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US10941615B2	Noise dampening motor drive system for retractable covering for architectural openings A motor-drive system for retractable covering having a headrail with a horizontally disposed roller supporting a top edge of a flexible fabric material includes an electric motor mounted within a housing and interconnected to the roller to selectively rotate the roller in opposite directions while minimizing noise created from vibrations within the system. This system includes motor mounts within the housing which separate and absorb vibrations of the motor within the housing and a drive disk of a moderately soft material, which is firm enough to transfer torque from the motor to the roller while being soft enough to absorb vibrations which would otherwise be transmitted from the motor to the roller. An interconnect mounting the drive disk to the drive shaft of the motor is also made of a third relatively soft material, which is harder than the drive disk to more ably transmit torque but soft enough so as not to unduly transmit noise.
US10941612B2	Photovoltaic cells arranged in a pattern As described herein, a photovoltaic film may include a plurality of photovoltaic cells arranged to form a frit pattern. The photovoltaic film may be affixed to a transparent substrate to form a film-treated panel. The transparent substrate may be glass, such as a windowpane. The photovoltaic cells may be configured to convert sunlight into electrical energy. The electrical energy may be stored and used to power an electrical device.
US10941608B2	Glass panel unit and glass window A glass panel unit including a first panel including at least a first glass plate; a second panel arranged to face the first panel and including at least a second glass plate; a frame member formed in a shape of a frame, corresponding in shape to respective peripheral portions of the first panel and the second panel extending along edges thereof, and bonded to the peripheral portions; and at least one spacer provided in a vacuum space between the first panel and the second panel. The at least one spacer containing a polyimide, where the polyimide has an absorption edge at which an absorption index decreases in an optical absorption spectrum ranging from an ultraviolet ray to visible radiation, the absorption edge being equal to or less than 400 nm, and the polyimide includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a fluorine group and a chlorine group.
US10941605B2	Modular storefront system Prior to dry-in of a building, constructing an outer frame within an external opening of the building by attaching a top piece to a top, attaching a first side piece to a first side, attaching a second side piece to a second side, and attaching a bottom piece to a bottom of the building opening. After constructing the outer frame within the external opening of the building, the method includes mounting glass to glass receiving surfaces of the top piece, the first side piece, the second side piece, and the bottom piece. After dry-in and interior wall finishing of the building, the method includes attaching a plurality of inner base caps to an interior of the outer frame. After dry-in and exterior wall finishing of the building, the method includes attaching a plurality of outer base caps to an exterior of the outer frame.
US10941590B2	Inertial lock systems for push-push latch style vehicle drawers Inertial lock systems for push-push latch style vehicle drawers or storage bins including an inertia lock to maintain a drawer in a closed position under a g-force. A shaft is rotatably mounted on a drawer housing; an inertia member is mounted on the shaft; and a confining member is mounted on the shaft and disposed opposite to the inertia member. The confining member is configured to move to a position to restrict movement of a rotating latch of the drawer when a g-forced applied to the drawer exceeds a predetermined level.
US10941588B2	Electric lock and display screen using the same Provided are an electric lock and a display screen using the same. The electric lock comprises a main lock and a secondary lock. The main lock comprises a housing, a driving assembly comprising a driving member and a rotating shaft which is rotatably arranged on the housing, and a first connecting member. The secondary lock comprises a first sleeve, an elastic member and a second connecting member which is rotatably arranged in the first sleeve. The second connecting member is able to move along the axis of the first sleeve. The driving member drives the first connecting member to move along its axis, and rotates the first connecting member when the first connecting member abuts against the second connecting member. The electric lock is simple in structure, convenient to operate and small in size.
US10941574B2	Solar carport and water management and icicle prevent system for solar carports and canopies The embodiments are apparatuses, systems and methods of water management and icicle prevention for solar carports, and are designed to catch drips between rows of, and water run-off from, the low side of inclined photovoltaic modules arranged to form the roof of the solar carport or canopy.
US10941559B1	Shelter and hub system A shelter system is shown and described. A hub for a shelter system is shown and described. A frame for a shelter system is shown and described. In one embodiment, the shelter system includes a frame, a cover and a hub. The frame may be collapsible. The cover is configured to fit with the frame. The hub may include a receiver slot, a receiver sleeve and an attachment projection. The result is a shelter system with reduced set up time, effort and requirements and improved strength and ease of use. The inventions may also be considered a shelter kit and/or a shelter and hub method.
US10941553B2	Robotic cleaning apparatus and related methods A robotic cleaning apparatus for cleaning a dirty object includes a cleaning head and an articulated body. The articulated body is coupled to the cleaning head and mountable to the dirty object. The body has one or more actuators that collectively move the cleaning head into contact with surfaces of the dirty object. The one or more actuators, when activated, collectively rotate the cleaning head relative to the dirty object about first and second axes, and translate the cleaning head relative to the dirty object along an extension axis. A method of robotically cleaning a dirty object.
US10941552B2	Programmable toilet flush initiating, monitoring and management system and method thereof The present invention relates to a toilet flushing initiating, monitoring and management system initiated by the unlocking of a locking member on a door mounted in a stall typically found in a bathroom such as a public bathroom.
US10941544B2	Warning system for a working machine A warning system for a working machine including a movable load unit arrangement is disclosed. The warning system includes an illumination arrangement arranged to illuminate an area externally of the working machine and a load unit position prediction means arranged to determine a position of the load unit arrangement at a future point in time. The illumination arrangement is arranged to illuminate the area on the basis of the determined future position of the load unit arrangement.
US10941542B2	Boom potential energy recovery of hydraulic excavator A hydraulic system for recovering potential energy of a load implement of a mobile construction vehicle. The hydraulic system includes first and second actuators and control valving. The first and second actuators are configured to be coupled to the load implement for controlling raising and lowering of the load element. The control valving is operable between a first position at which, during a lowering of the load implement, the control valving directs hydraulic fluid from one of the first and second actuators to an accumulator to charge the accumulator, and a second position at which the control valving directs hydraulic fluid from the accumulator to one or more of the first and second actuators to power the one or more of the first and second actuators to raise the load element.
US10941531B2	Portable bollard and barricade system A portable bollard for arresting motion of a vehicle includes a post, a base plate coupled to the post, a top plate coupled to the post and spaced apart from the base plate along a length of the post, and a tapered member extending from a surface of the top plate facing the base plate to the post. The tapered member tapers from a wider end at the surface of the top plate to a narrower end at the post. The top plate is rotationally offset from the base plate.
US10941529B1	Blade assembly for work vehicles A blade assembly for removing a membrane from a bridge deck during a road resurfacing project includes a plurality of independently mounted blades that are able to conform to the contours of a bridge deck, separate the membrane from the bridge deck, and form the separated portions of the membrane into narrow strips or rolls.
US10941526B2	Decor paper for laminates Decoration paper for a decorative laminate, which is inkjet printable, comprising a paper substrate comprising at least one opacifying pigment having a refractive index of greater than 2, and on at least one face of the substrate a surface treatment comprising a binder and between 0.5 and 9 g/m2 of a filler having a specific surface area of between 2 and 100 m2/g and a refractive index of less than or equal to 2.
US10941514B2	Drying apparatus and laundry drying machine including the same A drying apparatus according to the present invention and a laundry drying machine including the same circulate only some of humid air introduced from a drum and discharge the remaining humid air through a discharge port, and then introduce mixed air, in which external air introduced through an introduction port and circulated humid air are mixed, into the drying duct to supply the air to the drum. Accordingly, since air in which there is little moisture may be circulated, drying performance of the drying apparatus may be improved. Further, by disposing an introduction fan or a discharge fan adjacent to the discharge port and mixing the humid air with the external air, since the air of which the moisture amount is little may be discharged to the outside of a cabinet, or the air discharged through the discharge port may be quickly discharged to the outside of the cabinet by the discharge fan, occurrence of dew condensation in the cabinet may be prevented.
US10941510B2	Equipment for perforated pre-impregnated reinforcement materials An apparatus for perforating a carbon fiber substrate material comprises a support structure including a first side support and a second side support and a cylindrical anvil rotatably connected between the first side support and the second side support. The anvil is configured to move the carbon fiber substrate material in response to rotation of the anvil. The apparatus further comprises a cylindrical cutting wheel rotatably connected to the support structure between the first side support and the second side support and positioned adjacent to the anvil. The cutting wheel includes a plurality of blades projecting outward from an outer surface of the cutting wheel wherein the blades of the cutting wheel are configured to perforate the carbon fiber substrate material when the carbon fiber substrate material moves between the anvil and the cutting wheel.
US10941507B2	Stretchable member for shoe and shoe including the stretchable member A stretchable member includes: a flat base made of a stretchable knitted fabric; and a limiting part extending in a stretching direction of the base, formed integrally with the base while having both ends in a length direction knitted in, and fixed to, the base, and configured to limit stretch of the base. The limiting part is longer than the distance between fixing points at which the limiting part is fixed to the base in an unstretched state, and is made of a knitted fabric which has a flat band shape and which is configured to become slack with respect to the base when the base is in the unstretched state.
US10941502B2	Electrolytic process and apparatus for the surface treatment of non-ferrous metals An electrolytic process, an electrolytic solution and electrolytic assembly are disclosed, for anodizing in one main step non-ferrous metallic parts, or their alloys to form a uniform coating. The electrolytic solution is free of toxic or harmful chemicals. Examples of treatable metals include aluminum, cast aluminum, magnesium, hafnium, tantalum, titanium, vanadium, and zirconium. The treatment is a one-step process since the cleaning and coating of the nonferrous metals are performed in the same electrolytic cell or tank and solution, preferably using the same electrical device for both actions. No preliminary steps like degreasing, de-smutting or activation are needed due to the absence of toxic acids or salts in the process. The process is therefore eco-friendly, easy to perform and provides excellent results. The non-ferrous metallic parts once coated can be used in the automotive or aircraft industries.
US10941494B2	Electroless platinum plating solution and platinum film obtained using same An electroless platinum plating solution is disclosed that can be subjected to plating processing with high deposition efficiency, does not self-decompose even when it does not contain sulfur or heavy metals, and has excellent bath stability, and an electroless platinum plating solution that can suppresses out-of-pattern deposition of platinum and perform platinum plating only on a necessary portion. An electroless platinum plating solution is disclosed that contains a soluble platinum salt, a complexing agent and any of a borohydride compound, an aminoborane compound and a hydrazine compound, and has a pH of 7 or more, adding a specific hydroxymethyl compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: R1—CH2—OH (1) wherein R1 is an atomic group having an aldehyde group or a ketone group.
US10941487B2	Synthesis and use of precursors for ALD of group VA element containing thin films Atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes for forming Group VA element containing thin films, such as Sb, Sb—Te, Ge—Sb and Ge—Sb—Te thin films are provided, along with related compositions and structures. Sb precursors of the formula Sb(SiR1R2R3)3 are preferably used, wherein R1, R2, and R3 are alkyl groups. As, Bi and P precursors are also described. Methods are also provided for synthesizing these Sb precursors. Methods are also provided for using the Sb thin films in phase change memory devices.
US10941480B2	Sapphire thin film coated flexible substrate A method to transfer a layer of harder thin film substrate onto a softer, flexible substrate. In particular, the present invention provides a method to deposit a layer of sapphire thin film on to a softer and flexible substrate e.g. PET, polymers, plastics, paper and fabrics. This combination provides the hardness of sapphire thin film to softer flexible substrates.
US10941478B2	Arc wire spraying method, equipment and product An arc wire spraying method includes conveying at least two wires out of respective lance nozzles of a wire conveying device by means of the wire conveying device, applying current to the two wires to form an arc for melting the ends of the two wires, and applying airflow to the arc in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the wire conveying device by means of an airflow applying device so as to spray the melted wire material toward a surface to be sprayed. The airflow applying device rotationally applies the airflow around the longitudinal direction of the wire conveying device. Parameters for spraying are variably adjusted along the rotating direction of the airflow applying device. The airflow is rotationally applied at a varying rotating speed.
US10941476B2	High strength steel sheet and method for producing the same High strength steel sheets that have excellent ductility and low-temperature toughness and methods for producing such high strength steel sheets. A high strength steel sheet includes a composition containing, on a mass % basis, C: 0.05% to 0.30%, Si: 0.5% to 2.5%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.5%, P: 0.003% to 0.100%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.010% to 1.5%, and N: 0.01% or less, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a steel microstructure including a ferrite phase with an area fraction of 10% to 70%, a hard second phase with an area fraction of 30% to 90%, and a carbide that is at an interface between a ferrite phase and a hard second phase and that has an average equivalent-circle diameter of 200 nm or less.
US10941463B2	High-entropy alloy foam and manufacturing method for the foam The present invention relates to a HEA foam prepared by selective dissolution of a second phase within a two-phase separating alloy comprising the HEA and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of the HEA foam of the present invention has the effect of preparing a novel HEA foam, which was not available in the past, by leaving only a first phase after manufacturing a two-phase separating alloy comprising a first phase by HEA, wherein at least 3 metal elements act as a common solvent. Furthermore, the HEA foam of the present invention has a structure, wherein pores are distributed inside the HEA, in which at least 3 metal elements act as a common solvent. By adding a functional characteristic of low heat conductivity, etc., to the existing high strength characteristic of HEA, the HEA foam of the present invention can exhibit a complex effect by the combination of the two particular effects, thereby being capable of exhibiting excellent physical characteristics.
US10941459B2	600 MPa yield strength-graded, high-stretchability hot-dip aluminum-zinc and color-coated steel plate and manufacturing method therefor An aluminium-zinc-hot-dipped and colour-coated steel plate having a 600 MPa yield strength grade and a high elongation and a manufacturing method thereof, with the chemical components in mass percentage of a substrate of the steel plate being: 0.07-0.15% of C, 0.02-0.5% of Si, 1.3-1.8% of Mn, N≤0.004%, S≤0.01%, Ti≤0.20%, Nb≤0.060%, and the balance being Fe and other inevitable impurities, and meanwhile satisfying the conditions of: (C+Mn/6)≥0.3%; Mn/S≥150; Nb satisfying 0.01%≤(Nb−0.22C−1.1N)≤0.06% where no Ti is contained; Ti satisfying 0.5≤Ti/C≤1.5 where no Nb is contained; and 0.04%≤(Ti+Nb)≤0.26% where Ti and Nb are added in combination. The steel plate has a yield strength of ≥600 MPa, a tensile strength of ≥650 MPa, an elongation after fracture of ≥12%, a good strength and toughness and an excellent corrosion resistance.
US10941447B2	Diagnostics for pulmonary arterial hypertension and sudden cardiac death This invention relates to a diagnostic test measuring circulating SCN5A proteins or gene transcripts in a test sample as a biomarker for pulmonary hypertension.
US10941446B2	Method for identifying kidney allograft recipients at risk for chronic injury A method for identifying a renal allograft recipient at risk for chronic allograft damage or interstutial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IF/TA) by comparing the transcription level of a preselected gene signature set with the transcription level of a comparison standard, and diagnosing the recipient as being at risk for chronic allograft damage if the transcription level of the preselected gene signature set is significantly higher than the transcription level of the comparison standard.
US10941441B2	Method and apparatus for transporting and retaining a receptacle A receptacle transport mechanism comprises a body, a plunger configured to be movable with respect to the body, and one or more limbs movably attached to the body and positioned in operative engagement with the plunger. The plunger is movable with respect to the body between a first position whereby engagement by the plunger with the one or more limbs positions a lower portion of each limb proximal to the body and a second position whereby engagement by the plunger with the one or more limbs extends the lower portion of each limb outwardly relative to the body.
US10941423B2	Method for the production of isoamyl alcohol Described is a method for the production isoamyl alcohol (3-methylbutan-1-ol) comprising the enzymatic conversion of 3-methylbutyryl-CoA (isovaleryl-CoA) into isoamyl alcohol comprising: (a) two enzymatic steps comprising (i) first the enzymatic conversion of 3-methylbutyryl-CoA into 3-methylbutyraldehyde (3-methylbutanal or isovaleraldehyde); and (ii) then enzymatically converting the thus obtained 3-methylbutyraldehyde into said isoamyl alcohol; or (b) a single enzymatic reaction in which 3-methylbutyryl-CoA is directly converted into isoamyl alcohol by making use of an alcohol-forming short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase/fatty acyl-CoA reductase or an alcohol-forming fatty acyl-CoA reductase (long-chain acyl-CoA:NADPH reductase) (EC 1.2.1.84). Further, described is the above method wherein the 3-methylbutyryl-CoA can be provided by the enzymatic conversion of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA into said 3-methylbutyryl-CoA. It is also described that the thus obtained isoamyl alcohol can be further enzymatically converted into 3-methylbutyl acetate (isoamyl acetate) as described herein. Described are also recombinant organisms or microorganisms which are capable of performing the above enzymatic conversions. Furthermore, described are uses of enzymes and enzyme combinations which allow the above enzymatic conversions.
US10941417B2	Promoter for the specific expression of genes in Müller cells The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising, or consisting of, the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleic acid sequence of at least 400 bp having at least 80% identity to said sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein said isolated nucleic acid molecule specifically leads to the expression in Müller cells of a gene when operatively linked to a nucleic acid sequence coding for said gene.
US10941416B2	Gene expression system using alternative splicing in insects A polynucleotide expression system is provided that is capable of alternative splicing of RNA transcripts of a polynucleotide sequence to be expressed in an organism.
US10941411B2	Modified gene resulting in parthenocarpic fruit set The invention relates to a modified PIN4 gene, the wild type of which is as identified in SEQ ID No. 1, encoding the protein of SEQ ID No. 5, or the wild type of which encodes a protein that has a sequence similarity of at least 80% to SEQ ID No. 5, which modified PIN4 gene encodes a protein that comprises an amino acid change as a result of the modification, and which modified protein is capable of inducing parthenocarpic fruit set when present in a plant. The invention also relates to plants and fruits that carry the gene. Such plants are capable of parthenocarpic fruit set and the fruits do not contain seeds. The invention further relates to use of the gene in breeding and producing plants capable of parthenocarpic fruit set.
US10941410B2	Nucleic acid sequences encoding transcription factors regulating alkaloid biosynthesis and their use in modifying plant metabolism Plant metabolism and alkaloid levels can be regulated by transcription factors that regulate the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a transcription factor that negatively regulates alkaloid biosynthesis, such as nicotine biosynthesis.
US10941404B2	Treatment of angiopoietin like 7 (ANGPTL7) related diseases Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that inhibit ANGPTL7 and reduce intraocular pressure when administered to an eye. The oligonucleotide compositions contain nucleoside modifications.
US10941403B2	Microrna inhibitors as anti-cancer therapeutics MicroRNA inhibitors as anti-cancer therapeutics are described. The microRNA inhibitors can inhibit microRNA-15a and can mimic the effects of higher dose radiation at lower doses. Other benefits are also described.
US10941401B2	Synthetic near-threshold translational repressors Provided herein are synthetic nucleic acid molecules and methods of using such synthetic nucleic acid molecules for strong repression of target gene expression. In particular, provided herein are methods for altering expression of a protein in a cell, where the method comprises introducing into a cell a protein coding sequence operably linked to a near-threshold translational repressor having first and second trigger recognition sequences that are fully or partially complementary to a repressing trigger RNA; and introducing into a cell the repressing trigger RNA.
US10941400B2	Compounds and methods for enhanced cellular uptake Described herein are conjugated modified oligonucleotides that are complementary to a target RNA. The conjugate facilitates cellular uptake of the modified oligonucleotide, resulting improved potency.
US10941397B2	Methods for adding adapters to nucleic acids and compositions for practicing the same Provided are methods of adding adapters to nucleic acids. The methods include combining in a reaction mixture a template ribonucleic acid (RNA), a template switch oligonucleotide including a 3′ hybridization domain and a sequencing platform adapter construct, a polymerase, and dNTPs. The reaction mixture components are combined under conditions sufficient to produce a product nucleic acid that includes the template RNA and the template switch oligonucleotide each hybridized to adjacent regions of a single product nucleic acid that includes a region polymerized from the dNTPs by the polymerase. Aspects of the invention further include compositions and kits.
US10941396B2	Compositions and kits for molecular counting Methods, kits and systems are disclosed for analyzing one or more molecules in a sample. Analyzing the one or more molecules may comprise quantitation of the one or more molecules. Individual molecules may quantitated by PCR, arrays, beads, emulsions, droplets, or sequencing. Quantitation of individual molecules may further comprise stochastic labeling of the one or more molecules with a plurality of oligonucleotide tags to produce one or more stochastically labeled molecules. The methods may further comprise amplifying, sequencing, detecting, and/or quantifying the stochastically labeled molecules. The molecules may be DNA, RNA and/or proteins.
US10941395B2	Method for gene editing The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for modifying a gene sequence, and for systems for delivering such compositions. For example, the disclosure relates to modifying a gene sequence using a CRISPR-Cas9 or other nucleic acid editing system, and methods and delivery systems for achieving such gene modification, such as viral or non-viral delivery systems.
US10941393B2	Microfluidic droplet encapsulation Microfluidic devices and methods for the encapsulation of particles within liquid droplets are disclosed. The new methods and devices form 1-100 picoliter-size monodisperse droplets containing the particles, such as single cells, encapsulated in individual liquid droplets. The particles can be encapsulated in droplets of a fluid by passing a fluid containing the particles through a high aspect-ratio microchannel to order the particles in the fluid, followed by forming the fluid into droplets. The resulting fraction of the liquid droplets with a single particle (e.g., a cell) is higher than the corresponding fraction of single-particle liquid droplets predicted by Poisson statistics.
US10941384B2	Compositions and methods for promoting the generation of endocrine cells Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the generation of insulin positive β cells, for example by exposing Pdx+ pancreatic progenitor cells to one or more compounds, and compositions and kits comprising isolated populations of insulin positive cells.
US10941383B2	Human brown adipose derived stem cells and uses An isolated human brown adipose tissue stem cell line. In one embodiment, the isolated human brown adipose tissue stem cell line expresses the markers CD9, SSEA4, CD44, CD90, CD166, CD73, but not CD14, CD34, CD45 or STRO-1. In another embodiment, the isolated human brown adipose tissue stem cell line expresses the genes UCP1, PPARGC1A, NRF1, FOXC2, CREB1, SIRT3, and WNT5A (REFX). In still another embodiment, the isolated human brown adipose tissue stem cell line is capable of differentiating into osteoblasts, chondrocytes, and adipocytes.
US10941380B2	Biomimetic cell culture substrates Embodiments of the presently disclosed subject matter provide biomimetic cell culture substrates comprising highly tunable patterned polymer nanofiber matrices capable of modulating expression of critical self-renewal factors and markers of cell-cell interaction to maintain stemness of human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro. Embodiments of the presently-disclosed subject matter also provide scalable, highly repeatable methods of making biomimetic cell culture substrates by hot pressing thermoplastic polymer films into femtosecond laser-ablated nanopore molds to form patterned polymer nanofiber matrices on flat thermoplastic substrates.
US10941377B2	Method for operating a stirring device and a fermenter Method for operating an agitating device and a digester wherein the digester (1) is filled with a substrate (7) and wherein an agitating device (10) controlled by a control device (50) is disposed in the digester (1). The following process steps are carried out. a) A target load curve (60) is lodged in the control device (50) b) the control device (50) prescribes a target speed of rotation (61) c) the control device (50) operates the agitating device (10) at an actual speed of rotation (71) corresponding to the prescribed target speed of rotation (61); d) the control device captures an actual measurement value (81) which is characteristic of the torque of the agitating device (10) at the actual speed of rotation (71); e) the control device (50) derives from the actual measurement value (81) an actual characteristic value (91) of the applied torque of the agitating device (10); f) the control device (50) compares the derived actual characteristic value (73) against the target characteristic value (63) of the substrate (7) resulting from the target load curve (60) at the prescribed target speed of rotation (61); g) the control device (50) controls the agitating device (10) in dependence on the result of comparison.
US10941376B2	Method for producing chip for cell culture A method for producing a chip for cell culture that enables production of a microchannel structure, enables mass production at low cost, and also has functions suited to cell culture. The method includes forming a photosensitive adhesive layer by applying a photosensitive adhesive to a first substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a 3D printing substrate, 3D printing steps that employ vat photopolymerization, forming a first adhesive layer by depositing a first adhesive on a second substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a cell culture channel top plate, and bonding the cell culture channel and the cell culture channel top plate together via the first adhesive layer, and then performing thermocompression bonding to obtain a microchannel structural body having a hollow structure, wherein the first adhesive is a polyester-based resin having a Tg value of 5° C. or higher.
US10941375B2	Fiber scaffolds for enhancing cell proliferation in cell culture A substrate for culturing cells that includes at least one fiber scaffold adapted to be contained within a disposable or non-disposable bioreactor, wherein the fiber scaffold further includes polymer fibers that have been created by electrospinning, and wherein the orientation of the fibers in the scaffold relative to one another is generally parallel, random, or both.
US10941373B2	Culture medium sterilized for microalgae high density culture, and the air compression, air cooling, carbon dioxide automatically supplied, sealed vertical photobioreactor, harvesting, drying apparatus and characterized in that to provide a carbon dioxide biomass conversion fixed, air and water purification method using the same A microalgae culture broth producing system includes a device for culture broth sterilization using a micro bubble generator, an air compression and pressure equalization device for the injection of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere into the culture broth. The system also includes an air chilling device to maintain suitable culture broth temperature when water temperature is too high, an automatic carbon dioxide supply device to promote photosynthesis, and a sealed vertical photobioreactor to block out pollutants and increase dissolved carbon dioxide and oxygen concentration. The system further includes a high-efficiency harvesting device using hollow fiber membranes, and a hot air drying device using the waste heat generated by air compression.
US10941369B2	Surfactant composition The present invention provides a surfactant composition which includes a surfactant at a high concentration, while having fluidity over a wide concentration range. A surfactant composition according to the present invention contains the components A, B, C and D described below, and is configured such that: the total content of the components A, B and C is from 30% by mass to 80% by mass (inclusive); the mass ratio of the total content of the components A and B to the content of the component C, namely (A+B)/C is from 20/80 to 80/20; and the mass ratio of the content of the component A to the content of the component B, namely A/B is from 98/2 to 45/55. A: an internal olefin sulfonic acid and/or a salt thereof; B: an anionic surfactant other than the component A; C: a nonionic surfactant; D: water.
US10941364B2	Method and device for the desulphurisation of a gas stream containing hydrogen sulphide A method for the desulphurisation of a gas stream containing hydrogen sulphide, in particular a combustion gas stream used for combustion in a gas turbine, wherein the gas stream is brought into contact with a scrubbing medium containing a catalyst to absorb the hydrogen sulphide, forming elementary sulphur; the catalyst is reduced on formation of the elementary sulphur; the scrubbing medium containing the reduced catalyst is fed to a regeneration stage in which the reduced catalyst is regenerated by oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas which is fed to the regeneration stage; the oxygen-containing gas is fed to the regeneration stage from a compression stage of the gas turbine; and the gas which is depleted of oxygen during regeneration of the catalyst is fed to at least one turbine stage fluidically connected downstream of the compression stage.
US10941363B2	Filter including poly-oxygenated aluminum hydroxide for removing NOx A filter and a poly-oxygenated aluminum hydroxide material comprising a clathrate containing oxygen gas molecules. The poly-oxygenated aluminum hydroxide material removes NOx from an effluent gas, such as gas emitted from an internal combustion engine. The NOx is held in stasis over a range of temperatures, and may be collected.
US10941362B2	Clean, high efficient and environmentally friendly gasoline product A clean, high efficient and environmentally friendly gasoline product with main fractions of C6-C11 has a low octane rating and a low spontaneous ignition temperature. It can be compressively ignited within an internal combustion engine with a compression ratio of 16-19. Small amount of ethanol or dimethyl ether can be added into the gasoline product.
US10941361B2	Method and system for controlling soot make in synthesis gas production The present application provides a method for controlling soot make in a process for the gasification of a liquid carbonaceous feedstock. The gasification process comprises: partially oxidizing the carbonaceous feedstock in a gasifier to produce syngas; guiding the syngas from an outlet of the gasifier to a quench section; cooling the syngas in the quench section to provide cooled syngas; providing the cooled syngas to a soot removal unit; using the soot removal unit to remove solids from the cooled syngas, the soot removal unit providing a cleaned syngas stream and a waste slurry stream comprising the solids removed from the syngas; continuously monitoring a concentration of total suspended solids (TSS) in the waste slurry stream; providing the concentration of total suspended solids (TSS) to a control system. The control system continuously optimizes the gasification process to changes in concentration of total suspended solids, carbon-to-ash ratio, and optional additional parameters.
US10941360B2	Process for conversion of hydrocarbons The present disclosure relates to conversion of hydrocarbons. A hydrocarbon feed is hydroprocessed wherein it is hydrocracked in the presence of a catalyst to obtain different hydrocarbon products, which can be suitably processed further to obtain valuable hydrocarbon products.
US10941354B1	Hydrocracking catalyst comprising a beta zeolite (BEA) framework substituted with Ti and Zr and methods for its preparation and use The invention relates to methods for hydrocracking or hydrotreating hydrocarbon containing feedstocks. This is accomplished via the use of a catalyst which comprises a β zeolite of BEA framework, where a portion of aluminum atoms in the *BEA framework have been substituted by from 0.1-5.0 wt % of each of Ti and Zr, calculated on an oxide basis.
US10941353B2	Methods and mixing systems for introducing catalyst precursor into heavy oil feedstock Methods and systems for mixing a catalyst precursor with a heavy oil feedstock preparatory to hydroprocessing the heavy oil feedstock in a reactor to form an upgraded feedstock. Achieving very good dispersion of the catalyst precursor facilitates and maximizes the advantages of the colloidal or molecular hydroprocessing catalyst. A catalyst precursor and a heavy oil feedstock having a viscosity greater than the viscosity of the catalyst precursor are provided. The catalyst precursor is pre-mixed with a hydrocarbon oil diluent, forming a diluted catalyst precursor. The diluted precursor is then mixed with at least a portion of the heavy oil feedstock so as to form a catalyst precursor-heavy oil feedstock mixture. Finally, the catalyst precursor-heavy oil feedstock mixture is mixed with any remainder of the heavy oil feedstock, resulting in the catalyst precursor being homogeneously dispersed on a colloidal and/or molecular level within the heavy oil feedstock.
US10941334B2	Foam solution and preparation thereof used for profile control and plugging in heavy oil thermal recovery process and method of profile control and plugging A foam solution for profile control and plugging in heavy oil thermal recovery process, a preparation method thereof, and a method for profile control and plugging.
US10941333B2	Heavy oil activator and preparation method and use thereof Disclosed are a heavy oil activator, a preparation method and use thereof. The heavy oil activator has a structural formula shown in Formula (1). In Formula (1), x, y, z, m, and n are respectively mass fractions of corresponding chain segments in the polymer, m being 0.75-0.85, y being 0.20-0.24, and x, z, and n all being 0.001-0.01; and p is a natural number between 2 and 9. The activating polymer provided has the effects of increasing viscosity of an aqueous phase while reducing viscosity of crude oil, and can serve both as a displacing agent and a viscosity reducer to realize integration of the two agents. The activating polymer can increase viscosity of an aqueous phase, has a displacement effect, can emulsify and disperse crude oil, and increase fluidity of a mixed phase; the dispersed crude oil continues to interact with crude oil that has not contacted the polymer, and the aqueous phase interacts with the mixed oil phase as well as new oil, by way of which continuous interactions, more crude oil can be constantly produced. The activating polymer has a relatively low interfacial tension and exhibits a certain degree of oil washing capability.
US10941330B2	Surface coatings, treatments, and methods for removal of mineral scale by self-release In some aspects, the present invention relates generally to self-release compositions and methods useful for the removal or prevention of mineral scaling and, more particularly, to surface coatings and surface treatments that resist, prevent, or aid in removal of mineral scaling. In some aspects, the self-release coating includes a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and a thermoplastic or an additive.
US10941326B2	Method and material for isolating a severe loss zone A method and drilling fluid additive for reducing severe fluid losses in a well, comprising a combination of granular scrap tire particles and polymer adhesive molded into a capsule shape. Once in the severe loss zone, a plurality of LCMs wedge into the formation fractures and seal off the severe loss zone.
US10941323B2	Composite of metal and resin A metal article characterized by including a metal substrate, a resin substrate, and a compound layer for bonding the metal substrate and resin substrate; the compound layer being a first compound layer including a first compound having a nitrogen-containing functional group and a silanol group, and a second compound which is an alkane-type amine-based silane coupling agent, and the first compound not containing sulfur atoms.
US10941321B2	Curable and cured adhesive compositions Curable adhesive compositions are provided that can be cured using ultraviolet or visible light radiation. These curable adhesive compositions, which contain a curable (meth)acrylate copolymer, have a creep compliance that is less than 5(10−4) inverse Pascals at 25° C., a creep compliance that is greater than 1(10−3) inverse Pascals at 70° C., and a shear storage modulus greater than 40 kiloPascals when measured at 25° C. at a frequency of 1 radian/second.
US10941311B2	Polyoxyethylene compound having multiple hydroxyl groups at end, and contact lens Provided is a silicone contact lens having surface hydrophilicity and surface lubricity. It has been confirmed that a silicone contact lens including, on its surface, a graft polymer chain derived from a polyoxyethylene compound having a plurality of hydroxyl groups at a terminal thereof has surface hydrophilicity and surface lubricity.
US10941304B2	Metal powder sintering paste and method of producing the same, and method of producing conductive material There is a problem that when a silver powder sintering paste that is substantially free from resin is used, an organic solvent used as a dispersion medium bleeds, which results in contamination and wire bonding defects. In order to solve the problem, provided is a metal powder sintering paste that contains, as a principal component, silver particles having an average particle diameter (a median diameter) of 0.3 μm to 5 μm and further contains an anionic surfactant but is substantially free from resin.
US10941302B2	Powder coating composition A powder coating composition grindable at non-cryogenic temperatures includes: (a) a first polymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of more than 1,000 and a Tg of at least 40° C.; (b) a second polymer having a Tm of at least 100° C.; and optionally (c) a cross-linker. The first polymer and the second polymer are different from one another, and each of the first and second polymers have less than 25 wt % fluorine-containing monomeric units, with wt % based on the total weight of the monomeric units in each polymer. Upon grinding at a temperature above 4° C. the coating composition has an average particle size from 15 to 150 microns. Further coating compositions, methods of preparing coating compositions, coating systems, and substrates coated with a powder coating composition are also disclosed.
US10941294B2	Resin composition A resin composition is provided. The resin composition includes a polyimide resin; a hydrocarbon resin or a fluorinated polymer resin; and a silica that is modified by a surface modifier. The content of the hydrocarbon resin is in a range from 1 to 13 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyimide resin. The content of the fluorinated polymer resin is in a range from 1 to 60 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyimide resin. The content of the silica is in a range from 1 to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyimide resin.
US10941292B2	Filled composites comprising glass and polyester fibers Polyurethane composites having improved mechanical strength and linear coefficient of thermal expansion (LCTE) and methods of manufacturing are described herein. The composites can include (a) a polyurethane formed by the reaction of (i) one or more isocyanates selected from the group consisting of diisocyanates, polyisocyanates, and mixtures thereof, and (ii) one or more polyols; (b) a filler in an amount of from greater than 50% to 90% by weight, based on the total weight of the polyurethane composite, (c) from 0.25% to 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the composite, of glass fibers; and (d) from 0.025% to 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the composite, of polyester fibers. The polyester fibers can have an average aspect ratio of length to diameter of from 5:1 to 600:1. The LCTE (−40° C. to 70° C.) of the polyurethane composite can be 2.2×10-5/° C. or less.
US10941285B2	Stabilized polyolefin compositions comprising benzofuranones and acid scavengers Polyolefin compositions comprising i) a polyolefin, ii) one or more phosphorus-containing benzofuranone compounds and iii) one or more acid scavengers are provided excellent protection against discoloration and enhanced thermal stability during melt processing as exhibited by improved retention of molecular weight and maintenance of polymer molecular architecture.
US10941284B2	Polyethylene composition A bimodal linear polyethylene composition, products made therefrom, methods of making and using same, and articles containing same.
US10941280B2	Liquid sealing material for copper bump, and resin composition for use as same Provided is a liquid sealing material for copper bumps which is inhibited from suffering filler separation during thermal curing and thereby causing bump cracking. Also provided is a resin composition for use as the sealing material. The resin composition according to the present invention comprises (A) a liquid epoxy resin, (B) a hardener, and (C) an alumina filler having a surface treated with the silane coupling agent of the following formula (1).
US10941278B2	Crosslinkable polymeric compositions with diallylamide crosslinking coagents, methods for making the same, and articles made therefrom Crosslinkable polymeric compositions comprising an ethylene-based polymer, an organic peroxide, and a crosslinking coagent having at least one N,N-diallylamide functional group. Such crosslinkable polymeric compositions and their crosslinked forms can be employed as polymeric layers in wire and cable applications, such as insulation in power cables.
US10941276B2	Polyolefin composition for medium/high/extra high voltage cables comprising benzil-type voltage stabiliser The present invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising (A) a polyolefin, (B) a benzil derivative comprising, preferably consisting of, the structural unit according to the following formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 independently from each other are hydrogen, or a hydrocarbyl group which may contain heteroatoms or at least two of said R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 together with the ring atoms of the ring system of formula (I) they are attached to, form a further aromatic or non-aromatic ring fused to the ring system of formula (I) and at least R1 or R2 is an ester group. The invention also relates to a wire or cable, in particular a medium, high or extra high voltage cable, comprising such a composition, and to the use of such a composition for the production of a wire or cable, in particular a medium, high or extra high voltage cable.
US10941275B2	Compact camera module A compact camera module that contains a generally planar base on which is mounted a lens barrel is provided. The base, barrel, or both are molded from a polymer composition that includes a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer and a plurality of mineral fibers (also known as “whisker”). The mineral fibers have a median width of from about 1 to about 35 micrometers and constitute from about 5 wt. % to about 60 wt. % of the polymer composition.
US10941269B2	Method for purifying reclaimed polyethylene A method for purifying a reclaimed polyethylene is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves obtaining reclaimed polyethylene, contacting the reclaimed polyethylene with a first fluid solvent to produce an extracted reclaimed polyethylene; then dissolving the extracted reclaimed polyethylene in a solvent to produce a first solution comprising polyethylene. The first solution is settled and then filtered. A purer polyethylene is separated from the resulting solution.
US10941257B2	Versatile color concentrate for clear polymers A color concentrate comprising a high molecular weight thermoplastic saturated polyester resin carrier that can be used in the manufacturing of colored clear plastics.
US10941256B2	Organogel compositions including functional additives and methods for the same An organogel composition and methods for preparing the organogel composition and preparing a surface with the organogel composition are disclosed. The organogel composition can include one or more organic solvents, one or more acrylates, and one or more functional additives. The method for preparing the organogel composition can include contacting the one or more organic solvents, the one or more acrylates, and the one or more functional additives with one another to prepare the organogel composition, and homogenizing the organogel composition to modify a shear viscosity of the organogel composition.
US10941252B2	Silicone copolymers, methods of making, and articles A copolymer composition that includes a silicone copolymer, methods of making the composition, and articles that include the composition, wherein the copolymer composition includes a silicone copolymer having a backbone composition that includes: silicone segments in an amount of 5 wt-% to 40 wt-%, based on the total weight of the silicone copolymer; hydrophilic segments in an amount of 40 wt-% to 75 wt-%, based on the total weight of the silicone copolymer; and reinforcing segments in an amount of 5 wt-% to 30 wt-%, based on the total weight of the silicone copolymer, wherein the reinforcing segments are derived from the reaction of one or more chain extenders with one or more multi-functional isocyanates, multi-functional carboxylic acids, multi-functional anhydrides, multi-functional esters, and/or multi-functional acid halides; wherein the silicone segments, hydrophilic segments, and reinforcing segments are connected through urea, urethane, amide, and/or oxamide linkages; wherein the hydrophilic segments and the reinforcing segments are present in a weight ratio of 1.8:1 to 8:1; and the hydrophilic segments and the silicone segments are present in a weight ratio of 1.3:1 to 4.5:1.
US10941249B2	Method of preparing polyphenylene sulfide and high-viscosity polyphenylene sulfide prepared using the same The present invention relates to a method of preparing a polyphenylene sulfide and a high-viscosity polyphenylene sulfide prepared using the method. In this method, the ratio of an organic phase to an aqueous phase is controlled by controlling dehydration conditions, so that high viscosity may be realized without adversely affecting a reaction or physical properties during preparation of the polyphenylene sulfide.
US10941240B2	Biorenewable high performance polyester polyols This invention provides a process for manufacturing high performance polyester polyols with high proportion of renewable content derived from biological sources. The polyester polyols with high content of renewable biological materials produced according to the present invention display no color or odor issues and are used in the manufacture of two component polyurethanes, thermoplastic urethanes, polyurethane dispersions and polyester and polyester/urethane acrylates with outstanding physical properties.
US10941238B2	Viscoelastic element based on a polyurethane foam The present invention relates to a viscoelastic element comprising a polyurethane foam, wherein the polyurethane foam can be obtained by reacting at least one isocyanate-functional prepolymer (VI) in the presence of a special polyurethane urea dispersion (V2), wherein the reaction of the prepolymer (VI) takes place in the presence of the polyurethane urea (V2) with a medium containing isocyanate-reactive groups. The invention also relates to a method for producing the viscoelastic element and to the use thereof.
US10941232B2	Photocurable resin composition, ink and coating material The present invention aims to provide a photocurable resin composition capable of constituting a composition having high printability. The present invention relates to a photocurable resin composition containing (A) an allylic polymer produced by polymerization of an allylic compound represented by the following formula (I), and (B) a gelling agent, wherein R1 and R2 each represent H or CH3; X represents an a-valent group having an unsubstituted saturated or partially unsaturated four- to eight-membered cyclic structure; and a represents 2 or 3.
US10941225B2	Photocurable electron deficient olefin-containing compositions This invention relates to photocurable electron deficient olefin-containing compositions, such as those containing certain 2-cyanoacrylates, 2-cyanopentadienoates, methylidene malonates, and vinylidine cyanide, and photolatent bases. When exposed to radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, the compositions show a delay cure property.
US10941222B2	Process for operating a polymer powder degasser vessel The present invention relates to a process for operating a polymer powder degasser vessel, and in particular provides a process for operating a polymer powder degasser vessel which vessel comprises a silo comprising a main vertical cylinder and a hopper at the bottom of the cylinder, there being a polymer powder withdrawal pipe connected to the hopper by which polymer powder is withdrawn from the hopper, and wherein the silo contains a polymer powder which occupies less than 45% of the volume of the silo and the polymer powder passes through the polymer powder degasser vessel in a mass flow manner, further wherein at least one of the following is applied: i) polymer powder is withdrawn from the hopper and recirculated to the silo, wherein the recirculation rate of the polymer powder is at least 30 percent per hour of the polymer powder present in the silo, and ii) a purge gas is provided to the silo via the polymer powder withdrawal pipe or via an inlet located on the hopper at a vertical height which is less than half of height of the hopper from its bottom end.
US10941213B2	Anti-TMPRSS2 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments The present invention includes an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds specifically to TMPRSS2 and methods of using such antibodies and fragments for treating or preventing viral infections (e.g., influenza virus infections).
US10941207B2	Fusion protein comprising three binding domains to 5T4 and CD3 The present invention relates to a bispecific binding molecule comprising three binding domains, wherein a first and/or a second binding domain are capable of binding to the extracellular 5T4 antigen and the remaining binding domain(s) is (are) capable of binding to the CD3 receptor complex on T cells. Moreover, the invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding fusion protein, a vector comprising said nucleic acid sequence and a host cell transformed or transfected with said vector. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process for the production of the fusion protein of the invention, a medical use of said fusion protein and a kit comprising said fusion protein.
US10941200B2	TREM2 cleavage modulators and uses thereof The present invention relates to a binding molecule having a binding site within the ectodomain of the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), wherein the binding molecule inhibits TREM2 cleavage. Said binding molecule is particularly useful for treating and/or preventing a neurological disorder, such as a neurodegenerative disorder. Also encompassed by the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition for use in treating and/or preventing a neurological disorder, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises the binding molecule of the present invention. Neurodegenerative disorders that may be treated and/or prevented by using the binding molecule of the present invention include Alzheimer's disease (AD), Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), FTLD-like syndrome, Parkinson's disease, Nasu-Hakola disease, Multiple sclerosis (MS), Huntington disease, immune-mediated neuropathies, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
US10941198B2	Human anti-IFN-α antibodies Provided are novel IFB-a binding molecules of human origin, particularly human-derived anti-IFN-α antibodies as well as IFN-α binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and methods for use in diagnosis and therapy are described.
US10941192B2	VHH antibody Provided is a VHH antibody including an amino acid sequence in which at least one selected from the group consisting of glycine in position 36, arginine in position 50, and glycine in position 78, on the basis of IMGT numbering, of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with another amino acid. The VHH antibody according to the present disclosure is thermostable.
US10941188B2	Methods and compositions related to functional polypeptides embedded in heterologous protein scaffolds The present invention provides methods for generating functional derivatives of effector polypeptides (e.g., hormones and receptor ligands) embedded in a different protein scaffold (e.g., antibody scaffolds). The methods involve modifying the effector polypeptide with a combinatorial library of terminal linker sequences, inserting the modified sequences into the host scaffold, and then selecting functional derivatives from the library of modified polypeptide sequences embedded in the host scaffold. As exemplifications, the invention also provides specific functional derivatives of leptin, scFSH and scRelaxin embedded in an antibody scaffold, as well as therapeutic applications of such functional fusion molecules.
US10941183B2	Oral peptide inhibitors of interleukin-23 receptor and their use to treat inflammatory bowel diseases Peptide inhibitors of the interleukin-23 receptor, and related compositions and methods of using these peptide inhibitors to treat or prevent a variety of diseases and disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease, are disclosed.
US10941181B2	Immunotherapy against several tumors including neuronal and brain tumors The present invention relates to peptides, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated cytotoxic T cell (CTL) peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. The present invention relates to 30 peptide sequences and their variants derived from HLA class I and class II molecules of human tumor cells that can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses.
US10941176B2	Therapeutic oligonucleotides Methods and compositions are provided for oligonucleotides that bind targets of interest. The targets include cells and microvesicles, such as those derived from various diseases. The oligonucleotides can be used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The target of the oligonucleotides can be a target such as PARP1, HIST1H1B, HIST1H1D, NCL, FBL, SFPQ, RPL12, ACTB, HIST1H4A, SSBP1, NONO, H2AFJ, and DDX21, or a complex, subunit or fragment thereof.
US10941173B2	Rhamnolipid amides for hair scent retention The invention provides derivatives of rhamnolipids, formulations comprising these, and the use thereof.
US10941171B2	Organometallic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10941160B2	Bromodomain inhibitors The present invention relates to substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds, compositions comprising said compounds, and the use of said compounds and compositions for epigenetic regulation by inhibition of bromodomain-mediated recognition of acetyl lysine regions of proteins, such as histones. Said compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of cancer and neoplastic disease.
US10941147B2	Bicyclic heteroaryl derivatives The present invention relates to a compound of formula I, 1-1 or 1-2 wherein R1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkyl substituted by halogen, halogen, lower alkoxy, or lower alkoxy substituted by halogen; R1 may be different if n=2 or 3 n is 1, 2 or 3 Ar is a six membered heteroaryl group, selected from wherein R2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkyl substituted by halogen, halogen or lower alkoxy; R3 is hydrogen or halogen; or to a pharmaceutically active acid addition salt thereof. The compounds may be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, Dutch-type (HCHWA-D), multi-infarct dementia, dementia pugilistica or Down syndrome.
US10941145B2	Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists having a benzotriazole moiety, conjugates thereof, and methods and uses therefor Compounds having a structure according to formula (I) where R1, R2, and R3 are as defined herein, are agonists for the Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and can be used as adjuvants for stimulating the immune system. Some such compounds can be used in conjugates for targeted delivery to the organ or tissue of intended action.
US10941137B2	Difluoromethyl-phenyl triazoles The present invention relates to difluoromethyl-phenyl triazoles of general formula (I) which are modulators of GABAA receptors containing the α5 subunit, useful in treating central nervous system diseases and other diseases. In addition, the invention relates to processes for preparing pharmaceutical compositions as well as processes for manufacture the compounds according to the invention.
US10941134B2	AMPK-activating heterocyclic compounds and methods for using the same Disclosed are substituted pyridine compounds as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. One embodiment is a compound having the structure wherein E, J, T, the ring system denoted by “B”, T, R3, R4, w and x are as described herein. In certain embodiments, a compound disclosed herein activates the AMPK pathway, and can be used to treat metabolism-related disorders and conditions.
US10941122B2	Diaminotriazine derivatives as herbicides The present invention relates to diaminotriazine compounds of the formula (I) and to their use as herbicides. The present invention also relates to agrochemical compositions for crop protection and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation. wherein q is 0, 1, 2 or 3 Ra is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6-haloalkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkylthio, (C1-C6-haloalkyl)sulfinyl, (C1-C6-haloalkyl)-carbonyl, etc.; Rb is selected from the group consisting of halogen, OH, CN, amino, NO2, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, etc.; R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, (C3-C6-cycloalkyl)-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, (C3-C6-cycloalkyl)-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, OH, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, (C1-C6-alkoxy)-C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, etc.; R4 is H, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, C3-C6-halocycloalkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy and C1-C6-haloalkoxy; R5 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C6-alkynyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, etc.; or R4 and R5 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a moiety selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, C3-C6-cycloalkan-1,1-diyl, ipso-C3-C6-cycloalkendiyl, three- to six-membered saturated or partially unsaturated ipso-heterocyclodiyl; including their agriculturally acceptable salts.
US10941108B2	Organic compound and organic electroluminescent element comprising same The present invention relates to an adamantane derivative compound and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) including the same, and more particularly, to an adamantane derivative compound capable of being used in an OLED and an OLED having excellent properties such as low voltage and high efficiency using the compound.
US10941095B2	Hydroxyl compounds and compositions for cholesterol management and related uses The present invention relates to novel hydroxyl compounds, compositions comprising hydroxyl compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing a variety of diseases and conditions such as, but not limited to aging, Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, a disorder of glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, dyslipoproteinemia, hypertension, impotence, inflammation, insulin resistance, lipid elimination in bile, obesity, oxysterol elimination in bile, pancreatitis, pancreatitius, Parkinson's disease, a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder, phospholipid elimination in bile, renal disease, septicemia, metabolic syndrome disorders (e.g., Syndrome X), thrombotic disorder. Compounds and methods of the invention can also be used to modulate C reactive protein or enhance bile production in a patient. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.
US10941094B2	Method for manufacturing calcium diglyceroxide A method for manufacturing calcium diglyceroxide crystals includes at least the following steps: placing at least one calcium element source compound, in particular calcium oxide, in suspension in glycerol or in a homogeneous mixture of glycerol and an anhydrous solvent of glycerol, in particular methanol, referred to as the “starting suspension”, the molar ratio being greater than or equal to 2; milling the starting suspension at an ambient temperature of less than or equal to 50° C. in a three-dimensional liquid-phase ball mill for a holding time of 15 minutes or less; recovering, at the outlet of the mill, a suspension of calcium diglyceroxide crystals, and optionally, washing the obtained suspension with a glycerol solvent in order to eliminate any excess glycerol, optionally, drying the suspension of calcium diglyceroxide crystals so as to obtain a powder of calcium diglyceroxide crystals. Also disclosed are uses associated with the calcium diglyceroxide crystals.
US10941089B2	Processes for producing trifluoroiodomethane using trifluoroacetic acid The present disclosure provides a process for producing trifluoroiodomethane by reacting trifluoroacetic acid, an iodine source, and a metal fluoride in the presence of a metal catalyst to produce trifluoroiodomethane.
US10941087B2	Process and plant for the adiabatic nitration of aromatic compounds The invention relates to a method for preferably adiabatic nitration of nitratable aromatic organic compounds (aromatics) and to a corresponding plant, in particular a production plant (nitration plant) for carrying out said method.
US10941079B2	Applying silicon metal-containing bond layer to ceramic or ceramic matrix composite substrates In some examples, a method may include depositing, from a slurry comprising particles including silicon metal, a bond coat precursor layer including the particles comprising silicon metal directly on a ceramic matrix composite substrate. The method also may include locally heating the bond coat precursor layer to form a bond coat comprising silicon metal. Additionally, the method may include forming a protective coating on the bond coat. In some examples, an article may include a ceramic matrix composite substrate, a bond coat directly on the substrate, and a protective coating on the bond coat. The bond coat may include silicon metal and a metal comprising at least one of Zr, Y, Yb, Hf, Ti, Al, Cr, Mo, Nb, Ta, or a rare earth metal.
US10941071B2	Hybrid soda-lime silicate and aluminosilicate glass articles A glass article is provided having from greater than or equal to about 40 mol % to less than or equal to about 68 mol % SiO2, less than or equal to about 11 mol % Al2O3, an R2O:R′O molar ratio of from greater than or equal to about 1:1 to less than or equal to about 2:1, and an MgO:CaO molar ratio of from greater than or equal to about 0.6:1 to less than or equal to about 1.8:1. The class article may also include a compressive stress layer on at least one surface thereof, the compressive stress layer having a compressive stress that is greater than or equal to about 800 MPa, and a depth that is greater than or equal to about 20 μm.
US10941069B2	Processing a plate-like workpiece having a transparent, glass, glass-like, ceramic and/or crystalline layer A plate-like workpiece having a transparent, glass, glass-like, ceramic and/or crystalline layer, such as for use in an electronic display screen, is processed into separate segments by first incompletely severing the workpiece along outer contours of bounded segments, by forming holes through the layer with a laser beam, leaving the segments interconnected at narrow connections, and then separating the segments by severing the web-like connections.
US10941061B1	Therapeutic frequency imprinting device A therapeutic frequency imprinting device is used to determine a therapeutic frequency from a biological specimen known to cause an ailment in a patient, and subsequently imprint the therapeutic frequency into a carrier agent for treatment of the ailment. The specimen is placed into an in-well, which is electrically connected to a potentiometer. The resistance of the potentiometer is adjusted in order to modulate the magnetic vector potential component of the magnetic field radiated by a conductive coil connected between the potentiometer and an out-well in which a carrier substance is placed to be imprinted with the therapeutic frequency.
US10941059B2	Water disinfection body for use in a water reservoir The present invention relates to an electrolysis body suitable for water disinfection for use in a water reservoir having a definite internal volume comprising a) a pair of electrodes made of a conductive material suitable for providing electrolysis, b) means for applying current to the electrodes, c) an insert unit having a first side and a second side opposite each other, wherein the first side faces out of the water reservoir when the insert unit is placed in position in the water reservoir in use for water disinfection and the second side faces into the volume of the water reservoir when placed in position in the water reservoir in use for water disinfection, and d) optionally a filter unit extending from the second side of the insert unit. The present invention also concerns a water reservoir comprising the body, as well as a washing system comprising the water reservoir.
US10941058B2	Electrocoagulation system and method using plasma discharge An apparatus, system and method for clarifying wastewater using electrocoagulation with plasma discharge is provided. The apparatus includes a reactor with a hollow interior accommodating a volume of wastewater for treatment, and electrodes contacting or at least partially submerged in the wastewater. Electrical energy is supplied to the electrodes, such as three-phase AC power, of sufficient levels to generate plasma discharge from the electrodes and within the wastewater. Electrocoagulation occurs concurrent with the plasma discharge. A system including at least one reactor is a flow-through system, and may have a recirculation loop for recirculating wastewater for additional passes of treatment. A pump(s) and series of valves control the movement of wastewater through the system, and a control panel may be included to direct the operation of various components of the system. The control panel may also include a user interface for information display, input by an operator, and automation.
US10941057B2	Highly tunable fluorescent core-shell particles for environmental release simulation and tracking applications A particle for emulating pollutant tracking in water has a florescent core. A semitransparent shell is formed around the florescent core.
US10941037B2	Structure and methodology for detecting defects during MEMS device production A wafer includes a process control monitor (PCM) structure formed on a substrate. The PCM structure includes detection and reference structures. The detection structure includes a first electrically conductive line arrangement formed in a first structural layer on the substrate and a first protection layer surrounding the first electrically conductive line arrangement. The reference structure includes a second electrically conductive line arrangement formed in the first structural layer on the substrate, a second protection layer surrounding the second electrically conductive line arrangement, an insulator material formed overlying the second electrically conductive line arrangement and the second protection layer, and a second structural layer overlying the insulator material. The insulator material does not overlie the detection structure. Methodology entails measuring a capacitance between the detection structure and the substrate, measuring another capacitance between the reference structure and substrate, and comparing the two capacitances to determine whether defects exist.
US10941034B1	Particle filter for MEMS device Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microphone including a particle filter disposed between a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) substrate and a carrier substrate. A MEMS device structure overlies the MEMS substrate. The MEMS device structure includes a diaphragm having opposing sidewalls that define a diaphragm opening. The carrier substrate underlies the MEMS substrate. The carrier substrate has opposing sidewalls that define a carrier substrate opening underlying the diaphragm opening. A filter stack is sandwiched between the carrier substrate and the MEMS substrate. The filter stack includes an upper dielectric layer, a lower dielectric layer, and a particle filter layer disposed between the upper and lower dielectric layers. The particle filter layer includes the particle filter spaced laterally between the opposing sidewalls of the carrier substrate.
US10941033B2	3D stack configuration for 6-axis motion sensor A method includes fusion bonding a first side of a MEMS wafer to a second side of a first handle wafer. A TSV is formed from a first side of the first handle wafer to the second side of the first handle wafer and into the first MEMS wafer. A dielectric layer is formed on the first side of the first handle wafer. A tungsten via is formed in the dielectric layer. Electrodes are formed on the dielectric layer. A second MEMS wafer is eutecticly bonded with a first eutectic bond to the electrodes, wherein the TSV electrically connects the first MEMS wafer to the second MEMS wafer. Standoffs are formed on a second side of the first MEMS wafer. A CMOS wafer is eutecticly bonded with a second eutectic bond to the standoffs, wherein the second eutectic bond includes different materials than the first eutectic bond.
US10941027B2	Lifting device for an industrial truck as well as an industrial truck of this type A lifting device for an industrial truck comprises a lift frame with a moveably guided load carrier and at least one moveably guided mast stage. A free lift cylinder is configured to actuate the load carrier and at least one mast lift cylinder is configured to actuate the at least one mast stage. A hydraulic assembly supplies the free lift cylinder and the at least one mast lift cylinder with hydraulic fluid and further comprises at least one delivery valve and at least one recirculating valve.
US10941023B2	Wave-induced motion compensating crane for use on an offshore vessel, vessel and load transferring method A wave-induced motion compensation crane and corresponding vessel and method are disclosed. The crane includes a motion compensation device at a tip end portion of the boom structure to compensate for X-Y wave-induced motion and a heave compensation device for Z-motion. The motion compensation device includes a moveable jib beam that extends in a substantially horizontal direction. The jib beam is slewable about a substantially vertical slew axis and translatable in a longitudinal direction of the jib beam. Preferably, the jib beam can be levelled based on the angular orientation of the boom structure.
US10941017B2	Cash box and banknote processing device using same Disclosed are a cash box and a banknote processing device using the same. The cash box includes: a guiding plate, configured to guide a banknote to enter a banknote storage chamber; a pickup roller, configured to output the banknote; and a sensor, configured to detect a position of the guiding plate and a position of the pickup roller. When the guiding plate is in a banknote feeding position or the pickup roller is in a banknote pickup position, the sensor outputs a first signal. When the guiding plate deviates from the banknote feeding position and the pickup roller deviates from the banknote pickup position, the sensor outputs a second signal, wherein the first signal is different from the second signal.
US10941014B2	Plastic cap for a cable spool A cap to be used with a plastic cable spool, said cap including a back side adapted to be arranged towards a barrel of a plastic cable spool and a front side adapted to be directed away from a barrel of a plastic cable spool, wherein said cap has a through-hole adapted to be aligned with a center axis of a cable spool, wherein said through-hole is at least partly surrounded by an inner wall on the back side of said cap, wherein said cap is provided with an outer wall extending around at least a part of said outer circumference of said cap, on the back side of said cap, and wherein said back side of said cap is provided with at least four reinforcement ribs extending between said outer wall and said inner wall. A cable spool being provided with such a cap.
US10941010B2	Hot liquid container lid-insert combination An insert construction or formation is attachable to a basic lid construction for outfitting a hot beverage or liquid container assembly for enabling a user to enhance heat transfer from a relatively hot assembly-contained beverage or liquid prior to consumption. The insert construction or formation provides a damming structure located in adjacency to the primary liquid outlet of the basic lid construction for selectively transferring liquid intermediate a liquid-containing compartment and at least one beverage-cooling channel made part of the damming structure. Each beverage-cooling channel or formation directs liquid therethrough and transfers heat therefrom before the liquid exits the primary liquid outlet. The primary dam structure or insert construction thereby enables the user to redirect liquid movement via the basic lid construction for delaying liquid delivery via the primary beverage outlet and transferring heat therefrom prior to liquid consumption. Certain packaging methodology of the complex lid construction is further contemplated.
US10941006B2	Vertical diverter for a conveyor system The invention relates to a vertical diverter for a conveyor system having a lower conveyor track and an upper conveyor track, wherein the vertical diverter is provided and designed for vertically connecting the two conveyor tracks, and the vertical diverter has a lower diverter track and an upper diverter track. The vertical diverter is characterized in that the lower diverter track is shorter than the upper diverter track, that the lower diverter track is provided and designed to be lowered at least at one end in order to make room for the connection of the end of the upper diverter track to be lowered, and that the upper diverter track is provided and designed to be lowered at least at one end, and that the lowered end of the upper diverter track rests where the unlowered end of the lower diverter track previously rested.
US10940999B2	Storage systems and methods for robotic picking A mobile manipulator robot for retrieving inventory items from a storage system. The robot includes a body, a wheel assembly, a sensor to locate a position of the robot within the storage system, an interface configured to send processor readable data to a remote processor and to an operator interface, and receive processor executable instructions from the remote processor and from the operator interface, an imaging device to capture images of the inventory items, a picking manipulator, first and second pneumatic gripping elements for grasping the inventory items, and a coupler configured to mate with a valve to access a pneumatic supply for operating at least one of the first or second pneumatic gripping elements. The robot is configured to transition the valve from a closed condition to an open condition and selectively place one of the first or the second pneumatic gripping elements in communication with the pneumatic supply.
US10940992B2	Plant transportation apparatus A plant transportation apparatus enables the shipment of multiple plants such as flowers in a single container. The plants are held in place by a cap. It is contemplated that the apparatus could move small or large quantities of plants.
US10940987B2	Insulated carry bag The present disclosure relates to a carry bag, the carry bag includes a body having sidewalls and at least one handle disposed on the body. The body is hollow and dimensioned to receive one or more objects that are to be kept either cooler or warmer than the ambient temperature surrounding the body. The sidewalls of the body are constructed from an outer layer that corresponds to an exterior side wall of the body, a heat reflective layer that corresponds with an interior side wall of the body, and an insulative and pliable foam filling disposed between the outer layer and the heat reflective layer. The at least one handle is adapted to swing out of the way when not in use, so that the opening of the bag is unobstructed, thereby allowing the easy placement or removal of items to/from the bag.
US10940986B2	Biodegradable container or capsule The invention concerns a biodegradable container (1) for single dose or multi-dose administration of beverages by injecting a fluid solution, under pressure through a preparation, said biodegradable container (1) comprising: a body (2) having a base (21), a side wall (22) and an opening (23) opposite to said base (21), said body (2) forming a chamber for containing said preparation; and an upper part (3) coupled to said body (2) in such a way as to obstruct said opening (23) and prevent the escape of said preparation, said biodegradable container (1) being characterized by comprising reinforcement means (4) associated with said side wall (22), and configured to oppose resistance to pressure acting on said biodegradable container (1) during the injection of said fluid solution under pressure.
US10940980B1	Disposable cup lid A two-part disposable, stackable and recloseable lid for a container holding a beverage. The lid has a dome configuration for higher volume beverages. The lid has a drinking aperture and an a moveable arm with a plug to seal the drinking aperture. The lid has a recess for storing the plug end of the arm when the drinking aperture is being used.
US10940975B2	Display container having deformable removable panel A display ready container having an outer front wall panel and an inner front wall panel. The outer front wall panel has a display opening formed therein and a display edge defining at least a portion of the display opening. The inner front wall panel has a removable inner cover section disposed against the front wall panel to cover at least a portion of the display opening, and overlapping at least a portion of the display edge. An area of weakness is formed in the removable inner cover section that is configured to deform when pulled outwardly to decrease in at least one of the width and height dimensions in a desired manner to effect removal of the removable inner cover section.
US10940970B2	Packaging kit and packaging set A packaging kit is composed of a sheet member. A target object to be packaged is to be placed on the sheet member. The sheet member includes a placement surface, a standing side, and a tongue piece. The placement surface allows the target object to be placed thereon. The standing side is elongated from the placement surface. The standing side is raised relative to the placement surface. The tongue piece includes a protrusion edge. The placement surface and the standing side are provided with the tongue piece. The tongue piece is located on a side of at least one side edge of the standing side.
US10940969B2	Band saw blade spooling machine and method of using it A band spooling machine (1) including a small arbor (19) with protrusions (21) that rotate with the arbor. In an embodiment, the machine includes a table (3) having side rails (7) and a single rotating arbor (19) carrying two spaced-apart pins (21) having blocks (23) that rotate freely on the pins. The arbor is preferably mounted close to one end of the machine and substantially closer to one of the side rails than to the other. The blocks prevent the blade from kinking. The machine forms the band into a pretzel having a circle part (C) divided by a central reach (R) into two lobes, and a teardrop shaped tail (T).
US10940965B2	Device and method for assembling items for shipment A device and a method for assembling items for shipment are described, that facilitate positioning the assembled items, e.g., in a pre-folded cardboard box having at least an open top and an open side or on a conveyor transporting the items. The device may include; a bottom panel, two side panels, a first and a second end panel, wherein the bottom panel is substantially orthogonal to the side panels and the end panels, wherein the first end panel is arranged on the device to be movable with respect to the bottom panel, the first end panel being movable in a direction substantially orthogonal to the bottom panel and wherein the second end panel is arranged on the device to be movable towards and away from the first end panel in a direction substantially parallel to the bottom panel.
US10940962B2	Device for producing a tubular container A device is provided for producing a tubular container which is able to be filled with granular, pulverulent, pourable and flowable materials, wherein the container can include webs manufactured from geotextile material. The device includes a displaceable frame with at least one unwindable geotextile web, wherein the frame includes a filling trough with an outlet hopper for the material, and wherein the filling trough has a conveying device for the filled material, the conveying device acting counter to the direction of movement of the frame, which, at the rear end of the filling trough, surrounds the material in an enveloping manner, in the region of the outlet hopper, by the unwindable geotextile web, as the frame is advanced, so as to form a tube.
US10940961B2	Small satellite propulsion system A small satellite propulsion system using a gaseous oxidizer and a gaseous fuel as primary propellants with a liquid as a film coolant for the inner surface of the rocket motor. The gaseous fuel is also used as a pressurant for the coolant and as a cold gas propellant for attitude control system (hereinafter “ACS”) thrusters. The oxidizer, fuel, and coolant tanks, as well as most valves and plumbing, are integrated into a single core unit along with the rocket motor, rocket motor plumbing, and safety valves. Attitude control thrusters may be remotely located with plumbing to the fuel tank. The core unit is four inches high and less than four inches deep and wide. The small satellite propulsion system uses no pyrotechnics and no hazardous toxic materials.
US10940959B2	Configurable distributed health monitoring system for a landing system Provided are embodiments for techniques for monitoring components of a system, where the techniques include determining an operational status of one or more processing modules, wherein the one or more processing modules comprise one or more local memories, and configuring the one or more local memories with threshold values for configuration parameters for one or more components. The techniques also include sensing sensor data for the one or more components, determining the health status of the one or more components by comparing sensor data for the configuration parameters to the threshold values for the configuration parameters, and transmitting the sensor data and the health status of the one or more components to a central server for storing the sensor data and the health status.
US10940956B2	Suspension system for an aircraft auxiliary power unit A suspension system for an aircraft auxiliary power unit (1) located in a fuselage structure (2) including: auxiliary power unit attachment brackets (3) arranged to be attached to the auxiliary power unit (1); fuselage attachment brackets (4) attached to the auxiliary power unit attachment brackets (3) and coupled to the fuselage structure (2); two longitudinal elements (5) arranged to be attached to the fuselage structure (2) in the longitudinal direction of the aircraft for supporting the auxiliary power unit (1), the two longitudinal elements (5) and the plurality of fuselage attachment brackets (4) being connected such that the two longitudinal elements (5) support the plurality of fuselage attachment brackets (4), being the fuselage attachment brackets (4) slidably movable along the longitudinal elements (5) for introducing or extracting the auxiliary power unit (1) into the fuselage structure (2).
US10940952B2	Apparatus and method of monitoring for in-flight aircraft engine ice crystal accretion A method of monitoring for the in-flight accretion of matter involves an electric field sensor applying a time-varying electric field to an engine surface of an aircraft while the aircraft is in flight. The electric field sensor is thermally-coupled and thermally-matched to the engine surface. A sensor monitor receives, in substantially real-time from the electric field sensor, at least one measurement set that includes a measurement of a phase and a magnitude of a current detected by the electric field sensor and resulting from the time-varying electric field. The sensor monitor generates an assessment, in substantially real-time, of an instantaneous accumulation of matter on the engine surface from the at least one measurement set. The sensor monitor activates an alarm upon the assessment indicating an accumulation of matter on the engine surface.
US10940951B2	Environmental control system utilizing multiple mix points for recirculation air in accordance with pressure mode and motor assist A system is provided. The system includes an inlet providing a first medium; an inlet providing a second medium; a compressing device including a compressor and a turbine; a motor operating on an input power that is less than or equal to 0.5 kilowatts per pound per minute of the first medium compressed; and at least one heat exchanger located downstream of the compressor. The compressing device is in communication with the inlet providing the first medium. The turbine is downstream of the compressor. An outlet of the at least one heat exchanger is in fluid communication with an inlet of the compressor and an inlet of the turbine.
US10940950B2	Lounge chair for aircraft An aircraft cabin comprising a credenza and a lounge chair disposed above the credenza is disclosed. The lounge chair is adjustable between a first configuration defining a first seating arrangement and a second configuration defining a second seating arrangement. Also disclosed is a mechanism to facilitate the adjustment of the lounge chair.
US10940946B2	System for disposing waste products in a means of transportation A system for disposing waste in a transportation system includes a collection device for collecting waste in the cabin of the transportation system, a separate receptacle device for receiving collected waste from the collection device, and a connection device for selectively connecting the collection device to the receptacle device in order to deliver collected waste from the collection device into the receptacle device. The receptacle device is arranged in a lower deck region underneath the cabin floor. The connection device extends into the receptacle device from the cabin floor and includes a closure that is arranged on or in the cabin floor. The collection device is mechanically couplable to the connection device, and includes a closable output opening aligned with the closure of the connection device in the coupled state. The closure and/or the output opening can only be opened when the collection device is coupled to the receptacle device.
US10940945B2	Rotorcraft anti-torque system There is provided a rotorcraft, including a body, including a front portion and a tail portion; a main rotor system coupled to the front portion of the body, the main rotor system operable to provide a lifting force on the body; and an anti-torque system coupled to the tail portion of the body, the anti-torque system including a primary tail rotor system and a secondary tail rotor system; wherein the primary tail rotor system and the secondary tail rotor system are operable to provide a first anti-torque force and a second anti-torque force. In other aspects, there are methods of providing anti-torque force in a rotorcraft.
US10940937B2	Aircraft reinforcing structure An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.
US10940936B2	Stringer with plank ply and skin construction for aircraft A composite assembly includes a composite skin which includes a plurality of composite plies and a composite stringer secured to the composite skin. A first composite plank ply is positioned between a first pair of composite plies of the plurality of composite plies of the composite skin; the first composite plank ply has a width dimension less than a width dimension of the plurality of composite plies of the composite skin; and the first composite plank ply extends along a length of the composite stringer. At least a portion of the composite stringer is positioned in overlying relationship with the first composite plank ply.
US10940925B2	Automated dock positioning system A computer controlled robotic system that autonomously adjusts the location of a floating marine dock whenever water levels change in a body of water (e.g., a lake or reservoir) to maintain sufficient draft clearance for safe boat operation and ensure safe access to the dock. The system is comprised of an electric motor-driven tractor device attached to the shore-end of a walkway and a pair of electric-motor driven cable winch assemblies with a distributed control system to move the floating dock toward or away from the shore to maintain a relative desired water depth for safe boat operation and positioning in relation to the moving edge of the water shoreline. The tractor and winch motions are controlled by a combination of on-board (dockside) microprocessor and web-based computing that utilizes software to process location telemetry from distance measuring sensors such as Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors, Global Positioning System (GPS) data, and a compass bearing to calculate the incremental actuations of the tractor and winch motors. FIG. 1 depicts the system's main elements installed on a marine dock floating near the water's edge (shoreline).
US10940916B2	Bicycle rear sprocket, bicycle rear sprocket assembly, and bicycle drive train A bicycle rear sprocket comprises a sprocket body and a plurality of sprocket teeth. The plurality of sprocket teeth includes a plurality of first teeth. Each tooth of the plurality of first teeth has a driving surface and a non-driving surface provided on a reverse side of the driving surface in a circumferential direction with respect to the rotational center axis. Each tooth of the plurality of first teeth has an axial maximum tooth-width and an axial driving-surface tooth-width. The axial maximum tooth-width is defined in an axial direction of the rotational center axis as a maximum width in each tooth of the plurality of first teeth. The axial driving-surface tooth-width is smaller than the axial maximum tooth-width. The plurality of first teeth accounts for at least 25% of the plurality of sprocket teeth.
US10940912B1	Bicycle trailers Implementations of bicycle trailers may include a first end and a second end, the second end opposite the first end, a first plurality of latches coupled to the first end, and a second plurality of latches coupled to the second end. The first plurality of latches may be configured to secure a rear-facing child's car seat facing the first end. The second plurality of latches may be configured to secure the rear-facing child's car seat facing the second end. The second plurality of latches may be configured to secure a front-facing child's car seat facing the first end.
US10940905B2	Bicycle saddle with through-hole handle A seat for a bicycle comprising: a seating surface having a longitudinal length, a longitudinally forward portion, a longitudinally rearward portion, and a lateral width between a first lateral end and a second lateral end laterally opposed to the first lateral end; an underside surface below the seating surface; an opening extending through the seating surface and the underside surface; where the opening has an opening length between a longitudinally forward periphery and a longitudinally rearward periphery and an opening width between a first lateral periphery and a second lateral periphery laterally opposed to the first lateral periphery; where the seating surface includes a bridge portion longitudinally located between the opening and the rearward portion of the seating surface; and where the opening has a lateral width greater than its longitudinal length.
US10940904B2	Assembly apparatus An assembly apparatus is constituted to include positioning mechanisms for aligning the positions of side panels and a roof panel. For example, a front positioning mechanism includes a first base portion disposed on a first distal end arm of a front side robot, roof positioning members and side panel positioning members supported displaceably by the first base portion, a right front beam member and a left front beam member extending along a vehicle widthwise direction from the first base portion, a first left marking member and a first right marking member disposed at respective distal ends of the beam members, and a left visual sensor and a right visual sensor for detecting positions of each of the first left marking member and the first right marking member.
US10940903B2	Modular military vehicle A modular military vehicle and a method for using a modular military vehicle is disclosed. The modular military vehicle can comprise a vehicle hull; a crew module removably mounted to the vehicle hull; a plurality of wheels mounted to the vehicle hull, the plurality of wheels comprising at least one driven wheel; and an electric drive system configured to drive the at least one driven wheel.
US10940901B2	Tractor A tractor in which various main manipulation parts are arranged on the right side of a driver, to allow the manipulation parts and a steering wheel to be reliably grasped with different hands, thus improving workability for the driver; and the various main manipulation parts are arranged within a semi-arc range over which a right arm of the driver turns about his/her right elbow which rests on an arm rest, thus improving workability for the driver and relieving driver fatigue. The tractor includes an operation unit in which a loader manipulation part and a hydraulic manipulation part are arranged near a driver seat disposed at the rear of a steering wheel, the loader manipulation part and the hydraulic manipulation part being arranged within a semi-arc range over which a right arm of a driver turns about his/her right elbow which rests on a right arm rest of the driver seat.
US10940900B2	Aerodynamic recapture method and apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for reducing drag. An exemplary apparatus includes a semitrailer having a main frame extending along a longitudinal axis and a subframe movably connected to the main frame between a first position along the longitudinal axis and a second position along the longitudinal axis. The apparatus further includes an axle assembly attached to the subframe, the axle assembly including an axle, a left wheel set, a right wheel set, and a suspension, and a first recapture device located under the main frame behind and separated from the left wheel set along the longitudinal axis by a given spacing. The apparatus still further includes a second recapture device located under the main frame behind and separated from the right wheel set along the longitudinal axis by a second spacing.
US10940898B2	Vehicle composite member, vehicle, vehicle manufacturing method, and mixed flow production method A vehicle composite member to be joined at a perimeter section to a ferrous vehicle body member is provided. The vehicle composite member includes a lightweight panel that is formed of a lightweight material having a lighter specific weight than iron, and a ferrous perimeter member that has been integrated with the lightweight panel. The perimeter section is configured by the ferrous perimeter member.
US10940894B2	Self-supporting carrier structure for an instrument panel in a vehicle, instrument panel comprising such a carrier structure and vehicle with such an instrument panel The present invention relates to a self-supporting carrier structure for an instrument panel in a vehicle, comprising a network of a plurality of hollow support elements and solid support elements arranged according to the results of a load path analysis, wherein the hollow support elements form at least one manifold used as an air duct comprising at least one air inlet for introducing air into the hollow support elements and at least one air outlet for guiding the air into a passenger compartment of a vehicle. Furthermore, the invention is directed to an instrument panel comprising such a carrier structure and is directed to a vehicle equipped with such an instrument panel.
US10940890B2	Rear vehicle-body structure A recessed portion is formed at a frame member provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body and having a closed cross section extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction, wherein the recessed portion is configured such that a lower face of the frame member is recessed upwardly and a damper is inserted into and fixed to the recessed portion. Closed cross sections are formed inside the frame member at a position corresponding to the recessed portion. These closed cross sections are configured to branch off from the closed cross section outwardly and inwardly relative to the damper. A reinforcing member is fixed to the frame member and a wheel house inner at the position corresponding to the recessed portion such that a space is formed at a corner portion of these.
US10940889B2	System for a towing vehicle The present invention relates to a vehicle control system (1) for controlling a trailer (5) coupled to a vehicle (3) during a reversing operation. The vehicle control system includes a processor (29) configured to determine an actual trailer travel direction (TACT) based on one or more sensor signals. The processor (29) receives a demanded trailer travel direction (TDEM), for example from a user. A maximum permissible hitch angle (ϕMAX) is calculated by the processor (29) and the demanded trailer travel direction (TDEM) is limited to an angle less than or equal to the calculated maximum permissible hitch angle (ϕMAX). The present invention also relates to a vehicle (3) incorporating the vehicle control system (1); and a method of controlling the reversing of the trailer (5).
US10940885B2	Steering knuckle of vehicle turning wheel, steering device and vehicle A steering knuckle of a vehicle turning wheel, a steering device and a vehicle. The steering knuckle includes a steering end connected to a turning wheel and a driving end connected to a steering driving component of the turning wheel, in which the driving end is located above or below the side of the steering end; the steering end is provided with a first connecting hole, and the driving end is provided with a second connecting hole; the axis of the second connecting hole and the axis of the first connecting hole are in the same plane, and the axis of the second connecting hole is not parallel to the axis of the first connecting hole.
US10940881B2	Steering device Reinforcing ribs (33a and 33b) are provided between mounting plate parts (30a and 30b) and support plate parts (31a and 31b) forming a support bracket (18a). Side plate parts (40a and 40b) forming a distance bracket (17a) are disposed between the support plate parts (31a and 31b), and an outer column (13a). When an adjustment lever (26a) is operated to hold a steering wheel at a position after adjustment, a steering column (6a) is pushed toward an upper side by column pressing parts (42a and 42b) provided at the side plate parts (40a and 40b), and, therefore, a pair of widened parts (43a and 43b) provided at upper parts of the side plate parts (40a and 40b) are pushed and expanded to the outside in a width direction. The widened parts (43a and 43b) are sandwiched between the support plate parts (31a and 31b) and the outer column (13a).
US10940878B2	Article transport facility An article transport facility includes one or more rails which include one or more portions in which a travel path is curved, and an article transport vehicle configured to travel along the one or more rails to transport an article. The article transport vehicle includes a guided portion configured to be in contact with the one or more rails to be guided thereby, an obstacle detection sensor configured to detect an obstacle in a detection area which is set to be located ahead of the article transport vehicle, and a setting portion configured to changeably set the detection area. The setting portion is configured to change the detection area depending on an in-contact-rail shape which is a shape of one or more portions of the one or more rails that the guided portion is in contact with.
US10940876B2	Route examination system A route examination system determines a characteristic of a vehicle system traveling over a segment of a route under inspection, a characteristic of the route, and/or a characteristic of movement of the vehicle system over the segment of the route. The system also detects acoustic sounds generated by movement of the vehicle system over the segment of the route. The system selects a baseline signature representative of acoustic sounds generated by movement of the vehicle system or another vehicle system over a healthy segment of the route, and determines that the segment of the route under inspection is damaged based on a comparison between the baseline signature and the acoustic sounds generated by the movement of the vehicle system over the segment of the route under inspection.
US10940872B2	Transducer system providing tactile sensations A system providing tactile sensations. The system comprises a seat back of a seat, the seat back having a left side and a right side separated by a center-line of the seat back. A first plurality of electroactive transducers are arranged along the center-line of the seat back and provide tactile sound to a user. A second plurality of electroactive transducers in the seat back provide tactile alerts or feedback. The second plurality of electroactive alert transducers comprise a left-side electroactive transducer at the left side of the seat back and right-side electroactive transducer at the right side of the seat back.
US10940866B1	Autonomous vehicle operating status assessment Methods and systems for monitoring use, determining risk, and pricing insurance policies for a vehicle having one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, a computer-implemented method for real-time determination of the status of autonomous operation features of an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be provided. With the customer's permission, the operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be monitored to obtain operating data from one or more autonomous operation features. An operating status of the autonomous features may be determined based upon the operating data. After which, a change in the operating status of the autonomous features may be identified, and a report containing information regarding the change in the operating status of the autonomous features may be generated. Insurance discounts may be provided to risk averse customers that maintain their autonomous vehicles, and associated accident avoidance functionality, in good working condition.
US10940854B2	Systems and methods for reducing vehicle evaporative emissions Methods and systems are provided for reducing bleed emissions and exhaust emissions from a vehicle that may be operated autonomously as well as part of a car-sharing model. A parking location of the vehicle is selected at the end of a vehicle event requested by an operator as a function of fuel system and evaporative emissions system variables such that the solar loading of the parking location enables reduced emissions. The parking location selection is further coordinated with the pick-up time and location of a subsequent vehicle event requested by another vehicle operator.
US10940852B2	Method and system for enhanced yaw response for a vehicle A method and a system for controlling wheel torques of a vehicle (201) to provide a desired vehicle yaw torque during a cornering event. A set of indirect yaw torque parameters (a,k) indicative of the indirect vehicle yaw torque contribution from lateral wheel forces are determined based on the present wheel torque data (PtTq) and the lateral acceleration data (LatAcc) and a model. A required torque for the front axis wheels (202, 204) and a required torque for the rear axis wheels (206, 208) are calculated such that the desired longitudinal wheel torque and the target vehicle yaw (MzReq) provided, taking into account the set of indirect yaw torque parameters. The calculated torques are applied to the respective individual wheels.
US10940850B2	Energy conservation systems and methods Methods and systems are described for conserving energy used by an energy consuming device. In certain embodiments, an energy conservation system can be configured to deliver energy to the energy consuming device for a period, followed by a period where energy delivery is dampened and/or cut. By cycling the delivery of energy in this fashion, the energy conservation can achieve a pulsed efficiency.
US10940846B2	Electromechanical brake assist system An electromechanical brake assist system driven by an electric motor cooperating with a master cylinder and having, along the axis of actuation, a helper piston in the shape of an axial sleeve solidly connected with a guide bracket and having a threaded surface. A nut, fixed in translation but free to rotate, has interior threads that complement those of the helper piston, which it receives, and exterior teeth that cooperate with the drive motor. A plunger piston carries a drive base so it can be pushed by the piston. Its other extremity is connected to the control rod, formed from a body and a head. The body has a crimping area and the head has a sleeve with an extremity that can be crimped along the crimping area.
US10940845B2	Hybrid brake-by-wire system using a motor-magnetostrictive actuator combination The present invention discloses a motor-magnetostrictive actuator hybrid brake-by-wire system. The system includes a motor, a transmission mechanism, a magnetostrictive-driving piston mechanism and a floating-caliper disc mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a planetary gear set and a screw set, and is driven by the motor. The linear motion of the sleeve is achieved by the planetary gear set and screw set. The sleeve pushes forward the piston head of the magnetostrictive-driving piston mechanism and the piston head pushes forward the brake pad back plate of the floating-caliper disc mechanism to clamp the brake disc, which accomplishes braking. The present invention uses the motor and the magnetostrictive-driving piston mechanism as a combined BBW system, which will simultaneously solve the problems of slow response, low precision and motor stalling effect of the only motor-driving braking systems and, also avoid the drawback of insufficient mechanical capabilities of the only magnetostrictive actuator-driving braking systems.
US10940843B2	Vehicle brake system having plunger power source A brake system includes first and second wheel brakes, a reservoir, and a brake pedal unit having a housing and a pair of output pistons slidably disposed in the housing. The output pistons generate brake actuating pressure during a manual push-through mode for actuating the first and second wheel brakes. The system further includes a plunger assembly having a housing having first and second ports, a motor driving an actuator, and a piston connected to the actuator. The piston pressurizes a first chamber when the piston is moving in a first direction to provide fluid flow out of the first port. The piston pressurizes a second chamber when the piston is moving in a second direction opposite the first direction to provide fluid flow out of the second port. The first and second ports are selectively in fluid communication with the wheel brakes.
US10940840B2	Actuating system for a vehicle brake and method of operating the actuating system The disclosure relates to an actuating system for a vehicle brake, with an actuating arrangement, in particular a brake pedal, at least one (first) piston-cylinder unit, which is connected via a hydraulic line to the vehicle brake (braking circuit) in order to supply the braking circuit with pressure medium and apply pressure to the vehicle brake, and with a drive for the piston-cylinder unit. Pressure medium can be fed to the braking circuit in controlled manner in both piston movement directions, in particular the advance stroke and the return stroke, by means of at least one, in particular stepped, piston of the piston-cylinder unit.
US10940835B2	Devices and systems for preventing misalignment in vehicle brake assemblies A vehicle brake assembly includes an actuation lever coupled to a brake pedal. The brake assembly also includes a push rod of a brake booster. The push rod has a clevis on an end portion thereof. The clevis comprises two prongs. The brake assembly further includes an alignment device seated on each respective prong of the clevis. The alignment devices are configured to collectively guide and position the clevis into alignment with the actuation lever during construction of the brake assembly.
US10940830B2	Upgrade kit for an ignition key and methods One variation of an upgrade kit—for an ignition key corresponding to a vehicle and including an immobilizer transponder and a keyless entry transmitter—includes: a wireless jammer configured to interfere with wireless transmission from the immobilizer transponder; a wireless receiver configured to receive an unlock request from an external device; a relay configured to actuate the keyless entry transmitter to unlock a door of the vehicle in response to the unlock request; and an enclosure configured to contain the wireless receiver and a portion of the ignition key.
US10940828B2	Detection and monitoring of occupant seat belt In one embodiment, a system of detecting seat belt operation in a vehicle includes at least one light source configured to emit a predetermined wavelength of light onto structures within the vehicle, wherein at least one of the structures is a passenger seat belt assembly having a pattern that reflects the predetermined wavelength at a preferred luminance. At least one 3-D time of flight camera is positioned in the vehicle to receive reflected light from the structures in the vehicle and provide images of the structures that distinguish the preferred luminance of the pattern from other structures in the vehicle. A computer processor connected to computer memory and the camera includes computer readable instructions causing the processor to reconstruct 3-D information in regard to respective images of the structures and calculate a depth measurement of the distance of the reflective pattern on the passenger seat belt assembly from the camera.
US10940826B2	Passenger airbag inflator and system for vehicle A passenger airbag inflator for a vehicle includes: a housing having a first gunpowder therein, including a vent hole, and communicating with an airbag cushion; a first chamber located in a first side inner space of the housing, having a first booster and a first igniter, and configured to be triggered forwardly when the first igniter is ignited; and a second chamber located in a second side inner space of the housing, having a second booster and a second gunpowder, including a second igniter, and configured to be triggered forwardly when the second igniter is ignited.
US10940825B2	Coated base fabric for airbag and method for manufacturing same The present invention relates to a coated fabric for airbags for use in automobiles, and provides a coated fabric that has eliminated or reduced coating agent dots, which are not solved in traditional techniques, and that has a smaller difference in physical properties in tear strength in the width direction of the fabric. The coated fabric for airbags that exhibit excellent fabric properties and appearance such that there is little variation in physical properties in the width direction of the fabric, and such that there are fewer coating agent dots can be provided by a production method characterized by the use of a knife-on-air technique as a resin coating method, the use of a knife whose front and rear part are differently shaped, and the running angle of the fabric when the knife is pressed on the fabric being 3 to 15′.
US10940821B2	Airbag device An airbag includes a bag body, an exhaust portion which has an exhaust hole, and a connecting member which is connected to the exhaust portion by the root portion inside the bag body. The bag body includes a main inflatable portion that includes a first and a second side walls which are opposed in a left and right direction at airbag deployment, and a protruding inflatable portion that protrudes partially rearward from a first end region in the left and right direction of an upper region of a rear portion of the main inflatable portion as deployed. The exhaust portion is formed in the first side wall of the main inflatable portion on a side the protruding inflatable portion is disposed, and is positioned farther downward than an apex of the protruding inflatable portion, as viewed from a side of the airbag as deployed.
US10940819B2	Method and device for detection of the displacement position of a motor vehicle seat A method for detecting the displacement position of a vehicle seat is described. When the vehicle seat is being displaced, a magnetic field-sensitive sensor device monitors a change of one magnetic field component and depending on the output signal which has been generated by the sensor device, a conclusion is drawn about the adjustment position of the vehicle seat. The magnetic field-sensitive sensor device is displaced relative to a measuring section using the magnetic field-sensitive device. An absolute value of the magnetic field strength of a magnetic field whose magnetic field strength changes essentially continuously along a longitudinal extension of the measuring section is detected and converted into an absolute displacement position of the vehicle seat.
US10940802B2	Vehicle display apparatus and mounting configuration A display apparatus for a vehicle comprises a display module comprising a display forming a display surface forming a perimeter. A heat sink is in connection with the display module and disposed behind the display module relative to the display surface. A carrier bracket is disposed in connection with the heat sink. A plurality of display mounting brackets is in connection with the carrier bracket. The display mounting brackets are in connection with the carrier bracket outboard of a center line extending vertically along the carrier bracket.
US10940800B2	Display system, electronic mirror system, and moving vehicle A display system according to the present disclosure includes at least a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface on an optical path leading from a display device to a last reflective surface. The first reflective surface reflects a light beam emerging from the display device toward the second reflective surface. The second reflective surface reflects, toward the last reflective surface, the light beam reflected from the first reflective surface. The light beam emerging from the display device travels along a first optical path leading from a display screen of the display device to the first reflective surface and then travels along a second optical path leading from the second reflective surface to the last reflective surface. The first optical path and the second optical path intersect with each other before the light beam impinges on the last reflective surface.
US10940795B2	Method for keeping distance between an autonomous driving vehicle and a following vehicle using a braking light In one embodiment, a driving behavior of a following vehicle that follows an autonomous driving vehicle is perceived by the ADV. A distance between the ADV and the following vehicle is determined based on the perceived driving behavior of the following vehicle. The ADV determines whether the distance is shorter than a predetermined threshold. In response to determining that the distance between the ADV and the following vehicle is shorter than the predetermined threshold, one or more brake lights of the ADV are turned on without issuing a brake command to slow down the ADV. The brake lights may flash according to a predetermined pattern. The turned-on or flashed brake lights may signal the driver of the following vehicle to slow down, as it provides an impression to the driver of the following vehicle that the ADV is about to slow down.
US10940793B1	Ingress and egress for autonomous vehicle A ride-share system is disclosed. The system may comprise: one or more processors and memory storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors, the instructions comprising: while operating a vehicle in an autonomous mode, determine a transit stop; based on the determination, attempt to establish communication with a smart node; when communication is established with the smart node, query the smart node regarding whether to actuate a vehicle door to an open position; and when communication is not established with the smart node, determine whether to actuate the vehicle door to the open position.
US10940780B2	Personal transportation vehicle with pivoting seat and cargo bay The present disclosure is directed to a utility vehicle having a pivotable seat connected by a hinge to a fixed platform. The pivotable seat configured to pivot between a first position and a second position defining a standard seat location and a first wall of a cargo bay, respectively. A seatback is configured to form a second wall of a cargo bay when the pivotable seat is in the second position. First and second opposing side walls are positioned on either side of the pivotable seat. The side walls are configured to form barriers at either side of the cargo bay when the pivotable seat is in the second position.
US10940773B2	Vehicle seat A vehicle seat is provided. The vehicle seat comprises construction elements that are movable relative to one another and at least one force transmission element which transmits activation forces and/or stress forces that result from the use of the vehicle seat from one construction element to the other. The force transmission element by way of at least one joint is connected to both construction elements, and conjointly with the at least one joint is an integral component part of at least one of the two construction elements.
US10940765B2	Bicycle display A bicycle display is provided that allows the user to recognize the selected operation mode. The bicycle display includes a display screen configured to display an output state of a motor that assists in propelling of a bicycle. The display screen is configured to display an output state of the motor in a first color in a state where the motor is controlled in a first operating mode, and configured to display an output state of the motor in a second color which is different from the first color in a state where the motor is controlled in a second operating mode which is different from the first operating mode.
US10940764B2	Augmented permanent magnet system A magnetic bearing system for controlling magnetic coupling between a mobile carriage and a guideway and a method for controlling the magnetic bearing system. The magnetic bearing system includes at least one engine, which includes at least two poles, at least one permanent magnet and at least one coil. The engine is configured to be magnetically coupled to the guideway through at least one air gap.
US10940757B2	User interfaces, computer program product, signal sequence, transportation vehicle and method for displaying information on a display device User interfaces, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle, and a method for displaying information on a display device of a transportation vehicle. The method includes determining an information to be displayed, determining that a user sees the display device and, in response thereto, displaying a message representing the information on the display device. In response to the display of the message on the display device, to determine that the user looks away from the display device and, in response thereto, to hide the message.
US10940746B2	Door weather strip A door weather strip couples to a door adjacently to a belt line. The door weather strip includes: a fin at a bottom of the door weather strip; a main seal and a sub seal which extend vertically in upper and lower directions on an internal circumference and an outer circumference on a surface of the fin and which make elastic contact with an end of a roof weather strip when the door is in a closed position; a channel between the main seal and the sub seal; and a sealing wall which extends between a top end of the main seal and a part of the sub seal below a top end by a distance such that the sealing wall on the sub seal is spaced from the end of the roof weather strip when the door is in the closed position.
US10940744B1	Truckbed covering apparatus A truckbed apparatus for a pickup truck includes a framework having first and second side rails extending along the first and second bed rails of the truck. The framework includes opposed front and rear end rails extending between proximal and distal ends of the first and second side rails, respectively. A center support rail has front and rear ends operatively attached to center portions of the front and rear rails, respectively, the center support rail being parallel and intermediate to the side rails, respectively. The apparatus includes first and second door assemblies that include first and second doors each having an inner edge pivotally coupled to the center support rail and an outer edge opposite the inner edge, respectively, Each door is movable between a closed configuration in which the respective outer edge bears against a respective side rail and an open configuration displaced upwardly from the side rail.
US10940741B2	Vehicle door or tailgate with support structure and method for the production of such A vehicle door or tailgate, in particular for motor vehicles, with a frame which is formed as a support structure of the door or tailgate and is separate from an exterior and/or interior trim, wherein the frame is produced separately from plastic and/or a composite material, wherein the frame comprises at least two components which are connected to one another, and wherein the at least two components have connection means which comprise tongue and groove connections.
US10940738B2	Air conditioning control system and method for vehicles An air conditioning control system and method for a vehicle may include: an alternate control entering temperature difference excess determination step of determining whether a difference in temperature between a side vent temperature sensor and a shower duct temperature sensor exceeds an alternate control entering temperature difference; and an alternate control step of determining that a side vent grill may have been closed, when the difference exceeds the alternate control entering temperature difference, and performing an alternate control operation of regarding the temperature of air measured by the shower duct temperature sensor as the temperature of air discharged from the side vent grill and controlling a temperature of air to be discharged from a center vent grill.
US10940734B2	Suspension control system and vehicle A suspension control system includes: a suspension that couples a sprung structure and an unsprung structure of a vehicle; a stabilizer; and a control unit configured to estimate a stroke speed, wherein the vehicle includes first wheels and second wheels, the suspension includes first suspensions provided for the first wheels and second suspensions provided for the second wheels, the stabilizer includes a first stabilizer bar that couples the first suspensions, the control unit includes: indirect stabilizer force calculation unit configured to calculate an indirect stabilizer force received by each of the second suspensions in conjunction with a posture change of the sprung structure; sum calculation unit configured to calculate a sum of forces acting on each of the second suspensions; and an observer configured to receive the sum and output an estimation value of a stroke speed of each of the second suspensions.
US10940724B2	Air induction system for a wheel based self inflation tire system An air induction system for filtering a compressible fluid to an electromechanical component mounted on a wheel of a vehicle. The system may make use of a first plurality of float valves arranged in series in a non-linear first flowpath path, with at least one of the float valves forming an inlet for intaking the compressible fluid into the first flowpath, and one being in communication with an inlet of the electromechanical component. Each of the float valves may have a buoyant float valve element therein which is responsive to change position when submerged in water, to close off its respective float valve depending on an angular orientation of the wheel, and thus an angular orientation of the float valve.
US10940718B2	Composite and pneumatic tire The present invention provides a composite that has good initial adhesion and good adhesion after high temperature and high humidity aging. Provided is a composite including: a topping rubber composition having a fatty acid content of 0.8% by mass or less; and an adherend plated with a copper-containing layer.
US10940712B2	Arrangement, article having a security feature and method for the manufacture of an arrangement for a security feature An arrangement includes a component and a temperature-dependent, first fluorescent dye, which in a first state has a predetermined first color location and in a second state has a predetermined second color location different from the first color location, and which is disposed on the component or integrated in the component in such a way that the luminescent dye, in dependence on a temperature change acting on it, creates an optically recognizable color change from the first color location to the second color location.
US10940710B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a needleless binding device configured to form a recessed or raised impression as a needleless binding part by performing needleless binding on a bundle of sheets; an environment sensor; and a controller configured to perform, based on a value detected by the environment sensor, control to display a confirmation image requesting a user to make confirmation on the needleless binding prior to execution of the needleless binding.
US10940707B2	Photo-curing inkjet printer A photo-curing inkjet printer includes a bed, a discharger, a light applicator, and a conveyor. The bed includes a printable region defined in advance. A substrate is placed on the bed. The discharger discharges photo-curable ink. The light applicator applies light. The conveyor conveys one of the bed and the discharger relative to the other one of the bed and the discharger in a conveyance direction. The discharger includes a row of nozzles aligned in the conveyance direction. The nozzles discharge the photo-curable ink. A length of the bed measured from a start end of the bed to a start end of the printable region is longer in the conveyance direction than a length calculated by subtracting a maximum pass width from a length of the row of nozzles of the discharger.
US10940706B2	Medium transport apparatus, image reading apparatus, and transport control method A medium transport apparatus includes a feeding section configured to nip a medium and feed the medium in a transport direction, a sensor disposed to face a side of the medium being transported in the transport direction, the sensor being configured to detect motion of the medium, and a control unit configured to stop the transport of the medium based on a detection value received from the sensor, in which during a period including a time at which a leading edge of the medium is nipped by the feeding section, the control unit continues transporting the medium irrespective of the detection value from the sensor.
US10940705B2	Base material processing apparatus and detection method A displacement amount calculation part in a base material processing apparatus calculates the degree of matching between an upstream data section and a downstream data section included in a first and a second detection results, which indicate time-varying changes in the positions of an edge of a base material in the width direction at an upstream and a downstream detection positions. This calculation uses calculation results obtained by sequentially calculating the degrees of matching between sub-data sections in the upstream data section and downstream sub-data sections in the downstream data section. This reduces the amount of computation and enables highly accurate detection of the amount of displacement of the base material in the transport direction on the basis of an identification result of the downstream data section that is highly matched with the upstream data section.
US10940699B2	Modular machine arrangement for sequential processing of sheets A press assembly has a plurality of processing stations for the processing of sheets. These processing stations are arranged in succession in a transport direction of the sheets for inline processing of the sheets. At least one of these processing stations is a non-impact printing unit and at least one processing station downstream of the non-impact printing unit is embodied as a dryer. At least one additional processing station is embodied as a coating unit. The coating unit is configured for applying a coating in a form of a varnish to each sheet. A plurality of individually controlled, non-impact printing units are arranged along the transport path of the sheets. Each of the plurality of non-impact printing units is configured as an ink jet printer.
US10940696B2	Printing apparatus and printing method for obtaining color data defining discharging/non-discharging of an ink of a color to a pixel on a printing medium A printing apparatus includes a print head which discharges inks including an ink of a first color and an ink of a second color, an obtaining unit which obtains first color data defining discharging/non-discharging of the ink of the first color to a pixel on a printing medium and second color data defining discharging/non-discharging of the ink of the second color to a pixel on the printing medium, a first determination unit which determines an attribute of an image of a predetermined pixel on the printing medium, a second determination unit which determines whether the predetermined pixel is in a boundary between a region defined to discharge the ink of the first color and a region defined to discharge the ink of the second color or not, and a control unit which controls discharging of the inks based on results of the determinations.
US10940689B1	Multi-nozzle print head assembly with ink retraction mechanism A print nozzle assembly is presented for use in a printer. The print nozzle assembly may include: a printing pin; a wetting mechanism associated with the printing pin, and an ink retraction mechanism integrated into the wetting mechanism. The wetting mechanism includes an ink reservoir with an outlet arranged in close proximity to a tip of the printing pin. The ink retraction mechanism is configured to retract ink away from the outlet of the ink reservoir.
US10940682B2	Photosensitive stencils and methods A photosensitive stencil includes a porous stencil carrier that can be a sheet of woven material with crisscrossing filaments. The stencil carrier is coated with a photopolymer emulsion that is water based to form a stencil blank. In use, a light mask is disposed atop the stencil blank. The light mask can be contained on a sheet of paper or a transparent film. Alternatively the stencil blank is fed through an inkjet printer and the light mask is printed directly onto the stencil blank using common inks. The stencil blank is then exposed to light for a few minutes, which cross-links the photopolymer emulsion in unmasked regions. After exposure, the stencil blank is developed by being washed out with water. The water removes emulsion and adhesive, where present, within areas that were masked by the light mask, revealing open or open regions through which ink or paint can be applied.
US10940681B2	Apparatus and methods for fabricating components An additive manufacturing method for fabricating a component having a surface substantially free of imperfections may include providing a mold having a configuration corresponding to the component, and depositing a material on at least one surface of the mold to fabricate the component having the surface substantially free of imperfections.
US10940677B2	Thermoplastic membranes containing expandable graphite A multi-layered membrane comprising a first thermoplastic first layer and a second thermoplastic layer, where the second layer includes expandable graphite.
US10940670B2	Aerogel composite and method for preparing same A method of preparing an aerogel composite, which includes a wetting pretreatment step for suppressing the generation of air bubbles in a fibrous material such as a mat, and a step of impregnating the fibrous material with a precursor by injecting the precursor in a vessel under a reduced pressure. The method provides a high quality, high insulation aerogel-impregnated composite without air bubbles.
US10940666B2	Packaging structures and additive manufacturing thereof A packaging system includes a packaging unit and an article. The packaging unit includes a solid layer, a porous layer and a plastic layer with a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive and secure the article in an opening defined by the cavity that is flexible between a first and a second dimension. The packaging unit is fabricated by a 3D printing process. A tensioning device of a 3D printing machine tensions a feed filament during the 3D printing process.
US10940660B2	Device and method for manufacturing gas filled cushions from preconfigured film material A device for manufacturing gas filled cushions from preconfigured film material. The device comprises a housing, a film roll holder for supporting a roll of preconfigured film material in a rotatable manner, a gas supply unit, a sealing unit, and conveying means for conducting the film material away from the roll and for conducting said film material along the gas supply unit and the sealing unit in a conducting direction. The device is mountable to a stillage in multiple positions.
US10940651B2	Large scale smart susceptor heater blankets requiring multi zone control A processing apparatus such as a heating and/or debulking apparatus that may be used to debulk a plurality of uncured composite layers to form an article such as an aircraft component may include a plurality of interconnected smart susceptor heater blankets. The plurality of smart susceptor heater blankets may be connected in series or in parallel, and may be controlled to uniformly heat the component during formation.
US10940650B2	Laying unit, device and method for producing a fiber composite component A laying unit for producing a fiber composite component includes a drive device which is formed for magnetic cooperation with a running face, which provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic, to advance the laying unit on the running face. A device for producing a fiber composite component including a laying unit of this type and a method for producing a fiber composite component including a device of this type are disclosed.
US10940642B2	Apparatus for manufacturing three-dimensional objects Apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing of three-dimensional objects by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (2) which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam, with a process chamber (3) comprising at least a first and a second region (4, 5), wherein in the first region (4) build material (2) is applied and irradiated on a build plane (6), wherein a stream generating unit is provided that is configured to generate a stream of process gas (10) in the process chamber (3) separating the first region (4) from the second region (5).
US10940639B1	Glass scintillators and methods of manufacturing the same Doped glass scintillators and methods of fabricating the same are provided. Doped glass scintillators can be fabricated by a stereolithography process, and doping can be carried out before the green body composite formation so that homogeneity of the dopant is improved. The structures retain an amorphous structure through the fabrication process, and the vacuum sintering process assists with keeping the dopants in their luminescence-producing oxidation state.
US10940637B2	Process for producing a surface covering with an embossed printed surface A process for producing a surface covering with an embossed printed surface is described. A substrate (16) is continuously moved through a production line, and this substrate (16) is first provided, in a printing equipment (12), with a printed pattern and thereafter, in an embossing equipment (14), with an embossed pattern, which is registered with the printed pattern. The printing equipment (12) produces the printed pattern in-line with the production of the embossed pattern. During printing in the printing equipment (12), the printed pattern is stretched or compressed, dynamically responsive to indicators of misalignments between the printed pattern and the embossed pattern, so as to correct or prevent the misalignments. A production line for carrying out this process is also proposed.
US10940621B2	Plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same Various embodiments of the present invention relate to plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming a junction between a metal form and a solid plastic. The method can include contacting a metal including a plurality of pores and a flowable resin composition including a polybutylene terephthalate and a polyethylene terephthalate. The method can also include curing the flowable composition to form the solid plastic, to provide the junction between the metal and the solid plastic.
US10940620B2	Method for manufacturing foam molded body A method for manufacturing a foam molded body which can allow the foam resin sheet to follow the shape of the cavity of the mold with high accuracy even when the thickness of the foam resin sheet is thick. The method includes an arranging step to arrange one sheet of a foam resin sheet between first and second molds, the foam resin sheet being formed by extruding and dangling a molten foam resin from a slit; and an expanding step to expand the foam resin sheet by subjecting the foam resin sheet to a reduced pressure suction.
US10940615B2	Mold clamping device Provided is a mold clamping device that can simplify the component count or structure by including a mold thickness adjustment mechanism that reduces the load on a power source, is easily maintained, and has high design flexibility. Also provided is a mold clamping device that can set a long distance (daylight) between molds without having to upsize the entire mold clamping device and can simplify the component count or structure. A mold clamping device for split molds includes a first platen, a second platen, a pressure receiving platen, and a mold thickness adjustment mechanism disposed on the pressure receiving platen. At least one of the first platen and the second platen is able to move back and forth so as to approach or depart from the other. The pressure receiving platen is located on a side remote from the first platen, of the second platen. The mold thickness adjustment mechanism includes a rod-shaped rotation member, a power source configured to rotate the rotation member around a rotation axis of the rotation member, the rotation axis being parallel to a longitudinal direction of the rotation member, and a pair of converters configured to convert rotation direction of the rotation member into a movement direction of the second platen. A mold clamping device for split molds includes polygonal first and second platens, a pressure receiving platen, and a toggle mechanism. At least one of the first platen and the second platen is able to move back and forth so as to approach or depart from the other. The pressure receiving platen is located on a side remote from the first platen, of the second platen. The toggle mechanism is disposed between the second platen and the pressure receiving platen and on a diagonal line of the second platen and configured to cause the first and second platens to approach or depart from each other.
US10940611B2	Incident radiation induced subsurface damage for controlled crack propagation in material cleavage A cleaving system employs a shaper, a positioner, an internal preparation system, an external preparation system, a cleaver, and a cropper to cleave a workpiece into cleaved pieces. The shaper shapes a workpiece into a defined geometric shape. The positioner then positions the workpiece such that the internal preparation system can generate a separation layer at the cleaving plane. The internal preparation system focuses a laser beam internal to the workpiece at a focal point and scans the focal point across the cleaving plane to create the separation layer. The external preparation system scores the external surface of the workpiece at a location coincident with the separation layer. The cleaver cleaves the workpiece by propagating the crack on the external surface along the separation layer. The cropper shapes the cleaved piece into a geometric shape as needed.
US10940604B2	Device for dividing material panels In a water-jet cutting installation for machining substantially vertical material panels such as glass panes, at least one section of the high-pressure line is guided, by a guide system including at least one guide element, to the rear of the device in order to improve access to the intake and/or discharge region of the machining installation and to increase operator safety.
US10940595B2	Robot A robot includes a robot main body that includes a base and a robot arm connected to the base, a motor that is provided inside the robot main body and drives the robot arm, a control board that is provided inside the robot main body, a power supply board that supplies electric power to the control board, and a drive board that drives the motor based on a command from the control board, and in which the robot main body includes a suction hole from which a pipe to which a suction device for sucking gas inside the robot main body is connected is detachable.
US10940594B2	Robot arm with high capacity adjustable joint A robot arm includes a wrist, an end effector, and an adjustable joint coupling the end effector to the wrist. The adjustable joint includes a member received in a socket. In one example, the member is a ball. In another example, the member is a tang. In both examples, an upper flange and a lower flange can be used to couple the wrist to a forearm.
US10940593B2	Robot apparatus The present invention provides a robot apparatus which can determine a contact state at a contact point without increasing the contact point, can be miniaturized, and also can decrease the cost. Contact points are provided in a hand device. Contact points are provided in a tool device, which come in contact with the contact points, respectively, when the tool device has been mounted on the hand device. A voltage detecting circuit is provided in the tool device, which detects a voltage between the contact points. The controlling circuit determines contact states between the contact points and the contact points, by using a value of the voltage which has been detected by the voltage detecting circuit.
US10940568B2	5-axis machining center The present invention relates to a machining center, and more particularly, to a machining center which allows a bed and a column to be integrated, thereby being capable of reducing the overall size of the apparatus and saving production costs and allows vibrations and displacements occurring in each of 5 axes to be rapidly transmitted to other axes to minimize relative vibrations and displacements between the axes, thereby being capable of performing high-precision machining.
US10940566B2	Surface improvement of additively manufactured articles produced with aluminum alloys A method for improving the surface of an aluminum alloy article includes manufacturing the aluminum alloy article using an additive manufacturing technique, wherein the article as-manufactured includes one or more of cracks, roughness, or porosity at a surface of the article; coating the surface of the aluminum alloy article with a diffusion element, the diffusion element being capable of diffusing at least 0.2 mils into the article; heating the aluminum alloy article coated with the diffusion element to cause the diffusion element to diffuse the at least 0.2 mils into the article, thereby forming a diffusion layer of at least 0.2 mils in thickness comprising both aluminum alloy and diffusion element; and removing the diffusion layer from the aluminum alloy article, whereby upon the removing, a resulting improved surface of the article comprises fewer or smaller cracks, reduced roughness, or reduced porosity.
US10940556B2	Automotive member having resistance weld Provided is an automotive member, or particularly, a steel sheet having a tensile strength exceeding 900 MPa. The automotive member has a resistance weld for fixing two or more steel sheets containing a predetermined composition, in which a maximum hardness (HVBM) in a heat-affected zone of the resistance weld is at least 1.1 times hardness (HVW) of a nugget in the resistance weld formed in a softest steel sheet of a sheet set during resistance welding, and furthermore, an average grain size of a steel sheet structure of the heat-affected zone within 2 mm in a direction at a right angle to a sheet thickness from an end part of the nugget of the high-strength steel sheet is 3 μm or less, and a minimum hardness (HVmin) in the heat-affected zone is at least 90% of hardness (HVα) of the high-strength steel sheet before the resistance welding.
US10940553B2	Screw thread cutter In a screw thread cutter, a screw thread-cutting edge is formed on an outer periphery of a tip portion of a cutter body. Finishing edge-thread ridge height from a tangent line passing through valley bottoms of second and third valley portions to outer peripheral ends of first and second finishing edges are equal to each other. A preceding edge-thread ridge height from the tangent line to an outer peripheral end of a preceding edge is lower than each of the finishing edge-thread ridge height. A first valley portion-depth from the outer peripheral end of the first finishing edge to the valley bottom of the first valley portion is deeper than a second valley portion-depth from the outer peripheral end of the second finishing edge to the valley bottom of the second valley portion.
US10940549B2	Key duplication machine having user-based functionality A machine is disclosed for use in duplicating features of an existing key within a key blank. The machine may have an identification module configured to capture data associated with the features of the existing key, a fabrication module configured to cut the features in the key blank based on the data, a user input device, and a controller in communication with the identification module, the fabrication module, and the user input device. The controller may be configured to regulate operation of the identification module and the fabrication module, and to receive input from a user via the user input device. The input may be indicative of the user being a first type of user or a second type of user. The controller may also be configured to selectively implement one of a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation based on the input.
US10940545B2	Drill bit, such as an auger drill bit, and method therefore A drill bit includes an elongated shaft having an outer surface forming plural lands and spaces between the lands forming a helical flute; a shank located at a first end of the elongated shaft, the shank configured and arranged to engage the drill bit in a tool; a head located at an opposing end of the elongated shaft from the shank, the head including a first cutting arm and a second cutting arm, the first cutting arm including a first cutting portion having a first leading cutting edge, the second cutting arm including a second cutting portion having a second leading cutting edge; and wherein the first cutting arm includes a first groove extending through the first leading cutting edge and the second arm includes a second groove extending through the second leading cutting, the first and second grooves configured to cause shorter fibers, shavings or chips.
US10940538B2	Grade powders and sintered cemented carbide compositions In one aspect, grade powder compositions are described herein comprising electrochemically processed sintered carbide scrap. In some embodiments, a grade powder composition comprises a reclaimed powder component in an amount of at least 75 weight percent of the grade powder composition, wherein the reclaimed carbide component comprises electrochemically processed sintered carbide scrap.
US10940536B2	Devices, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing The present disclosure provides a printer system based on high power, high brightness visible laser source for improved resolution and printing speeds. Visible laser devices based on high power visible diodes can be scaled using the stimulated Raman scattering process to create a high power, high brightness visible laser source.
US10940525B2	Riveting machine and control method for same An automatic riveting device is provided with a rivet suction attachment unit for attaching the head of a rivet by suction, a tightening unit for tightening a stringer and clip by the rivet, and a control unit. The control unit controls the rivet suction attachment unit so that the rivet suction attachment unit to which the head of the rivet is attached is moved toward an upper side support body and the shaft part of the rivet is inserted into a through hole formed in riveting position P, and controls the tightening nit so that after the rivet suction attachment unit inserts the rivet into the through hole and retreats from the riveting position P, an upper anvil and a lower anvil are brought into proximity and the stringer and clip are tightened by the rivet.
US10940517B2	Methods and systems to form a product in a press A method to form a product from a work-piece in a press is provided. The press includes a top tooling and a bottom tooling and a clamping device. The method comprises pressing the work-piece at a first stage of a top tooling movement in the bottom tooling; and clamping and pressing the work-piece at a second stage of the top tooling movement in the bottom tooling.
US10940515B2	Milling apparatus A milling apparatus includes a plurality of milling roller units each including one milling roller that is made contact with, by pressing, one surface of one of a plurality of differently angled plate parts of an elongated metal milling material and another milling roller that is made contact with another surface of the plate part by pressing. At least one of the milling roller units mills a plate part different from a plate part milled by any other milling roller unit. A plurality of the milling roller units configured to mill an identical plate part are installed in a longitudinal direction of the plate part. The one milling roller and the other milling roller of at least one of the milling roller units are movable in axial directions thereof.
US10940512B2	Testing subterranean water for a hazardous waste material repository Techniques for determining the suitability of a subterranean formation as a hazardous waste repository include determining a neutron flux of a first isotope in a subterranean formation; calculating, based at least in part on the determined neutron flux of the first isotope, a predicted production rate of a second isotope in the subterranean formation; calculating a first ratio of the predicted production rate of the second isotope relative to a theoretical production rate of a stable form of the second isotope; measuring respective concentrations of the second isotope and the stable form of the second isotope in a subterranean water sample; calculating a second ratio of the measured concentration of the second isotope relative to the measured concentration of the stable form of the second isotope; and based on a comparison of the first and second ratios, determining that the subterranean formation is suitable as a hazardous waste repository.
US10940511B2	Method and apparatus to control sample carryover in analytical instruments A method and apparatus are disclosed which enable the reduction of sample carryover in the measurement cell of an analytical instrument. A sample cell is defined as a region sealed within a first o-ring. Located outside of said sample region is another o-ring which seals and defines a seal wash region as the region between the first and second o-ring. After the fluid sample is injected into the measurement cell a pressure is applied to the seal wash region, forcing the first o-ring to the innermost extent of the groove in which it sits, expelling any trapped solvent and removing from the measurement cell a significant dead volume while the cell is flushed and prepared for a new sample and corresponding measurement.
US10940507B2	Mobile material sifter The concepts, systems and methods described herein are directed towards a device sifting soils. The device is provided to including: a frame having open areas at top, bottom, and rear side; a plurality of wheels coupled to the frame; a first screen coupled to the frame, wherein the first screen has a grid to receive material for sifting; a vibrating unit coupled to the first screen, wherein the vibrating unit is configured to vibrate the first screen such that small objects and dirt in the material pass through the screen and the open areas of the frame and the large objects in the material fall off from the first screen at a first side of the sifting device; and a tow hitch to be coupled to a vehicle, the vehicle pulling the sifting device using the tow hitch.
US10940499B2	Tube spray gun An Tube Spray Gun for coating an elongated member comprising a handle, a flow trigger, at least one positioner engaging the member and adapted to maintain a spray tip in a desired position relative to the member, a mounting means for releasably engaging the spray tip assembly around the member, a coating supply fluidly connected to the spray tip and a flow activated by the trigger and a spray tip assembly calibrated to provide complete radial coverage of the member, whereby an user engages the positioner placing the apparatus around the member and activates the flow trigger while moving the apparatus along the member to coat the entire radial surface of the member with a single pass.
US10940497B2	Intelligent spray system The present invention relates to the application of liquid active substances. The subject matter of the present invention is a system, a method and a computer program product for the application of an active substance concentrate from a replaceable cartridge in a diluted form onto a target object with the aid of a portable spray device, wherein important parameters of the spray process are exchanged between the cartridge and/or the spray device and/or an external computer system.
US10940495B2	Spray head A spray assembly (110) for a spray head (200) which is arranged, in use, to adjust a spray pattern of fluid includes a spray plate (118) with a plurality of holes (132, 134) therethrough, and a control member (116) rotatable relative to the spray plate (118). In use, the orientation of the spray plate (118) is fixed and rotation of the control member (116) causes fluid to be directed to different groups of the plurality of holes (132, 134) through the spray plate (118). The spray assembly (110) further comprises at least one flow control opening (152) provided in a flow control plate (124) driven by rotation of the control member (116). The flow control opening (152) is arranged, in use, to be moved in response to rotation of the control member (116). The flow control plate (124) has teeth (142) on its outer circumference which interlock with teeth (146) on an outer circumference of an idler gear (148). The teeth (146) of the idler gear (148) interlock with teeth (144) on an inner circumference of the control member (116).
US10940494B2	Fan orifice dispensing closure A dispensing closure for a squeeze-type container produces a fan-type spray in a low pressure environment. The dispensing closure includes a closure body having an upper deck and a skirt depending from the upper deck. The skirt is configured and arranged to attach to a product container, such as a squeeze-type container. A flow conduit extends from an interior of the closure body and through the upper deck to provide a flow path from an interior of the closure to an exterior of the closure. The flow conduit has an entrance orifice and an exit orifice. The flow conduit has an inner wall extending between the entrance orifice and the exit orifice. The flow conduit and the closure body are integrally formed. The flow conduit includes a tip portion with an exit orifice defining a shape to provide a fan-type spray in a low pressure environment.
US10940493B2	Actuator and nozzle insert for dispensing systems A nozzle insert can be configured to be inserted along an insertion direction into a component of a product dispensing system. A stop portion on the nozzle insert can successively engage with a stop portion on the component when the nozzle insert is inserted into the component by different distances along the insertion direction.
US10940491B1	Centrifuge operating with sinusoidal motion A spherical centrifuge has a sinusoidal track engaged on its surface, the track circling the surface following a great circle of said centrifuge. A mechanical drive engages the track enabling rotation of the centrifuge. The track may have a constant sinusoidal amplitude and a constant sinusoidal period. The centrifuge may have an interior space and a portal into the interior space. The interior space may have any shape. The centrifuge rotates about its diameter while also reciprocating in rolling motion lateral to its forward rotational direction by following the sinusoidal track.
US10940486B2	Electromagnetic fluid filter using magnetostrictive sensors In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10940483B2	Modular roller grinding mill A roller mill module with a fixed grinding roller with a first grind surface rotatably supported within a grind area between a first drive end and a second drive end of a support structure; an adjustable grinding roller with a second grind surface rotatably supported within the grind area; the adjustable grinding roller movable with respect to the fixed grinding roller to adjust a grind gap between the first grind surface and the second grind surface; a drive shaft of the fixed grinding roller and a drive shaft of the adjustable grinding roller extending from the first and the second drive ends of the support structure; and a sample port provided in a front side of the support structure; a sample passage coupled to the sample port extending to a position below the grind area and opposite a sampler stop surface.
US10940474B2	Oxidant sensor A microfluidic device for measuring an amount of an oxidant in a solution is disclosed. The device includes a microfluidic substrate configured to mix a solution sample to be analysed with an indicator dye solution containing an indicator dye under conditions suitable for some of the indicator dye to react with any oxidant in the solution to produce an oxidant measurement solution having a reduced indicator dye concentration that is indicative of the amount of oxidant in the solution, the microfluidic substrate including an optical reading window through which the reduced indicator dye concentration in the oxidant measurement solution can be measured optically.
US10940458B2	Zeolite adsorbent in the form of low-tortuosity agglomerates Provided is a zeolite-based adsorbent in the form of agglomerates, where the adsorbent having a tortuosity factor, calculated from the pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of greater than 1 and less than 3. The adsorbent also has a porosity as determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry of between 25% and 35%. The adsorbent is useful in the field of separations in particular in a process for separating para-xylene from aromatic hydrocarbon isomer fractions containing 8 carbon atoms.
US10940454B2	Biochar methods, systems, devices, and products Tools and techniques for biochar method, systems, devices, and products are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, methods are provided in accordance with various embodiments that may include rubbing one or more objects with biochar. Rubbing the one or more objects with biochar may include: polishing one or more objects utilizing biochar; cleaning one or more objects utilizing biochar; grinding one or more objects utilizing biochar; scratching one or more objects utilizing biochar; and/or abrading one or more objects utilizing biochar. In some embodiments, polishing the one or more objects utilizing the biochar includes: combining water, the biochar, and the one or more objects; and/or tumbling the combined water, biochar, and one or more objects. The one or more objects may include one or more stones. The tumbling may occur for 72 hours or less. The tumbling may occur as a single step.
US10940448B2	Multiple-bed catalytic reactor comprising a mixing device The present invention relates to multi-bed catalytic reactor with a cylindrical shape comprising a mixing device mounted between two catalyst beds in the reactor, said mixing device has a circular outer rim which corresponds to the inner wall of the reactor, the mixing device comprises; collecting means disposed in a collecting section for collecting fluid from an up¬stream catalytic bed, mixing means disposed in a mixing section for mixing the collected fluid comprising guide vanes and guide ramps, and discharging means disposed in a discharging section for discharging the mixed fluid to a down-stream catalytic bed; wherein the collecting section, the mixing section and the discharging section are disposed outside the center of the circular cross-section of the reactor, as well as associated methods for mixing and the use of such a mixing device in catalytic reactors.
US10940440B2	Film separation device, structure for arranging film element, and film cassette and film unit There is provided a film separation device 1 equipped with a treatment tank 2 receiving a liquid to be treated, a film unit 3 to be immersed in the liquid to be treated, and a guide mechanism 4. The guide mechanism 4 is composed of holding sections 14 and a guide section 15. The holding sections 14 are provided on a side section of a film cassette 5 constituting the film unit 3, and the guide section 15 is fixed to the treatment tank 2. The guide section 15 has a tank-wall fixed section 15a, an upper extension section 15b, a held section 15c, a lower extension section 15d, and a tank-bottom fixed section 15e. When fixing the film unit 3 to the treatment tank 2, the holding sections 14 are fitted to the held section 15c, thereby guiding the film unit 3 to a predetermined position in the treatment tank 2.
US10940435B2	Integrated aftertreatment system Implementations described herein relate to features for an integrated aftertreatment system. In one implementation, an integrated aftertreatment system comprises a casing that includes a mating flange having a first constant diameter and a catalyst component configured to mate to the mating flange of the casing. The catalyst component includes a canned body including a first portion sized to a second constant diameter to mate with the first constant diameter of the mating flange. In another implementation, an integrated aftertreatment system comprises a casing, a catalyst component positioned within the casing, a particulate filter having an outer casing with an outlet, and a particulate filter joint coupled to the outer casing of the particulate filter at the outlet. An end of the particulate filter joint is aligned with an end of the particulate filter.
US10940431B2	Reclaiming method A reclaiming method is disclosed including conducting evaporation by introducing a part of the absorbent to recover CO2 or H2S in a gas in a closed system recovery unit and separating a degraded substance contained in the absorbent from the absorbent to be introduced into an evaporator and obtain recovery steam containing an absorbent and CO2 or H2S by a heating section that is provided on a circulation line that circulates in the evaporator; and removing ionic degraded substance by cooling the concentrate obtained in the evaporation and removing an ionic degraded substance in the concentrate after the cooling, wherein a purified concentrate from which the ionic degraded substance has been removed is reused as a purified absorbent.
US10940430B2	Acidic gas recovery system and reclaiming device to be used in same A reclaiming device that separates an absorption liquid from a coexisting material other than an absorbent includes: a gas-liquid separator that accepts the absorption liquid to be reclaimed together with water and separates the absorption liquid into a non-volatile material and a vaporized material; a first discharged liquid line that introduces a first discharged liquid discharged from the gas-liquid separator into the gas-liquid separator at a position below an absorption liquid introduction port; a first heater, disposed on the first discharged liquid line, that heats the first discharged liquid; a second discharged liquid line that introduces a second discharged liquid discharged from the gas-liquid separator into the gas-liquid separator at a position below a first discharged liquid introduction port; and a mixing tank, disposed on the second discharged liquid line, that mixes the second discharged liquid with an alkaline agent.
US10940429B2	Method for the treatment of a flue gas stream A sorbent composition such as for the removal of a contaminant species from a fluid stream, a method for manufacturing a sorbent composition and a method for the treatment of a flue gas stream to remove heavy metals such as mercury (Hg) therefrom. The sorbent composition includes a porous carbonaceous sorbent such as powdered activated carbon (PAC) and a solid particulate additive that functions as a flow-aid to enhance the pneumatic conveyance properties of the sorbent composition. The solid particulate additive may be a flake-like material, for example a phyllosilicate mineral or graphite.
US10940424B2	Method for liquid air energy storage with fueled and zero carbon emitting power output augmentation A proposed method provides a fueled power output augmentation of the liquid air energy storage (LAES) with zero carbon emissions of its exhaust. It combines the production of liquid air using a low-demand power from the renewable or/and conventional energy sources and the recovery of stored air for production of on-demand power in the fueled supercharged reciprocating internal combustion engine (RICE) and associated expanders. An integration between the LAES and RICE makes possible to recover the RICE exhaust energy for increase in power produced by the expanders of LAES and to use a cold thermal energy of liquid air being re-gasified at the LAES facility for cryogenic capture of CO2 emissions from the RICE exhaust.
US10940414B2	Recirculation filter for an electronics enclosure A filter assembly for use in an electronics enclosure is disclosed herein. The filter assembly has an inner assembly having a filter material comprising fibrous media and a containment assembly having a first containment layer and a second containment layer. The containment assembly defines an outer perimeter and the first containment layer and a second containment layer are bonded along the outer perimeter in an outer weld area to encapsulate the inner assembly. The outer weld area extends between the outer perimeter and an interior perimeter. The inner assembly defines an inner assembly perimeter that is within the outer perimeter of the containment assembly.
US10940409B2	Composite filter cartridge Cartridge components are configured to trap the upper end of a concave housing portion to define an enclosure surrounding a filter element. A disclosed embodiment includes a concave metal housing portion and plastic cartridge components, but other materials may be employed. An upper end cap spans the open end of the housing portion and defines at least one fluid flow aperture. A retainer surrounds the housing portion and is secured to the first component, with engagement features on the housing portion trapped between the upper end cap and retainer. The upper end cap and retainer may be secured to each other by spin welding, threads, adhesive or other suitable means. The outside circumference of one or both of the upper end cap and retainer may be provided with lugs, threads, bosses or other features to interface with complimentary features on the head for securing the cartridge to a head.
US10940403B2	Parallel assembly of chromatography column modules A parallel assembly (2; 11; 51) of chromatography column modules (3a,b,c; 13a,b,c; 53a,b,c, 90a, b) connected in a rigid housing (21; 61), the assembly having one common assembly inlet (15; 55) and one common assembly outlet (17; 57), each column module comprising a bed space (29) filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules in the rigid housing are adapted to connect the bed space (29) of the column module with the assembly inlet (15; 55) and the assembly outlet (17; 57), wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
US10940402B2	Method and system for transferring separation resin A method and a system for transferring a slurry of a separation resin, from at least one first container to a second container, said method comprising the steps of: connecting the at least one first container to the second container by a transferring connection; providing a degree of vacuum to the second container by a vacuum production device connected to the second container; allowing the vacuum in the second container to affect the content in the at least one first container through the transferring connection such that the slurry initially provided in the at least one first container is transferred to the second container through the transferring connection.
US10940400B2	Heat treatment furnace device and method for producing carbon fiber bundle A heat treatment furnace device for heat-treating precursor fiber bundles of carbon fibers, having: a heat treatment chamber, in which continuously supplied precursor fiber bundles are treated with hot air, a hot air circulation path, through which hot air from the heat treatment chamber returns to the heat treatment chamber, and a condensation/separation device, into which the hot air flowing through the hot air circulation path is introduced and separated into a condensate and a gas; wherein the condensation/separation device has: a condensation treatment chamber and a condensation unit, which is provided in the condensation treatment chamber and has condensation surfaces on which the condensate is formed and allowed to drip down.
US10940399B2	Robotic eyeball with integral camera This disclosure provides devices and systems for a moveable eyeball assembly for a doll head. The eyeball assembly can have a rear portion having at least one first eyeball magnet and a substantially hemispherical shape forming a rear cavity in the rear portion. The eyeball assembly can have a front portion having a substantially hemispherical shape. The front portion can have at least one second eyeball magnet configured to magnetically couple with the at least one first eyeball magnet. The front portion can have a pupil element. The front portion can have an iris portion surrounding the pupil element. The eyeball assembly can be received in a gimbal assembly to move the eyeball assembly in at least two axes.
US10940388B1	Variable latency compensation for asynchronous multiplayer games A gameplay aspect, such as a hit volume, can be determined for a player-controlled gameplay element based at least in part upon a variance in input packet receipt timing. For games such as asynchronous multiplayer games where client devices are authoritative with respect the passage of time, players can obtain an unfair advantage but adjusting the timing of the input packets sent for those players. In order to address this potential unfairness, a hit volume for a player character can be increased in size according to the amount of timing variance, such that the player cannot avoid interactions as a result of the variation. A velocity vector can be used to sweep the hit volume in the direction of the velocity vector, and the variance can be used to increase the magnitude of the vector in order to expand the size of the hit volume for that gameplay object.
US10940383B2	Knot game A system and method for a knot game. The game includes a weight coupled to a flexible line. The flexible line has an upstream end and a downstream end which his coupled to the weight. The game includes gripping the flexible line at a position upstream from the weight. Thereafter, the weight is dropped and allowed to remove the slack in the line. Then a force is applied to create slack in the line in an attempt to tie a knot in the flexible line.
US10940380B2	Fast-rope training apparatus A training apparatus for fast-rope training includes a platform-supporting structure having one or more containers and at least one platform configured for use in fast-rope training. At least one attachment is provided for attaching a fast-rope. The platform-supporting structure is supportable by a surface. The at least one attachment Is located higher than the platform and spaced laterally from the platform-supporting structure such that the at least one attachment overhangs the surface so a fast rope can hang from the at least one attachment, past the platform and toward the surface.
US10940379B1	Wireless game management system A wireless game management system includes a plurality of game pieces, each game piece including a wireless module configured to transmit a location signal, and a wireless game management processor configured to determine the absolute or relative positions of at least two game pieces based on the location signals, determine a game status based on the absolute or relative positions of the at least two game pieces, and convey game status information through a user interface associated with the wireless game management processor.
US10940378B1	Golf putting device A new golf putting device incorporates a concave ramp turf surface having a set of golf putting receptacles and a corresponding set of golf putting receptacle plugs, and a set of distance indicia corresponding to the set of golf putting receptacles. Each golf putting receptacle plug includes a body portion and a turf layer. The receptacle's turf layer forms a part of the ramp turf surface and smoothly transitions into the ramp turf surface. The golf putting device also includes a frame structure and a ramp layer attached to the frame structure. The ramp turf is attached to the ramp layer. The golf putting device also includes a set of rails on the two sides of the ramp turf surface. The golf putting device further includes a set of target zone indicia on the ramp turf surface.
US10940366B1	Sowable golf ball A sowable golf ball, including a biodegradable shell to protect an interior thereof, a rubber winding disposed within at least a portion of the biodegradable shell to facilitate bouncing on an object or a surface by the biodegradable shell, and a seed compartment disposed within at least a portion of the rubber winding to store a plurality of seeds therein.
US10940362B1	Kinoped lower extremity performance improvement, injury prevention, and rehabilitation system A ground-effect footplate against which a user applies plantar force and moves their foot in 3D across all seven lower-extremity biomechanical axes to accomplish specific as well as global ambulatory objectives related to lower extremity performance improvement, injury prevention and rehabilitation. A device comprising at least one articulating leg connected to a ground-effect footplate and a surface for a user to position against. The device can be used in conjunction with software to create virtual ambulatory environments that mimic GRFVs and cause moments of force that initiate muscular activations that substantially mimic human ambulation, and can couple those movements with non-functional movements in order to improve ROM, speed, strength, and proprioception.
US10940356B2	Rotating connection exercise apparatus In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a first receiver and a second receiver, wherein the first receiver's first end is substantially cylindrical and wherein the first receiver's second end includes a first clamp, wherein the second receiver's first end is substantially cylindrical and wherein the second receiver's second end includes a second clamp, wherein the first receiver and the second receiver are detachably attached to one another via one or more first securing objects positioned on the first clamp and on the second clamp, and wherein at least one tightening clamp resides on the first receiver's first end and on the second receiver's first end.
US10940351B2	Fire sprinkler system A fire sprinkler system is provided. The fire system comprising: a sprinkler head configured to provide fire suppressant to an activation zone when the sprinkler head is activated; a pipe run fluidly connected to the sprinkler head and configured to provide fire suppressant to the sprinkler head; a first ultrasonic flow meter operably attached to the pipe run, the first ultrasonic flow meter being configured to detect a first flow rate of fire suppressant through the pipe run; and a monitoring system in electronic communication with the first ultrasonic flow meter and configured to receive the first flow from the first ultrasonic flow meter.
US10940350B2	Multi-head array fire sprinkler system for storage applications A fire suppression system in which the water supply line is fitted with repeating arrays or groups of sprinkler heads. Each array is composed of at least two side-discharge sprinklers. The side-discharge sprinklers in each array are aimed so that their coverage areas point in opposite directions. Each side-discharge sprinkler includes a lateral heat shield. The lateral heat shield has a concave heat-concentering side that focuses radiant heat toward the sprinkler's trigger, and a convex heat-scattering side that disperses radiant heat away from the trigger. In some embodiments, the array can include one or more vertical-discharge sprinklers. The vertical-discharge sprinkler may include a heat collector to facilitate early activation of its trigger. The fire suppression system is advantageous in high-challenge applications like facilities where large quantities of combustible items are stored in close proximity, such as in warehouses and attics.
US10940347B2	Concealed horizontal sidewall sprinkler A concealed sprinkler includes a sprinkler body having a flow passage therethrough with an inlet end and an outlet end. A closure device is secured at the outlet end of the flow passage by a heat responsive trigger. A deflector assembly includes a deflector plate and a button secured to an upstream side of the deflector plate. The deflector assembly is movably supported to the sprinkler body by at least one arm. The button defines an aperture that extends unobstructed all the way through the button from an upstream side to a downstream side.
US10940346B2	Fire extinguishing system and method therefor A fire extinguishing system including a fluid storage container configured to store a fire extinguishing agent, and a fluid stream separating device coupled to the fluid storage container, where the fire extinguishing agent passes from the fluid storage container through the fluid stream separating device so that the fluid stream separating device raises a temperature of at least a portion of the fire extinguishing agent flowing through the fluid stream separating device above a boiling point of the fire extinguishing agent at ambient environmental conditions of a discharge location of the fluid stream separating device.
US10940340B2	Safety climb attenuation apparatus A safety climb attenuation apparatus provides a more robust and visually inspectable apparatus for climbing safety. In an upper bracket, a pivot arm is attached to a base that is disposed upon a structure. The upper bracket includes an attenuation member such as an elastic bushing, mounted on the pivot arm or the base, that resists pivoting of the pivot arm relative to the base when a safety cable attached to the pivot arm causes the pivot arm to pivot. In a lower bracket, a similar attenuation member is attached to a base disposed on the structure, with an anchor bolt connecting the cable to the attenuation member so that the attenuation member resists upward movement of the cable.
US10940336B2	Method of encapsulating a liquid active A method of encapsulation of an active comprising (a) dispersing an active in an aqueous medium having a pH of less than 6; (b) causing the formation on this dispersed active of a polymer shell, the formation comprising the sequential deposition of a series of polymeric layers, each layer being capable of hydrogen bonding with the preceding layer; to form an aqueous slurry of active-containing capsules; characterised in that one of the first two layers is a polycarboxylic acid and that the first two to four layers taken together exhibit an interfacial compression dilation modulus of greater than 10 mN/m. The method allows the precise tailoring of polymeric shells, allowing capsules walls to be much thinner without a loss of strength. The technique is especially useful for the encapsulation of fragrances and flavours.
US10940331B2	Medical apparatus and method A medical apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquirer, a corrector, an identifier, and an output controller. The acquirer is configured to acquire a fluoroscopic image of an object from an imager. The corrector is configured to correct an image of one or more predetermined regions used for identifying a target position of the object in the fluoroscopic image based on one or more correction values but does not correct an image of at least a part of a region out of the predetermined region in the fluoroscopic image. The identifier is configured to identify the target position based on an image corrected by the corrector. The output controller is configured to output an irradiation permission signal to a therapeutic device which irradiates the object with a therapeutic beam based on the target position identified by the identifier.
US10940326B2	Device with high energy rotating magnet and massage chair structure with rotating magnet The present disclosure relates to the technical field of equipment with a rotating magnetic field. Disclosed are a device with a high energy rotating magnet and a massage chair structure with a rotating magnet. The present disclosure includes a vertically driven revolving axle connected to a motor. A top end of the vertically driven revolving axle is connected to a gear set. The gear set meshes with a driving gear. A base revolving plate is fixed on an upper portion of the driving gear. A magnetic assembly is installed on the base revolving plate. The present disclosure offers improved physical performance, low cost, and an enhanced effect of magnetic therapy.
US10940314B2	Neuromodulation using stochastically-modulated stimulation parameters An example of a system may include an electrode arrangement and a neuromodulation device configured to use electrodes in the electrode arrangement to generate a neuromodulation field. The neuromodulation device may include a neuromodulation generator, a neuromodulation control circuit and a storage. The storage may include a stochastically-modulated neuromodulation parameter set and the stochastically-modulated neuromodulation parameter set may include at least one stochastically-modulated parameter. The controller may be configured to control the neuromodulation generator using the stochastically-modulation parameter set to generate the neuromodulation field.
US10940311B2	Apparatus and method for button-free control of a wearable transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator using interactive gestures and other means Apparatus for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in a user, the apparatus comprising: a stimulator for electrically stimulating at least one nerve; a stimulator housing; a monitor for monitoring transient motion of the stimulator housing; an analyzer for analyzing transient motion monitored by the monitor for determining whether transient motion of the stimulator housing has occurred; and a controller for automatically transitioning at least one of the stimulator, the monitor, and the analyzer between a standby mode and a power save mode; wherein the power save mode supports a subset of the functionality of the stimulator and the monitor which is available in the standby mode so as to conserve battery power in the power save mode.
US10940309B2	Techniques for forming a modular lead Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for forming an elongate lead body module of a modular lead. The method may comprise rotating a mandrel, wherein the mandrel extends through a through-hole of a conductor hub, wherein each conductor of a plurality of conductors extend through a respective channel of a plurality of channels of the conductor hub, wherein each conductor of the plurality of conductors extends from a respective bobbin of plurality of bobbins to the channels, wherein the plurality of bobbins are coupled to a carriage, the carriage defining a central opening through which the mandrel passes. The method may comprise moving the carriage away from the conductor hub along a length of the mandrel while the mandrel rotates causing the conductors to coil around the mandrel.
US10940308B2	Systems and methods for trans-esophageal sympathetic ganglion recruitment A method may include positioning a catheter, including at least one electrode, within an esophagus such that the electrode is proximate to at least one sympathetic ganglion. The methods may further include recruiting the sympathetic ganglion via an electrical signal, monitoring the recruitment of the sympathetic ganglion, and, based on the monitoring the recruitment of the sympathetic ganglion, adjusting the electrical signal from the at least one electrode.
US10940297B2	Method for providing access to a paranasal sinus Access to a paranasal sinus is provided through implantation of an implant device with a conduit of the implant device disposed through a fistula surgically-formed between a location in the lacrimal apparatus and a paranasal sinus. As implanted, the implant device has a proximal end disposed in the lacrimal apparatus in the orbit, a distal end disposed in the paranasal sinus and an internal passage that provides fluid communication between the lacrimal apparatus in the orbit and the paranasal sinus.
US10940280B2	Blower A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a stationary component provided to the housing, an impeller positioned between the inlet of the housing and the stationary component, a shield portion including an outer edge substantially aligning with or extending beyond an outer edge of the impeller, and a motor adapted to drive the impeller. The housing and the stationary component cooperate to define a volute that directs air towards the outlet, and the housing includes a separating wall constructed and arranged to divide the volute into a high speed airpath region and a low speed airpath region. The outer edge of the shield portion and the separating wall define a gap between the high speed airpath region and the low speed airpath region.
US10940274B2	Nasal spray assembly A nasal spray assembly for administering a medicament to the nose of a user includes a nasal device and a container that has a reservoir containing the medicament. The reservoir is sealed by a movable piston. The nasal device includes a body, a cap that defines a socket into which the body can be inserted, an outlet, and a piercing element. The piercing element includes a piercer inlet and extends into the socket from a piercer stop within the socket. The nasal spray assembly is arranged such that, as the body is moved into the socket along a first axis, the piercing element pierces and passes through the piston such that the piercer inlet lies within the reservoir, contact between the piercer stop and piston forces the piston into the container, reducing the reservoir volume and forcing medicament from the reservoir through the conduit and out of the outlet.
US10940268B2	Liquid medicine injection apparatus capable of injecting additional fluid after completion of liquid medicine injection A liquid medicine injection apparatus capable of injecting an additional fluid after completion of injection of a liquid medicine is provided. The apparatus includes a cylinder elongated in a direction and having a nozzle formed at one end of the cylinder; a piston installed to be hermetically movable within the cylinder in the direction; an injector provided at the other end of the cylinder to allow the piston to be moved; a fluid tank for storing a fluid in a sealed state; a needle unit disposed between the nozzle and the fluid tank; and a cap member provided between the needle unit and the fluid tank and deformable to allow the needle unit to penetrate the fluid tank.
US10940264B2	Ambulatory infusion pumps and assemblies for use with same Ambulatory infusion pumps, medicament reservoirs, and medicament sealing assemblies, including a variety of trocar seal assemblies and fill plug seal assemblies, plus related components, as well as component combinations and related methods.
US10940258B2	Dialysis device having means for recognizing a shunt recirculation A dialysis device having an extracorporeal blood circuit which has an arterial line having a blood pump and an arterial needle for connection to a patient, a venous line having a venous needle for connection to a patient and a dialyzer arranged between the arterial line and the venous line and having a blood chamber and a dialysis fluid chamber is provided. The dialysis device furthermore has a control unit and an extracorporeal blood pressure sensor which is arranged at the suction side of the blood pump. The control unit is configured such that a signal output takes place which indicates the presence of recirculation when a change in the signal of the sensor following a trigger event exceeds a threshold value.
US10940257B2	Systems and methods for oxygenator performance evaluation Systems and methods for monitoring oxygenator performance in extracorporeal circuit systems or the like. More particularly, the disclosure relates to systems and methods including a controller programmed to determine oxygenator apparatus flow impedance as a function of an inlet pressure measurement, an outlet pressure measurement and a blood flow rate measurement. The systems and methods may include a communication device that receives signals from the controller to communicate information regarding oxygenator apparatus performance.
US10940252B2	Blood purification apparatus A blood purification apparatus with an arterial puncture needle or a venous puncture needle is stuck in the patient can be easily notified at the activation of a blood pump in an unconnected step. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit for circulating blood, a dialyzer capable of purifying the blood, a blood pump provided to an arterial blood circuit for delivering a liquid, and a control device that executes a connected step in which the blood pump is activated when an arterial puncture needle (a) and a venous puncture needle (b) are in the patient and an unconnected step in which the blood pump is activated with neither the arterial puncture needle (a) nor the venous puncture needle (b) being stuck in the patient. The control device establishes, in the unconnected step, a restricted state where the behavior of the blood pump at the activation of the blood pump is restricted.
US10940251B2	Mechanical gauge for estimating inductance changes in resonant power transfer systems with flexible coils for use with implanted medical devices Systems and devices for improving wireless power transmission are disclosed herein. The system can include an implantable medical device that can include an energy storage component and a secondary coil electrically coupled to the energy storage component. The system can include a charging device. The charging device can include a flexible housing defining an internal volume, a resonant circuit, a plurality of sensors coupled to the primary coil, and processor. The resonant circuit can include a deformable primary coil located within the internal volume of the housing. The processor can determine a deformation of the primary coil based on at least one signal received from at least one of the plurality of sensors.
US10940241B2	Formation of stable cartilage Methods are provided for promoting cartilage growth and/or repair. The methods include, administering locally to a site in a subject in need thereof, bone marrow stromal cells attached to fibrin microbeads comprising crosslinked hyaluronic acid and thereby producing stable cartilage locally at the site in the subject.
US10940234B2	Method for producing antibacterial biological implant Provided is an antibacterial biological implant capable of exhibiting superior antibacterial activity stably over a long period of time. Also provided is a method for producing an antibacterial biological implant, the method including subjecting a substrate 2 successively to an anodization treatment, an acid treatment, and an iodine treatment to obtain an antibacterial biological implant 1.
US10940229B2	Material for adhesion prevention A material for adhesion prevention can be adhered to biological tissue with certainty and has improved tissue adhesiveness and biodegradability. Such material for adhesion prevention is composed of: a 1- to 1,000-μm-thick water-soluble support layer comprising a water-soluble polymer; and a 1- to 1,000-μm-thick adhesion prevention layer comprising a biodegradable polymer. The biodegradable polymer has a structure in which a branched polyalkylene glycol comprising 3 to 8 terminal hydroxyl groups per molecule is bound to a polyhydroxy alkanoic acid, and a mass ratio of the branched polyalkylene glycol relative to the total mass is 1% to 30%.
US10940223B2	Purified hydrogen peroxide gas microbial control methods and devices The present invention relates to methods and devices for providing microbial control and/or disinfection/remediation of an environment. The methods generally comprise: generating a Purified Hydrogen Peroxide Gas (PHPG) that is substantially free of, e.g., hydration, ozone, plasma species, and/or organic species; and directing the gas comprising primarily PHPG into the environment such that the PHPG acts to provide microbial control and/or disinfection/remediation in the environment, preferably both on surfaces and in the air.
US10940220B2	Standalone UV-C sanitizing apparatus and method A standalone UV-C sanitizing apparatus and method is provided that is operable to sanitize and disinfect a user's hands or protective gloves. The apparatus includes a housing with light emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned to emit ultraviolet (UV-C) light connected to a circuit board which are individually connected to a power source. The apparatus is configured so that when the user positions the hands or gloves under the housing, the UV-C light is emitted for a predetermined period of time based on the distance to the hands and the power output of the LEDs. The UV-C light is emitted at a wavelength suitable to kill, destroy, or reduce growth of microorganisms/germs. The housing can be configured with a sensor to detect motion under the housing and include a limiter hand guard.
US10940206B2	Ophthalmic composition comprising lipoic acid and a mucomimetic polymer The present invention relates to an ophthalmic composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising a mucomimetic polymer and lipoic acid as emulsion stabilizer. It also relates to a process for stabilizing emulsions with lipoic acid and to the use of this acid for stabilizing the oil-in-water emulsions comprising a mucomimetic polymer.
US10940201B2	Nucleic acid derivative having immunostimulatory activity The purpose of the present invention is to provide double-stranded oligonucleotides comprising the CpG oligonucleotide mentioned below, as a nucleic acid derivative having an immunostimulatory activity. An adjuvant comprising a double-stranded oligonucleotide, wherein a first strand is a CpG oligonucleotide consisting of 8 to 50 nucleotides, a second strand is an oligonucleotide consisting of 8 to 60 nucleotides and comprising a sequence capable of hybridizing with the first strand, and a lipid binds to the second strand through a linker.
US10940197B2	Non-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity response to treat herpes simplex virus infection A method is presented for treating herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection comprising: (a) locally administering a substance that induces a delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response to a patient at a site of an HSV lesion to induce a DTH response at the site of the lesion during one or more outbreaks of the HSV infection.
US10940195B2	Vaccines against HPV and HPV-related diseases Embodiments relate to novel vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV-related diseases, including multiple types of cancers. The HPV vaccines are composed of anti-human dendritic cell (DC) surface receptor antibodies, including CD40, and E6/7 proteins of HPV16 and 18. The technology described is not limited to making vaccines against HPV16- and HPV18-related diseases and can be applied to making vaccines carrying E6/7 from any type of HPV. The HPV vaccines described can target DCs, major and professional antigen presenting cells (APCs), and can induce and activate potent HPV E6/7-specific and strong CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses. The HPV vaccines can be used for the prevention of HPV infection and HPV-related diseases as well as for the treatment of HPV-related diseases, including cancers.
US10940189B2	Systems, compositions, and methods for transplantation Systems and methods for purification and concentration of autologous alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) from whole blood are provided. Also provided are diagnostic methods for identifying sites in the synovial joints, spine, tendons or ligaments for treatment of pain, degeneration, or inflammation with autologous A2M. Methods for utilizing autologous A2M in combination with other autologous treatments (e.g. platelets and other growth factors) are provided in addition to combinations with exogenous drugs or carriers. Also provided is a method of producing recombinant A2M wild type or variants thereof where the bait region was modified to enhance the inhibition characteristics of A2M and/or to prolong the half life of the protein in joints and spine disc or epidural space.
US10940188B2	Compounds and methods for treatment and prevention of Flavivirus infection The present invention concerns the use of compounds for the treatment or prevention of Flavivirus infections, such as Zika virus infections. Aspects of the invention include methods for treating or preventing Flavivirus virus infection, such as Zika virus infection, by administering a compound or class of compound disclosed herein, such as a niclosamide compound, an emricasan compound, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, a proteasome inhibitor, or a combination of two or more of the foregoing, to a subject in need thereof; methods for inhibiting Flavivirus infections such as Zika virus infections in a cell in vitro or in vivo; pharmaceutical compositions; packaged dosage formulations; and kits for treating or preventing Flavivirus infections, such Zika virus infections.
US10940186B2	Treatment of diseases related to hyperactivity of the complement system Raising the level of Factor I above physiological levels can be used to treat diseases in which the underlying pathology is linked to overactivity of the C3b-feedback cycle and the generation and pro-inflammatory effects of iC3b. Methods, agents, and compositions for treatment of such diseases are described.
US10940182B2	Use of modified vasoactive intestinal peptides in the treatment of hypertension The present invention is based on the discovery that a VIP having a binding preference for VPAC2 can provide long-acting blood pressure control synergistically with concomitant anti-hypertensive therapies. Accordingly, methods and compositions useful for the treatment and/or amelioration of hypertension are provided.
US10940178B2	Weekly dosing regimens for anti-CD30 vc-PAB-MMAE antibody drug-conjugates Methods for the treatment of CD30-expressing cancers are provided. The methods comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a weekly dose of from about 0.8 mg/kg to about 1.8 mg/kg of an antibody-drug conjugate compound having formula (I); or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein: mAb is an anti-CD30 antibody unit, S is a sulfur atom of the antibody, A- is a Stretcher unit, and p is from about 3 to about 5.
US10940174B1	Methods for skin whitening, ultraviolet radiation protection and suppression of glycation using green mango extracts and compounds obtained therefrom Provided is a method for skin whitening, ultraviolet radiation protection, and anti-glycation by using a green mango extract. Also provided is a method for anti-glycation by using compounds of hydrolyzable tannins isolated from the green mango extract.
US10940169B2	Method for reducing the likelihood of developing cancer in an individual human being A person's intestinal (gut), oral or skin microbiota is modified using specific combinations of pre-biotics, pro-biotics and/or anti-biotics to establish a defined microbiota that can treat and/or reduce the likelihood that individuals will experience various diseases, including cancer. The employment of various bacteria, whether in particular combinations or after being modified using CRISPR-type systems, leads to improved outcomes when checkpoint inhibitors are used to treat various forms of cancer. One embodiment is directed to a method for reducing the likelihood of developing cancer by providing in the gut of an individual a population of beneficial bacteria selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus species. The level of Roseburia and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, and/or Akkermansia muciniphila bacteria are increased in the individual's gut microbiome such that when an individual is administered an immune checkpoint inhibitor, its function is enhanced due to the presence of the bacterial population.
US10940167B2	Methods and uses of biological tissues for various stent and other medical applications Methods and uses of biological tissues for various stent and other medical applications. In an exemplary embodiment of a method of processing a tissue of the present disclosure, the method comprises the steps of acquiring a mammalian tissue comprising at least a portion of a pulmonary region tissue, selecting a sample of pulmonary region tissue from the at least a portion of a pulmonary region tissue, and fixing the sample of pulmonary region tissue using a fixative, resulting in a fixed sample. In at least one embodiment, the step of selecting a sample of pulmonary region tissue comprises selecting a sample of pulmonary ligament tissue from the mammalian tissue.
US10940165B2	Adoptive T cell therapy The present disclosure provides a composition comprising isolated T cells, wherein the T cells have specificity against a range of clinical fungal pathogens.
US10940161B2	Manipulation of EIF3 to modulate repeat associated non-ATG (RAN) translation Methods and compositions for modulating repeat non-ATG protein (RAN protein) translation are provided. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to methods for treating a subject having a disease associated with RAN protein translation by administering the subject a modulator of eIF3 or an eIF3 subunit, or an antibody that bind to a RAN protein.
US10940158B2	Compositions for use in the prevention or treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis in infants or young children born by C-section The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one human milk oligosaccharide and/or a precursor thereof, for use in preventing and/or treating necrotizing enterocolitis in infants or young children born by C-section.
US10940157B2	System for providing birth control The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
US10940154B2	Heterocyclic amides as kinase inhibitors Disclosed are compounds having the formula: wherein X, Y, Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, R5, RA, m, A. L, and B are as defined herein, and methods of making and using the same.
US10940148B2	Combination therapy with glutaminase inhibitors and immuno-oncology agents The invention relates to methods of treating cancer, myeloproliferative diseases, or immunological or neurological diseases with a combination of a glutaminase inhibitor and an immuno-oncology therapeutic agent, such as an inhibitor of arginase, CTLA-4, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, and/or PD-1/PD-L1.
US10940140B2	Pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of autism The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition or a kit comprising, a first substance capable of raising intracellular cAMP levels, and a second substance capable of modulating intracellular calcium concentration. Likewise, the present invention relates to methods of treating patients suffering from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) phenotype 1 by administering an effective amount of a substance capable of raising intracellular cAMP levels and, optionally, an effective amount of a substance capable of modulating intracellular calcium concentration.
US10940138B2	Compositions and methods for treating ocular disorders The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising oxymetazoline and methods of treating various eye disorders related to drooping eyelids, such as ptosis, in a subject comprising administering to the subject compositions comprising oxymetazoline.
US10940137B2	Materials and methods for improving gastrointestinal function The subject invention provides therapeutic compositions, and uses thereof for the treatment or amelioration of injury to small intestine mucosa. In preferred embodiments, the composition comprises one or more nutrients and/or electrolytes that acquire or retain considerable absorptive capacity.
US10940135B2	Paclitaxel pharmaceutical composition and pharmaceutical preparation thereof, preparation process and use thereof A paclitaxel pharmaceutic composition and a pharmaceutic preparation, a preparation process therefor and use thereof are provided. The paclitaxel composition contains paclitaxel as an active ingredient and hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose derivative as a carrier material. The paclitaxel preparation is in the form of an oral solid preparation. The paclitaxel composition and pharmaceutic preparation thereof can be used for the preparation of a drug for preventing and treating malignancies and relevant diseases in mammals.
US10940131B2	Methods of treating mixed dyslipidemia The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, methods of treating mixed dyslipidemia with ethyl eicosapentaenoate.
US10940130B2	Compositions comprising theanine and whey protein An anxiolytic composition includes a synergistic combination of an L-theanine and a whey protein composition.
US10940127B2	Use of CYP26-resistant RAR alpha selective agonists in the treatment of cancer Disclosed herein are methods for treating a cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective dose of a CYP26-resistant retinoic acid receptor (RAR) alpha (RARα) selective agonist, whereby as a result of the treatment the tumor burden is reduced in the subject and cancer stem cells resident in the bone marrow are substantially reduced.
US10940109B2	Multilayer polymeric matrix based medical devices The disclosure relates to multilayer polymeric matrix based medical devices. In one example, a device comprises an inner first polymeric matrix and an outer second polymeric matrix. The addition of second polymeric matrix modifies bulk properties of each matrix thus resulting in a device where specific bulk properties are incorporated. The disclosure also relates to methods of manufacturing various embodiments of medical devices and their uses.
US10940106B2	Biodegradable copolymers for cosmetic use Biodegradable copolymers for cosmetic use are described, obtained by reaction between lactide and a silicone initiator. Said copolymers are used for the preparation of cosmetic products such as lipsticks, facial cosmetic powders, creams, eyeliners, eye shadows.
US10940099B2	Pituitous silicone emulsions The present invention provides methods for preparing emulsions of silicone fluids having pituitous rheological properties. The present invention also provides emulsions of a silicone fluid having pituitous rheological properties and composition comprising the emulsions. The compositions include, but are not limited to, personal care compositions and compositions for hair shampoo, hair conditioner, hair treatment composition, or skin care product.
US10940096B2	Enteral feeding air purge system and method A system for purging air from a feeding line is set forth. The system includes a charging device configured to selectively provide an air charge in the system. A restricting tubing can be located between the charging device and a delivery tube. The restricting tubing can be configured to tunably limit the air charge delivered from the charging device to the feeding line through the delivery tube.
US10940085B2	Cartridge portion of transdermal drug delivery apparatus and methods A cartridge, which may be suitable for use as a portion of a transdermal drug delivery apparatus, may include a body at least partially defining an interior for containing fluid for being delivered by the transdermal drug delivery apparatus. The body may also at least partially define first and second openings to the interior of the body, wherein the first and second openings are respectively proximate opposite first and second ends of the body. The cartridge may also include a self-sealing member at least partially closing the first opening, and a movable member at least partially closing the second opening, wherein at least a portion of the movable member is for being urged into the interior of the body for increasing pressure within the interior of the body.
US10940078B1	Vibratory massage apparatus The invention provides a vibration massage apparatus wherein one or more vibrators which can be housed in rigid elongate capsules are supported by respective pairs of flexible members relative to a main body that can serve as a handle and/or a relatively non vibrational flesh-contacting surface, thus having a wide range of application and significantly optimizing user experience.
US10940076B2	Personal massager Disclosed embodiments provide an improved personal massager device. The massager device includes a stimulator, which is G-spot stimulator or a prostate stimulator. The stimulator includes an enclosure having an opening. A threaded post is disposed within the enclosure. The threaded post has a plurality of pitched threads. A roller is disposed within the plurality of pitched threads. The roller protrudes outside the opening of the enclosure. The threaded post is rotated back and forth by a motor, and as it does so, the roller traverses a path. A sheath is disposed tightly over the enclosure. The roller presses the sheath against the G-spot or prostate of the user, providing stimulation. In some embodiments, one or more of a start position of the roller and an end position of the roller are defined by user input.
US10940073B2	Wearable finger rehabilitation device The invention provides a wearable hand rehabilitation apparatus equipped on the back of users' hand. The wearable hand rehabilitation device could help the users to do their hand or finger rehabilitation. The wearable hand rehabilitation apparatus includes a thumb mechanism, three finger mechanisms and a pinky finger mechanism. These mechanisms could make the user's fingers bent or straightened. And the wearable hand rehabilitation apparatus could reduce the physical damage of the users during the period of doing rehabilitation with the present invention.
US10940068B2	Patient support apparatus with portable charging device Techniques for a patient support apparatus are provided to assist in transferring power/data to an external electronic device, such as a smartphone. The patient support apparatus comprises a support structure, a power supply and a portable charging device. The charging device comprises an energy storage unit and a receiving element coupled to the energy storage unit. The receiving element is configured to wirelessly receive power. A receptacle is coupled to the support structure and comprises a surface including a sending element being coupled to the power supply. The surface is configured to receive the charging device. The charging device is removable from the surface. The sending element is configured to wirelessly transfer power to the receiving element of the charging device such that the energy storage unit of the charging device stores the transferred power for charging an external electronic device.
US10940058B2	Four-dimensional analysis system, apparatus, and method A system for measuring fluid absorption and retention properties of various samples having one or more materials, layers and/or articles. The system includes an optically or radiographically transparent fixture. The system enables measuring voxels having a grayscale value that demonstrate a difference in fluid densities and thereby enable the study of fluid flow and movement within and/or amongst various materials and articles in real time.
US10940051B2	Absorbent articles with color effects Disposable absorbent articles having color effects and materials thereof are disclosed. Disposable absorbent articles include a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a layer between the absorbent core and the topsheet. The topsheet has a generally planar first surface having a plurality of out-of-plane features and a first color. The layer has a second color. And, the plurality of out-of-plane features have a feature color different than the first color and the second color.
US10940049B2	Conformable medical dressing A medical dressing that is highly flexible and conformable over skin, while maintaining strong adhesive securement to skin over extended periods of time. The dressing comprises a backing layer, support material, and a plurality of specifically placed slits in the support material, which allow for stretching and recovery of the backing layer.
US10940041B1	Eye cavity pressure treatment using IOP or CSF Assemblies and methods for modifying an intraocular pressure of a patient's one or both eyes are disclosed. The assemblies and methods can be used to treat, inhibit, or prevent ocular conditions such as glaucoma, high intraocular pressure, optic disc edema, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, zero-gravity induced papilledema, and other optic pressure related conditions. An assembly can include a goggle including at least one cavity, a pump in fluid communication with the at least one cavity, and a control mechanism. The control mechanism can be operatively coupled to the pump and can maintain a target pressure or target pressure range in the at least one cavity, which, when the assembly is worn by a patient, is the area between a patient's eye(s) and wall surfaces of the goggle. Controlling the pressure over the outer surfaces of the patient's eye(s) can drive a desired change in the intraocular pressure of the eye(s).
US10940037B2	Primary packaging and method for the manufacture of a primary packaging A primary packaging for medical preparations includes a base body having a plastic material. The base body has at least one wall including an outer surface and at least one inner surface. The outer surface of the primary packaging is provided with a gas tight coating.
US10940033B2	Implantable electroacupuncture device and method for treating erectile dysfunction An exemplary method treating an erectile dysfunction condition in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device in accordance with the duty cycle, the stimulation sessions to a target tissue location within the patient by way of an electrode array located within the patient at an acupoint corresponding to the target tissue location.
US10940025B2	Methods and devices for spinal correction An expandable trial can include an inferior portion, a superior portion, and a middle expanding portion as well as load cells for monitoring the load on the trial. The trial may also include recesses on its lateral sides to provide spacing to accommodate a disc removal tool so tissue can be cleared monitoring load. In addition, neural foramen spacing can be monitoring to provide information about how much neural release has been achieved as the disc is cleaned and the spine is positioned and repositioned.
US10940024B2	Universal femoral trial system and methods Implant assemblies, systems, kits, and methods for replacing a knee joint may include a universal femoral trial component for preparing and trialing a femoral bone of a patient to receive a plurality of different femoral implant types. The universal femoral trial component may be configured to receive any of a plurality of femoral bone preparation attachments and any of a plurality of femoral trial attachments in order to facilitate the preparation and trialing of the femoral bone to receive the plurality of different femoral implant types.
US10940022B2	Side-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument systems and associated methods of use A surgical instrument system includes a pair of side-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument assemblies. The right-limb side-specific instrument assembly is kitted so as to be devoid of left-limb side-specific instruments and vice versa.
US10940012B2	Talar dome with angled holes A talar implant includes a post projecting from a superior surface of the plate and includes at least one threaded hole. A talar dome having an inferior surface is configured to face the plate and an opening in the inferior surface is shaped to receive the post. The talar dome includes at least one through hole having a threaded surface and a groove. The groove has a larger outer diameter than the threaded surface. At least one fastener is configured to engage the threaded hole of the post and the threaded surface of the through hole. The at least one fastener has a groove that is aligned with the groove of the through hole when the fastener is inserted in the talar dome and the post. At least one clip is configured to engage the groove of the through hole of the talar dome and the groove of the fastener.
US10940011B2	Hip joint device and method A medical device for treating hip joint osteoarthritis by providing a joint surface is provided. The medical device has at least two artificial hip joint surface parts adapted to be connected to each other to form an artificial hip joint surface during an operation. A method of treating a hip joint of a human patient by providing the medical device is also provided. The method includes cutting the skin of the human patient, dissecting an area of the pelvic bone on the opposite side from the acetabulum, creating a hole in the dissected area passing through the pelvic bone and into said hip joint and providing the medical device to the hip joint, through the hole in the pelvic.
US10939995B2	In situ adjustable optical mask Implantable corneal and intraocular implants such as a mask are provided. The mask can improve the vision of a patient, such as by being configured to increase the depth of focus of an eye of a patient. The mask can include an aperture configured to transmit along an optical axis substantially all visible incident light. The mask can further include a transition portion that surrounds at least a portion of the aperture. This portion can be configured to switch from one level of opacity to another level of opacity through the use of a controllably variable absorbance feature such as a switchable photochromic chromophore within a polymer matrix.
US10939992B2	Apparatus and method for ligament reconstruction Apparatus for reconstructing a ligament, the apparatus comprising a fixation device for maintaining a graft ligament in a bone hole, the fixation device comprising a fixation screw comprising a body having screw threads formed thereon; and a ligament spacer mounted to the fixation screw, the ligament spacer comprising a canted face disposed opposite the fixation screw; such that the fixation screw and ligament spacer may be advanced into the bone hole with the graft ligament so that the fixation screw and the ligament spacer maintain the graft ligament within the bone hole and the canted face of the ligament spacer is aligned with the adjacent surface of the bone.
US10939977B2	Positioning marker A positioning marker, consisting of a base having a retroreflective surface. The marker also has a cover, which is fitted over and fastened to the base and has a plurality of openings through which the retroreflective surface is visible.
US10939975B2	Disposable gasket-filter assembly with seal integrity indication for sterilization container with slidable lock handles Sterilization packaging systems with features for sealing a volume against an ingress of contaminants are provided. Such features include a sealing assembly including a gasket and a sheet of filter material. The sealing assembly seals a lid to a seal rim of a base. The gasket has an upper surface, outer edge, and inner edge. The sheet of filter material extends from an inner edge of the gasket, and the gasket completely surrounds the sheet of filter material. The upper surface of the gasket comprises a plurality of indentations that define channels to facilitate delivery of a sterilization agent through the filter material. A sterilization assembly including a lid having a plurality of protrusions in its upper surface and a sliding-lock system for sealing and locking the lid to a container base is also provided.
US10939968B2	Sterile handle for controlling a robotic surgical system from a sterile field An implant for therapeutically separating bones of a joint has two endplates each having an opening through the endplate, and at least one ramped surface on a side opposite a bone engaging side. A frame is slideably connected to the endplates to enable the endplates to move relative to each other at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the implant, in sliding connection with the frame. An actuator screw is rotatably connected to the frame. A carriage forms an open area aligned with the openings in the endplates. The openings in the endplates pass through the carriage to form an unimpeded passage from bone to bone of the joint. The carriage has ramps which mate with the ramped surfaces of the endplates, wherein when the carriage is moved by rotation of the actuator screw, the endplates move closer or farther apart.
US10939966B2	Methods and devices for knee surgery with inertial sensors A method of navigating a cutting instrument, via a computer system, the method comprising: (a) mounting a patient-specific anatomical mapper (PAM) to a human in a single known location and orientation, where the PAM includes a surface precisely and correctly mating with a human surface correctly in only a single location and orientation; (b) mounting a reference inertial measurement unit (IMU) to the human; (c) operatively coupling a guide to the PAM, where the guide includes an instrument inertial measurement unit (IMU) and at least one of a cutting slot and a pin orifice; (d) outputting data from the reference IMU and the instrument IMU indicative of changes in position and orientation of the guide with respect to the human; (e) repositioning the guide with respect to the human to a position and an orientation consistent with a plan for carrying out at least one of a cut and pin placement; and, (f) visually displaying feedback concerning the position and orientation of the guide with respect to the human using data output from the reference IMU and the instrument IMU, which data is processed by a computer program and the computer program directs the visually displayed feedback.
US10939962B1	Cranial insertion placement verification A system and method for verifying the accurate insertion positioning of a robotically guided surgical tool or probe, at its cranial target region, such as for Deep Brain Stimulation. A head mounted robot aligns a probe or tool guiding sleeve, together with an aiming rod attached at a predefined position and angle to the guiding sleeve. The aiming rod incorporates apertures through which an X-ray system can view the patient's skull. The aiming rod is attached to the tool guiding sleeve at an angle and position calculated such that the line of sight through the apertures falls exactly on the target region when the tool or probe is inserted to its predetermined depth. If the tip of the tool or probe is seen located at the center of the apertures in the X-ray image, verification is obtained that the insertion procedure has been performed accurately.
US10939958B2	Methods, apparatuses, and systems for the treatment of pulmonary disorders Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for treating pulmonary tissues via delivery of energy, generally characterized by high voltage pulses, to target tissue using a pulmonary tissue modification system (e.g., an energy delivery catheter system). Example pulmonary tissues include, without limitation, the epithelium (the goblet cells, ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelial cells, and basal cells), lamina propria, submucosa, submucosal glands, basement membrane, smooth muscle, cartilage, nerves, pathogens resident near or within the tissue, or a combination of any of these. The system may be used to treat a variety of pulmonary diseases or disorders such as or associated with COPD (e.g., chronic bronchitis, emphysema), asthma, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), acute bronchitis and/or other pulmonary diseases or disorders.
US10939956B2	Pulsed radiofrequency ablation Ablation systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed toward delivering pulsed radiofrequency (RF) energy to target tissue. The pulsations of the RF energy, combined with cooling at a surface of the target tissue, can advantageously promote local heat transfer in the target tissue to form lesions having dimensions larger than those that can be safely formed in tissue using non-pulsed RF energy under similar conditions.
US10939939B1	Fulcrum for tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure A technique for correcting a bone deformity, such as a bunion, may be performed using a fulcrum. In some examples, the fulcrum includes multiple members that are joined together at one end and spaced apart from each other at an opposite end. The fulcrum members can be manipulated to adjust the distance separating the fulcrum members from each other and, correspondingly, an amount of force separating the multiple members from each other. The force can be controlled to press against opposed bones, such as first and second metatarsals in an intermetatarsal space.
US10939930B2	Multi-functional medical device An embodiment of a medical device includes a proximal handle, a distal end effector, an elongate member connecting the end effector to the handle, and a sheath enclosing at least a portion of the elongate member. The handle may include a first mechanism coupled to one of the sheath and the elongate member to move the sheath relative to the elongate member, a second mechanism coupled to the elongate member to rotate the elongate member relative to the handle, and a locking mechanism coupled to the first mechanism to hold the first mechanism in a default position. Embodiments also include methods of positioning the medical device to perform a medical procedure.
US10939927B2	Sternal closure method A system including a bone punch tool and a needle guide. The bone punch tool can include a support arm having a support arm proximal portion and a support arm distal portion, a pivot arm having a pivot arm proximal portion and a pivot arm distal portion, and an arcuate punch configured to punch through bone. The pivot arm distal portion can be pivotably coupled to the support arm distal portion, such that the pivot arm proximal portion is configured to be moved away from the support arm proximal portion to extend the arcuate punch into a punch position to punch an arcuate hole through bone. The needle guide can be configured to guide a needle through the arcuate hole.
US10939924B2	Instrument for bone resection A bone resection instrument, comprising means of support and positioning (2) for the correct alignment of the tool (1) with respect to the bone to be cut, a cutting guide (7), connected to the means of support and positioning (2), comprising a support (8) attachable to a bone to be cut. The cutting guide (7) comprises a gauge block (9) having a cutting surface (90) and removably connected to said support (8). The instrument (1) is part of a bone resection kit comprising a plurality of gauge blocks (9), each differing in height (h) from one another.
US10939923B2	Instruments and methods in performing kinematically-aligned total knee arthroplasty Methods and instruments for performing a kinematically-aligned total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are disclosed. Goals of the kinematically-aligned TKA can include restoration of (1) the femoral and tibial joint lines to the patient's natural joint line, (2) the patient's Hip-Knee-Ankle alignment to their constitutional alignment prior to developing osteoarthritis and (3) restoration of the patient's natural soft tissue laxity and envelope. A shim block assembly can be used in resecting the distal medial and lateral condyles to account for cartilage wear on the distal condyles from osteoarthritis. The shim block assembly can include a plurality of shims, and each shim can be attachable to or integral with a reference block. At least one of the plurality of shims can have a medial portion with a thickness different from a thickness of a lateral portion of the shim. The shims need not be joined together as a single medial/lateral component but may be independent of one another. A particular shim can be selected for use based on matching the medial and lateral thicknesses with a determined wear of cartilage on the distal medial and lateral condyles.
US10939921B2	Bone cutting guide system for osteochondral transplantation A bone cutting guide for preparing both donor and recipient bone, including one or more articular referencing platforms contoured to a bony surface to be prepared, fixation structure to secure the articular referencing platforms on an articular surface, cutting slots spaced apart from the articular referencing platforms at predetermined distances configured to allow the passage of a saw blade in such a way to remove a bone segment either from an allograft donor or from a graft recipient in such a way that both the removed donor and recipient grafts are of the same exact dimensions, whereby when the allograft is placed in the recipient site of the patient's joint, it completely restores the articular surface to the desired level with healthy articular cartilage from the donor.
US10939920B2	Hemodialysis vein preparation method A method for applying focused pressure to a target vessel to dilate the target vessel for hemodialysis. The target vessel is treated with pressure multiple times a day prior to a fistula surgical procedure to increase the vein size. The target vessel is also treated with pressure multiple times a day after the fistula surgical procedure to increase or maintain the vein size.
US10939918B2	Multi-clip applier A clip applier having a handle at a proximal portion, an elongated portion extending distally of the handle, a jaw mechanism including a pair of jaws movable to a closed position to crimp a clip held therein, a clip feeder mechanism movable in proximal and distal directions, a camming mechanism and a puller mechanism movable in proximal and distal directions. The puller mechanism is operatively connected to the handle such that actuation of the handle a) moves the puller mechanism a first distance in the proximal direction; and b) moves the clip feeder mechanism a second distance greater than the first distance.
US10939906B2	Tissue fixation and closure suture articles and suture placement devices The present invention includes a suture article and a suture placement device adapted to insert into opposing tissue surfaces the anchors of a suture article having anchors on its terminal ends, the device comprising in general terms: (a) an optional handle portion; (b) an insertion portion extending from the handle having a distal end comprising anchor-directing portions that diverge from one another so as to form a V-shape, adapted to releasably engage the anchors; and (c) a hollow cinching cannula/suture conduit slidingly engaged by the handle portion so as to be moveable between a position relatively nearer the handle and a position relatively nearer the insertion portion distal end.
US10939894B2	Acoustic streaming for fluid pool detection and identification Ultrasound-based acoustic streaming for deciding whether material is fluid is dependent upon any one or more of a variety of criteria. Examples are displacement, speed, temporal or spatial flow variance, progressive decorrelation, slope or straightness of accumulated signal to background comparisons over time, and relative displacement to adjacent soft tissue. Echogenicity-based area identification is combinable with the above movement characteristic detection in the deciding. Fluid pool identification is performable from the area-limited acoustic streaming testing and ultrasound attenuation readings. Candidates from among the areas are screenable based on specific shapes or bodily organs detected. Natural flow can be excluded from streaming detection by identification of blood vessels. Processing for each FAST ultrasound view, or for the entire procedure, is performable automatically, without need for user intervention or with user intervention to identify suspected areas.
US10939893B2	Doppler fetal heartbeat monitor A Doppler fetal heartbeat monitor includes: a housing; a mainboard; a loudspeaker installed in the housing and electrically connected to the mainboard; and an ultrasonic transducer installed in the housing, electrically connected to the mainboard, and comprising at least one transduction wafer configured to generate an impulse wave, in which the ultrasonic transducer is internally provided at a head end of the housing, and the loudspeaker and the mainboard are internally provided at a tail end of the housing. By arranging the loudspeaker, the mainboard and the ultrasonic transducer in the housing, the Doppler fetal heartbeat monitor can have a compact structure and a small volume. Moreover, it is possible to reduce positive feedback of a sound system and a probability of a self-excited whistle.
US10939892B2	Collimator, radiation emitting assembly and inspection apparatus There are disclosed a collimator, a radiation emitting assembly and an inspection apparatus. The collimator is configured to collimate radiation from a radiation emitter. One of the collimator and the radiation emitter is provided with a protrusion portion and the other is provided with a recess portion such that the protrusion portion is capable of being placed within the recess portion and the radiation emitter and the collimator are allowed to be arranged close to and connected with each other, and that the radiation passes through passages in the protrusion portion and the recess portion from the radiation emitter to the collimator.
US10939891B2	Automated detection and identification of phantoms A phantom, phantom system, and method of phantom identification include a first material that forms a phantom. A phantom identifier includes at least one unit marker. The at least one unit marker identifies a physical characteristic of the phantom. In a method of phantom identification, an image of the phantom is obtained that includes the phantom identifier. The at least one unit marker is identified, the at least one unit marker encodes a value representative of a physical characteristic of the phantom.
US10939890B2	Radiographic imaging system A radiographic imaging system includes an irradiating apparatus, a first clock, a radiographic imaging apparatus, a second clock and a hardware processor. The irradiating apparatus generates radiation. The first clock keeps time and works with the irradiating apparatus. The radiographic imaging apparatus generates image data based on received radiation. The second clock keeps time and works with the radiographic imaging apparatus. The hardware processor (i) obtains a clock value of the first clock at a predetermined time point and a clock value of the second clock at the predetermined time point respectively as first clock information and second clock information, (ii) makes a determination as to whether a specific condition is met based on the obtained first clock information and the obtained second clock information, and (iii) in response to the specific condition being met, performs a specific output.
US10939888B2	Radiation irradiating apparatus A radiation irradiating apparatus includes a radiation generator that generates radiation and a switch that controls emission of the radiation from the radiation generator. The radiation generator and the switch are constituted by separate housings. The radiation generator and the switch are attachable and detachable to and from each other via a surface of a portion of each of the housings thereof.
US10939882B2	Dental bite block for 2D imaging Dental radiographic imaging systems and/or methods for using the same can provide panoramic 2D dental radiographic images. Providing improved panoramic 2D image quality can depend on imaging a desired/selected focal trough, which is itself based on a correct positioning of the patient's head inside the panoramic dental imaging system. Exemplary dental radiographic imaging systems and/or methods for using the same can provide a patient positioning device (e.g., bite stick embodiments) that can position or urge patients to get the right positioning (such as head tilt) to increase probabilities of the improved/best panoramic image reconstruction. Further, certain exemplary bite stick embodiments can repeatedly, consistently and/or correctly position patient after patient for panoramic imaging.
US10939879B2	X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes setting circuitry. The setting circuitry is configured to set a third plan for a patient, by integrating together a first plan for the patient and a second plan for the patient.
US10939874B2	Deep-learning-based cancer classification using a hierarchical classification framework An automatic classification method for distinguishing between indolent and clinically significant carcinoma using multiparametric MRI (mp-MRI) imaging is provided. By utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN), which automatically extracts deep features, the hierarchical classification framework avoids deficiencies in current schemes in the art such as the need to provide handcrafted features predefined by a domain expert and the precise delineation of lesion boundaries by a human or computerized algorithm. This hierarchical classification framework is trained using previously acquired mp-MRI data with known cancer classification characteristics and the framework is applied to mp-MRI images of new patients to provide identification and computerized cancer classification results of a suspicious lesion.
US10939866B2	System and method for determining sleep onset latency The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for determining sleep onset latency in a subject. The system is configured to generate output signals conveying information related to brain activity in the subject, determine sleep stages of the subject based on the output signals, determine a sleep onset moment in the subject based on the determined sleep stages, determine a sleep intention moment for the subject by: (i) detecting eye blinks in the subject based on the output signals, and determining the sleep intention moment responsive to the detected eye blinks ceasing for a predetermined period of time; and/or (ii) determining whether brain activity power in a target frequency band has breached a threshold power level based on the output signals, and determining the sleep intention moment responsive to a breach; and determine the sleep onset latency based on the sleep onset moment and the sleep intention moment.
US10939860B2	Techniques and devices associated with blood sampling The present invention generally relates to devices and techniques associated with diagnostics, therapies, and other applications, including skin-associated applications, for example, devices for delivering and/or withdrawing fluid from subjects, e.g., through the skin. In some embodiments, the device includes a system for accessing an extractable medium from and/or through the skin of the subject at an access site, and a pressure regulator supported by a support structure, able to create a pressure differential across the skin at at least a portion of the access site. The device may also include, in some cases, a sensor supported by the support structure for determining at least one condition of the extractable medium from the subject, and optionally a signal generator supported by the support structure for generating a signal relating to the condition of the medium determined by the sensor.
US10939855B2	Photoelectric sensor module A photoelectric sensor module includes a first light emitting element that emits light having a first wavelength, a second light emitting element that emits light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a light receiving element that receives light emitted from the first light emitting element and reflected by an object and light emitted from the second light emitting element and reflected by the object are mounted on a substrate with linear edges. With respect to a virtual straight line defined on a surface of the substrate, a light emitting portion of the first light emitting element and a light emitting portion of the second light emitting element are line-symmetric, a light receiving portion of the light receiving element is line-symmetric, and a shape of the substrate in plan view is line-symmetric.
US10939848B2	Method and apparatus for assessing respiratory distress A method and apparatus are disclosed for assessing a respiratory function from plethysmography data obtainable, for example, from a pulse oximeter. A pulsatile waveform obtained from pleth data is processed to obtain a second waveform extending over a over multiple respiratory cycles and representing respiration-related variations in a pulse-beat area defined by the pulsatile waveform. The second waveform is analyzed to obtain information indicative of respiratory distress. A respiratory index that provides a good indicator of respiratory distress may be computed based on a magnitude of respiratory peaks in the second waveform. Applications to asthma and sleep apnea are described.
US10939845B2	FFL-based magnetic particle imaging three-dimensional reconstruction method, system, and device A FFL-based magnetic particle imaging three-dimensional reconstruction method includes: acquiring current signal data of an induction coil during FFL-based three-dimensional scanning process of a scanned object; based on the current signal data, performing deconvolution through a preset kernel function to acquire a two-dimensional image data set, wherein the kernel function is a step function with L2 regularized constraint; based on the two-dimensional image data set, acquiring an initial three-dimensional image by using a Wiener filtering deconvolution algorithm; and based on the initial three-dimensional image, performing deconvolution through a Langevin function, and acquiring a final three-dimensional image by Radon transformation. A FFL-based magnetic particle imaging three-dimensional reconstruction system includes a magnet group, an induction coil, an imaging bed, and a control and imaging device, wherein, a magnetic particle imaging method in the control and imaging device is the FFL-based magnetic particle imaging three-dimensional reconstruction method.
US10939844B2	THz sensing of corneal tissue water content Methods and apparatus for corneal imaging and sensing are provided. Apparatus capable of utilizing single or multiple frequency emissions at terahertz (THz) wavelengths to create reflectivity maps of the cornea in either a contact or non-contact modes are also provided. Methods of obtaining data from THz imaging and sensing apparatus about the corneal tissue-aqueous humor system, including information about the corneal tissue water content (CTWC) and/or the central corneal thickness (CCT) are likewise provided. Methodologies may use multiple transfer functions (frequencies) in obtaining simultaneous data about CTWC and CCT. Methods using frequency sweeping to allow for determination of CTWC and CCT may also be utilized. Methods may also be used to assess CTWC using multiple bandwidths at the same frequency, or multiple frequencies at the same bandwidth. Methods may use data from CTWC measurements to aid in the diagnosis of various corneal and brain disorders.
US10939842B2	Pericardial balloon mapping A device, system, and method for mapping myocardial tissue, such as epicardial tissue on the right ventricle. A system for mapping myocardial tissue may include a mapping device having a distal portion that includes a distal assembly sized and configured to be positioned within the pericardial space. The distal assembly may include an expandable shell, at least one inflatable or expandable element within the expandable shell, and a mapping electrode assembly. Inflation or expansion of the at least one inflatable or expandable element, and therefore expansion of the expandable shell, within the pericardial space may provide sufficient force of the mapping electrodes against the myocardial tissue being mapped. The system may also include a delivery sheath with a retention element for controllably retracting the device within the sheath during delivery and removal of the device from the pericardial space.
US10939837B2	Device for monitoring blood flow A medical device for measuring blood flow through a blood vessel of a mammal includes a conductive elastomer having a variable resistance. A frame is at least partially surrounding at least a portion of the conductive elastomer, the conductive elastomer is suspended within the frame. A mechanical amplification element is slidably engaged to the conductive elastomer, the mechanical amplification element being configured to slide within the frame and to contact skin of the mammal over the blood vessel when the frame is positioned over the blood vessel, the mechanical amplification element being configured to be displaced when the artery pulsates and changes the resistance of the elastomer.
US10939833B2	Determining artery location using camera-based sensing In one embodiment, a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium embodies software that is operable when executed to, in real time, capture a number of images of a user; identify one or more regions of interest corresponding to one or more superficial arteries of the user. The identification is based on a signal-to-noise ratio of photoplethysmogram (PPG) data obtained from the plurality of images. The software is further operable to measure, based on the PPG data, blood volume pulse (BVP) signals; and based on the measured BVP signals, compute one or more cardiological metrics for the user.
US10939830B2	Determining blood pulse characteristics based on stethoscope data Techniques for determining pulse transit time (PTT) and blood pressure measurements based on stethoscope data are provided. In one example, a system comprises a stethoscope component that monitors a heart and generates stethoscope data representative of a sound wave generated by the heart. The system can further comprise an analysis component that receives the stethoscope data and receives, from a photoplethysmography (PPG) component that monitors an extremity, PPG data representative of a pulse wave at the extremity. The analysis component can determine, based on the stethoscope data, a first time corresponding to closure of a tricuspid valve of the heart and can determine a PTT as a function of the first time and a second time corresponding to the pulse wave at the extremity that is determined based on the PPG data. Blood pressure measurements can be obtained from algorithms with the inputs of PTT or times determined based on the PPG data.
US10939829B2	Monitoring a condition of a subject Apparatus for monitoring a clinical condition of a subject is described. A motion sensor senses motion of the subject without contacting or viewing the subject, and generates a sensed motion signal responsive to the sensed motion. A signal analyzer is adapted to analyze the motion signal to identify a cough in the subject. Other applications are also described.
US10939801B2	Electronic endoscope system An electronic endoscope system includes: an electronic endoscope including an image sensor that images a living tissue; a processor that performs image processing on an image obtained by imaging the living tissue; and a display that displays the image on which image processing has been performed. The processor includes: a feature amount calculation unit that calculates, as a feature amount, a ratio between differences of values of two color signals out of a plurality of color signals of each of pixels of the image from a reference value; and an image enhancement processing unit that enhances the image by determining a degree of increase or decrease of at least one of the values of the two color signals on the basis of the calculated ratio so as to perform enhancement processing on the image.
US10939799B2	Image processing apparatus, endoscope system, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing apparatus, an endoscope system, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium capable of accurately estimating blood vessel information. An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of a living body; a blood vessel index value calculation unit that calculates a blood vessel index value of the living body from the acquired image; a blood vessel density calculation unit that calculates a blood vessel density of the living body from the acquired image; a blood vessel index value correction unit that corrects the calculated blood vessel index value according to the calculated blood vessel density; and a blood vessel information estimation unit that estimates blood vessel information of the living body based on the corrected blood vessel index value.
US10939798B2	Washing agent dispenser for household washing machines, in particular dishwashers A dispenser of washing agents for dishwashers comprises: a dispenser body with a receptacle for containing a washing agent; a door having a door body mounted in a guided way with respect to the dispenser body for being movable between a position of closing and a position of opening of the receptacle; and slide guides between the dispenser body and the door body. Two first walls of the dispenser body each have one side facing a side of a respective second wall of the door body. The slide guides comprise guiding elements and guided elements at facing sides of the first walls of the dispenser body and of the second walls of the door body, the guided elements being slidably coupled to the guiding elements. For each first wall of the dispenser body, the guiding elements comprise a first seat in the form of a longitudinally extended groove, and a first projecting element in the form of a stud or pin, both defined in the side of the respective first wall that faces the corresponding side of the corresponding second wall of the door body. For each second wall of the door body, the guided elements comprise a second projecting element in the form of a stud or pin, and a second seat in the form of a longitudinally extended groove, both defined in the side of the respective second wall that faces the corresponding side of the corresponding first wall of the dispenser body. Each first projecting element is engaged in a corresponding seat, and each second projecting element is engaged in a corresponding seat.
US10939783B2	Food processor lid A lid of a food processing system selectively receivable by a container of the food processing system includes a lid body defining a cavity within the lid body, a locking assembly at least partially disposed within the cavity and an actuator associated the said lid body and the locking assembly. The locking assembly is movable from an unlocked position to a locked position in response to application of a first force applied to the actuator. The locking assembly is movable from the locked position to the unlocked position in response to application of a second force applied to said actuator, the first force and said second force being applied in a same direction.
US10939780B2	Beverage preparation device and operating method A beverage preparation device (1), in particular a coffee machine, with a housing (2), an outlet (5) for discharging a beverage into a beverage container and a support element (6) for supporting the beverage container, said support element being arranged in a detachable manner in the insert openings (9, 10) which are arranged on the front side of the housing (4) and which are at variable distances to the outlet (5). The insertion openings (9, 10) are associated with closure means (12) for closing the insertion openings (9, 10) when the support device (6) is not inserted.
US10939779B2	Shallow machine A machine (1) for dispensing a beverage (84) from a capsule (2) has: an external housing (10, 30, 30′, 40, 50, 60) having an external front face (10), two external spaced-apart lateral side faces (30,30′) that extend rearwards behind the external front face (10) and that face each other; a beverage outlet (11) located on the external front face (10) and above a front area (20) for placing a user-receptacle (3,4) for collecting beverage (84) from the outlet (11); and a capsule handling device (70) that has a first part (71) and a second part (72) that are relatively movable between a capsule transfer position and a capsule extraction position. At least one part (72) of the first and second parts (71,72) is arranged to translate towards and away from at least one of the two external lateral side faces (30,30′) so that the first and second parts (71,72) relatively move between the transfer and the extraction positions.
US10939778B2	Extraction device with a suitable collector chamber A brewing device (1) adapted for the preparation of beverages, in particular aromatic beverages such as espresso coffee and similar, by mixing a pressurized flow with an edible substance contained in a capsule (2). The brewing device (1) comprises a force transmission disposition (3), an injection disposition (4) presenting capsule side supports (41), a collection disposition (5) presenting a collection chamber (51) and a structural disposition (6). The collection chamber (51) is adapted so that the capsule side supports (41) keep engagement of the capsule (2) when the capsule is introduced the furthest into the collection chamber (51), so that the capsule (2) can be pulled upstream, out of the collection chamber (51), driven by the opening movement of the brewing device (1) from a closed position.
US10939773B2	Systems, components and related methods The present invention is generally directed to systems related to sleeping, playing and provision of non-toxic environments, components related to those systems, and methods involving the systems or components. It is more particularly directed to systems, components and methods that aid early infant cognitive development, improve ventilation inside a crib, promote fresh and/or odor free air, promote thermoregulation and homeostasis, protect the person using the systems, components and methods from biological toxins, and create healthy sleeping environments for infants, toddlers, children and adults. One sleep system according to the present invention includes a cover, a core, and a bottom. The cover includes at least two raised areas. The raised areas have one or more heights ranging from 0.125 inch to 5.0 inches and diameters ranging of 0.25 to 10.0 inches.
US10939752B2	Variable height desk A variable height desk includes: a main support; a plurality of linear guides mounted to the main support; a desk mounting panel mounted to and configured to move along the linear guides; a desk surface mounted to the desk mounting panel; and an actuator accommodated in the main support and configured to raise and lower the desk mounting panel.
US10939750B2	Height adjustable device with concealed lift mechanism A height adjustable device including a counterbalance mechanism configured to be affixed adjacent to a rear portion of a vertical support member, a worksurface configured to be affixed adjacent to a front portion of the vertical support member, and a mounting member configured to slidably couple the worksurface to the counterbalance mechanism; wherein a portion of the mounting member extends through an opening defined in the vertical support member.
US10939749B2	Modular folding table with collapsible legs A portable modular folding table can include a substantially flat tabletop having three or more tabletop sections, hinges coupled to the tabletop sections, and collapsible legs that are modular and separate from the tabletop. The tabletop can have a width and a length that is at least twice as large as the width, and the tabletop sections are coupled to and foldable onto each other to reduce the length of the tabletop by less than half when the tabletop is reduced from a fully extended configuration to a fully compacted configuration. Each of the collapsible legs can be adjustable to multiple different heights and can have multiple tabletop support points. The tabletop can rest atop the tabletop support points when the tabletop is in a fully extended configuration and the tabletop can be separated from and stored alongside the collapsible legs when the tabletop is in a fully compacted configuration.
US10939747B2	Hair brush A hair brush has a semi-circular configuration, and has a head having a support member with a plurality of apertures therein that accommodate a plurality of bristles each having a hollow therein, and has a rear having an elongated hollow therein that complements the semi-circular configuration. When air is applied to the bristles, each bristle communicates with the aperture so that air can flow through the openings of the bristles, the aperture and outward through the hollow in the rear of the hair brush and away from the hair of a user. When air is applied to the hollow in the rear, the air is directed through the apertures and bristles onto the hair of the user.
US10939737B2	Hair-retaining device and method of manufacture A hair-retaining device is described as having a base material, a layer of epoxy resin, a compliant exterior layer disposed over the base material and joined to the base material of epoxy resin, and a top coat layer disposed over the compliant exterior layer. The method of making a hair-retaining device is described. The method involves extruding a base material to a predetermined shape, cutting the predetermined shape of the base material to a predetermined thickness, abrading a surface of the base material, applying an epoxy resin to the base material, and applying a compliant exterior layer disposed over the base material and joined to the base material by the epoxy resin.
US10939729B2	Knitted shoe upper Described are uppers for a shoe, particularly a sports shoe, having at least one first partial area and at least one second partial area that are manufactured as one-piece knitwear, wherein the first partial area includes a first yarn and the second partial area includes a second yarn, and wherein the first yarn is more elastic than the second yarn.
US10939728B2	Insole The invention relates to an insole (100) for shoes with a base material, which comprises a sole surface (102) facing the shoe and an opposite foot surface facing the foot, wherein a coating (112) is provided on the sole surface (102), which provides the sole surface (102) of the insole (100) with an increased frictional force with respect to the uncoated sole surface (102), characterised in that the coating (112) is formed from a plurality of individual patterns (120) formed from coating lines (114), which are discrete from one another and are arranged in such a way that they cannot be formed by one or more continuous coating lines (114) miming continuously from a first side (122a) of the sole surface (102) to an opposite second side (122b) of the sole surface (102).
US10939726B2	Footwear having a sole with a plurality of chambers Soles for footwear and footwear are disclosed. The sole may include a midsole having a first surface. The sole may additionally include an outsole having a second surface and a plurality of first recesses. The second surface may be attached to the first surface. The first surface and the plurality of first recesses may define a plurality of chambers. One or more chambers of the plurality of chambers may include trapped air. The midsole may further include first protruding portions that extend downwardly from the first surface toward one or more first recesses of the plurality of first recesses.
US10939722B2	Article of footwear and method for forming the article An article of footwear comprising an upper (2) provided with an inner sole (3) and the upper (2) and inner sole (3) delimiting a cavity (4) for receiving a foot. A first sole (5) covering at least parts of the inner sole (3), said first sole (5) being made in one continuous piece and comprising through-going sole holes (8). The inner sole (3) comprises a mesh directly attached to the upper (2) and comprises a first inner sole surface turning towards the cavity (4) defining the bottom of the cavity. The through-going sole holes (8) are covered at least partly by the mesh and provide a fluid communication between the cavity (4) and the outside of the second sole surface, thereby allowing liquid such as water to run through the sole holes (8) between the cavity (4) and the outside of the footwear.
US10939718B2	Modular helmet interface A modular helmet interface with a mounting cleat and adhesive layer is provided. In one aspect, a mounting cleat is affixed to a helmet, such as a ballistic helmet, by an adhesive layer, the mounting cleat having a cavity filled with the adhesive used to secure the cleat to the helmet. In a further aspect, the mounting cleat has one or more annular grooves for improving the bond between the cleat and the helmet. In another aspect, a mounting cleat is secured to a helmet by way of a cleat-receiving securing member, the securing member affixed to the helmet by an adhesive layer.
US10939717B2	Headgear with illuminated decorative piece Provided is an article of wearing apparel having a decorative illuminable assembly. The wearing apparel includes a crown section, a bill section attached at one end to a bottom edge of the crown section, a decorative illuminable assembly secured to the crown section, a charging port integrated with the crown section, and a weatherproof port cover. The decorative illuminable assembly has a design shape, at least one light emitting diode, and a power switch which connects the at least one light emitting diode with a rechargeable battery. The charging port is configured to allow charging of the of the rechargeable battery via electronic connection of a mobile device charger. In an embodiment, the article of wearing apparel is a baseball cap and the charging port is positioned centrally on a frontward facing portion of the crown section when the bill section is facing the front of a wearer.
US10939716B1	Adjustable hat member An adjustable hat bill having a first link and a second link. The first link has a first link male member, and it defines a first link female receiving area. The second link defines a second link female receiving area. The first link male member is located within the second link female area, and the second link is capable of some rotation about the male member.
US10939714B2	Apparatus and method for a storing a baseball cap The present invention is a wall mountable apparatus that receives one or more baseball styled caps for compact storage.
US10939712B1	Helmetless support and ventilation system for a surgical hood and gown and methods of making and using same A helmetless support and ventilation system for use with surgical hoods and gowns, including a flexible band, a plurality of front offsets connected to the flexible band, an offset extension such that the plurality of front offsets is connected to the offset extension and the offset extension is located away from the flexible band, a plurality of faceplate attachment extensions, wherein each of the plurality of faceplate attachment extensions is connected to the offset extension, a plurality of support faceplate attachments, such that each of the plurality of support faceplate attachments are connected to each of the plurality of faceplate attachment extensions, and a ventilation system located within a surgical gown and a surgical hood for providing filtered, ventilation air within the surgical gown and the surgical hood, wherein the ventilation system is retained by shoulders of a wearer of the ventilation.
US10939710B2	Protective clothing for exercise [Problem] To provide a body protection product such as a wetsuit that does not require a troublesome and time-consuming step such as machine sewing, does not cause discomfort for the wearer, and does not result in a loss to the degree of freedom in terms of design. [Solution] A wetsuit (10), in which a highly stretchable and elastic sheet-shaped fabric is draped so as to match the concave and convex features of the body shape of a wearer and a plurality of fabric pieces (11) are prepared, an adhesive (3) is applied to the draping surfaces of the fabric pieces (11), and the draping surfaces are then pressed against each other and joined without stitching, whereby a three-dimensional clothing base (1) is formed. Next, an adhesive (4) is applied to the surface of the clothing base and stretching is performed, whereby the surface of the clothing base is covered by a stretchable covering material (2) formed to match the shape of the clothing base (1). The clothing base (1) and the covering material (2) are compressed under heating and thereby made to adhere to each other.
US10939692B2	Method for culturing aquatic animals with aspartyl-dipeptides The invention provides a composition for use in culturing aquatic animals that includes one or more β-aspartyl dipeptides, or oligomers thereof, or salts thereof, wherein each of said β-aspartyl dipeptides comprises a β-L-aspartyl moiety as the first amino acid residue. The invention further relates to use of this composition as feed or feed additive for aquatic animals and as a method for culturing aquatic animals.
US10939686B2	Sabadilla oil and uses thereof The present invention is directed to methods of controlling pathogenic fungi comprising applying sabadilla oil.
US10939682B2	Pesticidally active bi- or tricyclic heterocycles with sulfur containing substituents Pesticidally active bi- or tricyclic heterocycles with sulphur-containing substituents, stereoisomers and tautomeric forms thereof that can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10939678B2	Adjuvant compositions and related methods for reducing herbicide volatility The disclosure relates to adjuvant compositions and related methods for reducing herbicide volatility. The adjuvant- and herbicide-containing herbicide compositions are generally aqueous and include a volatile growth regulator herbicide and a monosaccharide adjuvant. When the compositions are applied to a target area to control a herbicide-sensitive target plant in the area with the herbicide, the monosaccharide adjuvant reduces volatile transport of the herbicide, thus reducing damage to other (non-target) sensitive plants, whether inside or outside of the target area of application.
US10939675B1	Turkey call device A turkey call device is disclosed in this invention. The turkey call device includes a striker that has a wedge-shape taper ending in a flat striking tip and a counter-balancer. The tip is made of a harder material than some of the materials in rest of the striker. The combination of elements enables this turkey call device to be easier to use and produce more consistent turkey-like sounds than conventional turkey call devices in the market today.
US10939663B2	Tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9173 The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9173. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9173 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9173 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US10939662B2	Tomato line PSQ-9Z15-3848V The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line PSQ-9Z15-3848V. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z15-3848V and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z15-3848V comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US10939661B2	Cotton variety 17R815B3XF The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 17R815B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 17R815B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 17R815B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 17R815B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10939656B2	Cotton variety 16R228NRB2XF The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 16R228NRB2XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 16R228NRB2XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 16R228NRB2XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 16R228NRB2XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10939653B1	Soybean cultivar 88432102 A soybean cultivar designated 88432102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 88432102, to the plants of soybean cultivar 88432102, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 88432102, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 88432102. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88432102. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88432102, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 88432102 with another soybean cultivar.
US10939648B2	Soybean variety 01072899 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072899. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072899. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072899 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072899 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10939646B2	Soybean variety 01073479 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073479. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073479. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073479 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073479 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10939644B2	Soybean variety 01073461 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073461. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073461. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073461 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073461 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10939636B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH100328 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH100328. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH100328, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH100328 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH100328.
US10939621B2	Method and apparatuses for cold plasma in agriculture Methods and systems for generating a plasma-activated liquid or gas, and applying the plasma-activated liquid for agricultural use. A system embodiment includes a hand-held device that can be pointed and directed at different target areas of a plant. A method embodiment includes generating a plasma discharge in a gas environment or a liquid environment, and applying the gas/liquid to a plant.
US10939618B2	Material conveyance system in a combine harvester A combine harvester is provided with a conveyance system for transporting crop material discharged by overhead grain separating apparatus to a grain cleaning shoe. The conveyance system comprises a series of oscillating pans which move the grain in a generally longitudinal direction. A return pan conveys the collected material forwardly to a front discharge edge from where the material falls onto a stratification pan below. The stratification pan conveys the collected material rearwardly to a rear discharge edge from where the material falls into the grain cleaning shoe. At least one of the return pan and the stratification pan is non-rectangular and has a non-transverse discharge edge.
US10939613B2	Grass trimmer and cord delivering method of grass trimmer The invention provides a grass trimmer and a cord delivering method for a grass trimmer, the grass trimmer includes an extending rod, an housing, a grass trimming head, a handle, a main motor and a main switch, wherein the grass trimming head includes a base, a cap and a spool having a first state relative static with the base, and the grass trimmer further includes a cord delivering mechanism; the cord delivering mechanism includes a cord delivering electronic switch independent of the main switch and a control device; and the cord delivering electronic switch operably electrically controls the control device to enable the spool to be in a second state capable of generating a rotary speed difference with the base. An operator does not need to interrupt work of the grass trimmer and can timely pay off required and the cord delivering operation is simple and convenient.
US10939602B2	Work vehicle A work vehicle (1) comprises a coupling apparatus (18) for coupling an attachment to the forward end (8) of the work vehicle (1). The coupling apparatus (18) comprises a three point linkage mechanism having a pair of lower coupling elements (19) and an upper coupling element (25). A first carrier element (22) is pivotally coupled to a forward chassis part (14) of the work vehicle (1) by a pair of main transverse pivot shafts (35) which define a main transverse pivot axis (33). A second carrier element (23) carries the lower coupling elements (19) and is pivotally coupled to the forward chassis part (14) about the main transverse pivot axis (33) and about a main longitudinal pivot axis (45). A main longitudinal pivot shaft (46) extending rigidly from the second carrier element (23) pivotally engages the first carrier element (22) and terminates in a swivel bearing (50) which pivotally and swivelably couples the main longitudinal pivot shaft (46) to an intermediate transverse pivot shaft (54) which also defines the main transverse pivot axis (33), so that the second carrier element (23) and the first carrier element (22) are pivotal about the main transverse pivot axis (33), and the second carrier element (23) is pivotal about the main longitudinal pivot axis (45) to facilitate upward and downward movement of an attachment coupled to the coupling apparatus (18) about the main transverse pivot axis (33) and tilting movement of the attachment about the main longitudinal pivot axis (45).
US10945356B2	Cooking exhaust systems having one or more airflow features Cooking exhaust systems for use with a cooktop appliance are provided herein. An exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, and an air handler. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above the cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and the air outlet to motivate an airflow therethrough. The air outlet may define an airflow curtain path extending outward from the casing in front of the image monitor.
US10945342B2	Fastening assembly, holding mechanism, bracket and remote controller, using the holding mechanism A fastening assembly includes a fastening member and an operating member movably sheathed on the fastening member. The fastening member includes a threaded part and a mating part connected to the threaded part. The operating member includes a snap-fitting part corresponding to the mating part.
US10945325B2	Color tunable luminaires for offices with changeable ambient light conditions A luminaire for a workstation, including a tunable light source, a control circuit in association with the luminaire configured to automatically modulate a spectral power distribution of the tunable light source in a response to a changeable ambient lighting condition and an operator interface in communication with the control circuit, where the operator interface is configured to allow a workstation occupant to activate and deactivate the response.
US10945320B1	Output voltage control method to avoid LED turn-on flash A light-emitting diode (LED) driver circuit includes a DC-to-AC inverter that provides a primary AC voltage to the primary winding of an output transformer via a resonant tank circuit. The transformer has at least one secondary winding. An AC output voltage from the secondary winding is rectified to generate a DC voltage, which is applied to a load having a plurality of LEDs. An overshoot control circuit electrically connected in parallel with the primary winding of the transformer prevents the DC voltage applied to the load from exceeding the forward bias of the LEDs during startup conditions until the resonant tank circuit is stabilized. The overshoot control circuit includes a first diode and a first capacitor and further includes a second diode and a second capacitor. The first and second capacitors absorb energy during alternate half cycles of the primary AC voltage until the resonant tank circuit is stabilized.
US10945317B1	Five color temperature switching circuit A five color temperature switching circuit includes a power supply, an LED driver, a first LED light, a second LED light, a third LED light, a first diode, a second diode, a third diode, a fourth diode, and a switch. The switch has twelve connecting ports. The switch has five regulating stages corresponding to the twelve connecting ports. Thus, the five color temperature switching circuit is provided with three LED lights with three different color temperature values, four diodes, and the switch, such that the lamp provides an illuminating function with five color temperature values.
US10945315B2	LED lighting system An LED control system is provided for connection to an LED lighting system via a power line to control the LED lighting system using commands formed by manipulation of frequency and amplitude of a signal transmitted over the power line. The signal may be for example a wave or a sequence of pulses. The signal may be provided in superposition with line power or the line power may be formed as the signal.
US10945301B2	Method for transmitting and receiving a signal based on a channel aggregation transmission in a wireless local access network system and devices supporting the same Disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving a signal based on a channel aggregation transmission in a wireless local access network system and devices supporting the same. Particularly, disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving a signal comprising a training field based on a channel aggregation transmission in a wireless local access network system and operation of devices supporting the same.
US10945300B2	Method for (re)selection of control plane and user plane data transmission The invention describes a method for dynamic switching between a control plane data transmission and user plane data transmission avoiding the Detach and consecutive re-attach procedure or TAU procedure. In particular the decision for switch between the different transmission schemes is based on various criteria like the size of the data packet or on total amount of data, etc.
US10945296B2	Synchronization and reservation based on sub timeslots for unaligned wireless communications In one embodiment, a parent device in an unaligned wireless network may determine a superframe comprising a header timeslot followed by a plurality of sub timeslots. The parent device may transmit, to a plurality of child devices in the unaligned wireless network, a beacon during the header timeslot, wherein the beacon comprises i) synchronization information used by the plurality of child devices to synchronize to the header timeslot and ii) reservation information that indicates one or more reserved sub timeslots of the plurality of sub timeslots. The parent device may receive, from a particular child device of the plurality of child devices, a message during a particular sub timeslot of the plurality of sub timeslots that is different than the one or more reserved sub timeslots.
US10945293B2	Frequency hopping for two-step random access Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, configuration information for a two-step random access procedure. The UE may determine a frequency hopping space for transmitting a payload of a two-step random access channel of the two-step random access procedure. The UE may encode the payload into one or more codewords. The UE may map the one or more codewords to a plurality of resource units of the frequency hopping space. The UE may transmit the one or more codewords to the base station on the plurality of resource units of the frequency hopping space. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10945285B2	Wireless network communication system and method A communication system comprising one or more wireless stations programmed to await for an authorizing signal to initiate wireless communications with a network controller or access point. The network controller maintains identification information in different queues, and polls stations from those queues. The wireless station identification information may be moved between the different queues in response to wireless station activity. Between polling, each mobile station aggregates data for the next opportunity to transmit. Multi-polling may be employed such that more than a single station is polled at a time. Polling is accomplished by polling one of the more stations from each queue having the effect that stations in one queue are polled more often than those in another queue. If a lesser active station becomes active, it may be moved into the shorter queue and consequently will be polled more often.
US10945281B2	Facilitating improved performance of multiple downlink control channels in advanced networks Facilitating improved performance of multiple downlink control channels in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise scheduling multiple data traffic channels for a user equipment device. Scheduling the multiple data channels can comprise scheduling a first data traffic channel of the multiple data traffic channels based on a legacy scheduling procedure and scheduling a second data traffic channel of the multiple data traffic channels based on an iterative procedure. The operations can also comprise transmitting, to the user equipment device, first information via multiple downlink control channels and transmitting, to the user equipment device, second information via the multiple data traffic channels.
US10945277B2	Methods and apparatus for switching between bandwidth parts A user equipment (UE) receives control signaling in a scheduling bandwidth part (BWP). The control signaling indicates switching from a first active BWP to a second active BWP or switching from a first active BWP pair to a second active BWP pair for the UE. The control signaling aligns with a time unit boundary, such as a slot boundary, that is associated with the scheduling BWP. In the event that a scheduled BWP for a UE has a different numerology than a scheduling BWP that is currently active for the UE, the UE could switch from the scheduling BWP to the scheduled BWP based on a control signaling monitoring periodicity of the scheduled BWP.
US10945273B2	Apparatus, system and method of beamforming and beam tracking For example, a first Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to exchange first and second Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) setup frames with a second EDMG STA to initiate a BRP Transmit Sector Sweep (TXSS) over an aggregated channel bandwidth including an aggregation of a primary channel and a secondary channel in a frequency band above 45 GHz; during the BRP TXSS, transmit a plurality of BRP frames to the second EDMG STA over the primary channel and the secondary channel according to an EDMG control mode; determine a transmit beamforming configuration over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on BRP feedback from the second EDMG STA; and transmit an EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) to the second EDMG STA over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on the transmit beamforming configuration.
US10945252B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control channel and data channel for NR system Provided is a scheduling information transmission/reception method and apparatus for an NR system in a wireless communication system. A method for receiving, by a terminal, scheduling information for data transmission or reception in a wireless communication system according to one aspect of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information indicating a first physical resource supporting a first subcarrier spacing within a time interval and a second physical resource supporting a second subcarrier spacing within the time interval; receiving at least one of first scheduling information for the first physical resource and second scheduling information for the second physical resource; and performing the data transmission or reception on the basis of the at least one of the first scheduling information and the second scheduling information.
US10945250B2	Wireless communication apparatus for supporting a plurality of radio access technologies and wireless communication method thereof A wireless communication method of a wireless communication apparatus for supporting a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) including receiving a first downlink signal corresponding to a first RAT and a second downlink signal corresponding to a second RAT from a base station through a first frequency band, decoding the first downlink signal, detecting the second downlink signal based on a result of decoding of the first downlink signal, and decoding the detected second downlink signal to acquire data included in the second downlink signal may be provided.
US10945248B2	User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method The present invention is designed so that communication can be carried out adequately even when the bandwidth to use is limited to partial reduced bandwidths in a system bandwidth. According to an example of the present invention, a user terminal, in which the bandwidth to use is limited to a partial reduced bandwidth in a system bandwidth, has an acquiring section that acquires EPDCCH (Enhanced PDCCH) configuration information based on information that is reported from a radio base station without using a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), and a receiving section that detects a user terminal-specific search space (USS: UE-specific Search Space) of an EPDCCH based on the EPDCCH configuration information.
US10945243B2	System and method for small traffic transmissions A grant-free transmission mode may be used to communicate small traffic transmissions to reduce overhead and latency. The grant-free transmission mode may be used in downlink and uplink data channels of a wireless network. In the downlink channel, a base station transmits packets to a group of UEs in a search space without communicating any transmission code assignments to the UEs. The UEs receive the downlink packets using blind detection. In the uplink channel, UEs transmit packets in an access space using assigned access codes which are either independently derived by the UEs or otherwise communicated by the base station using a slow-signaling channel. Hence, the grant-free transmission mode allows mobile devices to make small traffic transmissions without waiting for uplink grant requests.
US10945242B2	Uplink information transmission method, base station, and user equipment An uplink information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment are disclosed. The uplink information transmission method includes: sending, by UE, first uplink information on a first frequency resource of a first subframe set; and sending, by the UE, second uplink information on a second frequency resource of a second subframe set, where the first frequency resource and the second frequency resource are frequency resources included in two different narrowbands; a radio frame in which a subframe in the first subframe set is located is different from a radio frame in which a subframe in the second subframe set is located, and any subframe included in the first subframe set and any subframe included in the second subframe set belong to different radio frames.
US10945241B2	Terminal and radio communication method The invention aims to perform UL transmission in an appropriate manner even when using short transmission time intervals (TTIs). A user terminal includes a transmission section that performs the UL transmission using at least one of a plurality of TTIs contained in one subframe of existing systems, and a control section that controls allocation of an UL signal and/or an UL channel. The TTI is constituted of an even number of symbols of the existing system. The control section allocates an uplink control channel on the basis of the TTI.
US10945237B2	Method and apparatus for performing uplink transmission for NB-IoT in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) in a wireless communication system is provided. A narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) user equipment (UE) configures a set of resource units with at least one tone for uplink transmission in NB-IoT, transmits the PUSCH by using the set of resource units, and transmits the DM-RS used for demodulating the PUSCH by a network in the set of resource units.
US10945233B2	Paging method, device, and system A paging method, a paging device, and system are described. A mobility management network element (MME) obtains location information of user equipment (UE) in a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, where the UE already accesses the non-3GPP network. The MME receives a downlink data notification message, where the downlink data notification message carries an identifier of the UE. The MME pages the UE according to the location information of the UE in the non-3GPP network. In some implementations, a paging range may be determined according to the location information of the UE in the non-3GPP network, and a paging message does not need to be sent to all base stations in a registration area of the UE.
US10945231B1	Regulation of airtime for fine timing measurement requests Techniques for improved wireless ranging are provided. A first communication from a first device is received at a first access point. A predefined minimum distance is determined for the first access point, where the predefined minimum distance corresponds to a distance at which the vertical location of the first access point causes inaccurate location estimations. A first distance of the first device from the first access point is estimated. Upon determining that the first distance of the first device is below the predefined minimum distance, fine timing measurement (FTM) requests from the first device are declined.
US10945230B2	System and method for automatic redirection of wireless client to nearby wireless hotspot device A wireless network gateway redirects a wireless client device to a wireless network hotspot device. The wireless network gateway includes a hotspot location determining component, a client location determining component, a redirecting component and a communication component. The hotspot location determining component determines the location of the wireless network hotspot device. The client location determining component determines the location of the wireless client device. The redirecting component generates a redirection instruction based on the location of the wireless network hotspot device and the location of the wireless client device. The communication component transmits the redirection instruction to the wireless client device to instruct the wireless client device to redirect to the wireless network hotspot device.
US10945227B2	Method and device for signal measurement Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to configuring a measurement gap. A network device obtains information about a first frequency region and a second frequency region. The first frequency region is being used for transmitting a first synchronization signal from a serving cell managed by the network device, and the second frequency region is used for transmitting a second synchronization signal from a neighbor cell of the serving cell. Then, the network device determines a configuration for a measurement gap based on the first and second frequency regions, and transmits the configuration for the measurement gap to the terminal device.
US10945210B2	Control system for a radio frequency communication device In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a control system for a radio frequency (RF) communication device is provided, the system comprising: a communication controller configured to control an RF communication of the RF communication device; a detector configured to detect the presence of an external communication device and to initiate a wake-up of the communication controller in dependence on said presence; wherein the detector is configured to detect said presence by detecting a first load on an RF interface of the RF communication device, said first load resulting from a first transmitted RF pulse; and wherein the detector is configured to initiate said wake-up if a difference between the first load and a reference load is above a high threshold, and to perform a presence verification if the difference between the first load and the reference load is between a low threshold and the high threshold. In accordance with further aspects of the present disclosure, a corresponding method for controlling a radio frequency (RF) communication device is conceived, and a corresponding computer program is provided.
US10945197B2	Electronic device for providing AP list and method for operating electronic device An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a communication module, a display, a memory and a processor which implements the method. The method includes receiving access point (AP) information from at least one AP through the communication module, generating an AP list including an AP communicatively connectable with the electronic device based on the received AP information, storing the AP list in the memory, identifying a state of the electronic device, determining an arrangement criterion for arranging a display order of Aps included in the AP list based on state information about the electronic device, and controlling the display to arrange the AP list according to the determined arrangement criterion.
US10945196B2	Communications method, terminal device and network device A communication method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The communication method includes: a terminal device transmits a predetermined uplink sequence, the uplink sequence is used for indicating that the terminal device has a demand for determining a target network device; the terminal device receives a first downlink message transmitted by a network system according to the uplink sequence; and when the first downlink message is used for identifying a first network device, the terminal device determines that the target network device is the first network device according to the first downlink message, the first network device is determined by the network system according to location information of the terminal device.
US10945192B2	Client steering A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface for receiving and transmitting data; wherein the wireless network device is adapted to: determine a first cost associated with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable; determine a second cost associated with communication between the client device and a further wireless network device to which the client device is connectable; determine whether the first cost or the second cost is the lower cost; and if the second cost is the lower cost, the wireless network device is adapted to guide the client device to communicate with the further network device.
US10945189B1	System and methods for evaluating backhaul of wireless sites using expandable path search rings The disclosed technology provides a system and method for evaluating candidate wireless sites within path search rings around centerpoints or new potential sites based on a portfolio of centerpoints, a portfolio of candidate sites, a variable radius of the path search rings, and a variable number of target candidates or paths sought within each path search ring, where the system and method computes radio path properties between the centerpoints and candidate sites and visually depicts bounding rings around centerpoints based on whether the target number of viable candidates or paths exist within the path search ring.
US10945188B2	Systems for connecting devices through intermediate nodes Methods and systems are presented in this disclosure that enable mobile devices without access to an active network connection (e.g. cellular, satellite or Internet network) to communicate between each other by sending and receiving data packets (e.g. text, location, or image) through a mesh of connected devices. A mobile device receives a request to send a packet having an identifier of a recipient device. Based on the identifier, the mobile device determines whether the recipient device is in a list of mobile devices within a wireless range of the mobile device. Based on the determination, the mobile device includes the packet into an outgoing queue having packets for forwarding. The mobile device establishes one or more connections with one or more mobile devices in the list, and forwards one or more packets from the outgoing queue to the one or more mobile devices using the one or more connections.
US10945177B2	Method and apparatus for session release in wireless communication Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic apparatus and a method for wireless communication. The electronic apparatus can include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can send one or more packet data unit (PDU) session release requests to a wireless communication network system to request a PDU session release procedure. In an embodiment, a timer is used for the one or more PDU session release requests. The processing circuitry can determine whether a network response is received from the wireless communication network system before the timer expires and whether a number of times that the timer expires reaches a predetermined number of times. The processing circuitry can locally release the PDU session when the network response is not received and the number of times that the timer expires reaches the predefined number of times.
US10945175B2	RACH-less fallback to two-step or four-step RACH with UL grant In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform at least receiving, by a network device of a communication network, information providing an indication to connect to a network node of the communication network using a Random Access Channel (RACH)-less) signaling procedure; determining that connecting to the network node using the RACH-less signaling procedure has failed; and based on the RACH-less signaling procedure failing, using at least one alternative signaling procedure for connecting to the network node using uplink (UL) resources from RACH-less procedure. Further, in accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform based on a RACH-less signaling procedure from a network device failing to connect to a network node, receiving, by the network node, at least one alternative signaling procedure from the network device for the connecting; and establishing a connection with the network device based on the at least one alternative signaling procedure from the network device using the UL resources from RACH-less procedure.
US10945170B2	Communication method and mobile terminal A communication method for a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal, where the communication method includes detecting whether the mobile terminal uses a call service, obtaining a state of an access control circuit when the mobile terminal uses the call service, and selecting a process of network quality monitoring based on the obtained state of the access control circuit, where the process of network quality monitoring includes stopping network quality monitoring, or stopping reporting a network quality monitoring result to a network side. Hence, the network side can process the call service of the mobile terminal based on the process of network quality monitoring performed by the mobile terminal to avoid a before-ringing inter-system handover and improve user experience.
US10945164B2	Method in a base station of a communication system for making a handover decision, base station, computer programs, and computer program products The invention relates to a method (20) in a base station (2, 3) of a communication system (1) for making a handover decision, the communication system 1 comprising a user equipment (4, 5). The method (20) comprises the steps of: performing (21) a first type of mobility mechanism for the user equipment (4, 5), and upon the first type of mobility mechanism fulfilling a criterion: configuring (22) a second type of mobility mechanism for the user equipment 4, 5, and making (23) a handover decision for the user equipment (4, 5) based on the second type of mobility mechanism. The invention also relates to a base station, computer programs and computer program products.
US10945163B2	Method and system to provide mission critical talkgroup service with minimal audio truncation and delay A method and subscriber unit provide mission critical talkgroup service while minimizing truncation and delay when at least one member talkgroup radio is on a Broadband LTE (Long Term Evolution) system. A dual-mode subscriber unit preferably obtains LMR coverage map data to predict the entry point and remaining duration for when the subscriber unit will operate in the backup LTE system. The subscriber unit falls back to the LTE system when the subscriber unit is out of the coverage area of the LMR system. Because the subscriber unit set the connected state prior to using the LTE network and continuously optimizes RRC mode parameters, audio truncation and call delay are greatly reduced without draining the battery of the subscriber unit.
US10945162B2	Special uplink subframe for enhanced mobility A user equipment (UE) device is scheduled to transmit an uplink data transmission to its serving base station. The uplink data transmission includes a special subframe that has a different subframe structure than a subframe structure used by at least one other UE device being served by the serving base station. For example, the special subframe includes a blanked portion of the first symbol of the special subframe and a higher Reference Signal symbol density when compared to the subframe structure used by other UE devices. A target base station receives and decodes the uplink data transmission, utilizing the features of the special subframe to acquire and estimate the uplink channel between the UE device and the target base station. After decoding the uplink data transmission, the UE device is handed over from the serving base station to the target base station.
US10945149B1	Time domain behavior and QCL relation for SINR measurement Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling that configures a channel measurement resource and an interference measurement resource within a same time interval. The UE may transmit a measurement report that indicates a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurement that is generated based on measuring the channel measurement resource and the interference measurement resource. In some cases, the UE may receive a quasi co-location (QCL) relationship indicator that indicates a QCL relationship for the interference measurement resource or the channel measurement resource. The UE may measure the channel measurement resource and the interference measurement resource in accordance with the QCL relationship.
US10945147B2	Dynamic CSI reporting type This disclosure pertains to a terminal for a Radio Access Network, the terminal being adapted for transmitting a measurement report on received reference signaling. The measurement report is based on one report type out of a set of possible report types, the terminal determining the report type of the measurement report based on a measurement report type indication in a downlink control information message received by the terminal. There are also disclosed further related methods and devices.
US10945145B2	Network reconfiguration using genetic algorithm-based predictive models An example method may include a processing system including at least one processor determining a final weight set comprising weight factors to apply to each of a plurality of performance indicators for a predictive model associated with a target performance indicator using a genetic algorithm. The method may further include the processing system gathering a first plurality of measurements of the plurality of performance indicators for at least a portion of a cellular network, applying the predictive model to the first plurality of measurements of the plurality of performance indicators to generate a prediction for the target performance indicator, and adjusting at least one aspect of the cellular network in response to the prediction.
US10945138B2	Dual mode communications device with remote device feedback and methods for use therewith In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes an antenna array configured to receive first millimeter wave (MMW) signals from a remote device in a millimeter wave (MMW) frequency band and to transmit second millimeter wave (MMW) signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band. A base transceiver station is configured to generate a consolidated steering matrix in accordance in a radio frequency (RF) band based on a consolidated feedback matrix in accordance with the RF band, wherein the MMW frequency band is above the RF band. A remote radio head is configured to: process the first MMW wave signals received from the remote device to recover an original feedback matrix in accordance with the MMW frequency band; convert the original feedback matrix in accordance with the MMW frequency band to the consolidated feedback matrix in accordance with the RF band; convert the consolidated steering matrix to a converted steering matrix that facilitates the transmission of the second MMW signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band, and is further configured to generate the second MMW signals in accordance with the converted steering matrix.
US10945137B2	Communication system, communication method, and storage A communication system is a communication system provided in a mobile body and including an acquirer configured to acquire a destination of the mobile body, and a communicator configured to communicate with a communication device outside the mobile body using an antenna, in which the communicator is configured to increase directivity of the antenna in a direction from a position of the mobile body to the destination when the destination is acquired by the acquirer.
US10945136B2	Base station that transmits system information based on beam information and user equipment A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is described. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has a circuitry which is configured to transmit system information based on beam information.
US10945134B2	Method and devices for signaling transmission in unlicensed band Embodiments of the present invention provide method and devices for signaling transmission in unlicensed band. The method comprising determining a signal transmission pattern, which defines time and frequency resources for transmitting at least one signal in a first frequency band; signaling, via a second frequency band, the signal transmission pattern to a first device; and transmitting the at least one signal via the first frequency band, to the first device, according to the signal transmission pattern; wherein a transmission of one of the at least one signal is skipped if time and frequency resource for the transmission defined by the signal transmission pattern is detected as busy. Corresponding methods and devices for receiving a signal which is transmitted using above method are also disclosed.
US10945129B2	Facilitating interaction among digital personal assistants Techniques are described herein that are capable of implementing a context-aware digital personal assistant (DPA) that supports multiple accounts and/or facilitating interaction among digital personal assistants. For example, a user may be signed-in with accounts of a DPA. Content from content streams associated with the respective accounts may be selectively combined based on at least the user's context. In another example, users who are signed-in with accounts of a DPA may share a user experience provided by the DPA. Content from content streams associated with the respective accounts may be selectively combined based on at least one or more of the users' context. In yet another example, a first DPA associated with a first user may be caused to perform an operation on behalf of a second DPA associated with a second user or to delegate the operation to the second DPA.
US10945122B2	Network node, communication device and method for idle mode positioning configuration A wireless communication device (330) and method therein for performing positioning related measurement during idle mode in a wireless communication networks (300) are disclosed. The wireless communication device (330) is capable of wireless communication with at least a first network node (320) in a first cell (310). The wireless communication device (330) obtains information on a specific configuration associated with positioning measurements to be performed in idle mode. The wireless communication device (330) performs positioning related measurements based on the obtained information and provides (430) the positioning related measurements to the first network node.
US10945115B1	Crisis management system and methods thereof Disclosed herein are crisis management systems and methods thereof. The crisis management methods may include registering a group of users for access to a crisis management system; receiving, by crisis management system, an indication of a crisis event at a physical location from at least one user of the group of users, the crisis event caused by an aggressor; determining, by crisis management system, a location of the aggressor; creating, by crisis management system, a secure communication channel between the group of users; denying access, by crisis management system, to the secure communication channel to the aggressor; and notifying, by crisis management system, the group of users of the location of the aggressor.
US10945100B2	Carrier capability signaling with regard to multiple carrier numerologies Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a capability of the UE relating to a carrier configuration of the UE, wherein the carrier configuration relates to carriers of at least two different numerologies; and transmit information identifying the capability, wherein the information identifying the capability identifies a bandwidth or number of carriers that is supported for carriers of a first numerology and one or more scaling values associated with one or more numerologies other than the first numerology. A base station may receive information identifying a capability of a UE relating to a carrier configuration of the UE, wherein the carrier configuration relates to carriers of at least two different numerologies; and determine a configuration for communication with the UE based at least in part on the information identifying the capability. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10945099B2	Methods, user equipment and radio network node for multimedia broadcast multicast service A method and a user equipment as well as a method and a radio network node for multimedia broadcast service are disclosed. The radio network node sends, on a physical downlink control channel of the carrier, downlink control information using a multicast network identifier. The downlink control information includes a bit indicating whether or not at least two emergency notifications are broadcast on the carrier, and a notification relating to a change of a multicast channel of the carrier. The user equipment receives, on a physical downlink control channel of the carrier, downlink control information using a multicast network identifier. The user equipment behaves as if at least two fields relating to indication of said at least two emergency notifications are set to one in a paging message for the user equipment, when the bit is set to one.
US10945090B1	Surround sound rendering based on room acoustics A method performed by an audio system within a room that includes a first loudspeaker that has a first beamforming array and a second loudspeaker that has a second beamforming array. The method obtains a sound program as several input audio channels. The method performs a beamforming algorithm based on the input audio channels to cause each of the arrays to produce a front beam pattern and a side beam pattern when the loudspeakers are close to an object within the room, where the front beam patterns are directed away from the object and the side beam patterns are directed towards the object and the beam patterns contain different portions of the sound program. The method performs a cross-talk cancellation (XTC) algorithm based on a subset of the input audio channels to produce several XTC output signals for driving the arrays when the loudspeakers are far away from the object.
US10945085B2	Magnetic retention device An apparatus, including an external component of a medical device configured to generate a magnetic flux that removably retains, via a resulting magnetic retention force, the external component to a recipient thereof, wherein the external component is configured to enable the adjustment of the generated magnetic flux so as to vary the resulting magnetic retention force.
US10945080B2	Audio analysis and processing system An audio analysis and processing system with a processor configured with an audio array input thread connected to a plurality of audio input channels each corresponding to an audio input sensor. An audio input sensor may be positionally related to a position of other audio input sensors and a source input thread may be configured to be connected to a microphone audio input channel. An audio output thread may be configured to be connected to a speaker output channel and a beamformer thread may be responsive to the audio array input thread. A beam analysis and selection thread may be connected to an output of the beamformer thread and a mixer thread may have a first input connected to an output of the source input thread and a second input connected to an output of the beam analysis and selection thread and may have an output connected to the audio output thread. The audio input channel may be connected to the personal communication device. The microphone audio input channel may be connected to the personal communication device. The processor may include a line output thread configured to connect to an audio output channel. An audio information interface may be provided to connect signals representing audio to the processor.
US10945079B2	Hearing system configured to localize a target sound source A hearing system is adapted to be worn by a user and configured to capture sound in an environment of the user and comprises a) a sensor array comprising M transducers for providing M electric input signals representing said sound and having a known geometrical configuration relative to each other; b) a detector unit for detecting movements over time of the hearing system, and providing location data of said sensor array at different points in time t, t=1, . . . , N; c) a first processor for receiving said electric input signals and—in case said sound comprises sound from a localized sound source S—for extracting sensor array configuration specific data τij of said sensor array indicative of differences between a time of arrival of sound from said localized sound source S at said respective input transducers, at said different points in time t, t=1, . . . , N; and d) a second processor configured to estimate data indicative of a location of said localized sound source S relative to the user based on corresponding values of said location data and said sensor array configuration data at said different points in time t, t=1, . . . , N.
US10945077B2	Electroacoustic transducer with improved shock protection An electroacoustic transducer includes an armature that is mounted for deflection between magnets where an elongated portion of the armature includes a protrusion on opposite sides thereof for limiting the deflection of the armature. The protrusions are arranged transversely with respect to the elongated portion of the armature. Among other advantages, deflection of the armature is limited to provide improved shock performance. In one example, the protrusions are located within a magnet zone of the electroacoustic transducer.
US10945057B2	Motorized microphone rails Improvements in a motorized microphone rail system for a musical instrument and more particularly for a percussion instrument such as a drum, marimba or similar musical instrument. The microphone system includes a vibration isolation system. A vertical or horizontal tracking system bridges across supports of a drum or marimba in a vertical or horizontal tracking system. One or more microphones are supported on the first bridging structure. The microphone(s) are positional with a drive screw that is powered by a motor. The microphone can be moved along the supporting rail to alter the sound based upon the phasing of the sound wave between the drum heads or the sound producing elements. Electronic drive and control for operating a motor that positions the microphone is also disclosed.
US10945053B2	Method and device for processing service crossing master node Provided are a method and device for processing a service crossing the master node, which relate to the communications field, and solve a problem of a resource conflict caused by the service crossing the master node in the OBTN. The method comprises: when assigning a bandwidth for a service requested by each node within the present DBA period, a master node selects a processing strategy; the master node eliminates, according to the selected processing strategy, a resource conflict caused by the service crossing the master node, and assigns a bandwidth to the service requested by each node. The technical solution provided by the present disclosure is applicable to the OBTN, thereby implementing highly reliable OBTN resource scheduling.
US10945050B2	Broadcast signal transmission/reception device and method A broadcast signal transmission method is disclosed. The broadcast signal transmission method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: processing video data and audio data; encoding a broadcast service component, including the video data and audio data, and service layer signaling (SLS) information on the broadcast service component on the basis of a delivery protocol; subjecting the broadcast service component, the SLS information, and service list table (SLT) information to IP packetization; and subjecting the broadcast service component, the SLS information, and the SLT information to physical layer processing.
US10945047B1	Selective playback of audio at normal speed during trick play operations Systems and methods are described herein for selective playback of portions of audio at normal speed during a fast-forward operation. Upon receiving a command to perform a fast-forward operation, a current playback position is identified, as well as a plurality of portions of audio of the content item that will be subject to the fast-forward operation. A subset of the audio portions that will be subject to the fast-forward operation are selected. The fast-forward operation is initiated, and video of the content item is played back at the increased speed while the selected portions of audio of the content item are played back at normal speed.
US10945041B1	Language-agnostic subtitle drift detection and localization Devices, systems, and methods are provided for language-agnostic subtitle drift detection and localization. A method may include extracting audio from video, dividing the audio into overlapping blocks, and determining the probabilities of overlapping portions of the blocks, the probabilities indicating a presence of voice data represented by the audio in the blocks. The method may generate machine blocks using overlapping portions of blocks where voice data is present, and may map the machine blocks to corresponding blocks indicating that subtitles are available for the video. For mapped blocks, the method may include determining features such as when subtitles are available without voice audio, when voice audio is available without subtitles, and when voice audio and subtitles both are available. Using the features, the method may include determining the probability that the video includes subtitle drift, and the method may include analyzing the video to localize where the subtitle drift occurs.
US10945040B1	Generating and providing topic visual elements based on audio content and video content of a digital video The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating a topic visual element for a portion of a digital video based on audio content and visual content of the digital video. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a map between words of the audio content and their corresponding timestamps from the digital video and then modify the map by associating importance weights with one or more of the words. Further, the disclosed systems can generate an additional map by associating words embedded in one or more video frames of the visual content with their corresponding timestamps. Based on these maps, the disclosed systems can identify a topic for a portion of the digital video (e.g., a portion currently previewed on a computing device), generate a topic visual element that includes the topic, and provide the topic visual element for display on a computing device.
US10945037B2	Real-time DVR programming Techniques for real-time DVR programming employ secure instant message protocol in a DVR environment. An embodiment sends an instant message to the DVR which causes the DVR to open a new secure connection with the service provider for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider. Another embodiment uses an already established connection with an instant message server for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider.
US10945032B2	Method and system for remotely controlling smart television based on mobile terminal A method and a system for remotely controlling a smart television based on a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes: detecting a state of the smart television every predetermined time interval by the mobile terminal, and receiving a command input from a user to acquire a type of an audience watching the smart television; determining whether a current playing time, a playing content and a playing duration conform to conditions preset by a user, when the audience watching the smart television is a minor; and detecting whether the smart television is in a turned-on state when the audience watching the smart television is an older person.
US10945024B2	Generating a live-view interactive program guide with a plurality of television channels and a reserved space for picture-in-picture preview area One or more processors receive a plurality of original video streams, generate a guide video stream that includes each of the original video streams resized and arranged such that all of the original video streams are simultaneously visible and playing on the guide video stream, and display the guide video stream on a display device. The one or more processors further provide an interactive user interface on the display device in conjunction with the guide video stream to thereby allow a user of the set-top box to select one of the original video streams shown playing on the guide video stream for full screen playback. In response to the user selecting a particular original video stream for full screen playback, the one or more processors play full screen on the display device the particular original video stream as selected by the user.
US10945021B2	Receiving method, receiving device, and transmission and reception system A receiving method of receiving a first data unit in which data making up an encoded stream is stored and the first data unit stores a plurality of second data units. The receiving method includes: receiving the first data unit, first time information indicating a presentation time of the first data unit, second time information indicating, together with the first time information, a presentation time or a decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units, and identification information; calculating the presentation time or the decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units using the first time information and the second time information; and correcting the presentation time or the decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units based on the identification information.
US10945020B2	Electronic apparatus and method of operating the same Provided are an electronic apparatus and a method of operating the same. The electronic apparatus includes: a buffer configured to receive one or more first frames corresponding to a first stream and one or more second frames corresponding to a second stream; and a controller configured to identify the one or more second frames and control the buffer to output the identified one or more second frames, in response to a playback switch event, wherein the controller is configured to identify the one or more second frames based on a time stamp value of the one or more second frames distinguished from a time stamp value of the one or more first frames or a second flag added to the one or more second frames and distinguished from a first flag added to the one or more first frames.
US10945016B2	Apparatus and method for gathering analytics A method and apparatus are provided for gathering analytics. In an embodiment, a method includes monitoring interactions of multiple users related to at least one of: multiple base content and multiple supplemental content. The supplemental content is associated with one or more products or services identified in the base content. The method also includes obtaining interaction information associated with the interactions. The method also includes selecting specified supplemental content to present to a specified user based on (i) the interaction information and (ii) specified base content presented to the specified user. The method also includes sending the specified base content and the specified supplemental content to an endpoint associated with the specified user.
US10945009B2	Methods and apparatus to perform media device asset qualification Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform media device asset qualification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an asset quality evaluator to identify candidate media device assets obtained from a media device that identify media. The example apparatus further includes an asset grader to grade the candidate media device assets based on calculating a valid hash count corresponding to a number of matches between a first one of the candidate media device assets compared to a second one of the candidate media device assets using a hash table, and identify the first one of the candidate media device assets as a reference media device asset, the first one having a higher grade compared to grades of other candidate media device assets. The example apparatus further includes an asset loader to generate a validation report including the identification of the reference media device asset.
US10945002B2	Multimedia playback method and related device System and methods for multimedia playback are provided. A terminal device may obtain a playback identifier of a multimedia playback device. The terminal device may send an association request to a server based on the playback identifier. The association request may enable the server to establish an association between a terminal device and the multimedia playback device. The terminal device may receive a plurality of candidate options pushed by the server. The plurality of candidate options may be pushed to the terminal device associated with the multimedia playback device when the server detects that a preset time point arrives after the multimedia playback device plays back a first media resource. The terminal device may obtain a target option selected from the plurality of candidate options. The terminal device may feedback the target option to the server to enable the server to determine a second media resource to be played back by the multimedia playback device.
US10945000B2	File generation apparatus and file generation method as well as reproduction apparatus and reproduction method There is provided a file generation apparatus and a file generation method as well as a reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method by which a file in which quality information of a depth-related image at least including a depth image is efficiently stored can be managed. An MPD file generation unit generates an MPD file. The MPD file is a management file that manages a file in which quality information representative of quality of a plurality of depth-related images including at least a depth image is disposed in a form divided in a plurality of tracks or subsamples and the management file in which a correspondence relationship between the respective tracks and associationID that specifies the depth-related images is described. The present disclosure can be applied when a segment file and an MPD file of a video content are distributed, for example, in a method that complies with MPEG-DASH.
US10944992B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet in a communication system A method for encoding a packet in a broadcasting system supporting an Internet Protocol (IP)-based multimedia service is provided. The method includes dividing a data stream into data payloads, generating a Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) packet by adding a first header to each of the data payloads, and generating a source packet by adding an MMT packet header to the MMT packet and performing Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding on the header-added MMT packet. The MMT packet header includes type information of the MMT packet.
US10944986B2	Methods and systems for determining motion vectors in a motion estimation process of a video encoder Methods and systems for determining motion vectors in a motion estimation process of a video encoder are provided. Embodiments of the present invention provide a solution for the problem of unnecessary cost function evaluations, found when combining the successive elimination method with a predetermined list of candidate motion vectors search ordering. In order to solve this problem, embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive scan ordering of block matching candidates within a search area. Advantageously, embodiments of the present invention will only evaluate necessary cost functions, without impacting rate-distortion.
US10944984B2	Affine motion prediction A video encoder and video decoder are configured to encode and decode blocks of video data using affine motion prediction. Affine motion prediction may include predicting control point motion vectors using an affine advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) motion vector predictor list. The video encoder and video decoder may be configured to construct the affine AMVP motion vector predictor list of candidate control point motion vectors for the block of video data, wherein the affine AMVP motion vector predictor list includes one or more affine motion vector predictors that have all control point motion vectors equal to a designated motion vector.
US10944983B2	Method of motion information coding A method and apparatus for motion information coding not only uses the Merge index to indicate the selected Merge candidate, but also refines partial motion information of the selected Merge candidate. An encoder derives a Merge candidate set based on the motion information associated with neighboring blocks. The encoder selects a target Merge candidate from the Merge candidate set and signal a Merge index corresponding to the target Merge candidate. The encoder then predicts a part of the current motion information based on partial motion information associated with the target Merge candidate to generate coded motion information.
US10944979B2	CABAC decoder with decoupled arithmetic decoding and inverse binarization An encoded bitstream of entropy encoded video data is received by a video decoder. The encoded bitstream represents syntax elements of a sequence of coding blocks. The sequence of coding blocks is recovered by processing a bin sequences associated with each coding block in a processing pipeline, wherein a defined amount of time is allocated to process each coding block in the processing pipeline. The encoded bitstream is arithmetically decoded to produce each bin sequence. The arithmetic decoder is time-wise decoupled from the processing pipeline by storing a plurality of the bin sequences in a buffer memory.
US10944976B2	Systems and methods for coding video data using adaptive component scaling A method of encoding and decoding video data is described. According to an aspect of an invention, luma and chroma components may have separate quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structures and a scaling parameter for a chroma coding block is determined based on one or more properties of a luma component.
US10944967B2	Encoder and decoder and methods thereof Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods, apparatus and computer programs for adaptive loop filtering in an encoder and in a decoder. One method, performed in an encoder, comprises: determining filter parameters for a plurality of filters to be used in encoding a frame or slice; determining respective activity values for each of a plurality of blocks in the frame or slice, wherein each block comprises a plurality of pixels; determining respective quantization parameters for each of the plurality of blocks; selecting, for each of the plurality of blocks, a filter from the plurality of determined filters based on the respective activity value and the respective quantization parameter; and applying the filter parameters for the respective selected filters to the plurality of blocks.
US10944965B2	Apparatus for encoding an image Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.
US10944959B2	Automated spatial indexing of images to video A spatial indexing system receives a video that is a sequence of frames depicting an environment, such as a floor of a construction site, and performs a spatial indexing process to automatically identify the spatial locations at which each of the images were captured. The spatial indexing system also generates an immersive model of the environment and provides a visualization interface that allows a user to view each of the images at its corresponding location within the model.
US10944957B2	Active stereo matching for depth applications A head-mounted device (HMD) is configured to perform depth detection with a stereo camera pair comprising a first camera and a second camera, both of which are configured to detect/capture visible light and IR light. The fields of view for both of the cameras overlap to form an overlapping field of view. The HMD also includes an IR dot-pattern illuminator that is mounted on the HMD with the cameras and that is configured to emit an IR dot-pattern illumination. The IR dot-pattern illuminator emits a dot-pattern illumination that spans at least a part of the overlapping field of view. The IR dot-pattern illumination adds texture to objects in the environment and enables the HMD to determine depth for those objects, even if they have textureless/smooth surfaces.
US10944955B2	Multiple viewpoint image capturing system, three-dimensional space reconstructing system, and three-dimensional space recognition system A multiple viewpoint image capturing system includes: a plurality of cameras that capture videos in a predetermined space from different positions; a circumstance sensing unit that senses at least one of circumstances of the respective cameras and circumstances of the predetermined space, and outputs the sensed circumstances in a form of capturing circumstance information; and an event detector that detects a predetermined event based on the capturing circumstance information, determines whether to perform camera calibration in a case of detecting the predetermined event, and outputs camera calibration information that indicates the camera calibration to be performed in a case of determining that the camera calibration is to be performed.
US10944954B2	Systems and methods for scanning three-dimensional objects and materials According to at least one aspect, a system is provided. The system comprises a rotation device configured to rotate an object about an axis; a plurality of imaging sensors configured to image the object and comprising two imaging sensors that are disposed a fixed distance apart; and a computing device configured to: control the plurality of imaging sensors to capture a first set of images of the object in a first position; control the rotation device to rotate the object from the first position to a second position; control the plurality of imaging sensors to capture a second set of images of the object in the second position; generate a 3-dimensional (3D) model of the object using the first and second sets of images; and identify a scale of the 3D model of the object using the fixed distance.
US10944948B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and imaging method There is provided a signal processor including correction circuitry configured to correct a signal for each color input to the signal processor and to output the corrected signal for each color, first conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform first image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a first signal having a first color gamut for each color, second conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform second image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a second signal having a second color gamut for each color, where the signal processor outputs a first image data having a first color gamut and a second image data having a second color gamut from same corrected signals for each color.
US10944937B2	Television panel mount A TV panel mount, characterized by including: a wall chassis; a mounting base slidably connected to the wall chassis; a mounting bracket assembled with the mounting base for mounting a TV panel, where the wall chassis is provided with parallel slide rails, and the mounting base includes a slidable frame having an inner side to be attached to an outer side of each of the slide rails; and an adjustment member mounted in the slidable frame to adjust the friction between the slidable frame and the slide rail so that the slidable frame can slide or be fixed along an extension direction of the slide rail.
US10944933B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, and moving body A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a transistor configured to process a signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit, and an analog-to-digital conversion circuit. The apparatus further includes a first semiconductor substrate on which the photoelectric conversion units and the transistors of the plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, a second semiconductor substrate on which a plurality of circuit blocks is two-dimensionally arranged, a bonding portion configured to electrically connect the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, and a wiring arranged between the first semiconductor substrate and the bonding portion. The wiring is connected to the transistors of the plurality of pixels and configured to supply a control signal to the transistors of the plurality of pixels.
US10944931B2	Solid state imaging device and imaging system A solid state imaging device as an embodiment includes: a plurality of pixels each including at least one photoelectric conversion unit and an amplification transistor having a first input node electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion unit, a first primary node, and a second primary node; a transistor having a second input node, a third primary node, and a fourth primary node and having the same polarity as the amplification transistor; at least one signal line to which the first primary node of each of the plurality of pixels is electrically connected; and a current source electrically connected to the signal line, and a power source voltage is applied to the third primary node, the fourth primary node and the second primary node are electrically connected to each other, and the first primary node and the second input node are electrically connected to each other.
US10944911B2	Image data processing for digital overlap wide dynamic range sensors Methods and integrated circuits to process image data from single or multiple digital overlap (DOL) wide dynamic range (WDR) sensors, in which first received pixel data associated with a first exposure of a sensor image is stored in a DDR memory circuit, second received pixel data associated with a second exposure of the image is stored in the first buffer, third received pixel data associated with a third exposure of the image is stored in a second buffer, and fourth received pixel data associated with a fourth exposure of the image is provided to a merge circuit, and merged pixel data is stored in a dynamically partitioned line buffer for processing by an image pipeline circuit to facilitate interfacing multiple DOL WDR sensors in an interleaved fashion.
US10944909B2	Actuator, camera module, and camera-mounted device An actuator is provided with: the fixed part being formed by arranging either a coil part or a magnet part on a base member on the external peripheral side of the driven part; a movable part having a frame-like holding member for arranging and holding the other of the coil part or the magnet part on the base-member-side surface on the external peripheral side of the driven part; and a support part for inclinably supporting the movable part in relation to the fixed part, the support part being disposed on the base member. The holding member has, on the surface on the opposite side from the base member and farther inward than the arrangement area of either the coil part or the magnet part, a mounting surface part on which a first capturing module and a second capturing module are mounted as driven parts.

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