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US10713785B2	Image quality assessment system and method A system and method includes generation of one or more motion-corrupted images based on each of a plurality of reference images, and training of a regression network to determine a motion score, where training of the regression network includes input of a generated motion-corrupted image to the regression network, reception of a first motion score output by the regression network in response to the input image, and determination of a loss by comparison of the first motion score to a target motion score, the target motion score calculated based on the input motion-corrupted image and a reference image based on which the motion-corrupted image was generated.
US10713767B2	Regulation method, terminal equipment and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for automatic exposure control of region of interest Provided are a regulation method, terminal equipment, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for automatic exposure control (AEC) of a region of interest. In the method, a luminance histogram of each color channel in a region of interest is obtained based on statistics on luminance of a plurality of sub-region blocks in the region of interest; a first luminance of the each color channel is determined according to the luminance histogram of the each color channel in the region of interest and the corresponding relationship between the luminance and the number of the sub-region blocks; a reference luminance is determined based on the first luminance of the each color channel, the reference luminance corresponding to a reference color channel; a target luminance corresponding to the present AEC luminance is obtained; and a luminance regulation is performed on the reference color channel according to the target luminance.
US10713766B2	Automatic alignment of a contrast enhancement system An apparatus and method for insuring the proper alignment of a detected vein pattern and a projected vein pattern are disclosed. The apparatus enhances the visual appearance of veins so that an error that can lead to improper patient care or injury can be avoided.
US10713762B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a correction image, an image density detector to detect image densities of a plurality of areas in the correction image, and circuitry to correct an image formation condition of the image forming device based on detected image densities of the plurality of areas. The circuitry replaces a detected image density of an area of interest selected from the plurality of areas with an average value of detected image densities of two or more areas including adjacent areas adjacent to the area of interest and corrects the image formation condition of the image forming device based on the detected image densities of the plurality of areas after replacement when a difference between the detected image density of the area of interest and at least one of the detected image densities of the adjacent areas exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10713761B2	Method and apparatus to perform local de-noising of a scanning imager image A method is provided to perform local de-noising of an image. The method includes obtaining a region of interest and a region of noise within a scan. The method also includes determining, for a first image based on the region of interest and a second image based on the region of noise, sample blocks and atoms for each image, where each atom contributes to a weighted sum that approximates a sample block in the image. The method also includes determining a measure of similarity of each atom from the first image with atoms from the second image and removing an atom from the first image if the measure of similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The method also includes reconstructing a de-noised image based on atoms remaining in the first image after removing the atom from the first image, and presenting the de-noised image on a display device.
US10713758B2	Filtering systems and methods for supression of non-stationary reverberation in ultrasound images The present technology is generally directed to filtering systems and methods for suppression of reverberation artifacts in ultrasound images. In some embodiments, a method of obtaining a filtered ultrasound image includes taking a first ultrasound image of a target tissue using an applicator. At least a portion of the applicator is moved such that the reverberation artifact ultrasound path length changes relative to the first position of the applicator. A second ultrasound image of the target tissue is then taken. The first and second ultrasound images are synthesized using at least one filtering method. The filtering method attenuates or removes reverberation artifacts in the synthesized ultrasound image.
US10713757B2	Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium An image processing apparatus including an input unit configured to input image data of a target frame, a first processing unit configured to perform a first processing for output image data of a reference frame related to the target frame, which is stored in the memory, to change positions of pixels in the output image data, an image processing unit configured to perform image processing for the image data of the target frame input by the input unit based on the output image data of the reference frame processed by the first processing unit, and a second processing unit configured to perform a second processing, the second processing being according to the first processing, for the image data of the target frame for which image processing has been performed by the image processing unit and to store the processed image data in the memory as output image data of the target frame.
US10713742B1	Shared verification of credential records A personal experience and training (PET) records search and retrieval system allows for shared verification of credentials for a service provider such as a healthcare professional. The professional uploads a credential, and a third party can view the credential and provide verification information via a verification input tool. The verification information includes a name of a verifier, a memo field providing background details on the verifier, and a date of verification. Multiple credentials can be verified, and multiple individuals can verify a single credential. A user can view these details of the verification information through a display box.
US10713734B2	Interview supplementation for universal state tax return Method, system and medium for conducting a universal state tax interview. Provided are techniques to implement a universal state tax interview where interview questions can be skipped based on data obtained from any of a variety of federal tax interviews. Tax information and state-specific details can be imported from a tax data file for the taxpayer created based on the federal tax interview. In this way, state-level tax interviews for the taxpayer can be abbreviated or even skipped entirely, regardless of the provider of the software that conducted the federal tax interview.
US10713729B2	Sensor systems and methods for activity evaluation Systems and methods are discussed for providing sensor enhanced safety, recovery, and activity evaluation systems. Sensors that monitor user activity and behavior are worn by a user and/or placed in the user environment. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety, recovery, and/or activity evaluation. Based on the evaluation, recommendations or adjustments to the terms of an insurance policy covering the user, the user's employer, or a facility providing health care to the user, aer generated, to accurately reflect the risks associated with the user, employer, and/or facility. In embodiments, an alert may be generated when a failure to conform with activity guidelines is detected.
US10713728B1	Risk mitigation for affinity groupings Multiple insurance policies may be grouped or segmented into affinity groups, each of which corresponds to a respective risk level. A set of financial instruments corresponding to a particular affinity group of insurance policies may be created and automatically offered for auction, e.g., online. Bids received from potential investors may indicate, e.g., percentage of assumed risk, percentage of profit sharing, percentage of shared loss, service or commission fee amounts, etc. that are acceptable to the bidding party. The party or parties submitting the winning bids may be awarded investment in the financial instruments and may enter into respective financial agreements with the financial instrument provider, thereby securitizing the risk associated with the insurance policies. Profits and/or losses generated by the insurance policies of the affinity group corresponding to the financial instruments may be distributed in accordance with the terms of the financial agreement.
US10713727B1	Systems and methods for building and utilizing an autonomous vehicle-related event blockchain Methods and systems for maintaining and building an autonomous vehicle-related event blockchain are provided. One or more processors may receive indications of autonomous vehicle events. The autonomous vehicle events may include information relating to technology usage and/or operational events. The autonomous vehicle events may be compiled into a log of recorded autonomous vehicle events. Based upon the autonomous vehicle events, an action to implement may be determined. Additionally, the log may be distributed to a public or private network of distributed nodes to form a consensus on an update to the log of record autonomous vehicle events. As a result, the distributed nodes may maintain an up-to-date record of the shared ledger of autonomous vehicle events.
US10713726B1	Determining insurance policy modifications using informatic sensor data A system may include sensors associated with structures, such that the sensors acquire data sets associated with the structures. The processor receives the data sets from the sensors, determines environmental conditions associated with the structures over a period of time, and determines a structural condition associated with one of the structures based on the data sets. The processor also determines a maintenance condition associated with the one of the structures based on one of the data sets, determines operating parameters associated with appliances within the structure based on the one of the data sets, and determines habits of occupants associated with the one of the structures based on the one of the data sets. The processor then adjusts properties of an insurance policy associated with the one of the structures based on the environmental conditions, the structural condition, the maintenance condition, the operating parameters, the habits, or any combination thereof.
US10713719B2	Trade order submission for electronic trading Various systems and methods for trade order processing in an electronic trading environment are provided. The order processing includes initiating a first thread of instructions at a computing device to send a first trade order onto an electronic exchange. However, if one or more trade orders are identified during the process to send the first trade order, then the one or more orders are queued. When the first trade order is sent to the electronic exchange, then a second thread of instructions is initiated at the computing device to send the queued one or more trade orders (substantially together, if there is more than one) on to the electronic exchange.
US10713715B2	Computing device and method for the temporal arrangement of data A computing device and method for managing an account. A computer displays a historical timeline and an event placement timeline. Past events are shown along the historical timeline, and future events along the event placement timeline. The computer suggest a change to the timing of one of the events. The user moves a movable object to the proposed timing to reschedule the event. The settings of the account are modified to automatically execute that event at the new timing.
US10713714B2	Escrow tab mobile application system and method The present invention, EscrowTab mobile application system and method comprises automating, reviewing, executing, and transmitting documents used in real estate financial transactions by providing document data visualization on a mobile device allowing for review and execution of financial closing documents, such as promissory notes, deeds of trust and financial documents on a mobile device such as a tablet and relaying these documents to and from the originating financial institution, via means of the internet or dedicated communications media.
US10713711B2	Multiple funding account payment instrument analytics A system and method for multiple funding account payment instrument analytics is disclosed. A payment instrument profile is generated for a payment instrument that characterizes past activity on the payment instrument and past activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument. Current activity on the payment instrument and current activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument are monitored to detect an abnormality against the payment instrument profile. A fraud score for the current activity on the payment instrument and current activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument is generated. The fraud score is based on a quantified extent of the abnormality.
US10713703B2	Diversity in media item recommendations In some implementations, a computing device can improve diversity in media item recommendations. For example, the computing device can generate a satisfaction score representing an estimate of the amount satisfaction a user will experience when a candidate media item selected by the user is presented (e.g., played) by the system. The system can determine the difference in satisfaction scores for similar media items over time to determine the amount of satisfaction gained with a subsequent selection and presentation of similar candidate media items. The system can rank candidate media items based the satisfaction gain calculated for each candidate media item and select suggested media items to present to the user based on the candidate media items having the highest satisfaction gain. In some implementations, the computing device can generate satisfaction scores based on an adventurousness score calculated for the user.
US10713696B1	Electronic processing of invoices using assigned users and supplier groups An electronic invoicing system performs a method of processing electronic invoices. A portal is provided by the system. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting electronic invoices and an administrator of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing electronic invoices. An administrator of the enterprise can create and maintain supplier groups in the portal, assign security permissions to the supplier groups in the portal; and assign users to the supplier groups in said portal. The users thereby receive security permission assigned to the supplier group to which they are assigned. The processing of electronic invoices by users is controlled in accordance with the assignments of security permissions to the supplier groups.
US10713695B2	Voice and context recognition for bill creation Methods and systems for facilitating payment of a bill are described. The methods use voice and context recognition to create an inventory of items for a specific user. When it is time to split the bill among a group at a table, each user is apportioned their share of the bill based on their inventory so that each user pays for what they ordered. The users may decide to split the bill differently, such as equally among themselves.
US10713686B2	Peer-to-peer geotargeting content with ad-hoc mesh networks Provided is a process, including: obtaining, in memory of a first mobile computing device, a plurality of content items, at least some of the content items pertaining to respective different geographic areas; receiving, with the first mobile computing device, data indicating a user interaction with a given content item among the plurality of the content items; and in response to receiving the data indicative of the user interaction, transmitting a wireless signal from the first mobile computing device directly to a second mobile computing device that is different from the first mobile computing device, the wireless signal being indicative of the given content item and indicating that the given content item pertains to a given geographic area within range of the wireless signal transmission.
US10713677B2	Method and system for social savings platform via blockchain A method for social saving via blockchain includes: storing blockchain data for a blockchain, each block including at least a block header and blockchain data values associated with each of a plurality of social saving communities including, for each community, account identifiers associated with a plurality of transaction accounts issued by a plurality of issuing institutions; receiving a transaction notification for each account for each community, the notification including the account identifier, a transaction amount, and a confirmation of payment from the issuing institution; updating the blockchain to include, for each transaction, a new blockchain data value that includes the account identifier, transaction amount, and a community identifier; identifying a single account for each community; and initiating payment of a reward amount to the account for each community, wherein the reward amount is based on a sum of amounts received for the respective community.
US10713676B1	Method and system for managing distributor information An embodiment of the invention provides a system that enables financial services companies to manage and track information about a sales force. The system includes components for managing distributors information, for validating and tracking licenses and credentials, for creating customized contracts, and for maintaining compensation structures. The system allows for configuring compensations, providing financial services companies a toolkit for creating and modeling their complex commission schedules used to compensate their sales force. The system also provides modeling tools for agreements and contracts between a financial services company or provider and the distributors who sell products. The system has a multi-component architecture comprising multiple modules, multiple data processing engines, a backbone and multiple data sources. The processing modules carry out information processing using one or more data processing engines. The data processing provides the tools to fetch data from the databases and process it.
US10713675B2	Systems and methods for generation of incentive offers for on-road users Systems and methods for generating incentive offers for road use are provider. Incentive offers may be generated by a service provider server. The incentive offers may be generated identifying, by the computer having at least one processor, at least one use-condition associated with a transit point based at least in part on historical transit data. The generating the incentive offers may include generating one or more offers for a plurality of toll collections passes configured to enable the at least one use-condition associated with the transit point. Further, the method may provide for facilitating a distribution for the one or more incentive offers to a use group.
US10713672B1	Discovering neighborhood clusters and uses therefor Computer-based systems and methods for discovering neighborhood clusters in a geographic region, where the clusters have a mix of venues and are determined based on venue check-in data. The mix of venues for the clusters may be based on the social similarity between pairs of venues; or emblematic of certain neighborhood typologies; or emblematic of temporal check-in pattern types; or combinations thereof. The neighborhood clusters that are so discovered through venue-check in data could be used for many commercial and civic purposes.
US10713669B2	Methods and systems for signals management Methods and systems for managing signals by signal owners. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. The signal owner first converts its own underlying data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. Signal sellers determine if they wants share signals based upon buyer, price, and other rules, including limitations on signal use. Signal buyers determine signal value based upon their objectives.
US10713661B2	Identity verification system A computerized and networked system protects individuals against identity theft without the need to disclose the detailed personal information of the individuals. Furthermore, the system helps prevent loss and damage to consumers, financial institutions and merchants caused by financial crimes related to identity theft. In addition, users can conduct payments in a secure manner without the need to use any traditional financial instrument. A pass code can be generated for each transaction and sent to a user's personal communications device. When the correct pass code is received from the user, the transaction is then authorized.
US10713653B2	Anonymized access to online data Customer online data is collected via script on customer computers and is communicated to a server hosted by an organization, such as a card issuer. The customer online data communicated to the server is non-personally identifiable information (non-PII). In turn, the server aggregates the non-PII customer online data from the set of participating merchants. The server associates the received non-PII customer online data with non-PII demographic data. Other non-PII transaction data, such as previous transactions processed at a card issuer, also can be associated with the non-PII customer online data and non-PII demographic data. These associations are, in turn, used to create reports and to provide services to help merchants or other requesting organizations develop online strategies to drive click thru and conversion rates.
US10713651B2	Shared resource management system A method for a shared resource management system is discussed. The method includes managing a shareable digital artifact for sharing between applications hosted by a user devices. The shared artifact is accessible, at the same time, by first and second application. The use of the shared artifact by the first application makes the shared artifact unavailable for use by the second application. The method includes determining whether a notification is received from the first application indicating that the shared artifact is used by the first application at a merchant. The method includes, in response to a determination that the notification is received, marking the shared artifact used. In response to marking the shared artifact used, a used artifact notification is sent to the second application to indicate that the shared artifact has been used and it is unavailable for use by the second application.
US10713650B2	System, method, article of manufacture of mixed reality based, biometrically signed reusable physical financial instrument The present invention relates to a reusable physical financial instrument and a system and a method for enabling the financial instrument to perform multiple financial transactions. The financial instrument is capable of creating mixed reality experience when it comes in vicinity of the payor or payee device or ATM. Through the created mixed reality experience, the payor and the payee inputs payor-side and payee-side transaction and biometric data which are stored onto smart chip of the instrument and/or on Cloud Storage using cloud computing interface. The stored payor-side and payee-side transaction data are cross-validated and their biometric data is further verified against golden copy at the respective financial institutions or at the Central Authority's repositories for performing the financial transaction. Upon completing the transaction, the payor-side and the payee-side data is erased, deleted or invalidated from the smart chip, thus making the financial instrument reusable for performing another transaction.
US10713644B2	Modulating mobile-device displays based on ambient signals to reduce the likelihood of fraud Provided is a process of classifying ambient signals to reduce fraudulent use of information, the process including: receiving, with the mobile computing device, from a remote server, balance-access information by which a stored value card balance can be spent at a point of sale terminal; storing, with the mobile computing device, the balance-access information; sensing, with one or more sensors of a mobile computing device, ambient signals; classifying the ambient signals as indicating the user is in a retail establishment; and in response to the classification, displaying, on a display screen of the mobile computing device, the balance-access information, such that the balance-access information can be input to a point-of-sale terminal.
US10713635B2	Point of sale terminal geolocation Identifying the geolocation of POS terminals using non-payment events to predict when the geolocation of a computing device at a time when the device detects events corresponds to the geolocation of the terminal. The device monitors for pre-selected events and transmit data to the account system. The account system determines a frequency of the events and it reaches a pre-defined threshold, the account system identifies the location of the terminal by identifying the common geolocation of the events. The identified geolocation is saved so that when a user then enters the location and transmits event data to the account system, the system can compare the geolocation of the event data to the saved geolocation to determine whether the computing device is located at the terminal. If the computing device is located at the terminal, the account system transmits offers or other content for display and use at the identified terminal.
US10713634B1	Systems and methods using mobile communication handsets for providing postage Systems and methods which provide postage indicia using mobile communication handsets are shown. According to embodiments, users are enabled to introduce mail pieces into a mail delivery stream which are accepted as having activated, value comprising postage indicia associated therewith without the use of traditional metering systems, processor-based postage generation and printing systems, or even printers. Instead, a token comprising substantially unique identification information identifying a mail piece is activated as an activated token having postage value associated therewith using mobile communication handsets, such as a smart phone, network enabled personal digital assistant, etc. according to embodiments of the invention.
US10713630B2	Apparatus and method for purchasing a product using an electronic device The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for purchasing a product from a merchant by a consumer using an electronic device. An association between a transaction identifier and transaction information is stored in a database, the transaction information comprising a merchant identifier, which is associated with merchant information, and a transaction amount. The consumer may purchase the product by having the transaction identifier provided to an application on an electronic device and transmitting the transaction identifier from the application to a transaction processing server. The merchant information and the transaction amount associated with the transaction identifier is transmitted from the transaction processing server to the application and the transaction completed using the application on the basis of the transaction information on the database.
US10713622B1	Computer-implemented systems and methods for intelligent prediction of out of stock items and proactive reordering Methods and systems for determining a cause of out of stock condition by running a decision tree against historical information associated with the out of stock item and contacting a supplier of the out of stock item to request items based on the determined cause. The system receives information associated with an out of stock item from a system storing information associated with items in a fulfillment center, the information collected over an extended period, determines a cause of the out of stock condition by running a decision tree against the received information, the decision tree includes a plurality of conditions, and predicts an out of stock condition of the item based on the determined cause. Based on the prediction, the system contacts a supplier of the out of stock item to request more items.
US10713610B2	Methods and systems for occlusion detection and data correction for container-fullness estimation A method and apparatus for receiving a depth frame from a depth sensor oriented towards an open end of a shipping container, the depth frame comprising a plurality of grid elements that each have a respective depth value, identifying one or more occlusions in the depth frame, correcting the one or more occlusions in the depth frame using one or more temporally proximate depth frames, and outputting the corrected depth frame for fullness estimation.
US10713605B2	System and method of workforce optimization A method of workforce optimization includes acquiring video data. The video data is obtained from a plurality of video cameras in a facility comprising a plurality of departments. A customer load for each of the plurality of departments is identified. A location of each of a plurality of employees in the facility is identified. A customer-to-employee ratio is determined for each department. The determined customer-to-employee ratio for each department is provided to a computing device. At least one employee deployment notification is provided from the computing device to another computing device.
US10713604B2	Bi-directional notification framework Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing a bi-directional notification framework within a content management system. A database system maintains a number of users within a content management system, with each of the users being associated with one or more organizations. The system sends a first notification message from an organization to a user associated with the organization. The first notification message is targeted to at least that user, and contains information about an assignment. The system then processes a user event indicating activity associated with the assignment, and in response to the user event, sends a second notification message from the client device to one or more entities within the content management system, including the organization. The second notification message is targeted to those entities, and contains information about the user activity associated with the assignment.
US10713597B2	Systems and methods for preparing data for use by machine learning algorithms Historical data used to train machine learning algorithms can have thousands of records with hundreds of fields, and inevitably includes faulty data that affects the accuracy and utility of a primary model machine learning algorithm. To improve dataset integrity it is segregated into a clean dataset having no invalid data values and a faulty dataset having the invalid data values. The clean dataset is used to produce a secondary model machine learning algorithm trained to generate from plural complete data records a replacement value for a single invalid data value in a data record, and a tertiary model machine learning clustering algorithm trained to generate from plural complete data records replacement values for multiple invalid data values. Substituting the replacement data values for invalid data values in the faulty dataset creates augmented training data which is combined with clean data to train a more accurate and useful primary model.
US10713596B2	Transforming property data into sufficiently sized, relatively homogeneous data segments for configuring automated modeling systems Embodiments are described for transforming data relatively homogeneous data segments for training or otherwise configuring automated modeling systems. For example, a computing system selects, from standardized data, geographic data objects associated with a completed transaction value greater than the threshold number. The computing system clusters these geographic data objects and combines completed transactions associated with the selected geographic data objects into segments. The computing system performs a similarity analysis for pairs of the geographic data objects by comparing numerically valued attributes of the geographic data objects. The computing system also selects, from the standardized data, remaining completed transactions that are not grouped into segments and combines, based on the similarity analysis and the threshold number, these property transactions into segments such that each completed transaction has been assigned to one or more of the relatively homogeneous segments. The computing system trains an automated modeling algorithm with the relatively homogeneous segments.
US10713595B2	Method for automated control of circumferential variability of blast furnace Controlling circumferential variability in a blast furnace may include generating a predictive model that sets up a relationship between a standard deviation of a selected state variable, state variables and one or more control variables in blast furnace operation for predicting the standard deviation. A number of circumferential sections of the blast furnace is defined, and the predictive model associated with the selected state variable for each of the circumferential sections is trained based on process data of the blast furnace. A plurality trained predictive models is generated associated with different circumferential sections and different selected state variables. One or more future control variable set points that minimize a sum of the plurality of predictive models, is determined. One or more future control variable set points is transmitted to a control system to control the blast furnace operation.
US10713585B2	Using template exploration for large-scale machine learning Systems and techniques are provided for template exploration in a large-scale machine learning system. A method may include obtaining multiple base templates, each base template comprising multiple features. A template performance score may be obtained for each base template and a first base template may be selected from among the multiple base templates based on the template performance score of the first base template. Multiple cross-templates may be constructed by generating a cross-template of the selected first base template and each of the multiple base templates. Performance of a machine learning model may be tested based on each cross-template to generate a cross-template performance score for each of the cross-templates. A first cross-template may be selected from among the multiple cross-templates based on the cross-template performance score of the cross-template. Accordingly, the first cross-template may be added to the machine learning model.
US10713582B2	Methods and systems for quantum computing Described herein are methods, systems, and media for generating a quantum-ready or quantum-enabled software development kit (SDK) for a quantum computing system. Such methods may comprise accepting user input from an application at an application interface, which application is executed on a digital computer, and implementing one or more algorithms, at an algorithms layer, that may be solved heuristically or exactly depending on the requirements of the user input. The one or more algorithms may abstract away a complexity of the application; transforming the one or more algorithms from the application space into the one or more instructions in polynomial unconstrained binary optimization (PUBO) form. The one or more instruction may be executed in PUBO form at the common interface solver layer.
US10713579B2	Weighted similarity estimation in data streams with applications to collaborative filtering and viral marketing A method estimates similarities in data streams. A data source receives input vectors from users. A sketch feature generator converts the input vectors into sketch feature vectors corresponding to the users, wherein each sketch feature vector represents data and meta-information from each user received in a most recent sample period. A similarity comparator compares each sketch feature vector against other sketch feature vectors to calculate similarity probabilities between the users. A processor running a decision loop determines a prediction result for at least one user based on the similarity probabilities.
US10713575B2	Cognitive insight interaction monitor A system and computer-readable medium for performing a cognitive learning operation comprising monitoring a user interaction of a user; generating user interaction data based upon the user interaction; receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the user interaction data and the data from the plurality of data sources to perform a cognitive learning operation, the processing being performed via a cognitive inference and learning system, the cognitive learning operation comprising analyzing the user interaction data, the cognitive learning operation generating a cognitive learning result based upon the user interaction data; and, associating a cognitive profile with the user based the cognitive learning result.
US10713570B1	Evolutionary programming techniques utilizing context indications Techniques are provided for determining labels associated with first and second candidate code and whether those labels are compatible. When the first candidate code and the second candidate code are compatible, third candidate code based is determined on the those two. When the third candidate code meets exit criteria the third candidate code is provided as evolved code. Some embodiments also include causing execution of the evolved code.
US10713569B2	System and method for generating improved synthetic images System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the generation of realistic images. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a synthetic image including identified labels of simulated components within the synthetic image. The synthetic image is a simulated visualization and the identified labels distinguish between the components within the synthetic image. The method includes computing, from the simulated components, translated components that visually approximate real instances of the simulated components by using a generative module comprised of neural networks that are configured to separately generate the translated components. The method includes blending the translated components together to produce a new image from the simulated components of the synthetic image.
US10713568B2	Apparatus and method for executing reversal training of artificial neural network An apparatus for executing backpropagation of an artificial neural network comprises an instruction caching unit, a controller unit, a direct memory access unit, an interconnection unit, a master computation module, and multiple slave computation modules. For each layer in a multilayer neural network, weighted summation may be performed on input gradient vectors to calculate an output gradient vector of this layer. The output gradient vector may be multiplied by a derivative value of a next-layer activation function on which forward operation is performed, so that a next-layer input gradient vector can be obtained. The input gradient vector may be multiplied by an input neuron counterpoint in forward operation to obtain the gradient of a weight value of this layer, and the weight value of this layer can be updated according to the gradient of the obtained weight value of this layer.
US10713567B2	Apparatus and method for executing reversal training of artificial neural network An apparatus for executing backpropagation of an artificial neural network comprises an instruction caching unit, a controller unit, a direct memory access unit, an interconnection unit, a master computation module, and multiple slave computation modules. For each layer in a multilayer neural network, weighted summation may be performed on input gradient vectors to calculate an output gradient vector of this layer. The output gradient vector may be multiplied by a derivative value of a next-layer activation function on which forward operation is performed, so that a next-layer input gradient vector can be obtained. The input gradient vector may be multiplied by an input neuron counterpoint in forward operation to obtain the gradient of a weight value of this layer, and the weight value of this layer can be updated according to the gradient of the obtained weight value of this layer.
US10713566B2	Efficient calculations of negative curvature in a hessian free deep learning framework A method for training a deep learning network includes defining a loss function corresponding to the network. Training samples are received and current parameter values are set to initial parameter values. Then, a computing platform is used to perform an optimization method which iteratively minimizes the loss function. Each iteration comprises the following steps. An eigCG solver is applied to determine a descent direction by minimizing a local approximated quadratic model of the loss function with respect to current parameter values and the training dataset. An approximate leftmost eigenvector and eigenvalue is determined while solving the Newton system. The approximate leftmost eigenvector is used as negative curvature direction to prevent the optimization method from converging to saddle points. Curvilinear and adaptive line-searches are used to guide the optimization method to a local minimum. At the end of the iteration, the current parameter values are updated based on the descent direction.
US10713563B2	Object recognition using a convolutional neural network trained by principal component analysis and repeated spectral clustering A method of object recognition trains a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a set of training images, then classifies an image of an object using the trained CNN. A first layer of the CNN is trained by generating a set of first convolutional filters from eigenvectors produced from linear principal component analysis of patches of the training images. The training of each of multiple hidden layers CNN includes generating a set of convolutional filters from a selected subset of eigenvectors produced from linear principal component analysis of patches of an affinity matrix constructed using a set of prior convolutional filters from a prior layer of the CNN, where the affinity matrix represents correlations of feature vectors associated with the prior layer. The last layer of the CNN is trained with a regular classifier by error back-propagation using the training images and labels associated with the training images.
US10713561B2	Multiplexing physical neurons to optimize power and area Embodiments of the invention relate to a multiplexed neural core circuit. One embodiment comprises a core circuit including a memory device that maintains neuronal attributes for multiple neurons. The memory device has multiple entries. Each entry maintains neuronal attributes for a corresponding neuron. The core circuit further comprises a controller for managing the memory device. In response to neuronal firing events targeting one of said neurons, the controller retrieves neuronal attributes for the target neuron from a corresponding entry of the memory device, and integrates said firing events based on the retrieved neuronal attributes to generate a firing event for the target neuron.
US10713557B2	Creating pattern templates for engine mix settings Race car settings (e.g., Formula 1 engine mix settings) are developed for particular racing goals such as faster lap time, better acceleration, less vehicle wear, etc., using pattern templates that are derived from historical racing scenarios. The historical scenarios provide data on racing settings, racing results, and racing conditions such as squad information, equipment information, and environmental information. A cognitive (deep question answering) system can select an initial pattern template based on current racing conditions, and present suggested vehicle settings to the user (driver) using the initial pattern template. The driver can select from different candidate values for various factors, which may lead to the presentation of additional suggestions or the use of additional pattern templates. The final settings map is created based on the employed pattern templates and the driver selections.
US10713548B2	Marker with information An electronic device includes a marker with a pattern of marks encoding product information of the electronic device. The pattern includes first marks having a first material with a first isotopic ratio of an element, and second marks having a second material with a second isotopic ratio of the element different than the first isotopic ratio.
US10713547B2	Systems, processes, interfaces, and computer program products for verification of image content in software development systems A system provides verification of image content in software modules within a system of software under development. Embodiments retrieve image data from a software module written in a native or first computer program type or language. The retrieved image data may be evaluated so that a conversion image space is prepared as a new coordinate space that will be used to render the image data into an image object outside of the native computer program type or language. In an exemplary embodiment, a bit-per-pixel value may be applied to the image data during conversion to a second computer program format/language. The converted image data may then be rendered into an image object in the new coordinate space according to the new readable format. The rendered image object may then be displayed to provide convenient and quick visual verification of the accuracy of the unrendered image data content.
US10713545B2	Image processing of webpages A web detection system processes webpage information and performs automated feature extraction of webpages including machine processable information. In an embodiment, the web detection system determines a subset of webpages having a target characteristic by processing markup language. For a webpage of the subset, the web detection system determines that a first image overlaps at least a portion of a second image in the webpage. The web detection system generates an image of the webpage such that the portion of the second image is obscured by the first image. The web detection system determines a graphical feature of the webpage by processing the image, e.g., using optical character recognition. Responsive to determining that the graphical feature corresponds to graphical features of images of a different set of webpages associated with a target entity, the web detection system determines that the webpage is also associated with the target entity.
US10713540B2	Deep learning system for recognizing pills in images A system and method is provided that utilizes deep learning, including convolutional neural networks, to identify subject objects in unconstrained user images such as unknown pills. An image of, e.g., a pill, may be captured and subsequently processed using deep learning models to identify the pill. The deep learning models may be optimized to have a small footprint (in terms of computational and memory resources) suitable for a resource-limited device such as a smartphone while retaining a high object recognition accuracy. Each such model may also be run on modified versions of the unconstrained image, for example on color, greyscale, and gradient images, to focus the models on different distinguishing features of the object.
US10713537B2	Method and apparatus for joint image processing and perception A learning machine employs an image acquisition device for acquiring a set of training raw images. A processor determines a representation of a raw image, initializes a set of image representation parameters, defines a set of analysis parameters of an image analysis network configured to process the image's representation, and jointly trains the set of representation parameters and the set of analysis parameters to optimize a combined objective function. Processor executable instructions are organized into a module for transforming pixel-values of the raw image to produce a transformed image comprising pixels of variance-stabilized values, a module for successively performing processes of soft camera projection and image projection, and a module for inverse transforming the transformed pixels. The image projection process performs multi-level spatial convolution, pooling, subsampling, and interpolation.
US10713536B1	Camera method with animal recognition function and monitoring camera A camera method and a monitoring camera with an animal recognition function are provided. The camera method includes two steps of image capture and feature identification. Specifically, a camera system is started when a trigger signal representing that a moving object enters a camera range is captured by a trigger sensor of a monitoring camera, and the monitoring camera captures an image of an animal within the camera range. Then the captured image is transmitted to a feature identification system configured on the monitoring camera to determine an animal category of the animal presented in the captured image by the feature identification system, thereby classifying and storing the captured image. The camera method and the monitoring camera store the captured images separately from other images as needed, thereby effectively improving efficiency of browsing and analyzing the images of the monitored animal, which brings convenience to the user.
US10713532B2	Image recognition method and apparatus The present disclosure discloses an image recognition method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: extracting a local binary pattern (LBP) feature vector of a target image; calculating a high-dimensional feature vector of the target image according to the LBP feature vector; obtaining a training matrix, the training matrix being a matrix obtained by training images in an image library by using a joint Bayesian algorithm; and recognizing the target image according to the high-dimensional feature vector of the target image and the training matrix. The image recognition method and apparatus according to the present disclosure may combine LBP algorithm with a joint Bayesian algorithm to perform recognition, thereby improving the accuracy of image recognition.
US10713527B2	Optics based multi-dimensional target and multiple object detection and tracking method A method for determining a spatial position of an object includes obtaining an image with at least one camera. The object is identified in the image. At least one of a pixel size of the object in the image and a pixel offset of the object from a center of an image plane of the at least one camera is determined. A distance between the object and the camera image plane is determined using either the pixel size and the pixel offset. The spatial position is determined using the distance and at least one known distance between the object and another element of the image.
US10713526B2	Systems and method for managing loyalty scheme data A data extraction system for extracting a unique identifier from a plurality of different types of tokens, the data extraction system comprising a central processing system arranged to receive a data string representing an image of the token, the central processing system comprises: a data store of predetermined data records relating to the plurality of different types of token, each predetermined data record including a plurality of discrete features derived from an image of each type of token; a token type recognition module for identifying a type of token which the representation relates to, the recognition module comprising: a discrete feature identifier for iteratively identifying discrete features present in the representation; and a matching engine for iteratively comparing each of the identified features with each of the discrete features of the plurality of different types of token stored in the data store and registering each matched feature; wherein the recognition module is arranged to compare a current number of registered matched features of the representation with a predetermined number of minimum matched features and when the current number of registered matched features is at least equal to the at least the predetermined number of minimum matched features to determine which type of token the representation relates to; a data extractor for extracting at least one unique identifier of the token from the representation, wherein the data extractor is arranged to use the type of token identified by the token type recognition module to locate a region of the representation where the unique identifier is provided and to focus a data extraction process at that region.
US10713516B2	System and method to enable the application of optical tracking techniques for generating dynamic quantities of interest with alias protection Systems and methods for realizing practical applications of high speed digital image correlation (DIC) for dynamic quantities of interest are provided. In particular, a series of images are captured for a component of interest in which a non-filtered sensor and an analog low-pass filtered sensor are included within the region of interest for the series of images. Displacement signals are obtained for the component of interest, the non-filtered sensor, and the analog low-pass filtered sensor by applying digital image correlation processing to the series of images, which may also be wavelet filtered. Dynamic quantities of interest may be generated and derived from the displacement signals after having been wavelet filtered. Such dynamic quantities of interest based on the wavelet filtered DIC-derived displacement signal may be compared to sensor-derived dynamic quantities of interest to determine if aliasing is or is likely to be present.
US10713510B2	Autonomous vehicle system configured to respond to temporary speed limit signs Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method for identifying speed limit signs and controlling an autonomous vehicle in response to detected speed limit signs. The autonomous vehicle's computing devices identifies a speed limit sign in a vehicle's environment and a location and orientation corresponding to the speed limit sign. Then, the and orientation location of the speed limit sign is determined to not correspond to a pre-stored location and a pre-stored orientation of a speed limit sign that is pre-stored in map information. An effect zone of the speed limit sign is determined based on the location and orientation of the speed limit sign and characteristics of surrounding areas or other detected object before or after the speed limit sign. The autonomous vehicle's computing devices determines a response of the vehicle based on the determined effect zone, and controls the autonomous vehicle based on the determined response.
US10713500B2	Identification and classification of traffic conflicts using live video images A practical method and system for transportation agencies (federal, state, and local) to monitor and assess the safety of their roadway networks in real time based on traffic conflict events such that corrective actions can be proactively undertaken to keep their roadway systems safe for travelling public. The method and system also provides a tool for evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle/self-driving car technologies with respect to safety and efficiency.
US10713499B2	Real-time video triggering for traffic surveillance and photo enforcement applications using near infrared video acquisition A method and system for real-time video triggering for traffic surveillance and photo enforcement comprises receiving a streaming video feed and performing a spatial uniformity correction on each frame of the streaming video feed and resampling the video feed to a lower spatial resolution. Motion blobs are then detected. Next a three-layered approach is used to identify candidate motion blobs which can be output to a triggering module to trigger a video collection action.
US10713498B2	System and method for associating an identifier of a mobile communication terminal with a person-of-interest, using video tracking A plurality of pairs of video cameras and interrogation devices may be placed in a public place along various paths that a person-of-interest might be expected to move. The person-of-interest is then located in multiple images acquired, collectively, by multiple video cameras. From each of the interrogation devices that are paired with these video cameras, a subset of the captured identifiers is obtained. Candidate identifiers are then restricted to those identifiers that are included in each of the subsets. A given identifier may be rejected as a candidate identifier. To automatically locate the person-of-interest in the images acquired by the “paired” video cameras, a processor may utilize video-tracking techniques to automatically track the person-of-interest, such that the person-of-interest is not “lost.” By virtue of utilizing such tracking techniques, the person-of-interest may be repeatedly located automatically, and with minimal chance of a false detection.
US10713497B2	Systems and methods for supplementing captured data An evidence ecosystem that includes a capture system that detects physical properties in the environment around the capture system and captures data related to the physical properties. The capture system analyzes the captured data in accordance with patterns to detect characteristics and patterns in the captured data. Upon detecting a characteristic or a pattern, the capture system records the identified data and alignment data that identifies the location of the identified data in the captured data. The capture system sends the captured data, identified data, and alignment data to an evidence management system for use in generating reports and producing redacted copies of the captured data for distribution or presentation.
US10713495B2	Video signatures based on image feature extraction Techniques are disclosed for identifying a video using a video signature generated using image features derived from a portion of the video. In some examples, a method may include determining image features derived from a portion of a video, determining a video frame sequence of the video, and generating the video signature of the video based on the image features and the video frame sequence. The method may further include deriving a curve for the video based on the image features and the video frame sequence, and comparing the derived curve with one or more curves corresponding to respective one or more reference videos.
US10713494B2	Data processing systems and methods for generating and interactive user interfaces and interactive game systems based on spatiotemporal analysis of video content In various embodiments, a Data Processing System for Generating Interactive User Interfaces and Interactive Game Systems Based on Spatiotemporal Analysis of Video Content may be configured to: (1) enable a user to select one or more players participating in a substantially live (e.g., live) sporting or other event; (2) determine scoring data for each of the one or more selected players during the sporting or other event; (3) track the determined scoring data; (4) generate a custom (e.g., to the user) user interface that includes the scoring data; and (5) display the custom user interface over at least a portion of a display screen (e.g., on a mobile computing device) displaying one or more video feeds of the sporting or other event. In this way, the system may be configured to convert a video feed of a sporting event into an interactive game.
US10713489B2	Augmented reality for identification and grouping of entities in social networks In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for identifying and presenting information of a target user are presented. A live video stream comprising a target user may be displayed on a display of an augmented reality computing device. Data associated with one or more images of the target user may be sent to a facial recognition service, which may determine that a social network account matches the target user based on facial feature recognition. Information associated with the matched social network account may be received, and the live video stream on the augmented reality computing device may be augmented with a display of the received information associated with the matched social network account. In some examples, the augmented reality computing device may be augmented with one or more social network actions that are executable based on matching a target user to a social network account.
US10713484B2	Semantic segmentation to identify and treat plants in a field and verify the plant treatments A farming machine including a number of treatment mechanisms treats plants according to a treatment plan as the farming machine moves through the field. The control system of the farming machine executes a plant identification model configured to identify plants in the field for treatment. The control system generates a treatment map identifying which treatment mechanisms to actuate to treat the plants in the field. To generate a treatment map, the farming machine captures an image of plants, processes the image to identify plants, and generates a treatment map. The plant identification model can be a convolutional neural network having an input layer, an identification layer, and an output layer. The input layer has the dimensionality of the image, the identification layer has a greatly reduced dimensionality, and the output layer has the dimensionality of the treatment mechanisms.
US10713480B2	Information processing device and information processing method According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to receive an image; a recognition unit configured to acquire a recognition result of a user based on the received image, wherein the recognition result includes a position of the user, the user being associated with a display terminal; an image determination unit configured to determine an object based on the recognition result; and a display control unit configured to control display of the object on the display terminal.
US10713471B2	System and method for simulating facial expression of virtual facial model A system and method for simulating facial expression of a virtual facial model are provided. The system stores a plurality of three-dimensional facial models corresponding to a plurality of preset sentiments one-to-one. The system identifies a present sentiment according to an acoustic signal and selects a selected model from the three-dimensional facial models according to the present sentiment, wherein the preset sentiment corresponding to the selected model is same as the present sentiment. The system predicts an upper half face image according to a lower half face image, combines the lower half face image and the upper half face image to form a whole face image, and generates a plurality of feature relationships by matching the facial features of the whole face image with the facial features of the selected model so that a virtual facial model can simulate an expression based on the feature relationships.
US10713469B2	Intelligent auto cropping of digital images Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, computing devices, and machine readable mediums that provide for cropping systems that automatically crop digital images using one or more smart cropping techniques. Smart cropping techniques may include: cropping an image based upon emotion detection, cropping based upon facial recognition and matching, and cropping based upon landmark matching. In some examples, a single smart cropping technique may be utilized. In other examples, a combination of the smart cropping techniques may be utilized.
US10713468B2	Checking credentials using a drone A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for checking credentials, using a drone. The drone detects a line of people, and the drone can communicate with the base station. The drone can request information from a person on the line for checking credentials of the people in the line with respect to a purpose for forming the line. The method and system captures information about the person, in response to the drone requesting information from the person, and the person providing the requested information. The method and system checks the information with data stored at the base station to verify the person's information with respect to required credentials being related to the purpose of the line. A message is communicated, using the drone, to the person on the line, in response to the checking of the information of the person.
US10713455B1	Point-of-sale terminal with mirrors arranged around scan zone Embodiments include a method and associated point-of-sale (POS) terminals. The method comprises receiving a receptacle into a stationary position within a scan zone arranged proximately to a surface. The receptacle contains one or more items. The method further comprises acquiring, using a first visual sensor having a predefined disposition relative to the surface, first image information that includes a first view and at least a second view of the scan zone. The second view is provided via a first mirror of one or more mirrors disposed near the surface and arranged around the scan zone. The second view includes a view of the one or more items relative to a surface of the receptacle. The method further comprises identifying, using image analysis of the first image information, the one or more items.
US10713454B2	System for monitoring the state of a screen basket A system for monitoring the state of a screen basket of a screen for treating a fibrous suspension includes a cable-free identification unit assigned to the screen basket and disposed in a housing of the screen. An external, in particular mobile, reading unit is provided for the non-contact reading of technical data relating to the screen basket from the identification unit and for producing a connection to a further external database containing data relating to the screen.
US10713449B2	Antenna module for a RFID reader An antenna module for a RFID reader is provided, the antenna module being configured for operation with a plurality of transceivers of different impedance. The RFID reader includes an antenna and at least two terminals, with the antenna being connectable via at least a first of the terminals along at least two different contact points. A switch may also be provided for enabling switching between the at least two contact points. A RFID reader and a method for assembling a RFID reader are also provided. The antenna module and associated RFID reader are advantageously configured for use with a number of different transceivers.
US10713437B2	Method and apparatus for identifying questionable line break characters in an application Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for word detection in an application program. The method includes extracting a resource file from a multilingual application program installation package and converting the resource file into a text file. The method further includes disassembling the text file according to a language version to acquire a corresponding language text file; invoking a language detection tool according to the language version; and checking the language text file by using the language detection tool to identify questionable character information. The apparatus for word detection includes a file processing module, configured to extract a resource file from a multilingual application program installation package, and convert the resource file into a text file; and a disassembling module, configured to disassemble the text file according to a language version to acquire a corresponding language text file. The apparatus further includes a tool invoking module, configured to invoke a language detection tool according to the language version; and a text detection module, configured to check the language text file by using the language detection tool to identify questionable character information. Word detection efficiency in an application program can be improved by adopting the present disclosure.
US10713436B2	Method and system for suggesting revisions to an electronic document A method for suggesting revisions to a document-under-analysis from a seed database, the seed database including a plurality of original texts each respectively associated with one of a plurality of final texts, the method for suggesting revisions including selecting a statement-under-analysis (“SUA”), selecting a first original text of the plurality of original texts, determining a first edit-type classification of the first original text with respect to its associated final text, generating a first similarity score for the first original text based on the first edit-type classification, the first similarity score representing a degree of similarity between the SUA and the first original text, selecting a second original text of the plurality of original texts, determining a second edit-type classification of the second original text with respect to its associated final text, generating a second similarity score for the second original text based on the second edit-type classification, the second similarity score representing a degree of similarity between the SUA and the second original text, selecting a candidate original text from one of the first original text and the second original text, and creating an edited SUA (“ESUA”) by modifying a copy of the first SUA consistent with a first candidate final text associated with the first candidate original text.
US10713435B1	Automated analysis, categorization, and behavior prediction of computer scripts using rules-based pattern matching Methods and apparatuses are described for automated analysis, categorization, and behavior prediction of computer scripts using rules-based pattern matching. A server receives from a client device, a request for analysis of a process flow decision. The server identifies computer scripts that execute to generate the process flow decision. For each identified computer script: the server identifies text patterns in the computer script and categorizes the computer script based upon the identified patterns; the server converts the computer script into an expression tree data structure; the server traverses the expression tree to determine logical expressions that return a true result; the server parses each logical expression that returns a true result to identify parameters that contribute to the true result; the server generates a response to the request for analysis of the process flow decision and transmits the response to the request to the client computing device.
US10713420B2	Composition and declaration of sprited images in a web page style sheet A method, computer program product, and system for composition and declaration of tiled images in a style sheet. Embodiments commence upon identifying a cascaded style sheet (CSS) repository, wherein the CSS repository comprises referenced images that correspond to a subset of a set of images that are referenced in rules and fetching the referenced images that are within the CSS repository. The referenced images that were fetched are assembled into a spirited image. The spirited image is then augmented by placing high-resolution images into a sprited layout, wherein the high-resolution images correspond to the referenced images from the rules. One or more modified CSS sheets that references the sprited image rather than the referenced images are generated.
US10713414B2	Web page display method, terminal, and storage medium A web page display method is disclosed. The method includes sending by a terminal device having a processor and a memory, a web page access request to a first server, and obtaining a first web page data sent by the first server in response to the web page access request, wherein the memory stores computer readable instructions executed by the processor; obtaining second web page data from a second server that is different from the first server; displaying the first web page data by using a first software application component running by the processor; and displaying the second web page data by using a second software application component running by the processor that is independent of the first software application component, wherein the first web page data and the second web page data being displayed in a single integral web page view.
US10713401B2	Surface shape defect generating region estimating method, surface shape defect source region estimating method, surface shape defect generating region estimating device, surface shape defect source region estimating device, program, and recording medium There is provided a surface shape defect generating region estimating method for estimating a generating region of a surface shape defect of a deformation-processed product obtained by performing deformation processing with respect to a workpiece, the method including: a first stress distribution obtaining process of obtaining first stress distribution σ(T1); a second stress distribution obtaining process of obtaining a second stress distribution σ(T2); a comparative stress distribution obtaining process of obtaining comparative stress distribution σ(T1, T2); a division comparative stress distribution obtaining process of obtaining division comparative stress distribution σDIV(T1, T2); and a surface shape defect generating region estimating process of estimating whether or not each of the divided regions DK is a generating region of the surface shape defect.
US10713398B2	Iterative and repeatable workflow for comprehensive data and processes integration for petroleum exploration and production assessments A global objective function is initialized to an initial value. A particular model simulation process is executed using prepared input data. A mismatch value is computed by using a local function to compare an output of the particular model simulation process to corresponding input data for the particular model simulation process. Model objects associated with the particular model simulation process are sent to another model simulation process. An optimization process is executed to predict new values for input data to reduce the computed mismatch value.
US10713390B2	Removing sensitive content from documents while preserving their usefulness for subsequent processing A computer-implemented technique is described herein for removing sensitive content from documents in a manner that preserves the usefulness of the documents for subsequent analysis. For instance, the technique obscures sensitive content in the documents, while retaining meaningful information in the documents for subsequent processing by a machine-learning engine or other machine-implemented analysis mechanisms. According to one illustrative aspect, the technique removes sensitive content from documents using a modification strategy that is chosen based on one or more selection factors. One selection factor pertains to the nature of the processing that is to be performed on the documents after they have been anonymized.
US10713384B2	Methods and apparatus for transforming and statistically modeling relational databases to synthesize privacy-protected anonymized data A relational database is transformed so as to obfuscate secure and/or private aspects of data contained in the database, while preserving salient elements of the data to facilitate data analysis. A restructured database is generatively modeled, and the model is sampled to create synthetic data that maintains sufficiently similar (or the same) mathematical properties and relations as the original data stored in the database. In one example, various statistics at the intersection of related database tables are determined by modeling data using an iterative multivariate approach. Synthetic data may be sampled from any part of the modeled database, wherein the synthesized data is “realistic” in that it statistically mimics the original data in the database. The generation of such synthetic data allows publication of bulk data freely and on-demand (e.g., for data analysis purposes), without the risk of security/privacy breaches.
US10713380B1	Secure data joins in a multiple tenant database system Systems, methods, and devices for generating a secure join of database data are disclosed. A method includes determining data stored in a first account to be compared with data stored in a second account. The method includes determining a function for generating a secure join key, wherein the secure join key includes a hashed string that hashes one or more of a data entry of the first account and a data entry of the second account. The method includes providing the secure join key to the first account and/or the second account.
US10713376B2	Fine grain security for analytic data sets The technology disclosed relates to assigning field level security to fields extracted from primary sources on a batch basis and compiled into analytical, read-only databases, for ultra-fast, ad-hoc data exploration and faceted navigation on integrated, heterogeneous data sets. The method includes assigning field level security to the extracted fields by combining user selectable inheritance of field level security from source fields that yield the extracted fields, with pinning of inheritance of field level security for the extracted fields to reference fields in the database sources wherein the reference fields are distinct from the extracted fields. The disclosed method also includes receiving additional fields as unsecured data sets, and assigning field level security to the additional fields, received by combining user selectable explicit specification of field level security for the received fields with pinning of inheritance of field level security for the received fields to reference fields in the database sources.
US10713374B2	Resolving detected access anomalies in a dispersed storage network A method for execution by a storage unit of a dispersed storage network includes receiving an access request from a requestor. An access anomaly of the access request is detected, and the access request is queued for processing in response. An anomaly detection indicator is issued to a plurality of other storage units. A secondary authentication process is initiated with the requestor, and a secondary authentication response from the requestor. The access request is processed when the secondary authentication response is favorable.
US10713371B2	Collection folder for collecting file submissions with comments A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder. A submitter submits one or more files along with one or more comments associated with the one or more of submitted files. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.
US10713367B2	Secure electronic mail system An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. Embodiments of the system may include various features, including but not limited to: (1) secure transfer of e-mail messages, without the need for users to replace existing e-mail clients or to change e-mail addresses; (2) tracking of all actions performed in connection with an e-mail transmission; (3) the ability for a recipient to view information about an e-mail message, optionally including information about how other addressees have responded to it, before deciding whether to retrieve the e-mail message; (4) the aggregation of entire e-mail conversations into a single threaded view; (5) the ability to include both private and public messages in a single e-mail communication; (6) sender control over downstream actions performed in connection with an e-mail message; (7) flexible control over cryptographic methods used to encrypt emails messages for storage.
US10713364B2	System and method for identifying vulnerabilities in code due to open source usage A method, computerized apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining computer code; determining from the computer code a collection of components reachable from the computer code; providing information about the components to a server; identifying by the server using information retrieved from a database, reachable components associated with the collection of components, which have stored vulnerabilities; determining from the computer code and the reachable components that have stored vulnerabilities, a collection of reachable finer resolution components; identifying, further components from the collection of reachable finer resolution components, which have stored vulnerabilities; and outputting information about the further components, wherein the computer code cannot be reconstructed from the information about the collection of components and the information about the finer resolution components.
US10713360B2	System and method for detecting and monitoring network communication A system for collection and analysis of forensic and event data comprising a server and an endpoint agent operating on a remote system. The server is configured to receive event data including process creation data, persistent process data, thread injection data, network connection data, memory pattern data, or any combination thereof, and analyze the event data to detect compromises of a remote system. The endpoint agent is configured to acquire event data, and communicate the event data to the server.
US10713358B2	System and method to extract and utilize disassembly features to classify software intent A system and method operable to identify malicious software by extracting one or more features disassembled from software suspected to be malicious software and employing one or more of those features in a machine-learning algorithm to classify such software.
US10713357B2	Detecting lateral movement using a hypervisor The subject matter described herein provides protection against zero-day attacks by detecting, via a hypervisor maintaining an extended page table, an attempt to execute arbitrary code associated with malware in a guest operation system (OS) running within a virtual machine (VM). Further, the subject matter provides detection of lateral movement of the malware. The hypervisor uses hidden breakpoints to detect a request for thread creation, and then determines whether the request is to download and execute arbitrary code.
US10713354B2	Methods and apparatus to monitor permission-controlled hidden sensitive application behavior at run-time An apparatus includes a display, a processor coupled to the display and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to identify an access attempt to a monitored resource by an application, the identification occurring after an access permission check is performed. The memory further includes instructions executable by the processor to determine whether the access attempt involves suspicious activity by evaluating a potential risk associated with the application accessing the monitored resource, and in response to determining that the access attempt involves suspicious activity to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the display, the GUI providing a notification of the access attempt.
US10713350B2	Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices A computing device can perform operations to unlock encrypted volumes of the computing device while the computing device is in a recovery environment. In some examples, the computing device can work in conjunction with a test computing device to unlock the encrypted volumes using an unlock token and a PIN. In other examples, the computing device can perform operations without a test computing device. For example, the computing device can, while in the recovery environment, use credentials associated with a user of the computing device to obtain a recovery password to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. In some examples, the computing device can use a shortened recovery password in conjunction with anti-hammering capabilities of a Trusted Platform Module in order to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. These and other operations can facilitate secure unlock of volumes of encrypted data on a consumer device.
US10713345B2	Secure biometric authentication with client-side feature extraction Provided is a process that includes: receiving, with a first device, a request to authenticate a user; obtaining, with the first device, an unstructured-data authentication input; extracting, with the first computing device, a plurality of features of the unstructured-data authentication input to form a structured-data representation; determining, with the first device, a first instance of a value that deterministically varies; and determining, with the first device, a first encrypted value based on both the structured-data representation and the first instance of the value that deterministically varies; and sending, with the first device, the first encrypted value to a second computing device.
US10713335B2	System, method, and apparatus for detecting unlicensed performances of copyrighted creative works Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing the detection of displays or performances of copyrighted creative works, determining whether a license exists for those performances, and taking further action depending upon the results of that determination. The systems, methods, and apparatuses may include using a mobile device to capture occurrences of multimedia data as well as information relating to the location of those occurrences, and transmitting representations of those occurrences and information to a server computer. The server computer may identify the copyrighted work associated with the multimedia data, determine if a license for performance of that work exists, determine a price for its performance/display, and generate and then send an invoice for the performance of the copyrighted work.
US10713331B2	Create and publish a website using a user satisfaction A website hosting provider may assist hosting customers with the creation and publication of their websites. The website hosting provider may receive and convert customer service voice communications into customer service text communications. The website hosting provider may organize the customer service text communications in clusters so that all of the customer service text communications in the same cluster are regarding the same topic. The website hosting provider may also assign a score, regarding the effectiveness, and hosting customer variables, regarding the calling hosting customer, to each customer service text communication. When a new, i.e., current hosting customer calls regarding a topic and has similar hosting customer variables, the website hosting provider may determine, based on the past customer service text communications, a set of optimal questions. The current hosting customer may respond to the questions and then receive a recommendation from the website hosting customer regarding creating or publishing their website.
US10713329B2	Deriving links to online resources based on implicit references In some examples, a system performs language processing of text of an information page to determine whether the text refers to an online resource, and in response to determining that the text refers to the online resource, identify the text as an implicit reference to the online resource. The system derives a link to the online resource based on the implicit reference, the derived link useable in accessing the online resource.
US10713317B2	Conversational agent for search A conversational agent facilitates conversational searches for users. The conversational agent is a reinforcement learning (RL) agent trained using a user model generated from existing session logs from a search engine. The user model is generated from the session logs by mapping entries from the session logs to user actions understandable by the RL agent and computing conditional probabilities of user actions occurring given previous user actions in the session logs. The RL agent is trained by conducting conversations with the user model in which the RL agent selects agent actions in response to user actions sampled using the conditional probabilities from the user model.
US10713315B2	Personalized targeting of media stations Methods and arrangements are provided for the personalized targeting and customization of media stations in an online media service. A key set of inputs, with values unique to each user, is used to arrive at a personalized group of featured media stations that a user has access to. Demographic data, media preferences, user actions detected through the user's input, and other criteria allow for the content and screen time of featured stations to be personalized for each user.
US10713301B2	Flexible baselines in an operating plan data aggregation system In an embodiment, the a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast data in a database with an associated window value. The method also includes accessing data based on associated window values. The method further includes comparing the data accessed based on associated window values to other data.
US10713300B2	Using distributed state machines for human-to-computer dialogs with automated assistants to protect private data Techniques are described related to for generating/distributing state machines that are implemented within a security zone to obtain private information from one or more resources within the security zone. In various implementations, an automated assistant client implemented by processor(s) within the security zone may receive a free form natural language query (“FFNLQ”) that is answerable using private information available from resource(s) within the security zone. Data indicative of the FFNLQ may be provided to a semantic processor outside of the security zone, and the online semantic processor may return a state machine that is implemented by processor(s) within the security zone to obtain the private information from resource(s) within the security zone. Based on the state machine and the obtained private information, natural language output may be generated and presented to convey information responsive to the FFNLQ.
US10713297B2	Consolidating video search for an event A method of searching for videos includes receiving, by a computer device, a search query from a user computer device. The method also includes determining, by the computer device, a set of videos that satisfy the search query. The method further includes determining, by the computer device, a subset of related videos from the set using metadata to determine a relationship based on date, time, and location. The method additionally includes generating, by the computer device, a consolidated video from the subset of related videos by merging a first portion of a first one of the subset of related videos with a second portion of a second one of the subset of related videos.
US10713293B2	Method and system of computer-processing one or more quotations in digital texts to determine author associated therewith A method and system for computer-processing quotations in digital text to determine an author associated therewith is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of digital texts. The plurality of digital texts are parsed to extract one or more quotations. At least one candidate authors are identified for each of the digital text. A quotation similarity value for a given quotation with respect to each of the remaining one or more quotations is assigned. A quotation cluster is generated, which comprises one or more similar quotations and a set of candidate authors. The set of candidate authors is analyzed to identify a given candidate author meeting a condition. The candidate author meeting the condition is stored as the author of the one or more similar quotations.
US10713286B2	Storage of point of interest data on a user device for offline use The technology described herein optimally allocates the limited computer storage on the end user device to point of interest data most likely to be used by a map application. The offline point of interest data can include first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier data about different points. The offline data can be selected based on overall usage among all people and also specially tailored for individual users interests.
US10713285B2	Geocoding locations near a specified city Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
US10713282B2	Systems and methods for seamless access to remotely managed documents using synchronization of locally stored documents A system and method for seamless access to remotely manage documents using synchronization of locally stored documents are provided. In some embodiments, a content management server stores documents in a cache on the user's computer. Documents can thus be accessed and edited using the document in the local file system of the user and synchronized with the content management server asynchronously to access the documents on the local files system. Advantageously, the teachings of embodiments as described can be used in conjunction with content management systems for providing faster access to documents in conjunction with editing and for enabling offline work on such documents.
US10713276B2	Data transition in highly parallel database management system A massively parallel database management system includes an index store and a payload store including a set of storage systems of different temperatures. Both the stores each include a list of clusters. Each cluster includes a set of nodes with storage devices forming a group of segments. Nodes and clusters are connected over high speed links. The list of clusters within the payload store includes clusters of different temperatures. The payload store transitions data of a segment group from a higher temperature to a segment group in a lower temperature cluster in parallel. A node moves data of a segment in the higher temperature cluster to a corresponding node's segment in the lower temperature cluster. Once the data is written in the destination segment in the lower temperature cluster, the source segment is freed to store other data. The temperatures include blazing, hot, warm and cold.
US10713272B1	Dynamic generation of data catalogs for accessing data Dynamic generation of data catalogs may be implemented for accessing data sets in different storage locations. Data sets may be accessed in order to extract portions of data. Structure recognition techniques may be applied to the extracted data in order to determine structural information for the data sets. The structural information may then be stored as part of a data catalog for the data sets. Requests to access the data catalog from different clients may be received and the requested structural data supplied so that the clients may access different data sets utilizing the supplied structural data. Data catalogs may be updated as changes to data sets are made.
US10713269B2	Determining a presentation format for search results based on a presentation recommendation machine learning model In various embodiments, a natural language (NL) application implements functionality that enables users to more effectively access various data storage systems based on NL requests. As described, the operations of the NL application are guided by, at least in part, on one or more templates and/or machine-learning models. Advantageously, the templates and/or machine-learning models provide a flexible framework that may be readily tailored to reduce the amount of time and user effort associated with processing NL requests and to increase the overall accuracy of NL application implementations.
US10713268B1	Methods and systems for social awareness The embodiments described herein relate to a method and system for social awareness which may be based on social networks for knowledge exchange. More specifically, the embodiments may refer to specific social networks with social elements in the user interface based on knowledge exchange, social theory of group memberships within an enterprise or organization context. In addition, the disclosed group memberships may be predicated upon many different types of relationships. Furthermore, the social network (through a program interface) may provide to users the required specific project resources (project team members), which may be need to develop a better project performance according to the experience and knowledge of the new members. The required project team members may match with the attributes and criteria established during the project planning.
US10713261B2	Generating insightful connections between graph entities Implementations provide an enhanced search result to improve the user search experience. For example, the result may include insightful information relevant to the search query that was not specifically requested but that the user may find interesting, such as relationships shared between the two entities related to the query, a relationship between the two entities that does not commonly occur with another relationship shared by the entities, or strong secondary connections for an entity related to the query. In some implementations, insightful connections may also be unique facts for a particular entity. Unique facts may represent a superlative attribute of an entity such as, for example, the tallest actor, the oldest president, the most expensive stock, etc. Such shared relationships, rare relationships, and/or unique facts may be provided as part of the search results presented to the query requestor and may provide insight to the requestor about the entity.
US10713257B2	Data-centric reduction network for cluster monitoring A data-centric reduction method, system, and computer program product include configuring a similarity threshold and a correlation threshold for an entire data set from at least two back-end nodes, reducing the entire data set to a reduced data set from the at least two back-end nodes sent to a front-end node by removing data based on the similarity threshold and the correlation threshold, and after the front-end receives the reduced data set, reconstructing the entire data set from the reduced data set using the similarity threshold and correlation threshold.
US10713250B2	Distributed database job data skew detection A system and method for identifying whether data skew is causing delays in a map phase and/or a reduce phase of a query of a distributed database. The system and method identify the values of various metrics relating to a database query. These metrics include map phase and reduce phase durations and various related metrics. The system and method gather statistics of multiple queries to determine correlation levels between the metrics and the map phase and reduce phase durations. Based on the statistics, the system and method determine whether one or both of the map and reduce phases for a query/response are taking longer than expected. If the durations are longer than expected, the system identifies the delay as caused by data skew and informs the originator of the query.
US10713247B2	Executing queries for structured data and not-structured data Queries received at a query engine may be executed for structured data and not-structured data. A query execution plan may be generated for the query that includes stateless operations to apply the query to the not-structured data at remote query processing engines. The remote query processing engines may perform the stateless operations and return results to the query engine. The query engine may generate a result for the query based on the results received from the remote query engine as well as results determined as part of applying the query to structured data. The result to the query may be returned.
US10713245B2	Utilizing persistent and non-persistent connections for generating a job result for a job A method to assist with processing distributed jobs by retrieving and/or synchronizing supplemental job data. The method includes receiving a request pertaining to a job from a first virtualized execution environment using a non-persistent connection between the first virtualized execution environment and a second virtualized execution environment, transmitting, by the secondary machine using a persistent connection between the first virtualized execution environment and the second virtualized execution environment, a task request for supplemental information pertaining to the job, generating a job result for the job based on the supplemental information received from the first virtualized execution environment via the persistent connection, and transmitting, to the first virtualized execution environment, the job result for the job using the non-persistent connection.
US10713242B2	Enhancing performance of structured lookups using set operations A computer-implemented method configured to train a system to be able to provide answers to questions that do not have a direct relationship established in a database.
US10713238B2	Database metadata in immutable storage A method for a database system includes storing table data for a database, the table data including information in rows and columns of one or more database tables. The method includes storing metadata on immutable storage, the metadata including information about the table data for the database. In one embodiment, mutable metadata may be periodically consolidated in the background to create new versions of metadata files and which allows for deletions of old metadata files and old data files.
US10713234B2	Data repair within productive system Provided are devices and methods for repairing corrupt data using a secure environment in a productive system. In one example, the method includes receiving a request to modify a base table stored in a productive environment, generating a child table corresponding to the base table within a secure environment of the productive system, modifying the one or more table entries from the base table and storing the modified table entries in the child table, executing one or more operations on the child table within the secure environment to determine if the one or more modified table entries repair the base table, and outputting a determined result of the one or more operations to a user interface. As a result, corrupt data can be modified locally via inheriting tables within a secured environment without any further damage being done to productive data in a productive environment.
US10713233B2	Information management system According to an embodiment, an information management system includes a storing unit and an information transfer unit. The storing unit includes a production management database, an electronic document database, and a progress information database. The production management database stores a work schedule. The electronic document database stores a work report. The progress information database stores progress information of work. An access authority is set for each of the plurality of databases. The information transfer unit transfers, among the plurality of databases, information stored in each of the databases. The information transfer unit transfers the work schedule from the production management database to the progress information database and a work result included in the work report from the electronic document database to the progress information database. The progress information is created using the transferred work schedule and the transferred work result and stored in the progress information database.
US10713228B2	Generating and accessing a data table An index shared between a plurality of tables is used to access a data sharing space (DSS) storing a set of rows from a base table having a plurality of rows with stored data. First data values of the index are identified in response to a query for a table. A subset of rows is then retrieved from the DSS using the index elements corresponding to the first data values. Second data values and some of the first data values are then identified in response to a second query for a table. A second subset of rows are then retrieved from the DSS using the index elements corresponding to the second data values and some of the first data values and the query is then applied to the subset of rows.
US10713222B2	Conversion of data for operating systems Managed access to file system objects enables an application to request access to a file system object via a file system transformer driver, which may extend the capabilities of a file system. The file system transformer driver may be configured to convert a data file format for the file system object to a data format requested by the application. The file system transformer driver may store the file system object in an internal data format using a file system on a storage device. The file system transformer driver may receive requests from applications via an operating system instruction.
US10713220B2	Intelligent electronic data capture for medical patient records A device (10) for editing an electronic medical record (EMR) is provided. The device includes a mobile device (12) including a touch-sensitive display (14), a communication link (16), and at least one electronic processor (18) programmed to cause the mobile device to perform an EMR data entry method. The method includes: displaying a medical document (20) on the touch-sensitive display: overlaying an EMR data entry fillable form (22) having user-editable fields (24) on the touch-sensitive display as a partially transparent overlay (26) superimposed on the displayed medical document; transferring text content (28) from the medical document into at least one of the user-editable fields of the overlaid EMR data entry fillable form; and after filling out the overlaid EMR data entry fillable form by operations including at least the transferring, uploading at least the content of the user-editable fields of the filled out EMR data entry fillable form to an EMR (32) via the wireless communication link.
US10713216B2	Using relative generation numbers to deduplicate file system events Implementations are provided herein for using relative generation numbers for deduplicating kernel events modification events. The process can identify multiple modification events that take place on the same inode within a configurable relative amount of time and deduplicate the events against one another. A hash table can be used to store a global list of events associated with inodes, and thus only the hash table need be deduplicated. Filter buffer(s) setup when an Server Message Block (“SMB”) client requests a change notifications on a file and/or directory can then use the data from the hash table(s) to notify clients of change notify events.
US10713215B2	Allocating non-conflicting inode numbers A method for allocating non-conflicting inode numbers between files generated at a first location and files generated at another location is provided. The method includes providing an inode number allocation rule table indicating availability for assignment a plurality of inode number allocation rules associated with the first location and the another location, generating a fileset at the first location by assigning an available inode number allocation rule to the fileset, registering, in the inode number allocation rule table, information associated with the fileset, and generating a file at the first location by determining the fileset within which to generate the file; and allocating an inode number for the file based on the available inode number allocation rule assigned to the fileset.
US10713212B2	Mobile remote direct memory access A mobile local computing device is configured to access memories or storage devices associated with a remote computing device using remote direct memory access (RDMA) over a wireless fifth generation (5G) network link that provides high bandwidth and low latency relative to previous wireless network protocols. The mobile local computing device utilizes a local compute context that is unique to the local environment and which may be facilitated by devices, components, or functionalities that are local to the mobile local computing device, but which are not available with the same context to the remote computing device. The 5G network link supports high bandwidth and low latency so that the mobile local computing device can access and utilize the remote data in large datasets in a similar manner to how it would for locally stored data, while still being able to leverage the local I/O and maintain its unique local compute context.
US10713202B2	Quality of service (QOS)-aware input/output (IO) management for peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) storage system with reconfigurable multi-ports Embodiments of methods and systems for quality of service (QoS)-aware input/output (IO) management for a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) storage system with reconfigurable multi-ports are described. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, in a receiver interface, an IO request from a software application, the IO request comprising information for communicating data over a data access port. The method may also include determining, in a transfer mode selector, a transfer mode selection for communicating the data over the data access port, the transfer mode being selected from a throughput-oriented mode, a latency-sensitive mode, or a balanced mode. Additionally, the method may include communicating, by a block distribution unit, the data over the data access port in response to the IO request, and according to the data transfer mode.
US10713200B2	USB adapter and cable Disclosed is an adapter. The adapter may include a first end, a second end, a housing, and a logic circuit. The first end may be operative to connect to a terminal device. The second end may be operative to connect to a peripheral device. The housing may connect the first end to the second end. The logic circuit may be located within the housing and electrically couple the first end to the send end. The logic circuit may be operative to perform a handshake operation between the terminal device and the peripheral device to determine compatibility between the terminal device and the peripheral device.
US10713196B1	Flexible and scalable accelerator architecture The present disclosure is directed to accelerator circuitry useful in a network applications, such as cloud-based radio access networks. The accelerator circuitry includes interface circuitry that couples the accelerator circuitry to each of a plurality of processor circuits and to system memory circuitry. The accelerator circuitry also includes queue management circuitry, local storage circuitry, direct memory access (DMA) circuitry, and a plurality of accelerator circuits. In operation, the processor circuit communicates a message to the queue management circuitry. The message includes pointer data and prioritized data. The queue management circuitry enqueues the message in one of a plurality of queues. The DMA circuitry receives the message and locates a descriptor at the address designed by the pointer. The DMA circuitry retrieves input data, selects an accelerator circuit, and provides the input data to the selected accelerator circuit. The accelerator circuit returns output data to the DMA circuitry, The output data is stored in system memory circuitry.
US10713194B2	Calibration on high-speed IO interfaces Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method. According to the method, a series of valid control codes for a calibration stage in a channel corresponding to a plurality of calibration cycles are acquired from the calibration logic. The acquired valid control codes are analyzed to obtain changing characteristics for the calibration stage in the channel. The calibration logic for the calibration stage in the channel is adjusted in one or more subsequent calibration cycles based on the changing characteristics.
US10713193B2	Method for remotely triggered reset of a baseboard management controller of a computer system, and computer system using the same A method for remotely triggered reset of a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a first computer node, a second computer node and a control unit. The method includes: (A) receiving, by a first BMC of the first computer node, from a computer device and via a network, a reset command which indicates that reset of a second BMC of the second computer node should be triggered; (B) transmitting, by the first BMC and to the control unit, a control signal that corresponds to the reset command; and (C) transmitting, by the control unit and to the second BMC, a reset signal that corresponds to the control signal, so as to trigger reset of the second BMC.
US10713187B2	Memory controller having data access hint message for specifying the given range of one or more memory addresses A memory controller comprises memory access circuitry configured to initiate a data access of data stored in a memory in response to a data access hint message received from another node in data communication with the memory controller; to access data stored in the memory in response to a data access request received from another node in data communication with the memory controller and to provide the accessed data as a data access response to the data access request.
US10713186B2	Peripheral processing device A peripheral processing device comprises a physical interface for connecting the processing device to a host computing device through a communications protocol. A local controller connected to local memory across an internal bus provides input/output access to data stored on the processing device to the host through a file system API. A neural processor comprises at least one network processing engine for processing a layer of a neural network according to a network configuration. A memory at least temporarily stores network configuration information, input image information, intermediate image information and output information produced by each network processing engine. The local controller is arranged to receive network configuration information through a file system API write command, to receive input image information through a file system API write command; and to write output information to the local memory for retrieval by the host through a file system API read command.
US10713182B2	Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, and a processor coupled to the first memory and the second memory. The first memory is configured to store data and has a first access speed. The second memory is configured to store data and has a second access speed different from the first access speed. The processor is configured to determine respective storage destinations of first data stored in the first memory and second data stored in the second memory from among the first memory and the second memory based on a first access probability and a first latency of the first data and a second access probability and a second latency of the second data.
US10713180B2	Lookahead priority collection to support priority elevation A queuing requester for access to a memory system is provided. Transaction requests are received from two or more requestors for access to the memory system. Each transaction request includes an associated priority value. A request queue of the received transaction requests is formed in the queuing requester. Each transaction request includes an associated priority value. A highest priority value of all pending transaction requests within the request queue is determined. An elevated priority value is selected when the highest priority value is higher than the priority value of an oldest transaction request in the request queue; otherwise the priority value of the oldest transaction request is selected. The oldest transaction request in the request queue with the selected priority value is then provided to the memory system. An arbitration contest with other requesters for access to the memory system is performed using the selected priority value.
US10713169B2	Remote node broadcast of requests in a multinode data processing system In response to receipt by a first coherency domain of a memory access request originating from a master in a second coherency domain and excluding from its scope a third coherency domain, coherence participants in the first coherency domain provide partial responses, and one of the coherence participants speculatively provides, to the master, data from a target memory block. The data includes a memory domain indicator indicating whether the memory block is cached, if at all, only within the first coherency domain. Based on the partial responses a combined response is generated representing a systemwide coherence response to the memory access request. In response to the combined response indicating success and the memory domain indicator indicating that a valid copy of the memory block may be cached outside the first coherence domain, the master discards the speculatively provided data and reissues the memory access request with a larger broadcast scope.
US10713167B2	Information processing apparatus and method including simulating access to cache memory and generating profile information An information processing apparatus includes a first memory and a processor coupled to the first memory. The processor is configured to acquire a first address in the first memory, at which an instruction included in a target program is stored. The processor is configured to simulate access to a second memory, such as a cache memory, corresponding to an access request for access to the first address on a basis of configuration information of the second memory. The processor is configured to generate first information, such as cache profile information, indicating whether the access to the second memory regarding the instruction is a hit or miss. The processor may be configured to acquire a number of cache misses for each of a plurality of pieces of arrangement information, and select a piece of arrangement information where the number of cache misses is smallest. Where the second memory is divided into a plurality of cache sets, the processor may generate the first information for each of the respective cache sets in parallel with each other. A cache set number of the second memory may also be identified.
US10713152B2	Automated path generator for optimized application testing An application module is read and parsed into a text file to store source code lines included into the implementation of the application module. The text file is analyzed and predicate conditions are identified in one or more of source code lines. Key values associated with a predicate condition from the predicate conditions are determined. Key values are associated with a key field defined for the application module. A plurality of paths of execution of the application module is determined based on the text file analysis and on the determined predicate conditions. A path includes one or more lines from the source code lines corresponding to a sequence of execution steps of the application module. Based on determining key values for the predicate conditions and the plurality of paths, generating test cases corresponding to the path and corresponding predicate conditions.
US10713145B2	Automated debugging with combined static and dynamic analysis A computer-implemented method includes generating static analysis data by performing static analysis on a program. A breakpoint is set in the program automatically, by a computer processor, based on the static analysis data. The breakpoint is hit during a runtime of the program. A program bug is automatically identified at a context location of the breakpoint when the breakpoint is hit during the runtime of the program. An interactive debugging session of the program is launched automatically at the context location of the breakpoint, based on the identifying the program bug.
US10713142B2	Method and device for identifying bottleneck candidate A method includes, based on communication times regarding an execution command and a response of each of a plurality of services included in a task executed two or more times, and on information on an information processing device that executes each of the plurality of services, generating a group of one or more services executed continuously by a same information processing device in each of the executions of the task, calculating a first processing time of an entirety of the one or more services in each group, calculating a second processing time per service obtained by dividing the first processing time by a number of the one or more services in each group, calculating an average processing time by averaging the second processing times for each of the plurality of services for each task, and outputting a specific service based on the average processing time.
US10713136B2	Memory repair enablement In an example, a method of memory repair may include receiving, by a memory repair unit, a plurality of memory identifiers. The method may include determining, by the memory repair unit, that a first memory identifier of the plurality of memory identifiers corresponds to a first memory of a plurality of memories. The method may include determining, by the memory repair unit, that a second memory identifier corresponds to a second memory of the plurality of memories. The method may include outputting, by the memory repair unit, in parallel: a first value to a repair enable input of the first memory, and a second value to a repair enable input of the second memory.
US10713134B2	Distributed storage and replication system and method A distributed storage and replication system includes a MDC module, multiple IO routing modules, and multiple OSD nodes. The MDC module is adapted to configure at least two partition, the IO routing module is adapted to route an IO request to an OSD node, and the OSD node is adapted to execute storage of data corresponding to the IO request. The MDC is configured to determine a faulty OSD node, update a partition view of a partition group that includes a partition on the faulty OSD node, and send an updating notification to a primary OSD node in the updated partition view. The primary OSD node is adapted to process replication of the data corresponding to the IO request. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, processing performance, fault tolerance, and availability of consistency replication are improved.
US10713125B2	Direct access to backup copy Techniques to provide direct access to backup data are disclosed. An indication is received to provide access to backup data backed up previously to a target device. The backup data as stored on the target device is used to spawn on the target device a logical volume corresponding to the backup data. Access to the logical volume as stored on the target device is provided to a production host.
US10713124B2	Database snapshot and backup management with recoverable chains Methods and systems for recovering databases and other applications with reduced downtime using recoverable chains are described. When protecting or backing up a database, an integrated data management and storage system may capture snapshots of the database at a snapshot frequency (e.g., at 15 minute intervals) and acquire database transaction logs that include data changes of the database at a frequency that is greater than the snapshot frequency. The integrated data management and storage system may generate a particular point in time version of the database by identifying a recoverable chain that comprises a combination of one or more database snapshots including the snapshot closest to the recovery point and one or more database transaction logs.
US10713120B2	Unique identifiers for data replication, migration, failover operations and failback operations A computer implemented method implemented with a processor for assigning a unique identifier for a data item initially deployed at a node of a networked environment includes determining a unique node identifier for the node of the networked environment, atomically modifying a local counter value at the node of the networked environment, and appending the unique node identifier to the atomically modified local counter value at the node of the networked environment to form a unique ID for the data item.
US10713119B2	Method and system for interfacing to cloud storage An interface between an existing local file system and a data store generates and exports to the data store a versioned file system. The state of the local file system at a given point in time can be determined using the versioned file system. In operation, the interface creates and exports to the data store structured data representations, which correspond to versions of the local file system, as well as actual file system data that these structured data representations represent. A cache associated with the interface stores recently used data and metadata, as well as all write data and metadata waiting to be transferred to the data store. Prior to transfer, one or more data transformations may be applied to the data and metadata. In one embodiment, the data store comprises one or more cloud storage service providers. A content control system is used to configure and manage the interface.
US10713115B2	Flash memory apparatus and storage management method for flash memory A flash memory method includes: classifying data into a plurality of groups of data; respectively executing error code encoding to generate first corresponding parity check code to store the groups of data and first corresponding parity check code into flash memory module as first blocks; reading out the groups of data from first blocks; executing error correction and de-randomize operation upon read out data to generate de-randomized data; executing randomize operation upon de-randomized data according to a set of seeds to generate randomized data; performing error code encoding upon randomized data to generate second corresponding parity check code; and, storing randomized data and second corresponding parity check code into flash memory module as second block; a cell of first block is used for storing data of first bit number which is different from second bit number corresponding to a cell of second block.
US10713113B2	Solid state drive implementing polar encoding and successive cancellation list decoding A method is proposed for operating a solid state storage device. The method comprises: encoding information and frozen bits into polar encoded bits; storing the polar encoded bits; reading the polar encoded bits, wherein the read polar encoded bits include the frozen bits and unfrozen bits, and performing a SCL decoding. The SCL decoding comprises: providing a list of candidate decoding paths; duplicating the candidate decoding paths; determining a maximum list size indicative of an allowed maximum number of candidate decoding paths that can be contained in the list of candidate decoding paths; pruning at least one duplicated candidate decoding path according to the maximum list size, and including in the list of candidate decoding paths a number of non-pruned duplicated candidate decoding paths not higher than the maximum list size; and selecting a decoding path from the list of candidate decoding paths.
US10713109B2	Method and system for predicting failure events Embodiments described herein provide a predictive failure analysis that enables design-time error and exception handling techniques to be supplemented or assisted by a predictive failure analysis system. One embodiment provides an electronic device, comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium to store instructions; one or more processors to execute the instructions; and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory to store the instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive injection of dynamic error detection logic into the instructions, the dynamic error handling logic including an error handling update to indicate a response to a predicted failure; receive a set of events indicative of the predicted failure; and respond to the set of events according to the error handling update.
US10713104B2	Storage system with read threshold mechanism and method of operation thereof A storage system includes: a control processor, configured to: read user data, generate a bit flip array from the user data including limiting a threshold offset range, and select an optimal read threshold set from the bit flip array; and a non-volatile memory array, coupled to the control processor, configured to store the user data; and wherein the control processor is further configured read a sector N with the optimal read threshold set for enhancing performance of the non-volatile memory array.
US10713097B2	Automatic generation of blueprints for orchestration engines from discovered workload representations An aspect includes the automatic generation of blueprints for orchestration engines from discovered workload representations. A computer-implemented method includes receiving, using a processor, a description of a workload executing in a source computing environment. The description of the workload is mapped, using the processor, to one or more resource descriptors located in a repository of resource descriptors describing resources available in a target computing environment. A declarative representation of the workload in the target computing environment is generated, using the processor, based at least in part on the mapping and the description of the workload. The declarative representation includes a specification of resources required by the workload in the target environment.
US10713096B2	System and method for handling data skew at run time A system for handling data skew includes a cluster of computing nodes and a processor. The cluster includes one or more first nodes, each of which has a storage, and one or more second nodes, each of which has a storage. The storage of the respective second nodes has a higher access speed than the storage of the respective first nodes. The processor is configured to split input data into partitions of the input data, to detect if any of the partitions has data skew, and to assign ones of the partitions, which are detected as having no data skew, to the first nodes, and ones of the partitions, which are detected as having the data skew, to the second nodes, for parallel processing.
US10713095B2	Multi-core processor and method of controlling the same using revisable translation tables A method of controlling a multi-core processor includes allocating at least one core of the multi-core processor to at least one process for execution; generating a translation table with respect to the at least one process to translate a logical ID of the at least one core allocated to the at least one process to a physical ID; and controlling the at least one process based on the translation table generated with respect to the at least one process.
US10713094B1	Allocating computing resources in an online system An online system maintains a plurality of content items. The online system selects and provides content items to users of the online system in response to impression opportunities to provide content items to users. A plurality of segments of the impression opportunities are determined. Each segment categorizes the impression opportunities. A relationship between a value metric and computing resources used in the selection process are determined for each segment. Each relationship provides a rate of increase of the value metric given an increase in computing resources used. An allocation of computing resources used per impression opportunity for each of segment is determined based on the rates. A plurality of impression opportunities are identified. In response, one or more content items are selected for each impression opportunity using computing resources according to the determined allocation for the segment to which each impression opportunity belongs.
US10713090B2	Context aware prioritization in a distributed environment using tiered queue allocation Systems and methods for allocating jobs in a distributed file system queue are provided. The system may receive a job request and intelligently divide the job request into one or more logical job stages. Each job stage may be assigned a stage weight based on historical data corresponding to each job stage, such as job stage computing requirements, job stage data outputs, and the like. The system may assign each job stage to a job queue n the distributed file system based on the stage weight and the current computing availability of each job queue. The system may execute each job stage in the assigned job queue to complete the job request.
US10713089B2	Method and apparatus for load balancing of jobs scheduled for processing Method and system embodying the method for load balancing of scheduled jobs among a plurality of engines encompassing determining a number of cluster credits for each of a plurality of clusters that comprise at least one engine capable of processing a scheduled job; determining a number of engine credits for each of the plurality of engines comprising each of the at least one engine in accordance with a number of jobs assigned to each of the plurality of engines; evaluating the determined number of cluster credits and the determined number of engine credits in accordance with a credit evaluation policy; and assigning the job to one of the plurality of engines in accordance with the evaluation, is disclosed.
US10713088B2	Event-driven scheduling using directed acyclic graphs Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for event-driven scheduling using directed acyclic graphs are disclosed. A directed acyclic graph is generated that comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges. The nodes represent jobs, and the edges represent dependency relationships between individual jobs. Based (at least in part) on one or more events, a job scheduler determines that one of the nodes represents a runnable job. One or more of the dependency relationships for the runnable job are satisfied by the one or more events. An execution schedule is determined for the runnable job. Based (at least in part) on the execution schedule, execution of the runnable job is initiated using one or more computing resources.
US10713087B2	Management of unmanaged user accounts and tasks in a multi-account mobile application Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing mobile application management (MAM) functionalities are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may initialize a partially managed application associated with a first managed user account and an unmanaged user account. The mobile device may execute first managed tasks associated with the first managed user account in accordance with a first set of MAM policies provided by a first MAM service provider. The mobile device may execute unmanaged tasks associated with the unmanaged account independent of the first set of MAM policies. In some embodiments, the mobile device may initialize the multi-account managed application associated with a second managed user account.
US10713082B2	Cloud platform integration load balancer A method and system including two or more virtual machines; a load balancer module; a load balancer processor in communication with the load balancer module and operative to execute processor-executable process steps to cause the system to: initiate an application integration component; create a set of one or more integration steps to transfer data between a cloud-based application and a second application; receive selection of an element of a virtual machine; broadcast a current state of each virtual machine to the other virtual machines; determine which of the two or more virtual machines has a pre-set amount of the selected element; retrieve a mutual exclusion component, wherein the mutual exclusion component is retrieved by the virtual machine determined to have the pre-set amount of the selected element; and execute the integration steps at the virtual machine that retrieved the mutual exclusion component. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10713081B2	Secure and efficient memory sharing for guests Secure and efficient memory sharing for guests is disclosed. For example, a host has a host memory storing first and second guests whose memory access is managed by a hypervisor. A request to map an IOVA of the first guest to the second guest is received, where the IOVA is mapped to a GPA of the first guest, which is is mapped to an HPA of the host memory. The HPA is mapped to a second GPA of the second guest, where the hypervisor controls access permissions of the HPA. The second GPA is mapped in a second page table of the second guest to a GVA of the second guest, where a supervisor of the second guest controls access permissions of the second GPA. The hypervisor enables a program executing on the second guest to access contents of the HPA based on the access permissions of the HPA.
US10713080B1	Request-based virtual machine memory transitioning in an on-demand network code execution system Systems and methods are described for selectively transitioning execution environments in an on-demand code execution system based on a timing of a next request to execute code within such environments. The system can predict, from a history of requests to the system, when a next call to execute code in an environment, such as a virtual machine instance, will occur. The system can then calculate and compare the relative costs of maintaining the environment in an executing state or of halting the environment and moving the environment to a lower tier of memory, each of which can be based on the predicted next call to execute code within the environment. If the relative cost of maintaining the environment in an executing state exceeds that of halting the environment and moving the environment to a lower tier of memory, the virtual machine is halted and transitioned to secondary memory.
US10713071B2	Method and apparatus for network function virtualization A method and an apparatus for network function virtualization, which may allow services of VNF components logically and physically distributed in a VNF instance to be shared with another VNF instance in a NFV environment without any separate component such as a load balancer. The method for network function virtualization includes: configuring one or plural virtual network function (VNF) instances including one or plural shared virtual network function (VNF) components and one or plural VNF instances including one or plural non-shared VNF components, generating a descriptor including attribute information of the one or plural shared VNF components, and providing the descriptor to a VNF instance which is to use the shared VNF component.
US10713069B2	Software and hardware emulation system A method to emulate a system represented by one or more of hardware portions and software portions is described. The method comprises determining whether a subset of the one or more hardware portions and software portions have been tested, and identifying whether the system has performed to a specification based on the testing. The method further comprising, when the system has not performed to the specification, determining one or more of the hardware and software portions to update for retesting.
US10713068B1	Acquisition process of GUI elements using user input A method, system and product for improving acquisition process of GUI elements using user input. A method comprises obtaining a digital representation of a first version of a GUI that includes a GUI element, obtaining a digital representation of a second version of the GUI, obtaining an identified element that was identified, using an acquisition process operated on the second version of the GUI, as being estimated to correspond to the GUI element in the first version of the GUI. The first version of the GUI and the second version of the GUI may be displayed in parallel to a user. User input indicative of whether the identified element corresponds to the GUI element, based on the display, may be obtained. The acquisition process may be updated based on the user input.
US10713062B2	System and method for configuring an information handling system A peer configuration system provides a configuration file via peer-to-peer networking. A master device stores a peer configuration. Whenever any peer device requires configuration, the peer device assumes a slave role and queries the master device to retrieve the peer configuration. The peer configuration is thus propagated via peer-to-peer networking to the peer device. The peer device boots-up using the peer configuration retrieved from the master device.
US10713055B2	Parallelization of numeric optimizers A method for parallelization of a numeric optimizer includes detecting an initialization of a numeric optimization process of a given function. The method computes a vector-distance between an input vector and a first neighbor vector of a set of neighbor vectors. The method predicts, using the computed vector-distance, a subset of the set of neighbor vectors. The method pre-computes, in a parallel processing system, a set of evaluation values in parallel, each evaluation value corresponding to one of the subset of the set of neighbor vectors. The method detects a computation request from the numeric optimization process, the computation request involving at least one of the set of evaluation values. The method supplies, in response to receiving the computation request, and without performing a computation of the computation request, a parallelly pre-computed evaluation value from the set of evaluation values to the numeric optimization process.
US10713053B2	Adaptive spatial access prefetcher apparatus and method An apparatus and method for adaptive spatial accelerated prefetching. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: execution circuitry to execute instructions and process data; a Level 2 (L2) cache to store at least a portion of the data; and a prefetcher to prefetch data from a memory subsystem to the L2 cache in anticipation of the data being needed by the execution unit to execute one or more of the instructions, the prefetcher comprising a buffer to store one or more prefetched memory pages or portions thereof, and signature data indicating detected patterns of access to the one or more prefetched memory pages; wherein the prefetcher is to prefetch one or more cache lines based on the signature data.
US10713052B2	Prefetcher for delinquent irregular loads Disclosed embodiments relate to a prefetcher for delinquent irregular loads. In one example, a processor includes a cache memory, fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode instructions from a memory; and execution circuitry including a binary translator (BT) to respond to the decoded instructions by storing a plurality of decoded instructions in a BT cache, identifying a delinquent irregular load (DIRRL) among the plurality of decoded instructions, determining whether the DIRRL is prefetchable, and, if so, generating a custom prefetcher to cause the processor to prefetch a region of instructions leading up to the prefetchable DIRRL.
US10713049B2	Stunt box to broadcast and store results until retirement for an out-of-order processor A processor including a stunt box with an intermediate storage, including a plurality of registers, configured to store a plurality of execution pipe results as a plurality of intermediate results; a storage, communicatively coupled to the intermediate storage, configured to store a plurality of storage results which may include one or more of the plurality of intermediate results; and an arbiter, communicatively coupled to the intermediate storage and the storage, configured to receive the plurality of execution pipe results, the plurality of intermediate results, and the plurality of storage results and to select an output to retire from of the plurality of results, the plurality of intermediate results, and the plurality of storage results.
US10713047B2	Fast unaligned memory access Fast unaligned memory access. hi accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a computing device includes a load queue memory structure configured to queue load operations and a store queue memory structure configured to queue store operations. The computing device includes also includes at least one bit configured to indicate the presence of an unaligned address component for an entry of said load queue memory structure, and at least one bit configured to indicate the presence of an unaligned address component for an entry of said store queue memory structure. The load queue memory may also include memory configured to indicate data forwarding of an unaligned address component from said store queue memory structure to said load queue memory structure.
US10713038B2	Transparent multi-architecture support in a container based cloud Adjusting runtime performance includes receiving a first input file of a software application, where the software application utilizes a first software architecture. Embodiments include analyzing the first input file, including identifying dependencies for a secondary platform. Embodiments include identifying dependencies for the first software architecture, and a first set of code transformation rules based on the identified dependencies. Embodiments include generating code, based on the first set of transformation rules, where the runtime profile contains data regarding first characteristics of the first input file, the generated code allowing the first input file to utilize the second software architecture. Embodiments include identifying a second set of code transformation rules based on the identified dependencies. Embodiments include analyzing, the first input file and identifying problems that may require code changes in order to allow porting of the first input file to the second software architecture.
US10713028B2	On-demand installer for resource packages A computer device is provided that includes a processor and non-volatile memory including stored instructions executable by the processor, the stored instructions being configured to cause the processor to execute an operating system including an application programming interface for an on-demand installer that is callable by installed application programs during run-time. The on-demand installer is configured to receive a request from an application program to install a target resource package of the application program, query an installer server that is a source of an application program package of the application program to retrieve the target resource package from the installer server, and install the target resource package of the application program.
US10713022B2	Systems and methods for stencil amplification In a sequence of major computational steps or in an iterative computation, a stencil amplifier can increase the number of data elements accessed from one or more data structures in a single major step or iteration, thereby decreasing the total number of computations and/or communication operations in the overall sequence or the iterative computation. Stencil amplification, which can be optimized according to a specified parameter such as compile time, run time, code size, etc., can improve the performance of a computing system executing the sequence or the iterative computation in terms of run time, memory load, energy consumption, etc. The stencil amplifier typically determines boundaries, to avoid erroneously accessing data elements not present in the one or more data structures.
US10713021B2	Geometric 64-bit capability pointer One embodiment provides for a computer-implemented method comprising receiving a request to compile a set of program instructions coded in a high-level language, the set of program instructions including a pointer to a virtual memory address, the pointer having a pointer encoding including a base address and a length; while compiling the set of program instructions, decoding the base address and length from the pointer, wherein the base address specifies a first boundary for a memory allocation, the length defines a second boundary for the memory allocation and the length is an encoding of a size of the memory allocation; and generating a set of compiled instructions which, when executed, enable access to a physical address associated with a virtual address between the first boundary and the second boundary.
US10713017B2	Approaches for amalgamating disparate software tools Systems and methods are provided for obtaining one or more source code files that correspond to a software program. At least one first software package that is separately executable from the software program is obtained, the first software package including one or more source code files. At least one first callable library for the first software package and at least one first invocation mechanism for calling the first callable library are generated. A composite software program that is capable of invoking at least the software program and the first callable library for the first software package using the first invocation mechanism is generated.
US10713009B2	User speech interfaces for interactive media guidance applications A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed in response to the voice commands.
US10713007B2	Architecture for a hub configured to control a second device while a connection to a remote system is unavailable A hub is configured to provide voice control without assistance from a remote system, which allows the hub to provide a user with the ability to control second devices in an environment by issuing voice commands, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet). The hub is also configured to execute rules without assistance from the remote system, which allows the hub to execute rules, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet).
US10713006B2	Image display apparatus, topic selection method, topic selection program, image display method, and image display program An image display apparatus includes a display section configured to display a character, a conversation section by which the character executes a conversation with a user, and a chat section by which the character executes a chat with a communication terminal of the user, wherein the conversation section selects a next topic on the basis of content of an executed conversation and content of the chat executed by the chat section, and the chat section selects the next topic on the basis of content of an executed chat and content of the conversation executed by the conversation section.
US10713005B2	Multimodal state circulation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing dialogs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to perform a task from a user device; obtaining a dialog corresponding to the task; providing multiple protocol buffers to the user device; receiving a voice input and one or more annotated protocol buffers from the user device, the one or more annotated protocol buffers identifying corresponding non-verbal responses to content in the protocol buffers; and using the received protocol buffers to update a state of the dialog and to interpret the voice input.
US10713000B2	Override for OEM audio signal equalizer Apparatus and methods for processing an audio signal. The apparatus may include a digital signal processor (“DSP”) configured to receive an audio signal from a vehicular audio signal line. The audio signal may include a flat component and a compensatory component. The flat component may correspond to the audio signal in a state before combination with the compensatory component. The compensatory component may include an OEM EQ component. The apparatus may include a microprocessor in electronic communication with the DSP. The microprocessor may be configured to retrieve from the memory a restorative signal component. The microprocessor may be configured to instruct the DSP to apply the restorative signal component to the audio signal to reduce the audio signal to the flat component.
US10712990B2	Systems and methods for a customer assistance station Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving first user input from a first user interface screen and second user input from a second user interface screen, wherein the first user interface screen is disposed at a first location on a support structure and the second user interface screen is disposed at a second location on the support structure; presenting a first series of images, wherein the first series of images is presented responsive to first user input, and wherein the first series of images is presented as a first projection in a first volume of space; and presenting a second series of images, wherein the second series of images is presented responsive to second user input, wherein the second series of images is presented as a second projection in a second volume of space. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10712986B2	Job processing apparatus that stops job according to user's instruction, method of controlling same, and storage medium A job processing apparatus that is capable of positively stopping a transmission job desired by a user. A transmission job is input according to a user's operation. Uncompleted transmission jobs out of input transmission jobs are managed by a job management table. A first stop instruction for stopping a transmission job is received according to a user's operation. In a case where the first stop instruction is received during display of a configuration screen for making settings of a transmission job, a transmission job input last out of the transmission jobs managed by the job management table is searched for, and the searched-for transmission job is stopped.
US10712984B2	Image forming apparatus A control unit of the invention compares printing setting suitable for a determined type of a recording material and printing setting of the recording material input by a user, and in a case where a difference between the printing setting suitable for the determined type of the recording material and the printing setting of the recording material input by the user falls in a predetermined range, the control unit performs a printing operation in accordance with the printing setting of the recording material input by the user, and in a case where the difference is greater than the predetermined range, the control unit performs the printing operation by changing the printing setting of the recording material input by the user, which is used when the difference is smaller than the predetermined range.
US10712975B2	Cluster configuration information replication One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for cluster configuration information replication, managing cluster-wide service agents, and/or for cluster-wide outage detection. In an example of cluster configuration information replication, a replication workflow corresponding to a storage operation implemented for a storage object (e.g., renaming of a volume) of a first cluster may be transferred to a second storage cluster for selectively implementation. In an example of managing cluster-wide service agents, cluster-wide service agents are deployed to nodes of a cluster storage environment, where a master agent actively processes cluster service calls and standby agents passively wait for reassignment as a failover master in the event the master agent fails. In an example of cluster-wide outage detection, a cluster-wide outage may be determined for a cluster storage environment based upon a number of inaccessible nodes satisfying a cluster outage detection metric.
US10712966B2	Storage control device A storage control device includes a processor configured to receive access information indicating a start position and an end position of an access area in a first volume. The processor is configured to determine, based on one or more pieces of the received access information, whether a number of blocks in a cache area is reduced as a whole by changing a position of data in the first volume. The blocks are used in response to an access to the access area and correspond to one or more unit areas in the first volume. The one or more unit areas include the access area. The processor is configured to change the position of the data in the first volume upon determining that the number of the blocks in the cache area is reduced as a whole by changing the position of the data in the first volume.
US10712959B2	Method, device and computer program product for storing data Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer program product for storing data. The method comprises obtaining a first range of replica levels supported by a storage apparatus, wherein the replica level indicates the number of replicas of data. The method further comprises receiving a replica configuration requirement for an application, wherein the application supports a second range of replica levels. Moreover, the method further comprises determining a first replica level for the storage apparatus and a second replica level for the application based on the replica configuration requirement, the first range and the second range. By extracting the replica function supported by the storage apparatus, embodiments of the present disclosure can configure replica levels of the storage apparatus and the application from the global level for the user requirement for replicas of the data service.
US10712953B2	Management of a data written via a bus interface to a storage controller during remote copy operations A synchronization of data is performed via remote copy operations from a primary storage controller to a secondary storage controller, wherein input/output (I/O) requests are received at the primary storage controller from a host both via a bus interface and a network interface while the remote copy operations are in progress. A first data structure stores identification of tracks written via the network interface that are to be copied from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller for the synchronization of data. A second data structure stores identification of tracks written via the bus interface that are to be copied from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller for the synchronization of data.
US10712941B2	Leveraging temporal locality to link files together and bypass accessing a central inode list A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving an access request for data in a first block of storage space in memory, and returning the data in the first block of storage space in response to the access request. An identifier at an end of the data in the first block of storage space is also located, and pointers included in a trailer appended to the identifier are used to identify additional blocks of storage space which include data having temporal locality with the data in the first block of storage space. The data in each of the identified additional blocks of storage space is further prepared for use.
US10712937B2	Device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation A method and device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation has a configuration tool that is designed to physically identify a field device in the automation installation, to logically incorporate it into the automation installation and to configurate it in the automation installation, wherein the configuration tool to this end resorts to a prescribed first field-device-specific information package that describes the functions and data of the field device at least in part. The screen may have a first screen element provided on it that has a plurality of second screen elements in a first orientation and a plurality of third screen elements, which are each subordinate to a second screen element, in a second orientation, wherein precisely one second screen element and at least one third screen element, which are logically connected to one another, are arranged along the second orientation.
US10712936B2	First electronic device and information processing method applicable to first or second electronic device comprising a first application The present disclosure relates to an information processing method and information processing apparatus applicable to a first electronic device comprising a first application. The information processing method comprises receiving a first information sent from a second electronic device and associated with the first application in a process of the first electronic device being in communication with the second electronic device through the first application; receiving a second information sent from the second electronic device; and displaying the first information and the second information; wherein the first information is different from the second information, the first information includes communication information, and the second information includes information acquired by the second electronic device being in response to a detection of a predetermined operation or state on the second electronic device.
US10712931B2	Systems for modifying finger sensations during finger press input events A user may provide finger press input to a surface such as a touch sensitive input surface. The input surface may be formed from a two-dimensional touch sensor overlapping a display of an electronic device. The electronic device and an associated device such as a finger-mounted device may form a system for gathering the finger press input from the user. A sensor may be used in monitoring when the finger-mounted device and a user's finger in the device approach the input surface of the electronic device. In response to detection of the finger near the input surface, actuators in the finger-mounted device may squeeze the finger inwardly to cause a finger pad on the finger to protrude outwardly towards the input surface, thereby softening impact between the finger and the input surface. The electronic device may also have an array of components to repel the finger-mounted device.
US10712930B2	3D touch based user interface value pickers Electronic devices that include a force sensor input and input user interface elements are described. The force sensors may be located to detect force on the display of the electronic device. The force sensor, alone or in combination with one or more other sensors such as capacitive touch sensors, allows for interaction with the user interface input on the device. By using a hold detection logic with a pressure level sensitive sensor, user interface elements can be manipulated or values can be assigned to input elements.
US10712928B2	Method for providing visual effects according to bezel-based interaction and electronic device for same An electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a rotating input module, a display, and a processor configured to detect an event, detect an interaction by the rotating input module, determine a first object associated with the event based on the interaction, and display, on the display, a visual effect associated with the first object.
US10712927B2	System and method for call management in single window communication endpoints When a communication session is established, display information is sent to a first window of a communication application. The first window of the communication application displays current status information for the live communication session. For example, the first window may include a mute status (e.g., that the call is currently muted by the user) and call time. When the display of the communication application is switched to a second window that covers the first window, display information for a call dart is sent that displays current status information for the first live communication session over a portion of the second window. For example, the call dart may be a small thumbnail or banner that allows the user to view the current status of the live communication session, such as the mute status of the live communication session and the current duration of the live communication session.
US10712926B2	Display input device, image forming apparatus, and control method for display input device A display input device includes a touch screen and a control unit. When the control unit determines that a scroll operation is performed, it controls the touch screen to start scroll processing to scroll display content on the screen. After the control unit controls the touch screen to start the scroll processing, when it determines that an adjust operation is performed on the touch screen in which a contact body is moved while keeping contact with the touch screen, it changes scroll speed of the scroll processing by the touch screen in accordance with a contact position of the contact body performing the adjust operation on the touch screen.
US10712923B1	System and method for designing interior space An interior designing system is configured to select and review furnishings and fixtures for a room, and to visualize the selected furnishings and fixtures in a room layout. The interior designing system includes at least one user interface including at least one display and at least one input and at least one computer having at least one processor, random access memory, and permanent memory. The at least one processor is configured to display a selected room layout and a plurality of objects that can be placed within the selected room layout receive a selection of a first object, one or more positional parameters of the first object within the selected room layout, modify, based on user input, one or more design parameters of the first object, and render one or more of a photorealistic 3D or 2D view of the first object within the selected room layout.
US10712920B1	In-browser image perspective manipulation Methods for providing in-browser perspective manipulation are provided. In one aspect, a method includes executing, in a web browser, an image editing application retrieved from a remote server. The method also includes providing for display, in a user interface of the image editing application, a background and an image. The method also includes modifying anchors of the image in response to user input. The method also includes determining an indicator for supporting hardware graphics acceleration in the web browser. When the indicator is true, the method includes calling a 3D perspective transformation function on the image based on the modified anchors. When the indicator is false, the method includes a 2D approximation that divides the image into smaller units for affine transformations, which are then recombined into the transformed image. The method also includes compositing an output image comprising the transformed image in front of the background.
US10712911B2	Display input device, image forming device, and method for controlling display input device A display input device includes a display panel, a touch panel, and a panel control unit. The panel control unit performs the following control: when display of an item selection screen is started, a normal navigation image for selecting a category is displayed; when a wait time has elapsed since the start of displaying the normal navigation image, a reduced navigation image is displayed in place of the normal navigation image; when an expansion key is operated while reduction display is performed, the normal navigation image is redisplayed; and the normal navigation image is continuously displayed even when the wait time has elapsed since the start of redisplaying the normal navigation image.
US10712910B2	Electronics apparatus, method for executing application, and computer-readable recording medium A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a display, a memory to store a first set of applications and a second set of applications, the first set of applications and the second set of applications to be executed in a first operation mode and a second operation mode of a same operating system, respectively, and a processor. The processor is adapted to display a background screen and a first icon via the display, at least temporarily, while the portable electronic device is operated in the first operation mode, identify a first input received with respect to the first icon, display one or more rectangular indications on a first portion of the background screen based at least in part on the first input, each of the one or more rectangular indications indicative of an application of one or more of the second set of applications, identify a dragging input received with respect to a rectangular indication selected from the one or more rectangular indications, display a second icon corresponding to a respective application of the one or more of the second set of applications indicated by the selected rectangular indication on a second portion of the background screen where the dragging input is released, and execute the respective application based at least in part on a second input received with respect to the second icon.
US10712909B2	Method for providing object information and electronic device thereof An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a processor, a touch screen and a memory including instructions executable by the processor to execute the method, including: when detecting a first touch input to the touch screen, identifying an orientation for arranging a plurality of selectable objects, rearrange one or more objects from among the plurality of selectable objects according to the identified orientation relative to a location on the touch screen where the first touch input is detected, and outputting information associated with a particular object from among the rearranged one or more objects corresponding to detection of a second touch input.
US10712907B2	Terminal and method for setting menu environments in the terminal An apparatus and method for setting a menu environment in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a controller for switching to an environment setting mode of a menu according to a type of a gesture having occurred on the menu.
US10712898B2	System and method for cubic graphical user interfaces Systems, methods, and computer program products for cube graphical user interfaces are disclosed. A cube may be a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional object. The cube may contain a file or application on each face of the cube. The cube may be rotated such that a user may view the desired cube face. The various cube faces may be user profiles, and in response to a user profile being selected, the content and appearance of a screen may change to settings associated with the user profile. Cubes may also be sent as attachments to an email or message. One cube attachment may contain a file on each cube face. Cubes may be used for analytic purposes. Data may be presented on each cube face in the form of a graph, and the various graphs may be merged to show relationships between the individual graphs.
US10712885B2	Touch screen device incorporating a display and a capacitive touch sensor utilizing plural charge accumulations with variable time delays A touch screen device incorporating a display and a capacitive touch sensor. The device has a mode of operation in which a single touch sensor measurement is made up of multiple charge accumulations, which take place in different display cycles, ‘H-sync’, and whose time windows, defined by switch ‘S1’, commence with different time delays, 0, Δt1 and (Δt1+Δt2) from the drive pulse edge, ‘drive’, whose induced charge transfer they are accumulating. By subdividing the measurement into multiple charge accumulations, the amount of time needed in each display cycle for performing the touch sensor measurement can be reduced to avoid coinciding with periods of high display-induced noise.
US10712879B2	Touch capacitance transduced energy harvesting system Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include a touch capacitance transduced energy harvesting system. The energy harvesting system includes a touch sensing electrode array and energy harvesting circuitry coupled to the touch sensing electrode array. When a movable conductive object (e.g., a human finger) moves toward or away from the touch sensing electrode array, capacitance of the touch sensing electrode array increases and decreases accordingly, thus transducing a direct current (DC) current in the touch sensing electrode array. As such, the energy harvesting circuitry can be configured to harvest electric energy from the DC current to generate and store a DC voltage. By harvesting the electric energy transduced from the kinetic energy of the movable conductive object, it is possible to power a low-power electronic device (e.g., a biosensor) with motions already used for interfacing with the low-power electronic device.
US10712865B2	Predictive display device A computerized device having a man-machine input interface, a controller and a display. The controller being arranged to control the display according to a control value measured on the man-machine input interface at a first measuring frequency. The controller having a derivator and is arranged, between a first moment and a second moment separated by a duration based on the first measuring frequency, for: calling on the derivator to calculate an estimate of the derivative of the control value at the second moment from the control value at the first moment and the duration based on the first frequency; calculating a smoothing factor value at the second moment from the estimate of the first derivative of the control value at the second moment and from a smoothing factor value at the first moment; calculating a display value from the control value at the first moment and from a value based on the estimate of the derivative of the control value at the second moment and of the smoothing factor value at the second moment; and controlling the display with the display value.
US10712854B2	Input device An input device includes: a touch panel; a tactile presentation device that is mounted on the touch panel, and presents a tactile feel; and a control device that detects a position of a finger in accordance with information from the touch panel, controls the tactile presentation device to present the tactile feel in accordance with the position of the finger, and confirms an input value, the input value being the number of times the tactile feel is presented before input confirmation.
US10712848B2	Electronic device A display that surrounds the external appearance of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface formed of a side surface that encloses the space between the first and second surfaces, wherein each of the first to third surfaces are includes a material capable of transmitting light, a first display disposed in the housing adjacent to the first surface, a second display disposed in the housing adjacent to the second surface, and a third display that is disposed in the housing adjacent to the side surface and extends from the edge of the first display to the edge of the second display, wherein the first to third displays are disposed to substantially provide a display region to a whole surface of the housing.
US10712847B2	Touch sensor integrated type display device A touch sensor integrated type display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a multiplexing unit that supplies a common voltage to touch/common electrodes of the display panel during a display driving period of one frame period of the display panel to display an image on the display panel. The multiplexing unit senses the touch/common electrodes using a self-capacitive method during a first touch driving period of the one frame period and a mutual capacitive method during a second touch driving period of the one frame period of the display panel to sense touch of the display panel.
US10712830B2	Three-dimensional visual target acquisition systems Fitts's law is a predictive model of human movement primarily used in human-computer interaction, ergonomics, and medical assessments. A cervical orientated assessment allows assessments of aspects of users such as injuries, concussions, impacts of equipment as well as ergonomic assessments etc. Accordingly, a three-dimensional visual target acquisition system (3D-VTAS) provides measurements based upon a cervical oriented Fitts' Law paradigm in a manner which provides for ease of use, high between-day reliability and validity based upon healthy subject's performance. The 3D-VTAS also provides increased data allowing determination/verification if there are movement trajectory or target size confounds between the measurements of a subject's performance and hence assessments of both healthy and non-healthy individuals as well as assessments of ergonomic factors etc. Accordingly, subject and ergonomic effects of movement trajectory and target size can be established in either portable or fixed systems with rapid establishment and configuration.
US10712825B2	Touch-sensitive input device with improved generation of haptics The present disclosure relates to a touch-sensitive input device, including: a support; a touch-sensitive input component mounted on the support by a first spring means to elastically return along a deflection direction and is oscillation-capable; an absorber body mounted on the support by a second spring means to be movable along the deflection direction in an elastically returning and oscillation-capable manner; an actuating mechanism acting on the absorber body and the input component, with at least one direction of action having a component of the direction of action parallel to the deflection direction to cause a movement of the input component for generating haptic feedback along the deflection direction and cause movement of the absorber body in the direction opposite the movement of the input component; a mechanical trimming device for changing an effective spring length of a spring of the first spring means or the second spring means.
US10712819B2	System and methods for recreational sport heads-up display control Technologies are disclosed herein for controlling a head-mountable heads-up display system comprising a heads-up display unit and a hand cover. The hand cover includes a plurality of input elements located on appendages thereof that are configured to cause the hand cover to transmit input signals to the heads-up display unit. The heads-up display unit is configured to display virtual image content within a field of view of a user. As a result of receiving a user input, the heads-up display unit may display virtual image content based on a user input. The heads-up display unit updates the virtual image content as a result of receiving an input signal corresponding to an interaction between a pair of input elements of the hand cover. The heads-up display system may be useable in connection with a system of an outdoor recreational area to obtain information regarding the outdoor recreational area.
US10712808B2	Electronic device and method for switching display mode thereof An electronic device includes a display and a processor. The processor controls the display to operate in a full display mode to display a full color user interface, detects whether a first predetermined trigger event occurs, controls the display, when the first predetermined trigger event occurs, to switch from the full display mode to a partial display mode, generates a partial interface and displays the partial interface on the display, and switches from an operating mode to a sleep mode after the partial interface is displayed on the display.
US10712800B2	Aligning active and idle phases in a mixed workload computing platform Systems, apparatuses, and methods for aligning active and idle phases of components in a computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes components that can be forced into an active or idle phase and components that cannot be forced into an active or idle phase. The system implements schemes for aligning the active and idle phases of the components within the system. For example, a timer starts counting when a processor and memory subsystem go from a low power state to an operational state. If the amount of time spent by the processor and memory subsystems in the operational state without transitioning to the low power state exceeds a threshold, the system forces active-to-idle and idle-to-active phase transitions of components in the system in order to cause a realignment of active and idle phases of the various components within the system.
US10712797B2	Two-phase deployment-initiated wakeup mechanism for body-mountable electronic device The technology described herein is related to a two-phase deployment-initiated wakeup mechanism for a body-mountable electronic device. During a first phase of the two-phase wakeup mechanism, a motion sensor detects an acceleration event indicative of deployment of the device onto the body of the user. During a second phase of the two-phase mechanism, control circuitry can be adapted to be enabled by the acceleration event. Once enabled, the control circuitry can verify that the device has been launched onto the body of a user via a deployment applicator in which the device is retained until deployment. Once verified, the control circuitry can wake up the body-mountable electronic device by transitioning the device from a sleep state to a functional (or operational) state.
US10712794B2	Accurate calculation of consumption power of a processor caused by execution of a program An apparatus is configured to calculate consumption power of a processor caused by execution of a program, based on sampling data acquired by event-based sampling. The apparatus determines whether the processor is in an idle state, by using the sampling data of a clock event, where the clock event is an event which generates an interrupt at fixed time intervals when the processor is not in the idle state, and which generates the interrupt when a state of the processor changes from the idle state to a non-idle state. In a case where the processor is in the idle state, the apparatus calculates a first amount of consumption power of the processor in the idle state, based on a second amount of consumption power calculated using a consumption power model and a third amount of consumption power included in the sampling data.
US10712791B1	Photovoltaic powered thermal management for wearable electronic devices Techniques disclosed herein relate to exploiting photovoltaic effects to improve the thermal management capabilities for wearable electronic devices. In an exemplary embodiment, a wearable electronic device includes photovoltaic cells disposed over a housing assembly that encloses heat-emitting electronic components. The photovoltaic cells block solar radiation from reaching an exterior surface of the housing assembly—thereby reducing the solar gain thereof. Electrical energy that is generated by the photovoltaic cells is utilized in some manner that is determined to be currently appropriate based on various current-state factors of the wearable electronic device. For example, the wearable electronic device may include a thermal management engine that modulates the flow of current from the photovoltaic cells based on a current power demand of the wearable electronic device, a current charge level of a battery of the wearable electronic device, and/or a current temperature at one or more sensors of the wearable electronic device.
US10712788B2	Extendable structure for protecting electrical connectors An apparatus for protecting connectors protruding from a metal enclosure of a hardware canister includes an enclosure that includes one or more components, wherein a portion of the one or more components protrudes out of a first side of the enclosure. The apparatus further includes a first extendable member assembly coupled to a lower interior surface of the enclosure, wherein the first extendable member assembly includes, a first structure coupled to a first compressible member, wherein a force applied to the first structure at the first side of the enclosure translates to the first compressible member and a lower edge of the first structure located below a lower edge of the one or more components, wherein a length of the first structure in an extended state is longer than a length of the protruding portion of the one or more components.
US10712786B1	Multifunctional device A multifunctional device includes a base (1), a housing (4) releasably secured to the base (1), a casing (2) concealed by the housing (4), and a toy (3) concealed by the casing (2). The base (1) includes a tray (13). The casing (2) includes first and second pad members (21, 22) arranged symmetrically. The second pad member (22) includes a ring member (24) having top projections (243) and recesses (244) alternating with the projections (243) and being complimentary to the projections (243) respectively. The toy (3) includes first and second half bodies (31, 32) arranged symmetrically, and a joining member (33). The toy (3) can be folded or unfolded. The housing (4) includes an open top (41), a blind bottom (42), a first flange (43) around the open top (41), and a second flange (44) around the blind bottom (42).
US10712785B2	Hinge structure and electronic device A hinge structure including a hinge cover, a torsion element, a bracket, a fixing element and a shaft is provided. The torsion element is disposed at the hinge cover. The bracket is disposed at a side of the torsion element. The fixing element is fixed at one of the torsion element and the bracket by a fixing portion. The shaft is disposed at the hinge cover and passed through the torsion element, the bracket and the fixing element so that one of the torsion element and the bracket is adapted to rotate with the fixing element in relative to another one of the torsion element and the bracket through the shaft as an axle center. An electronic device including the aforementioned hinge structure is also provided.
US10712782B2	Front cover assembly and terminal A front cover assembly includes a frame, a cover glass, and a waterproof glue. The frame has a receiving cavity. The cover glass is partially received in the frame. The cover glass has a lateral face facing the frame. The cover glass has a step portion located at the lateral face. A first gap is defined between a first face of the step portion of the cover glass and a first wall of the frame, and a second gap is defined between a second face of the step portion of the cover glass and a second wall of the frame. A waterproof glue fills the first and second gaps. The first and second faces of the step portion from an obtuse angle therebetween, which faces the first and second walls of the frame. The present disclosure also relates to a terminal.
US10712777B2	Electronic device that detects a wearable object A magnetic attachment mechanism and method is described. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach at least two objects together in a preferred configuration without fasteners and without external intervention. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach an accessory device to an electronic device. The accessory device can be used to augment the functionality of usefulness of the electronic device.
US10712774B2	Electronic devices with structural glass members Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.
US10712772B2	Data processing circuits A data-processing-circuit comprising: a clock-input-terminal configured to receive a clock-signal; a data-output-terminal configured to provide a data-output-signal; an adjustable-driver-buffer configured to: receive a data-signal; and apply a driver-strength-value to the data-signal in order to provide a data-output-signal, wherein the current level of the data-output-signal is based on the driver-strength-value; and a driver-control-module comprising: a time-alignment-module configured to: process the clock-signal and the data-output-signal in order to determine a timing-delay-signal that is representative of a time delay between: a transition in the clock-signal; and a transition in the data-output-signal; provide the driver-strength-value for the adjustable-driver-buffer based on the timing-delay-signal and a target-delay-signal, wherein the driver-strength-value is for reducing a difference between: the timing-delay-signal; and the target-delay-signal.
US10712767B2	Clock generator and clock generation method According to one embodiment, there is provided a clock generator including a frequency divider configured to generate a divided frequency clock of a frequency lower than that of a source clock by performing mask processing on part of a pulse train of the source clock.
US10712753B2	Method and apparatus for the energy-efficient operation of secondary dust removal systems The invention relates to a control method for a secondary dust removal system in which a pipe network connects an induced draft fan to at least two suction points. The pipe network comprises a controllable exhaust air flap for each suction point, the position of said flap influencing the volumetric flow rate at the suction point. A mathematical model of the pipe network allows the method to energy-efficiently control the exhaust air flaps and the induced draft fan.
US10712744B2	Active off-vehicle notification to autonomous-driving vehicle A system included and a computer-implemented method performed in an autonomous-driving vehicle are described. The system performs: detecting a wireless push signal transmitted from a signal transmitter accompanied by an off-vehicle passer and received by a signal receiver of the autonomous-driving vehicle, the wireless push signal including information about a motion capability level of the off-vehicle passer, determining a position and a motion capability level of the off-vehicle passer at least based on the wireless push signal, and controlling a locomotive mechanism of the autonomous-driving vehicle based on the determined position and motion capability level of the off-vehicle passer.
US10712738B2	Methods and systems for industrial internet of things data collection for vibration sensitive equipment Methods, system and apparatus for monitoring vibration sensitive industrial equipment is disclosed. The system may include a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of components of the equipment, a signal conditioning circuit structured to process a subset of the detection values on multiples of a key frequency, a vibration analysis circuit structured to identify vibration in at least one of the plurality of components, a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values and determine a status parameter value, and an analysis response circuit structured to take an action in response to the status parameter value.
US10712736B2	Controlling an aircraft comprising a plurality of loadable configuration sever data based on detecting one or more diagnostic test interfaces According to an aspect, a sever system includes a non-volatile storage device with a plurality of loadable configuration data and a configurable sever logic circuit configured responsive to a transfer of the loadable configuration data to perform a plurality of operations. The operations include mapping a plurality of module-level sever logic inputs to a plurality of module-specific sever logic functions as defined in the loadable configuration data. The module-level sever logic inputs are monitored by the configurable sever logic circuit based on the module-specific sever logic functions for a sever condition. A sever command to disconnect one or more outputs of a plurality of modules is triggered based on the module-specific sever logic functions and the module-level sever logic inputs.
US10712735B2	Methods and systems for infrastructure-monitoring control Methods and systems for infrastructure-monitoring control are provided. An example method for providing a visual representation of system events occurring in a system monitored by an infrastructure-monitoring control system includes the infrastructure-monitoring control system providing, in substantially real-time, a visual representation of at least one system event occurring in the system, wherein the visual representation comprises a color-coded visual representation depicting the at least one system event throughout the system. The method further includes the infrastructure-monitoring control system storing the visual representation. Still further, the method includes the infrastructure-monitoring control system then providing the visual representation after a given amount of time since the at least one system event.
US10712732B2	Slave device, master device, and industrial network system To reduce the working hours of a user in an operation and improve an operation rate in an industrial network system. A communication setting change part is provided which automatically changes, in a timing of an end effector replacement, the communication setting in a communication part according to the communication information that corresponds to an end effector.
US10712728B2	Motor control apparatus and method of controlling motor control apparatus A motor control apparatus includes a memory and a setting selector. The memory is configured to store setting items each relating to a motor, and the setting sequence to sequentially set the setting items. The setting selector is connected to the memory and configured to select a newly selected item from among the setting items based on the setting sequence, a user input, and a currently selected item of the setting items.
US10712725B2	Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, robot transfer time estimation method, and robot transfer time estimation device Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process including: acquiring transfer times of straight transfer paths for a hand of a vertical articulated robot having at least four controlled axes; calculating a vector of each of the straight transfer paths; comparing a direction of a vector of a target path for which a transfer time is to be estimated with a direction of the vector of each of the straight transfer paths, and identifying, among the straight transfer paths, a transfer path most similar in vector direction to the target path; and estimating a transfer time of the target path, in accordance with a scalar quantity of a vector of an identified transfer path, a scalar quantity of the vector of the target path, and a transfer time of the identified transfer path.
US10712721B2	Network driven actuator mapping agent and bus and method of use A network driven actuator mapping agent is provided. A system includes a sensor configured to sense an event in a first environment. The system also includes an actuator configured to perform an action in a second environment. Moreover, the system further includes a mapping manager configured to map the sensed event to the actuator to provide a custom interaction in the second environment.
US10712711B2	Drum cartridge in which first storage medium of toner catridge and second storage medium of drum catridge are aligned in mounting direction, and image forming apparatus to which drum catridge is mountable A drum cartridge mountable to an image forming apparatus in a mounting direction, the drum cartridge including: a frame having an opening, the frame allowing a toner cartridge to be attached, and the frame including a housing configured to accommodate therein a toner and a first storage medium including a first electric contact; a photosensitive drum; and a second storage medium including a second electric contact and located at an outer surface of the frame, and in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted to the frame, the first storage medium is exposed via the opening and the second storage medium is aligned with the first storage medium in the mounting direction of the drum cartridge.
US10712710B2	Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, developing apparatus, and coupling member A developing device usable with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the apparatus including a driving shaft rotatable by a motor and having a rotating force applying portion, and a movable member, the developing device being mountable to the movable member, and the developing device being movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft in response to movement of the movable member in one direction with the developing device mounted to the movable member, the developing device includes i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis; and ii) a coupling member for transmitting a rotating force to the developing roller, the coupling member including, a rotating force receiving portion engageable with the rotating force applying portion to receive a rotating force from the driving shaft, and a rotating force transmitting portion for transmitting the rotating force received through the rotating force receiving portion to the developing roller, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller, a pre-engagement angular position which is taken before the coupling member is engaged with the rotating force applying portion and in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position, and a disengaging angular position which is taken for the coupling member to disengage from the driving shaft and in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position in a direction opposite to the pre-engagement angular position; wherein in response to a movement of the developing device when the movable member moves in the one direction, the coupling member moves from the pre-engagement angular position to the rotational force transmitting angular position to be opposed to the driving shaft, and wherein when the movable member makes a further movement in the one direction from a position where the coupling member is opposed to the driving shaft, in response to the further movement, the coupling member is disengaged from the driving shaft by moving from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.
US10712693B2	Image forming apparatus with protection of fixing unit when main assembly is opened An image forming apparatus includes a door; an image forming portion to form an image on a sheet; an image fixing portion including a heater, a nip, an electric energy supply connector for supplying electric energy to the heater, and a shutter for opening and closing an entrance of the fixing portion which leads to the nip; and a link connecting the door and shutter with each other to move the shutter in interrelation with movement of the door. When the door is opened, the link moves in a direction crossing with a surface of the nip to cause the shutter to move from an entrance opening position to an entrance closing position. When the shutter is in the closing position, substantially an entirety of the electric energy supply connector is covered by the link, as viewed from an upstream side relative to a sheet feeding direction in the nip.
US10712683B1	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body that holds an image to be transferred to a recording material; a developing unit that causes a mixture, in which plural kinds of developers are mixed, to adhere to the image holding body and that forms an image on the image holding body; a transfer unit that transfers an image formed on the image holding body to a recording material; and a change portion that changes a transfer condition that is a condition under which the transfer unit performs transfer so that a ratio of the plural kinds of developers in the image to be transferred to a recording material becomes close to a predetermined ratio.
US10712681B2	Toner, toner storage unit, image forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing toner A toner is provided that contains a crystalline polyester resin comprising a polycondensed resin of a dicarboxylic acid represented by the following formula (1) with a diol represented by the following formula (2). A content of a cyclic ester represented by the following formula (3) in the toner, measured by a thermal extraction gas chromatographic mass spectrometry at a thermal extraction temperature of 160° C., is from 1 to 200 ppm in terms of toluene: where n represents an integer of from 2 to 12; where m represents an integer of from 2 to 12; and where n represents an integer of from 2 to 12, m represents an integer of from 2 to 12, and m+n≥6 is satisfied.
US10712675B2	Immersion liquid, exposure apparatus, and exposure process An immersion liquid is provided comprising an ion-forming component, e.g. an acid or a base, which has a relatively high vapor pressure. Also provided are lithography processes and lithography systems using the immersion liquid.
US10712672B2	Method of predicting patterning defects caused by overlay error A method including determining a first color pattern and a second color pattern associated with a hot spot of a design layout pattern, the design layout pattern configured for transfer to a substrate, and predicting, by a hardware computer system, whether there would be a defect at the hot spot on the substrate caused by overlay error, based at least in part on a measurement of an overlay error between the first color pattern and the second color pattern.
US10712668B2	Shutter device used for exposure in lithography machine, and method for use thereof A shutter device for use in exposure by a photolithography machine and a method of using the shutter device are disclosed. The device includes a shutter blade (1); a rotating motor (2) for driving the shutter blade (1) to rotate; a controller in electric connection with the rotating motor (2); and a supporter (3) for supporting the rotating motor (2). The shutter blade (1) includes a rotation center (11) and, disposed in correspondence with the rotation center (11), at least one open portion (12) and at least one shielding portion (13). The rotation center (11) is coupled to the rotating motor (2) which drives the shutter blade (1) to rotate so that the shutter device opening and closure are accomplished to enable and disable exposure. The shielding portion (13) includes a hollow portion (131) which significantly reduces the mass of the shutter blade (1), thereby facilitating the control over the rotation of the shutter blade (1). Under the control of the controller, the opening and closing of the shutter is accomplished during rotation of the shutter blade (1) at a constant speed, while the acceleration and deceleration of the shutter blade (1) take place in the period when the shutter device is in a closed state, which is relatively long and allows a large stroke. This significantly reduces the required torque of the rotating motor (2) and effectively shortens the shutter opening and closing time.
US10712665B2	Method for manufacturing array substrate and method for manufacturing liquid crystal antenna The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an array substrate and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal antenna, and relates to the technical field of liquid crystal antennas and array substrates. The method for manufacturing an array substrate includes: sequentially depositing a metal material layer and a photoresist material layer on a substrate to form a plurality of metal patterns and a plurality of photoresist patterns on the plurality of metal patterns; and forming a light-shielding material between at least two adjacent metal patterns such that the light-shielding material and the plurality of photoresist patterns have opposite hydrophobicity-hydrophilicity; curing the light-shielding material to form at least one light-shielding pattern such that a thickness of the at least one light-shielding pattern is the same as a thickness of the plurality of metal patterns; and removing the plurality of photoresist patterns.
US10712662B2	Methods of forming patterns using compositions for an underlayer of photoresist A method of forming a pattern is disclosed. The method includes preparing a composition that includes a solvent and a polymer including a repeating unit in which at least one isocyanurate unit having a first structure is connected to another isocyanurate unit having a second structure different from the first structure; applying the composition on a substrate to form an underlayer; forming a photoresist layer on the underlayer; etching the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern; and patterning the substrate using the photoresist pattern.
US10712661B2	Negative tone photosensitive compositions Various compositions encompassing polymers containing acidic pendent groups in combination with one or more reactive olefinic compounds and a photoacid generators form self-imagable negative tone films. Examples of such polymers include polymers and copolymers containing norbornene-type repeating units having acidic pendent groups, ring opened maleic anhydride polymers, polyacrylic acid, polyhydroxystyrene polymers, and the like. The films formed from such compositions provide self imagable, low-k, thermally stable layers for use in microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, among other applications.
US10712659B2	Method for forming a carbon nanotube pellicle membrane The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a carbon nanotube pellicle membrane for an extreme ultraviolet lithography reticle, the method comprising: bonding together overlapping carbon nanotubes of at least one carbon nanotube film by pressing the at least one carbon nanotube film between a first pressing surface and a second pressing surface, thereby forming a free-standing carbon nanotube pellicle membrane. The present disclosure also relates to a method for forming a pellicle for extreme ultraviolet lithography and for forming a reticle system for extreme ultraviolet lithography respectively.
US10712650B2	Screen and projection image display system A screen that diffuses and reflects image light projected by a projector, includes an uneven half mirror structure body which includes a first transparent substrate and a semitransparent reflective layer, and a second transparent substrate bonded to the uneven half mirror structure body on the surface of the uneven shape with a transparent material. The first transparent substrate has an uneven shape on one surface of the first transparent substrate. The semitransparent reflective layer is provided on the surface of the uneven shape and configured to reflect a part of light and transmit the remaining light. One of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate disposed closer to a projection side than the semitransparent reflective layer is made of a material exhibiting birefringence of less than or equal to 500 nm.
US10712648B2	Wavelength-converting wheel and projection apparatus A wavelength-converting wheel has a light incident side. The wavelength-converting wheel includes a disc, a heat conductive glue, a reflective layer, a plurality of protrusions, a heat conductive glue, and a wavelength-converting layer. The disc has an inner ring portion and an annular portion. The annular portion is connected to an outer edge of the inner ring portion. The annular portion includes a protrusion structure region. The protrusions are disposed in the protrusion structure region and protrude toward the light incident side. The heat conductive glue is disposed on the protrusion structure region. The reflective layer is disposed on the heat conductive glue. The wavelength-converting layer is disposed on the reflective layer and has a light receiving surface facing the light incident side.
US10712646B2	Phosphor wheel, light source device, and projection display apparatus A phosphor wheel of a first exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure includes a base plate, an annular phosphor provided on the base plate, and a reflective coating provided on a partial area of the annular phosphor. Further, a phosphor wheel of a second exemplary embodiment includes a base plate, an annular phosphor layer that is provided on the base plate and constituted by a plurality of phosphor segments, and a reflective coating provided on a partial area of the annular phosphor layer.
US10712643B2	Projector with cooling system A projector includes a light source device configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source device in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, and a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target.
US10712636B2	Polarization acquisition apparatus, image capturing apparatus and image capturing system The polarization acquisition apparatus is configured to allow an image capturing system including an interchangeable lens and an image capturing apparatus to perform image capturing using polarized light. The polarization acquisition apparatus includes a variable polarization axis element in which a direction of its polarization transmission axis is variable, a driver configured to operate the variable polarization axis element so as to change the direction of the polarization transmission axis, a first mount to which the image capturing apparatus is detachably attachable, and a second mount to which the interchangeable lens is detachably attachable. The driver is configured to operate the variable polarization axis element so as to change the direction of the polarization transmission axis to at least three directions when the image capturing is performed multiple times.
US10712622B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
US10712619B2	Liquid crystal display device At a corner of a TFT substrate where sealants are coated overlapping each other, a phenomenon that the sealants protrude into the display region is prevented by a structure that: the TFT substrate having an organic passivation film is formed as far as the outside of the display region. A groove-like organic passivation film removed portion is formed surrounding the display region. Since the sealants are coated overlapping each other at the corner, when a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are superposed at a predetermined gap, the width of the groove-like organic passivation film removed portion is made larger at the corner than the side in order to prevent the sealant from extending. Since an excessive sealant is absorbed in the groove-like organic passivation film removing portion of a larger width at the corner, the sealant can be prevented from protruding to the inside of the display region.
US10712618B2	Electrooptic device based on multiple domain scattering effect Devices and method of fabrication a liquid crystal electro-optic device which is based on light scattering and diffraction from a multiple domain field-effect liquid crystal configuration are provided. The multiple domains include random liquid crystal alignment directions fabricated by photo-alignment and have sizes ranging from sub-micrometer to several micrometers. The random alignment in the plane can be of two or more directions whereas the pretilt angle can vary between zero and 90°. The randomness of the planar directions of the liquid crystal director can be generated by a designed photo mask in combination with uniaxial photo-alignment.
US10712615B2	Display substrate, method for fabricating the same, display panel and display device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display substrate and a method for fabricating the same, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes a first photoluminescent layer, which is in a first sub-pixel region and configured to emit light of a first color under excitation of light of a second color, and a filter layer, which is in a second sub-pixel region and configured to filter out at least part of light of a different color other than the second color.
US10712606B2	Color conversion panel and display device including the same An exemplary embodiment of present disclosure provides a color conversion panel including: a substrate; a plurality of light blocking layers disposed on the substrate; a color conversion layer disposed on the substrate between the plurality of the light blocking layers and including quantum dots; an optical filter layer covering the color conversion layer and the light blocking layers; and a hydrogen blocking layer disposed on one surface of the optical filter layer.
US10712605B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer, and has a display region defined by a plurality of pixels. The first substrate has a pixel electrode provided in each of the plurality of pixels. The second substrate has a first, a second, and a third color filter having a striped pattern extending in a first direction, and a light blocking layer. The display region includes a first and a second region spaced apart from each other in a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction, and a third region located between the first and second regions and including the center of the display region. The light blocking layer includes, in each of the first, second, and third regions, a plurality of first light blocking portions extending in the first direction, and a plurality of second light blocking portions extending in the second direction. In each of the first and second regions, a width of the first light blocking portion is greater than a width of each of the plurality of second light blocking portions. In the third region, a width of the second light blocking portion is greater than a width of the first light blocking portion.
US10712584B2	Autostereoscopic display device An autostereoscopic display device uses an electroluminescent display. A set of pixels is provided beneath view forming elements (such as lenses), with a plurality of pixels across the view forming element width direction. The pixels are arranged with at least two different angular orientations with respect to the substrate. The out-coupling performance is improved by arranging for the light emission direction to be substantially perpendicular to the desired emitting surface of the view forming elements.
US10712566B2	Information displaying system provided with head-mounted type display A system and method are provided for acquiring a respective position of a robot arm and a facility, and three-dimensional shape information according to a controller, and for acquiring a position of a worker and eye-gaze direction information acquired through a sensor unit. Furthermore, the controller is provided for calculating a display form of the facility coming into a view of the worker through a display unit of smart glasses on the basis of the aforementioned information. When information of the display form and operation information of the facility are acquired, a portion of the facility coming into the worker is set as a display prohibition region on the display unit and the operation information is displayed in a region excluding the display prohibition region.
US10712555B2	Streaming virtual reality video Methods and devices are provided for use in a streaming process (130) of a Virtual Reality [VR] video to a VR rendering device (120). The streaming process has a configurable setup, each configured setup providing respective different image data of a scene. The VR rendering device is arranged to render a current view of the scene based on a current head position. The streaming process is executed according to a first configured setup providing first image data needed to render the current view. EEG data is determined by measuring brain signals (115) and a head movement is predicted based on the EEG data. Target image data is determined as needed for rendering a future view based on the predicted head movement. A new configured setup for providing the target image data is determined. By adapting the streaming process based on the prediction the target image data can be provided in time and efficiently using available bandwidth.
US10712552B2	Bladeless dust removal system for compact devices Bladeless dust removal systems incorporate a bladeless fan system to remove dust particles from compact devices when in operation. Tubular elements are configured in the bladeless fan system to direct air flow in a direction. As the air flows, induction and entrainment occur to increase air flow inside the compact device. An exhaust opening can be implemented, which allows air containing dust particles to exit from the compact device when the bladeless fans system is in operation.
US10712550B2	Colocating signal processing device with micromechanical scanning silicon mirror Various technologies described herein pertain to collocating a signal processing device with a micromechanical scanning silicon mirror as part of an apparatus. The micromechanical scanning silicon mirror and the signal processing device are part of separate dies. According to various embodiments, the apparatus can include wire bonds directly between sensor contacts of the micromechanical scanning silicon mirror and the signal processing device; the signal processing device can be mounted on a printed circuit board or mounted on or adjacent to the micromechanical scanning silicon mirror. Pursuant to other embodiments, the signal processing device can be mounted on the micromechanical scanning silicon mirror (e.g., mounted on a foot) and electrically coupled to sensor contacts of the micromechanical scanning silicon mirror (e.g., via wire bonds between the sensor contacts and the signal processing device or connectors that both mechanically and electrically connect the micromechanical scanning silicon mirror and the signal processing device).
US10712547B2	Microscope, focusing unit, fluid holding unit, and optical unit A microscope includes: a sample placement part having a placement surface on which to place a sample and a bottom face opposite to the placement surface; an observation lens; and an optical unit for generating sheet light and use of the microscope. The microscope of an embodiment is arranged such that the sheet light enters the sample placement part from the bottom face and passing through the sample placement part to irradiate the sample, and fluorescence from the sample passes through the sample placement part toward the bottom face to be received by the observation lens. The microscope can, with this arrangement, utilize the advantages of a SPIM, and allows observation of a sample which observation is free from a restriction of the size of a sample.
US10712546B1	Illumination source for structured illumination microscopy An illumination system and a method for operating an illumination system is disclosed. The illumination system includes a generator spatial light modulator, first and second optical systems and a controller. The generator spatial light modulator is positioned to receive an incident light beam and adapted to generate first and second coherent light beams, each beam being characterized by a phase and a first light beam optical axis in a plane containing the first and second coherent light beams. The first optical system images light leaving the generator spatial light modulator on a modulator spatial light modulator that alters the phase of one of the first and second coherent light beams to generate a relative phase difference. The second optical system that images light leaving the modulator spatial light modulator onto a sample to be illuminated. The controller causes the relative phase difference to cycle through a plurality of different phase-difference values.
US10712545B2	Systems and methods for conducting contact-free thickness and refractive-index measurements of intraocular lenses using a self-calibrating dual confocal microscopy system Systems and methods for conducting contact-free thickness and refractive-index measurements of transparent objects, such as intraocular lenses using a dual confocal microscopy system are disclosed.
US10712542B2	Imaging lens assembly and electronic device An imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements, wherein at least one of the lens elements is a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an effective optical section and a first annular surface. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one surface of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the dual molded lens element, wherein a plastic material and a color of the light absorbing portion are different from a plastic material and a color of the light transmitting portion, and the light absorbing portion includes an opening and a second annular surface. A step surface of the second annular surface is formed by the first annular surface and the second annular surface.
US10712541B2	Photographing optical lens assembly, image capturing device and electronic device A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point.
US10712540B2	Imaging lens An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of seven lenses. The first to seventh lenses are arranged respectively with a space in between. The second lens is formed in a meniscus shape near an optical axis. The third lens is formed in a meniscus shape so that a surface on the object side is convex near an optical axis. The sixth lens is formed in a meniscus shape near an optical axis. The seventh lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the image plane side has at least one inflexion point. The first lens and the second lens have specific Abbe's numbers.
US10712538B2	Optical imaging lens An optical imaging lens includes: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens element, the first lens element has negative refracting power, the third lens element has negative refracting power, and an optical axis region of an image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave. The lens elements having refracting power included by the optical imaging lens are only the six lens elements described above. In addition, the optical imaging lens satisfies the relationship: (G23+T3+G34+T4+G45)/G12≤2.600 and υ3+υ4+υ5+υ6≤150.000.
US10712535B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10712531B2	Lens structure and assembly method thereof A lens structure includes a lens barrel and a lens. The lens barrel includes at least two first locking structures. The lens is disposed in the lens barrel and includes at least two second locking structures. The first locking structures are respectively locked to the second locking structures, so that the lens is fixed to the lens barrel.
US10712530B2	Lens driving device, camera module and optical apparatus A lens driving device is provided, including: a cover member; a bobbin installed with at least one lens and having a coil unit arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; a magnet arranged at a position corresponding to that of the coil unit; first and second elastic members, where one end of each of the first and second elastic members may be respectively coupled to an upper surface and a lower surface of the bobbin and supporting movement of the bobbin in an optical axis direction; a detection unit configured to detect movement of the bobbin in a direction parallel to the optical axis direction; a damping member arranged at a connecting portion between the bobbin and the first elastic member; and a support unit provided at at least one of the bobbin and the first elastic member and maintaining an arranged position of the damping member.
US10712528B2	Lens moving mechanism A lens moving mechanism includes a first lens guide unit which guides a lens mount, on which a lens for projecting light is mounted, in two orthogonal axis directions among three orthogonal axis directions including an optical axis direction of the light. The first lens guide unit includes a first track rail and a second track rail which are disposed to intersect each other in the two orthogonal axis directions, and one or a plurality of slider blocks which are mounted to be relatively movable on both or either of the first track rail and the second track rail. The one or plurality of slider blocks are disposed at an intersecting portion between the first track rail and the second track rail in one axis direction orthogonal to the two orthogonal axis directions, or are disposed to at least partially overlap each other in the one axis direction.
US10712524B2	Optical system and optical apparatus including same An optical system of the present invention includes a plurality of lenses inclusive of an aspheric lens having an aspheric surface. A light absorption portion having thickness distribution in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical system is provided on the optical axis. Here, a refractive index of the aspheric lens, a refractive index of the light absorption portion, an aspheric sag amount of the aspheric lens, an aspheric sag amount of the light absorption portion, a height of a position in the aspheric lens through which a marginal ray of an axial ray passes, and a height of a position in the light absorption portion through which the marginal ray of the axial ray passes are each appropriately set.
US10712514B2	Optical module An optical module includes a housing, and a main circuit board, an optical transmitting assembly, an optical receiving assembly, and an electrical connector that are disposed inside the housing. Each one of the optical transmitting assembly and optical receiving assembly includes at least two sets of optoelectronic chips, an optical assembly, and an optical fiber receptacle. The electrical connector electrically connects the optical transmitting assembly and/or optical receiving assembly to the main circuit board.
US10712492B2	Operating device An operating device includes a first light-emitting area provided on a front surface of the operating device, a first light-transmitting member that is formed with a material that transmits light and that makes up the first light-emitting area, a second light-emitting area provided on an upper surface of the operating device, a second light-transmitting member that is formed with a material that transmits light and that makes up the second light-emitting area, a light source, and a light guide member adapted to guide light of the light source to the first light-transmitting member and the second light-transmitting member. The light guide member includes a first guide section arranged behind the first light-transmitting member to guide light to the first light-transmitting member, and a second guide section that extends upward beyond a position of the first light-transmitting member toward the second light-transmitting member.
US10712477B2	Lens structure formed by materials in different refractive indexes A lens structure formed by materials in different refractive indexes includes a sphere, a first lens and a separation layer which is disposed between the sphere and the first lens. The sphere and the first lens have a different refractive index and the sphere is a round ball. The first lens is formed on the sphere that part of the sphere is exposed out of the first lens, and the first lens includes a first light absorption curve. The separation layer includes a transparent section opposite to the first light absorption curve. When a light beam passes through the second portion of the sphere to form a first light condensing effect and enter the sphere, the light beam will then pass through the transparent section to enter the first lens, forming a second light condensing effect after passing through the first light absorption curve.
US10712473B2	Weather data processing apparatus and method using weather radar According to one embodiment, a weather data processing apparatus includes a storage configured to store weather data observed by a weather radar, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire three-dimensional data of a cumulonimbus from the weather data; to detect a core of the cumulonimbus by using a principal component analysis process of the three-dimensional data; to calculate core detection data for displaying the core; and to execute a display process for effecting three-dimensional display of the cumulonimbus, and display of the core, based on the three-dimensional data of the cumulonimbus and the core detection data.
US10712464B2	Wide source seismic towing configuration Various implementations described herein are directed to a method of acquiring seismic data. The method may include towing an array of marine seismic streamers coupled to a vessel. The array comprises a plurality of lead-in cables and streamers, and the plurality of lead-in cables comprises an innermost lead-in cable and an outermost lead-in cable with respect to a center line of the vessel. The method may also include towing a plurality of source cables and one or more seismic sources such that the one or more seismic sources are positioned between the innermost lead-in cable and the outermost lead-in cable.
US10712463B2	Seismic data acquisition with varying distance between seismic vessels A method for acquiring seismic data comprises operating a seismic vessel towing at least one of a seismic streamer with a plurality of seismic sensors and a seismic source. The inline distance between the vessel and one or more other vessels is adjusted according to a predefined function, where the seismic vessels travel along offset seismic acquisition lines, by increasing and reducing the in-line distance during the acquisition of the seismic data.
US10712458B2	Seismic surveys with optical communication links Systems and methods of optical link communication with seismic data acquisition units are provided. The systems and methods can perform at least portions of seismic data acquisition survey. A plurality of seismic data acquisition units can be deployed on a seabed. An optical communications link can be established between an extraction vehicle and at least one of the seismic data acquisition units. A frequency of the at least one seismic data acquisition unit can be syntonized or synchronized via the optical communications link. The at least one seismic data acquisition unit can be instructed to enter a low power state subsequent to syntonizing the frequency of the at least one seismic data acquisition unit. The seismic data acquisition unit can exit the low power state and acquire seismic data in an operational state.
US10712456B2	Method of making semiconductor X-ray detectors Disclosed herein is a method comprising: obtaining a substrate comprising an electronic system in or on the substrate, and a plurality of electric contacts on a first surface of the substrate, the electronic system being electrically connected to the electric contacts; obtaining a chip comprising an X-ray absorption layer, the X-ray absorption layer comprising an electrode; electrically connecting the electrode to at least one of the electric contacts by bonding the chip to the substrate; and thinning the substrate at a surface opposite the first surface.
US10712452B2	Location determination method and system Method/system for determining location of a mobile device having modules that are part of a terrestrial-based location system and part of a satellite-based global positioning system. The system comprises a remote system. The mobile device activates one of the location determining modules of the mobile device, the type of activated module selected according to a location module type datum in a message received from the remote system. The mobile device establishes a connection with the remote system and the remote system receives the determined location. A type of location determining module next used by the mobile device is determined or a period of time before the module device next determines location is determined. A message is sent from the remote system to the mobile device, comprising determined type of location determining module to be next used and/or the period of time before the module device next determines its location.
US10712443B2	Nonlinear intermodulation distance determination system A distance determination system is disclosed. In various embodiments, the system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first pulse at a first frequency and a second pulse at a second frequency; a receiver configured to receive audio signals; and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to detect whether an intermodulation product of the first pulse and the second pulse is present and above a threshold amplitude in an audio signal received by the receiver; and determine, based at least in part on whether the intermodulation product of the first pulse and the second pulse is detected to be present and above a threshold amplitude, whether a distance to a surface is greater than a distance corresponding to the first pulse and the second pulse.
US10712441B2	Synthetic aperture radar Whether or not motion compensation is necessary is determined for each of received radio wave signals acquired through observation on the basis of information on a difference between an planned trajectory and an actual trajectory of a platform (103), and a motion compensation process is performed on the received radio wave signals for which the motion compensation is determined to be necessary. An image generation process is performed on the received radio wave signals on which the motion compensation process has been performed and the received radio wave signals on which the motion compensation process has not been performed depending on the results of determination, so that a SAR image of an observation object is generated.
US10712440B2	Array system for the characterization of an object An apparatus including an antenna and a processing device. The antenna includes a steerable array. The steerable array may transmit a signal at an angle of transmission toward a portion of an object. The steerable array may receive a reflection of the signal off of the portion of the object. The processing device may be coupled to the antenna. The processing device may determine a digital representation of the portion of the object in view of the reflection of the signal.
US10712434B2	Multi-channel LIDAR illumination driver LIDAR measurement systems employing a multiple channel, GaN based illumination driver integrated circuit (IC) are described herein. In one aspect, the multiple channel, GaN based illumination driver IC selectively couples each illumination source associated with each measurement channel to a source of electrical power to generate a measurement pulse of illumination light. In one aspect, each pulse trigger signal associated with each measurement channel is received on a separate node of the IC. In another aspect, additional control signals are received on separate nodes of the IC and communicated to all of the measurement channels. In another aspect, the multiple channel, GaN based illumination driver IC includes a power regulation module that supplies regulated voltage to various elements of each measurement channel only when any pulse trigger signal is in a state that triggers the firing of an illumination pulse.
US10712424B2	Geolocation system, and an associated aircraft and geolocation method An aircraft, to a system, and to a method of geolocation for calculating the current coordinates at least in longitude and in latitude of a current position of an aircraft. Such an invention makes it possible to calculate the current coordinates in latitude and in longitude corresponding to the current position of the aircraft on the basis firstly of first and second coordinates in latitude and in longitude of two ground stations and secondly of first and second transmission directions of the radio signals.
US10712416B1	Methods and systems for magnetic resonance image reconstruction using an extended sensitivity model and a deep neural network Various methods and systems are provided for reconstructing magnetic resonance images from accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes: estimating multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps from undersampled k-space data, the undersampled k-space data acquired by a multi-coil radio frequency (RF) receiver array; reconstructing multiple initial images using the undersampled k-space data and the estimated multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps; iteratively reconstructing, with a trained deep neural network, multiple images by using the initial images and the multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps to generate multiple final images, each of the multiple images corresponding to a different set of the multiple sets of sensitivity maps; and combining the multiple final images output from the trained deep neural network to generate the MR image.
US10712415B2	Method and apparatus for recording magnetic resonance data In a method and apparatus for recording a magnetic resonance data record in a capture region of an examination object, the capture region being composed of multiple slices, an imaging technique is implemented that uses reference data in the reconstruction of magnetic resonance images, wherein, for all the slices, at least two partial data records are recorded with respectively different contrasts. For thus purpose, a first partial data record is recorded without a preparation pulse and a second partial data record is recorded with a preparation pulse, in particular an inversion pulse. The reference data for at least one first slice for the first partial data record are recorded during a waiting time after the preparation pulse for at least one other, second slice, from which reference data relating to the second partial data record are to be recorded.
US10712413B2	Polymer composite material for 1H dynamic nuclear polarization experiments and method for producing the same, and polymer composite material for 1H dynamic nuclear polarization contrast variation neutron scattering experiments Provided is a polymer composite material which has a high proton spin polarization even though it is a polymer composite material containing carbon black. The present invention relates to a polymer composite material for 1H dynamic nuclear polarization experiments, containing carbon black, having a thickness of 0.8 mm or less, and being doped with a paramagnetic radical compound.
US10712412B2	System and method for stimulated echo based mapping (STEM) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) A system and method are provided for acquiring a plurality of differently-weighted images of a subject using a single pulse sequence. The method includes determining imaging parameters for a pulse sequence that includes a diffusion weighted module and an anatomical imaging module. The imaging parameters include at least a repetition time (TR), a mixing time (TM), an echo time (TE), and a diffusion weighting b-value, with at least two different values of at least TM, TE, and diffusion weighting b-value. The method also includes performing a pulse sequence using the imaging parameters to acquire MR image data from a subject. The different values of at least TM, TE, and diffusing weighting b-value are used to acquire the MR image data. Furthermore, the method includes reconstructing, from the MR image data, a plurality of images of the subject, including at least a T1-weighted image, a T2-weighted image, and a diffusion-weighted image.
US10712410B2	NMR-MAS probe head with pivotable stator A probe head (1) of an NMR-MAS assembly has a stator (2) with an opening (4) receiving a rotor (3) which, in a measuring position, rotates at the magic angle to the B0 field. The stator is pivotable between the measuring position and a loading position of the rotor. A detection device (5) permits external, contactless identification of whether the opening of the stator is fitted with a rotor. The detection device has a light source (5a), from which light is introduced into a lower end (6″) of a light guide (6). The stator has a first bore (2a), in which a first light guide stump (7a) is positioned such that, in the loading position of the stator, it produces an optical connection between a rotor inserted in the stator and an upper end (6′) of the light guide opposite the lower end.
US10712400B2	Vertical hall sensor circuit comprising stress compensation circuit A vertical Hall sensor circuit comprises an arrangement comprising a vertical Hall effect region of a first doping type, formed within a semiconductor substrate and having a stress dependency with respect to a Hall effect-related electrical characteristic. The vertical Hall sensor circuit further comprises a stress compensation circuit which comprises at least one of a lateral resistor arrangement and a vertical resistor arrangement. The lateral resistor arrangement has a first resistive element and a second resistive element, which are parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate and orthogonal to each other, for generating a stress-dependent lateral resistor arrangement signal on the basis of a reference signal inputted to the stress compensation circuit. The vertical resistor arrangement has a third resistive element of the first doping type for vertically conducting an electric current flow, for generating a stress-dependent vertical resistor arrangement signal on the basis of the reference signal. The vertical Hall sensor circuit further comprises a first circuit for providing a first signal to the arrangement, the first signal being based on at least one of the stress-dependent lateral resistor arrangement signal and the stress-dependent vertical resistor arrangement signal.
US10712395B2	Apparatus and method for detecting battery state of health A method for detecting a battery state of health includes a current and a voltage are measured twice in a period of time; corresponding model algorithms are selected according to the measured current values; corresponding battery open circuit voltage values and battery state of charge values at a start time and an end time of the period are obtained based on the model algorithms; a battery capacity difference that indicates a present battery retention capacity and a battery capacity difference that indicates a future battery retention capacity are calculated; and a battery state of health value is calculated when impact of a measured battery temperature value is considered.
US10712386B2	Device and method for data preservation and power loss recovery in an electric meter An electric meter that is configured to regenerate meter state data after a power loss includes a memory with at least one volatile and non-volatile memory device and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to retrieve a backup copy of meter state data and a plurality of meter input data samples that were generated after the backup copy of the meter state data and prior to the power loss from a non-volatile memory device. The processor is configured to regenerate meter state data by updating the backup copy of meter state data with the plurality of meter input data samples to regenerate the meter state data at the time of a final meter input data sample prior to the power loss.
US10712382B2	Semiconductor device structures for burn-in testing and methods thereof A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate, an electrical connection structure extending upwardly from an upper surface of the substrate by a first height, and a contact pad electrically disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The contact pad has a solder-wettable surface with an area configured to support a solder ball having a second height at least twice the first height. The semiconductor device structure further includes a fuse element with a first end electrically coupled to the electrical connection structure and a second end electrically coupled to the contact pad.
US10712364B2	Metrology devices for rapid specimen setup An example metrology device can include a first stage including a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device having a probe, and a second stage configured to hold a sample. The metrology device can also include a kinematic coupler for constraining the first stage in a fixed position relative to the second stage. The probe of the MEMS device can be aligned with a portion of the sample when the first stage is constrained in the fixed position relative to the second stage.
US10712361B2	Multiple meter detection and processing using motion data Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying portable devices carried by the same person. An example method includes receiving media exposure data from one of a plurality of portable computing devices. Receiving segmented accelerometer data from the plurality of portable computing devices. Forming accelerometer classification data for the plurality of portable computing devices based on features extracted from the segmented accelerometer data. Comparing the accelerometer classification data for the first portable computing device to accelerometer classification data for the plurality of portable computing devices, to determine if the accelerometer classification data for the first portable computing device is sufficiently similar to a second portable computing devices. The example method further includes identifying the first and second portable computing device as being physically carried by a same person when the comparison determines that the accelerometer classification data for the first portable computing device is sufficiently similar to the second computing devices.
US10712357B2	Circuits and methods for artifact elimination Disclosed are apparatus and methods that provide the ability to electrical stimulate a physical system, and actively eliminate interference with signal acquisition (artifacts) that arises from the stimulation. The technique implemented in the circuits and methods for eliminating interference connects a discharge path to a physical interface to the system to remove charge that is built-up during stimulation. By placing the discharge path in a feedback loop that includes a recording preamplifier and AC-coupling circuitry, the physical interface is brought back to its pre-stimulation offset voltage. The disclosed apparatus and methods may be used with piezoelectric transducers, ultrasound devices, optical diodes, and polarizable and non-polarizable electrodes. The disclosed apparatus can be employed in implantable devices, in vitro or in vivo setups with vertebrate and invertebrate neural tissue, muscle fibers, pancreatic islet cells, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, bacteria, algae, fungi, protists, and plants.
US10712355B2	High resolution surface particle detector A particle counting device includes a scanner probe having a first opening for receiving particles from a sample surface and second openings. Pumps produce a first airstream flowing from the first opening and a second airstream flowing to the second openings. A flow device splits the first airstream into third and fourth airstreams. A first particle detector detects particles in the third airstream. The first particle detector is capable of detecting particles within a first range of particle sizes. A second particle detector detects particles in the fourth airstream. The second particle detector is capable of detecting particles within a second range of particle sizes different from the first range of particle sizes. Control circuitry controls the flow device and the pumps to provide a first flow rate of the third airstream and a second flow rate of the fourth airstream that is larger than the first flow rate.
US10712354B2	Method of analyzing diluted biological sample component There is provided a method of analyzing a biological sample component that allows easy and accurate quantification and counting of any of a plasma component and a blood cell component in a trace and unknown amount of a whole blood sample collected from a finger, for example. The method of the present invention is a method of analyzing a biological sample component in a trace amount of blood, comprising analyzing a diluent buffer into which the blood has been mixed and an internal standard substance and/or an external standard substance contained in the diluent buffer, calculating a dilution ratio, and analyzing a biological component in a plasma or serum component in the blood.
US10712351B2	Methods for evaluation of the effectiveness of a drug or drug candidate in treating an inflammatory bowel disease by use of multiplexed assay kit comprising various biomarkers Disclosed are methods for conducting diagnostic tests for the detection of the inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Also described are methods for monitoring a patient by administering tests of the present invention. Also described are methods for monitoring patient's treatment by administering tests of the present invention. Also described are methods for evaluating the effectiveness of a drug or a drug candidate by administering tests of the present invention to samples from patients, animal models, and cell cultures treated with a drug or a drug candidate. Also disclosed are methods for determining the usefulness of analytes, e.g. cytokines, for acting as diagnostic and monitoring markers for inflammatory bowel disease in the various methods of the invention.
US10712350B2	Diagnosis of sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome The present invention relates a method for the diagnosis, prediction or risk stratification for mortality and/or disease outcome of a subject that has or is suspected to have sepsis, comprising determining the presence and/or level of antitrypsin (ATT) or fragments thereof in a sample taken from said subject and/or determining the presence and/or level of transthyretin (TTR) or fragments thereof, wherein the presence and/or level of ATT and/or TTR or fragments thereof is correlated with an increased risk of mortality and, wherein said increased risk of mortality and/or poor disease outcome is given if the level of ATT is below a certain cut-off value and/or the level of fragments thereof is above a certain cut-off value and/or said increased risk of mortality and/or poor disease outcome is given if the level of TTR is below a certain cut-off value and/or the level of fragments thereof is below a certain cut-off value. The invention relates in general to the use of ATT and/or TTR or its fragments for the diagnosis of sepsis, and to nucleotides of SEQ ID NO. 2 to 14.
US10712344B2	Methods of producing patient-specific anti-cancer therapeutics and methods of treatment therefor A method of preparing an antibody therapeutic is provided comprising: (a) providing a dissociated cell sample from at least one solid tumor sample obtained from a patient; (b) loading the dissociated cell sample into a microfluidic device having a flow region and at least one isolation region fluidically connected to the flow region; (c) moving at least one B cell from the dissociated cell sample into at least one isolation region in the microfluidic device, thereby obtaining at least one isolated B cell; and (d) using the microfluidic device to identify at least one B cell that produces antibodies capable of binding to cancer cells. The cancer cells can be the patient's own cancer cells. Also provided are methods of treating patients, methods of labeling or detecting cancer, engineered T or NK cells comprising antibodies or fragments thereof, and engineered antibody constructs.
US10712343B2	Molecular analysis of tumor samples This invention relates to methods for diagnosing cancer, e.g., cancer of epithelial origin, by detecting the presence of tumor cells in a sample, based (at least in some embodiments) on the quantification of levels of four biomarkers, MUC1, EGFR, EpCAM, and HER2. In some embodiments, the methods are performed using diagnostic magnetic resonance (DMR), e.g., with a portable relaxometer or MR imager.
US10712342B2	Diagnostic to distinguish bacterial infections Assays, arrays, and methods for distinguishing a bacterial infection from a viral infection are disclosed. The antibiotic crisis is in part driven by over prescription of antibiotics. There is a tendency, particular in pediatrics, to give an antibiotic even for viral infections. Thus, embodiments herein are directed to the problem of distinguishing a bacterial infection from a viral infection to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage.
US10712339B2	Engineering of a novel breast tumor microenvironment on a microfluidic chip A microfluidic device for more accurately modeling the in vitro environment in which cancer occurs is disclosed. The microfluidic device includes a surface defining one or more microfluidic channels, a first three dimensional scaffold comprising one or more cancer cells that is spatially separated from the one or more microfluidic channels, a second three dimensional scaffold, at least a portion of which is contacting and in fluid communication with the first three dimensional scaffold, and that is spatially separated from the one or more microfluidic channels, and a third three dimensional scaffold, at least a portion of which is contacting and in fluid communication with the one or more microfluidic channels and the second three dimensional scaffold. The device can be used to assay anti-cancer agents, or as a system for modeling the growth, behavior, or metastasis and tumor formation of cancer cells.
US10712335B2	Sensor clip for stacked sensor dispensing system, and systems, methods and devices for making and using the same Sensor clip assemblies, sensor clips, analyte testing systems, and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. A sensor clip assembly is disclosed for storing and dispensing analyte testing sensors. The sensor clip assembly includes numerous test sensors arranged in a stack. Each test sensor is configured to assist in testing an analyte in a fluid sample. The sensor clip assembly also includes a skeletal frame with a top, a bottom, and numerous sides. The top, bottom and sides are interconnected to define an internal chamber within which is stored the stack of test sensors. At least one of the sides includes one or more elongated rails with structural gaps on opposing sides thereof. For some configurations, multiple sides of the skeletal frame comprise at least one or multiple elongated rails, each of which has structural gaps on opposing sides thereof and may be columnar in nature.
US10712330B2	Controlling bitumen recovery from an oil sands ore body by using a predictive ore processability model in producing a blended ore feedstock A method is provided for controlling bitumen recovery from an oil sands ore body in a bitumen extraction process by establishing and using a predictive ore processability model that accounts for multiple ore characteristics in planning ore deliveries from different locations of the ore body to produce a blended ore feedstock.
US10712329B2	Methods of measuring metal pollutants on skin A method for measuring an airborne metal pollutant on skin can include the taking of a skin sample and measuring of a target metal utilizing inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry.
US10712321B2	Method to eliminate periodic noise from data collected with a chromatography system A method to filter out pump pulses from data collected with a chromatography system is disclosed. Baseline data is collected as a pump delivers solvent to an analytical instrument, which may be the IP signal of a capillary bridge viscometer. A Fourier transform is applied to the data to generate the power spectrum of the baseline signal. Fundamental and harmonic frequencies are determined and a comb filter is constructed therefrom and applied to sample collected from all of the affected instruments. The comb filter may be correlated to the pump and flow rate and stored in data analysis software or database. Other systems using other pumps may also generate associated comb filters, and the resulting filters and the flow rates at which they were generated may be stored in a database accessible to the data analysis software.
US10712320B2	Flow channel structure and measuring device for measurement target liquid A flow channel structure includes a substrate including a supply flow channel that guides a measurement target liquid toward inside; a separation element accommodating unit that accommodates a separation element that separates components included in the measurement target liquid; and a detection unit that guides the measurement target liquid passing through the separation element accommodating unit, wherein measuring light for measuring information about the components is to be irradiated onto the measurement target liquid. The detection unit includes a measurement flow channel part that guides the measurement target liquid, an incident part that is provided at an end of the measurement flow channel part and that guides the measuring light toward inside the measurement flow channel part, and an emission part that is provided at the other end of the measurement flow channel part and that derives the measuring light from the measurement flow channel part.
US10712318B2	Sensor adhesion state determination system, sensor adhesion state determination device, and sensor adhesion state determination method According to one embodiment, a sensor adhesion state determination system includes a plurality of sensors, a calculator, and a determiner. Each of the plurality of sensors detects elastic waves. The calculator calculates peak frequencies of the elastic waves on the basis of the elastic waves detected by the plurality of sensors. The determiner determines the adhesion state of each of the sensors by comparing the peak frequencies with information serving as a determination reference.
US10712317B2	Apparatus for detecting defect and method for detecting defect using the same The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for detecting a defect and a method for detecting a defect using the same, and more particularly, to an apparatus for detecting a defect and a method for detecting a defect using the same for detecting a defect inside an inspection object without destructing the inspection object.An apparatus for detecting a defect according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first probe unit configured to transmit a signal into an inspection object and receive a signal generated inside the inspection object, a second probe unit separately installed from the first probe unit and configured to receive the signal generated inside the inspection object, and a position determining unit configured to detect a defect position inside the inspection object using the signal received by the first probe unit and the signal received by the second probe unit.
US10712299B2	Deformation measuring apparatus and method of evaluating deformation using thereof A deformation measuring apparatus of a specimen includes: a holder which supports the specimen; a contact portion disposed facing the holder and including a hemispherical tip; a position controlling portion which adjusts a position of the contact portion along a thickness direction of the specimen to allow the hemispherical tip to be in contact with a surface of the specimen; a heating chamber which accommodates the holder and the contact portion and heating the specimen; and a sensing portion which measures at least one of a thermal deformation force (F) of the specimen or a thickness direction thermal expansion (Δh) of the specimen.
US10712298B2	Integrated EPR NMR with frequency agile gyrotron A frequency agile gyrotron for use in combination with an NMR system is disclosed. The frequency agile gyrotron combined with EPR-NMR magic angle spinning resonators and cryogenic sample cooling may increase the sensitivity of solid state NMR with DNP.
US10712288B2	Surface damage inspection system for workpiece A surface damage inspection system for a workpiece, to automate efficient and effective appearance inspection using imaging, includes an illumination unit that emits light to an inspection target surface from four directions including frontward and rearward directions in an X direction and rightward and leftward directions in a Y direction; an imaging unit that captures an image of the inspection target surface; a damage detection unit that detects damage at the inspection target surface using the image of the inspection target surface; a robot to which a damage inspection device including the illumination unit and the damage detection unit is attached; a table on which the workpiece is to be placed; and a controller that controls drive of the robot and the damage inspection device so as to make the damage inspection device inspect the workpiece on the table or the workpiece gripped by the robot.
US10712285B2	Three-dimensional object inspecting device A three-dimensional object inspecting device for inspecting a three-dimensional object includes a light source, a detector, an orientation information acquisition component, a three-dimensional shading corrector, and an inspection component. The light source emits light energy toward an inspection region set for the three-dimensional object. The detector detects radiant energy radiated from the inspection region. The orientation information acquisition component acquires orientation information about the light source and the detector with respect to the inspection region. The three-dimensional shading corrector performs three-dimensional shading correction on information corresponding to the radiant energy detected by the detector, based on shape information about the three-dimensional object in the inspection region, the orientation information, and shading correction information for a planar image detected by the detector for each of a plurality of working distances. The inspection component performs an inspection based on the information on which the three-dimensional shading correction has been performed.
US10712284B2	Method for grafting a coloured indicator onto a solid substrate and implementation kit The present invention relates to a method for grafting, in a covalent manner, a coloured indicator having at least one aromatic primary amine function onto the surface of a solid substrate, including the steps that consist of: (a) preparing, from the coloured indicator having at least one aromatic primary amine function, the corresponding diazonium salt; (b) placing the solid substrate in contact with a solution containing the diazonium salt prepared in step (a) and subjecting the solution to non-electrochemical conditions for an optimal grafting time whereby organic chains in which the units are derivatives of the diazonium salt are grafted, in a covalent manner, onto the surface of the solid substrate; (c) washing the solid substrate thus grafted; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) or possibly steps (a) to (c) at least once. The present invention also relates to a kit for implementing such a method.
US10712283B2	Liquid holding apparatus for insertion of a test device into a test liquid A liquid holding liquid holding apparatus for insertion of a test device into a test liquid, the liquid holding apparatus having a) a liquid holding device for holding test liquid; and b) test liquid in the liquid holding device. The liquid holding device has a front wall and a rear wall. The upper section of the liquid holding device has an access section where the front wall can be detached from the rear wall to allow access for a test strip test device. At least a portion of the front wall is substantially transparent or translucent. The front wall is attached to the rear wall at the access section by a first lamination and the front wall is attached to the rear wall below the access section by a second lamination. The peel strength of the second lamination is greater than the peel strength of the first lamination.
US10712276B2	Device for imaging 1-D nanomaterials A imaging device 1-D nanomaterials is provided. The device includes: a first light source, a second light source, a microscope with a liquid immersion object, and a carrier. The first light source is configured to provide a first incident light and the second light source is configured to provide a second incident light, the first incident light and the incident light are not parallel to each other. The carrier is configured to contain a 1-D nanomaterials sample and a liquid, both the 1-D nanomaterials sample and the liquid immersion object are immersed in the liquid.
US10712275B2	Hand-held synchronous scan spectrometer for in situ detection of pathogens and mineral deficiency in blood A hand-held synchronous scan spectrometer for in situ analysis of bacteria, viruses, and fungi includes a housing that contains a light source, a first monochromator positioned to receive light from the light source and operable to direct a wavelength of the light from the light source towards a sample, a second monochromator positioned to receive fluoresced light from the sample and light from first monochromator, and a detector disposed within the housing and positioned to receive light output from the second monochromator. The hand-held synchronous scan spectrometer can include a display that is integrated into the housing or can utilize a display of a removable display device (e.g., a cell phone, PDA, tablet, and the like).
US10712272B2	System and method for assessing cellular metabolic activity Methods and corresponding apparatus and systems for assessing cellular metabolic activity are disclosed. In one aspect, a cell can be illuminated with optical radiation in order to cause multi-photon excitation of at least one endogenous metabolic cofactor in that cell and cause the excited metabolic cofactor to emit fluorescent radiation. A detector can be used to detect the fluorescent radiation emitted by the excited endogenous metabolic cofactor. A computer processor can analyze the fluorescent radiation to derive the following parameters: (1) using a computer processor to analyze the intensity of the fluorescent radiation, (2) a fluorescence lifetime of at least one of the excited metabolic cofactor, (3) a parameter indicative of mitochondrial clustering in the cell. These parameters can be used to assess at least one metabolic process of the cell.
US10712271B2	Plasmonic micropillar array with embedded nanoparticles for large area cell force sensing In various embodiments a plasmonic cell force sensor platform is provided where the platform comprises a plurality of micropillars, where micropillars comprising the plurality of micropillars each have a nanoparticle (e.g., a plasmonic nanoparticle, a fluorescent nanoparticle, etc.) disposed at the tip.
US10712257B2	Inspection device and inspection cage unit thereof An inspection device is provided. The inspection device includes a platform, a cage, a holder and an image capturing module. The cage is disposed on the platform, wherein the cage includes a first transparent side and a second transparent side, and the first transparent side and the second transparent side are not coplanar. The holder is disposed in the cage. The image capturing module captures a first image from the first transparent side, and it captures a second image from the second transparent side.
US10712240B2	Contaminant monitor system and method Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and software for assessing contaminant quantities in a fluid. Fluid enters a reaction chamber. A controller then signals two different sheets with different reagents to move into the reaction chamber. One sheet contains reagents to form a contaminant byproduct or gas, while the other sheet is saturated with reagent that will have a photometric effect upon reacting with the contaminant byproduct or gas. After the photometric effect has occurred, the controller moves the reacted portion of the other reagent sheet into alignment with a photometric sensor. This photometric effect is calculated to contaminant concentration. The concentration is recorded and the data is transmitted to memory. The fluid sample in the chamber is drained and the remaining solid waste is collected onto the first reagent sheet. Both sheets are individually collected into separate controllable collectors.
US10712239B2	Technique for monitoring technical equipment Event inputs, each belonging to one of predefined event categories, are received from event status reporting units. A time period, a time duration within which the event inputs were received, is segregated into an ordered sequence of time slots. Inputs are categorized according to the time slots and the event categories. Ranks, based on weights of unique event inputs, are assigned to each of the predefined event categories within each of the time slots. A count of symbols for each time slot is defined. Each symbol represents a unique predefined event category. The time slots and the defined count of symbols ordered according to the ranks of the respective predefined event categories represented by the symbols for each of the time slots are displayed. Each symbol includes an indication of the weight of unique event inputs categorized for the selected predefined event category and for the selected time slot.
US10712236B2	Condition diagnosing system for rolling guide device Provided is a state diagnosis system, which is applied to a rolling guide device in which a moving member including an endless circulation path for rolling elements is freely movable along a track member, and which is configured to appropriately recognize a state of a rolling surface of the track member. The state diagnosis system includes: a sensor configured to detect a physical quantity exhibited when the moving member is moving along the track member; a signal processing unit configured to process an output signal from the sensor to output analysis data; and a determination processing unit configured to compare the analysis data with threshold value data to determine whether or not the rolling guide device has an abnormality. Further, when a cycle at which each of the rolling elements, which moves back and forth in the endless circulation path, enters a loadpath from a no-loadpath is represented by t, a data collection time period T, for which the signal processing unit takes in the output signal from the sensor, is set to satisfy T≥t.
US10712226B2	Autonomous identification of an anomalous aqueous stream from an aqueous source feeding multiple independent streams and remediation directive determination thereof Aqueous streams are ubiquitous in everyday life. Aqueous streams are invariably an essential element in most residential, commercial, and industrial environments. In residential and commercial environments, aqueous streams are utilized in indoor and outdoor applications. Indoor applications may include, but are not limited to, lavatories, showers, tubs, toilets, laundry, ice-making, drink dispensing, dish washing, pot fillers, laboratory, cooling and refrigeration, and heating. Outdoor applications may include, but are not limited to, landscaping, water features, spas, pools, washing, or even water attractions in the case of entertainment parks. Provided herein are systems, methods, and devices for identification of an anomalous aqueous stream from an aqueous source feeding multiple independent streams and remedial action directive determination thereof.
US10712209B2	Monitoring a fault in an electrical equipment item The monitoring of an electrical equipment item includes two electrically insulated circuits, a screen in the form of a film arranged between the two circuits, the screen comprising a substrate and a conductive filament arranged on the substrate, a module configured to circulate a current in the conductive filament and to monitor the current.
US10712204B2	Method, apparatus and system for passive infrared sensor framework A method includes detecting, with a passive infrared sensor (PIR), a level of infrared radiation in a field of view (FOV) of the PIR, generating a signal based on detected levels over a period of time, the signal having values that exhibit a change in the detected levels, extracting a local feature from a sample of the signal, wherein the local feature indicates a probability that a human in the FOV caused the change in the detected levels, extracting a global feature from the sample of the signal, wherein the global feature indicates a probability that an environmental radiation source caused the change in the detected levels, determining a score based on the local feature and the global feature, and determining that a human motion has been detected in the FOV based on the score.
US10712200B2	Spectroscopic apparatus, temperature characteristic derivation apparatus, spectroscopic system, spectroscopy method, and temperature characteristic derivation method A spectroscopic apparatus includes: a spectroscopic module; a temperature detector that detects a temperature of the spectroscopic module; and a module controller that controls the spectroscopic module, in which the spectroscopic module includes an interference filter that has a gap changing unit which changes a dimension of a gap between a pair of reflection films, and a capacity detection circuit that outputs a detection signal in accordance with an electrostatic capacity between the pair of reflection films, and in which the module controller corrects a target value of the detection signal that is output from the capacity detection circuit, based on a temperature characteristic of the spectroscopic module and a detection temperature that is detected by the temperature detector, and controls the voltage that is to be applied to the gap changing unit, that the detection signal that is output from the capacity detection circuit is the corrected target value.
US10712196B2	Aerospace vehicle weight and balance estimation system and method A weight estimation system for estimating weight of an aerospace vehicle while grounded, the weight estimation system comprising a measurement subsystem including at least one sensor configured to measure a physical property in an interface that interfaces at least one of a fuselage and a wing with an undercarriage of said aerospace vehicle, in at least one area exhibiting a measurable change in geometry that is at least partly due to said weight, said measurement subsystem configured to produce measured data indicative of said weight of said aerospace vehicle; and a processor for receiving at least part of said measured data, said processor configured to estimate said weight, by relating said measured data with predetermined physical-property-to-weight correspondence data associated with said aerospace vehicle.
US10712178B2	Position detection device for detecting position of an object moving in a predetermined direction, and a magnetic sensor for use with the position detection device A position detection device includes a first magnetic field generation unit for generating a first magnetic field, a second magnetic field generation unit for generating a second magnetic field, and a magnetic sensor. The position of the second magnetic field generation unit relative to the first magnetic field generation unit is variable. The magnetic sensor detects the direction of a target magnetic field at a detection position in a reference plane. The target magnetic field is a composite magnetic field of first and second magnetic field components which are respective components of the first and second magnetic fields parallel to the reference plane. The magnetic sensor includes a magnetoresistive element including a free layer and a magnetization pinned layer. In the reference plane, two directions orthogonal to the magnetization direction of the magnetization pinned layer are each different from both of directions of the first and second magnetic field components.
US10712172B1	Accelerometer-based systems and methods for quantifying steps Systems and methods detect steps from one or more sensed accelerometer signals. Systems comprise an accelerometer and a non-transitory computer readable medium, each of which communicates with a processor. The accelerometer is coupled to an individual and generates outputs received by the processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions controlling the processor to perform steps of a method. The processor determines a minimum and a maximum reading for respective time periods. Counted peak heights are maxima that exceed a rest threshold. The rest threshold may be a function of the rest maximum. The processor determines a peak threshold for each time period having a counted peak height. A counted amplitude comprises the difference between the maximum reading and minimum readings of a time period in which the counted peak height exceeds the peak threshold. The processor increments a step counter when a counted amplitude exceeds an amplitude threshold.
US10712170B2	Systems and methods for determining a point of interest A method for searching a point of interest (POI) around a location is provided. The method includes receiving information relating to a target location associated with a user from a terminal and determining a target geocode value relating to the target location. The method also includes obtaining a geocode structure for determining POIs. The method further includes determining at least one POI relating to the target location based on the geocode structure and the target geocode value.
US10712169B2	Network system to determine a route based on timing data A computer system can estimate preparation times associated with items offered by a plurality of entities to manage a service over a given geographic region. The computer system can receive, from a user device of a user, a request that includes a selection of one or more items offered by one or more entities near the service location. The network system can determine an optimal route of navigation for a service provider to navigate in fulfilling the request. The route of navigation can be determined based at least in part on timing information associated with the one or more items selected by the user. The timing information can be determined based on historical data and/or real-time data.
US10712163B2	Vehicle routing and notifications based on characteristics Data indicating current driving characteristics of a driver driving a vehicle can be received in real time. A driving profile for the driver can be determined based on the data. The driving profile can be categorized into a driving pattern category. A plurality of candidate travel routes for the driver to reach an intended destination can be identified and, for each of the candidate travel routes, a plurality of route segments can be identified. Based on the driving pattern category, a probability that the current driving characteristics of the driver will cause a traffic accident can be determined for each of the plurality of route segments. Route segments for which the probability that the current driving characteristics of the driver will cause the traffic accident exceeds a threshold value can be determined. A notification can be communicated to the driver or vehicle indicating such probability.
US10712155B2	Technologies for tracking and locating underground assets Technologies for tracking and locating underground assets include a survey instrument having an asset tracking device. The asset tracking device determines a current geographic location of the survey instrument and a heading of a sensor group of the survey instrument when aimed at a target measurement point of an underground asset. The asset tracking device measures the distance between the sensor group and the target measurement point of the underground asset. The asset tracking device also determines the pitch of the sensor group when aimed at the target measurement point of the underground asset. The effective height of the sensor group relative to the elevation at the survey location is also determined. The asset tracking device determines the geographic location and a corresponding depth of the target measurement point on the underground asset based on the determined and measured information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10712138B1	Method for controlling a flight vehicle A method for controlling the attitude and/or flight path of a flight vehicle includes burning propellant in a gas generator to produce hot gas, storing the hot gas in an accumulator, and releasing the hot gas in the accumulator through one or more thrusters to control the attitude and/or flight path of the flight vehicle.
US10712134B2	Rocket propelled bullet assembly A rocket propelled bullet assembly for increasing the effective range of a gun includes a shell casing that is positioned in a chamber of a gun and the shell casing has an open end. A first propellant is contained in the shell casing and the first propellant is ignited when the gun is fired. A bullet is positioned in the open end of the shell casing. The bullet is fired from the shell casing when the first propellant is ignited and the bullet is projected from the gun. A rocket unit is integrated into the bullet and the rocket unit fires when the bullet is fired from the shell casing. The rocket unit increases a velocity of the bullet when the bullet is traveling thereby increasing a range of the bullet.
US10712133B2	Impact indication system An impact indication system for indicating an impact of a projectile on a target. The impact indication system includes an impact sensing system including a g-force sensor, a housing engagable with the target, and a first computing device including at least a processor and a memory. The impact indication system further includes a signal output unit including a housing, a signal output device, a second computing device including a processor and a memory, the first computing device operable to send a signal to the second computing device in response to sensing the impact, and the second computing device operable to produce a signal indicative of the impact.
US10712131B2	Handheld non-lethal dazzling system A non-lethal dazzling device includes a laser operable in the visible spectrum. The laser can be a relatively low-powered laser, such as a laser having a maximum output power of 2.5 mW, or it can be a higher-powered laser with a drive circuit that lowers the maximum output power to a safe level based on the range of the hostile target from the laser. In certain embodiments, disclosed non-lethal dazzling device can be coupled to the bridge of a binocular device.
US10712129B2	Terminal-imaging seeker with software defined optics Apparatus and associated methods relate to forming images for a terminal-imaging seeker using software defined optics. An optically-neutral lens with a ballistic-ogive-shaped front surface receives light from a scene aligned along an optical axis. The optically-neutral lens transmits the light received at the ballistic-ogive-shaped front surface to a planar rear surface, which is then transmitted to a coded-aperture plate aligned with the optical axis. The coded-aperture plate includes a plurality of pinhole-like apertures, each of which is configured to perform pinhole-like lensing of the scene. The plurality of pinhole-like apertures form a multiplex of overlapping images on a focal plane array aligned with the optical axis. An image processor reconstructs, based on a configuration of the plurality of pinhole-like apertures and the multiplex of overlapping images, a single image of the scene.
US10712119B1	Pressure activated release cue for archery An interactive device for improving accuracy in archery and similar endeavors is provided. In some embodiments, a deformable device is provided that is operable to communicate with an archery bow and receive force during use of the bow. The deformable device is operable to deflect in a manner that produces an audible and tactile signal to a user. The signal may correspond to an appropriate amount of string tension or draw, for example.
US10712116B1	Firearm body motion detection training system An attachment firearm training device (10) for attachment to a firearm, firearm simulator, or firearm replica having a firearm body (12) includes motion detection hardware to acquire data associated with motion of the firearm body during a dry-firing or live-firing training session. The motion detection hardware includes one or more accelerometers and/or one or more gyroscopes. Other suitable motion detection hardware may also be included. A motion signal representative of actual movement of the firearm body is used to generate one or more motion path lines that are displayed on a display. Each motion path line is representative of the actual motion of the firearm body before a shot, during a shot, during recoil, and/or after recoil so a user may analyze whether desired motion of the firearm body is actually being achieved.
US10712112B2	Toy gun A toy gun includes: a frame; a trigger; a sear that is interlocked with an action of the trigger; a hammer configured to jet a gas out of a gas cylinder to fire a bullet by interlock with the action of the sear; left and right safety levers installed outside the frame with a gap between the safety levers and the frame. The safety levers can be selectively in contact with or out of contact with the sear. A biasing means provides bias in such a direction as to maintain a gap between the frame and each of the safety levers.
US10712107B2	Method for water temperature stepless adjustment of pipeline water dispenser A method for water temperature stepless adjustment of pipeline water dispenser includes connecting a water inlet pipe, a heat exchanging sump, a heating sump, a heat exchanger, a refrigeration sump, and a water outlet pipe, in turn, to form water inlet and outlet pipelines of a water dispenser; configuring a plurality of motorized valves or magnetic valves; configuring a plurality of temperature sensors; configuring a PLC control system which is connected with the motorized valves or magnetic valves, the temperature sensors, the heating sump, the refrigeration sump; setting outlet water temperature and water capacity and controlling the motorized valves or magnetic valves, and the temperature sensors; and controlling the PLC control system to calculate and judge to supply water with desired temperature and desired capacity.
US10712099B2	Heat pipe A heat pipe, includes; an outer tube including first and second ends, the first end closed air tight; a box connected to the second end, a cross-sectional area of the box perpendicular to the outer tube central axis is larger than a cross-sectional area of the outer tube perpendicular to its axis; an inner tube positioned in the outer tube, a central axis of the inner tube parallel to the outer tube central axis, including third and fourth ends, the third end closer to the first end than the fourth end and open in the outer tube; a partition tube including fifth and sixth ends widening from the fifth end toward the sixth end, the fifth end connected with the fourth end, part of the sixth end connected on an inner surface of the box; and fluid in a space formed by the outer tube and the box.
US10712082B1	Refrigerator appliance with automatic open drawer front A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet and a drawer slidably mounted within the cabinet. The drawer includes a drawer body and a door attached to the drawer body via a hinge such that the door is rotatable relative to the drawer body between a closed position and an open position. The drawer also includes a latch configured to retain the door in the closed position when the latch is locked. The drawer is slidable between a retracted position where the door of the drawer is proximate the cabinet and an extended position where the door of the drawer is spaced apart from the cabinet. The latch is configured to automatically unlock when the drawer slides to the extended position which allows the door to rotate to the open position when the drawer is in the extended position.
US10712051B2	Refrigeration appliance with multiple temperature zones A refrigeration appliance includes first and second temperature zones and a refrigerant circuit having first and second parallel branches. The first branch has a controllable first restriction point and a first heat exchanger for setting a temperature of the first temperature zone, and the second branch has a second restriction point and a second heat exchanger for setting a temperature of the second temperature zone. A branching point, at which the refrigerant circuit splits into the two branches, is configured as a separator for separating gas and liquid and the second branch is connected to a liquid outlet of the separator.
US10712046B2	Ventilator mounting bracket The present invention discloses a ventilator mounting bracket, belonging to device installation brackets. Existing ventilator mounting brackets are smaller in adjustable distance range, difficult in installation and fixation and low in efficiency. The ventilator mounting bracket of the present invention is provided with two telescoping rod components which can extend and shorten and two folding rod components which are connected between the two telescoping rod components and can be folded and unfolded; the two folding rod components are unfolded to stretch the two telescoping rod components such that the two telescoping rod components and the two folding rod components form a mounting hole for mounting a ventilator; the two folding components are folded to withdraw the two telescoping rod components for packaging and transportation; moreover, the two ends of each one of the two telescoping rod components can be fixed at corresponding fixed parts by adjusting the length of the telescoping rod components. The mounting bracket can be conveniently and efficiently installed in new and hold houses, has a relatively large adjustable distance range, and can ensure that ventilators are installed in any position and reduce the installation time and installation cost of the ventilators.
US10712042B2	Temperature control valve The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a heat exchanger configured to circulate a working fluid therethrough, a valve configured to regulate a flow rate of the working fluid through the heat exchanger, and a valve controller configured to modify a valve position control signal received from an external controller, separate from the valve controller, based on a temperature differential of the working fluid entering and exiting the heat exchanger.
US10712030B2	Air-conditioning system An air-conditioning system includes two or more air-conditioning devices A, each of which in turn includes a fan adapted to adjust a volume of air blown out into a space to be air-conditioned, an airflow direction adjuster adapted to adjust an airflow direction of outlet air blown out by the fan, a human detection sensor adapted to detect human presence, an inlet air temperature sensor adapted to detect temperature of inlet air sucked in by the fan, a position setting device used to set an installation location of each of the air-conditioning devices, and a controller, in which a positional relationship with an adjacent air-conditioning device is calculated based on data from the position setting device and furthermore a human detection area overlap with the adjacent air-conditioning device is calculated.
US10712027B2	Air filtering assembly An air filtering assembly for particulate removal includes a housing that defines an interior space. An aperture is positioned in a front of the housing and is configured to allow flow of air into the interior space. An opening is positioned in a back of the housing and is configured to allow flow of air from the interior space. A slot is positioned in a top of the housing. A filter is selectively insertable into the interior space through the slot. The filter is configured to remove particulates from the air that flows through the interior space from the front to the back.
US10712020B2	Method and apparatus for positioning heating elements An underlayment system is provided that includes a plurality of protrusions that extend from a common base member. The protrusions and base member can include an opening therethrough that allows for subsequent layers of material, such as adhesive, to interact and bond to each other. The protrusions are arranged in such a way to contain a wire, string, or heating element, within a receiving area. The arrangement of the protrusions allow for routing of the wire, string, or heating element in a variety of angles, bends, and other routing layouts.
US10712008B2	Combustion chamber and a combustion chamber fuel injector seal A combustion chamber comprises an upstream end wall, at least one fuel injector and at least one seal. Each fuel injector is arranged in a corresponding aperture in the wall. Each seal is arranged in a one of the apertures in the wall and around one of the fuel injectors. Each seal has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The second portion abuts the corresponding fuel injector. The third portion is arranged at the downstream end of the seal and increases in diameter in a downstream direction. The first portion is arranged upstream of the second portion and has a plurality of coolant apertures extending there-through. The coolant apertures extend through the first portion with axial, radial and tangential components. The seals produce better mixing between the coolant and the fuel and air mixture from the fuel injectors to reduce emissions produced in the combustion chamber.
US10712005B2	Ceramic matrix composite manufacturing A method of manufacturing a ceramic matrix composite component may include introducing a gaseous precursor into an inlet portion of a chamber that houses a porous preform and introducing a gaseous mitigation agent into an outlet portion of the chamber that is downstream of the inlet portion of the chamber. The gaseous precursor may include methyltrichlorosilane (MTS) and the gaseous mitigation agent may include hydrogen gas. The introduction of the gaseous precursor may result in densification of the porous preform(s) and the introduction of the gaseous mitigation agent may shift the reaction equilibrium to disfavor the formation of harmful and/or pyrophoric byproduct deposits, which can accumulate in an exhaust conduit 340 of the system.
US10712000B2	Ash discharge system An ash discharge system has a conveyor device which transports clinker ash out of a region that is below a furnace bottom of a boiler furnace; and a separation device provided at a passage of the clinker ash from the furnace bottom to the conveyor device, the separation device including a separator which permits the clinker ash with a predetermined size or less to pass through the separator, and inhibits a large-mass clinker from passing through the separator, the large-mass clinker being the clinker ash with a size larger than the predetermined size.
US10711985B2	Enclosed gutter clip A decorative removable lighting enclosed clip made for mounting a light to a support surface such as gutters, shingles or a building structure. The enclosed clip allows for an aesthetically pleasing display of lights with rapid and easy installation and removal of the lighting. This eliminates falling debris from broken clips or clips that fall off the lights during the removal process. A support tab is inserted between the side portions of the structure, at longitudinally spaced intervals along the strip, and are frictionally gripped and retained by the facing side portions of the gutter, shingle or structure. The clips have enclosed end portions which support the light elements of a decorative light string along structure. The enclosed clip is capable of mounting onto a wide variety of gutters, eaves and building structures. The spacing is adjustable and provides a plurality of discrete angular positions.
US10711978B2	Luminaire using holographic optical element and luminescent material An example luminaire includes a laser light source, a photoluminescent material and a holographic optical element. The holographic optical element has a hologram optically coupled to the laser light source and to the photoluminescent material. The hologram is configured to distribute light received from the laser light source as a pattern of light to the photoluminescent material.
US10711969B2	Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp includes a projection lens, and a light source disposed behind the projection lens. The vehicle lamp is configured to form a required light distribution pattern by irradiating light emitted from the light source forward through the projection lens. A movable lens configured to be movable in a required direction intersecting with an optical axis of the projection lens is disposed between the projection lens and the light source. A maximum luminous intensity position of the light distribution pattern is changed by moving the movable lens in the required direction.
US10711968B2	Vehicle lighting apparatus A vehicle lighting apparatus that illuminates a frontward direction of a vehicle includes: first and second light source units each having a light source main body and a light-focusing optical system that focuses light emitted from the light source main body; a reflection-type digital light deflection device that is configured by arranging a plurality of mirror elements each of which can be slanted around a rotation movement axis and each of which can be individually switched between an ON slanted state and an OFF slanted state and that reflects the light, focused by the first and second light source units, by the mirror element of the ON slanted state to form a reflection pattern; and a projection optical system that illuminates a frontward direction with light reflected by the reflection-type digital light deflection device, wherein light incident on the reflection-type digital light deflection device by the first and second light source units is overlapped.
US10711967B2	Optical element and vehicle lamp An optical element includes a main body and a plurality of reflection structures. Two opposite ends of the main body are defined as a light input end and a light output end. The light input end has a groove. Walls of the groove are respectively defined as a first light input wall and a second light input wall. The main body has a total reflection surface located between the light input end and the light output end. The light beams entering the main body through the second light input wall can be totally reflected by the total reflection surface. The reflection structures are disposed on the main body and correspondingly located on the total reflection surface. The light beams entering the main body through the second light input wall can be totally reflected by two adjacent reflection structures and can be mutually staggered with each other.
US10711966B2	Light source unit and fixing method of lens thereof A light source includes a substrate on which an excitation light source is mounted, a lens including a light transmitting portion that transmits light from the excitation light source and a body attached to the substrate, a first thermal expansion absorber that protrudes from the body and has high heat resistance and elasticity, and a cover fixed to the substrate in a state where the body of the lens is sandwiched between the cover and the substrate via the first thermal expansion absorber.
US10711965B2	LED module for flashing lamp and flashing lamp The present invention provides an LED module that can prevent breakage of an LED chip due to pulse lighting for a flash when the LED module is used in a flashing lamp. An LED module (10) for flashing lamp includes: an LED substrate (13); plural LEDs (12); and plural resin layers (11). In the LED module (10), the LEDs (12) are mounted on a mounting surface of the LED substrate (13). Each resin layer (11) is stacked on a surface of each LED (12) opposite to the LED substrate (13). Adjacent resin layers (11) stacked on the LEDs (12) are separated from each other.
US10711956B2	Thermally stable flexible lighting device A lighting device comprises at least one LED element for emitting light into an emission direction. A bendable light guide is arranged to guide light emitted from the LED element. The bendable light guide comprises at least a first portion formed of an elastic, light transmitting light guide material covering at least the emission direction of the LED element, and a second portion formed of an elastic, light transmitting light guide material. In order to be able to function under varying environmental conditions, the second portion is arranged spaced from the first portion in the emission direction by a separation space.
US10711955B2	Rubberized light housing and adaptor A resiliently flexible, rubberized light housing for sealingly enclosing and protecting a light bulb or fixture against moisture and other intrusion. The housing has an elongated, generally tubular body with an open first end and a closed second end. The open first end may receive and retain a bulb or fixture that has an exposed bulb or element or is environmentally sealed. If the bulb or fixture is sealed, then the same may hermetically seal the open first end. If the bulb or fixture is not sealed, then a lens may be included to hermetically seal the open first end with the bulb or fixture in the interior. Electrical wires for connection to the bulb or fixture may be passed through a sealing port on the closed send end. The plurality of ribs are configured for friction contact with the inside of a lighting can.
US10711953B1	Dual power flashlight A flashlight includes a light assembly at a first end of the flashlight. The light assembly includes an LED light generating module. The flashlight also includes a power assembly having a power management module body member which houses a charging input port, a USB output port, a LED power indicator, or a power indicator button. A selectively movable sleeve covers the charging input port, the USB output port, the LED power indicator, or the power indicator button when they are not in use, wherein the sleeve moves relative to the power management module body member in linear and rotational directions. The flashlight also includes a central body member between the light assembly and the power assembly.
US10711952B2	Multifunctional light, data device, or combination and systems Embodiments of the present disclosure provide devices and systems including a material including a halide perovskite and/or phosphor to produce and/or communicate using visible light, and the like.
US10711938B2	Clamp for repair of pipe couplings A clamp for repair of a pipe coupling, includes a clamp unit including a side wall with an inner surface, the inner surface having a curvature dimensioned to match an outer curvature of a pipe coupling to be repaired. A coupling on the clamp unit is constructed and arranged to couple a first portion of the clamp unit with a second portion of the clamp unit. The coupling, when secured, operates to induce a radially inward force on the inner surface of the clamp unit. A window is formed as an opening in the side wall of the clamp unit. The window is dimensioned to expose a flange of a pipe coupling to be repaired.
US10711935B2	Method for managing the heating of fluids flowing through a network of submarine pipelines A method of managing the heating of fluids flowing in an undersea pipe network (2-1) providing a connection between a surface installation (6) and at least one undersea production well (4). The method releasably connecting at least one fluid heater station (14a, 14b) to an undersea pipe and controlling the heater station as a function of the mode of operation of the pipe network.
US10711934B2	Method for manufacturing a pipe, pipe and connection fitting assembly A method for manufacturing a pipe is described, wherein the method comprises a step of fastening a second mechanical quick connection member to a rectilinear hollow tubular body, a step of positioning the rectilinear hollow tubular body in a bending machine so that the angular coding mechanism of the second mechanical quick connection member is in a reference angular position with respect to said bending machine, and a step of bending the rectilinear hollow tubular body as a function of said angular reference position.
US10711918B2	Deflector intended to guide a line and related guiding assembly A deflector (38) including: a support (70); an intermediate member (72), pivotally mounted in the support (70) around a first rotation axis (B-B′); at least a secondary pivoting member (74), pivotally connected to the intermediate member (72) around a second rotation axis (C-C′) parallel to the first rotation axis (B-B′); for each secondary pivoting member (74), at least a pair of rotating members (76). Each rotating member (76) is connected to the secondary pivoting member (74). The deflector (38) including: a guiding mechanism, for guiding each rotating member (76) in translation with regard to the support (70) along a translation axis (D-D′) non parallel to the first rotation axis (B-B′); a connecting member (78), pivotally mounted to the secondary pivoting member (74). The rotating member (76) is rotatably mounted on the connecting member (78) around a rotating member rotation axis (E-E′).
US10711916B2	Aircraft environmental control system including valve built-in-test without position feedback An aircraft environmental control system (ECS) includes a first valve that is adjustable between a plurality of first positions to open or shut-off a bleed air flow that flows from an inlet of the first valve to an outlet of the first valve. A second valve includes an inlet in fluid communication with the first valve outlet, and is adjustable between a plurality of second positions to throttle the bleed air that flows from the inlet of the second valve to an outlet of the second valve. A valve position sensor outputs a position signal indicating a measured position among the plurality of second positions. A controller is in signal communication with the valve position sensor. The controller is configured to determine a primary effective area of the second valve based on the measured position, and to diagnose operation of the first valve based on the primary effective area.
US10711897B2	Gasket An object of the present invention is to provide a gasket capable of improving sealing performance by solving a non-uniform surface pressure distribution by a grommet structure. Provided is a gasket which is formed by laminating an upper layer, an intermediate layer, and a lower layer and is provided with a penetration hole and a seal bead formed at the upper layer and the lower layer to surround the penetration hole in a ring shape and to be symmetrical with respect to the intermediate layer in the vertical direction, in which the intermediate layer includes a fold-back portion, a surface pressure adjustment portion, and a bead contact portion, a plate thickness of the fold-back portion is thicker than that of the bead contact portion, and the surface pressure adjustment portion sets an upper step to be different from a lower step.
US10711889B2	Method of operating a vehicle and a vehicle A method of operating a vehicle having an engine, a throttle valve and a throttle operator. A continuously variable transmission operatively connected to the engine has a driving pulley, a driven pulley, and a belt operatively connecting therebetween. A ground engaging member is operatively connected to the driven pulley. A piston is operatively connected to the driving pulley for applying a piston force thereto and thereby changing an effective diameter of the driving pulley. A control unit controls actuation of the piston and the piston force. The method includes determining at least one of the throttle operator and throttle valve position, detecting a parking/drive away condition indicative of one of a parking operation and a drive-away operation of the vehicle, and, responsive to the detection, actuating the piston and controlling the piston force based on the at least one of the throttle operator position and the throttle valve position.
US10711886B2	Vehicle equipped with transmission A vehicle includes a transmission; a shift operation member configured to be operated by a rider; a manual shift driving force transmission mechanism which transmits an operation force generated by the rider's operation of the shift operation member, to the transmission, as a shift driving force; a transmission actuator; an automatic shift driving force transmission mechanism which transmits a driving force generated by the transmission actuator to the manual shift driving force transmission mechanism, as the shift driving force, and the automatic shift driving force transmission mechanism includes a one-direction transmission section which prevents transmission of an operation of the manual shift driving force transmission mechanism to the transmission actuator, the operation being caused by the rider's operation of the shift operation member, the one-direction transmission section being configured to transmit the driving force generated by the transmission actuator to the manual shift driving force transmission mechanism.
US10711883B2	Console assembly with stowable transmission shifter and folding armrest A console assembly includes a base, a transmission shifter and an armrest. The transmission shifter is carried on the base and is displaceable between a plurality of transmission mode defining positions and a storage position wherein the transmission shifter is held within a shifter receiver in the base. The armrest is carried on the base and may be displaceable between a home position and a deployed position wherein a portion of the armrest overlies the transmission shifter in the shifter receiver.
US10711876B1	Reinforcement sealing tubes for stabilizing a housing in an automobile transmission At least one reinforcement tube for stabilizing a housing within an automobile transmission casing. The reinforcement tube includes a first portion having a first diameter and having a first interior recess, a second portion having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter, and a second interior recess, the first and second portions separated by a shoulder, a first seal disposed within the first interior recess of the first portion and situated proximate the shoulder separating the first and second portions, and a second seal separate from the first seal and situated proximate a distal end of the second portion.
US10711873B2	Hydrodynamic side plate for torque converter stator A hydrodynamic side plate for a stator in a torque converter includes a first radial surface, a second radial surface opposite the first radial surface, a first axial restriction surface on the first radial surface opposite an inner race of a stator assembly, a second axial restriction surface on the first radial surface opposite locking components of the stator assembly, and a plurality of hydrodynamic pads in the second radial surface separated by a plurality of corresponding radial grooves. The first axial restriction surface is configured to restrict axial movement of the inner race of the stator assembly. The second axial restriction surface is configured to restrict axial movement of the locking components of the stator assembly. The second radial surface comprises at least two anti-rotation tabs configured to prevent relative motion with the stator assembly.
US10711866B2	Two-speed transmission for electric vehicle A two-speed transmission for a vehicle is provided including a planetary gear set selectively coupling an input shaft and an output shaft. The planetary gear set is configured to provide two forward gear ratios and neutral. The planetary gear set includes at least one sun gear, at least one pinion in meshing engagement with the sun gear, at least one ring gear meshingly engaged with the pinion, and a carrier. The carrier supports the pinion and is connected to the output shaft such that rotation of the carrier drives the output shaft. The two-speed transmission also includes one or more elements that rotatably couple different combinations of the sun gear, the pinion, the ring gear, the input shaft, and the carrier with one another or a ground. Such elements may include combinations of clutches, brakes, and dog clutches.
US10711858B2	Adjuster assembly An adjuster assembly for manually adjusting the position of a brake pad relative to a brake rotor of a disc brake, the assembly comprising: a continuous wear sensor; and a manual rewind apparatus to manually reset the position of the brake pad when replacement thereof is required; the manual rewind apparatus comprising a shaft arranged to extend into a housing of the disc brake; wherein the continuous wear sensor is arranged to be located within the housing of the disc brake and is located proximate to the shaft.
US10711856B2	Brake caliper tool A tool for retracting pistons into cylinder bores is disclosed, with a narrow gap between facing pressure plates allowing use of the tool in tight places, and ratcheting spreading of the facing pressure plates causing outward moving of the pistons, enabling work to be performed.
US10711854B2	Clutch device and motor unit using said clutch device A clutch device includes an input disc, an output disc, and a biasing member configured to press the input disc against the output disc. A rotation load applied to an output shaft separates the input disc from the output disc against biasing force of the biasing member. The input disc and the output disc include opposing surfaces, each of which includes axially disengageable overlapping tooth portions. Recessed and raised portions of each tooth portion are formed continuously in a radial direction and are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. Each of the curved shapes of the recessed and raised portions is maintained at a respective identical height while a circumferential width thereof continuously expands in a radially outward direction. Also disclosed is a motor unit including the clutch device. The disclosed clutch device reduces, e.g., deformation or damage of a disengageable portion, and therefore, can improve durability.
US10711844B2	Assembly of shaft and yoke A yoke has a yoke main body portion and a thin portion. The thin portion extends from the yoke main body portion toward the shaft, and is thinner than the yoke main body portion. The front end of the shaft is a large-diameter portion that has a larger diameter than an adjacent portion. The yoke main body portion has a yoke general-diameter portion and a step portion. The yoke general-diameter portion has an inner diameter that is substantially equal to an outer diameter of the large-diameter portion. The step portion extends from an end of the yoke general-diameter portion toward an axial line, and has an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the large-diameter portion. The step portion abuts a front end of the large-diameter portion. The thin portion has reduced-radius portions that have smaller radii than the outer radius of the large-diameter portion.
US10711837B2	Sliding assembly An assembly including an inner component; an outer component; a tolerance ring, comprising an annular band and a plurality of projections projecting radially from the annular band, the tolerance ring being disposed between the inner component and the outer component; and a low friction layer provided radially inside or radially outside the annular band so as to enable sliding movement in an axial direction between the inner component and the outer component, wherein at least one of the inner component or outer component is profiled to transmit a radial load between the inner component and the outer component to appreciably prevent collapse of the projections.
US10711834B2	Vehicle thrust bearing A vehicle thrust bearing that can reduce the number of assembly parts used in assembling a suspension of a vehicle to a body and reduce the thickness of parts to simplify the assembling work includes an upper case that is attached to a body of a vehicle having a suspension, and a lower case that is arranged under the upper case so as to be rotatable with respect to the upper case, wherein the upper case includes in a top area thereof a mounting portion for being attached to the body of the vehicle.
US10711830B2	Socket assembly The socket assembly includes a housing that presents an inner wall which surrounds an open bore. A stud is partially received in the open bore with a bearing interposed between the inner wall and the stud. The bearing has a bearing piece, which is in surface-to-surface contact with the stud, and a preload piece which is elastically compressed to impart a biasing force on the bearing piece, thereby preloading the bearing piece against the stud. The preload piece is in an overmolded engagement with the bearing piece to securely couple these pieces together such that the bearing can be inserted into the open bore of the housing together as a unit. The bearing and preload pieces are made of different materials with different elasticities.
US10711827B2	Bicycle end cap A bicycle end cap has a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end for attaching to a bicycle line shape member. The bicycle end cap includes a tubular portion and an attachment structure. The tubular portion is arranged at the first end and defining a receiving space that is dimensioned to axially receive the line shape member from the first end. The attachment structure is configured to attach a pulling member having a cable portion and a head portion that has larger diameter than the cable portion. The attachment structure is configured to position the head portion relative to the tubular portion as the cable portion is pulled toward the second end.
US10711822B2	Nut integrated with bracket and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a nut integrated with a bracket forms the nut formed integrally with the bracket or a slab base nut by using a plate material supplied between a punch and a die. The slab base nut includes a base plate and a boss extending from the base plate and including female-threads. The base plate and the boss are integrated into a single piece without welding trace.
US10711814B2	Tapered lead-in for interference fit fasteners An assembly comprising first and second structural elements having aligned holes, a fastener that occupies at least respective portions of the holes without a surrounding sleeve, and a mating part that is coupled to the fastener. The fastener comprises: a head; a circular cylindrical shank extending from the head; a mating portion comprising external projections; and a transition portion disposed between the shank and the mating portion. The transition portion comprises a tapered lead-in section that meets the shank at a shank/lead-in intersection and a radiused lead-in section that meets the tapered lead-in section. The tapered lead-in section tapers gradually in a first axial direction toward the mating portion and has a first profile that is linear and a taper angle equal to or less than 20 degrees, while the radiused lead-in section curves abruptly in the first axial direction and has a second profile that is a circular arc having a radius.
US10711793B2	Fluid pump A fluid pump includes a fluid pump inlet and a fluid pump outlet. A motor includes an armature and a stator such that the armature rotates about an axis. A pump section includes a pump section having a pumping element coupled to the armature such that rotation of the armature rotates the pumping element such that the pumping element pumps fluid from the fluid inlet to a pump section outlet of the pump section. A fluid passage within the fluid pump provides fluid communication from the pump section outlet to the fluid pump outlet such that the fluid passage is radially between the armature and the stator. The armature includes a surface of which faces toward the pump section and includes a plurality of recesses extending thereinto.
US10711792B2	Auxiliary turbomachinery shaft support system and turbomachinery comprising said system An auxiliary turbomachinery shaft-support system including a first assembly configured to axially support the shaft, the first assembly including a rotating disc having a part shaped to be torsionally coupled to the shaft, and a stator including at least one pad including at least one elastic component coupled with the pads and urging it in the direction of a disc sliding surface.
US10711789B2	Motor-compressor with stage impellers integrated in the motor-rotors A shaftless motor-compressor is disclosed, comprising a casing and at least one compressor stage arranged in the casing. Each compressor stage comprises a respective impeller arranged for rotation in the casing around a rotation axis. Each impeller is combined with an embedded electric motor housed in the casing and comprised of a motor stator and a motor rotor. The motor stator of each compressor stage circumferentially surrounds the impeller and the motor rotor, integral with the impeller. The motor rotor of each stage is arranged inside the respective motor stator.
US10711784B2	Air compressor with drain pipe arrangement Provided is an air compressor which exhibits improved reliability by resolving problems relating to drainage discharge defects, and exhibits improved energy efficiency. The air compressor comprises: a compressor body which compresses air; a compressed air flow path through which the compressed air from the compressor body flows; a heat exchanger which is provided to the compressor flow path so as to cool the compressed air from the compressor body; and a drainage pipe (62) which branches from the compressed air flow path so as to connect to the exterior, and through which drainage condensed from the compressed air cooled in the heat exchanger flows. A strainer (65) which removes foreign matter contaminating the drainage is provided to the drainage pipe (62). An on-off valve (66) at the downstream side of the strainer (65), and a pressure sensor (41) at the upstream side thereof, said sensor detecting pressure inside the drainage pipe (62), are each provided so as to resolve drainage discharge defects.
US10711780B2	Hydraulic machine A hydraulic machine is described having a first part (2) and a second part (3) moveable relative to said first part (3), one of said first part (2) and said second part (3) having a first land (9) resting against the other one of said second part (3) and said first part (2), having a predetermined first height (H1), and being arranged between a high pressure area (7) and a low pressure area (8). Such a machine should have a long working life. To this end a second land (10) having a predetermined second height (H2) smaller than said first height (H1) is located adjacent to said first land (9).
US10711777B2	Suction acoustic filter for compressor The present invention relates to the technological field of compressors and components and/or devices for compressors. Problem to be solved: The current state of the art includes cooling system of dual evaporation and/or dual suction. On the solutions already existing, the selection of one among the two evaporation/suction lines is done by high complexity constructive mechanisms. Problem resolution: The invention in question aims to simplify the construction of a selection mean of one among two evaporation/suction lines. For so, is revealed a suction acoustic filter for reciprocating compressor which integrates an automatic valve coupled to the inlet way of the suction acoustic filter and a valve of a way is coupled to the inlet way of the suction acoustic filter, being said automatic valve and said valve of a way acting selectively reciprocating, where the valve opening of a way ends up opening the automatic valve.
US10711765B2	Method for controlling a wind turbine A method is provided for controlling a wind turbine that has a generator that is controlled via a converter in a boost operation, in which an electrical power that is fed into an electrical transmission network is increased via a generative deceleration of the generator. The method comprises using a control to determining a set point value for a generator torque depending on an actual value of a rotational speed. The determined set point value for the generator torque is applied to a generator via a limiter with a predefinable upper and lower limit. Determining the set point value for the generator torque in boost operation that leads to an increased fed-in electrical power in response to a boost signal; and limiting a temporal change of the set point value for the generator torque in a recovery operation in response to a recovery signal.
US10711753B2	Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes two intake openings, opened and closed by intake valves; exhaust openings opened and closed by exhaust valves; a fuel injector having a plurality of nozzle holes; and mask parts having wall surfaces extending along outer edges of the intake openings toward the inside of the combustion chamber. The fuel injector arranged wherein the nozzle holes are positioned at the opposite exhaust opening sides from the intake openings, and the plurality of nozzle holes include a first nozzle hole, injecting in a direction with the smallest angle from a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the cylinder. The wall surface formed wherein a height in a first nozzle hole ejection region positioned in a range of injection of a fuel spray from the first nozzle hole, when viewed in the axial direction, is lower than a height in the first nozzle hole ejection region.
US10711752B2	Fuel injector assembly having duct structure A fuel injector assembly for an engine. The engine includes a cylinder head defining a through-hole. The fuel injector assembly includes an insert, having a first end and a second end, configured to be received within the through-hole and coupled to the cylinder head. The insert defines a bore extending from the first end to the second end. The fuel injector assembly further includes a fuel injector including a plurality of orifices, received within the bore of the insert; and a duct structure including a plurality of ducts, coupled to the insert such that the plurality of ducts align with the plurality of orifices to at least partially receive one or more fuel jets from the plurality of orifices of the fuel injector.
US10711746B2	Intake manifold and engine having the same An intake manifold may include a manifold inlet connected with an intake line into which fresh air flows and a recirculation line into which exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) gas flows; a manifold pressure sensor for measuring pressure of fluid flowing through the manifold inlet; and a sensor housing fluidly communicating with the manifold inlet and including a mounting space in which the manifold pressure sensor is mounted.
US10711743B2	Cover for an intake housing The invention relates to a cover (1) suitable for installation at least facing a heat exchanger (28) between a feed gas flow for an internal combustion engine and a so-called coolant, said heat exchanger (28) comprising a bundle (32) and an area (33) for distributing the coolant in the bundle (32), characterized in that the cover (1) comprises a protrusion (2) suitable for limiting the circulation of the feed gas flow at the coolant distribution area (33).
US10711738B2	Electric supercharger An electric supercharger includes an electric motor, a compressor wheel rotated by the electric motor, and a compressor housing. The compressor housing includes a first passage through which air is introduced, an introducing port connecting to an EGR device, a second passage through which at least one of air and EGR gas is flowed, a bypass passage through which at least one of air and EGR gas is flowed, and a bypass valve to open and close the bypass passage. When the bypass valve is opened, air introduced from the first passage and EGR gas introduced from the introducing port are flowed through the bypass passage to the internal combustion engine. When the bypass valve is closed, air introduced from the first passage and EGR gas introduced from the introducing port are compressed in the compressor wheel and flowed through the second passage to the internal combustion engine.
US10711737B2	Conduit mounting device A device for mounting a conduit of a vapor canister on a vehicle includes a base having a first side and an opposing second side. The base includes fastener openings for receiving fasteners to attach the base to a frame. A connector extends from the first side of the base between the fastener openings for connecting the device to a conduit of a vapor canister. A pipe having an inlet extends from the second side of the base and forms an air passage from the inlet to the connector. The device may also include supports on the second side of the base for supporting the device on frame members with rounded or flat surfaces. The conduit mounting device can be installed by attaching the device on a frame member without the need for tools.
US10711735B2	Arrangement for regenerating an activated carbon filter An arrangement is provided for use with an internal combustion engine. The arrangement includes an intake tract for the internal combustion engine and a valve that is fluidly connected to the intake tract. An activated carbon filter is located upstream from the intake tract and the valve. The valve is connected to the carbon filter by an intake line. When the valve is open, fluid can flow from the activated carbon filter into the intake tract. A pressure sensor measures upstream pressure (p1) in the intake line. A pump helps generate the pressure (p1) in the intake line. The valve is connected to the intake tract so they cooperate together to form a cavity that is connected to the intake line such that when the valve is closed, the pressure in the cavity is the pressure (p1).
US10711732B2	Reduced height piston A piston includes an upper member having a crown and a combustion surface extending radially inward from the crown. The upper member includes concentrically oriented first and second upper connecting surfaces integrally formed on the bottom side of the upper member. At least one of the upper connecting surfaces includes a curvilinear and/or multi-arcuate cross-sectional profile. The piston also includes a lower member having a pair of opposing skirts, each skirt defining a bore. The lower member also includes concentrically oriented first and second lower connecting surfaces integrally formed on a top side of the lower member. The lower member is integrally connected to the upper member by friction welding. The curvilinear and/or multi-arcuate profile enables a shortened distance between the top surface of the crown and the bore centerline of the bore. Methods of manufacturing the piston are also disclosed.
US10711724B2	Control apparatus for internal combustion engine, and control method for internal combustion engine A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes circuitry configured to control a fuel injector of the internal combustion engine to stop injecting fuel to reduce torque generated by the internal combustion engine during upshift. The circuitry is to acquire a target injection amount parameter corresponding to a target injection amount of the fuel to be injected by the fuel injector to operate the internal combustion engine based on an operation state parameter corresponding to an operation state of the internal combustion engine. The circuitry is to acquire a minimum injectable amount parameter corresponding to a minimum injectable amount of the fuel injectable from the fuel injector. The circuitry is to control the fuel injector to start injecting the fuel when the minimum injectable amount parameter exceeds the target injection amount parameter while the fuel injector is controlled to stop injecting the fuel during the upshift.
US10711723B2	Fuel control for dual fuel engines Systems and methods for controlling fuelling of dual fuel internal combustion engines are disclosed. The control techniques maximize the substitution rate of gaseous fuel for the liquid fuel by determining a target fuelling amount for the liquid fuel and then regulating an actual fuelling amount of the liquid fuel in response to engine speed and power variations and by modulating the flow rate of the gaseous fuel to the engine.
US10711721B2	Control device for electromagnetic fuel injection valve Because the relationship of the fuel injection quantity to a designated injection period differs in a half-lift region and a full-lift region, the purpose of the present invention is to bring the flow rate characteristics of an intermediate-lift region close to the flow rate characteristics of the full-lift region and improve the controllability of small fuel injection quantities. Provided are a peak current supply period in which a valve body of a fuel injection valve causes the magnetic force necessary for a valve-opening action to be generated, and a lift quantity adjustment period in which, after the peak current supply period, a current lower than the peak current is passed for a prescribed period; further provided is a current interrupt period in which a drive current is rapidly lowered before the lift quantity adjustment period.
US10711720B2	Control system for internal combustion engine In a control system for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine includes a first exhaust catalyst that is a three-way catalyst disposed in an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine, a second exhaust catalyst that is a three-way catalyst disposed in the exhaust path on a downstream side of the first exhaust catalyst, and a motor configured to drive the internal combustion engine. The control system includes an electronic control unit configured to, when operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped, stop fuel injection in the internal combustion engine and then, execute motoring in which the internal combustion engine is rotationally driven using drive power of the motor, and execute the motoring in a range in which an oxygen occlusion amount of the first exhaust catalyst becomes an oxygen occlusion amount smaller than an upper limit oxygen occlusion amount of the first exhaust catalyst.
US10711713B2	Fuel tank venting system for a motor vehicle A fuel tank venting system for a motor vehicle includes an outlet side of a tank venting valve connected to an inlet side of a first vent line and to an inlet side of a second vent line. An outlet side of the first vent line is connected to an intake manifold upstream from a throttle valve and downstream from an air filter, and an outlet side of the second vent line is connected to the intake manifold downstream from the throttle valve. A position sensor may be located at a first position and the first closing element has a detectable element. The position sensor is connected to an electronic control device to transmit signals. A position of the first closing element may be determined by means of the position sensor and the detectable element.
US10711710B2	Reduced material spigot design for integrated VDA adapter housing with as-cast anti-rotation feature A throttle control assembly which includes a housing, and an adapter and an anti-rotation feature integrally formed with the housing. A scallop is integrally formed as part of the housing and substantially surrounds the anti-rotation feature. A first tapered portion and a second tapered portion are both integrally formed with the adapter. A first groove and a rib portion are also integrally formed as part of the adapter. A plurality of outer scallops are also integrally formed as part of the adapter. The anti-rotation feature, the scallop, and each of the plurality of outer scallops are integrally formed with the housing. A portion of the plurality of outer scallops are formed as part of the second tapered portion, and a portion of the plurality of outer scallops are formed as part of the rib portion.
US10711708B2	Control device for engine A control device for an engine is provided, which includes a fuel injector attached to the engine, a spark plug disposed to be oriented into a combustion chamber, a swirl control valve provided in an intake passage, and a controller connected to the fuel injector, the spark plug, and the swirl control valve and configured to control the fuel injector, the spark plug, and the swirl control valve. The swirl control valve closes in a given operating state of the engine. The fuel injector injects fuel after the swirl control valve is closed, between intake stroke and an intermediate stage of compression stroke. The fuel injector injects the fuel after the first fuel injection. The spark plug performs the ignition after the second fuel injection so that the mixture gas starts combustion by flame propagation and then unburned mixture gas self-ignites.
US10711706B2	Exhaust gas flap drive An exhaust gas flap drive for an internal combustion engine, including a driveshaft which has a central axis m, an exhaust gas flap shaft, which is indirectly connected to the driveshaft and has a central axis k, and a coupling element, which is designed as a spring. The coupling element has a first end portion which is rotationally fixed to the driveshaft, and the driveshaft has a receiving area in which the end portion is mounted. The coupling element additionally has a second end portion which is rotationally fixed to the exhaust gas flap shaft via a coupling element, and the receiving area is designed as a groove which is provided on the end face of the driveshaft. The groove has a groove base and two groove flanks which delimit a width b of the groove. The width b decreases towards the groove base, and/or the coupling element has a form-fitting connection with the second end portion in a direction of the central axis k.
US10711698B2	Gas turbine engine fuel system prognostic algorithm A system and method of calculating a fuel pump life expectancy in a fuel burning engine is provided. The method includes tracking a fuel pump speed of the fuel burning engine, tracking a position value of at least one fuel actuated actuator in the fuel burning engine, and calculating a fuel pump life expectancy value based on the fuel pump speed and the position value of the at least one fuel actuated actuator.
US10711695B2	Method and system for power production with improved efficiency The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide power generation using predominantly CO2 as a working fluid. In particular, the present disclosure provides for the use of a portion of the heat of compression from a CO2 compressor as the additive heating necessary to increase the overall efficiency of a power production system and method.
US10711693B2	Gas turbine engine with an engine rotor element turning device A turbine engine has a core with a compressor, combustor, and turbine sections in axial flow arrangement and with corresponding rotating elements mounted to a shaft defining engine rotor elements. The turbine engine has a rotary driver operably coupled to the engine rotor elements. The turbine engine has at least one thermoelectric generator in thermal communication with the core and in electrical communication with the rotary driver to provide power to the rotary driver to turn the engine rotor elements.
US10711689B2	Control device of internal combustion engine A control device is provided capable of reliably preventing occurrence of a surging state by judging a possibility of the surging state in a relatively easy manner and promptly executing a surging state avoidance control. When a supercharging pressure decreasing state in which a target supercharging pressure decreases is detected, an operating speed of a wastegate valve is determined based on a detected engine rotational speed. That is, by lowering the operating speed as the engine rotational speed lowers, reduction in flow rate of the air passing through a compressor is prevented, and the occurrence of the surging state is reliably prevented. By lowering the operating speed instead of changing a target opening degree of the wastegate valve, a maximum opening degree of the wastegate valve can be suppressed, and responsiveness in the case where an acceleration request is made immediately after deceleration of an engine can be improved.
US10711676B2	System and method for determining reductant delivery performance An apparatus includes a pump, a delivery mechanism in fluid communication with the pump, and a controller communicatively coupled to the pump and the delivery mechanism. The controller is structured to interpret, via a pump diagnostic circuit, first and second pump parameters indicative of first and second pump rates, interpret, via a dosing diagnostic circuit, first and second dosing parameters indicative of at least one of (i) first and second reductant flows or (ii) first and second injector characteristics, determine, via a delivery diagnostic circuit, a delivery status based, at least in part, on the interpretation of the first and second pump parameters and the first and second dosing parameters, and generate, via the delivery diagnostic circuit, a status command indicative at least one of an under-restricted delivery mechanism or an over-restricted delivery mechanism in response to the determination of the delivery status.
US10711675B2	Method of determining operation of an SCR reductant doser In a selective catalytic reductant dosing system including a reductant injector adapted to inject liquid reductant into an exhaust line, a method of analyzing flow of reductant through the injector includes determining a measure of the temperature of the injector prior to activation of the injector. The method also includes activating the injector and determining a measure of the temperature of the injector subsequent to activation of the injector. The method also includes analyzing the flow of reductant through the injector consequential to the activation by analyzing changes in the measure of temperature of the injector prior to activation and the measure of temperature of the injector subsequent to activation.
US10711665B2	Method for assembling a camshaft in a module body A camshaft may comprise a main shaft, on which at least two sliding cam pieces are accommodated in a rotationally fixed and axially displaceable manner, wherein the sliding cam pieces each comprise a carrier tube, on which are seated cam groups each comprising at least two cam tracks for valve-control purposes, as well as an adjustment element that can be brought into operative connection with an actuator for axial displacement of the two sliding cam pieces. A method for assembling such a camshaft may involve providing a module body with bearing bridges that receive the camshaft in a rotatable manner, inserting a first sliding cam piece into a first bearing bridge, connecting the first sliding cam piece to the adjustment element, inserting a second sliding cam piece into a second bearing bridge, and connecting the second sliding cam piece to the adjustment element with the aid of an axial adjustment distance of at least one of the sliding cam pieces in the bearing bridges.
US10711648B2	Nosecone support A example nosecone support of a gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a spar to extend radially from a nosecone. The spar is configured to attach to a case to support the nosecone.
US10711643B2	Turbine engine with an oil guiding device and method for disassembling the turbine engine A turbine engine is provided with a longitudinal rotation axis having at least one shaft with a radial axis, in particular a pitch change system for the blades of a propeller, said shaft traversing a radial passage of a substantially cylindrical case around the longitudinal axis. The turbine engine includes an annular oil guiding device around the radial shaft. The device has first and second annular parts nested in one another and secured to one another by hooping. The first part is secured by hooping to the radial shaft, and the second part is configured so as to be separated from the first part under the action of a force oriented along the radial axis and exerted on the second part by a member of the turbine engine forming a stop during a radial movement of the radial shaft.
US10711637B2	Turbine component assembly A turbine component assembly is disclosed, including a first component, a second component, and an interface shield. The first component is arranged to be disposed adjacent to a hot gas path, and includes a ceramic matrix composite composition. The second component is adjacent to the first component and arranged to be disposed distal from the hot gas path across the first component. The interface shield is disposed on a contact region of the first component, and directly contacts the second component.
US10711636B2	Feedstocks for use in coating components A system for coating a component is provided. The system includes a feedstock supply, a carrier fluid supply, and a thermal spray gun coupled in flow communication with the feedstock supply and the carrier fluid supply. The feedstock supply contains a substantially homogeneous powder mixture of a first powder and a second powder. The second powder is softer than the first powder and has a percentage by mass of the powder mixture of between about 0.1% and about 3.0%.
US10711633B2	Main stop valve A main stop valve includes: a hydraulic cylinder; a piston arranged in a hydraulic cylinder; a valve rod connected to the piston; and a valve body connected to the valve rod and configured to block a steam passage. The main stop valve further includes: a pilot cylinder having a communication port in fluid communication with the hydraulic cylinder; a rod connected in parallel with the valve rod and configured to be inserted from one end of the pilot cylinder; a sliding ring provided on the rod; and a pilot sleeve configured to be slidably fitted into an inner surface of the pilot cylinder and slidably fitted into an outer peripheral surface of the sliding ring in a section between the one end of the pilot cylinder and the communication port.
US10711627B2	Optimized aerodynamic profile for an arm of a structural casing of a turbine, and structural casing having such an arm When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
US10711626B2	Guide vane ring and turbomachine The invention is directed to a guide vane ring for a turbomachine, in which a vane bearing is produced in the inner ring via platform plates of the vanes and reliability against disintegration is produced via journals that extend radially inward from the platform plates, as well as a turbomachine.
US10711620B1	Insert system for an airfoil and method of installing same An insert system for an airfoil is provided. The airfoil includes a plenum that extends into an aft portion of the airfoil. The plenum includes a plenum inlet and an entirety of the plenum inlet is defined axially forward of the aft portion. The insert system includes a first and second insert. The first insert and the second insert include a plurality of impingement openings defined therein. The first insert includes a first neck portion. The first insert is sized for insertion into the plenum radially through the plenum inlet and the first insert is movable aftward within the plenum into an installed position such that the first neck portion is positioned aftward in the plenum inlet. The second insert is sized for insertion into the plenum radially through the plenum inlet forward of the first neck portion in the installed position.
US10711614B2	Gas turbine engine A boundary layer ingestion engine comprising a fan, the fan comprising a disc and a plurality of blades integrally formed with the disc.
US10711597B2	Power transmission and communication between processors and energy industry devices An embodiment of a method of communicating between a surface processing unit and an energy industry tool includes: receiving a power signal from a power source at an integrated interface device of a communication and processing system, the communication and processing system located between a surface processing unit and an energy industry tool, the interface device including a processor and a variable output power supply; receiving a communication at the processor from a surface processing unit; transmitting a control signal from the processor to the variable output power supply, the control signal including a series of pulses having a duty cycle that is varied to cause the power supply to generate a modulated direct current (DC) output signal having at least one of a frequency and an amplitude that is modulated according to a communication protocol to represent the communication; and transmitting the modulated output signal to a tool.
US10711594B2	Method and system for determining flow rate of water in a gas production system by incorporating characteristics of water A method is provided for determining the flow rate of formation water and/or the total rate of produced water in a gas well. More particularly, a method and system is provided to determine the flow rates of gas, condensate, and water in gas production using a flowmeter.
US10711586B2	Multi-inlet frack head system Embodiments of the present disclosure include a multi-inlet fracturing head (MIFH) having a first inlet channel extending through a body of the MIFH, the first inlet channel being substantially perpendicular to an axis of the MIFH and directing fluid into a first flow passage of the MIFH. The MIFH also includes a second inlet channel extending through the body of the MIFH, the second inlet channel being at an angle relative to the axis and directing fluid into the first flow passage of the MIFH.
US10711572B2	Tubing assembly for hydraulic shifting of sleeve without tool movement A completion string can have an outer surface and an inner surface, a first fluid passageway being defined between the outer surface and the inner surface. The inner surface can define an inner region of the completion string and can have a recess that is sized to receive a sleeve that is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The inner region can be sized to receive a work string at a position at which a surface of the work string cooperates with the sleeve and the inner surface of the completion string to define a first chamber on a side of the sleeve, the first chamber being hydraulically sealed by a plurality of sealing elements. The work string can define a second fluid passageway to provide fluid communication with the first chamber.
US10711568B2	Valve with shuttle for use in flow management systems A valve with a shuttle for use in a flow management system is capable of bypassing a backflow.
US10711567B2	Frac pump seat assembly A frac pump valve seat assembly includes a seat body and a wiper seal. The seat assembly is configured to mitigate the risk of fluid end erosion in the valve seating area by automatically clearing or wiping the mating surface of the fluid end at the time of installation. The wiper seal is located at a lower portion of the seat body and is designed to interface therewith the mating surface of the fluid end. Upon installation, the wiper seal scrapes or cleans the mating surface of propellants, sand, and other contaminants that may remain after initial cleaning. The contact surface of the seat body is optionally further reinforced with material implants with greater hardness than the material of the seat body.
US10711559B2	Downhole expandable metal tubular The present invention relates to a downhole expandable metal tubular having an axial extension, to be expanded in a well downhole to abut against an inner face of a casing or a borehole, comprising a first section having a first outer diameter, two circumferential projections having a second outer diameter which is larger than the first outer diameter, a second section arranged between the two projections, each projection having an inclined face tapering from the second outer diameter towards the second section, wherein the second section has a third outer diameter which is smaller than the first outer diameter in an unexpanded condition, and a sealing element is arranged between the projections opposite the second section, so that during expansion the second section bulges more radially outwards than the first section, forcing the sealing element radially outwards. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an annular barrier, a downhole completion and a sealing expansion method.
US10711551B2	Milling downhole tubulars A central shaft defines a first interior flow path. The central shaft disposed at least partially within a washover pipe. A lead tapered mill is positioned at a downhole end of the central shaft to center the downhole-type milling tool within a tubular. The lead tapered mill defines a second central flow path in line with the first interior flow path. Milling blades extend between the central shaft and the washover pipe. The milling blades are arranged to allow fluid flow around the milling blades. Each of the milling blades includes a tungsten-carbide hardened face and a soft steel body configured to support a load of the downhole-type milling tool during milling operations. A junk basket is positioned within the washover pipe uphole of the milling blades to receive and retain cuttings formed by the milling blades.
US10711547B1	Parameter monitoring and control for an electric driven hydraulic fracking system An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump mounted on the single pump trailer. A controller associated with the single VFD and is mounted on the single pump trailer. The controller monitors operation parameters associated with an operation of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system as each component of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system operates to determine whether the operation parameters deviate beyond a corresponding operation parameter threshold. Each of the operation parameters provides an indicator as to an operation status of a corresponding component of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system. The controller initiates corrected actions when each operation parameter deviates beyond the corresponding operation threshold. Initiating the corrected actions when each operation parameter deviates beyond the corresponding operation threshold maintains the operation of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system.
US10711532B2	Protection of downhole components from shock and vibration A device, such as a snubber or shock absorber, for mitigating shock and vibration in downhole tools is provided. The device can have a body and an insert, which are separated by an elastomer to inhibit direct metal-to-metal contact therebetween. The insert has a projecting portion located within a cavity of the body. The elastomer is disposed within a gap between the insert and the internal surface walls of the cavity, and the elastomer surrounds and contacts the projecting portion and the walls. The elastomer may be molded, for example by flowing it into the cavity and subsequent hardening. Injection holes may be provided for molding. The projecting portion may be shaped to limit rotation upon failure of the elastomer and/or may include ribs and splines for shock absorption. The body may include a cap that contains the projecting portion to inhibit pull-apart.
US10711528B2	Diamond cutting elements for drill bits seeded with HCP crystalline material A polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC), which is attached or bonded to a substrate to form a cutter for a drill bit, is comprised of sintered polycrystalline diamond interspersed with a seed material which has a hexagonal close packed (HCP) crystalline structure. A region of the sintered polycrystalline diamond structure, near one or more of its working surfaces, which has been seeded with an HCP seed material prior to sintering, is leached to remove catalyst. Selectively seeding portions or regions of a sintered polycrystalline diamond structure permits differing leach rates to form leached regions with differing distances or depths and geometries.
US10711526B2	Methods for forming or servicing a wellbore, and methods of coating surfaces of tools A method of utilizing a wellbore tool in a subterranean formation includes disposing a wellbore tool in a borehole. The wellbore tool has a first body and a second body. The first body is translated relative to the second body while exposing at least one surface of at least one of the first and second bodies to a lubricant comprising an organometallic compound, and a protective coating forms over the first body and/or the second body. The protective coating formed includes a metal originating from the organometallic compound. A tool for forming or servicing a wellbore includes a first body; a second body configured to translate relative to the second body; and a lubricant adjacent the first body and the second body.
US10711525B2	Heavy equipment concrete core drill bit stabilizer The present invention is an accessory device that hole coring machine, wherein the hole coring machine is utilized to quickly and efficiently core holes in concrete and asphalt. The accessory device comprises a stabilizer assembly that is coupled to a base of the hole coring machine. The stabilizer assembly includes at least one stabilizing frame that is formed to the outside diameter of a drill saw bit of the hole coring machine. The at least one stabilizing frame is coupled to an air compressor that causes the stabilizing frame to move relative to the drill saw bit during operation of the hole coring machine. The at least one stabilizing frame aids in maintaining the shape of the drill saw bit and reduces vibration and binding of the drill saw bit while forming a hole in concrete and/or asphalt.
US10711523B2	Automated drilling/service rig apparatus An automated rig apparatus for drilling or servicing a well is provided. The apparatus can include a motor vehicle having a frame, and a hinged derrick mast pivotally attached to the frame. The apparatus can further include a rack disposed in the mast and a carriage assembly with pinion motors configured to travel up and down the rack when the mast is raised to a vertical position. A tool carrier configured to receive a top drive unit or a power swivel unit can be attached to the carriage assembly. The apparatus can further include a movable platform and an operators cab configured to be moved to a desired position relative to the derrick mast when the mast is raised to a vertical position. The apparatus can further include a hydraulic drive assembly to operate the apparatus, and a mud pump and manifold for pumping drilling mud.
US10711519B2	Folding ladder with brace-locking apparatus A brace locking mechanism locks the foldable braces of a folding ladder in the open position. The brace locking mechanism is used with a ladder that has a stepped unit and a support unit foldably attached to the stepped unit with a foldable brace extending between the stepped unit and the support unit. The brace locking mechanism comprises a lock block that is movable between a locked position in which the lock block prevents the foldable braces from moving out of their open position when the ladder is open, and an unlocked position in which the ladder may be folded into the storage position.
US10711517B2	Lifting device of cordless covering A lifting device of a cordless covering includes a cord reel, a car, a driving module, a connecting cord, and a lifting cord. The cord reel has a cone section, and is pivoted on a headrail for free rotation. The car is received in the headrail for reciprocation. The driving module is received in the headrail to drive the cord reel to rotate in a predetermined direction. The connecting cord has opposite ends connected to the car and the cord reel, wherein the connecting cord is reeled in and out of the cone section of the cord reel when the cord reel rotates in different directions. The lifting cord runs around the car, and then extends out of the headrail to be fastened to a bottom rail. The cord reel and the driving module are helpful to precisely stop and bottom rail at any desired position.
US10711515B2	Cockpit canopy cutting gas generator A pyrotechnic egress system may comprise a case defining an opening, a gas generator disposed within the case, the gas generator configured to generate a gas flame in response to being ignited, and an ignition line disposed at the opening and configured to ignite the gas generator, wherein the case directs the gas flame through the opening for deflagrating a window.
US10711513B2	Door panel and a stile thereof A door panel comprising a body having front and rear door skins sandwiching, at least partially, two stiles, which together delimit an interior for injection of filling material. At least one of the stiles comprises a hollow structure with a partitioned hollow interior that extends along substantially the entire length of the body to offer mechanical strength to the door and to provide foundation for installing door fittings.
US10711512B2	Glazed element with improved tightness The present invention relates to a glazed element with improved water tightness comprising a fixed frame, at least one gasket Ga and at least one frameless inwardly openable casement wherein the casement comprises a multiple glazing comprising in external position a glass pane including at least one thermally treated glass sheet, the glass pane has an overall bow on at least its bottom edge of at most 3.0 mm/m and the gasket Ga is such that it is in continuous contact with the fixed frame and with at least the bottom edge of the glass pane, when the glazed element is in closed position.
US10711498B2	Door closer A door closer (10) includes an exterior housing (11), a spring assembly (12), a ratchet assembly (13), and a clutch assembly (14). The housing has a central tube (17), drive collar (23), a top end cap (52), and a bottom end cap (65). The drive collar includes an indexing pin channel (41) and indexing pin (42) which includes a pawl (45) having a contact surface (47) and a curved bearing surface (48). The spring assembly includes a shaft (73), a spring stop (80), and a helical torsion spring (106) positioned upon the shaft. The ratchet assembly resides within drive collar and includes ratchet wheel (111) having an annular array of ratchet teeth (112) configured to mesh with the pawl of the indexing pin. Each tooth has an undercut contact surface (113) and a curved bearing surface (114). The clutch assembly includes a bottom disc (120) and a top disc (121).
US10711497B2	Sliding panel wheel assembly The present invention provides a wheel assembly having an elongate housing configured to engage with and support a sliding panel element. The housing has a first subassembly having a first pair of wheels, the first subassembly being configured so as to allow rocking of the first pair of wheels. The housing also has a second subassembly having a second pair of wheels, the second subassembly being configured so as to allow rocking of the second pair of wheels. The first and second subassemblies are independently vertically adjustable with reference to the housing. The present wheel assemblies may be of the type used to support a sliding door or similar, on a surface such as a track.
US10711494B2	Handle assembly for a motor vehicle door A handle assembly for a vehicle door includes: a body defining an opening dimensioned to at least partially receive therein a hand of a user, the opening communicating with a chamber defined in the body anterior of the opening; at least one pivot arm mounted on the body for pivotal movement relative thereto; a closure for the opening, the closure connected to the at least one pivot arm for pivotal movement relative thereto, and the closure selectively moveable relative to the body between a first position, in which the closure occupies the opening, and a second position, in which the closure is moved into the chamber so that the hand of the user may be at least partially received through the opening; and a motor for effecting selective movement of the closure between the first and second positions thereof. In movement from the first position to the second position of the closure, the at least one pivot arm pivotally moves relative to the body in a first direction and the closure pivotally moves relative to the at least one pivot arm in a second direction which is opposite the first direction.
US10711493B2	Touch sensor unit and manufacturing method thereof The disclosure makes an insulating component and a sensor bracket to be an integrally molded article, simplifies the manufacturing process and cuts down the cost. A sensor holder and a sensor bracket made of a resin are made to be an integrally molded article, wherein the sensor holder inside which a pair of electrodes are arranged, and the sensor bracket made of a resin which holds the sensor holder and is attached to a tailgate. During an operation of filling a molten resin to a cavity, a part of the sensor holder is melted by the molten resin, and thus integrating the sensor holder and the molten resin, therefore, the two components can be structurally and firmly integrated. Accordingly, a touch sensor unit which endures long-term use can be obtained.
US10711492B2	Vehicular latch with double pawl arrangement A low release effort eccentric double pawl vehicle latch includes a ratchet, primary pawl, auxiliary ratchet and secondary pawl in combination with a secure lock lever. The secure lock lever selectively inhibits movement of the secondary pawl to prevent premature or unintended opening of the latch. A drive mechanism sequences movement of the secure lock lever and secondary pawl to open the latch. Upon reset, the drive mechanism drives the auxiliary ratchet back to its closed state and in the process the auxiliary ratchet can engage and return the secondary pawl back to a closed state in the event of an insufficient bias force thereon.
US10711489B1	Electromechanical multi-directional lock An electromechanical lock includes a main housing and a lock housing. The lock housing includes a locking element such as a bolt or a latch that can be translated between a locked position and an unlocked position by an actuator. The lock housing can be mounted to the main housing in more than one orientation. The main housing can include a circuit board on which multiple receivers are mounted, and the lock housing can include a connector, such that the connector will engage one of the receivers in any of the multiple orientations to provide power to the actuator. The electromechanical lock can also include a wireless reader and capacitive sensor to conserve power, where the only time the wireless reader emits interrogating signals is after the capacitive sensor is triggered by the user.
US10711483B2	Collapsible changing tent assembly A portable changing tent made of flexible fabric construction affixed to a folding frame structure designed for easy portability and storage. The folding frame structure includes a plurality of flexible metal coils that are designed to be movable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. In the expanded configuration, the frame defines a conical housing having an interior volume that can be accessed via a closure flap or other door opening disposed on the flexible fabric material. The flexible fabric material can include additional openings that allow a parent or guardian to assist a child when changing within the conical housing. When in the collapsed configuration, the portable changing tent can be stored in a carrying bag for easy and compact storage.
US10711474B1	Pool pumping apparatus A pool pumping apparatus for maintaining a constant level of water in a swimming pool includes a conduit having a lower end defining an inlet and an outlet that are open, the conduit defining an interior area through which water is channeled between the inlet and outlet. The apparatus includes a pump in fluid communication with the inlet of the conduit, the pump having a motor configured to transfer water from the inlet to the outlet when energized. In addition, a float assembly includes a housing that defines an interior space and includes a float member positioned in the interior space, the float assembly including a cord extending from the float member operable for setting the float member at a selected level. The float member is electrically connected to the pump and configured to energize the pump when the float member is above the selected level.
US10711465B2	Fastening device and system of fastening panels to a structure A fastening device and a panel system for releasably connecting panels to a wall or ceiling, comprising a latch portion; a base portion; a piston guide; a push latch piston movably arranged and biased between a first retracted position and a second, extended position, wherein a guide track is formed in the push latch piston, and wherein a guide pin is formed on the piston guide, the guide track formed in sections forming an angle to each other, with arrests for the guide pins formed at intersections of the sections, and wherein, when the piston guide is moved relative to the push latch piston towards the retracted position, the guide pin rotates the latch portion to an intermediate position, and when the piston guide is moved back, the guide pin rotates the latch portion from the intermediate position to 90° relative to the initial rest position.
US10711464B1	Water diverting and filtering device for rain gutters A gutter guard system for keeping leaves and other debris out of a roof gutter while allowing water to pass into the gutter having a wire mesh filtration screen employing horizontal rows of individual elevated shapes, elevated ridges and connected elevated shapes that are staggered relative to adjacent horizontal rows. The horizontal rows employ individual elevated shapes, elevated ridges and connected elevated shapes with leading edges which are configured with high points graduating to low points to aid in diverting water from its normal path being perpendicular to the gutter. The leading edge slows the water down and creates a siphoning effect of water diverting into the gutter.
US10711461B2	Ceiling systems A ceiling system in one embodiment includes an overhead support grid comprised of a plurality of intersecting grid support members and a ceiling tile mountable to the grid. Retaining clips support the ceiling tile from the grid which may be concealed from view. The retaining clips each include a cavity that receives a grid support member and a pair of resilient mounting elements configured to lockingly engage a support member. The mounting elements are laterally movable in response to inserting the support member into the cavity of the retaining clip. In one embodiment, the movable elements include locking tabs which create a snap-fit interlock with the grid support member for securing the ceiling tile to the grid.
US10711457B2	Structural element for securing glass partitions Disclosed is a structural element for securing glass screens, which is formed by: a metal support profile in which is located a seating zone of the glass, the end of the profile including a vertical rib preceded by a rectangular groove and a second V groove; a closing metal profile including an L-shaped protrusion that can be coupled to the vertical rib, the end of the projection being inserted into the rectangular groove and a V rib that sits in the V groove; and an elastic profile in T whose having a vertical section formed by two or more parallel walls through which pass two or more inclined planes that protrude through the sides.
US10711455B2	Expansion joints Tiles 21 and 22 are laid up with other tiles in the usual way at and along the joint 18, the joint 18 comprises a female strip 23 and a male strip 24 each of which have fastening flanges 25 and 26 and respective 90° walls 27 and 28. A slot or rebate in the female section 29 holds an expandable seal, typically in this case a hydrophilic seal. The female part and the male parts are assembled for relative movement so that a small gap perhaps 2 mm at 31 may be accommodated while the the upper plate section 23 still provides a contiguous coplanar link between the parts.
US10711447B2	Adjustable floor drain and method of installation A drain assembly comprises a shroud, a shank, and a frame. The drain assembly may further comprise a shim with an angled top surface. The frame may have an angled bottom surface. A rotational orientation of the angled top surface of the shim relative to the shank and a rotational orientation of the angled bottom surface of the frame relative to the shank may be independently adjustable, thereby allowing for the top surface of the frame to be both angularly and rotationally adjusted relative to a central axis of the drain assembly independent of the positional height of the shank. The drain assembly may further comprise a cover having bendable tabs. The bendable tabs may be disposed around a periphery of the cover and may be configured to contact an angled inner surface of an upper bowl of the shroud, such that the bendable tabs bend around the frame, thereby locking the cover onto the frame.
US10711446B2	Trenchlessly installed subterranean collector drain for surface and subsurface water A trenchless collector system is configured to intercept and direct surface and/or subsurface fluids to a designated reception location to control groundwater elevations. A target collection and drainage area is identified and a gravity drainage pipe is accessed or trenchlessly installed at the target collection and drainage area. The gravity drainage pipe can be accessed at one or more drawdown points. One end of a collection pipe can be connected to the gravity drainage pipe. Surface and subsurface water is hydrostatically drawn into the collection pipe from the target collection and drainage area through venting at the one end of the collection pipe connected to the gravity drainage pipe. The surface and subsurface water can be passively drained from the collection pipe into the gravity drainage pipe and onto the designated reception location.
US10711440B2	Automatic fire hydrant water supplying system An automatic fire hydrant water supplying system provides hydrant supply water to a fire truck having a water pump; a water pump master intake valve; a water-supply fire hose, a pressure sensor upstream of the master-intake-valve, and a water-pump control system. The automatic fire hydrant water supplying system has a remotely-controllable hydrant discharge valve connectable to the hydrant and to the fire-hose. A remotely-controllable air bleed valve is in fluid communication with the master-intake-valve and the fire-hose. The water-pump control system determines whether a pressurized volume in the fire hose upstream of the master-intake-valve input port is air or water based on a difference in density between air and water as sensed by the pressure sensor and if the pressurized volume is air causes the air to be vented to atmosphere through the air-bleed-valve before opening the master-intake-valve to provide hydrant supply water to the water pump.
US10711439B2	Flushing device for a sanitary device and toilet or urinal flush The invention relates to a flushing system for a sanitary device, in particular a toilet flushing or a urinal flushing, comprising a cold water supply line (6), a warm water supply line (8), a valve arrangement (10) for admitting the water flowing through the cold water line (6) and the warm water line (8), and a water discharge line (12) for discharging the water admitted by the valve arrangement (10). Said flushing device simplifies, and preferably improves the technical problem, that is, compliance with quality criteria for the supply of cold water and hot water with regard to the water consumption in such a way that at least one temperature sensor (14, 16) for measuring the water temperature in the cold water supply line (6) and/or or in the warm water supply line (8) is provided, and for generating at least one temperature signal (T1, T2), according to the invention, a control (18) for actuating the valve arrangement (10) depending on the temperature signal (T1, T2) generates a control signal (S; S1, S2), and the valve arrangement (10) discharges water through the water discharge line (12) depending on the control signal (S; S1, S2). The invention further relates to a toilet flushing and to a urinal flushing.
US10711436B2	Work machine operation assistance device A work machine operation assistance device enables setting of a manipulation gain appropriate for a skill level and habits of an operator and/or actual work contents. The work machine operation assistance device includes: a manipulation gain storage section storing a manipulation gain; a manipulated variable detection section detecting a manipulated variable of the operating device; a time integration section adding up time that the operating device is operated; a manipulated-variable frequency arithmetic section computing a manipulated-variable frequency of the operating device; a manipulated-variable frequency criterion setting section presetting a criterion value for the manipulated-variable frequency; a manipulation gain update arithmetic section performing a computation to update the manipulation gain; a manipulation gain display section displaying a result of the manipulation gain computed; and a manipulation gain update selection section to select whether or not an update to the manipulation gain displayed on the manipulation gain display section is performed.
US10711433B2	Trench cutting machine The invention relates to a trench cutting machine (10) for making a cut in a surface (13). The trench cutting machine comprises a frame (12) comprising at least one rear axle (15) and at least one front axle (17); a rotatable circular blade (20) mounted to the frame (12). The front axle (17) is vertically adjustable relative to the frame (12) between a first position where the circular blade (20) is lifted clear of the surface (13), and a second position where the circular blade (20) is arranged to extend downwards from the frame (12) to cut a predetermined distance into the surface (13). The frame (12) comprises an auxiliary front axle (19) located in front of the axis of rotation of the circular blade (20), wherein the auxiliary front axle (19) and the rear axle (15) are arranged to support the frame (12) on the surface (13) during a cutting operation and to maintain a selected depth of cut. The invention further relates to a shroud assembly and a debris guiding device for such a machine.
US10711432B2	Method and apparatus for forming a trench in a sea floor An apparatus for forming a trench in a sea floor and/or displacing material on the sea floor is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a body and front skids mounted to the body for engaging the sea floor and supporting the body. The front skids are adjustable between a first mode, in which the front skids engage the sea floor, and a second mode, in which the front skids engage the sea floor adjacent the trench and at the trench walls.
US10711428B2	Supporting device and method for calculating jacking force thereof A lightweight multifunctional supporting device and a method for calculating a jacking force thereof. The lightweight multifunctional supporting device includes a supporting frame and a jacking device, the jacking device includes a screw rod and a jacking seat, the screw rod (21) is provided vertically and is fixed on the supporting frame, the jacking seat is provided thereon with a vertical threaded hole and is provided with a lateral rotation rod, and the screw rod is in threaded connection with the threaded hole. The method for calculating the jacking force of the supporting device above.
US10711423B2	Structural steel inner support system in foundation pit The present invention discloses a structural steel inner support system in a foundation pit which ensures the support density of the structural steel inner support beam of the inner support system for foundation pits and improves structural stability and reliability of inner support of foundation pits. The system includes a purlin assembly, a plurality of vertical force-guiding connecting members including support members, upper force-guiding connecting beams and lower force-guiding connecting beams in the foundation pit; and a structural steel inner support beam and a prestress-pressing member in the foundation pit.
US10711416B2	Roadway sweeper with multiple sweeping modes A roadway or pavement sweeper with multiple sweeping modes for the removal of debris from a swept surface may, in some embodiments, include a sweeper vehicle having a pair of side-brooms independently movable between a retracted and extended position for sweeping debris into an area therebetween and at least one material-transfer broom to sweep a portion of the debris accumulated between the side-brooms as the vehicle moves in its direction of travel. A fan-driven suction-inlet may be provided at or adjacent each side of the vehicle. The at least one material-transfer broom may rotate in a first or other direction to transfer debris for entrainment into a selected suction-inlet for transfer to a debris hopper. Other embodiments are also described.
US10711405B2	Fiberglass guard rail A guardrail system for use along a roadway. The system can include a longitudinal body having one or more longitudinal void spaces formed therein, at least one substantially vertical post connected at one or both ends of the body, and a longitudinal member disposed within any one of the longitudinal void spaces of the body having a crosswise ultimate tensile strength that is at least 20% greater than the crosswise ultimate tensile strength of the longitudinal body.
US10711403B2	Shaped tray or plate of fibrous material and a method of manufacturing the same The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a shaped tray or plate of fibrous material. The method comprises the steps of (i) providing a fibrous pulp, in which the fibres substantially consist of at least 85 wt-% of softwood fibres having an average fibre length of at least 2.0 mm and at most 15 wt-% of broke having a fibre length of about 0.05 mm to 1.0 mm, (ii) turning the pulp into a foamed suspension, (iii) supplying the foamed suspension from a headbox to a forming fabric of a board machine to form a fibrous web, (iv) drying the web to obtain a dried web having a compressibility in the thickness direction of at least 20%, and (v) including the web as a layer in a board, which is turned to said tray or plate by thermopressing or deep-drawing. The invention even covers shaped trays and plates produced by use of the method.
US10711399B2	Bleaching and shive reduction process for non-wood fibers The present invention is directed to a method for scouring and increasing the brightness of non-wood fibers. The method comprises forming a mixture of non-wood fibers, exposing the mixture to a scouring liquor and a scouring agent comprising oxygen gas to form a scouring mixture, and scouring the scouring mixture by radially circulating the scouring liquor throughout the scouring mixture to provide scoured fibers.
US10711395B2	Textured fibrous structures Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
US10711394B2	Composite having plant fiber textile and fabricating method thereof The present disclosure provides a plant fiber textile, a laminate with the plant fiber textile and a fabricating method of the laminate. The plant fiber textile has a matrix resin and continuous plant fibers distributed within the matrix resin. The plant fibers are subjected to a surface modification pretreatment including a coupling treatment with a coupling agent and/or a fire retardation treatment with a fire retardant. The laminate has a stack structure including a layer of the plant fiber textile and at least one layer selected from a group consisting of following layers: glass fiber, aramid fiber or carbon fiber non-woven cloth or textile, preferably distributed within the matrix resin; polymer fiber non-woven cloth or textile, preferably distributed within the matrix resin; or polymer foam or rubber material.
US10711392B2	Pad-steam bleaching method for fabric based on TBLC-activated hydrogen peroxide system The present disclosure discloses a pad-steam bleaching method based on a TBLC-activated hydrogen peroxide system, and belongs to the field of pretreatment processing of textiles. According to the pad-steam bleaching method based on the TBLC-activated hydrogen peroxide system, TBCC and H2O2 are compounded with a weak base to prepare a TBCC/H2O2/weak base system for performing near-neutral bleaching on cotton fabrics; the fabrics are padded and then steamed to be bleached. By the method disclosed by the present disclosure, the whiteness of fabric treated for 2 minutes by a TBCC/H2O2/sodium citrate padding and steaming system is significantly superior to that of fabric treated for 60 minutes by an H2O2/NaOH dip bleaching system. The CIE whiteness of the fabric reaches 77 and above, the fabric wettability after treatment is also improved, the damage of the fabric is smaller, and the amount of water used by the method is small. The fabric only needs to have a certain wet pick-up, and a large amount of fabric can be treated by a certain volume of solution, which effectively reduces waste water treatment, saves energy and protects the environment; the method requires a short treatment time and has high bleaching efficiency.
US10711374B1	Automated instrumentation for production of T-cell receptor peptide libraries The present disclosure provides instrumentation and automated methods for creating cell surface display libraries, where the cells of the library display engineered peptides on their cell surfaces for identification of antigens that bind to T-cell receptors. The engineered peptides may be putative antigens or binding regions of the T-cell receptors.
US10711371B2	Lithium niobate single crystal substrate and method of producing the same To provide a lithium niobate (LN) substrate which allows treatment conditions regarding a temperature, a time, and the like to be easily managed and in which an in-plane distribution of a volume resistance value is very small, and a method of producing the same.A method of producing an LN substrate by using an LN single crystal grown by the Czochralski process, in which an LN single crystal having a Fe concentration of 50 mass ppm or more and 1000 mass ppm or less in the single crystal and processed into a form of a substrate is buried in an Al powder or a mixed powder of Al and Al2O3, and heat-treated at a temperature of 450° C. or more and less than 500° C., to produce a lithium niobate single crystal substrate having a volume resistivity controlled to be within a range of 1×108 Ω·cm or more to 1×1010 Ω·cm or less.
US10711366B2	Removal of electroplating bath additives In one example, an electroplating system comprising a bath reservoir having a first inlet for feeding fresh electrolyte solution into the bath reservoir and a first outlet for bleeding used electrolyte solution out of the bath reservoir, a second inlet for receiving recycled electrolyte solution into the bath reservoir, and a second outlet for discharge of electrolyte solution from the bath reservoir. A plating cell is providing for electroplating an object, the plating cell has an inlet in direct or indirect fluid communication with the bath reservoir, and an outlet for discharge of electrolyte solution from the plating cell. An extraction column extracts by-products generated by the plating cell and has an inlet in direct or indirect fluid communication with the outlet of the plating cell, and an outlet for discharge of electrolyte solution from the extraction column. A first particle filter is disposed in a fluid pathway between the second outlet of the bath reservoir and the inlet of the plating cell, and a second particle filter is disposed in a fluid pathway between the outlet of the extraction column and the second inlet of the bath reservoir.
US10711364B2	Uniform flow behavior in an electroplating cell Apparatuses and methods are provided for depositing a metal layer on a wafer. A secondary weir is positioned at a region below the primary weir such that overflowed plating solution over the primary weir during electroplating flows in a substantially azimuthally uniform manner. Methods are provided for electroplating wafers by increasing flow rate between wafer processes while plating solution flows over a primary weir, remains in contact with the overflowing plating solution, and flows onto the secondary weir such that overflow is substantially azimuthally uniform.
US10711355B2	Electrolyzer spacer and electrolyzer equipped with such a spacer A spacer for an electrolyzer cell of substantially annular shape comprises: a peripheral part having two parallel principal faces opposite each other, the distance separating the two principal faces defining a thickness of the spacer, and an internal part having a thickness strictly less than the thickness of the spacer, the peripheral part and the internal part being in one piece and connected to each other forming an internal annular shoulder so that the internal part has a substantially annular intermediate face extending in a plane parallel to the two principal faces of the peripheral part and situated between the two principal faces.
US10711354B2	Electrolysis apparatus for collecting nitrogen compound using ferric-ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid The present invention relates to an electrolysis apparatus for collecting a nitrogen compound using ferric-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (Fe-EDTA), and more particularly, to an electrolysis apparatus for collecting a nitrogen compound in exhaust gas by supplying electric energy to cause a redox reaction of Fe-EDTA.
US10711349B2	Apparatus for treating and/or coating the surface of a substrate component Apparatus for treating and/or coating the surface of substrate components by deposition from the gas phase. A plurality of substrate carriers and a plurality of coating and/or treating units are arranged in a deposition or treatment chamber which can be evacuated. The system can be equipped in a modular fashion such that the substrate components introduced into the system in a batch can be subjected to different treatments. Method for treating and/or coating the surface of substrate components. The procedure comprises: a) compiling coating and/or treating units and shielding elements from modules in the deposition or treatment chamber; b) equipping the substrate carriers with those substrate components that are to be subjected to the same treatment; c) closing the deposition or treatment chamber; and d) carrying out the individual treatment or coating programs for the substrate components combined in groups on the substrate carriers in one batch.
US10711347B2	Micro-volume deposition chamber Processing chambers having a lid with a lower surface, a substrate support with an upper surface facing the lid and an inner baffle ring between the substrate support and the lid are described. Methods of using the processing chamber are described.
US10711343B2	Storage and delivery of antimony-containing materials to an ion implanter A novel method, composition and storage and delivery container for using antimony-containing dopant materials are provided. The composition is selected with sufficient vapor pressure to flow at a steady, sufficient and sustained flow rate into an arc chamber as part of an ion implant process. The antimony-containing material is represented by a non-carbon containing chemical formula, thereby reducing or eliminating the introduction of carbon-based deposits into the ion chamber. The composition is stored in a storage and delivery vessel under stable conditions, which includes a moisture-free environment that does not contain trace amounts of moisture. The storage and delivery container is specifically designed to allow delivery of high purity, vapor phase antimony-containing dopant material at a steady, sufficient and sustained flow rate.
US10711332B2	Additive manufacturing material for powder rapid prototyping manufacturing A material for shaping is provided, with which it is possible to more effectively shape a shaped article that has high density while containing a ceramic. The present invention provides a material for shaping in order for use in powder additive manufacturing. This material for shaping includes a first powder that is a granulated powder containing a ceramic, and a second powder containing a metal. The second powder constitutes 10-90% by mass (exclusive) of the total of the first powder and the second powder.
US10711327B2	Composite materials, apparatuses, and methods Provided are composite materials that may include a monophasic blend including at least one metal, and graphene. The graphene may be present in the monophasic blend at an amount of about 0.001% to about 90%, by weight, based on the weight of the composite material. Also provided are methods for continuously producing composite materials, and apparatuses.
US10711322B2	Hot-pressed steel sheet member, method of manufacturing the same, and steel sheet for hot pressing A steel sheet for hot pressing includes: a specific chemical composition; and a steel structure comprising ferrite and cementite and represented, in area %: a total area ratio of bainite and martensite: 0% to 10%; and an area ratio of cementite: 1% or more; and a concentration of Mn in the cementite is 5% or more.
US10711317B2	Detection of nucleic acids from multiple types of human papillomavirus Nucleic acid oligonucleotide sequences are disclosed which include amplification oligomers and probe oligomers which are useful for detecting multiple types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) associated with cervical cancer. Methods for detecting multiple HPV types in biological specimens by amplifying HPV nucleic acid sequences in vitro and detecting the amplified products are disclosed.
US10711313B2	Kit for detecting ctDNA and expression of drug-resistant genes related to applicability of tumor chemotherapeutic drugs A kit for determining ctDNA concentration and a method for determining ctDNA concentration is disclosed, wherein the method comprising dissolving extracted ctDNA in Tris-HCl buffer with pH>7.0 and adding into the buffer 2,7-bis(1-methyl-4-vinylpyridine)-9-ethylcarbazole iodised salt as a molecular probe, calculating the concentration of ctDNA in the solution by measuring the Fluorescence intensity of the solution. It has extremely high sensitivity in the determination of 0 μg/ml˜50 μg/ml ctDNA solution.
US10711312B2	Methods for immunotherapy-based treatment and assessment of cancer Disclosed herein are methods of treating or assessing cancer in a subject wherein it has been determined whether the cancer comprises a loss of function mutation or disruption in an immune pathway. The loss of function mutation or disruption can be in JAK1 or JAK2. The loss of function mutation or disruption can be in B2M. The methods can include administering an immune checkpoint therapy such as anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1. The methods can include administering an alternative therapy to an immune checkpoint therapy. In some aspects, the method includes determining whether the cancer comprises a loss of function mutation or disruption in an immune pathway.
US10711306B2	Method and kit for multiplex 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 a high throughput sequencer is used and 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 sets of primers which respectively hybridize specifically to an upstream region and a downstream region of at least 2 genes selected from genes belonging to HLA class I and HLA class II in a human genome sequence, and are capable of amplifying under the same PCR conditions; (2) a step of simultaneously amplifying said at least 2 genes in a test sample (DNA) using the sets of primers in a single container under the same PCR conditions; (3) a step of determining the nucleotide sequences of PCR amplified products; and (4) a step of optionally carrying out a homology search within a database.

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