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US10706475B2	System and method for rules driven data record reduction According to some embodiments, data is received indicative of a plurality of insurance claims submitted in connection with insurance policies. A rules driven claim processing engine may then apply a first exclusion filter to the received plurality of claims, wherein the first exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the received plurality of claims to create a first subset of claims. A second exclusion filter may then be applied to the first subset of claims, wherein the second exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the first subset of claims to create a second subset of claims. It may then be automatically arranged for the second subset of claims to be processed via an expedited claim processing workflow.
US10706474B2	Supplemental review process determination utilizing advanced analytics decision making model A system may automatically identify electronic records to be routed to a supplemental review process via an automated back-end application computer server. The system may include a data store containing electronic records, each electronic record representing a potential new risk association with an entity, and each electronic record may contain a record identifier and a set of record characteristic values. The computer server may then access the electronic records and automatically generate, by an advanced analytics decision making model based on the record characteristic values, a supplemental review process indication for the potential new risk association of each entity. Indications representing the supplemental review process indications may be transmitted in connection with an interactive user interface display and it may be arranged for electronic records having supplemental review process indications that meet a pre-determined condition to be automatically routed such that those electronic records will undergo the supplemental review process.
US10706473B2	Systems and methods for customizing a portfolio using visualization and control of factor exposure Systems and methods for customizing a portfolio using visualization and control of factor exposures are disclosed. Assets are selected for inclusion in factor portfolios from a universe of assets based on risk premia factor scores. The factor portfolios can be combined into blended portfolios having varying degrees of factor exposures using simple visual controls for adjusting relative proportions of the factor portfolios. Any one of the individual factor portfolios and the resulting blended portfolio can be evaluated by comparing its performance against a benchmark portfolio or across a number of regimes representing various market or economic conditions or factor-specific regimes.
US10706468B2	Contextual searching Contextual searches may be performed to identify subsets of search results from an organized dataset. Contextual searching may return search results based on a relevance of the results to a query or search terms. Characters may be input by users at a search field that may be used to define context filters for limiting the search results of the organized dataset. Triggering events may be received that may trigger the definition of context filters that may be used to obtain the subsets of search results from the organized dataset. The triggering event may be a delimiter in the character string, for example. The subset of search results may include a subset of tradable objects that may be traded at an electronic exchange. The subset of search results may continue to be limited based on additional context filters defined from the search input at the search field.
US10706467B2	Alternative form factor for financial inclusion According to some embodiments, apparatus and methods are provided comprising a connector attachment including a housing, wherein the connector attachment is selectively connectable to a mobile device; and a first token stored within the connector attachment, wherein the first token is operative to execute a transaction with a second token. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10706462B1	Coupon processing system communicating digital coupon offer based upon user bid request and related methods A coupon processing system may include a remote user device and a coupon processing server. The coupon processing server is configured to receive a user bid request from the remote user device and collect digital coupon offers from coupon providers based upon the user bid request. The coupon processing server is configured to select at least one digital coupon offer and communicate the at least one digital coupon offer to the remote user device.
US10706455B2	Indirect and direct delivery of applications A system comprising marketplaces, developer sites and a marketplace platform is described. The marketplaces allow companies to purchase many applications from many sources, including the developer application. The developer site provides the developer application and allows companies to purchase the developer application. The marketplace platform provides a single application programmer interface (API) for companies to license the developer application through both the marketplaces and the developer site. The platform also provides for managing user entitlements the developer application for both the plurality of marketplaces and the developer site.
US10706454B2	Method, medium, and system for training and utilizing item-level importance sampling models The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and computer readable media for training and utilizing an item-level importance sampling model to evaluate and execute digital content selection policies. For example, systems described herein include training and utilizing an item-level importance sampling model that accurately and efficiently predicts a performance value that indicates a probability that a target user will interact with ranked lists of digital content items provided in accordance with a target digital content selection policy. Specifically, systems described herein can perform an offline evaluation of a target policy in light of historical user interactions corresponding to a training digital content selection policy to determine item-level importance weights that account for differences in digital content item distributions between the training policy and the target policy. In addition, the systems described herein can apply the item-level importance weights to training data to train item-level importance sampling model.
US10706451B2	Intelligent market automatic clearing system and implementation method therefof The present invention relates to an intelligent market automatic clearing system comprises a device part and a system part, wherein the device part comprises commodity electronic price tags, a self-service weighing apparatus, a shopping ring, a mobile phone, a shopping basket and a market automatic clearing device. The system part comprises intelligent market automatic clearing APP software, an intelligent market clearing system and an intelligent market clearing system data cloud service platform. The market automatic clearing device comprises a shopping basket moving frame, a visual recognition apparatus, a mechanical commodity picking apparatus, a bar code and RFID recognition apparatus table, an anti-theft decoding apparatus, a mechanical packaging apparatus table, a clearing table, an anti-theft detection door and an automatic channel door.
US10706449B2	Systems and methods for a real time configuring, ordering and manufacturing of color related products A unique, user generated product (UGP) configurator, ordering and manufacturing system that utilizes a mobile device or other digital device, to capture a specific color or multiple colors, by way of an image capture converted from a RGB profile and converted into a manufacturable, mixable formula for future mixing and filling in the system specific processing line for enamel product is described. The user defined final product chosen by an individual user, through the system's user interface that runs on all web enabled digital devices which includes mobile, tablet, computer or other color capture user interface connected to the internet by way of a browser, where the individual identifies a color, type of material to be manufactured, size of container and then orders a finished goods product on their phone or other digital device, then manufactured or processed on a system specific equipment platform, using a computer controlled system that identifies an individual order by way of a variable and unique bar code identifier, where containers move down a proprietary conveyor line to be filled by a series of individually powered, micro-droplet dispensers whose canisters have been filled with specific colored paints from a system defined palette of colors and additives, where those individual paints are mixed to match the color that the individual specified on the system specific user interface.
US10706446B2	Method, system, and computer-readable medium for using facial recognition to analyze in-store activity of a user One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods providing improved customer service to visiting customers of a brick-and-mortar merchant location. For example, a customer recognition system intelligently detects and notifies a merchant when a customer is in need of assistance based on the customer's facial expression. The customer recognition system can also identify a product associated with the customer need. In some examples, the customer recognition system identifies a user profile associated with a customer shopping at a merchant location, determines a trust level for the customer based on user profile information, and based on the trust level, causes a secured product display to provide a customer access to a secured product.
US10706433B2	Individual level learning mechanism Disclosed herein are systems and methods of individual level learning that include receiving purchase event data from a merchant device that indicates that a purchase event occurred by a user on a user device, and transmitting the purchase event data to an analytics server. The methods may also include processing the purchase event data. The processing may include calculating a time gap for each of two sequential purchase events in a list of purchase events, and calculating an average duration of consecutive events by averaging all of the purchase events in the list of purchase events. The method may determine a purchase hazard probability that a purchase event will occur on a given day, when the average duration of consecutive events is larger than a standard deviation of the event occurring. When the purchase hazard probability is above a threshold, the system may push a message to the user device.
US10706423B1	Systems and methods for mitigating fraudulent transactions Disclosed are systems and methods for mitigation of fraudulent transactions. In some embodiments, a server is communicatively coupled to a user device, and is configured to receive a proposed transaction from a merchant device communicatively coupled to the server, apply a dynamic classification algorithm to the proposed transaction to determine if the proposed transactions appears to be fraudulent, generate a user verification request when the proposed transaction appears to be fraudulent, transmit the user verification request to a user computing device communicatively coupled to the server, receive an approval or a refusal of the proposed transaction based on the user verification request, and process the proposed transaction based on the received approval or refusal of the proposed transaction.
US10706410B2	Service-hosted payment request Systems and methods are provided that enable a vendor to utilize a digital wallet service to complete an online transaction with a user via a messaging channel (e.g., a chat channel), in a scenario where the vendor does not have a front end application running on the user's client device (i.e., there is no mechanism for the vendor's web-based application, such as a bot, to communicate with a digital wallet application running on the user's device). An online digital wallet service generates and caches a payment request (which can be rendered at a later time by the digital wallet service for interaction with the user) which is requested by the vendor, and provides the vendor with a reference to the cached payment request. The vendor provides the reference to the user such that the user can access the payment request via the link.
US10706406B2	Method and a system for authenticating and identifying the location of a communication device Disclosed is a system and a method for authenticating the location of a user's communication device using a central server to a third party. The method and the system is a secure way to calculate the GPS location on a centralized server which is operating the Time and Place Decryption software that has one of its inputs being a Communication device transmitted encrypted prevailing code string which contains the original GPS coordinated representing the location and the Atomic time at which the encryption took place, as well as a combination of all or some other Knowledge, Ownership or Inheritance identification factors or tokens—FaktokIns. The more FaktokIns that are used in the encryption the harder it is to fake or replicate the GPSTOTP.
US10706395B2	Fund transfer service for multiple linked transaction accounts Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for transferring funds from multiple transaction accounts are provided. The system may allow a user to link one or more credit, debit, or other similar transaction accounts to a single transaction instrument. The system may receive a transaction authorization request, retrieve a merchant account number and a consumer transaction account number based on the transaction authorization request, and generate a funds transfer request comprising the merchant account number, the consumer transaction account number, and a payment amount. The funds transfer request may be executed by a transaction account network to transfer funds from the consumer transaction account to the merchant account.
US10706391B2	Protecting scheduled meeting in physical room Systems and methods are disclosed for securing a meeting in a physical conference room with multiple meetings scheduled therein. A list of scheduled meetings for the physical conference room is received from a videoconference server that is configured to host a multi-endpoint conference meeting between a local endpoint associated with the physical conference room and at least one remote endpoint. A first meeting within the list of scheduled meetings is designated as a locked meeting. The list of scheduled meetings that do not have the locked designation associated with the physical conference room for display are displayed, whereas for the first meeting, display of meeting information is suppressed. The presence of a device associated with an entity invited to the first meeting is detected, and at least one resource in the physical conference room is unlocked for use in the first meeting when a received meeting identifier is verified.
US10706380B2	Split shipment processing Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for obtaining authorization for a plurality of split shipments associated with a single order. In particular, embodiments of the present invention allow a merchant to submit a separate split shipment authorization request for each of the plurality of split shipments. The split shipments authorization requests are linked to the original order using verifiable linking data. The linking data may be extracted from a previous (e.g., initial) split shipment authorization request and/or a previous (e.g., initial) split shipment authorization request. The linking data may be validated by an authorizing entity (e.g., a payment processing network computer or an issuer computer) to ensure validity of a split shipment authorization request. Additionally, the split shipment authorization requests may be validated using one or more predefined split shipment rules.
US10706375B2	Central plant with asset allocator A central plant includes an asset allocator configured to determine an optimal allocation of energy loads across central plant equipment. The asset allocator identifies sources configured to supply input resources, subplants configured to convert the input resources to output resources, and sinks configured to consume the output resources. The asset allocator generates a cost function and a resource balance constraint. The resource balance constraint requires balance between a total amount of each resource supplied by the sources and the subplants and a total amount of each resource consumed by the subplants and the sinks. The asset allocator determines the optimal allocation of the energy loads across the central plant equipment by optimizing the cost function subject to the resource balance constraint. The asset allocator is configured to control the central plant equipment to achieve the optimal allocation of the energy loads.
US10706374B2	System, apparatus, and method for generating secondary staffing schedules Disclosed herein are aspects of a staff scheduling system for preparing a staffing schedule report for secondary education campuses of a school district. In one embodiment, a staff scheduler comprises at least one interface for receiving a plurality of inputs from at least one external computing device; and a processor configured to perform a staff scheduling algorithm to generate a staffing schedule report for the secondary education campuses, wherein the staff scheduling algorithm generates a series of input prompts and decisions based on the plurality of inputs. The plurality of inputs includes at least courses requested by students at each campus, current teachers available in the district, current teachers' qualifications, campus facility information, which courses may be shared at multiple campuses, and which staff may be shared by multiple campuses.
US10706368B2	Systems and methods for efficiently classifying data objects The disclosed computer-implemented method for efficiently classifying data objects may include (1) receiving a data object to be classified according to a group of rules, where each rule includes one or more clauses, (2) creating, for each rule, a rule evaluation job that directs a rule evaluation processor to evaluate the data object according to the clauses within the rule, where the rule evaluation processor evaluates the clauses in increasing order of estimated processing time, (3) submitting the rule evaluation jobs created for the rules to rule evaluation queues for processing by the rule evaluation processor, where the rule evaluation jobs are submitted in decreasing order of estimated processing time, (4) receiving an evaluation result for each rule evaluation job, and (5) in response to receiving the evaluation results, classifying the data object according to the evaluation results. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10706361B1	Hybrid feature selection for performance prediction of fluid control valves Hybrid feature selection methods include methods of creating a predictive model for valve performance in a fleet of aircraft. Methods include qualifying a qualification dataset of valve-related parameters calculated from data collected during a first series of flights at least before and after a non-performance event of a valve. Methods include receiving a qualified selection of the valve-related parameters and verifying a verification dataset of the qualified selection of the valve-related parameters calculated from data collected during a second series of flights. Methods include receiving a set of verified and qualified valve-related parameters and building a predictive model for valve non-performance with a training dataset of the verified and qualified valve-related parameters calculated from data collected during additional flights of the fleet.
US10706355B2	Method and system for distributed coding and learning in neuromorphic networks for pattern recognition Described is a system for pattern recognition designed for neuromorphic hardware. The system generates a spike train of neuron spikes for training patterns with each excitatory neuron in an excitatory layer, where each training pattern belongs to a pattern class. A spiking rate distribution of excitatory neurons is generated for each pattern class. Each spiking rate distribution of excitatory neurons is normalized, and a class template is generated for each pattern class from the normalized spiking rate distributions. An unlabeled input pattern is classified using the class templates. A mechanical component of an autonomous device can be controlled based on classification of the unlabeled input pattern.
US10706354B2	Estimating cardinality selectivity utilizing artificial neural networks A database query comprising predicates may be received. Each predicate may operate on database columns. The database query may be determined to comprise strict operators. An upper bound neural network may be defined for calculating an adjacent upper bound and a lower bound neural network may be defined for calculating an adjacent lower bound. The upper bound neural network and the lower bound neural network may be trained using a selected value from data of a database table associated with the database query to be executed through the upper bound neural network and the lower bound neural network. The upper bound neural network and the lower bound neural network may be adjusted by passing in an expected value using an error found in expressions. The adjacent lower bound and the adjacent upper bound may be calculated in response to completion of initial training for the database columns.
US10706349B2	Secure convolutional neural networks (CNN) accelerator A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based-signal processing includes receiving of an encrypted output from a first layer of a multi-layer CNN data. The received encrypted output is subsequently decrypted to form a decrypted input to a second layer of the multi-layer CNN data. A convolution of the decrypted input with a corresponding decrypted weight may generate a second layer output, which may be encrypted and used as an encrypted input to a third layer of the multi-layer CNN data.
US10706346B2	Method for manufacturing a smart card module and a smart card The invention relates to a method for producing a chip card module. According to this method, the following are produced: a module with a substrate having contacts and an electronic chip connected to at least some contacts; an antenna on a carrier, this antenna including two ends, each equipped with a connection land; a cavity in at least one layer of the card at least partially covering the carrier, in order to house the module and to expose the connection lands of the antenna; a first end of a wire is connected directly to a connection pad of the chip, and another portion is connected directly to a connection land of the antenna, after having inserted the module into the cavity.
US10706325B2	Method and apparatus for selecting a network resource as a source of content for a recommendation system There are disclosed a method of and a system for selecting a network resource as a source of a content item, the content item to be analyzed by a recommendation system as part of a plurality of content items to generate a set of recommended content items as a recommendation for a given user of the recommendation system. The method comprises, for a network resource, receiving, by the server, a plurality of features associated with a network resource to be processed; generating given network resource profile for the network resource, the given network resource profile being based on the plurality of features; executing a machine learning algorithm in order to determine a source suitability parameter for the network resource, selecting at least one content item from the network resource if the source suitability parameter is determined to be above a pre-determined threshold.
US10706319B2	Template creation apparatus, object recognition processing apparatus, template creation method, and program A viewpoint position-related parameter setting unit determines which approximate spherical shape to use in order to determine a viewpoint position. A viewpoint position creation unit creates a plurality of approximate spherical shapes set by the viewpoint-position-related parameter setting unit, and creates respective viewpoint positions. An optimal viewpoint position creation unit calculates a rotation angle at which the number of slave viewpoints associated with master viewpoints is substantially equal and a maximum distance between the master viewpoint and the slave viewpoint associated therewith is a minimum.
US10706317B2	Nuanced-color search and recommendation system Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for implementing a nuanced-color search and recommendation system. Employing various techniques described herein, an improved search engine for categorizable items is provided to generate accurate color-based search results and recommendations that are relevant to a nuanced color provided as a search parameter. In various implementations, digital assets that depict categorizable items can be analyzed to characterize the depicted items with, among other things, a particular shade of a determined dominant color. In this way, categorizable items can be searched based at least in part on a selected shade of a particular dominant color to generate a primary search result. In further embodiments, other categorizable items can be generated as recommendations based on characteristics of the primary search result. That is, other items not necessarily subject of the search, can be provided as recommended items if predefined rules dictate that such items may complement the categorizable items included in the primary search result.
US10706303B2	Driver information determination apparatus A driver information determination apparatus includes a road shape acquisition unit configured to acquire a front section shape ahead of a vehicle; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether the front section shape is a determination target shape; a face direction acquisition unit configured to acquire a face direction of a driver; and a reference face direction determination unit configured to determine a reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. When it is determined that the front section shape is the determination target shape, the reference face direction determination unit determines the reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. The determination target shape is a shape of a road having a road curvature less than or equal to a preset upper curvature limit or a shape of the road having a road incline within a preset level range.
US10706300B2	Vehicle systems and methods for determining a target based on a virtual eye position and a pointing direction Vehicle systems and methods for determining a target position are disclosed. A vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of a user performing at least one gesture to indicate a final target position. The vehicle also includes a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal that indicates an actual eye position of the user. The vehicle also includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors. The processors store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to determine a first point and a second point located on the hand of the user based at least in part on the gesture signal from the user detection system. The first point and the second point define a pointing axis of the hand of the user.
US10706299B2	Control system of vehicle The control system of a vehicle comprises: a driver monitor camera capturing an face of a driver of a vehicle to generate a facial image of the driver; a driver condition detection part configured to detect a condition of the driver based on the facial image; a steering system operating wheels and a steering wheel of the vehicle; and a steering control part configured to set a target turning angle of the wheels and a target steering angle of the steering wheel to control the steering system. The steering control part is configured to make an upper limit value of the target steering angle a value up to a maximum angle when one eye of the driver is not hidden by the steering wheel in the facial image generated when the driver is facing the front.
US10706296B2	Vehicle safety determination apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium In a vehicle safety determination apparatus, an image of an area observed from a vehicle is acquired. Based on the image, a type, position, and shape of each recognition target in an image are recognized and recorded. A target is detected among recognition targets. A predicted path of the target is calculated based on recognition results of the image recognition for the recorded target. A most proximal time at which the vehicle and the target are in closest proximity is calculated based on the traveling state of the vehicle and the distance from the vehicle and the movement state of the target. A predicted position of the target at the most proximal time is calculated based on the predicted path. The safety determination regarding the target is performed based on the predicted position and on the type, position, and shape of at least one recognition target other than the target.
US10706293B1	Vehicle camera clearness detection and alert A method of operating a vehicle may include detecting that a vehicle user is exiting the vehicle, that a user is approaching the vehicle or that the user remote starts the vehicle. Upon the one of these events occurring, automatically conducting a camera lens clearness test. If the test detects an unclear camera lens, notifying the user while outside of the vehicle that the camera lens needs cleaning.
US10706286B1	3D convolutional neural networks for television advertisement detection A method is provided to classify whether video content is likely to be an advertisement or a non-advertisement. A curated database of video content items that includes a plurality of different video content items that were each previously identified as being an advertisement, and a plurality of different video content items that were each previously identified as not being an advertisement, are used to train a 2D CNN and a 3D CNN. The training of the 2D CNN includes learning characteristic visual and spatial features of advertisement images in the video content items compared to non-advertisement images in the video content items, the training resulting in weights being defined for the 2D CNN. The training of the 3D CNN includes learning a temporal structure and relationship over multiple image frames of the advertisements in the video content items compared to non-advertisement image frames in the video content items, the training resulting in weights being defined for the 3D CNN. The trained 2D CNN and 3D CNN are then used to determine the probability that newly identified video content should be classified as an advertisement.
US10706283B2	Hyperspectral imaging system for monitoring agricultural products during processing and manufacturing Provided is a method for monitoring a manufacturing process of an agricultural product. The method utilizes hyperspectral imaging and comprises scanning at least one region along a sample of agricultural product using at least one light source of a single or different wavelengths; generating hyperspectral images from the at least one region; determining a spectral fingerprint for the sample of agricultural product from the hyperspectral images; and comparing the spectral fingerprint so obtained to a spectral fingerprint database containing a plurality of fingerprints obtained at various points of the manufacturing process, using a computer processor, to determine which point in the manufacturing process the sample has progressed to.
US10706282B2	Method and mobile terminal for processing image and storage medium Disclosed are a method and mobile terminal for processing an image and storage medium. The method includes collecting color information of a target object; determining at least one of multiple pre-stored compensation parameters as at least one compensation parameter corresponding to the color information; and during iris collection, compensating an iris based on the at least one target compensation parameter to obtain a color iris image.
US10706280B2	Virtual reality device with iris acquisition function A virtual reality device with iris acquisition function, includes a housing having an accommodating space, an observing lens embedded in the housing, a display screen accommodated in the housing and arranged opposite to the observing lens, and at least one iris camera accommodated in the housing. The virtual reality device further includes at least one infrared source accommodated in the housing, the infrared source is arranged on a focal plane of the observing lens and light emitted from the infrared source passes through the observing lens to an iris of a human eye. The iris camera is configured to acquire an iris image of a human eye through the observing lens and the iris camera is arranged at a position which will not interfere a line of sight of the human eye on the infrared source and the display screen.
US10706266B2	Guidance acquisition device, guidance acquisition method, and program Face image data is acquired and a face image is captured, and a difference between a face image indicated by the face image data and the face image that is captured or a candidate of the difference is detected on the basis of at least one of the face image indicated by the face image data that is acquired, and the face image that is captured. Guidance is acquired on the basis of the difference or the candidate of the difference which is detected, and an output unit is controlled to output the guidance.
US10706265B2	Scanning a real-time media stream to detect one or more faces that are prevalent among a set of media files stored on a user equipment In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) recognizes a set of faces within a set of media files stored on the UE using facial recognition. The UE identifies a set of prevalent faces based on a set of criteria including a prevalence of one or more faces among the set of media files. The UE scans real-time media using facial recognition to determine whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are present in the real-time media. The UE performs an action based on whether the scanning detects any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces in the real-time media. By way of example, the action may include adding one or more enhancement effects to the real-time media, authorizing a communicative operation to proceed, authorizing access to the UE, or any combination thereof.
US10706262B2	Intelligent body measurement A method for estimating the body measurements of a subject from at least two photographic images of the subject. The method includes capturing the photographic images using a digital imaging device, for example, a mobile device camera, and estimating the body measurements of the subject using heatmap data generated by an intelligent computing system such as a trained neural network.
US10706258B2	Systems and methods for cell identification using lens-less imaging Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for cell identification using a lens-less cell identification sensor. Randomly distributed cells can be illuminated by a light source such as a laser. The object beam can be passed through one or more diffusers. Pattern recognition is applied on the captured optical signature to classify the cells. For example, features can be extracted and a trained classifier can be used to classify the cells. The cell classes can be accurately identified even when multiple cells of the same class are inspected.
US10706241B2	Method for keeping active state of smart card until re-entering field, and smart card A method and a device for keeping an active state of a smart card until re-entering a field, and a smart card are provided. The method includes: sending a waiting time extension instruction by a smart card to an electronic device when the smart card is in an electromagnetic field of the electronic device and in an active state; starting a timer after the smart card receives a reply in response to the waiting time extension instruction; detecting that the smart card leaves the field, determining whether the timer times out, and keeping a current state of the smart card as the active state when the timer does not time out and detecting that the smart card re-enters the field, determining whether the timer times out, and keeping the current state of the smart card as the active state when the timer does not time out.
US10706229B2	Content aware heterogeneous log pattern comparative analysis engine A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for content aware heterogeneous log pattern comparative analysis. The method includes receiving, by a processor-device, a plurality of heterogeneous logs. The method also includes extracting, by the processor-device, a plurality of log syntactic patterns from the plurality of heterogenous logs. The method additionally includes generating, by the processor-device, latent representation vectors for each of the plurality of log syntactic patterns. The method further includes predicting, by the processor-device, an anomaly from the clustered latent representation vectors. The method also includes controlling an operation of a processor-based machine to react in accordance with the anomaly.
US10706227B2	Method and system of provisioning electronic forms A system of provisioning electronic forms based on natural language is disclosed. Accordingly, the system may include a communication device configured for receiving a natural language input from a builder device. Further, the natural language input represents one or more of a requested data and a presented data associated with a not-yet-legal process. Further, the communication device may be configured for transmitting an electronic form to at least one user device, receiving the electronic form including the requested data from the user device. Further, the requested data may include environmental data captured from at least one sensor of the user device. Further, the system may include a processing device configured for analyzing the natural language input. Further, the processing device may be configured for generating the electronic form based on the analyzing of the natural language input. Further, the system may include a storage device storing the electronic form.
US10706226B2	Graphical user interface for inter-party communication with automatic scoring An embodiment may involve transmitting, to a first client device, a representation of a first graphical user interface. The first graphical user interface may define fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may involve receiving, from the first client device, a first submission of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may involve transmitting, to a second client device, a representation of a second graphical user interface. The second graphical user interface may allow the second client device to fill out the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may further involve receiving, from the second client device, a second submission of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may further involve determining numerical scores associated with each of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may also involve transmitting a representation of a third graphical user interface. The third graphical user interface may show the fillable web-based forms and their respective numerical scores.
US10706225B2	Form management system and method The present invention provides a form management system, comprising: a form building module, the form building module calling a word processing application software to obtain layout information of a form; and a common library building module, the common library building module building a correlation between a specific field of the form and default data of the specific field and storing the correlation in a common library.
US10706220B2	System and method for parameterizing documents for automatic workflow generation One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for generating a new workflow for an application. The method includes generating a parameter tree corresponding to a current workflow, wherein the current workflow comprises a first document and a second document; modifying a first node of the parameter tree that corresponds to a first parameter of the first document to generate modifications of a first parameter value of the first document; and propagating modifications of the first parameter value to a second parameter of the second document to generate the new workflow; wherein the method is performed using one or more computers.
US10706218B2	Extracting information from tables embedded within documents Much valuable information in documents is presented within tables. However, the information within tables is hard to extract automatically with high accuracy due to the wide variety and low quality of typical tables found in electronic documents. Information extraction technology can provide a method of extracting information from heterogeneous tables by recognizing tables, the header cells, and cells that are merged or should be merged, creating a richer representation of table structure and providing a convenient way of linking cells to their row and column headers. Use of this richer representation allows a few extraction patterns to successfully pull out information from a wide variety of differently formatted tables.
US10706217B2	Quick access panel for displaying a web page on a mobile device Embodiments of displaying a web page on a mobile device are provided. An aspect includes acquiring user interface elements that have a quick access attribute in the web page. Another aspect includes generating a quick access panel of the user interface elements having the quick access attributes, wherein a visible transparency of the generated quick access panel is not below a predetermined threshold.
US10706212B1	Cross-platform presentation of digital content In some examples, additional content is provided with the main content of a content item presented on an electronic device. For instance, an occurrence of an event may call for presentation of an additional content portion concurrently with the main content of the content item. The additional content portion may interact with other additional content portions, the main content portion, and/or user inputs. In some cases, the additional content portion can be implemented by one or more plug-in modules having designated roles for providing respective different types of additional content. Accordingly, some examples provide a cross-platform module that receives events, selects one or more plug-ins in response to a received event, and causes the one or more plug-ins to perform a desired action for rendering and compositing additional content portions or features to be presented with the main content of a content item.
US10706205B2	Detecting hotspots in physical design layout patterns utilizing hotspot detection model with data augmentation A method for detecting hotspots in physical design layout patterns includes receiving a given physical design layout pattern, utilizing a hotspot detection model to detect one or more potential hotspots in the given physical design layout pattern, and performing a verification to determine whether a given potential hotspot of the one or more potential hotspots detected by the hotspot detection model comprises a real hotspot or a nonexistent hotspot. The method also includes, responsive to determining that the given potential hotspot comprises an actual hotspot, modifying the given physical design layout pattern to remove the actual hotspot. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the given potential hotspot comprises a nonexistent hotspot, augmenting the hotspot detection model with additional training data generated based on the nonexistent hotspot.
US10706201B1	Circuit design routing using multi-panel track assignment Various embodiments provide for circuit design routing using a track assignment based on a plurality of panels (also referred to herein as a multi-panel track assignment). According to some embodiments, a track assignment of a wire within a particular panel is performed based on a primary panel bound or limit and a secondary panel bound or limit. For instance, during a track assignment for a particular wire falling within a particular panel, an embodiment can first attempt to assign the particular wire to a track that falls within panels within the primary panel bound and, if deemed not possible (e.g., due to a DRC, violation or congestion issue), the embodiment can then assign the particular wire to a track that falls within panels within the secondary panel bound.
US10706185B2	Systems and methods for automated spatial change detection and control of buildings and construction sites using three-dimensional laser scanning data Systems and methods for automated spatial change detection and control of buildings and construction sites using three-dimensional laser scanning data are disclosed.
US10706180B2	System and method for enabling a malware prevention module in response to a context switch within a certain process being executed by a processor A performance monitoring unit in a processor is programmed to issue an interrupt when a context switch occurs within an operating system if the currently executing thread belongs to a process that is subject to the malware prevention mechanism of the present invention. The interrupt enables a module that identifies mispredictions by the branch prediction unit of the processor and analyzes the address of the branch that was not predicted correctly. If the address of the branch is not contained on an existing whitelist of permissible branch addresses, and alert is generated and/or a protective action is taken. Such protective actions may include thread suspension, thread termination, process suspension, or process termination.
US10706175B2	Method and apparatus for hiding private browsing data A browsing session integrated with a hidden credential authentication system and with a privacy level mode property is created or resumed. Private browsing data is encrypted and hidden and can be accessed by inputting correct credentials. If credentials inputted into the hidden credential authentication system match credentials stored on a storage medium, access is granted to one or more types of private browsing data.
US10706170B2	Tenant table sharing with content separation Implementations include providing a database system that a plurality of tenant systems interact with, providing a shared database schema and a plurality of tenant database schemas, the shared database schema including a shared table, and each tenant database schema being assigned to a respective tenant and including a view into the shared table, which includes a tenant specification field, and a row visibility field, the tenant specification field indicating a tenant, to which a respective row is assigned, and the row visibility field indicating visibility of a respective row to respective tenants.
US10706167B1	Systems and methods for enforcing privacy in cloud security A computer-implemented method for enforcing privacy in cloud security may include (i) identifying, by a computing device, a set of files in a backup process for a cloud service, (ii) determining, by the computing device, that at least one file in the set of files is a private file, (iii) modifying, by the computing device encrypting the private file, the set of files in the backup process, (iv) completing the backup process for the cloud service with the modified set of files, and (v) enforcing a security policy of the cloud service based on a scan of file hashes. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10706156B2	Security risk identification in a secure software lifecycle A system and method for security risk identification in a secure software lifecycle. A knowledge database has a plurality of security elements which are identified for a particular software application depending on software environment and prioritized in a task list. Code vulnerabilities are identified using code scanners, with security requirements updated based on identified vulnerabilities, lack of vulnerabilities for weaknesses covered by a code scanner, potential weaknesses not adequately covered by code scanners, and software environment changes.
US10706154B2	Enabling a secure boot from non-volatile memory A system may include a host that may include a processor coupled to a non-volatile memory over a secure communication protocol. As a result, prior to release for manufacturing, a binding code may be established between the host and the non-volatile memory. In some embodiments, this binding code may be stored on the non-volatile memory and not on the host. Then during a boot up of the system, the boot up process may be initiated by the host using code associated with the host, followed by secure booting using the secure protocol using code stored on the non-volatile memory.
US10706152B2	Systems and methods for concealed object store in a virtualized information handling system In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor subsystem configured to execute a hypervisor, wherein the hypervisor is configured to host a plurality of virtual machines and a memory subsystem communicatively coupled to the processor subsystem. The memory subsystem may be configured to implement namespaces for the hypervisor and the plurality of virtual machines and implement for each of the namespaces a concealed namespace object store as a hidden metadata area of the memory subsystem unexposed to the hypervisor and the plurality of virtual machines, each concealed namespace object store comprising metadata for an associated namespace.
US10706150B2	Detecting malicious software by inspecting table look-aside buffers Systems and methods that detect presence of malicious software while comparing address mappings in multiple table look-aside buffers are provided. Address mappings in an instruction table look-aside buffer (ITLB) and a data table look-aside buffer (DTLB) may be scanned with each address mapping including a mapping between a virtual page in a virtual memory and a frame in a physical memory of a computing device. A discrepancy between an address mapping in the ITLB and an address mapping in the DTLB can be identified. Based on the discrepancy, a process associated with the mapping may then be identified as a malicious process.
US10706146B2	Scanning kernel data structure characteristics A method and apparatus for detecting kernel data structure tampering are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a memory region of a computer system is scanned for one or more characteristics of a kernel data structure of an operating system kernel. It is then determined, based at least in part on identifying whether the one or more characteristics are found in the memory region, whether the kernel data structure is stored in the memory region of the computer system for tampering with the kernel data structure.
US10706140B2	Vehicle computer update authentication A first computer includes a processor programmed to receive from a second computer a request to install a computer update. The request includes identification data. The first computer is further programmed to request, from a third computer, remote from the vehicle and from the second computer, a first authentication for the request to install the computer update. The request includes the identification data. The first computer receives the first authentication from the third computer. The first computer is further programmed to send, to a user device, an instruction to request from a user, a second authentication of the request to install the computer update. The first computer receives the second authentication from the user and installs the computer code.
US10706138B2	Normalizing identity API calls for a suite of multi-tenant products across disparate multi-tenant and single-tenant identity directories Systems and methods for operating a system including a plurality of directories. The methods comprises: receiving, by a computing device, a first search request for identity information associated with an individual user of the system that is in a common request format supported by a common Application Programming Interface (“API”); performing first operations by the computing device to generate second search requests by transforming a format of the first search request from the common request format to a plurality of directory search request formats respectively supported by the plurality of directories; and respectively communicating the second search requests to the plurality of directories for retrieving the identity information associated with an individual user of the system.
US10706137B2	Apparatus and method for using a customer device certificate on a device An apparatus for using a certificate on a device is proposed, including a processing unit for generating a certificate request and a transmitter-receiver unit for transmitting the generated certificate request to a first external computing unit, which is configured to generate a certificate for the device and to allow a second external computing unit to re-sign the certificate with an additional manufacturer's signature, and for receiving the re-signed certificate from the external computing unit. The processing unit is further configured to check the manufacturer's signature based on information stored in the device and to use the certificate depending on a result of the check. Furthermore, a system and a corresponding method are proposed.
US10706136B2	Authentication-activated augmented reality display device A portable device is provided. The portable device may include a display; an input device; a camera; a processor coupled to the display, the input device, and the camera; and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the computer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor, to implement a method comprising: receiving authentication data from the input device, determining whether the received authentication data matches authentication data associated with an authorized user, and displaying, on the display, a credential, an item, and data associated with the item.
US10706130B2	System and method for software activation and license tracking System and method for software activation and further tracking of its states on an end-user computing device (computer) was developed to provide software developers a flexible and secure tool for software distribution and gathering statistics of usage of software activation. The method consists of the following logical steps: (a) obtaining an acquisition confirmation; (b) requesting for a license; (c) issuing and delivering the license to End User, the license being secured with a private key by a server, and the private key is not stored at the client; (d) verification of license on the User's computer; (e) storing the license on the User's computer; (f) periodic tracking of activation state, (g) another action with the User's license, wherein the verifying the license comprises validating, at the client associated with the application, the license received from the server without any modifications, and saving the license to the client.
US10706128B2	System and method for automated personalized and community-specific eating and activity planning, linked to tracking system with automated multimodal item identification and size estimation system The system and method for automated personalized and community-specific eating and activity planning are provided that are linked to tracking with automated multimodal item identification and size estimation and enable and integrate health and other user datastreams and enables rewards and links to healthy eating and activity partners based on that data. The system and method also provide personalized wellness recommendations. The system and method also enables action, such as single click ordering of the healthy meals or shopping list on one's plan from local restaurants and grocery stores, and receipt of mobile vouchers and coupons with a unique validation system for use at retailers.
US10706108B2	Field name recommendation In one aspect, a system for recommending a field name in data is disclosed. The system includes a processor; a memory; and one or more modules stored in the memory and executable by a processor to perform operations. The operations performed include: receive a user selection from choices of data; convert the selected data into a searchable format; receive a user selection of a portion of the selected data; apply heuristics to the portion; and recommend a field name and a field type based on the heuristics applied to the portion.
US10706101B2	Bucketized hash tables with remap entries Methods and mechanisms for managing data in a hash table are disclosed. A computing system includes a hash table configured to store data and hash management logic. In response to receiving a request to insert data into the hash table, the hash management logic is configured to generate a first hash value by applying a first hash function to the key of the key-value pair, and identify a first bucket within the hash table that corresponds to the first hash table. If the first bucket has a slot available, store the key-value pair in the slot. If the first bucket does not have a slot available, select a first slot of the first bucket for conversion to a remap entry, store the key-value pair in a second bucket, and store information associating the key-value pair with the second bucket in the remap entry.
US10706100B2	Method of and system for recommending media objects A method of and a system for selecting recommended media objects comprising: acquiring media objects, each respective media object having at least one respective user interaction parameter, acquiring at least one tag associated with each respective media object, receiving, a request for a media object recommendation, acquiring at least one tag and at least one user interaction parameter associated with the media object, determining potential recommended media object candidates based on at least one tag of the media object overlapping with tags associated with the respective media objects, determining for each potential recommended media object candidate, a number of overlapping tags with the media object, generating a respective correspondence parameter based on the number of overlapping tags and the respective user interaction parameter, selecting at least one recommended media object, the at least one recommended media object being associated with a predetermined value of the correspondence parameter.
US10706094B2	System and method for customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content element signatures A system and method customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content elements. The method may include detecting a trigger event; identifying a user profile of the user device, wherein the user profile includes one or more signatures indicating a user interest; accessing signatures for a plurality of multimedia content elements; comparing the signatures of at least one of the plurality of multimedia content elements with the one or more signature of the user profile; and customizing the display of the user device, wherein the customized display includes the at least one interesting multimedia content element.
US10706091B2	User driven computerized selection, categorization, and layout of live content components A computer application displayed document such as a Web Page, is manipulated by dragging snippets to and from graphically depicted icons created by the application. The snippets preferably comprise links to the original content for communicating with the content source and/or restoring removed snippets to the displayed document. Preferably links are maintained semantically using RDF and DOM technology.
US10706086B1	Collaborative-filtering based user simulation for dialog systems Techniques for simulating a user in a conversation are described. A user simulation service and a conversation agent service conduct a dialog. The user simulation service compares a current sequence of stored labels corresponding to statements in the dialog with a plurality of candidate sequences of labels corresponding to statements in a plurality of candidate dialogs to identify a matching sequence of labels. The user simulation sequence identifies a base sequence of labels that includes the matching sequence of labels to identify a label corresponding to an act in the base sequence of labels following the matching sequence of labels. The user simulation service issues the act to the conversation agent service to be used as a simulated user act.
US10706085B2	Method and system for exposing virtual assistant services across multiple platforms Techniques for exposing virtual assistant skills as authorable content items interpretable across multiple platforms are disclosed. In an embodiment, a query system comprises an execution engine and a plurality of wrapper services including (a) a first wrapper service for converting messages between a first protocol of a first virtual assistant platform and a target protocol and (b) a second wrapper service for converting messages between a second protocol of a second virtual assistant platform and the target protocol. The query system may receive a specification for a skill and requests from the plurality of virtual assistant platforms that invoke the skill. The wrapper services convert the requests to a target protocol consumable by the execution engine and convert responses from the execution engine a protocol consumable by the virtual assistant platform through which the request originated.
US10706084B2	Method and device for parsing question in knowledge base A method for parsing a question in a knowledge base includes: receiving a question entered by a user; performing phrase detection on the question to determine candidate phrases; mapping the candidate phrases to resource items in the knowledge base; further determining values of observed predicates and possible question parse spaces; performing uncertain inference on each proposition set in the possible question parse spaces according to the values of the observed predicates and values of hidden predicates, and calculating confidence; acquiring a combination of true propositions in a proposition set whose confidence satisfies a preset condition; generating a formal query statement according to the combination of true propositions.
US10706063B2	Automated scalable contextual data collection and extraction system A system for contextual data collection and extraction is provided, comprising an extraction engine configured to receive context from a user for desired information to extract, connect to a data source providing a richly formatted dataset, retrieve the richly formatted dataset, process the richly formatted dataset and extract information from a plurality of linguistic modalities within the richly formatted, and transform the extracted data into a extracted dataset; and a knowledge base construction service configured to retrieve the extracted dataset, create a knowledge base for storing the extracted dataset, and store the knowledge base in a data store.
US10706059B2	Background format optimization for enhanced SQL-like queries in Hadoop A format conversion engine for Apache Hadoop that converts data from its original format to a database-like format at certain time points for use by a low latency (LL) query engine. The format conversion engine comprises a daemon that is installed on each data node in a Hadoop cluster. The daemon comprises a scheduler and a converter. The scheduler determines when to perform the format conversion and notifies the converter when the time comes. The converter converts data on the data node from its original format to a database-like format for use by the low latency (LL) query engine.
US10706051B1	Methods for updating reference count and shared objects in a concurrent system A method for referencing and updating objects in a shared resource environment. A reference counter counts is incremented for every use of an object subtype in a session and decremented for every release of an object subtype in a session. A session counter is incremented upon the first instance of fetching an object type into a session cache and decremented upon having no instances of the object type in use in the session. When both the reference counter and the session counter are zero, the object type may be removed from the cache. When the object type needs to be updated, it is cloned into a local cache, and changes are made on the local copy. The global cache is then locked to all other users, the original object type is detached, and the cloned object type is swapped into the global cache, after which the global cache in unlocked.
US10706039B2	Data coherency between trusted DBMS and untrusted DBMS The present disclosure relates to a method for processing data in a database engine. The method includes storing a first instance of a first table in the database engine in plaintext. Encryption information about encryption methods and encryption keys of at least one predefined column of the first table may be maintained. In response to data changes in the column, first log entries for the data changes may be written in plaintext. The data changes may be encrypted by an encryption component using the encryption information. This results in encrypted data changes. Second log entries for the encrypted data changes may be written and applied to a second instance of the first table. The second instance of the first table is stored at a further database engine.
US10706028B2	Detecting outliers in server transaction time as a form of time series data Described embodiments provide systems and methods for detecting outliers on a series of data. A device receives a plurality of data points and adds a received data point to a first window of data comprising at least a predetermined number of received data points from the plurality of data points, responsive to detecting that the received data point is not an outlier from the first window of data. The device detects that one or more next data points of the received plurality of data points are outliers from the first window of data and determines that a count of the one or more next data points that are outliers exceeds a predetermined threshold. In response, the device establishes a replacement window of data.
US10706024B2	Techniques for managing a data replication mode A technique for managing a data replication mode between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device includes in response to a data replication state between the primary storage device and the secondary storage device satisfying a first predetermined condition, selecting at least one candidate logical unit from a plurality of logical units implementing synchronous replication in the primary storage device at least according to priority information of the plurality of logical units. A data replication mode of the at least one candidate logical unit is then modified from synchronous replication to asynchronous replication.
US10706015B2	System and method for managing a workflow for biomedical development A method and system for managing a workflow for producing a biostatistical analysis (BA) of biomedical data. The data originates from a milestone (or snapshot) of a clinical study performed by, or on behalf of a life science company that performs the BA. The data may be from a blinded or un-blinded clinical study. SAS programs are used for the BA. An audit trail is produced to track changes to any of the data or programs used during the course of the workflow. The programs and data used to produce reported results from the BA are stored in electronic format for sending to a regulatory agency.
US10706005B2	File system interface for remote direct memory access Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a distributed memory agent within a first node intercepting an operating system request to open a file from an application running on the first node. The request includes a file identifier, which the distributed memory agent transmits to a remote memory manager. The distributed memory agent receives, from the remote memory manager, a memory location within a second node for the file identifier and information to establish a remote direct memory access channel between the first node and the second node. In response to the request to open the file, the distributed memory agent establishes the remote direct memory access channel between the first node and the second node. The remote direct memory access channel allows the first node to read directly from or write directly to the memory location within the second node while bypassing an operating system of the second node.
US10705998B1	Exchange of data between processor modules A processing system comprising: multiple processor modules, each comprising a respective execution unit memory; and an interconnect for exchanging data between different sets of the processor modules. A group of the processor modules operates in a series of BSP supersteps. For the exchange phase of each superstep, each receiving processor module that is to receive data from outside its own set is pre-programmed with a value representing the number of units of data to receive. Starting from the pre-programmed value, it then counts out the number of data units remaining to be received each time a data unit is received. Each receiving processor module is further arranged to perform an exchange synchronization whereby, before advancing from the exchange phase to the compute phase of the current superstep, the receiving processor module waits until no units of data remain to be received according to the count.
US10705991B2	Circuit for generating a sampling signal for a UART interface, and by comparing values stored in peripheral clock memory A circuit for generating a sampling signal for a UART interface has an input terminal designed to receive a peripheral clock, an output terminal designed to output the sampling signal, a bit rate memory designed to store a value corresponding to a desired bit rate of the UART interface, a peripheral clock memory designed to store a value corresponding to a frequency of the peripheral clock, a sum memory designed to store a sum value, and a computing unit. The computing unit compares a comparison value, which is dependent on the sum value stored in the sum memory, with a threshold value, which is dependent on the value stored in the peripheral clock memory. The result of the comparison is taken as a basis for generating the sampling signal at a first level or a second level. In step with the peripheral clock and on the basis of the result of the comparing, the sum value stored in the sum memory is altered by the value stored in the bit rate memory or the sum value stored in the sum memory is altered by a value that is dependent on the value stored in the peripheral clock memory.
US10705990B2	Clock generation for timing communications with ranks of memory devices A memory controller includes a clock generator to generate a first clock signal and a timing circuit to generate a second clock signal from the first clock signal. The second clock signal times communications with any of a plurality of memory devices in respective ranks, including a first memory device in a first rank and a second memory device in a second rank. The timing circuit is configured to adjust a phase of the first clock signal, when the memory controller is communicating with the second memory device, based on calibration data associated with the second memory device and timing adjustment data associated with feedback from at least the first memory device.
US10705989B2	Protocol including timing calibration between memory request and data transfer The described embodiments provide a system for controlling an integrated circuit memory device by a memory controller. During operation, the system sends a memory-access request from the memory controller to the memory device using a first link. After sending the memory-access request, the memory controller sends to the memory device a command that specifies performing a timing-calibration operation for a second link. The system subsequently transfers data associated with the memory-access request using the second link, wherein the timing-calibration operation occurs between sending the memory-access request and transferring the data associated with the memory-access request.
US10705981B2	Method and apparatus for data storage service Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for providing data storage service. The method comprises: receiving a storage service template from an user, the storage service template specifying a storage service policy for the user and a service instance to launch; and providing a storage service according to the storage service template; wherein the storage service policy defines a storage function to be performed for data of the user. With the method and apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure, a unified solution for overall orchestration of storage functions can be provided to enable the user to customize the required storage function flexibly.
US10705978B2	Asynchronous tracking for high-frequency and high-volume storage Asynchronous file tracking may include a first process that adds files to a cache and that generates different instances of a tracking file to track the files as they are entered into the cache. A second process, executing on the device, asynchronously accesses one or more instances of the tracking file at a different rate than the first process generates the tracking file instances. The second process may update a record of cached files based on a set of entries from each of the different instances of the tracking file accessed by the second process. Each set of entries may identify a different set of files that are cached by the device. The second process may then purge one or more cached files that satisfy eviction criteria while the first process continues to asynchronously add files to the cache and create new instances to track the newly cached files.
US10705975B2	Hybrid memory management Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining whether an access bit is set for each page table entry of a page table based on a scan of the page table with at least one page table walker, the access bit indicating whether a page associated with the page table entry was accessed in a last scan period; incrementing a count for each page in response to determining that the access bit is set for the page table entry associated with the page; resetting the access bit after determining whether the access bit is set for each page table entry; receiving a request to access, from a main memory, a first page of data; initiating a page fault based on determining that the first page of data is not stored in the main memory; and servicing the page fault with a DMA engine.
US10705966B1	Mapping for multi-state programming of memory devices Storage device programming methods, systems and devices are described. A method may generate a mapping of data based on a set of data, the mapping of data including a first mapped data and a second mapped data. The method may include performing a first programming operation to write, in a first mode, the first mapped data to the memory device. The method may include storing the second mapped data to a cache. The method may include generating a second set of data, based on an inverse mapping of the mapping of data including the second mapped data from the cache and the first mapped data from the memory device, for writing, in a second mode, to the memory device, wherein the second set of data includes the set of data, and the first mode and the second mode correspond to different modes of writing to the memory device.
US10705964B2	Controlling displacement in a co-operative and adaptive multiple-level memory system In one embodiment, a processor includes a control logic to determine whether to enable an incoming data block associated with a first priority to displace, in a cache memory coupled to the processor, a candidate victim data block associated with a second priority and stored in the cache memory, based at least in part on the first and second priorities, a first access history associated with the incoming data block and a second access history associated with the candidate victim data block. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10705958B2	Coherency directory entry allocation based on eviction costs A processor partitions a coherency directory into different regions for different processor cores and manages the number of entries allocated to each region based at least in part on monitored recall costs indicating expected resource costs for reallocating entries. Examples of monitored recall costs include a number of cache evictions associated with entry reallocation, the hit rate of each region of the coherency directory, and the like, or a combination thereof. By managing the entries allocated to each region based on the monitored recall costs, the processor ensures that processor cores associated with denser memory access patterns (that is, memory access patterns that more frequently access cache lines associated with the same memory pages) are assigned more entries of the coherency directory.
US10705955B1	Just-in-time data provision based on predicted cache policies Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums are provided for predicting a cache policy based on usage patterns. Usage pattern data can be received and used with a predictive model to determine a cache policy associated with a datastore. The cache policy can identify the configuration of predicted output data to be provisioned in the datastore and subsequently provided to a client in a just-in-time manner. The predictive model can be trained to output the cache policy based on usage pattern data received from a usage point, a provider point, or a datastore configuration.
US10705953B2	Application defined multi-tiered wear-leveling for storage class memory systems A method implemented by a memory device, comprising obtaining, by a processor coupled to a memory, a wear-leveling policy from an application executable at the memory device, wherein the wear-leveling policy indicates a memory size by which to perform wear-leveling within an instance, wherein the instance comprises an address range assigned to the application in the memory of the memory device, obtaining, by a processor, a request to access the instance, and performing, by the processor, wear-leveling on a plurality of memory cells within the instance according to the wear-leveling policy.
US10705950B2	Method and system for semi-automatic testing of program code for graphical user interfaces A semi-automatic method for testing program code is disclosed. The method includes executing a program code, and capturing at least one current state of the system under test. The method includes providing a modified version of the program code, thus providing a modified system under test, and executing the modified program code and capturing a modified state of the modified system under test. The method includes comparing the current state of the system under test and the modified state of the modified system under test and detecting changes in the system under test. The method includes displaying at least part of the detected changes to a user and soliciting corresponding user input in terms of applying or discarding the displayed changes. The method includes applying or discarding the detected changes based on the corresponding user input by automatically updating the current state of the system under test.
US10705947B2	Impairment in an application test execution A method includes, in a distributed environment for a test execution of an application, measuring impairment in the distributed environment; and, during the application test execution, subtracting the measured impairment from a test impairment that is artificially introduced into the application test execution based on a test profile.
US10705946B2	Techniques for real time server testing in a production environment Techniques are provided for real-time server testing in a production environment. Unlike traditional testing frameworks, embodiments of the present invention enable a server in production to be tested using live messages received from users. This eliminates the need to design and write test scripts to cover various scenarios and enables the server to be tested under live conditions. A test controller executing on the server under test can receive message attributes from a test client that define the types of messages to be used for a particular test. The test controller can identify live messages as they are received by the server that match the message attributes. The messages can be processed by the server in real time and then tested according to message tests received from the test client.
US10705943B2	Automating identification of test cases for library suggestion models A library model addition engine adds library models to a library knowledge base by defining a template for a library configuration file that conveys information about each library model, custom inputs and code snippets to facilitate library comparison operations, and education content for the library model, where the library configuration file template may be automatically filled by populating selected data fields in the template with information identifying the library model, scraping documentation pages to extract test cases, and then scraping test case code to extract the test case input parameters for input to an input/output matching engine to evaluate a repository of code snippets and identify a set of functionally similar code snippets for inclusion one or more data fields in the template.
US10705934B2	Scan synchronous-write-through testing architectures for a memory device An exemplary testing environment can operate in a testing mode of operation to test whether a memory device or other electronic devices communicatively coupled to the memory device operate as expected or unexpectedly as a result of one or more manufacturing faults. The testing mode of operation includes a shift mode of operation, a capture mode of operation, and/or a scan mode of operation. In the shift mode of operation and the scan mode of operation, the exemplary testing environment delivers a serial input sequence of data to the memory device. In the capture mode of operation, the exemplary testing environment delivers a parallel input sequence of data to the memory device. The memory device thereafter passes through the serial input sequence of data or the parallel input sequence of data to provide an output sequence of data in the shift mode of operation or the capture mode of operation or passes through the serial input sequence of data to provide a serial output sequence of scan data in the scan mode of operation.
US10705931B2	Methods, devices and computer readable mediums for managing storage system Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for managing a storage system. The storage system includes a disk array which includes at least one disk array group. The method comprises in response to receiving a first message indicating that a failure occurs in a disk in the disk array, determining first information on a disk array group that the failed disk belongs to. The method further comprises obtaining a first number of outstanding input/output (I/O) operations on rebuilding the failed disk in the disk array group. The method further comprises determining, based on the first information and the first number, a threshold number of I/O operations that is applicable for the disk array group. In addition, the method further comprises controlling, based on the threshold number, the number of I/O operations initiated to the disk array group.
US10705929B2	Switching servers without interrupting a client command-response queue The present invention provides computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of switching servers without interrupting a client command-response queue. In an embodiment, the present invention includes selecting standby computer server systems, connecting a CRQ of a client computer system to a previous active computer server system and to the selected standby computer server systems, transmitting setup commands to the selected standby computer server systems, communicating data with the previous active computer server system via at least one sub-CRQ, communicating management commands with the previous active computer server system and the selected standby computer server systems via the CRQ, receiving a notification that a switchover has occurred, redirecting the CRQ to one of the selected standby computer server systems, in response to the redirecting, communicating data with a new active computer server system via at least one sub-CRQ, and sending new setup commands to the new computer server system.
US10705925B2	Satisfying recovery service level agreements (SLAs) Examples provided herein describe a system and method for satisfying recovery service level agreements (SLAs). For example, a first entity may determine that a first recovery operation is to be performed at a first storage device. The first entity may then determine that the first storage device is available. Responsive to determining that the first storage device is available, the first entity may establish a data connection with a first storage device and may perform a first recovery operation at the first storage device. The first entity may receive a second storage device availability message from a second entity that requests a second recovery operation at the first storage device and may facilitate communication with the second entity. The first entity may then perform the second recovery operation at the first storage device and communicate the recovered data to the second entity.
US10705918B1	Online metadata backup consistency check A storage system comprises a storage device and metadata journal comprising metadata configured to store information associated with changes to information stored on the storage device. Dirty tree (DT) metadata pages, each corresponding to information written to the storage device from the metadata journal, are stored on the storage device. DT pages are read and scanned to detect if any DT metadata page comprises an entry having an invalid snap group ID associated with a given offset. For each detected DT metadata page comprising a respective invalid snap group ID, a corresponding fake journal entry is created in metadata journal and configured to point to the respective DT metadata page comprising the invalid snap group ID and given offset. The fake journal entry is configured so that, when the metadata journal is destaged to the storage device, the invalid snap group ID is reset to nonexistent.
US10705916B2	Self-aware and self-healing computing system A method and a computing system for performing the method. At least two microstates of at least two components of a computing system are organized into at least two macrostates of the computing system. Each microstate represents a state that a component of the computing system is able to individually enter. Each macrostate represents a state that the computing system is able to enter as a whole. The macrostates are organized into attractors. Each attractor is a stable state in which the computing system is stable. The macrostates are included within a plurality of meta-dynamic states of the computing system subject to each meta-dynamic state being a set of macrostates of the macrostates of the computing system. A path to cause the computing system to move back to a desirable meta-dynamic state is determined. The computing system is caused to move on the path to the desirable meta-dynamic state.
US10705912B2	Energy efficient storage of error-correction-detection information Data and error correction information may involve accessing multiple data channels (e.g., 8) and one error detection and correction channel concurrently. This technique requires a total of N+1 row requests for each access, where N is the number of data channels (e.g., 8 data row accesses and 1 error detection and correction row access equals 9 row accesses.) A single (or at least less than N) data channel row may be accessed concurrently with a single error detection and correction row. This reduces the number of row requests to two (2)—one for the data and one for the error detection and correction information. Because, row requests consume power, reducing the number of row requests is more power efficient.
US10705910B2	Method and apparatus for operating a data storage system An apparatus for operating a storage system is provided. The apparatus is coupled with one or more storage devices and one or more controllers and comprises a data request input module configured to receive a request for data and determine a data stripe that includes the requested data. The apparatus further comprises a controller instruction module configured to instruct one or more controllers to perform a decoding of code words of the determined data stripe, wherein the code words are acquired by the controllers from the one or more storage devices, and determine, based on error status information associated with the decoding, an error handling operation on the data stripe to modify one or more code words of the data stripe. The apparatus also comprises a data packaging module configured to generate the requested data based on the modified at least one or more code words.
US10705903B2	Identifying system failures by accessing prior troubleshooting information A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a system failure identification operation, comprising: receiving information regarding a device a repair depot; performing a depot triage process on the device, the depot triage recording possible causal factors contributing to failure of the device; determining suspected failures associated with the device based upon symptoms exhibited by the device; and, correlating the suspected failures with commodities for use in repairing the device.
US10705896B2	Normalized application program interface to communicate with web site access control ports A system including at least one server, access operation logic coupled to the server and adapted to communicate signals from the server to a plurality of web site access control ports, each of the web site access control ports comprising an access mechanism for submitting electronic documents to the corresponding web site, wherein the access mechanism varies across different access control ports on different web sites, the access operation logic adapted to receive the electronic documents and an associated web site identification and to select an access protocol to apply to an access mechanism of a particular web site corresponding to the associated web site identification, and the server comprising probe logic adapted to identify the web site access control ports and to apply signals about the web site access control ports through a machine learning component to adapt the access protocol to the access mechanisms of different web sites.
US10705894B2	Electronic device for authenticating application and operating method thereof A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes generating, by an authentication agent, a digital fingerprint of an application, transmitting, by an authentication agent, the generated digital fingerprint to a trusted application on a trusted execution environment (TEE), verifying, by the trusted application, the digital fingerprint, and permitting, by the trusted application, the application to access a secure storage, when the trusted application succeeds in verifying the digital fingerprint.
US10705893B1	Command line interface modifications Examples described herein relate to a system consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the system may comprise a memory resource, a processing resource, and a database to collect command code information for a command line interface of a client device included in a plurality of client devices, analyze the command code information, modify a command code based on the command code information, and send the modified command code to of the plurality of client devices to cause a modified output responsive to execution of the command code on the plurality of client device.
US10705890B2	Systems and methods for providing an interactive map of an event driven funding path for affecting a directed event A system including a non-transitory machine readable medium storing computer program instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: obtain directed event parameters defining a directed event, determine a plurality of secondary events and an occurrence sequence for the plurality of secondary events based on a plurality of event rules, issue one or more commands to trigger execution of such plurality of secondary events, monitor a completion status of the plurality of secondary events based on information obtained from the plurality of servers associated with the plurality of fund sources, and/or generate an interactive map providing a visual representation of a funding path, the funding path comprising the plurality of secondary events, the occurrence sequence for the plurality of secondary events, and a completion status of the plurality of secondary events.
US10705887B2	Copying objects between programming languages Aspects of the present invention provide devices that generate an array in a first memory of a first programming language that includes an element of each object of a plurality of objects, wherein the array includes a plurality of items, and each item of the array includes the element of a corresponding object, copy the array in the first memory of the first programming language to a second memory of a second programming language, and generate each of the objects in the second programming language from the copied array.
US10705882B2	System and method for resource placement across clouds for data intensive workloads Systems, methods, computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a point of delivery (POD) device or network component on a cloud for workload and resource placement in a multi-cloud environment. A method includes determining a first amount of data for transitioning from performing a first function on input data to performing a second function on a first outcome of the first function; determining a second amount of data for transitioning from performing the second function on the first outcome to performing a third function on a second outcome of the second function; determining a processing capacity for each of one or more network nodes on which the first function and the third function are implemented; and selecting the network node for implementing the second function based on the first amount of data, the second amount of data, and the processing capacity for each of the network nodes.
US10705880B2	Cluster updating using temporary update-monitor pod Multiple instances of a distributed application are run in a Kubernetes cluster. An updated version of the application must undergo some post-launch initialization before a production workload handled by the original version can be switched to the updated version. Accordingly, a temporary update-monitor pod is inserted into the cluster so that it can query the application as to its update status and report it to a log file. A script external to the cluster can read the log file to determine if initialization is complete. If so, the workload can be switched to the update instance. The temporary update-monitor pod is destroyed to free up resources and to ensure that it is does not pose a security vulnerability.
US10705870B2	Virtual machine server-side network adaptation The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtual machines. In one example of the technology, a network change from a first virtual network having a first customer Internet Protocol (IP) address to a second virtual network having a second customer IP address is configured for a first virtual machine. The configuring includes controlling the following actions. The second virtual network is provided. At least one networking artifact is associated with a first user that is associated with the first virtual machine. The at least one networking artifact includes the second virtual network. A directory service is updated to map the second customer IP address to a first physical IP address. The first physical IP address is a physical IP address of the first virtual network.
US10705867B2	Hypervisor exchange with virtual machines in memory A hypervisor-exchange process includes: suspending, by an “old” hypervisor, resident virtual machines; exchanging the old hypervisor for a new hypervisor, and resuming, by the new hypervisor, the resident virtual machines. The suspending can include “in-memory” suspension of the virtual machines until the virtual machines are resumed by the new hypervisor. Thus, there is no need to load the virtual machines from storage prior to the resuming. As a result, any interruption of the virtual machines is minimized. In some embodiments, the resident virtual machines are migrated onto one or more host virtual machines to reduce the number of virtual machines being suspended.
US10705865B2	Disk resize of a virtual machine An engine in a virtualization system may determine that a disk size of a disk represented by a virtual machine disk image is to be changed. In response, the engine determines whether a host is using the virtual machine disk image to run a virtual machine and also determines a file format of the virtual machine disk image. Based on the determination, the engine sends a request to change the disk size to a requested size to the host running the virtual machine or to a storage pool manager.
US10705854B2	Optimized user interface delivery Multiple User Interface (UI) states may be identified and encoded into encoded UI states. Each of the encoded UI states may comprise an image of one or more of the UI states and metadata associating the encoded UI state with one or more other encoded UI states that comprise an image of a UI state that is navigationally related to one or more of the UI states encoded in the encoded UI state. A portion of the encoded UI states may be communicated to one or more user devices.
US10705851B2	Scheduling that determines whether to remove a dependent micro-instruction from a reservation station queue based on determining cache hit/miss status of one ore more load micro-instructions once a count reaches a predetermined value A method for scheduling micro-instructions, performed by a first qualifier, is provided. The method includes the following steps: detecting a write-back signal broadcasted by a second qualifier; determining whether a value of a first load-detection counting logic is to be synchronized with a value of a second load-detection counting logic carried by the write-back signal according to content of the write-back signal; determining whether execution statuses of all load micro-instructions are cache hit when the synchronized value of the first load-detection counting logic reaches a predetermined value; and driving a release circuit to remove a micro-instruction in a reservation station queue when the execution statuses of the all load micro-instructions are cache hit and the micro-instruction has been dispatched to an arithmetic and logic unit for execution.
US10705849B2	Mode-selectable processor for execution of a single thread in a first mode and plural borrowed threads in a second mode A data processing system includes a multithreaded processor to execute a plurality of selected program threads in parallel. A mode-selectable processor is coupled to the multithreaded processor and executes in either a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode program instructions from a single thread are executed. In the second mode, which is selected when the single program thread is inactive, program instructions forming a plurality of borrowed threads are executed. These borrowed threads are taken from a queue of candidate program threads which is managed by the multithreaded processor.
US10705844B2	Method and device for register management In a data processing method, a method and device for adjusting the number of registers used in a running thread according to a situation are disclosed.
US10705832B2	Efficient storage and analysis of source code modification history data In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, at a server computer, a plurality of commit records of a source code management system (SCM), wherein a first commit record of the plurality of commit records includes a first parent commit identifier (ID) that identifies a parent commit record of the first commit record; storing, in one or more data repositories, a full commit record for each commit record of the plurality of commit records; in response to determining that the first commit record includes a parent commit ID, storing, in the one or more data repositories, a first partial commit record for the first commit record, wherein the first partial commit record comprises a partial commit record that is identified by the first parent commit ID; generating and submitting a database query to a digital data repository associated with the SCM, based on determining that a partial commit record is stored in the one or more digital repositories, and receiving first partial commit update data for the first partial commit record; updating, based on the first partial commit update data, one or more fields of the first partial commit record to convert the first partial commit record into an updated commit record, wherein the updated commit record comprises a full commit record.
US10705825B2	Creation of images In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a processor, an image creation tool, an operating system (OS) image repository and a secondary node interface. The processor has a first architecture and is in communication with the image creation tool, the OS image repository, and the secondary node interface. The image creation tool is to create an OS image for end nodes having the first architecture. The OS image repository is to store OS images. The secondary node shell is to provide an interface to a secondary node with a processor having a second architecture. An OS image for end nodes having the second architecture is created by the secondary node via the secondary node interface.
US10705820B2	Method and apparatus for secure multi-cycle vehicle software updates A system includes a processor controlling a vehicle module (VM) in communication with a telematics control unit (TCU) over a bus. In this embodiment, the processor is configured to receive an authentication request, including a counter value, from the TCU. The processor is also configured to respond to the authentication request based on comparison of the counter value to a stored counter value stored by the VM. The processor is further configured to receive a command corresponding to the authentication request and including the counter value, responsive to the approved authentication request and process the command based on comparison of the counter value to the stored counter value.
US10705818B2	Self-moving operating system installation in cloud-based network Embodiments relate to systems and methods for a self-moving operating system installation in cloud-based network. A guest operating system can be instantiated in a cloud-based host environment to support a set of virtual machines. The operating system can be configured with resources in the kernel to detect and manage the identity of the cloud in which the operating system is installed, as well as to interrogate potentially new target host clouds to determine the configuration settings required to move or copy the guest operating system to that target. The resulting mobility of the guest operating system affords the ability to be self-moving, and an administrator or other user can simply specify a desired target cloud to host the operating system without a need to manually configure APIs or other resources.
US10705805B1	Application authoring using web-of-sheets data model Representations of a set of cards are displayed via an application authoring interface. A given card represents one or more screen layouts of an application, and contents of a particular card are based on contents of a data sheet materialized in accordance with a data model which enables automatic instantiation of child data sheets associated with a parent cell within a parent data sheet. In response to detecting an edit operation directed at a particular card, an updated representation of the particular card is displayed at the first application authoring interface, and a screen layout corresponding to the updated representation is rendered at a particular mobile computing device.
US10705804B2	Strongly typed metadata access in object oriented programming languages with reflection support Type safety is important property of any type system. Modern programming languages support different mechanisms to work in type safe manner, e.g., properties, methods, events, attributes (annotations) and other structures, but none of the existing, general purpose, programming languages which support reflection provide type safe type (class/structure) member metadata access. Existing solutions provide no or limited type safety which are complex and processed at runtime which by definition is not built-in type-safe metadata access, but only more or less type safe workarounds called “best practices”. Problem can be solved by introducing method for type safe type member metadata access which could be processed at compile time.
US10705798B2	Multiplication operations in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for performing multi-variable bit-length multiplication operations in a memory. An example method comprises performing a multiplication operation on a first vector and a second vector. The first vector includes a number of first elements stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a first access line and a number of sense lines of a memory array. The second vector includes a number of second elements stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a second access line and the number of sense lines of the memory array. The example multiplication operation can include performing a number of AND operations, OR operations and SHIFT operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US10705797B2	Parallel-prefix adder and method Disclosed is a parallel prefix adder structure with a carry bit generation circuit that generates primary carry bits for only some bit pairs and a sum circuit with ripple carry adders that use these primary carry bits to generate secondary carry bits and sum bits for a final sum. The carry bit generation circuit has different sections, which process different sequential sets of bit pairs and which have different sparsity configurations. As a result, generation of the primary carry bits is non-uniform. That is, in the different sections the primary carry bits are generated at different carry bit-to-bit pair ratios (e.g., the carry bit-to-bit pair ratios for the different sections can be 1:2, 1:4, and 1:2, respectively). For optimal performance, the specific bit pairs for which these primary carry bits are generated varies depending upon whether the maximum operand size is an odd number of bits or an even number.
US10705793B1	Low latency mode for wireless communication between devices A method is provided for exchanging data between a user device and an audio output device over a wireless link. A user device detects that a trigger event for initializing a low latency mode has occurred at the user device, the low latency mode configured to cause the audio output device to reduce a size of a render buffer to be used for rendering audio data. In response to the detecting, the user device transmits an indication to the audio output device to initialize the low latency mode, the indication causing the audio output device to reduce the size of the render buffer to be used for rendering the audio data. The user device then transmits the audio data to the audio output device over the wireless link.
US10705791B2	Volume adjustment method and terminal A volume adjustment method and a terminal relate to the field of terminal technologies and applied to adaptively adjust a volume during a voice conversation, and improve user experience. The terminal collects sound data during a voice conversation, where the sound data includes uplink voice data and background noise, and adjusts, when receiving downlink voice data, a volume of the downlink voice data based on the sound data.
US10705783B2	Showing interactions as they occur on a whiteboard Real-time interactions made by a client on a whiteboard are shown on remote client(s) currently viewing the whiteboard. The real-time interactions that are shown on the remote clients can include a variety of different interactions. For example, the location(s) of where a remote client is touching the whiteboard or interacting with the whiteboard using a stylus may be viewed. A current inking stroke of a remote user may also be viewed as it is occurring. Interactions on the whiteboard may be shown differently depending on the remote user performing the interaction. The whiteboard may also show a location on the whiteboard where each of the remote users are currently viewing. A user may also track the actions of another user. When a change is committed to the whiteboard, the remote clients update the display to reflect the committed state.
US10705779B2	Computer-readable storage medium for information processing apparatus having switchable processing channels A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus is provided. The computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to conduct a print control being one of a first print control, in which printing of an image is processed through a first channel, and a second print control, in which printing of the image is processed through a second channel; accept a selection for a printer; determine whether the print control is to be switched from the first print control to the second control based on the selection for the printer; obtain history of the first print control conducted in past in the selected printer; and set a print setting value for the second print control to be conducted in the selected printer based on the obtained history.
US10705777B2	Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and storage medium that enable printing while receiving random access document file An information processing apparatus communicating with an image forming apparatus includes a memory that stores a program and a processor that executes the program stored in the memory to perform a process. The process includes receiving a first document file including multiple sets of encrypted page data of pages, arranging the sets of the encrypted page data in page order, attaching identification information for identifying a page data boundary to each of the arranged sets of the encrypted page data, obtaining decoding information for decoding the sets of the encrypted page data from the first document file, generating a second document file including the arranged sets of the encrypted page data and the decoding information disposed before the arranged sets of the encrypted page data, and transmitting the generated second document file to the image forming apparatus.
US10705775B2	Communication apparatus having remote control capability, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium A communication apparatus transmits, to another apparatus via a first wireless communication, remote control information which is related to remote control of the communication apparatus, and transmits, when information which is received from the other apparatus via the second wireless communication corresponds to the remote control information, information related to a screen of a remote control permitted state to the other apparatus via second wireless communication. When the information which is received from the other apparatus via the second wireless communication does not correspond to the remote control information, information related to a login screen for the remote control is transmitted.
US10705769B2	Print system with a printer driver storing personal panel setting information and non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program Disclosed is a print system, including a printer driver; and a print device, wherein the printer driver obtains personal panel setting information of a user having the printer driver and stores the personal panel setting information, and prepares a print job including identification information of the user and stored personal panel setting information and transmits the print job to the print device; and the print device comprises: a job memory which stores the print job received from the printer driver; and a hardware processor which allows a printing in accordance with the print job in case that an authenticated user is coincident with the user who is indicated in the identification information, and which displays an operation window customized in accordance with the personal panel setting information in case that the authenticated user is coincident with the user who is indicated in the identification information.
US10705768B2	Method and system for managing storage using an intermediate storage area Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for managing a storage system. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention there is provided a method for managing a storage system, the method comprising: in response to receiving a write request for writing target data to the storage system, writing the target data to an intermediate address range in an intermediate storage area of the storage system; parsing, based on an address mapping of the storage system, a target address range associated with the write request so as to obtain an actual address range; and moving the target data from the intermediate address range to the actual address range. In one embodiment of the present invention there is further provided a corresponding system and apparatus.
US10705763B2	Scale and performance for persistent containers using SCSI second level addressing to map storage volume to host of container environment, wherein said storage volume is scanned at said SCSI second level addressing without rescanning at OS level virtualization A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a host within a container environment, and mapping a volume of a container to the host within the container environment, utilizing small computer system interface (SCSI) second level addressing.
US10705759B2	Managing disk drives of a data storage environment Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a data storage environment including a plurality of disk drives; exposing for each of the disk drives of the data storage environment, a management interface of the disk drive to create a zero-capacity device for the disk drive; identifying a management command for a particular disk drive of the plurality of disk drives; identifying a particular zero-capacity device that corresponds to the particular disk drive; providing the management command to the particular zero-capacity device; and in response to providing the management command, receiving a response from the particular disk drive, the response including a processing result that is responsive to the management command.
US10705755B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for data backup Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for data backup. A method includes obtaining first information about data change in a virtual disk, where the first information indicates that data in at least one block of a plurality of blocks is changed. The method also includes determining, based on the first information, second information about a location of the at least one block in the virtual disk. The method further includes obtaining a first size of the virtual disk backed up to a backup server prior to the data change and a second size of the virtual disk subsequent to the data change. In addition, the method includes generating, based on the second information, the first size and the second size, incremental backup data for backing up the virtual disk having the second size to the backup server.
US10705754B2	Zero-data loss recovery for active-active sites configurations A computing system includes a first storage unit at a first computing site. The first storage unit stores units of work data and data synchronously replicated from a first server cluster of a second computing site. The system further includes a second server cluster at the first computing site, the second server cluster is a proxy node of the first server cluster. The system further includes a second storage unit at the first computing site, the second storage unit stores the units of work data and data from the first storage unit asynchronously into the second storage unit. The system further includes a third server cluster at the first computing site, the third server cluster processes the units of work data asynchronously replicated into the second storage unit.
US10705749B2	Method for performing access control in a memory device, associated memory device and controller thereof A method for performing access control in a memory device, the associated memory device and the controller thereof are provided. The method includes: according to at least one predetermined arrangement pattern, writing a plurality of sets of symbols into a plurality of storage regions of a memory as a plurality of redundant array of independent disks (RAID) groups, respectively; and utilizing a RAID engine circuit in the memory device to perform a plurality of operations related to data protection, such as: determining a series of reading patterns corresponding to the predetermined arrangement pattern; according to a reading pattern of the series of reading patterns, reading a plurality of symbols from each RAID group of the RAID groups; and performing exclusive-OR (XOR) operations on the symbols to convert the symbols into at least one XOR result, for performing data protection.
US10705748B2	Method and device for file name identification and file cleaning Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and a device for file name identification and file cleaning. The method for file name identification comprises: determining a set of files to be processed; obtaining a string corresponding to the name of each file included in the set of files to be processed; for the obtained string corresponding to the name of each file, detecting whether a regular expression template matching the string is present in a preset regular expression template library; determining the detected regular expression template as a regular expression template of the file name corresponding to the string; identifying a regular expression of the file name corresponding to the string according to the determined regular expression template. Embodiments of the present application are applied to enable automatic identification of file names and the cleaning of files in electronic devices, improving the efficiency of identifying file names in electronic devices and the efficiency of file cleaning.
US10705747B2	Latency-based storage in a hybrid memory system An example apparatus includes a hybrid memory system to couple to a host and a controller coupled to the hybrid memory system. The controller may be configured to assign a sensitivity to a command and cause the command to be selectively diverted to the hybrid memory system based, at least in part, on the assigned sensitivity.
US10705743B2	Memory control device, control method of flash memory, and method for generating security feature of flash memory A method for generating a security feature of a flash memory includes determining a memory block from a plurality of memory blocks in the flash memory; erasing data of the determined memory block of the flash memory; providing a predetermined voltage to the determined memory block to obtain a plurality of corresponding threshold voltages of a plurality of cells in the determined memory block, wherein each of the corresponding threshold voltages corresponds to a characteristic of each cell in the determined memory block; and establishing a security feature based on the plurality of corresponding threshold voltages.
US10705736B2	Flash memory system A method and system for controlling an MBC configured flash memory device to store data in an SBC storage mode, or a partial MBC storage mode. In a full MBC storage mode, pages of data are programmed sequentially from a first page to an Nth page for each physical row of memory cells. Up to N virtual page addresses per row of memory cells accompany each page to be programmed for designating the virtual position of the page in the row. For SBC or partial MBC data storage, a flash memory controller issues program command(s) to the MBC memory device using less than the maximum N virtual page addresses for each row. The MBC memory device sequentially executes programming operations up to the last received virtual page address for the row.
US10705731B2	Device operational control systems and methods A device operational control system is configured to control operation of a device. The device operational control system includes a motion sensor that is configured to detect motion. The motion sensor is configured to output a motion signal indicative of the motion. An operational control unit is communicatively coupled to the motion sensor. The operational control unit is configured to receive the motion signal from the motion sensor and control at least one operational aspect of the device based on the motion.
US10705728B2	Information processing apparatus, method and program for controlling the same, and storage medium An input apparatus, that displays an editing screen including a keyboard on a display unit, includes a display control unit and a determination unit. The display control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display an input screen including at least an input item in which data is input via the keyboard thereon. The determination unit is configured to determine, based on the input item, that is a target in which data is input via the keyboard, whether a key for accepting an instruction to change the input item, that is a target in which data is input via the keyboard, to a next input item is to be displayed together with the keyboard on the display unit.
US10705713B2	Drag and drop for touchscreen devices A device implementing drag and drop for touchscreen devices may include a processor configured to detect a drag gesture selecting an item in a first application. The processor may be further configured to detect a touch release at an end of the drag gesture for dropping the item in a second application, and send, in response to the detected touch release, a message to the second application, the message including information for a plurality of representations of the item. The processor may be further configured to receive, from the second application, a request for a representation of the item from among the plurality of representations. The processor may be further configured to send, to the first application, the request for the representation of the item. The processor may be further configured to initiate a data transfer of the representation of the item from the first application to the second application.
US10705710B2	Web page content insertion based on scroll operation Provided are a device and a method which facilitate continued focusing of a used on specific content information by increasing the opportunities for said content information to appear (be exposed) even in case that said specific content information has been moved off the display screen by scrolling. At least one set of copy content information is generated which is a copy of focus content information identified from content information contained in a content list displayed on the display screen of a terminal device. Then, said generated copy content information is inserted at any insertion position in the sequence of the content list, and said inserted copy content information is displayed on the display screen in response to operations in which the user scrolls the display content on the display screen.
US10705708B2	Data expansion control A method, computer system, and a computer program product for data visualization is provided. The present invention may include, in response to detecting, by a graphical user interface (GUI), an initial actuation of a data scope trigger, displaying, by the GUI, an initial amount of a dataset. The present invention may also include, in response to detecting, by the GUI, a subsequent actuation of the data scope trigger within a predefined period of time, modifying an amount of the dataset being displayed by the GUI, and adjusting a trigger user interface (UI) of the data scope trigger to reflect a subsequent amount of the dataset that is available to be displayed by the GUI in response to the detected subsequent actuation of the data scope trigger.
US10705683B2	Changing visual aspects of a graphical user interface to bring focus to a message This disclosure describes a system in which a user is enabled to efficiently locate and view messages of a conversation that are likely to be more relevant or pertinent to the user. The system is configured to determine that a message in the conversation is associated with a trigger feature that comprises a piece of information and/or an interaction from another user that is likely worthy of the user's attention. The system can then generate a visual notification associated with the trigger feature. The visual notification can be displayed in association with a graphical element that represents the conversation. Upon receiving an indication of a selection of the visual notification, the system can display the message and trigger feature and/or change visual characteristics associated with the message to bring focus to the message.
US10705681B2	Electronic device and display method for selecting an area of an icon An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a memory that stores icon image associated with an application, and a processor. The processor selects a partial area of the icon image, determines whether a type of an image included in the selected area is a first image type or a second image type, displays, if the type of the image included in the selected area is the first image type, the image included in the selected area in the display at a first magnification, and displays, if the type of the image included in the selected area is the second image type, the image included in the selected area in the display at a second magnification.
US10705678B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for generating a virtual viewpoint image An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire viewpoint information for identifying a movement path of a virtual viewpoint relating to generation of a virtual viewpoint image, the virtual viewpoint image being generated based on captured images obtained by a plurality of cameras that performs imaging from a plurality of directions, and a control unit configured to determine a display area of a virtual object to be inserted into the virtual viewpoint image, wherein the control unit determines the display area of the virtual object in the virtual viewpoint image corresponding to a virtual viewpoint at a first point in time on the movement path identified from the acquired viewpoint information, based on the virtual viewpoint at the first point in time, and a virtual viewpoint at a second point in time on the movement path.
US10705673B2	Posture and interaction incidence for input and output determination in ambient computing Systems, apparatuses and methods for technology that provides smart work spaces in ubiquitous computing environments. The technology may determine a task to be performed in a smart work space and perform task modeling, wherein the task modeling includes determining one or more user interfaces involved with the task. One or more placements may be determined for the one or more user interfaces based on one or more ergonomic conditions, an incidence of an interaction, and a length of time of interaction. The technology may position the one or more user interfaces into the smart work space in accordance with the determined one or more placements.
US10705665B2	Metal mesh, touch display device and method for reducing moire pattern in touch display device A metal mesh, a touch display device, and a method for reducing moire pattern in a touch display device are provided. The metal mesh includes at least two first metal lines which are arranged in parallel and separated from one another, and at least two second metal lines which are arranged in parallel and separated from one another and intersect the at least two first metal lines. The first metal lines and the second metal lines have a width of 1-6 μm, an the intersection angle between the first metal lines and the second metal lines is 66-70 degrees, and a distance between two neighboring first metal lines and a distance between two neighboring second metal lines are 160-170 μm or 200-210 μm.
US10705663B2	Touch screen having fingerprint recognition function and display device having the same A touch screen including a substrate that includes an active area and a non-active area adjacent to the active area, the active area including at least one fingerprint recognition area; touch sensing electrodes including first sensing electrodes arranged in the active area, and at least one second sensing electrode arranged in the fingerprint recognition area, the second sensing electrode configured for sensing a touch and recognizing a fingerprint; and a pad portion provided with a plurality of pads which are electrically connected to respective sensing electrodes, wherein the at least one second sensing electrode includes: a plurality of sub electrodes extending in a direction inclined with respect to an edge portion of the active area; and a plurality of fingerprint recognition lines connecting the sub electrodes to the pad portion, and the fingerprint recognition lines arranged in a same fingerprint recognition area extend in a same direction.
US10705660B2	Touch sensor, touch detection device and detection method, and touch control apparatus A touch sensor, a touch detection device and a detection method, and a touch control apparatus are provided. The touch sensor comprises a first electrode layer, a rigid insulating layer, a second electrode layer, a compressible layer, and a third electrode layer disposed successively The compressible layer may change the distance between the second electrode layer and the third electrode layer when subjected to a touch pressure. The second electrode layer and the third electrode layer may form a capacitor structure, and the capacitance value of the capacitor structure may vary with the distance between the second electrode layer and the third electrode layer. The pressure information of a user's touch operation can be calculated from the change of the capacitance value.
US10705645B2	Method for protecting personal information and electronic device thereof An electronic device for preemptively removing biometric information from a display is provided. The electronic device includes a display, at least one sensor disposed under a region of the display and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to detect, using the at least one sensor, a touch input on the region of the display and display, using the display, a user interface which guides to remove a mark caused by the touch input, wherein the mark includes biometric information acquired based on the touch input.
US10705629B1	Customizable control system A system is provided that includes a display or other support surface to which a repositionable control device may be removably mounted. The display may emit light. The repositionable control device may be a repositionable knob that has light sensors. The display may be directed to emit the light in a predetermined time-varying search pattern while the light sensors make measurements of the emitted light. The repositionable knob may wirelessly transmit the light sensor measurements to control circuitry associated with the display. The control circuitry may process the light sensor measurements or other sensor measurements to determine the location of the repositionable control device on the display. Visible tick marks or other scale information may be displayed around the periphery of the knob. An electromagnetic actuator may provide adjustable detents. Wireless power may be received by the knob.
US10705623B2	Adjustable keyboard An adjustable keyboard includes a driving element, a first plate, a second plate and a plurality of keys. The second plate is disposed between the first plate and the keys, wherein the second plate has a plurality of key openings and the keys are respectively aligned with the key openings. The driving element is configured to drive the first plate to move, and thus a plurality of first guide portions on the first plate respectively push a plurality of second guide portions on the second plate so as to move the second plate and adjust the distance between each of the keys and the corresponding key opening.
US10705621B1	Using a three-dimensional sensor panel in determining a direction of a gesture cycle A system includes a 3D sensor panel for detecting a plurality of 3D positions corresponding to a finger movement and a controller. The controller determines that the plurality of 3D positions contain a gesture cycle by comparing a first set of positions in the plurality of 3D positions that includes at least two non-adjacent positions in the plurality of 3D positions and, upon determining that the first set of positions in the plurality of 3D positions match, determining that the plurality of positions contain the gesture cycle. the controller determines a direction of the gesture cycle based on a second set of positions in the plurality of 3D positions, where the direction is relative to the 3D sensor panel, and creates a gesture cycle record for the gesture cycle, the gesture cycle record comprising the plurality of 3D positions and the direction.
US10705620B2	Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method There is provided a signal processing apparatus including: a control unit that executes, on a basis of a waveform signal generated in accordance with a motion of an attachment portion of a sensor attached to a tool or a body, effect processing for the waveform signal or another waveform signal, the waveform signal being output from the sensor. The signal processing apparatus performs presentation so that a body motion itself can be aurally felt.
US10705609B2	Control device for motor vehicle and control method The invention relates to a control device for a motor vehicle, which includes: a touch-sensitive surface (2) including a contact sensor capable of measuring a pressing pressure on the touch-sensitive surface (2) during a predetermined time (dt; dt1, dt2), and a haptic feedback module (4) configured such as to generate a haptic feedback in response to a contact of the touch-sensitive surface (2), characterised in that the haptic feedback module (4) is configured such as to determine the profile of the haptic feedback to be generated in accordance with the variation in the pressing pressure measured on the touch-sensitive surface (2) during the predetermined time (dt; dt1, dt2).
US10705607B2	Operation control system, wearable apparatus, operation control method, and operation control program An operation control system includes a wearable apparatus that is mounted with a first sensor, and a measurement apparatus that is configured separately from the wearable apparatus, and transmits a measurement result in a second sensor mounted thereon to the wearable apparatus, in which the wearable apparatus includes an information acquisition unit that acquires the measurement result in the second sensor, transmitted from the measurement apparatus, and an operation control unit that controls a predetermined operation on the basis of the acquired measurement result in the second sensor, and a measurement result in the first sensor.
US10705604B2	Eye tracking apparatus and light source control method thereof An eye tracking apparatus and a light source control method thereof are provided. The eye tracking apparatus includes a plurality of light sources, an image capturer and a controller. The light sources project a plurality of light beams to a target zone. The image capturer captures a display image on the target zone. The controller turn-off light beams corresponding to a part of light sources according to a contrast ratio of the display image.
US10705601B2	Information processing device, interest evaluation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing device including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to detect an enlargement ratio of a content displayed on a screen based on an angle-of-view enlarging action performed on the content, calculate a scroll speed of the content, evaluate the degree of interest corresponding to the content based on the enlargement ratio and the scroll speed, and perform a display processing for the screen in accordance with display configuration determined based on the evaluated degree of interest.
US10705587B2	Mode switching in dependence upon a number of active threads Apparatus for processing data is provided with fetch circuitry for fetching program instructions for execution from one or more active threads of instructions having respective program counter values. Pipeline circuitry has a first operating mode and a second operating mode. Mode switching circuitry switches the pipeline circuitry, between the first operating mode and the second operating mode in dependence upon a number of active threads of program instructions having program instructions available to be executed. The first operating mode has a lower average energy consumption per instruction executed than the second operating mode and the second operating mode has a higher average rate of instruction execution for a single thread than the first operating mode. The first operating mode may utilise a barrel processing pipeline to perform interleaved multiple thread processing. The second operating mode may utilise an out-of-order processing pipeline for performing out-of-order processing.
US10705585B2	Battery charge leakage monitor A system for battery current monitoring includes a system power throttle stored in memory and executable by the one or more processors to place a battery of an electronic device into a state of expected zero-drain throughout a time interval while the electronic device remains active, and a battery leakage monitor stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to detect a battery charge leak based on a series of time-separated parameter measurements for the battery collected during the time interval.
US10705582B2	Cooling apparatus, control method, and storage medium A freezer power calculation unit calculates power consumption Wc of a freezer, based on a heat exchanging amount Q of an electronic device and a performance coefficient COP_c of the freezer. An apparatus performance coefficient calculation unit calculates an apparatus performance coefficient ACOP, based on a calorific value Q of the electronic device, Wc, and power consumption Wf of an air conditioning blower unit. Note that the apparatus performance coefficient ACOP is a performance coefficient of an apparatus including an evaporator, a condenser, a heat exchanger, the freezer, and the air conditioning blower unit. A blower rotational speed control unit controls a rotational speed r of the air conditioning blower unit, based on the apparatus performance coefficient ACOP. A coolant temperature control unit controls a first coolant temperature Tin being a temperature of coolant COO flowing from the freezer, based on the apparatus performance coefficient ACOP.
US10705576B2	Electronic device including display and sensor An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first housing surface that faces a first side, a second housing surface that faces a second side, and a side surface that surrounds at least a portion of a space between the first housing surface and the second housing surface, a display arranged within the housing and including a first display surface including a display screen exposed through the first housing surface and a second display surface that faces the second side, a structure arranged between the second display surface and the second housing surface including a contact surface, the structure including a through-opening, and a sensor, at least a portion of which is arranged within the opening and which is arranged to detect at least a portion of light received from the outside of the housing after passing through the first housing surface and the display.
US10705574B2	Accessory devices for portable electronic devices An accessory device for an electronic device is disclosed. The accessory device may include one or more bodies, or segments, that are rotationally coupled to each other. One segment may include a keyboard used to provide an input or command to the electronic device. The accessory device may include an additional segment with a hinge assembly and a panel coupled to the hinge assembly. The panel is designed to receive and couple with the electronic device. The hinge assembly is designed to move the panel into different positions. For instance, the hinge assembly and the panel can be stored with a segment of the accessory device when not in use. The hinge assembly can subsequently deploy, and place the panel in a position to receive the electronic device such that the electronic device is positioned for use with the keyboard.
US10705562B2	Transitioning between modes of input Transitioning between a high-resolution input mode, such as a mouse-based interface, and a low-resolution input mode, such as a touch-based interface, is described. A change of orientation of a touch screen between a first orientation and a second orientation is detected. Transitioning between the two input modes and corresponding user interfaces (UIs) is based on the detected change of orientation. A change of orientation can be detected with one or more sensors, such as an accelerometer, position sensors, etc. Transitioning from one mode to another can include modifying an item displayed in the UI of the one mode into a corresponding item displayed in the UI of the other mode. The modifying can include enlarging/reducing, obscuring/unobscuring, moving, etc. For example, an item can be obscured by the visual effect of sliding it off of the screen.
US10705561B1	Configuration of a clock distribution system for an integrated circuit A method for configuring a clock distribution system for an integrated circuit involves receiving an indication of frequencies of clock signal to supply to devices on the integrated circuit, selecting a configuration for the clock distribution system based on the frequencies required by the devices and an estimated power consumption, and providing an indication of the selected configuration for configuring the clock distribution system.
US10705558B2	Apparatuses and methods for avoiding glitches when switching clock sources Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an input clock switching system, including: a clock source configured to output a reference clock signal; a clock generator circuit connected to the clock source and configured to output a plurality of input clock signals based on the reference clock signal; an output clock multiplexer, configured to: receive the plurality of input clock signals; receive an output clock selection signal; and output a first clock signal, wherein the first clock signal is one of the input clock signals; and a glitch suppression circuit, configured to: receive the first clock signal; receive a glitch suppression signal; output a clock output signal, wherein the clock output signal is: the first clock signal when the glitch suppression signal is in a first state; and a logic low signal when the glitch suppression signal is in a second state.
US10705557B2	On-chip clock generator calibration Systems, methods, and apparatus for internal on-chip clock calibration for devices coupled to a serial bus are described. A data line of the bus is monitored at a device in order to detect select command signals on the data line, where the select command signals have an accompanying clock signal, such as a burst clock, on a clock line of the serial bus sent concurrently with the command signal. The internal on-chip clock generator in the receiving device utilizes the clock signal occurring with the command signal for calibration, where the select signals are those signals sufficiently long enough for a receiving device to effectively utilize the concurrent clock signal for calibration purposes. In this manner, clock calibration for an internal clock is maintained accurately without the need for an extra clock calibration input.
US10705555B2	Roller module A roller module for an input module includes a roller base, a roller element and an adjusting element. The roller element is pivotally coupled to the roller base. Moreover, at least one discontinuous protrusion structure is circumferentially arranged a bottom surface of a concave region of the roller element. A contacting part of the adjusting element is contacted with the at least one discontinuous protrusion structure. Consequently, a rotation of the roller element results in a tactile feel.
US10705550B2	Modular and configurable power converter A power converter comprising an error amplifier, a reference current circuit branch and load current circuit branch is presented. The error amplifier is configured to generate an error signal based on a reference value and an output signal at an output of the power converter. The reference current circuit branch comprises a modulation device configured to modulate, based on the error signal, a reference current in the reference current circuit branch. The load current circuit branch comprises a first output transistor configured to adjust, based on the reference current, an output current at the output of the power converter. In addition, the power converter may comprise a slave current circuit branch with a second output transistor configured to adjust, based on the reference current, a slave current in the slave current circuit branch for controlling an external slave power converter.
US10705545B2	Fluid control device and flow rate ratio control device A fluid control device is adapted to include: a valve provided in a flow path through which a fluid flows; a pressure sensor provided upstream of the valve; a flow rate sensor provided on downstream of the pressure sensor; a set flow rate generator that outputs a set flow rate corresponding to the measured pressure on the basis of a pressure-flow rate map; a valve control part that controls the opening level of the valve so that the deviation between the set flow rate and a measured flow rate decreases; and the set flow rate generator that outputs the set flow rate corresponding to the measured pressure to the valve control part. In addition, the set flow rate generator is adapted to control the set flow rate so that the measured pressure has a value up to a limit pressure.
US10705540B2	Apparatus for controlling platooning based on weather information, system including the same, and method thereof An apparatus for controlling platooning based on weather information includes a processor configured to determine a weather environment state on a platooning path based on weather forecast information received from a control center or weather information measured by a vehicle sensor, determine a sequence of platooning based on the weather environment state, determine a level of the platooning based on the weather environment state, and perform control of a transverse vehicle-to-vehicle distance or control of a longitudinal vehicle-to-vehicle distance of a vehicle based on the measured weather information and the determined level of the platooning.
US10705539B2	Tele-operation of autonomous cars to negotiate problem situations Methods and systems for providing remote support and negotiating problem situations of autonomous operation of vehicles based on signal states and vehicle information are described. The disclosed technology receives state data for the vehicles by an apparatus such as a remote vehicle support apparatus. The state data indicates a respective current state for the vehicles. The vehicles are each assigned to respective remote vehicle support queues based on the respective state data. An indication that one of the vehicles is requesting remote support is received by the remote vehicle support apparatus. In response to a determination that a change in the state data indicates that autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles is operating outside of defined parameter values, the remote support is provided to the one of the vehicles through a communications link by transmitting instruction data to modify the autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles.
US10705537B2	Discovery and monitoring of an environment using a plurality of robots Techniques are provided for discovery and monitoring of an environment using a plurality of robots. A plurality of robots navigate an environment by determining a navigation buffer for each of the robots; and allowing each of the robots to navigate within the environment while maintaining a substantially minimum distance from other robots, wherein the substantially minimum distance corresponds to the navigation buffer, and wherein a size of each of the navigation buffers is reduced over time based on a percentage of the environment that remains to be navigated. The robots can also navigate an environment by obtaining a discretization of the environment to a plurality of discrete regions; and determining a next unvisited discrete region for one of the plurality of robots to explore in the exemplary environment using a breadth-first search. The plurality of discrete regions can be, for example, a plurality of real or virtual tiles.
US10705531B2	Generative adversarial inverse trajectory optimization for probabilistic vehicle forecasting Systems and methods for predicting vehicle behavior includes capturing images of a vehicle in traffic using an imaging device. Future behavior of the vehicle is stochastically modeled using a processing device including an energy-based model stored in a memory of the processing device. The energy-based model includes generating a distribution of possible future trajectories of the vehicle using a generator, sampling the distribution of possible future trajectories according to an energy value of each trajectory in the distribution of possible future trajectories an energy model to determine probable future trajectories, and optimizing parameters of each of the generator and the energy model using an optimizer. A user is audibly alerted with a speaker upon an alert system recognizing hazardous trajectories of the probable future trajectories.
US10705530B2	Vehicle travel control method and vehicle travel control device A travel control for a vehicle includes specifying a pedestrian crosswalk through which a subject vehicle is expected to pass as a first pedestrian crosswalk, estimating a position on the first pedestrian crosswalk through which the subject vehicle passes as a crossing position in the length direction of the first pedestrian crosswalk, specifying another pedestrian crosswalk located within a predetermined distance from the crossing position and located close to the first pedestrian crosswalk as a second pedestrian crosswalk, setting an area including the first pedestrian crosswalk and the second pedestrian crosswalk as a detection area of a detector detecting an object around the subject vehicle, detecting a moving object in the detection area using the detector, and controlling travel of the subject vehicle on the basis of a detection result of the detector.
US10705518B2	Remote control system and remote control method A remote control system including a remote control device and a first controllable device is provided. The remote control device has a wireless communication module, and is configured to execute a pairing connection operation. The first controllable device has a wireless communication function, and is configured to transmit first identification information. When executing the pairing connection operation, the remote control device obtains the first identification information of the first controllable device through the wireless communication module. The remote control device continuously updates and records the first identification information within a preset time range. The remote control device determines whether signal strength of the first controllable device has undergone a preset change within the preset time range based on the first identification information, and if so, the remote control device decides to connect to the first controllable device through the wireless communication module. In addition, a remote control method is provided.
US10705512B2	Method for computer-assisted selection of machine components The objective of the invention is the computer-assisted selection of the optimal machine component for a use. In the selection, empirical values are collected to create a continuously improving system. To achieve this, the inventive method includes determining properties of the machine component and their corresponding influence quantities, possible uses for the machine component, and the influence quantities to be considered in the use-specific selection and design of the machine component. The method also includes receiving statements relating to the influence quantities and determining, influence quantity interactions. The method further includes formulating the influence quantities, feeding the use and associated influence quantities as inputs into a selection algorithm to select the machine component that is optimally suitable for the use, and supplying the selected machine component.
US10705508B2	Method for generating settings for machining an optical lens Disclosed is a method for generating settings for machining an optical lens, including: a) acquiring a file characterizing the shape to which the optical lens must be machined in order to allow it to be mounted in a spectacle frame; b) decomposing the shape into a plurality of distinct objects, including an exterior envelope inside of which all the other objects are located; c) determining a machining order of the other objects; and d) generating the machining settings depending on the machining order.
US10705506B2	Reinforcement learning to allocate processes to a machine tool controller A machine learning device performs reinforcement learning on a controller that performs multiple processes for controlling a machine tool in parallel at multiple operation units. The machine learning device comprises: behavior information output means that outputs behavior information containing allocation of arithmetic units that perform the multiple processes to the controller; state information acquisition means that acquires state information containing a machining condition as a condition for machining set at the machine tool, and determination information generated by monitoring the implementation of the multiple processes by the multiple operation units based on the allocation in the behavior information; reward calculation means that calculates the value of a reward to be given by the reinforcement learning based on the determination information in the state information; and value function update means that updates a behavior value function based on the reward value, the state information, and the behavior information.
US10705501B2	Matching recognition method and system for NC program and corresponding cutting tools of machine tools A matching recognition method for an NC program and corresponding cutting tools includes a step of using an imaging device to capture 2-dimensional images from the cutting tools mounted at the corresponding numbered tool holders on a machine tool, a step of based on the 2-dimensional images to extract outline feature points and assembling postures of cutting tools and converting into corresponding tool-assembling strings, a step of obtaining tool demands from each of the sequential machining steps in the NC program and converting into corresponding stepwise tool-demanding strings, and a step of performing matching upon the tool-assembling strings and the stepwise tool-demanding strings to generate and output corresponding step-and-tool matching strings. In addition, an associated matching recognition system is provided to include an imaging device, an image-processing module, a step-decoding module and a matching and comparing module.
US10705499B2	System and method for automated shutdown and startup for a network A method may include determining a termination time for a virtualization services manager and various termination times for various host devices operating in a drilling management network. The virtualization services manager may generate a virtual machine or a software container that implements a virtualization service on a network layer that controls a drilling operation. The method may further include transmitting, by a shutdown manager, a time delayed termination command to the virtualization services manager and various time delayed termination commands to the host devices. The method may further include terminating operations at the virtualization services manager based on the termination time and in response to the shutdown manager terminating operations. The method may further include terminating operations at the host devices based on the termination times and in response to the virtualization services manager terminating operations.
US10705498B2	Method and device for monitoring data processing and transmission in a security chain of a security system A method for monitoring data processing and data transmission in a safety chain of a safety system, and a device for carrying out the method, which achieve the object of further simplifying the monitoring of the safety chain of an overall safety function of a modular safety system, in particular during ongoing operation. For this purpose, the method and device use at least one actual characteristic value for a safety-relevant characterizing attribute of the data processing and/or data transmission.
US10705494B2	Laundry machine and online system including the same The present invention relates to a home appliance which can communicate with an outside of the home appliance, an online system including the same and a method for using an online system. According to embodiments of the present invention, a home appliance, an online system and a method for using an online system may be provided, each including a WiFi communication module mounted or connected to the home appliance for supporting a setting mode for making communication connection and a use mode for enabling communication, and a particular input unit provided to run the setting mode by user's selection, wherein the home appliance is changed to the use mode upon reception of SSID (Service Set Identifier; a name of a wireless LAN) information of an access point AP desired to access and user information required for registration of the home appliance through an external terminal after access to the setting mode through the external terminal provided separate from the home appliance.
US10705482B2	Electronic and image forming device with gas ventilation According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a heat source, a discharge path, a wall internal space, and a heat conductor. The discharge path is configured to guide a gas toward the outside of the device. The wall internal space is surrounded by walls, extends vertically, and is open to a space outside the device via an upper opening and a lower opening that are in different vertical positions. The heat conductor includes a heat absorber that is positioned in the discharge path and a heat dissipater that is positioned in the wall internal space.
US10705480B2	Cartridge, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a rotatable photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller configured to develop image formed on the drum, the developing roller being capable of contacting to and spacing from the drum; an urging force receiving portion configured to receive, from a main assembly side urging member, an urging force for spacing the developing roller from the drum; a cartridge side drive transmission member capable of the coupling with a main assembly side drive transmission member and configured to receive, from the main assembly side drive transmission member, a rotational force for rotating the developing roller; and a decoupling member capable of urging the cartridge side drive transmission member by the urging force received by the urging force receiving portion to decouple the cartridge side drive transmission member from the main assembly side drive transmission member.
US10705473B2	Image forming apparatus and conveyance control method An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that forms a transfer nip for transferring an image to a sheet; a conveyance roller pair disposed on an upstream side relative to the transfer nip in a conveyance direction of the sheet; and a hardware processor that controls the conveyance roller pair such that the sheet conveyed to a conveyance nip formed by the conveyance roller pair is conveyed with a predetermined nip pressure so as to cause slack in the sheet between the transfer nip and the conveyance nip in which the hardware processor controls the conveyance roller pair so as to reduce the nip pressure at the conveyance nip in accordance with an increase in a conveyance amount of the sheet at the conveyance nip.
US10705459B2	Heating system A heating system includes a heater, a switch providing alternating current to the heater, and a current sensor electrically connected between the switch and the heater. The heating system also includes a controller that controls operation of the switch. The controller activates the switch during a portion of a half cycle of the alternating current having increasing amplitude under a threshold. The controller determines, based on a signal received from the current sensor during the activation of the switch, a time period from the start of the half cycle to a threshold timing at which the alternating current reaches the threshold. The controller reactivates the switch at a timing on or after a timing obtained by subtraction of the determined time period from an end of the half cycle. The heating system is useable within an image forming apparatus.
US10705456B2	Toner cartridge attachable to image forming apparatus Toner cartridge includes a housing, an agitator, an auger, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. The housing includes a first toner accommodating portion having and a second toner accommodating portion. The auger is rotatable about a second axis extending in a first direction and is configured to convey toner from a first toner accommodating portion to the second toner accommodating portion. The first protrusion is positioned at a first side of the second toner accommodating portion. The first protrusion extends in the first direction. The second protrusion is positioned at a second side of the second toner accommodating portion and extends in the first direction.
US10705451B2	Developing apparatus A change of a magnetic flux density distribution adjacent to a regulating blade 9 opposed to a developer regulation pole is suppressed at a low cost, while suppressing influence to design latitude of magnetic poles. A position on the outer peripheral surface of the developing sleeve where the magnetic flux density in the normal line direction of the outer peripheral surface of the developing sleeve is a maximum value position. The position on the outer peripheral surface of the developing sleeve 8 corresponding to a center portion position of the half peak range of the magnetic flux density distribution of the developer regulation pole is called half peak center portion. The developer regulation pole is formed such that the maximum value position is deviated not less than 3° in the circumferential direction of the developing sleeve from the half peak center portion position, and the position when the regulating blade 9 opposite is the developing sleeve is in a side of the maximum value position in which the half peak center portion position exists.
US10705450B2	Method of fixing regulating blade made of resin material A method of fixing a regulating blade made of a resin material includes an adhesive applying step of applying an adhesive onto a mounting portion; a first force applying step of applying a first force to the regulating blade so that the regulating blade is urged against the mounting portion; a second force applying step of applying a second force to the mounting portion so as to support the mounting portion; and a fixing step of fixing the regulating blade to the mounting portion by curing the adhesive applied on the mounting portion in the adhesive applying step in a state that the first force is applied to the regulating blade in the first force applying step and that the second force is applied to the mounting portion in the second force applying step.
US10705435B2	Self-referencing and self-calibrating interference pattern overlay measurement Two pairs of alignment targets (one aligned, one misaligned by a bias distance) are formed on different masks to produce a first pair of conjugated interference patterns. Other pairs of alignment targets are also formed on the masks to produce a second pair of conjugated interference patterns that are inverted the first. Misalignment of the dark and light regions of the first interference patterns and the second interference patterns in both pairs of conjugated interference patterns is determined when patterns formed using the masks are overlaid. A magnification factor (of the interference pattern misalignment to the target misalignment) is calculated as a ratio of the difference of misalignment of the relatively dark and relatively light regions in the pairs of interference patterns, over twice the bias distance. The interference pattern misalignment is divided by the magnification factor to produce a self-referenced and self-calibrated target misalignment amount, which is then output.
US10705432B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A substrate table of an immersion lithographic apparatus is disclosed which comprises a barrier configured to collect liquid. The barrier surrounds the substrate and is spaced apart from the substrate. In this way any liquid which is spilt from the liquid supply system can be collected to reduce the risk of contamination of delicate components of the lithographic projection apparatus.
US10705403B1	Charge sequestration methods for electrochromic devices A method of controlling an electrochromic device is provided. The method includes measuring an open circuit voltage between a first electrode and a reference electrode in the electrochromic device in a fully bleached state. The method includes calculating a charge Q to return the first electrode to a baseline state and darkening the first electrode in the electrochromic device to a darkened state. The method includes transferring charge from the first electrode in the darkened state to a redox element.
US10705391B2	Multi-state control of liquid crystals A multi-state variable dielectric antenna, comprising: a top dielectric; a bottom dielectric; a variable dielectric plate between the top dielectric and the bottom dielectric; a plurality of conductive devices provided over the variable dielectric plate; an RF feed provided below the bottom dielectric; wherein the variable dielectric plate comprises: a top binder; a bottom binder; variable dielectric constant material provided between the top binder and bottom binder, the variable dielectric constant material divided into pixels, each pixel located below a corresponding conductive device and having a plurality of electrodes; a plurality of conductive lines, each conductive line connected independently to one of the electrodes and to a controller, such that each of the plurality of electrodes of a single pixel independently receives an activation signal from the controller.
US10705388B2	Display panel and method for producing the same and display apparatus The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a method for producing the same and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first sub-pixel region; a second sub-pixel region, wherein an aperture opening ratio of the first sub-pixel region is less than an aperture opening ratio of the second sub-pixel region; and an insulation layer, having a first thickness at the first sub-pixel region less than a second thickness of the insulation layer at the second sub-pixel region, so that a first cell gap of the display panel at the first sub-pixel region is larger than a second cell gap of the display panel at the second sub-pixel region, thereby at least partially compensating for a difference between the aperture opening ratio of the first sub-pixel region and the aperture opening ratio of the second sub-pixel region.
US10705383B2	Image display device An image display device includes a display panel, a plurality of light emitting elements, a reflective sheet, and a first optical sheet. The display panel displays an image on a front face of the display panel. The light emitting elements are disposed along one edge of the display panel. The reflective sheet is disposed opposite a rear face of the display panel. The reflective sheet reflects light from the light emitting elements toward the rear face of the display panel. The first optical sheet is disposed between the display panel and the reflective sheet. The first optical sheet has a plurality of protrusions on a face of the first optical sheet that is opposite the reflective sheet. The protrusions have ridgelines extending along a direction that is different from a direction in which the one edge of the display panel extends.
US10705377B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of controlling the same A liquid crystal display device including a display unit, a backlight including a plurality of light sources, an LED control circuit configured to output a PWM signal (LED control signal) based on a display synchronization signal, such that the light sources are intermittently lighted, and an LED driver configured to control a drive current that is supplied to the light sources, based on the PWM signal, is provided with a monitoring control unit that is configured to perform monitoring at least one of the PWM signal, the drive current, and the display synchronization signal, as a monitoring target. When an abnormality of the monitoring target is detected, the monitoring control unit controls a waveform of the PWM signal such that the drive current that is supplied to the light sources in the backlight becomes zero.
US10705371B2	Color filter substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display panel, manufacturing method thereof and bright spot defect correction method thereof, and display apparatus A color filter substrate includes: a transparent substrate; and a black matrix film, a color material film, and a repair color material film, which are formed on the substrate, wherein, in a display region, the repair color material film is formed on one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the black matrix film in at least a part overlapping the black matrix film in a plan view.
US10705363B2	Electrical connection configurations for privacy glazing structures A privacy glazing structure may include an electrically controllable optically active material that provides controlled transition between a privacy or scattering state and a visible or transmittance state. To make electrical connections with electrode layers that control the optically active material, the privacy glazing structure may include electrode engagement regions. In some examples, the electrode engagement regions are formed as notches in peripheral edges of opposed panes bounding the optically active material. The notches may or may not overlap to provide a through conduit in the region of overlap for wiring. In either case, the notches may allow the remainder of the structure to have a flush edge surface for ease of downstream processing.
US10705360B2	Method for manufacturing curved display panel, and curved display panel manufactured by same manufacturing method A method of manufacturing a curved display panel by reducing a thickness of a flat display panel comprising a first substrate and a second substrate, the method includes: polishing a portion that is to form a protrusion on an edge of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate to a preset thickness through mechanical polishing; masking the portion that is to form the protrusion, polished to the preset thickness in the polishing, using a masking member so as to prevent the portion from being etched by an etchant; and etching the display panel to a preset thickness by the etchant so as to be thinner than the portion masked by the masking member to make the protrusion protrude therefrom.
US10705349B2	Dual-view naked-eye 3D display device and manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal display device Disclosed are a dual-view naked-eye 3D display device and a method for manufacturing the same, and a liquid crystal display device. The dual-view naked-eye 3D display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a diffraction grating provided on the TFT substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided on the diffraction grating, a polarizer provided on the liquid crystal layer, and a light source for emitting light to the TFT substrate. The TFT substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, the diffraction grating in each pixel unit having two grating patterns, and the extending directions of the light-shielding strips of the two grating patterns being at a predetermined angle.
US10705343B2	Head mounted display apparatus and image generating method A head mounted display (HMD) and an image generating method thereof are provided. The HMD includes a display device, an optical converter, an optical shutter and an optical engine. The display device receives an AR image and/or an external image, and transmits a display image along a projection direction. The optical converter receives the display image and adjusts an output angle to project an output image to a target area. The optical shutter opens a transmission path for the external image to the display device during a first time period, and inhibits the transmission path during a second time period, where the first time period is longer than the second time period. A first luminance of the AR image provided by the optical engine in the first time period is lower than a second luminance of the AR image provided by the optical engine in the second time period.
US10705337B2	Head up display with an angled light pipe A head up display includes a light pipe and a waveguide combiner. The light pipe is configured to expand a pupil in a first direction and includes an input grating and an output put grating. The light pipe also includes four elongated surfaces, and the input grating and the output grating are provided in one or more planes parallel to two of the elongated surfaces. The waveguide combiner is configured to expand the pupil in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first light pipe is disposed at an angle with respect to a waveguide combiner.
US10705332B2	Tri-modal display mirror assembly A display mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a housing configured for attachment to the vehicle; a prismatic element positioned in the housing; a partially reflective, partially transmissive coating provided on a rear surface of the prismatic element; a display mounted behind the prismatic element within the housing; and an actuator device for moving the prismatic element between three distinct viewing positions including a first viewing position, a second viewing position wherein the prismatic element is tilted higher than in the first viewing position, and a third viewing position wherein the prismatic element is tilted higher than in the second viewing position.
US10705331B2	Optical lens module with plastic barrel, imaging apparatus including same module and electronic device including same apparatus An optical lens module includes a lens assembly and a plastic barrel. The lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements and is disposed in the plastic barrel. The plastic barrel includes an object-end portion, an image-end portion, an outer tube portion, an inner tube portion and at least one reflection reduction area. The image-end portion includes an image-end opening. The inner tube portion includes a plurality of parallel inner surfaces and a plurality of inclined inner surfaces, wherein the parallel inner surfaces are parallel to the central axis, and each of the inclined inner surfaces has an angle with the central axis. The reflection reduction area is disposed on one of the inclined inner surfaces closest to the image-end opening, wherein the reflection reduction area and the plastic barrel are integrally formed by an injection molding method.
US10705327B2	Light emitting method and light emitting device A light emitting method includes passing a laser beam through at least one offset assembly and a focusing assembly in sequence, and actuating, by a control-manipulating mechanism, the offset assembly to cause the laser beam to be offset, so that the laser beam can quickly produce a controllable opening of any shape in a drilling process.
US10705325B2	Focusing method, measuring method, principal point detecting method, focusing device, measuring device, and principal point detecting device A focusing method includes a step of preparing a microscope, a step of mounting a sample, and a predetermined processing step, the predetermined processing step includes a step of receiving light emitted from the observation optical system, a step of obtaining the quantity of light based on light from a predetermined region of the received light, a step of calculating a difference or a ratio between the quantity of light in the predetermined region and the quantity of light as a reference, a step of comparing a calculation result with a threshold, and a step of changing the distance between the sample and the observation optical system, and in the step of preparing, a partial region of illumination light is shielded or darkened, and when the result of the calculation is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the predetermined processing step is terminated.
US10705321B2	Optical assembly for a compact wide field of view digital camera with low first lens diameter to image diagonal ratio An optical assembly for a point action camera or other compact digital camera having a wide field of view, includes multiple lens elements, including at least one lens element that has an aspheric lens surface. The optical assembly is configured to provide a field of view in excess of 120 degrees. The optical assembly includes a ratio of a diameter of a first lens element at the object end of the optical assembly to an image diagonal is less than approximately 3.
US10705318B2	Imaging lens An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
US10705317B2	Zooming imaging optical system A zooming imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, at least: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group. During zooming, the distance between adjacent lens groups changes. During focusing from an object at infinity to a close object, the fifth lens group moves along an optical axis toward an imaging surface side. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least: a 2a-th lens group; and a 2b-th lens group having negative refractive power. Image stabilization is performed by displacing the 2b-th lens group perpendicularly to the optical axis. The optical system satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
US10705316B2	Imaging optical lens assembly, image capturing apparatus and electronic device The present disclosure provides an imaging optical lens assembly, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, wherein the imaging optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements.
US10705308B1	Optic fiber breakout assembly with bonded tube assembly and methods and apparatus for manufacturing the same A breakout assembly for use in furcating optic fibers, the breakout assembly including a finished furcation tube assembly having inner tubes and strength filaments having been bonded together using a bonding substance to form a bonded portion, the bonded portion being connectable to a housing of the breakout assembly for simultaneously anchoring both the tubes and strength filaments of the furcation tube assembly to the housing.
US10705306B2	Telecommunications distribution elements A fiber optic telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) includes a first fiber optic connection location (2308) defined on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502), wherein a plurality of optical fibers (2307) extends into the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308). A plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309) are movably disposed on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502). A flexible substrate (2306/2506) is positioned between the first fiber optic connection location (2308) and the plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309), the flexible substrate (2306/2506) rigidly supporting the plurality of optical fibers (2307) and relaying the plurality of fibers (2307) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308) to each of the second fiber optic connection locations (2309).
US10705277B2	Display device A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
US10705272B2	Optical fingerprint sensor Systems and methods for optical imaging are disclosed. The optical fingerprint sensor includes an image sensor array; a collimator filter layer disposed above the image sensor array, the collimator filter layer having an array of apertures; and an illumination layer disposed above the collimator filter layer. The collimator filter layer filters reflected light such that only certain of the reflected light beams reach optical sensing elements in the image sensor array. Employing the collimator filter layer prevents blurring while allowing for a lower-profile image sensor.
US10705271B2	Display device A display device includes: a display panel; and a color conversion panel overlapping the display panel, wherein the color conversion panel includes a red color conversion layer and a green color conversion layer including a semiconductor nanocrystal, and a transmissive layer; a red color filter overlapping the red color conversion layer; a green color filter overlapping the green color conversion layer; and a blue color filter overlapping the transmissive layer and a light blocking member, and the light blocking member includes at least one of a blue dye and a blue pigment.
US10705266B2	Optical diffusing film laminate and method of making An optical film assembly comprising a first optical film, a coupling member, and a second optical film wherein the first optical film comprises a prismatic film, the second optical film comprises a diffuser, wherein the coupling member is bonded to the first optical film and to the second optical film such that the first optical film and second optical film are physically coupled, and the coupling member is bonded to at least one of the first optical film and the second optical film non-continuously such that an optically effective air gap is provided. Also, a method for making such optical film assemblies.
US10705260B2	Hard multi-coat on optical article An optical device and method for manufacturing the optical device is provided. The optical device comprises an optical article having a substrate, a primer layer, and a hard multi-coat (HMC). The HMC comprises at least one layer. At least one of the layers, the substrate, and the HMC comprises at least one carbon allotrope that is absorbed by diffusion. The method of manufacturing involves combining and organic solvent and deionized water to form a solution, mixing into the solution at least one carbon allotrope, applying sonication to the solution an optical article comprising at least one of a substrate, a primer layer on the substrate, and a HMC, immersing and then withdrawing the optical article from the solution, withdrawing the optical article from the solution, and evaporating excess liquid from the solution.
US10705244B2	Compact body scanner Imaging systems and methods are provided for detecting objects that may be hidden under clothing, ingested, inserted, or otherwise concealed on or in a person's body. An imaging assembly, e.g., X-ray source and X-ray detector, and mechanisms, e.g., a translational mechanism for vertically moving the imaging assembly, may be configured to reduce the overall form factor of such imaging systems, while still retaining an ability to perform full/complete imaging of a subject.
US10705235B2	Method of characterising a subsurface volume Disclosed is a method of characterizing a subsurface volume. The method comprises: extracting a geobody from seismic data arranged within a discretized volume comprising a plurality of cells, the geobody comprising a subset of the plurality of cells, each cell of the subset having one or more properties indicative of a particular fluid phase. The extraction of the geobody comprises: determining a propagation probability value for each cell indicative of the probability that a front will propagate through the cell; beginning from a source within the discretized volume, using the propagation probability value to calculate a traveltime for each cell, the travel time describing the time the front takes to travel from the source point to the cell; and using the traveltimes to extract the geobody from the seismic data.
US10705229B2	Array substrate for digital X-ray detector, digital X-ray detector including the same, and method for manufacturing the same An array substrate for a digital X-ray detector, a digital X-ray detector including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The array substrate reduces a step difference of a PIN diode, removes a bent part from a lower part to reduce characteristic deterioration of the PIN diode, and increases the size of a formation region of the PIN diode to increase a fill factor. To this end, the array substrate allows a source region of an active layer included in a thin film transistor to be in surface contact with a lower electrode of the PIN diode, and disposes the lower electrode over a planarized source region or a base substrate, such that a step difference of the PIN diode is reduced and fill factor is improved.
US10705227B2	Scintillator panel [Problem] Provided is a layered structure in which a non-scintillator layer is utilized as a light transmission path to a sensor so as to transmit light in a vertical direction through the non-scintillator layer without allowing the light to re-enter a scintillator layer.[Means for Solution] Provided is a scintillator panel having a structure in which a scintillator layer and a non-scintillator layer are repeatedly arranged in a direction substantially parallel to a radiation incident direction. In this scintillator panel, the scintillator layer contains at least a phosphor, a binder resin, and voids; the non-scintillator layer is radiolucent; the scintillator layer and the non-scintillator layer have an irregular structure at their interface; and an arithmetic surface roughness Ra attributed to irregularities is 1/400 to 1/10 of the width of the non-scintillator layer.
US10705226B2	Positioning device and positioning method The purpose is to achieve accurate positioning without calculating an integer bias. A positioning device may include a positioning signal receiver, a triple phase difference calculating module, a triple phase difference adding module, and a positioning module. The positioning signal receiver may detect carrier phases of positioning signals from a plurality of positioning satellites. The triple phase difference calculating module may calculate a triple phase difference based on the carrier phases. The triple phase difference adding module may add the plurality of triple phase differences calculated in different periods. The positioning module may perform relative positioning using an added value of the triple phase differences as an observation value.
US10705220B2	System and method for ground and free-space detection Improved processing of sensor data (e.g., LiDAR data) can be used to distinguish between free space and objects/hazards. Autonomous vehicles can use such information for performing autonomous driving and/or parking operations. LiDAR data can include a plurality of range measurements (e.g., forming a 3D point cloud). Each of the range measurements can correspond to a respective LiDAR channel and azimuth angle. The processing of LiDAR data can include identifying one or more paths as candidate ground paths based on one or more path criteria. The processing of LiDAR data can also include identifying one or more of the plurality of range measurements as ground points or non-ground points based on the one or more paths identified as candidate ground paths and based on one or more point criteria.
US10705211B2	Optical sensor arrangement An optical proximity sensor arrangement comprises a first sensor unit with a first emitter and a first detector and a second sensor unit with a second emitter and/or a second detector. The first detector is configured to detect light being emitted by the first emitter and, if applicable, by the second emitter, and being at least partially reflected. If applicable, the second detector is configured to detect light being emitted by the first emitter and being at least partially reflected. A distance between the first emitter and the first detector is, if applicable, less than a distance between the first detector and the second emitter and, if applicable, less than a distance between the first emitter and the second detector.
US10705207B2	Control device, server system and vehicle A control device for a vehicle, with at least one environment sensor which is designed to detect the surroundings of the vehicle, with a computing device which is designed to detect the position of the vehicle and to operate the environment sensor on the basis of corresponding location-dependent operating parameters.
US10705203B2	Multi-elevational antenna systems and methods of use The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with an antenna system comprising a tension member configured to be towed by an aerial platform. In some embodiments, a first end of the tension member may be secured to the aerial platform and the second end may extend unsecured from the aerial platform at a different elevation than the first end. A plurality of antenna assemblies, each comprising at least one antenna, may be secured to and spaced along the length of the tension member. Each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted for use with a particular frequency or frequency bandwidth. For example, each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted or tuned for one or more frequencies useful for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In some embodiments, a receiving system, a communication link, and/or an antenna location system may be utilized.
US10705197B2	Sensor device and toilet device equipped therewith According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes a transmitter part, a receiver part, a signal generation part, and a determination part. The transmitter part is configured to emit a radio wave outside as a transmission wave. The receiver part is configured to receive a reflection wave reflected by an object as a reception wave. The signal generation part is configured to generate a first output signal generated based on the transmission wave and the reception wave, a second output signal provided with a phase different from that of the first output signal, and a third output signal generated based on the first output signal and the second output signal. The determination part is configured to determine presence or absence of an object based on the first output signal, the second output signal, and the third output signal.
US10705195B2	Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method A distance measuring apparatus measures a distance to a target from a plurality of directions, and includes sensors having identical two-dimensional scan type configurations that launch a laser beam and receive reflected light from the target by a multi-segment light receiving element, and a processor. The processor performs a process including specifying a receiving part of the multi-segment light receiving element of a first sensor, that receives a second laser beam launched from a second sensor in a state in which the target is non-detectable by the first sensor, adjusting a phase in a vertical scan direction of the second laser beam with respect to that of a first laser beam launched from the first sensor, until the receiving part no longer receives the second laser beam, and integrating range images from the first and second sensors after the phase is adjusted.
US10705192B2	Optoelectronic modules operable to recognize spurious reflections and to compensate for errors caused by spurious reflections Optoelectronic modules (100) are operable to distinguish between signals indicative of reflections from an object of interest and signals indicative of a spurious reflection. Various modules are operable to recognize spurious reflections by means of dedicated spurious-reflection detection pixels (126) and, in some cases, also to compensate for errors caused by spurious reflections.
US10705182B2	Wideband ranging system A ranging system includes an input for receiving a wireless signal and a detector for determining an estimate of a time-of-arrival of the wireless signal at the ranging system. The detector includes a first module for processing the wireless signal according to a non-linear, monotonic transformation to generate a modified signal, a second module for compressing the modified signal according to a linear transformation, resulting in a compressed signal including a number of elements, each element corresponding to a different time segment of the modified signal, and a third module for applying a decision function for determining an output including a first element of the number of elements, corresponding to the time-of-arrival of the wireless signal at the ranging system, applying the decision function, including comparing the elements of the compressed signal to corresponding thresholds of a number of thresholds associated with the number of elements.
US10705175B2	System and method for determining the relative direction of an RF transmitter The subject matter discloses a method to determine a relative direction of a target RF transmitter, performed by a direction finding (DF) system comprising at least a pair of antennas having an electromagnetic-absorbing material between them, comprising conducting wireless communication between the target RF transmitter and each one of the antennas of the DF system, measuring the signal strength of the target RF transmitter received at each antenna, calculating the difference between the signal strength measured at each one of the antennas in the pair, and determining a relative direction of the target RF transmitter to be is the direction of the antenna within the pair of antennas in which the stronger signal was measured.
US10705166B2	Transmit coil frequency response correction for magnetic resonance imaging Methods for correcting a non-uniform power response of a radiofrequency (“RF”) transmit coil used in magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) are described. Transmit power response data for an RF transmit coil are processed to compute RF amplitude scaling factors for the RF transmit coil as a function of transmit frequency offset. The RF amplitude scaling factors can be used to correct transmitted RF power, and thus flip angle, to be more uniform over a range of transmit frequency offsets, as may be encountered when imaging with lower field MRI systems or MRI systems with high strength or asymmetric gradients.
US10705162B2	Temperature controlled magnetic permeability detector A device for detection of magnetic permeability (μ) or, alternatively, relative magnetic permeability (μr) or, alternatively relative magnetic susceptibility (μr-) of a sample is described. The device comprises a sample chamber having at least one opening for introduction of a sample or a sample container holding a sample and an electronic circuit. The device also comprises a coil surrounding said sample chamber, and also an electronic circuit adapted to measure the inductance of said coil. The sample chamber, coil and at least one component of the electronic circuit are placed in a temperature controlled zone. Said at least one component in said electronic circuit is/are selected from the group consisting of capacitors, sensors, precision voltage references, precision regulators, low pass and or high pass filters.
US10705161B2	Magnetic field detection device A magnetic field detection device includes a first soft magnetic body, a second soft magnetic body, and a magnetism detection element. The first soft magnetic body extends to have a first length in a first direction, and has a first width, smaller than the first length, in a second direction. The second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The second soft magnetic body is disposed to be spaced apart from and face the first soft magnetic body in the first direction, extends to have a second length in the first direction, and has a second width, smaller than the second length, in the second direction. The magnetism detection element is disposed, in the first direction, between the first and second soft magnetic bodies, and extends to have a third length in the first direction and a third width, larger than the third length, in the second direction.
US10705156B1	Power pedestal, ground fault indication system, and printed circuit board assembly therefor A printed circuit board assembly is for a ground fault indication system of a power pedestal. The power pedestal includes a housing. The ground fault indication system has a number of ground fault input devices each structured to be coupled to the housing. The printed circuit board assembly includes an enclosure, a number of terminals each coupled to the enclosure, at least one of the number of terminals being structured to be electrically connected with one of the number of ground fault input devices, and a printed circuit board enclosed by the enclosure and electrically connected to the number of terminals. The printed circuit board has an indication apparatus structured to provide an indication of circuit status.
US10705149B2	Voltage drop detection through data corruption detection An object is to provide a voltage drop detection system which can accurately detect a drop in the voltage of a backup battery when a main power supply is off. A voltage drop detection system detects a drop in the voltage of a battery that supplies power to a first volatile memory when a main power supply is off, and the voltage drop detection system includes: a second volatile memory which is connected for the battery in parallel with the first volatile memory; a data writing unit which writes data in the second volatile memory when the main power supply is on; a data corruption detection unit which supplies, when the main power supply is off, power from the battery to the first volatile memory and the second volatile memory and which thereafter detects the corruption of the data written in the second volatile memory when the main power supply is on; and a voltage drop detection unit which detects the drop in the voltage of the battery based on the detection of the corruption of the data when the main power supply is on.
US10705136B2	Modular test assembly A test assembly includes multiple circuit boards. Each board includes multiple pairs of contacts configurable to address the respective circuit board, an instrument, first and second headers at opposing edges of the respective board. Each pin of a first header electrically connects through the board to a corresponding pin of a second header. Each board includes first and second input/output (I/O) terminals at opposing edges of the respective board, the first I/O terminal electrically connects through the board to the second I/O terminal. A relay on the board permits the board's instrument to be activated. Each of the circuit boards mechanically and electrically connects to another circuit board through a jumper cable connecting the first header of one circuit board to the second header of another circuit board and through a conductive member electrically connecting the first I/O terminal of one board to the second I/O terminal of another board.
US10705124B2	Method, a non-transitory storage medium and a battery grading apparatus for automatically grading a lithium-ion battery This application has disclosed a method, a non-transitory storage medium and a battery grading apparatus for automatically grading a lithium-ion battery. The method comprises: 1) preprocessing a cell of the lithium-ion battery with formation and grading, obtaining measured current and/or voltage data of charging/discharging during the process of formation and grading, and preprocessing the obtained current and/or voltage data; 2) plotting the preprocessed data into a measurement curve, matching it with a pre-stored standard reference curve for charging and discharging, and calculating a linear distance, a square of the linear distance and a first order differential distance between the measurement curve and the standard reference curve; calculating weighted distances and weighted summation distances for the calculated linear distance, square of the linear distance and first order differential distance respectively; and comparing and matching the weighted summation distances with a preset threshold range for each grading level and outputting a matching outcome.
US10705117B2	Probe assembly and probe structure thereof A probe component and a probe structure thereof are provided. The probe structure includes a first contacting segment, a first connecting segment, a second connecting segment and a second contacting segment. The first contacting segment has an abutting portion and a first end portion connected to the abutting portion. The first connecting segment is connected to the first contacting segment. The second connecting segment is connected to the first connecting segment. The second contacting segment is connected to the second connecting segment and has a second end portion.
US10705116B2	Test socket of flexible semiconductor chip package and bending test method using the same A test socket of a flexible semiconductor chip package includes a first bending jig having a convex contour, a second bending jig having a concave contour, and a semiconductor chip package. The second bending jig is disposed to matingly engage the first bending jig. The semiconductor chip package is disposed between the first bending jig and the second bending jig, and includes a flexible tape and a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is disposed on a surface of the flexible tape. Each of the first and second bending jigs has a horizontal length longer than a length of the semiconductor chip and less than a length of the flexible tape.
US10705114B2	Metrological scanning probe microscope This invention relates to a metrological scanning probe microscope system combining an SPM which employs an optical lever arrangement to measure displacement of the probe indirectly with another SPM which measures the displacement of the probe directly through the use of an interferometric detection scheme.
US10705112B1	Noise rejection for optomechanical devices An optomechanical device comprising a circuit configured to generate an optical signal using a tuning signal and modulate the optical signal at a frequency corresponding to one quarter of a Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) of an optical resonance of the proof mass assembly to generate a partially modulated optical signal. The circuit being further configured to filter the partially modulated optical signal to remove a central carrier from the partially modulated optical signal to generate a filtered optical signal, modulate the filtered optical signal to generate a modulated optical signal driven to the mechanical resonance of the proof mass assembly, and generate the tuning signal using a difference between a DC intensity level of a first optical frequency component in the modulated optical signal and a DC intensity level of a second optical frequency component in the modulated optical signal.
US10705106B2	System and method for monitoring a state of a fluid in an indoor space as well as a climate control system A monitoring system for monitoring a state of a fluid in an indoor space including a state of a flow field for said fluid is presented. The system includes an input unit (81), a simulation unit (82), a comparison unit (83) and a state correction unit (84). The input unit (81) comprises a plurality of temperature sensors (81a, 81b, . . . , 81mT) to obtain temperature measurement data indicative for a temperature field in said indoor space. The simulation unit (82) is provided to simulate the fluid in said indoor space according to an indoor climate model to predict a state of the fluid including at least a temperature field and a flow field for the fluid in said indoor space, and has an output to provide a signal indicative for the flow field. The comparison unit (83) is provided to compare the predicted temperature field with the temperature measurement data, and the state correction unit (84) is provided to correct the predicted state of the fluid based on a comparison result of said comparison unit (83). The monitoring system may be part of a climate control system.
US10705104B2	Production-line-type high-throughput screening system The present invention provides a production-line-type high-throughput screening system, which relates to the field of biotechnology and testing equipment. The system comprises of four manipulators, three parallel conveyor belts with fixed slots, 2-DOF slipway and fixed fixtures, 96-channel pipetting system, coloring device, oscillating mixing device, microplate reader, well plates loading platform and well plates recycling platform. Manual operation takes five minutes to detect one 96-well plate, while this system can handle 20 96-well plates per minute. It expands the number of screening targets, making the screening process more clearly and concisely and liberating manual labor. The system makes effective contributions to the development of microbial breeding technology.
US10705101B2	Determination of the unbound free fatty acid profiles in biological and industrial specimens The invention relates to determination of the profile of unbound free fatty acids (FFAu) in biological samples, such as human and animal blood specimens and plant and animal oils, by measuring the fluorescence response of sets of different fluorescently labeled fatty acid binding proteins (probes) that undergo a change in fluorescence ratio at 2 wavelengths upon binding an FFAu. Use of these profiles in human and animal disease, in basic research, in drug development and in industrial uses is disclosed.
US10705098B2	Capillary network devices and methods of use Artificial microvascular network (AMVN) devices are provided and related methods of making and methods of using such devices are provided. The present disclosure generally relates to an AMVN device comprising a substrate including a capillary network configured so as to simulate those actually encountered in the circulation of various humans and animal model systems. In certain aspects, the AMVN devices may be used, e.g., to investigate the effect of storing RBCs under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. However, the use of such AMVN devices is not so limited.
US10705092B2	Modular, multifunctional nanoparticle-based bioconjugate for realtime visualization of cellular membrane potential A construct for detecting cellular membrane potential includes a nanoparticle operable as an electron donor; a modular peptide attached to the nanoparticle, the peptide comprising a nanoparticle association domain, a motif configured to mediate peptide insertion into the plasma membrane, and at least one attachment point for an electron acceptor positioned at a controlled distance from the nanoparticle; and an electron acceptor. The nanoparticle can be a quantum dot and the electron acceptor can be C60 fullerene. Emission correlates with cellular membrane potential.
US10705090B2	Automated method for sterile processing of cells by centrifugation and column chromatography The invention relates to a system, comprising: a) a sample processing unit, comprising an input port and an output port coupled to a rotating container having at least one sample chamber, the sample processing unit configured provide a first processing step to a sample or to rotate the container so as to apply a centrifugal force to a sample deposited in the chamber and separate at least a first component and a second component of the deposited sample; and b) a sample separation unit coupled to the output port of the sample processing unit, the cell separation unit comprising separation column holder (42), a pump (64) and a plurality of valves (1-11) configured to at least partially control fluid flow through a fluid circuitry and a separation column (40) positioned in the holder, the separation column configured to separate labeled and unlabeled components of sample flowed through the column.
US10705071B2	Medical instrument with shutter for sealing a test strip port A medical instrument/analyzer for measuring a biological sample using a test strip. The instrument comprises: a housing with an exterior surface, an internal surface, and an interior volume; an analytical unit within the interior volume with a test strip mount; a test strip port between the exterior and the interior surfaces; a shutter configured for sealing the test strip port when closed, wherein the shutter comprises a test strip support aligned with the test strip port and mount when the shutter is in the open position, wherein the shutter has a first sealing surface, the test strip port has a second sealing surface, and the first sealing and second sealing surfaces are configured to mate in the closed position, wherein the shutter comprises a mechanism for moving between the open and the closed position; and an actuator configured for moving the shutter between the open and closed position.
US10705065B2	Devices for use in detection and identification of trace and vapor amounts of substances Disclosed are substance detection and identification devices, and methods of using them for detection and identification of substances in ambient surroundings, on surfaces of objects, inside closed items or in fluids. A substance detection and identification device may comprise a housing, an opening in the housing for passage of sample material therethrough, a sensing unit located in the housing and an array of sensing elements configured and operable to interact with sample material in the vicinity thereof for detecting one or more specific substances and generating sensing data indicative thereof. A sample path defined in the housing between the opening and the sensing unit is used for facilitating flow of the sample material towards the sensing unit. A gas inlet assembly provided in the housing is configured for providing a predetermined supply of the sample material to the sensing elements in the sensors array, to thereby enable a predetermined time pattern of the sensing data from the array of sensing elements. A heating unit may be provided in the housing for heating the sensing elements.
US10705064B2	Micro sensor package Disclosed is a microsensor package. Particularly, disclosed is a microsensor package configured such that a substrate with a sensor electrode is formed with a plurality of pores penetrating vertically therethrough, the lower surface of the substrate is formed with a bonding portion, and the pores under the sensor electrode pad are provided therein with respective connecting portions electrically connecting the sensor electrode pad and the bonding portion, whereby it is possible to provide a light, slim, and compact microsensor package, and it is possible to mount the microsensor package to a printed circuit board (PCB) without wire bonding.
US10705063B2	Designs for enhanced reliability and calibration of landfill gas measurement and control devices An apparatus for sampling landfill gas from a landfill flowing through a pipe. The apparatus may comprise: an enclosure configured to receive a section of the pipe; a gas sampling port in the section of the pipe; at least one sensor device disposed in a region of the enclosure, the at least one sensor being coupled to the section of the pipe through the gas sampling port; and thermal insulation positioned to retain heat from the section of the pipe in the region of the enclosure. A method of operating a landfill gas recovery system. The method may comprise: flowing gas from a well riser pipe through a sampling subsystem to a collection system; and heating a portion of the sampling subsystem with the gas flowing from the well riser pipe to the collection system.
US10705057B2	Precious material analysis using vibration signature comparison A precious material analyzer may determine one or more characteristics of an unidentified precious material. A vibration injector may cause the unidentified precious material to vibrate with a vibration signature that is dependent on the one or more characteristics of the unidentified precious material. A vibration detector may detect and extract a vibration signature from the vibration of the unidentified precious material caused by the vibration injector. A vibration signature comparator may: compare the detected vibration signature of the unidentified precious material with vibration signatures of multiple identified precious materials having one or more identified characteristics; and flag one or more of the identified precious materials that have vibration signatures that are similar to the vibration signature of the unidentified precious material.
US10705048B2	Mass spectrometer When a normal mass spectrometry is performed without dissociating an ion, the m/z range limitation voltage setting unit applies a radio-frequency voltage to each rod electrode of the quadrupole mass filter and controls the quadrupole voltage generator so as to apply a direct current voltage smaller than that at the time of ion selection for MS/MS spectrometry. When a small direct current voltage is applied, a mass scanning line is set so as to pass through a stability region on a Mathieu diagram over a long range, hence large m/z ions that do not fall within the stability region are blocked in the quadrupole mass filter. By adjusting a cut-off point on larger m/z side blocked in accordance with the measurement period of OA-TOFMS including the orthogonal accelerator, heavy ions that cause period delay are prevented from being introduced into the orthogonal accelerator.
US10705045B2	Gas sensor element and method for producing gas sensor element A gas sensor element including a lead portion (79a) formed on a lower surface of an insulating member (76) and extending through a through hole (176) to an upper surface thereof, and a lead portion (79b) extending from the upper surface of the insulating member (76) through the through hole (176) to the lower surface of the insulating member (76) so as to cover the lead portion (79a) along the inner circumferential wall and a portion of the lower surface around the through hole. The lead portion (79a) has a section exposed to a space (230) on the lower surface side of the insulating member (76). The lead portion (79b) is disposed so as to face the insulating member (76) with the space (230) therebetween. The lead portion (79a) communicates with the outside through the space (230). Also disclosed is a method for producing the gas sensor element.
US10705036B2	Method and system for analysis of objects A spectroscopy method and system, the method comprising irradiating an object with a laser-accelerated particle beam and detecting photons emitted by the object as a result of the interaction between the laser-accelerated particle beam and the object. The system comprises a laser; a particle source, positioned at a distance from the object; and a spectrometer and a detector; wherein the particle source generates a laser-accelerated particle beam under irradiation by the laser; and the spectrometer and the detector detect photons emitted from the object under irradiation by the laser-accelerated particle beam.
US10705035B2	Analysis of layered samples with XRF A method of making X-ray fluorescence, XRF, measurements of a layered sample is described. At least two measurements are made, one through one surface of the sample and another through the opposite surface. This may be conveniently done by inverting the sample between the measurements. The data from the additional measurements may be used to calculate multiple parameters of the sample, such as the concentration, density or thickness of each of the layers.
US10705024B2	System and method for positive metal identification and intelligent consumable identification Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods of predicted a welding property for a given welding operation using at least one electrode. Embodiments determine a predicted weld deposit property and compare the predicted property to a desired property to determine whether or not a selected electrode for the given welding operation can achieve the desired weld deposit.
US10705013B2	Adhesive testing systems and methods A system for testing adhesive is disclosed, comprising a pull testing machine and a rigid spine. The rigid spine has a face extending along a longitudinal axis between a first and second projection, and one of the projections is moveable relative to the other. The face is configured to support a substrate, with a flexible media adhered to the substrate. The rigid spine also has a coupler configured to connect the spine to the pull testing machine.
US10705008B2	Autofocus systems and methods for particle analysis in blood samples Particles such as blood cells can be categorized and counted by a digital image processor. A digital microscope camera can be directed into a flowcell defining a symmetrically narrowing flowpath in which the sample stream flows in a ribbon flattened by flow and viscosity parameters between layers of sheath fluid. A contrast pattern for autofocusing is provided on the flowcell, for example at an edge of a rear illumination opening. The image processor assesses focus accuracy from pixel data contrast. A positioning motor moves the microscope and/or flowcell along the optical axis for autofocusing on the contrast pattern target. The processor then displaces microscope and flowcell by a known distance between the contrast pattern and the sample stream, thus focusing on the sample stream. Blood cell images are collected from that position until autofocus is reinitiated, periodically, by input signal, or when detecting temperature changes or focus inaccuracy in the image data.
US10705005B2	Unit for validating in situ decontamination effect and device for filtering biologically contaminated air to which the unit is applied The present invention discloses a unit for validating an in situ decontamination effect, including a connecting end. A left end of the connecting end is in communication with any space that needs gas decontamination. A right end of the connecting end is connected to a closed isolation damper. A right end of the closed isolation damper is connected to a hollow decontamination validation chamber. A sealing cover is sleeved over an outer wall of the decontamination validation chamber. A mesh cup is placed inside the decontamination validation chamber, and the mesh cup is used for placing a bioindicator. In addition, the present invention further discloses a device for filtering biologically contaminated air, including a unit for validating an in situ decontamination effect and a hollow box installed with a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter. The unit for validating an in situ decontamination effect is in communication with the hollow box. In the present invention, an actual decontamination effect of the HEPA filter after gas decontamination can be validated reliably in time, thereby effectively preventing pathogenic microorganisms that exist on the surface of the HEPA filter from spreading to the external environment, avoiding polluting the external environment, and ensuring personal safety.
US10705000B2	Tool-life determination device A tool-life determination device includes: a test-workpiece supporter having a cutting tool attached thereto, rotating the cutting tool, and supporting a test workpiece disposed in a processable range of the cutting tool of a working machine that performs a process while changing a relative position between the cutting tool and a workpiece; a load sensor disposed between the test-workpiece supporter and a base of the working machine fixed to an installation surface and detecting a load applied to the test workpiece; a storage unit storing a load pattern acting on the test workpiece and detected by the load sensor when the test workpiece is processed using a new cutting tool; and a determination unit determining an abrasion status of the cutting tool by comparing the load pattern with the load acting on the test workpiece at an appropriate timing during an actual process performed on the workpiece.
US10704998B2	Rock mechanics response test system for simulated complex deep earth environment The invention belongs to the field of rock mechanics test of engineering rock masses and is intended to address the safety and alignment challenges of a rock mechanics test response system for existing simulated complex deep earth environment. A rock mechanics test response system for a simulated complex deep earth environment includes a bearing system for rock mechanics tests in simulated deep earth environment and an MTS triaxial sensor aligning and mounting device arranged on the bearing system for rock mechanics tests in simulated deep earth environment. The invention improves installation and dismounting efficiency of an MTS triaxial force sensor, enhances reliability of lifting and solves the problem of aligning holes during installation of the force sensor, thus improving the installation efficiency.
US10704997B2	Method for evaluating properties of plastic resin product The present invention relates to a method for evaluating the properties of a plastic resin molded product, more specifically to a novel method for evaluating the properties of a plastic resin molded product that can exactly derive impact resistance of practically prepared molded products, using the property measurement values by the existing ASTM.
US10704995B2	Capture probe A system for sampling a sample material includes a device for directing sample into a capture probe. A probe includes an outer probe housing having an open end. A liquid supply conduit has an outlet positioned to deliver liquid to the open end. An exhaust conduit removes liquid from the open end of the housing. The liquid supply conduit can be connectable to a liquid supply for delivering liquid at a first volumetric flow rate to the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust system can be in fluid connection with the liquid exhaust conduit for removing liquid from the liquid exhaust conduit at a second volumetric flow rate, which exceeds the first volumetric flow rate such that gas with sample is withdrawn with the liquid.
US10704983B1	Server This disclosure relates to a server includes a chassis, a processor, a liquid cooling tube and a liquid leak detection system. The processor is disposed in the chassis. The liquid cooling tube is disposed on the processor. The liquid leak detection system includes a circuit board and a first detecting wire. The circuit board is disposed in the chassis. The first detecting wire is disposed on a side of the liquid cooling tube and electrically connected to the circuit board.
US10704975B2	Visual torque indication for threaded joints A threaded element for a mechanical joint includes a body including threads and a visual torque indicator disposed on the body, the torque indicator including a strain-responsive material configured to change visual appearance in response to the application of a strain of a predetermined first magnitude thereto.
US10704970B1	Strain sensor systems A strain sensor system emits coarse interrogation signals of different frequencies during a coarse scan while an RF resonant sensor and/or an RF interrogator moves relative to the other. The sensor emits responsive RF signals within a frequency range of a frequency of interest of the sensor. The controller identifies the frequency of interest based on receipt of the responsive signals. The interrogator emits fine interrogation signals of different frequencies during a fine scan subsequent to the coarse scan. The fine signals are emitted at frequencies within a frequency band on both sides of the frequency of interest. The sensor emits responsive RF signals and the controller identifies a center frequency of the RF resonant sensor based on receipt of the responsive signals.
US10704967B2	Pressure sensor In a pressure sensor, a pressure-sensitive layer faces a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern with a space interposed therebetween. The first electrode pattern includes a plurality of first electrode sections, a first interconnecting section that interconnects the plurality of first electrode sections, and a first wiring section that extends from a first end of the first interconnecting section. The second electrode pattern includes a plurality of second electrode sections disposed alternately with the first electrode sections, a second interconnecting section that interconnects the plurality of second electrode sections, and a second wiring section that extends from a second end of the second interconnecting section. The second wiring section extends such that the resistance of the conduction path between an output terminal of the first wiring section and an output terminal of the second wiring section is substantially the same for any adjacent pairs of the first electrode sections and the second electrode sections when the first electrode section and the second electrode section conduct with each other via the pressure-sensitive layer.
US10704964B2	Temperature measurement device, temperature measurement method, and computer-readable non-transitory medium A temperature measurement device includes: a detector to detect a first Stokes component and a first anti-Stokes component when a light is input into a first end of an optical fiber and detect a second Stokes component and a second anti-Stokes component when a light is input into a second end; and a processor configured to execute a process comprising: replacing the second anti-Stokes component with a value according to the first Stokes component, the first anti-Stokes component and the second Stokes component when any one of correlations of the second anti-Stokes component to the first Stokes component and the first anti-Stokes component is less than or equal to a threshold value; and measuring a temperature at the sample point by using the first Stokes component, the first anti-Stokes component, the second Stokes component, and the second anti-Stokes component that is replaced in the replacing.
US10704960B2	Low-power user interface device for environmental monitoring system Embodiments of an environmental monitoring system that mitigates complexities in installation and maintenance while complying with strict regulations on operations of the system. The environmental monitoring system may communicate wirelessly between components such as sensor units and display devices, enabling these components to be separately and easily installed in an environment without needing to install wires in the environment to connect them. In addition, in embodiments at least some of the components (e.g., sensor units and display devices) of the environmental monitoring system may be adapted to wirelessly and reliably communicate using specific wireless communication protocols, described in detail herein, that exchange few communications between the components and thereby decrease power consumption of these components. Further, in some embodiments, a display device may include hardware and/or execute software that drive and/or update a display only when a condition is met.
US10704954B2	Low-cost spectrometry system for end-user food analysis A compact spectrometer is disclosed that is suitable for use in mobile devices such as cellular telephones. In preferred embodiments, the spectrometer comprises a filter, at least one Fourier transform focusing element, a micro-lens array, and a detector, but does not use any dispersive elements. Methods for using the spectrometer as an end-user device for performing on-site determinations of food quality, in particular, by comparison with an updatable database accessible by all users of the device, are also disclosed.
US10704949B2	Fluid level sensing utilizing ring-time signatures of a transducer A level measurement system including a tank, a transducer, and a controller. The tank is configured to contain a liquid. The transducer is configured to output an ultrasonic signal into the tank. The controller has a memory and electronic processor. The controller is electrically coupled to the transducer and is configured to determine a ring time of the transducer, and determine a level of the liquid contained within the tank based on the ring time of the transducer.
US10704947B2	Airflow management device including a slanted passage and a branching passage between two plates supported by pillars An air flow measurement device includes a first channel plate, a second channel plate facing the first channel plate, a pillar fixing the second channel plate with respect to the first channel plate so as to form a space of a given size between the first channel plate and the second channel plate, a slanted channel formed in the space which is configured to become narrower toward a center portion of the air flow measurement device, a branching passage arranged in the center portion which communicates with the slanted channel, a projection provided in the branching passage so as to partly narrow the branching passage, and an air flow sensor provided in the space. The air flow sensor is arranged at a position higher than a junction between the branching passage and the slanted channel.
US10704946B2	Apparatus to confirm correct meter sizing A meter register of the type having a sealed register body, and a member adapted to measure liquid flow through the meter and an antenna mounted within the register body is improved by providing a microprocessor adapted to have a calculated water meter maximum flow rate and a minimum flow rate defined as the meter flow rate range. The member co-acts with the microprocessor to determine flow rate, and the microprocessor is adapted to forward a signal to the antenna when the flow rate of the meter is outside, or within, the meter flow rate range, and the antenna transmits the signal to the water utility that the meter is not properly sized, or is properly sized, respectively.
US10704943B2	Mass flow meter according to the coriolis principle and method for determining a mass flow The present disclosure relates to a Coriolis mass flow meter including: a measuring tube; an one exciter for generating vibrations in the measuring tube; two sensors for detecting the vibrations in the measuring tube and for outputting associated sensor signals; and an operating and evaluating unit for determining a mass flow value of a medium in the measuring tube based on a phase difference or time difference between the sensor signals, wherein for Reynolds numbers below a Reynolds number threshold a cross-sensitivity to a viscosity of the medium correlates with a Stokes number, wherein the operating and evaluating unit is configured to determine a current value of the Stokes number for Reynolds numbers below the lower Reynolds number threshold and to compensate for the influence of the cross-sensitivity in the determining of the mass flow.
US10704942B2	Flow rate measurement device Flow rate measurement device includes flow rate measurement unit that measures a flow rate of gas at a prescribed time interval, and arithmetic unit that calculates a characteristic flow rate from the flow rates measured within a predetermined period, and calculates a ratio of each flow rate measured at multiple times within the predetermined period with respect to the characteristic flow rate. In addition, flow rate measurement device includes appliance characteristic extraction unit that extracts an appliance characteristic quantity which indicates a characteristic of a flow rate change in currently using gas appliances within the predetermined period, the appliance characteristic quantity being the ratio or information obtained from the ratio, and appliance inherent characteristic information holding unit that holds an appliance inherent characteristic quantity indicating a characteristic flow rate state of a specific gas appliance. Furthermore, flow rate measurement device includes appliance discrimination unit that discriminates the currently using gas appliance by comparing the appliance characteristic quantity with the appliance inherent characteristic quantity.
US10704936B2	Flow rate characteristic function identification method, flow rate characteristic function identification device, storage medium storing flow rate characteristic function identification program, and flow rate sensor or flow rate control device using them To provide a flow rate characteristic function identification method, flow rate sensor, and flow rate characteristic function identification program that can set a flow rate characteristic function reflecting not only the type or shape of a fluid resistance but also the effects of states such as an attachment state of the fluid resistance, and calculate a flow rate with higher accuracy. An actual flow rate characteristic function, which is a flow rate characteristic function when an actual fluid resistance is provided in a flow path, is identified on the basis of multiple flow rate characteristic functions including a first reference flow rate characteristic function and a second reference flow rate characteristic function, and predetermined weighting.
US10704931B2	Optical detecting device capable of determining shift of a multi-axis instruction outputting mechanism An optical detecting device includes a multi-axis instruction outputting mechanism and an optical detecting module, and shift of the multi-axis instruction outputting mechanism is determined accordingly. An actuating component of the multi-axis instruction outputting mechanism is moved in reciprocation at a first operating direction to output an instruction. The optical detecting module is detachably disposed to the actuating component. An interval between the optical detecting module and the actuating component is varied according to a relative movement between the optical detecting module and the actuating component at a second operating direction, and the actuating component can be shifted between different gears. The optical detecting module determines the interval and gearshift according to variation of a reflecting signal actuated by the actuating component, and utilizes the reflecting signal to acquire a movement of a feature point detachably disposed on the actuating component along the first operating direction to interpret the instruction.
US10704923B2	Method, metering equipment, user device, and system for providing of metering information A method, metering equipment, a user device, and a system provide metering information. In particular, the method for providing metering information of the metering equipment, includes detecting a communication request input at the metering equipment, activating a communication interface of the metering equipment responsive to the detected communication request input, receiving instruction information via the activated communication interface, and providing via the activated communication interface the metering information responsive to the received instruction information. The communication interface is deactivated at the latest after a time period since the activating of the communication interface.
US10704920B2	Traffic lane guidance system for vehicle and traffic lane guidance method for vehicle A lane guidance system for a vehicle for guiding a vehicle to a recommended lane in which the vehicle is recommended to run out of traffic lanes included in a route from a first point to a second point through the use of an output unit mounted on the vehicle includes: a calculating unit that calculates a predicted value of an occurrence probability of sudden lane change as information indicating the occurrence probability of sudden lane change when the vehicle runs in sections corresponding to a plurality of links; a setting unit that sets the recommended lane on the basis of the predicted value; and a generating unit that generates guidance information for the recommended lane and that outputs the guidance information to the output unit.
US10704912B2	Route guidance service apparatus A route guidance service apparatus includes: a checking unit configured to check a particular floor in a destination building based on a destination keyword; a calculation unit configured to calculate an output level of the particular floor based on building information related to the destination building so as to distinguish the particular floor from other floors; and a control unit configured to perform a control operation such that floor information related to the particular floor is separately arranged at a position adjacent to the destination building when the particular layer is selected.
US10704909B2	MEMS rotation rate sensor including combined driving and detection A rotation rate sensor including a substrate having a principal plane of extension, and a structure movable with respect to the substrate; the structure being excitable from a neutral position into an oscillation having a movement component substantially parallel to a driving direction, which is substantially parallel to the principal plane of extension. To induce the oscillation, the rotation rate sensor includes a comb electrode moved along with the structure and a comb electrode fixed in position relative to the substrate. The excitation is produced by applying a voltage to the moving comb electrode and/or to the stationary comb electrode. Due to a rotation rate of the rotation rate sensor about an axis running substantially perpendicularly to the driving direction and substantially perpendicularly to the detection direction, a force applied to the structure with a force component along a detection direction substantially perpendicular to the driving direction is detectable.
US10704901B2	Measuring wall thickness loss for a structure Systems, methods and computer storage mediums accurately measure wall thickness in a region of interest included in complex curved structures. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating a wall thickness loss distribution map of a region of interest that provides an accurate representation of wall thickness for the region of interest included in a complex curved structure. The wall thickness loss distribution map is generated from a two-dimensional model of the wall thickness loss distribution of the region of interest. The two-dimensional model is converted from a three-dimensional representation of the wall thickness loss distribution of the region of interest. The three-dimensional representation of the wall thickness is generated by ultrasonic waves generated by a transducer system that propagated through the region of interest.
US10704895B2	Apparatus and method for remote optical caliper measurement An apparatus and method for performing optical caliper measurements remotely, including an unmanned aerial vehicle, a camera attached to the unmanned aerial vehicle, and an optical caliper measurement tool attached to the unmanned aerial vehicle, where the optical caliper measurement tool includes a mount, a laser source attached to the mount, and a beam splitter attached to the mount, where the laser source is configured to direct a laser beam through the beam splitter to split the laser beam into two parallel laser beams separated by a fixed distance.
US10704894B2	Laser sensor and manufacturing method for exterior component Provided is a laser sensor including an optical window with high accuracy and having excellent dustproof and waterproof properties. The laser sensor includes: a light projector; a light receiver to detect reflection light from a detection object to which laser light is emitted from the light projector; and an exterior component covering the light projector and the light receiver, in which the exterior component includes an optical window that transmits the laser light and the reflection light, and a holder that surrounds an outer periphery of the optical window, the optical window and the holder are formed as an integrally-molded product made of a resin having transmittivity in a wavelength band of the laser light, the optical window includes a pair of curved optical surfaces facing each other, and the holder includes: a gate part at a position relatively distant from the optical window; and a light shielding part that is at least adjacent to the optical window and shields the laser light L1 and ambient light.
US10704891B2	Method and apparatus for determining the 3D coordinates of an object A 3D sensor for an apparatus for determining the 3D coordinates of an object comprises in accordance with the invention at least one camera and at least three plane projectors.
US10704882B2	Multifunction straight edge guide A multifunction straight edge guide having a handle and a straight edge. The handle has a plurality of perimeter surfaces and the straight edge has a mating edge to mate with one of the perimeter surfaces to interconnect the handle and the straight edge. The handle has three sections, two outer sections and a central support ledge. The outer sections define sidewalls which are generally perpendicular to the support ledge so that the straight edge guide can be used with either the left or right hand by turning the straight edge guide over. Each of the plurality of perimeter surfaces are angled with respect to the sidewalls.
US10704874B2	Projectile, and system and method for steering a projectile A projectile is disclosed, having: a longitudinal axis, a steering assembly, a shell body, an attitude control system, a despin module, an electromagnetic receiver and/or emitter system, and a controller. The attitude control system includes a ram air inlet in selective open fluid communication with an exhaust assembly, which includes a plurality of exhaust outlets to selectively generate each of a plurality of thrust jets from a ram air inflow provided by the ram air inlet, each thrust jet being selectively controllable via the controller. The despin module is configured for selectively de-spinning the steering assembly with respect to the shell body about the longitudinal axis. The electromagnetic receiver and/or emitter system is configured for receiving and/or emitting electromagnetic energy, and for cooperating with the controller for operating the exhaust assembly to thereby selectively provide steering control moments. Systems and methods for steering the projectile are also disclosed.
US10704872B1	Polymer ammunition and cartridge having a convex primer insert The present invention provides a primer insert for a polymer ammunition cartridge comprising: a top surface; a bottom surface opposite the top surface; a coupling element that extends from the bottom surface, wherein the coupling element comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein the interior surface comprises: a convex transition region that transitions from the bottom surface to a second segment wherein the transition region has an overall convex shape; a first segment extending from the second segment and terminates at a tip, wherein the first segment has a first segment distance from 0.06 to 0.14 inches and the second segment has a second segment distance from 0.05 to 0.15 inches, wherein the second segment has a second segment angle from +3 to −3 degrees relative to the first segment angle and the first segment has a first segment angle from +6 to −6 degrees from perpendicular to the top surface; a primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface; a primer flash aperture positioned in the primer recess through the bottom surface; and a flash aperture groove in the primer recess and positioned around the primer flash aperture and adapted to receive a polymer overmolding through the primer flash aperture.
US10704871B2	Multi-piece polymer ammunition cartridge The present invention provides polymeric ammunition cartridge having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, an outer shoulder surface that extends from the generally cylindrical neck, an outer shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder surface on the inside of the polymer nose opposite the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, a skirt surface extending from the inner shoulder surface, a skirt angle defined by the skirt surface and a nose junction that extends from the outer shoulder surface to the skirt surface, wherein the nose junction is adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.
US10704870B2	Multi-piece polymer ammunition cartridge The present invention provides polymeric ammunition having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, an outer shoulder surface that extends from the generally cylindrical neck, an outer shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder surface on the inside of the polymer nose opposite the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, a skirt surface extending from the inner shoulder surface, a skirt angle defined by the skirt surface, and a nose junction that extends from the outer shoulder surface to the skirt surface, wherein the nose junction is adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.
US10704857B2	Archery bow with load balancing limb support In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser and a load balancing limb support assembly supported by the riser. The load balancing limb support assembly comprises a body comprising a first support portion and a second support portion. A limb assembly comprises a first limb portion and a second limb portion. The first limb portion is supported by the first support portion and the second limb portion is supported by the second support portion.
US10704853B2	Trigger assemblies for firearms Trigger assemblies are provided for restraining a firing pin of a firearm on a selective basis. The triggers assemblies include a first and a second lever mounted for rotation within a housing. The first lever is configured to be rotated by the user, and rotation of the first lever imparts rotation to the second lever to initiate the discharge of the firearm. The trigger assemblies also include a safety mechanism having a safety lever that is movable between a first and a second angular position. The safety lever is configured to prevent movement of the first and second levers when the safety lever is in its first angular position, thereby preventing discharge of the firearm.
US10704847B2	Rotating heat exchanger/bypass combo A system is provided. The system includes at least two heat exchangers that are alternatively cooled by an outlet medium. The system also includes a cooling circuit that provides a cooling medium to the at least two heat exchangers. The cooling circuit provides the cooling medium to a first heat exchanger of the at least two heat exchangers in accordance with a first mode. The cooling circuit provide the cooling medium to a second heat exchanger of the at least two heat exchangers in accordance with a second mode.
US10704838B2	Loop heat pipe A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator that vaporizes working fluid; a condenser that condenses the working fluid; a liquid line that connects the evaporator and the condenser; a vapor line that connects the evaporator and the condenser to form a loop with the liquid line; and a porous body provided in the liquid line, and including a first metal layer that includes a first bottomed hole that is concaved from one surface of the first metal layer, and a second bottomed hole that is concaved from another surface of the first metal layer, the other surface being opposite of the one surface, the first bottomed hole and the second bottomed hole partially communicating with each other to form a pore.
US10704827B2	Systems and methods for testing electrical connectors An electrical connector testing system can include a first connector end and a controller coupled to first connector end. The system can also include an electrical load coupled to the first connector end, where the electrical load includes an electrical cable and a second connector end coupled to an end of the electrical cable. The controller can determine whether an adverse electrical condition exists with respect to the electrical load before allowing power to flow between the first connector end and the second connector end.
US10704825B2	U-shaped tuck shelf A refrigerator cabinet including a first shelf defining a U-shape, wherein the U-shape is off-center so that a first side of the U-shape is wider than the an opposite, second side of the U-shape, a second U-shaped shelf having left, right and back portions located in a horizontal fashion above the first shelf, and a mounting structure for supporting the first and second U-shaped shelves.
US10704821B2	Methods, apparatuses, and systems for cooling Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and systems for cooling. Embodiments include a cooling system comprising a mobile container, conveyor system, and sensor feedback system. Container includes at least a first, second, and third section. First section holds at least one pallet containing produce. Second section includes a cooling mechanism to cool the produce within the at least one pallet to an optimal temperature. Third section includes the cooling mechanism to maintain the cooled produce in the at least one pallet at the optimal temperature. Conveyor system may be used to convey the at least one pallet across the cooling system. Sensor feedback system is configured to continuously measure and track at least the weight of the at least one pallet and temperature of the produce within the at least one pallet as the at least one pallet is conveyed across the cooling system.
US10704819B2	Powdered ice maker The present invention relates to a powdered ice maker comprising: an ice-making part provided in a cylinder shape of which the inside is empty; a rotary shaft rotating around the central axis of the ice-making part; a water spraying part provided at the rotary shaft so as to spray water at an inner wall of the ice-making part while rotating; a cutter part provided at the rotary shaft so as to cut the ice formed on the inner wall of the ice-making part while rotating; a water tray rotating at the same angular velocity as that of the rotary shaft, and provided at a lower side of the water spraying part; and an ice tray provided at a lower side of the cutter part.
US10704808B2	Ultra-low temperature freezer An ultra-low temperature freezer includes: an insulated case defining a storage compartment having an opening in an upper face; an insulated door capable of opening and closing the opening; a first refrigeration unit configured such that a first compressor, a first condenser, and a first decompressor are mounted on a first mounting board; a second refrigeration unit configured such that a second compressor, a second condenser, and a second decompressor are mounted on a second mounting board; a machinery compartment provided near the insulated case, and configured to house the first and second refrigeration units to be independently drawable in the horizontal direction; and a control unit, where a control circuit is mounted, configured to be drawable independently of the first and second refrigeration units, the first and second refrigeration units and the control unit being housed in the machinery compartment to be stacked in a vertical direction.
US10704803B2	Infrared water heater Water heaters are disclosed having first and second fluid conduits, where the second fluid conduit is fluidly coupled to and disposed about at least a portion of the first conduit. One or more heating device, and preferably an infrared light source, can be disposed between the first and second conduits, such that water flowing within the conduits can be heated by the heating device.
US10704798B2	Environmental monitoring system An fluid monitoring system can include a filter having an upstream face and a downstream face and defining a form factor, a sensor package arranged within the form factor of the filter to detect at least one quality factor of a surrounding medium, a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package and including an antenna for autonomous wireless transmission of the detected fluid quality information, and a power subsystem coupled to the sensor package and the transmitter to provide access to continuous electrical power thereto.
US10704796B2	HVAC system with timeseries dimensional mismatch handling A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes a plurality of actuation devices, a plurality of sensors, and a controller. The actuation devices receive actuation signals and operate in accordance with the actuation signals to affect one or more variables in the building. The sensors measure the variables affected by the actuation devices and provide sensor response signals including values of the measured variables. The controller generates actuation signal timeseries including samples of the actuation signals and sensor response timeseries including samples of the sensor response signals. The controller applies a discrete cosine transformation (DCT) to each actuation signal timeseries and each sensor response timeseries. Each DCT generates a set of DCT coefficients. The controller identifies a similarity between two or more of the actuation signal timeseries and the sensor response timeseries by comparing the DCT coefficients resulting from the DCTs.
US10704795B2	Bathroom management system The present disclosure relates to a bathroom management system for heating, sterilizing or deodorizing the inside of a bathroom according to the state of the inside or outside of bathroom. The bathroom managing system includes: a ventilation unit disposed in a bathroom to exhaust air inside the bathroom to the outside; a bathroom managing apparatus disposed inside the bathroom and heat, sterilize to deodorize the inside of bathroom; and a switch disposed outside the bathroom to control the ventilation unit and communicate with the bathroom managing apparatus.
US10704794B2	Apparatus and method for passively cooling an interior A system passively cools, regulates humidity and/or rectifies diffusive transport of water vapor in an interior area within a structure. The system includes a membrane assembly covering a portion of the structure, wherein the membrane has an interior side facing the interior area and an exterior side. The membrane assembly defines a plurality of pores. When cooling, a supply of fluid is provided to the membrane assembly so that capillary action of the pores redistributes the fluid to create evaporation and, in turn, the desired heat flow. The membrane assembly can include an architectural membrane coated with a porous matrix coating to form the pores. A pump can provide the fluid to the interior side of the membrane assembly. Preferably, the architectural membrane is woven PTFE-coated fiberglass and the porous matrix coating is titanium dioxide, zeolites and/or silica gel.
US10704793B2	Cabin air desiccant dehumidifier A blower case for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The blower case includes an inlet for airflow entering the blower case. Also included is a dehumidifier, which is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the dehumidifier is in a path of airflow entering the blower case through the inlet. In the second position the dehumidifier is not in the path of airflow entering the blower case through the inlet.
US10704790B2	Moveable air conditioner A movable air conditioner includes an air conditioner main body, an air conditioning unit installed in the air conditioner main body and configured to generate a cold air or a warm air, a control unit configured to control the air conditioning unit, and an attachment/detachment unit configured to detachably attach the air conditioning unit to the air conditioner main body so that the air conditioning unit can be optionally detached from the air conditioner main body and used independently.
US10704785B2	Method and device for flame signal detection The invention proposes a method for the flame signal detection by means of an ionization electrode (15) protruding into a combustion zone of a burner, comprising the steps: detecting a first signal, which is dependent on an ionization current flowing off the ionization electrode (15), generating a second signal which has a predetermined periodic course, generating a third signal by adding the first signal and the second signal, comparing the third signal with a first threshold value and generating a fourth signal on the basis of the comparison of the third signal with the first threshold value, comparing the third signal with a second threshold value different from the first threshold value and generating a fourth signal on the basis of the comparison of the third signal with the second threshold value, and determining an operating variable of the burner on the basis of at least one of the fourth signal and the fifth signal. The invention additionally proposes a corresponding device for the flame signal detection.
US10704783B2	High temperature fluid generator A high temperature fluid generator is configured to heat a fluid (e.g. water; thermal oil or the like) to a high temperature (e.g. greater than 250 degrees Fahrenheit or 120 degrees Celsius) using a fuel-burning furnace. The generator generally comprises a furnace module, wherein fuel is burned, and a convection module where the combustion gases are put in contact with a series of fluid-bearing convection tubes. The furnace module comprises a series of fluidly interconnected headers, some of which are also fluidly connected to the convection tubes in the convection modules. The various headers contribute to the overall structure of the generator. The convection tubes are arranged into at least two bundles which are movably mounted in the convection module of the generator such to be movable in and out of the convection module for inspection, cleaning, maintenance and/or repair.
US10704782B2	Container illumination device An illumination device includes a sleeve, a securing member, and a light source. The sleeve defines a cavity and includes an open upper end communicating with the cavity and a lower end. The open upper end and the cavity are dimensioned to receive a fluid container. The securing member is supported on the sleeve and is adapted to secure the sleeve tightly about fluid containers having different diameters. The light source includes a light bulb and a power source and is supported on the sleeve in a position to direct light into the cavity.
US10704780B1	Water solar lamp A water solar lamp comprises a light transmissive casing, a solar panel, a power processing unit, and a plurality of light emitting components. The light transmissive casing comprises an upper cover, a base assembled with the upper cover, and an installation space defined by the upper cover and the base. The base is set as a water-facing side, the base comprises a ring groove for temporarily storing gas when the light transmissive casing is disposed on water, and the ring groove divides the base into an inner ring region and an outer ring region. The solar panel is disposed on the upper cover, and the power processing unit is disposed in the installation space and connected to the solar panel. The plurality of light emitting components are disposed in the installation space, and the plurality of light emitting components receive power provided by the power processing unit to emit light.
US10704772B2	Lamp with charger A table or floor lamp has a base, for supporting an electronic device such as a wireless speaker assembly or inductive charging plate, that defines a cavity into which all or at least a substantial portion of the power chord of the electronic device is concealed. The lamp includes and power chord for plugging into a source of power and the base includes an electrical outlet for receiving a plug of a power chord of a wireless electronic device such as a speaker assembly or inductive charging pad. The base may include a pedestal on which the electronic device sits with a post beneath the pedestal around which the cord of the electronic device is wrapped and a gap between the outer periphery of the pedestal and the top of the base through which the cord is wrapped. The base may include an inductive charger for charging a mobile device.
US10704736B2	LNG boiloff gas recondensation configurations and methods Systems and methods for optimizing the recondensation of boiloff gas in liquid natural gas storage tanks are presented. In especially preferred aspects of the inventive subject matter, BOG from a storage tank is condensed using refrigeration content of a portion of LNG sendout in a direct or indirect manner, and the BOG condensate and LNG sendout portion are combined to form a subcooled stream that is then combined with the balance of the LNG sendout, to be fed to a high pressure pump. Contemplated recondensation operations advantageously occur without using otherwise needed large volume recondensers. Moreover, the condensing and subcooling operations are decoupled from the LNG sendout rate.
US10704733B2	Pump provided with a reservoir of a lubricant A pump with a reservoir of a lubricant, including a hollow body in which a piston, loaded by a pressing element, sealingly slides, at least a port for loading the lubricant in a compartment defined by the inner wall of the hollow body and by the piston, and at least a valve for exhausting air trapped in the compartment together with the lubricant during a loading step.
US10704701B1	Vacuum electrically controlled proportional valve A vacuum electrically controlled proportional valve includes a valve seat coupled to a guide seat. The guide seat is connected, at a top thereof, to a vacuum pressure electromagnetic valve, an atmospheric pressure electromagnetic valve, and a sensor. A main diaphragm is sandwich between the seat valve and the guide seat to define a vacuum pressure chamber. A pilot discharge straight rod that is provided with a vacuum valve gate assembly is fit to a center of the main diaphragm. A master channel through which a primary-side pressure and a secondary-side pressure flow is provided. A regulation channel is provided and controlled by the vacuum pressure electromagnetic valve and the atmospheric pressure electromagnetic valve. A pilot atmosphere channel is connected to a space under the main diaphragm. A first and a second vacuum destruction valve gates are provided for adjusting, in stage-wise manner, the level of vacuum pressure.
US10704697B2	Bypass valve for expansion machine The invention relates to a bypass valve (1), in particular for an expansion machine (104) of a waste heat recovery system (100). The bypass valve (1) has a housing (2) with a valve chamber (9) formed therein. An inlet (3), an expander outlet (4) and a bypass outlet (5) are formed in the housing (2), which feed into the valve chamber (9). A closing element (6) is moveably arranged in the valve chamber (9). A valve seat (11) is formed on the housing (2). The closing element (6) cooperates with the valve seat (11) in order to open and close a first hydraulic connection from the inlet (3) to the expander outlet (4). A control valve (8) opens and closes a second hydraulic connection from the inlet (3) to the bypass outlet (5). The control valve (8) forms a first throttle point (21) in an open position. A second throttle point (22) is arranged between the valve chamber (9) and the bypass outlet (5). The control valve (8), the second throttle point (22) and the closing element (6) border a control chamber (9a). The first throttle point (21) has a greater flow cross-section than the second throttle point (22).
US10704694B2	Rotary valve having a sliding seal A rotary valve comprising a housing with a valve chamber, wherein the valve chamber has at least one inlet and at least one outlet, wherein the inlet and/or the outlet are at least partially closable, as required, by a valve body which is rotatable about an axis and is arranged in the valve chamber, wherein, on that side of the housing facing the valve body, the inlet and/or the outlet is enclosed by a sliding seal, and wherein the sliding seal bears sealingly, under elastic preload, against that surface of the valve body facing the housing.
US10704692B1	Flooded metallic bearing isolator A bearing isolator capable of operating under flooded conditions is disclosed. The bearing isolator can include a stator, a rotor, a unitizing element and a sealing element, the stator and rotor form a cavity in which the unitizing element is disposed, and features of the unitizing element with features of the stator and rotor to ensure the stator and rotor stay together while still maintaining a gap between the two components to avoid metal on metal contact. The sealing element resides against a surface of the stator and includes a radially-inward extending lip seal that rides against a running surface of the rotor for improved sealing.
US10704690B2	Piston ring A piston ring may have a base with a sliding external surface, an internal surface, an upper surface, and a lower surface, the external surface having chamfered edges. The external surface, the internal surface, the upper surface, the lower surface, and the chamfered edges may have a coating provided with a nitrided first layer having a thickness of up to 2% of a nominal axial thickness of the ring when applied to the upper surface and the lower surface, and a thickness of up to 10% in relation to the thickness of the first layer applied to the upper surface and the lower surfaces when applied to the external surface and to the chamfered edges. The external surface and the chamfered edges may include a sliding layer having one of a hard chromium or ceramic chromium plated coating, the sliding layer being applied on the first layer, the sliding layer having a thickness of between 80 and 175 microns.
US10704688B2	Preload and torsional backlash management for a continuously variable transmission device A radially inner race and a radially outer race for a continuously variable transmission includes a first inner race structure and a second inner race structure spaced along an axis wherein at least one of the first inner race structure or the second inner race structure is axially movable. A sun shaft is coupled to the radially inner race and planetary members in rolling contact with the radially inner race, and a torsion damping mechanism is coupled to the first inner race structure to apply torque between the first inner race structure and the sun shaft to reduce a transition amplitude during a torque impulse.
US10704673B1	Transmission with configurable shifter A manual transmission includes a housing having a longitudinal axis and an aperture, and a shift lever assembly comprising a shift lever having a pivot ball. At least three shift lever sockets are coaxially disposed along the longitudinal axis and within the aperture, with each of the at least three shift lever sockets being configured to receive the pivot ball therein when the shift lever is disposed at a corresponding, different discrete longitudinal position along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing. A first shift lever assembly comprises a cover plate and a shift tower supporting the shift lever, wherein the shift tower is substantially centered within a periphery of the cover plate. A second shift lever assembly has a shift tower offset from a center of the periphery of the cover plate.
US10704665B2	Fluid rotary joint and method of using the same A fluid rotary joint has a stator with a generally curved stator body and a flex spline with a flexible annular band disposed about and secured to the stator body. The stator also has at least three radially extendable members disposed between the stator body and the annular band to deform the annular band away from the stator body to contact the inner surface of a rotor. The inner circumference of the rotor is greater than the outer circumference of the annular band. A driver selectively expands the extendable members and brings the annular band of the stator into frictional driving engagement with the rotor for rotating the rotor. The extendable members may also be selectively extended to allow the stator and rotor to freely move with respect to one another or to have limited contact with one another to act as a torque limiting device.
US10704661B2	Actuator device having cam and follower and controller configured to employ rate-based methodology to identify positioning of follower on cam at predetermined location An actuator device having a motor driven cam, a follower coupled to an output member and driven by the cam, and a controller for controlling operation of the motor. The cam has a first cam surface, a second cam surface and a lift portion between the first and second cam surfaces. The controller is configured to identify a predetermined point on the lift portion as the follower is moved relative to the cam along the lift portion toward the second cam surface. The controller identifies the predetermined point based on a rate of change in the position of the output member along an output member axis as a function of the rotational position of the cam about a cam axis. The controller controls operation of the motor based on the predetermined point to position the follower on the second cam surface.
US10704657B2	Continuously variable transmission Components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for continuously variable transmissions (CVT) having a control system adapted to facilitate a change in the ratio of a CVT are described. In one embodiment, a control system includes a stator plate configured to have a plurality of radially offset slots. Various traction planet assemblies and stator plates can be used to facilitate shifting the ratio of a CVT. In some embodiments, the traction planet assemblies include planet axles configured to cooperate with the stator plate. In one embodiment, the stator plate is configured to rotate and apply a skew condition to each of the planet axles. In some embodiments, a stator driver is operably coupled to the stator plate. Embodiments of a traction sun are adapted to cooperate with other components of the CVT to support operation and/or functionality of the CVT.
US10704653B2	Gearbox for a rack and pinion linear transmission and drillstand including a gearbox and a rack A gearbox for a rack (6) and pinion (4) linear transmission, said gearbox further including—a reduction gear train (1-4) having at least a first (1), a second (2), a third (3), and a fourth gear wheel (4), where the fourth gear wheel is the pinion (4) for rotary engagement with the rack (6); a rotary input shaft (7) operatively connected to the gear train (1-4) to effect a linear relative movement between the rack (6) and the pinion (4); and an intermediate shaft (8) on which the first (1) and the second (2) gear wheel are fixed; the third gear wheel (3) being fixed on the input shaft (7), the fourth gear wheel (4) being journalled to enable it to rotate freely on the input shaft (7) and constituting the pinion (4), and the first gear wheel (1) and the fourth gear wheel (4) being in constant meshing engagement with each other.
US10704644B2	Vehicle wheel balance weights A vehicle wheel weight for attachment to a wheel rim that includes a mass portion formed of nonlead material and a clip is presented. The clip has an extended portion for engaging the wheel rim and an attachment portion juxtaposed to the mass portion. In addition, an injection molded outer casing surrounds the mass portion. The mass portion and the attachment portion of the clip are embedded in the casing, but the extended portion of the clip extends outwardly from and is external to the casing.
US10704641B2	Baffle for damper with electromechanical valve A shock absorber includes a pressure tube forming a working chamber. A reserve tube is concentric with and radially outward from the pressure tube. A baffle is positioned radially outward from the pressure tube. A reservoir chamber is formed between the reserve tube and the baffle. A piston is attached to a piston rod and slidably disposed within the pressure tube. A rod guide is attached to the pressure tube and supports the piston rod. An electromechanical valve is positioned within the rod guide. A plurality of non-linear passageways are disposed between the baffle and at least one of the pressure tube and the reserve tube for transporting fluid between the electromechanical valve and the reservoir chamber.
US10704640B2	Apparatus and methods for a vehicle shock absorber A method and apparatus for a vehicle shock absorber comprising a main damper cylinder, a first reservoir and a second reservoir. One embodiment includes a first operational mode where both reservoirs are in fluid communication with the cylinder. In a second operational mode, only one reservoir communicates with the cylinder during fluid evacuation from the cylinder. In each mode, rebound from either or both reservoirs may travel through a single, user-adjustable metering device.
US10704638B2	Cellular structures with twelve-cornered cells A cellular structure may include a plurality of cells each having a twelve-cornered cross section. The twelve-cornered cross section may include twelve sides and twelve corners creating eight internal angles and four external angles. Each cell may include a plurality of longitudinal walls extending between a top and a bottom of the cell, the longitudinal walls intersecting to create corners of the cell. A structural component may include at least one wall surrounding a component interior space with a cellular structure having at least two cells being positioned within the interior space. A sandwich structure may include first and second substantially planar structures, and a cellular structure with at least two cells positioned between the first and second substantially planar structures.
US10704637B2	Bar pin bushing for vehicle suspension A bar pin bushing assembly for connecting components including a bar pin having at least one end with at least one bore to receive a fastener, the bar pin having a central portion having a diameter that is greater than a width or diameter of the at least one end of the bar pin, a compressible rubber section having a uniform thickness positioned around the central portion of the bar pin, the compressible rubber section further extending around downwardly tapering surfaces adjacent the central portion of the bar pin, a plurality of outer metal shells mold bonded to the compressible rubber section, wherein when the bushing assembly is inserted into a hub, the plurality of outer metal shells are configured to radially compress the compressible rubber section to provide a precompressed bushing assembly. A method of assembling the bar pin bushing assembly is also disclosed.
US10704628B2	Brake disc mounting arrangement An arrangement and method for mounting a brake disc to on axle hub of a vehicle is provided. The arrangement includes wedge-shaped holes at an radially inner region of the brake disc, corresponding wedge-shaped key inserts, a retaining device such as a retaining ring, and mounting devices such as bolts or studs and nuts that pass through the retaining ring and keys to bias the keys against the axle hub. The circumferential sides of the wedge shapes are aligned with radial lines extending from the rotation axis of the axle hub. This arrangement and method provides a simple, robust and easily installed brake disc mounting that minimizes heat transfer between the brake disc and the axle hub and accommodates thermal expansion of the brake disc and the axle hull to minimize thermal ex pans ion-induced stresses to the brake disc.
US10704625B2	Brake disc for railway vehicle A brake disc for a railway vehicle is provided in which noise arising from the brake disc during high-speed rotation of a wheel is reduced by a large margin. A brake disc for a railway vehicle includes: a disc plate portion that has a sliding portion on a front face thereof; a plurality of through-holes that pass from the front face to a rear face of the disc plate portion and are arranged in alignment in the circumferential direction of the disc plate portion, the through-holes allowing bolts to pass therethrough for fastening together the disc plate portion and a wheel of the railway vehicle; and a groove provided to link a plurality of through-holes on the front face side of the disc plate portion.
US10704624B2	Drive cable brake assembly for robotic surgical tool A surgical tool that includes a drive housing, an elongate shaft that extends from the drive housing, and a plurality of drive cables extending within the elongate shaft between the drive housing and an end effector coupled to a distal end of the elongate shaft. A cable brake assembly is at least partially arranged within a cavity defined in the drive housing or the elongate shaft, the cable brake assembly having one or more brakes and a brake pad engageable with one or more of the plurality of drive cables. The cable brake assembly is actuatable between a first position, where the plurality of drive cables are free to move longitudinally within the elongate shaft, and a second position, where the one or more brakes and the brake pad engage and prevent the one or more of the plurality of drive cables from moving.
US10704623B2	Rope arrest-and-release device for use on utility poles A rope arrest-and-release device comprising a cam block assembly and a housing with front vertical rollers situated on either side of the housing, rear vertical rollers situated directly behind the front vertical rollers, and a pair of horizontal rollers situated to the interior of the front and rear vertical rollers on either side of the housing. The cam block assembly includes a cam block and a cam that rotates upward and downward via a spring. Each front vertical roller is configured to rotate forward to allow a rope to be inserted between the cam and the inside ceiling of the housing. The cam block assembly fits into an internal recess in the housing and is removable and reversible. The invention include a means for securing the device to a utility pole and for locking the cam in a downward (open) position.
US10704622B2	Actuation mechanism for a brake Actuation mechanism for a wedge-actuated drum brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, includes a spreading unit which has an actuating element which is displaceable along an actuating direction, wherein the spreading unit is configured in such a way that the displacement of the actuating element can occur directly via a fluid or a fluid pressure.
US10704618B2	Methods and system for operating a driveline disconnect clutch Systems and methods for operating a hybrid driveline that includes an engine, a motor/generator, and a driveline disconnect clutch are described. The systems and methods may improve vehicle efficiency while providing expected vehicle operation and performance. In one example, transmission line pressure is adjusted to match driveline disconnect clutch torque capacity to driver demand torque.
US10704615B2	Vehicle and system for controlling a vehicle transmission A vehicle includes an engine, a transmission, and a controller. The transmission has clutches, a circuit configured to transport fluid to the clutches, a pump configured to circulate the fluid through the circuit, and an accumulator disposed along the circuit. The controller is programmed to, responsive to an engine start and a fluid temperature being less than a temperature threshold, discharge the accumulator to prime the pump.
US10704609B2	Vehicle drive device with contact body contacting guide surface on clutch The vehicle drive device includes the clutch being provided between the speed reducing mechanism and the differential device, and configured to be rotated integrally with the differential device, and moved in the rotation axis direction to engage with or release from the speed reducing mechanism, and the solenoid pin capable of contacting with and separating from the outer peripheral surface of the clutch, the guide groove is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the clutch so as to intersect in the rotation direction of the clutch, and the solenoid pin contacts the guide groove to thereby move the clutch.
US10704608B2	Shaft coupling structure A shaft coupling structure includes a shaft, a sleeve, into which the shaft is inserted, and a tolerance ring. The tolerance ring includes a cylindrical main body and a plurality of protuberances, which protrudes outward in a radial direction from an inner circumferential surface of the main body. The tolerance ring is fitted between an outer circumferential surface of the shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the sleeve. A communication passage that connects an inside and an outside of each protuberance is provided between the outer circumferential surface of the shaft and the main body.
US10704604B2	One-to-one torque coupling A one-to-one torque coupling includes a centre member, left and right side members, and a plurality of torque transfer elements. The centre member is disposed between the side members, has a main axis of rotation and includes a plurality of holes disposed about the main axis at a radius. The side members each have a common secondary axis of rotation that is parallel to and offset from the main axis. Each side member also includes a plurality of holes that are congruent with the holes in the centre member and are disposed about the secondary axis at the radius. The torque transfer elements extend through the holes of the centre member into the holes of the side members, and rotate about a third axis that is parallel to and disposed midway between the main axis and the secondary axis. The torque transfer elements transfer torque between the centre member and the side members through rolling contact between the torque transfer elements and the holes of the centre and side members.
US10704597B2	Axle assembly having a bearing preload module An axle assembly having a rotor bearing preload module. The rotor bearing preload module may be disposed between a first and second rotor bearing assemblies. The rotor bearing preload module may include a biasing member that may bias the first rotor bearing assembly away from the second rotor bearing assembly.
US10704595B2	Bearing cup for a bicycle bottom bracket assembly and bicycle bottom bracket assembly comprising said bearing cup A bearing cup for a bicycle bottom bracket assembly is disclosed. The bearing cup comprises an annular body having a radially outer substantially cylindrical surface portion configured to be coupled with the frame of the bicycle and a radially inner substantially cylindrical surface portion defining a housing seat for a bearing. A plurality of ribs extend radially inwards from said radially inner substantially cylindrical surface portion. The plurality of ribs are configured to be coupled with interference with said bearing. In another embodiment, a bicycle bottom bracket assembly is disclosed that includes the aforementioned bearing cup and a bearing configured to be housed inside the bearing cup.
US10704582B2	Blind fasteners A fastener includes a sleeve, a core bolt, and an insert. The sleeve includes a first portion having a first inner diameter, a second portion having a second inner diameter, and a step intermediate the first and second portions. The core bolt includes a cylindrical portion having a first diameter, a threaded portion having a major diameter, and a thread run-out intermediate the cylindrical and threaded portions. The insert is disposed within the sleeve and is sized and shaped to be retained between the step of the sleeve and the thread run-out of the core bolt when the fastener is in a pre-installation position. The fastener compresses the insert between the step of the sleeve and the thread run-out of the core bolt by an installation motion of the core bolt. The insert deforms away from the core bolt to initiate formation of a bulb in response to the compression.
US10704581B2	Press-in fastener with a wavy knurled shank A press-in fastener incorporates a compound wave pattern into the shank knurl. The knurl is generally aligned vertically but instead of a straight uniform knurl pattern, the rows of knurls have an undulating curved shape that alternates from a narrow to a wider cross-section as they transverse axially along the length of the pin shank. The knurls are arranged in straight or serpentine longitudinal rows equally spaced around a circumference of the shank. At least one of the rows has a wavy cross-sectional profile in a radial plane containing the longitudinal axis wherein said profile consists of a series of contiguous alternating crests and valleys. The compound wavy configuration of the knurls yields a number of benefits without adversely affecting the manufacturing process. The knurl configuration also reduces the installation force and disruption of the host material while maintaining a better lock on the host material.
US10704580B2	Apparatus for attaching a walker to a wheelchair An connector apparatus and kit for detachably connecting a conventional walker to a conventional wheelchair.
US10704579B2	Connecting device for attachments A connecting device connects a first attachment and a second attachment constituting a working machine with each other. The connecting device includes a first connected member, a second connected member, and a connecting member (connecting pin 15). The first connected member extends outward from a first side surface of the first attachment, the first side surface extending in a longitudinal direction of the first attachment. The second connected member extends outward from a second side surface of the second attachment, the second side surface extending in a longitudinal direction of the second attachment, the second connected member facing the first connected member when the first attachment and the second attachment come into a connection state. The connecting member connects the first connected member and the second connected member with each other.
US10704578B2	Fastening device A fastening device, in particular, is part of a fastening system for detachably fixing components (42,44) to one another, such as wall coverings to walls, preferably in the field of interiors. The fastening device has a support part (2) including a support plate (12) with protruding closure elements (24) on one side and a protruding fixing part (4) with a fixing structure (26) on the other, opposite side (8). The fixing part (4) has an axial length preferably less than or equal to each radial length of the support part (2) extending transversely to it. The fixing structure (26) of the fixing part (4) is self-locking or self-tapping. The support plate (12) has a cut-out (36) for applying an operating tool. The cut-out extends from the support plate (12) into the fixing part (4) and is free by the closure elements (24).
US10704572B2	Hydraulic rotary actuator A shaft extending along a longitudinal axis has fluid channels that increase and decrease pressure in chambers formed between the interior ends of curved pistons and adjacent closed ends of curved chambers within which the pistons reciprocate as the chamber pressure increases and decreases. The chambers and pistons are in separate cylinder block segments extending outward from opposing sides of the shaft. Each segment may have two sides extending along radial planes and joined by a curved outer surface. Pistons may be provided in pairs and have an interior piston end of each piston in a different cavity in different segments. Exterior ends of each piston in a pair of pistons are connected to a piston connector that extends inwardly from a housing so the housing rotates with the pistons.
US10704570B2	Hydraulic pressure variation in a legged robot An example robot includes movable members, a hydraulic system including at least (i) hydraulic actuators configured to operate the movable members, and (ii) a source of hydraulic fluid, and a controller. The controller may be configured to: determine a task to be performed by the robot, where the task includes a plurality of phases; cause hydraulic fluid having a first pressure level to flow from the source to the hydraulic actuators for the robot to perform a first phase of the plurality of phases of the task; based on a second phase of the task, determine a second pressure level for the hydraulic fluid; and adjust, based on the second pressure level, operation of the hydraulic system before the robot begins the second phase of the task.
US10704568B2	Aspirator integrated pressure relief valve and vent valve assembly for an inflation system A valve assembly for an inflation system that includes a pressure relief valve and a vent valve. The pressure relief valve has a pressure relief housing and a pressure relief valve poppet. The pressure relief housing defines a first pressure relief cavity that is disposed between a first end wall defining a first flow port and a first wall defining a passageway and a second pressure relief cavity disposed between the first wall and a second wall. The pressure relief valve poppet is movably disposed within the first pressure relief cavity and the second pressure relief cavity. The vent valve has a vent housing and a vent valve poppet. The vent housing defines a vent cavity that is disposed between the second wall defining a vent flow port and a second end wall. The vent valve poppet is movably disposed within the vent cavity.
US10704563B2	Axi-centrifugal compressor with variable outlet guide vanes A compressor apparatus includes: an upstream portion comprising an axial-flow compressor; a downstream portion comprising a centrifugal-flow compressor; and a row of variable-stagger-angle outlet guide vanes disposed between the upstream and downstream portions.
US10704561B2	Cooling system and an axial fan for a cooling system The present invention provides a cooling system. The system comprises a circumferential edge forming an aperture and an axial fan arranged at least partly within the aperture. The axial fan comprises a hub being adapted for rotation about an axis and carrying a plurality of blades. Each blade extends in a radial direction between a root end and a tip end, where the root end is joined with the hub. The system further comprises brushes extending from the tip end towards the circumferential edge, where the brushes at a first end are attached to at least one of the blades at a point of attachment at a distance from the tip end. The brushes overlap the blade from the attachment point to the tip end along the length of the brushes at a pressure side or suction side of the blade.
US10704555B2	Stator-side member and vacuum pump The invention provides a stator-side member which is arranged in a vacuum pump and which, without the provision of a heat insulation material, prevents the deposition of products at the lower side of a threaded groove pump unit, with this lower side being an area of high pressure where the deposition of products (deposits) occurs easily, and also provides a vacuum pump equipped with this stator-side member. A threaded groove spacer configured to have a coefficient of thermal conductivity lower than a predetermined value is arranged in a vacuum pump equipped with a threaded groove pump unit. (1) The threaded groove spacer is manufactured from a material having a coefficient of thermal conductivity lower than that of a member which opposes or comes into contact with the threaded groove spacer. Specifically, this material has a coefficient of thermal conductivity lower than that of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and is preferably any one of stainless steel, fiber-reinforced plastic, polyetherimide, and polyetheretherketone. (2) The threaded groove spacer is constituted by at least two or more parts.
US10704546B2	Service module for troubleshooting pumping unit A service module for troubleshooting a pumping unit, particularly that used in the oil/gas industry, is operatively coupled between a motor of the pumping unit and a high pressure shutoff sensor which acts to kill the motor of the pumping unit in the event a pressure of the pipeline exceeds a prescribed threshold. The service module is operable in a first normal operating mode in which the shutoff sensor acts as it normally would to shut off the motor when the prescribed threshold is exceeded, and in a second troubleshooting mode where the normal operation of the shutoff sensor is bypassed for a predetermined period of time. After the predetermined period of time of the second troubleshooting mode has elapsed, the service module automatically returns to the normal operating mode. The shutoff sensor thus remains operatively coupled to the motor during troubleshooting of the motor.
US10704538B2	Method to form impulse jet An impulse pump is provided with a low power motor to store rotational kinetic energy in a flywheel. The stored kinetic energy is released using a planetary gear transmission that links the flywheel to a pusher shaft. The kinetic energy is released when the planetary gear carrier is decelerated using a caliper brake. The planetary gear carrier deceleration forces rotational acceleration of the pusher shaft and deceleration of the flywheel. Through a cam roller contact point between the pusher shaft and the cam raceway on the plunger; the rotational motion of the pusher shaft is converted to linear and translational motion of the plunger. The translational motion of the plunger allows impulse jet energy to be rapidly released from a nozzle of the pump.
US10704525B2	Method and system for spark plug cleaning Methods and systems are provided for controlling spark plug fouling in newly manufactured vehicles. In one example, an engine is operated with a first, more aggressive spark discharge schedule when in a pre-delivery state and transitioned to a second, less aggressive spark discharge schedule when in a post-delivery state. In each spark discharge schedule, a spark plug ignition coil is repeatedly discharged when the engine is off, such as when the engine is spinning down to rest on a shutdown event or before the engine is fueled on an engine restart event.
US10704524B2	Control system of compression-ignition engine A control system of a compression-ignition engine which performs SPCCI combustion in which mixture gas is ignited with a spark plug to be partially combusted by SI combustion and the rest of mixture gas self-ignites to be combusted by CI combustion, is provided. When the engine is operated at least in a given first operating range, a controller of the device controls a variable intake mechanism so that an A/F lean environment where an air-fuel ratio in a cylinder becomes higher than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is formed, while causing the spark plug to perform spark ignition at a given timing so that the mixture gas combusts by SPCCI combustion, and controls so that, under the same engine load condition, an intake valve close timing is more retarded as the engine speed decreases, within a range where an amount of air inside the cylinder decreases by retarding the close timing.
US10704512B2	Segmented manifold head connectors Intake manifold-cylinder head connectors and methods of assembling the same are disclosed. A distal jumper tube includes a distal jumper tube conduit with an upstream end having a first exterior engagement feature and a downstream end. A proximal jumper tube includes a proximal jumper tube conduit with an upstream end and a downstream end having a second exterior engagement feature. A middle jumper tube includes a middle jumper tube conduit with an upstream end having a third exterior engagement feature, and a downstream end having a fourth engagement feature. The first exterior engagement feature is removably coupled to the fourth exterior engagement feature, and the second exterior engagement feature is removably engaged to the third exterior engagement feature. The proximal jumper tube is in fluid receiving communication with an intake manifold conduit, and the distal jumper tube is in fluid providing communication with a cylinder head aperture.
US10704509B2	Methodology and system for reforming liquid fuel An on the fly fuel reformer device to produce variations in the autoignition and burning rate properties of a fuel by appropriate processing of some or all of a single fuel supply in its liquid form. The system includes a non-thermal plasma generator and/or a UV radiation source in contact with a fuel line so as to contact a multi-phase fuel in the line and dynamically modify the fuel to exhibit desired autoignition characteristics and burn rate such that the engine can operate with increased efficiency and lower emissions.
US10704507B2	EGR valve including seal ring A body of a seal ring is in an annular shape and includes an abutment joint at a location in the circumferential direction. The opposite ends of the body forming the abutment joint include an overlapping part where one end and the other end of the body overlap each other. The overlapping part includes a step cut joint that forms an overlap in the radial direction and a lap joint that forms an overlap in the plate thickness direction. Facing faces that face each other in the plate thickness direction in the lap joint are planes extending from an inner peripheral circular arc of the seal ring up to an outer peripheral circular arc of the seal ring.
US10704506B2	Methods and systems for EGR valve diagnostics Methods and systems are provided for an EGR valve diagnostic. In one example, a method may include actuating an EGR valve between first and second positions. The method may further includes determining one or more characteristics of the EGR valve during the diagnostic to determine if an EGR valve cleaning is desired.
US10704504B1	Deceleration cylinder cut-off (DCCO) methodology with enhanced EGR A method of operating an engine having an intake manifold, an exhaust manifold, a crankshaft, a plurality of working cylinders each having at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, and an exhaust gas recirculation conduit providing fluid communication between the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold. The method includes: while the engine is operating, in response to a no engine torque request, deactivating a number of the working cylinders such that none of the deactivated working cylinders are fired and no air is pumped through the deactivated working cylinders as the crankshaft rotates, operating at least one of the plurality of working cylinders that is not deactivated to pump air through the non-deactivated working cylinder, and controlling gas flow through the exhaust gas recirculation conduit to circulate air pumped through the non-deactivated working cylinder to the intake manifold.
US10704497B2	Thrust reverser velocity control valve The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a turbofan engine assembly includes a engine, a nacelle defining a generally forward-to-aft bypass air flow path, a thrust reverser comprising a first movable element, movable to and from a reversing position where at least a portion of the bypass air flow is reversed, a hydraulic actuator coupled to the first movable element to move the first movable element into and out of the reversing position, and a second moveable element, configured to move in synchronicity with the first moveable element, a first hydraulic valve operable to control a flow of hydraulic fluid for actuation of the hydraulic actuator, a second hydraulic valve operably coupled to the second moveable element and moveable between a restricted condition wherein the flow of hydraulic fluid is restricted, and a permit condition wherein the flow of hydraulic fluid is permitted.
US10704494B2	Heat recovery structure A heat recovery structure includes a pipe portion, a heat exchanging portion and an actuator. The pipe portion is inclined such that a side face of the pipe portion faces a diagonally lower side, and is configured such that exhaust gas from an engine circulates through the pipe portion. The heat exchanging portion is configured to communicate with the pipe portion and to perform heat-exchange between a heat medium and the exhaust gas flowing into the heat exchanging portion from the pipe portion such that the exhaust gas thus subjected to the heat-exchange with the heat medium flows out to the pipe portion. The actuator is configured to operate a selector valve configured to switch between a state where the exhaust gas circulates through the pipe portion and a state where the exhaust gas circulates through the heat exchanging portion.
US10704491B2	Piston cooling gallery shaping to reduce piston temperature A piston for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston includes a lower part joined to an upper part, for example by friction welding with inertia. The upper part presents a combustion surface and an undercrown surface. The piston also includes a cooling gallery surface provided by the upper part and the lower part. The cooling gallery surface surrounds a volume of space for containing a cooling media. The piston can include serrations in the cooling gallery surface and/or undercrown surface to increase surface area and thus reduce the temperature of the piston. The piston can also include shaped weld curls, instead of or in addition to the serrations, which also increase surface area and reduce the temperature of the piston.
US10704490B2	Method and system for diagnosing unintended fuelling from fuel injectors of an engine Provided is a method for diagnosing unintended fuelling from one or more fuel injectors of a multi cylinder internal combustion engine during engine operation. Pressurized fuel is intended to be distributed by means of said fuel injectors from said accumulator tank to the cylinders for combustion. An oxidation catalyst is arranged downstream said cylinders. The method comprises: determining the pressure in the fuel accumulator tank and whether said pressure is decreasing; and determining whether the actual amount of fuel provided by the pump unit exceeds the demanded amount of fuel. The method further comprises the steps of: determining whether the temperature associated with the oxidation catalyst is above a certain level and/or determining whether the air/fuel ratio is below a certain level and/or determining whether an amount of particulate matter is above a certain level; and confirming an unintended fuelling based on the determined conditions.
US10704477B2	Method for crankcase ventilation in a boosted engine Methods and systems are provided for enhancing crankcase ventilation in a boosted engine. During boosted conditions, a crankcase may be ventilated via vacuum generated at an aspirator coupled in a compressor bypass passage. However, when the aspirator is plugged, pressure in the crankcase may be relieved by flowing crankcase gases through an aspirator bypass passage.
US10704474B2	Device for reducing the combustion instabilities of a combustion engine Disclosed is a device for reducing the combustion instabilities of a combustion engine, this device including: an intake circuit admitting oxidizing air to the engine, a valve positioned on the engine oxidizing air intake circuit and designed to regulate the flow rate of oxidant gas admitted to the engine, an exhaust gas recirculation circuit connected to the intake circuit upstream of the oxidizing air flow rate regulating valve. The device is arranged in such a way that, at least when an injection of fuel to the engine is cut off, a minimum opening of the valve is assured so as to eliminate recirculated gases from the intake circuit.
US10704470B2	Dual-fuel internal combustion engine Dual-fuel internal combustion engine with at least two combustion chambers which have a different distance from at least one gas mixer for producing a gas-air mixture, whereby an inlet valve for the gas-air mixture and an injector for liquid fuel is assigned to each of the combustion chambers, and a control device is provided which is configured in a change-over mode to change an amount of energy supplied to the at least two combustion chambers through the gas-air mixture in a first direction, and to change an amount of liquid fuel supplied to the at least two combustion chambers in an opposite, second direction, whereby the control device is designed to determine a time for the change of the amount of liquid fuel in the second direction for each of the at least two combustion chambers according to the distance of the respective combustion chamber from the at least one gas mixer.
US10704469B2	Auxiliary Torch Ingnition A torch igniter includes an auxiliary fuel injector; an ignition source; and an igniter body carrying the auxiliary fuel injector and the ignition source. The igniter body includes an auxiliary combustion chamber having a side wall extending axially from a first end wall to a second end wall, the side wall defining an interior cavity between the first and second end walls. The igniter body further includes a premixing cup residing within the interior cavity including a cylindrical wall radially surrounding the auxiliary fuel injector and an auxiliary air inlet, the cylindrical wall of the premixing cup protruding axially outward relative to the first end wall of the auxiliary combustion chamber through a portion of the interior cavity to delineate a premixing zone radially inward of the cylindrical wall and a recirculation zone radially outward of the cylindrical wall.
US10704456B2	Fluid management system for a heat exchanger of a vehicle air conditioning system A fluid management system for a cooling module of a vehicle air conditioning system. The cooling module includes a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with a liquid cooling system of the vehicle and a second heat exchanger disposed upstream of the first heat exchanger and in fluid communication with the vehicle air conditioning system, wherein the fluid management system minimizes an inlet fluid temperature of the second heat exchanger of the cooling module.
US10704455B2	Rotary type valve device Provided is a rotary type valve device capable of being easily assembled and securing desired sealing performance. The rotary type valve device includes a rotor having an internal passage formed around an axis and an opening portion which opens outward from the internal passage to an outer contour surface in a radial direction, a housing supporting the rotor to be rotatable around the axis and defining an axial passage communicating with the internal passage and a radial passage facing the outer contour surface and capable of communicating with the opening portion, a passage member disposed in the housing to define a part of the radial passage, and a biasing spring biasing the passage member toward the outer contour surface. The housing comprises a housing body accommodating the rotor, and a holding member coupled to the housing body and having a tubular portion holding the biasing spring and the passage member.
US10704454B2	Control method of cooling system A control method for a cooling system is provided. The system includes a vehicle operation state detecting portion having an ambient temperature sensor, first and second coolant temperature sensors, a coolant control valve unit that adjusts opening rates of first, second, and third coolant passages and a controller. The method includes determining whether an output signal of the ambient temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined an ambient low temperature driving condition and whether an output signal of the first coolant temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined first low temperature driving condition when the output signal of the ambient temperature sensor satisfies the predetermined the ambient low temperature driving condition. The coolant control valve unit opens the first and coolant passages and closes the second coolant passage when the output signal of the first coolant temperature sensor satisfies the predetermined first low temperature driving condition.
US10704445B2	Catalytic converter An exhaust gas receiver 21 is provided between an expanded passage portion 132 of an upstream connection member 13 and a catalyst end surface 111. The exhaust gas receiver 21 extends along the entire circumference of a catalyst accommodation case 12. The exhaust gas receiver 21 extends from an upstream opening end portion 121 of the catalyst accommodation case 12 toward an inner part of the passage of the expanded passage portion 132 such that the exhaust gas receiver 21 separates from the expanded passage portion 132, and a space 211 is defined between the exhaust gas receiver 21 and the catalyst end surface 111. Flows of bypass exhaust gas hitting against the catalyst end surface 111 and bouncing off the catalyst end surface 111 hit against and are received by the exhaust gas receiver 21.
US10704442B2	Method for optimizing the consumption of reducing agent in a motor vehicle exhaust line A process for optimizing the consumption of reducing agent in the form of ammonia in an exhaust line including first and second selective catalytic reduction systems, the second system being arranged downstream of the first system, being spaced apart by a spacing, a surplus of unused ammonia passing via the exhaust line, the temperature in the exhaust line at the second system being measured or estimated. When the temperature at the second system exceeds a first maximum value, or when a calculated rate of temperature rise is greater than a predetermined rate of rise, with the proviso that the temperature at the second system is greater than a second maximum value that is less than the first maximum value, forced cooling is carried out in the spacing between the first and second systems.
US10704439B2	Exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a controller comprising at least one processor is configured to carry out rich spike; wherein the controller carries out supply control to supply a reducing agent to a post-stage catalyst, wherein in cases where a temperature of an NSR catalyst becomes less than a predetermined determination temperature in at least a part of a determination period of time, the controller carries out the supply control according to the execution of current rich spike; wherein the controller controls such that in cases where the storage amount of NOx is the same, an amount of supply of the reducing agent in the supply control is made larger as a period of time in which the temperature of the NSR catalyst becomes less than the predetermined determination temperature in the determination period of time becomes longer.
US10704437B2	Exhaust system for an internal combustion engine and method for operating such an exhaust system An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine is connected to an outlet of the internal combustion engine and has a particulate filter. A differential pressure line for ascertaining the particulate filter load connects a section of the exhaust passage upstream from the particulate filter and a section of the exhaust passage downstream from the particulate filter to a differential pressure sensor. At an end of the differential pressure line facing the exhaust passage, a reservoir which serves to collect condensate protrudes into the exhaust passage and can be heated up by the exhaust gas in the exhaust passage. Due to the heating of the reservoir, the liquid that has collected in the reservoir evaporates and can be introduced in gaseous form into the exhaust passage through an opening in the reservoir, so that the risk of droplet formation in the exhaust passage is avoided.
US10704434B2	Blow-by gas heating apparatus As a further improvement of the technique of minimizing or preventing excessive cooling of an oil separator, an effective blow-by gas heating apparatus which minimizes or solves the problems due to frozen blow-by gas in an engine externally equipped with an oil separator is provided. The blow-by gas heating apparatus includes: a heat emitting structure abutted onto an oil separator configured to trap and remove oil from blow-by gas. The heat emitting structure has a heat emitting case including inside a passage for engine cooling water. The heat emitting case includes a ceiling wall being in surface-contact from below with a bottom surface of the oil separator.
US10704427B2	Method to diagnose power plant degradation using efficiency models A monitoring system of a combined cycle power plant having a topping cycle performed by a gas turbine and a bottoming cycle performed by a steam turbine, the monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a processor that receives a first set of data indicating a first measurement value of an operating parameter of the combined cycle power plant. The processor determines a baseline efficiency of the process based on the first measurement value using a bottoming cycle performance (BCP) model. The processor determines a threshold based on the baseline efficiency. The processor receives a second set of data indicating a second measurement value of the operating parameter. The processor compare the threshold to an operational efficiency based on the second measurement value using the BCP model, and provides an indication of a decrease in efficiency of the process if the operational efficiency is below the threshold.
US10704426B2	Method for cooling off the compressed gas of a compressor installation and compressor installation in which this method is applied A compressor installation provided with one or more compressor elements and a heat recovery circuit in the form of a closed Rankine circuit in which a working medium circulates through one or more evaporators that act as a cooler for the compressed gas, and a condenser connected to a cooling circuit for cooling the working medium in the condenser, whereby an additional cooler is provided for each evaporator that is connected in series to an evaporator concerned, and which is calculated to be able to guarantee sufficient cooling by itself when the heat recovery circuit is switched off.
US10704418B2	Inlet assembly for an aircraft aft fan An engine for mounting in or to an aircraft includes a stage of compression airfoils rotatable about a central axis; a casing surrounding the stage of compression airfoils and defining an inlet; and a low-distortion inlet assembly mounted within the inlet. The inlet assembly includes one or more structural members mounted at predetermined locations around a circumference of the central axis within the inlet, the predetermined locations defining an airflow distortion exceeding a predetermined threshold; and at least one airflow modifying element configured within the inlet so as to reduce airflow distortion entering the stage of compression airfoils.
US10704416B2	Conformal heat shield for gas turbine engine A conformal heat shield for a gas turbine engine may comprise a first section including a first arcuate segment and a second arcuate segment circumferentially adjacent to the first arcuate segment. The first arcuate segment and the second arcuate segment may each comprise a distal metal layer including a plurality of loops extending radially outward from the distal metal layer. A proximal metal layer may be located radially inward of the distal metal layer. An insulating material may be located between the distal metal layer and the proximal metal layer. A first strap may be located through the loops.
US10704413B2	Systems and methods for variable alignment aerodynamic probes A variable alignment aerodynamic probe may comprise a probe body having a leading edge and extending radially into a vane case, a sensor element proximate the leading edge, and a bearing coupled to the probe body and the vane case. The probe body may be configured to rotate in response to a turned flow within the vane case. The rotation of the probe body may be configured to maintain an angle of attack of the leading edge with respect to the turned flow between 0° and 15°.
US10704411B2	Variable vane actuation system for a turbo machine A system for operating a turbo machine is generally provided, the system including a variable vane assembly including a first plurality of vanes coupled together by a first unison member and a second plurality of vanes coupled together by a second unison member. An actuation system is coupled to each of the first unison member and the second unison member and a solenoid actuator is coupled to the variable vane assembly and the actuation system.
US10704395B2	Airfoil with cooling circuit An airfoil for a turbine engine having an engine component including an air supply circuit coupled to a plurality of passages within the outer wall of the engine component where cooling air moves from the air supply circuit to an outer surface of the engine component through the passages.
US10704379B2	Flowline saturation pressure measurements A method for sampling a downhole formation fluid includes pumping formation fluid into the flowline of a downhole sampling tool. The method can also include measuring a saturation pressure of the formation fluid in the flowline while pumping. The method can also include adjusting the pumping rate such that the fluid pressure in the flowline remains within a predetermined threshold above the measured saturation pressure.
US10704376B2	Sensors in earth-boring tools, related systems, and related methods An earth-boring tool includes a shank. The shank may include a central bore extending partially through the shank. An end-cap may be disposed within the central bore, and the end-cap may include a first flange, a second flange, and a body portion extending between the first flange and the second flange. An annular chamber may be defined between the body portion of the end-cap and an interior wall of the central bore of the shank. At least one strain gauge may be secured to an outer surface of the body portion of the end-cap. At least one stain gauge may be secured to a cap portion welded over a recess formed in the earth-boring tool.
US10704366B2	Method and apparatus for installing a liner and bridge plug A liner and bridge plug are installed in a hydrocarbon well that has a casing and a section to be lined by the liner. The liner and bridge plug are installed by providing a tubing string that carries a bridge plug and a liner setting tool, the liner setting tool carrying a liner, inserting the tubing string into the hydrocarbon well until the liner is at a desired location along the casing, activating the liner setting tool to install the liner, activating the bridge plug to seal the wellbore and disengaging the tubing string from the bridge plug and the liner.
US10704360B2	Active flow control with dual line multizone hydraulic power distribution module A controllable, multi-zone control system is provided for controlling the inflow of fluids into a completion, e.g. a lateral completion, at a plurality of well zones. According to an embodiment, flow control devices are distributed along the completion and a control module is positioned between the flow control devices, e.g. in a middle region of the completion. The control module is supplied with hydraulic actuating fluid and is electrically controllable to enable selective distribution of the hydraulic actuating fluid to selected flow control devices via a hydraulic actuating line and a hydraulic return line. The control module may be controlled via electric signals, thus controlling distribution of hydraulic actuating fluid under pressure to selected flow control devices so as to shift the selected flow control devices to a desired flow positions.
US10704359B2	Flow control system for use in a subterranean well A flow control system for use in a subterranean well includes a flow chamber comprising an inlet and an outlet that is configured to receive a fluid, and a flow restriction member positioned and movable within the flow chamber. The flow restriction member is configured to restrict fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet of the flow chamber based upon a density of the fluid.
US10704344B2	Tooling rack for drill pipes A tooling rack (1) for storing slender objects, such as pipes (4), comprises at least one rack element (6) which is provided with at least one slot (7). Each slot is bordered by resilient opposite holding elements (10, 11) between which an object is to be accommodated. The resilient opposite holding elements (10, 11) exert a holding force on the object (4), respectively give way to release the object against said holding force. Furthermore, with the aim of securing the objects against shocks and the like, locking means (12-16) are provided. These locking means in a locking state engage the resilient opposite holding elements (10, 11) and prevent said resilient opposite holding elements from giving way and from releasing the holding force exerted on the object (4), and an idle state in which said resilient opposite holding elements are allowed to give way and release the object.
US10704343B2	Launching and retrieving wireline eat sensors A system for launching or retrieving wireline electro acoustic technology (EAT) sensor assemblies in a downhole wellbore comprises an EAT launcher/retriever section and an EAT sensor assembly for placement in the EAT launcher/retriever section. The EAT launcher/retriever section comprises an external high pressure housing, attachment means at each end of the external high pressure housing, and a wedge shaped internal retractable launcher plate with an opening on one side to allow a fiber based wireline cable to pass through the EAT launcher section. The EAT sensor assembly comprises a center section comprising sensors and two end sections, each end section with a set of extendable grippers to grip a fiber based wireline cable, wherein the center section and both end sections comprise a V groove that allows the EAT sensor assembly to be centered on the fiber based wireline cable.
US10704342B2	Hydraulic actuator with integral torque turn monitoring An actuator assembly with integrated torque turn monitoring is described. Embodiments include a rotationally fixed outer hydraulic section and a rotationally independent inner hydraulic section which incorporates torque load sensors, axial load sensors, and rotational speed sensors directly into the inner hydraulic section. The inner hydraulic section is coupled to an outer cage by a cage ring and is axially movable relative to the inner mandrel. Upper and lower fluid chambers are disposed between the outer housing assembly and the inner mandrel. Fluid pumped through a lower pressure port into the lower chamber moves the housing assembly in a first direction, and fluid pumped through an upper pressure port into the upper fluid chamber moves the housing assembly in a second direction.
US10704341B2	Connector for assembling two riser segments, comprising an internal locking ring and removable pins The present invention relates to a compact connector design with an internal locking ring (11). The connector according to the invention comprises a locking ring (11) allowing bayonet type connection on either side with two riser sections. Furthermore, the connector comprises at least one removable pin (12) for translationally blocking locking ring (11), notably upon locking and unlocking.
US10704338B2	Abutments for threaded connections A threaded connection includes a pin member having an external wedge thread increasing in width in a first direction, a box member having an internal wedge thread increasing in width in a second direction so that complementary internal and external wedge threads move into engagement upon make-up of the connection, a box thread stop at an end of the internal wedge thread of the box member, and a pin thread stop at an end of the external wedge thread of the pin member, wherein the pin and box thread stops are configured to contact when the connection is fully engaged.
US10704329B2	Cementing whipstock assembly and running tool with releasably engaged cement tube for minimizing downhole trips during lateral drill sidetracking operations A sidetracking assembly employs a running tool for engaging the whipstock. A cement tube flows low-viscosity fluid through the whipstock to set a hydraulically actuable anchor and to transmit fluid cement further downhole in order to set a cement plug. A latch dog releasably associates the running tool with the whipstock. The latch dog disengages the running tool from the whipstock after the anchor is set. The running tool and cement tube can be raised a designed distance using a first pull tension, indicating that the cement tube is not restrained and that therefore an operation to pump cement to form a cement plug below the assembly may be executed. Following the cementing operation, a greater pull tension can be applied to release the cement tube from the whipstock, permitting complete withdrawal of the reusable running tool and cement tube from the wellbore.
US10704314B2	Automatic safety window apparatus and system An automatic safety window apparatus comprising: an alarm and transmitter unit located remotely from the window unit, the alarm and transmitter unit configured to transmit an open window signal when a threshold level of a gas or smoke is reached and to initiate an alarm; a window unit configured to attach to the interior of a window and face the interior of a room the window is located in, the window unit comprising: a chain actuator, the chain actuator comprising a chain that can exert a pushing force; a fan housing; a control board located in the fan housing, the control board comprising a receiver and a CPU, the CPU in signal communication with the receiver, and CPU in signal communication with the chain actuator, and the receiver in wireless communication with the alarm and transmitter unit, the CPU configured to transmit a signal to the chain actuator to open the window sash when the receiver receives an open window signal from the alarm and transmitter unit; wherein the chain actuator is configured to open the window sash via the chain exerting a pushing force on the window sash.
US10704312B2	Door alignment systems and methods A door alignment system includes a first alignment member secured to one of a first door or a structure connected to the first door, and a second alignment member secured to the other of the first door or the structure. The first alignment member is configured to couple to the second alignment member when the first door is in a closed position relative to the structure in order to prevent the first door from binding in relation to the structure. The first alignment member is configured to be separated from the second alignment member when the first door is in an open position relative to the structure.
US10704311B1	Appliance lid hinge An appliance lid hinge assembly includes a cam arm pivotally connected a base. A cam arm control system includes a spring rod adapted to move in a sliding reciprocal manner. A spring urges the spring rod toward an extended position. The spring rod is movable toward a retracted position. The cam arm is engaged with the spring rod through a cam follower such that: (i) pivoting movement of the cam arm in an opening direction corresponds with movement of the spring rod from the retracted position toward the extended position; and, (ii) pivoting movement of the cam arm in a closing direction opposite the opening direction corresponds with movement of the spring rod from the extended position toward the retracted position. An optional damper exerts a damping force on the spring rod or other part of the cam arm control system when the cam arm moves in a closing direction.
US10704305B2	Door opening/closing device A door opening/closing device including a door, a locking hook mounted on an inner surface of the door, a solenoid mounted in a device housing, a locking lever connected swingably to a movable iron core of the solenoid and having a free end on an opposite side of a connection portion, and a controller for controlling the solenoid, in which the controller executes control so as to, if the door is closed and locked, separate the locking lever from the locking hook to release locking in conjunction with the movable iron core retreated by an electromagnetic attracting force by executing conduction control of the solenoid, and maintain an unlocked state while the door is closed by executing non-conduction control of the solenoid after unlocking and bringing the free end of the locking lever into contact with the locking hook by a return spring force.
US10704304B2	Memory levers for latch mechanisms of vehicle compartment closure assemblies Latch mechanisms for vehicle compartment closure assemblies, methods for making or using such latch mechanisms, and motor vehicles with a latch system for sensing latching/unlatching of a closure assembly are presented. A latch mechanism includes a forkbolt that attaches to the vehicle body and moves between a latched position, engaging a striker and thereby latching a compartment closure assembly in a closed position, and an unlatched position, disengaging the striker. A detent lever attaches to the vehicle body adjacent the forkbolt and moves between a locked position, locking the forkbolt in the latched position, and an unlocked position, disengaging the forkbolt. A memory lever adjacent the forkbolt moves between a catching position, retaining the detent lever in the unlocked position, and a releasing position, disengaging the detent lever. The forkbolt, when moving from the unlatched to the latched position, moves the memory lever from the catching to the releasing position.
US10704303B2	Self-aligning latching interface for a latching actuator A latching assembly includes a hinge defining a slot, the slot having a slot length and a slot width, wherein the slot length is greater than the slot width, and a latching actuator having a housing and a plunger partially disposed in the housing, the plunger configured to translate and rotate relative to the housing, the plunger having a distal end with a plunger end length and a plunger end width, wherein the plunger end length is greater than the plunger end width, the plunger configured to be inserted into the slot. The plunger end length is greater than the slot width and the plunger end length is less than the slot length by a clearance amount.
US10704300B2	Device and method for locking a motor vehicle door closed in response to a side impact A locking device is provided for a motor vehicle door. The locking device includes a body having a base, a stake, a lever, a gusset and a rotational axis. A method of locking a motor vehicle door closed in response to a side impact is also provided.
US10704295B2	Electro-mechanical lock and installation method having integrated electrical conductor An electro-mechanical lock is provided for a door. The lock includes inner and outer lock components mounted on opposite sides of the door and a tube extending between the inner and outer lock components, the tube being configured to receive a spindle extending through the door. The tube includes an electrical conductor integrated with the tube as a one-piece construction for transmitting electrical power and/or control signals between first and second electrical connectors at the inner and outer lock components. The tube is less fragile than conventional double tube arrangements in locks and thus can be more easily cut to length and installed at the door, improving reliability and cost effectiveness of methods of installation.
US10704288B2	Temporary maintenance enclosures and methods of maintaining turbine blades A temporary maintenance enclosure for the maintenance of at least part of a turbine blade, the enclosure comprises a platform arranged, in use, to border at least part of the circumference of a blade in need of maintenance; at least one wall and a roof which are carried by the platform; the at least one wall extending from the platform; wherein said roof extends from the wall towards the blade; and wherein the enclosure further comprises a flexible sheath which seals onto the blade to provide a sealed volume for maintenance of said blade.
US10704287B1	Inflatable tent with air mattress The inflatable tent with air mattress is an inflatable shelter. The inflatable tent with air mattress comprises a quadric shelter and a base sheeting. The quadric shelter attaches to the base sheeting to form an enclosed interior space that serves as the shelter. The base sheeting is a fluid impermeable sheeting that forms a barrier between the ground and the enclosed interior space formed by the inflatable tent with air mattress. The quadric shelter is an inflatable structure. When inflated, the quadric shelter expands away from the base sheeting to form the enclosed interior spaces of the inflatable tent with air mattress The quadric shelter forms a liquid impermeable barrier that forms the superior surface of the inflatable tent with air mattress.
US10704283B2	Pool cleaning robot and a method for cleaning a pool A pool cleaning robot that includes a ballast tank for controlling a buoyancy of the submarine pool cleaner; at least one cleaning element for cleaning debris from an underwater surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot hovers over the underwater surface; a propulsion module that is configured to propel the submersible pool cleaner; and a steering module that comprises a rudder and diving planes.
US10704276B2	Access structure integration assembly and integrated access systems and methods of using the same The invention includes an access structure integration assembly and an integrated system using the assembly. An access structure integrated assembly includes at least one channeled structure and at least one joist socket slidingly engaged with the channeled structure. The channeled structure is configured to secure to a base structure, such as a suspended work platform system, and the joist socket is configured to secure to a second structure, such as a supported work platform system. An integrated system includes a base structure, a second structure and at least two integration assemblies, each assembly including a channeled structure secured to the base structure and a joist socket secured to the second structure and slidingly engaged with the channeled structure.
US10704272B1	Tile backsplash manufacture method Method of manufacture for panels usable as Tile backsplashes in showers or kitchen areas, to provide the surface with a desired appearance, durability, as well as water and air resistance. The proposed product of the method creates a “belly splash” panel specifically formed from a composite of epoxy and glass.
US10704269B2	Floor covering with interlocking design Surface coverings, such as floor coverings, with an interlocking design are described. Methods of making the surface coverings are further described. A plank including a resilient composite sheet having four sides, an upper surface, a lower surface, and an overall thickness, and said composite sheet comprising at least one base layer, wherein said at least one base layer comprising at least one polymeric material and at least one filler, wherein opposite sides of the composite sheet comprise a first tongue on a first side and a first groove on the opposite second side, wherein the first tongue and first groove have complementary shape to each other to be interlockingly engageable with a corresponding groove or tongue on an adjacent floor plank.
US10704263B2	High albedo moisture-retaining foam roofing and facade systems Exemplary systems and methods allow for enhanced energy performance of buildings, for example hybrid roof systems. The system may utilize a material having a porous water-retaining substrate and a high albedo coating. The high albedo coating may be disposed on the outer surface of the porous water-retaining substrate.
US10704261B2	Reinforced composite column A building support column includes a lower assembly with a connection bracket that includes a bottom plate. A body that includes plastic defines an exterior perimeter about support rods that extend from the bottom plate of the connection bracket. An adjustment leg that includes a threaded portion is movable within a center hole of the body to define a distance between the foot and the bottom plate.
US10704255B2	Soundproof structure and soundproof structure manufacturing method A soundproof structure has a plurality of soundproof cells arranged in a two-dimensional manner. Each of the plurality of soundproof cells includes a frame formed of a frame member forming an opening and a film fixed to the frame. Two or more types of soundproof cells having different first resonance frequencies are present in the plurality of soundproof cells. A shielding peak frequency at which transmission loss is maximized is present within a range equal to or higher than a lowest frequency among first resonance frequencies of the soundproof cells and equal to or lower than a highest frequency among the first resonance frequencies of the soundproof cells.
US10704254B2	Easy to apply air and water barrier articles There are provided rolls comprising an air and water barrier article having opposing first and second major surfaces, a pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on at least the first major surface of the article, and a liner having a first major surface that contacts the opposing second major surface of the article, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive contacts a second major surface of the liner when wound in the roll. There are also provided self adhering air and water barrier articles and building envelopes made using the presently disclosed rolls.
US10704250B2	Sewer cleaning machine A sewer cleaning machine includes a frame and a drum rotatably supported by the frame. The drum includes a cable that is selectively extendable out of the drum. The sewer cleaning machine also includes a motor supported by the frame and coupled to the drum. The motor is operable to rotate the drum. The drum is configured to engage a surface to facilitate moving the sewer cleaning machine along the surface.
US10704246B2	In-ground stormwater collection and pretreatment filtration systems A stormwater management inlet prefilter for system use in green infrastructure which typically includes either biofiltration (e.g. bioretention, tree planters, gravel wetlands) or infiltration (e.g. leech fields, dry wells, infiltration trenches and basins) that both provide recharge of stormwater runoff to groundwater aquifers and treated discharge to surface waters. The system can be used as an edge of curb system, a drop inlet, or inline. The system can be used both in retrofit or new installations and extends the operating life and reduces the maintenance burden of stormwater management systems by filtering out trash and debris at the inlet. The system enables the simplified maintenance of stormwater management systems at the inlet in an accessible location with no special equipment required. Installation is simple and comparable to common catch basins and grates. Preferably, the system is made of pre-cast concrete, HDPE, and stainless steel and is resistant to rust and rot from corrosive winter runoff. No special equipment necessary and maintenance is simple and utilizes standard vacuum trucks for catch basin cleaning by use of a pressure washer and vacuum equipment.
US10704236B2	Multi-use reservoir that conserves and allows reuse of water Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing a water saving mechanism. In one aspect, a reservoir is provided to collect cold water while hot water is being heated. Once a desired temperature is reached, a valve is actuated to allow water to bypass the reservoir and be dispensed through a shower head. The reservoir can be used to dispense the cold water at a later time.
US10704232B2	Hydraulic system for working machine A hydraulic system for a working machine includes an fluid cooler including an input port and an output port, the fluid cooler being configured to cool an operation fluid, an outputting portion to output the operation fluid, a traveling hydraulic device to be activated by the operation fluid, an operating hydraulic device to be activated by the operation fluid, a first output fluid tube connecting the operating hydraulic device to a tank, a second output fluid tube branching from the first output fluid tube and being connected to the input port of the fluid cooler, a third output fluid tube connecting the outputting portion to the output port of the fluid cooler, a fourth output fluid tube connected to the traveling hydraulic device, the fourth output fluid tube being connected to the second output fluid tube, and a first check valve disposed on the fourth output fluid tube.
US10704230B2	Shovel A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper rotating body, an attachment including a boom and an arm, a controller, an engine, and a hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine and discharges hydraulic oil to drive the attachment. The controller is configured to obtain a hydraulic load applied to the attachment and calculate an engine speed command at predetermined time intervals based on the obtained hydraulic load.
US10704226B2	Control method in motor grader and motor grader A control method in a motor grader including a running wheel, an inclination mechanism which inclines the running wheel, an operation portion, and a sensor capable of detecting whether or not the running wheel is at an erect position includes outputting from a controller, a control signal for driving the inclination mechanism in response to an operation command in accordance with a state of operation onto the operation portion and stopping output of the control signal in response to the operation command when the sensor detects the erect position.
US10704222B2	Reinforcement devices, systems and methods for constructing and reinforcing the foundation of a structure The present disclosure relates to reinforcement devices, systems and methods for use in constructing new structures, including post frame structures. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to reinforcement devices, systems and methods for replacing traditional wood and/or precast concrete columns utilized in building a new construction foundation, with a height adjustable foundation column assembly constructed from a corrosion resistant material. The present disclosure also relates to reinforcement devices, systems and methods useful for reinforcing existing post frame structures, particularly those with framing elements requiring repair.
US10704216B2	Sweeping machine with material presentation system A vehicular sweeping machine includes a frame and a broom assembly that is mounted to the frame. The broom assembly includes a broom enclosure and a broom having a generally cylindrical tube with attached bristles that is mounted in the broom enclosure and adapted to rotate about a generally horizontal axis. The broom assembly also includes a material presentation system that is adapted to move material on the roadway into contact with the broom in the form of a windrow that is located generally in front of the center of the broom assembly. The sweeping machine also includes a broom conveyor having a lower end that is disposed within the broom enclosure.
US10704214B1	Striping system and method A laser is pivotally attached to a line striping machine. The laser projects a planar line outwardly from the line striping machine. The laser freely rotates about a longitudinal axis, under the influence of gravity, relative to the line striping machine, independent of the orientation of the line striping machine, so as to project a vertically planar line regardless of the vertical orientation of the line striping machine. The subject technology compensates for changes in surface contour by providing a rotating laser that projects a vertically compensated projection plane that causes a vertically compensated reference line projected upon the surface.
US10704203B2	Absorbent sheets having high absorbency and high caliper, and methods of making soft, absorbent sheets A cellulosic sheet includes a single ply providing a first surface of the cellulosic sheet on one side and a second surface of the cellulosic sheet on a second side. The single ply has a caliper of at least about 130 mils/8 sheets, a basis weight of less than about 16 lbs/ream, and a dry machine direction/cross machine direction (MD/CD) tensile ratio of less than about 1.0.
US10704199B2	Use of cellulosic fibre pulp Use of cellulosic fibre pulp having a Schopper-Riegler number according to ISO 5267-1 of about 70 or more as an additive to papermaking pulp for enhancing compressive strength of paper or board manufactured from the papermaking pulp. A process for enhancing compressive strength of paper or board manufactured from a papermaking pulp, comprising use of a cellulosic fibre pulp having a Schopper-Riegler number according to ISO 5267-1 of about 70 or more as a component of the papermaking pulp.
US10704194B2	Ink jet ink composition for textile printing and ink jet textile printing method An ink jet ink composition for textile printing contains a crosslinking component having a blocked isocyanate group, tertiary amine, at least one carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid, and tricarboxylic acid, a pigment, and water.
US10704185B2	Apparatus for treating laundry A cabinet includes a front panel having an opening at a front side, a door seated on the front panel, the door having a diameter greater than that of the opening to open/close the opening, a control panel located at a top part of the front panel, the control panel defining a seating recess configured to seat a top part of the door and a draw hole at a lateral side of the seating recess, a detergent box drawably located in the draw hole and configured to receive detergent, a handle panel coupled to a front side of the detergent box, the handle panel including one side configured as an avoidant surface corresponding to a shape of an outer circumference of the seating recess, and a preventing part configured to prevent the avoidant surface from being spaced apart from the front side of the detergent box.
US10704178B2	Laundry treating apparatus having a pump body support leg including a rigid head and a deformable stem Provided is a laundry treating apparatus in which vibrations are reduced. The laundry treating apparatus includes a tub holding washing water, a drum rotatably disposed within the tub and holding laundry, a nozzle jetting the washing water to an interior of the drum, a pump unit having a pump body, a drain pump coupled to the pump body and outwardly draining washing water introduced from the interior of the tub to the pump body, and a circulation pump coupled to the pump body and supplying washing water introduced from the interior of the tub to the pump body to the nozzle, a cabinet accommodating the tub, the drum, the nozzle, and the pump unit therein, and a mount coupled to the pump body and the cabinet to absorb vibrations.
US10704177B2	Washing machine lid attachment A washing machine lid and a hinge for attaching the washing machine lid. The washing machine includes a cabinet and a rotatable lid. A hinge rotatably connects the lid to a top panel or front panel of the cabinet. The hinge includes a shaft, a housing defining a cavity for receiving an end of the shaft, and a connecting member extending from the housing such that the housing and the connecting member are rotatable around the shaft. The connecting member includes one or more tabs. The lid includes a pocket, the pocket receives the hinge, the pocket defines one or more sockets for receiving the one or more tabs, and the one or more tabs are biased into engagement with the one or more sockets.
US10704176B2	Clothes mover for an automatic washer A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.
US10704173B2	Process for forming a high loft, nonwoven web exhibiting excellent recovery A process for forming a high loft, nonwoven web is disclosed. The process includes introducing a single molten polymer to a die having a plurality of nozzles. Emitting the molten polymer through the nozzles to form a plurality of filaments. Using air streams to facilitate movement and drawing of the filaments. Directing the filaments, which are transformed into fibers, towards a pair of heated moving surfaces. The pair of heated moving surfaces forming a convergent passage having an entry and an exit. Depositing the fibers into the entry of the convergent passage and routing the fibers between the pair of heated moving surfaces in a machine direction to form a high loft, non-woven web. The web having a fiber size distribution of from 0 μm to about 15 μm with at least about 25% of the fibers being above 4 μm.
US10704171B2	Method of fabricating a needled fiber structure A method of fabricating a needled fiber structure using a needling machine having a needling head with a plurality of needles, the method including placing a first fiber layer on a support; needling the first fiber layer, with the needling head being in a first position relative to the support, at least at the end of needling the first layer; after needling the first layer, implementing relative movement between the support and the needling head so as to cause the needling head to go from the first position relative to the support to a second position that is different from the first; placing a second fiber layer on the needled first fiber layer; and needling the second fiber layer placed on the first fiber layer, the needling head being in the second position relative to the support at least at the beginning of needling the second fiber layer.
US10704170B2	Device equipped with pattern-controlled components and textile machine comprising such a device A device (1) equipped with pattern-controlled components (2) for pattern-controlled feeding and/or selection of yarn for a textile machine, comprising a plurality of actuators (4) and a cooling circuit (5, 8) through which coolant is flowable for the cooling of the actuators (4), whereby the actuators (4) in the device (1) are installed alongside the cooling circuit (5, 8) and are mountable so as to be detachable so that the actuators can be removed without interrupting the cooling circuit (5, 8). Furthermore, a textile machine comprising such a device (1).
US10704163B2	Silicon carbide substrate and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide substrate includes steps of preparing a silicon carbide substrate having a main surface, polishing the main surface of the silicon carbide substrate using a polishing agent containing a metal catalyst, and cleaning the silicon carbide substrate after the step of polishing. The step of cleaning includes a step of cleaning the silicon carbide substrate with aqua regia.
US10704162B2	Aluminum nitride single crystal Provided is an aluminum nitride single crystal which is easier to cut than conventional ones. The presently disclosed aluminum nitride single crystal 1 has a matrix region M constituting a matrix of the aluminum nitride single crystal, and at least one domain region D included in the matrix region M.
US10704158B2	Electrochemical plating Methods for use in electrochemical plating processes are described herein. An exemplary method includes determining a wafer electrical property associated with a wafer, wherein the wafer electrical property affects the wafer during an electrochemical plating (ECP) process; adjusting a process parameter to be applied to the wafer during the ECP process based on the determined wafer electrical property, wherein the process parameter specifies at least one of a current or a voltage; and applying the adjusted process parameter to the wafer undergoing the ECP process. In some implementations, the process parameter is adjusted, such that a peak entry current of the ECP process substantially matches a plating current of the ECP process induced following the peak entry current.
US10704154B2	Anode clamping device An anode clamp configured for clamping an anode rod to an anode bus, the anode clamp comprising a first rotating mechanism and a second rotating mechanism. The first rotating mechanism is configured to be rotated by a user and is in contact with the second rotating mechanism. When the first rotating mechanism is rotated, it causes the second rotating mechanism to rotate. The second rotating mechanism as a pawl which is configured for being rotated downwards to apply pressure on an anode rod located below the pawl.
US10704153B2	Copper nanoparticle structures for reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to copper nanoparticle structures for reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of copper nanoparticles. The plurality of copper nanoparticles are deposited on a support. The plurality of copper nanoparticles are transformed to a plurality of copper structures during an operation in which carbon dioxide is reduced. The plurality of copper nanoparticles on the support are used as a working electrode in an electrochemical cell during the operation.
US10704150B2	Monitoring thin film deposition A system for monitoring thin film deposition is described. The system includes a quartz crystal and a synthesizer to generate a modulated signal. The modulated signal is to be grounded through the quartz crystal. The system also includes a phase detector to determine a phase of the modulated signal from the quartz crystal in order to monitor thin film deposition. A modulation index can be selected so that, at resonance, high frequency of the signal matches the crystal frequency.
US10704147B2	Process kit design for in-chamber heater and wafer rotating mechanism Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed process kits for use with an in-chamber heater and substrate rotating mechanism. In some embodiments consistent with the present disclosure, a process kit for use with a rotatable substrate support heater pedestal for supporting a substrate in a process chamber may include an upper edge ring including a top ledge and a skirt the extends downward from the top ledge, a lower edge ring that at least partially supports the upper edge ring and aligns the upper edge ring with the substrate support heater pedestal, a bottom plate disposed on a bottom of the process chamber that supports the upper edge ring when the substrate support heater pedestal is in a lowered non-processing position, and a shadow ring that couples with the upper edge ring when the substrate support heater pedestal is in a raised processing position.
US10704130B2	Method of relieving stress from face plate welds of a golf club head The present disclosure relates to methods for forming a golf club head assembly using a combination of different, but separate heat treatments for the golf club head body and high strength faceplate, and vibrational waves to relive stress in the weld heat affected zones of the golf club body and face.
US10704128B2	High-strength corrosion-resistant aluminum alloys and methods of making the same Disclosed are high-strength aluminum alloys and methods of making and processing such alloys. The aluminum alloys described herein exhibit improved mechanical strength, deformability, and corrosion resistance properties. In addition, the aluminum alloys can be prepared from recycled materials. The aluminum alloy products prepared from the alloys described herein include precipitates to enhance strength, such as MgZn2/Mg(Zn,Cu)2, Mg2Si, and Al4Mg8Si7Cu2.
US10704126B2	Non-normalized steel composition and connecting rod using the same, and method of manufacturing the connecting rod Disclosed are a non-normalized steel composition which includes carbon (C), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), sulfur (S), vanadium (V), titanium (Ti), nitrogen (N), and iron (Fe), and a method of manufacturing the connecting rod for improving yield strength, fatigue strength, and the like of the connecting rod. The non-normalized steel composition includes carbon (C) in an amount of about 0.30 to 0.55 weight %, silicon (Si) in an amount of about 0.80 to 1.20 weight %, manganese (Mn) in an amount of about 0.80 to 1.20 weight %, sulfur (S) in an amount of about 0.06 to 0.10 weight %, vanadium (V) in an amount of about 0.20 to 0.35 weight %, titanium (Ti) in an amount of about 0.01 to 0.20 weight %, nitrogen (N) in an amount of about 0.005 to 0.02 weight %, and the remainder of iron (Fe), and inevitable impurities, based on a total weight of the composition.
US10704118B2	Steel wire and wire rod A predetermined composition is had, when a C content is represented by (C %), in a case of (C %) being not less than 0.35% nor more than 0.65%, a volume fraction of pearlite is 64×(C %)+52% or more, and in a case of (C %) being greater than 0.65% and 0.85% or less, the volume fraction of pearlite is not less than 94% nor more than 100%, and a structure of the other portion is composed of one or two of proeutectoid ferrite and bainite. Further, in a region to a depth of 1.0 mm from a surface, a volume fraction of pearlite block having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is not less than 70% nor more than 95%, and a volume fraction of pearlite having an angle between an axial direction and a lamellar direction on a cross section parallel to the axial direction of 40° or less is 60% or more with respect to all pearlite.
US10704113B2	Grain oriented electrical steel sheet and production method therefor A magnetic domain refining treatment is performed by dividing a surface of a steel sheet into a plurality of regions in a widthwise direction, disposing a laser irradiation apparatus or an electron beam irradiation apparatus in each of the regions, and forming beam-irradiated regions through beam irradiation, wherein beams are irradiated so that a nature of a juncture between beam-irradiated regions satisfies 0≤α≤0.3×a and −1.2×a+0.02×w−0.5×α−6.5≤β≤−0.13×a−200×(1/w)+5.4 when TD spacing β at the juncture between the beam-irradiated regions is −3 to 0 mm, whereby a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having an excellent iron loss property is produced in a good productivity.
US10704107B2	Detecting gastrointestinal neoplasms Provided herein is technology for gastrointestinal neoplasia screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of gastrointestinal neoplasm, and classifying the site location of such a gastrointestinal neoplasm (e.g., a colorectal region, a pancreaticobiliary region, a gastroesophageal region).
US10704095B2	Method and kit for DNA typing of HLA gene The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and kit for highly precise DNA typing, in which ambiguity derived from phase ambiguity is eliminated. The present invention provides a method for the DNA typing of HLA, which is characterized by comprising: (1) a step of preparing a set of primers which can respectively anneal specifically to an upstream region and a downstream region of each of HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DQA1, HLA-DQB1, HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DPB1 gene in the nucleotide sequence for the human genome, and a set of primers which can respectively anneal specifically to exon-2 and a 3′-side non-translated region in HLA-DRB1; (2) a step of carrying out the PCR amplification of a sample to be tested (DNA) using the sets of primers; (3) a step of determining the nucleotide sequence for a PCR-amplified product; and (4) an optional step of carrying out the homology search in a data base.
US10704094B1	Multipart reagents having increased avidity for polymerase binding Multivalent binding compositions including a particle-nucleotide conjugate having a plurality of copies of a nucleotide attached to the particle are described. The multivalent binding compositions allow one to localize detectable signals to active regions of biochemical interaction, e.g., sites of protein-protein interaction, protein-nucleic acid interaction, nucleic acid hybridization, or enzymatic reaction, and can be used to identify sites of base incorporation in elongating nucleic acid chains during polymerase reactions and to provide improved base discrimination for sequencing and array based applications.
US10704091B2	Genotyping by next-generation sequencing Provided herein is technology relating to genotyping and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods for genotyping one or more organisms by genome sequencing.
US10704088B2	Massively parallel integrated circuit-based DNA synthesis devices, systems, and methods DNA synthesis devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. An apparatus can include a synthesizer chip having an array of reaction units in a predetermined pattern, each reaction unit including a reaction surface and a reaction electrode of an IC array of reaction electrodes, and a synthesizer chip controller coupled to the IC array of reaction electrodes configured to address each reaction electrode individually. The apparatus can also include a reagent delivery chip positionable above the synthesizer chip, comprising an array of reagent delivery units arranged in the predetermined pattern, each reagent delivery unit including a reagent electrode of an IC array of reagent electrodes and each reagent delivery unit configured to receive and deliver a droplet of reagent fluid having a volume of 1 picoliter or less, and a reagent delivery chip controller coupled to the IC array of reagent electrodes configured to address each reagent electrode individually.
US10704084B2	Methods and kits for theranostic applications The present disclosure is directed to methods and kits for identifying, enriching, and evaluating templated assembly reactants. Some embodiments disclose methods for identifying templated assembly targets by synthesizing templated assembly reactants, hybridizing the templated assembly reactants to target nucleic acids, performing a templated assembly reaction, and identifying the target nucleic acids that hybridized to the templated assembly reactants. Libraries of templated assembly reactants, a kit for identifying templated assembly targets, and a pair of templated assembly targets enriched from a library of chemically-ligated oligonucleotides spatially elicited (CLOSE) products are also disclosed.
US10704082B2	Methods of nucleic acid sample preparation Aspects of the technology disclosed herein relate to methods of preparing and analyzing nucleic acids. In some embodiments, methods for preparing nucleic acids for sequence analysis (e.g., using next-generation sequencing) are provided herein.
US10704080B2	Nucleotide sequence exclusion enrichment by droplet sorting (NEEDLS) The present invention pertains to an in vitro method in which a targeted DNA molecule containing a DNA sequence of interest is enriched by a) general amplification of DNA molecules in a multiple of droplets each containing less than 0.5 target DNA molecule on average (404), b) specific detection of the target DNA molecule in each of the droplets (405), and c) physically selecting droplets containing target DNA molecules (406).
US10704068B2	Method of producing heparan sulfate having anticoagulant activity The present invention provides a method of producing a heparan sulfate having an anticoagulant activity. Specifically, the present invention provides the method of producing a heparan sulfate having a desired molecular weight, by partially N-deacetylating a heparosan followed by depolymerizing the heparosan by heparinase III, and converting the produced low molecular weight product into heparan sulfate having an anticoagulant activity.
US10704055B2	Use of the coffee homeobox gene CAHB12 to produce transgenic plants with greater tolerance to water scarcity and salt stress The proposed innovation relates to the biotechnological improvement of plant species of commercial interest. More specifically, the present invention relates to the production of transgenic plants biotechnological with greater tolerance to water deficit and salt stress by means of the expression of a new gene of coffee (of the Coffea Arabica species), belonging to the HD-Zip family, and characterized by a homeodomain associated with a leucine zipper. The expression of this transcriptional factor is induced in leaves and roots of coffee plants subjected to various water deficit conditions (both moderate and severe); transgenic plants that over-express this gene inhibiting greater tolerance both to differ drought intensities and to high salt concentrations.
US10704047B2	Composition for delivery of genetic material The present invention relates to exosomes, loaded with genetic material and methods of producing them and to the use of such exosomes for delivering genetic material in vivo, in particular the use of such exosomes in methods of gene therapy or gene silencing.
US10704046B2	Multimeric oligonucleotide compounds The disclosure provides multimeric oligonucleotide compounds, comprising two or more target-specific oligonucleotides (e.g., antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs)), each being resistant to cleavage, and linked together by a cleavable linker. In particular, two or more linked target-specific oligonucleotides, each to a different target, allows concomitant inhibition of multiple genes' expression levels, while exhibiting favorable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. Methods of making and uses of the described compounds are also provided.
US10704043B2	Nucleic acid nanostructures with core motifs Optimized inhibitory nucleic acids are provided. The nucleic acids have sequences which include an optimal inhibitory motif, such as a GGG. Related methods are also described.
US10704037B2	Processes for the manufacture and use of pancreatin A process for the manufacture and use of pancreatin in which the concentration of one or more biological contaminants is reduced, such as viruses and/or bacteria, through heating the pancreatin at a temperature of at least 85° C. for a period of less than about 48 hours.
US10704032B2	Retrovirus packaging cell The present invention relates to a retrovirus packaging cell which expresses a temperature sensitive RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase (RdRp).
US10704028B2	Duck enteritis virus and the uses thereof The present invention relates to DEV and the uses thereof. The invention is particularly suited to vaccinate poultry against avian pathogens.
US10704026B2	Ex vivo culture, proliferation and expansion of intestinal epithelium Methods are provided for long term culture of mammalian intestinal cells. Cultures are initiated with fragments of mammalian intestinal tissue, which are then maintained embedded in a gel substrate that provides an air-liquid interface. Intestinal epithelium in cultures of the invention can be continuously grown for extended periods of time. Mammalian intestinal cells cultured by the methods of the invention recapitulate features of intestinal growth in vivo.
US10704020B2	Incubator An incubator includes: an insulated box including an incubation space surrounded by multiple inner faces; a humidifying unit that humidifies an incubation space; a first heating unit that heats a first inner face among the multiple inner faces, with electric power supplied; a second heating unit that heats a second inner face, different from the first inner face, with electric power supplied; and a control unit that controls the magnitude of electric power supplied to each of the first heating unit and the second heating unit. The control unit repeatedly changes the magnitude of electric power supplied to the first heating unit at first timing, and also repeatedly changes the magnitude of electric power supplied to the second heating unit at second timing different from the first timing.
US10704016B2	Device for propagating microtissues Disclosed are devices for propagating at least one microtissue, methods for manufacturing such devices, and the use us such devices, said devices comprise at least one well, wherein said at least one well comprises an open upper section comprising an open upper end and an open lower end, and a lower section comprising an open upper end and a bottom end, wherein the upper section and the lower section are in fluid communication, and wherein the bottom end of the lower section of at least one well of said plurality of wells is provided with a well bottom, said lower section of said at least one well has a smaller cross-sectional area than the open upper section of the same well.
US10704008B2	Heat-conductive silicone grease composition A heat-conductive silicone grease composition comprising (A) an organopolysiloxane in an amount of 20 to 90 parts by mass, (B) a non-silicone-type organic compound in an amount of 80 to 10 parts by mass (wherein the total amount of the components (A) and (B) is 100 parts by mass) and (C) a heat-conductive inorganic filler having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 100 μm in an amount of 200 to 2,000 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the components (A) and (B), wherein the SP value of the non-silicone-type organic compound (B) is greater than that of the organopolysiloxane (A) (i.e., (B)>(A)), the value obtained by subtracting the SP value of the component (A) from the SP value of the component (B) is greater than 2, and the viscosity of the heat-conductive silicone grease composition is 50 to 1,000 Pa·s at 25° C.
US10704004B2	Reduced temperature gas dehydration In a natural gas dehydration system, a heat exchanger has first and second passages in thermal communication but fluidly isolated from each other. An eductor pump combines a first stream of natural gas and water vapor from the first passage with a second stream of natural gas and water vapor to form a third stream of natural gas and condensed water, water vapor, or both that is provided to a separator which separates at least part of the water from the third stream to form a fourth stream of natural gas and water vapor that is output via the second passage to a distribution pipeline or a storage system.
US10704000B2	Polymeric dispersants for petroleum process streams Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for reducing fouling by natural and synthetic foulants that tend to precipitate during petroleum collecting, processing, transporting, and storing. The method includes applying one or more antifouling polymers to a petroleum product to form a treated petroleum product, wherein fouling by the treated petroleum product is reduced and a stable dispersion is formed over a wide range of processing conditions. The one or more antifouling polymers include the polymerized residues of one or more α-olefins and maleic anhydride, further wherein the maleic anhydride residues are reacted with a primary amine. Concentrates of the antifouling polymers in solvents are stable and pourable at temperatures of 0° C. to −40° C.
US10703994B2	Process and apparatus for two-stage deasphalting Solvent deasphalting (SDA) in series is used to extract deasphalted oil from heavier hydrocarbons in series. Instead of stripping the pitch material of solvent in the second stage which can stick in the pitch stripper and inhibit flow, a dryer is used to vaporize solvent for recycle to the second SDA unit and produce pitch solids.
US10703992B2	Process and apparatus for recovering hydrocracked soft pitch Settling unconverted pitch from a SHC reactor effluent before fractionation improves efficiency of fractionation of slurry hydrocracked products. The recycle of soft pitch to the SHC reactor results in improved reactor operation by avoiding the recycle of lighter products which vaporize in the reactor to occupy reactor space and the recycle of hard pitch which will not convert. The settling step facilitated by mixing with a solvent can achieve a separation between soft pitch and hard pitch not achievable in a fractionation column.
US10703990B2	Process for slurry hydrocracking using catalyst with low diaspore alumina A process is disclosed for using an iron oxide and alumina catalyst with no more than more than about 55 wt % of the alumina in the diaspore phase or in the alpha phase in SHC. Alpha alumina is less effective catalyst component for slurry hydrocracking in terms of TIOR conversion. Drying procedures should avoid more than about 51 wt % of the alumina change to the alpha phase. The SHC catalyst is for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products.
US10703989B2	Conserving fresh wash water usage in desalting crude oil Methods for conserving the use of fresh wash water in crude oil desalting are described. A crude oil stream including salt mixes with a wash water stream to form an emulsion. The emulsion flows to a desalter, and the wash water coalesces to reform the wash water stream and to transfer at least a portion of the salt from the crude oil stream to the wash water stream. The crude oil stream with reduced salt content separates from the wash water stream. The effluent, which includes the wash water stream, flows from the desalter to a processing unit. The effluent is processed to reduce a concentration of salt in the effluent to be substantially equal to or less than a concentration of salt in the wash water stream. At least a portion of the processed effluent mixes with the crude oil stream before the emulsion flows to the desalter.
US10703982B2	Process for solvent extraction of oil sand bitumen A process for solvent extraction of bitumen from mined oil sand ore is provided, comprising mixing the mined oil sand ore with at least one solvent to produce a solvent/oil sand slurry; adding water to the solvent/oil sand slurry to produce a slurry having a water-to-solids mass ratio of less than about 0.1; mixing the slurry in a mixing tank having a diameter to agglomerate the solids present in the slurry, the mixing tank operating at a power input of between 20 and 50 W/kg of slurry, to produce an agglomerated slurry; and subjecting the agglomerated slurry to solid-liquid separation to produce a first liquids stream containing bitumen and a first solids stream; whereby the slurry height in the mixing tank is 0.1 to 0.3 of the tank diameter.
US10703975B2	Flame-retardant materials and systems A flame-retardant composition has a plurality of particles with at least one porosity therein, a flame retardant gas occupying the porosity, and a matrix material in which said particles are dispersed. A sealant applied to at least a portion of the particles, wherein the sealant substantially prevents the gas from escaping the porosities. The matrix is a flame-retardant composition adapted to be applied to various surfaces. The matrix may also function as the sealant. The sealant is formed of a material that will break down and release the gas in the presence of water or flame or other selected conditions. The sealant may be a polymer material. This solves the problem of applying flame-retardant qualities to various surfaces.
US10703971B2	Chemiluminescent substrates Alkaline phosphatase chemiluminescent substrate formulations are provided exhibiting rapid incubation periods and improved stability for use in immunoassays.
US10703964B2	Proppant coating having preformed isocyanurate A coated proppant includes a solid core proppant particle, a first resin coating, and a second coating on the first resin coating. The second coating includes the reaction product of one or more curatives and one or more preformed aliphatic or cycloaliphatic based isocyanurate tri-isocyanates, derived from aliphatic diisocyanates, cycloaliphatic diisocyanates, or a combination of aliphatic and cycloaliphatic diisocyanates.
US10703963B1	Systems and methods of hydrating polymer additives A method includes flowing a hydrating liquid in an extensional flow regime through an elongated passageway of an extender, wherein a flow rate of the hydrating liquid and a diameter of the elongated passageway are sufficient to achieve a Reynolds number of 20,000 or greater. A hydratable additive is added to the hydrating liquid in the elongated passageway to produce a mixture comprising the hydratable additive that is at least partially hydrated.
US10703960B2	Methods and compositions for use in oil and/or gas wells Methods comprising a microemulsion for use in various aspects of the life cycle of an oil and/or gas well are provided. In some embodiments, the microemulsion comprises water, a solvent, and a surfactant, and optionally, one or more additives.
US10703946B2	Adhesive delamination layer including at least one non-linear organopolysiloxane An adhesive delamination layer including at least one non-linear organopolysiloxane and methods for display device substrate processing are disclosed. The method includes securing the display device substrate to a carrier substrate with an adhesive delamination layer including a cured product of curing a precursor adhesive composition. The precursor adhesive composition includes Component (A), a hydrogenorganopolysiloxane and Component (B), a (C2-C20)alkenyl-functionalized organopolysiloxane, wherein the (C2-C20)alkenyl group is uninterrupted or interrupted by 1, 2, or 3 groups independently chosen from —O—, —S—, substituted or unsubstituted —NH—, —(O—(C2-C3)alkylene)n- wherein n is 1 to 1,000, —Si((C1-C5)alkoxy)2-, and —Si((C1-C5)alkyl)2- wherein at least one of Component (A) and Component (B) is non-linear.
US10703945B2	Method for temporary bonding workpiece and adhesive A method for temporary bonding workpiece includes steps as follows. A combining step is performed, wherein an adhesive layer is formed on a surface of at least one substrate and/or at least one workpiece. A bonding step is performed, wherein the substrate and the workpiece are bonded by the adhesive layer. A processing step is performed, wherein the workpiece is processed. A debonding step is performed, wherein the adhesive layer is irradiated with a laser so as to separate the workpiece from the substrate. The adhesive layer is formed by an adhesive, the adhesive includes a polymer and a light absorbing material, a content of the polymer in a solid content of the adhesive is in a range of 50 wt % to 98 wt %, a content of the light absorbing material in the solid content of the adhesive is in a range of 2 wt % to 50 wt %.
US10703928B2	Aqueous coating compositions having low or zero VOCs and comprising encapsulated or polymer adsorbed pigments and letdown binders The present invention provides aqueous compositions useful as zero VOC coating compositions having a % opacifying pigment volume concentration (% OPVC) of from 2 to 25 and comprising (i) an opacifier composition of an at least partially polymer encapsulated opacifying pigment, a polymer opacifying pigment composite or their mixtures, with the opacifying pigment, encapsulated in and/or as a composite with at least one soft polymer having a measured glass transition temperature (measured Tg) of 5° C. or less, and (ii) a hard binder polymer having a measured Tg of at least 30° C. and a weight average particle size of 120 nm or less, wherein the ratio of the weight average particle size of the opacifier composition to that of the hard binder polymer is from 2:1 to 12:1 and the volume ratio of the opacifying pigment to the soft polymer solids in the opacifier composition is from 2:5 to 1:1.
US10703923B2	Naphthalocyanine derivatives The present invention relates to the use of specific naphthalocyanine chromophores with different axial substituents as almost colourless IR absorbers for security printing applications.
US10703922B2	Thermally inkjettable acrylic dielectric ink formulation and process An aqueous composition for forming a micro-fluid jet printable dielectric film layer, methods for forming dielectric film layers, and dielectric film layers formed by the method. The aqueous composition includes from about 5 to about 20 percent by 65 weight of a polymeric binder emulsion, from about 10 to about 30 percent by weight of a humectant, from about 0 to about 3 percent by weight of a surfactant, and an aqueous carrier fluid. The aqueous composition has a viscosity ranging from about 2 to about 6 centipoise at a temperature of about 23° C.
US10703920B2	Corrosion-resistant epoxidized vegetable oil can interior coating A coating composition comprising epoxidized vegetable oil, an amine terminated polyamide and a silicone resin is disclosed. Substrates coated at least in part with such coatings are also disclosed.
US10703917B2	Coating compositions suitable for use with an overcoated photoresist In one aspect, organic coating compositions, particularly antireflective coating compositions, are provided that comprise that comprise a diene/dienophile reaction product. In another aspect, organic coating compositions, particularly antireflective coating compositions, are provided that comprise a component comprising a hydroxyl-naphthoic group, such as a 6-hydroxy-2-naphthoic group Preferred compositions of the invention are useful to reduce reflection of exposing radiation from a substrate back into an overcoated photoresist layer and/or function as a planarizing, conformal or via-fill layer.
US10703915B2	Compositions and methods for the deposition of silicon oxide films Described herein are compositions and methods for forming silicon oxide films. In one aspect, the film is deposited from at least one silicon precursor compound, wherein the at least one silicon precursor compound is selected from the following Formulae A and B: as defined herein.
US10703914B2	Coated product A coated particulate inorganic material includes a particulate inorganic material selected from at least one of titanium dioxide and a doped titanium dioxide, and a coating. The particulate inorganic material has an average crystal size of 0.4-2 μm. The coating includes a first and second layer. The first layer includes an inorganic oxide and/or an inorganic phosphate. The second layer is alumina. The first layer is from 0.1 to 2.2% w/w based on a total weight of the first layer with respect to a total weight of the particulate inorganic material. The second layer is 0.1 to 3.5% w/w based on a total weight of the second layer with respect to the total weight of the particulate inorganic material. The coating is from 0.2 to 4.5% w/w based on the total weight of the first and second layer with respect to the total weight of the particulate inorganic material.

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