US10946414B2
A method for core impregnation of a finished part made of plastic material with an additive, including: dissolving the additive in a liquid medium to form a solution; placing the plastic part at ambient pressure in a pressure enclosure; hermetically sealing the chamber; impregnating the plastic part with the solution by a fluid at supercritical or near supercritical conditions in the enclosure at a pressure between 3 MPa and 6 MPa, at a temperature between 25° C. and 65° C. for a duration between 1 minute and 15 minutes; releasing the pressure inside the enclosure so that the liquid medium diffuses outside the plastic part and to trap the additive inside the plastic part.
US10946412B2
A thermally insulating sheet formed by a down core structure which is comprised solely of down feather material mixed with binding material which is heat fused together to form a homogeneous sheet core. The method of fabricating the homogeneous thermally insulating sheet to form the down core structure is described. This novel method restrains the down clusters and binding material during the process of mixing, depositing, conveying and heat fusing to form a homogeneous down core sheet. The down core structure is subjected to two separate heat treatments which produces a down core sheet having at least some of its outer surfaces being of higher bond density than the inside of the core.
US10946409B2
A device (1) applies adhesive to cores which are used to produce a log includes a moving means (3) configured to cause at least one core (5) to advance along a feed direction (A) and a dispensing means (7) configured for dispensing an amount of adhesive (9) on the core (5). The dispensing means (7) are moveable along an application direction (B) substantially orthogonal to the feed direction (A) and are configured to selectively dispense an amount of adhesive (9) along portions (11) of the core (5) during movement along the application direction (B).
US10946405B2
There is provided a turf cup assembly that attaches to a buried pop-up type sprinkler to blend a top of sprinkler both cosmetically and functionally with turf surrounding the sprinkler. The turf cup assembly includes a turf cup and a sleeve. The turf cup mounts to a riser of the pop-up type sprinkler. The turf cup contains soil and root structure of turf. The sleeve surrounds the turf cup and attaches to a top of a housing of a pop-up sprinkler. The sleeve can be at or slightly below grade, and the cup extends out of the sleeve during an irrigation cycle and retracts into the sleeve at the end of the irrigation cycle.
US10946389B2
An activation device for transmitting a user input to a control device has an engaging element that forms a first housing part and a feeding element that forms a second housing part. The engaging element has a push magnet, whose magnetic field extends into the feeding element and the feeding element has a push magnet that can be displaced without contact through exposure to the magnetic field. The engaging push magnet can be displaced in the direction of the feeding element by pressure-activating the activation device, and is set up to exert a magnetic force on a corresponding feeding push magnet. The engaging element and feeding element each have at least one rotating magnet that can be displaced parallel to an intermediate plane running between them. The engaging rotating magnet of the engaging element exerts a magnetic force on a corresponding feeding rotating magnet of the feeding element.
US10946386B2
The subject matter of the invention is a roller mill comprising two rollers which are arranged in parallel, are pressed one against the other and rotate in opposite directions, wherein one of the rollers can be displaced orthogonally with respect to the axial direction of this roller, and two drives, which drives are each assigned to one of the two rollers, and each have an electric motor, a master of the electric motors predefines for the electric motors a setpoint value for the rotational speed of the torque as a reference, and a reference of a follower electric motor of the electric motors comprises the actual value of the torque or of the rotational speed of the master electric motor multiplied by a load distribution factor.
US10946385B2
A roller mill (10) for grinding material, an aspirating assembly (23; 23′) and a method of retrofitting an existing roller mill. The roller mill (10) contains a grinding space (11, 11′) for grinding material, a separating wall (17) separates the grinding space from an aspiration space (21, 21′). At least one aspiration opening (13), is formed in the separating wall (17) through which aspiration air can flow due to a pressure difference between the aspiration space and the grinding space. The roller mill (10) has a closing element (14) for opening and closing the aspiration opening (13). The closing element (14) is in or moves into an opening position (O), which opens the aspiration opening (13), when the pressure difference exceeds a threshold value, and is in or moves into a closing position (S), which closes the aspiration opening (13), when the pressure difference falls bellow the threshold value.
US10946374B2
Provided herein are pipette tips having a proximal region with grooves and panels configured to facilitate wall expansion or wall compression when a pipette tip is mounted onto and sealingly engages with an appropriately designed liquid dispensing device.
US10946373B2
This disclosure is directed to exemplary embodiments of systems, methods, techniques, processes, products and product components that can facilitate users making improved absorbance or fluorescence measurements in the field of spectroscopy with reduced (minimal) sample waste, and increased throughput, particularly in the study of biological sciences. A method and device for photometric measurement of liquids. The method includes the steps of: The method includes the steps of; providing a pipette tip, the pipette tip being made of an optically clear body having an outer wall and an inner wall, the inner wall defining an inner space for receiving a liquid sample, the inner space providing a cross-sectional path length for light; positioning the pipette tip between a light source and a light collector; measuring light transmission through the liquid sample; adjusting the inner space of the pipette tip to change the cross-sectional length, and measuring light transmission through the liquid sample. This can be accomplished by moving the light source from a first position to at least a second position to provide a plurality of cross-sectional path lengths through the liquid sample or by moving the pipette tip from a first position to at least a second position to provide a plurality of cross-sectional path lengths through the liquid sample.
US10946370B2
A process for the preparation of a catalyst comprising palladium, a porous support with a specific surface area in the range 140 to 250 m2/g, said catalyst being prepared by a process comprising the following steps: a) preparing a colloidal solution of palladium oxide or palladium hydroxide in an aqueous phase; b) adding said solution obtained from step a) to said porous support at a flow rate in the range 1 to 20 litre(s)/hour; said porous support being contained in a rotary impregnation device functioning at a rotational speed in the range 10 to 20 rpm; c) optionally, submitting the impregnated porous support obtained from step b) to a maturation; d) drying the catalyst precursor obtained from step b) or c); e) calcining the catalyst precursor obtained from step d).
US10946365B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a process for dehydrogenating a first dehydrogenation reactant into its unsaturated counterparts. The disclosed process comprises introducing a dehydrogenation reactant to a metal oxide catalyst having dehydrogenation activity, and dehydrogenating the dehydrogenation reactant to provide its unsaturated counterpart and hydrogen; selectively combusting the hydrogen released during dehydrogenation using a lattice oxygen from the metal oxide catalyst, resulting in a reduced metal oxide catalyst and steam; re-oxidizing the reduced metal oxide catalyst by introducing a gaseous oxidant to the reduced metal oxide catalyst; and optionally re-using the re-oxidized metal oxide catalyst for catalytic conversion and combustion. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US10946359B2
A fuel reformation system includes a fuel delivery system that supports fuel, an oxidizer delivery system that supports an oxidizer, a mixer/vaporizer system in fluid communication with the fuel delivery system and the oxidizer delivery system, and a fuel processing reactor system. The mixer/vaporizer system receives the oxidizer from the oxidizer delivery system and the fuel from the fuel delivery system to mix and vaporize the oxidizer and fuel into a first effluent. The fuel processing reactor system receives the first effluent and reacts with the first effluent to generate a second effluent in the form of hot syngas for selective injection into a high speed, air-breathing propulsion system.
US10946358B2
A skid-mounted depressurizing system includes a main process module, a mechanical control system, a thermodynamic balance system and an intelligent control system. The main process module includes multiple main process pipelines, each of the multiple main process pipelines is provided with a pressure reducing valve set. During depressurization, process medium enters at least one of the multiple main process pipelines, the mechanical control system outputs a torque according to the control instruction of the intelligent control system to control each valve of the multiple main process pipelines to perform an action switch and an opening degree adjustment, the thermodynamic balance system is configured to provide the medium of different properties to the multiple main process pipelines according to the control instruction of the intelligent control system to control temperature, pressure, cleanliness degree and/or sealing degree of the main process module.
US10946347B2
A micro-bubble generator is provided between an input end and an output end of a water outlet device. The micro-bubble generator includes a water inlet member and a water outlet member. A gas inlet gap is remained between the water inlet member and the water outlet member, with the gas inlet gap being communicated to external air, such that the external air is allowed to enter the micro-bubble generator for gas-liquid mixing and generate minute and dense bubbles.
US10946346B2
The present invention relates to the separation of sperm. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of polyvinyl alcohol membranes in the electrophoretic separation of sperm.
US10946342B2
A membrane system including an anti-fouling layer and a method of applying an anti-fouling layer to a membrane surface are provided. In an embodiment, the surface is a microfiltration (MF) or an ultrafiltration (UF) membrane surface. The anti-fouling layer can include a stimuli responsive layer and a dynamic protective layer applied over the stimuli responsive layer that can be a coating on a surface of the membrane. The stimuli responsive polymer layer can act as an adhesive prior to coating with the dynamic protective layer to aid in adhering the dynamic protective layer to the membrane surface. The dynamic protective layer can be formed by suitable nanoparticles that can prevent adhesion of foulants directly to the membrane surface. The stimuli responsive layer can be responsive to physio-chemical stimuli to cause a release of the stimuli responsive layer and the dynamic protective layer including foulants from the membrane.
US10946337B2
Disclosed is a water treatment apparatus which can extract clean water by means of the pressure of raw water. The disclosed water treatment apparatus comprises: a filter part which filters raw water; a storage part which stores clean water filtered by passing through at least a part of the filter part, the storage part having a first chamber and a second chamber of which the volume changes according to a change in the volume of the first chamber; an extraction part which is installed so as to provide the filtered clean water to a user; and an air supply part which is installed on a flow path connected to the storage part in order to supply air to either one of the first chamber or the second chamber of the storage part.
US10946334B2
The invention provides a device and system for decomposing and oxidizing of gaseous pollutants. A novel reaction portion reduces particle formation in fluids during treatment, thereby improving the defect of particle accumulation in a reaction portion. Also, the system includes the device, wherein a modular design enables the system to have the advantage of easy repair and maintenance.
US10946332B2
A water filtration device is provided including a pressurized gas chamber receiving a pressurized gas; an open flow chamber receiving a colloidal suspension including water and colloidal particles, the open flow chamber having an inlet and an outlet, the colloidal suspension flowing between the inlet and at least one outlet in a flow direction; and a gas permeable membrane separating the gas chamber and the flow chamber, the gas capable of permeating the membrane, the membrane being water impermeable, the gas permeating the membrane in a direction normal to the membrane so as to induce diffusiophoretic motion on at least some of the colloidal particles opposite to or in a direction normal to the membrane; the at least one outlet having a first outlet with water having a higher concentration of the colloidal particles than a second outlet. Other devices and methods are also provided.
US10946319B2
A filter assembly with features for improved filter cartridge placement and detection are provided. The filter assembly includes a filter cartridge and a filter housing for receiving the filter cartridge. A contact member extends from the filter housing for engaging the filter cartridge when the filter cartridge in the installed position. A first contact is mounted to the contact member and a second contact is mounted to the filter cartridge such that the first contact and the second contact establish an electrical connection when the filter cartridge in the installed position.
US10946309B2
A fiber bundle contactor may include a vessel including a first inlet; a second inlet; a mixing zone arranged in the vessel to receive a first fluid from the first inlet and a including fluid from the second inlet, wherein the mixing zone comprises a perforated plate assembly comprising a plate, a plurality of openings in the plate, and a plurality of riser pipes that extend from the plate and arranged to allow fluid flow through additional openings in the plate; and an extraction zone including a fiber bundle arranged in the vessel to receive the first fluid and the second fluid from the mixing zone.
US10946308B2
An example method of extracting phytocannabinoids from plants includes obtaining plant parts from at least one plant, the at least one plant including one or more of Cannabis, Turmeric, Ginseng, Ginkgo, Ginger, Vinca, and Bacopa. The plant parts are cooled, and are incubated in an incubation mixture of cellulose, pectinase, amylase, and proteinase dissolved in a buffer. The incubation mixture is evaporated in an evaporation chamber to obtain a phytocannabinoid extract.
US10946306B1
Solvent-based methods for the extraction and concentration of cannabinoids and other target compounds from large-scale harvests of cannabis and hemp crops. Select portions of cannabis or hemp plants are harvested, ground to a desired particle size and ultimately powderized where the powder is mixed with a solvent, preferably ethanol or water, to form a slurry that is subjected to at least two, and preferably five or more separate inverting filter centrifugation steps until cannabinoid extraction is maximized. The filtrate from the first inverting centrifugation step is isolated and purified to derive an extract whereas the powderized filtride is subjected to further centrifugation steps. Fresh solvent is introduced at the last inverting centrifugation step and subsequently used upstream in sequentially-earlier centrifugation steps until ultimately utilized in a first inverting filter centrifugation step.
US10946296B1
An amusement ride providing the sensation of riding scissor lift construction equipment to ride passengers is disclosed. The amusement ride has a scissor lift mechanism supported by a construction equipment frame with wheels thereon. A stationary support structure supports the equipment frame and suspends the wheels in midair to hold the equipment stationary. A cargo lift platform connected on top of the scissor lift mechanism has amusement ride seats mounted thereon. The ride seats have passenger restraints which provides amusement-ride-level safety. An electric motor drivingly connected to the scissor lift mechanism is operated by a ride operator to raise and lower the cargo lift platform. A passenger access platform situated adjacent the cargo lift platform allows ride passengers to easily and safely enter and exit the scissor lift.
US10946295B2
An amusement ride enabling at least one rider to change a position of said at least one rider around at least one cylindrical vehicle while said at least one cylindrical vehicle carries said at least one rider along a central axis of said at least one cylindrical vehicle during a riding.
US10946288B1
A musical gaming device is disclosed. The musical gaming device serves to distract a user while they are under stressful situations or when they are idle. The gaming device engages a user in multiple ways in order to achieve a calming effect on a user. The musical gaming device may produce musical notes or sounds along with vibrations which a user is to replicate. The sounds and vibrations are replicated through buttons found on the musical gaming device. If a user is unable to replicate the specific sequence corresponding to one or more input musical notes then the game ends. The calming effect occurs both through the sounds heard and the vibrations produced. Thereby helping a user get through a stressful situation.
US10946276B2
Some examples of application state synchronization may include receiving, at a server, application state data from an electronic device. For instance, the application state data may represent an application state of a computer application running at the electronic device when a backup event occurs. An analysis may be performed based on at least one of a user profile or a usage pattern. A set of electronic devices may be identified based on the analysis. Further, the application state data may be transmitted to the set of electronic devices.
US10946272B2
A portable gaming device includes a game console housing including a handle, a trigger, a screen holder, and a display device coupled to the screen holder. The display device includes a display. The portable gaming device also comprises a processing circuit internally coupled to the game console housing including a processor, a memory, and a network interface, wherein the processing circuit is in communication with the display device. The processing circuit generates a user interface to be displayed on the display, determines a position of the game console housing, and updates the user interface based on the determined position of the game console housing.
US10946267B2
A gaming die is provided, that has a generally spherical body and a plurality of substantially planar faces distributed around the die. The spherical body defines lands extending between pairs of the plurality of faces. A plurality of bosses positioned on the spherical body between respective pairs of the plurality of faces.
US10946264B2
Snowboards and splitboards having a contact length less than or equal to 65% of the length of the snowboard or a contact length equal to or less than half the length of the snowboard are disclosed. In some embodiments, a peak of a cambered section is aligned with a horizontal midline of the snowboard. In other embodiments, a peak of a cambered section is aft of a horizontal midline of the snowboard. Optional features of the snowboards and splitboards include bi-lobed tips, bi-lobed tails, touring tails and/or dual recurved tails.
US10946262B2
A golf training aid may appear to take the form of a golf club, sometimes without a club head. At a proximal end, or end near the golfer, the training aid may comprise a standard golf grip attached to a carbon fiber cylinder portion, the cylinder portion containing a magnet, with a rubber seat disposed upon the magnet. A metallic ball bearing may be in magnetic attachment the magnet. A plurality of additional ball bearings, smaller than the metallic ball bearing, may be magnetically retained and distal to metallic ball bearing. The ball bearings may be disposed within a laminated polycarbonate tube. A far end or distal end of the training aid may comprise a rubber plug to contain ball bearings that have traveled down the tube, optional weights and a magnetic end cap.
US10946247B1
The present disclosure relates, in one embodiment, to an unstable surface training apparatus. The apparatus may include a platform that is pivotally connected to a support member about the pivot axis. The apparatus may include at least one user handle that is adjustably connected to the platform. The platform may be freely pivotable about the pivot axis up to a maximum degree of rotation. Some embodiments of the exercise apparatus may include an base upon which the support member is connected. The base provides the exercise apparatus with increased stability. Other embodiments of the exercise apparatus may include a rotational restriction assembly disposed between the support member and the platform for limiting the maximum degree of rotation.
US10946244B2
Example embodiments relate to systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media relating to a user interface, that may for example, receive and/or process physical activity data and allow interaction with the received information in novel implementations.
US10946243B1
An integrated hole-in-one verification system with progressive reward, wherein the integrated hole-in-one verification system is associated with a golf hole. The golf hole includes a tee box and a green. The green has a hole. The integrated hole-in-one verification system includes a recording device, an activation device, a storage device and a hole-in-one reward claim device. The recording device is capable of recording at least a portion of the tee box and at least a portion of the green where the hole is located. The activation device causes the recording device to be activated. The storage device receives the recording of at least the portion of the tee box and at least the portion of the green where the hole is located. A hole-in-one reward claim device that when activated causes review of the recording of at least the portion of the tee box and at least the portion of the green where the hole is located to verify the hole-in-one.
US10946236B2
Disclosed is an omnidirectional treadmill which has several connected belt units with supporting frames and endless belts which are moved revolving in the first spatial direction. In the second spatial direction, the endless belts of the belt units are moved. The endless belts are driven in the second spatial direction preferably by gear wheels mounted on rolls and by a toothed shaft. The movement of all endless belts is synchronized by coupling with special tooth form crown gears arranged between the belt units.
US10946227B2
A wet pipe fire protection sprinkler system and method of operating a wet pipe fire sprinkler system includes providing a sprinkler system having a pipe network, a source of water for the pipe network, at least one sprinkler head connected with the pipe network and a drain valve for draining the pipe network. An inert gas source, such as a nitrogen gas source, is connected with the pipe network. Inert gas is supplied from the inert gas source to the pipe network. Water is supplied to the pipe network thereby substantially filling the pipe network with water and compressing the inert gas in the pipe network.
US10946225B2
A modular system is disclosed for handheld nozzles to facilitate distinguishing various nozzles in terms of nozzle type, owner, or type of fluid. Modular attachments are removably coupled to handles of the nozzles to provide the distinguishing characteristics. The modular attachment are secured to the handles without the use of mechanical fasteners or adhesives, and, instead, utilize integral mechanical attachment methods. The modular attachments can be made in a variety of colors to enable color-coding the distinguishing characteristics.
US10946222B2
A kinetic breaching assist tool includes a ram slidably positioned within a ram housing to be extendable forwardly out of the housing for breaching doors and other barriers. The ram housing is connected to an intermediate propulsion section that generates high pressure gas to drive the ram forwardly. The rear end of the propulsion section is connected to a firing mechanism assembly, which is actuated by an elongated trigger positioned within the confines of a manually graspable rear handle assembly. A forward handle assembly is mounted at the forward portion of the propulsion section to enable to tool to be conveniently and securely grasped by both hands.
US10946216B2
Methods of treatment trajectory optimization for radiotherapy treatment of multiple targets include determining beam's eye view (BEV) regions and a BEV region connectivity manifold for each target group of a plurality of target groups separately. The information contained in the BEV regions and the BEV region connectivity manifolds for all target groups is used to guide an optimizer to find optimal treatment trajectories. To improve the visibility of insufficiently exposed voxels of planning target volumes (PTVs), a post-processing step may be performed to enlarge certain BEV regions, which are considered for exposing during treatment trajectory optimization.
US10946209B2
Several defibrillators, defibrillator architectures, defibrillator components and methods of operating defibrillators are described. In one aspect, a defibrillator (as for example an automated external defibrillator) that can be powered by a mobile communication device such as a smart cellular phone or a tablet computer is described. Utilizing a phone (or other mobile communication device) as the power supply for an external defibrillator allows the external defibrillator to be smaller and, in some circumstance, removes the need for a battery that stores sufficient energy for shock delivery—which would need to be checked and/or replaced on a regular basis. Additionally, when desired, certain control functionality, computation, data processing, and user instructions can be handled/presented by the mobile communications device thereby further simplifying the defibrillator design and improving the user experience. This architecture takes advantage of the nearly ubiquitous availability of smart phones, tablet computers and other mobile communication devices.
US10946208B2
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a processor, a memory, a wireless communication module (DWCM), and an NFC tag that stores information for how an accessing device may access the DWCM wirelessly. An accessing device such as a defibrillator configurator with an NFC reader may read the NFC tag of the WCD system, if it has adequate permission to do so. Upon so reading, the accessing device will know how to address the DWCM wirelessly, and thus install or update configuration data, software updates, or request memory downloads from operations. The use of the NFC tag requires close proximity, which hampers both inadvertently programming the wrong WCD system, plus a WCD system being attacked maliciously.
US10946203B2
Systems and methods involve an intrathoracic cardiac stimulation device operable to provide autonomous cardiac sensing and energy delivery. The cardiac stimulation device includes a housing configured for intrathoracic placement relative to a patient's heart. A fixation arrangement of the housing is configured to affix the housing at an implant location within cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature. An electrode arrangement supported by the housing is configured to sense cardiac activity and deliver stimulation energy to the cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature. Energy delivery circuitry in the housing is coupled to the electrode arrangement. Detection circuitry is provided in the housing and coupled to the electrode arrangement. Communications circuitry may optionally be supported by the housing. A controller in the housing coordinates delivery of energy to the cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature in accordance with an energy delivery protocol appropriate for the implant location.
US10946200B2
Disclosed is a plug-in accessory for operating a mobile device as an external controller for an Implantable Medical Device (IMD). The accessory includes a connector insertable into a port on the mobile device. Accessory circuitry can be powered by a battery or by the mobile device. An application on the mobile device in conjunction with the accessory configures the mobile phone for immediate use as an IMD external controller. When the accessory is inserted into the port or a switch on the accessory pressed, the application operates to validate the accessory; to unlock the phone; to secure the mobile device; and to render a graphical user interface on the mobile device for communicating with the IMD. The accessory can additionally include telemetry circuitry and an antenna for communicating with the IMD, rather than using short-range communication means provided in the mobile device itself.
US10946190B2
A method and system for employing a medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, a connector module, and a medical electrical epicardial lead connected to the processor through the connector module. The epicardial lead is used to sense a cardiac signal from tissue of a patient. The lead comprises an insulative lead body that includes a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor disposed in the lead body, and a side helical fixation member, disposed a distance from the distal end, the side helical fixation member. The side helical fixation member comprises a set of windings configured to wrap around the lead body circumference. The side helical fixation member includes a distal tip comprising a sharpened elongated flat free end that is perpendicular to the lead body and angled toward an inside of the set of windings.
US10946185B2
A topical nerve stimulator patch and system are provided including a dermal patch; an electrical signal generator associated with the patch; a signal receiver to activate the electrical signal generator; a power source for the electrical signal generator associated with the patch; an electrical signal activation device; and a nerve feedback sensor.
US10946184B2
A injection site information cap includes a housing, a cover portion, an engagement portion configured to couple to and cover an injection port of an injection site, and at least one information element on the cover portion that is positioned to be automatically sensed by at least one sensor of the injection site when the engagement portion is coupled to or is being coupled to the medication injection port. Related apparatus, systems, and techniques are also described.
US10946183B2
The invention relates to a An aseptic connector comprising a first connection unit (102; 202; 302; 402; 502) provided with a first terminal end surface (104; 204; 304; 404; 504) and a second connection unit (106; 206; 306; 406; 506) provided with a second terminal end surface (108; 208; 308; 408; 508); said first and second terminal end surfaces are each provided with at least one first and second opening (110, 112; 210, 212; 310, 312; 410, 412; 510, 512), which openings are orientated to substantially coincide when said first and second connection units are connected to each other; said first and second openings are sealed by at least one film (114; 214; 314; 414; 514) arranged on said first and second connection units, so that the contact between the film and each connection unit is aseptic; said at least one film is adapted to be mated with a corresponding film on the other connection unit when said first and second connection units are connected to each other; and said mated films are adapted to be pulled out together two and two after mating such that corresponding first and second openings in said first and second terminal end surfaces are mated aseptically. At least two first ports (116; 216; 316; 416; 516) are arranged on the first connection unit, which first ports have fluid connection with the at least one first opening (110; 210; 310; 410; 510) in the first terminal end surface; and in that at least one second port (118; 218; 318; 418; 518) is arranged on the second connection unit, which the at least one second port has a fluid connection with the at least one second opening (112; 212; 312; 412; 512) in the second terminal end surface.
US10946177B2
This patent document discloses guide extension catheters for use with a predefined length guide catheter and related methods for treating blood vessel lesions and abnormalities. A guide extension catheter can include a push member, an elongate tube member, and a balloon radially surrounding a portion of the elongate tube member. The balloon can include an inflatable tube coupled to an elongate shaft having a lumen for receiving inflation fluid, and the inflatable tube can be coiled in a helical manner around the elongate tube member. A bioactive layer can coat an outer surface portion of the balloon and, when the balloon is inflated, one or more drugs of the bioactive layer can be received by the blood vessel. Inflation of the balloon can engage the elongate tube member with an inner surface of the blood vessel and/or an inner surface of the guide catheter.
US10946176B2
A catheter assembly may include a catheter, catheter adapter, needle, needle guard, and housing. The housing may be coupled to the needle guard and disposed within a lumen of the catheter adapter. The needle guard may include first and second resilient arms, which may include first and second curved portions, respectively. When the needle is in a ready position, the first and second curved portions may be urged by a shaft of the needle into retaining contact with an inner wall of the catheter adapter. When the needle is in the retracted position, the shaft may no longer bias the first and second resilient arms outwardly such that the retaining contact between the first and second curved portions and the catheter adapter is released, and the housing and the needle guard enclose a distal tip of the needle.
US10946169B2
A Foley catheter kit includes a surface defining a single layer tray with at least two compartments at least partially separated by a barrier. A first syringe is disposed in a first compartment, while a Foley catheter, coupled to coiled tubing and a fluid drain bag, is disposed within a second compartment. The first compartment defines a lubricating jelly application chamber to lubricate at least a portion of the Foley catheter when the portion is passed from the second compartment to the first compartment. Printed instructions for using the single layer tray can be molded into the single layer tray.
US10946166B2
A deflectable, flexible device includes an elongate body, a convoluted tip portion at a distal end of the elongate body, and a lumen to receive one or more wires. The convoluted tip portion includes an electroformed pleated region which is formed by electrodepositing a metal on a mandrel having a pleated region. The convoluted tip portion may be hermetically sealed to permit repeated sterilization. The electroformed pleated region may include one or more fluid emission orifices. The convoluted tip portion extends or bends in response to fluid pressure manipulation, contact with tissue, manipulation with an internal spring or wire, or by a user pushing, pulling, or twisting the catheter directly or via an introducer sheath or the like. The convoluted tip portion may further include an RF ablation element or other energy-driven technique to create continuous linear lesions or a sensing element.
US10946164B2
A breathing apparatus provides high frequency oscillatory ventilation [HFO] to a patient by supplying breathing gas to the patient according to an oscillating pressure profile oscillating between a positive pressure and a negative pressure. The breathing apparatus has a patient circuit including an inspiratory line for conveying breathing gas to the patient, and an expiratory line for conveying gas away from the patient, and an inspiration valve for regulating a flow of pressurised breathing gas into the inspiration line, and a control computer that controls the inspiration valve. The control computer operates to cause the oscillating pressure profile by controlling the inspiration valve to oscillate between a top flow position in which the flow of breathing gas through the inspiration valve assumes a top flow value, and a minimum flow position in which the flow through the inspiration valve assumes a minimum flow value.
US10946154B2
A respiratory mask for providing positive pressure therapy having ball jointed elbow, one or more detachable forehead pieces and headgear comprising a spacer fabric region is disclosed herein. The elbow is configured to be removable when oriented to a predetermined position. The forehead pieces are provided in one or more sizes. The spacer fabric region comprises two or more layers wherein the raw edges are turned to the inside of the layers. The seal comprises features that improves seal performance and accommodates a wider variety of facial geometries.
US10946150B2
Systems (100) and methods (300) for controlling coughing by subjects (106) control the opening and closing of a valve (12) (as well as partially opening and/or partially closing) to establish and disestablish a fluid communication between the airway of the subject and atmospheric pressure. The valve is opened and closed more than once during individual exhalations by the subject. Control of the valve is adjusted based on a pressure level in or near the airway of the subject.
US10946139B2
A disposable fluid flow assembly for operation in connection with a fluid pump configured to provide a flow of fluid to the disposable fluid flow assembly is provided. The disposable fluid flow assembly includes an elongated flexible tube, a needle hub connected with the flexible tube, a pressure sensor for sensing fluid pressure, and an identification circuit embedded connected with the pressure sensor. The identification is configured to provide a plurality of signals to the central controller of the fluid pump when the disposable needle assembly is connected with the fluid pump. The plurality of signals may include various signals, such as a signal to identify physical characteristics of the assembly, a signal to ensure that the assembly is authentic, a signal to ensure that the disposable assembly is not re-used, and/or a signal to ensure that the pressure signal is connected and operating properly.
US10946135B2
A device for nasal lavage is described. The device ejects a gentle flow of fluid under pressure. The fluid stream provides a high quantity of fluid at low pressure. The low pressure fluid stream is more comfortable for a user than a high pressure fluid stream that is delivered by some types of pressurized cans of solution.
US10946132B2
An access cannula which includes a dwell tube that serves as an access during treatment. A blocking device that maintains the dwell tube kinked in an idle position. In the idle position, the dwell tube is maintained kinked, preferably at a predetermined kink point that corresponds to a position in which a force exerted by the blocking device upon the dwell tube, the elastic reset force of the dwell tube and, where appropriate, a pressure prevailing in the dwell tube, balance one another.
US10946116B1
An air sanitation and purification photocatalytic panel includes a frame that has a photocatalytic scrim positioned within the frame and a plurality of UV light sources positioned within the frame proximate to the photocatalytic scrim. The frame is made of a metal and/or alloy. The photocatalytic scrim is a pleated structure. Each of the plurality of UV light sources are oriented towards the photocatalytic scrim. The photocatalytic scrim includes a substrate a photocatalytic coating adhered to the substrate. The frame and photocatalytic scrim are oriented parallel to each other. The UV light sources illuminate the photocatalytic coating and initiate a photocatalytic reaction therein. During operation, the panel is positioned perpendicular to the airstream such that the airstream is forced through the substrate.
US10946113B2
An air filtering and treatment apparatus (10), the apparatus (10) including: a housing (12) having an air inlet (14), an air outlet (16), an air passageway (24) between the inlet (14) and outlet (16), and a fan (18) arranged to urge air through the air passageway (24) between the air inlet (14) and the air outlet (16), wherein the housing (12) includes filter (20) arranged to filter air passing through the air passageway (24), and a receptacle (26) located toward the air outlet (16) relative to filter (20). The receptacle (26) is adapted to hold treatment composition (22) such that an evaporable vapour associated with the treatment composition (22) is able to accumulate in a headspace (41) of the receptacle (26), the headspace (41) including at least one aperture (36). The air passageway (24) may be shaped such that air flows substantially perpendicularly past the at least one aperture (36) of the receptacle (26) such that a pre-determined amount of the evaporable vapour is entrained into the filtered air released from the air outlet (16). A system (100) and method are also disclosed.
US10946108B2
The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are delivery systems and tissues or organ which are targeted as sites for delivery. Also provided are vectors and vector systems some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity and to edit or modify a target site in a genomic locus of interest to alter or improve the status of a disease or a condition.
US10946106B2
This invention provides antibodies directed against a highly specific and previously unrecognized marker for cancerous cells. In certain embodiments an isolated antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds human placentally expressed ALPP and/or ALPPL2, but not ALPL and ALPI that are expressed outside the placenta is provided as well as immunoconjugates comprising such antibodies.
US10946105B2
The present invention relates to novel peptides derived from Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 1 (TRPM1), complexes comprising such peptides bound to recombinant MHC molecules, and cells presenting said peptide in complex with MHC molecules. Also provided by the present invention are binding moieties that bind to the peptides and/or complexes of the invention. Such moieties are useful for the development of immunotherapeutic reagents for the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US10946096B2
Certain embodiments are directed to photo-activated compounds for the manipulation of pH in a cell. In certain aspects the photo-activated compound is 2-nitrobenzaldehyde (NBA). Photo-activated compounds can be used as a targeted therapy for a variety of disease states and conditions, such as cancer.
US10946087B2
The present invention relates to vaccine compositions that are useful in a method of protecting a human subject against dengue disease.
US10946085B2
The present invention relates to an extract of Streptococcus uberis as an immunogenic agent. It also relates to a process for obtaining said agent which comprises incubating a biofilm-producing S. uberis strain to obtain a biofilm and thermally treating the biofilm obtained. It relates also to a pharmaceutical composition comprising teichoic acids, preferably lipoteichoic acids, for use in the prevention and/or treatment of mastitis and/or infections caused by Streptococcus sp. or by biofilm-producing bacteria. The present invention also relates to a vaccine which comprises said immunogenic agent and to said vaccine and immunogenic agent for use in the prevention and/or treatment of infections caused by Streptococcus sp., especially in the prevention and/or treatment of mastitis caused by S. uberis. It also relates to a vaccination kit which comprises said agent or vaccine.
US10946079B2
Glycotargeting therapeutics are useful in the treatment of transplant rejection, autoimmune disease, food allergy, and immune response against a therapeutic agent.
US10946078B2
The present invention relates to compositions, immunogenic or vaccine compositions and pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention or treatment of canine atopic dermatitis (CAD). Furthermore, the invention provides methods for preventing or treating CAD. The compositions of the invention induce efficient immune responses, in particular antibody responses, in dogs and are, therefore, useful for the treatment and/or prevention of CAD.
US10946075B1
Radioprotection, Radiomitigation and Radiorecovery: Timed use of more widely available antiradiation agents in a kit for subjects affected by ionizing radiation, radiomimetic exposure and radiocontamination. The method in the form of strategically timed preemptive and postirradiation compositions; radioprotection, radiomitigation and radiorecovery formulations are comprised of various available anticorporation, antioxidant, decorporation, multi-mechanistic, pro-survival, pro-hematopoietic, anti-fibrotic and other novel ingredients in synergistic mixtures to be used in critically-timed manners. Radioprotection, radiomitigation and radiorecovery of a mammal prior to, during, just after or well-after exposure to ionizing radiation energy—alpha, beta, neutron, gamma, X-ray and damaging radiofrequency radiation—for long or short periods of time, and exposure to or contamination by radioactive elements or compounds such as radioiodine, radiostrontium, radiophosphorus, radiocobalt, radiocadmium, radiopollonium, radioradium, radiocesium, radiouranium, radioamericium, radiopollonium, radiocerium, radioindium, and the like. Radiomimeticprotective method for mucosal exposure is also described.
US10946071B2
This disclosure is directed to methods of alleviating the negative effects of, treating, or slowing the progression of progressive multiple sclerosis in human patients using ibudilast and interferon-beta.
US10946046B2
A method for sterilising a platelet lysate in the liquid state comprising at least the endogenous growth factors TGF-beta 1, EGF, PDGF-AB, IGF-1, VEGF and bFGF. The method comprising freezing the liquid platelet lysate in order to obtain a frozen platelet lysate, and irradiating the frozen platelet lysate with ionising radiation in order to obtain a sterilised platelet lysate, the irradiation being adapted so as to preserve at least 80% of the concentration of at least one of the endogenous growth factors chosen from the group consisting of TGF-beta 1, EGF, PDGF-AB, IGF-1 and VEGF.
US10946041B2
Methods, compounds, and solutions for neurotransmitter restoration in a mammalian brain. The compound comprises calcium carbonate, pyridoxine hydrochloric acid, magnesium citrate, zinc amino acid chelate, chromium amino acid chelate, and a mixture comprising L-Tryptophan, L-Glutamine, L-Tyrosine, DL-Phenylalanine, and rhodiola. A visual indicator may be included to provide a easily discernable indication of the efficacy of a mixed solution.
US10946040B2
The present invention concerns methods of administering a therapeutically effective dose of a sorbent for an inflammatory mediator to a patient where the inflammatory mediator is one or more of enzymes, cytokines, prostaglandins, eicosanoids, leukotrienes, kinins, complement, coagulation factors, endotoxins, enterotoxins, lipopolysaccharide, cell fragments, bile salts, fatty acids, phospholipids, interferon and immunomodulatory antibodies, biologics or drugs.
US10946039B2
The present invention provides a hemostatic powder. The hemostatic powder is mainly present in the form of a columnar particle, wherein the ratio of axial length to diameter of the columnar particle is less than 5; the hemostatic powder includes a polymer represented by the following structural formula: wherein the R is at least one selected from the group consisting of —NH2, —OCH2CH2OH, —OCH2CH2CH2OH, —OH, —ONa, —OK and —OCa; m, n and p respectively represent number percentages of corresponding repeating units in polymer molecules, and satisfy the following equations: m+n+p=1, p/(m+n+p)=0.05˜0.30; the substitution degree D is defined as =m/(m+n+p), the overall substitution degree of the columnar particle is defined as Ds, the substitution degree of the polymer at the center point of the cross section of the columnar particle is defined as Do, and the substitution degree of the polymer at the edge of the cross section of the columnar particle is defined as Dx, and the following equations are satisfied: Ds=0.09˜0.8, Do/Dx=0˜0.7.
US10946038B2
A method of treating a subject having cancer is described that includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a β-(1,3)-(1,4) glucan to the subject. Methods of immunostimulating in a subject by administering an effective amount of a β-(1,3)-(1,4) glucan to the subject are also described.
US10946035B2
The invention relates in aspects to hybrid RNAs lacking a poly-A tail and nucleic acid vectors for expressing the RNA. The hybrid RNAs in some instances have a stabilizing triple helical structure. Related methods for expressing RNA in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed.
US10946033B2
The use of described compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or compositions thereof for the treatment of a host infected with an RNA virus other than HCV, or other disorder more fully described herein.
US10946025B2
The invention is directed to compounds of formula (I): and salts thereof. The compounds of the invention are inhibitors of kinase activity, in particular PI3-kinase activity.
US10946017B2
The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility to degrade and (inhibit) TBK1. In particular, the present invention is directed to compounds, which contain on one end an E3 ubiquitin ligase binding moiety which binds to an E3 ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds TBK1 such that TBK1 is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of TBK1. The present invention exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with compounds according to the present invention, consistent with the degradation/inhibition of TBK1.
US10946016B2
The present invention provides a solid form and compositions thereof, which are useful as an inhibitor of EGFR kinases and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.
US10946014B2
Provided are certain triazolopyridines and triazolopyrazines, compositions thereof and methods of use therefor.
US10946011B2
Disclosed is a stable oral liquid pharmaceutical composition of trimetazidine having a pH of about pH 4 to about pH 8, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of trimetazidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, one or more orally acceptable buffers, and one or more orally acceptable preservatives that is effective in said pH range. Also disclosed are methods of treating patients with stable oral liquid pharmaceutical composition. The pharmaceutical composition is particularly suitable for treating a patient having a condition treatable by trimetazidine, such as cirrhosis and renal deficiency, and who has a decreased tolerance for acidic or highly basic oral solutions.
US10946001B2
The present specification provides methods of treating autoimmune diseases with a combination of a RXR agonist and a thyroid hormone.
US10945990B2
The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and eribulin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer.
US10945986B2
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; a stem cell enhancer and facilitator), DETC-MeSO (a glutamate receptor partial antagonist and anti-excitotoxicity agent), and sulindac (a potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory agent) each can protect brain tissue exposed to a cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury, and minimize the size of infarcts that develop as a result of the injury. When administered in combination, these agents are effective at protecting brain tissue and minimizing the size of an infarct resulting from the injury at much lower concentrations compared to using a single agent.
US10945985B2
Described herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising fumarate esters, methods for making the same, and methods for treating subjects in need thereof. In particular, oral controlled release pharmaceutical compositions comprising fumarate esters suspended in liquid matrices are described. One embodiment described herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising fumarate esters suspended in a lipid or lipophilic liquid with enhanced bioavailability.
US10945982B1
A composition for and method of practicing nasal hygiene to wash and moisturize the nasal passage. Where the nasal wash comprises a liquid homogenized compound of water, chlorine dioxide (or source thereof), olfactory stimulants, unsaturated fatty acids, inorganic salt, fixing agents. Where the unsaturated fatty acid component comprises from 0.1% to 3% by weight of the compound.
US10945978B2
The present invention discloses novel agents and methods for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. Also disclosed are related arrays, kits, and screening methods.
US10945976B2
The present specification provides RXR agonist compounds, compositions comprising such RXR agonists, and methods using such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection as well as use of such RXR agonists to manufacture a medicament and use of such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection.
US10945974B2
Methods of weight management for a subject are provided. Generally the methods comprising: administering an effective amount to the small intestine and/or large intestine of the subject of at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH in the colon of the subject to thereby manage the weight of the subject. Also provided are compositions comprising at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH, wherein the composition is formulated for delivery of an effective amount of the at least one agent to the small intestine and/or large intestine of a subject following oral ad ministration of the composition to the subject.
US10945969B2
Disclosed are compositions enriched with thymohydroquinone, further comprising of thymoquinone, hederagenin and/or α-hederin formulated by blending the active molecules isolated from the seeds of Nigella sativa. Also disclosed are novel processes for the isolation of bioactive components thymohydroquinone, thymoquinone from the seeds of Nigella sativa. A process for the isolation α-hederin and hederagenin from the spent material of Nigella sativa is also disclosed herein.
US10945968B2
Transdermal delivery systems for the systemic delivery of memantine are described, wherein the system comprises a drug reservoir layer and an adhesive layer, optionally together with one or more intermediate and/or supporting layers, wherein the drug reservoir layer comprises an acrylate polymer or copolymer, a permeation enhancer, a carrier, and memantine base generated in situ by reaction of a memantine salt and an alkaline salt. Compositions and kits comprising the various components, e.g., drug reservoir and/or adhesive compositions are described. Methods relating to treatment of CNS disorders, e.g., Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia, using the aforementioned transdermal delivery devices and/or compositions are also described.
US10945966B2
The invention relates to nanoparticles for the systemic or topical delivery of lipophilic diagnostic or therapeutic agents to a subject in need thereof. The nanoparticles of the invention comprise a water soluble polymer and at least one of a biocompatible lipid and a lipophilic agent. The invention further relates to ophthalmic treatment using the nanoparticles of the invention. In addition, the invention pertains to compositions and formulations comprising the nanoparticle of the invention. Such formulation may be an eye drop formulation.
US10945963B2
The invention relates to capsules of core/shell type, the core comprising an active agent; the shell comprising one or more concentric and alternating layers of a first photosensitive anionic amino polymer and of a second cationic polymer. The invention also relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising such capsules. The invention also relates to a non-therapeutic cosmetic process for treating keratin materials, comprising the application to the keratin materials of a cosmetic composition comprising the said capsules, followed by exposure of the deposit formed on the keratin materials to natural light or to artificial light with a wavelength of between 360 and 600 nm.
US10945962B2
Controlled-release formulations of carboxy-terminal C5a analogs (such as sustained-release formulations of the analogs), and their use in methods for treating and preventing an infection or a disease such as cancer, for directly killing microorganisms, for vaccine preparation, for inducing an immune response and for targeting antigen-presenting cells and other cells bearing a C5a receptor, are provided.
US10945960B2
Provided herein is a celecoxib and amlodipine composition and method of making the same. The composition contains granules containing celecoxib. The amlodipine is incorporated into the composition as an extragranulate.
US10945959B2
A system and method for freeze-drying a heat-sensitive substance. In some embodiments, the system and method include freeze-drying the heat-sensitive substance in an upright container with a membrane for transmitting air or vapor solvent out of the container.
US10945952B2
The present application relates to a rinse-off composition comprising an oil phase and an aqueous surfactant matrix, wherein one or more active agents are dissolved in one or more non-polar, water-immiscible solvents, and the oil phase is dispersed in the aqueous surfactant matrix. The present application also relates to methods of delivering the active agent(s) to a subject in need thereof topically, for example to the skin, the hair, and scalp. The present application also relates to use of the rinse-off compositions to treat and/or prevent topical conditions such as dermatitis and psoriasis. In some embodiments, the rinse-off compositions of the present application are shampoo compositions.
US10945948B2
Particles, compositions, and methods that aid particle transport in mucus are provided. The particles, compositions, and methods may be used, in some instances, for ophthalmic and/or other applications. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods may involve modifying the surface coatings of particles, such as particles of pharmaceutical agents that have a low aqueous solubility. Such compositions and methods can be used to achieve efficient transport of particles of pharmaceutical agents though mucus barriers in the body for a wide spectrum of applications, including drug delivery, imaging, and diagnostic applications. In certain embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition including such particles is well-suited for ophthalmic applications, and may be used for delivering pharmaceutical agents to the front of the eye and/or the back of the eye.
US10945946B2
The present disclosure is directed to fatty-acid glycerol ester derivative compounds containing a targeting bisphosphonate group. The disclosure further include pharmaceutical or biomedical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of using these compounds and compositions forming microbubbles. The microbubbles have affinity for metal-containing, especially calcium-containing, bodies and/or biological targets. In certain embodiments, these compositions are useful for providing targeted placement of microbubbles capable of cavitation on application of high frequency energy.
US10945930B2
The present disclosure relates to a cosmetic agent for bleaching human hair, comprising (i) a package comprising at least one multi-layer film, which comprises at least one metal-containing layer as a barrier layer, and (ii) a bleaching agent composition, which is contained in the package, wherein the bleaching agent composition contains at least one percarbonate, at least one inorganic salt of a peroxysulfuric acid, and at least one thickener. The present disclosure also relates to a method for bleaching human hair.
US10945928B2
A denture base coating composition includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a first compound represented by Formula (1-0) and a second compound represented by Formula (2-0).
US10945923B2
A production line is, suitable for the production of medicinal products that include at least one active ingredient. The production line includes an extruder for producing an extrudate from the active ingredient and at least one excipient intended to form an encapsulating matrix of the active ingredient, and a cooling member for cooling the extrudate at the outlet of the extruder. The extruder includes a barrel and at least two parallel screws housed in the barrel and interpenetrating with one another to mix the or each active ingredient with the or each excipient. The barrel is oriented vertically and the footprint occupied by the production line is less than 0.5 m2.
US10945921B2
Liquid drug transfer device for use in a Ready-To-Use liquid drug transfer assemblage for establishing flow communication between a liquid source and an injection vial. The liquid drug transfer device includes an injection vial adapter for mounting on an intact injection vial having an injection vial stopper without puncturing same, a liquid source adapter for attachment to a liquid source, a dual ended liquid transfer member for flow communication with the liquid source and puncturing an injection vial stopper, a safety catch mechanism requiring an initial manual linear sliding extension for priming the liquid drug transfer device, an extension limit arrangement for limiting the linear sliding extension, and a snap fit securing arrangement for securing the liquid source adapter on the injection vial adapter after actuation.
US10945919B2
Methods, apparatus, and device, such as a blood bag envelope, that protects a blood bag during storage and/or transport. The blood bag envelope holds a blood bag or a metal cassette that contains the blood bag. The envelope includes multiple panels. The multiple panels include a top panel, a first edge panel, a second edge panel, a front panel and a bottom panel. The multiple panels are configured to fold to form the enclosure to hold the blood bag. The envelope includes a first fastening device connected to an inner surface of the top panel. The envelope includes a suspension device that is suspended from the first fastening device. The suspension device is configured to suspend the blood bag within the enclosure when the multiple panels are folded to form the enclosure.
US10945917B2
To readily detect the taking-out of an object contained in a blister pack, there is provided a detection apparatus for detecting a timing at which a contained object is taken out from a blister pack including a plurality of containing portions and a plate-like portion that connects the plurality of containing portions. The apparatus includes a plate on which the blister pack is arranged, a plurality of light sources that emit light beams to the plurality of containing portions of the blister pack arranged on the plate, a plurality of sensors that receive the light beams emitted from the light sources, and also output electrical signals corresponding to light reception intensities, and a detector that detects the presence/absence of contained objects in the respective containing portions based on the electrical signals output from the plurality of sensors.
US10945915B2
A percussive massage device that includes a housing that defines a housing interior, a battery, a motor positioned in the housing, a switch for activating the motor, and a reciprocating shaft operatively connected to the motor and configured to reciprocate in response to activation of the motor. The reciprocating shaft includes a distal end that defines a reciprocation axis. The housing includes a first side portion and a second side portion that cooperate to define the housing interior and are defined on opposite sides of the reciprocation axis. The motor is positioned in the first side portion and the battery is positioned in the second side portion.
US10945911B2
A system for adjusting pressure locally acting on the skin including a set of adjacent modules distributed so as to form a layer each module includes a cushion capable of changing shape and comprising a cavity, a valve, a tank, and a pressure sensor, wherein the cavity and the tank are in communication with each other by means of the valve, and the sensor is placed so as to sense pressure directly or indirectly acting on the cushion and a feedback loop arranged such as to increase or decrease the change in the shape of the cushion on the basis of the pressure detected by the sensor.
US10945906B2
A percussive adjusting instrument is provided which includes a percussive instrument head and a traversing arm that couples to the percussive instrument head. The percussive instrument head is movable with respect to the traversing arm. A vertical arm supports the traversing arm. The vertical arm also pivots the traversing arm and the percussive instrument head about an axis. A pivot assembly allows movement of the vertical arm and the percussive instrument head.
US10945905B2
A system for supporting or positioning a patient before, during, or after a medical procedure can include a platform configured to support at least a portion of a patient. A support column can be positioned beneath the platform. A base can be positioned beneath the support column and configured to support the support column. The base can include at least one drive wheel configured to contact a ground surface and move the platform with respect to the ground surface. A drive assist user interface module can be operatively connected to the at least one drive wheel. The drive assist user interface module can be configured to permit an operator of the system to selectively control movement of the at least one drive wheel. The drive assist user interface module can be part of or be attached to an attachment that includes a plate having a top surface. In one configuration, the top surface of the plate can be configured to extend parallel with a top surface of the platform when the attachment is attached to the platform.
US10945903B2
A system configured to support growth and development of a premature fetus is disclosed. Specifically, a method and apparatus configured to provide extracorporeal support for premature fetuses is disclosed.
US10945900B1
A powered wheelchair for beach terrain is provided that includes a an occupant seat assembly mounted to a frame that has an electric drive system with a pair of electric motors mounted thereto. A hand grip support frame is coupled to a rear end of the frame. The electric drive system is drivingly coupled to at least two of a plurality of wheels rotatably mounted to the frame. The powered wheelchair includes a portable power source and a control system mounted to the main frame. The control system is electrically coupled to the portable power source and the electric drive system. The control system has a first set of operating controls disposed in proximity to the occupant seat assembly and a second set of operating controls disposed in proximity the hand grip support frame for switch selective operative control of the powered wheelchair.
US10945894B2
A device (10) for directing a medical fabric (28) into a portion of a body. An elongated housing (12) having a distal end (16) and an opening (22) at the distal end (16). A supply of medical fabric (28) in the housing (12). An actuator (24) spaced from said opening (22) and configured to advance a portion of the medical fabric (28) through said housing (12) and out of the opening (22).
US10945891B2
The present invention relates to a device for insertion into a human or animal cavity, the device comprising an internally wearable plug comprising a pharmaceutically active composition; an externally wearable anchor element; and a sheath joining the plug to the anchor element such 5 that a wearer's finger can be received in the sheath to assist insertion.
US10945886B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for an eye marker device that includes a handle and an eye marker tip, wherein the eye marker tip includes at least two arms dimensioned for placing at least one mark or indicator on a cornea, sclera or sclera/cornea junction.
US10945881B1
A plural-use drop-by-drop dispenser for sterile liquid product comprises a vial (1) for containment of the liquid product (2) and a connector (4) provided with a plug (8) which is normally hermetically closed and with a cartridge (19) with sterilizing filter (24) which can be axially moved to force open said plug (8) to dispense the liquid product and allow the hermetic reclosure thereof at the end of dispensing. The cartridge (19) is provided with a filter-holding bottom element (25) provided with a dispensing spout (26), possibly in antimicrobic material, with elastically flexible converging lips (27), which open under pressure of the liquid product (2) for drop-by-drop dispensing thereof and elastically hermetically reclose at the end of the dispensing operation.
US10945878B2
A dual modality system includes a chassis having a receptacle and means to couple the chassis to a desired treatment area of a user's body; a durable energy subsystem coupled to the chassis, arranged and configured to deliver energy to the desired treatment area of a user's body; and a replaceable thermal subsystem arranged and configured for removable placement in the receptacle of the chassis, arranged and configured to deliver thermal energy.
US10945874B2
Disclosed is a dental appliance composed of a thermo-plastic polymer with low compressibility, high toughness, and high tensile strength, with a low softening point. The appliance has perforations that enable it to be easily custom-fitted by the user or a health professional. The appliance begins as a generally U-shaped, unformed dental tray that is significantly thinner than existing dental appliances. Once fitted, the dental appliance provides superior protection against damage to the enamel of the teeth and abrasion of the teeth due to bruxism or other mechanism leading to biomechanical wear of dental surfaces. The perforations facilitate the custom-fitting process by allowing the user to suck air through the perforations, thus applying a negative pressure between the material and the teeth while the material is still soft and pliable. This enables a user or health professional to within minutes create a final product that rivals the quality and fit of an appliance made by dental laboratories using dentist made impressions.
US10945871B2
An orthotic apparatus includes a leg securing member adapted for attachment to a wearer's lower leg. A resilient strut that flexes in the anterior to posterior direction has an upper end connected to the leg securing member. A heel member is connected to the strut lower end at the heel member. A foot member is connected to the heel member. The foot member has a heel end at the heel member and a toe end spaced horizontally from the heel end. The foot member also has a substantially rigid lower foot plate extending between the heel end and toe end and a substantially rigid upper foot plate extending between the heel end and toe end above and generally parallel to the lower foot plate. In certain examples the orthotic apparatus is integrated with a shoe.
US10945863B2
A method for controlling an artificial orthotic or prosthetic knee joint, on which a lower-leg component is arranged and with which a resistance device is associated, the bending resistance of which resistance device is changed in dependence on sensor data that are determined by at least one sensor during the use of the orthotic or prosthetic knee joint, wherein a linear acceleration of the lower-leg component is determined, the determined linear acceleration is compared with at least one threshold value, and, if a threshold value of the linear acceleration of the lower-leg component is reached, the bending resistance is changed.
US10945857B2
An embodiment includes an expandable intervertebral body fusion device with two expansion wedges within a generally hollow main body. After implantation into the intervertebral disc space, the expansion wedges are simultaneously moved from the center of the device toward the ends, which flexes the arms of the cage and increases the size of the implant. This expansion stabilizes the device in the disc space and increases the disc height, thereby reducing foraminal compression of spinal nerves and creating a stable motion segment for eventual fusion. Other embodiments are described herein.
US10945856B2
An interbody spacer for a spine includes a housing having a plurality of clearance holes configured to engage bone of the spine. A contact plate including a plurality of apertures is positioned a distance away from the housing configured to engage bone of the spine. A plurality of rivets adjoin the housing and the contact plate. A plurality of springs are included with each spring configured to encircle a respective rivet and translate the distance between the housing and contact plate from a minimum distance to a maximum distance.
US10945854B2
Synthetic composite materials for use, for example, as orthopedic implants are described herein. In one example, a composite material for use as a scaffold includes a thermoplastic polymer forming a porous matrix that has continuous porosity and a plurality of pores. The porosity and the size of the pores are selectively formed during synthesis of the composite material. The example composite material also includes a plurality of a anisometric calcium phosphate particles integrally formed, embedded in, or exposed on a surface of the porous matrix. The calcium phosphate particles provide one or more of reinforcement, bioactivity, or bioresorption.
US10945852B2
There is provided a tibial component comprising: a tibial tray with an inferior side; and a support member connected to the inferior side of the tibial tray, the support member having a stem portion, the support member further comprising at least one opening. In one embodiment, the at least one opening is constructed and arranged to receive a sawblade or an osteotome. In another embodiment, the at least one opening is comprised of solid material but is radio-lucent. In yet another embodiment, the at least one opening is comprised of solid material and is frangible.
US10945844B2
An exemplary valve repair device for repairing a native valve of a patient includes: a strip of material; a coaption element formed from the strip of material; and a pair of paddles formed from the strip of material and connected to the coaption element. The paddles are movable between an open position and a closed position and the paddles are configured to attach to the native valve of the patient.
US10945834B2
An ophthalmic device includes at least one ophthalmic lens and at least one diffractive structure for the at least one ophthalmic lens. The ophthalmic lens(es) have at least one base focal length and a base power for a first wavelength of visible light. The diffractive structure(s) have a chromatic aberration such that the diffractive structure(s) have a first power for the first wavelength of visible light and a second power for a second wavelength of visible light. A difference between the first power and the second power is at least two diopters.
US10945824B2
A biodegradable device capable of producing a high radial force is described. Such a force will be created in devices made of relatively inelastic materials that are to be deployed to the vasculature or a body cavity in a patient. As the halves of the devices move together subject to a longitudinal force, at the point where they are in contact and unable to move closer together in the longitudinal direction, a radial force is created. The devices may have a tension element that assists in bringing the device halves together and which may partially and optionally remain within the body of the device.
US10945818B1
The disclosed dental appliance is a functional daytime and nighttime anatomical removable dental appliance that is designed to overlay the existing natural dentition of the user. In desirable embodiments, the appliance can be held in place without any alterations to the user's existing dentition. The appliance is a plural piece or plural section intra-oral removable appliance with occlusal surface portions that have been built up to occupy the measured intra-occlusal spaces that exist between pairs of upper and lower teeth when the mandible is in a relaxed or rest position.
US10945811B1
A method of determining an orthodontic treatment comprising: obtaining a 3D model of a simulated position of upper and lower teeth following a simulated orthodontic treatment, the 3D model comprising a point cloud representation comprising a plurality of vector points; in a 3D grid having cells onto which the plurality of the vector points have been mapped, identifying cells containing vectors points representative of the upper teeth and applying a first mask to these cells; identifying cells containing vectors points representative of the lower teeth and applying a second mask to these cells; determining the simulated orthodontic treatment as the determined orthodontic treatment if the 3D grid does not include at least one cell which includes both the first mask and the second mask.
US10945809B2
A device for preparing, fitting, and placing periodontal prosthodontics having a finger covering and an attached bilayered adhesive patch, wherein the bilayered adhesive patch comprises two separable layers joined by a weak adhesive and one external side of the bilayered adhesive patch is attached by a strong adhesive to the finger covering while the other external side of the bilayered adhesive patch has a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive.
US10945800B2
A motorized surgical system includes at least one support positionable within a sterile field in proximity to a patient positioned on a surgical table. An instrument driver is carried by the support and includes a steerable distal end positionable in a body cavity. A user input device is carried by the support and is configured to generate movement signals in response to manual manipulation of a portion of the user input device by a user. One or more steering motors are operably coupled to the instrument driver and are operable to deflect the steerable distal end of the instrument driver in response to the movement signals.
US10945796B2
A robot guiding system employing a robot unit (10) including an endoscope (12) and a robot (11), and a control unit (20) including an endoscopic image controller (22) and a robot controller (21). In operation, the endoscope (12) generate an endoscopic image of an anatomical region as the robot (11) move the endoscope (12) within the anatomical region in response to robot actuator commands. The endoscopic image controller (22) controls a display of the endoscopic image (14) of the anatomical region and generates endoscope pose commands to maintain a visibility of two or more interventional instruments within the display of the endoscopic image (14) relative to a center of the endoscopic image (14). The robot controller (21) generates the robotic actuator commands responsive to the endoscope pose commands.
US10945794B2
Described herein is a method of preparing a bone graft product, comprising computer-guided precision cutting an unshaped piece of bone from a human cadaver or a bovine animal to provide a shaped piece of bone having a predetermined shape that is determined by a human being using computer-aided design. Bone graft products prepared using this method and methods of grafting these products are also disclosed.
US10945793B2
The present teaching relates to surgical procedure assistance. In one example, a first image of a patient captured prior to a surgical procedure is received. A treatment plan is generated based on the first image. The treatment plan includes information related to one or more surgical instruments. A second image of the patient captured after the surgical procedure has been initiated is received. The treatment plan is dynamically adjusted based on a pose of any of the one or more surgical instruments identified from the second image. A third image of the patient captured after a lesion is treated by at least one of the surgical instruments based on the adjusted treatment plan is received. Whether a further treatment to the lesion is needed is determined based on the third image. Upon determining a further treatment is needed, an updated treatment plan is dynamically generated based on the third image.
US10945790B2
The disclosed invention relates to an improved system and method for treatment of soft tissue, e.g., for treatment of a snoring condition. The system can include a laser source; a hand piece; and a device for directing radiation emitted by the laser source to a treatment area (e.g., an oral treatment area). In some cases, the handpiece can include an optical element (e.g., a lens) mounted within a replaceable cartridge and adapted to modulate a laser beam such that it is non-ablative, prior to its delivery to a treatment region. In various embodiments, the system includes a CO2 laser capable of performing treatment in a more efficient manner than conventional techniques.
US10945788B2
Methods for treating depression and for reducing a risk associated with developing depression in patients via therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated systems are disclosed herein. Sympathetic nerve activity can contribute to several cellular and physiological conditions associated with depression as well as an increased risk of developing depression. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods for improving a patient's calculated risk score corresponding to a depression status in the patient. Other aspects are directed to reducing a likelihood of developing depression in patients presenting one or more depression risk factors. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be attenuated to improve a patient's depression status or risk of developing depression. The attenuation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly configured to use, e.g., electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the renal sympathetic nerve.
US10945779B2
A surgical instrument includes a shaft, an ultrasonic transducer, a waveguide, and an end effector at a distal end of the shaft. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade acoustically coupled with the waveguide, a clamp arm movable relative to the ultrasonic blade, a first RF electrode provided by the clamp arm, and a second RF electrode provided by the ultrasonic blade. The first RF electrode is electrically coupled with a first RF electrical path of the instrument, and the second RF electrode is electrically coupled with a second RF electrical path of the instrument. The RF electrodes are operable to seal tissue with bipolar RF energy. An electrically insulative layer is provided on at least a portion of at least one of the ultrasonic blade, the waveguide, the shaft, or the clamp arm, and is configured to prevent shorting between the first and second RF electrical paths.
US10945771B2
The present invention is directed to azabicyclo[4.1.0]heptane compounds which are allosteric modulators of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved.
US10945769B2
Systems, devices, and methods for treating the spine are disclosed herein. Medical devices can be positioned along a subject's spine to treat various conditions and diseases. The medical device can include an actuator assembly and a clamp assembly. The actuator assembly can be positioned at an interspinous space between a superior spinous process and an inferior spinous process. The actuator assembly can be used to reconfigure the clamp assembly such that the clamp assembly clamps onto the superior and inferior spinous processes.
US10945768B2
A bone anchor assembly for securing an elongate rod to a bone of a patient includes a receiver having a central bore with interior opposed recesses having downwardly-facing top surfaces, and a shank with a head portion confiugred for positioning within the central bore with the body of the shank extending downwardly through a bottom opening. The assembly also includes an insert that is positionable into the central bore above the shank head, the insert including opposed extensions configured to inhibit rotation between the receiver and the insert, and upright arms having top surfaces complementary with the interior opposed recesses of the central bore. The top surfaces of the insert arms are configured to snap under and engage the downwardly-facing top surfaces of the interior opposed recesses so as to establish a frictional non-floppy relationship between the shank and the receiver and to prevent the insert from moving back up within the central bore.
US10945751B2
Surgical instruments and surgical systems including the surgical instrument and a morcellator. The surgical instrument includes a tool assembly having an articulating joint and a screw positioned at a distal end of the articulating joint. The articulating joint is configured to articulate a distal portion of the tool assembly at an angle in relation to the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument. The screw is configured to engage tissue, for example, a myoma in the uterine wall of a patient, and is configured to pitch and roll the tissue to expose cutting planes. The morcellator is configured to engage the tissue to morcellate the tissue and remove the tissue from a patient.
US10945749B2
A manipulator includes: an elongated body portion that can be inserted into a body; and an energy treatment mechanism provided at a distal end of the body portion. The energy treatment mechanism is provided with gripping pieces that can grip body tissue and an energy applying part configured to apply energy to the body tissue gripped by the gripping pieces. The body portion is provided with an energy transfer part configured to transfer energy to the energy applying part and a force amplifying mechanism configured to amplify gripping force of the gripping pieces.
US10945743B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for repairing a defect on a portion of an articular surface of a human body, particularly of the glenoid. More particularly, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for repairing both a glenoid cavity and a glenoid rim of the glenoid using a single implant.
US10945738B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of beads, a plurality of links, a clasp assembly, and an adjustment feature. Each bead includes a housing, a passageway extending through the housing, and at least one annular magnet. The at least one annular magnet is coaxially positioned about the passageway. The links join the beads together. Portions of the links are slidably disposed in corresponding passageways of the beads. The clasp assembly is configured to removably secure the beads and links in a loop formation. The adjustment feature is operable to adjust an effective circumference of the loop formation. The adjustment feature may be incorporated into one or both of the clasp assembly or at least one of the beads.
US10945734B2
A rotation knob assembly, handle assembly including the same, and surgical instrument including the same are disclosed. The rotation knob assembly includes an outer knob defining a lumen and at least one groove configured to receive an indexing protrusion of an elongated assembly to rotationally fix the elongated assembly relative to the outer knob. An inner collar is disposed within a proximal lumen portion of the outer knob and rotatably engaged therewith. A plurality of ball bearing assemblies protrude radially inwardly into the proximal lumen portion of the outer knob. Each ball bearing assembly includes a head and a ball bearing captured within the head. Each ball bearing is received within a waist of the inner collar such that, upon rotation of the outer knob relative to the inner collar, the ball bearings roll about a floor of the waist of the inner collar.
US10945729B2
A robotic surgical system comprising a surgical robot, a surgical instrument, a motor, and a current sensor is disclosed. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector, a firing assembly, and a lockout mechanism. The firing assembly comprises a firing member movable from an unfired position to a fired position during a firing stroke and a sled movable from a proximal position to a distal position. The lockout mechanism is configured to prevent the firing stroke when the sled is not in the proximal position. The motor is operably coupled with the firing member and couplable with a supply of current. When the current through the motor exceeds a threshold value the firing member is prevented from completing the firing stroke. The threshold value corresponds to the current through the motor when the lockout mechanism is activated. The motor is de-energized when the current through the motor exceeds the threshold value.
US10945724B2
An adhesion device incorporating a plurality of element block assemblies which are partially disposed within an element support body having an engagement surface. Each element block assembly may include an element activation sheet, an element deployment sheet, a plurality of engagement elements, and an element transition mechanism which is operatively coupled to the engagement elements. The element transition mechanism is configured to reversible transition from a neutral configuration wherein the element activation sheet is substantially adjacent to the element deployment sheet, and an expanded configuration wherein the element activation sheet and the element deployment sheet are separated by a transition gap. The element support body being configured while each element transition mechanism is disposed in the neutral configuration to constrain each engagement element in a deployment state wherein each engagement element disposed in a substantially straightened configuration which is substantially perpendicular to the engagement surface and which is suitable for insertion into (or removal from) a target material.
US10945721B2
Devices are provided for a suturing device used during laparoscopic surgical procedures. A suturing needle includes a shaft forming a rod axis; a curved body having a piercing tip at a first end and a base at a second end; and an arm extending radially from the shaft to the base of the curved body such that the curved body is positioned in a plane orthogonal to the rod axis of the shaft and rotatable about the shaft in the plane orthogonal to the rod axis. The suturing device includes a housing, a suturing needle, one or more sutures, a suture magazine configured to hold the one or more sutures, and a drive system, whereby the drive system may actuate the suturing needle to rotate in the plane orthogonal to the drive system, allowing the suturing needle to drive in to and out of tissue to apply a suture.
US10945715B2
An adhesive deliver apparatus includes: a holder; an adhesive tube, containing an adhesive fluid and positioned inside the holder, wherein the adhesive tube comprises a nozzle and a nozzle seal formed on the nozzle; a support tube comprising a proximal end and a distal end; a connector, arranged to operably connect with the proximal end of the support tube; and an inner tube, positioned within the support tube and comprising an inlet end connected with the connector and an outlet end approximating to the distal end of the support tube. When the connector is inserted into the holder, a portion of the connector would break through the nozzle seal. When the holder is pressed, the adhesive fluid will be squeezed out from the adhesive tube and transmitted through the inner tube from the inlet end to the outlet end.
US10945713B2
A biopsy apparatus includes a biopsy probe assembly that is releasably attached to a driver assembly. The biopsy probe assembly has a vacuum cannula and a stylet cannula coaxially arranged. The vacuum cannula has a flared portion that extends distally from an elongate portion. The stylet cannula is movable between a first extended position and a first retracted position. The stylet cannula has a distal portion having a sample notch and a protrusion member that extends proximally in a lumen of stylet cannula along a portion of a longitudinal extent of the sample notch, wherein when the stylet cannula is in the first retracted position, the protrusion member is received within the flared portion of the vacuum cannula. The biopsy apparatus may further include a controller circuit that has a virtual energy reservoir, and the controller circuit executes program instructions to control current to motors when engaging dense tissue.
US10945707B2
An ultrasonic transducer device includes a first substrate that is provided with a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of first wires via which the ultrasonic transducer elements are electrically connected to each other as a plurality of serial sets, and a second substrate that is provided to overlap the first substrate, and is provided with a plurality of second wires intersecting the first wires in a plan view from a thickness direction of the first substrate and third wires via which the first wires are electrically connected to the second wires.
US10945703B2
An interventional medical device is provided that incorporates a forward-directed ultrasound or optical coherence tomography imaging system that is replaceable depending on how close the device is to the target site for a given medical procedure, the device and system integrated into a single minimally invasive device comprising a first probe housing, needle guide assembly and sheath, a sleeve lock for closing a normally open needle channel of a needle guide of the first distal assembly and a second probe and cable housing assembly locked to the first distal probe housing, needle guide assembly and sheath by a locking tab. The probe and cable housing assembly may comprise a linear phased ultrasound array and an accelerometer for orienting an image produced by the device with the gravitational field of the earth. The medical device can be in the form of an image guided catheter or probe, used in a body orifice, externally on skin tissue or subcutaneously. The device comprises a replaceable and reusable ultrasound imaging assembly (and or OCT assembly) and replaceable interventional devices such as a removable introducer needle, hollow biopsy needle, syringe or other medical instrument. The imaging system may comprise one or more small ultrasound or OCT imaging systems that can be replaceably integrated into the device by replacing the reusable second probe and cable housing assembly.
US10945690B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus with an interferometer (IF) and an X-ray detector (D). A footprint of the X-ray detector (D) is larger than a footprint of the interferometer (IF). The interferometer is moved in scan motion across the detector (D) whilst the detector (D) remains stationary. Preferably the detector is a 2D full field detector.
US10945689B2
A mobile radiation generator includes an arm part on which an irradiation section is mounted. The height of the irradiation section is changed in a case in which the arm part is rotated. A spring generates negative rotational moment in a negative direction where the irradiation section is displaced upward against positive rotational moment that acts on the arm part in a positive direction due to own weight of the irradiation section and the like. A friction mechanism is built in a pillar. In a case in which the magnitude of the positive rotational moment and the magnitude of the negative rotational moment are different from each other, the friction mechanism generates a frictional force acting in a direction opposite to a direction where the arm part is to be rotated due to a difference between the positive rotational moment and the negative rotational moment and cancelling the difference.
US10945687B2
A transparent radiation shield, attachable to a patient support platform, and movable to shield a physician from imaging radiation, includes a transparent computer display that is controllable to provide a data overlay on the shield pertaining to patient data and/or x-ray images.
US10945686B2
A patient imaging system for creating visual representations for analysis includes an imaging source and a patient support disposed proximate the imaging source configured to receive and support the patient. An imaging device is disposed adjacent to the patient support and incorporates at least one detector, one or more slats cooperating with the at least one detector and a collimator disposed between the one or more slats and patient support having a plurality of links adjustably positionable on the collimator. The plurality of links receive and support imaging plates that may be adjusted to provide a variety of image settings such that the imaging device and imaging source define a pre-determined imaging volume in an imaging region for the patient positioned in the imaging system.
US10945680B2
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible mental or physical health concerns. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically learns user activity patterns and detects significant deviations therefrom. The deviations are automatically analyzed for known correlations to mental or physical concerns, which can then be automatically communicated to a relevant friend, family member, and/or medical professional.
US10945678B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain information indicating a discrepancy in the oxygenation index of a blood vessel related to a region of interest based on image data indicating a spatial distribution of an oxygenation index in a subject and information indicating the blood vessel related to the region of interest, and a display control unit configured to display an image on a display unit based on the information indicating the discrepancy in the oxygenation index of the blood vessel related to the region of interest, the image indicating a condition of a tissue included in the region of interest.
US10945677B2
A wearable electronic device for detecting biometric information is provided. The device includes a motion sensor, one or more optical sensors including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, and at least one processor configured to obtain a first motion signal corresponding to the wearable electronic device, prior to a biological signal being obtained, emit light using the light emitting unit based on a determination that the first motion signal satisfies a specified condition, obtain the biological signal corresponding to a user using the light receiving unit based on reflected light which the light is reflected on the user, obtain, using the motion sensor, a second motion signal corresponding to the wearable electronic device during the obtaining of the biological signal, and refrain from the emitting of the light, based on a determination that the second motion signal does not satisfy the specified condition.
US10945675B2
Evaluating health of a user can include providing an equilibrium envelope for a user, wherein the equilibrium envelope includes a range for each of a plurality of vital signs, and detecting, using a processor, a current metric. The current metric corresponds to an exit condition for the equilibrium envelope determined based upon sensor data or a re-entry condition for the equilibrium envelope determined based upon the sensor data. A health status for the user can be determined, using the processor, based upon a comparison of the current metric with a historical metric for the user.
US10945671B2
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to determining cardiac physiological parameters. Specific embodiments concern an arrangement of apparatuses including a platform region configured and arranged with an area for the user to stand, a plurality of force sensors including sensor circuitry, and a processor circuitry. The force sensors provide a plurality of analog signals while the user is standing on the platform region. The processor circuitry is configured and arranged to determine cardiac physiological parameters of the user corresponding to a graphical representation of cardiac movements, by processing the analog signals, mitigating at least some effect on the analog signals attributable to postural sway of the user, and generating data indicative of the physiological parameters based on said processing of the analog signals and the mitigating of at least some of the effect on the analog signals attributable to postural sway of the user.
US10945663B2
A smart patch including multi-component strands integrated into clothing or other textiles where the strands of the smart patch include sensory elements that can simultaneously measure tactile forces, moisture/wetness, and other signals, such as biopotentials. A sensing system comprising: a first set of strands including a plurality of first multi-component strands, each of the first multi-component strands including a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion; and a second set of strands including a plurality of second multi-component strands, each of the second multicomponent strands including a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion, and a plurality of third multi-component strands, each of the third multicomponent strands including a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion, the third multi-component strands being different than the first multi-component strands and the second multi-component strands.
US10945662B2
In one embodiment, a shoe includes a top portion configured to provide covering to a top of a user's foot, a sole portion coupled to the top portion, and one or more processors embedded within the sole portion. Communicatively coupled to the one or more processors are one or more memory modules, one or more user input devices, and a user output device. The user input device includes at least a microphone. Machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the shoe to: receive a command from a user with the one or more user input devices; process the command from the user; and output information with the user output device relevant to the command from the user.
US10945660B2
The present invention relates to monitoring biological tissue during a delivery of energy. A probe-driving unit repeatedly drives an integrated push-and-track transducer unit, which is external to the control device, in repeatedly providing at least one ultrasonic push pulse (302) that is suitable for displacing biological tissue at a monitoring location (M), and in providing ultrasonic track pulses (301, 303) suitable for detecting tissue displacement occurring in response to the push pulse at the monitoring location, and in detecting and delivering ultrasonic tissue-response signals (R) relating to the track pulses. An evaluation unit receives the tissue-response signals, determines in real time whether a normalized displacement quantity has reached a threshold value, and provides an output signal when the threshold value has been reached.
US10945653B2
The present invention relates to determining a neural respiratory drive (NRD) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on surface electromyography measurements taken from the intercostal muscles on the chest of a subject (100). An electromyography system is presented that comprises a first electrode (2′) and a second electrode (3′) for contacting a skin of a subject (100), and a recorder (4′) for recording an electromyogram between the first electrode (2′) and the second electrode (3′); wherein the first electrode (2′) comprises a first electrode area (2A) and a second electrode area (2B) for contacting the skin of the subject (100), wherein the first electrode area (2A) and the second electrode area (2B) are insulated from each other; and the recorder (4′) is configured to form a noise measurement between the first electrode area (2A) and the second electrode area (2B) of the first electrode (2′) for determining a contact quality of an electrode-skin contact of the first electrode (2′). According to further aspects, a corresponding electromyogram recorder (4′) for an electromyography system, a method for electromyogram measurements and a corresponding computer program are presented.
US10945642B2
An apparatus comprises an activity monitor for measuring physical activity of a subject. The activity monitor is configured to obtain a first set of physical activity data over a first time period, for example during the day, and a second set of physical activity data over a second time period, for example during the night. A processor processes the data obtained by the activity monitor to calculate a physical activity ratio which is the ratio of the physical activity measured during the first time period to the physical activity measured in the second time period. The processor also calculates a first overall value which represents an activity level of the subject during the first time period. The physical activity ratio together with the first overall value may be used to assess the severity of symptoms of COPD displayed by a subject or to identify respiratory disease comorbidity information for example psychological issues such as low motivation, or sleep quality issues displayed by the subject.
US10945635B2
Systems and methods described herein can use near field communications to locate a radiating transmitter, such as a pill transmitter swallowed by a patient. In some embodiments, the pill transmitter can include multiple transmitting elements configured to transmit signals in an axis orthogonal with respect to each other. Further, in some embodiment, the pill transmitter can also include multiple transmitting elements in each of the three axes where the three axes may be perpendicular with respect to each other. The magnetic field emitted from the pill transmitter can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance.
US10945630B2
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is used in conjunction with continuous glucose monitors and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to enable in-vivo sensor calibration, gross (sensor) failure analysis, and intelligent sensor diagnostics and fault detection. An equivalent circuit model is defined, and circuit elements are used to characterize sensor behavior.
US10945628B2
The present invention relates to the field of medical technology and in particular to determining a respiratory activity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on surface electromyography measurements taken from the intercostal muscles on the chest of a subject. A processing apparatus for processing an electromyography signal indicative of an activity of a target muscle in a human or animal body that relates to the measurement of respiratory effort amid an activity of at least one further muscle is presented. The processing apparatus comprises a first interface for receiving a first electromyography signal obtained from the target muscle and the further muscle at a first location on the body; a second interface for receiving a second electromyography signal obtained from the further muscle at a second location on the body; and an analysis unit for determining a similarity signal based on the first electromyography signal and the second electromyography signal, wherein the analysis unit is further configured to determine a respiratory phase as an inspiratory phase if the similarity signal obtained from the first and the second electromyography signal is below a first predetermined threshold and/or determine a respiratory phase as an expiratory phase if the similarity signal obtained from the first and the second electromyography signal exceeds a second predetermined threshold.
US10945624B2
A wireless cardiac sensor is provided. The sensor may be utilized by a patient, on themselves, in an at home or other non-clinical environment. A sensor housing contains ECG electrodes and an audio transducer to simultaneously capture heart sound and ECG data with a single device. The ECG electrodes may be positioned on opposite sides of, and preferably adjacent to, an audio transducer sensor, for placement against a user's chest. The wireless cardiac sensor may include a button on a surface opposite the ECG electrodes and audio sensor, facilitating one-handed operation by a patient. The sensor transmits acquired data to a personal electronic device, such as a smartphone, via a wireless communication link. The personal electronic device may in turn transmit data to a centralized server and/or health care provider devices, via a wide area network.
US10945620B2
Disclosed methods and systems may be operable to obtain non-contact diagnostic information about movements of scattering objects such as fluids in subsurface vasculature in tissue. As an example, a method may include causing a light source to illuminate the tissue with at least a first portion of the emitted light and illuminate an optical modulator with at least a second portion of the emitted light. The second portion of the emitted light may be modulated by the optical modulator. An offset source is configured to provide an offset frequency signal. An image sensor may receive optical information from the sample. A heterodyne signal based on the reference frequency signal and the offset frequency signal may be used as a gain input of each detector element of the image sensor. Based on the received information, a movement of a portion of the sample may be determined.
US10945618B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring a subject are described. A monitoring device configured to be attached to a body of a subject includes a sensor that is configured to detect and/or measure physiological information from the subject and at least one motion sensor configured to detect and/or measure subject motion information. The physiological sensor and motion sensor are in communication with a processor that is configured to receive and analyze signals produced by the physiological sensor and motion sensor. The processor is configured to process motion sensor signals to identify an activity characteristic of the subject. Once an activity characteristic is identified, the processor is configured to select a noise reference in response to identification of the activity characteristic of the subject, and then process physiological sensor signals using the noise reference to generate an output signal having reduced noise relative to the physiological sensor signal, to produce physiological information about the subject.
US10945606B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining blood flow characteristics of a patient. One method includes: receiving, in an electronic storage medium, patient-specific image data of at least a portion of vasculature of the patient having geometric features at one or more points; generating a patient-specific reduced order model from the received image data, the patient-specific reduced order model comprising estimates of impedance values and a simplification of the geometric features at the one or more points of the vasculature of the patient; creating a feature vector comprising the estimates of impedance values and geometric features for each of the one or more points of the patient-specific reduced order model; and determining blood flow characteristics at the one or more points of the patient-specific reduced order model using a machine learning algorithm trained to predict blood flow characteristics based on the created feature vectors at the one or more points.
US10945602B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a monitoring parameter threshold value setting method, comprising the following steps: selecting at least one threshold value indicator of the monitoring parameter that needs a threshold value setting; forming and displaying a corresponding threshold value setting graphic according to the said threshold value indicator, wherein, in the said threshold value setting graphic, said threshold value indicator corresponds to an indication icon; responding to the threshold value setting of the threshold value indicator by a user, and adjusting the indication icon corresponding to the threshold value indicator to the corresponding position of the said indicating graphic. The embodiment of the present application also discloses a monitoring system provided with the said monitoring parameter threshold value setting method, which can provide a graphical indication when a user sets a threshold value of the monitoring parameter, thereby improving the convenience and accuracy of the threshold value setting.
US10945600B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for receiving biosensor data acquired by a medical device, e.g., relating to glucose concentration values, and controlling the access and distribution of that data. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring glucose levels, displaying data relating to glucose values and metabolic health information, and controlling distribution of glucose data between applications executing on a computer, such as a smart phone. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for controlling access to medical data such as continuously monitored glucose levels, synchronizing health data relating to glucose levels between multiple applications executing on a computer, and/or encrypting data.
US10945597B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an optical coherence tomography-based ophthalmic testing center system includes an optical coherence tomography instrument comprising an eyepiece for receiving at least one eye of a user or subject; a light source that outputs light that is directed through the eyepiece into the user's or subject's eye, an interferometer configured to produce optical interference using light reflected from the user's/subject's eye, an optical detector disposed so as to detect said optical interference; and a processing unit coupled to the detector. The ophthalmic testing center system can be configured to perform a multitude of self-administered functional and/or structural ophthalmic tests and output the test data.
US10945589B2
An endoscopic peripheral includes a first end of a flexible cable including at least a camera and one or more lights enclosed by a tip at the first end. The tip is tapered for insertion of a portion of the first end into a body of a patient. The endoscopic peripheral includes one or more controls interconnected with and controlling the camera and the one or more lights. A second end of the flexible cable terminates in a plug configured to physically connect the endoscopic peripheral to an electronic device. The electronic device powers the camera and the one or more lights and displays content captured by the camera. The endoscopic peripheral is plug and play when connected to the electronic device. The diameter of the diameter of the endoscopic peripheral between the first end and the second end is approximately the same.
US10945582B1
A consumer appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a user interface attached to the cabinet, a motor mounted within the cabinet, and a control board in electrical communication with the user interface and the motor. The user interface may include one or more connected electrical elements. The control board may be configured to initiate an initial operation. The initial operation may include activating the control board and detecting the one or more connected electrical elements from a predetermined plurality of potential electrical elements. The initial operation may further include selecting an operating personality from a plurality of preset personalities based on detecting the one or more connected electrical elements. The initial operation may still further include directing the motor according to the selected operating personality.
US10945580B2
A dishwasher appliance includes a spray nozzle having a housing defining a spray chamber in fluid communication with a fluid circulation assembly. A diversion element is positioned within the spray chamber and is movable between a lowered position and a raised position where it contacts a discharge orifice. The diversion element defines a plurality of flow paths that are randomly oriented relative to the discharge orifice every time the diversion element is moved into the raised position, such as when the fluid circulation assembly cycles off and then on again.
US10945577B2
A timed cleaning method includes: obtaining a topographic map of a cleaning region, wherein the topographic map identifies an obstacle in the cleaning region; based on the topographic map, determining an unclean region in the cleaning region, wherein the unclean region is occupied by the obstacle; detecting the unclean region according to a preset time interval; and if the obstacle at the unclean region is removed, cleaning the unclean region.
US10945569B1
A body dryer system includes a drive unit to heat and pressurize air; a head unit to expel air; a power system and a control system; the power system and the control system are to activate the drive unit; and air is heated and pressurized via the drive unit and pushed to the head unit to be expelled.
US10945566B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for determining or identifying the type of product in a dispenser based at least in part on the length of rolled product dispensed and/or the radial measurement.
US10945564B2
A bathing apparatus (100) includes a lower body (102) comprising engine components, an upper body (108) mounted on the lower body (102). The lower body (102) includes a watertight enclosure adapted to accommodate a person therein. The engine components in said lower body (102) are configured to manage the water in enclosure of said upper body (108) by receiving water therein from outside and pumping the water into said upper body (108).
US10945560B2
An apparatus can include: a hollow vessel having a body which includes one or more walls extending upwardly from a base portion to form an opening in fluid communication with an interior space of the body; a handle assembly movably coupled to the body, the handle assembly including an elongated cut-out portion, a first end forming a handle portion, and a second end opposite the first end forming a hook portion; and a coupling member disposed on the one or more walls of the body, the coupling member coupling the handle assembly to the body by extending at least partially into the cut-out portion of the handle assembly. The handle assembly can be configured to rotate about the coupling member and to linearly slide along the coupling member in a direction parallel to the cut-out portion.
US10945547B2
Various embodiments of a dressing aid are disclosed. In one embodiment, a dressing aid, comprises a grip; an extender extending from the grip, the extender having a proximal end and a distal end; a clasping mechanism coupled with the distal end of the extender; and a locking mechanism configured to lock the extender into a fixed position such that the clasping mechanism remains at a fixed length from the grip.
US10945540B2
A bracket for hanging a picture frame on a supporting structure. The bracket is a one-piece member formed of plastic having a pair of legs projecting perpendicularly from a bottom surface of a base and extending at right angles with respect to each other. The legs are spaced from a peripheral edge of the base forming a V-shaped planar portion between the edge and legs. A reinforcing member extends between the pair of legs and an attachment pin mounted in the reinforcing member extends outwardly beyond a top surface of the base. A pair of attachment pins is pressed into the supporting structure to suspend the frame therefrom after two of the brackets are secured in upper right hand corners of the frame.
US10945537B2
A gravity-feed bin includes a generally hollow main bin having an open end, a storage reservoir and a dispensing chute. The dispensing chute has an opening disposed near a distal end. The bin includes a dispensing gate movable between open and closed positions. When the dispensing gate is in the closed position, the dispensing gate blocks the opening of the dispensing chute. One or more fins contact interior and/or exterior surfaces of the gate to provide cleaning functionality of the gate and/or sealing functionality between the gate and the dispensing chute.
US10945533B1
An air bed is provided, including: an upper sheet, a lower sheet, a left side sheet, a right side sheet, a first structural pull belt and a second structural pull belt, wherein the upper sheet, the lower sheet, the left side sheet and the right side sheet define one air chamber. The upper sheet and the lower sheet are connected with each other at the front and the back, and an inner edge of a joint between the upper sheet and the lower sheet is provided with the first structural pull belt. The left side sheet is connected with the upper sheet and the lower sheet to form a left side wall of the air bed, and an inner edge of a left joint is provided with the second structural pull belt.
US10945523B2
A device for connecting a movable push element of a piece of furniture or a household appliance to a guide rail. According to the present invention, the device comprises a locking arm with a locking member, wherein in the mounted condition of the device the locking member is designed to be coupled with a locking element, wherein the elongated locking arm is connected by two spaced-apart elastic attachment members to the remainder of the device, which attachment members engage with the locking arm transversely to a longitudinal extension of the locking arm, so that the locking arm is movable in the region of the locking member in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extension of the locking arm and in the direction of the attachment members.
US10945522B2
Combined multi-style leisure furniture systems comprising one or more main body units and one or more auxiliary units on the main body units, wherein the main body unit is a main body of the furniture, and a plurality of mounting holes are distributed on the main body unit; the auxiliary unit is an auxiliary functional member on the main unit and is provided with an insertion fixing piece; the auxiliary unit is fixed to the main body unit by inserting the insertion fixing piece to the mounting hole of the main unit so as to form the combined multi-style leisure furniture. The invention is not only convenient to combine, but also has various combined styles, and it is little influenced by site limitation during application, and is suitable for various places such as homes, parks, lounges of public places, such as airports and railway stations and the like.
US10945520B2
A lifting platform with a sliding keyboard holder is disclosured. The lifting platform has a table plate, a base and a supporting leg connected with the table plate and the base, and a keyboard holder connected to the table plate. And the keyboard holder is slidably connected to the table plate in the vertical direction and is locked by a locking device. The keyboard holder can slide in the vertical direction to the position below the working table surface where the lifting platform is placed. With the above structure, the keyboard holder can be locked at any height at any time to meet the ergonomic requirements of different users, and the operation is simple, convenient and flexible.
US10945519B2
In a garment convertible into a bag for stowage and transport, there is a base garment, and a pair of pockets attached thereto. The two pockets are joined together with a zipper fastener that attaches mating teeth halves on the respective pockets so as to be zipped continuously around the connected pockets to form a bag therein, the material of the base garment adapted so as to be folded for insertion in the bag.
US10945511B2
A fluid dispensing personal care product with a handle defining a cavity with a support surface. A fluid reservoir containing a volume of a fluid is configured to attach to the handle. An actuator on the handle that has a pump contacting surface. A pump system positioned within the handle includes a flexible fluid collector configured to dispense fluid from the fluid reservoir to an exit port. The flexible fluid collector contacts the support surface of the handle and the pump contacting surface of the actuator in a neutral position.
US10945502B2
A self-propelling item of luggage, for example a suitcase, includes at least a storage area, a drive, a camera, and a data processing device which is designed to recognize an authorized user in a predefined distance range by means of at least one image captured with the camera and on the basis of at least one visual feature extracted from the image, and to actuate the drive so that the item of luggage follows the authorized user in a self-propelling manner at a distance, where the at least one visual feature is characteristic of at least one item of clothing of the authorized user. A method for operating such a self-propelling item of luggage is also described.
US10945499B2
Proposed is a decorative element containing (a) a transparent gemstone with a faceted surface comprising convex curved regions, (b) a transparent electrically conductive layer applied to said faceted surface comprising convex curved regions, (c) a wavelength-selective layer applied (c1) to the planar side opposite to the faceted curved surface, or (c2) to the photovoltaic cell (d); (d) a photovoltaic cell; and (e) a touch-sensitive electronic circuitry.
US10945496B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a locking assembly for an attachment system of a consumer product. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an attachment unit that is configured to be inserted and removed from a housing of a consumer product. The attachment unit and/or the housing include an expansion component or other such locking assembly configured to releasably secure the attachment unit within the housing.
US10945489B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a first plate, a fluid-filled bladder supported on the first plate, and a second plate supported on the fluid-filled bladder with the fluid-filled bladder disposed between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate ascends rearward of the fluid-filled bladder and the second plate descends rearward of the fluid-filled bladder with a posterior portion of the first plate above a posterior portion of the second plate rearward of the fluid-filled bladder. A method of manufacturing footwear sole structures includes assembling sole structures for plural ranges of footwear sizes, each of the sole structures including a fluid-filled bladder with a predetermined inflation pressure that is different for at least two of the plural ranges.
US10945487B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s), in a computing environment comprised of multiple containers comprising modules, includes a processor(s) continuously obtaining pressure data from pressure sensors embedded in electrostatic dissipative (ESD) footwear. The processor(s) determines that the obtained pressure data indicates a pressure level of a pre-determined threshold and the given threshold is sustained for a pre-determined interval of time in some of the items. The processor(s) accesses one or more voltage sensors embedded in each item of the items and obtains voltage data by utilizing an ESD floor that the items are in contact with as a ground reference. The processor(s) validates functionality of some of the items and functionality of the ESD floor, based on monitoring the voltage data from the one or more voltage sensors.
US10945484B1
Haptic output devices may provide haptic output to a user. The haptic output devices may include foot-shaped structures with cavities configured to receive the feet of users. The haptic output devices may also include foot platforms with planar exterior surfaces on which a user may stand. In hybrid arrangements, haptic output devices include foot-shaped support structures with components such as magnets and a foot platform components with corresponding electromagnets. Haptic output components such as piezoelectric components, electroactive polymer components, electromagnetic actuators, and other haptic output components may be mounted to haptic output device support structures in arrays. Shear forces and forces normal to the inner surfaces of a foot-shaped support surface and/or the exterior surface of a foot platform may be generated. Haptic output may be generated based on sensor signals such as sensor signals associated with foot movement.
US10945467B2
An air switch electronic vaporizer has a rechargeable battery heating a heating element which in turn heats a heating chamber. A control board controls the electrical heating of the heating element. An outer casing is formed as a sleeve. The outer casing retains the heating element, the rechargeable battery, and the control board. A deactivation switch can be formed as a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor can be mounted at a pressure sensor opening formed on the outer casing. The pressure sensor is configured to sense a flow of air blowing across the pressure sensor opening. The control board deactivates the intellectual heating of the heating element when the pressure sensor senses a flow of air blowing across the pressure sensor opening.
US10945465B2
An aerosol delivery device is described that includes an aerosol precursor staged within a reservoir and an atomizer configured to generate heat through induction. The atomizer has an induction transmitter and an induction receiver. The induction receiver is in operational contact with the aerosol precursor within the reservoir and is configured to wick the aerosol precursor into range of the induction transmitter to be heated and vaporized.
US10945459B1
A plated silicon-based electronic cigarette atomizing chip includes the following components: a silicon substrate, wherein the silicon substrate is provided with an array of micro-pillars or an array of micro-holes, an inlet end, and an outlet end, the outer walls of the micro-pillars are plated side walls, the inner walls of the micro-holes are plated inner walls, and the array of micro-pillars defines a plurality of micro-channels or electronic cigarette liquid channels penetrating the micro-holes are provided on the silicon substrate; a glass cover, wherein the air holes passing through the glass cover are provided; and the glass cover is fixedly connected to the silicon substrate by a bonding process.
US10945458B2
The present disclosure provides, in one embodiment, an electronic smoking device comprising a mouthpiece; a vaporizer portion in communication with the mouthpiece; a filter cartridge assembly in communication with the mouthpiece; an inlet check valve; and an outlet check valve. The vaporizer portion comprises a heating element for heating a smoking material housed within the vaporizer portion. The inlet check valve permits air to be inhaled from the vaporizer portion into the mouthpiece, but substantially prohibits air from being exhaled through the mouthpiece into the vaporizer portion. The outlet check valve permits air to be exhaled through the mouthpiece into the filter cartridge assembly, but substantially prohibits air from being inhaled from the filter cartridge assembly into the mouthpiece.
US10945453B2
This invention refers to an automatic machine for strawberry processing to de-calyx and remove the leaves and cut in pieces; it is used in the agro-alimentary industry, in processing industry and in canning industry; and it could be suitable also for processing of other products similar to strawberry. The machine is composed of a conveyor belt (1) at closed loop design, where one or more operators feed manually in vertical with the leaves and the calyx up in the holes (5) of each fruit-holder element (3) of the conveyor belt which moves continuously to bring the fruits, so placed, to the processing station composed of a frame where a header plate (14) reciprocates in horizontal and vertical, controlled and adjusted by sensors which lead the three processing operations done by the machine: strawberries alignment, de-calyxing and fruit ejection. In particular, the de-calyxing takes place through two cutting units (30) side by side composed of six rotating spindles (31) each one equipped with a rotating cutting head composed of two blades (32), optimized in their conformation and size, and wherein the opened tips penetrate to a adjusted depth, on the strawberry, around the calyx, and then close, during the penetration and the cutting, so to eliminate precisely the calyx with a minimum of straw berry fruit.
US10945427B2
The problem of the present invention is to provide a method for preserving mammalian cells over a long period of time using a solution for cell transplantation, capable of effectively suppressing cell death when the mammalian cells have been preserved, and the solution for cell transplantation. The present invention is characterized in that mammalian cells are preserved in a physiological aqueous solution for cell transplantation, comprising 2.0 to 6.0% (w/v) of trehalose, a derivative thereof, or a salt of trehalose or the derivative (a trehalose) and 4.0 to 7.0% (w/v) of dextran, a derivative thereof, or a salt of dextran or the derivative (a dextran). The effects of a trehalose and a dextran contained in the physiological aqueous solution for cell transplantation can suppress a decrease in the cell survival rate when mammalian cells are preserved for a long period of time (at least 14 days).
US10945425B2
An animal trap apparatus is mounted onto a rim of a bucket and comprises a plank having a bait receiving end and a mounting end, with a fulcrum feature therebetween. A bracket with a notch is received by the rim of the bucket while a receiving feature configured to receive the fulcrum feature. When the animal trap apparatus is in a loaded condition, the plank is in a loaded position whereby the mounting end of the plank extends generally horizontally outwardly from the bucket sidewall and the bait receiving end extends over the cavity of the bucket. In use, the plank is configured to pivot about the fulcrum feature in a forward direction when an animal approaches the bait receiving end thereby placing the animal trap apparatus in a tripped condition whereby the bait receiving extends downwardly toward the closed bottom of the bucket and the animal falls into the cavity.
US10945421B2
A bait holder includes a multi-purpose lid that has a sliding portion operable to both cut and enclose bait within a bait container.
US10945419B2
The present disclosure relates to genetically modified non-human animals that express a human or chimeric (e.g., humanized) glucocorticoid-induced TNFR-related protein (GITR), and methods of use thereof.
US10945417B2
An aquaculture system which has a pen, a control system, a pumping mechanism coupled to the pen, and a set of buoyancy tanks coupled to the pen. The pen can be disposed in a body of water and at least temporarily stores aquatic animals during development. The control system receives electric power from a power source and provides electric power to the pumping mechanism to provide a flow of water through the pen. A portion of the control system is in fluid communication with the set of buoyancy tanks and adjusts a volume of fluid in at least one buoyancy tank to move the pen from a first position in which the pen is partially submerged in the body of water to a second position in which the pen is fully submerged in the body of water.
US10945416B2
The current invent relates to the construction and application of a three-line breeding system in the bay scallop×Peruvian scallop hybrids. The said three-line consists of a male sterile line, a maintainer line and a restorer line. A combination of male sterile line and maintainer line is obtained by continuously backcrossing the male sterile individuals selected from F1 inter-specific hybrid families with sperm of the selfing family of the sperm-providing Peruvian scallops until the progenies are all male sterile. The restorer line is obtained by continuously backcrossing selected individuals from the male sterile line with sperm of the selfing family of a Peruvian scallop until the progenies are all hermaphroditic and exhibit excellent production traits. Commercial male sterile brood stocks are produced by backcrossing the male sterile line with the maintainer line and commercial hybrid spats are produced by backcrossing the male sterile line and the restorer line.
US10945404B1
A soybean cultivar designated 83221630 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 83221630, to the plants of soybean cultivar 83221630, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 83221630, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 83221630. 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 83221630. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 83221630, 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 83221630 with another soybean cultivar.
US10945396B2
A novel hybrid cantaloupe plant, designated Earlypac is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cantaloupe hybrid Earlypac, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid cantaloupe Earlypac, and to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant by crossing the hybrid cantaloupe Earlypac with itself or another cantaloupe plant.
US10945389B1
A passive nutrient delivery system for plant growth includes a rooting module having a body portion having a top, a bottom, and a sidewall extending between the top and the bottom. The rooting module further includes a hydrophilic plug, having an opening, in a first portion of the interior of the body portion adjacent the top of the body portion, and a substrate in a second portion of the interior of the body portion between the bottom and the plug. The rooting module further includes an oxygen permeable area in the sidewall of the body portion, a first wicking material extending through the sidewall of the body portion into the interior of the body portion, and a second wicking material extending through the body of the body portion into the interior of the body portion, through the interior of the body portion, and through the opening of the plug. The passive nutrient delivery system also comprises a reservoir wherein a port can receive the removable rooting module.
US10945388B1
An irrigation management system monitors irrigation parameters, including progress of flood irrigation water admitted onto a farm field, water levels in ditches, basins or boxes, soil moisture, water usage and other important factors. In flood irrigation a series of small, inexpensive sensors detect the presence in each of the sensor locations in a field, and each sends a signal when water first reaches the sensor. In a preferred form the sensor communicates by long-range radio communication either directly with a hub or gateway, or by sending a transmission that is relayed from location to location and ultimately to the hub or gateway. All aspects of irrigation water need, availability, task completion, pipe and equipment status, and water usage are monitored and communicated to the farmer. The system allows efficient water management and reliable and responsible irrigation at all irrigated fields.
US10945387B2
The disclosed device includes a water storage container, an evaporation cover, a funnel, an indicator rod and a float. The water storage container has an evaporation cover. The evaporation cover is a gas permeable structure. A funnel is connected to the evaporation cover and an indication is provided in the leakage tube of the funnel. A rod. A float is connected to the lower end of the indicator rod and the float drives the indicator rod to indicate the water level in the water storage container. The method is as follows: the water storage container and the evaporation cover are buried in the soil of the plant root, and the water is filled into the water storage container through the funnel. The water in the water container naturally evaporates into the soil through the evaporation hood, which maintains the water in the soil to maintain the survival of the plant.
US10945382B2
A self-contained soil module, the soil module including a biodegradable outer frame forming the shape of the soil module, a biodegradable wrapping disposed within the biodegradable outer frame, a soil composition contained within the biodegradable wrapping and at least one plant seed of at least one type of plant disposed within the soil module.
US10945380B2
A CA system includes a gas supply device which performs a gas supply operation of supplying nitrogen-enriched air into a container, and a controller which performs the gas supply operation so that the inside air has a desired composition. The controller performs carbon dioxide priority control in which the controller performs the gas supply operation if an oxygen concentration of the inside air is equal to or higher than a ceiling concentration higher than a target oxygen concentration, stops the gas supply operation if a carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air is lowered to a critical concentration lower than a target carbon dioxide concentration, and restarts the gas supply operation if the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air has reached a restart concentration higher than the target carbon dioxide concentration through breathing of the plants.
US10945379B2
A knotter system for performing a first knot forming cycle and a second knot forming cycle. The knotter system includes a needle for delivering a needle twine, a tucker arm for delivering a tucker twine, a twine receiver for holding the needle twine and the tucker twine, a billhook, a cutting arm, a twine finger for guiding at least the needle twine. The system further includes a drive to make the billhook perform first and second full rotations during the first and second knot forming cycles, respectively, and to move the twine finger at least a first time during the first knot forming cycle and a second time during the second knot forming cycle. The twine finger is configured such that during the second knot forming cycle the needle twine is moved away from the tucker twine in order to drape it adjacent to the tucker twine on the billhook.
US10945376B2
A threshing and separating system for an agricultural harvester includes: a rotor; a rotor cage at least partially enclosing the rotor, the rotor cage including a first flat wall, a second flat wall connected to and angled with respect to the first flat wall, and a curved wall connected to the second flat wall; and at least one vane connected to the first flat wall or the second flat wall.
US10945373B2
A harvester feeder may include a housing forming a crop passage having a width and a conveyor supported by the housing to extend above crops being conveyed along the crop passage. The conveyor may include a frame, at least one forward tensioner, at least one drive sprocket and at least one belt about the forward tensioner and the drive sprocket. In one implementation, the at least one belt forms a substantially uninterrupted crop engaging belt surface extending across a majority of the width. In one implementation, each belt has an upper portion and a lower portion with the lower portion being adjacent the crop passage, wherein a crop massager extends between the upper portion and the lower portion and resume only presses the lower portion of the continuous belt towards the crop passage.
US10945372B2
A feeding device for a flexible canvas or draper harvester characterized by upper beam (8) linked to a lower front beam (10) and joined by side covers (11) forming a frame, integral with a lateral stud supports (12) and a central stud supports (13) associated with a central lower beam (9) cut into three sections; the central stud supports (13) are integral with the anchors of the coupling device (15) and with the flexible body supports (14); the central stud supports (13) and lateral stud supports (12) are linked to the conveyor belts with flexible canvases (3, 4, 5 and 6), forming a central body and two laterals with space to accommodate a double row.
US10945371B2
An adjustable stalk stomper and/or chopper curtain assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester. The adjustable assembly comprises a control arm, at least one member connected to the control arm, wherein the at least one member is configured to knock down plant stalks and/or to shield the agricultural harvester from flying debris, and wherein the control arm is configured to provide for adjustment of the orientation of the at least one member relative to the ground and the header. An agricultural harvester header may include the above adjustable assembly and a frame having a toolbar. An agricultural harvester may include such header.
US10945370B2
A harvesting head for a combine and method of operating. An attachment frame at an aft end of the head attaches with a combine feederhouse. A main frame of the head is movably connected to the attachment frame, and the main frame has a range of travel with respect to the attachment frame. A resilient float element is provided between the attachment and main frames. A flexible cutterbar on the main frame operates to cut crops. The cutterbar is supported on the main frame by a plurality of pivoting arms distributed across a width of the head. With the main frame in a nominal intermediate position within the range of travel, the plurality of pivoting arms have 10 percent or less of total available travel as upward travel and at least 90 percent of total available travel as downward travel when the head is set in the nominal position.
US10945368B2
A combine harvester includes: a grain conveyance mechanism for conveying grains from a threshing apparatus to a grain tank; a grain discharge apparatus provided in an end area of the grain conveyance mechanism, the grain discharge apparatus having a discharge case provided with a grain discharge opening, and a discharge rotor rotatably arranged in the discharge case; a pressed portion that is subjected to a pressing force applied by grains immediately before the grains are discharged by the discharge rotor; a load detector for detecting the pressing force exerted on the pressed portion; and a yield evaluator for evaluating the amount of conveyed grain based on a detection signal from the load detector.
US10952359B2
This application relates to a substrate pick-and-place equipment and method. The equipment includes: a bearer platform, configured to bear a substrate; a retractable apparatus, including: a foldable bracket, disposed above the bearer platform and foldable along a horizontal direction; a plurality of suction structures, disposed on a bottom of the foldable bracket, where the suction structures are evenly distributed in a coverage area of the foldable bracket, and are configured to suck the substrate; a first drive unit, configured to drive the foldable bracket to extend and retract along the horizontal direction; and a second drive unit, configured to drive the retractable apparatus to rise and descend along a vertical direction; and a conveying apparatus, operating between the bearer platform and the foldable bracket. In the substrate pick-and-place method, a substrate is picked and placed from an upward side by using a suction structure.
US10952354B1
A cold plate assembly for cooling heat-generating electrical component on a circuit board is disclosed. The cold plate assembly includes a cold plate with a bottom contact surface to thermally contact the heat-generating electrical component. The cold plate has an inlet coupler on an opposite top surface to receive coolant; an internal conduit to circulate the received coolant; and an outlet coupler on the opposite top surface to return the coolant. A flexible metal inlet tube is fluidly connected to the inlet coupler to supply coolant. A flexible metal outlet tube is fluidly connected to the outlet coupler to return coolant.
US10952353B1
A thermal buffering module is used in a combined equipment and cooling unit including a housing defining an interior configured to receive electronic equipment, with the electronic equipment being supported by the housing. The combined equipment and cooling unit further includes a cooling unit supported by the housing. The thermal buffering module includes at least one heat exchanger. The thermal buffering module is configured to selectively receive chilled air from the cooling unit to cool the at least one heat exchanger and to selectively receive warm IT air from the electronic equipment to cool the warm IT air as it travels over the at least one heat exchanger.
US10952347B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed comprising a cable management bracket and a cable guide connector configured to engage a slot of a networking chassis having a length extending along a first axis. The cable guide connector comprises a center section configured to slide within the slot along the first axis and having an aperture configured to receive a retainer to secure the cable guide connector by compression at a selected position along the length of the slot. The cable guide connector further defines a plurality of apertures configured to engage a protrusion of the cable management bracket and defines a plurality of selectable angles at which the cable management bracket can be positioned relative to a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis through which the slot extends.
US10952335B1
The present application discloses a flexible display panel and a display device, including a first edge and a second edge perpendicular to each other, and a first display unit and a second display unit symmetrical to each other. The first display unit is not parallel to the first edge at a preset angle and is connected to the second display unit by signal wires. The signal wires include a first line, a second line, and a third line. The first line is connected to the first display unit and is parallel to the first display unit. The second line is connected to the second display unit and is parallel to the second display unit. Two ends of the third line are respectively connected to the first line and the second line in a zigzag shape. Bending resistance of the flexible display panel of the present application is increased.
US10952330B2
A method for repairing a through-hole includes inserting a repair coil, comprising a tightly-wound repair strip, into a through-hole and inserting a heating element into the repair coil. Passing an electrical current through the heating element liquefies a bonding material disposed on the repair coil and the repair coil expands within the through-hole. Subsequently solidifying the bonding material bonds the repair coil to the through-hole. A repair assembly comprises a repair coil inserted into a through-hole and a heating element inserted into the repair coil. The repair coil comprises a tightly-wound repair strip. The heating element comprises a segment of a heating wire enclosed within an insulating material. Passing an electric current through the segment of the heating wire liquefies bonding material disposed on the repair coil and the repair coil expands within the through-hole. The liquified bonding material solidifies to bond the repair coil to the through-hole.
US10952326B2
A printed wiring board comprises a sheet-shaped core base material containing a magnetic material, a coil disposed inside the core base material, and an external circuit layer disposed on at least one of first and second surfaces of the core base material opposite to each other.
US10952315B2
An appliance includes a user interface assembly. The user interface assembly includes a plurality of indicator lights mounted on a printed circuit board. An opaque material is disposed between adjacent indicator lights of the plurality of indicator lights. The opaque material is positioned and configured such that the opaque material reduces illumination of the printed circuit board by at least one indicator light of the plurality of indicator lights.
US10952301B1
A lighting device for multiple input voltages is provided. The lighting device for multiple input voltages includes a plurality of driving circuits each being electrically connected with the light-emitting unit. Each of the driving circuits receives an AC input voltage, and converts the AC input voltage into a working voltage for use by the light-emitting unit. Each of the driving circuits includes a surge protection device and a rectifier. The surge protection device inputs the AC input voltage. The rectifier is electrically connected with the surge protection device, and rectifies the AC input voltage into the working voltage through the surge protection device for use by the light-emitting unit. A threshold voltage of each of the surge protection devices to prevent a surge is different from each other, so that the AC input voltage received by the driving circuits are different from each other.
US10952292B2
Certain aspects involve lighting systems in which an intensity can be selectively modified. For instance, a lighting system includes a light source and a programmable device. The programmable device is configured to detect an input resistance and cause a particular current to flow through the light source, thereby causing the light source to emit a particular lumen intensity corresponding to an input resistance.
US10952285B2
In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a top portion, a bottom portion adapted to receive the top portion to define a space enclosed within the top portion and bottom portion, where the bottom portion comprises a conductive structure, the conductive structure configured to receive electromagnetic energy from an EM source. The apparatus may also include an electronic tag configured to encode information about contents of the space. In various embodiments, a heating apparatus includes an electromagnetic (EM) source and a controller configured to: receive data associated with a heatable load, determine heating instructions based at least in part on the received data, and control the EM source based on the determined heating instructions.
US10952284B2
A cable includes a first wire-shaped metal conductor, a second metal conductor extending a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, and a matrix made of a PTC material extending along the conductors, touching the latter and connecting them to one another electrically, with temperature-dependent electrical resistance and a positive temperature coefficient. At least one electrically insulating outer insulation layer surrounds the conductors and the matrix annularly. At least a third and a fourth metal conductor extend a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, touch the matrix and are connected electrically by means of the latter to the first conductor, the second, the third and the fourth conductor being made in a wire shape and, considering the cross-section of the cable, being arranged distributed evenly over a circular track surrounding the first conductor.
US10952282B2
A cold vehicle sensor condition can be determined, and the sensor associated with one or more heat source subsystems that provide a heat byproduct during normal operation of the subsystem. At least some of the heat byproduct can be diverted to heat the sensor. The heat source subsystem selected can be based on a proximity to the associated sensor.
US10952277B2
Embodiments of the present application provides signal transmission method and apparatus for discontinuous reception, the signal transmission method includes: measuring, by a terminal device, a signal received by each of at least one downlink receiving beam and transmitted by a network device, where the number of the at least one downlink receiving beam is less than the number of downlink receiving beams formed by the terminal device and the network device by means of beamforming; determining, by the terminal device, a target downlink receiving beam from the at least one downlink receiving beam according to a result of the measurement; reporting, by the terminal device, the target downlink receiving beam to the network device, and receiving, by the terminal device, through the target downlink receiving beam, a physical downlink control channel PDCCH transmitted by the network device.
US10952273B2
The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for detecting and correcting radio link failures based on the different usage scenarios. In one embodiment, a device is provided that comprises a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of various operations. These operations can comprise monitoring a quality of a radio link established between the device and a network device of a wireless communication network based on downlink transmissions received from the network device. These operations can further comprise determining whether the quality indicates the device and the network device are out-of-sync based on the quality being below a defined quality level, wherein the defined quality level varies based on a usage scenario associated with usage of the radio link by the device.
US10952268B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for performing radio link monitoring (RLM) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least one subband for RLM by a UE restricted to use a subband corresponding to a part of a system transmission bandwidth, wherein the subband is a preconfigured part of the system transmission bandwidth, performing RLM in the determined at least one subband, and determining a radio link quality of the at least one subband based on the RLM.
US10952246B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a random access channel (RACH) by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving information about actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks (SBBs) and RACH configuration information about RACH resources and transmitting a RACH in at least one RACH resource among RACH resources mapped to actually transmitted SSBs on the basis of the information about actually transmitted SSBs and the RACH configuration information, wherein the actually transmitted SSBs are repeatedly mapped to RACH resources by a positive integer multiple of the number of the actually transmitted SSBs in a RACH configuration period based on the RACH configuration information.
US10952242B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, in an active down-link bandwidth part, a random access response from a base station indicating an up-link resource in an active up-link bandwidth part for transmitting a random access message. The UE generates the random access message based on a numerology of the active up-link bandwidth part. The UE transmits the random access message at the up-link resource in the active up-link bandwidth part.
US10952237B2
The present disclosure provides a downlink control information transmission method, including generating more than one downlink control information (DCI) according to scheduling information of a user equipment (UE); determining a detection order of the more than one DCI and positions of the more than one DCI in a searching space; adding a position indication field to a respective DCI according to the detection order of the more than one DCI and the positions of the more than one DCI in the searching space; wherein, the position indication field is used to indicate a position of a next DCI of the respective DCI in the detection order; in which, a position indication field in a last DCI in the detection order is used to indicate a position of a first DCI in the detection order; and transmitting the more than one DCI in the searching space according to the positions of the more than one DCI in the searching space. The present disclosure also provides a UE-side method, a corresponding base station and a UE.
US10952234B2
In accordance to embodiments, a base station may transmit to a first user equipment (UE) a downlink control information (DCI) message for uplink (UL) scheduling of a second UE. The DCI message may indicate resources for sending a UL message by the second UE to the base station such that the first UE can at least partially decode the UL message based on the information in the DCI message. The base station may receive the UL message from the second UE. The base station may send a downlink (DL) message to the first UE. The UL message and the DL message may overlap at least partially in time and frequency. If the DL UE cannot successfully decode the UL message, the base station may send a helper message for the UL message to help the DL to decode the UL message.
US10952233B2
A user terminal is disclosed that communicates in a narrow band that is narrower than a minimum bandwidth for use supported in an existing LTE (Long Term Evolution) system. The user terminal includes a receiver that receives downlink control information and a controller that controls a scheduling unit of a downlink data signal and/or an uplink data signal based on command information included in the downlink control information. A radio base station is also disclosed that communicates in a narrow band that is narrower than a minimum bandwidth for use supported in an existing LTE (Long Term Evolution) system. The radio base station includes a transmitter that transmits downlink control information and a controller that controls scheduling of a downlink data signal and/or an uplink data signal, wherein the downlink control information includes command information that is used to control a scheduling unit of the downlink data signal and/or the uplink data signal.
US10952228B2
By deploying a user-side translator at the access point of the user terminal with a first-type Internet, deploying a plurality of core translators between multiple uplink lines of the first-type Internet and a second-type Internet, and allowing the user to select a corresponding core translator to process message according to the usage state of the uplink line, the traffic scheduling and processing method, the user-side translator, the core translator and the traffic scheduling system provided by the embodiments of the present application allow the user to dynamically adjust the use of uplink lines. The solution is capable of achieving the function of software-defined wide area network SD-WAN with the first-type Internet protocol/second-type Internet protocol translation technology, which is of great significance for reducing the network running cost and improving the network performance experience of the user.
US10952208B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). In a feedback method of a terminal, receiving a first subframe from a base station, detecting, from the first subframe, downlink control information (DCI) including transmission timing information and frequency resource information for feedback, creating feedback information for data decoding of the first subframe to be transmitted in a second subframe determined based on the DCI, and transmitting the feedback information, based on a time resource indicated from the transmission timing information and a frequency resource indicated from the frequency resource information in the DCI.
US10952203B2
A resource assignment indication can be received at a device. The resource assignment indication indicates a set of resource blocks for a data transmission. A determination can be made as to whether the set of resource blocks includes a first set of resource blocks and a second set of resource blocks or the set of resource blocks includes only the first set of resource blocks. In response to determining the set of resource blocks include only the first set of resource blocks, the data transmission can be transmitted in only the first set of resource blocks. In response to determining the set of resource blocks include both the first set of resource blocks and the second set of resource blocks, the data transmission can be transmitted in at least one of the first set of resource blocks and the second set of resource blocks.
US10952194B2
A method for managing a wireless communication between user equipment (UE) by a UE in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first signalling message to configure a report of assistance information for the wireless communication related to a vehicular service; transmitting, to the BS, the assistance information based on the first signalling message, wherein the assistance information comprises at least one of a period and timing offset of a data arrival and a data size; receiving, from the BS, a second signalling message comprising at least two semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations for the wireless communication based on the assistance information; and performing the wireless communication with radio resources corresponding to the at least two semi-persistent SPS.
US10952187B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a demapping system to demap uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes detecting a processing type associated with a received uplink transmission, and when the detected processing type is a first processing type then performing the following operations: removing resource elements containing reference signals from the uplink transmission; layer demapping remaining resource elements of the uplink transmission into two or more layers; soft-demapping the two or more layers to produce soft-demapped data. The method also includes descrambling the soft-demapped data to produce descrambled data, and processing the descrambled data to generate uplink control information (UCI).
US10952185B2
A network node comprised in a wireless communication network is for managing allocation of uplink resources regarding remaining data blocks of an uplink transmission performed by a device. The network node sends, to the device, first allocation information that identifies uplink resources that have been allocated to the device for uplink transmission of said remaining data blocks. The remaining data blocks being associated with the allocated uplink resources, respectively. The network node also sends, to the device, and the device receives, a second allocation information that identifies one or more of said allocated uplink resources identified by the first allocation information, wherein said second allocation information further identifies one or more of said remaining data blocks as data blocks to be excluded by the device.
US10952177B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic subscription handling are provided. One method includes receiving, by a control node in a network, a request in which a user equipment requests to register with the network or requests to obtain a specific service for a certain access point name. The method may then include determining whether the user equipment is authorized to obtain services from the network or authorized to use the access point name. When it is determined that the user equipment is not authorized to obtain services from the network or not authorized to use the access point name, the method includes re-directing the user equipment to a subscription server, sending a response to the user equipment indicating that the request is rejected with re-direction, and triggering establishment of a packet data connectivity session for the user equipment.
US10952176B2
Methods, electronic devices, and computer readable media for application function (AF) protocol data unit (PDU) session management and subscription procedures. A method for a method for PDU session management includes initiating a PDU session for an application function (AF) within an application server (AS) that is not part of a cellular network and sending configuration information to a network exposer function (NEF) to communicate directly with a network function (NF) of the cellular network to provide services for the PDU session. The method additionally includes receiving authorization from the NEF and communicating directly with the cellular network NF to provide the PDU services during the PDU session.
US10952172B2
The scheduling flexibility of CSI reference signals enables time and frequency synchronization using multiple non-zero CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe, or using CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe with other synchronization signals. Also, multiple synchronization signals may be scheduled in the same subframe to enable fine time and frequency synchronization without cell-specific reference signals.
US10952165B2
This specification relates to an apparatus and method for performing random access in a wireless communication system. This specification discloses a mobile station, including a reception unit for receiving TAG configuration information on which at least one serving cell configured in the mobile station is classified as a Timing Alignment Group (TAG) from a base station and a transmission unit for transmitting a random access preamble to the base station on one representative serving cell within the TAG. In accordance with this specification, a procedure of obtaining a TAV for a serving cell in order to secure and maintain uplink timing synchronization becomes clear, the time taken to obtain uplink synchronization for a serving cell may be reduced, and overhead due to excessive random access attempts may be reduced by obtaining a TAV for a plurality of serving cells through one random access procedure.
US10952163B2
A system for wireless power delivery, preferably including one or more power receivers and a power delivery device (or multiple power delivery devices). The power delivery device preferably includes a housing and a transmitter. Each power receiver preferably includes one or more receiver antennas and electrical loads. A method for wireless power delivery, preferably including determining transmitter-receiver proximity, determining transmission parameter values, and/or transmitting power based on the transmission parameter values.
US10952151B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) for an uplink power control is provided. The method comprises transmitting, to a base station (BS), UE capability information including a full power transmission capability of the UE, receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including a transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI), determining a power level for each antenna port at the UE based on the full power transmission capability of the UE and the TPMI, and transmitting, to the BS, UL data via physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the determined power level for each antenna port at the UE and the TPMI wherein the TPMI indicates a precoding matrix and a number of layers used to transmit the UL data via the PUSCH.
US10952142B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station operating in unlicensed spectrum may temporarily increase a paging opportunity window (POW) size, or reduce a time between POWs, in order to meet performance metrics or account for time periods when a base station is unable to win access to the wireless medium during a POW. In some cases, a UE may identify a failed listen-before-talk procedure and autonomously update the POW size. In other examples, a base station may initiate a change in POW size or increase a number of paging opportunities in order to meet achieve one or more key performance indicators (KPIs). After a predetermined period, or after a triggering condition is no longer present, the UE and the base station may reset the POW size or the number of paging opportunities to a nominal amount to conserve power.
US10952122B2
An intelligent bridge acceleration method and system based on a dual-communication device. By monitoring the online interactive application initiates a link at a household client-side, the data link is intercepted and the data packet is forwarded to the dual-communication device in the same LAN. WiFi is used as a primary path to perform data transmit-receive operations and a transmission quality monitoring mechanism is enabled. When an abnormal data transmit-receive through the WiFi is monitored via the transmission quality monitoring mechanism, a packet loss compensation strategy of a mobile data network is started; and the mobile data network is used as a secondary path for the data transmit-receive. When the data transmit-receive becomes normal, the data transmit-receive operations through the secondary path are stopped. Subsequently, the WiFi is continued to be used as the primary path to perform data transmit-receive operations, and the WiFi quality monitoring is continued to be performed.
US10952117B2
Disclosed are a method for changing a serving cell in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method performed by a UE may include: transmitting, to a serving cell, a measurement report for signals received from the serving cell and one or more cells; when a measurement value for a signal received from at least one cell among the one or more cells satisfies a predetermined specific triggering condition, receiving, from the serving cell, information representing that the at least one cell corresponds to a candidate cell for changing the serving cell; and performing synchronization for at least one of a downlink or an uplink with the at least one cell, by transmitting a specific uplink signal to the at least one cell.
US10952114B2
The present application discloses a method, device, and system for selecting a user plane functional entity supporting non-3GPP access ensure service continuity. When a user equipment (UE) performs access via a 3GPP network, subscription data of the UE are obtained by a CP functional entity. The subscription data include indication information that indicates whether the UE is allowed to connect to a non-3GPP network. If the indication information indicates that the UE is allowed to connect to the non-3GPP network, a target UP functional entity supporting the non-3GPP access is selected by the CP functional entity. The present application is applicable to the field of communications technologies.
US10952108B2
A communication device for handling a redirection comprises at least one storage device storing instructions of receiving a redirection message from a first base station (BS) of the first radio access technology (RAT) via a first cell, wherein the redirection message comprises RAT information indicating a second RAT and indicates a first core network (CN); entering an idle state in response to the redirection message; selecting a second cell of the second RAT according to the RAT information; establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection via the second cell to a second BS in the idle state; generating a non-access-stratum (NAS) message for the first CN according to the redirection message; and transmitting the NAS message on the RRC connection via the second cell to the second BS.
US10952097B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a frame transmission method for a wireless local area network and a wireless local area network apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. According to the present invention, in a frame transmission process in a WLAN, a frame sent by a wireless local area network WLAN apparatus is received, and the frame of a particular standard is recognized by detecting a user common signal field included in the frame, so that backward compatibility of a WLAN apparatus is implemented, and hybrid networking of WLAN apparatuses of different standards can be supported, thereby improving flexibility of network deployment, and reducing complexity of networking.
US10952096B2
A base station includes a controller that performs multicast service SC-PTM transmission, and a transmitter that transmits SC-PTM configuration information related to a configuration of the SC-PTM transmission via a SC-PTM control channel, which is a logical channel different from a MCCH, and transmits multicast data via a traffic channel for the SC-PTM transmission. Each of the SC-PTM control channel and the traffic channel is mapped on a DL-SCH. The transmitter transmits a SIB related to the SC-PTM control channel via a BCCH, transmits first resource allocation information for transmitting the SC-PTM configuration information via a PDCCH, where a predetermined RNTI for the SC-PTM control channel is applied to transmission of the first resource allocation information, and transmits second resource allocation information for transmitting multicast data by the SC-PTM transmission via the PDCCH. A G-RNTI different from the predetermined RNTI is applied to transmission of the second resource allocation information.
US10952095B2
[Object] To reduce the frequency of the occurrence of the transmission collision of frames. [Solution] A communication device, including: a receiving unit configured to receive a frame transmitted by another terminal; a length information acquiring unit configured to acquire length information related to the frame from the received frame; and a transmission frame deciding unit configured to decide a length of a transmission frame on the basis of the acquired length information.
US10952078B2
According to one embodiment, a method for associating network functions with a network slice instance of a mobile radio communication network is described comprising an Network Slice Management Function, NSMF, creating an identifier for a network slice instance, NSI, for Operations Administration and Management, OAM, wherein the mobile radio communication network comprises a core network and an OAM system, wherein the OAM system comprises at least the NSMF which has interfaces to network functions in the core network, wherein the network functions provide a communication service to a mobile terminal and wherein the core network further comprises a Network Repository Function, NRF, that maintains an association of network functions and network slice instances of the mobile radio communication network; and the NSMF or the NRF notifying one or more network functions about their association with the network slice instance.
US10952075B2
A voice assistant of an electronic apparatus receives a user voice requesting connection of WiFi communication between an external electronic apparatus and an access point, transmits authentication information for authentication of the external electronic apparatus to be displayed on the external electronic apparatus, and based on receiving a user voice corresponding to the authentication information being displayed, transmits connection information for establishing the WiFi communication to the external electronic apparatus.
US10952074B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an authenticating system for authenticating users in an IoT environment are provided. The method includes receiving an access request to at least one device present in the IoT environment, identifying a type of questions based on at least one of a user interface (UI) type of the at least one device, or an authentication level of the at least one device, generating at least one question corresponding to the type of questions based on at least one of user data of a user associated with the access request, or device data of one or more devices associated with the user, presenting the at least one question to at least one of the user and the one or more devices, and authenticating the user to access the at least one device based on a response for the at least one question received from the at least one of the user and the one or more devices.
US10952073B2
A technique for combining transmission bandwidths of several communication devices, such as mobile stations (MS1, MS2) is disclosed. A master mobile station (MS1) establishes (7-0) a WLAN access point communicating with WLAN client terminals (CT). One or more slave mo-bile stations (MS2) may detect a predefined network identifier and join the WLAN network. The master (MS1) as-signs IP addresses for the client terminals (CT) and slave mobile stations (MS2). The master also resolves DNS queries in cooperation with external DNS servers. Traffic, including internet packets (IP1-IP4), between the client terminals and various internet hosts (HO) is tunneled over multiple simultaneous transmission paths (7-6, 7-8; 7-18, 7-22) between the master (MS1) and a multiplexing/demultiplexing computer (SM). The inventive band-width combination technique is transparent to the client terminals (CT) and the internet hosts (HO).
US10952072B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to long training field (LTF) sequence security protection. A device may determine a null data packet (NDP) frame comprising one or more fields. The device may determine a first long training field (LTF) and a second LTF, the first LTF and the second LTF being associated with a first frequency band of the NDP frame, wherein time domain LTF symbols of first LTF and the second LTF are generated using different LTF sequences. The device may determine a third LTF and a fourth LTF, the third LTF and the fourth LTF being associated with the a second frequency band of the NDP frame, wherein time domain LTF symbols of third LTF and the fourth LTF are generated using different LTF sequences. The device may cause to send the NDP frame to an initiating or a responding device. The device may cause to send a location measurement report (LMR) frame to the initiating or the responding device, wherein the LMR comprises timing information associated with the first frequency band and the second frequency band.
US10952068B2
A system and method for fast roaming in one or more enterprise fabric network. The fast roaming involves correlation operations performed in one or more databases managed by control plane of the fabric network to update routing locator entries associated with L2-VNID and L3-VNID in one or more databases when a client moves from behind a first switch to behind a second switch. In some embodiments, the control plane finds the L3-VNID from the L2-VNID. The L3-VNID is used to search for all IP addresses corresponding to a client-MAC. At least new routing locator value that is used in the routing locator entries is provided to the first switch, the second switch, and border nodes associated with the fabric network.
US10952063B2
A method for dynamically learning and using foreign mobility management node information for telecommunications network security screening includes operating a telecommunications network routing node in a learn mode in which traffic from foreign mobility management nodes is received and identities of the foreign mobility management nodes are learned and used to populate a security database maintained by the telecommunications network routing node. The method further includes operating the telecommunications network routing node in a test mode to dynamically learn foreign mobility management node security status and maintaining the security status for the foreign mobility management nodes in the security database. The method further includes operating the telecommunications network routing node in an active mode to filter traffic from the foreign mobility management nodes using the dynamically learned node identities and security statuses.
US10952062B2
A method for steering of roaming (SOR) in wireless communication networks includes sending by a mobile equipment (ME) a registration message to a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN). The ME receives a first message from a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) through the VPLMN. The ME determines that the first message has failed a security check. In response to determining that the first message has failed the security check, the ME sends a second message to the VPLMN, the second message including an indication that the first message has failed the security check.
US10952059B2
A method for new wireless extender onboarding in a wireless network includes scanning a machine readable indicia on the new wireless extender, transmitting an identifier represented by the machine readable indicia to a network gateway of the wireless network, computing a secure hash of the identifier provided into a proprietary information element, transmitting the secure hash to existing wireless extenders in the wireless network, communicating beacons comprising the secure hash to the new wireless extender, determining a strongest received signal strength indication from received signal strength indications associated with the network gateway and the existing wireless extenders, and initiating a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) pairing session with one of the network gateway and the existing wireless extenders associated with the strongest received signal strength.
US10952051B2
Connectionless data transfer is disclosed. Authentication of a device and network node may be performed when data is sent from the device to an application server of an application service provider via a selected network. The transfer of data may take place in an absence of an existing device context between the network node interacting with the device and the core network through which the data travels. State management overhead and signaling overhead may be reduced by use of the exemplary aspects disclosed herein. For example, the device does not need to perform an authentication and key agreement (AKA) procedure to transfer the data and an existing (or pre-existing) device context need not be maintained at the core network.
US10952050B2
The present invention is an intelligent gateway which can receive multiple sensor data using sub-1G Hz frequency, analyze data, and transmit processed data to a database server. The intelligent gateway can receive data from up to 100 sensors using sub-1G Hz (433, 868 or 915 MHz) wireless frequency. The received data can be analyzed and the gateway can determine when to transmit data, and which packaged data to transmit to the database server. The intelligent gateway can also receive feedback and instructions from the database server. The process data can be transmitted to the database server with different protocols like WIFI, Ethernet and RS485. The intelligent gateway can also include multiple sensors including temperature and humidity sensors, pressure sensors, air speed sensors and a particulate matter sensor for detecting particulates of less than 2.5 micro meters (PM2.5). These sensors are collect additional indoor environmental quality parameters.
US10952049B2
A user equipment and network communication device in a communication system and wireless communication method. The user equipment includes: an application type determination module, configured to obtain application type information contained in a type field of an application module in the user equipment to determine the application type of the application module, different application types corresponding to different networking methods; and a networking module, configured to establish a communication network with another user equipment based on the networking method corresponding to the application type of the application module, so as to use the application module.
US10952042B2
A method of processing a vehicle-to-X message in a plurality of stages in a vehicle-to-X communications module, processing being performed in at least some of the stages in dependence upon an area status such that the outlay for providing vehicle-to-X communication in different geographical areas can be considerably reduced. The invention also relates to a vehicle-to-X communications module and a storage medium for performing the method.
US10952024B2
Systems may provide feedback that may include antenna selection or mobile device configuration. Antennas may be automatically configured throughout the device or the orientation or location of the mobile device may be altered to increase performance. Historical performance information of the mobile device may be maintained in order to determine proactive manipulations of the mobile device. In addition, multiple mobile devices may cooperatively determine the orientation or location that may increase performance.
US10952022B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for identifying a context of an endpoint accessing a plurality of microservices is provided. A device intermediary to a plurality of endpoints and a plurality of microservices can receive a plurality of calls to one or more of the plurality of microservices originating from the plurality of endpoints. The device can identify a context for each of the endpoints. The context can include one of a type of device or a type of application. The device can identify, for each unique context, one or more microservices of the accessed by the plurality of endpoints having that unique context. A service graph can be generated to identify the one or more microservices of the plurality of microservices accessed by the plurality of endpoints having that at least one unique context.
US10952020B2
Methods and systems of managing radio based power may include a mobile platform having a plurality of radios and logic to detect changes in location for the mobile platform. The logic may also deactivate at least one of the plurality of radios in response to the changes in location. The changes in location may be detected based on location information obtained from one or more active radios in the plurality of radios and connection losses with respect to active radios in the plurality of radios.
US10952018B2
Methods, apparatus and systems that are directed towards a tangible wireless node-based implementation for self-adjusting a broadcast setting of a node in a wireless node network. In general, the node (such as an ID node, a master node, or container-related node) detects a broadcast modification event (such as a time-based event, an association-based event, a location-based event, and/or a sensor-based event). The node then accesses a broadcast profile stored within the node to determine an updated value for the broadcast setting of the node based upon the detected broadcast modification event. Pursuant to the broadcast profile, the updated value may, for example, be a modified RF transmission output power level setting, a modified frequency setting, and/or a timing setting that changes how the node broadcasts messages. Once the updated value is determined, the node then self-adjusts the broadcast setting from a current value to the updated value.
US10952015B2
Arrangements for generating geo-fences for automatically authenticating a user or authorizing event processing are provided. In some examples, user data associated with a location of the user or mobile device of the user may be received. Further, data associated with successful processing of an event may be received. In some arrangements, this data may be used to generate a first geo-fence. The geo-fenced area may be considered a trusted zone within which a user may be automatically authenticated and/or events may be automatically authorized and/or processed. In some examples, additional user data may be received and analyzed using machine learning to predict second or subsequent geo-fence locations. Based on the analyzed data, one or more additional geo-fences or geo-fenced areas may be generated and interlinked with the initial geo-fence.
US10952011B1
Systems and methods herein utilize psychoacoustic principles to process audio signals to achieve a desired result. In some embodiments, an exemplary process utilizes a combination of re-harmonization and auditory processing techniques in which a plurality of filtered audio cues are sampled, created and down-mixed into a final music output, which may be designed to trigger specific effects on the function of the body and the brain. In some embodiments, enhanced audio material may be altered during the stream or fixed for a desired result at the beginning of the stream. In some embodiments, a signal enhancement process may be embedded into silicon or a media player, decoder or device with software. In other embodiments, audio or video material may be encoded or finalized into the media file.
US10952010B2
Systems and methods of presenting an output audio signal to a listener located at a first location in a virtual environment are disclosed. According to embodiments of a method, an input audio signal is received. For each sound source of a plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective first intermediate audio signal corresponding to the input audio signal is determined, based on a location of the respective sound source in the virtual environment, and the respective first intermediate audio signal is associated with a first bus. For each of the sound sources of the plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective second intermediate audio signal is determined. The respective second intermediate audio signal corresponds to a reverberation of the input audio signal in the virtual environment. The respective second intermediate audio signal is determined based on a location of the respective sound source, and further based on an acoustic property of the virtual environment. The respective second intermediate audio signal is associated with a second bus. The output audio signal is presented to the listener via the first bus and the second bus.
US10952009B2
An example audio decoding device includes processing circuitry and a memory device coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive, in a bitstream, encoded representations of audio objects of a three-dimensional (3D) soundfield, to receive metadata associated with the bitstream, to obtain, from the received metadata, one or more transmission factors associated with one or more of the audio objects, and to apply the transmission factors to the one or more audio objects to obtain parallax-adjusted audio objects of the 3D soundfield. The memory device is configured to store at least a portion of the received bitstream, the received metadata, or the parallax-adjusted audio objects of the 3D soundfield.
US10952005B1
Various implementations include speaker systems. In some particular cases, a speaker system includes: at least two distinct loudspeakers each capable of outputting stereo audio on its own, wherein each loudspeaker comprises: a plurality of transducers, and a controller coupled with the plurality of transducers, where the controller in each loudspeaker is configured to: receive a left channel audio input signal and a right channel audio input signal; extract a center channel signal from the left channel audio input signal and the right channel audio input signal; and provide an audio output signal to at least one of the plurality of transducers for outputting the center channel signal.
US10951994B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of generating preferred dynamic range function to process audio reproduced by an earphone device. The function includes processing the audio to improve speech intelligibility. The function is acquired with a self-administered hearing test.
US10951990B2
Digital audio signal processing techniques used to provide an acoustic transparency function in a pair of headphones. A number of transparency filters can be computed at once, using optimization techniques or using a closed form solution, that are based on multiple re-seatings of the headphones and that are as a result robust for a population of wearers. In another embodiment, a transparency hearing filter of a headphone is computed by an adaptive system that takes into consideration the changing acoustic to electrical path between an earpiece speaker and an interior microphone of that headphone while worn by a user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10951981B1
An Nth order linear differential microphone array (LDMA) including at most M microphones, where M is greater than N, is constructed by identifying a number K of combinations of at least (N+1) of the M microphones. A target cost function is specified based on at least one of a directivity factor, a beampattern, or a white noise gain associated with the LDMA. For each frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands: an optimal combination of microphones, from the K combinations, is determined based on an evaluation of the target cost function for the band and beamforming is performed using the determined optimal combination for the band. A union of the optimal combinations of microphones for the plurality of bands may be determined and the LDMA may be constructed, using microphones in the union, based on an evaluation of the target cost function across the plurality of bands.
US10951978B2
Output control of sounds from sources respectively positioned in priority and nonpriority directions
An apparatus divides each of first and second sound-signals generated respectively by first and second sound-input devices, into frames having a predetermined time length, and converts each frame of the first and second sound-signals into first and second frequency-spectra, respectively, in a frequency domain. For each frame, the apparatus calculates, based on the first and second frequency-spectra, a probability that a sound of the frame is emitted only from a sound-source positioned in a second direction among a first direction prioritized with respect to sound reception and the second direction, and outputs a first directivity sound-signal including a sound coming from the first direction, while controlling, depending on the probability, output of the first directivity sound-signal and a second directivity sound-signal including a sound coming from the second direction, where each of the first and second directivity sound-signals is calculated based on the first and second frequency-spectra.
US10951974B2
A control system and method of selectively enabling an auto-shutoff feature of a control system for an aviation headset includes a power switch. The power switch is toggled and if the control system is in a powered down state, a startup sequence for the control system is initiated. During the startup sequence, a bias voltage detector checks for a bias voltage on a signal line of the headset. If a bias voltage is detected during the startup sequence, the auto-shutoff feature is enabled. The auto-shutoff feature periodically checks for a bias voltage and powers down the control system if no bias voltage is detected for a predetermined time interval. If no bias voltage is detected during startup, the auto-shutoff feature is disabled.
US10951972B2
A method and device for detecting whether a headset is on ear. Microphone signals from a plurality of microphones are used to derive a plurality of signal feature measures, which are normalized to a common reference scale. The signal feature measures are weighted based upon detected signal conditions in the microphone signals. The normalized and variably weighted signal feature measures are then combined to produce an output indication of whether a headset is on ear.
US10951970B1
An open audio device includes a housing and an acoustic radiator in the housing and that emits front-side acoustic radiation from its front side and emits rear-side acoustic radiation from its rear side. A front acoustic cavity in the housing receives front-side acoustic radiation, wherein the housing defines a front sound-emitting opening. A rear acoustic cavity in the housing that receives rear-side acoustic radiation, wherein the housing defines a rear sound-emitting opening. A support structure is configured to carry the housing on a user's head such that the housing is held proximate an ear of the user with one of the front or rear sound-emitting openings anterior of and proximate the tragus of the ear. The housing comprises an inner end that is configured to be closest to the user's head. The one of the front or rear sound-emitting openings that is anterior of and proximate the tragus of the ear lies at an angle to the inner end of the housing.
US10951959B2
The disclosure relates to a method of processing a sequence of image frames to reduce its length. One implementation may involve extracting coefficients (e.g., Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients) from components of individual frames, and comparing the resulting coefficients for sequential frames to identify frames having the least change from a prior frame. Also, scene change values for each frame may be calculated and placed in a sorted list to facilitate identification of frames for removal. Frame removal may be conducted in rounds, where a group of pictures (GOP) may only have one frame removed for any given round.
US10951958B1
A system for assessing authenticity of modified content includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code including a neural network trained to assess the authenticity of modified content generated based on baseline digital content and including one or more modifications to the baseline digital content. The hardware processor executes the software code to use the neural network to receive the modified content and to assess the authenticity of each of the one or more modifications to the baseline digital content to produce one or more authenticity assessments corresponding respectively to the one or more modifications to the baseline digital content. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the software code to generate an authenticity evaluation of the modified content based on the one or more authenticity assessments, and to output the authenticity evaluation for rendering on a display.
US10951956B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations that encompass: determining a cluster of mobile devices at a premises comprising a media server, wherein the media server is communicatively coupled to the system through a network; establishing a physical location of the premises; associating one or more mobile devices of the cluster of mobile devices with the premises; and providing a service to the one or more mobile devices associated with the premises. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10951953B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a mobile device that detects a request to associate video content with a television channel for distribution via the television channel, obtains the video content, and identifies a distribution setting of the video content. The mobile device facilitates publication of the video content via the television channel according to the distribution setting, the video content presented via a target media processor identified according to the distribution setting. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10951950B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product facilitate the viewing of a storyline defined in a video. In regards to a method, viewing by a user of different sequential areas of a video over time is monitored. The different sequential areas of the video over time define a storyline. If the storyline is followed, the video continues to be presented. However, if the storyline is not followed in that a next sequential area of the video is not viewed, a portion of the video prior to the next sequential area is caused to be repeatedly replayed in a loop. Following this repeated replay of the portion of the video, the repeated replay of the portion of the video is ceased and the presentation of the video is resumed if the storyline is followed and the next sequential area of the video in the storyline is viewed.
US10951944B2
A client receives streaming data according to Moving Picture Experts Group-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) standard. The client includes a transmitter which transmits a Media Presentation Description (MPD) request or a segment request to a server, and a receiver which receives an MPD specified in the MPD request and a segment specified in the segment request. The MPD request contains information requesting transmission of an initialization segment by a push. The receiver receives the initialization segment transmitted by the push.
US10951937B2
Systems for efficiently providing multiple commentary streams for the same underlying broadcast content may include client applications that enable a user/viewer to select multiple commentary streams for a variety of events from one or more content sources. Exemplary broadcast content may include television shows, movies, and events that may include, for example, a plurality of live and/or recorded poker tournaments, eSports events, and the like. For each event, the systems also may enable a user/viewer to select from one or more live and/or recorded commentaries associated with the event. The event content and the commentary stream may be displayed in different display regions on a single device (such as a computer) or may be displayed simultaneously on different devices. Various technical advantages may be achieved by separating the event content from the commentary content. Revenue for the broadcast may be shared between the event content provider and the commentary content providers. Other implementations also are described.
US10951935B2
A method for a media environment driven content distribution platform includes obtaining synchronization data derived from the content and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content, and communicating the synchronization data derived from the content and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data derived from the content to the content synchronizes the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content.
US10951930B2
A content delivery network (100) for streaming digital video content across a data network. The content delivery network (100) is configured to receive digital video content. The content delivery network is configured to store the digital video content in a storage format comprising a base layer (B) and an enhancement layer (E), wherein the base layer (B) is decodable to present the digital video content at a base level of video reproduction quality, and the enhancement layer (E) is decodable with the base layer to present the digital video content at an enhanced level of video reproduction quality which is higher than the base level of reproduction quality. The content delivery network (100) is configured to determine, based on a target quality which is to be provided to a client device, which layers to use in order to achieve the target quality; and to use the determined layers (B, E) to provide the client device with the digital content at the target level of quality.
US10951919B2
A method for performing Multivariable Matrix Spectral Factorization has been developed, which allows factorization in real time high-dimensional matrices with multivariable high-order polynomial or non-rational entries. Systems implementing the method provide improved performance and capabilities in applications reducible to multivariable matrix spectral factorization.
US10951917B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction includes the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US10951912B2
Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, a current block of a picture of the video data can be obtained for processing by an encoding device or a decoding device. A pre-defined set of weights for template matching based motion compensation are also obtained. A plurality of metrics associated with one or more spatially neighboring samples of the current block and one or more spatially neighboring samples of at least one reference frame are determined. A set of weights are selected from the pre-defined set of weights to use for the template matching based motion compensation. The set of weights is determined based on the plurality of metrics. The template matching based motion compensation is performed for the current block using the selected set of weights.
US10951905B2
A video transcoding method is described. A computer device obtains at least one initial quantization parameter used to encode at least one initial coding unit for generating an initial compressed video, and determines, according to the at least one initial quantization parameter, a current reference quantization parameter corresponding to a current coding unit in a current video frame that is generated by decoding the initial compressed video. The computer device determines an estimated quantization parameter for encoding the current coding unit, determines a first difference between the current reference quantization parameter and the estimated quantization parameter, and sets a target quantization parameter to be equal to or greater than the estimated quantization parameter according to the first difference. The computer device encodes the current coding unit according to the target quantization parameter.
US10951902B2
Systems and methods for encoding a video stream at multiple bit rates is disclosed herein. An encoder divides each frame of a video stream into a plurality of portions and allocates an available number of bits between the plurality of portions based on user preference information. Portions having one or more objects of interest to the viewer determined based on the user preference information are allocated a higher number of available bits while portions of the frames that do not include one or more objects of interest are allocated a minimum number of bits from the available bits.
US10951893B2
The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which function QSN has been normalized to the most significant bit of the bit depth of the digital symbols. As a result, the effect of a given QP is essentially independent of bit depth a particular QP value has a standard effect on image quality, regardless of bit depth. The invention is useful, for example, in encoding and decoding at different bit depths, to generate compatible, bitstreams having different bit depths, and to allow different bit depths for different components of a video signal by compressing each with the same fidelity (i.e., the same QP).
US10951888B2
Methods for the real-time, reversible compression of high dynamic range videos, allowing high dynamic range videos to be broadcast through standard dynamic range channels. The methods include streaming pixel values from at least one image sensor through a pipeline on a processor. The pipeline includes an HDR function that combines the streaming pixel values in real-time into an HDR stream and a transfer function that converts the HDR stream to an SDR video stream. The method further includes transmitting the SDR video stream to a receiver in real time for display as a video.
US10951885B2
A method for using an alternate frame reference (ARF) includes selecting an anchor frame and video frames, where the anchor frame includes an anchor block, and the anchor block includes an anchor pixel; identifying, for the anchor block of the anchor frame, respective reference blocks in the video frames; determining, for the anchor pixel and using an anchor patch, respective distances between the anchor pixel and respective co-located reference pixels of the respective reference blocks, where the anchor patch includes anchor patch pixels, and a respective distance, of the respective distances, between the anchor pixel and a respective co-located reference pixel is determined using the anchor patch pixels and co-located reference pixels; determining, using the respective distances, respective weights; determining, using the respective weights, an ARF pixel that is co-located with the anchor pixel; and encoding, in a compressed bitstream, the ARF.
US10951884B2
Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes decoding coding mode information of a current coding block, dividing the current coding block into at least one prediction block, and generating prediction samples of the at least one prediction block on the basis of the decoded coding mode, in which the coding mode information is information indicating any one mode among intra mode, inter mode, and hybrid mode.
US10951882B2
An external scene image captured by an external scene imaging electronic camera attached to a head mounted display (HMD) is projected and displayed onto an image display screen arranged in front of the eyes of the user as a virtual image with a suitable viewing distance corresponding to the visual acuity of the user. At this time, for each object image presented in the virtual image of the external scene image, the virtual image is processed and formatted to add a predetermined degree of binocular disparity and image blur to the virtual image projected and displayed on the right and the left image display screen on the basis of a predetermined converted distance calculated from the real distance of each object. Thus, the user is given a sense of a realistic perspective for the virtual image of the external scene, free of the discomfort or unease.
US10951877B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for rendering a contiguous virtual space for a plurality of display devices. An embodiment operates by identifying a projection of a virtual camera onto a virtual plane and determining a display plane area based on an intersection of the projection of the virtual camera onto the virtual plane. Thereafter, a position for a plurality of virtual windows correlating to a plurality of real-world display devices on the display plane area is calculated based on (i) properties of the display devices and (ii) a focal length of the virtual camera. After placing the virtual windows their respective display plane area positions, content behind a virtual window is identified and provided to the corresponding real-world display device.
US10951873B2
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain viewpoint information indicating at least a position of a virtual viewpoint corresponding to a virtual viewpoint image that is generated based on a plurality of images obtained by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each capturing an image of an imaging target area in a different direction, and an output unit configured to output a value of the virtual viewpoint image corresponding to the position of the virtual viewpoint indicated by the viewpoint information obtained by the obtaining unit, wherein the value is determined based on the viewpoint information.
US10951869B1
An enhanced fluorescence imaging system includes a light source for emitting non-visible and visible light and an image sensor for capturing non-visible and visible light image data. Data processing hardware performs operations that include determining a non-visible value associated with an amount of non-visible light captured by the image sensor and applying a color map to each non-visible value to generate non-visible light selected color values. The operations also include weighting a visible light chroma value with a non-visible chroma value to generate weighted chroma values and combining luma values of each pixel of the visible light image data to the weighted chroma values. The operations also include generating RGB values based on the luma values of the visible light image data and the weighted chroma values and transmitting the RGB values to the display.
US10951852B1
A method for automatically adjusting display parameters of a display screen of a television device includes: in receipt of an activation signal, controlling the display screen to output a video signal based on a set of display parameters, and controlling the depth camera to capture images of a viewing area; determining a set of condition parameters based on the images; determining, based on the set of condition parameters, whether the video signal is to be adjusted; and when it is determined that the video signal is to be adjusted, adjusting at least one display parameter in the set of display parameters to generate an adjusted video signal and controlling the display screen to output the adjusted video signal.
US10951841B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to suppress, where a pixel signal of a large pixel and a pixel signal of a small pixel are composed to generate a WD image, degradation of image quality of the WD image. An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a first pixel signal output from a first pixel, a second acquisition unit that acquires a second pixel signal output from a second pixel having a size smaller than that of the first pixel, a temperature detection unit that detects temperature, a composition gain determination unit that determines a composition gain corresponding to the detected temperature, and a composition unit that composes the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal multiplied by the composition gain.
US10951833B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for switching between cameras and a terminal. When it is determined that a current zoom factor satisfies a first switching condition, a distance between a current object to be photographed and the camera and/or current illumination is obtained. It is determined whether the distance between the current object to be photographed and the camera and/or the current illumination satisfies a second switching condition. When the distance between the current object to be photographed and the camera and/or the current illumination satisfies the second switching condition, a switch is performed between the cameras.
US10951832B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of setting shooting conditions suitable for continuous flash shooting. The image pickup apparatus is connected to a light-emitting apparatus and causes the light-emitting apparatus to emit light when shooting. A light emission mode of the light-emitting apparatus is obtained from the light-emitting apparatus. Exposure control values including at least a shooting sensitivity for use in shooting in a first light emission mode in which automatic light control are determined. In a case where the light emission mode of the light-emitting apparatus is a second light emission mode in which automatic light control for continuous shooting is performed, the determined shooting sensitivity is changed to a greater value before the automatic light control.
US10951815B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an imaging control method, an electronic apparatus, and a readable storage media. The imaging device includes an image sensor, a spatial attitude sensor, a processor, a liquid crystal lens, and a control circuit. The liquid crystal lens is arranged on an imaging optical path of the image sensor and coupled to the control circuit. The spatial attitude sensor is configured to acquire a spatial attitude of the imaging device, and send the spatial attitude to the processor. The processor is configured to calculate an offset vector of the imaging device according to the spatial attitude, determine a light emission direction of the liquid crystal lens according to the offset vector, acquire a first control signal according to the light emission direction, and send the first control signal to the control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the liquid crystal lens to swing focus according to the first control signal.
US10951814B2
There is provided a method for compositing remote sensing images (such as satellite images in visible light) with user generated content. An image capture device carried on a satellite platform is tasked to capture at least one remote sensing image of a geographical area within a predetermined time slot. The at least one remote sensing image is received at an interface portal along with at least one user-generated content, UGC, item. UGC items that have an associated location within the geographical area and that were captured within the time slot are merged, by the interface portal, with the remote sensing image to form a hybrid image. The interface portal and user device implementing the above method are described as is the system in which the method is implemented.
US10951811B2
Provided is a control device including: an imaging control section that controls imaging in an imaging device; and a detecting section that detects a photographic subject on a basis of a first captured image in which a detection region set at a part within a field angle of the imaging device has been imaged. The imaging control section makes the imaging device perform imaging of the detection region or imaging of an acquisition region set within the field angle of the imaging device, and in a case where the photographic subject has been detected on a basis of the first captured image, the imaging control section makes the imaging device perform imaging of the acquisition region.
US10951803B2
A method comprising receiving control instructions sent from a control device, where the control instructions are configured to instruct a photographing apparatus carried by an unmanned aerial vehicle to perform an image capturing operation; and controlling an indicator light at the unmanned aerial vehicle to indicate an execution status of the control instructions executed by the photographing apparatus.
US10951798B2
A small-scale camera device with heat-dissipating properties includes a pedestal bracket and a camera module mounted on the pedestal bracket. The pedestal bracket includes a top plate and a side plate extending perpendicularly from edges of the top plate. The side plate includes an inner side surface and an outer side surface opposite to the inner side surface. The bottom of the side plate defines a plurality of first receiving recesses, each of the first receiving recesses carries a heat dissipation member.
US10951796B2
An image pickup apparatus equipped with an electronic viewfinder, which has a radio antenna arranged therein in a space saving manner while preventing a casing from becoming hot and suppressing electric noise. An electronic viewfinder (EVF) has a display section that displays an image of an object, captured by an image sensor. A wireless communication module has an antenna capable of performing wireless communication and is arranged in a manner overlapping the electronic viewfinder. A metal member is disposed between the wireless communication module and the EVF, and has the wireless communication module fixed thereto. The wireless communication module is thermally connected to a main body structure. The electronic viewfinder is thermally connected to a top cover different from the main body structure.
US10951788B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a hard disc drive storing a database including image formation authority of a registered user and a remaining available amount and ID information for specifying the remaining available amount of the database to be updated based on processing detail data serving as data indicating processing details of the image forming apparatus; an image forming device; an auxiliary storage device storing processing management data including the processing detail data; and a controller managing details of processing performed by the image forming device. After ending of processing performed by the registered user, the controller uses the processing management data stored in the auxiliary storage device to update the remaining available amount specified by use of the ID information and deletes the processing management data from the auxiliary storage device in response to completion of the update.
US10951768B2
A method for managing automated resources that includes: calculating a channel RIQ score for a first bot in relation to a first communication channel and using it to modify a deployment of the first bot. The calculating the channel RIQ score for the first bot may include: identifying a first engagement scenario that the first bot is able to perform via the first communication channel; identifying target bot capabilities for performing the tasks of the first engagement scenario via the first communication channel; collecting performance data related to the first bot performing the first engagement scenario via the first communication channel; calculating the channel RIQ score by comparing: the performance data related to the first bot performing the first engagement scenario; and the target bot capabilities for performing the first engagement scenario via the first communication channel.
US10951766B2
Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system comprising: determining for each contact of a plurality of contacts, an associated plurality of historical contact assignments; determining, for each contact, an associated outcome value; partitioning, for each contact, the associated plurality of historical assignments into a first associated subset assigned using a first pairing strategy and a second associated subset assigned using a second pairing strategy; determining, for each contact, a first portion of the associated outcome value attributable to the first associated subset and a second portion of the associated outcome value attributable to the second associated subset; and outputting a difference in performance between the first and second pairing strategies according to the first and second associated portions of the associated outcome value for each contact.
US10951764B2
Techniques are described for automatically creating resolution scripts. When a user contacts an agent with an issue, intent parameters associated with the user and/or the user's electronic device are collected. As the agent resolves the issue, a script engine monitors the actions taken by the agent. The script engine also locates content related to the issue which may be used to train agents about the issue. Actions taken by the agent and the located content is used to create a resolution script, which is stored and associated with the intent parameters. When a similar issue arises in the future, intent parameters from that issue can be used to match a resolution script created for the issue by matching intent parameters from the issue with intent parameters associated with the resolution script. Thus, an agent can use the resolution script to assist the agent in resolving the issue.
US10951761B1
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method and related system for operating a virtual computer assistant (VCA) system of a service provider system. The method includes activating a switch to connect a communication link of the system from a human assistant (HA) to a customer and conveying first communications over the communication link to the customer from the HA. The method automatically detects a switching event according to a switching rule stored in a switch rules database stored in a memory of the system while the communication link to the HA is active. The method activates the switch to connect the communication link from the customer to a VCA after the conveying of the first communications, and then conveys second communications over the communication link to the customer from the VCA.
US10951754B2
The present application provides a method for responding to an incoming call by means of fingerprint recognition. The method comprises: when a mobile terminal detects an incoming call, the mobile terminal starts a fingerprint sensor of a fingerprint recognition module; the fingerprint sensor collects a feature point in user fingerprint information, and records a moving track of the feature point; the fingerprint sensor recognizes a fingerprint operation action of a user according to the moving track of the feature point, and uploads the fingerprint operation action to a call system; and the call system marks the fingerprint operation action as a corresponding event and makes a response.
US10951752B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for preventing texting while driving and offering usage-based rewards. The system comprises a phone holder mounted within a vehicle and an application running on the driver's smartphone. A control circuit of the phone holder is configured to detect the smartphone in the holder, detect vehicle motion. An NFC tag on the holder also launches the smartphone application. Depending on measured parameters and determinations made by the “smart” holder and smartphone application, usage data is recorded by the control circuit and/or smartphone. The in-vehicle system is also configured to connect to a cloud-based server for storing vehicle and phone usage data and calculating usage-based rewards, such as insurance benefits for plan members. The system can also include an electronic notification device affixed to the rear windshield of the vehicle and that is selectively switched on to indicate active use of the system.
US10951742B1
In various embodiments, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to: identify, at a first node, first information on which at least a first duration for detecting a first type of time period is based; allocate a first resource for a first connection (e.g. a non-TCP connection, a TCP-variant connection, not a Transmission Control Protocol connection, etc.); generate a first packet including a first parameter field identifying first metadata for use in determining a second duration for detecting the first type of time period; set up the first connection, by sending, from the first node to a second node, the first packet to provide the first metadata to the second node, for use by the second node in determining the second duration for detecting the first type of time period; in response to detecting, based on the first duration and by the first node during at least a portion of the first connection including at least a portion of the first connection set up, a first time period of the first type of time period, at least partially close the first connection, by releasing, by the first node, the first resource allocated for the first connection; and in response to detecting, based on the second duration and by the first node after the first duration is changed to the second duration, a second time period of the first type of time period, at least partially close the first connection, by releasing, by the first node, the first resource allocated for the first connection.
US10951739B2
A data differencing technique enables a response from a server to the request of a client to be composed of data differences from previous versions of the requested resource. To this end, data differencing-aware processes are positioned, one at or near the origin server (on the sending side) and the other at the edge closest to the end user (on the receiving side), and these processes maintain object dictionaries. The data differencing-aware processes each execute a compression and differencing engine. Whenever requested objects flow through the sending end, the engine replaces the object data with pointers into the object dictionary. On the receiving end of the connection, when the data arrives, the engine reassembles the data using the same object dictionary. The approach is used for version changes within a same host/path, using the data differencing-aware processes to compress data being sent from the sending peer to the receiving peer.
US10951720B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a multi-channel cognitive resource platform configured for intelligent, proactive and responsive communication with a user, via a user device. The system is further configured to perform one or more user activities, in an integrated manner, within a single interface of the user device, without requiring the user to operate disparate applications. Furthermore, the system is configured to receive user input through multiple communication channels such as a textual communication channel and an audio communication channel. The system is further configured to switch between the various communication channels seamlessly, and in real-time.
US10951716B2
The present invention enables a network operator to select a gateway that provides desirable operational parameters to access a network node function in a network node requested by a client. A network service provider detects what service a client device is requesting or using and selects a gateway (e.g. PDN-GW) to deliver the service. The client device is signaled to make a new connection to the network using the selected gateway, e.g. by connecting to the APN associated with the PDN-GW that delivers the service.
US10951711B2
A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and processing data, the exemplary system includes: one or more intelligent devices connected in a dynamic ad hoc network as a network of edge devices which can optionally access a cloud storage, at least one intelligent device being configured with a software installation to selectively receive and execute analytics on data received; at least one of the intelligent devices being configured to identify data to be requested from at least one other edge device for enhancing analytics performed on the at least one intelligent device; and a switchboard for maintaining a current view of resources in the network, and functions for which each resource is tasked, the resources including the at least one intelligent device and those edge devices which can communicate with the at least one intelligent device on the network.
US10951703B1
Techniques of peer-to-peer email synchronization are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a technique includes transmitting, from a first client device to an email server, a synchronization request to synchronize an email between the email server and the first client device. In response, the first client device receives a reply containing data representing a replicate identification of email content of the email and identification of a second client device at which a copy of the email content is present. Upon receiving the reply, the first client device can establish a peer-to-peer communications channel with the second client device, download a copy of the email content of the email from the second client device instead of the email server, and surface the downloaded email content in an email client on the first client device to a user.
US10951701B2
According to an example, a cloud server receives an upload request transmitted by the first terminal, wherein the upload request comprises an account and webpage information of a webpage displayed on a first browser of the first terminal. The cloud server transmits the webpage information of the webpage to the second terminal according to the account, such that a second browser of the second terminal opens the webpage according to the webpage information.
US10951697B2
This disclosure describes a system including nodes communicating according to a relaxed, agent-centric distributed hash table. The system includes a requesting node requesting a value from a target node. The requesting node is associated with a store radius and a query radius based on an agent location of the requesting node. The store radius indicates one or more peer nodes wherein the requesting node has knowledge about the storage content of these peer nodes. The query radius indicates one or more peer nodes wherein the requesting node has connection with these peer nodes.
US10951695B2
In an illustrative embodiment, systems and methods for automatically identifying peer organizations of a subject organization within a transactional platform identify peer organizations of the subject organization by accessing characteristic features and transactional features of the subject organization, providing a portion of the features to similarity analysis models, and obtaining, through executing the models, predicted peer organizations. The predicted peers may be presented to a user arranged in priority order with some peer features of the respective organization and a control for selecting the respective peer. The user may select a subset of the predicted peers for use in comparison metrics.
US10951685B1
Systems and methods presented herein provide for adaptive content delivery. In one embodiment, a system includes a repository operable to store a plurality of web components, and a database operable to store identifiers of a plurality of users. The system also includes a machine learning module operable to: generate a model of computing device interactions of the plurality of the users based on the stored identifiers of the plurality of users; monitor a computing device interaction of a first of the plurality of users; process the computing device interaction of the first user through the model; and predict a format of web component delivery desired by the user based on the model. A formatter may be operable to retrieve a portion of the web components from the repository, and to automatically format the retrieved web components for the first user based on the predicted format of web component delivery.
US10951664B2
A method of processing session initiation protocol (SIP) call flows, the method comprising, at a back-to-back user agent (B2BUA) maintaining a plurality of predetermined call flow behaviours, each call flow behaviour in the plurality being self-contained and independent from other call flow behaviours in the plurality, each call flow behaviour in the plurality being applicable at one or more given call flow stages to provide one or more given actions for addressing a given call flow scenario, in response to occurrence of a given trigger event in a given SIP call flow, selecting a call flow behaviour from the plurality of call flow behaviours, and causing execution of one or more actions associated with the selected call flow behaviour to address a call flow scenario in relation to the given SIP call flow.
US10951654B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a network controller and from a first node of a network, information associated with a data stream of the network and determining, by the network controller, a segmentation for the data stream. The segmentation includes a plurality of data segments and the plurality of data segments includes a first data segment. The method further includes determining, by the network controller, a data flow path for each of the plurality of data segments and determining, by the network controller, a first wavelength to assign to the first data segment. The first wavelength is one of a plurality of wavelengths spanning between the first node and a second node of the network.
US10951644B1
There is provided a method and system for advanced endpoint protection. With this methodology, when a file is requested to be executed on any endpoint, all intelligence sources would be checked to decide if that file has any known or potential vulnerability associated with it. If there is any information about any known or potential vulnerability, it would be launched inside the secure container to isolate the all resource usage of that application from the rest of the known good and secure applications in order to achieve the securest computing environment on an endpoint.
US10951640B2
A method for protection against cyberattack includes: establishing neighbor relationships with border routers at a plurality of traffic entrances; and receiving an attack protection request from an intrusion detection system at a first traffic entrance. The first traffic entrance is any one of the plurality of traffic entrances. The attack protection request carries a target network address that has been attacked. The method also includes: generating routing information based on the attack protection request, and sending the routing information to a first border router based on the neighbor relationships. The routing information includes the target network address and routing address information. The first border router performs, based on the routing address information, protection processing on traffic that corresponds to the target network address. The first border router is a border router at the first traffic entrance at which the intrusion detection system that sends the attack protection request is located.
US10951638B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for detecting a malicious activity with respect to an application hosted on a server is provided. The present invention may include collecting user activity data associated an application accessed remotely over a network and generating a graph from the collected user activity data. Each node of the graph may represent a set of user requests received from a user with respect to a location within the application and each connection between nodes may represent a user navigable path between locations within the application. The present invention may include storing the generated graph and monitoring subsequent user activity with respect to the application. The present invention may include detecting a subsequent user activity that does not match the stored graph.
US10951635B2
Presented herein are methodologies for implementing a system and apparatus to estimate a network disruption index and undertake a mitigation action accordingly. A method includes calculating a network disruption index based on at least a disruption score associated with a service request measure, an end-of-life measure, a security incident response measure and a return material authorization measure for respective hardware devices in a network, comparing the network disruption index to a predetermined threshold, and when the network disruption index is above the predetermined threshold, identifying one or more of the hardware devices in the network for a mitigation action and implementing the mitigation action.
US10951633B1
Systems and methods involve an input layer function of a function-as-a-service (FaaS) pipeline that receives trigger data from a trigger layer function of one or more processors of enterprise processing systems, calls one or more processors of an enrich layer function of the FaaS pipeline that adds enriching context to the trigger data, and creates an event based at least in part on the enriched trigger data. A route layer function of the FaaS pipeline invoked by the input layer function creates an action based on the event created by the input layer function. An action layer function of the FaaS pipeline invoked by the route layer function creates a command based on the action created by the route layer function, and the action layer function sends a remediation action to a command layer function of the enterprise processor based on the action created by the route layer function.
US10951632B2
Systems and methods for providing security services during a power management mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting with a mobile security system a wake event on a mobile device, providing from the mobile security system a wake signal, the providing being in response to the wake event to wake a mobile device from a power management mode, and managing with the mobile security system security services of the mobile device. Managing security services may comprise scanning a hard drive of the mobile devices for viruses and/or other malware. Managing security services may also comprise updating security applications or scanning the mobile device for unauthorized data.
US10951609B2
A biometrically encrypted access policy is provided. A commercial transaction request to access a client-supported institution received from a client device is identified. A database structure associates each of a plurality of client-supported institutions with one or more respective biometric tokens for authentication. A one-time password is associated with the client-supported institution based on biometric tokens. An encrypted code is associated with the client-supported institution based on biometric tokens. A encrypted OTP is transmitted to client device, and instructions to capture a biometric scan data via the client device are generated based on parameters of biometric tokens. A decryption key is generated via the client device, and the decryption key is determined to authenticate the user of the client device, and, in response, the commercial transaction request to access the client-support institution is approved.
US10951601B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a control authority managing unit configured to change a control authority for a device by a first user on a basis of whether or not a status is a monitored status. The monitored status is a status in which the device or the first user is under supervision of a second user having a management authority for the device, and the first user does not have the management authority for the device.
US10951596B2
A method for secure device-to-device communication using multilayered ciphers is provided. A selected cipher is employed to generate a pair of encryption/decryption keystreams for enabling multilayered encryption/decryption on a pulsed-index communication (PIC) packet(s). In examples discussed herein, a first layer encryption/decryption is performed by encrypting/decrypting a PIC data(s) (PD(s)) in the PIC packet(s) based on a first of the pair of encryption/decryption keystreams. In addition, a second layer encryption/decryption is performed by encrypting/decrypting selected control information (e.g., information related to encoding/decoding the PD(s)) in the PIC packet(s) based on a second of the pair of encryption/decryption keystreams. By performing multilayered encryption/decryption on the PIC packet(s), it is possible to defend against malicious attacks in single-channel device-to-device communication without compromising such key performance indicators (KPIs) as complexity, latency, power consumption, and footprint.
US10951586B2
Techniques are described for providing users with access to computer networks, such as to enable users to create and configure computer networks that are provided by a remote configurable network service for the users' use. Computer networks provided by the configurable network service may be configured to be private computer networks that are accessible only by the users who create them, and may each be created and configured by a client of the configurable network service to be an extension to an existing computer network of the client, such as a private computer network extension to an existing private computer network of the client. In addition, access to remote resource services may be configured and provided from such computer networks in various manners, such as to automatically include access control information to limit access to particular resources to computing nodes at the location of that provided computer network.
US10951581B2
A system includes a terminal and a gateway. The terminal is programmed to identify, in received data, a signature of rogue data that includes at least a device identifier and an application identifier, and to transmit, via uplink to a satellite, the identified signature to a gateway. The gateway is programmed to block downlink data, upon determining that downlink data includes the received signature, and to broadcast the received signature to a second gateway.
US10951569B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies are provided for generating interactive emails and tracking user interactions. In one implementation, an email can be received within an email client. The email can be rendered within the email client, such as by: presenting a first selectable element within the email client, presenting a second selectable element within the email client, and presenting one or more content items within the email client. A selection of the first selectable element can be received within the email client. In response to the selection of the first selectable element, a presentation of the one or more content items can be adjusted within the email client.
US10951553B2
A computer-implemented process for displaying one or more message channels may include arranging the one or more message channels for a user of a computing system to view. Each of the one or more message channels may include a message channel icon, a message channel name, a message, a timestamp of the message, and a badge number.
US10951550B2
A method is provided for storing log data in a logging system, comprising: instantiating a plurality of buffers in the logging system, the plurality of buffers including one or more type-1 buffers and one or more type-2 buffers; retrieving a log data item from a temporary storage of the logging system, and identifying a type of the log data item; when the log data item is from a first type: identifying a current type-1 buffer, detecting whether the current type-1 buffer is full, when the current type-1 buffer is not full, storing the log data item in the current type-1 buffer, when the current type-1 buffer is full, designating another buffer as the current type-1 buffer, and storing the log data item in the newly-designated current type-1 buffer.
US10951549B2
An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes multiple ports and packet processing circuitry. The ports are configured to serve as ingress ports and egress ports for receiving and transmitting packets from and to a communication network. The packet processing circuitry is configured to forward the packets between the ingress ports and the egress ports, to read an indication that specifies whether the IC is to operate in an internal buffer configuration or in an off-chip buffer configuration, when the indication specifies the internal buffer configuration, to buffer the packets internally to the IC, and, when the indication specifies the off-chip buffer configuration, to configure one or more of the ports for connecting to a memory system external to the IC, and for buffering at least some of the packets in the memory system, externally to the IC.
US10951545B2
Apparatus including a network element including an input-output port, the input-output port including an input data lane and an output data lane, wherein the input data lane is in wired connection with a network data source external to the network element, the output data lane is in wired connection with a network data destination external to the network element, and the network data source is distinct from the network data destination. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US10951527B2
An ingress fabric endpoint coupled to a switch fabric within a network device reorders packet flows based on congestion status. In one example, the ingress fabric endpoint receives packet flows for switching across the switch fabric. The ingress fabric endpoint assigns each packet for each packet flow to a fast path or a slow path for packet switching. The ingress fabric endpoint processes, to generate a stream of cells for switching across the switch fabric, packets from the fast path and the slow path to maintain a first-in-first-out ordering of the packets within each packet flow. The ingress fabric endpoint switches a packet of a first packet flow after switching a packet of a second packet flow despite receiving the packet of the first packet flow before the packet of the second packet flow.
US10951526B2
Technologies for determining a root of congestion include a network switch. The network switch is to operate arbiter units in at least one upstream stage at a packet transfer rate that is greater than a packet transfer rate of an arbiter unit in an output stage, determine whether an input buffer of a remote network switch in communication with the output stage has sustained congestion over a first predefined time period, determine whether an output buffer of the arbiter unit in the output stage has sustained congestion over a second predefined time period, and determine, as a function of whether the input buffer of the remote network switch has sustained congestion and whether the output buffer of the arbiter unit in the output stage has sustained congestion, whether the network switch is a root of congestion.
US10951518B2
The present disclosure relates to packet routing using a registry to communicate packets between a first service and a second service of an electronic device. The electronic device may have memory that includes a registry having a table of services with at least one memory address of the second service being associated with consuming at least one packet type. The electronic device may store, in the first service, the at least one memory address of the second service and the at least one packet type. The electronic device may produce, via the first service, at least one packet of the at least one packet type. The electronic device may provide the at least one packet to the at least one memory address associated with the second service to allow the second service to consume data of the at least one packet.
US10951510B2
A communication device belonging to a first cluster among a plurality of clusters includes a memory, a processor, and a network connection device. The memory stores identification information of another cluster that has information being retrievable by a terminal connecting to the communication device in a summary of data held by the other cluster. The processor performs, upon receiving a combination of identification information of a second cluster that holds retrieval-target data and identification information of the retrieval-target data from the terminal that accessed the summary, a control to request target data identified by the combination. The network connection device forwards the target data to the terminal.
US10951504B2
Techniques are described for estimating capacity need in a service network and for dynamically adjusting resources to meet the estimated capacity. When an enterprise is contacted by a user with an issue, a service system determines an intent of the contact. The service system then determines if the issue is something that may arise with a significant number of users in the foreseeable future. Once the service system knows how many users with a similar issue may be contacting the enterprise, the service system makes a determination as to the capacity the service system has to handle the specific issue and the number of user communications. This is accomplished by searches of agent profiles to determine which agents have the ability to resolve the intent. Agents so identified are added to the capacity until the capacity is great enough to handle the expected user communications.
US10951500B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for warning. A method may include: importing a real-time collected traffic data sequence into a pre-trained traffic prediction model, to obtain predicted traffic data, the traffic prediction model being used to calculate and obtain the predicted traffic data according to the real-time collected traffic data sequence; and sending, in response to a difference between the predicted traffic data and actual traffic data corresponding to time being greater than a set threshold, a warning signal.
US10951496B2
A method for cloud-based, control-plane-event monitoring includes receiving control-plane events from a cloud-based element associated with a first and a second cloud environment. The received control-plane events are ingested from the cloud-based elements associated with the first and second cloud environments to generate a multiple-source data set from the control-plane events from the cloud-based elements associated with the first and second cloud environments. The multiple-source data set is then evaluated based on attributes of the first and second cloud environments in order to generate a common event data set. The common event data set is then processed using a rule set to generate an outcome.
US10951491B2
A server system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and a server managing a plurality of cooperating microservices. The server executes on the at least one processor to capture tracing information reported during invocation of a set of cooperating microservices. The tracing information includes a service name and version information associated with at least one microservice of the set of cooperating microservices. Additionally, the server builds an application deployment profile from the service name and version information, compares the application deployment profile to an existing profile, and classifies the application deployment profile as a previously existing profile, a subset profile, an extension profile, and/or an updated profile. The server tracks performance data associated with the application deployment profile.
US10951486B2
A part specifying unit causes a web browser to display a part specification GUI that enables to specify settings relating to a display mode of a part constituting a web page, and accepts specification of settings relating to a display mode through the part specification GUI. Moreover, an action specifying unit causes the web browser to display an action specification GUI that enables to specify settings relating to an action of a part constituting a web page, and accepts specification of settings relating to an action through the action specification GUI. An expanding unit expands the web page based on the settings relating to the display mode accepted by the part specifying unit, and on the settings relating to the action accepted by the action specifying unit, and displays the expanded web page on the web browser.
US10951482B2
Discovering devices and device configurations. A method includes sending a request to a device to obtain a data value from the device. The method further includes, in response, receiving the data value from the device. The method further includes, based on the received data value, identifying one or more device identifications for the device. The method further includes, using the one or more identifications, sending commands for equipment potentially connected to the device. The method further includes, receiving one or more responses to the commands. The method further includes, based on the one or more responses, concretely identifying the device.
US10951480B2
Technology for a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) in a mixed wireless network operable to facilitate instantiation of a virtualized network function (VNF) instance is disclosed. The VNFM can receive a request to instantiate a new VNF instance from a network manager (NM) via a network function virtualization (NFV) orchestrator (NFVO), the request including VNF instantiation information. The VNFM can send a request to a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for allocating virtual resources for the new VNF instance based on the VNF instantiation information. The VNFM can receive an acknowledgement from the VIM after successful allocation of the virtualized resources for the new VNF instance. The VNFM can instantiate the new VNF instance and send an acknowledgement of the new VNF instance to the NFVO, wherein the new VNF instance is operable to ease congestion at an overloaded non-virtualized network element in the mixed wireless network.
US10951472B2
An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to record, in the memory, requests to a plurality of computers. The processor is configured to determine, based on a past trend of requests and a specified maintenance-performing time, a time period in which maintenance is to be performed. The processor is configured to stand by until the determined time period comes. The processor is configured to determine, after standby, a maintenance standby time for each of the plurality of computers based on requests assigned to each of the plurality of computers. The processor is configured to determine, based on the maintenance standby time determined for each of the plurality of computers, an order in which maintenance is performed on the plurality of computers.
US10951471B2
A plug-and-play solution deployment mechanism and infrastructure to automate deployment of network cluster devices is disclosed. The solution includes an agile hardware topology discovery mechanism to automatically map the hardware of the cluster devices. The solution includes an intelligent engine for recognition of BIOS configuration setting and BIOS configuration of the devices. The solution also includes a demand-driven Cloud architecture design engine to design and test a cloud architecture incorporating the cluster devices.
US10951466B2
A network environment includes a message-processing resource that receives a communication originated by a communication device and transmitted from the communication device over a wireless communication link. By way of non-limiting example, the communication can be a request for retrieval of content from server resource disposed in the network environment. The message-processing resource processes the communication transmitted over the wireless communication link to identify a network address assigned to the communication device. The message-processing resource maps the network address to corresponding status information associated with the communication device. In response to detecting status information indicating that the communication device has not yet been configured with configuration information supporting secured wireless communications of a particular type, the message-processing resource: initiates generation of configuration information supporting subsequent secured wireless communications between the communication device and a corresponding wireless access point, and forwards the configuration information to the communication device.
US10951459B2
Compatibility and consolidation analyses can be performed on a collection of systems to evaluate the 1-to-1 compatibility of every source-target pair, evaluate the multi-dimensional compatibility of specific transfer sets, and to determine the best consolidation solution based on various constraints including the compatibility scores of the transfer sets. The analyses can be done together or be performed independently. These analyses are based on collected system data related to their technical configuration, business factors and workloads. Differential rule sets and workload compatibility algorithms are used to evaluate the compatibility of systems. The technical configuration, business and workload related compatibility results are combined to create an overall compatibility assessment. These results are visually represented using color coded scorecard maps.
US10951448B2
A method of a base station (BS) for transmitting synchronization signals in a wireless communication system. The method comprises generating a primary synchronization signal (PSS) including one of multiple PSS sequences that is generated based on a M-sequence of length 127 in a frequency domain, wherein the PSS indicates part of cell identification (ID) information using a cyclic shift performed on the M-sequence generating the PSS; generating a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) including one of multiple SSS sequences that is generated based on multiple BPSK modulated M-sequences of length 127 in the frequency domain, wherein the SSS indicates the cell ID information using cyclic shifts performed on the M-sequences generating the SSS; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the PSS and SSS over downlink channels.
US10951433B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for adapting a pool pump for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a system for adapting a pool pump with a serial communication port for communication with a user via a remote server, an internet connection, and internet enabled device is provided, the system comprising: a wireless gateway device connected to a router; and a wireless adapter connected to the serial communication port, comprising: a gateway node; a transceiver; and a processor programmed to: establish a wireless connection with the wireless gateway; receive a first message from the pool pump; cause the gateway node to modify the first message; cause the first modified message to be transmitted to the remote server via the wireless gateway; receive a second message from the remote server; modify the second message for output to the pool pump; and transmit the second modified message to the pool pump.
US10951425B2
A power over Ethernet method includes: performing, by power sourcing equipment, a plurality of detections by using an Ethernet port, connected to an intermediate device, of the power sourcing equipment, where a quantity of detections performed by the power sourcing equipment is equal to a quantity of power supply ports of the intermediate device; and if at least one detection result of the plurality of detections is effective, sending, by the power sourcing equipment, a power supply indication to the intermediate device, and supplying power to the connection port. In this way, the power sourcing equipment can supply power across the intermediate device to a powered device connected to the intermediate device, and a power loss caused by voltage conversion is avoided.
US10951424B2
A first communication request including a digital certificate of a first node sent from the first node in a blockchain is received at a second node in the blockchain, where the digital certificate of the first node is stored in the blockchain. Certificate validity information stored in the blockchain and associated with the nodes in the blockchain is accessed by the second node based on the first communication request, where the certificate validity information reflects the validity status information of digital certificates of the nodes in the blockchain. A verification of whether the digital certificate of the first node is valid is performed by the second node based on the first communication request and the accessed certificate validity information. A communication connection to the first node is established by the second node in response to verifying that the digital certificate of the first node is valid.
US10951421B2
A security function is provided by an intermediate device located between hosts and devices requesting for access to the hosts in a computerized network. The intermediate device receives a request for access to a host, and obtains at least one authenticator for use in the requested access to the host. The intermediate device then monitors for communications that use the at least one authenticator.
US10951419B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to the secure communication of devices. In one embodiment, a first device is configured to perform a pairing operation with a second device to establish a secure communication link between the first device and the second device. The pairing operation includes receiving firmware from the second device to be executed by the first device during communication over the secure communication link, and in response to a successful verification of the firmware, establishing a shared encryption key to be used by the first and second devices during the communication. In some embodiments, the pairing operation includes receiving a digital signature created from a hash value of the firmware and a public key of the second device, and verifying the firmware by extracting the hash value from the digital signature and comparing the extracted hash value with a hash value of the received firmware.
US10951414B2
A mobile wallet for storing a digital asset, the mobile wallet may include a communication unit; a programmable logic device (PLD), a main controller, a secure element, and an anti-tamper unit that comprises one or more anti-tamper sensors. The secure element may be configured to store the digital asset. The communication unit may be configured to receive ingress traffic from outside the mobile wallet and to output egress traffic not blocked by the PLD. The PLD may be configured to monitor ingress traffic and egress traffic, and to determine whether to pass or block ingress messages of the ingress traffic and egress messages of the egress traffic. At least one of the main controller and the anti-tamper unit may be configured to detect a tamper attempt based on outputs of the one or more anti-tamper sensors. The main controller may be configured to assist in responding to a detected tamper attempt.
US10951413B2
The invention relates to methods and devices for enabling authentication of a user based on biometric data. In an aspect of the invention a method performed by a trusted network node is provided for enabling authentication of a user of a second client device based on biometric data captured by a first client device.
US10951407B2
A mechanism to share cryptographic material across entities that may not have a direct trust relationship between or among each other, or no network connectivity, or some combination thereof, but where participating entities do share a trust relationship (or trusted connection(s)) with a common entity, sometimes referred to herein as a “conduit” entity. This technique enables such entities to leverage their trust relationship with a common “conduit” entity to share cryptographic material between or among themselves.
US10951406B2
Methods, systems, and devices for encryption key storage are described. An application server may store an encryption key in volatile memory and access the key directly from the volatile memory when performing an encryption process. In some cases, a user may supply the encryption key to the application server on demand. Accordingly, when the application server is restarted, the encryption key may be purged from the memory. In some cases, the encryption key may be wrapped in a public key, and the application server may derive a private key to decrypt the public key-encrypted information to access the encryption key and store it in the volatile memory. Additionally or alternatively, the user may supply a first fragment of the encryption key, and the application server may derive the encryption key from the first fragment and a second fragment of the encryption key retrieved from a database.
US10951400B2
An authentication method for a group of devices connected to a network includes selecting the first controller as a coordinator, the coordinator being configured to manage a group key to be used in common in the group. The method includes generating the group key, and performing first mutual authentication and second mutual authentication. The method also includes sharing the group key with each device for which the first mutual authentication has been successful, and sharing the group key with each second controller for which the second mutual authentication has been successful. The method further includes encrypting transmission data by using the group key to generate encrypted data, generating, authentication data by using the group key, and simultaneously broadcasting a message to each device for which the first mutual authentication has been successful and each second controller for which the second mutual authentication has been successful.
US10951396B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the records of an audit log are stored using blockchain technology. The audit log is accordingly rendered immutable and thus tamper proof. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the identity of each user is mapped to a corresponding code value using a one-way-function (that is, the user identity cannot be practically be deciphered from the code value). A table is maintained with entries mapping the user identifiers to the code value. The records in the audit log are stored with the user identifiers substituted by the code values. The log records corresponding to the user are made unidentifiable associated with the user by deleting the table entry corresponding to the user identifier of the user. Accordingly the ‘right to be forgotten’ may be supported. Another aspect extends such a right to general records.
US10951390B2
A system and method are provided for encoding and decoding multiplexed video signals to de-jitter the content. A first de-jitter operation is performed on incoming signals and a second de-jitter operation is performed on PCR modified outbound packetized signals after sequencing of the packetized signals has been determined. In one case the second de-jitter operation can be performed using a PLL that is based, at least in part, on the output hardware limitations.
US10951387B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for self-formation and self-management of full-duplex communication networks. In an embodiment, a communication device determines whether there is an available self-assignable device-data time slot. If there is, the device selects an available time slot for outbound transmissions, updates its network-status table to associate the selected time slot with a device identifier of the communication device, and transmits outbound device data during the selected time slot of at least one ensuing frame. The device also, during each of a plurality of ensuing frames, makes a determination as to whether to transmit a maintenance packet during a shared time slot of the current frame. If the determination is made in the affirmative, the device transmits such a packet during that shared time slot. Each such packet contains at least a subset of the network-status table.
US10951384B2
A wireless communication device comprising processor electronics configured to select a channel bonding mode from a plurality of channel bonding modes. Each of the plurality of channel bonding modes indicates at least two wireless communication channels and at least one of the plurality of channel bonding modes corresponds to a mode that indicates a punctured wireless communication channel. The processor electronics are further configured to generate a frame to be transmitted from the wireless communication device in accordance with the selected channel bonding mode. The frame includes a preamble portion and a data portion and the preamble portion includes a first preamble field that identifies the selected channel bonding mode. Transceiver electronics are configured to transmit the frame on the wireless communication channels indicated by the selected channel bonding mode identified in the first preamble field.
US10951381B2
Embodiments of methods for providing a new Channel State Information (CSI) reference resource definition for CSI reports in New Radio (NR) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) index reporting in a wireless communication system comprises deriving a CQI index to be reported to a network node, where the CQI index is derived assuming a hypothetical transmission on a CSI reference resource, wherein a wireless device-specific reference signal overhead in the CSI reference resource is consistent with one or more parameters, and reporting the CQI index to the network node. In another embodiment, a method performed by a radio access node reporting in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a CQI index from a wireless device for a CSI reference resource, wherein a wireless device-specific reference signal overhead in the CSI reference resource is consistent with one or more parameters.
US10951375B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and particularly to a method and a device for the method, the method comprising: a step of receiving data on a competition-based resource pool; a step of selecting, based on the size of the data, N number of competition-based resources from a plurality of competition-based resources constituting the competition-based resource pool; and a step of transmitting the data to a base station by using the N number of competition-based resources, wherein N is indicated via a reference signal transmitted along with the data.
US10951370B2
An apparatus and a corresponding method for mapping payload data of mapping input data streams onto a mapping output data stream having a channel bandwidth for transmission in a multi-carrier broadcast system includes first and second frame forming mechanisms. The first frame forming mechanism is adapted to form first frames having a first frame structure and the second frame forming mechanism is adapted to form second frames having a second frame structure. Preferably, in a second frame structure the data blocks of a particular mapping input data stream are spread in time and frequency over various data symbols and various data segments of the second frames to provide high robustness against disturbances. The payload portion of the second frame is preferably segmented into various data segments enabling use of a narrow-band receiver, even if both the first and second frames cover the same total channel bandwidth.
US10951359B2
Methods and apparatuses for providing control resource set configuration in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. In one method, a network node transmits a signal indicating at least a first duration and a bit map, wherein the first duration is time duration of a control resource set (CORESET) and the bit map indicates first symbol(s) of monitoring occasion(s) of the CORESET within a slot, and wherein a set of bit position indicates value one in the bit map. The network node is not allowed to transmit the signal such that an interval between two bit positions in the set in the bit map is smaller than a second duration.
US10951358B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing unit of a dispersed storage network (DSN) sending a set of data access requests regarding a set of encoded data slices to slice routers of the DSN. The method continues by a first slice router identifying a first storage unit of a first storage unit group based on a first slice name of a set of corresponding slice names that includes a first pillar number, wherein the first slice router is responsible for processing access requests that include the first pillar number. The method continues by the first slice router sending a first data access request of the set of data access requests to the first storage unit. The method continues by the first slice router receiving a first data access response. The method continues by the first slice router forwarding the first data access response to the DS processing unit.
US10951349B2
The described technology is generally directed towards a network node in a radio communications system adaptively switching the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table in use by user equipment. The network node evaluates performance data corresponding to one or more performance criteria to determine which MCS table to use. Non-limiting examples of performance data/performance criterion include the current transmission scheme, user equipment cell location, user equipment geometry, the number of transmit and/or receive antennas, the feedback reporting mode, the frequency band used in communications, network node performance, base station transmission power, user equipment deployment scenario, user equipment radio environment, user equipment recommendation, and the type of service being served by the base station. Any of the above performance data/performance criteria can be combined to adaptively make a determination and selection of which modulation and coding scheme table to use.
US10951348B2
A semiconductor device includes a first processor configured to generate a first error check code of a first data and an audio circuitry. The audio circuitry is configured to receive the first data, receive a second data, generate a second error check code of the first data, and generate a modulation signal based on the first and second data. The first processor may determine whether the first and second error check codes are identical to each other. The first processor may control the audio circuitry to control the generation of the modulation signal based on at least the first data, in response to a determination that the first and second error check codes are identical to each other.
US10951346B2
This application discloses a decoding method for an OvXDM system, including: generating an augmented matrix B related to a received symbol information sequence; performing singular decomposition on the augmented matrix B; and performing decoding by using a total least square method, to obtain a decoded output information sequence. This application further discloses an OvXDM system. In a specific implementation of this application, decoding is performed by using the total least square method.
US10951332B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method used for wireless communication and an apparatus. The method includes: configuring measurement parameters of channel state information for a terminal device, where the measurement parameters include a channel state information-reference signal configuration and a quasi-co-location indication, the channel state information-reference signal configuration includes configurations of at least two groups of antenna ports, and the quasi-co-location indication is used to indicate whether the at least two groups of antenna ports have a quasi-co-location relationship; and sending the measurement parameters to the terminal device.
US10951311B2
The present disclosure provides a visible light communication transmitter, a visible light communication receiver, a visible light communication system, and a method of visible light communication, which are suitable for colour shift keying (CSK), as well as providing a method of CSK. The transmitter comprises at least six graphene-based light emitting devices of different peak transmission wavelengths from each other. The receiver comprises a corresponding number of graphene-based photodetectors of different peak reception wavelengths from each other. A system according to the disclosure comprises such a transmitter and such a receiver, wherein each respective one of the different peak reception wavelengths of the six graphene-based photodetectors corresponds to a respective one of the different peak transmission wavelengths of the graphene-based light emitting devices. Such a system allows a method of visible light communication with a colour constellation of at least six base colours.
US10951310B2
A communication method including: determining whether a terminal is capable of performing visible light communication; when the terminal is determined to be capable of performing the visible light communication, obtaining a decode target image by an image sensor capturing a subject whose luminance changes, and obtaining, from a striped pattern appearing in the decode target image, first identification information transmitted by the subject; and when the terminal is determined to be incapable of performing the visible light communication in the determining pertaining to the visible light communication, obtaining a captured image by the image sensor capturing the subject, specifying a predetermined specific region by performing edge detection on the captured image, and obtaining, from a line pattern in the specific region, second identification information transmitted by the subject.
US10951306B1
A communication system including a transmit antenna that transmits an output signal including output information, a network interface that receives state data regarding a first remote platform, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit predicts a performance of a communication link that the transmit antenna uses to transmit the output signal based on the state data, evaluates a performance condition based on the estimated performance and a threshold performance, responsive to the performance condition being satisfied, uses the transmit antenna to transmit the output signal, and responsive to the performance condition not being satisfied, at least one of (i) adjusts at least one of a time parameter or a frequency parameter that the transmit antenna uses to transmit the output signal, or (ii) provide an instruction to a second remote platform to cause the second remote platform to transmit the output information to the first remote platform.
US10951302B2
A method for multiple association includes associating with a first access point (AP) in a primary basic service set (BSS), associating with a second AP in a secondary BSS, informing the first and second APs of an inter-BSS relaying capability of a doubly-associated station, and relaying data between the first AP and the second AP.
US10951300B2
A base station (BS)/user equipment (UE) for performing radio frequency beam management and recovery in communication with a UE/BS. The BS/UE includes a processor and a memory that stores first and second thresholds. The processor evaluates a beam quality metric against the first and second thresholds, performs beam switching and/or beam broadening in response to determining the beam quality metric falls below the first threshold, and performs a beam failure recovery procedure in response to determining the beam quality metric falls below the second threshold.
US10951296B1
A direction-controlled PAPR reduction is provided in which a base station transmits a PAPR reduction signal using a subset of antenna beams selected from a null space plurality of antenna beams. The subset of antenna beams is selected such that the PAPR reduction signal is not directed having a relatively-high path gain to a UE and/or so that the PAPR reduction signal power is concentrated in directions that have a relatively-lo path gain to the UE.
US10951287B2
Disclosed are techniques and apparatuses for transmitting positioning beacon beams including transmitting a plurality of positioning beacon beams from a first node in a first time period using a first order of transmission. Then, the first node transmits the plurality of positioning beacon beams from a second time period using a second order of transmission, where the first order of transmission is different in the second order of transmission.
US10951279B2
The present invention relates to a multi-input and multi-output communication method in a large-scale antenna system. An MIMO transmission method according to the present invention includes: obtaining statistical channel information on at least one terminal, dividing terminals into a plurality of classes and a plurality of groups based on the statistical channel information, wherein the groups depend on the classes; determining a group beam-forming matrix for each of the divided groups; performing a group beamforming transmission by group based on the group beam-forming matrix to obtain instantaneous channel information; and scheduling terminals based on the instantaneous channel information. Thus, it is possible to decrease the complexity in a scheduling and precoding calculation without an increase in the amount of wireless resources that are required for providing feedback for a reference signal and channel status information.
US10951276B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement and feedback method, a network device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, pilot port configuration information sent by a second network device, where the pilot port configuration information is used to describe at least two pilot ports; measuring, by using the at least two pilot ports, a pilot signal sent by the second network device, and determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of second information of the first network device or third information of a third network device when it is assumed that the first network device and the third network device communicate with the second network device by performing spatial multiplexing on a same time frequency resource.
US10951264B2
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Such UWB systems through their receivers may operate in the presence of interfering signals and should provide for robust communications. Accordingly, an accurate and sharp filter that operates at low power is required and beneficially one that does not require a highly accurate power heavy clock. Further, many UWB applications require location and/or range finding of other elements and it would therefore be beneficial to provide a UWB based range finding and/or location capability removing the requirement to add additional device complexity and, typically significant, power consumption.
US10951260B2
A mobile terminal comprises: a body having an electronic equipment part therein; a middle frame mounted in the body; a main substrate mounted in the body; a side case which is located around a lateral surface of the body and includes a plurality of antenna radiators and a plurality of slits among the plurality of antenna radiators; a ground line connected to the antenna radiators; and a power feeding line for applying power to the antenna radiators, wherein the slits include first and second slits, which are located at a first lateral surface of the mobile terminal, and third and fourth slits, which are located at second and third lateral surfaces adjacent to the first lateral surface of the mobile terminal, thereby improving antenna performance by minimizing interference among the antenna radiators for transmitting and receiving each frequency signal.
US10951251B2
A system, method, and electronic device for compensating in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) mismatch (IQMM) are herein disclosed. The system includes an IQ mismatch compensator (IQMC) configured to compensate for IQMM between a time-domain I signal and a time-domain Q signal using filter weight coefficients, and output a compensated I signal and a compensated Q signal, a fast Fourier transformation (FFT) circuit configured to perform an FFT on the compensated I signal and the compensated Q signal to a frequency-domain compensated signal, and a coefficient updater configured to update the filter weight coefficients based on a frequency-domain observation of the frequency-domain compensated signal.
US10951239B2
A set of bits of a data block that is associated with an unsuccessful first decoding operation may be identified. A second decoding operation to simulate switching at least one bit of the set of bits may be performed. At least one bit of the set of bits switched during the performance of the second decoding operation may be determined to correspond to an error. The error from the at least one bit of the set of bits may be corrected by changing a value of the at least one bit.
US10951237B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a block size used by an application, where the block size is a power of two, constructing, utilizing a plurality of instances of a first array code, a single instance of a second array code having a symbol size that matches the block size used by the application, where the symbol size of the second array code is always a power of two, and implementing the second array code within the application.
US10951233B2
A decoder is configured to perform, for a unit of data received by the decoder, a plurality of decoding iterations in which a plurality of messages are passed between a plurality of check nodes and a plurality of variable nodes, each message indicating a degree of reliability in an observed outcome of data. The decoder determines, for each of the plurality of decoding iterations, whether a trigger condition is satisfied based on an internal state of the decoder and, when a trigger condition is determined to be satisfied during a respective decoding iteration, scales one or more respective messages of the plurality of messages during a subsequent decoding iteration. The unit of data is decoded based on the plurality of decoding iterations and at least one scaled message resulting from the trigger condition being satisfied during the respective decoding iteration.
US10951232B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory device are described. An error correction bit flipping scheme may include methods, systems, and devices for performing error correction of one or more bits (e.g., a flip bit) and for efficiently communicating error correction information. The data bits and the flip bit (e.g., an error corrected flip bit) may be directly transmitted (e.g., to a flip decision component). The flip bit may be transmitted to the flip decision component over a dedicated and/or unidirectional line that is different from one or more other lines that carry data bits (e.g., to the flip decision component).
US10951221B2
In some examples, a device includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive an analog signal and output digital codes based on values of the analog signal. The device also includes a plurality of counters, where each counter of the plurality of counters is configured to increment in response to a respective digital code outputted by the ADC.
US10951219B2
A system and method of generating a synthetic time period output signal for a fork density sensor (601) which produces a consistent and low-noise output signal (705) which is identical in frequency to the frequency at which the fork density meter vibrates. Such a synthetic signal generated by a meter signal prevents any real noise from the pickoffs from propagating to the output meter and removes process noise and interference from the produced output signal.
US10951218B2
In a first clock frequency multiplier, multiple injection-locked oscillators (ILOs) having spectrally-staggered lock ranges are operated in parallel to effect a collective input frequency range substantially wider than that of a solitary ILO. After each input frequency change, the ILO output clocks may be evaluated according to one or more qualifying criteria to select one of the ILOs as the final clock source. In a second clock frequency multiplier, a flexible-injection-rate injection-locked oscillator locks to super-harmonic, sub-harmonic or at-frequency injection pulses, seamlessly transitioning between the different injection pulse rates to enable a broad input frequency range. The frequency multiplication factor effected by the first and/or second clock frequency multipliers in response to an input clock is determined on the fly and then compared with a programmed (desired) multiplication factor to select between different frequency-divided instances of the frequency-multiplied clock.
US10951216B1
A method includes generating a filtered phase difference signal based on a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal. The method includes generating a first output clock signal based on a first divider control signal and an input clock signal. The feedback clock signal is based on the first output clock signal. The method includes generating a first time code based on a counter signal and a first update of the first output clock signal in response to an update of the filtered phase difference signal to a first value from a second value. The second output clock signal is based on a second divider control signal, the input clock signal, and an error correction signal generated based on the first value, the second value, the first time code, and the second time code. The first and second divider control signals are based on the filtered phase difference signal.
US10951209B1
A power on ready (POR) signal generating apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The POR signal generating device includes a detection circuit and a control circuit. The detection circuit detects a target voltage. When the target voltage is ready, the detection circuit sets a POR signal to a ready state. The control circuit is coupled to the output terminal of the detection circuit to receive the POR signal. After the POR signal transitions from a not ready state to the ready state, the control circuit maintains the POR signal in the ready state, and the control circuit disables the detection circuit.
US10951207B1
An integrated driving module includes an oscillator, a PWM unit, a soft start controller, a first driver, and a second driver. The oscillator is connected to a voltage input end and generates an oscillating signal. The PWM unit receives the oscillating signal and generates a first driving control signal and a second driving control signal that are respectively anti-phased. The first driver outputs a first driving output signal to a first output end according to the first driving control signal. The second driver outputs the second driving output signal to a second output end according to the second driving control signal. The integrated driving module only has four connection ends for external connection to provide the two anti-phase driving output signals, such that the circuit design and connection of the primary side of the transformer is greatly simplified. The design limitation and manufacturing cost can be both lowered.
US10951206B1
An off chip driving system includes a decision circuit, multiple first and second adjustable-enhancement circuits, and multiple first and second drivers. The decision circuit outputs a first and a second decision signal according to a clock and an input data. Each first adjustable-enhancement circuit generates one of first control signals in response to the first and the second decision signal and one of first optional signals. Each second adjustable-enhancement circuit generates one of second control signals in response to the first and the second decision signal and one of second optional signals. Each first driver is coupled to the corresponding first adjustable-enhancement circuit and configured to be enabled in response to the corresponding first control signal. Each second driver is coupled to the corresponding second adjustable-enhancement circuit and configured to be enabled in response to the corresponding second control signal.
US10951202B2
A circuit includes a RC-CR circuit and a second circuit. The RC-CR circuit outputs a first signal at a first output node over a RC path, and a second signal at a second output node over a CR path. The second circuit is coupled to the RC-CR circuit at the first output node over the RC path. The second circuit includes an array of capacitors coupled in parallel and a plurality of switches, and each of the array of capacitors is connected, in series, to a corresponding switch in the plurality of switches. Each of the array of capacitors and its corresponding switch are coupled between the first output node and a ground. The plurality of switches is switched on or off such that the first signal and the second signal have a phase difference that falls within a predetermined phase range.
US10951200B2
A clock circuit includes a latch circuit, a memory state latch circuit, a memory state trigger circuit and a clock trigger circuit. The latch circuit is configured to latch an enable signal, and to generate a latch output signal based on a first clock signal. The memory state latch circuit is coupled to the latch circuit, and generates an output clock signal responsive to a first control signal. The memory state trigger circuit is coupled to the memory state latch circuit, and adjusts the output clock signal responsive to the latch output signal or a reset signal. The clock trigger circuit is coupled to the latch circuit and the memory state trigger circuit by a first node, configured to generate the first clock signal responsive to a second clock signal, and configured to control the latch circuit and the memory state trigger circuit based on the first clock signal.
US10951198B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a clock supply circuit, a first output circuit, and a second output circuit. The clock supply circuit outputs a first clock and a second clock, the first clock having a first period, the second clock having a second period that is 1/m times the first period. The m is a natural number of 2 or more. The first output circuit outputs a first signal indicating content of data to an outside when a first operation is performed and outputs a second signal having a toggle pattern based on the first clock to the outside when a second operation is performed. The second output circuit outputs an operation clock based on the first clock to the outside when the first operation is performed and outputs a sampling clock based on the second clock to the outside when the second operation is performed.
US10951189B2
The present invention discloses a signal processing device, a signal processing method and a speaker. The signal processing device comprises a multi-band dynamic range controller, wherein the multi-band dynamic range controller receives an audio signal and includes a first band splitting unit and a resonant band adjustment unit; the first band splitting unit is configured to split the audio signal into multiple bands and obtain at least one resonant band therefrom, which has a resonant frequency band signal in a resonant frequency range of the audio signal; and the resonant band adjustment unit is configured to adjust the resonant frequency band signal based at least on a resonant band dynamic range control gain and output an adjusted resonant frequency band signal for combination with other band signals into a compression output signal.
US10951186B2
Systems and methods are provided for amplifying multiple input signals to generate multiple output signals. An example system includes: a first channel configured to receive a first input signal and a second input signal and generate a first output signal and a second output signal based at least in part on the first input signal and the second input signal; and a second channel configured to receive a third input signal and a fourth input signal and generate a third output signal and a fourth output signal based at least in part on the third input signal and the fourth input signal. A first differential signal is equal to the first input signal minus the second input signal. A second differential signal is equal to the third input signal minus the fourth input signal. The first output signal corresponds to a first phase.
US10951181B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for an amplifier circuit. Methods and apparatus for an amplifier circuit according to various aspects of the present invention may be utilized in a digital-to-analog converter. The amplifier circuit may comprise a first operational amplifier with a feedback circuit. The feedback circuit may comprise an inverting amplifier circuit.
US10951173B2
Circuits, devices and methods related to amplification with active gain bypass. In some embodiments, an amplifier can include a first amplification path implemented to amplify a signal, and having a cascode arrangement of a first input transistor and a cascode transistor to provide a first gain for the signal when in a first mode. The amplifier can further include a second amplification path implemented to provide a second gain for the signal while bypassing at least a portion of the first amplification path when in a second mode. The second amplification path can include a cascode arrangement of a second input transistor and the cascode transistor shared with the first amplification path. The amplifier can further include a switch configured to allow routing of the signal through the first amplification path in the first mode or the second amplification path in the second mode.
US10951165B2
A switched capacitor arrangement for tuning a differential circuit is disclosed. The switched capacitor arrangement comprises a first node, a second node and a third node. The switched capacitor arrangement further comprises a first capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node, a second capacitor coupled between the second node and the third node, and a first switch branch comprising a first switch coupled between the second node and a signal ground node. The first switch has an on state and an off state. The first node and third node are configured to be connected to respective differential nodes of the differential circuit. The switched capacitor arrangement is configured to tune the differential circuit by controlling the state of the first switch.
US10951153B2
An apparatus for controlling an inverter driving a motor is provided. The apparatus includes a current controller that generates a voltage instruction for causing a current detection value, obtained by measuring a current provided from an inverter to a motor, to correspond to a current instruction for driving the motor. A voltage modulator generates a pulse width modulation signal for controlling on/off states of switching devices in the inverter at a predetermined switching frequency based on the voltage instruction. A frequency determiner determines the switching frequency based on driving information of the motor, determines a plurality of synchronization frequencies based on a speed of the motor, and randomly selects and determines one of the plurality of synchronization frequencies as the switching frequency.
US10951150B2
A system comprises a stator magnetically coupled to a rotor and a plurality of conductor assemblies distributed evenly along a perimeter of the device, wherein each conductor assembly is evenly distributed into at least two branches of conductors, and wherein each branch comprising a plurality of conductors, all the branches form a plurality of windings, wherein a winding comprises a positive segment and a negative segment, and wherein each segment has a plurality of branches, and wherein one segment is in more than two conductor assemblies and the plurality of windings is symmetrically divided into a plurality of groups, wherein each group of windings forms a balanced multi-phase system and is connected to a connection bar, and wherein at least two connection bars are isolated from each other.
US10951148B2
A control apparatus of a synchronous motor with a load commutated inverter includes a positive/negative judgment unit for discriminating positive/negative of the motor voltage of each phase of the three-phase AC input of the synchronous motor, an estimated phase setting unit for calculating and setting the estimated phase of the motor voltage based on the discrimination result by the positive/negative discrimination unit, and a speed estimation unit for estimating the speed of the synchronous motor by integrating the change of the estimated phase by a predetermined number of times and dividing the integrated result by the product of the predetermined number and the operation cycle. When driving the synchronous motor with the load commutated inverter, in a condition the synchronous motor slips at high speed, restart is made easier.
US10951145B2
A motor control method adapted for use in the startup process of a sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motor includes the following steps. A phase voltage signal and a driving voltage signal are generated according to the startup current signal with a first predetermined value and a phase current signal. A driving current signal is generated according to the driving voltage signal to drive the BLDC to rotate. The driving current signal is sensed to generate the corresponding phase current signal. The load state of the shaft end of the BLDC is determined according to the phase voltage signal with the change of the corresponding phase current signal and the startup current signal. The magnitude of the startup current signal is adaptively adjusted according to the load state of the shaft end and/or according to the electric rotation angular velocity and the torque demand of the BLDC motor.
US10951143B2
Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for rotation detection of a brushed DC motor. The method and apparatus may detect switching of the commutators and utilize signals indicative of switching to determine speed and/or rotation information of the motor. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises an ADC, a difference circuit, an absolute value circuit, and a comparator connected in series with each other.
US10951141B2
A position management apparatus includes motors connected to a power supply; a position detecting device connected to the power supply and detecting the rotational position of the motors or the drive position of driving members driven by the motors; position storage devices connected to the power supply and storing the rotational position or the drive position detected by the position detecting devices; and a power cut-off delay circuit for keeping the position detecting devices and the position storage devices connected to the power supply even if the power switch is shut off from a conducting state, and for storing the rotational position or the drive position of the position storage devices after the motor has lost its rotational speed.
US10951134B2
A repulsive-force electrostatic actuator includes a first actuator layer including a first substrate, a first electrode pattern, and a second electrode pattern. The actuator includes a second actuator layer spaced apart from the first actuator layer that includes a second substrate, a third electrode pattern, and a fourth electrode pattern. The actuator includes a voltage source connected to the first, second, third, and fourth electrode patterns such that the first electrode pattern is at an opposite voltage relative to the second, the third electrode pattern is at an opposite voltage relative to the fourth, and the first and second actuator layers are arranged to have a repulsive electrostatic force therebetween. The actuator further includes an actuator frame connected to the first and second actuator layers such that at least a portion of at least one of the first and second actuator layers is movable due to an applied voltage to effect motion to an object.
US10951122B2
An electronic converter comprising a switching stage having at least one electronic switch, wherein the switching stage is configured to provide current pulses via a terminal; a first capacitor, wherein the first capacitor provides a first voltage. Specifically, the electronic converter further includes a second capacitor to provide a second voltage, comparison means configured to detect the difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and determine a comparison signal which indicates whether this difference is greater than a threshold, and switching means configured to selectively transfer the current to the first capacitor or the second capacitor as a function of the comparison signal. The switching means may include a SCR, where the anode of the SCR is connected to the terminal that provides current pulses and where the cathode of the SCR is connected to the second capacitor.
US10951120B2
The disclosure relates to a flyback converter, a control circuit and a control method therefor. In the control method, a power stage circuit is controlled at a light load to operate alternatively in a pulse-width modulation mode (e.g., a constant switching frequency mode) and in a constant on time mode, in accordance with a voltage compensation signal. Thus, output energy may decrease rapidly and smoothly, without need for the control circuit to stop working. The flyback converter has increased efficiency at the light load and decreased output voltage ripple.
US10951118B2
A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may include multiple phase circuits each coupled to a regulated power supply node via a corresponding inductor. The phase circuits may modify a voltage level of the regulated power supply node using respective control signals generated by a digital control circuit that processes multiple data bits. An analog-to-digital converter circuit may compare the voltage level of the regulated power supply node to multiple reference voltage levels and sample the resultant comparisons to generate the multiple data bits.
US10951117B2
Various embodiments provide a voltage regulator circuit including two or more discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) phases coupled to an output node and coupled in parallel with one another. A control circuit may detect a trigger and switch all of the two or more DCM phases to a first state (charge state) responsive to the detection. The control circuit may switch a first DCM phase, of the two or more DCM phases, to a second state (discharge state) after a first predetermined time period in the first state and may switch a second DCM phase, of the two or more DCM phases, to the second state after a second predetermined time period in the first state, wherein the second predetermined time period is different than the first predetermined time period. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10951111B2
An apparatus includes an inverter configured to be connected to a load, a driver having an output coupled to control terminals of transistors of the inverter and a control input configured to receive control vectors and responsively apply control signals to control terminals of the inverter, a desaturation detector configured to detect desaturation of the transistors, and a controller coupled to the control input of the driver and configured to apply at least one test vector that causes the driver to turn on selected ones of the transistors for a duration sufficient for the desaturation detector to detect desaturation of at least one of the selected transistors and to enable or inhibit further operation of the inverter responsive to the desaturation detector. The load may be a motor and the controller may be configured to apply the at least one test vector responsive to a command to start the motor.
US10951104B2
Provided is a linear actuator including a movable element, a stationary element, a magnetic drive mechanism configured to linearly move the movable element in a first direction with respect to the stationary element, and damper member arranged between the movable element and the stationary element. The magnetic drive mechanism includes a coil holder arranged on the stationary element, a coil supported by a coil supporting unit of the coil holder, a first yoke arranged on the movable element, and a first permanent magnet held by the first yoke. The damper member is arranged in a portion where the first yoke and the coil holder face each other in the second direction. As a result, the damper member can be arranged between the stationary element and the movable element without using a case.
US10951093B2
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft and a stator disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction. In the stator, a coil is wound on a stator core, and a coil end of the coil exposed to an outside from an end portion of the stator core is cooled by a liquid coolant. The rotary electric machine further includes a coil end cover formed of an insulating material and configured to cover at least an outer circumference of an upper region of the coil end. A liquid coolant passage through which a liquid coolant flows toward a coil end is provided in the coil end cover.
US10951091B2
An actuating device for mechanically actuating a component may include a housing having first and second housing parts lying against one another in a separation plane and fastened to one another, and an electric motor arranged in the first housing part and having an input shaft. The device may also include an output shaft rotatably mounted at least on the second housing part and penetrating a wall thereof, the output shaft one of (i) being connected externally on the second housing part with an actuating element for mechanical coupling with the component which is to be actuated, or (ii) forming an actuating element for mechanical coupling with the component which is to be actuated. The device may further include a gear connecting the input shaft with the output shaft, and having an output gearwheel rotatably connected with the output shaft. The second housing part, in relation to an axis of rotation running perpendicularly to the separation plane, may be able to be fastened to the first housing part in at least two different rotation positions. The output shaft may be arranged eccentrically to the axis of rotation on the second housing part. At least one of the first and second housing parts may have at least one bearing point for rotary bearing at least one additional gearwheel. In a first rotation position between the housing parts, the gear without the additional gearwheel may connect the input shaft with the output shaft with a first transmission ratio. In a second rotation position different from the first rotation position, between the housing parts, the gear with the additional gearwheel may connect the input and output shafts with a second transmission ratio different from the first transmission ratio.
US10951084B2
In some examples, at least one connecting ring may connect a plurality of stator coils of the same phase. For instance, the at least one connecting ring may include at least one linear conductor formed in a ring-like shape. The linear conductor may include a plurality of terminal sections, each terminal section including an open groove extending perpendicular to a plane formed by the ring-like shape. The open grooves may be positioned around a circumference of the connecting ring for receiving respective wire ends of respective stator coils inserted into the open grooves for forming an electrical connection between the respective wire ends and the connecting ring at the respective terminal sections.
US10951080B2
There are disclosed winding configurations for electric machines that employ printed circuit board (PCB) type end winding connections to enable an automatic and faster assembly of the electric machines. The winding configurations provide a compact PCB-type end winding arrangement with an optimal fewer number of turns/bars in the slots of the board to complete the loop of winding connections. The winding configurations have application in three phase or multiple phase inner rotor or outer rotor electric machine topologies.
US10951079B2
A coil for a rotary electric machine is mounted in a plurality of slots of a stator core having the slots in a circumferential direction. An overlapping coil-type wave winding coil constituted by a coil wire having a plurality of slot accommodating portions accommodated in the slots and a plurality of coil end portions interconnecting, in a chevron shape, the slot accommodating portions next to each other outside the slots in an axial direction of the stator core constitutes the coil. At least two layers of the coil wire are connected by a continuous wire-based connecting portion, folded back in the connecting portion, and stacked.
US10951076B2
A stator or rotor for an electric machine such as a motor or generator comprising: at least one ring formed of a plurality of pole segments, wherein each pole segment comprises an arcuate base and at least one magnetisable pole extending radially from the arcuate base; and at least one end cap comprising, or consisting essentially of a non-conductive material.
US10951058B2
A device for supplying electrical power including one or more photovoltaic panels. An example device includes a primary battery electrically coupled to the photovoltaic panels. An electric motor is electrically coupled to either or both of the primary battery and the photovoltaic panels. A generator is mechanically coupled to the electric motor. A positive bus bar and negative bus bar are electrically coupled to the generator. At least one secondary battery is electrically coupled to the bus bars. At least one electrical outlet electrically coupled to the positive bus bar and negative bus bar. Electrical energy is stored in the at least one secondary battery when the supply from the generator exceeds the demand on the at least one electrical outlet. Electrical energy is discharged from the at least one secondary battery when the demand from the at least one electrical outlet exceeds the supply from the generator.
US10951055B2
An energy-saving hub is connected to an electronic device, an AC power source and a mobile device. The energy-saving hug includes a power supply interface, a power module, an upstream connector, a downstream connector, a main control circuit, and a system circuit. The power supply interface is used to connect to the AC power source, the power module is connected to the power supply interface, the upstream connector and the downstream are connected to the power module, and the main control circuit is connected to the power module and the upstream connector. The system circuit is connected to the upstream connector, the downstream connector and the main control circuit, wherein the system circuit is maintained in a sleep mode. When the energy-saving hub connects to the electronic device or the mobile device, the main control circuit transmits a wake-up signal to the system circuit to wake up the system circuit.
US10951052B2
The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring assembly that includes a plurality of line terminals configured to be coupled to a source of AC power. A circuit assembly is coupled to the plurality of line terminals. The circuit assembly includes a control circuit coupled to at least one electro-magnetic coil, the control circuit being configured to provide an electrical drive signal to the at least one electro-magnetic coil in accordance with a predetermined wireless charging regimen. The at least one electro-magnetic coil is configured to propagate a magnetic field in accordance with the electrical drive signal. A wall plate assembly is configured to accommodate the circuit assembly therewithin, the wall plate assembly including a charging interface region configured to accommodate a portable electronic device. The charging interface region is configured to position the at least one electro-magnetic coil proximate the portable electronic device so that the portable electronic device is disposed within the propagated magnetic field in accordance with the predetermined wireless charging regimen.
US10951046B2
A battery protection circuit includes cell terminals electrically connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a battery, external terminals electrically connected to positive and negative electrodes of an electronic device, discharge and charge FETs connected along a high current path between the cell terminals and the external terminals, a controller having a first terminal electrically connected to a control electrode of the discharge FET and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate electrode of the charge FET, and configured to control the charge FET and the discharge FET, a first resistor electrically connected between the control electrode of the discharge FET and the first terminal of the controller, a capacitor electrically connected between the discharge FET and the first terminal of the discharge FET, and a transistor electrically connected between the control electrode of the discharge FET and a second electrode of the discharge FET.
US10951041B2
A motor system provided with one motor, two batteries, and two inverters further includes a charger which is connected to a first battery and supplies external power; and a control unit which controls drive of the first inverter and the second inverter to drive the motor. When the second battery is charged with the external power, the control unit drives the first inverter and the second inverter to allow power from the first inverter to be transmitted to the second battery through the motor and the second inverter while the motor is in a stationary state.
US10951029B2
A power source input device for both AC/DC power sources includes a first power source input unit that is provided at a power source input terminal of an electric power device to convert an AC or DC commercial power source selectively input from the outside into a DC driving power source and supply the converted DC driving power source to an accessory device. A second power source input unit is provided in the accessory device to supply the DC driving power source supplied from the first power source input unit to at least one load, thereby simplifying a configuration of a power source input terminal of each of the electric power devices and reducing a manufacturing cost thereof.
US10951027B2
A smart load center panel (10) accepts two hot legs from each of two power sources, and selectively connects each of a plurality of breakers to one of the two power sources under processor control. A dielectric chassis (12) provides structural support and electrical isolation for a plurality of individual circuit boards (28), each including a pair of breaker stabs (26) and a relay (24) operative to selectively connect each breaker stab (26) to a different power source. A bus bar assembly (20) comprises two bus bars for the hot legs of each of two power sources, and insulates the bus bars from each other and from inadvertent contact. A master printed circuit board (40) comprises slits (43, 45) defining the individual circuit board (28) except at the edges. After mounting and soldering, the edges are cut away, yielding a plurality of individual circuit boards (28). Neutral and ground bus bars (46, 52) are mounted to the side of the panel housing (12), behind a flange of a front opening.
US10951021B2
A power conversion system includes one power conversion device and one or more power conversion devices. The power conversion device includes a power converter that controls output voltage to be a preset voltage to apply the preset voltage to a load on the basis of an output from a power supply. The power conversion device controls the power converter so that a detected value of the first voltage detected by a voltage detector becomes a preset voltage value. The power conversion devices each include a power converter that controls output current to be a preset current to supply the preset current to the load on the basis of an output from a power supply. The power conversion devices each controls operation of the power converter on the basis of the detected value of the first voltage. The power conversion device controls operation of the power converter by changing the first voltage.
US10951020B2
A power supply control device prevents an electrical wire and a switch element from smoking. The power supply control device includes a switch element provided at a midpoint in an electrical wire that connects a power supply and a load. A current detection unit detects the current value of current flowing in the electrical wire. A temperature estimation unit estimates the wire temperature of the electrical wire based on the current value detected by the current detection unit. A control unit turns on or off the switch element based on the wire temperature estimated. The control unit estimates the smoking temperature of the switch element by changing the heat dissipation time constant of the electrical wire used in temperature calculation to a smaller value, and turns off the switch element if the wire temperature is greater than or equal to the estimated smoking temperature of the switch element.
US10951019B2
An electrical link (290) configured to link a DC high-voltage power source (270) to a user apparatus (250), and includes an electrical conductor (240) surrounded by an insulating cover and an electrical protection device (200) including: a conductive sleeve (280) arranged around the insulating cover, a biasing module (245) configured to voltage-bias the conductive sleeve (280), a circuit breaker (210) arranged on the conductor (240) and configured to cut off a current transiting through the conductor (240), and a detection module (220) connected to the conductive sleeve (280) and configured to detect a current leak out of the conductor (240) and to command the circuit breaker (210) on the basis of the detection. The invention also relates to a method for the secure supply of electric power.
US10951018B2
A ground fault current interrupter circuit includes a plurality of comparators, threshold generation circuitry, and a plurality of timer circuits. Each of the comparators is configured to compare a threshold voltage to a signal representative of a difference of current flow to a load and current flow from the load. The threshold generation circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of different threshold voltages. Each of the different threshold voltages is provided as the threshold voltage for one of the comparators. Each of the comparators is coupled to one of the timer circuits, and the one of the timer circuits is configured to activate a fault signal responsive to activation of an output of the comparator for a time that is related to the threshold voltage provided to the comparator. The time increases with lower values of the threshold voltage.
US10951015B2
A joint fitting for an electrical conduit raceway may include a body including a first end and a second opposing end, at least one threaded section provided in the first end or the second end, at least one non-threaded section provided between the at least one threaded section and the corresponding first end or second end, the at least one non-threaded section defining a channel, and a sealing member positioned within the channel. Upon a radial compressive force being applied to the sealing member, at least a portion of the sealing member may protrude or extend from a terminal surface of the corresponding first end or second end.
US10951013B2
A multiple input power distribution shelf and a bus bar assembly thereof are provided. The power distribution shelf is installed in the server rack and comprises plural power supply units. The bus bar assembly comprises a first linking bus bar, a second linking bus bar, an insulation member and plural power connectors. The first linking bus bar comprises a first main bar, plural first bending parts and at least one first output part. The second linking bus bar comprises a second main bar, plural second bending parts and at least one second output part. The insulation member is disposed between the first main bar and the second main bar for insulation. The power connectors are mounted on the bending parts and connect with the power supply units. The first output part and the second output part are electrically connected with a rack bus bar of the server rack.
US10951009B2
A design and method for introducing asymmetric crystal strain to control polarization in a tunable VCSEL, either optically or electrically pumped. The invention is especially relevant to wafer- or die-bonded tunable VCSELs. Then, mechanical stress is applied to the half VCSEL device by asymmetric arrangement of metal bond pads.
US10951000B2
A single mode (SM) high power laser system is configured with a laser source outputting a single mode or low mode kW-power light and a passive delivery fiber spliced to an output fiber of the fiber laser source and having a double bottleneck-shaped core. The latter is configured to increase a threshold for nonlinear effects in general and in particular for stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) so that the delivery passive fiber has a fiber length at least twice the length of a delivery passive fiber with a standard uniformly dimensioned core, which may be used with the same laser source, while outputting the kW-power light with an M2 factor less than 2.
US10950998B2
This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for connecting insulated wires to electrical components. More specifically, an apparatus that includes a wire guide designed to assist with the alignment of wires prior to termination of the wires to electrical components is disclosed. In an embodiment, the wire guide includes a body portion and a latching portion. The body portion includes at least one wire opening and is configured to mechanically secure one or more insulated wires in a desirable position. The latching portion is configured to secure the wire guide to a corresponding device such as an insulation displacement contact connector. A wire guide allows for insulated wires to be quickly and reliably positioned and secured relative to one another in order to safely and efficiently electrically and mechanically connect each insulated wire to a corresponding electrical component.
US10950995B2
In various implementations, a raceway may be provided that is capable of providing power and/or data connectivity to items (e.g., devices, articles of furniture, etc.) coupled to the raceway. The raceway may be low profile. The raceway may be disposed on floor and/or under floor. The raceway may include an integrated power housing. The raceway may include segments that are selected, as desired for an application configuration, and that are coupleable to each other or other components of the raceway (e.g., nodes, joints, etc.). The housing of component(s) of the raceway may include a base and wall(s) with at least curved section and at least one straight section.
US10950976B2
Disclosed is a connector assembly having a first connector part and a second connector part. The first connector part includes a lever mounted on a base body of the first connector part for pivotable movement about a pivot axis (C) between first and second positions relative to the base body. The connector assembly can be brought from a ready-to-mate state into a mated state by relative movement of the first and second connector parts towards each other along a connection axis and vice versa. At least one engaging portion of the lever interacts with at least one counter-engaging portion of the second connector part in such a way, that the connector assembly is forcibly brought from the mated to the ready-to-mate state by pivoting the lever from the first position into the second position when the connector assembly is in the mated state.
US10950973B2
A watertight plug assembly for electrical cords. One cord is connected to one plug end having a plug end proximal face and a sidewall. The sidewall includes a first mating member adjacent the proximal face. The second plug end is connected to a second cord and includes a cap having a central cavity for receiving the second plug end and which defines a second mating member to cooperate with the first mating member when said plug ends are connected to provide a watertight connection.
US10950971B2
A circular electric connector including a socket extending along an axis and provided at an axial end with cavities, and a sealing grommet provided on the axial end defining a front face through which electric elements may be inserted in the cavities and a circumferential wall, the connector additionally including a housing wherein the socket is housed, the housing including an attachment device for attachment with a backshell, the connector including a retaining ring around the circumferential wall of the grommet, the retaining ring being adapted to limit the expansion of the diameter of the grommet when the electric elements are inserted through the grommet. A connection may be made with such a connector and a known or modified backshell.
US10950969B2
A ganged coaxial connector assembly comprises a male connector including: a male connector body; and a plurality of unit male connectors arranged in the male connector body, wherein each unit male connector includes an inner contact, an outer contact and a dielectric spacer. The ganged coaxial connector assembly further comprises a female connector including: a female connector body; and a plurality of unit female connectors arranged in the female connector body, wherein the number of the unit female connectors is the same as that of the unit male connectors, and each unit female connector corresponds to each unit male connector when the male connector and female connector are mated, and wherein each unit female connector includes an inner contact, an outer contact and a dielectric spacer. The female connector may be formed with structures for push-pull, ball and groove attachment or alternatively for threaded sleeve attachment.
US10950966B2
A stab (pin and sleeve) electrical connector with improved safety is described. The female (sleeve) connector exterior surface is coated or made from with a nonconductive insulating material. A pressure loaded insulator plug is disposed inside the female sleeve. An electrical connection is made when the male (pin) connector is inserted into the female sleeve. The male pin contacts the insulator plug inside the female sleeve, causing compression, and makes electrical contact with the uninsulated inside of the sleeve. As the male pin is removed, the pressure mechanism of the insulator plug pushes the plug out flush with the external insulated surface making the female sleeve touch safe. Therefore, embodiments provide a high level of safety for the pin and sleeve electrical connection method without adding large or troublesome moving parts.
US10950957B2
A connector includes a male plug and a female socket. The male plug includes a plurality of terminals and a first insulation body. Each of the terminals includes a signal contact portion, a U-shaped terminal fixing portion, and a terminal soldering portion. The U-shaped terminal fixing portion of each of the terminals connects the signal contact portion and the terminal soldering portion. The first insulation body includes a plurality of connection slots, and each of the connection slots is configured to receive the terminal correspondingly. The female socket includes terminal portions, and a second insulation body having a plurality of receiving slots. Each of the receiving slots is configured to receive the terminal portion correspondingly. When the male plug is plugged into the female socket, the plurality of terminal portions are held by the signal contact portions of the male plug.
US10950952B1
An antenna array system includes a feed antenna and circuit boards. Each circuit board has pickup antenna elements disposed on a curved edge portion of a first edge of the circuit board, radiating elements disposed on a second edge portion of the circuit board, and transmit receive modules disposed between the pickup elements and the radiating elements on the circuit board. The antenna array can be part of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) antenna assembly.
US10950949B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a side surface surrounding a space between the first and second surfaces, a printed circuit board (PCB) that is arranged inside the housing and includes at least one antenna unit, and a communication circuit that is arranged inside the PCB or between the PCB and the housing.
US10950947B2
A dipole antenna includes a feed line, first and second microstrip probes, a first signal transmission line coupled to the feed line and to the first microstrip probe, and a second signal transmission line coupled to the feed line and to the second microstrip probe. The first signal transmission line includes a first transmission line including a first signal conductor and a first ground conductor and a second transmission line including a second signal conductor and a second ground conductor. The first signal conductor is electrically coupled to the feed line and to the second ground conductor and the second signal conductor is electrically coupled to the first microstrip probe and the first ground conductor.
US10950945B2
A patch antenna (10) includes a planar first power feeding conductor pattern (11) that is formed on a dielectric substrate (20) and to which a radio frequency signal is fed, a planar second power feeding conductor pattern (12) that is formed on the dielectric substrate (20) and is arranged to be isolated from the first power feeding conductor pattern (11) so as to interpose the first power feeding conductor pattern (11) in the polarization direction when the dielectric substrate (20) is seen in a plan view, and a planar ground conductor pattern (13) that is formed on the dielectric substrate (20) so as to face the first power feeding conductor pattern (11) and the second power feeding conductor pattern (12) and is set to have a ground potential, wherein the second power feeding conductor pattern (12) is not set to have the ground potential.
US10950941B2
In an embodiment, conductive structural members of a device acting as NFC antenna are described. According to an embodiment, a device comprises: two conductive structural members, each comprising a first electrical end and a second electrical end, a dielectric isolation being configured between the first electrical end of the first conductive structural member and the first electrical end of the second conductive structural member; two NFC antenna feeds, the first feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the first member, the second feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the second member; two grounding components, one each grounding the second electrical end of the conductive structural members; at least one additional antenna feed configured for a frequency other than that of NFC, coupled to either of the two members.
US10950937B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The beamforming device in a wireless communication system may include an antenna array, a communicator configured to perform beamforming of the antenna array by applying a phase pattern for forming a plurality of beams, and a lens configured to adjust phases of respective incident signals by using the plurality of beams and emit output signals, wherein the lens includes unit cells corresponding to the phase pattern. Accordingly, the transmission device and method can reduce a distance between an antenna and a lens in a wireless communication system.
US10950936B2
There is provided a signal distribution network for an antenna arrangement with fewer input ports than antenna elements. The signal distribution network comprises at least two signal splitters. The signal distribution network comprises at least two signal combiners. Each signal splitter is configured to receive one input baseband signal from a unique input port and to provide one direct feed signal as input to a unique antenna element, and to provide one intermediate signal as input to at least one of said at least one signal combiner. Each signal combiner is configured to receive two intermediate signals, each intermediate signal being received from a respective signal splitter of the at least two signal splitters, and to provide one combined signal as input to a unique antenna element, wherein the one combined signal is formed by combining the received two intermediate signals.
US10950935B2
An adjustor configured to position an antenna coupled to a mounting element includes an adjustor nut having a bore extending along a longitudinal axis of the adjustor nut. At least a portion of the bore has inner threads configured to engage corresponding threads on a first portion of the mounting element positioned within the bore. A tool interface is positioned near a proximal end region of the adjustor nut and an external fastening mechanism positioned near a distal end region of the adjustor nut. A preload nut configured to engage the external fastening mechanism and configured to apply a load onto a second portion of the mounting element is positioned between a portion of the adjustor nut and the preload nut. Rotation of the adjustor nut around the longitudinal axis causes movement of the first portion along the longitudinal axis while the load is applied onto the second portion.
US10950932B1
An electronic device may have a housing with metal sidewalls. One of the metal sidewalls may have an opening. The electronic device may have a speaker module that has a speaker housing member. Conductive structures on the speaker housing member may have an opening that forms a slot element. The opening of the metal sidewall may be aligned with slot element. The slot element and an interior cavity of the speaker housing member may form a cavity-backed slot antenna. An antenna feed structure may be disposed at the opening of the speaker housing member. An antenna feed may be directly coupled to the antenna feed structure. The antenna feed structure may indirectly feed the slot antenna resonating element by capacitive coupling. A sealing member may be disposed at the opening of the metal sidewall.
US10950927B1
A flexible spiral antenna or flexible antenna array element includes a flexible dielectric medium, a spiral element including a first arm and a second arm. The spiral element includes a liquid metal material and is disposed in the dielectric medium. The flexible antenna element also includes a first flexible meta surface layer disposed in the dielectric medium. The antenna can be or be part of an ultra-wide frequency band antenna or antenna array.
US10950925B2
An antenna structure includes a housing, a feeding portion, and a connecting portion. The housing defines a gap and a groove. The housing forms a radiating portion and a coupling portion through the gap and the groove. A portion of the housing between the feeding portion and the gap forms a first radiating section. The connecting portion is electrically connected to one end of the coupling portion adjacent to the gap. When the feeding portion supplies current, the current flows through the feeding portion and the first radiating section, and is coupled to the connecting portion through the gap to activate a first operating mode. When the feeding portion supplies current, the current flows through the feeding portion and the first radiating section, and is coupled to the coupling portion through the gap to activate a second operating mode.
US10950920B2
It is provided a waveguide comprising a tubular, electrically conductive waveguide body, the waveguide having a rectangular cross-section. The waveguide further comprises an electrically conductive foil comprising at least one matching portion arranged within the waveguide body, extending along a propagation direction of the waveguide body, and at least one connection portion arranged outside of the waveguide body, for connecting the waveguide to a component, wherein the matching portion of the foil is tapered in a propagation direction of the waveguide and arranged to form a ridge protruding from a sidewall of the waveguide along part of the length of the waveguide, and wherein the connection portion extends outside of the waveguide, in a propagation direction of the waveguide and in the same plane as the matching portion. It is also provided a waveguide arrangement and a method for manufacturing such a waveguide arrangement.
US10950915B2
Provided is a connection module for electrically connecting a plurality of power storage modules having a plurality of power storage elements, the connection module including: connection module-side wires; a bus bar that electrically connects the adjacent power storage modules; and an insulation protector having: an arrangement groove which extends along a first direction and in which the connection module-side wires are arranged; and a bus bar holding part that holds the bus bar. The bus bar has: a main body part that extends in the first direction; and extension parts that extend from the main body part in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and the extension parts are disposed to extend over and across the arrangement groove.
US10950903B2
An electrical system includes a battery pack, sensors, and a controller. The sensors configured output measured state signals indicative of an actual state of the battery back, including a respective actual voltage, current, and temperature of each of the multiple battery cells. The controller executes a method to generate, responsive to the measured state signals, an estimated state of the multiple battery cells using a respective open-circuit voltage and low-frequency transient voltage of each of the multiple battery cells. The controller estimates the low-frequency transient voltages using a porous electrode transient (PET) model as part of a model set, the PET model having open-circuit voltage elements representing uneven charge distribution within a cell electrode. State of charge (SOC) of the battery pack is estimated using the estimated voltages. An operating state of the electrical system is controlled in real-time responsive to the estimated SOC.
US10950890B2
New homopolymers and copolymers of diester-based polymers have been synthesized. When these polymers are combined with electrolyte salts, such polymer electrolytes have shown excellent electrochemical oxidation stability in lithium battery cells. Their stability along with their excellent ionic conductivities make them especially suitable as electrolytes in high energy density lithium battery cells.
US10950881B2
A controller of a fuel cell system executes at least one of a first control and a second control. The first control is executed when a value of current is raised in association with an increase in flow rate ratio of cathode exhaust gas flowing into a bypass, the first control is executed by which the value of the current is raised to boost discharge pressure from a compressor and subsequently, an opening degree of a flow dividing valve is changed so as to increase the flow rate ratio of the cathode exhaust gas flowing into the bypass. The second control is executed when the value of the current is lowered in association with a reduction in the flow rate ratio of the cathode exhaust gas flowing into the bypass, the second control is executed by which the opening degree of the flow dividing valve is changed so as to reduce the flow rate ratio of the cathode exhaust gas flowing into the bypass and subsequently, the value of the current is lowered so as to lower the discharge pressure from the compressor.
US10950874B2
A gasket manufacturing method is provided. The gasket has a base material with a bead and an elastomeric gasket body disposed in a top portion of the bead. The method includes sequentially forming the bead on one part of a plane of the base material and applying a molding material of the gasket body to the top of the bead. When forming the bead on the one part of the plane, a protrusion is formed in each end in the width direction in the top of the bead. The protrusions are utilized as a coating width defining means of the molding material when applying the molding material to the top of the bead.
US10950870B2
Disclosed is a method for producing an alloy catalyst supported on carbon, including the steps of: dispersing alloy particles into a mixed solution of water with alcohol, introducing a silica precursor thereto, and carrying out sol-gel reaction in the presence of a basic catalyst to obtain silica-coated alloy particles; supporting the silica-coated alloy particles onto a carbon carrier to obtain silica-coated alloy particles supported on carbon; heat treating the silica-coated alloy particles supported on carbon to increase an alloying degree; and removing silica coating by using inorganic base solution and a surfactant. The method for producing an alloy catalyst provides a high-quality and high-durability alloy catalyst by increasing the alloying degree of a catalyst through a heat treatment step, while forming a silica coating layer effectively on small alloy particles having a size of several nanometers to inhibit growth of the size of alloy particles. In addition, the catalyst may be used advantageously as an electrode for fuel cells.
US10950869B2
An object of the present invention is to achieve both high initial performance and durability performance of a fuel cell. Such object can be achieved by using a fuel cell electrode catalyst that includes a solid carbon carrier and an alloy of platinum and cobalt supported on the carrier.
US10950865B2
A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, a negative electrode agent for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, which is used therefor, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with the negative electrode. The negative electrode agent for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries related to the present invention comprises, at least, an active material and a binder wherein the binder contains a first water-soluble polymer of linear polycarboxylate and a second water-soluble polymer of linear polycarboxylic acid. The first water-soluble polymer has a crosslinked structure of high molecular weight, and the second water-soluble polymer has a low molecular weight.
US10950862B2
A method for producing a cathode that can lower a sintering temperature is provided. The method comprises: acid-treating particles of a lithium containing composite oxide that has a layered rock-salt structure; obtaining a mixture by mixing the acid-treated particles with a lithium salt whose melting point is lower than that of the lithium containing composite oxide; and heating and sintering the mixture.
US10950857B2
Provided are electrochemical cells that include as a cathode active material within the cathode of the cell secondary particles that provide excellent capacity and improved cycle life. The particles are characterized by grain boundaries between adjacent crystallites of the plurality of crystallites and comprising a second composition having a layered α-NaFeO2-type structure, a cubic structure, a spinel structure, or a combination thereof, wherein the electrochemically active cathode active material has an initial discharge capacity of 180 mAh/g or greater; and wherein the electrochemical cell has an impedance growth at 4.2V less than 50% for greater than 100 cycles at 45° C.
US10950851B2
One aspect of the present invention provides an electrode having a collector and an electrode mix layer disposed on the collector. The electrode mix layer contains an active material A having a core portion A and a coat material A, and an active material B having a core portion B and a coat material B. The isoelectric point of the coat material A is 7 or lower. The isoelectric point of the coat material B is 7 or higher. The isoelectric point of at least one of the coat material A and the coat material B is not 7.
US10950846B2
Methods of forming a plurality of axial geometry carbon structures (e.g., carbon nanotubes or carbon fibers) in situ in an electrode of an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions are provided. Electroactive particles that undergo volumetric expansion are mixed with a polymer precursor and a plurality of catalytic nanoparticles comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of: iron, nickel, cobalt, alloys, and combinations thereof to form a substantially homogeneous slurry. The slurry is applied to a substrate and then heated in an environment having a temperature of ≤about 1000° C. and in certain aspects, ≤about 895° C. to pyrolyze the polymer precursor. The plurality of catalytic nanoparticles facilitates in situ precipitation of carbon to grow a plurality of axial geometry carbon structures. After the heating, the electrode includes an electrically conductive carbonaceous porous network comprising the plurality of electroactive particles and the plurality of axial geometry carbon structures.
US10950843B2
The present invention relates to an electric battery (10). The electric battery (10) comprises plural battery cells (12), with each battery cell comprising a container. The container contains an electrochemical arrangement. Each battery cell (12) comprises positive and negative terminals of sheet form which extend from the electrochemical arrangement. The electric battery further comprises plural measurement arrangements (14), with each of the plural measurement arrangements being electrically coupled to each of two spaced apart locations on one of the positive and negative terminals of a respective one of the plural battery cells. Each of the plural measurement arrangements (14) is configured to measure potential difference between the two spaced apart locations.
US10950838B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including: a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator including a polyolefin porous film; a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin; a positive electrode plate having a capacitance falling within a specific range; and a negative electrode plate having a capacitance falling within a specific range, wherein: the polyolefin porous film has a given rate of diminution of diethyl carbonate and a given spot diameter of the diethyl carbonate; the porous layer is provided between the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator and at least one of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; and the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin contained in the porous layer contains an α-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin in an amount of not less than 35.0 mol %.
US10950831B2
A battery pack is provided which includes an enclosure. The enclosure includes a battery cell compartment and a vent. The battery cell compartment is a sealed compartment, except for the vent, and the vent facilitates pressure-induced venting of gas from the battery cell compartment. One or more battery cells are disposed within the battery cell compartment, and the battery pack also includes a filter system associated with the enclosure. The filter system filters the pressure-induced venting of gas from the battery cell compartment resulting from a thermal runaway event at a battery cell of the one or more battery cells within the battery cell compartment of the enclosure.
US10950825B2
A manufacturing method of an organic electronic device of the present invention, includes: a removing step of removing a volatile component from a flexible base material; a fixing step of fixing the flexible base material onto a support substrate via an adhesive layer; and a forming step of forming a device main body sequentially including a first electrode layer, at least one organic functional layer, and a second electrode layer on the flexible base material that is fixed onto the support substrate, on a side opposite to the support substrate, in this order, in which a vapor pressure of the volatile component is greater than or equal to 101325 Pa within a temperature range from 20° C. to a melting point of a parent resin of the flexible base material.
