capturing device. Data is displayed by the first device and received by the second device through visual recognition on the image display and capturing device. If the risk level is not less than the predetermined value, the switch is controlled to power off the image display and capturing device. Data transfer from the first device to the second device through visual recognition on the image display and capturing device is stopped.
US10602097B2	Wearable camera, wearable camera system, and information processing apparatus A wearable camera includes a video recording device that records a captured video of a subject on the front side of a user on a recorder, a sensor that acquires information regarding motion of the user, a determiner that determines whether or not at least one default event has occurred on the basis of information regarding motion of the user acquired by the sensor during recording of the captured video of the subject, and a controller that generates event list information in which a detection time point of the default event is correlated with information regarding the default event according to determination that the at least one default event has occurred during recording of the captured video of the subject, and records the event list information on the recorder in correlation with the captured video of the subject.
US10602093B2	Video conference apparatus An objective is to prevent occurrence of video loop even in a case where a plurality of video conference apparatuses are connected in cascade. In a cascade mode, that is, in a case where a location of a video conference apparatus is an intermediate location, video and speech selector/combiner 105 selects video data of a location (location where a speech is made) of a maximum sound-volume among connection locations other than the location of the video conference apparatus and a cascade destination. Communication controller 103 transmits video data of the location of the maximum sound-volume to video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination and transmits the video data transmitted from video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination to video conference apparatuses 10 in a connection location other than the cascade destination.
US10602084B2	Imaging apparatus which performs compressive sensing reading data for a partitioned block output from an image sensor The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor that includes an imaging surface in which many pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, a pixel control unit that controls the image sensor, selects a pixel corresponding to a sampling function among pixels configuring a block by applying the sampling function for each block acquired by partitioning the imaging surface of the image sensor into a plurality of blocks, and outputs a sampling signal based on a pixel value of the selected pixel, and a reduced image generating unit that generates a reduced image on the basis of the sampling signal for each block output from the image sensor.
US10602079B2	Digital image color space channel blending In aspects of digital image color space channel blending, a camera device can capture digital images that encompass a three-hundred and sixty degree (360°) field of view. An image blending module is implemented to combine the digital images along a seam between the digital images to form a blended image. To combine the digital images, the image blending module can determine mismatched color between the digital images along the seam within an overlap region that overlaps two of the digital images along the seam. The image blending module can then blend the digital images by channel gains in a color space applied to enhance pixels of one of the digital images starting within the overlap region along the seam and blending into the one digital image.
US10602075B2	Automatically determining a set of exposure values for a high dynamic range image capture device In some embodiments, an image capture device receives a capture command to capture an image. Exposure adjustment operations are subsequently performed. These operations include determining that a first luminance indicated by first image data, which is obtained using a first exposure value, exceeds a threshold luminance. The operations also include decreasing, based on the threshold luminance being exceeded, the first exposure value to a second exposure value. The operations also include determining, from second image data obtained using the second exposure value, that a second luminance indicated by the second image data is less than the threshold luminance. The HDR setting of the image capture device is configured to include a bracket of exposure values, where the second exposure value is a minimum exposure value from the bracket of exposure values. The image capture device executes a capture operation in which an image bracket is captured using this HDR setting.
US10602073B2	Global pixel binning for ambient light sensing An imaging system may comprise a plurality of pixels to selectively operate in a first operating mode or a second operating mode. When operating in the first operating mode, the plurality of pixels is binned during an exposure phase such that an output during a readout phase corresponds to a summed photocurrent that is a sum of a plurality of concurrent photocurrents, each corresponding to one of the plurality of pixels. When operating in the second operating mode, the plurality of pixels is not binned during the exposure phase such that an output during the readout phase corresponds to a set of separate photocurrents, each corresponding to one of a set of the plurality of pixels.
US10602064B2	Photographing method and photographing device of unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle, and ground control device A photographing method and a photographing device of an unmanned aerial vehicle, the unmanned aerial vehicle, and a ground control device are provided. The method includes steps of: receiving a photographing instruction of the unmanned aerial vehicle; selecting a photographing model of the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the photographing model includes a photographing object and a photographing mode of the unmanned aerial vehicle which are correlated with each other; when the photographing object corresponding to the photographing model of the unmanned aerial vehicle is identified to exist in a captured image, adopting the photographing mode correlated to the photographing object of the unmanned aerial vehicle, for adjusting a flight condition of the unmanned aerial vehicle and for photographing the photographing object of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The present invention enables the unmanned aerial vehicle to automatically capture image data of ideal effect.
US10602051B2	Imaging apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium According to an aspect of the invention, an imaging apparatus includes a first control unit configured to control exposure parameters of an imaging element, and a second control unit configured to perform processing of switching between and outputting a first image corresponding to pixel portions of a number of first pixels and a second image corresponding to pixel portions of a number of second pixels smaller than the number of first pixels among pixel portions of the imaging element. The second control unit performs focusing determination on the basis of at least one of the first image and the second image.
US10602047B2	Image photographing method performed with terminal device having camera function A photographing method in which a terminal device performs photographing is provided. The photographing method includes synchronizing a clock of the terminal device with a reference clock, and acquiring photographing clock time information indicating a photographing clock time which is based on the reference clock through a communication network. The photographing method also includes specifying a photographing delay time until the photographing is performed since photographing start in the terminal device, and photographing a subject at the photographing clock time indicated by the photographing clock time information. The photographing clock time being based on the clock of the terminal device already synchronized with the reference clock.
US10602046B2	Mobile device and control method A control method suitable for a mobile device comprising a camera includes operations as follows: obtaining a description of a first wireless device adjacent to the mobile device over a first wireless communication; capturing a first image of a physical environment by the camera; recognizing a first candidate object within the first image; matching the first candidate object with the description of the first wireless device; and in response to that the first candidate object matches with the description of the first wireless device and a first predetermined instruction is received by the camera, generating a first command according to the description of the first wireless device, wherein the first command is to be transmitted to the first wireless device over a second wireless communication for manipulating the first wireless device.
US10602044B2	Retractable image capture devices and methods to protect such retractable image capture devices Retractable image capture devices and methods to protect such retractable image capture devices. An example mobile device includes a housing; a camera module including a sensor and a lens, a focal distance between the sensor and the lens being fixed, the camera module being movably mounted to the housing to move between a first position and a second position, a surface of the lens to extend past an exterior surface of the housing in the first position, the camera module to be disposed within the housing in the second position; and an actuator to actuate the camera module from the first position to the second position in response to a proximity trigger.
US10602042B2	Imaging camera The present application discloses an imaging camera, including: a housing with an accommodation space and including a supporting part extending toward the accommodation space; a lens holder received in the accommodation space of the housing; a lens unit received in the lens holder; and a damping layer located at an image side of the lens holder. The supporting part is located at the image side of the lens holder, and the lens holder abuts against the supporting part via the damping layer.
US10602034B2	Camera module for a motor vehicle and method of mounting a camera module A camera module for a motor vehicle includes a lens objective, a lens holder holding said lens objective, and a back plate connected to said lens holder and holding an image sensor in or close to an image plane of the lens objective. The alignment of the lens holder relative to the back plate is fixed by a glue joint between the lens holder and the back plate.
US10602029B2	Synchronization of laser scanning projector to video sources to minimize the delay therebetween Described herein is a video projection system including an optical module with at least one collimated light source to generate a light beam and at least one movable mirror to reflect the light beam. The video projection system also includes a video source producing a digital video stream in accordance with a clock signal and a movement synchronization signal, as well as a projector system. The projector system includes mirror control circuitry configured to control movement of the at least one movable mirror in accordance with the clock signal and the movement synchronization signal, a light source controller configured to control generation of collimated light by the at least one collimated light source, and processing circuitry configured to receive the digital video stream, and to generate control signals for the light source controller based upon the received digital video stream.
US10602026B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An image processing apparatus includes a specifying unit, an extraction unit, and a creation unit. The specifying unit specifies, for one image among a first image before color conversion and a second image after color conversion, an area for which image information is extracted. The extraction unit extracts plural pieces of color conversion information, which are image information about pixels in the area of the one image among the first image and the second image, the area being specified by the specifying unit, and image information about pixels in the other image corresponding to the pixels in the one image. The creation unit creates a color conversion property on the basis of the plural pieces of color conversion information extracted by the extraction unit.
US10602021B2	Authentication setting system and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus (a) causes the image scanning device to scan an image of: (a1) the mobile terminal apparatus before model changing that displays the subscriber ID, (a2) the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing that displays the subscriber ID, and (a3) a fill-in form in which the authentication setting information was written on a platen glass as one-time scanning and generate a scanned image, (b) extracts the subscriber IDs of the mobile terminal apparatuses and the authentication setting information, (c) causes the wireless communication device to transmit the authentication setting information to the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing if the subscriber ID of the mobile terminal apparatus before model changing and the subscriber ID of the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing are same as each other.
US10602017B2	File management apparatus, multifunction device and information processing apparatus, file management method, and file management program A file management apparatus causes notification destinations, which receive download information, to download a file recorded in a recording medium, in accordance with requests from the notification destinations. The apparatus includes an initial-deletion-time setting unit, a deletion-time updating unit, and a first file deleting unit. The initial-deletion-time setting unit sets a given time as the initial value of the deletion time of the file. The deletion-time updating unit updates the deletion time if one or more notification destinations having not downloaded the file are present when the deletion time comes. The first file deleting unit deletes the file under the condition that, when the deletion time comes, the one or more notification destinations having not downloaded the file are not present.
US10602015B2	Picture displaying method and apparatus, and terminal device A picture displaying method and apparatus, and a terminal device are disclosed. The method includes detecting a view instruction, input by a user, on any picture; responding to the view instruction and outputting the picture; acquiring generation time of the picture from EXIF information of the picture; and querying whether an audio file with a file name including the generation time of the picture is stored, and if the audio file is stored, outputting the audio file. By implementing embodiments of the present invention, the user can not only obtain a static image directly from the picture, but also obtain audio information around a shooting scene in addition to the static image, thereby keeping more memories for the user and improving user experience.
US10602010B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, including: a circuit board on which an electronic part and a connector are mounted; a housing to which the circuit board is attached; a flexible flat cable, having a connecting portion connected to the connector, configured to electrically connect the circuit board and another circuit board different from the circuit board provided in the image forming apparatus; and a holding member holding the flexible flat cable and rotatable integrally with the flexible flat cable with respect to the housing, wherein the holding member is rotatable with respect to the housing between a first position in which the connecting portion is connected to the connector and a second position in which the connecting portion is retracted from a fitting position of the circuit board in the housing in a state in which the connecting portion is removed from the connector.
US10601993B2	Media forked application system in call centers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for sending a forked media stream of an electronic communication between a customer and an agent to an analysis system for a duration. Receiving analysis results obtained from one or more analytics performed on the forked media stream. Then, determining whether to perform one or more operations in response to the analysis results.
US10601982B2	Third party monitoring of activity within a monitoring platform The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is actually being monitored within the monitoring environment. The verification can require one or more monitoring persons monitoring the activity to perform one or more tasks to verify their attentiveness in monitoring the activity. The one or more tasks can be as simple as activating a checkbox or providing a code or an electronic signature to provide some examples, although more complicated tasks, such as a biometric verification such as a retinal, a facial, and/or a voice verification to provide some examples, are possible as will be recognized by those skilled in the relevant art(s) without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
US10601981B1	Apparatus and method for intrinsically safe operation of a portable communication device A portable communication device is provided with a power arbitration module formed with hardware logic configured to detect attachment of a battery and determine whether the battery is one of: an intrinsically safe (IS) battery or a standard, non-intrinsically safe (non-IS) battery. The power arbitration module enables a converged platform mode of operation in response to determining that the battery is a standard, non-intrinsically safe battery. The power arbitration module enables a land mobile radio (LMR) mode of operation in response to determining that the battery is an intrinsically safe battery. The determination of the battery type and enablement of operating mode is handled by hardware logic of the power arbitration module without use of a software protocol.
US10601978B2	Telecommunication device utilization based on heartbeat communication A secure component of a telecommunication device is described herein. The secure component is configured to determine that a threshold amount of time has passed since reception of a heartbeat communication from a remote telecommunication server. In response to determining that the threshold amount of time has passed, the secure component performs at least one of preventing access to one or more services of the telecommunication device or deleting user data from the telecommunication device.
US10601976B2	Executing applications in conjunction with other devices A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a device using a short-range communication protocol. The application is obtained and executed in conjunction with the device.
US10601970B2	Device for clearing liquid from an audio transducer A device for clearing liquid from an audio transducer is provided. The device comprises an audio transducer and a port from an external surface of the device to the audio transducer. The device further comprises a liquid clearing mechanism for pushing liquid, trapped in the port, out of the port to clear a path for sound between the audio transducer and the external surface, and an actuator for operating the liquid clearing mechanism.
US10601969B2	Mobile electronic device and mobile phone The present disclosure relates to a mobile electronic device, which includes a body, a display screen disposed to an obverse surface of the body, an input-output module, and a drive assembly coupled to the input-output module. The display screen is able to display a start tag and a mode tag. The input-output module includes a base and a camera disposed to the base, and the input-output module is able to be at least partially accommodated in the body. The drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from an end portion of the body in accordance with a user input signal for the start tag, and is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate in accordance with a user input for the mode tag. A mobile phone is also provided.
US10601958B2	Information processing system and method for prioritized information transfer A server computer sets a priority order of each of contents based on an attribute of each of the contents designated by HTML data and provides the HTML data including the priority order with a client computer. The client computer acquires the contents from the server computer by using streams with priorities depending on the priority order of each of the contents designated by the HTML data provided from the server computer. The client computer controls display using a part of the contents and caches other contents from among the acquired contents.
US10601949B2	Updating a profile Updating a profile includes monitoring electronic communications between a target user and a number of other users in real-time, extracting communicated information available about the target user and the number of other users from the electronic communications, based on an analysis of the communicated information available about the target user and the number of other users identifying relevant information from the communicated information that is relevant for updating the profile of the target user on at least one social network, and updating the profile of the target user on the at least one social network using the relevant information derived from the analysis.
US10601942B2	Systems and methods for automated module-based content provisioning A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US10601933B2	Ranking of place-entities on online social networks In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing devices of an online social network, receiving comparison information associated with two or more particular place-entities from a client system of a first user of the online social network, each particular place-entity being associated with a particular score on a first scoring scale and a first feature, ranking a scored list of place-entities comprising at least the two or more particular place-entities associated with the online social network based in part on the comparison information, wherein each place-entity of the scored list is associated with a score on the first scoring scale, and determining a place-classifier algorithm based at least in part on the ranked list of place-entities and one or more features associated with each place-entity of the ranked list, the one or more features comprising at least the first feature.
US10601924B2	Method for remote support of electric drive apparatus The invention relates to electric drive apparatuses used in different industries for different applications more particularly to a method for remote support of an electric drive apparatus. The method comprises: establishing a live support session with virtual drive assistance between a first apparatus and a third apparatus in the remote support site, said first apparatus having a connection with a local electric drive apparatus in a local site, and said third apparatus having a connection to a virtual drive tool for virtual drive assistance; downloading by said third apparatus from said first apparatus parameter settings and other relevant process information of the local electric drive apparatus to said third apparatus; and controlling and/or operating said virtual drive tool by said third apparatus to provide assistance to a user of said first apparatus.
US10601921B2	Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. Each of a plurality of sheets of data is associated with each predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of sheets and the predetermined storage devices is stored in the storage in advance. When the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, the storage controller performs a process of storing data in the storage and causing the communication unit to transmit data indicating the plurality of sheets to storage devices associated with the sheets with respect to each of the plurality of sheets, and stores the transmitted data in the storage devices.
US10601919B2	Cache migration management in a virtualized distributed computing system In accordance with one aspect of the present description, in response to a detection by a storage controller, of an operation by a host relating to migration of input/output operations from one host to another, a cache server of a storage controller, transmits to a target cache client of the target host, a cache map of the source cache of the source host wherein the cache map identifies locations of a portion of the storage cached in the source cache. In response, the cache client of the target host, may populate the target cache of the target host with data from the locations of the portion of the storage, as identified by the cache map transmitted by the cache server, which may reduce cache warming time. Other features or advantages may be realized in addition to or instead of those described herein, depending upon the particular application.
US10601918B2	Rotating inactive storage units in a distributed storage network A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) obtaining status information from a set of distributed storage units (SUs) and determining that a plurality of the SUs are currently inactive. The method continues with the DS processing module selecting one or more inactive SUs for reactivation and issuing a request to change activation status to each. When a favorable response is received from the one more SUs, the method continues with the DDS processing module determining that encoded data slices (EDSs) stored in a first SU include errors and determining to rebuild the EDSs stored in the first SU that include one or more errors by issuing a request to change activation status to second SU that is currently inactive. Upon receiving a favorable response from the second SU, the EDSs with errors are rebuilt using EDSs from the second SU.
US10601913B2	Synchronization of user data in a virtual desktop environment User data can be synchronized over a virtual channel in a virtual desktop environment. A synchronization service can be included with a virtual desktop client and in the virtual desktop and can employ the virtual channel to transmit and receive new and updated user data. In this way, the user data can be synchronized without requiring any kind of file sharing between the access device and the virtual desktop and without requiring membership in any directory service. Therefore, user data can be synchronized in virtual desktop environments that employ a number of different operating systems and network security settings.
US10601899B2	Associating an online publication with a print publication This document discusses, among other things, a system and methods for associating an online publication with a print publication. Example embodiments may include receiving a request from a publisher that may identify first data that is to be published over a network, in an online publication. In response to the request, example embodiments may include fetching the first data and generating further data based on the first data. The further data may include an address to locate the online publication as published. The publisher may be allowed to publish the further data as a print publication. Subsequent to the print publication of the further data, example embodiments may include receiving the string of characters over the network from a user. Example embodiments may include presenting the online publication to the user based on the string of characters.
US10601883B2	Systems and methods for scalable structured data distribution Systems and methods for efficiently absorbing, archiving, and distributing any size data sets are provided. Some embodiments provide flexible, policy-based distribution of high volume data through real time streaming as well as past data replay. In addition, some embodiments provide for a foundation of solid and unambiguous consistency across any vendor system through advanced version features. This consistency is particularly valuable to the financial industry, but also extremely useful to any company that manages multiple data distribution points for improved and reliable data availability.
US10601881B1	Idempotent processing of data streams Idempotent processing of data may be implemented for data records retrieved from a data stream. A data stream may receive data records as input and distribute the ingestion, storage, and processing of the data records amongst one or more partitions of the data stream. Partition metadata may be maintained which includes checkpoint metadata for retrieving, processing, and sending data records in the data stream to a specified destination. When assigned a partition for processing, checkpoint metadata for partition may be accessed to determine whether a pending checkpoint for the partition exists. If not pending checkpoint exists, new data records may be retrieved, processed, and sent from the partition of the data stream to a specified destination. If a checkpoint is pending, then the data records identified by the checkpoint metadata as pending may be retrieved, processed, and sent to the specified destination.
US10601870B2	Distributed cloud-based security systems and methods A distributed security method is implemented in a processing node of a distributed security system comprising one or more processing nodes and one or more authority nodes, wherein the distributed security system is located external to a network edge of an enterprise and external from one of a computer device and a mobile device associated with a user. The distributed security method includes obtaining security policy data associated with the user and the enterprise from an authority node; monitoring data communications between the user, the enterprise, and the Internet in a processing node; and controlling the data communications between the user, the enterprise, and the Internet based on the monitoring to provide security measures between the user, the enterprise, and the Internet.
US10601868B2	Enhanced techniques for generating and deploying dynamic false user accounts Technologies described herein facilitate generating and deploying dynamic false user accounts. Embodiments disclosed herein obtain a false tenant model that is usable to dynamically populate a false user account with messages and/or data files. Rather than containing only a static set of documents, a “dynamic” false user account is continually populated with fresh documents. This results in dynamic false user accounts appearing practically indistinguishable from real user accounts that are continually populated with new real email messages and/or new real hosted files as they are used by account owners to perform legitimate business activities. The realistic nature of the dynamic false user accounts described herein significantly reduces the ability of malicious entities to identify a user account as being false in nature.
US10601865B1	Detection of credential spearphishing attacks using email analysis A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions when executable by a processor perform operations including responsive to receiving an email including a URL, conducting an analysis of the email including: (i) analyzing a header and a body, and (ii) analyzing the URL; analyzing contents of a web page directed to by the URL; generating a score indicating a level of confidence the email is associated with a phishing attack based on at least one of the analysis of the email or the analysis of the contents of the web page; and responsive to the score being below a threshold, virtually processing the web page to determine whether the web page is associated with the phishing attack is shown.
US10601864B1	Using disposable profiles for privacy in internet sessions A method for applying user profiles in electronic sessions is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a request to initiate an electronic session with a web server; identifying a user profile associated with the request; generating an alternative profile; initiating the electronic session; and replacing the user profile with the alternative profile during the electronic session. In some examples, the method includes performing a security action, including modifying one or more data points in a set of metadata and/or a set of latent user characteristics associated with the user profile. In some cases, the alternative profile includes a set of modified metadata and a set of modified latent user characteristics. In some examples, the method includes replacing a cookie associated with the user profile with a cookie associated with the alternative profile.
US10601860B2	Application platform security enforcement in cross device and ownership structures Methods and systems provide application platform security enforcement. A distributed system communicates between a plurality of remote devices and at least one secured server to facility providing a secured service. The distributed system may comprise a remote communication server and one or more security layer components where the plurality of remote devices connect through ones of the security layer components. Upon detection of a security breach by a first remote device, the distributed system determines potential devices at risk from the plurality of remote devices, analyzing risk factors for commonalities. A lock down and/or quarantine of the first remote device and the devices at risk is instructed. Risk factors may include whether the remote devices communicate via a same security layer component, are geographically proximate; and/or are associated at the user level, for example are proximate users in a social network graph. Reactivation is also provided.
US10601844B2	Non-rule based security risk detection A non-rule based security detection system and method is described. The method includes identifying a plurality of data sources. The method then proceeds to generate a baseline for each data source. The baseline includes a plurality of data source outputs that are evaluated over a time period. A plurality of data source anomalies are detected, in which each data source anomaly is associated with at least one data source output exceeding a threshold for the data source baseline. A geolocation for each data source anomaly is then identified. A plurality of correlations between the plurality of data source anomalies and the geolocation for each data source anomaly are generated. At least one correlation is associated with a security event.
US10601839B1	Security management application providing proxy for administrative privileges Accessing a security enabled application may require certain access privileges that are not readily available or associated with the application at the time a user is seeking access via a login operation. In operation, an access attempt to a security enabled application may include identifying user credentials associated with the access attempt, generating a query based on the user credentials to identify whether the user credentials are associated with a predetermined group membership. A response to the query may be received that includes group information corresponding to the user and the group information may be compared to a set of predetermined rules to determine whether the group information includes privilege rules used to grant access to the access attempt.
US10601832B1	Proxy captive portal traffic for input-limited devices A system for re-registering an input-limited device, such as a voice-enabled device, with a captive portal access point that requires completion of a portal webpage prior to allowing client devices access to a network, such as the Internet, is described. Such captive portal access points are commonly found in hotels, and may be used for both freely provided public WiFi and for connections that require providing payment. For re-registration of the input-limited device with the captive portal access point, a server may send a notification to a mobile computing device associated with the input-limited device.
US10601831B2	Accessing local information based on a browser session When a user is attempting to access a server application, a challenge is received, in a browser, for a one or more login credentials to access a server application (e.g., a web page). For example, a user is requested to provide a user name and password to login to the server application. In response to the user providing the credentials via the browser, the login credentials are sent. If the credentials are validated, an access token is received by the browser from the server application. In response to receiving the access token for the server application, the browser sends the access token and an address for the server application, via a local loopback address, to a local application. This allows the local application to send local information, such as local files, to the server application using the token.
US10601830B2	Method, device and system for obtaining local domain name A method, device and system for obtaining a local domain name are provided. A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request from a User Equipment (UE) is received, in which the request carries an option for indicating returning a domain name of a local domain where the UE is located; and the domain name of the local domain where the UE is located is obtained according to the DHCP request, and the domain name of the local domain where the UE is located is carried in a DHCP reply message to be returned to the UE. A device and system for obtaining a local domain name are also provided.
US10601827B2	Integrated hosted directory Methods, systems, and devices for enterprise wide management of disparate devices, applications, and users are described. A cloud-based central server may maintain an integrated hosted directory, which may allow user authentication, authorization, mid management of information technology (IT) resources across device types, operating systems, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premises applications. IT resources for multiple and separate customers may be managed from a single, central directory, and servers may be brought online to allow access to the directory according to system loading.
US10601818B2	Enhanced authentication based on secondary device interactions Enhance authentication techniques may include receiving credential data of a secondary device by a primary device, generating a cryptogram using the credential data of the secondary device, and transmitting the cryptogram to an access device to request for authorization to use an account associated with a user of the primary device. The authorization can be granted based on verification of the cryptogram and an interaction activity pattern of interactions between the primary device and a set of communication devices including the secondary device.
US10601811B2	Method for connecting to WLAN hotspot device, WLAN hotspot device, and user equipment A method for connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot device, the Wi-Fi hotspot device, and a user equipment (UE), where the method includes generating, by the Wi-Fi hotspot device, a two-dimensional barcode according to Wi-Fi authentication information, where the two-dimensional barcode includes the Wi-Fi authentication information, and the Wi-Fi authentication information is used for authentication prior to connection to the Wi-Fi hotspot device, and presenting, by the Wi-Fi hotspot device, the two-dimensional barcode to the UE using a display screen of the Wi-Fi hotspot device such that the UE may connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot device according to the two-dimensional barcode, and a user does not need to memorize or record the Wi-Fi authentication information, thereby improving user experience.

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