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US10685593B2	Single type GOA circuit A pixel driving circuit is provided. The pixel driving circuit comprises a reset module, a compensation module and light emitting module, wherein the reset module is configured to transmit a data signal to the compensation module to reset the compensation module under controlling of a first driving signal, the compensation module is configured to write the data signal to compensate a threshold voltage under controlling of a second driving signal, and the light emitting module is configured to emit light under controlling of a third driving signal.
US10685591B2	Display device comprising a magnetic generator for controlling the position of a portion of the display surface The present disclosure is related to a display device including: a display panel including a display surface displaying an image; and a morphing driver disposed at an opposite side of the display surface of the display panel and physically controlling a height of the display surface in a first direction which is substantially perpendicular to the display surface according to depth information of input image data, wherein the morphing driver comprises at least one among a piezoelectric film, an electroactive polymer, and a magnetic generator.
US10685590B2	Flag assembly for mitigating against flag entanglement and a method of assembly thereof There is provided a flag assembly for mitigating against flag entanglement. The flag assembly comprises a flagpole assembly, the flagpole assembly having a fixed portion for fastening to a mount; a rotating coupling fastened to the fixed portion; and a rotating portion fastened to the rotating coupling such that the rotating coupling is able to rotate with respect to the fixed portion in use and a flag fastened to the rotating portion such that, in use, the fixed portion remains static while the rotating portion is able to rotate through 360 degrees under multidirectional wind force so as to mitigating against the entanglement of the flag about the flagpole assembly; wherein the rotating portion comprises an axial slot configured to allow the fastening of a portion of the flag to an interior of the rotating portion.
US10685588B2	Self-erectable displays and methods of making such self-erectable displays Self-erectable displays and methods of making such self-erectable displays are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a shroud including a first shroud panel opposite a second shroud panel, the first shroud panel and the second shroud panel coupled at a first end of the shroud and a second end of the shroud. A support to be coupled to a first internal surface of the first shroud panel at a first position and to a second internal surface of the second shroud panel at a second position, the first position and the second position located between the first end and the second end, and an elastic band disposed about an exterior of the support, the elastic band biasing the first position away from the second position.
US10685587B2	Cryptographic device for calculating a block cipher A cryptographic device (100) calculates a block cipher (500) on a block cipher input (105) and produces a block cipher output (106). The block cipher calculation operates on encoded values (210). The cryptographic device includes a round function unit (140; 300) for applying the final round (118) of the multiple rounds of cryptographic processing implementing the block cipher. A first output unit (160) and second output unit (180) decodes encoded output data (132, 152).
US10685581B2	Systems and methods for an immersive simulator Systems, computer readable media, and method concern includes generating visual, auditory and other sensory depictions of a life-sized virtual crew member in an aircraft simulator. The virtual crew member simulates operational actions and behavioral and physiological responses of a crew member of an aircraft. The method includes collecting one or more responses of an operator using the aircraft simulator. The one or more responses comprise biofeedback data associated with the operator. The method includes generating, in response to the one or more responses, one or more simulated operational actions or simulated behavioral and physiological responses for the virtual crew member. The method includes collecting one or more additional responses of the operator. The one or more additional responses comprise additional biofeedback data of the operator that corresponds to an interaction with the one or more simulated operational actions or simulated behavioral and physiological responses for the virtual crew member.
US10685574B2	System and method for departure metering from airports Described herein are systems and methods for allocating departure slots at an airport. One embodiment of the disclosure of this application is related to a method including calculating an estimated takeoff time (“ETT”) based on airport data and flight plan data, allocating a departure slot time for the at least one flight based on the ETT, and populating the allocated departure slot time in an allocation grid. Another embodiment of the disclosure of this application is related to a system comprising a user interface displaying information related to flight plan data and airport data received from an airport network, and a departure allocation module calculating an estimated takeoff time (“ETT”) for the first flight based on the airport data and the flight plan data, allocating a departure slot time for the flight, and populating the departure slot time in an allocation grid via the user interface.
US10685567B2	Method for determining a parking area for parking a motor vehicle, driver assistance system and motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for determining a parking area (8) for parking a motor vehicle (1), in which the motor vehicle (1) is moved relative to a potential parking space (9), a road marking (11) and at least one object (12, 16) delimiting the potential parking space (9) are recognized on the basis of sensor data of at least one sensor (4) of the motor vehicle (1) during the movement of the motor vehicle (1) relative to the potential parking space (9), and the parking area (8) within the potential parking space (9) is determined on the basis of the recognized road marking (11) and the at least one object (12, 16), wherein an orientation for the parking area (8) is determined on the basis of the road marking (11), an orientation of the at least one object (12, 16) is determined, and the parking area (8) is determined in dependence on a comparison between the determined orientation for the parking area (8) and the determined orientation of the at least one object (12, 16).
US10685555B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program [Object] To automatically distinguish whether an occupant is at home or not and to control an operating state of a management system of a house more simply.[Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a radio wave information learning section configured to record a plurality of pieces of radio wave information detected in a house and learn radio wave information of a plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house on a basis of the recorded radio wave information; and a control section configured to compare newly detected radio wave information and the radio wave information of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house based on a result of the learning, and perform processing for changing an operating state of a system that manages the house in a case where none of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house were detected for a prescribed time or more.
US10685554B2	Systems and methods for robust man-down alarms A system including at least one detector and a central station in two-way communication with the detector is provided. The detector can include an ambient condition sensing element, a motion sensor, control circuitry, and two-way communications hardware. The control circuitry can determine an alarm event based on a first signal received from the ambient condition sensing element and can transmit an alarm signal to the communications hardware during the alarm event. The control circuitry can also determine a man-down event based on a second signal received from the motion sensor and transmit a man-down alarm signal to the communications hardware during the man-down event. The two-way communications hardware can transmit at least one of the gas alarm signal and the man-down alarm signal to a remote location, and the two-way communications hardware can receive a status inquiry from the remote location.
US10685551B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method Provided is an information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, which are capable of achieving all of crime prevention, disaster prevention, and activation of local community by appropriately conveying an indoor state to the outside while distancing from physical contact. The information processing system includes a detecting unit that detects a feeling of one or more persons located indoors on the basis of sensor data obtained by sensing an indoor state; and a control unit configured to perform control such that a captured image obtained by imaging the indoor state is output to an outdoor display apparatus in a case in which a value of a feeling of at least any one person among the detected feelings satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10685548B2	Low resolution adaptive distance display Guide systems for indicating a distance between a first object and a second object and a method for visually representing a distance between two objects as the distance reduces are provided. A sensor measures a distance between the first object and the second object. A processor receives a distance measurement from the sensor and determines whether the distance measured by the sensor is within one of a plurality of distance intervals. Upon determining that the distance is within one of the plurality of distance intervals, the processor displays a distance indicator on the display. The distance indicator is located on the display based on the distance according to a scale for the distance interval, where a display area on the display represents the distance interval. The scale for the distance intervals becomes finer as the distance between the first object and the second object decreases.
US10685547B2	Communication device, information processing system, recording medium, and information processing method Provided is a communication device including a control unit that acquires current situation information of a first user based on an attribute of the first user and a current situation of the first user, and a communication unit that, in accordance with control by the control unit, transmits the current situation information of the first user to a surrounding communication device.
US10685546B2	Fire detection using the scattered light principle with a staggered activation of a further LED unit for radiating in further light pulses with different wavelengths and scattered light angles Various embodiments may include a method for fire detection comprising: radiating light at a first wavelength into a scattered light volume and measuring a radiation intensity generated by forward scattering; radiating light at a second wavelength and measuring a second scattered radiation intensity generated by forward scattering; determining a first quotient from the scattered radiation intensities and comparing it to a first and second value; and if the first quotient lies between the first and the second value; radiating pulses at the second wavelength into and measuring a third intensity generated by backward scattering; determining a second quotient from the first and third scattered radiation intensity and comparing the second quotient with a third value; and generating a fire alarm if the second quotient exceeds the third comparison value.
US10685530B2	Software-based simulation of symbol locking An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may also involve iterations of: selecting a set of symbols including a locking symbol when (i) the locking symbol was locked in place from a previous spin and has been used in fewer than 3 winning combinations, or (ii) the locking symbol was initially selected during the spin of the reels; and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation of the spin of the reels in which the instance of the locking symbol remains in place.
US10685525B2	Money handling apparatus for commercial facilities A money handling apparatus (for example, money depositing and dispensing machine 100) includes a state detector 107 configured to detect a state of another money handling apparatus (for example, money change machine 200) to which the storage cassette (for example, banknote storage cassette 300) has previously been mounted or a state of the storage cassette itself and a determiner 108 configured to determine whether a counter (for example, recognizer 132) counts the money taken out from the storage cassette, based on the state detected by the state detector.
US10685519B2	Traffic detection method, device, and system A wireless access device deployed at a traffic station performs short-range wireless communication with a mobile device associated with a target user and entering a signal coverage area of the traffic station. An association between identity information of the target user and the traffic station is detected. An image capture device deployed at the traffic station obtains a facial image of the target user and matches the facial image against facial image samples in a dynamic facial sample library. A gate associated with the traffic station is controlled based on a result of a matching operation performed with the facial image and the facial image samples in the dynamic facial sample library.
US10685516B1	Virtual intercom system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a virtual intercom. In some implementations, a request from a visitor device to communicate with an occupant of a particular unit of the facility is received. A location of the visitor device is received. Based on the received location, it is determined that the visitor device is within a predetermined bounded area. An occupant profile is identified based on the received request. Information associated with the occupant profile is obtained. Based on the obtained information, it is determined the occupant has registered a profile. Based on the obtained information, a communication path to an occupant device is identified. The request from the visitor device is sent, using the communication path, to an occupant device belonging to the occupant. A response from the occupant device is received. Based on the response, an action is performed.
US10685514B2	Smart lockbox The lockbox contains a microcomputer used in the processes of validating preapproved credentials. One method of obtaining access to the lockbox is by user carrying only an identification card, the lockbox scanning the identification card and transmitting its data to the lockbox's server for validation via an internal cell phone modem's connection through cell towers. The lockbox is also capable of capturing video and audio recordings, storing and categorizing the recordings into data such as traffic or noise levels over varying periods of time; and such data can be transferred to a user's cell phone upon the owner's approval. Additionally, the lockbox is powered by a solar panel power source, making it self-sustaining.
US10685506B2	Apparatus and method that detect wheel alignment condition An apparatus and method that detect a wheel alignment condition are provided. The method includes receiving a dataset comprising one or more from among a steering wheel angle parameter, a speed parameter, a lateral acceleration parameter, a self-aligning torque parameter and a power steering torque parameter, normalizing the received dataset, analyzing the normalized dataset according to a model for determining a wheel alignment condition, and outputting a value indicating whether the wheel alignment is within a predetermined value based on the model.
US10685505B2	Vehicle suspension system alignment monitoring Examples of techniques for vehicle suspension system alignment monitoring are disclosed. In one example implementation, a method includes receiving vehicle data and environmental data including, inertial measurement unit (IMU) acceleration data and global positioning system (GPS) velocity data from a GPS associated with the vehicle, and steering wheel angle data, driver applied torque data, and electronic power steering (EPS) applied torque data associated with the steering system. The method further includes mitigating for at least one of a vehicle effect and an environmental effect based on the vehicle data and environmental data. The method further includes detecting a misalignment based at least in part on one or more of the IMU acceleration data, the GPS velocity data, acceleration data, a steering wheel angle, and a self-aligning torque. The method further includes reporting the misalignment of the vehicle based at least in part on detecting the misalignment.
US10685504B2	Systems, devices, and methods for vehicular communication A method for dynamically handling traffic data can include obtaining location data and sensor data corresponding to at least one object located in a traffic area. The location data and/or the sensor data then can be selectively blurred to preserve privacy or meet privacy regulations. The blurring may be implemented by adding noise to the location data and/or the sensor data. The blurred data may then be transmitted to another entity.
US10685503B2	System and method for associating user and vehicle information for communication to a third party A vehicle is provided that detects a first presence of a driver in a vehicle, based upon detecting the first presence, provides a user interface for the driver to enter first user information, information, and communicates the first sensitive information to a vendor to authenticate the combines the first user information and the vehicle information to generate the first sensitive driver to enable the vendor to perform a financial transaction with the driver using the first sensitive information while the vehicle is in motion. The processor is programmed to initiate automatically, on behalf of the driver, the financial transaction with the vendor in response to a sensed state or location of the vehicle.
US10685498B2	Augmented reality content rendering via albedo models, systems and methods Methods for rendering augmented reality (AR) content are presented. An a priori defined 3D albedo model of an object is leveraged to adjust AR content so that is appears as a natural part of a scene. Disclosed devices recognize a known object having a corresponding albedo model. The devices compare the observed object to the known albedo model to determine a content transformation referred to as an estimated shading (environmental shading) model. The transformation is then applied to the AR content to generate adjusted content, which is then rendered and presented for consumption by a user.
US10685491B2	Systems and methods for virtual reality and augmented reality path management In accordance with one embodiment, a ride attraction system includes a track, a bogie coupled to the track and configured to move along the track, and an attachment coupled to the bogie and configured to couple a user to the bogie. The ride attraction system also includes an image controller coupled to the bogie and configured to supply virtual reality (VR) and/or mixed reality (MR) images to the user via headgear.
US10685488B1	Systems and methods for computer assisted operation A computer-implemented system/method for entertaining a person includes providing a head mounted display to play one or more erotic contents; sensing one or more body parameters including head position, eye gaze, or hand gesture and modifying an erotic content based thereon; and rendering modified erotic video on the head mounted display.
US10685472B1	Animation brushes An image editing program can include animation brushes. An animation brush enables a content creator to draw as with any other digital brush. The animation brush will automatically generate elements, such as hair or raindrops. Each element can be drawn using a set of pixels that have a particular shape, location, and/or color, as determined by parameters associated with the animation brush. The image editing program can further animate the elements by determining, for each frame of an animation sequence, updated shape, location, and/or color values for the pixels of the elements. The image editing program can then redraw the elements. Redrawing of the elements can thus produce an animation.
US10685461B1	Apparatus and method for context-oriented iterative reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) A method and apparatus is provided to iteratively reconstruct a computed tomography (CT) image using a spatially-varying content-oriented regularization parameter, thereby achieving uniform statistical properties within respective organs/regions and different statistical properties (e.g., degree of smoothing and noise level) among the respective organs/regions. For example, less smoothing and sharper features/resolution can be applied within a lung region than within a soft-tissue region by using a smaller regularization parameter value in the lung region than in the soft-tissue region. This can be achieved, e.g., using a minimum intensity projection to suppress/eliminate sub-solid nodules in the lung region. The content-oriented regularization parameter can be generated by reconstructing an initial CT image, which is then segmented/classified according to organs and/or tissue type. Segmenting the image and generating the content-oriented regularization parameter can be integrated into one process by applying an HU-to-β mapping to the CT image.
US10685453B1	Folded laser emitters for structured light applications A depth camera assembly includes an illumination source, and an imaging device. The illumination source includes one or more emitters on a single substrate, and one or more folding elements folding at least an optical path of the projected light from each emitter. Each emitter emits a respective beam of light. The imaging device captures images of the local area illuminated with the light from the illumination source. In some configurations, the depth camera assembly includes a controller that provides images to a console that determines a depth information based in part on images of the local area illuminated with the light from the illumination source, and generates a virtual object based in part on the depth information.
US10685451B2	Method and apparatus for image registration An image registration method includes acquiring first image data for a target object that includes first coordinate information; acquiring second image data for the target object that includes second coordinate information, by using a probe; and registering the first image data with the second image data, using the first coordinate information and the second coordinate information. According to the image registration method, image registration between a plurality of pieces of volume data adjusted so that their coordinate axes correspond to each other is performed, whereby a high-quality registered image may be quickly and simply obtained.
US10685450B2	Controller, forming machine, and control method A controller controls operation of a forming machine capable of forming a workpiece. The controller includes: an object determination unit configured to determine an object other than the workpiece and the forming machine based on image data sensed by a sensor; a setting unit configured to set a plurality of determination areas based on a bolster shape of the forming machine included in the image data; a detection unit configured to detect entry of the object into each of the plurality of determination areas set by the setting unit; and a control unit configured to limit operation speed of the forming machine based on the determination area in which the entry of the object has been detected by the detection unit.
US10685437B2	Improving material identification using multi-energy CT image data Disclosed are methods for identification and quantification of a number of different materials within an object using one or more multi-energy CT imaging devices and the image data sets produced therefrom. Identification and quantification of different materials is achieved by using the following three properties: solve only for sparse solutions; separate the soft tissue problem from the dense material problem; and use a combinatorial approach to allow for simple application of different constraints to different combinations of materials. Also disclosed are one or more computer program products, computer systems or computer implemented methods for the identification of multiple materials within an object.
US10685436B2	Dot-matrix product information encoding for food traceability A method for encoding dot-matrix product information method includes identifying, via a processor, a dot-matrix grid size. The method further includes evaluating, via the processor, one or more dot pattern variation levels. In some aspects, the method includes retrieving, via the processor, an encoding structure indicative of a plurality of product information attributes. The method also includes determining, via the processor, whether an alpha-numeric digit at a dot pattern variation level can include a plurality of product information. The method further includes outputting, via the processor, a dot pattern code map. In some aspects, the dot pattern code map is indicative of a relationship between each of the product information attributes and the plurality of values for each of the product information attributes.
US10685430B2	System and methods for generating an optimized 3D model Provided is a system and method for generating an optimized 3D model. The system includes a processor for receiving a high-poly 3D model, wherein the processor is configured to: divide the high-poly 3D model into a plurality of subcomponents, approximate each subcomponent of the plurality of subcomponents by a geometric shape, adjust the geometric shape to conform to the subcomponent to the geometric shape, merge the adjusted geometric shapes to form a reduced 3D model, and texture map the reduced 3D model to provide texture of the high-poly 3D model to form the optimized 3D model. The system also includes a memory connected to the processor for storing the high-poly 3D model and the optimized 3D model and a 3D model display for displaying the optimized 3D model.
US10685429B2	Denoising medical images by learning sparse image representations with a deep unfolding approach The present embodiments relate to denoising medical images. By way of introduction, the present embodiments described below include apparatuses and methods for machine learning sparse image representations with deep unfolding and deploying the machine learnt network to denoise medical images. Iterative thresholding is performed using a deep neural network by training each layer of the network as an iteration of an iterative shrinkage algorithm. The deep neural network is randomly initialized and trained independently with a patch-based approach to learn sparse image representations for denoising image data. The different layers of the deep neural network are unfolded into a feed-forward network trained end-to-end.
US10685428B2	Systems and methods for super-resolution synthesis based on weighted results from a random forest classifier Methods and systems which provide super-resolution synthesis based on weighted results from a random forest classifier are described. Embodiments apply a trained random forest classifier to low-resolution patches generated from the low-resolution input image to classify the low-resolution input patches. As each low-resolution patch is fed into the random forest classifier, each decision tree in the random forest classifier “votes” for a particular class for each of the low-resolution patches. Each class is associated with a projection matrix. The projection matrices output by the decision trees are combined by a weighted average to calculate an overall projection matrix corresponding to the random forest classifier output, which is used to calculate a high-resolution patch for each low-resolution patch. The high-resolution patches are combined to generate a synthesized high-resolution image corresponding to the low-resolution input image.
US10685427B2	Image stitching method and electronic device using the same An electronic device including a bendable base, a plurality of camera modules, a sensing module and a processing module is provided. The camera modules are mounted on the base, and may capture a plurality of images corresponding to different fields of view. The sensing module is coupled to the base for detecting a physical bending information of the base. The processing module is coupled to the camera module and the sensing module for estimating a bending angle of the base according to the physical bending information, obtaining an overlapping information of the images according to the bending angle, and stitching the images according to the overlapping information to create a stitched image.
US10685425B2	Varying effective resolution by screen location by altering rasterization parameters In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to compute projections of the vertices from virtual space onto a viewport of the scene in a screen space of a display device containing a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being subdivided into a plurality of subsections. Scan conversion determines which pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of each primitive that has been converted to screen space coordinates. Coarse rasterization for each primitive determines which subsection or subsections the primitive overlaps. Metadata associated with the subsection a primitive overlaps determines a pixel resolution for the subsection. The metadata is used in processing pixels for the subsection to generate final pixel values for the viewport of the scene that is displayed on the display device in such a way that parts of the scene in two different subsections have different pixel resolution.
US10685421B1	Configurable convolution engine for interleaved channel data Embodiments relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution and other deep machine learning operations on streaming input data of various formats. The convolution engine may include two convolution circuits that each generate a stream of values by applying convolution kernels to input data. The stream of values may each define one or more channels of image data. A channel merge circuit combines the streams of values from each convolution circuit in accordance with a selected mode of operation. In one mode, the first and second streams from the convolution circuits are merged into an output stream having the combined channels of the first and second streams in an interleaved manner. In another mode, the first stream from the first convolution circuit is fed into the input of the second convolution circuit.
US10685418B2	Image retrieval for computing devices Implementations generally relate to retrieving images from a device for consumption by the receiving device. In some implementations, a computing device may receive from a communication device an update to a collection of images including at least one image not previously received in a prior version of the collection. The computing device may store in long term memory the update to the collection and copy at least one of the images from the update to a non-persistent memory. The images in non-persistent memory may not exceed a maximum threshold. In response to the computing device changing from inactive to active, the computing device may display an image from non-persistent memory as a background image on the computing device. In further response to a minimum threshold number of images in non-persistent memory, the computing device may copy at least one of the new images to non-persistent memory.
US10685416B2	Suggested pickup location for ride services A travel coordination system coordinates travel between a client and a provider to a destination. The client and provider meet at a pickup location and the provider transports the client (or an item or object from the client) to the destination. The travel coordination system automatically suggests a pickup location for the trip by determining location data points corresponding to prior trips of clients. Location data points near the client's location are determined by distance or by region and scored to determine a pickup location that improves the estimated pickup time and/or estimated time to arrive at the destination.
US10685409B2	Providing controlled access to proprietary fisheries data Systems and methods may be used to provide industry access to proprietary fisheries dependent data originating from fishers while preserving confidentiality rights of the fishers. An industry-accessible secured fisheries database is established to store proprietary fisheries dependent data, for example, received from a government fisheries database that collects fisheries dependent data in accordance with a fishery regulating authority. User interfaces may be established for database administrators and/or industry members to access the industry-accessible secured fisheries database. Application programming interfaces (APis) may be established for interfacing with other software applications, for example, to transfer the fisheries dependent data into the industry-accessible secured fisheries database and/or to access the proprietary fisheries dependent data for purposes of traceability and/or verification of fish products. The industry-accessible secured fisheries database and the interfaces may use various security measures or techniques to preserve confidentiality rights of the fishers and while providing access to the proprietary data.
US10685405B2	Automated cost calculation for virtualized infrastructure In one embodiment, a method includes storing a cost assigned to a physical computing device in a storage device. The physical computing device is found in a physical infrastructure of a data center. The method determines an instantiation of a virtual machine in a virtual infrastructure. Information for a provisioning of the virtual machine with the physical computing device in the physical infrastructure of the data center is then received. The cost assigned to the physical computing device from the storage device is determined where the cost is used to determine a charge for the virtual machine based on usage of the physical computing device.
US10685396B2	Auction security tool An apparatus includes a code generator and a broadcaster. The code generator receives a first request from a first user and receives a second request from a second user. The code generator also generates, based on a first user role for the first user, a first segment of javascript code. The code generator also generates, based on a second user role for the second user, a second segment of javascript code. The code generator further communicates the first segment of the javascript code to a web browser of the first user and communicates the second segment of the javascript code to a web browser of the second user. The broadcaster receives a bid from the first user and communicates the bid to a server, the second user, and a third user.
US10685393B2	Device, method, and medium for facilitating purchases using peripheral devices A peripheral device, e.g., a headphone, connected to a communication device may have controls that are configured to switch between a regular mode and a purchase mode. When in the purchase mode, the controls of the peripheral device may be configured to facilitate purchase by receiving user input related to making a purchase. The peripheral or the communication device may be configured to receive user instructions, such as a voice command, to switch between the regular mode and the purchase mode. In particular, the controls may include volume buttons configured to adjust volume in the regular mode and configured to adjust purchase price in purchase mode. The controls also may include a start/end button configured to selectively activate or end an application in the regular mode and configured to confirm or select a purchase in the purchase mode.
US10685385B2	Medium, system, and method of intelligently recommending based on social media A system and method of intelligently recommending items based on social media communications are provided. A communication with an audio portion in a first format is intercepted from a first service. An intent to transact is then detected within the communication at least in part based on analyzed sound in the audio portion. A recommendation engine can then be used to identify one or search results based on the intent to transact within the communication. Then a reply communication can be posted to the first service in the first format, with the reply communication including the one or more identified items.
US10685381B2	Boosting ad performance by identifying hotspots In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message comprising status data from a second computing device, determining that a geographic area is a hotspot based at least on the status data, where mobile users in a hotspot have a high probability of accessing an application on their mobile computing devices, and sending an indication that the geographic area is a hotspot to a third-party computing device, where the indication is used by the third-party computing device to determine a value for delivery of content to computing devices associated with the geographic area.
US10685380B1	Platform for location and time based advertising The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and computer-readable media for performing at least the following: receiving a specification of a geolocation; receiving content to be associated with the geolocation; associating the geolocation with the content; defining a delivery condition for delivering the content, the delivery condition comprising a course of travel of a mobile computing device; receiving a first indication associated with a first location of a mobile computing device; determining that the first location is within a radius of the geolocation; receiving a second indication associated with a second location of the mobile computing device; determining the course of travel of the mobile computing device based on a comparison of the first location to the second location; and transmitting, when the delivery condition is met, the content associated with the geolocation.
US10685376B2	Method and system for lead budget allocation and optimization on a multi-channel multi-media campaign management and payment platform A method and apparatus for managing and integrating lead sources for a marketing/advertisement campaign on a platform that allocates and optimizes lead source budgets and provides a customer service and payment processing function. The present technology as disclosed and claimed herein provides a platform that is a customer retention and customer management system that is automated to provide lead estimations and optimizations to allocate and optimize lead source budgets where the system has a learning function that improves over time.
US10685375B2	Digital media environment for analysis of components of content in a digital marketing campaign Techniques and systems are described for analyzing components of digital marketing content as part of a digital marketing campaign. A computing device of an analytics system receives user interaction data that describes an effect of user interaction with a plurality of items of digital marketing content on achieving an action. The analytics system identifies which of a plurality of components are included in respective items of digital marketing content. The analytics system then generates outcome data describing a likely effect of the plurality of components on achieving the action based on association with respective items of digital marketing content. Additionally, the analytics system generates a recommendation to configure a subsequent item of digital marketing content based on the outcome data. The recommendation is based on the likely effect of the different ones of the plurality of components, to generate more effective digital marketing content items for digital marketing campaigns.
US10685373B2	Method and system for tracking telephone calls A system for tracking telephone calls made in response to advertising campaigns in electronic or other media is provided. The system permits an advertiser to associate specific and distinct telephone numbers with associated advertising campaigns. The system further modifies advertiser-provided information in response to the advertising campaign to which a potential customer responds, and includes the associated telephone number in the modified advertiser information. The system processes telephone calls made to the selected telephone numbers, and provides reports to advertisers of call data associated with the respective advertising campaigns.
US10685369B2	Server-based product substantiation with local filtering system and method A system and method is presented for product substantiation and promotion redemption. A purchased product list is transmitted from a retail store system to a promotion analysis server along with a user identifier. The promotion analysis server identifies promotions available to the user, and then considers whether the benefits under the promotions are still available to the user. Discounts for available promotions related to the purchased product list are calculated and transmitted to the retail store system for deduction from the transactions. An approved product list can be provided that filters the purchased product list before transmittal. The approved product list can include promotions from a plurality of programs.
US10685368B1	Systems and methods for interfacing with a website to modify content Systems and methods for invoking functions to cause a change in a displayed price provided for output in a third party website, comprising receiving data corresponding to one or more codes each associated with a respective promotion. In response to determining that a webpage of the third party website output in a web browser is associated with initiating a payment process with the third party website, an interface element is generated and presented in another interface of the web browser. When a user selection of the interface element is received, each of the codes is applied to a data entry interface in the webpage, and based on the respective outcomes of applying each of the codes, a particular code that results in a greatest change in the displayed price is identified. The particular code is then applied to obtain a resulting price that is displayed in the webpage.
US10685366B2	Using a wireless transmitter and receiver to prevent unauthorized access to restricted computer systems A method and system for automatically terminating a logout session for a restricted access system by determining that an authorized user has left the vicinity of the restricted access system. The authorized user preferably carries a wireless transmitter which transmits an authorization signal that is also used for permitting access to the restricted access system. When the authorized user leaves the vicinity of the restricted access system after logging in, the signal is no longer received by a wireless receiver or too weak of a signal, such that an access control system in communication with the wireless receiver automatically causes the restricted access system to initiate a logout action in order to prevent or reduce the chance of an unauthorized user gaining access to the restricted access system. The restricted access system can be a rewards tracking system, such as, but not limited to, a rewards tracking system for a gaming machine or gaming table.
US10685364B2	Method and apparatus for causing a recommendation of a point of interest An approach is provided for determining at least one distribution of a plurality of current values for at least one dynamic content parameter associated with a plurality of points of interest within a predetermined proximity to at least one target point of interest. The approach involves determining at least one distribution mean and at least one distribution standard deviation for the at least one distribution of the plurality of current values. The approach also involves determining at least one set of historical values for the at least one dynamic content parameter for the at least one target point of interest. The approach further involves determining at least one estimated current value for the at least one dynamic content parameter associated with the at least one target point of interest based, at least in part, on the at least one set of historical values, the at least one distribution mean, and the at least one distribution standard deviation.
US10685362B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for forecasting demand using real time demand Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, generating demand based on real time demand and predicted demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual promotion, wherein the virtual promotion comprises a combination of a category or sub-category, a location, and a price range, calculating a probability that a particular consumer would buy the virtual offer in a predetermined time period, wherein the probability is generated at least based on historical data related to the particular consumer and one or more related consumers, determining an estimated number of units to be sold for the virtual offer as a function of at least the probability, the estimated number of units representing a predicted demand, calculating a real time demand, wherein the real time demand is generated based on a plurality of generated identification pairs for the predetermined time period, and determining, using a processor, total demand by summing the predicted demand and the real time demand.
US10685360B2	System and method for updating advertising content for a recorded program A system and method for updating advertising content for a recorded program (e.g., recorded on personal video recorder equipment), substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US10685354B1	Automatic teller machine game-based authentication functionality In an example, a method for implementing gamification in user authentication operations for a customer financial transaction device such as an automatic teller machine (ATM) or kiosk may be provided to improve security and enable enhanced electronic display and user interface features. In one example, the electronic operations for implementing gamification may include associated actions in a user interface authentication screen with defined gamification functions, receiving and evaluating input in the user interface authentication screen, and enabling or performing certain authentication actions based on an expected gamification action. In further examples, the gamification may be implemented based on themes for the user interface that match entertainment themes, individual games, or customizations to graphical and text content established by the user.
US10685352B2	System, method, and medium for an integration platform to interface with third party channels An integration platform provides a third party channel products from a merchant, so that the third party channel may cause an opportunity to be presented to a user to purchase one of the products. In response to an indication of a user purchase, the integration platform transmits a purchase request to the electronic commerce platform to create an order for the purchase. The integration platform may create a payment for the purchase with the merchant's payment processor and transmit the payment to the payment processor, update the order with the merchant's electronic commerce platform with the payment information, update the status of the order to shipped, and capture payment information by communicating with the payment provider. The merchant's electronic commerce platform may then update the order with the integration platform, which may notify the third party channel of the update so that update may be communicated to the user.
US10685351B1	Designation of a trusted user A device receives a request for a trust designation for a user that is to utilize a merchant application to interact with one or more other users, wherein the merchant application includes one or more interfaces that allow the user to interact with the one or more other users while remaining anonymous or partially anonymous. The device obtains user data for the user based on information included in the request. The device determines the trust designation for the user by using a data model that has been trained using machine learning to process the user data. The device permits at least one of the one or more interfaces of the merchant application to display the trust designation, wherein the user remains anonymous or partially anonymous while the trust designation is displayed.
US10685350B2	Systems and methods for cryptographic authentication of contactless cards Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card and a client device in support of a FIDO authentication are provided. In an embodiment, upon receipt of a challenge issued by a server in connection with a pending transaction, the contactless card may authorize the client device to utilize a FIDO private key to respond to the challenge. If the response to the challenge is successful, the FIDO authentication may proceed and the transaction may be completed.
US10685349B2	Confirming physical possession of plastic NFC cards with a mobile digital wallet application A user accesses a merchant system website via a user computing device, selects items for purchase, and selects an option to checkout using a digital wallet account. The user selects payment information associated with a payment card device for use in an online transaction. The merchant system transmits an unpredictable number to the user computing device. The user taps the payment card device to the user computing device to establish a wireless communication channel over which the payment card device receives the unpredictable number. The payment card device transmits payment card information and a check sum calculated from the unpredictable number and by the payment card device to the merchant system via the user computing device. The merchant system transmits the check sum and payment card information in a transaction authorization request to the issuer system, which verifies the check sum using the shared secret and the unpredictable number.
US10685347B1	Activating a transaction card A device may receive, from a user device, a request to activate a transaction card. The device may verify an image as a non-fraudulent image based on the metadata associated with the image and a verified identity of the user device or a user of the user device based on the data associated with the user device. The device may process the image using an image processing technique to extract information from the image. The device may identify the transaction card to be activated by performing a lookup of the extracted information in a data structure. The device may perform one or more actions related to completing an activation of the transaction card.
US10685344B2	Communications system A method for controlling payment in a communications system including the steps of providing a service accessing a service provider from the or one user device, selecting a product for purchase from the service provider, the service agent receiving a request for payment from the service provider via a payment operator and the service agent issuing a payment authorisation to a payment provider via the payment operator. The service agent is installable in a variety of user devices and provides a uniform interface to the payment system from a plurality of the user devices. The service agent may also provide a uniform interface to an ordering system from a plurality of the user devices.
US10685326B1	Systems and methods for wirelessly monitoring inventory Systems and methods for automated monitoring of inventory are disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure, automated monitoring is achieved through the use of active tags, such as RFID tags, that are coupled to inventory and tracked by communication nodes. The tags are designed to consume a low amount of power while ensuring robust wireless communication. Indeed, the tags are capable of communicating with remote nodes even when the tags are buried in stacks of inventory items, and the system is scalable to handle a large number of tags.
US10685322B2	System for automatically monitoring a supply of a consumable product, replenishing the supply, and methods of use The system includes an apparatus which automatically measures an inventory of a consumable good and tracks the inventory as it is used. The system may include a signaling device which creates a signal when a defined minimum amount of the consumable good has been reached. The apparatus may also send the user an electronic message that the defined minimum has been reached. The system may then automatically submit an order to a supplier for a replacement supply of the consumable good. This system may be used to track supply and reorder animal food, food staples, production supplies, manufacturing parts, or virtually any consumable good. Accordingly, a user may avoid the inconvenience and loss of time and money due to failure to timely replace a consumable good.
US10685319B2	Big data sourcing simulator A simulator is configured to simulate the fulfillment of orders by nodes. Each node has an inventory of products and is capable of shipping the products to destinations in response to receipt of a corresponding order. The simulator divides the nodes into groups and assigns a different priority to each group based on input provided by a user to the simulator to generate an ordered sequence of priorities. The simulator maintains safety stock data corresponding to each node that indicates minimum quantities of the products required to be present at the corresponding node. The simulator selects a current priority of the sequence and next simulates a first group among the groups having the current priority fulfilling the orders for a given product among the products while a quantity of the given product at each of the nodes in the first group is below the minimum quantity in the corresponding safety stock data.
US10685314B1	Case leaf nodes pointing to business objects or document types Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a trait definition is received that associates with a case node comprising a case model an object associated with an external system, e.g., a document or other content object and/or a business or other software object. The trait definition is used to bind respective instances of the object to corresponding instances of the case node in case instances created based on the case model.
US10685313B2	Systems and/or methods for path finding on model structures Certain example embodiments described herein relate to defining relevant data for analysis and reporting for modeled processes and process-related data. In certain example embodiments, a normal (and potentially-non-expert) user can define a model, object, or a relation as “source” and “target” of interest. The user also may be able to make a question more concrete, e.g., by specifying stopovers, a number of steps that might be between the source and the target, etc. A net of different paths from the source to the target may be retrieved as result, representing all possible relations, including those that are implicit. Such information also can be selectively excluded from the net, e.g., if the user does not want to evaluate same. However, the user can be reasonably sure that all relevant data for analysis has been returned, even though the definition was made without consulting an expert.
US10685304B2	Agricultural work management system and agricultural crop harvester An agricultural work management system includes: a data input unit (41) configured to receive, from an agricultural crop harvester (1), harvesting position data indicating a harvesting work position as agricultural land information, harvest amount data indicating a harvest amount of the agricultural crop harvested in the agricultural land, and quality data indicating the quality thereof as agricultural crop information; a database server (6) configured to store the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information such that they can be associated with each other; an agricultural work evaluation unit (51) configured to perform agricultural work evaluation on the agricultural land based on the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information; and a data output unit (42) configured to send out the agricultural work evaluation data generated by the agricultural work evaluation unit.
US10685299B2	Engine speed data usage system and method A fleet management system is provided for outdoor power equipment and is, in some embodiments, configured to estimate operator performance and/or skill for a particular operator based at least partially on engine speed data sensed during the particular operator's use of one or more pieces of equipment. Embodiments of the invention also provide an apparatus configured to receive data comprising RPM values of a rotating component of a piece of outdoor power equipment sampled throughout a period of operation of the piece of outdoor power equipment, and further configured to generate a RPM histogram for a particular operator and/or for a particular piece of outdoor power equipment in order to use the RPM histogram to determine additional information about the particular operator, the particular piece of equipment, and/or the particular period of operation.
US10685296B2	Dynamic emission discharge reduction A method for establishing and using a pollutant emission scavenging forecasting (PESF) model to calculate a purgeable pollutant emission to dynamically control an emitted pollutant at any target concentration. The dynamic control considers the initial pollutant concentration and pollutant scavenging ability of atmosphere. The method further takes into account the constraint conditions specified by a user, and employs a dynamic emission correction system to quickly calculate an optimal pollutant emission scheme. If the emission is lower than minimum acceptable value for a current time instance (a moment), the method corrects the emission intensity before (prior to) this moment by changing the initial concentration at this time. This initial concentration is the final pollutant concentration of a prior moment. Since the method makes full use of the atmospheric pollutants scavenging ability, the dynamic emission control scheme can provide the most effective and lowest economic losses solution.
US10685295B1	Allocating resources for a machine learning model A method for allocating resources for a machine learning model is disclosed. A machine learning model to be executed on a special purpose machine learning model processor is received. A computational data graph is generated from the machine learning model. The computational dataflow graph represents the machine learning model which includes nodes, connector directed edges, and parameter directed edges. The operations of the computational dataflow graph is scheduled and then compiled using a deterministic instruction set architecture that specifies functionality of a special purpose machine learning model processor. An amount of resources required to execute the computational dataflow graph is determined. Resources are allocated based on the determined amounts of resources required to execute the machine learning model represented by the computational dataflow graph.
US10685290B2	Parameter management through RDMA atomic operations One or more parameter changes for one or more parameters are computed at one or more worker nodes. The one or more parameters on a remote server are updated based on the computed one or more parameter changes. The updating is performed via one or more remote direct memory access atomic operations with the remote server.
US10685289B2	Techniques for improving classification performance in supervised learning Techniques are disclosed for improving classification performance in supervised learning. In accordance with some embodiments, a multiclass support vector machine (SVM) having three or more classes may be converted to a plurality of binary problems that then may be reduced via one or more reduced-set methods. The resultant reduced-set (RS) vectors may be combined together in one or more joint lists, along with the original support vectors (SVs) of the different binary classes. Each binary problem may be re-trained using the joint list(s) by applying a reduction factor (RF) parameter to reduce the total quantity of RS vectors. In re-training, different kernel methods can be combined, in accordance with some embodiments. Reduction may be performed until desired classification performance is achieved. The disclosed techniques can be used, for example, to improve classification speed, accuracy, class prioritization, or a combination thereof, in the SVM training phase, in accordance with some embodiments.
US10685286B1	Automated neural network generation using fitness estimation A method of generating a neural network includes iteratively performing operations including generating, for each neural network of a population, a matrix representation. The matrix representation of a particular neural network includes rows of values, where each row corresponds to a set of layers of the particular neural network and each value specifies a hyperparameter of the set of layers. The operations also include providing the matrix representations as input to a relative fitness estimator that is trained to generate estimated fitness data for neural networks of the population. The estimated fitness data are based on expected fitness of neural networks predicted by the relative fitness estimator. The operations further include generating, based on the estimated fitness data, a subsequent population of neural networks. The method also includes, when a termination condition is satisfied, outputting data identifying a neural network as a candidate neural network.
US10685283B2	Demand classification based pipeline system for time-series data forecasting A pipeline system for time-series data forecasting using a distributed computing environment is disclosed herein. In one example, a pipeline for forecasting time series is generated. The pipeline represents a sequence of operations for processing the time series to produce modeling results such as forecasts of the time series. The pipeline includes a segmentation operation for categorizing the time series into multiple demand classes based on demand characteristics of the time series. The pipeline also includes multiple sub-pipelines corresponding to the multiple demand classes. Each of the sub-pipelines applies a model strategy to the time series in the corresponding demand class. The model strategy is selected from multiple candidate model strategies based on predetermined relationships between the demand classes and the candidate model strategies. The pipeline is executed to determine the modeling results for the time series.
US10685281B2	Automated predictive modeling and framework Systems and methods for providing a predictive framework are provided. The predictive framework comprises plural neural layers of adaptable, executable neurons. Neurons accept one or more input signals and produce an output signal that may be used by an upper-level neural layer. Input signals are received by an encoding neural layer, where there is a 1:1 correspondence between an input signal and an encoding neuron. Input signals for a set of data are received at the encoding layer and processed successively by the plurality of neural layers. An objective function utilizes the output signals of the topmost neural layer to generate predictive results for the data set according to an objective. In one embodiment, the objective is to determine the likelihood of user interaction with regard to a specific item of content in a set of search results, or the likelihood of user interaction with regard to any item of content in a set of search results.
US10685276B2	Method of manufacturing a race bib A race bib and a method of assembling the same. The bib includes a first and second layers with a programmable tag embedded between them. Indicia are provided on a first surface or a second surface of the first layer. A backer is positionable between the tag and the first or second layers. During assembly, a competitor number is printed on the first layer with an ink printer, a tag number correlating to or corresponding to the competitor number is encoded into the tag with a RFID tag printer. The printing and encoding can be accomplished by a combined printer. Alternatively, an optical scanner reads the printed competitor number and transmits the same to the tag printer. The second layer overlays the first layer and is thermally welded or adhesively secured to the first layer.
US10685269B2	Systems and methods for predicting, identifying, and/or confirming presence of objects in a predefined space or otherwise associated with a container Systems and methods for predicting, identifying, and/or confirming the presence of an object in a predefined space include communication between the object and a sensor having a detection range. The detection range of the sensor is limited to a predefined space or direction that may be less than its maximum detection range.
US10685254B2	Device and method for representing an anatomical shape of a living being The present invention relates to a device for encoding an anatomical shape (13) of a living being, comprising a receiving unit (12) for receiving an anatomical shape (13); a shape representation generating unit (14) for generating a shape representation of the anatomical shape (13) by using one or more shape representation models and determining the value of one or more shape representation coefficients of the one or more shape representation models; and a conversion unit (16) for converting the determined value of the one or more shape representation coefficients into a human-readable code comprising one or more human-readable characters.
US10685253B2	Advanced cloud detection using neural networks and optimization techniques Techniques for automatically determining, on a pixel by pixel basis, whether imagery includes ground images or is obscured by cloud cover. The techniques include training a Neural Network, making an initial determination of cloud or ground by using the Neural Network, and performing a max-flow, min-cut operation on the image to determine whether each pixel is a cloud or ground imagery.
US10685250B2	Liveness detection for face capture Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for liveness detection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of providing, for display on a screen to a user, a graphical item that travels along a path. The actions further include tracking a movement of an eye of the user while the graphical item travels along the path on the screen. The actions further include comparing the movement of the eye of the user to the path traveled by the graphical item. The actions further include generating an eye correlation score that reflects a correlation between the movement of the eye of the user and the path traveled by the graphical item. The actions further include determining whether the eye correlation score satisfies an eye liveness threshold score. The actions further include determining whether the user is a live person.
US10685247B2	Infrastructure-device status-verification system for automated vehicles An infrastructure-device status-verification system suitable for use by an automated vehicle includes a transceiver, an object-detector, and a controller. The transceiver is suitable to install on a host-vehicle. The transceiver is used to receive an indicated-status of an infrastructure-device. The object-detector is suitable to install on the host-vehicle. The object-detector is used to determine a detected-status of the infrastructure-device. The controller is in communication with the transceiver and the object-detector. The controller determines a confirmed-status of the infrastructure-device based on the indicated-status and the detected-status. The system provides for increased confidence and security regarding information about the status of an infrastructure-device such as the traffic-signal (e.g. red, yellow, and green), thereby avoid miss-information caused by, for example, hacking or spoofing of V2I communications from the infrastructure-device, and overcome instances when the field-of-view between the object-detector and the infrastructure-device 26 becomes occluded after the confirmed-status has been established or determined.
US10685246B2	Systems and methods for curb detection and pedestrian hazard assessment A detection system for a vehicle is provided. The detection system may include at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area forward of the vehicle, the area including a curb separating a road surface from an off-road surface and a data interface. The detection system may also include at least one processing device programmed to receive the plurality of images via the data interface, and determine a plurality of curb edge line candidates in the plurality of images. The at least one processing device may be further programmed to identify at least one edge line candidate as an edge line of the curb.
US10685231B2	Computer system, and method and program for diagnosing plants The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, a plant diagnosis method, and a program in which the accuracy of plant diagnosis can be improved. The computer system acquires a visible light image of a plant imaged by a camera, compares the acquired visible light image with a normal visible light image of the plant and performs image analysis, identifies a species of the plant according to the result of the image analysis, identifies an abnormal portion of the plant according to the result of the image analysis, acquires environmental data of the plant, and diagnoses a condition of the plant according to the identified species, the identified abnormal portion and the acquired environmental data.
US10685229B2	Image based localization for unmanned aerial vehicles, and associated systems and methods Systems and methods for image based localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for navigating a UAV includes: flying a UAV along a flight path; acquiring an image of a ground area along the flight path with a camera carried by the UAV; and sending the image to a base station. The method further includes receiving navigation data from the base station, based upon a comparison of the image of the ground area to at least one terrestrial map of the flight path.
US10685228B2	Multiple day mapping index aggregation and comparison Index-based geospatial analysis may include applying a first and second index-based analysis for a set of imagery. The set of imagery may include a location-specific index values used to form a histogram for a single index image (e.g., for a single surveyed field). This first analysis may be referred to as an “acre-to-acre” mapping, which may be useful for identifying differences in indices (e.g., NDVI vegetative health) of different parts of the field from a single day. A second “day-to-day” index-based analysis may be performed by calculating a histogram for each set of imagery from multiple days, combining the histograms, and generating a single equal-area index map. The index map can be applied to redistribute the histogram values within multiple days of data, which may provide a more useful map of variation in each individual image and changes between images.
US10685224B1	Unsupervised removal of text from form images The present disclosure relates to language agnostic unsupervised removal of text from form images. According to one embodiment, a method comprises generating a spectral domain representation of an image by applying a transformation, where the image depicts form layout elements and text elements, applying a first filter to the spectral domain representation to remove a portion of the frequency domain corresponding to the text element, and applying a transformation to the filtered spectral domain representation of the image to generate a reconstructed image. The text elements are not depicted in the reconstructed image.
US10685223B2	Systems and methods for mobile image capture and content processing of driver's licenses Systems and methods are provided for processing and extracting content from an image captured using a mobile device. In one embodiment, an image is captured by a mobile device and corrected to improve the quality of the image. The corrected image is then further processed by adjusting the image, identifying the format and layout of the document, binarizing the image and extracting the content using optical character recognition (OCR). Multiple methods of image adjusting may be implemented to accurately assess features of the document, and a secondary layout identification process may be performed to ensure that the content being extracted is properly classified.
US10685221B2	Methods and apparatus to monitor environments Methods and apparatus to monitor environments are disclosed. Example audience measurement devices disclosed herein include means for executing a first recognition analysis on three-dimensional data representative of a first object within a threshold distance from a three-dimensional sensor. Disclosed example audience measurement devices also include means for executing a second recognition analysis on two-dimensional data representative of a second object outside the threshold distance from the three-dimensional sensor. Disclosed example audience measurement devices further include means for combining a first detection of a first person provided by the first recognition analysis and a second detection of a second person provided by the second recognition analysis to generate a people count for an environment.
US10685218B2	Parental advisory computer systems and computer-implemented methods of use thereof Some embodiments of a computer-implemented method and system can entail continuously obtaining a visual input comprising a plurality of representations of at least one eye of at least one user to continuously track the plurality of representations over a predetermined time duration. The at least one processor can continually apply at least one eye-gaze movement tracking (EGMT) algorithm to form a time series of eye-gaze vectors. Continually inputting the time series of eye-gaze vectors into an Activity Tracking Neural Network (ATNN) can determine an attentiveness level of the at least one user over the predetermined time duration. The at least one processor can initiate a first action when the attentiveness level is equal to or above a predetermined threshold attentiveness value throughout the predetermined time duration; and initiate a second action when the attentiveness level is below the predetermined threshold attentiveness value throughout the predetermined time duration.
US10685215B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing face Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for recognizing a face. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring at least two facial images of a to-be-recognized face under different illuminations using a near-infrared photographing device; generating at least one difference image based on a brightness difference between each two of the at least two facial images; determining a facial contour image of the to-be-recognized, face based on the at least one difference image; inputting the at least two facial images, the at least one difference image, and the facial contour image into a pre-trained real face prediction value calculation model to obtain a real face prediction value of the to-be-recognized face; and outputting prompt information for indicating successful recognition of a real face, in response to determining the obtained real face prediction value being greater than a preset threshold.
US10685210B2	Tissue microarray registration and analysis The present invention relates to digital pathology. In order to facilitate analyzing a tissue microarray, an apparatus is provided for tissue examination. The apparatus comprises a data input (102), a tissue microarray analyzing unit (104), and an output (106). The data input is configured to receive a reference image of a reference slice obtained from a tissue sample block; and to receive a microarray image of a microarray slice comprising at least one tissue core obtained from at least the tissue sample block. The tissue microarray analyzing unit is configured to register tissue core images of at least one tissue core with the reference image based on a spatial arrangement of the respective tissue core within the tissue sample block. The output is configured to provide a registered result obtained from the tissue microarray analyzing unit for further analyzing purposes.
US10685209B2	Information image display method and apparatus Techniques for providing an information image display method are described. One example method includes biometric information is received from a user at a client device. The received biometric information is determined whether it matches a predetermined biometric information from a plurality of stored predetermined biometric information. In response to determining the received biometric information matches one of the stored predetermined biometric information, data indicating an interface of an application is retrieved that corresponds to the stored predetermined biometric information. The data indicating the interface of the application on a display screen of the client device for a predetermined duration is displayed while the client device is in an unused mode. After the predetermined duration has elapsed, the data indicating the interface of the application from the display screen is removed while the client device remains in the unused mode.
US10685208B2	Controlling method and electronic device A controlling method includes acquiring induction information of an operation body at a fingerprint collection region, determining, based on the induction information, a target collection region for collecting fingerprint corresponding to the operation body, and enabling sensors corresponding to the target collection region. The target collection region is a sub-region of the fingerprint collection region.
US10685205B2	Electronic device with optical sensor An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an optical sensor, the optical sensor comprising a lighting device configured to emit light, a sensor layer including an array of sensors configured to detect first image information corresponding to an object from light reflected by the object, and a filter layer including openings configured to transmit the light reflected by the object, the filter layer disposed on the sensor layer, wherein the first image information is different from an image of the object identified with naked eyes. The electronic device may be diversified according to embodiments.
US10685189B2	System and method for coupled detection of syntax and semantics for natural language understanding and generation A method includes performing, with at least one processing device, natural language generation using both (i) a semantic word and clause representation generated from syntactically-labeled context and (ii) a syntax generated from common semantic relations between sequential words and clauses. Performing the natural language generation includes pushing words onto a stack based on the semantic word and clause representation and based on words and clauses already on the stack and popping the words and clauses off the stack to be replaced by clauses based on the syntax. Pushing the words onto the stack could be based only on components of the semantic word and clause representation coming from future context.
US10685188B1	Systems and methods for training machine learning models for language clusters Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can generate a plurality of language clusters based on one or more of: language similarity between languages or social behavior similarity between languages. A representative language for a language cluster of the plurality of language clusters can be determined. For the language cluster of the plurality of language clusters, a machine learning model can be trained based on the representative language for the language cluster to classify content items in languages included in the language cluster.
US10685176B2	Template-based requirement authoring and reference-based component requirement viewer A computer system and a computer-implemented method is provided for authoring a requirements document for a product or service. The requirements document includes one or more components for the product or service. Each component is described using one or more requirements statements. An online tool is used to provide electronic templates to view and/or modify features of the requirement statements. A common data structure is used to store attributes associated with portions of the requirements statements. The common data structure is accessible by the online tool to author the requirements document.
US10685171B2	Steganographic encoding detection and remediation A steganographic coding detector (and method) analyzes one or more pages of a file. For each page containing text strings, the detector counts a number of A0h and 20h characters for the text string. For each text string for which the number of A0h characters is greater than a first threshold, the detector sets a flag to a first state, The first threshold is computed based on the number of 20h characters in that text string. For each text string for which the number of 20h characters is less than the first threshold, the detector sets the flag to a second state. Responsive to the number of text strings that have a flag at the first state being greater than a second threshold, the detector marks the file as being steganographically encoded.
US10685163B2	Computationally efficient nano-scale conductor resistance model Disclosed is technology for evaluating the performance of various conducting structures in an integrated circuit. A three-dimensional circuit representation of a circuit design is provided. The three-dimensional circuit representation includes a plurality of conducting structures including a first conducting structure which has a length L. A plurality of longitudinally adjacent volume elements is identified in the conducting structure. A width Wn and a height Hn are estimated for each volume element n in the conducting structure. Furthermore, the local resistivity ρn for each volume element n is estimated based on a function that is dependent upon the length L of the conducting structure and the width Wn and height Hn of the volume element n. The resistance of a conducting structure is estimated in dependence upon the resistivity ρn for each of the volume elements n in the plurality of volume elements in the conducting structure.
US10685144B2	Counterfeit microelectronics detection based on capacitive and inductive signatures Systems and methods for detecting counterfeit integrated circuits are provided. One exemplary embodiment of a method can include: providing an integrated circuit for testing; and characterizing capacitive and inductive loading of the integrated circuit power for a specified frequency range; wherein the characterizing step further comprises applying a low level alternating current to a power pin while measuring for capacitance characterization conditions created by the integrated circuit's internal capacitance and inductance responses, wherein by sweeping the alternating current signal across a specified frequency range one or more capacitance related device signature can be created and used to identify a component as originating from a trusted source or not. A system can include components and machine readable instructions for operating the components using exemplary methods. Exemplary embodiments can include automated systems that can also be used with the device signature on a production line or in a supply chain verification location.
US10685142B2	External resource control of mobile devices The present disclosure provides a security enhanced channel control system useable on a wireless device comprising a policy module including at least one processor and memory, the policy module configured to store, in the memory, one or more security policies and apply a compliance check to a first system layer and a second system layer; and a first policy base stored in the memory of the policy module, the first policy base being associated with a mandatory access control (“MAC”) base and defining one more security polices for access to a plurality of channels associated with the first and second system layers. The policy module cooperates with the first policy base to establish one or more access control rules that are applied to at least one of the plurality of channels to preclude an unauthorized application from accessing at least one of the channels.
US10685135B2	Computer-implemented system and method for encrypting call recordings A computer-implemented system and method for encrypting call recordings is provided. Calls are recorded and each call recording is divided into segments. Each segment represents a record. An encryption key unique to each call recording is generated. The unique encryption keys each include seed information from two or more sources and a key counter for one such call recording. For each record, an encryption counter is encrypted using the encryption key for the call recording associated with that record. Also, for each record, the encrypted encryption counter and the data from that record are mixed and encrypted.
US10685129B2	Data processing system A data processing system is provided with a data verification system that is configured to perform a validation check upon receipt of a request from a field device to transfer data to the data processing system. The data verification system is also configured to verify a permission of the field device to exchange data and to validate the data integrity. A data landing zone is provided for temporary storage of the data in the event that a validation check fails, so that data errors may be corrected.
US10685121B2	Secure environment examination What is disclosed is a system and method to secure a network device such as a server. The network device has a memory storing a static credential file. A basic input output system operates a security module that gathers an IP address of the router and an IP address of the network device, via a query to a network manager when power is enabled to the network device. The gathered IP addresses are compared with stored IP addresses in the static credential file. The operating system of the network device is prevented from booting if the IP addresses do not match. In addition, a baseboard management controller is operable to receive an encrypted credential file. The encrypted credential file is decrypted and compared with the static content file. The baseboard management controller shuts down power to the network device if the credential file does not match the static content file.
US10685120B2	Data storage device and data storage method for confirming firmware data A data storage device utilized for confirming firmware data includes a flash memory and a controller. The controller is coupled to the flash memory to receive first firmware data and first sorting hash data related to the first firmware data, and it divides a first hash data generated from the first firmware data into a plurality of data groups, and re-assembles the data groups according to a mapping and sorting algorithm to generate second sorting hash data. The controller includes an efuse region for writing the mapping and sorting algorithm. When the controller determines that the second sorting hash data is identical to the first sorting hash data, the first firmware data is allowed to update the controller.
US10685119B2	Trusted malware scanning A trusted co-processor can provide a hardware-based observation point into the operation of a host machine owned by a resource provider or other such entity. The co-processor can be installed via a peripheral card on a fast bus, such as a PCI bus, on the host machine. The co-processor can execute malware detection software, and can use this software to analyze data and/or code obtained from the relevant resources of the host machine. The trusted co-processor can notify the customer or another appropriate entity of the results of the scan, such that an appropriate action can be taken if malware is detected. The results of the scan can be trusted, as malware will be unable to falsify such a notification or modify the operation of the trusted co-processor.
US10685117B2	Method and apparatus for anti-repackaging A target file is run in an installation package. A secure dynamic library is loaded in the installation package. Based on a code in the target file, digital watermark information embedded in the target file and verification information stored in the secure dynamic library is retrieved. Based on the digital watermark information and the verification information, a determination is made whether the installation package is a repackaged installation package.
US10685116B2	Anti-ransomware systems and methods using a sinkhole at an electronic device Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to remediate ransomware are disclosed. An example malware scanner includes a sinkhole generator to generate a sinkhole directory. The example malware scanner includes a storage device adapted to store a computer file and the sinkhole directory, wherein the sinkhole directory recursively expands when the computer file performs a file listing of the sinkhole directory to occupy the computer file by extending a period of time taken to perform the file listing of the sinkhole directory. The example malware scanner includes an analyzer to monitor execution of the computer file while the computer file is performing the file listing of the sinkhole directory to attempt to identify an indicator of compromise associated with the computer file, the analyzer to classify the computer file as ransomware when the analyzer identifies the indicator of compromise. The example malware scanner includes a cleaner to remediate the ransomware.
US10685114B2	Malware detection via data transformation monitoring Techniques and systems are described for detecting malware's bulk transformation of a user's data before the malware is able to complete the data transformation. Included are methods and systems for enabling malware detection by monitoring the file operations of a computer application or process for particular kinds of suspicious data transformation indicators. Indicators include primary indicators, such as file-type signature changes, notable changes in file data entropy, and out-of-range similarity measurements between the read and write versions of file data, as well as secondary indicators, such as a large number of file deletions and a large reduction in the number of file-types written versus read by a process over time. When indicators are triggered by a process, an adjustment to the process' malware score is made; in the event that the process' malware score reaches a malware detection threshold, the process is marked as malware and appropriate actions are taken.
US10685110B2	Detection of exploitative program code The present disclosure is directed to monitoring internal process memory of a computer at a time with program code executes. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure monitor the operation of program code with the intent of detecting whether received program inputs may exploit vulnerabilities that may exist in the program code at runtime. By detecting suspicious activity or malicious code that may affect internal process memory at run-time, methods and apparatus described herein identify suspected malware based on suspicious actions performed as program code executes. Runtime exploit detection may detect certain anomalous activities or chain of events in a potentially vulnerable application during execution. These events may be detected using instrumentation code when a regular code execution path of an application is deviated from.
US10685106B2	Protecting cognitive code and client data in a public cloud via deployment of data and executables into a stateless secure partition A secure cloud computing environment protects the confidentiality of application code from a customer while simultaneously protecting the confidentiality of a customer's data from intentional or inadvertent leaks by the application code. This result is accomplished without the need to trust the application code and without requiring human surveillance or intervention. A client secure virtual machine (SVM) is accessible by a client who supplies commands, operand data and application data. An appliance SVM has the application code loaded therein and includes an application program interface that accesses a memory area shared by both SVMs. All access to the appliance SVM is initially revoked by an ultravisor, except for the shared memory. The appliance SVM processes the commands without ever saving any persistent state of the application data. The ultravisor manages an SVM by maintaining exclusive control over a device tree used by the operating system of the SVM.
US10685095B2	Processing equipment and remote management system A processing equipment includes a processing unit having a plurality of functions. A retaining unit retains a device identifier capable of identifying the processing equipment. An interface unit receives a function authentication key which is a code for setting a specific function among the plurality of functions to be enabled or disabled. A control unit sets the specific function to be enabled or disabled according to the function authentication key when a device identifier included in the received function authentication key coincides with the device identifier retained in the retaining unit.
US10685086B2	Avoiding water breakthrough in unconsolidated sands The proposed method is an improved method of flooding weak reservoirs and avoiding premature breakthrough of the displacing fluid used in the flooding operation by first modeling the performance of the reservoir under a rage of flooding pressures in a couple geomechanic and multiphase flow model. Ideal pressures are thus selected from use in a flooding operation, thus avoiding rock failure and fluid breakthrough.
US10685085B2	Method and system for implementing context based display of objects in web applications using link relationships In general, the technology relates to a method for displaying objects on a webpage. The method includes receiving a request to transition to the webpage in a web application from a device and in response to the request: obtaining a set of object identifiers, providing the set of object identifiers to a link relationship manager and receiving, from the link relationship manager, a set of link relationships. The method further includes providing the set of link relationships and a link relationship evaluator to the device, where the link relationship evaluator only permits objects that are associated with a link relationship from the set of link relationships to be displayed on the device.
US10685080B2	System and method for the creation and update of hierarchical websites based on collected business knowledge A method for a website building system, the method includes gathering and analyzing business family and industry data related to a website designer using the website building system from a plurality of sources external and internal to the website building system, wherein the data is associated with information about the designer extracted from answers to at least one questionnaire and from available business identifying information for the website designer; offering to the designer in conjunction with a website editor, multiple layout solutions based on pre-defined design elements to handle content and layout associated with the data based on ranking, machine learning and artificial intelligence; enabling the designer to select and edit at least one layout solution; and generating a website for the designer based on the at least one selected layout solution.
US10685078B2	Content provision based on geographic proximity A method includes detecting a proximity event associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the proximity event includes the second user being in geographic proximity to the first user and calculating an influence score associated with the proximity event, wherein the influence score is based at least in part on a social gravity of the second user and a duration of the proximity event. The method further includes, upon determining that the influence score is greater than a threshold score, identifying, based at least in part on a geographic location of the first user, a content object associated with the second user for provision to the first user and sending the content object to a client system associated with the first user for display.
US10685075B2	System and method for tailoring an electronic digital assistant query as a function of captured multi-party voice dialog and an electronically stored multi-party voice-interaction template An input audio signal is monitored at an electronic digital assistant of an electronic computing device. The assistant determines that the audio signal includes audio from multiple speaking parties, identifies first and second parties of the multiple parties and roles of the parties, accesses a database of multi-party interaction templates and selects, as a function of the roles of the parties, a particular multi-party interaction template that matches the roles, and then generates, based on a detected content of the audio signal and the particular multi-party interaction template, a database query to retrieve information responsive to or supplemental to content of the audio signal. The assistant then causes the query to be performed results of the query provided to the first party, the second party, a dispatcher or administrator associated with the parties, or a computer-aided-dispatch system associated with the parties.
US10685070B2	Dynamic creative optimization for effectively delivering content An online system generates dynamically optimized sponsored content for a target user of the online system. Each sponsored content item comprises optimal creatives selected for a target user from a set of creatives provided by a content provider. Each type of creative (e.g. title, image, video, descriptive text), has a trained creative model to generate a prediction score for a creative of the same type based on the features of the creative and the characteristics of the target user. The prediction score of a creative indicates the likelihood that the target user will interact with a sponsored content item that includes that particular creative. The online system selects a creative for each type and assembles the selected creatives into a sponsored content item for the target user. For a different user, a different sponsored content item having different creatives chosen from the same set of creatives is generated.
US10685065B2	Method and system for recommending content to a user Method, system, and programs for recommending content to a user. First information related to one or more previous users is first obtained. A model that maps from users to topics of interest is then established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. Second information related to the current user is also obtained. One or more topics of interest are identified for the current user based on the model. Content is recommended to the current user in accordance with the one or more topics of interest for the current user. Eventually, an updated model is generated by integrating information associated with the current user with the model established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. The information associated with the current user includes the second information related to the current user.
US10685064B2	Executable graph framework for the management of complex systems The present invention addresses deficiencies of the art with respect to collaborative computer networks consisting of mixed data, control functions, analysis functions, and sensors in complex systems of systems. The method involves a database framework for representing complex heterogeneous characteristics of processes, systems, and systems of systems that feature many to many interrelationships. The homoiconic graph framework takes the form of an executable graph database, which is often faster for associative data sets, and maps more directly to object-oriented computer applications for large-scale operations. The invention provides a method to execute the graph database, in that the graph comprises nodes that are both data fragments and executable components. The graph is characterized as one or more homoiconic or executable graph frameworks, to distinguish this unique feature from the concept of a graph database, which generally is a repository of connected data only.
US10685053B2	System and method for generating professional profile for employees System and method for generating professional profile of an employee in an organization are disclosed. An organizational ontology may be built for the employee. The organizational ontology may be indicative of interrelationships between the employee, other employees and tasks performed by the employee. Further, email data associated with the employee may be stored for a complete lifecycle of the employee. The email data may be analyzed to identify insights about the employee and the professional profile may be generated based on the identified insights.
US10685036B2	System and method for facilitating interactive data visualization and manipulation An interactive system having a processor configured to execute computer instructions stored to said memory device, wherein said processor receives, via a communication device, data from one or more data sources, wherein said processor generates, via a display, a graphical user interface having a first visualization area and a second visualization area, wherein said processor generates a first data visualization based at least in part on the received data, the first data visualization being displayed at said first visualization area, wherein the first data visualization comprises a plurality of user-selectable regions, each user-selectable region represented a subset of the received data, wherein, in response to selection of a user-selectable region, said processor generates a second data visualization based at least in part on the selected user-selectable region's user-selectable region, the second data visualization being displayed at said second visualization area.
US10685035B2	Determining a collection of data visualizations A set of transition characteristics can be identified. The set of transition characteristics can include continuities and discontinuities between data fields and data visualization channels among a plurality of data visualizations. The set of transition characteristics can be identified by analyzing the plurality of data visualizations and identifying similarities and differences among the data fields and the data visualization channels. A distribution of the data fields and the data visualization channels across the plurality of data visualizations can be determined. A collection of the data visualizations can be determined based on the distribution of the data fields and the data visualization channels across the plurality of data visualizations. The collection of the data visualizations can include at least a subset of the plurality of data visualizations.
US10685030B2	Graphic representations of data relationships Presenting a diagram indicating relationships among data items stored in a data management system includes: receiving a request that identifies a first data item stored in the data management system from a user interface; retrieving stored configuration information that includes a plurality of selection specifications for selecting data items in the data management system that are related to a given data item of a predetermined type, where each selection specification is associated with a different respective predetermined type; querying the data management system to identify a set of one or more data items according to a selection specification from the configuration information that is associated with a type of the first data item; for each of multiple returned data items in the identified set, querying the data management system to determine whether additional data items are identified according to a selection specification from the configuration information that is associated with a type of the returned data item; generating a diagram indicating relationships among data items identified using the configuration information; and presenting the generated diagram over the user interface.
US10685027B2	Search system A search system is provided with an on-line social network system. When a user of the on-line social network system requests a search, the search system examines a member profile representing the user in the on-line social network system and derives, from the member profile, additional terms to be included into the search request together with the user-supplied search terms. The resulting query is processed by applying the AND operator to the user-supplied terms and a weighted OR operator to the additional terms derived from the member profile. The search results obtained by executing the query are made available to the requesting user.
US10685025B2	Generating a data structure that maps two files A first file and a second file are retrieved from a database, in which the first and second files include an unstructured text stream. Metadata of the first and second files are extracted. The extracted metadata include a description category, entity source, geographic region, and a set of sub-files linked to the file. A data structure indicative of relationship between the first and second files is generated. Weighting factor is applied to the generated data structure. which indicates a degree of relationship between the first file and the second file. The relationship and the degree of the relationship are determined based on the extracted metadata of the first and second files. In response to a user requesting the first file, it is determined whether the second file should be provided in conjunction with the first file based on the weighting factor as applied to the data structure.
US10685014B1	Method of sharing read-only data pages among transactions in a database management system In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method for processing read-only transactions. The method includes receiving a read-only transaction, wherein the read-only transaction specifies a page, obtaining a page descriptor, from a page cache, for the page, where the page descriptor comprises a plurality of entries, identifying an entry of the plurality of entries in the page descriptor for the read-only transaction, and processing the read-only transaction using a snapshot of the page associated with the entry.
US10685009B1	Systems and methods for trigger based synchronized updates in a distributed records environment A computerized system and method may include, in response to receiving a blockchain via a communications network that includes information associated with an event, parsing, by a blockchain parsing engine being executed by a blockchain node, the information to identify a status state of an item related to the event. The blockchain may be inclusive of the information along with the status state of the item may be stored in a storage unit. An event tracking engine may determine from the parsed information that the status state of the item transitioned from a first state to a second state. Responsive to the event tracking engine determining that a qualifying state is satisfied by the item being in the second state, automatically executing, by the blockchain node, a smart code inclusive of initiating communications between a first party and a second party.
US10685007B2	Table content transport and delivery A deployment infrastructure (DI) imports at least one object description artifact and at least one content data file associated with a database object to a design-time container. The DI deploys the database object in a runtime container based on the at least one object description artifact and the at least one content data file. The DI exports the at least one object description artifact in the design-time container and at least one updated content data file based on an updated database object in the runtime container, wherein the updated database object includes updated content of the database object generated at runtime of a database application.
US10685002B2	Radix sort acceleration using custom asic An information processing system, computer readable storage medium, and method for accelerated radix sort processing of data elements in an array in memory. The information processing system stores an array of data elements in a buffer memory in an application specific integrated circuit radix sort accelerator. The array has a head end and a tail end. The system radix sort processing, with a head processor, data elements starting at the head end of the array and progressively advancing radix sort processing data elements toward the tail end of the array. The system radix sort processing, with a tail processor, data elements starting at the tail end of the array and progressively advancing radix sort processing data elements toward the head end of the array, the tail processor radix sort processing data elements in the array contemporaneously with the head processor radix sort processing data elements in the array.
US10684991B2	Managing filesystem inodes A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for managing filesystem inodes. The mechanism monitors inode consumption in a filesystem. The mechanism periodically determines a number of inodes to add to the filesystem based on the inode consumption and adds the number of inodes to the filesystem.
US10684990B2	Reconstructing distributed cached data for retrieval In a distributed processing environment, an adaptor object on a first computer creates a disk cache file that includes a copy of data acquired from a data source. The performance of a CRUD operation on the copy of the data is recorded in a disk cache change history. A business intelligence object requests the data as the data existed prior to the performance of the CRUD operation from a second computer. The second computer, determines that the requested data does not exist on the second computer. The first computer determines, in response to a request from the second computer that the requested data exists on the first computer. The requested data is reconstructed from the copy in the cache to create reconstructed data. A local copy of the reconstructed data is created on the second computer; and a reference to the local copy is provided to the requesting object.
US10684988B2	Automated RF dataset creation A radio frequency dataset generation system comprising a software-defined radio, a set of radio frequency collection parameters, a first digital file, a second digital file, and a dataset. The software-defined radio comprises, an analog signal reception device, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital signal processing system. The set of radio frequency collection parameters are associated with the software-defined radio and correspond to a plurality of analog signal protocols. The first digital file comprises raw signal information corresponding to at least one analog signal received by the analog signal reception device. The second digital file comprises metadata information corresponding to the at least one analog signal received by the analog signal reception device. The dataset comprises the raw signal information time-associated with at least a portion of the metadata information.
US10684987B2	Identification and reconciliation of network resource information Systems and methods for the identification and reconciliation of network resource information are herein disclosed. In an implementation, a system includes instructions stored in memory for processing a request received from a data source to update a record of a network resource by receiving data relating to an attribute of a network resource of a computer network from a first data source, wherein the network resource is associated with a configuration item of a configuration management database, the configuration item including data relating to the attribute from a second source; determining that the first data source is authoritative for the attribute based on a priority of the first data source, a priority of the second data source, and a staleness period of the second data source; and processing the request by updating the attribute based on the data.
US10684982B2	Calculating device, calculating method, and computer readable recording medium A print controller includes a processor and a memory. When an instruction to execute a specific calculation function is received, the processor obtains a calculation result related to the specific calculation function. When an instruction to print is received, if the instruction to execute the specific calculation function has been received a plurality of times without printing the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the calculation function was received one or more times before the instruction received at a last time of the plurality of times, the processor causes a printing device to print the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the specific calculation function was received at the last time of the plurality of times.
US10684979B2	Memory system for supporting internal DQ termination of data buffer A memory system configured to support internal data (DQ) termination of a data buffer is provided. The memory system includes a first memory module, which is a target memory module accessed by an external device, and a second memory module, which is a non-target memory module not accessed by the external device. The second memory module performs the internal DQ termination on an internal data path during an internal operation mode in which data communication is performed by using the internal data path between internal memory chips. Signal reflection over the internal data path is reduced or prohibited due to the internal DQ termination, and thus, signal integrity is improved.
US10684976B1	Automatic bus resource adjustment in a multiple root bridge computing system A firmware enumerates the buses of root bridges in the computing system. If an OOR condition occurs during enumeration of the buses, the firmware determines the number of required buses for each root bridge causing an OOR condition. The number of required buses for bridge devices connected to each root bridge causing an OOR condition can be identified using the same set of bus numbers. Once the firmware has determined the number of buses required by each root bridge, including those not causing an OOR condition, the firmware reallocates the number of available buses between the root bridges such that each root bridge is allocated a number of the available buses greater than or equal to the number of required buses. The firmware stores data identifying the allocation and restarts the computing device. Upon rebooting, the computing system utilizes the new allocation of bus numbers to eliminate the OOR condition.
US10684973B2	NUMA node peripheral switch Methods, apparatus, and computer platforms and architectures employing many-to-many and many-to-one peripheral switches. The methods and apparatus may be implemented on computer platforms having multiple nodes, such as those employing a Non-uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture, wherein each node comprises a plurality of components including a processor having at least one level of memory cache and being operatively coupled to system memory and operatively coupled to a many-to-many peripheral switch that includes a plurality of downstream ports to which NICs and/or peripheral expansion slots are operatively coupled, or a many-to-one switch that enables a peripheral device to be shared by multiple nodes. During operation, packets are received at the NICs and DMA memory writes are initiated using memory write transactions identifying a destination memory address. The many-to-many and many-to-one peripheral switches forwards the transaction packets internally within the switch based on the destination address such that the packets are forwarded to a node via which the memory address can be accessed. The platform architectures may also be configured to support migration operations in response to failure or replacement of a node.
US10684962B2	Vendor-specific peripheral device class identifiers A peripheral device class identifier is generated for a class of peripheral devices, and is used to identify a setup record that indicates how to install or otherwise set up the class of peripheral devices on a computing device. The peripheral device class identifier is a combination of three components: a vendor identifier, a namespace identifier, and a namespace entry identifier. The vendor identifier is an identifier of the vendor of the class of peripheral devices. The namespace identifier is an identifier of different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices or types of functionality of peripheral devices. The namespace entry identifier is an identifier of a particular type of peripheral device (or particular functionality) of the different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices (or types of functionality of peripheral devices).
US10684961B1	External memory protection for content addressable memory External memory protection may be implemented for content addressable memory (CAM). Memory protection data, such as duplicate values for entries in a CAM or error detection codes generated from values of the entries in a CAM, may be stored in a random access memory that is separate from the CAM. When an entry in the CAM is accessed to perform a lookup or scrubbing operation, the memory protection data may be obtained from the RAM. A validation of the value of the entry may then be performed according to the memory protection data to determine whether the value is valid.
US10684954B2	Page cache on persistent memory Various examples described herein provide for caching a page on persistent memory for memory-mapped access of a file from a non-persistent memory file system or a remote file system having a non-persistent memory page cache. In particular, some examples detect memory-mapped access of a file from a non-persistent memory file system or a remote file system having a non-persistent memory page cache and, based on availability of persistent memory, caches a page associated with the memory-mapped access on the persistent memory.
US10684948B2	Dual inline memory module An apparatus and method for memory backup are disclosed as being operational at a memory module that includes a volatile memory device but which is devoid of a non-volatile memory device. The memory module can emulate operations of a non-volatile memory on the memory module while the memory module is devoid of such non-volatile memory.
US10684945B2	System, apparatus and method for providing key identifier information in a non-canonical address space In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a page miss handler to receive a full address including a linear address portion having a linear address and a key identifier portion having a key identifier for a key. The page miss handler may insert an entry including this key identifier in a translation storage. The apparatus further may include a remapping table having a plurality of entries each to store information regarding a key identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10684939B2	Using workload profiling and analytics to understand and score complexity of test environments and workloads Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product determining, scoring and reporting the complexity of customer and test environments and workloads. The method includes a processor performing an accounting of factors related to complexity of a plurality of environments and workloads; determining one or more formulas to use for determining an overall score and ranking for each one of the plurality of environments and workloads; collecting relative environment and workload data; determining a complexity score for each one of the plurality of environments and workloads; and determining a complexity ranking for each one of the plurality of environments and workloads.
US10684936B2	Observer for simulation test and verification Systems and methods validate the operation of a component of an executable model without inadvertently altering the behavior of the component. The model may be partitioned into a design space and a verification space. The component may be placed in the design space, while an observer for validating the component may be placed in the verification space, and linked to the component. During execution of the model, input or output values for the component may be computed and buffered. Execution of the observer may follow execution of the component. The input or output values may be read out of the buffer, and utilized during execution of validation functionality defined for the observer. Model compilation operations that may inadvertently alter the behavior of the component, such as back propagation of attributes, are blocked between the observer and the component.
US10684922B2	Enhanced data storage using compressed data Systems and methods for replicating data are disclosed. Data stored in a compressed form on a source storage array or device can be read and transmitted to a destination storage array or device. The replication of data is achieved without having to decompress the data.
US10684918B2	Granular dump backup restart One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for restarting a dump backup. For example, a phase offset table is used to track a directory transfer phase offset and a file transfer phase offset of phases of a dump backup. An offset map is used to map inodes, of data being backed up, to offsets within a backup image within which the data is being backed up. The phase offset table and/or the offset map are evaluated using a bytes written value to identify a phase during which the dump backup aborted and to identify a restart point. Accordingly, the dump backup is restarted at the restart point. In this way, the dump backup may be restarted during any phase and/or at any point using the bytes written value, the phase offset table, and the offset map without the need for additional information such as a file history.
US10684913B2	Systems and methods for detecting errors and/or restoring non-volatile random access memory using error correction code Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to detect and optionally recover corrupted system configuration data written to non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented by writing a copy of the NVRAM data to volatile system memory (e.g., RAM) while the system is active. Error correction code (ECC) data may written to the NVRAM when the system enters a lower power state. When the system resumes from the low power state, the copy of data is made in system RAM from the NVRAM, and the ECC data is used to determine whether there are errors in NVRAM data, in which case the ECC data may be used to correct data in the copy on RAM before writing the corrected data to NVRAM from the system RAM.
US10684907B2	Automated error diagnostic and repair analysis Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate automated repair analysis for client devices within a subscriber premise. A diagnostics controller may detect an error condition at a network element within a subscriber premise. When an error condition is detected, the diagnostics controller may retrieve identification information, an error code, and/or query parameters associated with the network element. The diagnostics controller may generate a query for repair analysis that includes the identification information, error code, and/or query parameters, and the diagnostics controller may output the query to an upstream server. In response, the diagnostics controller may receive a repair analysis that includes information associated with remedying the error condition. The diagnostics controller may generate and output for presentation a user interface that includes the information associated with remedying the error condition.
US10684897B2	Event notification A server computer determines that an application of a plurality of applications in a cloud subscribes to an event with respect to a plurality of attributes of event data. The server computer, responsive to determining that at least one of the plurality of attributes has changed, executes the application workflow and sends a notification to the application, the notification indicating that at least one of the plurality of attributes has changed.
US10684891B2	Memory operand descriptors A system according to an exemplary embodiment receives an operand descriptor identifying characteristics of a set of data elements referenced by an operand to be accessed from a set of locations in a memory, wherein the operand descriptor describes an ordering of the set of data elements and respective locations in the memory for each respective data element in the set of data elements. The system further accesses the set of data elements in the memory based on the operand descriptor.
US10684890B2	Network deployment for cellular, backhaul, fiber optic and other network infrastructure According to an example, a network deployment system facilitates deploying of cellular network infrastructure, including cellular network equipment for cellular sites and connection of the cellular sites to a backhaul network, or deploying of fiber optic network infrastructure. Workflows are generated and executed for deploying the network infrastructure.
US10684885B2	Port mirroring in a virtualized computing environment A method for a hypervisor supported by a source host to implement a port mirroring session in a virtualized computing environment includes receiving a packet passing through a first virtual port supported by the source host, wherein the packet is destined for a destination virtual machine on a destination host. The method also includes based on a first media access control (MAC) address of a first virtual network interface controller (VNIC) associated with a first monitoring virtual machine (VM), obtaining a first IP address associated with a first host that supports the first VNIC and the first monitoring VM, generating a port mirroring packet with the first IP address and a mirrored copy of the packet, wherein the port mirroring packet comprises a first Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) base header, which includes the first MAC address, and transmitting the port mirroring packet to the first host.
US10684873B2	Efficient data decoding using runtime specialization Computer-implemented techniques described herein provide efficient data decoding using runtime specialization. In an embodiment, a method comprises a virtual machine executing a body of code of a dynamically typed language, wherein executing the body of code includes: querying a relational database, and in response to the query, receiving table metadata indicating data types of one or more columns of a first table in the relational database. In response to receiving the table metadata: for a first column of the one or more columns, generating decoding machine code to decode the first column based on the data type of the first column, and executing the decoding machine code to decode the first column of the one or more columns.
US10684872B2	Management of container host clusters A method, executed by a computer, includes receiving, for a cluster, a request to create a new container host, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of container hosts having a corresponding plurality of local repositories, creating the new container host, selecting an image for the new container host according to one or more host preferences, wherein the image is stored in an image location, and copying the image from the image location to the local repository of the new container host. A computer system and computer program product corresponding to the above method are also disclosed herein.
US10684860B2	High performance processor system and method based on general purpose units This invention provides a high performance processor system and a method based on a common general purpose unit, it may be configured into a variety of different processor architectures; before the processor executes instructions, the instruction is filled into the instruction read buffer, which is directly accessed by the processor core, then instruction read buffer actively provides instructions to processor core to execute, achieving a high cache hit rate.
US10684859B2	Providing memory dependence prediction in block-atomic dataflow architectures Providing memory dependence prediction in block-atomic dataflow architectures is provided, in one aspect, la a memory dependence prediction circuit. The memory dependence prediction circuit comprises a predictor table configured to store multiple predictor table entries, each comprising a store instruction identifier, a block reach set, and a load set. Using this data, the memory dependence prediction circuit determines, upon a fetch of an instruction block by an execution pipeline, whether the instruction block contains store instructions that reach dependent load instructions. If so, the store instructions are marked as having dependent load instructions to wake. In some aspects, the memory dependence prediction circuit is configured to determine whether the instruction block contains dependent load instructions reached by store instructions. If so, the memory dependence prediction circuit delays execution of the dependent load instructions.
US10684858B2	Indirect memory fetcher Disclosed embodiments relate to an indirect memory fetch (IMF) unit. In one example, an apparatus includes circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction specifying a sparse operand array including N operands, and an index array including N contiguously-addressed indices. The apparatus further includes a processing engine associated with an IMF unit to respond to the decoded instruction by initializing the IMF unit to fetch the N operands in order, probing the IMF unit to determine that a fetched operand is ready to retrieve, retrieving the fetched operand from the IMF unit, and repeating the probing and retrieving until all N operands have been retrieved. The IMF unit, independent of the processing engine, is to fetch the N contiguously-addressed indices from the index array, use the N fetched indices to calculate memory addresses for the N operands, and issue a plurality of read requests to fetch the N operands in order.
US10684848B1	Blocking and non-blocking firmware update A payment service system may include a server that manages firmware updates for payment devices such as payment readers. A payment reader may access a firmware manifest including a listing of current firmware assets stored at the payment reader, and send the firmware manifest to the server. The server may compare the firmware manifest to available firmware bundles, which are ordered combinations of firmware assets that have been released for usage by payment readers. Some of the bundles may be blocking bundles, while some are non-blocking. If a payment reader is to be updated with a blocking bundle, it cannot process payments during the update. If the update is not a blocking bundle, the payment reader may continue to process payments.
US10684844B2	Making and using functional exploitation information in performing software or firmware updates A methodology for creating and using information identifying what and how software and/or firmware modules are used in computer systems, called functional exploitation data. The functional exploitation data can be used to identify what modules should be updated and how updates should be implemented. The functional exploitation data can also be used to identify other computer systems as candidates for updates based on similarity to computer systems that have reported problems, and propose implementing similar updates on the candidates. Functional exploitation data can also be used to identify under-utilized modules for enhancements or greater advocacy. The functional exploitation data can be implemented in the form of a concatenated string.
US10684842B2	Portable electronic device and data updating method A portable electronic device includes a transmission interface, a wireless communication circuit and microprocessor. The wireless communication circuit connects to a cloud server through the Internet. The microprocessor obtains firmware-version information and device-setting information of an electronic device through the transmission interface, and controls the wireless communication circuit to send the firmware-version information and the device-setting information to the cloud server. When the cloud server determines that the firmware version of the electronic device is not the latest firmware version according to the firmware-version information or determines that a device setting of the electronic device is not the latest device setting according to the device-setting information, the portable electronic device fetches the latest firmware information message and the latest device setting message from the cloud server, and transmits the latest firmware information message and the latest device setting message to the electronic device.
US10684822B2	Locating and presenting key regions of a graphical user interface In an example method, an electronic device receives data regarding a graphical user interface to be presented on a display of the electronic device. The electronic device identifies one or more key regions of the graphical user interface based on the received data and one or more rules. The one or more rules pertain to at least one of a geometric shape, a geometric size, a location, or a hierarchical property. The graphical user interface is presented on the display of the electronic device, and the at least one of the key regions of the graphical user interface is indicated using the electronic device.
US10684821B2	Context aware service provision method and apparatus of user device A context aware service provision method and apparatus for recognizing the user context and executing an action corresponding to the user context according to a rule defined by the user and feeding back the execution result to the user interactively are provided. The method for providing a context-aware service includes receiving a user input, the user input being at least one of a text input and a speech input, identifying a rule including a condition and an action corresponding to the condition based on the received user input, activating the rule to detect a context which corresponds to the condition of the rule, and executing, when the context is detected, the action corresponding to the condition.
US10684813B2	Display device and method for controlling same Disclosed are a display device and a method for controlling the same. The method for controlling a display device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: displaying an execution screen of an application which is divided into a plurality of regions; extracting source information related to a region, from among the plurality of regions, to be transmitted to a peripheral device; and transmitting the extracted source information to the peripheral device. Accordingly, the display device can more efficiently provide multi-UI services between a plurality of peripheral devices.
US10684807B2	Client based splitting of PDF/VT Dpart catalog A method for outputting a print job includes accessing a file representing a previously created document at a client computer. The method includes accessing a catalog tree residing in the document and including metadata corresponding with a job ticket embedded in the file for rendering the document. The method includes splitting pages in the document into multiple chunks using a splitter located in the client computer. The method includes splitting by the splitter the catalog tree into a set of branches each corresponding with one of the chunks of the finished document. The method includes embedding corresponding branch information into the each chunk. The method includes generating a package of chunks. The method includes streaming the package to a digital front end (DFE) of an output device.
US10684805B2	Method and printing system for processing a printjob A method for printing a print job, the print job including a plurality of plots to be printed on a print media, includes receiving, by a reprographic printing system, the print job; causing printing the plots of the print job subsequently on the print media and tracking the completion of a plot in the print job while printing; and after receiving an interruption to the print job, terminating printing the plots of the print job and subsequently determining a print job related reference that is indicative for the interrupted print job, and printing a fiducial on the print media, the fiducial including an identifier uniquely identifying the interrupted print job, thereby defining a print job starting point for resuming the interrupted print job.
US10684792B2	Method and system for managing storage device of electronic device by alternative electronic device A method for managing a storage device of a first electronic device is provided. The method for managing a storage device of a first electronic device including detecting a storage capacity of the storage device in response to a second electronic device accessing the storage device; and sending a trigger signal to a processor in response to detecting that the storage capacity meets a threshold, the trigger signal sending the first electronic device into an operating mode, wherein the first electronic device includes the processor and a network connector, and the second electronic device accesses the storage device through the network connector.
US10684791B2	System and method for environment aware backup and restoration A remote agent for performing a backup of a virtual machine includes a persistent storage that stores backup policies and a backup manager that obtains a backup generation request for the virtual machine and, in response to the backup generation request, performs a component validation analysis of a production host that hosts the virtual machine to identify a backup state of the production host; makes a first determination, based on the backup state of the production host, that the production host is in a backup-enabled state; and, in response to the first determination, generates a backup of the virtual machine, using the backup policies, for storage in a backup storage; and validates that the backup of the virtual machine is stored in the backup storage based on a reduced size representation of the backup and a reduced size representation of a copy of the backup in the backup storage.
US10684778B2	Data updating in non-volatile memory Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an apparatus and associated method for updating data in a non-volatile memory array. In accordance with some embodiments, a memory block is formed with a plurality of types of memory cell sectors arranged in data pages of a first type and log pages of a second type that can be updated in-place. A first updated sector is written to a first log page while maintaining an outdated sector in an original data page, and overwritten with a second updated sector.
US10684776B2	Memory configuration for inter-processor communication in an MPSoC A method determines a configuration for inter-processor communication for a heterogeneous multi-processor system. The method determines at least one subgraph of a graph representing communication between processors of the heterogeneous multi-processor system. For each subgraph the method (i) determines a plurality of subgraph design points. Each subgraph design point has a variation of channel mapping between any two of the processors in the subgraph by selecting from first-in-first-out (FIFO) memory and shared cache, and varying the shared cache and a local memory associated with at least one of the processors according to the channel mapping; and (ii) selects a memory solution for the subgraph, based on a cost associated with the selected memory solution. The method then determines a configuration for the graph of the heterogeneous multi-processor system, based on the selected memory solutions, to determine the configuration for inter-processor communication for the heterogeneous multi-processor system.
US10684763B2	Mobile communications terminal and method with automatic return to a position after scrolling A method for controlling display of graphical information in a display window is presented. A scroll region, i.e. a scroll bar, is provided with a “memory” that indicates to the user where to return after scrolling away from a current position within, e.g., a large document. This is advantageous in that it relieves the user from having to be very attentive to the scrolling content of the window, which means that the scrolling can be performed more quickly when compared to prior art solutions.
US10684761B2	Graphical user interface creation using highly rated GUI elements A computer-implemented method generates a graphical user interface (GUI). A graphical user interface (GUI) development server receives a candidate GUI element. The candidate GUI element is in use by one or more current GUIs, and the candidate GUI element performs a computer-based function. The GUI development server receives a rating of the candidate GUI element from users of the one or more current GUIs, and determines whether the rating of the candidate GUI element exceeds a predefined value. In response to determining that the rating of the candidate GUI element exceeds the predefined value, the GUI development server identifies the candidate GUI element as a preferred GUI element to perform the computer-based function in future GUIs, and utilizes that preferred GUI element to generate a new GUI that needs the computer-based function.
US10684757B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method for independently moving and regrouping selected objects An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display a plurality of objects and receive a selection of one of the plurality of objects by a user as a selected object. The display control unit is configured to control the display to move the selected object when a move command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to group additionally selected objects with the selected object when additional objects are selected by the user and a group command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to independently move the additionally selected objects with respect to the selected object until the additionally selected objects are grouped with the selected object.
US10684745B2	Generating a configuration page for rendering in a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing provisioning of storage resources in a storage system Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating a configuration page for rendering in a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing provisioning of storage resources in a storage system. A determination is made of allocation commitment certainties for virtual storage ranges to allocate from the storage system based on physical capacity in the storage system and an estimated data reduction rate. Each of the allocation commitment certainties indicates a likelihood that a corresponding of the virtual storage ranges will be available for allocation in the storage system. Visual representation of a plurality of user selectable storage spaces indicating the allocation commitment certainties for the virtual storage ranges in the user selectable storage spaces are rendered in the configuration page. A user selection graphic that when selected provisions a selected of the user selectable storage spaces in the storage system is rendered in the configuration page.
US10684743B2	Method and apparatus for managing digital media content Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a streamlined computer device and a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Various views of digital media content permits users to easily and efficiently access various digital media content. Different views are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to maintain and manage digital media content libraries. According to some embodiments, the libraries comprise user digital media content and references digital media content. Functionality provided to a user can be tailored to the type of content displayed, accessed and/or managed. According to various aspects, methods and systems are provided for accessing and managing digital media libraries on a streamlined computing device with a plurality selectable I/O profiles.
US10684740B2	Intervention conditions In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a touch input within a particular region of a display area of the computing device. The display area presents a user interface (UI) including a number of views organized in a hierarchy. One or more of the views has a gesture recognizer configured to process a touch input detected within the regions of the display area associated with each of the views. Each of the views corresponds to one or more regions of the display area. One or more of the gesture recognizers has one or more intervention conditions. A particular one of the views is a default view to process the touch input. The method also includes evaluating the intervention conditions to identify a particular one of the views from among the number of views to process the touch input.
US10684735B2	Capacitive sensor and device A capacitive sensor includes first transparent electrodes arranged in a first direction; second transparent electrodes arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction and containing conductive nanowires; coupling parts provided integrally with the first transparent electrodes; and bridge wiring parts provided independently of the second transparent electrodes so as to intersect the coupling parts and electrically connecting two adjacent second transparent electrodes to each other. Each of the bridge wiring parts is composed of contact portions in contact with the second transparent electrodes and a bridge portion provided continuously with the contact portions and separated from the second transparent electrodes. Each of the contact portions has a multilayer structure, and a layer including a portion in contact with the second transparent electrode is formed of a zinc-oxide-based material. A surface of the bridge portion located farther from the substrate is formed of an amorphous-oxide-based material.
US10684734B2	Transparent high-resistivity layer for electrostatic friction modulation over a capacitive input sensor A transparent high-conductivity layer for providing electrostatic feedback to a user of an electronic device. The transparent high-conductivity layer is positioned over a capacitive input sensor and has a resistivity sufficiently high to prevent interference with the capacitive input sensor. As one example, the transparent high-conductivity layer can be formed from a layer of geometrically-separated regions of high-conductivity material. The average distance between geometrically-separated regions can substantially define the resistivity of the transparent high-conductivity layer.
US10684728B2	Focused capacitive sensing Capacitive sensing can be used to measure electrostatic features of a space. Rudimentary capacitive sensing can be blurry. For instance, the resolution of a capacitive sensor generating a simple electric field is not very high, and the response to the simple electric field is also not very high. Using many capacitive sensors and special sets of excitation signals exciting the capacitive sensors, the capacitive sensors can generate specialized electrostatic fields. Because the specialized electrostatic fields provide different views of the space, enhanced inferences can be made from measurements of responses to those specialized electrostatic fields. Selecting certain specialized electrostatic fields can allow capacitive sensors to sense a focused region of the space. Repeating the steps with varied electrostatic fields can allow capacitive sensors to make enhanced inferences for many focused regions of the space, thereby increasing the resolution of capacitive sensing.
US10684727B2	Optical touch screen with a lossy dispersive FTIR layer A touch sensitive screen arrangement includes an optically dispersive base plate and structures for transmitting light onto the base plate in response to an external body touching the screen at a touch point such that the location of incident light on the surface of the base plate is representative of the relative position of the touch point on the screen. The base plate captures and disperses light that is incident on it. The decrease in incident light intensity with distance from the location of incidence on the base plate approximates a substantially exponential function. A sensor detects intensity of light at a respective edge of the base plate. The arrangement calculates the relative position of the touch point on the screen from the detected light intensity and the exponential function and generates a control signal representative of a control input derived from the position of the touch point.
US10684726B2	Capacitive touch sensing circuit and charge compensation method thereof A capacitive touch sensing circuit includes a first switch˜a fifth switch, an internal capacitor, an integrator and a capacitor. The first switch and an external capacitor are coupled in series between a first voltage and a ground voltage, one terminal of the second switch is coupled between the first switch and the external capacitor, and one terminal of the third switch is coupled to the other terminal of the second switch. The fourth switch and the internal capacitor are coupled in series between a second voltage and the ground voltage, wherein the second voltage is a negative value of the first voltage, and one terminal of the fifth switch is coupled to the other terminal of the second switch and the other terminal of the fifth switch is coupled between the fourth switch and the internal capacitor. One input terminal of the integrator is coupled to the other terminal of the third switch, the other input terminal of the integrator is coupled to a reference voltage, and the output terminal of the integrator outputs an output voltage. The capacitor is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the integrator.
US10684713B2	Display device and manufacturing method of the same A display device includes: a substrate; a touch electrode disposed on the substrate; a routing wiring disposed on the touch electrode; a light blocking layer disposed on the touch electrode; a semiconductor layer disposed on the light blocking layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from each other and disposed on the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US10684712B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first pad electrically connected to the drive circuit, a voltage supply line having one end electrically connected to the first pad, a common wire electrically connected to the voltage supply line and the second electrode, a transistor formed between the voltage supply line and the common wire, and a branch wire being a part of the voltage supply line, extending from a branch section, and electrically connected to the first pad. Then, the branch section is located closer to a center of the insulating substrate than the first pad in a plan view.
US10684706B1	Mouse roller module A mouse roller module includes a roller, a sensing unit, an electromagnet and a control unit. The roller includes a ring-shaped magnet and a rotating shaft. The rotating shaft is extended along a first direction. When an external force is exerted on the roller, the ring-shaped magnet is rotated about the rotating shaft. The sensing unit is located near the roller to sense a pole of the ring-shaped magnet. The roller is arranged between the electromagnet and the sensing unit. The electromagnet and the ring-shaped magnet interact with each other to generate a magnetic force. The control unit is electrically connected with the sensing unit and the electromagnet. The control unit controls the electromagnet and the ring-shaped magnet of the roller to generate the magnetic force according to a result of sensing the pole of the ring-shaped magnet by the sensing unit.
US10684701B1	Tap device with multi-tap feature for expanded character set A method for processing user input entered via a data entry system includes the steps of receiving a signal representative of a contact of one or more fingers singly or in combination against an arbitrary surface; detecting a predetermined number of contacts within a time window; and mapping the predetermined number of contacts to a secondary character from a set of secondary characters.
US10684699B2	Illuminating keyboard The disclosure provides an illuminating keyboard including a joystick module and a backlight module. The joystick module includes a base portion and a joystick mounted on the base portion. The joystick has a head portion with a first diameter and a neck portion with a second diameter, and the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter. The backlight module includes a light source, a light-guide plate, and a partial opaque diaphragm disposed above the light-guide plate. The partial opaque diaphragm has a body portion, an extending segment, and a first accommodation opening. The extending segment is disposed between the first accommodation opening and the body portion. The first accommodation opening having a third diameter smaller than the first diameter is surrounded by the extending segment. When the joystick module is inserted into the first accommodation opening, an end of the extending segment is firmly attached to the joystick module.
US10684698B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same An input sensing unit includes a first metal pattern layer including a plurality of first conductive lines extending in a first direction. A first insulating layer is disposed on the first metal pattern layer. A second metal pattern layer is positioned above the first insulating layer and includes a plurality of second conductive lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A second insulating layer is disposed on the second metal pattern layer. A sensing electrode is disposed on the second insulating layer and is electrically connected to the second metal pattern layer through a contact hole defined in the second insulating layer. An anti-reflection pattern layer is disposed on the first and second metal pattern layers to overlap the first and second metal pattern layers along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the anti-reflection pattern layer.
US10684694B2	Extending interactions of a portable electronic device A portable electronic device having improved user input capabilities and methods for controlling the same are provided. The device includes sensors capable of detecting and classifying user inputs provided as gestures performed on a surface of the device, wherein the surface does not include the sensors for detection of the gesture, nor is the surface in direct communication with the sensors for detection of the gesture. The device includes a microprocessor that performs instructions in response to the provided user input gestures.
US10684692B2	Systems, devices, and methods for gesture identification Systems, devices, and methods adapt established concepts from natural language processing for use in gesture identification algorithms. A gesture identification system includes sensors, a processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory that stores data and/or instructions for performing gesture identification. A gesture identification system may include a wearable gesture identification device. The gesture identification process involves segmenting signals from the sensors into data windows, assigning a respective “window class” to each data window, and identifying a user-performed gesture based on the corresponding sequence of window classes. Each window class exclusively characterizes at least one data window property and is analogous to a “letter” of an alphabet. Under this model, each gesture is analogous to a “word” made up of a particular combination of window classes.
US10684689B2	Cross-platform dynamic haptic effect design tool for augmented or virtual reality environments One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a computing device that comprises a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor generates an interactive user interface and obtains an input parameter and a haptic parameter via the interactive user interface. The processor maps the input parameter to the haptic parameter using a mapping algorithm and designs a dynamic haptic effect based at least in part on mapping the input parameter to the haptic parameter. The processor can then generate a plurality of dynamic haptic effects for a plurality of user devices based at least in part on the designed dynamic haptic effect.
US10684685B2	Use of eye tracking to adjust region-of-interest (ROI) for compressing images for transmission Gaze tracking data may representing a user's gaze with respect to one or more images transmitted to a user are analyzed to determine one or more regions of interest.The one or more transmitted images are selectively compressed so that fewer bits are needed to transmit data for portions of an image outside the one or more regions interest than for portions of the image within the one or more regions of interest.
US10684682B2	Information processing device and information processing method Provided is an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to acquire gaze-related information corresponding to a user on a basis of a detection result of a head of the user and a detection result of a line of sight of the user.
US10684677B2	Mixed-reality golf tracking and simulation A mixed-reality golf simulation system includes a ball-tracking sub-system to generate ball-tracking data when a golf ball is hit by a user, a near-eye display, a storage device to store images of a hole of a golf course associated with location coordinates of a plurality of locations along the hole, and a controller. The controller may direct the near-eye display to display a mixed-reality environment from the perspective of a location on the hole based on images associated with the location, receive ball-tracking data including a landing location of a ball hit by the user, alert the user if the landing location is a target pin, and direct the near-eye display to display a mixed-reality environment from the perspective of the landing location based on images associated with the landing location if the landing location is not the target pin.
US10684666B2	Startup orchestration of a chassis system Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a power event of a chassis system; in response to identifying the power event, negotiating between a first and a second enclosure controller (EC) to place the one of the ECs in an active state, wherein the first and the second EC are redundant; in response to placing one of the ECs in the active state, performing, by a chassis orchestration engine, a sequence of actions, including: determining, by coordinating with a first daemon, whether a condition is present that would prevent safe activation of a power supply unit, activating, by coordinating with a second daemon, the power supply unit of the chassis system, activating, by coordinating with a third daemon, a cooling system of the chassis system after performing the sequence of actions, providing a signal to components indicating the active state of the first EC.
US10684664B2	Removable test and diagnostics circuit A test and diagnostics circuit, methods and systems are described. An example test and diagnostics circuit includes a controller and a power monitor coupled to the controller. A load switch on the test and diagnostics circuit selectably implements a load from among multiple load values to test a computing and/or data storage system. The test and diagnostics circuit includes circuitry connecting the controller, the power monitor and the load switch to receive a test enable signal from a non-dedicated pin in a non-volatile dual inline memory module (NV-DIMM) slot to implement a test operation on the system.
US10684659B2	Electronic device comprising display with switch An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a housing including a first plate and a second plate, wherein the first plate includes an opening; a display panel at least partially exposed through the opening and including a touch sensor; a first support member coupled to the display panel and a portion of the first plate along at least part of one side of the opening; and a switch device configured to be actuated according to a depression of the display panel, the depression caused by a downward force exerted on an upper portion of the display panel. Other various embodiments are also possible.
US10684657B2	Multi-axis hinge and electronic device with the same A multi-axis hinge includes a first shaft, a first rotary member pivotally connected to the first shaft, a second shaft fixed to the first rotary member, a second rotary member pivotally connected to the second shaft, a first switching pin movably configured at the first rotary member, and a switching member fixed to the first shaft. The switching member includes a switching recess. When the first switching pin is located at the switching recess of the switching member, the second rotary member is rotatable relatively to the first rotary member. The second rotary member includes a switching recess. When the first switching pin is located at the switching recess of the second rotary member, the second rotary member is fixed to the first rotary member. An electronic device with the multi-axis hinge is also disclosed therein.
US10684651B2	Electronic device An electronic device is disclosed, including a case, a supporting structure, a touch module, a protecting layer and a light emitting unit. The case has an opening. The supporting structure is connected to and disposed in the case. The touch module is connected to the supporting structure. The protecting layer is stacked on the touch module and exposed to the opening, and the protecting layer is separated from the case. The light emitting unit is disposed between the touch module and the protecting layer. Thereby, in the electronic device of the disclosure, a space below the protecting layer is effectively utilized, thereby reducing the size of the electronic device and being convenient for a user to carry, and also reducing the time and cost required for the assembly of the electronic device.
US10684649B2	Display device A display device including a casing, a frame member, a plate member and a display panel is provided. The frame member includes a frame body and a protruding column disposed on the frame body and protruded in a direction from the frame body towards the casing. The plate member is disposed on the frame body and has an opening, which allows the protruding column to pass through, wherein the protruding column fixes relative position between the frame body and the plate member. The display panel is disposed on the frame body.
US10684647B2	Electronic apparatus and engaging mechanism with different engaging directions An electronic apparatus includes an electronic device and a base. The electronic device has an engaging portion with at least two engaging concaves. The base has an engaging mechanism which includes a main body, at least one second engaging bump and a linkage structure. The main body has a first engaging bump. The second engaging bump is movably disposed on the main body and is adapted to move between an engaging position and a releasing position. The electronic device combines with the base such that the first engaging bump and the second engaging bump are engaged with the two engaging concaves. The linkage structure on the main body is connected to the second engaging bump. The electronic device rotates relative to the base to push the linkage structure that drives the second engaging bump from the engaging position to the releasing position to disengage from the engaging portion.
US10684642B2	Adaptive clock mesh wiring Aspects of the present disclosure relate to adaptive mesh wiring. A clock signal is provided to a clock mesh area, wherein the clock mesh area includes a plurality of wires configured in a grid. A pair of loads with impermissible skew within the clock mesh area is identified based on a threshold value. A mesh network area partition enclosing the pair of loads with impermissible skew is determined. Modifications are then made to the mesh network area partition to attempt to reduce skew. In some embodiments, a wire width of a portion of wires included in the mesh network area partition is increased. In some embodiments, a wire is added in between two wires present in the mesh network area partition.
US10684622B2	Vehicle dynamics monitor for autonomous vehicle The present disclosure is directed to a vehicle dynamics monitor for an autonomous vehicle. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can determine, based on data received from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, that an anomaly exists in an interface between at least one tire of the autonomous vehicle and a road surface. Responsive to determining that the anomaly exists: a motion plan for the autonomous vehicle that takes into account the anomaly can be determined; and one or more controls of the autonomous vehicle can be interfaced with to implement the motion plan.
US10684611B2	Industrial control module providing universal I/O An industrial control I/O module for interfacing with industrial control equipment, such as sensors and actuators, can be configured to dynamically provide differing resistances in each channel as may be required for reliably achieving particular modes of operation in the channel. Providing differing resistances in such channels flexibly allows different modes in the channel to provide universal I/O capability. Modes of operation could include, for example, digital output, digital input, analog output, analog input and the like, in the same channel, but at different times. In one aspect, a processor or voltage divider can be used to control an amplifier, with feedback, driving a transistor in a channel to dynamically adjust resistance in the channel by selectively biasing the transistor to achieve a resistance in the channel suitable for the selected mode.
US10684610B2	Method and system for use in connection with an industrial control system An industrial control system (ICS) frontend system has a visualization component that concurrently visualizes a functional ICS view (FICSV) and further functional view (FFV). The FICSV represents ICS data associated with the ICS. The FFV is either a further FICSV representing ICS data or is a functional GIS view representing GIS data associated with a geographic information system. The functional views can respond to an associating event. The system further has a data input component configured to receive user input data, the input data indicating a directed associating operation (DAO) between the FICSV and FFV. A system processor component launches the associating event in response to received input data if the DAO is allowed. If the DAO is from an FFV object to the FICSV, the FICSV function is performed using FFV object properties; if from an FICSV ICS object to the FFV, the FFV function uses ICS object properties.
US10684604B2	Numerical control apparatus enabling specification of a circular arc shape movement trajectory A numerical control apparatus includes a command argument determination unit which determines whether a vector is included in an argument of a circular arc interpolation command which is included in command data and a circular arc shape forming unit which forms a circular arc shape based on a machining program, and a start point, an end point, and the vector, which are specified by the argument of the circular arc interpolation command, when the command argument determination unit determines that the vector is included in the argument of the circular arc interpolation command.
US10684596B2	Head mounted display device A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display configured to display an image; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair; a sensor configured to acquire data about a gaze direction of a user wearing the HMD device; and a controller configured to select a massage part of the massage chair among a plurality of massage parts based on the gaze direction of the user, and transmit a control command to the massage chair for controlling the massage chair to massage the selected massage part.
US10684593B2	Systems for data monitoring and management of pipelines assembled with mechanical press fit pipe joints Processes and systems for preparing pipe for machine processing to form pin and box ends for assembly into pipelines using mechanical press-fit pipe joints that are fully measured and documented during both manufacturing and assembly. Installed pipelines include pipeline data monitoring systems coupled to a pipeline data management center for receiving, archiving, and analysis of the data records to aid in administration, operation and management, and troubleshooting of pipelines.
US10684592B2	Watch type terminal A watch type terminal including a main body; an analog watch portion including a plurality of mechanical hands coupled to the main body to indicate the time; a touch screen including a hole region disposed adjacent to the analog watch portion and through which a central shaft supporting the rotation of the plurality of mechanical hands is passed; a user input unit disposed on a side surface of the main body and including a plurality of keys; and a controller configured to display a first screen on the touch screen in which a part of the first screen is obstructed by the hole region, and in response to a predetermined input applied to one of the plurality of keys, move the obstructed part of the first screen away from the hole region and display a region beyond an edge of the first screen.
US10684574B1	Container, container mounting structure, image forming unit, and image forming apparatus A container includes a container body, an opening/closing member, and a suppressing portion. The container body has a circumferential surface, and has an opening in the circumferential surface through which powder contained in the container body is discharged to outside of the container body. The opening/closing member has an inner circumferential surface. The opening/closing member is mounted to the container body, and is moved, when the container body is relatively rotated to one side in a circumferential direction of the container body, from a closed position to an open position. The opening/closing member is moved, when the container body is relatively rotated to another side in the circumferential direction, from the open position to the closed position. The suppressing portion is formed in the inner circumferential surface of the opening/closing member. The suppressing portion suppresses leakage of the powder from the opening/closing member to outside of the opening/closing member.
US10684571B2	Wet null voltages An example system includes a power supply. The power supply is electrically coupled to an electrode, a developer roller, and a cleaner roller. The system also includes a controller. The controller is to instruct the power supply to reduce, at a first time, a magnitude of an electrode voltage supplied to the electrode. The controller also is to instruct the power supply to set, at a second time, a developer roller voltage and a cleaner roller voltage each to about a wet null voltage.
US10684560B2	Pellicle for photomask, reticle including the same, and exposure apparatus for lithography A pellicle for a photomask, a reticle including the same, and an exposure apparatus for lithography are provided. The pellicle may include a pellicle membrane and a passivation member. The pellicle membrane may include a carbon-based material having defects. The passivation member may cover the defects of the carbon-based material. The passivation member may include an inorganic material. The passivation member may be disposed on one or two surfaces of the pellicle membrane. The pellicle for the photomask may be applied to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
US10684559B2	Apparatus and method for cleaning reticle stage An apparatus for cleaning an electrostatic reticle holder used in a lithography system includes a chamber for providing a low pressure environment for the electrostatic reticle holder and an ultrasound transducer configured to apply ultrasound waves to the electrostatic reticle holder. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to control the ultrasound transducer and a gas flow controller. The gas flow controller is configured to enable pressurizing or depressurizing the chamber.
US10684555B2	Spatial light modulator with variable intensity diodes Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an image projection system. The image projection system includes an active matrix solid state emitter (SSE) device. The active matrix solid state emitter includes a substrate, a silicon layer, and a emitter substrate. The silicon layer is deposited over the substrate having a plurality of transistors formed therein. The emitter substrate is positioned between the silicon layer and the substrate. The emitter substrate comprises a plurality of emitter arrays. Each emitter array defines a pixel, wherein one pixel comprises one or more transistors from the plurality of transistors. Each transistor is configured to receive a variable amount of current.
US10684551B2	EUV exposure apparatus with reflective elements having reduced influence of temperature variation A projection lens of an EUV-lithographic projection exposure system with at least two reflective optical elements each comprising a body and a reflective surface for projecting an object field on a reticle onto an image field on a substrate if the projection lens is exposed with an exposure power of EUV light, wherein the bodies of at least two reflective optical elements comprise a material with a temperature dependent coefficient of thermal expansion which is zero at respective zero cross temperatures, and wherein the absolute value of the difference between the zero cross temperatures is more than 6K.
US10684546B2	Composition for forming resist underlayer film A composition for forming a resist underlayer film has excellent storage stability at normal temperature. A composition for forming a resist underlayer film for lithography including a nitrogen-containing compound having 2 to 6 substituents of the following Formula (1) which bond to nitrogen atoms in one molecule, a polymer, a compound that promotes a crosslinking reaction, and an organic solvent. The nitrogen-containing compound having 2 to 6 substituents of Formula (1) in one molecule is for example a glycoluril derivative of the following Formula (1A). In the formula, each R1 is a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R2 and R3 are independently a hydrogen atom, a C1-4 alkyl group, or phenyl group.
US10684543B2	Smart window projection screen A projection screen for displaying an image is disclosed. The projection screen may comprise an electrode, a plurality of cavities, an upper and lower substrate, and a hydrophobic liquid. The electrode may be disposed on a lower substrate. The hydrophobic liquid may be disposed between the upper substrate and lower substrate. The plurality of cavities may be disposed between the upper and the lower substrates. The projection screen may be associated with the electrode. The projection screen may be configured such that an application of an appropriate voltage to the electrode changes optical properties of the projection screen. Optical properties of the projection screen may comprise transparent and opaque states. Modulation between transparent and opaque states may be in such speed that a viewer sees the projection of a projector on the projection screen in the opaque state as well as sees through the projection screen in the transparent state with no perceived interruptions.
US10684540B2	Illumination system and projection apparatus An illumination system including a first excitation light source, a wavelength conversion element, and a scattering element is provided. The first excitation light source emits a first excitation beam. The wavelength conversion element includes a wavelength conversion material. The wavelength conversion element has a first region and a second region. A concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the first region is greater than a concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the second region. The scattering element is disposed on a transmission path of the first excitation beam. A projection apparatus with the illumination system is also provided.
US10684537B2	Camera-assisted arbitrary surface characterization and correction In described examples, a geometric progression of structured light elements is iteratively projected for display on a projection screen surface. The displayed progression is for determining a three-dimensional characterization of the projection screen surface. Points of the three-dimensional characterization of a projection screen surface are respaced in accordance with a spacing grid and an indication of an observer position. A compensated depth for each of the respaced points is determined in response to the three-dimensional characterization of the projection screen surface. A compensated image can be projected on the projection screen surface in response to the respaced points and respective compensated depths.
US10684521B2	Display device A display device including: a first substrate; a gate line extending along a first direction on the first substrate; a data line disposed on the first substrate, insulated from the gate line, and extending along a second direction that intersects the first direction; a gate electrode protruding from the gate line; a source electrode extending from the data line; a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode; and a storage electrode spaced apart from the gate line and the gate electrode. The drain electrode includes a first overlap portion overlapping the gate electrode and a second overlap portion overlapping the storage electrode, and the second overlap portion overlaps at least a part of the pixel electrode.
US10684517B2	Liquid crystal display device, semiconductor device, and electronic appliance The liquid crystal display device includes an island-shaped first semiconductor film 102 which is formed over a base insulating film 101 and in which a source 102d, a channel forming region 102a, and a drain 102b are formed; a first electrode 102c which is formed of a material same as the first semiconductor film 102 to be the source 102d or the drain 102b and formed over the base insulating film 101; a second electrode 108 which is formed over the first electrode 102c and includes a first opening pattern 112; and a liquid crystal 110 which is provided over the second electrode 108.
US10684514B2	Display panel A display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate assembled together with a sealant, and the resultant assembly encloses a display medium layer. An organic alignment layer and an inorganic alignment layer are disposed between the first substrate and the display medium layer. A first gap exists between the inorganic alignment layer and the sealant, and the organic alignment layer is located in the first gap. The inorganic alignment layer may contact the display medium layer, and the organic alignment layer may be in contact with the display medium layer in the first gap. A portion of the organic alignment layer may overlap the inorganic alignment layer. The inorganic alignment layer may be coated with a coating of hydrophobic molecules. The display panel may further include an opposite organic alignment layer and an opposite inorganic alignment layer between the second substrate and the display medium layer.
US10684511B2	Transparent display panel and transparent display apparatus A transparent display panel and display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a first substrate; an optical waveguide member over the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the optical waveguide member, the transparent optical waveguide member having a light exit face facing towards the liquid crystal layer; a light source at a side surface of the optical waveguide member; light exit members distributed in an array on the light exit face of the optical waveguide member; and a photoluminescent layer on a side of the light exit members facing towards a light exit face of the display apparatus. The photoluminescent layer includes photoluminescent parts. A light entering the optical waveguide member exits through the light exit members, then enters the liquid crystal layer, and is controlled by the liquid crystal layer to irradiate the photoluminescent parts for performing a luminous display.
US10684509B2	Display device A display device includes a light guide plate; a light source facing a first side surface of the light guide plate; a display panel located on the light guide plate; and a coupling member located between the light guide plate and the display panel to couple the light guide plate with the display panel. The coupling member includes a first light transmission blocking tape having a first portion along an edge portion of an upper surface of the light guide plate and a second portion extending from the first portion and coupled to a side surface other than the first side surface of the light guide plate, and a coupling tape located on the first portion of the first light transmission blocking tape and coupled to the first light transmission blocking tape.
US10684504B2	Liquid crystal display device Provided is a liquid crystal display device comprising: a light source having a wide color reproduction range; a liquid crystal panel; and a polarizing plate arranged on the visible side of the liquid crystal panel, wherein the polarizing plate comprises a polarizer and a polarizer protecting film; the polarizer protecting film comprises a polyester base film having an in-plane phase difference of 8,000 nm or higher at a wavelength of 550 nm and a primer layer formed on at least one surface of the polyester base film; and a coating layer having a lower refractive index than the primer layer is additionally formed on a surface of the primer layer.
US10684503B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.
US10684500B2	Touch panel To provide a thin touch panel, a touch panel having a simple structure, a touch panel which can be easily incorporated into an electronic device, or a touch panel with a small number of components. The touch panel includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of first wirings extending in a direction parallel to the signal lines, and a plurality of second wirings extending in a direction parallel to the scan line. Part of the first wiring and part of the second wiring function as a pair of electrodes included in a touch sensor. The first wiring and the second wiring each have a stripe shape or form a mesh shape and are each provided between two adjacent pixel electrodes in a plan view.
US10684499B2	Splicing screen, fabricating method and display apparatus A splicing screen includes: at least two display panels spliced together, each display panel having a display surface; a curved area bending towards a back side of the display surface at a splicing area; and a substantially flat area; a transparent cover disposed at a side of the display surface and covering at least the curved area of each display panel; and a plurality of support portions between the transparent cover and the curved area of each of the display panels and forming a plurality of meshes extending from the display panel to the transparent cover, an inner wall of each mesh having a reflective surface.
US10684493B2	Tear shaping for refractive correction A lens for refractive tear shaping, having a curved lens body with a peripheral edge and a central opening therein. The central opening is shaped and sized and has a tear shaping edge structured to form a tear meniscus within the central opening. The tear meniscus being formed by interaction of a tear film of the eye and the tear shaping edge and having a posterior curvature conforming to an anterior corneal curvature and an anterior curvature. The anterior curvature is dependent on the size and shape of the central opening and structure of the tear shaping edge.
US10684492B2	System for imaging in the air A system for imaging in the air including an image source, a transflector, and an retroreflective element. Light rays emitted by the image source are reflected by the transflector to irradiate on the retroreflective element, and are subjected to reflection on the retroreflective element, before being emitted along an original incident path in an opposite direction and being transmitted through the transflector to form a real image. By means of the present system, it is possible to directly present images in the air, even in vacuum, without the aid of any medium.
US10684478B2	User interface systems for head-worn computers Aspects of the present disclosure relates to user interface systems and methods for use in head-worn computing systems.
US10684473B2	Angle-adjusting mechanism of head-up display An angle-adjusting mechanism is provided. The angle-adjusting mechanism includes a reflecting assembly, a transmission assembly and a driving unit. The reflecting assembly includes a reflecting plate. The transmission assembly includes a transmission rod and a connecting element disposed on the transmission rod. The transmission assembly is connected to the reflecting assembly via the connecting element. The driving unit is configured to drive the transmission rod to move the reflecting assembly.
US10684462B1	Binocular adaptor assembly A binocular adaptor system enables quick and secure attachment of binoculars to a stand, such as a tripod stand. The binocular adaptor assembly utilizes an adaptor body that has a stand end for coupling with a stand and a clamp end for receiving a clamp. The clamp is configured to extend into a clamp aperture in the adaptor body and has a clamp pin aperture to receive a lock pin. A spring is configured between an insert end of the clamp and the adaptor body to provide a force against the insert end of the clamp. When a lock pin is inserted into the clamp aperture, the spring engages a lock stop of the clamp with an insert lock portion of the lock pin to secure the lock pin in place. A lock sleeve can then be tightened to prevent pressing of the button.
US10684458B2	Correcting for aberrations in incoherent imaging systems using fourier ptychographic techniques Aberration-corrected incoherent imaging methods and systems that can acquire a sequence of coherent images and an incoherent image of a specimen, implement an embedded pupil function recovery process in junction with Fourier ptychographic technique to construct an improved resolution image and pupil function of the imaging system using the sequence of coherent images, determine an optical transfer function based on the estimated pupil function, and remove the aberration from the incoherent image using a deconvolution process to generate an aberration-corrected incoherent image.
US10684453B2	Optical lens and projection device having the same An optical lens includes five aspheric lenses and an aperture stop. The five aspheric lenses are, arranged in order from a first side to a second side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens, and the aperture stop is disposed between the first lens and the second lens. An image height at the image plane is denoted as H, the image height is equally divided into ten sections to from ten height positions 0.1H, 0.2H, 0.3H, 0.4H, 0.5H, 0.6H, 0.7H, 0.8H, 0.9H and 1H. Chief rays traveling through the optical lens and to the ten height positions respectively form ten angles with respect to a normal of an image plane, and each of the ten angles is smaller than 10 degrees.
US10684447B2	Optical driving mechanism The disclosure provides an optical driving mechanism, including a frame body, a holding member, a plate coil and a magnet. The holding member is movably disposed in the frame body and configured to hold an optical element. The plate coil is disposed on the holding member. The magnet is disposed on the frame body and corresponds to the plate coil. The plate coil acts with the magnet to generate an electromagnetic force to drive the holding member and the optical element to move along an optical axis of the optical element relative to the frame body.
US10684446B2	Frequency control apparatus, motor driving apparatus, and optical apparatus A frequency control apparatus includes a signal generator configured to generate an output signal as a digital signal having a target frequency that has been set, using a plurality of signals having frequencies that are different from the target frequency and one another, an estimator configured to estimate a mixed frequency that is a frequency of a signal component mixed in the output signal and different from the target frequency and each of frequencies of the plurality of signals, and a frequency shift unit configured to shift at least one of the target frequency and the frequencies of the plurality of signals in accordance with an estimation result of the mixed frequency.
US10684444B2	Camera module The present invention relates to a camera module, and the present invention may comprise: a lens; a heating layer positioned on the lens so as to generate heat when power is supplied thereto; and a heating wire, which is positioned on the surface of the lens or of the heating layer, which generates heat when a current is supplied thereto from an external power supply, and which is electrically connected to the heating layer. The present invention comprises a heating wire, besides the heating layer that comprises a conductive material, and thus can reduce the time taken to supply a heating body with a current, and the reduced heating time accordingly enables rapid heating.
US10684440B2	System and method for mounting and aligning different size optical components using linked-rail mounting The disclosure relates to an apparatus for mounting optical components in a manner that self-aligns the optical axes of the optical components. The apparatus uses an optical component mount that includes a housing consisting of a single rail mount configured to mechanically couple to a portion of a rail for supporting the optical component mount on a rail. The housing also has an optical component dock configured to support an optical component in a manner that defines an optical axis. The rail mount and the optical component dock are configured to make the optical axis substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the rail. Using such optical component mounts secured to the rail would result in the self-alignment of the optical axes of optical components on the optical component mounts. Various embodiments of such apparatus are also provided in the disclosure.
US10684432B2	Fiber optic cables and assemblies for fiber toward the subscriber applications A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, strength components disposed on opposite sides of the optical fiber, and a polymeric cable jacket. The optical fiber includes a glass core, a glass cladding, and a polymer coating. The cable jacket surrounds the optical fiber and the strength components. Further, the cable jacket is tightly drawn onto the optical fiber, where excess fiber length of the optical fiber is such that positive strain is present in the optical fiber at room temperature (25° C.).
US10684430B2	Protective fiber optic termination, system, and method of using same A fiber optic termination sealingly connects to a cable which includes a casing having a cable tube and optical fibers. The termination includes a sealed housing, a manifold, a connector and termination tubes. The housing has an inlet to sealably receive the cable. The fibers extend from an end of the cable into a sealed chamber of the housing. The manifold is positionable in the housing, and has an inlet to receive the fibers and sealed passages shaped to distribute the fibers therethrough the connector includes contacts communicatively connectable to equipment and the fibers. The termination tubes are positionable within the chamber of housing, and have an entry end sealingly connectable to an end of the cable tube and a contact end sealingly connectable to the contacts. The manifold sealingly connectable to the termination tubes to define a sealed channel the optical fibers are disposable through the sealed channel whereby the housing and the termination tubes define a multi-layer protective environment for sealingly encasing the optical fibers.
US10684426B2	Telecommunication enclosures A telecommunication enclosure includes an environmentally sealed housing having an interior volume. The sealed enclosure includes a housing wall defining an opening that extends from the interior to an exterior of the enclosure, the housing wall defining interior threads within the opening. A port-defining element mounts within the opening, the port-defining element defining exterior threads that are threadingly mated with respect to the interior threads to retain the port-defining element within the opening. The port-defining element defines a connector port for receiving a hardened fiber optic connector.
US10684420B2	Integrated MEMS switches for selectively coupling light in and out of a waveguide A steerable optical transmit and receive terminal includes a MEMS-based N×1 optical switch network. Each optical switch in the optical switch network uses an electrostatic MEMS structure to selectively position a translatable optical grating close to or far from an optical waveguide. In the close (“ON”) position, light couples between the translatable optical grating and the optical waveguide, whereas in the far (“OFF”) position, no appreciable light couples between the translatable optical grating and the optical waveguide. The translatable optical grating is disposed at or near a surface of the optical switch network. Thus, the translatable optical grating emits light into, or receives light from, free space. The steerable optical transmit and receive terminal also includes a lens and can steer a free space optical beam in a direction determined by which port of the N×1 optical switch network is ON.
US10684414B1	Interconnect between different multi-quantum well waveguides in a semiconductor photonic integrated circuit A method includes obtaining a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) with a butt-joint between a first core and a second core, wherein the butt-joint includes a poor quality region, wherein the first core is associated with a first optical device and the second core is associated with a second optical device, and wherein the first optical device and the second optical device are each on the PIC; etching away at least part of the poor quality region to form an etch trench between the first core and the second core; and growing an interconnect core between the first core and the second core in the etch trench.
US10684404B2	Diffraction grating-based backlighting having controlled diffractive coupling efficiency Diffraction grating-based backlighting having controlled diffractive coupling efficiency includes a light guide and a plurality of diffraction gratings at a surface of the light guide. The light guide is to guide light and the diffraction gratings are to couple out a portion of the guided light using diffractive coupling and to direct the coupled-out portion away from the light guide surface as a plurality of light beams at a principal angular direction. Diffraction gratings of the plurality include diffractive features having a diffractive feature modulation configured to selectively control a diffractive coupling efficiency of the diffraction gratings as a function of distance along the light guide surface.
US10684403B2	Light guide optical assembly An optical assembly for optical aperture expansion combines facet reflective technology with diffractive technology. At least two diffractive components having opposite optical power (matching) are used, so that chromatic dispersion introduced by the first diffractive component will then be cancelled by the second diffractive component. The two diffractive components are used in combination with a reflective optical component to achieve more efficient aperture expansion (for near eye display), reducing distortions and noise, while also reducing design constraints on the system and individual components, as compared to conventional techniques. The assembly eliminates and/or reduces the need for polarization management, while enabling wider field of view. In addition, embodiments can have reduced nonuniformity, as compared to conventional single technology implementations, since the distortion patterns of the two technologies do not correlate.
US10684398B2	Thin ceramic imaging screen for camera systems An apparatus and a camera system are provided. The apparatus includes an imaging screen configured to diffuse incoming light, and a lens system coupled to the imaging screen and configured to focus light from the imaging screen onto a CMOS image sensor. The imaging screen includes a ceramic diffuser layer fused into a surface of a glass substrate, and a thickness of the ceramic diffuser layer is within a range of about 7-10 μm.
US10684390B1	Systems and methods for detecting a sitting duck scenario Systems and methods for detecting a sitting duck scenario of a vehicle on or near a road are disclosed. The current location and speed of the vehicle are used for different comparisons and/or determinations, including a comparison to road-specific information to determine whether the vehicle is in a particular proximity of a highway, and a determination whether the vehicle has been stationary continuously for at least a specified duration. Additional comparisons and/or determinations may be used. If such an occurrence has been detected, one or more notifications are generated, and provided to one or more of the vehicle operator and/or a remote computing server.
US10684383B2	Seismic motion sensor and earthquake response system using the same Provided is an earthquake response system using a seismic motion sensor. The seismic motion sensor of the earthquake response system includes: a sensor unit measuring a sensor value including peak ground acceleration (PGA) of the ground due to shaking; a seismic motion sensing unit sensing seismic motion on the basis of a seismic motion sensing result value calculated from an artificial neural network that uses the peak ground acceleration as input when the peak ground acceleration satisfies a seismic motion sensing condition; a seismic motion determiner determining generation of final seismic motion on the basis of a seismic motion determination parameter calculated from the sensor value on the basis of the seismic motion sensing result; a shaking grade calculator calculating a shaking grade of the determined final seismic motion through the peak ground acceleration; and a communication unit notifying the shaking grade of the final seismic motion.
US10684375B2	Method of multiple satellite measurement failure detection and isolation for GNSS Methods for reducing the resources needed to detect and identify faulty pseudorange measurements in a GNSS receiver are described. In a Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) method, a position solution is calculated using a weighted least squares method on measurements from satellites of one or more GNSS constellations. A test statistic is calculated from residuals and a threshold is calculated based on a probability function. If the test statistic is greater than or equal to the threshold, a subset is selected from the set of pseudorange measurements using a metric indicative of possible measurement error. A measurement is selected from the subset using a metric indicative of signal strength or some other metric and discarded from the set of pseudorange measurements. If the number of measurements remaining in the set of pseudorange measurements is greater than five, the method loops back to the step of calculating a position solution.
US10684373B2	Image sensor with boosted photodiodes for time of flight measurements An image sensor including a photodiode, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first storage node, a second storage node, a first vertical transfer gate, and a second vertical transfer gate is presented. The photodiode is disposed in a semiconductor material to convert image light to an electric signal. The first doped region and the second doped region are disposed in the semiconductor material between a first side of the semiconductor material and the photodiode. The first doped region is positioned between the first storage node and the second storage node while the second doped region is positioned between the second storage node and the first doped region. The vertical transfer gates are coupled between the photodiode to transfer the electric signal from the photodiode to a respective one of the storage nodes in response to a signal.
US10684358B2	Situational awareness sensor using a fixed configuration of optical phased arrays (OPAs) A situation awareness sensor includes a plurality of N sensor channels, each channel including an optical phased array (OPA) having a plurality of solid-state laser emitters, a command circuit and a detector. The command circuit controls the relative phase between the laser emitters to command a divergence, shape and exit angle of a spot-beam to scan a channel field-of-view (FOV). The OPAs may be controlled individually or in combination to command one or more spot-beams to scan an aggregate sensor FOV and to track one or more objects.
US10684351B2	Terminal device and positioning system Embodiments of the present invention provide a terminal device and a positioning system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The terminal device is configured to: obtain identifiers of at least two antenna elements and attribute information of a reference signal corresponding to each of the at least two antenna elements; receive at least two reference signals based on the attribute information, where the at least two reference signals are sent by corresponding antenna elements of the at least two antenna elements, respectively; obtain positioning information; and send, to the network device, the positioning information and identification information of antenna elements corresponding to the positioning information. Positioning signals obtained by different antenna elements are different, so that the terminal device can identify which antenna element a received positioning signal comes from. Therefore, an improved distributed antenna system can implement terminal device positioning, and improve indoor positioning accuracy.
US10684343B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence control circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence control circuitry executes two pulse sequences, thereby acquiring two pieces of data, each of the two pulse sequences being a pulse sequence in which the sequence control circuitry acquires data after applying a short inversion time recovery (STIR) pulse while concurrently applying a gradient magnetic field for spatial selection and each of the two pulse sequences being executed in two different timings by the sequence control circuitry. The processing circuitry generates an image by performing a subtraction processing between the two pieces of data acquired by the sequence control circuitry.
US10684341B2	Magnetic resonance imaging of arterial structures A method of magnetic resonance imaging (100, 200) includes acquiring (300) tagged magnetic resonance data (144) by controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system with tagging pulse sequence commands (140). The tagging pulse sequence commands include a tagging inversion pulse portion (404) for spin labeling a tagging location (122, 122′) within a subject (118). The tagging pulse sequence commands comprise a phase-contrast readout portion (406) which phase-contrast encodes in at least one direction. The control pulse sequence commands include a control inversion pulse portion (500) and the phase-contrast readout portion. A tagged magnitude image (148) is reconstructed (304) using the tagged magnetic resonance data. A control magnitude image (150) is reconstructed (306) using the control magnetic resonance data. An arterial image (152) is reconstructed (308) by subtracting the control magnitude image and the tagged magnitude image. At least one phase image (156, 158, 160) is reconstructed (312) using either the tagged magnetic resonance data and/or the control magnetic resonance data.
US10684339B2	Dual flip angle multi-echo ultra-short echo time (DUFA-MUTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and methods Systems and methods for producing pseudo-CT images using a dual flip angle multi-echo ultra-short echo time (DUFA-MUTE) MRI method are disclosed. The DUFA-MUTE MRI imaging method includes obtaining MR signals according to a DUFA-MUTE MRI sequence that includes first and second multiple ultrashort echo time (MUTE) sequence characterized by first and second flip angles FA1/FA2, and in which both MUTE sequences obtain MR signals at first and second echo times TE1/TE2. HU values are assigned to each imaged voxel based on each voxel's R1 value calculated from the MR signals, as well as each voxel's assigned tissue type. The imaged voxels and assigned HU values are combined to produce a pseudo-CT image. Pseudo-CT images optionally form the basis for attenuation maps suitable for use in combined PET/MRI systems and/or electron density maps suitable for use in radiation therapy systems.
US10684326B2	Method and device for testing a chain of flip-flops A chain of flip-flops is tested by passing a reference signal through the chain. The reference signal is generated from a test pattern that is cyclically fed back at the cadence of a clock signal. The reference signal propagates through the chain of flip-flops at the cadence of the clock signal to output a test signal. A comparison is carried out at the cadence of the clock signal of the test signal and the reference signal, where the reference signal is delayed by a delay time taking into account the number of flip-flops in the chain and the length of the test pattern. An output signal is produced, at the cadence of the clock signal, as a result of the comparison.
US10684325B2	Jitter monitoring circuit A circuit includes: a first delay circuit configured to receive a first clock signal; a second delay circuit configured to receive a second clock signal; a delay control circuit, coupled to the first and second delay circuits, and configured to cause the first and second delay circuits to respectively align the first and second clock signals within a noise window; and a loop control circuit, coupled to the first and second delay circuits, and configured to alternately form a first oscillation loop and a second oscillation loop passing through each of the first and second delay circuits so as to determine the noise window.
US10684322B2	Systems and methods of testing multiple dies In a method of testing a semiconductor wafer including a scribe line and multiple dies, the method includes implementing a first landing pad on the scribe line, and implementing a first interconnect on the scribe line and between the first landing pad and a first cluster of the dies, thereby coupling the first landing pad to the first cluster of dies. The method also includes performing the testing of the first cluster of dies using automated test equipment (ATE) coupled to a probe tip by contacting the first landing pad with the probe tip, and applying an ATE resource to the first cluster of dies.
US10684321B2	Printed circuit board inspecting apparatus, method for detecting anomaly in solder paste and computer readable recording medium A printed circuit board inspection apparatus obtains measurement shape information about each of a plurality of solder pastes printed on a first printed circuit board through a plurality of apertures and aperture shape information about each of the plurality of apertures, obtains probability values that a first solder paste printed through a first aperture of the plurality of apertures and each of a plurality of second solder pastes printed through second apertures other than the first aperture of the plurality of apertures have the measurement shape information when the first solder paste and the plurality of second solder pastes are printed on the first printed circuit board, by applying the measurement shape information and the aperture shape information to a machine-learning based model, and detects whether an anomaly in the first solder paste occurred based on the probability values.
US10684319B2	Tuning a testing apparatus for measuring skew Embodiments herein discuss tuning a testing apparatus to better match the input response of a target system in which a cable will be used. For example, conductors in the cable may have a different skew depending on the system in which they are used. The testing apparatus may be tuned using frequency information regarding the type of signals that will be driven on the cable when installed in the target system. In one embodiment, the testing apparatus adjusts a testing cycle refresh rate for generating a testing signal which changes the frequency content of the testing signal. Using the adjusted testing cycle refresh rate results in the driver outputting a testing signal that better reflects the actual signals that will be transmitted on the cable in the target system.
US10684314B2	System and method for testing reference voltage circuit Provided is a system for testing a reference voltage circuit applicable to a reference voltage circuit. The reference voltage circuit includes a bandgap reference voltage circuit, switching elements, a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a comparator. The testing system includes a control logic unit. In a test mode, the control logic unit adjusts an allowable value of the comparator to speed up the suitability test of the switching elements.
US10684308B1	Methods for stabilizing biological and soft materials for atom probe tomography Techniques are disclosed for stabilizing soft specimen traditionally considered too fragile for APT instruments. These specimens include biological samples, polymers and other fragile materials. For this purpose, a protective structure is disclosed that surrounds the sides of the specimen by supporting walls while only exposing the very end or terminus of the specimen to the electrostatic field of the APT instrument. The protective structure may take the form of a nanoscale conical grinder which continually machines the specimen to regenerate the terminus of the specimen in-situ. Alternately, the protective structure may take the form of a nanopipette in which the specimen is first frozen before undergoing field evaporation together with the tip of the nanopipette. Heretofore only routinely possible for rigid and hard materials, the design thus extends APT analysis to produce three-dimensional atomic-scale maps of soft specimens.
US10684302B2	Specimen inspection automation system This specimen inspection automation system is provided with: a processing unit which processes a specimen; a conveying line which conveys carriers; a control device which controls the conveying of the carriers; and external connection modules which deliver the carriers to and from external devices. The control device controls the number of carriers in the specimen inspection automation system within a fixed range on the basis of the number of carriers conveyed into and out of the system by the external connection modules.
US10684297B2	In-vitro diagnostic analysis method and system A method and system for automatic in-vitro diagnostic analysis are described. The method includes adding a first reagent type and a second reagent type to a first test liquid during a first and second cycle times respectively. The addition of the first reagent type to the first test liquid includes parallel addition of a second reagent type to a second test liquid during the first cycle time. The addition of the second reagent type to the first test liquid includes parallel addition of a first reagent type to a third test liquid during the second cycle time, respectively.
US10684283B2	Method for the serological diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis This disclosure relates to the field of diagnostic methods. A new marker antibody for rheumatoid arthritis, as well as a new method for detecting rheumatoid arthritis, is disclosed herein. Also provided herein are means and methods for predicting whether a subject will develop rheumatoid arthritis. This disclosure is based on the discovery that patients with rheumatoid arthritis have antibodies in their circulation that react specifically with citrullinated antibodies. In one aspect, the disclosure, therefore, relates to an antibody comprising a citrulline residue. In another aspect, the disclosure provides a method for the detection of antibodies specific for rheumatoid arthritis in a sample from a subject, wherein the sample is contacted with a citrullinated antibody and wherein it is determined whether the sample comprises antibodies specifically reactive with the citrullinated antibody.
US10684282B2	Genetically encoded biosensors The present disclosure provides, inter alia, genetically encoded recombinant peptide biosensors comprising analyte-binding framework portions and signaling portions, wherein the signaling portions are present within the framework portions at sites or amino acid positions that undergo a conformational change upon interaction of the framework portion with an analyte.
US10684279B2	Device for operating magnetic particles To provide a device for operating magnetic particles capable of treating large quantity, and retaining a gel-like medium layer stably, a vessel is formed so that an area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction in a large-diameter part packed with a liquid layer is larger than an area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in the small-diameter part packed with a gel-like medium layer. Therefore, in the vessel, it is possible to reduce the diameter of the small-diameter part while keeping the capacity of the large-diameter part large. As a result, in the vessel, it is possible to treat large quantity in the liquid layer, and it is possible to retain the gel-like medium layer stably.
US10684274B2	Compounds inhibiting Nef-calnexin interaction The invention relates to compounds and methods for restoring or preserving cholesterol efflux in a cell infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by preventing or decreasing an interaction between Negative Regulatory Factor (Nef) protein and Calnexin protein, and methods for screening for such compounds.
US10684266B2	Detection of amines A sensor can include a conductive region in electrical communication with at least two electrodes, the conductive region can include a complex, and the complex can include a carbon nanotube that is functionalized by a porphyrin.
US10684260B2	Electro-acoustic sensors for remote monitoring Ultrasonic transmitting elements in an electroacoustical transceiver transmit acoustic energy to an electroacoustical transponder, which includes ultrasonic receiving elements to convert the acoustic energy into electrical power for the purposes of powering one or more sensors that are electrically coupled to the electroacoustical transponder. The electroacoustical transponder transmits data collected by the sensor(s) back to the electroacoustical transceiver wirelessly, such as through impedance modulation or electromagnetic waves. A feedback control loop can be used to adjust system parameters so that the electroacoustical transponder operates at an impedance minimum. An implementation of the system can be used to collect data in a vehicle, such as the tire air pressure. Another implementation of the system can be used to collect data in remote locations, such as in pipes, enclosures, in wells, or in bodies of water.
US10684256B2	Analysis device provided with ion mobility separation part In order to make an analyzer with an ion mobility separation part have high durability and robustness, the analyzer includes an ion source, an ion mobility separation part which includes a pair of facing electrodes to which a high frequency voltage and a DC voltage are applied, and a shielding electrode which is provided between the ion source and the ion mobility separation part and to which a DC voltage is applied, wherein the shielding electrode includes an ion flow path connecting an inlet from which ions from the ion source are introduced and an outlet from which the ions are discharged thereinside, and the ion flow path is bent so that the outlet is unable to be seen from the inlet.
US10684254B2	Analyte detection by dielectrophoresis The present invention provides a method for detecting an analyte with high sensitivity. In the present method, a solution is supplied onto a substrate comprising a first electrode and a second electrode. Then, an alternating voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode to aggregate, onto the surface between the first electrode and the second electrode by dielectrophoresis, bioparticles and dielectric particles contained in the solution. The aggregated bioparticles are broken to release the analyte contained in the bioparticles. The released analyte is bound to a first antibody and a second antibody to cause the dielectric particles to be immobilized onto the substrate through formation of a sandwich structure composed of the first antibody, the analyte, and the second antibody. Finally, the analyte is detected through the fluorescent substance contained in the immobilized dielectric particles.
US10684240B2	Systems and methods for single-molecule detection using nanotubes A method for single-molecule detection is provided and uses a carbon nanotube having a probe entity attached thereto to define a first state of the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube is introduced to a target entity to define a second state of the carbon nanotube. The electrical conductance of the carbon nanotube in the first and second states is compared to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity. A system for single-molecule detection including a carbon nanotube is also provided.
US10684239B2	Characterization of crude oil by NMR spectroscopy A system and a method for applying 13C or 1H NMR spectroscopy to a sample of oil in order to calculate and assign an indicative property such as cetane number, pour point, cloud point, aniline point and/or octane number of a gas oil or naphtha fraction of the crude oil.
US10684225B2	Method and scanning fluorescence microscope for multi-dimensional high-resolution imaging a structure or a path of a particle in a sample For multi-dimensional high-resolution imaging a structure marked with fluorescence markers, fluorescence enabling light is focused to illuminate a measurement area in a sample. A partial area of the measurement area is subjected to fluorescence inhibiting light. The partial area omits a center of the measurement area in that an intensity distribution of the fluorescence inhibiting light comprises a line-shaped intensity minimum. A minimal extension of the intensity minimum in a direction through the center area is by a factor k≥2 smaller than a diameter of the measurement area in said direction. Without spatial resolution, fluorescence light emitted out of the measurement area is measured for a plurality of consecutive angle positions of the intensity minimum about the center, while the measurement area, for each angle position, is subjected to the fluorescence enabling light. A value of the measured fluorescence light is assigned to the position of the center.
US10684221B2	Light microscope and method for determining a wavelength-dependent refractive index of a sample medium With the method of the invention a wavelength-dependent refractive index of a specimen medium, which is examined with a light microscope, is determined. With the light microscope, a specimen measurement at the specimen medium which has an unknown refractive index is performed, wherein illumination light is radiated to the specimen medium and detection light coming from the specimen medium is measured. With the specimen measurement, a specimen measurement focus position of the illumination and/or detection light is measured. Using a mathematical model, in which a focus position of illumination and/or detection light is defined in dependence of a refractive index of a medium, the refractive index of the specimen medium is derived from the specimen measurement focus position. Furthermore, a light microscope for carrying out the method is described.
US10684214B2	Optical cavity with strong dynamic An optical cavity, includes: a set of elliptical mirrors, which are intended to receive light radiation emitted by a light source, the light radiation leaving the elliptical mirrors being intended to he received by a detector; a first common focal point and a second common focal point, which are shared by the set of the elliptical mirrors, the light source being intended to he arranged at the first common focal point, the detector being intended to be arranged at the second common focal point; a contour, comprising a part formed by the set of the elliptical mirrors which are arranged consecutively.
US10684211B2	Multi-modal fluorescence imaging flow cytometry system In one aspect, the present teachings provide a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) present in the sample by an excitation beam formed as a superposition of a top-hat-shaped beam with a plurality of beams that are radiofrequency shifted relative to one another. In another operational mode, a sample can be illuminated successively over a time interval by a laser beam at a plurality of excitation frequencies in a scanning fashion. The fluorescence emission from the sample can be detected and analyzed, e.g., to generate a fluorescence image of the sample. In yet another operational mode, the system can be operated to illuminate a plurality of locations of a sample concurrently by a single excitation frequency, which can be generated, e.g., by shifting the central frequency of a laser beam by a radiofrequency. For example, a horizontal extent of the sample can be illuminated by a laser beam at a single excitation frequency. The detected fluorescence radiation can be used to analyze the fluorescence content of the sample, e.g., a cell/particle.
US10684206B2	Systems and related methods of imaging and classifying cells in a blood sample Systems and methods for classifying blood cells in a blood sample are disclosed. A series of frames of the blood sample as it flows through a field of view of an image capture device are captured and analysed. Advantageously, the disclosed systems and methods combine the availability of morphological cell data with the convenience of a flow-through arrangement. The classification results can be used for estimating cell counts in a blood sample.
US10684201B2	Mixing of fluids in fluidic systems Fluidic devices and methods associated with mixing of fluids in fluidic devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method may involve the mixing of two or more fluids in a channel segment of a fluidic device. The fluids may be in the form of, for example, at least first, second and third fluid plugs, composed of first, second, and third fluids, respectively. The second fluid may be immiscible with the first and third fluids. In certain embodiments, the fluid plugs may be flowed in series in the channel segment, e.g., in linear order, causing the first and third fluids to mix without the use of active components such as mixers. The mixing of fluids in a channel segment as described herein may allow for improved performance and simplification in the design and operations of fluidic devices that rely on mixing of fluids.
US10684196B2	Virtual diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) quality monitor A virtual diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) quality monitor repeatedly performs an intrusive test for disclosing use of adulterated DEF by injecting a controlled quantity of DEF into a diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment system upstream of an SCR catalyst while the engine operates and then processing certain data obtained from the test.
US10684195B2	Device for conditioning the atmosphere in tests of alternative internal combustion engines, method and use of said device The invention relates to a device for conditioning the atmosphere when testing engines, comprising an inlet duct connected to an engine intake, an outlet duct connected to the exhaust of the engine, a communication duct that connects the inlet duct to the outlet duct, a bypass valve in the inlet duct, a super-charging turbo assembly in the inlet duct, a heat exchanger in the outlet duct, and a turbocharger after the heat exchanger. The device further comprises a first three-way valve that connects the inlet duct to the outlet duct, an on/off valve in the outlet duct, a second three-way valve in the outlet duct, a control valve in a duct that connects the outlet duct to the atmosphere, and a section of the outlet duct that connects the exchanger to the communication duct.
US10684194B2	Engine test apparatus and method To provide an engine test apparatus and method, which can easily enhance the test accuracy.The engine test apparatus 10 of the present invention includes: a dynamometer 14, which applies torque to an output shaft of an engine 12 via a shaft member 32; a torque meter 36, which is disposed on the shaft member 32 and measures torque; and a control device 20, which computes a torque command value using a rotational frequency feedback value in order to apply feedback control based on a rotational frequency to the dynamometer 14. The control device 20 subtracts a value measured by the torque meter 14 from the torque command value to find a correction torque command value and controls the dynamometer 14 using the correction torque command value.
US10684191B2	Apparatus, system and method of determining one or more optical parameters of a lens Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of determining one or more optical parameters of a lens of eyeglasses. For example, a product may include one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media including computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement operations of determining one or more optical parameters of a lens of eyeglasses. The operations may include processing at least one image of an object captured via the lens; and determining the one or more optical parameters of the lens based on the at least one image.
US10684188B2	System and method for determining duct leakage in a HVAC system A system and method of determining duct leakage in an HVAC system including an HVAC unit assembly operably coupled to a system controller, the method including operating the system controller to determine system leakage data, operating the system controller to determine supply leakage data, and operating the system controller to determine a duct leakage measurement based in part on the system leakage data and the supply leakage data.
US10684187B2	System and method for detecting leaks in a fluid filled vessel A leak detecting device for a fluid filled vessel including a housing having a continuous perimeter edge sized to extend around an underwater surface, the housing forming a hollow interior, an anchoring attachment extending through an aperture in the housing for immovably anchoring the housing to the underwater surface, a resilient member secured to the perimeter edge of the housing and adapted to contact and form a seal between the housing and the underwater surface, and an inlet forming an opening through an entirety of a wall of the housing accessible from an exterior of the housing.
US10684169B2	Optical analysis device using multi-light source structure and method therefor The present invention relates to an optical analysis device using a multi-light source structure, which allows acquisition of an optimized measurement result by adjusting the number of light sources depending on a concentration of an object to be measured, such as ocean spilled oil, etc., and a method therefor. The optical analysis device using a multi-light source structure may comprise: a multi-light source unit including multiple light source units each having a light source which is selectively illuminated, in order to adjust an amount of light depending on a concentration of an object to be measured; a cuvette unit including a cuvette in which an object to be measured is disposed, wherein the cuvette has a prism shape and has as many faces as the number of the light source units plus one, the light source units faces the faces, respectively, and reactive light generated from the object to be measured is emitted through the remaining one face; a light sensor unit for detecting the reactive light emitted through the cuvette; and a control unit for controlling illumination of the light source units configuring the multi-light source unit.
US10684166B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program An information processing device configured to obtain an index with regard to light entering a measurement target region in a wider range is disclosed. The information processing device calculates, on a basis of a measured value of a reference reflection region, a reference index including a sunny place reference index and a shady place reference index, and calculates, on a basis of a measured value of a measurement target region obtained by performing sensing for the measurement target region and the reference index, a measurement target region index including a sunny measurement target region index being an index with regard to light entering a sunny region in the measurement target region and a shady measurement target region index being an index with regard to light entering a shady region in the measurement target region.
US10684164B2	Display brightness control method, electronic device, and computer-readable recording medium Provided is an electronic device including a display; a first sensor located on a first surface of a housing including the display; a second sensor located on a second surface of the housing; and a processor for determining a state of the electronic device on the basis of at least a part of first sensing information acquired by the first sensor, acquiring second sensing information from the second sensor on the basis of the result of the determining the state of the electronic device, and determining the brightness of the display on the basis of at least one of the first sensing information and the second sensing information, wherein the second sensor includes a sensor for detecting light.
US10684162B2	Strain sensing optical cable with acoustic impedance matched layers A vibration sensing optical fiber cable is provided. The cable includes at least one optical fiber embedded in the cable jacket such that vibrations from the environment are transmitted into the cable jacket to the optical fiber. The cable is configured in a variety of ways, including through spatial arrangement of the sensing fibers, through acoustic impedance matched materials, through internal vibration reflecting structures, and/or through acoustic lens features to enhance sensitivity of the cable for vibration detection/monitoring.
US10684160B2	Method and equipment for measuring mass inertia of moving surfaces Devices are provided to measure the mass inertia of moving surfaces (e.g., aircraft components). In certain embodiments, the devices will include a support frame formed by first and second structural frame members which form a space for positioning of a moving surface to be measured for mass inertia. A pivot joint assembly is supported by an upper portion of the first structural frame member while a distance alignment device is arranged at a lower portion of the support frame. The second structural frame member including an extension and a dynamometer supported operatively by the extension. The first structural frame member includes a comparator clock at a lower portion thereof. The support device is therefore operatively connected to the pivot joint assembly so as to be pivotally movable about a pivot axis relative to the support frame between first and second positions such that the support device is in operative cooperation with the distance alignment device when in the first position thereof and the dynamometer when in the second position thereof.
US10684157B2	Liquid level gauge with integral electronic display An electronic liquid level gauge assembly includes an electronic display located in a housing connected to a tank. The display has first and second display portions for indicating liquid level condition. A first electronic sensor senses a change in magnetic field of a magnet associated with a liquid level transducer, with magnet rotation being proportional liquid level change. A processor determines a temperature-compensated liquid level condition by correlating the liquid level signal with temperature measurement of the liquid. A temperature-compensated vapor space can also be calculated based on tank information and properties of the liquid. Signals related to the temperature-compensated liquid level and vapor space are sent to the display and wirelessly transmitted to a smart phone or the like for remotely viewing the tank information. The smart phone also includes a special app for sending information, firmware updates, and display configuration data to the electronic gauge assembly.
US10684154B2	Gas meter and associated methods A device which: optically detects the presence of, measures the flow rate of, and identifies the characteristics of venting fugitive gas emissions. Specifically the device provides a spectral analysis of emission gas constituents; selective detection of the presence of venting hydrocarbons; measurement of venting emissions flow rates, the measurement of shut-in and flowing venting system pressures and the venting system temperatures. The flow rates are corrected, relative to the detection of the gas constituents and standard temperature and pressure (STP). These devices are configured to collect such data electronically and transmit via various telemetry systems, to a secure remote data network for reporting, access, evaluation, real-time monitoring and archiving as required.
US10684142B2	Evaluation circuit for a capacitive sensor, capacitive sensor, and actuator in a motor vehicle An evaluation circuit for a capacitive sensor for detecting the distance, speed, or position of an object, comprises a reference capacitance and a measuring capacitance. A square wave voltage is applied to the reference capacitance and the measuring capacitance via a resistor, and a pulse which has a variable duration is obtained with the aid of a logic linking unit. The reference capacitance is connected to a first switching stage and the measuring capacitance is connected to a further switching stage. A single measuring capacitance has a capacitive coupling to an auxiliary electrode, and the switching stages are part of a logic linking unit. An output of the logic linking unit is connected to an integration stage. A charging capacitor (Ca) is charged or discharged via an output of the integration stage.
US10684141B2	Magnetic angle sensor device and method of operation A magnetic angle sensor device is suggested comprising a shaft that is arranged rotatably around a rotation axis, at least one permanent magnet, a stator and two magnetic angle sensors, which are fixed to the stator, wherein the shaft is arranged rotatably against the stator, wherein the at least one permanent magnet is connected to the shaft, and wherein the at least one permanent magnet is arranged to apply magnetic fields at the two magnetic angle sensors with different directions of diametrical magnetic field components.
US10684136B2	User-friendly navigation system A computer-implemented method includes receiving an input, from a user, in the form of a destination to be navigated to; calculating a route to the destination based on the input; recognizing at least one object on a route taken by the user; processing data from the received input, the calculated route, and the recognized at least one object; and providing an output to the user based on the recognized at least one object, the output being based on natural language processing.
US10684135B2	Method for updating an electronic card of a vehicle A method for updating an electronic card in a vehicle based on a deviation between predicted states and actual states comprises calculating a predicted state of the vehicle, establishing an actual state of the vehicle, determining a deviation between the predicted state and the actual state, and storing information in the map if the predicted state and the actual state deviate from one another.
US10684134B2	Using prediction models for scene difficulty in vehicle routing A route is selected for travel by an autonomous vehicle based on at least a level of difficulty of traversing the driving environment along that route. Vehicle signals, provided by one or more autonomous vehicles, indicating a difficulty associated with traveling a portion of a route are collected and used to predict a most favorable driving route for a given time. The signals may indicate a probability of disengaging from autonomous driving mode, a probability of being stuck for an unduly long time, traffic density, etc. A difficulty score may be computed for each road segment of a route, and then the scores of all of the road segments of the route are added together. The scores are based on number of previous disengagements, previous requests for remote assistance, unprotected left or right turns, whether parts of the driving area are occluded, etc. The difficulty score is used to compute a cost for a particular route, which may be compared to costs computed for other possible routes. Based on such information, a route may be selected.
US10684132B2	Generation and update of a lane network graph model A new drive includes a plurality of instances of location data that are received. The location data was captured by a probe apparatus onboard a vehicle as the vehicle traversed a lane network. The plurality of instances of location data are map matched using a lane level map matcher. The matched nodes (e.g., nodes of the LNG model representing the lane network to which an instance of location data was map matched) are identified and updated based on the new drive. Unmatched instances of location data (e.g., instances of location data that cannot be satisfactorily matched to a node of the LNG model) may be used to generate new nodes of the LNG model. A portion of the LNG model may be updated based on an update to a linked localization layer.
US10684124B1	Scanning and measurement system for repair of structures A scanning measurement systems for the repair of structures that includes laser base or hub assembly. The laser base assembly serves as a single rotating head emitting a pair of laser beams, and may include a device for detecting a reflected signal (if using retroreflective targets) such as an array of photo diodes, for example, and a system for transmitting this detected signal to a computer that analyzes the signals. One use of the system is to determine the amount of deformation from a manufacturer's standards of a structure such as a vehicle frame. The system provides a compact and cost-effective way to determining the deformation of various portions of the structure and a monitoring system to display real-time data as the structure is being changed (repaired). The system can be used to show a work plan for an estimate, or a detailed report of all changes made to the structure.
US10684116B2	Position and orientation measuring apparatus, information processing apparatus and information processing method There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
US10684112B2	Structure for monitoring stability of existing subgrade/slope and construction method thereof The structure has a subgrade or slope to be monitored and strip-shaped smart geosynthetic material compound devices. The strip-shaped smart geosynthetic material compound devices are buried to run through a subgrade or slope predicted slip crack surface. Gaps between the strip-shaped smart geosynthetic material compound devices and borehole inner walls are filled so that the force environment of the strip-shaped smart geosynthetic material compound devices is close to the subgrade or slope internal environment. Each strip-shaped smart geosynthetic material compound device has a strip-shaped geogrid, lead, and heat shrinkable tube. The lead is arranged in a length direction of the geogrid, and the lead and geogrid are fixedly connected at an interval of a set distance, with each fixed point forming a measuring point. The geogrid is wrapped in the heat shrinkable tube, and a free end of the lead is drawn out of the heat shrinkable tube.
US10684107B2	Projectile The present invention provides a projectile for use in a simulated fan-blade-off ballistic test. The projectile has an ellipsoid body having a blind axial bore extending from a first axial end. The blind axial bore is for housing a weight adjustment body which can be used to modify the weight and/or centre of gravity of the projectile. A sealing plug may seal the weight adjustment body within the axial bore and an insert may be provided to fix the position of the weight adjustment body and/or to control the sliding of the weight adjustment body within the axial bore.
US10684105B2	Arrow fletching apparatus with tapered body An arrow fletching apparatus with tapered body for use in the sport of archery is provided. The fletching apparatus is used in place of a fletching jig and glue conventionally used to fix fletching to an arrow shaft. The tapered body provides for an overall reduced weight of the apparatus.
US10684097B2	Thermal gunsights A gunsight for aiming a firearm may comprise a microbolometer and an objective optic positioned forward of the microbolometer for focusing electromagnetic waves on the microbolometer. The objective optic may comprise one or more objective lenses. The gunsight may also comprise a display and an eyepiece optic positioned rearward of the display for allowing a user to view the display through the eyepiece optic. The eyepiece optic may comprise one or more eyepiece lenses. Circuitry of the gunsight is operatively coupled to the microbolometer and the display. The circuitry may comprise one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more instruction sets. In some embodiments, the one or more instruction sets include instructions configured to be executed by the one or more processors to cause the gunsight to capture image signals with the microbolometer and display selected images on the display.
US10684087B2	Handgun sear with multiple engagement surfaces A handgun sear has a sear body extending between a proximal end portion to a distal end portion. The sear defines a first engagement surface adjacent the proximal end portion and a second engagement surface positioned distally of the first engagement surface. The sear can pivot about the distal end portion between a cocked position and a displaced position. The second engagement surface can be used to arrest forward movement of the striker in the event of an impulse that causes the striker to disengage from the first engagement surface. The sear may be incorporated into a fire control assembly of a semiautomatic handgun or other firearm.
US10684086B2	Spent casing catch and release trap mechanism with clip A receptacle for collecting casings ejected from a firearm applied with a magazine includes a housing having an upper opening, a lower opening, and an interior defined within the housing between and in communication with the upper and lower openings. The upper opening is opened and can be mounted to be spaced apart from the ejection port of a firearm. A gate in the lower opening pivots between open and closed positions; the lower opening is closed when the magazine is received in the firearm and is opened when the magazine is removed from the firearm. A clip couples the receptacle to the firearm.
US10684082B2	Flexible tube cleaning lance positioner frame apparatus A frame apparatus for holding a flexible lance positioning mechanism adjacent to and spaced from a heat exchanger tube sheet includes an upper guide rail, a lower guide rail, a positioner rail supported from one of the upper and lower guide rails and guided by the other of the upper and lower guide rails, and a rail clamp assembly fastened to a portion of a tube sheet. This rail clamp assembly has a flat plate member fastened to the tube sheet, a base plate spaced from the flat plate by one or more threaded shafts, and one or more clamp fingers rotatably fastened to the base plate. Each clamp fingers is operable to rotate toward the base plate when the base plate is drawn against the flat plate or beam member by rotating the threaded shaft, thus drawing the rail securely to the flat plate of the clamp assembly.
US10684076B2	Air conditioning tower An air conditioning tower includes a tower casing, a compressor provided in the tower casing, a heat exchanger provided in the tower casing and connected to the compressor, an evaporative cooling system which includes at least one multiple-effect evaporative condenser, and a centrifugal fan. The multiple-effect evaporative condenser includes a pumping device, a first cooling unit, a second cooling unit, and a bottom water collecting basin. The first cooling unit includes a first water collection basin, a plurality of first heat exchanging pipes, and a first fill material unit. The second cooling unit includes a second water collection basin, a plurality of second heat exchanging pipes, and a second fill material unit.
US10684061B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises an opening unit configured such that, when a second door rotates in order to open a second storing chamber, the second door is separated from a first door. The opening unit comprises: a latch hook provided on the second door so as to be selectively inserted into a latch slot formed on the front surface of the first door; a pressing portion provided on a door handle provided on the front surface of the second door, the pressing portion comprising a guide protrusion having a sloping surface formed on one side thereof; and a link portion having a contact portion formed on one end thereof so as to contact the sloping surface and to move upward/downward along the sloping surface, the other end of the link portion contacting the latch hook. When the pressing portion is pressed, the contact portion moves upward along the sloping surface, and the other end of the link portion pushes the latch hook upward together with the contact portion such that the latch hook is separated from the latch slot.
US10684057B2	Blower and refrigerator having the same A blower having improved efficiency by minimizing a distance between an end of a blade and a cold air suction hole, and a refrigerator including the blower includes a body having a storage compartment including a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, an evaporator provided behind the storage compartment and configured to generate cold air, and the blower configured to supply the cold air generated by the evaporator into the freezer compartment, wherein the blower includes a suction member having a cold air suction hole and a fan unit configured to supply cold air introduced through the cold air suction hole into the freezer compartment, and having an interference prevention portion separated from the suction member to prevent interference with the suction member, and a water repellent portion treated with a water repellent is provided on a surface of the suction member adjacent to the interference prevention portion.
US10684054B2	Tension support system for motorized fan A tension support system for a motorized fan is provided. The tension support system includes a fan assembly disposed within a fan housing, the fan assembly including a motor configured to selectively operate the fan assembly. The tension support system further includes multiple connectors configured to secure the motor to inner walls of the fan housing such that the fan assembly is substantially supported by the inner walls.
US10684042B2	Chemical reaction heating system A chemical reaction heating system includes a valved mask to capture and direct carbon dioxide from a user's exhaled breath into a tube or air intake chamber, a connecting mechanism to attach and control flow of carbon dioxide stored within prefilled carbon dioxide gas cartridges or containers, a heating system device body, an intake chamber or tube to facilitate the introduction of carbon dioxide enriched air into the system, a canister body containing Group IA and IIA metal hydroxides, a heat-radiating element to direct the heat generated within the heating system device body, and an exhaust element to release the heat generated. The system performs a chemical reaction operation between carbon dioxide and Group IA and IIA metal hydroxides to create an exothermic heat reaction that achieves the ability to heat spaces and objects.
US10684038B2	Automated control-schedule acquisition within an intelligent controller A method of using a server to update stored control schedules for environmental controllers includes communicating with an environmental controller that controls, during a monitoring period, an environmental system in an enclosure according to a stored control schedule; receiving a first immediate-control input provided through the environmental controller during the monitoring period; receiving a first control-schedule change provided through the environmental controller during the monitoring period; receiving a second immediate-control input provided through a user device during the monitoring period; receiving a second control-schedule change provided through the user device during the monitoring period; processing at least the first immediate-control input, the first control-schedule change, the second immediate-control input, and the second control-schedule change together to generate an updated control schedule; and causing the environmental controller to control the environmental system according to the updated control schedule.
US10684037B2	Thermostat and method for controlling an HVAC system with remote temperature sensor and onboard temperature sensor A heating, ventilation and air condition (HVAC) system is provided. The system includes a thermostat including an onboard temperature sensor, a remote temperature sensor in operable communication with the thermostat, and a controller in operable communication with each of the onboard sensor and the remote sensor and configured to execute a control algorithm that calculates a temperature difference between a temperature detected by the onboard temperature sensor and a temperature detected by the remote temperature sensor, such that when the remote temperature sensor fails, the controller uses the calculated temperature difference to calibrate the onboard temperature sensor and set the thermostat to the temperature detected by the remote temperature sensor.
US10684023B2	Water heaters with real-time hot water supply determination A water heating system can include a water heater having a tank, an inlet line, and an outlet line, where the inlet line provides unheated water to the tank, and where the outlet line draws heated water from the tank. The water heating system can also include multiple sensing devices, where each sensing device of the plurality of sensing devices measures a parameter associated with the tank. The water heating system can further include a controller communicably coupled to the plurality of sensing devices, where the controller determines an amount of heated water in the tank based on measurements made by the plurality of sensing devices.
US10684021B2	Knob assembly for cook top A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.
US10684018B2	Combustion chamber of a turbine engine An annular combustion chamber with an axis of revolution of a turbine engine delimited by coaxial inner and outer annular walls joined upstream by a substantially transverse bottom of the chamber, the chamber further comprising at least one annular deflector placed in the chamber and substantially parallel to the bottom of the chamber the bottom of the chamber having orifices designed to be passed through by the impact cooling air of the deflector and coming from upstream. The deflector is attached to the inner and outer walls in a sealed manner, and the cooling air of the deflector is discharged from the chamber through exhaust holes formed in the inner and outer walls.
US10684009B2	Method and apparatus for controlling exhaust pressure for an extreme ultraviolet generation chamber An apparatus coupled to a chamber for processing extreme ultraviolet radiation includes a gas inlet configured to direct exhaust gases from the chamber into a combustion zone. The combustion zone is configured to flamelessly ignite the exhaust gases. An air inlet is configured to direct a mixture of air and a fuel into the combustion zone. A control valve is configured to change a volume of fluid exhausted from the combustion zone. A controller configured to control the control valve so as to prevent a pressure inside the combustion zone from exceeding a preset pressure value is provided.
US10684000B2	Inline mast adapter apparatus for a light tower An inline mast adapter configured for attaching a light fixture, where a light fixture is aligned (within 15.24 cm, as measured horizontally, from the center of the light fixture) with an extendable tower mast, when the extendable tower mast is in a vertical position. The inline mast adapter includes a pivot arm, such that a light fixture may be attached from ground level. The inline mast adapter further includes a first gas spring and a second gas spring configured for rotational movement for rotationally moving the pivot arm to a vertical position. Further, the inline mast adapter may be an after-market add on to the extendable tower mast, such that the inline mast adapter is a kit.
US10683985B2	Security light with diffusing light panel A security light having a first and a second light panel is set forth. The light panels includes a plurality of light scattering structures which are V-shaped grooves extending from the top surface to the bottom surface along the height of each of the light panels. The light scattering structures may modify in density as the distance from the light source increases in order to improve the light output performance of the panes.
US10683982B2	Helicopter search light and method of operating a helicopter search light A helicopter search light comprises a housing with a mounting portion, which is configured to be mounted to a helicopter, a light source support arranged within the housing and at least one optical system. Each optical system includes a group of at least two light sources with different light emission characteristics, which are arranged on the light source support; and a reflector, which is movable between at least two discrete positions, each position being associated with one of the at least two light sources, with the reflector in each position only reflecting light emitted by the associated light source. The helicopter search light further comprises at least one actuator, which is configured for selectively moving the reflector between the at least two discrete positions.
US10683974B1	Decorative lighting control A multi-sectional artificial tree with internal and external power wiring for distributing and controlling power to a network of lights. The tree includes multiple tree sections, each tree section with a set of power wires inside a tree trunk, and a network of lighting wires outside the trunk. The network of lighting wires includes a tree-section wire network with a large gauge wire supplying power to groups of lights strings on branches on the tree trunk. Each group of branches has a branch-level lighting network with multiple connectors in series, and that connects to one connector of the tree-section wire network. Each branch-level lighting network powers multiple light strings connected in series, one light string per branch. The wires of the light strings are small gauge, and are connected by the branch-level connectors by a small-wire-to-large-wire connector.
US10683960B2	Apparatus and method to repair the junction of a sewer main line and lateral pipe A liner assembly and method for lining a damaged pipe junction between a main and lateral pipe is provided. The liner assembly includes a main liner member and a lateral liner tube. A collar disposed near the juncture between the main liner member and lateral liner tube is impregnated with a liquid hydrophobic or hydrophilic material capable of curing in a flexible or rigid state with the material expanding in the presence of water. The hydrophobic or hydrophilic material can also be applied without the use of the collar. When the liner assembly is pressed against the main and lateral pipes, a portion of the hydrophilic or hydrophobic material is forced into the damaged pipe junction.
US10683954B2	Bulkhead connector assembly An exemplary bulkhead connector assembly may include a housing that has an inner diameter surface, a first opening and a second opening. The assembly may further have a retainer attached to the housing and one or more feet extending radially inward from the inner diameter surface of the housing. The assembly can also include a collar that has a portion received within the first opening or the second opening. The collar may have an outer surface that cooperates with the feet of the retainer to hold a conduit within the housing.
US10683951B2	Elongate tape element and method An elongate tape element (508), a flexible pipe body and method of producing a flexible pipe body are disclosed. The tape element has a cross-sectional profile comprising a body portion (510) for being positioned between collapse resistant tape windings such that each body portion lies at least partially in a gap (512) between adjacent collapse resistant tape windings (501); and at least one wing portion (516) extending from an end region of the body portion (510), the at least one wing portion (516) configured to span the gap (512) and respectively abut with a radially inner surface of an adjacent collapse resistant tape winding (501).
US10683943B2	Servovalve A servovalve comprising: a fluid transfer valve assembly comprising a supply port and a control port; a moveable valve spool arranged to regulate flow of fluid from the supply port to the control port in response to a control signal; and a drive member configured to axially move the valve spool relative to the fluid transfer assembly in response to the control signal to regulate the fluid flow.
US10683938B2	Butterfly valve Exemplary embodiments are directed to butterfly valves, generally including a body assembly and handle assembly. The body assembly generally includes a body, a liner disposed inside an opening of the body, and a disc rotationally disposed inside the opening of the body. The body generally includes a male radial protrusion within an inner surface of the opening. The liner generally includes a female radial groove along an outer surface to interlock the liner with the male radial protrusion of the body. Methods of assembling and positioning a butterfly valve are also provided.
US10683932B2	Control device for dual-clutch transmission and dual-clutch transmission Provided is a hydraulic oil control device having a shifting control unit configured to, in a case where, when upshifting is performed, a number of revolutions of an input shaft connected to a to-be-engaged clutch is higher than a number of revolutions of the engine, or a case where, when downshifting is performed, the number of revolutions of the input shaft is lower than the number of revolutions of the engine, supply the to-be-engaged clutch with a hydraulic oil having a pressure equal to or higher than a predetermined standby pressure, and then to supply the to-be-engaged clutch with the hydraulic oil having the standby pressure, and then configured to cause the to-be-engaged clutch to be engaged by supplying the to-be-engaged clutch with the hydraulic oil having a pressure higher than the standby pressure.
US10683928B2	Transmission control device and transmission control method In a transmission control device, a controller determines failure of a rotation sensor. A hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a speed ratio of a variator. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a gear position of a sub-transmission mechanism, and in a case where the failure is determined, fix the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism to first speed. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller fix the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism to the first speed during a vehicle stop in a case where the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism upon a determination of the failure is second speed.
US10683925B2	Gear train A gear train includes a housing, a shaft arranged in the housing, a gear wheel arranged on a first shaft shoulder, and first and second axial locks arranged on opposite sides of the gear wheel to axially secure the gear wheel. The second axial lock is attached to a second shaft shoulder having a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of the first shaft shoulder. A radial-axial sliding-contact bearing unit mounts the shaft in the housing and is attached to a third shaft shoulder disposed adjacent to the second shaft shoulder and defined by a diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the second shaft shoulder. A component attached to the shaft has a sliding surface for an axial sliding-contact bearing of the radial-axial sliding-contact bearing unit, with the second axial lock defining a running surface for the axial sliding-contact bearing of the radial-axial sliding-contact bearing unit.
US10683923B2	Rotatable body valve stem contact for switchable roller finger follower A switchable roller finger follower including an improved valve stem pallet formed by a rotatable body is disclosed. The switchable roller finger follower includes an axle extending through first aligned holes of an outer body and second aligned holes of an inner body to pivotally attach the inner body to the outer body at a valve stem end. The rotatable body is mounted on the axle and adapted to contact a valve stem.
US10683919B2	Ball screw apparatus In a ball screw apparatus, a ball train including a plurality of main balls is housed in a raceway between a ball track of a ball nut and a ball track of a ball screw shaft. A coil spring housed in the raceway includes a first end that engages with an end of the ball train and a second end supported by a stopper (a first recessed portion, a protruding portion, or the like) of the ball nut. A stopper ball having a diameter larger than the diameter of the main ball is interposed between the stopper and the second end of the coil spring.
US10683914B2	Tensioner A tensioner comprising a base, a pivot arm pivotally engaged with the base, a pulley journalled to the pivot arm, a torsion spring urging the pivot arm, the torsion spring loaded in the unwinding direction, the torsion spring engaged with a damping shoe, the damping shoe frictionally engaging the base, and the damping shoe having a damping shoe portion comprising PTFE mixed within a plastic matrix material, the PTFE comprising between 2% and 4% of the plastic matrix material by weight.
US10683913B2	Tensioner Provided is a tensioner which can ensure, with a simple structure, both the stability of the installation state of a check valve and the capacity of an oil storage chamber. A tensioner has a plunger, a housing, a check valve, and a coil spring. The plunger has a front-side plunger part having a pressing front end portion, and a rear-side plunger part disposed on the rear side of the front-side plunger part and having a valve movement restricting portion. The check valve is disposed on the rear side of the valve movement restricting portion. The coil spring is disposed so that one end thereof is in contact with a housing bottom portion and the other end thereof is in contact with the rear side of the check valve.
US10683912B2	Planetary gear mechanism A planetary gear mechanism includes a plurality of planetary gear units each including a sun gear member to be rotationally driven by a driving source, an internal gear member, planetary gear members, and a carrier member, and a case body that internally houses the planetary gear units and includes an inner circumferential surface to be brought into surface contact with outer circumferential surfaces of the internal gear members. Engagement portions having concave shapes or convex shapes that can be fitted to convex shapes or concave shapes formed in the outer circumferential surfaces of the internal gear members are formed in the inner circumferential surface of the case body. The engagement portions are engaged with the convex shapes provided in the outer circumferential surfaces of the internal gear members, from an opposite direction to a rotating direction of the carrier members, to thereby inhibit the internal gear members from rotating.
US10683910B2	Power transmission mechanism With respect to a relation between an amount of axial displacement of a first bearing as well as an amount of axial displacement of a second bearing relative to an axial force generated at a meshing part between a first double-helical gear and a second double-helical gear, and an amount of axial displacement of the second bearing as well as an amount of axial displacement of a third bearing relative to an axial force generated at a meshing part between a third double-helical gear and a fourth double-helical gear, the second bearing is configured to have a smaller amount of axial displacement than that of at least one of the first bearing and the third bearing.
US10683909B2	Torsional vibration damper with adjustable tuning The disclosed invention is a novel method for constructing a Torsional Vibration Damper where the device can be radially installed onto a fully assembled vibrating shaft or flange. Furthermore, the device can be adjusted for frequency during its assembly, essentially eliminating the need for multiple parts, and simultaneously eliminating human/machine error from switching parts across vehicular platforms due to their identical visual appearance.
US10683907B2	Spring The invention relates to a spring (1, 23) comprising at least one tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) that can be subjected to tensile stress and/or at least one compressive body (37) that can be subjected to compressive stress, the spring also comprising a force-displacement conversion unit (3, 18, 24) for converting the force-displacement of the spring force F, said force-displacement conversion unit (3, 18, 24) having a moveable input control element (6, 19, 29), to which the spring force can be applied and a moveable output control element (7, 20, 30, 54, 60, 68, 72) which is operatively connected to the tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) or to the compressive body (37) in such a way that the spring force F produces a tensile stress in the tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) or a compressive stress in the compressive body (37) in a specific force-displacement conversion ratio.
US10683903B2	Integral torque limiter differential A differential assembly provided with a power distribution unit includes a first housing, an output shaft, a shaft, and a torque limiter. The first housing defines a biasing member bore and a brake bore. The output shaft extends at least partially through the first housing. The shaft is disposed about the output shaft and extends between a first shaft end that is connected to a differential unit and a second shaft end. The torque limiter is disposed within the first housing and is arranged to selectively inhibit rotation of at least one of the output shaft and the shaft.
US10683894B2	Air bearing with variable air delivery An air bearing for movably bearing at least two elements includes a bearing main body with a first air outflow channel and a second air outflow channel. The first air outflow channel is supplied with air via at least one first air delivery device. The second air outflow channel is supplied with air via at least one second air delivery device. A sensor detects at least one of a bearing stroke, a bearing pressure, and a bearing throughflow, and a controller adjusts the supply of the air to at least one of the first air outflow channel and the second air outflow channel in accordance with the at least one of the bearing stroke, the bearing pressure, and the bearing throughflow.
US10683888B2	Hydrodynamic bearing assembly and method of assembling the same A hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a first member including a first engaging surface. The first member is stationary in a non-operating mode of the bearing assembly and rotates about an axis in an operational mode of the bearing assembly. The first member includes a first bore and a shaft positioned within the first bore and including an end surface. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly also includes a second member including a second bore and a second engaging surface positioned adjacent the first engaging surface. The second member is stationary in both the non-operating mode and the operational mode of the bearing assembly. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly further includes a spacer member positioned within the second bore and is configured to engage the first member to define a first gap between the first engaging surface and the second engaging surface in the non-operational mode.
US10683887B2	Fastener locking members A locking member for a fastener, such as a nut or a collar, includes a shank portion and a flanged portion, a bore extending the shank portion and the flanged portion and including a first interior portion located within the shank portion and a containment cavity located within the flanged portion, and an inner wall defining the containment cavity. The containment cavity includes an inner diameter that is greater than an inner diameter of the first interior portion of the bore. The inner wall of the containment cavity includes one or a combination of flat/linear surfaces, concave surfaces, and convex surfaces.
US10683875B2	Center ring and vacuum pump A center ring interposed between a vacuum chamber and a vacuum pump, comprises: a ring main body including a first ring fitting portion to be fitted in a chamber-side fitting portion of the vacuum chamber and a second ring fitting portion to be fitted in a pump-side fitting portion of the vacuum pump; a foreign particle entrance prevention member provided at the ring main body; and a dropping prevention structure configured to prevent the center ring from dropping from the pump-side fitting portion of the vacuum pump.
US10683874B2	Multi-stage electric centrifugal compressor A multi-stage electric centrifugal compressor including an electric motor free from risk of breakdown of an operation control part due to heat generated by low-pressure stage and high-pressure stage compressors. Includes an electric motor; a pair of centrifugal compressors comprising a low-pressure stage compressor and a high-pressure stage compressor connected in series; a heat-shielding plate configured to shield heat generated by the low-pressure stage compressor; and a bending portion disposed in middle of the heat-shielding plate, and extending along a rotational shaft of the electric motor so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotational shaft. An inner surface of the bending portion faces the rotational shaft via a clearance part, and the bending portion functions as a shaft sealing portion which prevents leakage of intake air from the low-pressure stage compressor.
US10683872B2	Centrifugal compressor bundle and centrifugal compressor A centrifugal compressor bundle that is provided with a bundle main body in which is formed an annular intake flow channel (FC1) that is centered on an axis line (O) and that leads a process gas (G) into a flow channel (FC) of an impeller, and in which is also formed an annular discharge flow channel (FC2) that is centered on the axis line (O) and that discharges the process gas (G) from the flow channel (FC) of the impeller. The bundle main body has a plurality of diaphragms that are aligned in the direction of the axis line (O) and that are bonded to each other. From among the plurality of diaphragms, an intake diaphragm in which the intake flow channel (FC1) is formed is partitioned so as to have an upper-half part and a lower-half part that sandwich, from above and below, a horizontal plane that includes the axis line (O). The upper-half part and the lower-half part have the same rigidity in the direction of the axis line (O).
US10683871B2	Fan blade support A novel fan blade support device is disclosed. The device may be installed on ceiling fan blades to provide support to the blade to prevent sagging and drooping. In another embodiment, the support device may be integrally installed into fan blades to prevent sagging and drooping.
US10683868B2	Bushing anti-rotation system and apparatus A bushing anti-rotation system and apparatus. A bushing anti-rotation system includes an impeller and diffuser stage including a rotatable shaft extending longitudinally through the stage, the diffuser having an inner diameter defining a bore, a bearing set including a bushing pressed into the inner diameter, and a rotatable sleeve inward of the bushing, and means for wedging the bushing against the inner diameter of the diffuser, wherein the means for wedging provides a mechanical lock against rotation of the bushing. The means for wedging the bushing against the diffuser includes one of a key wedged between an eccentric cavity in the diffuser and a notch in the bushing, a pin protruding from the diffuser against a flattened portion of the bushing, a square-shaped bushing secured into a square-shaped bore, a bent retaining ring having a bent end that wedges against a diffuser groove wall, or a combination thereof.
US10683867B2	Vacuum valve, vacuum pump, and vacuum pumping system A vacuum valve connected to a vacuum pump, comprises: a valve plate to be openably/closably driven; a drive section configured to openably/closably drive the valve plate; a signal input section to which a pump information signal indicating an operation state of the vacuum pump is input; and a valve control section configured to control operation of the valve plate based on the input pump information signal.
US10683859B2	Poppet valve A poppet valve including a valve seat cover having a plurality of inlet channels, wherein each inlet channel opens into a valve seat, and includes a plurality of closing elements, which are movable in an axial direction (A), wherein a closing element, which is movable in an axial direction (A), is associated with each valve seat in order to close the valve seat, wherein all closing elements are arranged on a common closing element holding device and the closing element holding device is movable in the axial direction (A) such that the closing elements can assume at least two positions, an open position, in which the closing elements are raised relative to the valve seats, and a closed position, in which the closing elements rest against the valve seats.
US10683853B2	Method for the production of energy from a rolling motion A method for the production of hydraulic and electric energy from rolling vehicular and non-vehicular traffic, establishing a flow of fluid moving between at least two tanks, the first tank being an accumulation tank, with a fixed volumetric capacity, and the second is tank being an expansion tank, with a volumetric capacity varying between two limit conditions, namely, full and empty. The flow is established by two independent circuits, the second of which is activated after the first, the latter being generated, in turn, by the rolling motion of the vehicular and non-vehicular traffic. The first and second circuit have a flow and pressure reducer system interposed there between.
US10683844B2	Control of a wind turbine taking fatigue measure into account The present invention relates to control of wind turbines where a fatigue load measure is taken into account. Control of a wind turbine is described where a control trajectory is calculated based on a fatigue load measure, the fatigue load measure being determined from a predicted operational trajectory. In embodiments the predicted operational trajectories are calculated by using a model predictive control (MPC) routine, and the fatigue load measure includes a rainflow count algorithm.
US10683841B2	Closed loop multiple airfoil wind turbine Disclosed is a multiple blade wind turbine (MBWT). The MBWT includes: at least one rotor comprising two closed loop tracks positioned parallel or equidistant to one another and a plurality of airfoils interspaced within the tracks. The plurality of airfoils are connected at each end to one of said tracks and are fully rotatable with respect to said closed loop tracks. A transmission is connected to one of the tracks. The track drives the transmission and an electric generator is connected to said transmission for generating electricity. The rotors are oriented vertically or horizontally with respect to a vertical support structure that is used to support the rotors. The MBWT's design allows the electric generator(s) and transmission system to be housed relatively close to ground level. This configuration reduces the mass of the central support tower and reduces the construction and ongoing maintenance costs.
US10683826B2	Fuel injection control device A fuel injection control device includes a valve closing detection unit to detect a valve closing timing by using either of an electromotive force quantity detection mode and an timing detection mode and a selection unit to select either of the electromotive force quantity detection mode and the timing detection mode for detecting the valve closing timing, and the selection unit: selects the timing detection mode when a requested injection quantity is larger than a prescribed reference injection quantity in partial lift injection; and selects the electromotive force quantity detection mode when the requested injection quantity is smaller than the reference injection quantity.
US10683825B1	Fuel pump and inlet valve assembly thereof A fuel pump includes a fuel pump housing with a pumping chamber; a pumping plunger which reciprocates within a plunger bore; and an inlet valve assembly. The inlet valve assembly includes a check valve member which is moveable between an unseated position which provides fluid communication between the pumping chamber and a fuel supply passage and a seated position which prevents fluid communication between the pumping chamber and the fuel supply passage; and a solenoid assembly which includes a wire winding; a pole piece; an armature which is moveable between a first position when the wire winding is not energized and a second position when the wire winding is energized; a return spring which biases the armature away from the pole piece; and a control rod which is moveable along the inlet valve axis independently of the armature.
US10683823B2	Control device for an exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine A control device for an internal combustion engine performs feedback control so that the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust purification catalyst becomes a target air-fuel ratio and switches the target air-fuel ratio to lean when an output air-fuel ratio of a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is judged rich and switches the target air-fuel ratio to rich when an output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is judged lean. The control device judges that the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor has not become abnormal when the value of the excess/deficiency parameter from when switching the target air-fuel ratio to lean or rich to when the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is judged rich or lean is larger than a predetermined limit value.
US10683819B2	Internal combustion engine and method for controlling same Provided is an internal combustion engine including a control device 40 configured to adjust fuel injection valves 12 and a resting mechanism 30 and thereby executing a control of switching between an all-cylinder operation Oa and a reduced-cylinder operation Or, the all-cylinder operation Oa being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in all of the cylinders 11, and the reduced-cylinder operation Or being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in some cylinders 11 less than a cylinder number Nc, wherein in the reduced-cylinder operation Or, all of the cylinders 11 perform a partial operation in which an operating state and a resting state thereof are repeated.
US10683816B2	Port injection system for reduction of particulates from turbocharged direct injection gasoline engines The present invention describes a fuel-management system for minimizing particulate emissions in turbocharged direct injection gasoline engines. The system optimizes the use of port fuel injection (PFI) in combination with direct injection (DI), particularly in cold start and other transient conditions. In the present invention, the use of these control systems together with other control systems for increasing the effectiveness of port fuel injector use and for reducing particulate emissions from turbocharged direct injection engines is described. Particular attention is given to reducing particulate emissions that occur during cold start and transient conditions since a substantial fraction of the particulate emissions during a drive cycle occur at these times. Further optimization of the fuel management system for these conditions is important for reducing drive cycle emissions.
US10683814B2	Control method of internal combustion engine A preparation control for suppressing fluctuation of an output torque of the engine at the time of executing switching operation from the whole cylinder operation to the partial cylinder operation is executed when having made a switching request from the whole cylinder operation to the partial cylinder operation, the valve operation phase is fixed to a predetermined phase before executing the switching operation, and the cylinder deactivation mechanism is controlled so as to execute the switching operation at a target switching time which is prefixed by corresponding to the predetermined phase. The target switching time is previously set to a timing at which abnormal noises are not generated, by corresponding to the valve operation phase fixed to the predetermined phase.
US10683807B2	Anti-coking coatings, processes therefor, and hydrocarbon fluid passages provided therewith A method for providing an anti-coking coating system on a surface at elevated temperatures when contacted by a hydrocarbon fluid, for example, a surface of an interior fuel passage within a fuel nozzle of a type utilized in gas turbine engines, is disclosed. The surface of the passage is rough as a result of the passage being part of a component manufactured by an additive manufacturing (AM) process. In addition, the passage may have a complex geometry of a type that can be fabricated with AM processes, for example, geometries comprising combinations of sharp bends and narrow cross-sections. The coating system comprises at least one ceramic barrier layer and an outermost metallic layer, each of which is formed using a conformal vapor deposition process.
US10683805B2	Anti-icing system for a turbine engine vane An anti-icing system for a turbine engine vane extending between an outer casing and an inner casing defining a passage, the system includes an injector device for injecting a jet of air into the passage upstream from the vane, the injector device including a first injection orifice for injecting the jet of air, the first orifice passing through one member selected from the outer casing and the inner casing, and being located in such a manner that, at a first speed of the engine wherein a stream of air flows generally in the passage along a first direction, the first orifice and a leading edge of the vane are substantially in alignment along the first direction, the first orifice is spaced apart from the junction between the leading edge of the vane and the member through which the first orifice passes by a distance of at least 10 mm, and preferably of about 15 mm.
US10683804B2	System for recovering exhaust gas energy The invention relates to a system (12) for the recovery of energy from exhaust gases from at least one turboshaft engine, comprising a turbine (34) fitted rotatably around a recovery shaft (40), adapted to bleed off at least a part (14) of the exhaust gases, known as bleed gases (14), and to expand said bleed gases (14) to become expanded gases (42) at a pressure below atmospheric pressure, a first heat exchanger (44), adapted to use a cold source (45) to cool said expanded gases (42) to become cooled gases (46), and a compressor (36) fitted rotatably around said recovery shaft (40), adapted to compress said cooled gases (46) to atmospheric pressure.
US10683803B2	Compressed-air energy-storage system A compressed-air energy-storage system, comprising: a variable-nozzle expander configured to receive an airflow at a first pressure and partially expand said airflow at a second pressure, said second pressure being lower than said first pressure, expansion of said airflow in said variable-nozzle expander producing useful mechanical power; a heat generator component configured to receive a fuel and a partially expanded airflow from the variable-nozzle expander; and a turbine configured to receive combustion gas from the heat generator component and expand the combustion gas producing useful mechanical power.
US10683801B2	System and method for oxidant compression in a stoichiometric exhaust gas recirculation gas turbine system A system includes a gas turbine system having a turbine combustor, a turbine driven by combustion products from the turbine combustor, and an exhaust gas compressor driven by the turbine. The exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and supply an exhaust gas to the turbine combustor. The gas turbine system also has an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system is configured to recirculate the exhaust gas along an exhaust recirculation path from the turbine to the exhaust gas compressor. The system further includes a main oxidant compression system having one or more oxidant compressors. The one or more oxidant compressors are separate from the exhaust gas compressor, and the one or more oxidant compressors are configured to supply all compressed oxidant utilized by the turbine combustor in generating the combustion products.
US10683795B2	Turbine for an exhaust turbocharger having a dual branch turbine housing and valve arrangement for branch connection and waste gate control A turbine for an exhaust turbocharger has a dual branch turbine housing and valve arrangement for branch connection and waste gate control. The turbine for an exhaust-gas turbocharger, having a turbine housing which has two exhaust-gas volutes through which an exhaust gas mass flow can flow and between which there is provided a separating wall and having a linear valve which has a valve element and a displacement shaft. The displacement shaft is guided through the separating wall and is arranged movably in the direction of its shaft longitudinal axis in the separating wall. The displacement shaft and the valve element are separate components which are connected to one another such that a compensation of positional and dimensional tolerances between displacement shaft and valve element during operation is made possible.
US10683787B2	Automotive exhaust aftertreatment system having onboard ammonia reactor with hybrid heating An automotive exhaust aftertreatment system includes an onboard ammonium carbamate reactor. The onboard ammonium carbamate reactor is coupled to a diesel emission fluid reservoir also included in the system and is configured to generate aqueous ammonium carbamate solution from diesel emission fluid. A hybrid heating system for use with the ammonium carbamate reactor is provided in this disclosure.
US10683785B2	Exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine In an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the apparatus comprising NOx storage reduction catalyst, and a controller comprising at least one processor is configured to carry out rich spike, wherein in cases where the storage amount of NOx is the same, in a period of time from the completion of the execution of the last rich spike to the start of the execution of the current rich spike, the controller makes a period of execution of the current rich spike longer, and/or a degree of richness of a rich air fuel ratio achieved by the execution of the current rich spike larger, in the case where a period of time in which a temperature of the NOx storage reduction catalyst becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined determination temperature is long than in the case where it is short.
US10683778B2	Removable valve bridges and valve actuation systems including the same A system for actuating engine valves may include a valve bridge having a main event rocker interface portion, a first valve interface portion and a second valve interface portion extending in generally opposite directions from the main event rocker interface portion. The second valve interface portion may include an open end including a slot for receiving a bridge pin. The slot permits the valve bridge to be removed from the actuation system without removal of the main event rocker or other actuating components, such as an auxiliary rocker. The valve bridge can be removed from the valve train without requiring removal of other actuation system components, such as auxiliary rockers or main event rockers. A single valve bridge configuration can be used with different valve spans, which may occur among different cylinder sizes in a given engine family, or across different engine families.
US10683775B2	Gas shielding arrangements for gas turbine engines A gas shield arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes a first gas shield that is arranged to cover an inlet of a gas flow path of the gas turbine engine and a second gas shield that is arranged to cover a first outlet of the gas flow path of the gas turbine engine. The gas shield arrangement further includes a reservoir that holds fluid and a pump that pumps the fluid from the reservoir to one of a first valve and a second valve and that returns at least some of the pumped fluid to the reservoir from the other of the first valve and the second valve.
US10683762B2	Gas engine component with cooling passages in wall A ceramic structure may include a sacrificial ceramic core. The sacrificial ceramic core may include a ceramic body corresponding to a cooling cavity of a heat exchanger segment. The ceramic body may have an exterior surface that includes an outer surface and an inner surface interconnected to one another by at least a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip facing edge and a base facing edge. The ceramic body may define a plurality of apertures extending between the outer surface and the inner surface. The ceramic body may include a trailing first pin and a leading first pin. The trailing first pin and the leading first pin may extend away from the inner surface. The leading first pin may be spaced away from the trailing first pin and in closer proximity to the leading edge than the trailing first pin.
US10683758B2	Inter-stage cooling for a turbomachine An apparatus for controlling flow of coolant into an inter-stage cavity of a turbomachine is described. The cavity is bounded by a first turbine stage, a second turbine stage axially displaced along a common axis of rotation with the first turbine stage, and an annular platform bridging a space between the axially displaced first and second turbine stages. An annular plenum chamber is arranged inboard of the annular platform, the annular plenum chamber having one or more inlets for receiving coolant and one or more outlets exiting into the cavity, whereby, in use, coolant is delivered into the cavity at an increased pressure compared to coolant entering the plenum chamber at the inlet. The apparatus is beneficially arranged immediately upstream (with respect to the flow of a working fluid through the turbomachine) of an inter-stage seal assembly.
US10683757B2	Disk assembly and Turbine including the same A disk assembly may include: a first disk engaged with a compressor section of a gas turbine; a second disk engaged with a turbine section of the gas turbine; and a third disk disposed between the first and second disks, and transferring torque applied to the second disk to the first disk. The third disk has a plurality of legs formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof, the plurality of legs being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of a tie bolt of the gas turbine.
US10683753B2	Support for drilling and bolting device A boom for supporting a drilling and bolting tool includes a first portion including a first end and a second end, a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end; a second portion including a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end supported for translational movement relative to the first portion in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the distal end configured to support the drilling and bolting tool; an actuator for moving the second portion relative to the first portion parallel to the longitudinal axis; and a fluid passage for conveying pressurized fluid between the first end of the first portion and the drilling and bolting tool adjacent the distal end of the second portion, the fluid passage positioned within the first portion and the second portion.
US10683749B2	Coal seam gas production determination A coal seam producibility determination system may include a fiber optic cable, the fiber optic extending from a DAS interrogation unit into a wellbore. The DAS interrogation unit may be located at a surface. The wellbore may intersect a plurality of coal seams to be measured, the coal seams comprising fluid and solubilized gas. The wellbore contains wellbore fluid and the wellbore has a wall. The fiber optic cable extends along the plurality of coal seams. The coal seam producibility determination system may further include a spectrometer, the spectrometer located at the surface or within the wellbore. The coal seam producibility determination system may also include an optical window, the optical window in optical communication with the spectrometer, the optical window in fluid communication with the wellbore fluid.
US10683737B2	Retrievable permanent magnet pump A well pumping assembly has a stator mounted in a housing, the stator having an axially extending stator cavity. The stator has windings that when powered create an electromagnetic field into the stator cavity. A pump has a landed position within the stator cavity. The pump having a non-rotating pump portion and a rotating pump portion. Magnets mount on the rotating pump portion and impart rotation to the rotating pump portion in response to the electromagnetic field. A neck on a downstream end of the pump has a running and retrieval feature for engagement by a running and retrieving tool to retrieve the pump from and install the pump in the landed position.
US10683733B2	Downhole expandable tubular members with sealed releasable connection An apparatus for expanding tubular members in a wellbore, such as casing, liners, sand screens, or other expandable tubular members, includes a first downhole tubular member, a second downhole tubular member that is radially expandable, and a sealed releasable connection coupling the first and second downhole tubular members. The sealed releasable connection is configured to decouple the first and second downhole tubular members by expansion of the second downhole tubular member. The sealed releasable connection had a metal-to-metal seal formed between the first and second downhole tubular members.
US10683725B2	Methods and systems to seal subterranean void A device including an expandable material that is configured to be compressed in a first state while traveling through a wellbore and expanded in a second state to form a seal.
US10683723B2	Method of providing a barrier in a fracture-containing system The present invention relates to a method of providing a barrier in a fracture-containing system, comprising: i) Providing a treatment fluid comprising: a) a base fluid; b) an elastomeric material, wherein said elastomeric material comprises at least one polymer capable of crosslinking into an elastomer, and c) at least one crosslinking agent; ii) Placing the treatment fluid in a fracture-containing system; iii) Allowing the elastomeric material to crosslink with itself to form a barrier in said fracture-containing system; wherein the elastomeric material and/or the crosslinking agent are of neutral buoyancy with regard to the base fluid. The invention is contemplated to having utility not only in the oil-drilling industry but also in the plugging of fractures in sewer drains, pipelines etc.
US10683721B2	Test tree and actuator A subsea test tree comprises a housing defining a flow path, a valve member mounted in the housing and an actuator coupled to the housing. A drive arrangement extends through a wall of the housing to operatively connect the actuator to the valve. The actuator is operable to operate the valve member to control fluid flow along the fluid pathway. Also disclosed are improvements to actuators.
US10683719B2	Wireline tractor comprising a disc-shaped cutting device for perforating of a tubing wall and method for perforating a tubing wall This invention relates to a wireline tractor (10) for use in a casing or tubing (4) in a well. The wireline tractor (10) includes at least one retractable wheel (14) for driving within the casing or tubing (4) and a rotatable disc-shaped cutting device (11) mounted on an actuator (13) that is coupled to the wireline tractor. The cutting device (11) and the actuator (13) are configured for pressing the cutting device (11) against a wall of the casing or tubing (4) and for cutting a perforation (100) in the wall of the casing or tubing (4), in operational use of the wireline tractor (10). The invention further relates to a method for perforating a casing or tubing (4) in a well.
US10683715B2	Proportional control of rig drilling mud flow A system includes a mud pump for pumping a drilling mud from a drilling mud source, through a drill string, out a drill bit and into an annular, and a plurality of chokes disposed down stream from the mud pump, including a first choke disposed between the mud pump and the drill string, and a second choke disposed between the mud pump and a mud tank. The system further includes a fluid discharge conduit in fluid communication with the annular space for transferring the drilling mud to handling equipment in fluid communication with the mud tank. The first choke receives the drilling mud from the mud pump at a first flow rate, the first choke reduces drilling mud flow rate to a second flow rate less than the first flow rate, and the second choke reduces drilling mud flow rate to a third flow rate.
US10683714B2	In-line mud screen manifold A mud screen manifold in which a saver sub chamber, a screen chamber and a mud inlet chamber are formed in a body. A hollow saver sub is provided, suitable for insertion into the saver sub chamber after connection to a screen cage. When a shaped flange on the saver sub is received into a correspondingly shaped recess formed in the saver sub chamber, a mud flow inlet is in fluid flow communication with a cutout in the saver sub via the mud inlet chamber, and the saver sub is in fluid flow communication with the screen chamber via fluid flow through the screen cage. Contact seals prevent fluid flow from leaking around the screen cage. The mud inlet chamber, the saver sub and the saver sub cutout preferably cooperate to form a smooth-walled passageway for fluid flow communication between the mud inlet chamber and the screen cage.
US10683710B2	Device for isolating a tool from axial vibration while maintaining conductor connectivity A device is provided for isolating, from shock and vibration, any down-hole tool housed within a drill string, while maintaining rotational alignment and providing a continuous electrical connection between the ends of the tool along a plurality of conductor paths. The device increases down-hole tool life while reducing damage when operating in demanding environments.
US10683705B2	Cutting tool and method of manufacture A MAX-phase material is provided for a cutting tool and other applications.
US10683692B2	Clutch mechanism between leadscrew and electric motor A clutch mechanism for coupling and uncoupling an electric motor and leadscrew has dog-clutch gears that can be engaged by a linear actuator, bell crank, and linkage shaft. Uncoupling force due to narrowed dog teeth are resisted by the alignment of the linkage shaft with the central portion of the bell crank.
US10683691B2	Power swing door actuator with integrated door check mechanism A power swing door actuator for moving a passenger swing door relative to a body portion of a motor vehicle. The power swing door actuator includes a housing rigidly fixed to the swing door, a motor mounted to the housing, a connector link having a first end pivotably coupled to the vehicle body portion and a second end pivotably coupled to a drive nut of a spindle drive mechanism. A leadscrew of the spindle drive mechanism is rotatably driven by the motor for causing relative translational movement between the drive nut and the leadscrew which, in turn, results in pivoting movement of the connector link while the vehicle door swings between open and closed positions in response to selective actuation of the motor. The power swing door actuator is further equipped with an integrated door check mechanism.
US10683689B2	Vertical folding wall partition and method of deploying same A folding wall partition includes foldable panel assemblies. Each panel assembly includes an upper panel and a lower panel. The upper and lower panels extend substantially in a common vertical plane when in a deployed position, and extend laterally outwardly of the common vertical plane in a stacked relationship when in a stored position. A moving mechanism engages the panel assemblies to displace them between the stored and deployed positions. A cover assembly has cover panels. The cover panels extend in a first common horizontal plane when in the deployed position and are substantially coplanar with the ceiling to conceal a cavity. The cover panels extend in a second common horizontal plane higher than the first common horizontal plane and within the cavity when the cover panels are in the stored position.
US10683681B2	Lidded mini-drawer assembly without a cable A drawer assembly is described that includes one or more mini-drawer assemblies. A mini-drawer assembly comprises a sliding tab along a rear-to-front axis, a release mechanism coupled to the sliding tab, and a body having a body bottom coupled from the body bottom to the sliding tab. The body may slide over the sliding tab. The mini-drawer assembly may include a plurality of compartments in the body and a plurality of lids that are hingedly coupled to the compartments. Each lid may have a respective fastening element. A plurality of latches may couple to the body such that each latch is coupled to a corresponding compartment. The latch may hold the respective fastening element of the lid. When the body is pulled out along the rear-to-front axis, the release mechanism may engage with the latch to release the respective fastening element and to unlatch the lid of the compartment.
US10683680B2	Door or other closable panel with lock-actuating linkage A door or window arrangement has a panel movable relative to an opening bounded by a frame so as to close against a strike jamb or move away from it. A locking element moves between a locked state in which it engages between the panel and the strike jamb to prevent separation of the panel from the strike jamb and a released state in which the panel can be separated from the strike jamb. A linkage is displaced by a terminal part of a closing motion of the panel so that completion of the closing motion can only occur when the locking element assumes its locked state. Preferably, the linkage is deployed so that force applied to displace the panel through the terminal part of the closing motion results in a force applied to the locking element to displace it towards its locked state.
US10683678B2	Door with door fitting Provided is a door fitting, with an outer doorplate and with an inner doorplate, wherein the outer doorplate has a first opening on an inner side facing the inner doorplate, into which a shaft of a first screw can be screwed to fasten the outer doorplate to the door, and a second opening at a distance from the first end section in the lengthwise direction of the door fitting, into which a shaft of a second screw can be screwed to fasten the outer doorplate to the door. The door fitting can be adapted to various fitting situations if the first opening and/or the second opening is/are arranged on the outer doorplate so as to be displaceable in the lengthwise direction of the door fitting to allow different relative positions to be set between the outer doorplate and the first opening and/or the second opening.
US10683674B2	Pool with an elliptical frame A pool with an elliptical frame is disclosed. The pool includes a support frame (A) and a flexible pool liner (B) which is supported by the support frame (A) and is used for containing water. The support frame (A) includes a horizontal and substantially elliptical upper frame (1). A plurality of vertical support members (2) and oblique support members (3) are used for supporting the upper frame (1). Two opposite ends of the upper frame (1) are arranged two opposite arcuate frames (11) along the major axis direction of the elliptical upper frame. Two opposite parallel straight frames (12) having the same length are respectively coupled between the two arcuate frames (11). The arcuate frames (11) and the straight frames (12) form the closed upper frame (1). The wall-mounted filtration apparatus is arranged on the pool using the connecting threads (710) positioned on the water outlet (128) of the pool.
US10683669B2	Substrate mounted container A container is described herein that is configured to be mounted between joists in a substrate of a structure, such as a floor, wall, or ceiling. The container includes a body portion sized to be disposed between the joists and a lid to cover an opening to the body. The lid can further be configured to be coplanar with a covering material of the substrate so that the container does not project outwardly from the substrate.
US10683667B2	Debris repelling filtering device for roof gutters A gutter filtering device constructed to be mounted on top of a gutter opening and to extend from the front to the rear, and to attach to the front lip of the gutter. The gutter filtering device comprises a main body frame portion supporting a filtering media, a front mounting portion and a rear wing mounting portion. The main body frame portion is comprised of louvers that supports and holds a filtering media. The front mounting portion comprises a bending of the main body frame that folds over and crimps to the front end of the filtering media. The rear mounting portion comprises a separate rear wing folded over and crimpled to rear portion of the main body frame. The filtering media's top surface is shaped with many front to rear raised ridges in an repeating S-shape pattern that are parallel and form a consistent pattern from left to right.
US10683666B1	Method for covering roof with shrink wrap A system and method for temporary protection of a damaged roof is provided. The method includes draping a strip of the impermeable membrane over the roof, wherein the end of the strip overhangs a fascia of eaves of the roof, placing a piece of construction material in a horizontal position under the end of the strip, cutting the end of the strip as follows: a horizontal cut and two vertical cuts of the construction material, such that a resulting shape of the end of the strip is substantially commensurate with the construction material, fastening the construction material to the end of the strip, rolling the construction material at least one full turn in the end of the strip, attaching the construction material to the fascia of the eaves of the roof, and repeating the steps above until the entire roof is covered in the impermeable membrane.
US10683660B2	Exterior wall system A vertical exterior wall system has an exterior substrate and a control joint disposed on the substrate. A building material such as stucco covers a base plate of the control joint. An A-shaped ridge extends from the based plate of the control joint and is disposed between a first area of the building material and a second area of the building material, defining a gap. A sealant may be disposed in the gap and may cover the A-shaped ridge, adhering to building materials of the first area and the second area.
US10683654B2	Adjustable floor drain A floor drain assembly for connecting to a drain system of an installation site. The floor drain assembly includes a drain body having drain coupling adapted for connecting to the drain system, a collar mounted to the drain body, and a rough-in adapter having a radially extending flange. The rough-in adapter is axially adjustably mounted to the collar and a strainer frame is axially adjustably mounted to the rough-in adapter. Mounted to the frame is a strainer. A cover encloses the strainer and strainer frame and includes a central region and a downwardly extending perimetric wall that is removably mounted, at a lower end thereof to, the flange of the rough-in adapter.
US10683652B1	Multiple rinse injections to reduce sound in vacuum toilets Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for reducing sound in vacuum toilets. In one example, multiple rinse injections are used at appropriately timed intervals in order to reduce the vacuum flush sound levels.
US10683643B2	Humidity collector apparatus Device for collecting water vapor from air as liquid water. Included is a refrigerant compressor circulating refrigerant through a controlled dimensioned condenser into a tubing loop. A portion of the tubing loop functions as a condenser. This tube conveys the pressurized refrigerant through an expansion valve. The refrigerant pressure and temperature decreases. Ambient water vapor collects on the exterior surface of the cooled section of tube now functioning as an evaporator. The water drops from the tube surface into a reservoir for use. The tube loop extends through a multiport control valve. The control valve can direct the refrigerant pumped from the compressor into alternate ends of the tubing loop. The device can include a power supply and microprocessor controlling the generator and valves. The device may utilize a switch that detects water or ice deposits on the tube. The device can comprise a moveable frame supporting all above components.
US10683637B2	Door activated interlock system for a work vehicle An interlock system for a work vehicle includes a controller configured to output instructions to an actuator assembly to control an implement positioned rearward of a chassis of the work vehicle relative to a forward direction of travel. The controller is configured to instruct the actuator assembly to block movement of the implement while an access door positioned on a rear portion of the chassis relative to the forward direction of travel is in an open state.
US10683635B2	Hydraulic motor drive assembly and system and method of use thereof A motor drive assembly for selective rail or track operation of an excavators or other mobile platform via a source of hydraulic pressure. The motor drive assembly may include one or more drive arm assemblies mounted at ends of the mobile platform underbody, with the drive arm assembly including a motor, a gearbox, and hydraulic features for operation, including a counterbalance valve assembly, as well as improved gearbox and coupler elements operable therewith. The counterbalance valve assembly may include a cross-port relief valve and may have a first hydraulic operating circuit and a second hydraulic operating circuit. The first hydraulic operating circuit may communicate hydraulic pressure to the gearbox to enable movement of the mobile platform, and the second hydraulic operating circuit may prevent undesired communication of hydraulic pressure to the gearbox.
US10683630B2	Tip with protrusions for a ground displacement operation for a foundation pile A tip is described which extends axially along a central longitudinal axis and is configured to displace the ground when the tip is being rotated about its central longitudinal axis during a ground displacement operation for a foundation pile. The tip comprises a tip body; several spiral-shaped ribs protruding from the tip body; and several protrusions arranged to the ribs. The protrusions comprise a point which is arranged such that, during rotation of the tip about its central longitudinal axis, the point of the protrusion is ahead of the rib to which the protrusion is arranged. The tip body, the ribs and the protrusions are made as a single-piece casting.
US10683629B2	Ice ramp system, bracket, and method An ice ramp system for a dock including a catch plate adapted for horizontal mounting on a dock side surface of a dock; a plurality of ice ramps; a plurality of brackets, each bracket including a triangular cross-section with a bisecting element; an angled ice ramp support face for angularly supporting an ice ramp; a notch at a lower end of the support face for receiving an edge of an ice ramp; a hook that extends from an upper end of the support face that is mountable to a dock top surface; and a backplate having a downwardly extending tongue that mates with the catch plate.
US10683616B2	Method for forming a composite comprising MFC and a composite produced by the method The invention provides a method for the production of a composite comprising microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) and precipitated calcium carbonate. The method is characterized in that MFC is added to a suspension of calcium hydroxide during carbonation, whereby calcium carbonate is precipitated onto fibers or fibrils of the MFC in a controlled manner. By adding microfibrillated cellulose to the calcium suspension during the carbonation, the brightness and the strength of the MFC/PCC-composite is enhanced. Moreover, the inventive method facilitates the distribution of calcium dioxide and MFC in the suspension and thus gives rise to a more homogenous product.
US10683610B2	Cable stranding apparatus employing a hollow-shaft guide member driver A cable-stranding apparatus includes a stationary guide, a motor, a driven guide, and a controller electrically coupled to the motor. The stationary guide is configured to guide strand elements in a spaced-apart configuration and to pass a core member. The motor is operatively associated with a guide driver. The driven guide is disposed at least partially within the guide driver so as to rotate therewith. The driven guide is configured to receive the strand elements from the stationary guide, individually guide the strand elements received from the stationary guide, and to further pass the core member. The controller is electrically coupled to the motor and configured to control the rotational speed and direction of the motor.
US10683607B2	Slip-resistant protective mat A non-slip mat comprises an absorbent top layer, an impermeable middle layer, a non-slip bottom layer, and a reinforced outer hem. The reinforced outer hem is formed on at least one edge of the non-slip mat by folding all the layers of non-slip mat at least once such that the bottom layer is facing the bottom layer and the top layer is disposed on both top and bottom surfaces. A method for applying an adhesive coating material on a canvas includes heating the adhesive coating material and at least one roller of an apparatus, advancing the canvas through the apparatus in a forward direction to contact the at least one heated roller, and while advancing the canvas, a uniform coating of the adhesive coating material is applied on a surface of the canvas with the at least one heated roller.
US10683604B2	Dryer, particularly for drying clean-room garments and accessories A dryer, particularly for drying clean-room garments and accessories, includes a dryer body, a drying chamber, and a system for circulating air between an air intake and the drying chamber. The system includes an air aspiration device giving a direction of air flow from the air intake towards the drying chamber, a device for heating the aspirated air placed upstream of said drying chamber, and an absolute filter provided upstream of the drying chamber. The dryer further includes, upstream of the absolute filter, a connector arranged so as to be connected to a device for supplying air charged with a predetermined quantity of droplets of an aerosol, and in that it has an access to a space located downstream of the absolute filter and upstream of the drying chamber, the access to a space being arranged so as to be able to receive a measuring device.
US10683591B1	Items with fabric hinges An item such as a removable device cover or a portable electronic device may have a fabric hinge. The item may have first and second structures that are configured to rotate relative to each other. The fabric hinge may have first and second fabric layers that are coupled to the first structure and third and fourth fabric layers that are coupled to the second structure. A center portion of the fabric hinge may have one side that is coupled to the first and second fabric layers and an opposing second side that is coupled to the third and fourth fabric layers. In the center portion, first strands of material may extend outwardly into the first and fourth fabric layers and second parallel strands that are interspersed with the first strands may extend outwardly into the second and third fabric layers.
US10683590B2	Graphene fiber and method of manufacturing same Embodiments of the invention relate generally to graphene fibers and, more particularly, to graphene fibers comprising intercalated large-sized graphene oxide (LGGO)/graphene sheets and small-sized graphene oxide (SMGO)/graphene sheets having high thermal and electrical conductivities and high mechanical strength. In one embodiment, the invention provides a graphene fiber comprising: a plurality of intercalated graphene sheets including: a plurality of large-sized graphene sheets; and a plurality of small-sized graphene sheets, wherein at least one of the plurality of small-sized graphene sheets is disposed between at least two of the plurality of large-sized graphene sheets.
US10683586B2	Method of pulsed laser-based large area graphene synthesis on metallic and crystalline substrates A method of making graphene includes providing a seed gas in the presence of a metallic substrate, providing a pulsed, ultraviolet laser beam, and moving the substrate or the laser beam relative to the other, thereby advancing a graphene crystallization front and forming an ordered graphene structure. In some instances, the substrate can have a surface with two-fold atomic symmetry. A method of recrystallizing graphene includes providing a pulsed, ultraviolet laser beam to a polycrystalline graphene sheet.
US10683585B2	Method for melting and solidification of scintillating material in micromechanical structures Disclosed is a method for melting and solidification of a scintillating material in micromechanical structures, including controlling the melting and solidification of the scintillating material by individually controlled heat sources, a top heater and a bottom heater, placed above and below a process chamber, housing a sample with the micromechanical structures and the scintillating material. The heaters are controlled to set a vertical temperature gradient over the sample to control the melting and solidification of the scintillating material. During melting, the top heater is ramped up and stabilized at a temperature where no melting occurs and the bottom heater is ramped up and stabilized at a temperature where melting occurs during a period of time while the scintillating material melts and flows into the micromechanical structures. During solidification, the temperature of the bottom heater decreases to enable solidification to take place starting from the bottom of the micromechanical structures.
US10683566B2	Cu-based sintered bearing and production method for Cu-based sintered bearing Provided is a Cu-based sintered bearing comprising: 15-36 mass % of Ni; 3-13 mass % of Sn; 0.05-0.55 mass % of P; and 0.02-4 mass % of C in total, the balance consisting of Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein the content of C forming an alloy with a matrix within Cu—Ni-based main phase grains is 0.02-0.10 mass %.
US10683544B2	Sequences associated with TDP-43 proteinopathies and methods of using the same The present invention provides nucleic acids and peptides, and methods of using the nucleic acids and peptides to identify subjects at risk for a TDP-43 proteinopathy. The invention also provides for an array comprising the nucleic acids and peptides of the invention.
US10683534B2	Ligation assays in liquid phase Ligation assays in liquid phase for detecting nucleic acid sequences.
US10683533B2	Capture reactions The invention generally relates to methods of performing a capture reaction. In certain embodiments, the method involves obtaining a nucleic acid, fragmenting the nucleic acid, and capturing a target sequence on the nucleic acid fragment using a capture moiety, such as a molecular inversion probe.
US10683528B2	Enhanced protein expression The present invention relates in general to bacterial cells having genetic alterations that result in increased expression of a protein of interest and methods of making and using such cells. Aspects of the present invention include altered Gram positive microorganisms having one or more a genetic alterations that reduce the expression of a gene in the sin operon, thereby resulting in the enhanced expression of one or more proteins of interest.
US10683525B2	Method for producing 2-O-glyceryl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside The present invention relates to a method for producing 2-O-glyceryl-α-D-glucopyranoside (αGG; FIG. 1) from a glucosyl donor and a glucosyl acceptor comprising the steps: providing a sucrose phosphorylase (EC 2.4.1.7), incubating said sucrose phosphorylase with a mixture comprising a glucosyl donor and glycerol as glucosyl acceptor and isolating and/or purifying 2-O-glyceryl-α-D-glucopyranoside.
US10683519B1	Biochemical upgrading of high-protein biomass and grain products The present invention relates to methods of upgrading biomass to provide useful chemical intermediates, fuels, amino acids, nutrients, etc. In particular examples, the biomass is a by-product of ethanol production and is mainly used as high-protein feed. Described herein are methods for upgrading such biomass, such as by implementing pre-treatment conditions and by employing fermentation conditions including modified organisms.
US10683517B2	Cry1D for controlling corn earworm The subject invention relates in part to the surprising discovery that Cry1Da is active against corn earworm (CEW), Helicoverpa zea (Boddie). Methods for using Cry1Da in transgenic plants to prevent serious crop damage is described. Leaf and silk bioassays using transgenic maize expressing full length, core toxin region or chimeric Cry1Da demonstrated good insect protection against CEW larvae damage.
US10683513B2	Tissue-specific expression and hybrid plant production This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns specific reduction of transgene expression in male plant tissues, for example, to provide an economical male sterility system of hybrid seed production.
US10683512B2	Method for preparing various lactam The present disclosure relates to a recombinant microorganism having a lactam production capacity from an omega-amino acid, into which a gene encoding a beta-alanine coenzyme A transferase on a microorganism which has an omega-amino acid biosynthetic metabolic pathway inherently or an omega-amino acid biosynthetic metabolic pathway is introduced, and a method for producing a variety of lactams and omega-amino acyl-CoAs using the same.The recombinant microorganism and the method for producing the lactam according to the present disclosure are useful in producing a variety of lactams such as propiolactam, 2-pyrrolidone, valerolactam, caprolactam, and heptanolactam from a variety of omega-amino acids.
US10683509B2	Surface display of functional proteins in a broad range of gram negative bacteria The present invention relates to a method for the surface display of a recombinant polypeptide on the surface of a host cell, said method comprising the steps: (a) providing a host cell transformed with a nucleic acid fusion operatively linked with an expression control sequence, said nucleic acid fusion comprising: (i) a portion encoding a signal peptide, (ii) a portion encoding the recombinant polypeptide to be displayed, (iii) a portion encoding a transmembrane linker, and (iv) a portion encoding the trans porter domain of an EhaA protein, and (b) culturing the host cell under conditions wherein the nucleic acid fusion is expressed and the expression product comprising the recombinant polypeptide is displayed on the surface of the host cell.
US10683505B2	Methods of introducing dsRNA to plant seeds for modulating gene expression A method of introducing an exogenous non-transcribable polynucleotide trigger, for example dsRNA, molecule into a seed is provided. The method comprises contacting the seed with the exogenous non-transcribable polynucleotide trigger, for example dsRNA, molecule under conditions which allow penetration of the exogenous non-transcribable polynucleotide trigger, for example dsRNA, molecule into the seed, thereby introducing the exogenous non-transcribable polynucleotide trigger, for example dsRNA, molecule into the seed.
US10683504B2	Serpina1 iRNA compositions and methods of use thereof The invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double-stranded RNAi agents, targeting the Serpina1 gene, and methods of using such RNAi agents to inhibit expression of Serpina1 and methods of treating subjects having a Serpina1 associated disease, such as a liver disorder.
US10683502B2	Oligonucleotide decoys for the treatment of pain Provided are therapeutic agents such as double-stranded nucleic acids, termed oligonucleotide decoys, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and related methods of modulating nociceptive signaling, for instance, to prevent and/or treat pain.
US10683501B2	Transthyretin (TTR) iRNA compositions and methods of use thereof for treating or preventing TTR-associated diseases The present invention provides iRNA agents, e.g., double stranded iRNA agents, that target the transthyretin (TTR) gene and methods of using such iRNA agents for treating or preventing TTR-associated diseases.
US10683496B2	Method and apparatus for isolating nucleic acids A method comprises: sorbing a sample solution comprising nucleic acids to a sample receiving portion of a quartz fiber filter by contacting the sample solution with the sample receiving portion; and washing the sample receiving portion while keeping most of nucleic acids around the sample receiving portion by flowing a wash solution through the sample receiving portion under a wicking force directed away from the sample receiving portion. An associated apparatus is also provided.
US10683490B2	Mutant Cas9 proteins Methods of making mutant Cas9 proteins are described.
US10683488B2	System and method for creating crystals of insect acetylcholinesterase A method of creating crystals of insect acetylcholinesterase. A polynucleotide is obtained that encodes for acetylcholinesterase in a targeted insect. The polynucleotide contains a catalytic core sequence. A recombinant DNA construct is formed by adding a fusion protein and a polyhistidine tag to the catalytic core sequence. The recombinant DNA construct can be further modified by adding known mutations for resistance to insecticides. A growth medium is transfected with the recombinant DNA construct. A polypeptide encoded by the recombinant DNA construct is separated from the growth medium to form a concentrate. The polyhistidine tag is removed from the concentrate. The concentrate is exchanged into a buffer to create a buffered concentrate. Crystals, suitable for X-ray crystallography are then grown with the buffered concentrate.
US10683487B2	Myrmecridium flexuosum NUK-21, novel lactose oxidase isolated from Myrmecridium flexuosum NUK-21, and method for conversion of lactose into lactobionic acid by novel lactose oxidase A Myrmecridium flexuosum NUK-21, a novel lactose oxidase isolated from the Myrmecridium flexuosum NUK-21 and a method for conversion of lactose into lactobionic acid (LBA) by the novel lactose oxidase are disclosed herein. The Myrmecridium flexuosum NUK-21 produces high yields of the novel lactose oxidase and the novel lactose oxidase has higher reactivity and specificity of converting lactose into lactobionic acid.
US10683483B2	Microfabricated platform for mimicking the liver zonation and evaluating method of zonal toxicity using thereof A microfabricated platform for mimicking the liver zonation and an evaluating method of zone-specific hepatotoxicity using the same is provided. The microfabricated platform for mimicking the liver zonation prepared according to the method of the present invention is divided into three zones of zone 1, zone 2 and zone 3 similarly to in vivo liver tissue and thus the zone-specific hepatotoxicity of a drug in the liver can be evaluated using the same. According to the present invention, the zone-specific hepatotoxicity results can be analyzed quantitatively by using image analysis, so that the platform of the present invention can be effectively used for in vitro screening of zone-specific hepatotoxicity.
US10683480B2	Microfluidic tumor tissue dissociation device and method A tissue dissociation device includes an inlet coupled to a first stage having a single channel having an upstream end and a downstream end; a plurality of serially arranged intermediate stages, wherein a first intermediate stage of the plurality is fluidically coupled to the downstream end of the first stage, and wherein each subsequent intermediate stage of the plurality has an increasing number of channels (with channels of smaller dimensions); and an outlet coupled to a last stage of the intermediate stages.
US10683467B2	Anti-fogging agent comprising a fluorinated surfactant mixture and alcohol The present invention provides anti-fogging agents and cleaners that provide long-lasting prevention of fogging of glass, plastic, or other hard surfaces. The present invention relates to an anti-fogging agent or cleaner which contains: (A) a fluorinated amphoteric or anionic surfactant; and (B) a fluorinated nonionic surfactant. The present invention also relates to an eyeglass cleaner including a non-woven fabric impregnated with the anti-fogging agent or cleaner.
US10683465B2	Process for the selective hydrogenation of vegetable oils using egg-shell type catalysts The invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation of vegetable oils that selectively converts polyunsaturated fatty acids into mono-unsaturated fatty acids, and to the products obtained therefrom. Vegetable oils obtained by the process according to the invention have a particularly high content of monounsaturated fatty acids and are suitable for use as raw materials for the synthesis of chemical intermediates.
US10683458B2	FCC catalyst compositions containing boron oxide and phosphorus A method of cracking a hydrocarbon feed under fluid catalytic cracking conditions includes adding FCC compatible inorganic particles having a first particle type including one or more boron oxide components and a first matrix component into a FCC unit and adding cracking microspheres having a second particle type including a second matrix component, a phosphorus component and 20% to 95% by weight of a zeolite component into the FCC unit.
US10683457B2	Solid composite intumescent structures for fire protection A free-standing solid composite intumescent structure has at least one bendable metal mesh, preferably at least two, secured on or in a bendable intumescent sheet material. The structure is bendable by a bending force into a shape at a temperature above −10° C. while retaining the bended shape when the bending force is removed. The intumescent sheet material has 10 wt % or more, based on total weight of the sheet material, of a polymeric resin; inorganic filler; and, an intumescent component. Fire protection barriers can be made from the free-standing solid composite intumescent structure, which can be used in fire protection systems where the fire protection barrier is installed on a substrate, for example steel building elements.
US10683450B2	Cement having cross-linked plymers A wellbore cement composition that includes a cross-linked polyamide. The polyamide is formed by reacting a di-functional amine with an aromatic tri-functional carboxylic acid. The wellbore cement composition is created by blending cement and water with the polyamide and then allowed to cure. Increases in compressive strength, Young's Modulus, and Poisson's Ratio of the cement are realized by adding the polyamide to the cement composition.
US10683444B2	Thermally conductive composition A thermally conductive composition is a thermally conductive composition including (A) a spherical thermally conductive filler, (B) an alkoxysilane compound or dimethylpolysiloxane, and (C) a polyorganosiloxane (not inclusive of the dimethylpolysiloxane of component (B)), wherein component (A) is a mixture formulated with specific ratios of fillers having different average particle sizes, the mixture being formulated with a filler having an average particle size of 50 μm or more in an amount of 30% by mass or more; component (B) and component (C) are included in a total amount of 1.5 to 35 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of component (A); and a content ratio of component (C) in the total amount of component (B) and component (C) is 15 to 98% by mass.
US10683435B2	Wet coating compositions for paper substrates, paper substrates coated with the same and process for coating a paper substrate with the same A wet coating composition useful for coating a cellulosic fiber-based substrate is provided. The composition includes two aqueous emulsions. The first emulsion includes an oxidized paraffin/polyethylene wax and the second emulsion includes an ethylene/acrylic acid copolymer wax, ethylene/acrylic amide copolymer wax, ethylene/acrylic acid/acrylic amide copolymer wax or a mixture thereof. The oxidized paraffin/polyethylene wax has a surface energy less than or equal to 25 mN/m being substantially dispersive energy. The wet coating composition when dried forms a coating having a surface energy ranging from 20 to 60 mN/m being the sum of dispersive and polar energies. A process for treating a cellulosic fiber-based substrate with the wet coating composition, a substrate coated and articles including the coated substrate are also described. The process involves a heating step to allow migration of the coating towards a core of the cellulosic fiber-based substrate.
US10683433B2	Protective coating system for plastic substrate A coated substrate includes: a substrate and a first layer on at least a portion of the substrate, the first layer including a polymer selected from the group consisting of an acrylic, an epoxy, a polyurethane, a copolymer thereof, and a mixture thereof, and an additive selected from the group consisting of an ultraviolet light (UV) absorber, a UV stabilizer, and a mixture thereof. The coated substrate further includes a second layer on at least a portion of the first layer, and a third layer on at least a portion of the second layer. A method of forming a coated substrate includes: forming a first layer on at least a portion of a substrate; forming a second layer on at least portion of the first layer; and forming a third layer by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition on at least a portion of the second layer.
US10683432B2	Coating composition A coating formed on a surface of a base material, the coating composition containing an ionic polymer (a), a hygroscopic agent (b) and a solvent, the hygroscopic agent (b) being a granular crosslinked product of a monovalent metal salt of a poly(meth)acrylic acid and being contained in an amount of 75 to 700 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the ionic polymer (a), and the coating having a haze of 5% or less and a maximum surface roughness Ra (JIS B-0601-1994) of 0.1 μm or less.
US10683428B2	Nonaqueous ink-jet magenta ink composition A non-aqueous magenta ink composition for ink jet printing comprising a pigment, a pigment dispersant, a binder resin and an organic solvent, wherein the pigment comprises C.I. Pigment Red 254 and a red pigment having a quinacridone skeleton, and wherein a total amount of the C.I. Pigment Red 254 and the red pigment having a quinacridone skeleton is not less than 50% by mass in the pigment.
US10683425B2	Printing ink The present invention provides an inkjet ink comprising: 6-35% by weight of NVC; 5-60% by weight of PEA; 15-35% by weight of a C8.12 alkane diol di(meth)acrylate; a radical photoinitiator; and a colorant, wherein the percentages by weight are based on the total weight of the ink. The present invention further provides an inkjet ink set wherein at least one of the inks in the set, preferably all of the inks in the set, is an inkjet ink as defined above. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method of inkjet printing comprising inkjet printing the inkjet ink or inkjet ink set as defined above onto a substrate and curing the ink.
US10683421B2	Method for the transportation and/or storage of road bitumen A process for the transportation and/or storage of road bitumen under cold conditions, including at least one chemical additive chosen from: a general formula compound (I): R1—(COOH)z wherein R1 is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon-based chain including 4 to 68 carbon atoms, and z is an integer ranging from 1 to 4, and a general formula compound (II): R—(NH)nCONH—(X)m—NHCO(NH)n—R′ wherein: R and R′, which are identical or different, contain a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, cyclic or acyclic hydrocarbon-based chain having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and optionally including heteroatoms and/or rings having 3 to 12 atoms and/or heterocycles having 3 to 12 atoms; X contains a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, cyclic or acyclic hydrocarbon-based chain having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and optionally including one or more heteroatoms and/or rings having 3 to 12 atoms and/or heterocycles having 3 to 12 atoms.
US10683410B2	Rubber composition, rubber roller, and image forming apparatus A rubber composition capable of forming a foam such as a roller main body which has a low rubber hardness and is soft in a state in which an average cell diameter thereof is small is provided. The rubber composition includes NBR whose Mooney viscosity is 15 to 50 having a proportion being 10 parts by mass or more in 100 parts by mass of the total amount of rubber, epichlorohydrin rubber whose Mooney viscosity is 5 to 35 having a proportion being 10 parts by mass or more in 100 parts by mass of the total amount of rubber, and 10 parts by mass or less of carbon black and 7 parts by mass or less of a foaming agent with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of rubber, and has a Mooney viscosity of 35 or less.
US10683405B2	Liquid (meth)acrylic syrup for impregnating a fibrous substrate, method of impregnating a fibrous substrate, composite material obtained following polymerisation of the pre-impregnated substrate The present invention relates to a liquid (meth)acrylic syrup for impregnating a fibrous substrate. The present invention relates in particular to a viscous liquid syrup mainly containing methacrylic or acrylic components. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing such a syrup. The invention also relates to a process for impregnating a fibrous substrate comprising long glass fibers with said viscous liquid syrup. The invention also relates to a fibrous substrate preimpregnated with said syrup, which is useful for manufacturing transparent parts especially for the building sector. The present invention also relates to a manufacturing process for manufacturing transparent parts obtained via this process.
US10683400B1	Chemically or environmentally responsive polymers with reversible mechanical properties This invention provides compositions and methods for reversible ionic crosslinking in polymers, providing tunability of polymer mechanical properties. Some variations provide a polymer composition comprising: a polymer containing a plurality of ionic species disposed along the chain backbone of the polymer, wherein the plurality of ionic species has an ionic charge polarity that is negative or positive; a redox reagent; and a reversible crosslinking agent capable of changing from a first oxidation state to a second oxidation state when in the presence of the redox reagent. The different oxidation states are associated with different coordination numbers between the reversible crosslinking agent and the ionic species contained in the polymer. This difference provides reversible ionic crosslinking. The polymer may be selected from polyurethanes (including segmented and non-segmented polyurethanes), polyacrylates, or polyamides, for example. These polymers are useful for many commercial applications, including coatings and polymer parts.
US10683397B2	Remediation of agglomerated flow improvers The present embodiment can teach a method of feeding to a materials processor a mixture containing an agglomerated drag reducer. The mixture is then homogenized to produce a remediated drag reducer. The maximum particle size diameter of the agglomerated drag reducing polymer is at least 5% larger than the maximum particle diameter of the remediated drag reducer.
US10683387B2	Bottlebrush copolymers and uses thereof Materials (e.g., particles, hydrogels) that provide extended release of one or more therapeutic agents are useful platforms for drug delivery. In part, the present invention relates to new triblock (ABC) bottlebrush copolymers which can be used in the formulation of particles and hydrogels for the extended release of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments, the triblock bottlebrush copolymers, particles, and hydrogels described herein are thermally-responsive and gel at physiological temperature (e.g., upon administration to a subject), providing injectable and/or implantable gels which can be used for extended release drug delivery. The present invention also provides methods for extended release drug delivery, and methods of treating and/or preventing a disease or conditions in a subject, using the inventive copolymers, particles, and hydrogels. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the triblock bottlebrush copolymers described herein.
US10683384B2	Two-component composition A two-component composition is based on silane-functional polymers, especially silane-functional polymers with high reactivity. Such a composition shows long shelf life without the requirement of expensive stabilizers and is suitable to be used as a low E-modulus joint sealant offering excellent durability in high movement joints.
US10683377B2	Catalysts for olefin polymerization The present disclosure provides catalyst compounds having a tridentate ethylene bridged amine bis(phenolate) ligand. Catalysts of the present disclosure preferably provide catalyst activity values of 250 gP/mmolCat/hr or greater and polyolefins, such as polyethylene copolymers, having comonomer content of 8.5 wt % or greater, an Mn of 190,000 g/mol or greater, an Mw of 350,000 g/mol or greater, and a narrow Mw/Mn (such as about 2). Catalysts, catalyst systems, and processes of the present disclosure can provide polymers having a high comonomer content (e.g., 8.5 wt % or greater).
US10683367B2	Compositions for inhibiting MASP-2 dependent complement activation The present invention relates to anti-MASP-2 inhibitory antibodies and compositions comprising such antibodies for use in inhibiting the adverse effects of MASP-2 dependent complement activation.
US10683366B2	Methods and compositions for treatment of atherosclerosis The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating atherosclerosis in a subject comprising the use of therapeutic compounds to reduce Reelin in the circulation of the subject, thereby reducing the adhesion of leukocytes to the vascular wall. The invention also provides methods and compositions for reducing leukocyte adhesion to the vascular wall in a subject.
US10683363B2	Targeting intracellular target-binding determinants with intracellular antibodies The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
US10683354B2	Antibody-drug conjugates comprising anti-prolactin receptor (PRLR) antibodies and methods of use thereof to kill PRLR-expressing cells The present invention provides antibodies that bind to prolactin receptor (PRLR) and methods of using the same. According to certain embodiments, the antibodies of the invention bind human PRLR with high affinity. In certain embodiments, the invention includes antibodies that bind PRLR and block prolactin-mediated cell signaling. In other embodiments, the invention includes antibodies that bind PRLR but do not block prolactin-mediated cell signaling. The antibodies of the invention may be fully human antibodies. The invention includes anti-PRLR antibodies conjugated to a cytotoxic agent, radionuclide, or other moiety detrimental to cell growth or proliferation. The antibodies of the invention are useful for the treatment of various cancers as well as other PRLR-related disorders. The present invention also includes antibody drug conjugates comprising an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds a class I cytokine receptor, wherein the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof is conjugated to a cytotoxic agent.
US10683347B2	Treatment of cancer using anti-TGF-β and anti-PD-1 antibodies The present disclosure relates, in general, to combination therapy using an inhibitor of transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) and an inhibitor of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) for treating cancer or preventing recurrence of cancer diseases such as lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, hepatocellular cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, ovarian cancer, stomach cancer, fibrotic cancer, glioma and melanoma, and metastases thereof.
US10683343B2	Compositions and methods for the treatment of immunodeficiency The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of immunodeficiency (e.g., primary immunodeficiency disease). In particular, the invention provides human plasma immunoglobulin compositions containing select antibody titers specific for a plurality of respiratory pathogens, methods of identifying human donors and donor samples for use in the compositions, methods of manufacturing the compositions, and methods of utilizing the compositions (e.g., for prophylactic administration and/or therapeutic treatment (e.g., passive immunization (e.g., immune-prophylaxis))).
US10683342B2	Libraries of genetic packages comprising novel HC CDR1, CDR2, and CDR3 and novel LC CDR1, CDR2, and CDR3 designs Provided are compositions and methods for preparing and identifying antibodies having CDR3s that vary in sequence and in length from very short to very long which in certain embodiments may bind to a carbohydrate moiety or the active site of an enzyme. Libraries coding for antibodies with the CDR3s are also provided. The libraries can be provided by modifying a pre-existing nucleic acid library.
US10683336B2	Tumor specific T-cell receptors The present invention relates to a method for the production of novel T-cell receptors (TCR) which provide a reduced risk of adverse events in immune therapy, specifically in adoptive T cell transfer. The TCRs produced according to the method of the invention are specific for tumor cells and do not react with healthy tissue. Furthermore provided are nucleic acids encoding the TCR of the invention, vectors and host cells comprising the TCRs of the invention as well as their use is the treatment of tumorous diseases.
US10683331B2	Alpha-hemolysin variants with altered characteristics Described herein are variants of alpha-hemolysin having at least one mutation selected from T12R, T12K, N17R, N17K or combinations of T12 and N17 mutations. The variants in some embodiments may further comprise H144A. The α-hemolysin variants have a decreased time to thread.
US10683329B2	Dual-site BACE1 inhibitors Provided herein are peptides having dual-site BACE1 inhibitory activity, useful for the treatment of, for example Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. One such peptide is a dual-site BACE1 inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, binding to both an enzymatic active site and an catalytic domain of the BACE enzyme, and an exosite inhibitory part is connected to an active-site inhibitory part of the dual site BACE1 inhibitor by a linker.
US10683302B2	Inhibitors of the menin-MLL interaction The present invention is directed to inhibitors of the interaction of menin with MLL and MLL fusion proteins, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and their use in the treatment of cancer and other diseases mediated by the menin-MLL interaction.
US10683300B2	Polymorphic forms of Cyclo (-His-Pro) The present disclosure relates to synthesis and characterization of novel polymorphic forms of Cyclo (-His-Pro) (“CHP”).
US10683288B2	Epothilone B and dictyostatin analogs, their preparation and use A compound having the structure:
US10683285B2	Modulators of hemoglobin The present disclosure relates generally to compounds and pharmaceutical compositions suitable as modulators of hemoglobin, and methods for their use in treating disorders mediated by hemoglobin.
US10683279B2	Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 inhibitors and methods of use thereof The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, ester, stereoisomer, tautomer, solvate, hydrate, or combination thereof: which inhibit the Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK-1), which associated with autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory diseases, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from ASK-1 related disease. The invention also relates to methods of treating an ASK-1 related disease in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention specifically relates to methods of treating ASK-1 associated with hepatic steatosis, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcohol steatohepatitis disease (NASH).
US10683277B2	Triazole derivatives as P2Y14 receptor antagonists Described are compounds, which are antagonists of the P2Y14 receptor, for example, a compound of formula (I) in which ring A, R1, R2, R3, and n are as described herein. Also provided are dendron conjugates comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds, including a method of treating a disorder, such as inflammation, diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, a lipid disorder, obesity, a condition associated with metabolic syndrome, and asthma, and a method of antagonizing P214 receptor activity in a cell.
US10683275B2	Leveler, leveler composition and method for electrodeposition of metals in microelectronics The present application discloses a levelling compound for electrodepositing metals. The metal is of formula (II):
US10683269B2	2-cyanoisoindoline derivatives for treating cancer The invention relates to novel compounds of formula I which are inhibitors of deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) and/or desumoylating enzymes. In particular, the invention relates to the inhibition of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase 7 or ubiquitin specific peptidase 7 (USP7). The invention further relates to methods for the preparation of these compounds and to their use in the treatment of cancer.
US10683264B2	Process for producing taurine There is disclosed a process for producing taurine by reacting 2-oxazolidinone with ammonium sulfite, or ammonium bisulfite, or a mixture of ammonium sulfite and ammonium bisulfite in an aqueous solution to form ammonium taurinate and ammonium bicarbonate. Taurine is obtained by decomposing ammonium taurinate to taurine and ammonia and recovered by solid-liquid separation.
US10683257B2	Methods and intermediates for synthesizing SK1-I The invention provides methods for synthesizing the compound (2R,3S,4E)-N-methyl-5-(4′-pentylphenyl)-2-aminopent-4-ene-1,3-diol, also known as SK1-I, and intermediate compounds used in its synthesis.
US10683253B2	Method for producing high-purity terephthalic acid Disclosed herein is a method for producing high-purity terephthalic acid, including steps of dissolving crude terephthalic acid crystal in water and performing catalytic hydrogenation treatment, depressurizing and cooling a reaction liquid after the catalytic hydrogenation treatment in stages with two or more stages of crystallization vessels, to crystallize terephthalic acid to obtain a terephthalic acid slurry, introducing the terephthalic acid slurry into an upper portion of a mother liquor replacement tower, bringing the terephthalic acid crystal into contact with an upward flow of replacement water introduced from a tower lower compartment of the mother liquor replacement tower while making the terephthalic acid crystal settled down in the tower, withdrawing the terephthalic acid crystal as slurry with the replacement water from the tower lower compartment, subjecting the slurry withdrawn from the tower lower compartment to solid-liquid separation into water and the terephthalic acid crystal, and drying the separated terephthalic acid crystal.
US10683245B2	Process for manufacturing 1-cyclopropyl-naphthalenes A process for preparing 1-cyclopropyl-naphthalene derivatives of Formula (1) wherein R1-R7 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl or aryl comprising the steps of a) contacting an acid salt of a 1-naphthyl-2-aminoethylketone with a base and a first solvent to obtain a solution wherein the molar ratio of base to 1-naphthyl-2-aminoethylketone acid salt is at least 0.7, b) addition of hydrazine to obtain a 3-(1-naphthyl)-1H-pyrazoline, c) optionally adding a second solvent and/or at least partially removing the first solvent, and d) heating the reaction mixture to a temperature above 190° C. to obtain the compound of Formula (1).
US10683244B2	Method for controlling plant parasitic nematodes Aspects of the invention include compositions for controlling plant parasitic nematodes. Compositions according to certain embodiments include a carbon skeleton energy compound, a chelating agent, macronutrients, micronutrients, an ionophore, exotic micronutrients and a plant parasitic nematode antagonist. Methods for using the compositions of the invention to control plant parasitic nematodes and kits having one or more compositions for controlling plant parasitic nematodes are also described.
US10683235B2	Method for the production of gypsum-based boards and stucco slurry comprising non-pregelatinized migratory starch for use therewith A method for continuously forming gypsum-based panels of high fixing strength comprises the steps of: • forming a mixture comprising stucco, non-pregelatinized migratory starch, glass fibre, fluidizer and water; • casting the mixture in a continuous band; • maintaining the band under conditions sufficient for the stucco to form an interlocking matrix of set gypsum; • cutting the band to form one or more wet panel precursors; and • drying the wet panel precursor to form one or more gypsum-based panels. • The weight ratio of water to stucco in the mixture is less than 0.7; • the stucco is present in the mixture in an amount of over 60 wt % relative to the total solids content of the mixture; • the starch is present in the mixture in an amount of over 3 wt % relative to the the stucco; • the glass fibre is present in the mixture in an amount of over 1 wt % relative to the stucco; • the fluidizer is is present in the mixture in an amount of at least 0.1 wt % relative to the stucco; and the density of the gypsum-based panel is greater than 700 kg/m.
US10683234B2	Methods of making antimicrobial glass articles Described herein are various methods and manufacturing methods for making antimicrobial and strengthened, antimicrobial glass articles and substrates. The methods described herein generally include contacting the article with a KNO3-containing molten salt bath set at about 380 C to about 460 C for about 30 minutes to about 24 hours to form a compressive stress layer that extends inward from a surface of the glass substrate to a first depth; and contacting the article comprising the compressive stress layer with a AgNO3-containing molten salt bath set at about 300° C. to about 400° C. for about 5 minutes to about 18 hours to form an antimicrobial region that extends inward from the surface of the glass substrate to a second depth. The methods also include poisoning at least the AgNO3-containing molten salt bath and, in some cases, the KNO3-containing molten salt bath. Poisoning components include Na+ and Li+ ions.
US10683225B2	Sonic injection furnace A low-NOx end-fired furnace for melting glass equipped with an overhead burner includes an inlet duct for oxidizer, including 15% to 30% of oxygen, in its upstream wall, a duct for receiving the combustion flue gases in its upstream wall, and a sonic injection system including at least one injector for injecting a jet of a gas at a speed at least equal to 80% of the speed of sound, referred to as a sonic injector, opening into the upstream wall or opening into the duct for receiving the combustion flue gases, the sonic injector injecting its gas counter-current to the stream of the combustion flue gases that are heading toward the duct for receiving the combustion flue gases.
US10683224B2	Sludge separation device and method for its use A device for dewatering sewage sludge and a method for its use is provided. The device affords separation by causing a sludge concentrate to flow as sufficiently slow rates to cause the gel-like concentrate to fracture and release trapped water. Sewage sludge dewatered according to the method and utilizing the device can be directly burned or directly introduced into a landfill. Certain embodiments of the device can be transported to a site where the dewatering process is carried out and certain embodiments of the device can be further utilized to transport dewatered sludge from the dewatering site to a further disposal site.
US10683223B1	Process to remove transition metals from waste water A process to remove transition metals from waste water. The process includes the steps of passing waste water to a first pH resin bed, monitoring the effluent from the first resin bed, and adjusting pH to greater than 4. The effluent is passed to a first stage liquid tank and to a first brackish water membrane to filter out complex metals. Rejected effluent from the first brackish water membrane is passed to a second stage liquid tank and thereafter to a second brackish water membrane. The permeate from the second brackish water membrane is passed back to the first stage liquid tank. The rejected effluent from the second brackish water membrane is heated and evaporated. The evaporated effluent is condensed so that metal crystals are gathered for disposal. The permeate through the first brackish membrane is passed to an EDTA resin bed to sequester metal ions. The pH of the discharge from the second pH resin bed is adjusted to between 7 and 11.
US10683221B2	Gas injection and recycling apparatus and methods A device and method for injection of oxygen-rich gas into a body of liquid with oxygen recycling are disclosed. The device comprises a rotary hollow shaft vertically passing through a float partially immersed in the liquid, an impeller attached to the lower end of the rotary hollow shaft, a columnar structure, surrounding the rotary hollow shaft, mounted on the bottom side of the float and vertically extending into the liquid, a gas diffusion chamber formed by the columnar structure, the float and the liquid surface under the float, and a gas injection conduit passing through the float for delivering the oxygen gas into the gas diffusion chamber, wherein a vacuum is generated in the body of the liquid around the impeller when the impeller is driven to rotate, so that the oxygen-rich gas in the gas diffusion chamber is sucked into the body of the liquid and mixed therein.
US10683217B2	Reverse diffusion desalination The systems and methods described herein relate to use of a reverse diffusion system for removal of dissolved ions from a fluid, for example, salt ions. Specific embodiments include a system for desalinating salt water to produce potable water. The systems and methods can include pulsing low levels of electricity via electrodes in a scrolling pattern, so as to sweep the ions across a unit.
US10683216B2	Selective adsorbent fabric for water purification A water purification chamber is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a purification chamber comprising a selective adsorbent activated carbon fiber fabric including one or more selective functional groups that bind arsenic.
US10683208B2	MXene nanosheet and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a MXene nanosheet includes removing an A atomic layer from an inorganic compound having a formula of Mn+1AXn to form a nanosheet, the nanosheet having a formula of Mn+1XnTs, and reducing the nanosheet having a formula of Mn+1XnTs to form an MXene nanosheet, the MXene nanosheet having a formula of Mn+1Xn, wherein M is at least one of Group 3 transition metal, Group 4 transition metal, Group 5 transition metal, and Group 6 transition metal, A is at least one of a Group 12 element, Group 13 element, Group 14 element, Group 15 element and Group 16 element, X is one of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and a combination thereof, Ts is one of oxide (O), epoxide, hydroxide (OH), alkoxide having 1-5 carbon atoms, fluoride (F), chloride (Cl), bromide (Br), iodide (I), and a combination thereof, and n is one of 1, 2 and 3.
US10683206B2	Process for carrying out an equilibrium limited reaction A reactor having a shell comprising: one or more reactor tubes located within the shell, said reactor tube or tubes comprising a plurality of catalyst receptacles containing catalyst; means for providing a heat transfer fluid to the reactor shell such that the heat transfer fluid contacts the tube or tubes; an inlet for providing reactants to the reactor tubes; and an outlet for recovering products from the reactor tubes; wherein the plurality of catalyst receptacles containing catalyst within a tube comprises catalyst receptacles containing catalyst of at least two configurations.
US10683203B2	Microelectromechanical device, method for manufacturing a microelectromechanical device, and method for manufacturing a system on chip using a CMOS process A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device is provided and includes a bulk semiconductor substrate, a cavity formed in the bulk semiconductor substrate, a movably suspended mass, a cap structure and a capacitive structure is shown. The movably suspended mass is defined in the bulk semiconductor substrate by one or more trenches extending from a main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate to the cavity. The cap is structure arranged on the main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate. The capacitive structure comprises a first electrode structure arranged on the movably suspended mass and a second electrode structure arranged at the cap structure such that the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate.
US10683195B2	Methods and systems for detecting and resolving failure events when raising and lowering a payload Described herein are methods and systems for detecting and correcting errors when picking up and lowering a payload coupled to a tether of a winch system arranged on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). For example, the winch system may include a motor for winding and unwinding the tether from a spool, and the UAV's control system may control the motor to lower the tether and monitor an electric current supplied to the motor to determine whether a payload has detached from the tether. This process of lowering the tether and monitoring the motor current may be repeated up to a predetermined number of times, at which point the control system may operate the motor to detach the tether from the spool, leaving both the tether and the payload behind.
US10683186B2	Method of bonding strip-shaped members to each other and apparatus configured to bond strip-shaped members to each other There is provided a technique of reducing the possibility of the occurrence of wrinkles in the process of bonding strip-shaped members to each other. A long strip-shaped first member is conveyed in a longitudinal direction of the first member. A width of a long strip-shaped second member in the shorter direction of the second member is larger than a width of the first member in a shorter direction of the first member. The second member is placed such that respective ends in a shorter direction of the second member are freed. The second member is bonded to the first member being conveyed, such that the shorter direction of the first member is aligned with the shorter direction of the second member and that respective ends in the shorter direction of the first member are placed between the respective ends in the shorter direction of the second member. The second member bonded to the first member is then conveyed along with the conveyed first member.
US10683183B2	Paper converting plant Paper converting plant, including means for producing logs of paper material starting from one or more paper webs fed by corresponding reels, an embossing unit, a bridge crane with arms provided with grippers, and a rewinder that produces logs using the webs coming from the embossing unit, wherein the embossing unit is arranged to be configured in a first use configuration in which one or more embossing rollers positioned inside it are stably locked to respective support means and a second removal configuration in which said one or more embossing rollers are disengaged from said support means and can be extracted from the embossing unit, the plant also includes a storing unit in which are stored one or more embossing rolls according to a predefined storage order such that each embossing roller occupies a predetermined position in the same storage unit, each embossing roller having a respective longitudinal axis.
US10683179B2	Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet tray configured to hold sheets, a sheet feeding unit configured to feed sheets from the sheet tray, and a lift unit configured to move the sheet tray up and down. When the type of sheets to be held on the sheet tray is to be changed to another type, the lift unit moves the sheet tray up or down to a sheet holding position set for sheets of the other type. Thus, the position where the sheet tray can hold sheets is changed in accordance with the material or size of the sheets. The largest number, in which sheets can be mounted on the sheet tray, can thereby be changed.
US10683175B1	Bi-directional vibratory conveyor apparatuses and methods of using the same Bi-directional vibratory conveyor apparatuses comprise an elongated horizontal conveying surface, a vibration inducing motor, and vertically-disposed legs under the horizontal conveying surface, the deflection of which via one or more deflector in conjunction with vibrations of the horizontal conveying surface by the vibration inducing motor induces directional travel of parts on the horizontal conveying surface based on the direction of deflection of the legs therebeneath. Methods of using the same are further provided.
US10683174B2	Rotary discharge assembly for grain conveying apparatus A flow-through discharge assembly having a rotatable tube section and an opening through which product is discharged and a positioning apparatus for rotating the tube section between operation and non-operational conditions. When the tube is positioned in an operational orientation, grain exits through the opening for discharge from the assembly. When the tube is returned to a non-operational condition, the tube opening is blocked and grain is prevented from exiting through the opening. The tube opening may be a single elongated opening or may include multiple tube openings through which product is discharged. A method of using a rotary discharge assembly to control grain flow within a grain handling system is also disclosed.
US10683173B2	Method of managing resources in a warehouse Described herein is an apparatus and method for selecting a storage location for an item. The method includes obtaining order information for a plurality of previously fulfilled orders, wherein each order includes at least one item. Based on the obtained order information, one or a combination of an affinity value of the item and a popularity value of the item are computed. The method determines available storage locations in a plurality of storage racks, each rack including at least one shelf. Further, the method computes for each available storage location, one or a combination of an affinity score and a popularity score of the storage rack with respect to the item. The method selects the storage location from the available storage locations based on at least one of the calculated affinity score and the calculated popularity score, and instructs a vehicle to store the item at the selected storage location.
US10683164B1	Lawn waste bag support devices Lawn waste bag support devices for holding a lawn waste bag in an open position may include a device frame. A bag ring support frame may be carried by the device frame. The bag ring support frame may have at least one ring channel. A bag ring may be configured to receive and hold the lawn waste bag in an open position. The bag ring removably may be deployable in at least one ring channel.
US10683157B2	Carrying bag A shopping bag is provided that can be transformed for use as a file holder for storing documents and items such as a large envelope. The shopping bag includes a rectangle-shaped body part formed by a pair of front and back sheets, handles provided to the open side of the body, and a file part that is integrally formed with the body and that is turned into a rectangle-shaped file holder when separated from the body. The file part includes a separation line to be used for separating the file part from the body, a joint line formed inside of the separation line along the two sides of the separation line, at which the front and back sheets are joined together, and a cut-out part formed as a part of the separation line to be used as a starting point for separating the file part from the body.
US10683156B2	Microwave heating container A microwave heating construct comprises a base, a wall extending upwardly around the base for defining a cavity for receiving a food item, and a microwave energy shielding element overlying a lower margin of the wall, the microwave energy shielding element having an upper edge including a substantially incurved portion.
US10683150B2	High performance, dual materials cable-tie head A dual material cable tie includes a tail on a first end, a head on a second end, and an elongated strap extending therebetween. The strap and tail are substantially flat and formed from a first material. The tail can have teeth/ridges on one or both of the surfaces that extend outwardly from the surface(s). The head has a first portion, a second portion and a passage extending from a first end to a second end that receives the tail. A pawl is located in the passage and the second portion includes an exterior surface. The first portion of the head is made from a first material and the second portion is made from a second material that can be stiffer than the first material and the hardness of the second material can be the same or greater than the first material.
US10683149B2	Container assembly for accommodating a beverage, a preform assembly for producing a container assembly and a method of producing a container assembly A container (10) assembly for accommodating a carbonated beverage defining a temperature dependent internal carbonization pressure comprises a beverage container (10, 12) having a body part defining an inner volume for accommodating the carbonated beverage and a cylindrical neck part defining a gas filled head space. The cylindrical neck part further defines a circumferential rim (16, 18) defining an opening (18, 20) and an outwardly oriented surface (24, 26) which extends between the rim (16, 18) and the body part, and has an outwardly oriented circumferential flange (20, 22). The beverage container (10, 12) further defines a burst pressure being higher than the temperature dependent internal carbonization pressure at room temperature. A closure (30, 32) is provided and comprises a closure plate (32, 34) and a cylindrical part. The closure plate (32, 34) covers the opening (18, 20) at the rim (16, 18) and the cylindrical part covers the neck part. The cylindrical part comprises a locking part for arresting the outwardly oriented circumferential flange (20, 22). A flexible sealing ring (10, 40) is provided and is movable between a first position in which the sealing ring (10, 40) is accommodated in a compressed state entirely within a circumferential cavity defined between the cylindrical part of the closure (30, 32) and the outwardly oriented surface (24, 26) of the neck part when the temperature dependent internal carbonization pressure is lower than or equal to the temperature dependent internal carbonization pressure at room temperature, and, a second position in which a larger part of the sealing ring (10, 40) is accommodated in a compressed state within the circumferential cavity, and a smaller part of the sealing ring (10, 40) is located in an uncompressed state within a groove (28, 30) in the cylindrical part and/or in the outwardly oriented surface (24, 26).
US10683142B2	Plastic bag zipper closure with sealing projections A plastic bag comprising a welded segment at its closure which comprises sealing projections and interlocking projections to form a high integrity seal at the closure edges.

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