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US09362889B2	Bandpass filter A bandpass filter is provided that prevents clock leakage to the input side of an amplifier circuit and has excellent out-of-passband signal attenuation. It includes an amplifier (102) connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, an impedance frequency conversion circuit (101) that is connected between an output of the amplifier and ground and changes impedance depending on whether or not the frequency of a signal output from the amplifier is within a predetermine passband, and a feedback circuit (103) connected between the output and an input of the amplifier.
US09362887B2	Integrated circuit configured with two or more single crystal acoustic resonator devices A configurable single crystal acoustic resonator (SCAR) device integrated circuit. The circuit comprises a plurality of SCAR devices numbered from 1 through N, where N is an integer of 2 and greater. Each of the SCAR device has a thickness of single crystal piezo material formed overlying a surface region of a substrate member. The single crystal piezo material is characterized by a dislocation density of less than 1012 defects/cm2.
US09362886B2	Electronic component, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and moving object An electronic component includes: an oscillation circuit that is electrically connected to a resonator element; and a substrate that includes a first surface on which the oscillation circuit and wiring that is electrically connected with the resonator element and the oscillation circuit to form an oscillation loop are disposed, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate includes a conductor layer between the first surface and the second surface. The conductor layer overlaps the wiring in a plan view. A distance between the wiring and the conductor layer in a thickness direction as a direction along a direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface is from 0.35 mm to 0.7 mm.
US09362881B2	Noise filter device A noise filter device includes a ground connection terminal (21) for grounding, a coil (31) formed by winding a conductive wire (33), a pair of capacitors (41) constituting a π-type filter circuit C together with the coil (31) and to be electrically connected to the ground connection terminal (21), and a housing (11) capable of housing the coil (31) and the pair of capacitors (41). The capacitors are both arranged on one surface side of a virtual plane dividing the coil into two in an axial direction, and a conductive shielding plate (24B) to be grounded to the ground connection terminal (21) is interposed between the capacitors (41).
US09362879B2	Power amplifier (PA) system with electrothermal feedback circuitry for PA gain correction A power amplifier (PA) system with PA gain correction is disclosed. The PA system includes a PA having a bias voltage input; and electrothermal feedback circuitry coupled to the bias voltage input. The electrothermal feedback circuitry is configured to receive thermal feedback generated by the PA and maintain a substantially constant PA gain by automatically changing a bias voltage level at the bias voltage input based upon the thermal feedback.
US09362869B2	Signal predistortion for non-linear amplifier A method, apparatus, and computer program for modeling mathematically an effect of a plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by a non-linear amplifier are provided. First, there is computed a global model which incorporates a combined effect of the plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier. Before applying the pre-distorted transmission signal to the non-linear amplifier, a transmission signal is pre-distorted with coefficients derived from the global model thus compensating for the signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier.
US09362864B2	Dynamic gearshift during oscillator build-up based on duty cycle A dynamic gearshifting system includes a monitoring device configured to monitor a duty cycle of a clock output signal of a crystal oscillator circuit during oscillation buildup upon power-up of the crystal oscillator circuit. The dynamic gearshifting system also includes a detecting device configured to detect whether the duty cycle of the clock output signal of the crystal oscillator circuit meets a duty cycle threshold value. The dynamic gearshifting system may further include an assertion device configured to assert a control signal based on detecting the duty cycle meets the duty cycle threshold value. The asserted control signal configured to dynamically adjust a transconductance of the crystal oscillator circuit.
US09362862B2	Method and circuit arrangement for limiting peak currents and the slope of the current edges A method for limiting peak currents, particularly depending on a charge quantity provided by a voltage source, and the maximum pitch of the current flanks of an electric motor for an electrohydraulic motor vehicle brake system, particularly a pump motor, controlled by pulse width modulation, wherein a change to an actual duty cycle of the PWM is made by a first duty cycle of the PWM on a second duty cycle at runtime, wherein the change takes place according to a positive or negative pitch value calculated and/or changeable at runtime. The invention further describes an electronic circuit arrangement for the implementation of a method for limiting peak currents and the maximum pitch of current flanks.
US09362856B2	Method and apparatus for operating a power output stage The invention relates to a method for operating a power output stage (2), in particular an electrical machine, which comprises a bridge circuit (3) with at least one half-bridge (1), wherein the half-bridge (1) has two power semiconductor switches (4, 5) which are connected in series and which are each supplied with an operating control voltage during normal operation in order to set a power voltage, and wherein the power voltage (u4, u5) of the respective power semiconductor switch (4, 5) is detected for the purpose of short-circuit monitoring. In this case, provision is made, in order to check the functioning of the short-circuit monitoring means in a check mode for the power semiconductor switches (4, 5), for a test control voltage which is below the operating control voltage to be set at least temporarily at the same time.
US09362854B2	Electric motor control during unreliable power supply operations A motor system and a method of operating an electric motor that includes monitoring a voltage of power supplied to the motor by a mircrocontroller located in the motor; storing energy within the motor; detecting if the voltage drops below a nonzero threshold; and if the voltage drops below the threshold, immediately operating the microcontroller with the stored energy to store a state of the motor in non-volatile memory located within the motor, and ceasing operation of the motor. This motor operation may be employed with multiple motors in vehicles where voltage drop may occur during an engine start of a vehicle stop/start event.
US09362851B2	Rotary motor systems and methods thereof A rotary motor and a method of making the same include a vibrating motor body which has two orthogonal first bending modes and is substantially enclosed within a housing. A shaft is frictionally coupled to the vibrating motor body and is arranged to rotate in at least one direction about a rotation axis in response to the vibrating motor body. The shaft is frictionally coupled the vibrating motor body by a force substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis. One or more bearings support the shaft, are connected to the housing, and define the axis of rotation of the shaft.
US09362850B2	Vibration type driving apparatus and driving circuit thereof A vibration type driving apparatus includes a vibrating body having an electrical-mechanical energy converting element, a first elastic body and a second elastic body; and a moving body that moves relative to the vibrating body. The vibrating body has a third elastic body that includes a sliding surface. A resonance frequency in a mode where the non-sliding surface side of the vibrating body in the axial direction mainly vibrates with the third elastic body is adapted so as to fall out of a frequency range between a multiple of a maximum frequency of a driving signal applied to the electrical-mechanical energy converting element, and a multiple of a minimum frequency of the driving signal.
US09362849B2	Electrostatic induction power generator An electrostatic induction power generator includes a first base body and a second base body, which are configured to be able to reciprocate relative to each other and between which an annular clearance is formed. The electrostatic induction power generator further includes an electret provided on the first base body, and a first electrode and a second electrode provided on the second base body. The electret is formed by coating a charged dielectric material on a surface of a linear conducting wire and both of the first electrode and the second electrode are formed of a linear conducting wire.
US09362846B2	Soft switching inverter with auxiliary switch facilitating zero voltage switching An inverter comprises a first switch coupled to an input of an output filter and a positive dc bus, a second switch coupled to the input of the output filter and a negative dc bus, a transformer coupled to a common node of the first switch and the second switch, a first freewheeling apparatus and a first soft switching switch connected in series, wherein the first soft switching switch is configured such that the first switch is of a first zero voltage transition during a turn-on process of the first switch and a second freewheeling apparatus and a second soft switching switch connected in series, wherein the second soft switching switch is configured such that the second switch is of a second zero voltage transition during a turn-on process of the second switch.
US09362843B2	Switch control device, power supply device comprising the same, and driving method of power supply device utilizing turn-on period half-on time point detection The present invention relates to a switch controller, a power supply including the same, and a method for driving the same. An AC input of the power supply is connected to a rectification circuit. The power supply includes a power switch to which an input current passed through the rectification circuit flows during an on-period and a switch controller, the switch controller detects a half-on time point that is the intermediate time point of the on-period, detects a sense voltage that is determined by a current flowing to the power switch during the on-period at the half-on time point, generates a modulation wave by controlling a reference wave according to the detected voltage, and controls switching operation of the power switch according to the modulation wave.
US09362841B2	Power conversion apparatus and method of controlling the same A power conversion apparatus including a current source converter configured to convert Alternate Current (AC) power to Direct Current (DC) power; a power controller configured to set a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command, which correspond to the AC power to the current source converter, by reflecting a difference between a measurement DC link voltage measured at an output terminal of the current source converter and a DC link voltage set by a DC link voltage command; and a phase angle controller configured to adjust a phase angle of the current source converter and transmit the adjusted phase angle to the current source converter, in response to the d-axis current command and the q-axis current command.
US09362839B2	Power converter with common mode voltage reduction Power conversion systems are presented with common mode reduction by space vector pulse width modulation zero vector selection to counteract common mode contribution of active vectors.
US09362836B2	Circuit for driving synchronous rectifier and power supply apparatus including the same A circuit for driving a synchronous rectifier may include a voltage level detecting unit detecting a voltage level of the synchronous rectifier; an on/off signal generating unit generating an on signal controlling the synchronous rectifier to be turned on when the voltage level detected by the voltage level detecting unit is decreased to a voltage level equal to or less than a preset reference voltage level, and generating an off signal controlling the synchronous rectifier to be turned off when the voltage level detected by the voltage level detecting unit is increased to a voltage level exceeding the reference voltage level; a minimum time determining unit controlling the synchronous rectifier to be turned on during a preset first period; and a blanking time determining unit controlling the synchronous rectifier so as not to be turned on during a preset second period after the synchronous rectifier has been turned off.
US09362831B2	Fly-forward converter with energy recovery snubber A converter for transferring energy from a voltage supply to an output includes transformer T1, coupled inductor L1, switch S1, energy recovery capacitor C, and energy recovery winding T1b. Secondary winding T1c transfers energy from the supply to the output when primary winding T1a is connected to the voltage supply. Secondary winding L1b stores energy from the supply when primary winding L1a is connected to the supply, and transfers energy to the output when the primary winding is disconnected from the supply. Switch S1 switches between an on-state with windings T1a, L1a connected to the supply, and an off-state with windings T1a, L1a disconnected from the supply. Capacitor Cs provides a current path between the supply and windings T1a, L1a such that, in the off-state, energy associated with demagnetization and leakage inductance of transformer T1 is transferred to and stored in capacitor Cs.
US09362828B2	Hysteretic current mode control converter with low, medium and high current thresholds A converter constituted of: an inductor; a plurality of electronically controlled switches; and a control circuitry arranged to operate in a buck-boost mode responsive to the output voltage of the converter being within a predetermined range of the input voltage of the converter, the control circuitry arranged in the buck-boost mode: responsive to a current flowing through the inductor being lower than a predetermined low current threshold, to control the switches to couple the inductor between the input voltage and a common potential; responsive to the current flowing through the inductor being greater than a predetermined medium current threshold, to control the switches to couple the inductor between the input voltage and the output voltage; and responsive to the current flowing through the inductor being greater than a predetermined high current threshold, to control the switches to couple the inductor between the output voltage and the common potential.
US09362825B2	Look-up table based configuration of a DC-DC converter RF PA circuitry and a DC-DC converter, which includes an RF PA envelope power supply and DC-DC control circuitry, are disclosed. The PA envelope power supply provides an envelope power supply signal to the RF PA circuitry. The DC-DC control circuitry has a DC-DC look-up table (LUT) structure, which has at least a first DC-DC LUT. The DC-DC control circuitry uses DC-DC LUT index information as an index to the DC-DC LUT structure to obtain DC-DC converter operational control parameters. The DC-DC control circuitry then configures the PA envelope power supply using the DC-DC converter operational control parameters. Using the DC-DC LUT structure provides flexibility in configuring the DC-DC converter for different applications, for multiple static operating conditions, for multiple dynamic operating conditions, or any combination thereof.
US09362823B2	Switch-mode power supply, charging current source and associated method A switch-mode power supply includes a converter, a controller and a charging current. The charging current includes a logic circuit, a first current source and a second current source, to generate a charging current proportional to an input voltage of the switch-mode power supply, and also to generate a logic control signal indicative of either of two operation modes.
US09362815B2	Input-parallel/output-parallel inverter assembly control device and method A method includes controlling multiple networked input-parallel/output-parallel inverters of a fuel cell system as a single inverter assembly by a master controller. A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell segments, a plurality of DC/DC converters and at least one DC/AC inverter, where an output of each of the plurality of the fuel cell segments is connected to a pair of DC/DC converters, and each of the pair DC/DC converters is connected to an opposite polarity bus being provided to the inverter.
US09362810B2	Linear motor and method for producing a gas supported runner of a linear motor A linear motor including a stator including electrical coils; a runner including permanent magnets; and a back iron device, wherein the runner is arranged between the stator and the back iron device and offset from the stator and the back iron device, wherein the runner is moveable relative to the stator and the back iron device; wherein the permanent magnets are arranged in a section of the runner which section is provided between the stator and the back iron device, wherein the runner is gas supported relative to the stator and/or relative to the back iron device through a gas pressure bearing, wherein the runner is provided with inner channels which are in fluid connection with a pressurized gas supply device and wherein the gas outlet nozzles are in fluid connection with an interior of the channels, wherein the gas pressure bearing includes at least a first bearing surface.
US09362806B2	Bus bar module of rotating electric machine This bus bar module (26) is created by integrally forming at least one coil bus bar with a power line bus bar by means of resin molding, said coil bus bar for connecting conductive coil wires together, and said power line bus bar for connecting the conductive coil wires with a power line. The power line bus bar (32) is supported on a support portion (34) that extends from a bus bar module main body (28). The power line bus bar penetrates through a beam (44) of the support portion. The portion of the power line bus bar embedded inside the beam (44) has characteristically shaped portions (56) extending in the width direction of this bus bar.
US09362804B2	Drive device for electric vehicle A drive device for an electric vehicle includes: a speed reduction unit including an input shaft driven by output of an electric motor; a hub unit rotationally driven by an output member of the speed reduction unit; and a housing accommodating the electric motor and the speed reduction unit. The drive device is provided with a power supply terminal box made up of: an accommodation recessed portion provided in a rear end surface of the housing; a power supply terminal provided inside the accommodation recessed portion; a communication hole in communication with the accommodation recessed portion and an interior of the housing; and a cover member for the accommodation recessed portion.
US09362802B2	System for instrumenting and manipulating apparatuses in high voltage A system for energizing, operating and manipulating apparatuses in high voltage systems. The system uses a dielectric gas such as SF6 as a driving power supply for a pneumatic motor which ultimately charges a battery or other energy storage device. The stored energy can then be used for instrumentation equipment, or to power any electrical equipment, in the high voltage deck. The accompanying method provides for the use of the SF6 system for operating an electrical device in a high-voltage environment.
US09362801B2	High-voltage flywheel energy storage system A high-voltage flywheel energy storage system to prevent ionization, plasma formation, and electrical arc discharge and corresponding method are provided. The high-voltage flywheel energy storage system prevents ionization, plasma formation, and electrical arc discharge by isolating the motor windings and motor end windings from the partial vacuum environment existing in the flywheel housing.
US09362797B2	Generator motor and work machine A generator motor connected to an output shaft of an engine mounted in a work machine includes a terminal box that houses a connector for connecting an exterior electric-power-supplying cable to the generator motor. While the terminal box is provided to the generator motor, the connector is provided facing downward and the electric-power-supplying cable is connectable to the connector from underneath the connector.
US09362795B2	Automotive rotary electric machine stator and manufacturing method therefor In the automotive rotary electric machine stator according to the present invention, a stator winding is constituted by distributed windings, slot-housed portions and root portions of coil end portions are formed so as to have flat cross sections, and the slot-housed portions are housed in the slots in contact with each other so as to line up in a single column in a radial direction such that long sides of the flat cross sections are oriented circumferentially. Flatnesses of root portions of the coil end portions that are radially adjacent and that extend outward in different circumferential directions from the slots are mutually different.
US09362793B2	Stator for electric rotary machine A stator for an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core having a plurality of slots; and segmented coils of a plurality of phases (for example, coils 50 in the embodiment), wherein: the segmented coils of a plurality of phases have pluralities of coil bars which are inserted individually in the plurality of slots in the stator core and which extend substantially in a straight line and pluralities of connection coils which connect together the coil bars of the same phase to thereby make up extending portions; the connection coils each comprise an inner connection coil and an outer connection coil which are disposed in different axial positions; and the inner connection coil faces an outer connection coil of a different phase in an axial direction and the outer connection coil faces the inner connection coil of a different phase in the axial direction.
US09362791B2	Motor A magnet constituting a magnetic pole of a rotor includes an annular ferrite bond magnet provided on an outer circumference of a rotation shaft and a plurality of sintered ferrite magnets arranged on an outer circumference of the ferrite bond magnet. The ferrite bond magnet includes, on an outer circumferential surface thereof, curved concave portions convexed toward a side of the rotation shaft. The sintered ferrite magnets are arranged on the curved concave portions, and include a surface on a side of the stator that is formed in a curved convex shape toward the side of the stator, and a center portion whose thickness with respect to the circumferential direction is formed to be larger than a thickness of an edge portion, wherein magnetization direction is oriented in polar anisotropy.
US09362788B2	Micro-channel heat exchanger integrated into stator core of electrical machine An electric machine has a stator that comprises a plurality of laminations with an outer periphery, and each of the laminations has teeth about a central opening such that when the laminations are stacked side-by side to form the stator core, the plurality of teeth of adjacent laminations cooperate to form slots disposed circumferentially about the central opening that are configured to receive a plurality of stator windings. Each of the laminations has a plurality of cooling apertures angularly spaced about the central opening. The cooling apertures of adjacent laminations cooperate to form cooling manifolds that extend along a length of the stator core. A portion of the laminations has their cooling apertures offset from other laminations in the stack in a manner to create a plurality of flow path transverse to the manifolds and angularly between laminations and adjacent manifolds.
US09362772B2	System and method for balancing voltages A circuit providing voltage cell balancing is provided. The circuit includes a cell balancing network comprising separate switching circuits, each being configured to balance a respective cell voltage for a respective cell of a plurality of voltage cells based on a respective switching control signal. A control circuit includes a plurality of current sources, each of the plurality of current sources selectively connected to a respective one of the separate switching circuits to independently control operation of each of the separate switching circuits of the cell balancing network to balance the voltage across the plurality of voltage cells.
US09362770B2	Device control apparatus and device control method A device control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a monitoring unit, a first processing unit, and a second processing unit. The monitoring unit monitors a state of voltage supply from a battery. When the start of the voltage supply is detected, the first processing unit starts the voltage supply to some devices, operates in a first operation mode, and executes a resume process of the devices. When the resume process is completed, the second processing unit starts the voltage supply to devices other than some devices, initializes states of the devices, and operates in a second operation mode in which consumption power is larger than consumption power of the first operation mode.
US09362766B2	Reconfigurable energy storage and power supply device A charging device includes a body having a rechargeable energy storage device and a housing, an interface pivotally coupled to the housing, the interface including a first conductor and a second conductor and configured to transmit power between the rechargeable energy storage device and a device connected to the interface, a first rigid post, a first pin, a first compressible element positioned to press the first pin against the first rigid post, a second rigid post, a second pin, and a second compressible element positioned to press the second pin against the second rigid post. The interface is configured to pivot about an axis defined by the first pin and the second pin.
US09362755B2	Circuit and architecture for a demodulator for a wireless power transfer system and method therefor A primary side wireless power transmitter inductively couplable to a secondary side wireless power receiver for supplying power to the wireless power receiver for receiving communications from the secondary side wireless power receiver through the inductive coupling comprises a primary side tank circuit receiving a signal on from the secondary side wireless power receiver. A phase delay or time delay circuit generates a fixed delay clock signal. A sample and hold circuit samples a tank circuit voltage utilizing the fixed phase or time delayed clock signal. A comparator is coupled to an output of the sample and hold circuit for extracting data or commands from the signal stream. A method of operating a primary side wireless transmitter inductively coupled to a secondary side wireless power receiver for supplying power to the wireless power receiver to power a load coupled to the receiver is also disclosed.
US09362754B2	Energy consumption management Methods, systems, and devices for controlling electrical energy consumption in an electricity distribution network, so as to reduce net energy consumption in a given area during a given time period are described. In particular, a method of controlling electrical energy consumption within an electricity distribution network is described. The method comprises maintaining a database of information about electric devices, and identifying an area in which, and a time period during which, electrical energy consumption is to be controlled. The method further comprises selecting, based on device information stored in the database, groups of electric devices, and associating one or more time intervals with each of the selected groups. Requests are sent to the electric devices of the selected groups to control electrical energy consumption and/or provision by the electric devices. This enables a reduction in net consumption of electrical energy in a given area, during a respective time interval.
US09362752B2	Photovoltaic power generation system A photovoltaic power generation system is discussed. The photovoltaic power generation system includes a solar cell module including a plurality of solar cell groups divided into groupings of the plurality of solar cell groups, each of the plurality of solar cell groups including at least one of one solar cell row which a plurality of solar cells are electrically connected, and a plurality of signal control units connected to the plurality of solar cell groups, respectively, wherein the each of the plurality of signal control units track a maximum power based on the current and the voltage output from each of the plurality of solar cell groups and outputs the maximum power.
US09362751B2	Method of controlling the power input to a HVDC transmission link Disclosed is a method of controlling the power input to a HVDC transmission link, which HVDC transmission link is connected to an AC power plant via a first voltage source converter and to AC grid via a second voltage source converter, which method includes using the second voltage source converter to perform voltage control of the HVDC transmission link during a no-fault mode of operation of the grid; monitoring a HVDC transmission link parameter to detect an unbalanced fault; and using the first voltage source converter to regulate the output of the AC power plant on the basis of the monitored HVDC transmission link parameter in the event of an unbalanced fault. Also described are a control module for controlling the power input to a HVDC transmission link; a voltage source converter for a power plant; and a power generation and transmission arrangement.
US09362749B2	Controller for thermostatically controlled loads A system and method of controlling aggregated thermostatically controlled appliances (TCAs) for demand response is disclosed. A targeted load profile is formulated and a forecasted load profile is generated. The TCAs within an “on” or “off” control group are prioritized based on their operating temperatures. The “on” or “off” status of the TCAs is determined. Command signals are sent to turn on or turn off the TCAs.
US09362744B2	Serial loading constant power supply system The inventive concept relates to a system supplying a constant current direct current power to serial loads connected in series with one another.The inventive concept is constituted by a constant current source power supply unit outputting a predetermined direct current, a load connection unit having the same rated current characteristic as the constant current source, a load connection unit having a rated current characteristic smaller than the constant current source, a load connection unit having a rated current characteristic greater than the constant current source, a load connection unit having a rated current characteristic greater or smaller than the constant current source and a circuit controlling or protecting them.
US09362741B2	Apparatus and method for variably controlling disconnection of interconnection lines in battery system Disclosed are an apparatus and method for variably controlling the disconnection or connection of switch connections between battery units in a large battery system based on the degree of a sensed dangerous external situation to convert the battery system into a small capacity and low voltage state. The apparatus includes: switches provided to interconnection lines between battery assembly units to electrically connect or disconnect the interconnection lines; a switch control module adapted to apply on/off signals to the switches; and a disconnection control module adapted to control the switch control module based on a sensed dangerous level to vary the position and number of the target switches to be opened or closed and the disconnection intervals. According to the apparatus and method, dangerous external situations of a large battery system can be sensed and the disconnection of physical connections between the battery units can be variably controlled.
US09362740B1	Electrical water heater air entrapment detection Apparatus for electrical water heater air entrapment detection includes two electrodes residing at opposite ends of a heater housing. The electrodes are part of a circuit and if either electrode is surrounded by air, the circuit is opened and entrapped air is sensed. The temperature sensors are located at opposite ends of the heater housing, the electrodes may be integrated into the temperature sensors. When entrapped air is sensed, a heater relay is opened preventing powering a heater element(s). A spa pump is operated to clear the entrapped air, and when a variable speed pump is present, the pump is turned to high speed to clear the entrapped air.
US09362739B2	Protective circuit, electronic device, and method of driving a protective circuit Provided is a method of driving a protective circuit, the protective circuit including a first clamp section and a second clamp section, the first clamp section including a first device, the first clamp section being configured to protect an entire protected circuit of a predetermined area when the first device is driven, the second clamp section including a second device, the second clamp section being configured to protect a predetermined device of the protected circuit when the second device is driven, the method comprising: connecting a predetermined spot of the first clamp section and the gate of the second device of the second clamp section; and causing the gate voltage of the second device to be the potential of the predetermined spot.
US09362731B2	Single-fastener mounting plate for electrical outlets A mounting plate for an electrical outlet includes a central region having a front surface, a rear surface, and an opening for accessing an outlet. A first mounting tab and a second mounting tab extend from the central region at an angle. The mounting plate may be used to attach an outlet to an outlet housing having a wiring compartment and a panel at least partially enclosing the wiring compartment. The panel has a front wall and an opening for receiving an outlet.
US09362730B2	Bracket and assembly for electrical devices The present disclosure is directed to a bracket and electrical assembly including such bracket for mounting or securing to a concrete masonry unit (CMU).
US09362727B2	Cable tray assembly A cable tray structure includes a first section that includes a first number of sidewall members connected to each other, a second section that includes a second number of sidewall members connected to each other and one or more members coupled to the first section and the second section to provide support for cables or conduits. The first section is configured to connect with a first side rail of a third cable tray section that is to be installed in a first position, and connect with a first side rail of a fourth cable tray section that is to be installed in a second position that is angularly offset with respect to the first position. The second section is configured to connect with a second side rail of the third cable tray section, and connect with a second side rail of the fourth cable tray section.
US09362724B2	Wire loom tool A handheld device comprising a handle assembly containing a longitudinally tubular shank used to manage and/or insert flexible elongated components during the assembly, replacement and/or repair of wired elements of a system is described. The handheld device includes a conduit that can be used to manage and/or insert said flexible elongated components such as wires, cables, flexible tubing, lines, cords, strings, ropes, and the like through constrained spaces and/or barriers. The conduit may be partially opened or completely open to allow removing of the flexible elongated components from the handheld device.
US09362723B2	Electrical system, and support assembly and method of racking electrical switching apparatus therefor A support assembly is for an electrical system including an electrical enclosure, an electrical switching apparatus removably disposed in the electrical enclosure, and a plate member coupled to the electrical switching apparatus. The plate member includes a distal portion facing away from the electrical enclosure. The electrical switching apparatus includes an operating handle extending through the distal portion. The support assembly includes a base assembly. The base assembly includes a base. The support assembly further includes a number of brace assemblies each coupled to the base and structured to be coupled to the distal portion of the plate member.
US09362719B2	GaN-based quantum dot visible laser A III-nitride based quantum dot (QD) laser is formed of InGaN/GaN quantum dots and capable emitting at a single wavelength within the visible region, including the violet wavelength region (400-440 nm), the blue wavelength region (440-490 nm), the green wavelength region (490-570 nm), the yellow wavelength region (570-590 nm), the orange wavelength region (590-620 nm), and the red wavelength region (620-700 nm), with varying composition as described.
US09362716B2	Crystal mount for laser application An optical crystal can be mounted to a mounting block configured to receive the crystal. A base portion on the mounting block utilizes two walls forming a corner and a single biasing spring clip to secure the crystal. The spring clip applies forces in two different directions substantially orthogonal to the two walls. The spring clip is based off a symmetrical geometry which applies nearly the same force application in both directions. The spring also features rounded bend regions that contact the crystal in such a way as to reduce the presence of point loads or stress risers. The length of contact along the crystal is maximized, allowing for proper force distribution and a sufficient surface are contact for static holding capabilities.
US09362708B2	Compact two-stage optical amplifier Various exemplary embodiments relate to an optical amplifier, including: a multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber with a first plurality of cores associated with a first stage of the optical amplifier and a second plurality of cores associated with a second stage of the optical amplifier; a three dimensional (3D) waveguide configured to couple input space division multiplexed (SDM) channels into the first plurality of cores at a first end of the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber and to couple channels from the second plurality of cores to output SDM channels; a reflector configured to optically interconnect the first plurality of cores to the second plurality of cores; and pump laser coupled to the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber configured to produce laser pump light to pump the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber.
US09362704B2	Laser resonator for generating frequency-converted laser radiation The invention relates to a laser resonator for generating frequency-converted laser radiation, comprising a laser-active solid-state medium and a wavelength conversion crystal. A transmissive optical element having a concavely curved surface for generating collimated laser radiation is arranged in the laser resonator.
US09362702B2	System and method for the optical amplification of ultrashort light pulses beyond the limit of the spectral gain band A system for the optical amplification of high-energy ultrashort light pulses, includes: an oscillator that can emit light pulses of sub-picosecond duration τ0, a pre-compensator, and a solid optical amplifier that can amplify the chirped light pulses. The pre-compensator has a negative group velocity dispersion, the pre-compensator being capable of generating negatively chirped light pulses, and the optical amplifier has a positive group velocity dispersion, the optical amplifier being disposed such as to receive and amplify the negatively chirped light pulses. The optical amplifier is configured such that the light pulses can induce a broadening of the spectral gain band Δν by self-phase modulation, such as to generate amplified, time-compressed light pulses of duration τ3, which is shorter than the duration τ=1/Δν of the bandwidth limitation of the optical amplifier.
US09362697B2	Fiber-on-tip contact design brush assemblies The present invention broadly provides improvements in a slip-ring adapted to provide electrical contact between a stator and a rotor. The improved slip-ring includes a brush assembly having a brush tube mounted on the stator and having a fiber bundle composed of a number of individual fibers. The upper marginal end portions of the fibers are received in the brush tube. The lower marginal end portions of the fibers extend beyond the brush tube toward the rotor. The improvements broadly comprise: a central portion of the fibers having been removed below the brush tube such that the fibers extending below the brush tube toward the rotor are in the form of an annulus; and wherein the tangential compliance of the fiber bundle at its point of contact with the rotor is more than twice the tangential compliance of the fiber bundle if the central portion had not been removed.
US09362694B2	Modular electrical connector assembly and associated method of making A method for producing modular electrical connectors having varying contact element configurations includes providing a common header component having a plurality of receptacle spaces defined therein. A plurality of different contact sub-assemblies are provided having varying contact element configurations, with each of sub-assembly having a common size configured for receipt in the receptacle spaces. A pattern of the contact sub-assemblies is defined for a particular desired connector configuration from any combination of the contact sub-assemblies, and the contact sub-assemblies are fitted and adhered into the receptacle spaces in the header component according to the pattern. A kit may be provided with the modular components for making the connectors.
US09362692B2	Multipolar connector A multipolar connector capable of suppressing an increase in impedance even when unused terminal-accommodating spaces are present. The multipolar connector includes a housing containing a plurality of partitioned terminal-accommodating spaces and a high-dielectric-constant body. Each of the terminal-accommodating spaces optionally contains a connecting terminal electrically connected to a wiring. The high-dielectric-constant body is formed from a material having a higher dielectric constant than air and is inserted into at least one unused terminal-accommodating space, which does not contain a connecting terminal electrically connected to a wiring.
US09362691B2	Receptacle connector A receptacle connector used for an audio plug connector having a male end to be inserted therein, includes an insulating body, and at least one first terminal and two second terminals disposed inside the insulating body and entering the receiving cavity to contact the male end. The insulating body has an interface opened at a front end, and a receiving cavity extending backward from the interface and used for receiving the male end. The first terminal is located on a side of the male end. The two second terminals are located below or above the male end, and are approximately located on a same plane. In a height direction, two second terminals are approximately located on a same plane and only occupy a height space of one terminal.
US09362690B2	Electric connector and temperature-sensing mechanism within An electric connector includes a first pin, a second pin, a thermal conductor and a temperature sensor. The thermal conductor is disposed between the first pin and the second pin and simultaneously connected with the first pin and the second pin. The temperature sensor is embedded in the thermal conductor for sensing the temperature of the first pin and the second pin. Therefore, the thermal energy is rapidly and effectively transferred from the first pin and the second pin to the temperature sensor disposed in the thermal conductor, so that the temperature is precisely monitored and is rapidly reflected, and the safety of the electric connector is enhanced.
US09362681B2	Electrical connector with shielding plate secured therein An electrical connector includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, a shielding shell and a metallic shielding plate. The first terminal module includes a first mating tongue and first terminals insert molded thereamong. The first mating tongue has a first mating face on which the first terminals are exposed. The first terminals have first connecting sections extending in a vertical direction. The second terminal module includes a second mating tongue and second terminals insert molded thereamong. The second mating tongue has a second mating face directly facing to the first mating face and a third mating face. The second terminals are disposed in the second and third mating faces and have second connecting sections extending in the vertical direction. The metallic shielding plate is disposed between the first and second connecting sections and has a plurality of hooked shrapnels elastically contacting with the shielding shell.
US09362669B2	Outlet unit facilitating plug separation, and multi-outlet device using same The present invention relates to an outlet unit facilitating plug separation and to a multi-outlet device using same. The outlet unit according to the present invention includes: an outlet main body having a plug inlet into which a plug is to be inserted, a bottom surface plate forming the bottom surface of the plug inlet and having a pair of terminal ports formed on the plate surface such that the terminals of a plug may be inserted, and a pair of electrodes which are disposed in the lower portion of the bottom surface plate and with which the terminals of the plug connect; a separation plate in which a pair of plug through-holes, through which the terminals of the plug pass, are formed on the plate surface and which is disposed in a raisable manner in the plug inlet so as to be capable of moving between a connection position, in which the terminals of the plug are lowered so as to be capable of being connected to the electrodes through the plug through-holes and the terminal ports, and a connection release position, in which the plug is lifted such that the terminals of the plug are separated from the electrodes; and a separation operation module which lifts the separation plate to the connection release position according to a user operation when the separation plate is placed in the connection position.
US09362665B2	Joint connector with pairs of locking lances and communication space extending between the pairs of locking lances A joint connector (10) for electrically connecting a plurality of terminal fittings (20) mounted on ends of a plurality of ground wires (W) of a vehicle includes a pair of terminal holding portions (49A, 49A) for holding a pair of the terminal fittings (20, 20). A pair of locking lances (43, 43) deflectable with respect to each other and configured to suppress the withdrawal of the pair of terminal fittings (20, 20) by locking the pair of terminal fittings (20, 20) are arranged back to back with each other via a deflection permitting space (44) between the pair of terminal holding portions (49A, 49A).
US09362656B2	Insertion-type connector having an insulating part An insulating part for a plug connector having a base with a bore for receiving an internal conductor of the plug connector, and an aperture which opens in radial direction into the bore, via which the internal conductor can be inserted into the bore, wherein a cover connected to the main body is provided, which in a first position releases the aperture and in a second position covers the aperture.
US09362655B1	Safety cover and identifier for electric terminal block A safety cover and identifier to cover wire terminals in an electric terminal block. The cover/identifier comprises a body comprising dielectric material having a first leg and an opposed, spaced apart second leg The two legs are joined adjacent their midpoints by an integral, resilient spring element. The opposed proximal ends of the legs each have a terminal covering surface and define serrated jaws. The jaws are opened by compression of the distal ends of the legs. The jaws are attached to the electrical terminal block to cover wire connections and each of the proximal ends covers one of a functional pair of wire connectors. The resilient spring element biases the jaws toward each other to secure the cover in place. The device can include stops or a stop gap in the spring to delimit opening of the jaws. The cover/identifier includes indicia to identify aspects of the wires attached to the cover wire connectors.
US09362653B2	Connector An object of the present invention is to provide a connector able to prevent a first interlock connector from making contact with a bolt, a terminal fitting, or the like, and able to position a cover for covering a bolting chamber. The connector includes: the terminal receiving portion provided with the terminal fittings to be connected to the electrodes of the connector attachment portion; the cover member for covering the terminal receiving portion; the first interlock connector projecting from the cover member; and the second interlock connector provided on the terminal receiving portion and configured to be fitted to the first interlock connector. When the cover member covers the terminal receiving portion, the first interlock connector and the second interlock connector are fitted to each other, thereby the connector detects that the cover member covers the terminal receiving portion and allows the terminal fittings to be energized with the electrodes of the connector attachment portion. The terminal receiving portion is provided with: the bolting chambers in which the terminal fittings and the electrodes are fastened with bolts; the insertion hole into which the first interlock connector is inserted; and the partition wall separating the bolting chambers from the insertion hole. Further, the second interlock connector is provided at a position corresponding to the insertion hole.
US09362642B2	Flexible cable connector Disclosed herein is a connector for contacting a flexible cable with a printed circuit board (hereinafter “PCB”) that enables the connector to contact the flexible cable directly to the PCB without using a terminal as a medium. The connector includes a housing that is fixed to a PCB and forms an insertion space between it and the PCB, where into a flexible cable is inserted; and an actuator mounted rotatably on the housing that pushes downward on the top of the flexible cable inserted into the insertion space so as to put the conductor part of the flexible cable in direct contact with the conductor part of the top of the PCB.
US09362637B2	Electrical connector having a lock fitting with a bottom portion connecting a lock plate portion and an reinforcing plate portion To provide an electrical connector for circuit boards having lock fittings designed to reliably prevent damage to lock portions and inadvertent removal of mating connectors. The lock fittings have lock plate portions that extend along the inner surface of the lateral walls of the housing and are retained in place on said lateral walls, or which extend along the inner surface of the end walls and are retained in place on said end walls; upright face-reinforcing plate portions that extend along the upright faces of the protruding wall of the housing facing said lock plate portions and are retained in place on said protruding wall; and connecting bottom portions that extend along the bottom wall and connect the bottom wall-adjacent end portions of the lock plate portions and the upright face-reinforcing plate portions.
US09362636B2	Low voltage connector Electrical wiring connector assemblies, devices, systems, apparatus, and methods for establishing circuit connections between insulated wire conductors without removing the insulation from the conductors, such as attaching a power conductor cable to multiple lights such as those used with pathway and landscape lights, and the like. The connector can include two legs hinged together with placement and penetrating members on the insides of the legs which when pushed together by squeezing the legs can penetrate the insulated layer of the insulated wire conductor to establish an electrical connection. Pivotable wire lead ports allow for wire leads to other lights to be hooked to the insulated wire conductor.
US09362630B2	Wire to board terminal A terminal includes two crimp sections, one that engages a bare conductor and one that engages an insulated conductor. The terminal includes two legs that are configured located in apertures in a support circuit board. Thus a wire can be electrically connected the circuit board in a low-profile manner.
US09362625B2	Optimal loading for increased gain in an array antenna The present invention provides a high-performance helical antenna element and array thereof for use in an aircraft communication system or the like, where stringent spatial restrictions and gain requirements generally apply. The performance of the array is enhanced by connecting conductive plates to the windings of the antenna elements at the terminal ends thereof such that the conductive plates are offset from the axes of the antenna elements and toward the center of the array.
US09362618B2	Radio frequency shielded clothing Clothing for shielding a person from radio frequency energy relating to an electronic device includes a garment adapted to be worn by the person that includes at least one pocket having an inner panel and an outer panel. The pocket is sized to bold the electronic device. The inner panel of the pocket includes an electrically conductive shield material.
US09362617B2	Multilevel antennae A multi-band antenna includes at least one structure useable at multiple frequency ranges. The structure includes at least two levels of detail, with one level of detail making up another level of detail. The levels of detail are composed of closed plane figures bounded by the same number of sides. An interconnection circuit links the multi-band antenna to an input/output connector and incorporates adaptation networks, filters or diplexers. Each of the closed plane figures is linked to at least one other closed plane figure to exchange electromagnetic power. For at least 75% of the closed plane figures, the region or area of contact, intersection, or interconnection between the closed plane figures is less than 50% of their perimeter or area. Not all of the closed plane figures have the same size, and the perimeter of the structure has a different number of sides than its constituent closed plane figures.
US09362615B2	Multi-bandpass, dual-polarization radome with embedded gridded structures A radome is provided and includes a dielectric wall and metallic layers embedded within and/or disposed on the monolithic wall. Each of the metallic layers is configured to act as a sub-resonant reactive impedance surface at a lower frequency and as a frequency selective surface at an upper frequency.
US09362612B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device includes a cover, an antenna, and an adjusting member. The adjusting member is slidably mounted to the cover and is made of non-conductive materials. The antenna includes a extending portion, the extending portion is sandwiched between the cover and the adjusting member. The adjusting member contacts and partially overlaps with the extending portion, the adjusting member slides relative to the cover to change contact positions of the extending portion and the adjusting member.
US09362610B2	Quick antenna attachment system An antenna mounting system includes an antenna mount and a track. An antenna is secured in the antenna mount and the antenna mount is secured to a track. The track is secured to a structure or vehicle and allows for multiple positioning of the antenna on the structure or vehicle. The antenna mount has multiple, standardized studs attached to the bottom surface of the antenna mount which allows the antenna mount to be secured to the track. One or more antennas may be secured to the structure or vehicle with one or more antenna mounts on one or more tracks.
US09362599B2	Non-aqueous electrolytes for lithium-air batteries A lithium-air cell includes a negative electrode; an air positive electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte which includes an anion receptor that may be represented by one or more of the formulas.
US09362598B2	Traction battery assembly with thermal device A traction battery assembly includes cells stacked in an array and a thermal plate positioned against the array. An interior of the thermal plate defines a C-channel formed from several chambers spanning a length of the array and configured to circulate fluid therein to facilitate heat transfer with the cells.
US09362592B2	Method of preparing gel polymer electrolyte secondary battery and gel polymer electrolyte secondary battery Provided are a method of preparing a gel polymer electrolyte secondary battery, and a gel polymer electrolyte secondary battery prepared by the method. The gel polymer electrolyte secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator and a gel polymer electrolyte in a battery case. The method includes (S1) coating a polymerization initiator on a surface of at least one selected from a group consisting of a cathode, an anode, a separator of a non-woven fabric, and a battery case, the surface needed to be contacted with a gel polymer electrolyte; (S2) putting an electrode assembly including the cathode, the anode, the separator of a non-woven fabric into the battery case; and (S3) forming a gel polymer electrolyte by introducing a gel polymer electrolyte composition including an electrolyte solvent, an electrolyte salt and a polymer electrolyte monomer into the battery case, and polymerizing the monomer.
US09362589B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte battery and battery pack The non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes an outer case, a positive electrode housed in the outer case, a negative electrode housed in the outer case such that the negative electrode is separated from the positive electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte accommodated in the outer case. The negative electrode comprises a current collector and negative electrode layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the current collector. The negative electrode layer includes at least one main negative electrode layer which is formed on the surface of the current collector and contains a first active material, and a surface layer which is formed on the surface of the main negative electrode layer and contains a second active material different from the first active material, the second active material being a lithium titanium composite oxide having a spinel structure.
US09362586B2	Secondary battery and method of manufacturing secondary battery A secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the secondary battery are disclosed. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator, wherein the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate are stacked with the separator disposed between, wherein the positive electrode plate includes a plurality of positive electrode non-coating portions including a plurality of first positive electrode bent portions at a first side of the electrode assembly, wherein the negative electrode plate includes a plurality of negative electrode non-coating portions including a plurality of first negative electrode bent portions at a second side of the electrode assembly; a positive electrode tab electrically connected to the positive electrode non-coating portion; and a negative electrode tab electrically connected to the negative electrode non-coating portion.
US09362583B2	Semi-solid electrodes having high rate capability Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having high rate capability, and more particularly to devices, systems and methods of producing high capacity and high rate capability batteries having relatively thick semi-solid electrodes. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes an anode and a semi-solid cathode. The semi-solid cathode includes a suspension of an active material of about 35% to about 75% by volume of an active material and about 0.5% to about 8% by volume of a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte. An ion-permeable membrane is disposed between the anode and the semi-solid cathode. The semi-solid cathode has a thickness of about 250 μm to about 2,000 μm, and the electrochemical cell has an area specific capacity of at least about 7 mAh/cm2 at a C-rate of C/4. In some embodiments, the semi-solid cathode slurry has a mixing index of at least about 0.9.
US09362578B2	Fuel cell power plant operating system and method for use in sub-freezing ambient conditions The fuel cell power plant operating system (10) includes an on/off switching device by-pass circuit (60) to sustain operation of a fuel cell (12) whenever the fuel cell (12) on/off switching device (58) is turned off while a fuel cell operating temperature is below a predetermined freeze-safe operating temperature. The by-pass circuit (60) operates the fuel cell (12) until the fuel cell (12) temperature reaches or exceeds the freeze-safe temperature to thereby prevent fuel cell (12) product water from becoming ice in and adjacent fuel cell catalysts (26, 40).
US09362577B2	Fuel cell water management arrangement An example fuel cell device includes an electrode assembly having two gas diffusion layers (GDLs). One GDL is adjacent to the anode electrode and the other GDL is adjacent to the cathode electrode. Seals on the periphery of the GDLs are configured to block reactant gases from direct mixing within the GDLs. Sealing the perimeter of the GDLs blocks liquid-water flow from exiting the gas diffusion layer. The disclosed example provides an opening in the seal near a fluid exit area of the fuel cell that provides a path for communicating water from the active area through a perimeter portion of the GDL. An example method of managing fluid in a fuel cell includes providing an opening in a perimeter seal of a GDL of the fuel cell. The method communicates a fluid through a channel in the plate and moves water through the opening using the fluid.
US09362573B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell includes an electrolyte membrane, a first electrode, a second electrode and a stress suppressing structure. The first electrode is joined to one surface of the electrolyte membrane. The second electrode is joined to an other surface of the electrolyte membrane. The first peripheral section which is at least part of periphery of the first electrode is located on an inner side along a planar direction of the first electrode than respective peripheries of the electrolyte membrane and the second electrode. The stress suppressing structure is configured to suppress concentration of stress on a location along the first peripheral section in the electrolyte membrane.
US09362572B2	Fuel cell device and system A fuel cell device is provided having an active central portion with an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte therebetween. At least three elongate portions extend from the active central portion, each having a length substantially greater than a width transverse thereto such that the elongate portions each have a coefficient of thermal expansion having a dominant axis that is coextensive with its length. A fuel passage extends from a fuel inlet in a first elongate portion into the active central portion in association with the anode, and an oxidizer passage extends from an oxidizer inlet in a second elongate portion into the active central portion in association with the cathode. A gas passage extends between an opening in the third elongate portion and the active central portion. For example, the passage in the third elongate portion may be an exhaust passage for the spent fuel and/or oxidizer gasses.
US09362571B2	Degradable implantable battery A biodegradable battery is provided. The battery includes an anode comprising a material including an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein electrochemical oxidation of the anode material results in the formation of a reaction product that is substantially non-toxic and a cathode comprising a material including an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the cathode being in direct physical contact with the inner surface of the anode, wherein electrochemical reduction of the cathode material results in the formation of a reaction product that is substantially non-toxic, and wherein the cathode material presents a larger standard reduction potential than the anode material.
US09362569B2	Membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell using the same A membrane electrode assembly includes a proton exchange membrane having two surfaces, and two electrodes separately located on the two surfaces. At least one of the two electrodes comprises a carbon nanotube composite structure, the carbon nanotube composite structure includes a carbon nanotube structure and a catalyst material dispersed in the carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure is a planar structure including a plurality of carbon nanotube wires located side by side, crossed, or weaved together to form the carbon nanotube structure. Each of the plurality of carbon nanotube wires includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes aligned around an axis of the carbon nanotube twisted wire in a helix way.
US09362563B2	Energy storage device, method for manufacturing the same, and apparatus including the same The present invention provides a highly reliable energy storage device capable of preventing a reaction current from flowing in a carbon nanotube electrode by ionizing a catalyst metal or a substrate metal to cause the metal to flow out to an electrolytic solution. An energy storage device of the present invention includes: at least a pair of electrode bodies that are a cathode and an anode; and an electrolytic solution. At least one of the electrode bodies is configured such that a layer of carbon nanotubes is formed on an electric conductor. A coupling region where one ends of the carbon nanotubes are coupled to and electrically connected to the electric conductor and a non-coupling region where ends of the carbon nanotubes are not coupled to the electric conductor are formed on a surface of the electric conductor. The carbon nanotubes having one ends connected to the coupling region are toppled to cover a surface of the non-coupling region.
US09362561B2	Positive electrode material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery Provided is a positive electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, having an energy density and a power density higher than those of a positive electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery employing only iron fluoride as the positive electrode active material. The positive electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characteristic in including a first positive electrode active material represented by a general formula: Fe(1−x−2y)NaxCoyF3−2(x+2y) (0
US09362560B2	Silicate cathode for use in lithium ion batteries Silicate cathodes for lithium ion batteries are provided along with methods of forming a silicate. Olivine structures are substituted with a lithium ion. The substituted Olivine structures are combined to form flake-like sheets having an orientation that facilitates passage of lithium ions. Related methods of forming a cathode are provided.
US09362556B2	Power storage device A power storage device which has improved performance such as higher discharge capacity and in which deterioration due to peeling or the like of an active material layer is less likely to be caused is provided. In an electrode for the power storage device, phosphorus-doped amorphous silicon is used for the active material layer over a current collector as a material that can be alloyed with lithium, and niobium oxide is deposited over the active material layer as a layer containing niobium. Accordingly, the capacity of the power storage device can be increased and the cycle characteristics and the charge-discharge efficiency can be improved.
US09362554B2	Method of manufacturing a positive electrode with a condensation reaction initiated by heating and reduced pressure A positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery provided by the present invention includes a positive electrode active material layer having a particulate positive electrode active material constituted by a composite oxide containing lithium and at least one type of transition metal element, and at least one type of binding material constituted by a polymer compound having at least one functional group, and a conductive carbonaceous coating film is formed on a surface of the positive electrode active material. Further, the polymer compound constituting the binding material is molecularly bound to carbon atoms constituting the carbonaceous coating film of at least a part of the positive electrode active material, whereby a composite compound is formed from the polymer compound molecularly bound to the carbon atoms and a carbon network constituting the carbonaceous coating film containing the carbon atoms.
US09362551B2	Reinforced battery electrodes The gravimetric and volumetric efficiency of lithium ion batteries may be increased if high capacity materials like tin and silicon may be employed as the lithium-accepting host in the negative electrode of the battery. But both tin and silicon, when fully charged with lithium, undergo expansions of up to 300% and generate appreciable internal stresses which have potential to spall off material from the electrode on each discharge-charge cycle, resulting in a progressive reduction in battery capacity, also known as battery fade. A method of reinforcing such electrode materials by incorporating within them fiber reinforcements or shaped, elongated reinforcements fabricated of shape memory alloy is described. Electrode materials incorporating such reinforcements are less prone to damage under applied stress and so less prone to battery fade.
US09362546B1	Thin film lithium conducting powder material deposition from flux The present invention is directed to battery technologies and processing techniques thereof. In various embodiments, ceramic electrolyte powder material (or component thereof) is mixed with two or more flux to form a fluxed powder material. The fluxed powder material is shaped and heated again at a temperature less than 1100° C. to form a dense lithium conducting material. There are other variations and embodiments as well.
US09362544B2	Systems and methods for control of a current interruption component in a battery system Disclosed herein are systems and methods for control of a current interruption component in a battery system. Various embodiments consistent with the present disclosure may include a detection system configured to detect an event (e.g., an impact event, a resistive short, a coolant leak, etc.) and a control system configured to receive information from the detection system and to generate a control signal based upon detection of the event. The control signal may selectively actuate an electrical clearing component. A current interruption component may be configured to selectively interrupt a flow of current upon an occurrence of a condition that results from actuation of the electrical clearing component. Upon detection of the event by the detection system, the control system may generate the control signal to actuate the electrical clearing component, and the actuation of the electrical clearing component may trigger the current interruption system.
US09362543B2	Battery pack Disclosed is a battery pack that makes it possible to decrease a lead time of an insulating tape attaching process, and re-attach an insulating member. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, a protection circuit module that controls charging and discharging of the battery cells, a first connecting plate electrically connecting the battery cells to each other, a second connecting plate electrically connected to the first connecting plate, and bent from the first connecting plate; and an insulating member disposed between the battery cell and the first and second connecting plates. The insulating member includes a first region placed between neighboring ones of the battery cells, and a plurality of second regions that are bent from the first region and are placed on outer surfaces of the neighboring battery cells, respectively.
US09362537B2	Electrochemical cells, and related energy storage devices An electrochemical cell is presented. The cell includes a housing having an interior surface defining a volume, and an elongated, ion-conducting separator disposed in the volume. The separator usually extends in a vertical direction relative to a base of the housing, so as to define a height dimension of the cell. The separator has a first circumferential surface defining a portion of a first compartment. The cell further includes a shim structure disposed generally parallel to the first circumferential surface of the separator between the interior surface and the first circumferential surface of the separator. The structure includes at least two shims, a first shim and a second shim, that substantially overlap each other. An energy storage device including such an electrochemical cell is also provided.
US09362536B2	Optimized module restraint system A battery module according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a plurality of battery cells, a pair of sideplates, and a pair of endplates. The sideplates are disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of battery cells and the endplates are disposed at opposite ends of the battery module. The sideplates include a first mating portion and the endplates include a second mating portion that engages the first mating portion to provide an interference fit. The interference fit joins the sideplates and the endplates together and bands the plurality of cells together between the sideplates and the endplates.
US09362533B2	Organic light emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same An OLED device is disclosed. The OLED device includes: a substrate defined into an active area in which a plurality of pixels are formed in a matrix shape, a GIP (gate-in-panel) area in which drive elements are formed, a ground contact area, and a seal line area; a thin film transistor formed in each pixel region within the active area; an organic light emission diode formed on a protective film and configured to include a first electrode, an organic light emission layer and a second electrode; a bank layer formed to divide the organic light emission diode into pixel units; a signal wiring formed in the ground contact area and the seal line area; and an extended portion formed from the same material as the first electrode of the organic light emission diode and configured to cover the signal wiring, wherein a seal line within in the seal line area is formed on an edge of the signal wiring, which is covered with the extended portion, and an interlayer insulation film adjacent to the edge of the signal wiring. Such an OLED device can prevent a stained fault generation in the seal line region by largely forming a connection electrode, which makes contact with signal wirings formed along edges of an active area, and covering the signal wirings with a metal pattern.
US09362530B2	Encapsulated white OLEDs having enhanced optical output Methods of making an integrated barrier stack and optical enhancement layer for protecting and improving the light out coupling of encapsulated white OLEDs are described. The method includes optimizing the thickness of various layers including one or more of the plasma protective layer, the initial organic layer, the initial inorganic barrier layer, and the inorganic barrier layer and polymeric decoupling layer for the barrier stack. The thickness is optimized for at least one of total efficiency, or intentional color point shift so that the encapsulated OLED has enhanced light outcoupling compared to the bare OLED.
US09362526B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes a substrate, a device layer on a front side of the substrate, and a protection sheet on a rear side of the substrate opposite to the front side of the substrate. The protection sheet comprises polytetrafluoroethylene.
US09362524B2	Method for producing gas barrier film, gas barrier film, and electronic device An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a gas barrier film, capable of producing a gas barrier film which has production suitability in a roll-to-roll manner and is excellent in productivity and in gas barrier performance. The method for producing a gas barrier film including: a coating step for coating a first barrier layer formed on a base with a coating liquid containing a polysilazane compound to form a coating film; and an ultraviolet ray irradiation step for irradiation with a vacuum ultraviolet ray by light sources to form a second barrier layer, wherein an illuminance of the vacuum ultraviolet ray received on a coating film surface by the coating film from start to end of the irradiation with the vacuum ultraviolet ray is 160 mW/cm2 or less, there is a period T during which an illuminance of the vacuum ultraviolet ray on the coating film surface is 50 mW/cm2 or more and 160 mW/cm2 or less, and an amount of energy (E1) received on the coating film surface within T is 180 mJ/cm2 or more and 1800 mJ/cm2 or less.
US09362523B2	Encapsulation structure of OLED device An encapsulation structure of OLED device, comprising an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are disposed in opposition to each other. An OLED device is provided on the lower substrate, and an encapsulating thin film is provided on the OLED device. An edge of the lower substrate and an edge of the upper substrate are hermetically coupled through an obstruction wall, and there is a recess at the edge of the lower substrate on the side facing the upper substrate. One end of the obstruction wall that is coupled to the lower substrate is positioned within the recess of the lower substrate, and configured to seal the periphery of the encapsulating thin film within the recess of the lower substrate. With the encapsulation structure, the effect of water vapor and oxygen on the OLED device can be reduced, and service life of the OLED device is prolonged.
US09362520B2	Organic electroluminescence display device having a conductive organic layer in contact with an upper electrode An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
US09362519B2	Electro-optical component having a quantum dot structure Two-photon polymerization is used to embed a quantum dot structure in an electro-optical component. The electro-optical component can be a polymer component, LED, OLED, LEC, or graphene component, for example. The efficiency and characteristics of the components are improved or influenced. The quantum dot structure can emit light, convert light from other layers of the component, or influence the conductivity in the component, for example. A method of producing an electro optical fractal antenna by two-photon polymerization is also disclosed.
US09362513B2	Organic thin film transistor substrate and method of manufacturing the same An organic thin film transistor substrate and a method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor substrate capable of preventing overflow of an organic semiconductor layer. An organic thin film transistor substrate comprises a gate line formed on the substrate, a data line intersecting the gate line, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line and including an organic semiconductor layer, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, an organic protective layer protecting the thin film transistor, a first bank-insulating layer providing filling areas in the organic gate insulating layer and the organic semiconductor layer, and a second bank-insulating layer providing the filling area of the organic semiconductor layer together with the first bank-insulating layer and formed on a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor.
US09362512B2	Electronic device insulating layer material capable of forming an insulating layer at low temperature Insulating layer material comprising: polymer compound of a repeating unit containing a cyclic ether structure and a repeating unit of the formula: wherein R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; Rb b represents a linking moiety which links the main chain of the polymer compound with a side chain of the polymer compound and optionally has a fluorine atom; R represents an organic group capable of being detached by an acid; R′ represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally having a fluorine atom; the suffix b represents an integer of 0 or 1, and the suffix n represents an integer of from 1 to 5; when there are two or more Rs, they may be the same or different; and when there are two or more R's, they may be the same or different; and tungsten (V) alkoxide.
US09362510B2	Electroluminescent metal complexes with benzotriazoles This invention relates to electroluminescent metal complexes with benzotriazoles of the formula (I), a process for their preparation, electronic devices comprising the metal complexes and their use in electronic devices, especially organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), as oxygen sensitive indicators, as phosphorescent indicators in bioassays, and as catalysts.
US09362508B2	Diketopyrrolopyrrole oligomers for use in organic semiconductor devices The present invention relates to oligomers of the formula (I), and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. High efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the oligomers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes.
US09362507B2	Compound and organic light-emitting diode including the same Provided is an organic light-emitting diode including a compound of Formula 1 below: wherein a detailed description of a substituent in Formula 1 above is defined as described in the detailed description.
US09362505B2	Fused ring compound and method for producing same, polymer, organic thin film containing those, and organic thin film device and organic thin film transistor comprising such organic thin film Provided is a fused ring compound which can exhibit sufficient charge transport properties and excellent solubility in a solvent. The fused ring compound is represented by general formula (1), wherein R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group having 6 to 60 carbon atoms, an optionally substituted heterocyclic group having 4 to 60 carbon atoms, or a cyano group, provided that at least one of R11 and R12 is not a hydrogen atom; R13 and R14 each independently represent a monovalent group, and n and m each independently denote an integer of 0 to 2; and Y11 and Y12 are each independently a divalent group comprising a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom.
US09362503B2	Donor mask and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display apparatus A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus including preparing a mother substrate that includes a plurality of display areas; forming a plurality of pixel electrodes on each of the display areas of the mother substrate; preparing a donor mask that includes a base substrate having a plurality of display transferring areas corresponding to the plurality of display areas, the base substrate including a groove between the display transferring areas, a light-to-heat conversion layer on the base substrate, and a reflective layer between the base substrate and the light-to-heat conversion layer and being patterned to include through holes in each of the display transferring areas; depositing a transferring layer on the light-to-heat conversion layer of the donor mask; aligning the mother substrate and the donor mask; and transferring portions of the transferring layer that overlie the through holes onto the pixel electrodes on the mother substrate.
US09362499B2	Three dimension programmable resistive random accessed memory array with shared bitline and method A method of forming a non-volatile memory device. The method forms a vertical stack of first polysilicon material and a second polysilicon material layer isolated by a dielectric material. The polysilicon material layers and the dielectric material are subjected to a first pattern and etch process to form a first wordline associated with a first switching device and a second wordline associated with a second switching device from the first polysilicon material layer, and a third wordline associated with a third switching device and a fourth wordline associated with a fourth switching device from the second polysilicon material. A via opening is formed to separate the first wordline from the second wordline and to separate the third wordline from the fourth wordline. An amorphous silicon switching material is deposited conformably overlying the via opening. A metal material fills the via opening and connects to a common bitline.
US09362493B2	Phase-change storage unit for replacing DRAM and FLASH and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a phase-change storage unit for replacing DRAM and FLASH and a manufacturing method thereof, and the phase-change storage unit includes a phase-change material layer and a cylindrical lower electrode being in contact with and located below the phase-change material layer, where the phase-change material layer is formed by connecting a side wall layer and a round bottom layer, forms a hollow cylinder or hollow inverted conical frustum having an opening at an upper part, and the hollow cylinder or hollow inverted conical frustum is internally filled with a medium layer. The present invention adopts the means of preparing a phase-change material layer with a vertical side wall layer and a phase-change material layer with a slant side wall layer, in which a medium material is filled, and adopts the means of a small electrode, so as to reduce the thickness of the phase-change material layer, thereby reducing the phase-change region during the operation, improving the heat stability and the phase-change speed of the phase-change material layer, and finally achieving purposes of reducing the operating power consumption, improving the device data holding capability, increasing the operating speed of the device, and increasing the number of times of cyclic operating of the device.
US09362491B2	Methods of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor A semiconductor process integrates three bridge circuits, each include magnetoresistive sensors coupled as a Wheatstone bridge on a single chip to sense a magnetic field in three orthogonal directions. The process includes various deposition and etch steps forming the magnetoresistive sensors and a plurality of flux guides on one of the three bridge circuits for transferring a “Z” axis magnetic field onto sensors orientated in the XY plane.
US09362489B1	Method of making a magnetoresistive element A method of making a magnetoresistive element comprises making a crystalline structural quality and magnetic anisotropy enhancement bilayer (CSMAE bilayer) thus a). enhancing the crystalline structural quality, hence fabrication yield, of the resulting magnetoresistive element; and b). enhancing the magnetic anisotropy of the recording layer whereby achieving a high MR ratio for the magnetoresistive element with a simultaneous reduction of an undesirable spin pumping effect. As the magnetoresistive film is thermally annealed, a crystallization process occurs to form bcc CoFe grains having epitaxial growth with (100) plane parallel to the surface of the tunnel barrier layer as Boron elements migrate into the impurity absorbing layer. Removing the top portion of the impurity absorbing layer by means of sputtering etch or RIE etch processes followed by optional oxidization process, a thin but thermally stable portion of impurity absorbing layer is formed on top of the magnetoresistive element with a low damping constant. Accordingly, a reduced write current can be achieved for spin-transfer torque MRAM application.
US09362487B2	Ferroelectric memory and manufacturing method of the same According to one embodiment, a ferroelectric memory includes a semiconductor layer, an interfacial insulating film formed on the semiconductor layer, a ferroelectric film formed on the interfacial insulating film, and a gate electrode formed on the ferroelectric film, wherein the ferroelectric film is a film which includes a metal that is hafnium (Hf) or zirconium (Zr) and oxygen as the main components and to which an element selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al).
US09362486B2	Magnetic memory device having perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction pattern and method of forming the same Provided are a magnetic memory device and a method of forming the same. The magnetic memory device includes a pinned pattern including a coupling enhancement pattern, a polarization enhancement pattern, and a texture blocking pattern located between the coupling enhancement pattern and the polarization enhancement pattern, a free pattern located on the polarization enhancement pattern of the pinned pattern, and a tunnel barrier located between the pinned pattern and the free pattern. The coupling enhancement pattern includes a first enhancement magnetic pattern, a second enhancement magnetic pattern, and a first enhancement non-magnetic pattern located between the first enhancement magnetic pattern and the second enhancement magnetic pattern.
US09362480B2	Symmetric dual piezoelectric stack microelectromechanical piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester The present invention relates to an energy harvester device comprising an elongate resonator beam extending between first and second ends. A base connected to the resonator beam at the first end with the second end being freely extending from the base as a cantilever. A mass is attached to the second end of the elongate resonator beam. The elongate resonator beam comprises either: (1) a first oxide layer on a first piezoelectric stack layer over a cantilever layer on a second oxide layer over a second piezoelectric stack layer on a third oxide layer or (2) a first oxide layer on a first piezoelectric stack layer over a second oxide layer on a cantilever layer over a third oxide layer on a second piezoelectric stack over a fourth oxide layer. Also disclosed is a system comprising an electrically powered apparatus and the energy harvester device, as well as methods of making and using the energy harvester.
US09362478B2	Method of producing electromechanical transducer element, electromechanical transducer element, liquid droplet discharge head, and image forming apparatus A method of producing an electromechanical transducer element includes forming a first, common electrode on one of a substrate and an undercoat layer; forming an electromechanical transducer film on the first electrode; forming a second electrode on the electromechanical transducer film; forming a first protective film on an upper surface of the second electrode, the electromechanical transducer film, and a side wall of the second electrode, and selectively forming a second protective film on a portion of the first protective film protecting the electromechanical transducer film and the side wall of the second electrode.
US09362474B2	Vertical LED chip package on TSV carrier A light-emitting device (LED) package component includes a carrier wafer. The carrier wafer includes a first through-substrate via (TSV) configured to electrically connecting features on opposite sides of the carrier wafer. A light-emitting device (LED) is bonded onto the carrier wafer. The LED are electrically connected to the first TSV. A conductive thermal interface material (TIM) is located between, and adjoining, the first TSV and the LED.
US09362472B2	LED carrier and manufacturing method thereof An LED carrier includes a substrate, a metallic layer, an insulating layer, and a reflecting layer. The metallic layer is disposed on the substrate and has a die bonding region and a ring-shaped wiring region separated from the die bonding region. A region arranged between the die bonding region and the ring-shaped wiring region is defined as an insulating region. The insulating layer at least partially covers the insulating region. The reflecting layer is arranged above the die bonding region and at least partially covers the top surface of the insulating layer. Moreover, the instant disclosure also provides a manufacturing method of an LED carrier.
US09362471B2	Semiconductor light emitting device with thick metal layers A device according to embodiments of the invention includes a semiconductor structure including a light emitting layer sandwiched between an n-type region and a p-type region and first and second metal contacts, wherein the first metal contact is in direct contact with the n-type region and the second metal contact is in direct contact with the p-type region. First and second metal layers are disposed on the first and second metal contacts, respectively. The first and second metal layers are sufficiently thick to mechanically support the semiconductor structure. A portion of a sidewall the device adjacent to one of the first and second metal layers is reflective.
US09362470B2	Optoelectronic device, optical element and method for producing same A method for producing an optoelectronic device and an optoelectronic device is disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, an optoelectronic device is provided, which comprises a housing, a radiation-emitting or radiation-receiving semiconductor chip which is arranged in the housing, and an optical element which is arranged in a beam path of the device. The optical element comprises an amphiphilic block copolymer which contains polysiloxane as a hydrophobic polymer and a hydrophilic polymer cross-linked therewith. The optical element further comprises thermally conductive nanoparticles which are distributed in the amphiphilic block copolymer and comprise a material which is selected from the group comprising a metal, a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide and a combination thereof.
US09362468B2	Curable composition Provided are a curable composition and its use. The curable composition having excellent processability, workability, heat resistance, and light resistance, and having no problem of discoloring despite using for a long time may be provided. The curable composition which may scatter light and disperse linearity of light when used as an encapsulant of an optical semiconductor such as an LED may be provided.
US09362463B2	Phosphor, light-emitting apparatus including the same, and phosphor production method A phosphor is provided which is represented by the general formula MxCeyPrzSi6N8+w. M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of La, Y, Tb and Lu. And x, y, z and w satisfy 2.0
US09362458B2	Light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same A light emitting diode and a method of fabricating the same, the light emitting diode including: a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor layer; a first metal layer including Mg and disposed in the form of islands that are in ohmic contact with the gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor layer; a second metal layer including Ni, covering the first metal layer, and contacting the gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor layer between the islands of the first metal layer; and a reflective metal layer covering the second metal layer.
US09362456B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor device An optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor system having an active layer formed on the substrate and an electrode structure formed on the semiconductor system, wherein the layout of the electrode structure having at least a first conductivity type contact zone or a first conductivity type bonding pad, a second conductivity type bonding pad, a first conductivity type extension electrode, and a second conductivity type extension electrode wherein the first conductivity type extension electrode and the second conductivity type extension electrode have three-dimensional crossover, and partial of the first conductivity type extension electrode and the first conductivity type contact zone or the first conductivity type bonding pad are on the opposite sides of the active layer.
US09362453B2	Near-infrared light-emitting diode and method for manufacturing the same The present invention relates generally to a near-infrared light-emitting diode (LED) and the method for manufacturing the same. When preparing the light-emitting layer of the near-infrared LED according to the present invention, the CsSnXX′2 solution is coated on the substrate having the hole transport layer. Then, by a drying process, the solvent is moved away and the CsSnXX′2 solution is solidified, crystallized to CsSnXX′2 in the perovskite structure, which is used as the light-emitting layer of the near-infrared LED and emits near infrared. X and X′ are identical or different halogen elements. In addition, according to the present invention, lead can be used to replace a part of tin. By adjusting the ratio of lead and tin or adopting different combination of halogen elements, the wavelength of the generated near infrared varies.
US09362451B2	Light emitting diode and light emitting device package including the same A light emitting diode is disclosed. The disclosed light emitting diode includes a light emitting structure including a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer. The first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, active layer, and second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer are disposed to be adjacent to one another in a same direction. The active layer includes well and barrier layers alternately stacked at least one time. The well layer has a narrower energy bandgap than the barrier layer. The light emitting diode also includes a mask layer disposed in the first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first electrode disposed on the first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer. The first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer is formed with at least one recess portion.
US09362437B1	Concentrated photovoltaic receiver module with improved optical light guide assembly In accordance with the present invention, there is provided multiple embodiments of a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module or package. In each embodiment of the present invention, the CPV module includes a mounting device or holder for use in maintaining an optical member or optical light guide of the module in a prescribed position relative to the solar cell or receiver die thereof.
US09362436B2	Silane-containing ethylene interpolymer formulation including films and electronic device module comprising same Disclosed in more detail in this application are ethylene interpolymer films having one or more layers, comprising surface layer comprising: (A) a silane-containing ethylene interpolymer comprising (1) an ethylene interpolymer having a density of less than 0.905 g/cm3, and (2) at least 0.1 percent by weight alkoxysilane; characterized by: (3) having a volume resistivity of greater than 5×1015 ohm-cm as measured at 60 C. In one embodiment, such ethylene interpolymer has a residual boron content of less than 10 ppm and residual aluminum content of less than 100 ppm. Also disclosed are laminated electronic device modules comprising: A. at least one electronic device, and B. one of the ethylene interpolymer films as described above in intimate contact with at least one surface of the electronic device. Such laminated electronic device modules according to the invention have been shown to suffer reduced potential induced degradation (“PID”).
US09362435B2	Solar cell apparatus and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are a solar cell apparatus and a method of fabricating the same. The solace cell apparatus includes a solar cell on a support substrate; a polymer resin layer on the solar cell; a protective panel on the polymer resin layer; and a composite protective layer at each lateral side of the support substrate, the solar cell, the polymer resin layer, and the protective panel.
US09362432B2	Radiant energy transfer panel mountings An apparatus (10) for radiant energy transfer has at least one radiant energy transfer panel (20) having a light-energy transfer surface (21) and a back surface (23). The back surface has a panel electrode (42) for an electrical connection with the at least one radiant energy transfer panel. The panel electrode is conductively coupled to a first member of a separable flexible conductive fastener. A second member of the separable flexible conductive fastener has a power connection electrode. The power connection electrode is conductively coupled to a power device (12). Mechanically engaging the first and second members of the separable flexible conductive fastener connects the panel electrode on the at least one radiant energy transfer panel to the power connection electrode.
US09362429B2	Photovoltaic semiconductor materials based on alloys of tin sulfide, and methods of production Photovoltaic thin-film materials comprising crystalline tin sulfide alloys of the general formula Sn1-x(R)xS, where R is selected from magnesium, calcium and strontium, as well as methods of producing the same, are disclosed.
US09362424B2	Electrical contacts Certain embodiments are directed to methods, devices and systems designed to remove selected portions of a material to expose an underlying material or substrate. One or more electrical components may be coupled to the underlying substrate through an electrical contact. Kits and systems for producing electrical contacts are also provided.
US09362423B2	Methods of forming thin-film photovoltaic devices with discontinuous passivation layers In various embodiments, photovoltaic devices incorporate discontinuous passivation layers (i) disposed between a thin-film absorber layer and a partner layer, (ii) disposed between the partner layer and a front contact layer, and/or (iii) disposed between a back contact layer and the thin-film absorber layer.
US09362422B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same Provided is a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes an interlayer insulating layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a metal contact plug penetrating the interlayer insulating layer, a cylindrical lower electrode formed on the metal contact plug and including a first metal and a trench, a supporter formed in the trench and including a second metal that is different from the first metal, a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode and the supporter and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer.
US09362415B2	Semiconductor device comprising a transistor comprising an oxide semiconductor layer Oxide layers which contain at least one metal element that is the same as that contained in an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel are formed in contact with the top surface and the bottom surface of the oxide semiconductor layer, whereby an interface state is not likely to be generated at each of an upper interface and a lower interface of the oxide semiconductor layer. Further, it is preferable that an oxide layer, which is formed using a material and a method similar to those of the oxide layers be formed over the oxide layers Accordingly, the interface state hardly influences the movement of electrons.
US09362414B2	Oxide thin film transistor, display device, and method for manufacturing array substrate Provided are oxide thin-film transistor and display device employing the same, and method for manufacturing an oxide thin-film transistor array substrate. A source electrode and a drain electrode are located below an oxide active layer pattern, and a gate electrode is located below the source electrode and the drain electrode, and the gate insulating layer is located between the gate electrode and the source electrode/the drain electrode.
US09362412B2	Semiconductor device One of the objects is to improve display quality by reduction in malfunctions of a circuit. In a driver circuit formed using a plurality of pulse output circuits having first to third transistors and first to fourth signal lines, a first clock signal is supplied to the first signal line; a preceding stage signal is supplied to the second signal line; a second clock signal is supplied to the third signal line; an output signal is output from the fourth signal line. Duty ratios of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are different from each other. A period during which the second clock signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal after the first clock signal is changed from an H-level signal to an L-level signal is longer than a period during which the preceding stage signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal.
US09362411B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof An object is to suppress conducting-mode failures of a transistor that uses an oxide semiconductor film and has a short channel length. A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode 304, a gate insulating film 306 formed over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film 308 over the gate insulating film, and a source electrode 310a and a drain electrode 310b formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The channel length L of the oxide semiconductor film is more than or equal to 1 μm and less than or equal to 50 μm. The oxide semiconductor film has a peak at a rotation angle 2θ in the vicinity of 31° in X-ray diffraction measurement.
US09362407B1	Symmetrical extension junction formation with low-K spacer and dual epitaxial process in FinFET device A technique relates to a dual epitaxial process a device. A first spacer is disposed on a substrate, dummy gate, and hardmask. A first area extends in a first direction from the gate and a second area extends in an opposite direction. A doped intermediate spacer is disposed on the first spacer. A first region is opened on the substrate by removing first spacer and intermediate spacer at the first region. A first epitaxial layer is disposed in the first region. The intermediate spacer is removed from first area. A second spacer is disposed on the intermediate spacer. A second region is opened on the substrate by removing the first spacer, intermediate spacer, and second spacer. A second epitaxial layer is disposed in second region. The width of the second epitaxial layer is enlarged by annealing causing dopant in the intermediate spacer layer to flow into the second epitaxial layer.
US09362403B2	Buried fin contact structures on FinFET semiconductor devices A method includes forming a raised isolation structure with a recess above a substrate, forming a gate structure above the fin, forming a plurality of spaced-apart buried fin contact structures within the recess that have an outer perimeter surface that contacts at least a portion of an interior perimeter surface of the recess and forming at least one source/drain contact structure for each of the buried fin contact structures. One device includes a plurality of spaced-apart buried fin contact structures positioned within a recess in a raised isolation structure on opposite sides of a gate structure. The upper surface of each of the buried fin contact structures is positioned below an upper surface of the raised isolation structure and an outer perimeter surface of each of the buried fin contact structures contacts at least a portion of an interior perimeter surface of the recess.
US09362399B2	Well implant through dummy gate oxide in gate-last process The present disclosure relates to methods for fabricating a field-effect transistor. The method includes performing a pocket implantation to a semiconductor substrate; thereafter forming a polysilicon layer on the semiconductor substrate; and patterning the polysilicon layer to form a polysilicon gate.The field-effect transistor (FET) includes a well of a first type dopant, formed in a semiconductor substrate; a metal gate disposed on the semiconductor substrate and overlying the well; a channel formed in the semiconductor substrate and underlying the metal gate; source and drain regions of a second type dopant opposite from the first type, the source and drain regions being formed in the semiconductor substrate and on opposite sides of the channel; and a pocket doping profile of the first type dopant and being defined in the well to form a continuous and uniform doping region from the source region to the drain region.
US09362398B2	Low resistance LDMOS with reduced gate charge An integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a drain drift region adjacent to the channel region, a field oxide element in the drain region, a first gate section over the channel region and a second gate section over the field oxide element, with a gap between the gate sections so that at least half of the drift region is not covered by gate. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an MOS transistor with a drain drift region adjacent to the channel region, a field oxide element in the drain region, a first gate section over the channel region and a second gate section over the field oxide element, with a gap between the gate sections so that at least half of the drift region is not covered by gate, so that the source/drain implant is blocked from the drift region below the gap.
US09362397B2	Semiconductor devices A gate-all-around (GAA) semiconductor device can include a fin structure that includes alternatingly layered first and second semiconductor patterns. A source region can extend into the alternatingly layered first and second semiconductor patterns and a drain region can extend into the alternatingly layered first and second semiconductor patterns. A gate electrode can extend between the source region and the drain region and surround channel portions of the second semiconductor patterns between the source region and the drain region to define gaps between the source and drain regions. A semiconductor oxide can be on first side walls of the gap that face the source and drain regions and can be absent from at least one of second side walls of the gaps that face the second semiconductor patterns. A gate insulating layer can be on the first side walls of the gaps between the gate electrode and the semiconductor oxide.
US09362395B2	High-voltage field-effect transistor and method of making the same The high-voltage transistor device comprises a semiconductor substrate (1) with a source region (2) of a first type of electrical conductivity, a body region (3) including a channel region (4) of a second type of electrical conductivity opposite to the first type of conductivity, a drift region (5) of the first type of conductivity, and a drain region (6) of the first type of conductivity extending longitudinally in striplike fashion from the channel region (4) to the drain region (6) and laterally confined by isolation regions (9). The drift region (5) comprises a doping of the first type of conductivity and includes an additional region (8) with a net doping of the second type of conductivity to adjust the electrical properties of the drift region (5). The drift region depth and the additional region depth do not exceed the maximal depth (17) of the isolation regions (9).
US09362389B2	Polarization induced doped transistor A nitride-based field effect transistor (FET) comprises a compositionally graded and polarization induced doped p-layer underlying at least one gate contact and a compositionally graded and doped n-channel underlying a source contact. The n-channel is converted from the p-layer to the n-channel by ion implantation, a buffer underlies the doped p-layer and the n-channel, and a drain underlies the buffer.
US09362381B2	Insulated gate bipolar transistor with a lateral gate structure and gallium nitride substrate and manufacturing method thereof The present invention discloses an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and a manufacturing method thereof. The IGBT includes: a gallium nitride (GaN) substrate, a first GaN layer with a first conductive type, a second GaN layer with a first conductive type, a third GaN layer with a second conductive type or an intrinsic conductive type, and a gate formed on the GaN substrate. The first GaN layer is formed on the GaN substrate and has a side wall vertical to the GaN substrate. The second GaN layer is formed on the GaN substrate and is separated from the first GaN layer by the gate. The third GaN layer is formed on the first GaN layer and is separated from the GaN substrate by the first GaN layer. The gate has a side plate adjacent to the side wall in a lateral direction to control a channel.
US09362380B2	Heterojunction bipolar transistor The present disclosure is directed to a method that includes exposing a surface of a silicon substrate in a first region between first and second isolation trenches, etching the silicon substrate in the first region to form a recess between the first and second isolation trenches, =; and forming a base of a heterojunction bipolar transistor by selective epitaxial growth of a film comprising SiGe in the recess.
US09362379B2	Graphene heterostructure field effect transistors A field effect transistor includes a substrate, a first graphene (Gr) layer on the substrate, a second graphene (Gr) layer on the substrate, a fluorographene (GrF) layer on the substrate and between the first and second graphene layers, a first ohmic contact on the first graphene layer, a second ohmic contact on the second graphene layer, a gate aligned over the fluorographene layer, and a gate dielectric between the gate and the fluorographene layer and between the gate and the first and second ohmic contacts.
US09362376B2	Metal contacts to group IV semiconductors by inserting interfacial atomic monolayers Techniques for reducing the specific contact resistance of metal-semiconductor (group IV) junctions by interposing a monolayer of group V or group III atoms at the interface between the metal and the semiconductor, or interposing a bi-layer made of one monolayer of each, or interposing multiple such bi-layers. The resulting low specific resistance metal-group IV semiconductor junctions find application as a low resistance electrode in semiconductor devices including electronic devices (e.g., transistors, diodes, etc.) and optoelectronic devices (e.g., lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, etc.) and/or as a metal source and/or drain region (or a portion thereof) in a field effect transistor (FET). The monolayers of group III and group V atoms are predominantly ordered layers of atoms formed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor and chemically bonded to the surface atoms of the group IV semiconductor.
US09362375B2	Inner L-spacer for replacement gate flow An integrated circuit is formed by removing a sacrificial gate dielectric layer and a sacrificial gate to form a gate cavity. A conformal dielectric first liner is formed in the gate cavity and a conformal second liner is formed on the first liner. A first etch removes the second liner from the bottom of the gate cavity, leaving material of the second liner on sidewalls of the gate cavity. A second etch removes the first liner from the bottom of the gate cavity exposed by the second liner, leaving material of the first liner on the bottom of the gate cavity under the second liner on the sidewalls of the gate cavity. A third etch removes the second liner from the gate cavity, leaving an L-shaped spacers of the first liner in the gate cavity. A permanent gate dielectric layer and replacement gate are formed in the gate cavity.
US09362374B2	Simple and cost-free MTP structure Embodiments of a simple and cost-free multi-time programmable (MTP) structure for non-volatile memory cells are presented. A non-volatile MTP memory cell includes a substrate, first and second wells disposed in the substrate, a first transistor having a select gate and a second transistor having a floating gate adjacent one another and disposed over the second well and sharing a diffusion region. The memory cell further includes a control gate disposed over the first well. The control gate is coupled to the floating gate and the control and floating gates include the same gate layer extending across the first and the second wells.
US09362373B2	Semiconductor device and the method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate which functions as an n− drift layer, a trench IGBT formed in the front surface, an interlayer insulator film, and a metal electrode layer on the interlayer insulator film. There is a contact hole in the interlayer insulating film which has a first opening formed on the metal electrode layer side and a second opening on the semiconductor substrate side. Width w1 of the first opening on the metal electrode layer side is wider than width w2 of first opening on the semiconductor substrate side, in a direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the trench in the planar pattern of trenches. The metal electrode layer is connected to a p-type channel region and an n+ source region via the contact hole. The method of manufacturing improves the reliability of the device.
US09362372B2	Semiconductor device with a step gate dielectric structure A semiconductor device and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes an isolation structure formed in a substrate to define an active region of the substrate. The active region has a field plate region therein. A step gate dielectric structure is formed on the substrate in the field plate region. The step gate dielectric structure includes a first layer of a first dielectric material and a second layer of the dielectric material, laminated vertically to each other. The first and second layers of the first dielectric material are separated from each other by a second dielectric material layer. An etch rate of the second dielectric material layer to an etchant is different from that of the second layer of the first dielectric material. A method for forming a semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US09362369B2	Group III-N transistors on nanoscale template structures A III-N semiconductor channel is formed on a III-N transition layer formed on a (111) or (110) surface of a silicon template structure, such as a fin sidewall. In embodiments, the silicon fin has a width comparable to the III-N epitaxial film thicknesses for a more compliant seeding layer, permitting lower defect density and/or reduced epitaxial film thickness. In embodiments, a transition layer is GaN and the semiconductor channel comprises Indium (In) to increase a conduction band offset from the silicon fin. In other embodiments, the fin is sacrificial and either removed or oxidized, or otherwise converted into a dielectric structure during transistor fabrication. In certain embodiments employing a sacrificial fin, the III-N transition layer and semiconductor channel is substantially pure GaN, permitting a breakdown voltage higher than would be sustainable in the presence of the silicon fin.
US09362365B2	Graphite and/or graphene semiconductor devices Various embodiments are provided for graphite and/or graphene based semiconductor devices. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer and a semimetal stack. In another embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer and a zero gap semiconductor layer. The semimetal stack/zero gap semiconductor layer is formed on the semiconductor layer, which forms a Schottky barrier. In another embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second semiconductor layers and a semimetal stack. In another embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second semiconductor layers and a zero gap semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a first semiconducting material and the second semi conductor layer includes a second semiconducting material formed on the first semiconductor layer. The semimetal stack/zero gap semiconductor layer is formed on the second semiconductor layer, which forms a Schottky barrier.
US09362364B2	Transfer-free batch fabrication of single layer graphene devices A method of manufacturing one or more graphene devices is disclosed. A thin film growth substrate is formed directly on a device substrate. Graphene is formed on the thin film growth substrate. A transistor is also disclosed, having a device substrate and a source supported by the device substrate. The transistor also has a drain separated from the source and supported by the device substrate. The transistor further has a single layer graphene (SLG) channel grown partially on and coupling the source and the drain. The transistor also has a gate aligned with the SLG channel, and a gate insulator between the gate and the SLG channel. Integrated circuits and other apparati having a device substrate, a thin film growth substrate formed directly on at least a portion of the device substrate, and graphene formed directly on at least a portion of the thin film growth substrate are also disclosed.
US09362362B2	FinFET with dielectric isolated channel Embodiments of the present invention provide a fin type field effect transistor (FinFET) and methods of fabrication. A punchthrough stopper region is formed on a semiconductor substrate. An insulator layer, such as silicon oxide, is formed on the punchthrough stopper. Fins and gates are formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer is then removed from under the fins, exposing the punchthrough stopper. An epitaxial semiconductor region is grown from the punchthrough stopper to envelop the fins, while the insulator layer remains under the gate. By growing the fin merge epitaxial region mainly from the punchthrough stopper, which is part of the semiconductor substrate, it provides a higher growth rate then when growing from the fins. The higher growth rate provides better epitaxial quality and dopant distribution.
US09362360B2	Modulating germanium percentage in MOS devices An integrated circuit structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, and an opening extending into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the opening is adjacent to the gate stack. A first silicon germanium region is disposed in the opening, wherein the first silicon germanium region has a first germanium percentage. A second silicon germanium region is overlying the first silicon germanium region, wherein the second silicon germanium region has a second germanium percentage higher than the first germanium percentage. A metal silicide region is over and in contact with the second silicon germanium region.
US09362359B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device in an embodiment includes a first region of a second conductivity type between a first electrode and a second electrode and a second region of a first conductivity type between the first region and the second electrode. a third region of the second conductivity type is between the second region and the second electrode. A fourth and fifth region of the first conductivity type are between the third semiconductor region and the second electrode. The fourth and fifth regions are adjacent to each other. A dopant concentration in the fifth region is less than a dopant concentration in the fourth region. A third electrode contacts the second region, the third region, the fourth region, and the fifth region via an insulating film.
US09362353B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first and second fin-shaped silicon layers on a substrate, each corresponding to the dimensions of a sidewall pattern around a dummy pattern. First and second pillar-shaped silicon layers reside on the first and second fin-shaped silicon layers, respectively. An n-type diffusion layer resides in an upper portion of the first fin-shaped silicon layer and in upper and lower portions of the first pillar-shaped silicon layer. A p-type diffusion layer resides in an upper portion of the second fin-shaped silicon layer and upper and lower portions of the second pillar-shaped silicon layer. First and second gate insulating films and metal gate electrodes are around the first and second pillar-shaped silicon layers, respectively. A metal gate line is connected to the first and second metal gate electrodes and extends in a direction perpendicular to the first and second fin-shaped silicon layers.
US09362347B2	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first insulating layer and first and second signal lines spaced apart from each other. At least a portion of the first and second signal lines is formed over the first insulating layer. Each pixel also includes a second insulating layer interposed between the first and second signal lines. The second insulating layer has a lower permittivity that the first insulating layer.
US09362342B2	Light-emitting element display device A light-emitting element display device includes: a thin film transistor substrate including transistors respectively controlling the amounts of light emission of a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a display region; and a color filter substrate arranged to overlap with the thin film transistor substrate. The thin film transistor substrate includes a light-emitting organic layer covering the entire display region and emitting light in respective light-emitting regions in the plurality of sub-pixels, an insulating bank formed of an insulating material around each of the light-emitting regions, including an inclined surface being closer to the color filter substrate according to increasing in thickness with increasing distance from the light-emitting region, and a fluorescent layer formed on the inclined surface and excited by light of the light-emitting region to thereby emit light.
US09362336B2	Sub-lithographic patterning of magnetic tunneling junction devices A method for fabricating a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes creating a recess within a second patterning layer, in which a first patterning layer overhangs the recessed second patterning layer. Such a method further includes depositing a film into the recess to create a keyhole pattern within the deposited film. The method further includes transferring the keyhole pattern through a hard mask layer to an MTJ stack. The method also includes depositing a conductive material into the transferred keyhole pattern and on an MTJ stack. The method also includes removing the hard mask layer to create a conductive hard mask pillar.
US09362335B2	Display device and method for producing a display device A display device with a semiconductor layer sequence includes an active region provided for generating radiation and a plurality of pixels. The display device also includes a carrier. The active region is arranged between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer sequence includes at least one recess, which extends from a major face of the semiconductor layer sequence facing the carrier through the active region into the first semiconductor layer and is provided for electrical contacting of the first semiconductor layer. The carrier includes a plurality of switches, which are each provided for controlling at least one pixel.
US09362331B2	Method and system for image sensor and lens on a silicon back plane wafer A method for forming image sensors includes providing a substrate and forming a plurality of photo diode regions, each of the photo diode regions being spatially disposed on the substrate. The method also includes forming an interlayer dielectric layer overlying the plurality of photo diode regions, forming a shielding layer formed overlying the interlayer dielectric layer, and applying a silicon dioxide bearing material overlying the shielding layer. The method further includes etching portions of the silicon dioxide bearing material to form a plurality of first lens structures, and continuing to form each of the plurality of first lens structures to provide a plurality of finished lens structures.
US09362326B2	Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor An image capturing apparatus having pixels is provided. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit including a charge accumulation region, an output unit configured to output a signal based on a potential of a node electrically connected to the charge accumulation region, and a connection unit configured to electrically connect a capacitance to the node. The charge accumulation region includes a first portion and a second portion. Charge is configured to be first accumulated in the first portion, and, after the first portion is saturated, be accumulated in the second portion. The output unit is configured to output a first signal based on the potential of the node before the capacitance is connected thereto, and, then a second signal based on the potential of the node after the capacitance is connected thereto.
US09362324B1	Photodetector focal plane array systems and methods A photodetector focal plane array system, comprising: a substrate comprising a plurality of photosensitive regions; and a microcomponent disposed adjacent to each of the plurality of photosensitive regions operable for receiving incident radiation and directing a photonic nanojet into the associated photosensitive region. Optionally, each of the microcomponents comprises one of a microsphere and a microcylinder. Each of the microcomponents has a diameter of between between ˜λ and ˜100λ, where λ is the wavelength of the incident radiation. Each of the microcomponents is manufactured from a dielectric or semiconductor material. Each of the microcomponents has an index of refraction of between ˜1.4 and ˜3.5. Optionally, high-index components can be embedded in a lower index material. The microcomponents form an array of microcomponents disposed adjacent to the substrate.
US09362317B2	Display device and electronic unit A display device includes: a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region; a first wiring provided on a front face of the substrate; and a second wiring provided on a rear face of the substrate and electrically connected to the first wiring.
US09362316B2	Display device Disclosed is a display device which includes: a plurality of gate lines arranged in a first direction; a plurality of data lines arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of jumping electrodes each disposed a first edge portion of each of the data lines; and a plurality of shield portions disposed between the jumping electrodes. Such a display device allows the shield portions to be disposed between the jumping electrodes. As such, the display device can prevent a light leak phenomenon due to an electric field which is generated by the shortened distance between the front edge portions of the data lines.
US09362314B2	Thin film transistor substrate A thin film transistor substrate is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate; and plural thin film transistor (TFT) units, an insulating layer, a pixel electrode and an alignment layer sequentially disposed thereon. The TFT units comprise a gate insulating layer, an active layer and source and drain electrodes; the insulating layer has contact vias to expose the drain electrodes of the TFT units; and the pixel electrode is disposed on the insulating layer and extents to the contact vias to electrically connect with the drain electrodes. Herein, a side wall of at least one of the contact vias has a first inclined portion at a first direction and a second inclined portion at a second direction, the first direction is different from the second direction, and an inclination of the pixel electrode on the first inclined portion is different from that on the second inclined portion.
US09362312B2	Semiconductor device, display unit, and electronic apparatus Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a transistor. The transistor includes: a gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film facing the gate electrode and including a first overlapping region that is overlapped with the gate electrode; a low-resistance region provided in the oxide semiconductor film; and a first separation region provided between the low-resistance region and the first overlapping region.
US09362311B1	Method of fabricating semiconductor device A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A first semiconductor layer including Ge at a first concentration is formed on an insulation layer. Second and third semiconductor layers are formed sequentially on the first semiconductor layer. The second and third semiconductor layers include Ge at second and third concentrations higher than the first concentration. A fin type structure is formed by patterning the insulation layer and the first to third semiconductor layers. The fin type structure is vertically protruded. A fin type active pattern is formed on the fin type structure by performing a first thermal process on the fin type structure. The fin type active pattern includes Ge at a fourth concentration higher than the first concentration and lower than the second concentration.
US09362310B2	Method of manufacturing a FinFET device using a sacrificial epitaxy region for improved fin merge and FinFET device formed by same A method for manufacturing a fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) device comprises forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, epitaxially growing a sacrificial epitaxy region between the fins, stopping growth of the sacrificial epitaxy region at a beginning of merging of epitaxial shapes between neighboring fins, and forming a dielectric layer on the substrate including the fins and the sacrificial epitaxy region, wherein a portion of the dielectric layer is positioned between the sacrificial epitaxy region extending from fins of adjacent transistors.
US09362309B2	FinFET and method of fabrication An improved finFET and method of fabrication is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention take advantage of the different epitaxial growth rates of {110} and {100} silicon. Fins are formed that have {110} silicon on the fin tops and {100} silicon on the long fin sides (sidewalls). The lateral epitaxial growth rate is faster than the vertical epitaxial growth rate. The resulting merged fins have a reduced merged region in the vertical dimension, which reduces parasitic capacitance. Other fins are formed with {110} silicon on the fin tops and also {110} silicon on the long fin sides. These fins have a slower epitaxial growth rate than the {100} side fins, and remain unmerged in a semiconductor integrated circuit, such as an SRAM circuit.
US09362308B2	Semiconductor device having finFET structures and method of making same A semiconductor device and method making it comprises pFETs with an SiGe channel and nFETs with an Si channel, formed on an SOI substrate. Improved uniformity of fin height and width is attained by forming the fins additively by depositing an SiGe layer on the SOI substrate and forming first fins from the superposed SiGe layer and underlying thin Si film of the SOI substrate. Second fins of Si can then be formed by replacing the upper SiGe portions of selected first fins with Si.
US09362304B2	Nonvolatile memory device and method of fabricating the same This technology relates to a nonvolatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The nonvolatile memory device may include a pipe connection gate electrode configured to have a bottom buried in a groove formed in a substrate, one or more pipe channel layers formed within the pipe connection gate electrode, pairs of main channel layers each coupled to the pipe channel layer and extended in a direction substantially perpendicular to the substrate, and a plurality of interlayer insulating layers and a plurality of cell gate electrodes alternately stacked along the main channel layers, wherein the pipe connection gate electrode includes a metal silicide layer formed within the groove. The electric resistance of the pipe connection gate electrode may be greatly reduced without an increase in a substantial height by forming the metal silicide layer buried in the substrate under the pipe connection gate electrode.
US09362303B2	Semiconductor memory devices including fine patterns and methods of fabricating the same Semiconductor devices are provided including an active pillar protruding from a substrate; a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode adjacent to a sidewall of the active pillar and vertically overlapping with each other, the first and second gate electrodes being insulated from each other; a first intergate insulating layer covering a first surface of the first gate electrode; and a second intergate insulating layer covering a second surface, opposite the first surface, of the second gate electrode and spaced apart from the first intergate insulating layer. The first intergate insulating layer and the second intergate insulating layer define an air gap therebetween.
US09362300B2	Apparatuses and methods for forming multiple decks of memory cells Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having multiple decks of memory cells and associated control gates. A method includes forming a first deck having alternating conductor materials and dielectric materials and a hole containing materials extending through the conductor materials and the dielectric materials. The methods can also include forming a sacrificial material in an enlarged portion of the hole and forming a second deck of memory cells over the first deck. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09362297B2	Integrated circuits having improved split-gate nonvolatile memory devices and methods for fabrication of same Integrated circuits are provided. An exemplary integrated circuit includes a source/drain region in a semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit includes a charge storage structure overlying the semiconductor substrate and having a first sidewall overlying the source/drain region. The integrated circuit also includes a control gate overlying the source/drain region. Further, the integrated circuit includes a first select gate overlying the semiconductor substrate and adjacent the first sidewall. A first memory cell is formed by the control gate and the first select gate.
US09362286B2	Fin field effect transistor and method for forming the same Various embodiments provide semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same. A first fin and a second fin are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate and has a top surface lower than a top surface of both of the first fin and the second fin. A gate structure is formed on the first dielectric layer and covering across a first portion of each of the first fin and the second fin. A second portion of the first fin on both sides of the gate structure is removed, forming a first recess. A first semiconductor layer is formed in the first recess. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and the first semiconductor layer, and exposes a top surface of the second fin. A second semiconductor layer is formed on the exposed top surface of the second fin.
US09362285B2	Structure and method to increase contact area in unmerged EPI integration for CMOS FinFETs Source/drain contact structures with increased contact areas for a multiple fin-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (CMOSFET) having unmerged epitaxial source/drain regions and methods for forming such source/drain contact structures are provided by forming wrap-around source/drain contact structures for both n-type FinFETs and p-type FinFETs. Each of first source/drain contact structures for the n-type FinFETs includes at least one first conductive plug encapsulating epitaxial first source/drain regions on one side of a gate structure, while each of second source/drain contact structures for the p-type FinFETs includes at least a contact metal layer portion encapsulating epitaxial second source/drain regions on one side of the gate structure, and a second conductive plug located over a top surface of the contact metal layer portion.
US09362282B1	High-K gate dielectric and metal gate conductor stack for planar field effect transistors formed on type III-V semiconductor material and silicon germanium semiconductor material An electrical device that includes a substrate including a first region of a type III-V semiconductor material and a second region of a type IV germanium containing semiconductor material. An n-type planar FET is present in the first region of the substrate. A p-type planar FET is present in a second region of the substrate. A gate structure for each of the n-type planar FET and the p-type planar FET includes a metal containing layer including at least one of titanium and aluminum atop a high-k gate dielectric. An effective work function of the gate structure for both the n-type and p-type planar FETs is a less than a mid gap of silicon.
US09362280B2	Semiconductor devices with different dielectric thicknesses An integrated circuit with devices having dielectric layers with different thicknesses. The dielectric layers include a high-k dielectric and some of the dielectric layers include an oxide layer that is formed from an oxidation process. Each device includes a layer including germanium or carbon located underneath the electrode stack of the device. A silicon cap layers is located over the layer including germanium or carbon.
US09362278B1	FinFET with multiple dislocation planes and method for forming the same A device comprises a first semiconductor fin over a substrate, a second semiconductor fin over the substrate, wherein the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin are separated by a first isolation region, a first drain/source region coupled to the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin and a first dislocation plane underlying the first isolation region, wherein the first dislocation plane extends in a first direction in parallel with a longitudinal axis of the first semiconductor fin.
US09362275B1	Semiconductor device with dummy gate structures A semiconductor and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor substrate is provided. A first oxide layer is formed over an active region. A first STI is formed to adjoin a first side of the active region, and a second STI is formed to adjoin a second side of the active region. A gate layer is formed over the first STI, the second STI and the first oxide layer. A masking element is formed over the gate layer. The gate layer is etched using the masking element to form a first gate electrode over the first oxide layer, a first dummy gate electrode over the first STI, and a second dummy gate electrode over the second STI. A width of the first gate electrode is smaller than a width of the first dummy gate electrode and a width of the second dummy gate electrode.
US09362268B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device with transistor and non-transistor regions In a high-frequency circuit, it is necessary to provide galvanic blocking between active elements such as transistors and between an active element and an external terminal, and thus MIM capacitors or the like are used frequently. A MIM capacitor coupled to an external terminal is easily affected by static electricity from outside and causes a problem of electro-static breakdown or the like. In a MIM capacitor formed over a semi-insulating compound semiconductor substrate, a first electrode thereof is coupled to an external pad and to the semi-insulating compound semiconductor substrate, and a second electrode thereof is coupled to the semi-insulating compound semiconductor substrate.
US09362264B2	Semiconductor device comprising a plurality of cell arrays including a well potential supply region and adjacent dummy gates provided on a well region of a cell array A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
US09362263B2	Semiconductor device This invention can reduce heat that is generated in a first semiconductor chip and transfers to a second semiconductor chip through through-silicon vias. The first semiconductor chip has the first through-silicon vias. Each of the first through-silicon vias is arranged on any of grid points arranged in m rows and n columns (m>n). The first semiconductor chip also has a first circuit formation area. A first circuit is formed in the first circuit formation area. The first circuit performs signal processing while communicating with the second semiconductor chip. In plan view, the first circuit formation area does not overlap with a through-silicon via area that is defined by coupling the outermost grid points arranged in m rows and n columns. In plan view, some of connection terminals are located between the first circuit formation area and the through-silicon via area.
US09362256B2	Bonding process for a chip bonding to a thin film substrate A bonding process for a chip bonded to a thin film substrate is disclosed. The thin film substrate has a thickness of about less than 500 um. Curvature occurs in the thin film substrate due to Coefficient of Temperature Expansion (CTE) mismatch for different materials between the dielectric material and the embedded circuitry, where cooling and heating is applied during fabrication. A temporary carrier is prepared for the thin film substrate to paste, a flatten process is applied by a roller thereon so that the curvature of the thin film substrate can be eliminated and facilitated for of chips to be bonded thereto.
US09362253B2	Bumpless build-up layer package with pre-stacked microelectronic devices The present disclosure relates to the field of integrated circuit package design and, more particularly, to packages using a bumpless build-up layer (BBUL) designs. Embodiments of the present description relate to the field of fabricating microelectronic packages, wherein a first microelectronic device having through-silicon vias may be stacked with a second microelectronic device and used in a bumpless build-up layer package.
US09362247B2	Systems and methods for bonding semiconductor elements A method of ultrasonically bonding semiconductor elements includes the steps of: (a) aligning surfaces of a plurality of first conductive structures of a first semiconductor element to respective surfaces of a plurality of second conductive structures of a second semiconductor element, wherein the surfaces of each of the plurality of first conductive structures and the plurality of second conductive structures include aluminum; and (b) ultrasonically bonding ones of the first conductive structures to respective ones of the second conductive structures.
US09362242B2	Bonding structure including metal nano particle A bonding structure including metal nano particles includes a first member having a metal surface on at least one side, a second member having a metal surface on at least one side, the second member being disposed such that the metal surface of the second member faces the metal surface of the first member, and a bonding material bonding the first member and the second member by sinter-bonding the metal nano particles. At least one of the metal surfaces of the first member and the second member is formed to be a rough surface having a surface roughness within the range from 0.5 μm to 2.0 μm.
US09362233B2	Radio frequency shielding within a semiconductor package Radio frequency shielding within a semiconductor package is described. In one example, a multiple chip package has a digital chip, a radio frequency chip, and an isolation layer between the digital chip and the radio frequency chip. A cover encloses the digital chip and the radio frequency chip.
US09362232B2	Apparatus and method for embedding components in small-form-factor, system-on-packages According to various aspects of the present disclosure, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a small form factor mobile platform including a system-on-package architecture, the system-on-package architecture arranged as a stack of layers including: a first layer having a first conformable material; a second layer having a second conformable material; a third layer having a third material; and one or more electronic components embedded within the stack of layers, wherein the first conformable material, the second conformable material, or both are configured to allow high frequency signal routing.
US09362231B2	Molecular self-assembly in substrate processing Methods for sealing a porous dielectric are presented including: receiving a substrate, the substrate including the porous dielectric; exposing the substrate to an organosilane, where the organosilane includes a hydrolysable group for facilitating attachment with the porous dielectric, and where the organosilane does not include an alkyl group; and forming a layer as a result of the exposing to seal the porous dielectric. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the organosilane includes: alkynyl groups, aryl groups, fluoroalkyl groups, heteroaryl groups, alcohol groups, thiol groups, amine groups, thiocarbamate groups, ester groups, ether groups, sulfide groups, and nitrile groups. In some embodiments, method further include: removing contamination from the porous dielectric and a conductive region of the substrate prior to the exposing; and removing contamination from the conductive region after the forming.
US09362220B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device, including a substrate having an active region defined therein, a plurality of bit lines extending on the substrate in a first direction, a plurality of interconnection lines extending on the substrate in a second direction, a pad electrically connected to the plurality of interconnection lines and configured to apply an external voltage, a plurality of metal contacts electrically connecting the interconnection lines and the plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of bit line contacts that are in contact with the active region and electrically connect the plurality of bit lines and the active region, wherein a size of at least some of the bit line contacts and/or at least some of the metal contacts vary based on a distance of the respective bit line contact or the metal contact from the pad.
US09362212B1	Integrated circuit package having side and bottom contact pads A packaged integrated circuit device includes a substrate module, leads, an IC die having first and second sets of die contact pads, and an encapsulant. The substrate module has upper and lower sets of conductive contacts on its upper and lower surfaces, respectively. The upper set of conductive contacts is electrically connected to the lower set of conductive contacts. The first set of die contact pads is electrically connected to the upper set of conductive contacts. The second set of die contact pads is electrically connected to the leads. Certain embodiments are a multi-form packaged device having both leads and conductive balls supporting different types of external connections, such as BGA and QFN.
US09362209B1	Shielding technique for semiconductor package including metal lid In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor package wherein a metal lid of the package is used as a shield that effectively surrounds the active circuitry, and thus forms a type of Faraday shield. The lid is electrically coupled to an internal die mounting pad of either a leadframe or an alternative type of substrate. Appropriate interconnect methods between the lid, the die pad, and the ground connections exterior to the semiconductor package include, but are not restricted to, conductive adhesives, wire bonding, bumps, tabs, or similar techniques.
US09362207B2	Metal wiring of semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A metal wiring for applying a voltage to a semiconductor component of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device comprising a low voltage applying region adjacent to a high voltage applying region, is provide. The metal wiring includes: an isolator region, a first lower metal layer electrically connected to the semiconductor component, a first upper metal layer configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a plurality of inter-metal dielectric layers deposited between the first lower metal layer and the first upper metal layer, each of the plurality of inter-metal dielectric layers comprising at least one contact plug for providing an electrical connection between the first lower metal layer and the first upper metal layer.
US09362206B2	Chip and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device has an active surface. The semiconductor device includes at least a connecting element and at least a bump. The connecting element is disposed on the activate surface and has a minimum dimension smaller than 100 microns. The bump is disposed on the connecting element and is electrically connected to the active surface by the connecting element. The bump includes a pillar part disposed on the connecting element and a top part disposed at the top of the pillar part. The pillar part has a first dimension and a second dimension both parallel to the active surface. The first dimension is longer than 1.2 times the second dimension. The top part is composed of solder and will melt under the determined temperature. The pillar part will not melt under a determined temperature.
US09362202B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing same An electronic device includes: a support member; an electronic component stacked over the support member with a plurality of connections therebetween; and a refrigerant pipe through which a refrigerant passes, the refrigerant pipe being provided between at least some connections among the plurality of connections. A method for manufacturing an electric device includes: stacking an electronic component over a support member with a plurality of connections therebetween; and providing a refrigerant pipe, through which a refrigerant passes, between at least some connections among the plurality of connections.
US09362201B2	Heat exchange structure and cooling device comprising such a structure A heat exchange structure is provided, including a primary face provided with non-through holes formed in said face, the inner surface of the holes and the surface of said primary face outside the holes being covered with nanoparticles, the inside of the holes having a non-wettability property relative to a given liquid and the surface of the face between the holes having a wettability property relative to the liquid.
US09362199B2	Chip thermal dissipation structure Disclosed is a chip thermal dissipation structure, employed in an electronic device comprising a first chip having a first chip face and a first chip back, comprising chip molding material, covering a lateral of the first chip; a first case, contacting the first chip back; a packaging substrate, connecting with the first chip face via first bumps; and a print circuit board, having a first surface and a second surface and connecting with the packaging substrate via solders. The chip thermal dissipation structure further comprises a second case, contacting the second surface. The thermal energy generated by the first chip is conducted toward the first case via the first chip back and toward the second case via the first chip face, the first bumps, the packaging substrate, the solders and the print circuit board.
US09362198B2	Semiconductor devices with a thermally conductive layer and methods of their fabrication An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a host substrate and an upper surface, an active area, a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by a recessed surface, and a thermally conductive layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate within the active area. A method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes defining an active area, forming a gate electrode over a channel in the active area, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in the active area on opposite sides of the gate electrode, etching a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by the recessed surface, and depositing a thermally conductive layer over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate over the channel.
US09362195B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device including a package having a hollow portion, which can meet the need of reduction in size and thickness. The semiconductor device includes: a resin molded member (1) including a hollow portion (10) having an inner bottom surface on which a semiconductor chip (6) is mounted, a surrounding portion (1b) that surrounds the hollow portion (10), and a bottom surface portion (1a); an inner lead (2e, 2f); and an outer lead (2a, 2b) exposed from the resin molded member (1). The inner lead buried in the molded member (1) includes an L-shaped lead extending portion having a through hole formed therethrough.
US09362191B2	Encapsulated semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a carrier and a semiconductor chip disposed over the carrier. The semiconductor chip has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the second surface faces the carrier. Further, the semiconductor device includes a pre-encapsulant covering at least partially the second surface of the semiconductor chip and at least partially a side wall surface of the semiconductor chip. The pre-encapsulant has a thermal conductivity of equal to or greater than 10 W/(m·K) and a specific heat capacity of equal to or greater than 0.2 J/(g·K).
US09362189B2	Case including semiconductor nanocrystals, and optoelectronic device including the same A case including a case main body, a matrix including a semiconductor nanocrystal, the matrix disposed in the case main body, and a sealant disposed on the case main body, wherein the sealant has a gas permeability of about 1 cubic centimeter at standard temperature and pressure per centimeter per meter squared per day per atmosphere or less and a tensile strength of about 5 megaPascals or more, and wherein the semiconductor nanocrystal is a Group II-VI compound, a Group III-V compound, a Group IV-VI compound, a Group IV element, a Group IV element, a Group IV compound, or a combination thereof.
US09362188B2	TSV scan cell comparator coupled to voltage reference and response An integrated circuit die includes a substrate of semiconductor material having a top surface, a bottom surface, and an opening through the substrate between the top surface and the bottom surface. A through silicon via (TSV) has a conductive body in the opening, has a top contact point coupled to the body at the top surface, and has a bottom contact point coupled to the body at the bottom surface. A scan cell has a serial input, a serial output, control inputs, a voltage reference input, a response input coupled to one of the contact points, and a stimulus output coupled to the other one of the contact points.
US09362187B2	Chip package having terminal pads of different form factors A chip package includes an integrated circuit chip. A first group of terminal pads of the chip package is electrically connected to the integrated circuit chip and a second group of terminal pads of the chip package is electrically connected to the integrated circuit chip. The first and second groups of terminal pads are arranged on a common terminal surface of the chip package. A pad size of a terminal pad of the first group of terminal pads is greater than a pad size of a terminal pad of the second group of terminal pads.
US09362186B2	Polishing with eddy current feed meaurement prior to deposition of conductive layer A method of controlling polishing includes storing a base measurement, the base measurement being an eddy current measurement of a substrate after deposition of at least one layer overlying a semiconductor wafer and before deposition of a conductive layer over the at least one layer, after deposition of the conductive layer over the at least one layer and during polishing of the conductive layer on substrate, receiving a sequence of raw measurements of the substrate from an in-situ eddy current monitoring system, normalizing each raw measurement in the sequence of raw measurement to generate a sequence of normalized measurements using the raw measurement and the base measurement, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on at least the sequence of normalized measurements.
US09362183B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device Product management and/or prompt defect analysis of a semiconductor device may be carried out without reducing the throughput in assembly and testing. Unique identification information is attached to a plurality of substrates (lead frames) used in manufacturing a semiconductor device (QFP) and to a transport unit for transporting a plurality of substrates, respectively. Identification information (rack ID) of the transport unit and identification information (substrate ID) of the substrate stored into the transport unit are associated with each other. The substrate is taken out from the transport unit set to a loader unit of each manufacturing apparatus and supplied to a processing unit, of the apparatus and in storing the substrate, the processing of which is complete, into a transport unit of an unloader unit of the apparatus, an association between identification information of the transport unit and the identification information of the substrate is checked.
US09362181B1	Methods of forming diffusion breaks on integrated circuit products comprised of FinFET devices and the resulting products One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming first sacrificial gate structures above a fin for two active gates and a dummy gate, removing the first sacrificial gate structure for the dummy gate so as to define a cavity that exposes the fin while leaving the first sacrificial gate structures for the two active gates intact, etching through the cavity to form a trench in the fin under the cavity, forming a second sacrificial gate structure for the dummy gate, removing the first sacrificial gate structures for the two active gates and the second sacrificial gate structure for the dummy gate so as to define a replacement gate cavity for the two active gates and the dummy gate, and forming a replacement gate structure in each of the replacement gate cavities, wherein the replacement gate structure for the dummy gate extends into the trench in the fin.
US09362180B2	Integrated circuit having multiple threshold voltages In one aspect there is set forth herein an integrated circuit having a first plurality of field effect transistors and a second plurality of field effect transistor, wherein field effect transistors of the first plurality of field effect transistors each have a first gate stack and wherein field effect transistors of the second plurality of field effect transistors each have a second gate stack, the second gate stack being different from the first gate stack by having a metal layer common to the first gate stack and the second gate stack that includes a first thickness at the first gate stack and a second thickness at the second gate stack.
US09362176B2	Uniform exposed raised structures for non-planar semiconductor devices The use of two different materials for shallow trench isolation and deep structural trenches with a dielectric material therein (e.g., flowable oxide and a HARP oxide, respectively) causes non-uniform heights of exposed portions of raised semiconductor structures for non-planar semiconductor devices, due to the different etch rates of the materials. Non-uniform openings adjacent the exposed portions of the raised structures from recessing the isolation and dielectric materials are filled with additional dielectric material to create a uniform top layer of one material (the dielectric material), which can then be uniformly recessed to expose uniform portions of the raised structures.
US09362173B2	Method for chip package Provided is a method for chip packaging, including the steps of: providing a semi-packaged wafer which has a cutting trail and a metal bonding pad of the chip; forming on the metal bonding pad a sub-ball metal electrode, using a selective formation process; forming a protective layer on the wafer in a region not including the sub-ball metal electrode, with the protective layer covering the cutting trail; forming a solder ball on the sub-ball metal electrode; dicing the wafer along the cutting trail. The present invention can prevent metal in the cutting trail from being affected during the production of the sub-ball metal electrode, and protect the lateral sides of a discrete chip after cutting. The process flow thereof is simple, and enhances the efficiency of the packaging as well as its yield.
US09362171B2	Through via contacts with insulated substrate Device and a method of forming a device are disclosed. The method includes providing a crystalline-on-insulator (COI) substrate. The COI substrate includes at least a base substrate over a buried insulator layer. Through via (TV) contacts are formed within the substrate. The TV contact extends from a top surface of the base substrate to within the buried insulator layer. Upper interconnect levels are formed over the top surface of the base substrate. A lower redistribution (RDL) is formed over a bottom surface of the base substrate. The buried insulator layer corresponds to a first RDL dielectric layer of the lower RDL and protects the sidewalls of the TV contacts.
US09362169B2	Self-aligned semiconductor fabrication with fosse features The present disclosure describes methods for transferring a desired layout into a target layer on a semiconductor substrate. An embodiment of the methods includes forming a first desired layout feature as a first line over the target layer; forming a spacer around the first line; depositing a spacer-surrounding material layer; removing the spacer to form a fosse pattern trench surrounding the first line; and transferring the fosse pattern trench into the target layer to form a fosse feature trench in the target layer, wherein the fosse feature trench surrounds a first portion of the target layer that is underneath a protection layer. In some embodiments, the method further includes patterning a second desired layout feature of the desired layout into the target layer wherein the fosse feature trench and the protection layer serve to self-align the second desired layout feature with the first portion of the target layer.
US09362165B1	2D self-aligned via first process flow A method of forming 2D self-aligned vias before forming a subsequent metal layer and reducing capacitance of the resulting device and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming dummy metal lines in a SiOC layer and extending in a first direction; replacing the dummy metal lines with metal lines, each metal line having a nitride cap; forming a softmask stack over the nitride cap and the SiOC layer; patterning a plurality of vias through the softmask stack down to the metal lines, the plurality of vias self-aligned along a second direction; removing the softmask stack; forming second dummy metal lines over the metal lines and extending in the second direction; forming a second SiOC layer between the dummy second metal lines on the SiOC layer; and replacing the dummy second metal lines with second metal lines, the second metal lines electrically connected to the metal lines through a via.
US09362162B2	Methods of fabricating BEOL interlayer structures Methods are provided for fabricating an interlayer structure useful in, for instance, providing BEOL interconnect for circuit structures. The method includes, for instance, providing an interlayer structure, including: providing an uncured insulating layer above a substrate structure; forming an energy removal film over the uncured insulated layer; forming at least one opening through the energy removal film and extending at least partially into the uncured insulating layer; and applying energy to cure the uncured insulating layer, establishing a cured insulating layer, and decomposing in part the energy removal film, establishing a reduced thickness, energy removal film over the cured insulating layer, the interlayer structure including the cured insulating layer, and the applying energy decreasing an aspect ratio(s) of the one opening(s). In one implementation, the uncured insulating layer includes porogens which also decompose partially during applying energy to further improve the aspect ratio(s).
US09362161B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming 3D dual side die embedded build-up semiconductor package A semiconductor device has a plurality of semiconductor die. A substrate is provided with bumps disposed over the substrate. A first prefabricated insulating film is disposed between the semiconductor die and substrate. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die and first prefabricated insulating film. The bumps include a copper core encapsulated within copper plating. The first prefabricated insulating film includes glass cloth, glass fiber, or glass fillers. The substrate includes a conductive layer formed in the substrate and coupled to the bumps. The semiconductor die is disposed between the bumps of the substrate. The bumps and the semiconductor die are embedded within the first prefabricated insulating film. A portion of the first prefabricated insulating film is removed to expose the bumps. The bumps electrically connect the substrate to the interconnect structure.
US09362151B2	Substrate warp correcting device and substrate warp correcting method A substrate warp correcting device includes, a lower member including a concave portion, and the lower member on which a substrate is to be arranged, an upper member arranged above the lower member, and the upper member including a gas supplying hole, wherein the substrate is arranged between the lower member and the upper member and above the concave portion, and a sealing member arranged between a periphery part of the substrate and the upper member, and the sealing member sealing a space between the substrate and the upper member.
US09362150B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a housing, a mounting table provided in the housing and configured to mount a substrate thereon, a drive mechanism provided below the mounting table so as to move the mounting table in a front-back direction between a delivering/receiving location for the substrate and a processing chamber, an ultraviolet irradiation unit configured to irradiate the substrate in the processing chamber with ultraviolet rays, a partition member provided to partition the processing chamber and a drive chamber with the drive mechanism positioned therein up and down, the partition member having a slit for allowing movement of a support supporting the mounting table, first exhaust ports formed in the drive chamber to exhaust an atmosphere in the drive chamber, and second exhaust ports formed along a lengthwise direction of the slit so as to face the slit.
US09362147B2	Substrate treatment method A substrate treatment method employs a substrate holding unit, a gas ejection nozzle, and a gas supply unit. The substrate holding unit is configured to hold a substrate. The gas supply unit is configured to supply a gas to the gas ejection nozzle. The gas ejection nozzle is disposed to be positioned adjacent a center portion of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit. The gas ejection nozzle has a gas ejection port. The gas ejection nozzle is configured to eject the gas radially from the gas ejection port over the substrate held by the substrate holding unit to form a gas-flow for covering the substrate.
US09362145B2	Semiconductor apparatus and method for producing the same A method for producing a semiconductor apparatus with a mold including an upper mold half and a lower mold half, includes: an arranging step of arranging on one of the upper mold half and the lower mold half of the mold a substrate on which a semiconductor device is mounted, the mold being kept at a room temperature or heated to a temperature up to 200° C., and arranging on the other of the upper mold half and the lower mold half a substrate on which no semiconductor device is mounted; an integrating step of integrating the substrate on which the semiconductor device is mounted and the substrate on which no semiconductor device is mounted by molding a thermosetting resin with the mold on which the substrates are arranged; and a step of dicing the integrated substrates taken out of the mold to obtain an individualized semiconductor apparatus.
US09362142B2	Flip-chip electronic device and production method thereof A method for making a set of electronic devices is proposed. The method comprises the steps of providing a support comprising a base plate of electrically conductive material, fixing a set of chips of semiconductor material onto respective portions of the base plate, each chip having a first main surface with at least one first conduction terminal and a second main surface opposite the first main surface with at least one second conduction terminal electrically connected to the base plate, fixing an insulating tape of electrically insulating material comprising a plurality of through-holes to the main surface of each chip, the insulating tape protruding from the chips over a further portion of the base plate being not covered by the chips, and forming at least one first electrical contact to each first terminal of the chips through a first set of the through-holes exposing at least in part said first terminal, and at least one second electrical contact to the base plate through a second set of the through-holes exposing at least in part the further portion of the base plate.
US09362141B2	Microelectronic devices, stacked microelectronic devices, and methods for manufacturing such devices Stacked microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing such devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a stacked microelectronic device assembly can include a first known good packaged microelectronic device including a first interposer substrate. A first die and a first through-casing interconnects are electrically coupled to the first interposer substrate. A first casing at least partially encapsulates the first device such that a portion of each first interconnect is accessible at a top portion of the first casing. A second known good packaged microelectronic device is coupled to the first device in a stacked configuration. The second device can include a second interposer substrate having a plurality of second interposer pads and a second die electrically coupled to the second interposer substrate. The exposed portions of the first interconnects are electrically coupled to corresponding second interposer pads.
US09362140B2	Package stack device and fabrication method thereof A package stack device includes a first package structure having a plurality of first metal posts and a first electronic element, a second package structure having a plurality of second metal posts and a second electronic element, and an encapsulant formed between the first and second package structures to encapsulate the first electronic element. By connecting the second metal posts to the first metal posts, respectively, the second package structure is stacked on the first package structure with the support of the metal posts. Further, the gap between the two package structures is filled with the encapsulant to avoid warpage of the substrates.
US09362139B2	Method of making a semiconductor device having a functional capping A wafer level method of making a micro-electronic and/or micro-mechanic device, having a capping with electrical wafer through connections (vias), comprising the steps of providing a first wafer of a semiconductor material having a first and a second side and a plurality of holes and/or recesses in the first side, and a barrier structure extending over the wafer on the second side, said barrier comprising an inner layer an insulating material, such as oxide, and an outer layer of another material. Then, metal is applied in said holes so as to cover the walls in the holes and the bottom of the holes. The barrier structure is removed and contacts are provided to the wafer through connections on the back-side of the wafer. Bonding structures are provided on either of said first side or the second side of the wafer. The wafer is bonded to another wafer carrying electronic and micro-electronic/mechanic components, such that the first wafer forms a capping structure covering the second wafer. Finally the wafer is singulated to individual devices.
US09362131B2	Fast atomic layer etch process using an electron beam An etch process gas is provided to a main process chamber having an electron beam plasma source, and during periodic passivation operations a remote plasma source provides passivation species to the main process chamber while ion energy is limited below an etch ion energy threshold. During periodic etch operations, flow from the remote plasma source is halted and ion energy is set above the etch threshold.
US09362130B2	Enhanced etching processes using remote plasma sources Methods of etching a patterned substrate may include flowing an oxygen-containing precursor into a first remote plasma region fluidly coupled with a substrate processing region. The oxygen-containing precursor may be flowed into the region while forming a plasma in the first remote plasma region to produce oxygen-containing plasma effluents. The methods may also include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into a second remote plasma region fluidly coupled with the substrate processing region while forming a plasma in the second remote plasma region to produce fluorine-containing plasma effluents. The methods may include flowing the oxygen-containing plasma effluents and fluorine-containing plasma effluents into the processing region, and using the effluents to etch a patterned substrate housed in the substrate processing region.
US09362126B2	Process for making a patterned metal oxide structure There is provided a process for making a patterned metal oxide structure comprising the step of heating an imprint structure comprising a polymerized organometallic compound to remove organic material and thereby form the patterned metal oxide structure, wherein the imprint structure is formed by polymerizing a resist mixture comprising at least one olefinic polymerizable compound and a polymerizable organometallic compound having, e.g., at least one carboxylate of Formula 1: wherein n is 1-12; and each R is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloakyl, cycloakenyl, aryl, and aralkyl.
US09362124B2	Method of patterning a metal gate of semiconductor device Provided are methods of patterning metal gate structures including a high-k gate dielectric. In an embodiment, a soluble hard mask layer may be used to provide a masking element to pattern a metal gate. The soluble hard mask layer may be removed from the substrate by water or a photoresist developer. In an embodiment, a hard mask including a high-k dielectric is formed. In a further embodiment, a protection layer is formed underlying a photoresist pattern. The protection layer may protect one or more layers formed on the substrate from a photoresist stripping process.
US09362120B2	Lithography process and composition with de-crosslinkable crosslink material The present disclosure provides a method that includes forming a polymeric material layer on a substrate, wherein the polymeric material layer includes de-crosslinkable crosslink material (DCM); performing a first baking process having a first baking temperature to the polymeric material layer, thereby initiating crosslinking function of the DCM; and performing a second baking process having a second baking temperature to the polymeric material layer, thereby initiating de-crosslinking function of the DCM.
US09362118B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A vertical super junction MOSFET and a lateral MOSFET are integrated on the same semiconductor substrate. The lateral MOSFET is electrically isolated from the vertical super junction MOSFET by an n-buried isolating layer and an n-diffused isolating layer. The lateral MOSFET is formed of a p-well region formed in an n−semiconductor layer bounded by the n-buried isolating layer and n-diffused isolating layer, an n-source region and n-drain region formed in the p-well region, and a gate electrode that covers a portion of the p-well region sandwiched by the n-source region and n-drain region. As the n-buried isolating layer is formed at the same time as an n-layer (3) of the vertical super junction MOSFET, it is possible to reduce cost. Also, it is possible to suppress parasitic action between the elements with the n-buried isolating layer.
US09362116B2	Methods of forming oxide thin film and electrical devices and thin film transistors using the methods Provided are a method of forming an oxide thin film and an electrical device and thin film transistor using the method. The method includes forming an oxide thin film on a substrate by applying a precursor solution; and performing a thermal treatment process on the substrate under a pressurized atmosphere using a gas at about 100° C. to about 400° C.
US09362113B2	Engineered substrates for semiconductor epitaxy and methods of fabricating the same In a method for fabricating an engineered substrate for semiconductor epitaxy, an array of seed structures is assembled on a surface of the substrate. The seed structures in the array have substantially similar directional orientations of their crystal lattices, and are spatially separated from each other. Semiconductor materials are selectively epitaxially grown on the seed structures, such that a rate of growth of the semiconductor materials on the seed structures is substantially higher than a rate of growth of the semiconductor materials on regions of the surface. The semiconductor materials assume a lattice constant and directional orientation of crystal lattice that are substantially similar or identical to those of the seed structures. Related devices and methods are also discussed.
US09362106B2	Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, and storage medium A wafer is held horizontally and rotated by a substrate holding mechanism. An aqueous alkaline solution is supplied to a wafer by a nozzle and caused to flow from a central portion to a peripheral edge portion of the wafer, thereby etching the wafer. An amount of oxygen, which is equal to or more than the amount of oxygen in atmospheric air involved in the aqueous alkaline solution flowing on the wafer, is previously dissolved in the aqueous alkaline solution.
US09362104B2	Short arc type discharge lamp Provided is a short arc discharge lamp that includes: a body including therein a reflection surface and having a front opening; a cathode and an anode opposed to each other in discharge space defined by the reflection surface surrounding the discharge space; a window member provided in front of the body and covering the front opening; and a window supporting member including an inner ring section, an outer ring section, and a coupling section. The inner ring section is configured to allow a circumferential side surface of the window member to be fixed thereto, the outer ring section is larger in diameter than the inner ring section, and the coupling section connects the inner ring section and the outer ring section together. The inner ring section includes, in front of the window member, a front edge section having a shape bent in a radial direction of the window member.
US09362101B2	Plume collimation for laser ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry In various embodiments, a device may generally comprise a capillary having a first end and a second end; a laser to emit energy at a sample in the capillary to ablate the sample and generate an ablation plume in the capillary; an electrospray apparatus to generate an electrospray plume to intercept the ablation plume to produce ions; and a mass spectrometer having an ion transfer inlet to capture the ions. The ablation plume may comprise a collimated ablation plume. The device may comprise a flow cytometer. Methods of making and using the same are also described.
US09362099B2	Field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry filter Ion filter for FAIMS fabricated using the LIGA technique. The ion filter is manufactured using a metal layer to form the ion channels and an insulating support layer to hold the structure rigidly together after separation of the metal layer into two electrodes.
US09362098B2	Ion optical element An ion optical element that may be used as an ion guide in a mass spectrometer, as a reflectron in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, as an ion mobility drift tube in an ion mobility spectrometer, or as a collision cell or reaction cell in a mass spectrometer. The ion optical element has an inner tube made of a first ceramic material within an outer ceramic tube made of a second ceramic material. The electrical resistivity of the second ceramic material is two orders of magnitude or more higher than the electrical resistivity of the first ceramic material. In certain embodiments, the thermal conductivity of the second ceramic material is at least about an order of magnitude higher than the thermal conductivity of the first ceramic material.
US09362094B2	Biomarkers for determining breast cancer bone metastasis The invention provides biomarkers and biomarker profiles that discriminate between a subject with breast cancer that has metastasized to the bone and a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized to the bone. In particular, the biomarker and biomarker profile include polypeptides present or present at higher levels in the circulatory system of subjects having breast cancer bone metastasis compared to subjects having breast cancer without bone metastasis.
US09362092B2	Gas dispersion disc assembly An apparatus includes a gas dispersal plate and an adapter structure. The gas dispersal plate has a plurality of gas dispersion orifices, wherein one or more of the gas dispersion orifices have a first portion with a first cross-section configured to allow entry of gas and a second portion having a second cross-section configured to allow exit of gas, the first cross-section being smaller than the second cross-section.
US09362091B2	Substrate treating apparatus and blocker plate assembly A substrate treating apparatus includes a chamber that encloses an internal space; a susceptor in a lower part of the internal space; a shower head in an upper part of the internal space and spaced above the susceptor and that includes a plurality of distribution holes; and a blocker plate assembly that comprises a body having a plurality of intake holes that divides a space between a top wall of the chamber and the shower head into an upper intake space and a lower distribution space, a ring-shaped partition rib on an upper surface of the body, and a ring-shaped distribution unit on a lower surface of the body.
US09362089B2	Method of controlling the switched mode ion energy distribution system Systems, methods and apparatus for regulating ion energies in a plasma chamber and chucking a substrate to a substrate support are disclosed. An exemplary method includes placing a substrate in a plasma chamber, forming a plasma in the plasma chamber, controllably switching power to the substrate so as to apply a periodic voltage function (or a modified periodic voltage function) to the substrate, and modulating, over multiple cycles of the periodic voltage function, the periodic voltage function responsive to a defined distribution of energies of ions at the surface of the substrate so as to effectuate the defined distribution of ion energies on a time-averaged basis.
US09362079B2	Electron emission source and method for making the same An electron emission source includes a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode stacked in that sequence, wherein the first electrode is a carbon nanotube composite structure comprising a carbon nanotube layer and a semiconductor layer stacked together, and the semiconductor layer is sandwiched between the carbon nanotube layer and the insulating layer. A method for making the electron emission source is also related.
US09362077B2	Electrical device with miswire protection and automated testing The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring device that includes a plurality of line terminals, a plurality of feed-through load terminals, and at least one set of receptacle load terminals. A circuit interrupter assembly includes a plurality of movable interconnection members. Each movable interconnection member includes a first interconnecting contact disposed on a first side thereof and a second interconnecting contact disposed on a second side thereof. The first interconnecting contact and the second interconnecting contact are offset from one another in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of movement. The movable interconnection members are movable in the direction of movement between a reset position wherein the line terminals, the feed-through load terminals and the receptacle load terminals are electrically connected, and a tripped position wherein the the various terminals are electrically disconnected.
US09362067B2	Contact slider unit for a switching unit, in particular for a circuit breaker A contact slider unit is disclosed for a switching unit, in particular for a circuit breaker, having a contact slider and a contact piece. In an embodiment, the contact piece has a passage through which a tappet is guided.
US09362064B2	Electrical switching apparatus and opening assembly having an engagement lug An opening assembly is provided for an electrical switching apparatus having a housing, separable contacts enclosed by the housing, and an operating mechanism for opening and closing the separable contacts. The operating mechanism includes a poleshaft. The opening assembly includes a spring link comprising a first portion structured to be pivotably coupled to the poleshaft, and a second portion disposed generally opposite of the first portion. A number of opening springs each include a stationary end coupled to the housing, and a movable end coupled to the second portion of the spring link. The spring link is movable between an open position, wherein the opening springs bias the spring link and poleshaft to maintain full separation of the separable contacts, and a closed position, wherein the opening springs either do not bias the poleshaft or bias the poleshaft with a low level of torque.
US09362063B2	Bus plug lockout devices and related apparatus and methods An apparatus for locking out an elevated bus plug includes an elongated member, a lockout device at a distal end portion of the elongated member and an actuator at a proximal end portion of the elongated member. The lockout device includes a housing, a channel in the housing that is sized and configured to receive a handle of the bus plug and a handle engagement mechanism connected to the housing. The handle engagement mechanism is configured to engage a handle of the bus plug that has been received in the channel responsive to actuation of the actuator.
US09362054B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor A multilayer ceramic capacitor including, a ceramic body; a plurality of first and second internal electrodes disposed to be alternately exposed through first and second side surfaces facing each other in a width direction; and first and second external electrodes formed on the surfaces of the ceramic body in the length and thickness directions, wherein when a length of the ceramic body is defined as L, a width of the ceramic body is defined as W, a thickness of the ceramic body is defined as h, and a length of the first or second external electrode is defined as B, a ratio L/W of the length to the width of the ceramic body satisfies 1.4≦L/W≦2.1, and a relationship B×h/W between the thickness and the width of the ceramic body and the length of the first or second external electrode satisfies B×h/W≦1.27.
US09362051B2	Self-protected low-voltage capacitor The capacitor (2) according to the invention comprises: an enclosure (4); an insulating material (6) contained in the enclosure (4); a capacitive device (8) comprising two conductive layers and at least one dielectric layer formed from a dielectric material and inserted between the two conductive layers; and a protection device (12) comprising a mechanism (40) for disconnecting the capacitive device (8) in case of overpressure in the enclosure (4); and characterized in that it further comprises, inside the enclosure (4), a degassing material (58) capable of releasing gas at a degassing temperature (Tgaz) below the decomposition temperature of the dielectric material to generate an overpressure in the enclosure (4).
US09362050B2	Inner drive for magnetic drive pump An inner drive for a magnetic drive pump includes a magnet supported on a yoke. The inner drive is driven about an axis to pump a corrosive process fluid. The magnet and yoke are fully encapsulated during the molding process to completely surround the magnet and yoke in a protective plastic shell. A sleeve is arranged radially outwardly of the magnet to provide further protection. Backing rings are arranged on either side of the magnet. A bonding material joins the plastic shell to the backing rings and sleeve to prevent a space from forming beneath the plastic shell that would become filled with the process fluid once it has permeated the plastic shell. A protective coating is arranged on at least a portion of the magnet to further insulate the magnet from the process fluid.
US09362048B2	Contactless power feed equipment At the start of power supply from a power supply device to an induction line, the oscillation frequency of an inverter of the power supply device is set at a predetermined frequency shifted from the resonance frequency of a resonant circuit. After a predetermined time, the frequency is changed from the predetermined frequency to the resonance frequency. Thus, at the start of power supply, only small power is obtained by the resonant circuits in all transport carriages from the induction line in a full-load condition. Thus, total power is suppressed within power that can be supplied by the power supply device, avoiding an overloaded condition of the power supply device.
US09362046B2	Luminaire having a connection device A kit of parts (1) comprising an electric cable (3) comprising hermetically sealed electric conductors, a connection device (5) comprising a first (9a) and a second connection part (9b), the first and second connection part each comprising a cavity (12) in which a respective secondary conduction coil (14) is arranged and connected to respective electrical contacts. In a connected arrangement of the connection device and the electric cable, the wire is wound around both the first connection part in a first winding sense and around the second connection part in a second, opposite winding sense. Thus, a watertight electric connection between the cable and the connection device is established.
US09362042B2	Electronic component An electronic component having: a laminate formed by laminating a plurality of insulator layers; and a coil consisting of linear coil conductor layers that are laminated along with the insulator layers, the coil having a spiral form or a helical form that windingly extends in a direction of lamination. In a cross section perpendicular to a direction in which the coil conductor layers extend, the coil conductor layers have recesses provided in their surfaces directed toward an inner circumference side of the coil, the recesses being set back toward an outer circumference side of the coil.
US09362038B2	Magnetic element A magnetic element including a magnetoresistive effect film (MEF). Magnetic element includes an MEF and nonmagnetic spacer layer, first and second ferromagnetic layers, wherein layers being disposed with nonmagnetic spacer layer interposed therebetween, pair of electrodes disposed with MEF interposed therebetween in stacking direction of MEF at least two first soft magnetic layers, coil, and second soft magnetic layer magnetically connected to coil, wherein second soft magnetic layer has ring-like shape, spacing distance between second soft magnetic layer and MEF is larger than first soft magnetic layer and MEF, film thickness of second soft magnetic layer is larger than first soft magnetic layer, part of the two first soft magnetic layers overlaps a part of second soft magnetic layer in stacking direction of MEF, first and second soft magnetic layers are magnetically coupled to each other, and MEF is disposed between respective fore ends of two first soft magnetic layers.
US09362033B2	Magnetic material, method for producing magnetic material, and inductor element A magnetic material is disclosed, which includes magnetic particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare earth elements, Ba and Sr; a first coating layer of a first oxide that covers at least a portion of the magnetic particles; oxide particles of a second oxide that is present between the magnetic particles and constitutes an eutectic reaction system with the first oxide; and an oxide phase that is present between the magnetic particles and has an eutectic structure of the first oxide and the second oxide.
US09362020B2	Method of manufacturing a dry type electrical insulation A method of making a dry type insulation is provided. The method includes combining a base fiber having a first outer surface with a binder material wherein the base fiber has a first melting point and the binder material has a second melting point which is different from the first melting point, heating the base fiber and binder material to a temperature above the second melting point, but below the first melting point using a double-belt press to form a resultant dry type insulation, compressing the base fiber and binder material using the double-belt press to form the resultant dry type insulation and cooling the resultant dry type insulation using the double-belt press.
US09362016B2	Cathode active material, method for making the same and lithium ion battery using the same A cathode active material of a lithium ion battery includes a number of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles and an AlF3 layer coated on a surface of the LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles. A method for making the cathode active material is provided. In the method, a number of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles are provided. The LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles are added to a trivalent aluminum source solution to form a solid-liquid mixture. A fluorine source solution is put into the solid-liquid mixture to react and form an AlF3 layer coated on the surface of the LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles. The coated LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 particles are heat treated to form the cathode active material. A lithium ion battery including the cathode active material is also provided.
US09362014B2	Plate-like electric conductor for a busbar and the busbar formed therefrom A plate-like electric conductor for a busbar having excellent electric conductivity, strength and bendability, and a busbar formed therefrom.The electric conductor formed from an aluminum alloy plate having a thickness of 0.5-12 mm is obtained by subjecting an aluminum alloy consisting essentially of Fe: 0.05-2.0%; Si: 0.05-0.6%; Cu: 0.01-0.35%; by mass, and the balance comprising Al and inevitable impurities to a hot rolling process. The electric conductor has the electric conductivity of 55-60% IACS, tensile strength not lower than 170 MPa and yield strength not lower than 155 MPa, in the as-rolled state at the room temperature, and does not suffer from cracking upon bending by 90° with an inner bending radius equal to its thickness, while having the electric conductivity of 55-60% IACS, tensile strength not lower than 160 MPa, and yield strength not lower than 145 MPa, after a heat treatment at 140-160° C. for not longer than 1,000 hours.
US09362011B2	Nuclear reactor assembly having a connection between a control rod guide tube and a drive housing pipe A boiling water reactor assembly includes a bayonet plate closure between a control rod guide tube and a drive housing pipe. The bayonet plate closure has a bayonet plate constructed in two parts including a central bayonet ring mounted rotatably about its longitudinal axis and an outer ring completely surrounding the bayonet ring. The outer ring is mounted on the periphery of the bayonet ring and reaches inwards under the bayonet ring periphery. The ring is furthermore permanently supported in the axial direction on the drive housing pipe by spring pressure acting on the control rod guide tube, in order to produce a frictional connection. The spring pressure can be released unhindered from the reactor side by tools.
US09362010B2	Passive reactivity control apparatus In response to a change in a thermal operational parameter in a nuclear fission reactor, reactivity is controlled by driving a neutron absorption parameter modifying material to or from a region of the core of the nuclear fission reactor. The apparatus includes a driver material disposed in a first reservoir portion and a second reservoir portion of a first reservoir and connected by a first conduit. A high-Z material may be distributed in the driver material. The neutron absorption parameter modifying material is disposed in both a second reservoir and the second reservoir portion of the first reservoir. A portion of the neutron absorption parameter modifying material is in physical contact with a portion of the driver material in the second reservoir portion. The neutron absorption parameter modifying material is driveable by the driver material between the second reservoir portion and the second reservoir through a second conduit.
US09362003B2	System and method to decode data subject to a disturb condition A method includes initiating a first decode operation of data at an error correction code (ECC) hard bit decoder in a data storage device that includes a controller and a memory. The method further includes, in response to the first decode operation indicating that the data is uncorrectable by the first decode operation, identifying one or more bits of the data that correspond to a disturb condition test pattern, changing a value of the one or more identified bits of the data to generate modified data, and initiating a second decode operation at the ECC hard bit decoder using the modified data.
US09361992B1	Low voltage semiconductor memory device and method of operation A semiconductor device for storing data includes a memory cell. The memory cell comprises a plurality of transistors. A trimmable sense amplifier is electrically connected to the memory cell. The trimmable sense amplifier is configured to provide variable current to said memory cell. A charge pump is also electrically connected to the memory cell. The charge pump includes a plurality of diodes disposed in series with one another. The charge pump includes an input for receiving an input voltage and an output for providing an output voltage greater than the input voltage to the memory cell.
US09361987B2	Managing data writing to memories Systems and processes may use a first memory, a second memory, and a memory controller. The second memory is at least as large as a block of the first memory. Data is received and stored in the second memory for further writing to the second memory.
US09361986B2	High endurance non-volatile storage A non-volatile storage system is disclosed that includes non-volatile memory cells designed for high endurance and lower retention than other non-volatile memory cells.
US09361985B2	Nonvolatile memory devices including simultaneous impedance calibration and input command An operating method of a nonvolatile memory device is provided which includes receiving a command sequence; detecting whether the input command sequence accompanies an impedance calibration operation; and if the input command sequence accompanies the impedance calibration operation, simultaneously performing an operation corresponding to the input command sequence and the impedance calibration operation.
US09361984B2	Flash-based memory system with robust backup and restart features and removable modules A Flash-based memory system comprises a plurality of Flash memory devices, a Flash controller communicating independently with each Flash memory device to perform memory operations, a power circuit providing power the Flash memory devices, and a CPU configured to perform a controlled powering down procedure upon detecting a power failure. In some embodiments, the Flash-based memory system includes a backup power source having a charge storage device and charging circuitry, the CPU configured to perform one or more test procedures on the charge storage device to provide an indication of a charge storage capacity of the charge storage device. A plurality of Flash-based memory systems may be mounted on a Flash-based memory card, and multiple such Flash-based memory cards may be combined into a Flash-based memory module. A number of Flash-based memory modules may then be removably mounted in a rack-mountable housing to form unitary Flash-based memory unit.
US09361982B2	Embedded non-volatile memory with single polysilicon layer memory cells programmable through band-to-band tunneling-induced hot electron and erasable through fowler-nordheim tunneling A non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. Each memory cell includes a read portion and a control portion. The read portion and the control portion share an electrically floating layer of conductive material defining a first capacitive coupling with the read portion and a second capacitive coupling with the control portion. The first capacitive coupling defines a first capacity greater than a second capacity defined by the second capacitive coupling. The control portion is configured so that an electric current injects or extracts charge carriers into or from the electrically floating layer to store of a first logic value or a second logic value, respectively, in the memory cell.
US09361980B1	RRAM array using multiple reset voltages and method of resetting RRAM array using multiple reset voltages According to another embodiment, a method of reset operation for a resistive random access memory (RRAM) array, having a first RRAM connected to a first word line and a second RRAM connected to a second word line, is provided. A first electrical resistance between the first word line and a word line voltage source is lower than a second electrical resistance between the second word line and the word line voltage source. The method includes: providing a first voltage by using the word line voltage source for resetting the first RRAM; and providing a second voltage by using the word line voltage source for resetting the second RRAM, wherein the first voltage for resetting the first RRAM is lower than the second voltage for resetting the second RRAM.
US09361977B2	Reliable read operation for nonvolatile memory device with resistance material that reads data based on reference current Provided is a nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device may include a resistive memory cell, a reference current generator which provides a reference current, a reference signal generator which provides a reference signal indicating a reference time for data read based on the reference current, and a read circuit which receives the reference signal and reads data by comparing a ramp-up time of a cell current flowing through the resistive memory cell with the reference time.
US09361976B2	Sense amplifier including a single-transistor amplifier and level shifter and methods therefor Methods are provided for use with a memory array that includes a selected memory cell coupled to a selected word line and a selected bit line, with the selected word line biased at a read voltage. The method include coupling a sense amplifier to the selected bit line, the sense amplifier including a capacitor integrator, a single-transistor amplifier and a level shifter, maintaining the selected bit line at a voltage of substantially 0V using the single-transistor amplifier and the level shifter, and integrating a selected bit line current on the capacitor integrator.
US09361974B2	Resistive memory device and method of operating the same to reduce leakage current A method of operating a memory device includes determining a value of an operating current flowing through a selected first signal line, to which a selection voltage is applied, from among a plurality of first signal lines; dividing an array of memory cells into n blocks, n being an integer greater than 1, based on the value of the operating current; and applying inhibit voltages having different voltage levels corresponding to the n blocks to unselected ones of second signal lines included in the n blocks. Each of the unselected second signal lines is a pathway through which leakage current may potentially flow due to the operating current flowing through the selected first signal line and a memory cell addressed by the unselected second signal line and the selected first signal line.
US09361970B2	Configuration for power reduction in DRAM Disclosed embodiments may include an apparatus having a segment wordline enable coupled to logic to selectively disable ones of a number of segment wordline drivers. The logic may partition a page of the apparatus to reduce power consumed through activation of the disabled ones of the number of segment wordlines. Other embodiments may be disclosed.
US09361967B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array configured to include a plurality of word lines, a dock enable buffer configured to receive a clock enable signal, a plurality of command buffers configured to receive a plurality of commands, a refresh control unit configured to sequentially activate the plurality of word lines in a self-refresh mode, a command decoder configured to decode the clock enable signal and the plurality of commands, and to allow the refresh control unit to enter the self-refresh mode or exit from the self-refresh mode, and a buffer control unit configured to disable the plurality of command buffers when the clock enable signal is deactivated, and to enable the plurality of command buffers when the refresh control unit exits from the self-refresh mode.
US09361965B2	Circuit and method for imprint reduction in FRAM memories A method of operating a memory circuit (FIGS. 8A and 8B) is disclosed. The method includes writing true data (01) to a plurality of bits (B0, B1). A first data state (0) is written to a signal bit (Bi) indicating the true data. The true data is read and complementary data (10) is written to the plurality of bits. A second data state (1) is written to the signal bit indicating the complementary data.
US09361959B2	Low power double pumped multi-port register file architecture Embodiments that may allow for selectively tuning a delay of individual write paths within a memory are disclosed. The memory may comprise a memory array, a first data latch, a second data latch, and circuitry. The first and second data latches may be configured to each sample a respective data value, responsive to detecting a first edge of a first clock signal. The circuitry may be configured to detect the first edge of the first clock signal, and select an output of the first data latch responsive to detecting the first edge of the first clock signal. The circuitry may detect a subsequent opposite edge of the first clock signal, and select an output of the second data latch responsive to sampling the opposite edge of the first clock signal.
US09361952B2	Storage controlling apparatus, memory system, information processing system and storage controlling method Disclosed herein is a storage controlling apparatus including: a decision portion configured to decide whether or not a bit number of a specific value from between binary values is greater than a reference value in at least part of input data to a memory cell, which executes rewriting to one of the binary values and rewriting to the other one of the binary values in order in a writing process, to generate decision data indicative of a result of the decision; and a write side outputting portion configured to output, when it is decided that the bit number is greater than the reference value, the input data at least part of which is inverted as write data to the memory cell together with the decision data.
US09361951B2	Statistical peak-current management in non-volatile memory devices A method includes, in a storage system that includes multiple memory devices, holding a definition of a given type of storage command. Multiple storage commands of the given type are executed in the memory devices, such that an actual current consumption of each storage command deviates from a nominal current waveform defined for the given type by no more than a predefined deviation, and such that each storage command is preceded by a random delay.
US09361950B1	Semiconductor device with reduced leakage current and method for manufacture of the same A semiconductor device with reduced leakage current and a method of manufacturing these reduced leakage current semiconductor devices are disclosed. The reduced leakage current semiconductor devices may be used for both static circuits and dynamic circuits. The reduced leakage current semiconductor devices reduce leakage current in the device when the node is not transitioning which occurs more than 95% of the time.
US09361949B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of first stacked structures including a plurality of first material layers at ends of which first contact regions are defined, a plurality of second stacked structures including a plurality of second material layers, wherein second contact regions are defined at ends of the second material layers and arranged between the first stacked structures so that the first contact regions and the second contact regions overlap each other, and a plurality of lines coupled in common to the first contact regions and the second contact regions.
US09361947B1	Hard disk drive motor cup support A hard disk drive assembly having a hard disk drive positioned within an enclosure. A shock support is interposed between the hard disk drive and at least one wall of the enclosure so that external shocks on the enclosure are transmitted through the shock support. The shock support can be either a rigid support made of metal or a resilient support made of elastomeric material.
US09361945B2	Retaining clip for use with a mass storage device A retaining clip to be used with a storage device in a host computer system, wherein the retaining clip is configured to secure an interposer serving as electrical and logic state interface between the device and the structure of the host system. The retaining clip engages with the device through a peg inserted into a mounting hole for the device and secures the interposer by holding it against the device's data or power connector by a tab extending over the interposer and exerting pressure against it towards the device. Additional fins extending from the body of the clip in substantially opposite direction from the tab secure the tab against the enclosure of the host computer system.
US09361943B2	System and method for tagging objects in a panoramic video and associating functions and indexing panoramic images with same A system and process for attaching tags to panoramic video. Tags provide information when viewing panoramic images, serve as references to specific actions and serve as reference for outside systems into a panoramic image database. Objects in a video can be tagged. It defines tags through 4-D time-space curves, which specify the 3-D location of a tagged object over time. It provides a user-friendly mechanism for defining said curves in panoramic video, which rely on curve fitting techniques to minimize the number of images to be labeled. It provides a mechanism for annotating tags with further information. When displaying tagged panoramic video, tags are graphically superimposed on the panoramic video feed using projective projection techniques. From this visualization, a user can then select a given tag and invoke an associated action. Additionally a mechanism whereby tags and associated user-provided information are used as index into panoramic image databases is provided.
US09361940B2	Recording of multiple television channels In various embodiments, a selection of a television program to record may be received by a television receiver. The television program may be broadcast on a first television channel and as part of a first transponder stream. A plurality of television channels that are transmitted as part of the first transponder stream may be determined. A user interface may be presented that permits a user to select from the plurality of television channels transmitted on the first transponder stream. A selection of a second television channel from the plurality of television channels may be received. In response to the selection of the first television program to record and the selection of the second television channel from the plurality of television channels, record the first television channel and the second television channel via a single tuner.
US09361938B1	Disk defect management for a data storage device A Data Storage Device (DSD) includes at least one disk surface for storing data and a memory for storing a bitmap buffer. A segment of a disk surface is identified that includes at least one defect region, and a segment bitmap is generated for the segment indicating the at least one defect region within the segment. The segment bitmap is stored in the bitmap buffer.
US09361937B2	Shingled magnetic recording data store Implementations disclosed herein provide a method comprising storing data in a two level key-value data store in an SMR storage device, wherein a first level of the data store comprises a journal of incoming host operations and a second level of the data store comprises a plurality of ordered data stores, ordered based on a predetermined ordering criterion.
US09361936B2	Coded seeking apparatus and techniques for data retrieval Data blocks to be stored on a disk-based data storage device (e.g., a hard disk drive, etc.) are coded together to form a plurality of linearly independent network coded blocks. The network coded blocks are then stored on the data storage device. Coded seeking may then be used to retrieve the original data blocks from the data storage device in a time-efficient manner. A read request may be sent to the data storage device requesting an innovative coded packet associated with the original data blocks. In response to the read request, the data storage device may read an innovative coded packet from the disk that is closest to current position of a read element of the device.
US09361935B2	Content publishing system, publishing method for a content publishing system, and publishing terminal A content publishing system, a publishing method for a content publishing system, and a publishing terminal provide a service that is particularly convenient for the customer. A content publishing system SY having a plurality of publishing terminals 204 that record and publish content information containing content on recording media has an order content input unit 610 enabling customers to input order content, a publishing terminal extraction unit 420 that extracts from among the plural publishing terminals 204 one or more publishing terminals 204 that can process the order content based on the order content, a calculation unit 550 that calculates the required time denoting the time required to publish the order content according to the order content for the extracted one or more publishing terminals 204, a display unit 620 that displays the calculated required times of the one or more publishing terminals 204, and an order terminal selection unit 630 for specifying the publishing terminal 204 to process the order from among the one or more publishing terminals 204 displayed. The content publishing system, a publishing method for a content publishing system, and a publishing terminal record content using the specified publishing terminal 204.
US09361926B2	Media etch process A method for etching a media is disclosed. A first magnetic layer comprising grains is deposited with a segregant such that a portion of the first segregant covers a top surface of the grains of the first magnetic layer and a second portion of the first segregant separates the grains of the first magnetic layer. The first segregant is etched to remove the portion of the first segregant that covers the top surface of the grains.
US09361923B1	PP3 shape designs for shield domain control to improve either skip track erasure (STE) or write performance for perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) A shield structure for a PMR writer is disclosed and features a first trailing shield on a write gap, and a second (PP3) trailing shield on the first trailing shield and magnetically connected to the main pole layer. From a top-down view along the down-track direction, the PP3 trailing shield has various shapes to provide shape anisotropy such that following hard magnet or reverse magnet initialization, PP3 trailing shield magnetic orientation has a stable three domain configuration thereby minimizing skip track erasure (STE) or improving area density capability (ADC). At least one sloped side is introduced that forms an angle >90 degrees with the PP3 trailing shield backside. In other embodiments, a thinner leading shield may be used to improve STE. The PP3 trailing shield may have a dome shape or a planar shape from a down-track cross-sectional view.
US09361921B2	Tape servo track write compensation Recording a servo write head spacing for writing servo tracks on a magnetic tape in a manufacturing environment. One or more environmental condition measurements of the manufacturing environment are received by a computer. A pair of servo tracks is written on a magnetic tape by a pair of servo write heads at a nominal spacing. The one or more environmental condition measurements of the manufacturing environment and information pertaining to the spacing of the servo tracks on the magnetic tape are recorded in one or more data stores.
US09361919B1	Disk drive with parallel head actuation An apparatus includes a first read/write head coupled to a first micro actuator, a second read/write head coupled to a second micro actuator, an actuator and a controller. The actuator is coupled to both the first and second micro actuators. The controller is configured to position the first read/write head in response to a first micro actuator control signal and an actuator control signal. Further, the controller is configured to position the second read/write head in response to a second micro actuator control signal and the actuator control signal. The positioning of the first and second read/write heads by the controller is performed substantially simultaneously.
US09361913B1	Recording read heads with a multi-layer AFM layer methods and apparatuses Apparatuses and methods of recording read heads with a multi-layer anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) layer are provided. The AFM layer has gradient Manganese (Mn) compositions. A multi-layer AFM layer comprises a plurality of sub-layers having different Mn compositions. An upper sub-layer has a higher Mn composition than an lower sub-layer. Different types of gases may be used to deposit each sub-layer and the flow of each gas may be adjusted.
US09361911B1	Magnetic recording head and disk device with the same According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes an air bearing surface, a main pole including an end portion exposed to the air bearing surface and configured to produce a recording magnetic field, a first shield opposing the end portion of the main pole with a first gap in a head run direction, and second shields disposed on both width direction sides of the main pole with second gaps, respectively. Each second shield includes a first side face opposing the end portion of the main pole with the second gap, and a second side face located on a side away from the main pole. The second side face is inclined to the main pole side towards a direction away from the air bearing surface.
US09361908B2	Computer-implemented systems and methods for scoring concatenated speech responses Systems and methods are provided for scoring non-native speech. Two or more speech samples are received, where each of the samples are of speech spoken by a non-native speaker, and where each of the samples are spoken in response to distinct prompts. The two or more samples are concatenated to generate a concatenated response for the non-native speaker, where the concatenated response is based on the two or more speech samples that were elicited using the distinct prompts. A concatenated speech proficiency metric is computed based on the concatenated response, and the concatenated speech proficiency metric is provided to a scoring model, where the scoring model generates a speaking score based on the concatenated speech metric.
US09361904B2	Method for predicting bandwidth extension frequency band signal, and decoding device A method for predicting a bandwidth extension frequency band signal includes demultiplexing a received bitstream to obtain a frequency domain signal; determining whether a highest frequency bin, to which a bit is allocated, of the frequency domain signal is less than a preset start frequency bin of a bandwidth extension frequency band; predicting an excitation signal of the bandwidth extension frequency band according to the determination; and predicting the bandwidth extension frequency band signal according to the predicted excitation signal of the bandwidth extension frequency band and a frequency envelope of the bandwidth extension frequency band.
US09361903B2	Preserving privacy of a conversation from surrounding environment using a counter signal Various embodiments provide an ability to analyze an audio input signal and generate a counter audio signal based, at least in part, on the audio input signal. In some cases, combining the audio input signal with the counter audio signal renders the audio input signal incoherent and/or unintelligible to accidental listeners and/or listeners to whom the audio input signal is not directed towards. Alternately or additionally, the counter signal can mask the audio input signal to the accidental listeners.
US09361901B2	Integrated speech intelligibility enhancement system and acoustic echo canceller A system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a far-end telephone speech signal to a user of a telephony device in the presence of near-end background noise. As described herein, the system and method improves the intelligibility of the far-end telephone speech signal in a manner that does not require user input and that minimizes the distortion of the far-end telephone speech signal. The system is integrated with an acoustic echo canceller and shares information therewith.
US09361899B2	System and method for compressed domain estimation of the signal to noise ratio of a coded speech signal The present disclosure is directed towards a process for estimating the signal to noise ratio of a speech signal. The process may include receiving, at a computing device, a speech signal having a bitstream and a signal-to-noise ratio (“SNR”) associated therewith. The process may further include estimating the SNR directly from the bitstream or using a partial decoder that is configured to extract one or more parameters, the parameters including at least one of a fixed codebook gain, an adaptive codebook gain, a pitch lag, and a line spectral frequency (“LSF”) coefficient.
US09361896B2	Temporal and spatial shaping of multi-channel audio signal A selected channel of a multi-channel signal which is represented by frames composed from sampling values having a high time resolution can be encoded with higher quality when a wave form parameter representation representing a wave form of an intermediate resolution representation of the selected channel is derived, the wave form parameter representation including a sequence of intermediate wave form parameters having a time resolution lower than the high time resolution of the sampling values and higher than a time resolution defined by a frame repetition rate. The wave form parameter representation with the intermediate resolution can be used to shape a reconstructed channel to retrieve a channel having a signal envelope close to that one of the selected original channel. The time scale on which the shaping is performed is shorter than the time scale of a framewise processing, thus enhancing the quality of the reconstructed channel. On the other hand, the shaping time scale is larger than the time scale of the sampling values, significantly reducing the amount of data needed by the wave form parameter representation.
US09361892B2	Encoder apparatus and method that perform preliminary signal selection for transform coding before main signal selection for transform coding An encoder apparatus is provided that suppresses the quality degradation of encoding processes. An ultimate selection candidate limiting unit uses the spectrum of an input signal and a residual spectrum to designate a given number of pre-selected suppression factors to a CELP component suppressing unit, which uses the designated suppression factors to generate a suppressed spectrum. A CELP residual signal spectrum calculating unit, to which the suppressed spectrum is input, calculates a residual spectrum. A conversion encoding unit uses the residual spectrum to perform a second encoding process. A distortion evaluating unit determines one of the designated suppression factors by use of the spectrum of a second decoded signal generated by decoding a second code obtained by the second encoding process, and further by use of the suppressed spectrum and the spectrum of the input signal.
US09361890B2	Context-based audio filter selection For context-based audio filter selection, a type module determines a recipient type for a recipient process of an audio signal. The recipient type includes a human destination recipient type and a speech recognition recipient type. A filter module selects an audio filter in response to the recipient type.
US09361889B2	Landmark based positioning with verbal input Disclosed are systems, apparatus, devices, methods, computer program products, and other implementations, including a method that includes determining at a mobile device whether verbal input from a user is required to determine position of location of the user. The method also includes, in response to a determination that the verbal input from the user is required to determine the position of the location of the user, obtaining at the mobile device verbal description data representative of one or more geographic features viewable by the user from the location of the user, identifying at the mobile device the one or more of the geographic features from the obtained verbal description data, and determining, at the mobile device, positioning information for the location of the user based, at least in part, on the one or more geographic features identified from the verbal description data.
US09361888B2	Method and device for providing speech-to-text encoding and telephony service A machine-readable medium and a network device are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in response to a command from a subscriber.
US09361883B2	Dictation with incremental recognition of speech A dictation module is described herein which receives and interprets a complete utterance of the user in incremental fashion, that is, one incremental portion at a time. The dictation module also provides rendered text in incremental fashion. The rendered text corresponds to the dictation module's interpretation of each incremental portion. The dictation module also allows the user to modify any part of the rendered text, as it becomes available. In one case, for instance, the dictation module provides a marking menu which includes multiple options by which a user can modify a selected part of the rendered text. The dictation module also uses the rendered text (as modified or unmodified by the user using the marking menu) to adjust one or more models used by the dictation model to interpret the user's utterance.
US09361880B2	System and method for recognizing speech with dialect grammars Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for recognizing speech. The method includes receiving speech from a user, perceiving at least one speech dialect in the received speech, selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars based on at least one score associated with the perceived speech dialect and the perceived at least one speech dialect, and recognizing the received speech with the selected at least one grammar. Selecting at least one grammar can be further based on a user profile. Multiple grammars can be blended. Predefined parameters can include pronunciation differences, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Optimized dialect grammars can be domain specific. The method can further include recognizing initial received speech with a generic grammar until an optimized dialect grammar is selected. Selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars can be based on a certainty threshold.
US09361876B2	Method of processing acoustic waves emitted at the outlet of a turbo engine of an aircraft with a dielectric-barrier discharge device and aircraft comprising such a device A method of processing acoustic waves emitted at an outlet of a turbo engine of an aircraft with a dielectric barrier discharge device, and an aircraft including such a device. The method includes activating the dielectric barrier discharge device so as to emit an electric wind in a direction of acoustic waves so as to attenuate the acoustic waves. An aircraft can include such a dielectric barrier discharge device.
US09361875B2	Selective suppression of audio emitted from an audio source Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media, such as storage devices and/or storage disks) to implement selective suppression of audio emitted from an audio source are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein for audio suppression include obtaining, at a first time, reference audio data corresponding to a first audio signal, the first audio signal to be output by an audio source at a second time later than the first time. Such example methods can also include processing the reference audio data to generate a suppression signal to be output by a speaker associated with a user device to suppress the first audio signal when received at the user device at a third time later than the first time. Such example methods can further include providing the suppression signal to an audio output driver in communication with the speaker.
US09361873B2	Spring loaded device that opens up when force is applied and closes when released A spring-loaded bracket resiliently moves an item out of the way of an obstruction and resets its position back to its original position once clear of the obstruction. The bracket includes a first plate adapted to attach to an object, such as a boat transom, and a second plate that may resiliently pivot away from the first plate when a force is applied to the second plate and reset back to its original position when the force is removed. A device, such as a transducer, may attach to the second plate. When the first plate is attached to a boat transom and a transducer is attached to the second plate, when the boat moves through water and the transducer strikes an object, the transducer, with the second plate, may resiliently move out of the way and then reset back to its original position once the object has passed.
US09361865B2	Electronic guitar pick and method An electronic guitar pick, system, system and method may include an enclosure forming a cavity, the enclosure having a first end that is substantially pointed and a second end opposite the first end that is substantially flat, the enclosure having a thickness proximate the cavity greater than a thickness proximate the first end. The electronic guitar pick, system, and method may further include a sensor contained, at least in part, within the cavity and configured to generate a sensor output based on an interaction with the enclosure and a sensory output device, communicatively coupled to the sensor, configured to output a sensory output based, at least in part, on the sensor output.
US09361857B2	Light emitting period setting method, driving method for display panel, driving method for backlight, light emitting period setting apparatus, semiconductor device, display panel and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3.
US09361855B2	Computer-implemented methods and systems for a color generator One exemplary embodiment involves a computer-implemented method that comprises rendering, by a processor, an interface comprising a synopsis node and a plurality of configurable component nodes, each of the component nodes corresponding to a respective color, and the synopsis node having a color that is a combination of the colors of the synopsis node. The method additionally includes, receiving, by the processor, input changing an influence of a first component node and determining, by the processor, a change in the color of the synopsis node based on the received input, wherein the change represents a combination of the colors of the component nodes. Additionally, the method includes rendering, by the processor, the changed synopsis node color in the synopsis node.
US09361847B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device with a signal controller is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a scan driver, a data driver, a touch screen including a touch controller, a graphics controller and a signal controller. The signal controller generates a multiple control signal for controlling the timing of recording of an image signal and the timing of driving of the touch screen panel. The signal controller transmits the multiple control signal to the graphics controller and the touch controller.
US09361844B2	Double sided single drive gate driver with reduced dark spots A gate driver includes a plurality of shift registers and a plurality of cutting units. Each of the shift registers is configured for outputting a shift register signal according to a clock signal of the each of the shift register sequentially. Each of the shift register signals has a working period and the two working periods of the two adjacent shift register signals overlap each other. Each of the cutting units is coupled to a respective one of the shift registers. The cutting unit corresponding to the Nth shift register is configured for cutting a part of the working period from the shift register signal of the Nth shift register to generate a gate driving signal according to the clock signal of the (N−1)th or (N+1)th shift register, such that working periods of the gate driving signals are staggered. N is a positive integer larger than two.
US09361842B2	Display panel driving apparatus and display apparatus having the same A display panel driving apparatus, including a gate driving part configured to output a gate signal to gate lines of a display panel, and a data driving part configured to output a data signal to a data line of the display panel, including a digital-analog converter, wherein the digital-analog converter is configured to convert a common voltage control data of digital format to a common voltage control voltage of analog format.
US09361836B1	Aggregate particles for use in electrophoretic color displays A multi-color display device has front and rear electrodes on opposed sides of an electrophoretic medium. One of the front and rear electrodes occupies only a minor proportion of a pixel. The device has a voltage control capable of applying a first and a smaller second potential difference of either polarity between the electrodes. The electrophoretic medium has first and second species of particles of differing colors and charge polarities. The first and second particles move independently of one another in response to the first potential difference, but upon application of the second potential difference form charged aggregates, moving as a unit, having an aggregate color different from the first and second colors.
US09361827B2	Organic light emitting diode pixel compensation circuit, display panel and display device An organic light emitting diode pixel compensation circuit is disclosed. The compensation circuit compensates threshold voltage of a TFT and supply voltage in a pixel circuit to address non-uniform in a display. In the circuit, a first transistor transmits a data signal to a first capacitor based on a scan signal; a second transistor transmits a reference signal to the first capacitor based on a first light emission signal; a third transistor connects a gate of a drive transistor with a drain of the drive transistor based on the scan signal to read the difference between supply voltage and threshold voltage of the drive transistor and to transmit the difference to the first capacitor and a second capacitor; and the drive transistor generates the drive current based on the supply voltage and the voltage on the first capacitor to drive an organic light emitting diode emit light.
US09361820B2	Apparatus and method for inspecting short circuit defects A method of inspecting a short circuit defect between first wires extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction and second wires extending in the first or second direction, the method including inspecting a short circuit defect between the first and second wires by using a potential difference monitored only in the second wires.
US09361819B2	Image display device and method of controlling the same An image display device adapted to display an image based on an image signal includes a light source, an adjustment section adapted to adjust light intensity of a light emitted from the light source based on a feature amount related to a luminance of the image, a modulation section adapted to modulate the adjusted light based on the image signal, and a control section adapted to suppress reduction of the light intensity by the adjustment section in a case in which a predetermined condition related to temperature of the modulation section is satisfied.
US09361817B2	Removable personalized seat marker and system and method for implementing same A removable personalized seat marker assembly that is temporarily installed on the user's seat at an event to personalize the user's seat. The user may easily remove the seat marker assembly and keep it as memorabilia of the event. The removable seat marker assembly comprises a personalized marker that enhances the experience of attending an event by allowing the user to customize their seat at the event by choosing from a variety of templates, personal user information, or event information, such as user's name, and/or the event name, date, and/or place. The seat marker assembly comprises a body having a front panel and a rear panel forming at least one enclosed compartment therein. The body comprises one or more attachment portions for installing the seat marker assembly to a seat. The front panel of the body comprises a clear window for displaying a personalized marker printed with information about the user and the event. The personalized marker may further comprise a machine-readable medium, wherein upon scanning the machine-readable medium at the event with a communication device of the user, the user may access, via a mobile phone application or website, information associated with the event, the user, the personalized marker, or any combination thereof.
US09361814B2	Backlit sign exhibiting brightness and color uniformity A backlit sign exhibiting a uniform illumination intensity pattern is achieved in a structure having a light transmissive front panel, a back panel, and a plurality of backlight modules disposed on a surface of the back panel that faces the front panel, wherein the backlight modules are spaced apart in an array, and each module includes at least one LED and a lens member having a lens portion that collects light from the LED and redirects the light into a generally square illumination pattern on the front panel.
US09361811B2	Multi-layered label for a letter or package A label includes a first section and a second section that is attached to the first section. The first section includes a panel. The panel includes one or more sides that are detachable from the first section.
US09361810B2	Uninhabited test city A full scale uninhabited test facility is configured for building modular man made structures, evaluating modular man made structures, evaluating use of modular man made structures, and/or for other purposes. The structures may be located in a user configurable simulated environment. One or more structures may be configured to simulate use by inhabitants in a simulated environment. After testing, the constructed structure(s) may remain where built in the simulated environment(s) until such time as another user may reconfigure the environments or structures. As additional structures are built and/or modified, new and old structures may operate side by side, generating opportunity, for example, to test new and/or different technology on the same structures.
US09361803B2	Parking assistance apparatus and parking assistance method for vehicle Disclosed are a parking assistance apparatus and a parking assistance method for a vehicle. The parking assistance apparatus for a vehicle according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a parking line detecting unit which detects a left parking line and a right parking line of a parking space based on an image; an obstacle sensing unit which detects an obstacle existing within a predetermined distance based on a sensor; and a route creating unit which combines information about positions of the left parking line, the right parking line, and the obstacle, and creates a parking route.
US09361796B2	System and method for monitoring people and/or vehicles in urban environments System which comprises a plurality of devices for acquiring (1) identifiers of transmitter devices (2) by means of radio frequency in the 2.4 GHz band, these acquisition devices (1) being connected to a central management computer (3) for sending the captured identifiers of the transmitter devices (2) in form of tags (32) in order to include the latter in a database (31). The method comprises the stages of: —acquiring the identifier of the transmitter devices (2) at particular points; —extracting the exclusive part; —encrypting said exclusive part in a tag (32); —sending the tag (32), acquisition point and time (33) to a database (31) of a central computer (3); —comparing the tag (32) and time (33) with the previously stored data in the database (31).
US09361795B2	Regional driving trend modification using autonomous vehicles Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and a computer system for modifying regional driving habits. A computer determines a first value associated with a regional driving habit for a region. The computer determines a second value associated with a target driving habit, wherein the second value is not substantially equivalent to the first value. The computer determines that a number of at least semi-autonomous vehicles in an area is above a threshold value. The computer transmits information instructing the number of at least semi-autonomous vehicles to operate based on the second value.
US09361791B2	Systems and methods for an adaptive and interactive healing environment A system and method for promoting enhanced healing of a medical patient includes a patient room having accommodations for the medical patient, a central computer connected to a media server, a main display located in the patient room, the main display connected to the central computer and including at least a navigation pane and a content pane, an audio system connected to the central computer and capable of providing sound to the patient room, and a remote unit directly accessible to the medical patient, the remote unit having a capability to control the central computer and a content of the main display and a content of the audio system.
US09361790B2	Remote control for a wireless load control system A remote control for a wireless load control system, the remote control comprising: a housing having a front surface and an outer periphery defined by a length and a width; an actuator provided at the front surface of the housing; a wireless transmitter contained within the housing; and a controller contained within the housing and coupled to the wireless transmitter for causing transmission of a wireless signal in response to an actuation of the actuator, the wireless transmitter and the controller adapted to be powered by a battery contained within the housing; wherein the length and the width of the housing are slightly smaller than a length and a width of a standard opening of a faceplate, respectively, such that the outer periphery of the housing is adapted to be received within the standard opening of the faceplate when the housing and the faceplate are mounted to a vertical surface.
US09361785B2	System and method for testing battery backup capacities in alarm systems A system and method for testing the capacities of battery backups in alarm systems. The system may include an alarm panel, a notification device connected to the alarm panel, a battery backup connected to the alarm panel and configured to provide the alarm panel and the notification appliance with electrical power. The system may further include test circuitry that is configured to monitor a voltage and an output current of the battery backup when the battery backup is placed under a battery capacity test, and a system controller that is configured to determine, from the monitored voltage and output current of the battery backup, information relating to the capacity of the battery backup. Such information may be communicated to a workstation or an offsite monitoring facility where it may be compiled with information relating to the capacities of other battery backups in the alarm system to create a report.
US09361783B2	Person locator with imbedded tracker and personal identification Disclosed is a locator device that identifies a location of a person wearing or carrying the device, while providing a user with imbedded electronic feature to store personally identifiable information. The locator device takes the form of an article of jewelry or a retractable keychain, which may be provided in various ornamental designs having a housing member. Within the housing member of the device may include a GPS transceiver chip and an identifying integrated circuit that stores personally identifiable information. The housing member further includes an internal battery that provides electrical power when the device is utilized. The purpose of the device is to provide an aesthetically pleasing accessory while providing a discrete locator device that includes identifiable information of the person wearing or carrying the same.
US09361782B2	Article anti-lost device and method An article anti-lost device comprises a plurality of sensors and a host. Each sensor comprises a recognition module and a sensor signal transceiver module. The host comprises a control module, a host signal transceiver module, a host warning module, an operation module and a display module. In an article anti-lost method, the host and the sensor are firstly paired, and then the sensor is combined with a to-be-monitored article and a warning distance is set. When a distance between the sensor and the host exceeds the warning distance, a warning signal is outputted, and an orientation and a distance of the sensor are prompted on the host. With the structure and the method, when the article leaves the user by a predetermined distance, the user can be reminded to prevent the article from getting lost or stolen.
US09361780B2	Device and method for recording and transmitting interval data from a container cap The present invention is a container cap sensors, chips, transmitters, and receiver, to record, transmit, and receive data regarding the time intervals between when the container cap was last placed on or taken off of a container. The container cap is for use with pharmaceutical and other health care related vials, bottles and containers. The data transmission is used to monitor a patient's drug administration times and intervals, and allows the patient and/or the patient's caregiver to review the administration data. The container cap of the present invention is streamlined, easy to use, reliable, and inexpensive.
US09361779B2	Remote water in fuel indicator unit A positionable water in fuel indicator unit including an indicator housing having a back panel, and a housing cover connected to the back panel. The water in fuel indicator unit can also include a signal receiving device configured to receive a water in fuel signal from a water in fuel sensor located in the fuel filter, a first indicator visible through the housing cover and configured to indicate when a water level in the fuel filter is less than a predetermined threshold, a second indicator visible through the housing cover and configured to indicate when the water level in the fuel filter is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, and a controller enclosed by the housing cover. The controller can be configured to activate the first indicator based on the water in fuel signal, and activate the second indicator based on the water in fuel signal.
US09361773B2	Door/window contact system A window or door position detector includes an RFID tag attachable to the window or door, and a transceiver. The transceiver emits an activating signal to the tag. The tag in turn responds with an identifying RF signal indicative of a predetermined position of the window or door. The detector includes a transceiver which can communicate with both the tag and a displaced monitoring system control panel.
US09361769B2	Method and system for advanced patient communication A method and system for advanced patient communication have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises providing a patient communication device through which a patient communicates a first message from a hospital bed. The first message is received at a central processing server. The first message is processed to identify an urgency level of the message. One or more additional messages are generated based on the first message. The one or more additional messages are transmitted to specific health care provider devices of specific health care providers who are expected to respond to the patient.
US09361763B1	Wagering game having reels with dynamic growing-symbol feature A gaming system has a plurality of reels. Each reel has a plurality of symbol locations. The gaming system is in communication with one or more processors. The gaming system involves the selection of a symbol location on a first reel of the plurality of reels. The selected symbol location is associated with a first type of symbol. At least one additional symbol location is added to the first reel at a location adjacent to the selected symbol location. Each additional symbol location is filled with the first type of symbol to create a first clump of the first type of symbols. Alternatively, the gaming system determines a number of additional symbol locations that are added to the first reel adjacent to the selected first symbol location. The gaming system then fills the additional symbol locations with symbols.
US09361762B2	Online fantasy gaming tournament system and method therefor Disclosed herein is a fantasy video gaming system having a server and including a processor for executing computer program instructions and having a memory coupled to the processor for storing the computer program instructions, the programming instructions comprising: establishing at least one online video gaming tournament; accepting participants entry into the online fantasy video gaming tournament. The fantasy video gaming system may be capable of taking and distributing compiled player statistics and metrics to third-party subscribers, wherein the player statistics and metrics represent the overall performance of a single player, group of players, or a team of players across multiple online video games for use in a large-scale fantasy game scoring.
US09361758B2	Insurance enabled hybrid gaming system An insurance enabled hybrid gaming system is disclosed. The insurance enabled hybrid gaming system includes an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game. The hybrid gaming system also includes a real world engine constructed to provide a gambling game. The hybrid gaming system also includes a game world engine connecting the entertainment software engine and the real world engine using a network, the game world engine configured to: receive a gameplay gambling event occurrence; communicate, to the real world engine, the gameplay gambling event occurrence; activate an insurance proposition associated with an insurance trigger event in accordance with an insurance activation rule; communicate, to the real world engine, an indication to collect an insurance fee from a player profile in accordance with the insurance proposition rule; and communicate an insurance safeguard, in response to a negative outcome of the challenge detected by the insurance module that mitigates the negative outcome.
US09361756B2	Gaming machine with loyalty bonus A gaming machine is provided, which awards loyalty points to players playing the game who have identified themselves to the machine. The machine is arranged to award loyalty points to the player and to play two game means wherein, the first or base game may be provided by the slot machine game as a stand alone function with no dependence upon a supporting communications network, the second game may be linked game in which a plurality of network connected machines participate with control of the game being provided by a central game controller, while the communications network is controlled by a network controller. A first game mode is available to all players and a second enhanced game mode is made available to players who have reached a predetermined threshold of loyalty points.
US09361755B2	Methods of receiving electronic wagers in a wagering game via a handheld electronic wager input device A gaming system for conducting a multi-player wagering game includes a multi-touch table surface that is touched by a handheld electronic wager input device (EWID) carried by a player for placing wagers on a wagering game displayed on the multi-touch table surface. Each EWID carried by a player has an associated unique identification code, which is linked to the respective player's account. Players indicate an amount to be wagered by touching the EWID to designated wager amount areas, then place the wager by touching the EWID to a designated wagering area. Because each EWID is uniquely associable with distinct player accounts, the gaming system can support any number of players placing wagers. The funds remain safe in the player account and no funds are stored on the EWID. Only the identification code is detected, which is compared with the associated player account before allowing that player to place wagers.
US09361753B2	Method, system, and device for selecting and awarding bonus awards from an award server A system includes a user device in communication with an award server. The user device executes a game application to earn a bonus award. However, the bonus award is not issued by the user device. Rather, the bonus award is stored at the award server. In one optional embodiment, the bonus award may be issued through a gaming device which receives the bonus award from the award server and executes a gambling game which may result in the issuance of the bonus award. Additionally or alternatively, the bonus award may be issued through a redemption device.
US09361752B2	Mobile device gaming improvements Disclosed in some examples is a method of providing a computer implemented game comprising: displaying one or more on-screen objects in accordance with the computer implemented game; accepting input from a user of the computer implemented game; responsive to receiving input from the user, updating the one or more on-screen objects according to one or more game rules using one or more computer processors; receiving a notification from a game server, over a network, that the user of the computer implemented game has completed a gameplay specific task in a second computer implemented game, wherein the second computer implemented game is provided on a separate platform from the computer implemented game; and responsive to receiving the notification from the game server, providing a reward to the user in the computer implemented game.
US09361745B2	Bagged ice vending machine A bagged ice vending machine where a drive motor is energized causing conveyors to move, the conveyors are designed to move in opposite directions so that the product will move to the end of that conveyor and drop to the conveyor below, which will force the last bag on the bottom conveyor to fall into the vending chute, activating the ice vended sensor, and slide into the vending hopper, the product can then be accessed by the customer through the vended product access door. A drive chain is configured on each conveyor chain sprocket so that when the drive motor is energized the conveyors will move in opposing directions. This movement indexes the product so that as each item reaches the end of the conveyor it will fall to the conveyor below. Each conveyor will only move the product one position for each product dispense cycle.
US09361744B2	Method and system for automatically checking the authenticity of an identity document The process comprises a data-acquisition phase with the creation of a database of multicomponent digital signatures constituting fingerprints of identity documents, linked to a central server relocated relative to a primary database comprising variable textual data and images of reference identity documents.A relocated checking phase of identity documents at a checkpoint comprises the digitizing of an identity document to be checked, the creation of a fingerprint of the digitized document, the comparison of the latter with the fingerprint of a document from the fingerprint database indexed with the same reference number and the sending of a message according to the result of the comparison.
US09361742B2	Highly secure combination lock system A combination lock system has a lock body with a central portion and an surrounding portion on a face of the lock system. The central portion has a biometric scanner and the surrounding portion has a set of visible symbols that may be individually activated in sequence to indicate an unlocking code. An intelligent component in communication with the combination lock system is configured to compare scanned biometric data with stored biometric data to confirm a user identity A locking and unlocking component is attached to the lock body and is configured to be unlocked by the unlocking code being provided and the intelligent component confirming the user identity by compared biometric data.
US09361736B1	Dynamic presentation of vehicular-reference information A method, system, and apparatus for dynamically presenting desired vehicular-reference information for a motor vehicle under evaluation is provided. In one aspect, an example method includes: (a) a computing system receiving, via a user interface, (i) vehicular-reference data indicating at least one vehicle parameter, and (ii) first information-presentation data indicating at least one information-presentation preference; (b) the computing system selecting at least one first piece of vehicular-reference information based on at least one of the received vehicular-reference data and the received first information-presentation data; (c) the computing system selecting a presentation window based on at least one of the received vehicular-reference data and the received first information-presentation data; and (d) the computing system causing a visual depiction of (i) the selected vehicular-reference information and (ii) the selected presentation window to be displayed on a graphical display.
US09361731B2	Method and apparatus for displaying video on 3D map Exemplary embodiments disclose a method of projecting an image onto a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) electronic map. The method includes: extracting nearest intersecting points for each of a plurality of virtual view angle vectors with respect to a position of a virtual photographing apparatus and a plurality of polygons that constitute the 3D electronic map; comparing 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points and 3D coordinates of a plurality of pixels constituting the plurality of polygons to select pixels that are within a range of the 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points; converting 3D coordinates of the selected pixels to two-dimensional (2D) coordinates to display the selected pixels on a 2D display; and superimposing an input image on top of the selected pixels to output the superimposed image in real-time.
US09361728B2	Submarine topography construction method based on multi-source water depth data integration The invention discloses a submarine topography construction method based on multi-source water depth data integration, which achieves reasonable splicing of various data such as multi-beam sounding, single-beam sounding, historical topography map and global topography and submarine topography construction. The invention comprises the following steps of: converting a historical submarine topography map into grid data, converting water depths of other sources into grids, using an overlapping and contrasting method to evaluate the accuracy of the water depths of different sources; using a multi-map-layer method to carry out integration, cutting and splicing on multi-source water depth data, constructing an error distribution model to reasonably revise and integrate various-source water depth data; and constructing multi-source water depth submarine topography and grid. The submarine topography construction method has the advantages that in marine mapping and charting process, the multi-source data can be effectively used, the historical water depth data accuracy and the comprehensive utilization efficiency are promoted, and the submarine topography construction method has important practical application values in marine mapping, submarine topography charting and submarine scientific studies.
US09361724B2	Visual connectivity of widgets using event propagation A method, system and computer program product receive a set of objects for connection, create a moving object within the set of objects, display visual connection cues on objects in the set of objects, adjust the visual connection cues of the moving object and a target object in the set of objects, identify event propagation precedence, and connect the moving object with the target object.
US09361718B2	Interactive screen viewing The presentation of a computer display may be modified based on what the user is viewing on the display. In one embodiment, gaze detection technology may be used to determine what the user is looking at. Based on what the user is looking at, the display may be altered to either improve or degrade the display at the region the user is looking at.
US09361716B1	System and method for increasing the system awareness of IT operations personnel with augmented reality A method includes receiving sensor data from a sensor. The sensor data includes location data, and an image of a viewing area. The method also includes determining markers in the viewing area based on the sensor data. The markers indicate Configuration Items (“CI's”) within the viewing area. The method further includes determining a coordinate system of the viewing area utilizing the sensor data. The method still further includes receiving CI data corresponding to the CI's within the viewing area. The method even further includes formatting for display the CI data. The formatting includes generating a visual representation based on the CI data. The formatting also includes projecting the visual representation onto the coordinate system in an augmentation pane based on coordinates of the markers. The formatting further includes overlaying the viewing area with the augmentation pane.
US09361712B2	CT image generation device and method and CT image generation system A CT image generation device for analyzing projection information acquired by scanning a scan subject with X-rays over a scan plane, and generating an image of the scan subject; wherein the CT image generation device comprises: a versatile processing unit for establishing a plurality of coordinate systems on the scan plane; a coordinate decision unit for selecting a coordinate system to be used in distance drive back projection or distance drive forward projection, from the plurality of coordinate systems on the basis of a projection angle; a distance drive processing unit for carrying out distance drive back projection or distance drive forward projection on the basis of the selected coordinate system, in accordance with the projection angle; and an image information processing unit for generating the image of the scan subject, on the basis of image information acquired by carrying out distance drive back projection in relation to projection information.
US09361705B2	Methods and systems for measuring group behavior Methods and systems for measuring group behavior are provided. Group behavior of different groups may be measured objectively and automatically in different environments including a dark environment. A uniform visible signal comprising images of members of a group may be obtained. Facial motion and body motions of each member may be detected and analyzed from the signal. Group behavior may be measured by aggregating facial motions and body motions of all members of the group. A facial motion such as a smile may be detected by using the Fourier Lucas-Kanade (FLK) algorithm to register and track faces of each member of a group. A flow-profile for each member of the group is generated. Group behavior may be further analyzed to determine a correlation of the group behavior and the content of the stimulus. A prediction of the general public's response to the stimulus based on the analysis of the group behavior is also provided.
US09361699B2	Imaging system and method A imaging system and method is disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes a first edge-detecting module configured to detect edge coordinates in the first image, a first disparity-estimating module configured to obtain a first estimated disparity map of the first image relative to the second image, and a first edge-refining module configured to refine edge coordinates in the first estimated disparity map using the edge coordinates in the first image to obtain a first refined disparity map. The imaging system and method improve the quality of a disparity map and control the complexity of stereo-matching.
US09361697B1	Graphic processing circuit with binning rendering and pre-depth processing method thereof A graphic processing circuit with binning rendering and associated pre-depth processing method is provided. Firstly, a first depth data of a first primitive corresponding to a specified tile is received. Then, the pre-depth data corresponding to the specified tile is read from a pre-Z buffer. If the first depth data is not larger than the pre-depth data and the first primitive is an opaque primitive, the pre-depth data is updated with the first depth data. If the first depth data is not larger than the pre-depth data and the first primitive is a translucent primitive, an uncertainty ordering range is defined according to the first depth data and the pre-depth data, and the pre-depth data is updated with the uncertainty ordering range.
US09361693B2	Adjusting parameters of marine electronics data A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to: display marine electronics data on a screen of a multi function display unit; receive a request to adjust the parameter of the marine electronics data; and display an object configured to adjust the parameter. The object includes a default value of the parameter.
US09361692B2	Image registration device and operation method of the same Provided is an image registration device including a first feature vector magnitude calculating unit calculating magnitudes of feature vectors corresponding to any one first feature point among feature points of a reference image to create a first magnitude value, a second feature vector magnitude calculating unit calculating magnitudes of feature vectors corresponding to any one second feature point among feature points of a target image to create a second magnitude value, a magnitude difference calculating unit receiving the first and second magnitude values and calculating a difference between the received first and second magnitude values to create a third magnitude value, a first threshold value creating unit creating a first threshold value on the basis of the first magnitude value and a magnitude ratio, and a magnitude difference determining unit receiving the third magnitude value and the first threshold value, and determining a magnitude difference.
US09361691B2	Systems and methods for detecting misalignment between a helipad and an associated structure A system is provided for detecting misalignment between a helipad and a structure associated with the helipad. The system comprises a first database that includes first structure data, which data can comprise a location of the first structure. The system can further comprise a second database that can include second structure data, where the second structure data can comprise a location of the second structure. The second structure can comprise a helipad situated atop the first structure. The system can further comprise a processor coupled to receive the first structure data from the first database and the second structure data from the second database and can be configured, upon receipt of the first data structure and the second data structure: determine a correlation coefficient based upon a degree of overlap of the first volumetric model and the second volumetric model, and selectively generate an alert based upon the correlation coefficient.
US09361690B2	Video based method and system for automated side-by-side traffic load balancing A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for side-by-side traffic location load balancing are disclosed. For example, the method receives one or more video images of a side-by-side traffic location, determines a number of cars in a first lane and a number of cars in a second lane of the side-by-side traffic location based upon the one or more video images, calculates a delta between the number of cars in the first lane and the number of cars in the second lane and recommends the first lane or the second lane based upon the delta and a respective weighting factor associated with the first lane and the second lane to provide a load balance of the cars at the side-by-side traffic location.
US09361689B2	Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus may include a determining unit configured to determine at least one pixel having a pixel value difference between a first image and a second image lower than a critical value, among a plurality of input frame images to compute a hologram pattern, and a computing unit configured to compute a hologram pattern of the first image and to compute a hologram pattern of the second image using a computation result for the at least one pixel of the first image.
US09361682B2	Virtual assembly and product inspection control processes A pick-and-place machine and method includes use of a passive component feeder cartridge including a feeder gear. Rotation of the feeder gear causes a component-bearing tape to be fed through the feeder cartridge. A pickup head includes a vacuum nozzle to pick up the components from the tape and a rack gear to engage and drive the feeder gear of the feeder cartridge via translational motion of the pickup head when operatively disposed with respect to a selected feeder cartridge.
US09361679B2	Temporally coherent local tone mapping of HDR video Approaches are described for filtering a first image frame in a sequence of image frames. A tone-mapping pipeline applies a spatiotemporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on a forward optical flow and a backward optical flow, to produce a base layer image. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a temporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on the forward optical flow and the backward optical flow, to produce a temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame.
US09361677B2	Spatio-temporal disparity-map smoothing by joint multilateral filtering A filter structure for filtering a disparity map includes a first filter, a second filter, and a filter selector. The first filter is for filtering a contemplated section of the disparity map according to a first measure of central tendency. The second filter is for filtering the contemplated section of the disparity maps according to a second measure of central tendency. The filter selector is provided for selecting the first filter or the second filter for filtering the contemplated section of the disparity map, the selection being based on at least one local property of the contemplated section. A corresponding method for filtering a disparity map includes determining a local property of the contemplated section and selecting a filter. The contemplated section is then filtered using the first filter or the second filter depending on a result of the selection.
US09361670B2	Method and system for image haze removal based on hybrid dark channel prior A method and a system for image haze removal are provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving an input hazy image including input pixels; determining a hybrid dark channel for each of the input pixels according to a first minimum dark channel of a corresponding large local patch and a second minimum dark channel of a corresponding small local patch; determining a transmission map for each of the input pixels according to the hybrid dark channel prior, the corresponding hybrid dark channel, and atmospheric light associated with the input hazy image in each color channel; determining a color spectrum adjustment parameter corresponding to each of the color channels; recovering scene radiance for each of the input pixels in each of the color channels according to the corresponding color spectrum adjustment parameter, the transmission map, and the corresponding atmospheric light to produce and output a de-hazed image.
US09361666B2	Learning user preferences for photo adjustments In example embodiments, systems and methods for learning and using user preferences for image adjustments are presented. In example embodiments, a new image is received. A correction parameter based on previously stored user adjustments for similar images is determined. A user style that is an adjusted version of the new image is generated by applying the correction parameter. The user style is provided on a user interface. A user adjustment is received. Based on determining that a user sample image is within a predetermined threshold of closeness to the new image, data corresponding to the user sample image is replaced with new adjustment data for the new image in a database of user sample images used to generate the correction parameter. Based on determining that no user sample images are within the predetermined threshold of closeness, new adjustment data is appended to the database used to generate the correction parameter.
US09361665B2	Methods and systems for viewing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object Instructions indicative of changing a view of a virtual object may be received by a device. At least a portion of the virtual object may be viewable from a viewpoint that is at a given distance from a surface of the virtual object. The device may cause a change of the view along a rotational path around the virtual object in response to the receipt of the instructions based on the given distance being greater than a threshold distance. The device may cause a change of the view along a translational path indicative of a shape of the surface of the virtual object in response to the receipt of the instructions based on the given distance being less than the threshold distance.
US09361664B2	Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a method for the apparatuses. A data processing module (3) includes a read address generator (11), read FIFO (7), write address generator (13), write FIFO (9), and arbiter (10) and is connected to a host arbiter (4) through a 1-channel port. The read address generator (11) and write address generator (13) generate interrupts upon acceptance of final access requests so as to control activation of each data processing module (8-1- 8-m) in accordance with the state of each data processing module in interrupt processing. Note that data transfer among the respective data processing modules is performed on a RAM (6).
US09361659B2	Systems and methods for optimizing order of image transformations Techniques to optimize the ordering of image transformations. Ordering cost functions are applied to possible transformation orderings of image transformations of a user-selected transformation ordering. Computing costs are calculated based on the cost functions. An optimal transformation ordering is selected from the possible transformation orderings based on the computing costs. In one embodiment, a first transformation and a second transformation of the user-selected transformation ordering are swapped. In one embodiment, at least one of the ordering cost functions is based on a per-pixel cost value. In one embodiment, a fidelity loss threshold representing an acceptable level of difference between a first image resulting from the optimal transformation ordering and a second image resulting from the user-selected transformation ordering is determined. In one embodiment, selection of the optimal ordering transformation is based on satisfaction of the fidelity loss threshold.
US09361654B2	Managing past activities based on relationship changes in a social network Various embodiments provide for dynamically and automatically managing activities of two parties (e.g., friends, business associates, family members) based on a change in relationship (e.g., no longer friends, break-up, divorce, no longer working together) between the two parties in a network (e.g., a social network implemented using a social networking website). In one specific example, mechanisms are provided for dynamically and automatically adjusting privacy control (e.g. removing, hiding, scraping, deleting, obscuring) of past activity data (e.g. social network wall posts, social network wall re-posts, pictures, forum posts, blog posts, blog comments, documents, files, videos, tags etc.) of the two parties upon detecting a change in relationship between the two parties in the social network.
US09361647B2	System and method to allow access to a value holding account Example systems and methods that allow access to a value holding account are described. In one implementation, a method receives a first request for a second account code after activation of a selector on an account access object associated with a value holding account. The second account access code is associated with a first account access code that is associated with the value holding account. The first account code allows access to the value holding account for a first determinable period. The method generates a second request for the second account code and communicates the second request to the value holding account. The second account code is received from the value holding account and allows access to the value holding account for a second determinable period that differs from the first determinable period. The method provides the second account code to a user of the account access object.
US09361646B2	Aggregation source routing The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for optimizing aggregation services. The methods and systems for optimizing aggregation routing over a network of computers may comprise computing hardware and software, wherein the software comprises computer readable instructions that cause the computing hardware to receive a request from a user for aggregated account data through a PFM, retrieve a predetermined form for the account data corresponding to the requesting PFM, determine the optimal aggregation source corresponding to the request, reformat the request to be compatible with the optimal aggregation source, send the reformatted request to the optimal aggregation source over the network of computers, receive requested data from the optimal aggregation source over the network of computers, populate the predetermined form corresponding to the PFM, output the populated form to the requesting PFM, and present the aggregated account data by way of the PFM to the user.
US09361645B2	Internet radio and broadcast method with discovery settings Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis.
US09361640B1	Method and system for efficient order placement Methods and systems are described for providing efficient product ordering of products, such as groceries or any other product or item. The customer enters keywords (or generic terms) that describe a desired item on a first portion of a display screen and search result items associated with each of the keywords on the list automatically appear on a second portion of the display screen. When the customer selects the desired items from the second portion of the display screen, the selected items automatically appear on a third portion of the display screen. The customer can then click a “Check Out” button on the same screen and have the products shipped to him/her.
US09361635B2	Frequent markup techniques for use in native advertisement placement Techniques are provided that include obtaining a Document Object Model of an HTML document, such as a web page of a publisher. Elements of the Document Object Model may be identified that are associated with native advertisement placement candidate containers. Based at least in part on analysis associated with the Document Object Model, and utilizing at least some of the identified elements, one or more native advertisement placement candidate containers may be determined. Some techniques may utilize, in the analysis, construction and utilization of a suffix tree of a string of tags comprising all tags in the Document Object Model. Some techniques may utilize, in the analysis, a node flattening technique in connection with the Document Object Model.
US09361632B2	Multimedia communication system and method Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
US09361631B2	Managing and monitoring digital advertising A computerized system and techniques facilitate the monitoring and management of online behaviorally-targeted advertising. In certain embodiments, electronic notifications related to advertising practices of members of an online advertising ecosystem are presented to users based on the discovery of elements of online content aimed at delivering targeted advertising messages to viewers of the content.
US09361625B2	Game navigation interface for electronic content A game navigation interface for electronic content is described. A computer-implement system may comprise a content delivery platform operative to manage multimedia content. The computer-implemented system may further comprise a game navigation application operative to manage a game for the content delivery platform. The game navigation application may comprise a monitoring component operative to monitor navigation commands for navigating multimedia content provided by the content delivery platform, and output a game trigger signal based on the navigation commands. The game navigation application may further comprise a game navigation component operative to receive the game trigger signal, and select a game arranged to assist a user in navigating the multimedia content in response to the game trigger signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09361622B2	Multi-dimensioned data hierarchies A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or more metrics that reflect the performance of a business, as derived from data maintained (perhaps in an associated data store) by the business application(s). The dashboard application may be configurable by a user to allow the user to select one or more dimensions of the data in order to filter and/or categorize the data for display.
US09361617B2	Variable-length cipher system and method Systems and methods for enciphering data are provided. In one embodiment, information is enciphered using a variable block length cipher that returns the encrypted symbol set in the same format as the plaintext symbol set. The cipher can be based on DES, AES or other block ciphers. In one example implementation a method for enciphering token information the invention provides for enciphering token information by constructing a tweak of a defined length using token information; converting the tweak to a bit string of a defined size to form a first parameter; converting a number of digits of plaintext to a byte string of a defined size to form a second parameter, wherein the number of digits converted varies; defining a data encryption standard key; applying the data encryption standard key to the first and second parameters; computing a specified number of encryption rounds; and receiving enciphered token information.
US09361615B1	System and method for in-store activation of credit cards A system and method provide for secure activation of physical credit cards from a display provided at a store. Temporary spending cards (TSP) for use as credit cards are provided in tamper evident packages found in the display. The TSPs are initially inactivated. Upon removal of the TSP from the package, a user may scan the QR code on the TSP to direct the user's mobile device to a secure location that prompts the user for credit related information. A credit card system evaluates the information using business rules to determine whether or not to approve the user for activation. If approved, then the user is prompted to enter a serial number found on the card to allow immediate spending. The serial number is different from an account number for the card. The TSP expires within a predetermined relatively short time period.
US09361609B2	Backlight structures and backlight assemblies for electronic device displays An electronic device may have a liquid crystal display with backlight structures. The backlight structures may produce backlight that passes through the display layers in the display. The display layers may include a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. The backlight structures may include a light guide plate. A plurality of light-emitting diodes mounted on a flexible printed circuit may be coupled to an edge of the light guide plate. The flexible printed circuit may be curled into a spring element to bias the light-emitting diodes against the edge of the light guide plate. A plurality of gaps may be formed in the flexible printed circuit and may be used to separate and mechanically decouple adjacent light-emitting diodes. Individual light-emitting diodes may independently register to the light guide plate to maximize optical efficiency in the display.
US09361607B1	Motor vehicle monitoring method for determining driver negligence of an engine A motor vehicle monitoring method for determining driver negligence is carried out by a company in order to determine a final assessment for the vehicle. The method for determining driver negligence enables the company to calculate an average revolutions per initial odometer value and an average revolutions per secondary odometer value, where the average revolutions per secondary odometer value is a direct indication about operating state of the vehicle or an action of an end user during a designated time period. Then the company is able to adjust the contact agreement for the designated time period upon the final assessment, wherein the responsible party that violates the contact agreement is only liable for the respective damages. The method for determining driver negligence also validates the odometer and speedometer values from illegal tampering.
US09361602B1	Temporary electronic mail addresses Techniques are provided for generating and managing temporary email addresses. A requestor having a requestor email address makes a request to receive a temporary email address. The temporary email address is generated and mapped to the requestor email address. Messages received that are associated with the temporary email address are mapped to the requestor email address and forwarded to the requestor. The temporary email address expires when an expiring event is detected.
US09361599B1	Risk unit based policies Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for implementing risk unit based insurance policies are presented. A user may receive a plurality of risk units associated with an insurance policy. The risk units may be stored in a risk unit account associated with the user, the vehicle, etc. During operation of the vehicle, sensor data may be received. The sensor data may provide information associated with driving behaviors of the user, environmental conditions in which the vehicle is being operated, and the like. A consumption rate of the risk units may be determined based, at least in part, on the received sensor data. In some examples, the consumption rate may be displayed to the user, such as via a mobile device of the user or a vehicle display. Further, in some arrangements, one or more driving modifications to reduce a consumption rate may be determined and provided to the user.
US09361596B2	In-field device for de-centralized workflow automation In one example, a system is provided. The system includes a portable, in-field unit including: a tag reader to acquire an ID tag identifier from a tag located in or on a physical item positioned within functional range of the in-field unit tag reader; a digital processor arranged for executing software code stored in the in-field unit responsive to the acquired ID tag identifier, the stored software code including—a customer application layer; and a database adapter component configured to provide database services to the processor; wherein the database services include accessing a stored database to acquire stored data associated with the acquired ID tag identifier.
US09361595B2	On-demand cloud service management A plurality of traditional software applications are packaged as custom composite solutions, and are stored as custom composite solution deployable images. Customer input is obtained from a customer. At least one of the custom composite solution deployable images is deployed into a management cloud in response to the customer input.
US09361593B2	System and method for using business services A system and method for using business services within a customer relationship management (CRM) application. Business services are objects that encapsulate and simplify the use of some set of functionality. The CRM application includes an object manager that manages business objects as well as business services. Business objects are associated with data stored in the application database. Business services operate or act upon business objects to achieve a particular goal. Business services include methods that can be invoked and properties that maintain information about the state of a process during execution.
US09361591B2	Apparatus and method for building map of probability distribution based on properties of object and system An apparatus and method for building a map of probability distribution are provided. The apparatus for building the map of probability distribution includes: a sensor information collector configured to collect sensor information from a plurality of sensors; as object recognizer configured to recognize an object by integrating and inferring the sensor information, and to acquire object information; and a probability distribution creator configured to determine whether to apply an object property model including at least one of kinematic properties, shape properties, and probabilistic properties in correspondence to the object information, to acquire object properties corresponding to the object information, and to create a probability distribution based on foe object properties. Accordingly, it is possible to build a map with high reliability.
US09361590B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing apparatus including a manipulation model learning unit configured to learn a manipulation model regarding manipulation of a first object by a second object, by use of an actual image that is an actually observed image including the first object and the second object, the manipulation model associating a position and a change in state of the second object, when a state of the second object changes at a position in an object reference coordinate system with the first object regarded as a reference, with a change in state of the first object caused by the change in state of the second object.
US09361588B2	Construction of tree-shaped bayesian network Embodiments relate to constructing a tree-shaped Bayesian network from variables associated with conditional dependencies in a given data set, the constructing being performed by a plurality of processors in parallel. An aspect includes assigning a plurality of variables as nodes to a respective plurality of processors. Another aspect includes operating the plurality of processors in a parallel manner to determine a correlation for each pair of nodes. Another aspect includes M variables that are randomly selected as primary nodes defining (M+1) sub-trees. Another aspect includes in each sub-tree the plurality of processors are operated in a parallel manner to determine a correlation for the remaining nodes with each of the primary nodes and to allocate each remaining node to one of the (M+1) sub-trees.
US09361584B2	Recommender evaluation based on tokenized messages A machine may implement a recommender that provides recommendations to users. The machine may be configured to present a first version of the recommender configured by various parameters. A user may submit a message to the machine, and the machine may identify a parameter among the various parameters by tokenizing the message and identifying the parameter among the tokens. The machine may then generate a second version of the recommender by modifying the parameter and configuring the second version according to the modified parameter. The machine may then present the first and second versions of the recommender contemporaneously two different portions of the users. By tokenizing a further message received from the users, the machine may evaluate the first and second versions and determine whether the second version is a replacement of the first version.
US09361583B1	Merged recommendations of real estate listings A system for recommending comprises an interface and a processor. An interface is configured to receive an input. The input is stored and associated with two user identifiers. The processor is configured to make recommendations based at least in part on the input.
US09361581B2	Method for loading a rule set in a rule engine A method of exchanging a rules engine decision tree cache is disclosed. The method provides for provision accepting a command to build a replacement rules engine decision tree cache, replacing the existing cache if the decision tree creation process is successful, retaining the existing cache if the decision tree creation process is not successful, and providing specific error messages in the event that the replacement fails. The method allows an network operator to change the rules for the rule engine without disruption of real-time service and allows for a level of error checking prior to provisioning the new decision tree.
US09361571B2	Matrix of adhesive RFID tags A matrix of tags is provided including a plurality of RFID identification tags, each RFID tag having an identification layer, arranged on an object to be identified, the identification layer bearing at least one antenna and at least one chip including capacity for storing an item of identification data, the identification layer containing a bonding face arranged on a wall of the object; a backing layer, arranged on the side of the bonding face of the identification layer; a transfer layer, arranged on the side opposite to the backing layer relative to the identification layer, the transfer layer being provided for transferring the identification layer onto the object; and a protective layer, arranged between the identification layer and the transfer layer, provided for protecting the identification layer when the tag is put in place; the transfer layer is produced in a single piece for the set of tags.
US09361566B2	Method for reading an RFID token, RFID card and electronic device The invention relates to a method for reading an RFID token (106), having the following steps: converting an RFID read command (184) into a memory card command (192) by means of an electronic device (100, 101), which has an integrated memory card reader (182), transmitting the memory card command to an RFID card (107) by means of the memory card reader, wherein the RFID card contains a memory card interface (187) for the memory card reader and an RFID reader (188, 189, 190) that can be addressed via the memory card interface, sending the RFID read command (184) contained in the memory card command (192) from the RFID reader to the RFID token by means of an RFID read signal, receiving an RFID response (193) from the RFID token by means of the RFID reader, transmitting the RFID response (193) to the memory card reader of the electronic device via the memory card interface.
US09361556B1	Pulse width modulator for a printing device A pulse width modulation technique is disclosed for use in an image forming device such as a laser printer or a photocopier. The technique implements a pacer to synthesize the frequency of a serializer circuit by stretching (or shrinking) pixel pulse train data. The pacer stretches the pixel pulse train data in accord with increment data that is based upon information about the image forming device, such as the number of bits in the pixel pulse train data, the number of bits in print engine pulse train, the target print engine frequency, and the serializer frequency. The technique can be implemented with digital circuits that provide digital test data.
US09361554B2	Low overhead near unity scaling technique A printer is described having a control unit and/or image processor to determine a number of pixels by which to scale an image along an axis of the image, wherein, the scaling of the image is less than 10% of the image along the axis. The control unit and/or image processor is also to identify locations along the axis equal to the number. The control unit and/or image processor is also to remove a region of more than one pixel along the axis at each of the locations. The control unit and/or image processor is also to insert a region of more than one pixel along the axis at each of the locations, where, a difference between pixels removed and pixels inserted accounts for the number.
US09361553B1	Structural integrity when 3D-printing objects In various implementations, a computing device is configured to reconstruct a 3D model, such that reconstruction of the 3D model prevents the printing of long lines typically associated with cracking, bending, or decreased structural integrity of a 3D printed object based on the 3D model. In some implementations, a sliced 3D model is analyzed to determine that a structural characteristic of the 3D model is compatible for reconstruction. The 3D model is then reconstructed based on the determination that the 3D model is compatible. Other implementations analyze the 3D model to determine whether at least a portion of the 3D model shell has a seamless body. In this regard, the 3D model is reconstructed based on determining that the shell portion has a seamless body.
US09361549B2	User interface for a label printer A method including providing a first image on a label printer user interface, wherein said first image is representative of at least one of at least one label to be printed and at least one object to which a label is to be applied; and providing a second image on said user interface associated with the first image, the second image representative of a dimension of the first image; enabling a user to modify a dimension of the second image; wherein as the dimension of the second image is modified, the dimension of the first image is correspondingly updated.
US09361547B2	Electronic device providing data protection for inserted smartcard An electronic device includes a housing for safely breaking electronic communication with a smart card on removal from the electronic device. A safeguard structure rotates with respect to the housing to cover the smart card when inserted, and a switch breaks communication between the smart card and the electronic device when the safeguard structure is rotated away from the housing to enable removal of the smart card. The breaking of communication safely prevents damage to, or corruption of, data in the smart card upon removal from the electronic device.
US09361539B2	Object detection system An airborne mine countermeasure system includes a processor coupled to a memory having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a series of image processing operations. The operations include obtaining input image data from an external image sensor, and extracting a sequence of 2-D slices from the input image data. The operations also include performing a 3-D connected region analysis on the sequence of 2-D slices, and extracting 3-D invariant features in the image data. The operations further include performing coarse filtering, performing fine recognition and outputting an image processing result having an indication of the presence of any mines within the input image data.
US09361538B2	Real time photometric edge description Systems and methods are disclosed for describing and tracking edges within the field of view of one or more imaging devices. In one example, the present system defines a row of pixels taken across a width of the edge, and then determines a binary edge descriptor for the edge by comparing at least one of grayscale values and contrast of pixels within respective pixel pairs from the row of pixels, the result of the comparisons setting bits within the binary descriptor.
US09361537B2	Techniques to reduce color artifacts in a digital image Techniques for reducing color artifacts in a digital image are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to determine a respective set of error values for each of a set of lens shading correction (LSC) tables, each set of error values describing error associated with application of its corresponding LSC table to a preprocessed image, determine a respective weight for each of the set of LSC tables based on the corresponding set of error values for that LSC table, and generate a composite LSC table for the preprocessed image as a weighted sum of the set of LSC tables, based on the respective weights for the set of LSC tables. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09361534B2	Image recognition apparatus using neural network processing An image recognition apparatus determines whether an image of a pedestrian is captured in a frame of video data captured by a vehicle mounted camera. A pre-processing unit determines a detection block from within a frame, and cuts out block image data corresponding to the detection block from the frame. Block data with a predetermined size that is smaller than the size of the detection block is created from the block image data. A neuro calculation unit executes neuro calculation on the block data, and calculates an output synapse. A post-processing unit determines whether a pedestrian exists within the detection block on the basis of the output synapse. When a pedestrian is detected, the post-processing unit creates result data, which is obtained by superimposing the detection block within which the pedestrian was detected onto the frame.
US09361527B1	Method and system for classifying painted road markings in an automotive driver vehicle-assistance device An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of arranging a digital camera on a vehicle body, operating the digital camera to provide an image file depicting an image of a scene related to vehicle operation on a road, in a computer memory, receiving from the memory the image file depicting pixels of an image of the scene related to vehicle operation on a road, and using an analysis of the pixels to generate an illumination invariant image of the scene. A further process step includes using the illumination invariant image to analyze the road scene for painted road markings.
US09361520B2	Method and system for tracking objects There is provided a system for tracking objects. The system includes a processor and a memory for storing a plurality of sensory data frames. The processor determines a first hypothesized location for each of the objects in each of the plurality of sensory data frames. For each of the plurality of sensory data frames, the processor determines probabilities that the first hypothesized location of each of the objects in a sensory data frame of the plurality of sensory data frames is the same as the first hypothesized location of another object in an adjacent sensory data frame. The processor computes a first optimal trajectory for each of the objects using an algorithm based on the probabilities, checks the first optimal trajectory for each of the objects, and accepts or rejects the first optimal trajectory for each of the objects.
US09361518B2	Methods, systems and computer program products for diagnosing conditions using unique codes generated from a multidimensional image of a sample Methods of providing a diagnosis using a digital code associated with an image are provided including collecting a multidimensional image, the multidimensional image having at least two dimensions; extracting a two dimensional subset of the multidimensional image; reducing the multidimensional image to a first code that is unique to the multidimensional image based on the extracted two dimensional image; comparing the first unique code associated with the subject to a library of reference codes, each of the reference codes in the library of reference codes being indicative of a class of objects; determining if the subject associated with the first unique code falls into at least one of the classes of objects associated with the reference codes based on a result of the comparison; and formulating a diagnostic decision based on the whether the first unique code associated with the subject falls into at least one of the classes associated with the reference code. Related systems and computer program products are also provided herein.
US09361512B2	Identification of a gesture A computing device for identifying a gesture performed by a tracked object in an image stream, said computing device comprising a memory and a controller, wherein said controller is configured to: determine a movement vector for the tracked object, compare the movement vector against a reference library of gestures, and thereby identify a gesture matching the movement vector, wherein said movement vector comprises at least one partial movement having a direction being identified by a relative angle and wherein said comparison is based on said relative angle.
US09361506B2	Tenprint card input device, tenprint card input method and storage medium A system, which computer processes a tenprint card where fingerprint images are imprinted, provides a processing mechanism which automatically crops or segments respective fingerprint images on the tenprint card. In particular, the system provides: a processing mechanism which appropriately crops or segments a slap print image, even if a fingerprint image of slap prints does not fit in a predetermined frame or even if noise other than fingerprints to be cropped or segmented is present within a frame of a four-finger slap, by using a result of matching with rolled prints; and a processing mechanism which checks a correspondence relationship between the rolled prints and the plane prints, assesses a finger position, and detects an error of imprinting position.
US09361504B2	Optical information reading device, optical information reading method, computer-readable program and recording medium To prevent misreading of barcodes and to allow accurate outputting of bar data even when an element is damaged or blurred, an optical information reading device containing a computation means 23a for adding widths of 6 elements containing a bar and a space that are adjacent within one character to derive respective patterns of 2- through n-element added widths and for converting each of the patterns of 2- through n-element added widths into the module number for one character to obtain the module numbers of the patterns of the 2- through n-element added widths; an extraction means 23b for narrowing down the target characters to extract a candidate character wherein the target character is that each module number of the 2- through n-element widths is an integer with an error equal to or less than 1; and a search means 23d for comparing the extracted candidate character, having the module numbers of the patterns of the 2- through n-element added widths with the expected value character for evaluating the candidate character to search for an expected value character with the strongest correlation to the candidate character.
US09361503B2	Systems, methods and articles for reading highly blurred machine-readable symbols Systems and methods for robust recognition of machine-readable symbols from highly blurred or distorted images. An image signal representation of a machine-readable symbol element is transformed into a different space using one or more transform operations, which moves an n-dimensional vector of measured light intensities into another n-dimensional space. The types of transform operations may include blur robust orthonormal bases, such as the Discrete Sine Transform, the Discrete Cosine Transform, the Chebyshev Transform, and the Lagrange Transform. A trained classifier (e.g., an artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm) may be used to classify the transformed signal in the transformed space. The types of trainable classifiers that may be used include random forest classifiers, Mahalanobis classifiers, support vector machines, and classification or regression trees.
US09361502B2	System for, and method of, controlling target illumination for an imaging reader An imaging reader has an illuminating light assembly for illuminating a target with illumination light, and a solid-state image sensor with a rolling shutter for sequentially exposing an array of pixels to capture an image from the illuminated target. Target illumination is controlled by controlling an exposure time and a gain of the sensor, and by controlling an output power of the illumination light. The output power is maintained at a maximum level when the exposure time and/or the gain exceed a minimum threshold, and is lowered when the exposure time and/or the gain does not exceed the minimum threshold, while concomitantly maintaining the exposure time and/or the gain constant at the minimum threshold.
US09361500B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an imprint image where an imprint is captured, the imprint having code information added to a frame portion; an identifying unit configured to identify a frame image area as a read area where the code information is read, the frame image area corresponding to an imprint of the frame portion in the imprint image obtained by the obtaining unit; and a reading unit configured to read the code information from the read area identified by the identifying unit.
US09361499B2	Barcode decoding Systems and methods for decoding a barcode are disclosed. A scan signal for a first portion of the barcode is acquired. Integrated sub-character barcode feature evidence for the barcode is stored including evidence for a first plurality of possible sub-character barcode feature interpretations for a first plurality of sub-character barcode features. Sub-character barcode feature measurements are extracted for a second plurality of sub-character barcode features from the scan signal. Sub-character barcode feature evidence is determined for the second plurality of sub-character barcode features, including evidence for a second plurality of possible sub-character barcode feature interpretations for the second plurality of sub-character barcode features. Whether a portion of the integrated sub-character barcode feature evidence corresponds to a portion of the sub-character barcode feature evidence is determined. The sub-character barcode feature evidence is integrated into the integrated sub-character barcode. Character values are determined from the integrated sub-character barcode feature evidence.
US09361495B2	Hand held symbology reader illumination diffuser A hand held industrial identification symbol reader projects diffuse illumination onto a region of interest to produce high contrast images of symbols. The diffuse illumination is particularly well suited for producing images of symbols that are marked directly on objects. The diffuse illumination is created through the use of an optically translucent diffuser having a generally tapered shape that distributes diffuse illumination throughout the field of view of the reader. The diffuse illumination can be supplemented with dark field illumination using selectively actuated illumination sources.
US09361492B2	Multi-protocol RFID system A multi-protocol RFID interrogating system employs a synchronization technique (step-lock) for a backscatter RFID system that allows simultaneous operation of closely spaced interrogators. The multi-protocol RFID interrogating system can communicate with backscatter transponders having different output protocols and with active transponders including: Title 21 compliant RFID backscatter transponders; IT2000 RFID backscatter transponders that provide an extended mode capability beyond Title 21; EGO™ RFID backscatter transponders, SEGO™ RFID backscatter transponders; ATA, ISO, ANSI AAR compliant RFID backscatter transponders; and IAG compliant active technology transponders. The system implements a step-lock operation, whereby adjacent interrogators are synchronized to ensure that all downlinks operate within the same time frame and all uplinks operate within the same time frame, to eliminate downlink on uplink interference.
US09361489B2	Voltage and power limiter for an electromagnetic transponder An electromagnetic transponder including a resonant circuit; a rectifying bridge having input terminals connected across the resonant circuit and having rectified output terminals providing an electronic circuit power supply voltage; and a device for limiting the voltage across the resonant circuit, connected between the input terminals of the rectifying bridge.
US09361487B2	Card reader A card reader may include a card passage, a magnetic head to abut with a magnetic stripe of the card, and an IC contact block having IC contact springs to contact with external connection terminals of an IC chip of the card. The magnetic head is disposed in a front side portion of the card reader so that a gap of the magnetic head faces the card passage from a lower side, and the IC contact block is disposed in a rear side portion of the card reader so that the IC contact springs face the card passage from an upper side. The card passage is formed in a straight shape but is inclined to a lower side as going to the rear side.
US09361483B2	Anti-wikileaks USB/CD device A method for encrypting and storing data on a removable medium includes: obtaining a medium key uniquely associated with the removable medium; encrypting the data using the medium key to generate encrypted data; and writing the encrypted data onto the removable medium.
US09361478B2	Managing personal information on a network Devices, systems, and methods are provided for managing personal information by providing a centralized source or database for a user's information and enabling the user to regulate privacy levels for each information item or category of information. Templates are provided as a table of hierarchies or an onion layers model. Private information may be stored in an inner layer while public information may be stored in an outer layer, and multiple layers and categories can be defined and customized within the template. A requesting entity requests information via a disseminating server that acts as a gateway for authenticating, authorizing, and providing access to the requesting entity. The user may therefore control and regulate their online presence simply by monitoring who requests their information and adjusting privacy levels accordingly.
US09361477B2	Alternately processing messages Among other things, processing an incoming message stream includes storing context data of an application in a global database. Various messages from the incoming message stream are placed in an in-memory message queue. One of at least a first and a second phases at a first process is executed, and another of the at least first and second phases at a second process is also executed, so as to alternately execute a first phase and a second phase by a first process and a second process. The first phase includes processing at least one message from the various messages and storing at least one corresponding result in a local memory area. The first phase also includes storing at least one modification to the context data in the local memory area. The second phase includes performing a transaction of the at least one result and the at least one modification of the context data to the global database and committing the transaction.
US09361473B2	Correcting access rights of files in electronic communications A method for modifying access rights to electronically stored files linked in a draft electronic communication stored at a client device includes receiving, at a server from the client device, information relating to a plurality of recipients of the draft electronic communication, information relating to a sender of the draft electronic communication, and a first link, where the first link represents a first file. The method further includes determining, at the server, for the sender and for each recipient in the plurality of recipients, the access rights to the first file. The method further includes generating, at the server, a plurality of options for the sender to modify the access rights for the plurality of recipients, where the plurality of options is based on the access rights to the first file, and sending the plurality of options from the server to the client device.
US09361472B2	Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and program An information processing apparatus includes a decryption processing unit, a backup unit, and a control unit. The decryption processing unit is configured to decrypt encrypted data read from a first storage unit storing the encrypted data. The backup unit is configured to back up the encrypted data stored in the first storage unit to a second storage unit. When the backup unit backs up the encrypted data stored in the first storage unit to a second storage unit, the control unit is configured to control the decryption processing unit to store the encrypted data read from the first storage unit, in the second storage unit without performing decrypting processing.
US09361461B2	Method and apparatus for detecting malware and recording medium thereof A method of detecting malware in a terminal, the method including: generating a plurality of virtual machines in the server, the plurality of virtual machines respectively corresponding to a plurality of terminals; clustering the plurality of generated virtual machines into groups based on respective profile information of each terminal of the plurality of terminals; and in response to the malware being detected in a first terminal among the plurality of terminals, providing information with respect to the detection of the malware to a second terminal among the plurality of terminals corresponding to a second virtual machine, via the second virtual machine among the plurality of virtual machines, the second virtual machine being clustered into the same group as a first virtual machine.
US09361460B1	Detecting malware through package behavior A file on a computer system is evaluated against trust criteria to determine whether the file is compatible with the trust criteria. Responsive to the file being incompatible with the trust criteria, the file is assigned to a package. Files assigned to the package are tracked to determine whether the files collectively perform malicious behavior. The package is convicted as malware responsive to the files in the package collectively performing malicious behavior.
US09361459B2	Methods and systems for malware detection based on environment-dependent behavior The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for malware detection based on environment-dependent behavior. Generally, an analysis environment is used to determine how input collected from an execution environment is used by suspicious software. The methods and systems described identify use of environmental information to decide between execution paths leading to malicious behavior or benign activity. In one aspect, one embodiment of the invention relates to a method comprising monitoring execution of suspect computer instructions; recognizing access by the instructions of an item of environmental information; identifying a plurality of execution paths in the instructions dependant on a branch in the instructions based on a value of the accessed item of environmental information; and determining that a first execution path results in benign behavior and that a second execution path results in malicious behavior. The method comprises classifying the computer instructions as evasive malware responsive to the determination.
US09361458B1	Locality-sensitive hash-based detection of malicious codes Malicious code is detected in binary data by disassembling machine language instructions of the binary data into assembly language instructions. Opcodes of the assembly language instructions are normalized and formed into groups, with each group being a subsequence of a sequence of machine language instructions of the binary data. The subsequence is delimited by a predetermined machine language instruction. Locality-sensitive hashes are calculated for each group and compared to locality-sensitive hashes of known malicious machine language instructions to detect malicious code in the binary data.
US09361457B1	Use of decoy data in a data store Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying a table of non-decoy data matching a set of criteria. Decoy data is inserted into the table of non-decoy data. The decoy data is detected in a result comprising the decoy data, the result generated in response to an access of the data store. An alarm is generated based at least upon the result.
US09361456B2	Secure computing device using a library of programs A computing device includes a central processing resource, memory, a network interface, and a security control module. The security control module determines when to change a program of the computing device. When the program is to be changed, the security control module accesses a library of programs that includes a plurality of versions of the program and selects one of the plurality of versions of the program. The security control module then updates an active program list to include the selected version of the program. When the program is evoked, the central processing resource uses the selected version of the program such that execution of the program is changed, which changes internal operation of the computing device thereby reducing adverse impact of the malicious software.
US09361454B2	Methods for restricting resources used by an application based on a base profile and an application specific profile In response to a request for launching an application within an operating system of a data processing system, one or more extended entitlements are extracted from the application, where the one or more extended entitlements specify one or more resources the application is entitled to access. One or more security profile extensions corresponding to the one or more extended entitlements are dynamically generated. A security profile specifically for the application is created based on the one or more security profile extensions and a base security profile that has been previously compiled, where the base security profile specifies a list of a plurality of base resources. The application is then launched in a sandboxed operating environment that is configured based on the security profile specifically generated for the application.
US09361448B2	Enabling authentication and/or effectuating events in virtual environments based on shaking patterns and/or environmental information associated with real-world handheld devices Shaking patterns and/or environmental information associated with real-world handheld devices may form a basis for enabling authentication and/or effectuating events in a virtual environment. The handheld devices may include toys and/or other object that can be used to play. The handheld devices may be associated with the virtual environment in that individual handheld devices may share an appearance and/or theme with an avatar, a virtual object, and/or other element within the virtual environment. Shaking a pair of handheld devices together may facilitate authentication of the handheld devices with respect to the virtual environment and/or effectuate one or more events within the virtual environment. Shake patterns may be used in conjunction with geo-location and/or environmental information to improve pairing between handheld devices.
US09361443B2	Method and apparatus for token-based combining of authentication methods According to one embodiment, an apparatus may store a first and second subject token that indicate a first authentication method performed by the user and a second authentication method performed by the user respectively. The apparatus may detect at least one new subject token indicating at least one different authentication method performed by the user. The apparatus may then determine that a particular combination of subject tokens in the first subject token, second subject token, and the at least one new subject token indicates a privilege should be granted to the user, and facilitate the granting of the privilege to the user.
US09361442B2	Triggering actions on a user device based on biometrics of nearby individuals Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically triggering actions on a user device based on biometrics of nearby individuals are provided herein. A method includes capturing, via one or more sensors resident on a first computing device, one or more items of biometric information from one or more individuals located within a given proximity of the first computing device; determining a degree of proximity of the one or more individuals to the first computing device; transmitting, to a second computing device, (i) the one or more captured items of biometric information from the one or more individuals and (ii) the determined degree of proximity of the one or more individuals to the first computing device; and automatically executing one or more actions on the first computing device based on an instruction provided by the second computing device in response to said transmitting.
US09361439B1	Virtual verification An automatic machine implemented identification and data processing, gathering and storage system and method. A system, method and computer program product for communicating peer-validated reputation information enabling users, including automated processing equipment and methods, to, among other things, make decisions of safe or unsafe personal interactions, such as participating in an in-person meeting.
US09361437B1	System and method for querying data In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining, by a computer system, a plurality of data and at least one classification for each of the plurality of data. Each data of the plurality of data is aggregated from a plurality data sources and is abstracted into one or more of a plurality of standardized formats based on a type of the data. The computer system has executing thereon a plurality of classification engines. The plurality of classification engines include an a priori classification engine, an a posteriori classification engine, and a heuristics engine. Each at least one classification is generated by one of the plurality of classification engines. In addition, the method includes receiving query input from a user. Further, the method includes querying at least a portion of the plurality of data responsive to the query input.
US09361429B2	Multi-parameter diabetes risk evaluations Methods, systems and circuits evaluate a subject's risk of developing type 2 diabetes or developing or having prediabetes using at least one defined mathematical model of risk of progression that can stratify risk for patients having the same glucose measurement. The model may include NMR derived measurements of GlycA and a plurality of selected lipoprotein components of at least one biosample of the subject.
US09361428B2	System and method for electronically managing medical data files A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location.
US09361427B2	Scar-less multi-part DNA assembly design automation The present invention provides a method of a method of designing an implementation of a DNA assembly. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes (1) receiving a list of DNA sequence fragments to be assembled together and an order in which to assemble the DNA sequence fragments, (2) designing DNA oligonucleotides (oligos) for each of the DNA sequence fragments, and (3) creating a plan for adding flanking homology sequences to each of the DNA oligos. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes (1) receiving a list of DNA sequence fragments to be assembled together and an order in which to assemble the DNA sequence fragments, (2) designing DNA oligonucleotides (oligos) for each of the DNA sequence fragments, and (3) creating a plan for adding optimized overhang sequences to each of the DNA oligos.
US09361425B2	Method and apparatus for modeling multi-terminal MOS device for LVS and PDK A method comprises identifying a semiconductor device layout region comprising a first n-type metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device having a first pair of face-to-face diodes adjacent to a second n-type MOS device having a second pair of face-to-face diodes and adding a dummy device between a first body contact of the first n-type MOS device and a second body contact of the second MOS device.
US09361424B2	Integrated circuit layout design methodology with process variation bands A system for analyzing IC layouts and designs by calculating variations of a number of objects to be created on a semiconductor wafer as a result of different process conditions. The variations are analyzed to determine individual feature failures or to rank layout designs by their susceptibility to process variations. In one embodiment, the variations are represented by PV-bands having an inner edge that defines the smallest area in which an object will always print and an outer edge that defines the largest area in which an object will print under some process conditions.
US09361423B2	RC corner solutions for double patterning technology A method includes selecting a process corner, determining model parameters for forming an integrated circuit, and generating a file using the model parameters for the process corner. The generating the file is performed using a computer. The file includes at least two of a first capacitance table, a second capacitance table, and a third capacitance table. The first capacitance table stores greatest parasitic capacitances between layout patterns of the integrated circuit when lithography masks including the layout patterns shift relative to each other. The second capacitance table stores smallest parasitic capacitances between the layout patterns when the lithography masks shift relative to each other. The third capacitance table stores nominal parasitic capacitances between the layout patterns when the lithography masks do not shift relative to each other.
US09361420B2	System and method for optimization of an imaged pattern of a semiconductor device In a method, a layout of a device having a pattern of features is provided. The method continues to include identifying a first portion of at least one feature of the plurality of features. An image criteria for the first portion may be assigned. A lithography optimization parameter is determined based on the assigned image criteria for the first portion. Finally, the first portion of the at least one feature is imaged onto a semiconductor substrate using the determined lithography optimization parameter.
US09361417B2	Placement of single-bit and multi-bit flip-flops Technology is disclosed for placement of single-bit flip-flops and multi-bit flip-flops. Single-bit flip-flops with replaced with multi-bit flip-flops and/or relative placement groups of single-bit flip-flops.
US09361416B2	Dynamic reconfiguration of programmable hardware Technologies related to dynamic reconfiguration of programmable hardware are generally described. In some examples, coprocessor regions in programmable hardware such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) may be dynamically assigned to transition the FPGA from a starting arrangement of coprocessor regions to an efficient arrangement. A placement algorithm may be executed to determine the efficient arrangement, and a path finding algorithm may be executed to determine path finding operations leading from the starting arrangement to the efficient arrangement. The path finding operations may be performed to implement the transition.
US09361415B1	Method, system, and computer program product for implementing a multi-fabric electronic design spanning across multiple design fabrics Various embodiments implement multi-fabric designs by using respective EDA tools associated with multiple design fabrics to access their respective native design data. Each EDA tool has access to and processes or manipulates its corresponding native design data; and no EDA tools have the visibility of the entire multi-fabric electronic design. Requests for actions are automatically transmitted among these EDA tools to instantiate desired EDA tools and to descend or ascend the multi-fabric design structure so that native design data in a particular design fabric are processed by the corresponding EDA tool(s) within the context of the other design fabrics. These techniques enable designers to implement, check, verify, simulate, analyze, probe, and netlist the entire electronic design across multiple design fabric.
US09361414B2	Hybrid local nonmatching method for multiphase flow simulations in heterogeneous fractured media Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for modeling a fractured medium. The method includes generating, using a processor, a grid for the fractured medium, the fractured medium defining a first fracture and a second fracture, with the first fracture and the second fracture each represented by fracture cells in the grid. The method also includes determining a location where the first and second fractures intersect, the location being at least partially represented by an intersection cell of the fracture cells of the grid. The method further includes redistributing areas of the intersection cell and at least one other fracture cell, such that a size of the intersection cell is increased.
US09361407B2	SQL extended with transient fields for calculation expressions in enhanced data models A database language (e.g. SQL) is extended to define a transient field whose value is derived from data stored in a database. The value of the transient field is calculated by the database engine for consumption as needed by the application layer, for example as part of a particular data model. The value of the transient field may not be materialized as a persistent field in the underlying database table, or may be selectively materialized based upon a heuristic or hint. Certain embodiments may implement the transient field as a basic elaboration on standard SQL utilizing an identifier. Some embodiments may implement the transient field as an entity where SQL has been extended to accommodate concepts of a higher-level Entity Relationship Model (ERM). The use of constants and/or floating values (e.g. a current time) in connection with transient fields, is also disclosed.
US09361406B1	Query completions Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranking query completions based on activity session data. One of the methods includes receiving a query prefix from a user. A reference parameter for the user is obtained. One or more likely queries that are likely to co-occur with the reference parameter in user activity sessions are identified, wherein each likely query has an associated prediction score. A ranking of the one or more likely queries is provided in response to receiving the query prefix.
US09361405B2	System and method for service recommendation service The present disclosure includes a system and method for a service recommendation service. A method for a service recommendation service includes determining one or more queries that do not expose additional data items stored in a data source of a participant in a collaborative information system than are exposed by queries already implemented on the participant's data source. Query services that are not authorized to involve the data source, but which use the determined one or more queries are identified. The identified query services are recommended to the participant.
US09361403B2	Efficiently counting triangles in a graph Techniques for identifying common neighbors of two nodes in a graph are provided. One technique involves performing a binary split search and/or a linear search. Another technique involves creating a segmenting index for a first neighbor list. A second neighbor list is scanned and, for each node indicated in the second neighbor list, the segmenting index is used to determine whether the node is also indicated in the first neighbor list. Techniques are also provided for counting the number of triangles. One technique involves pruning nodes from neighbor lists based on the node values of the nodes whose neighbor lists are being pruned. Another technique involves sorting the nodes in a node array (and, thus, their respective neighbor lists) based on the nodes' respective degrees prior to identifying common neighbors. In this way, when pruning the neighbor lists, the neighbor lists of the highly connected nodes are significantly reduced.
US09361402B2	Tiered index management Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for storing data in a database using a tiered index architecture, An embodiment operates by creating a first tier and assigning a first threshold size to the first tier. When the first tier exceed the first threshold size, the system pushes data from the first tier into a second tier.
US09361401B2	Relevance map linking Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for relevance map linking. Relevance map linking can include identifying a user as a user node that is associated with a number of user resources. Relevance map linking can also include finding a number of related resources that are associated with the number of user resources and defining the number of related resources as a number of related resource nodes. Relevance map linking can include defining a number of related resource relevance maps for the number of related resource nodes. Relevance map linking can include defining a user relevance map for the user node wherein the user relevance map links the number of related resource nodes and the user node based on the number of resource relevance maps.
US09361398B1	Maintaining a relational database and its schema in response to a stream of XML messages based on one or more arbitrary and evolving XML schemas A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
US09361395B2	System and method for providing offline access in a hosted document service A request for a document is received at a user device while in an offline state. The request includes a public uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a location remote from the user device. The user device launches an application that intercepts the request and selects one of multiple local caches based on the public URL. Each of the multiple local caches is associated with a private URL. The user device accesses the selected local caches via a corresponding private URL to retrieve an editor. The user device modifies a URL history to replace the private URL with a public URL and provides the document, via the editor, to the user device.
US09361394B2	Response header invalidation Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with content invalidation are described. One example method includes providing an invalidation directive in a header of a response.
US09361393B2	User interface overlay application A system and method to apply a first User Interface (UI) layout associated with a first system to a second UI associated with a second system. A user overlay interface application identifies the components and/or functionality of a target UI, such as the first UI, to information presented by a second system. In this way, the user may select the UI format desired for multiple systems and thus improve the user experience using multiple systems.
US09361391B2	Method of generating a web feed and an associated system The invention relates to generating a web feed composed of content elements. A number of content elements to be added to the web feed is determined, according to a number of available content elements to be published and according to a predefined visibility period associated with the web feed and defining a minimal time period for which any content element has to remain present in the web feed, wherein the determining of the number of elements comprises estimating a predicted number of new content elements liable to arrive during said visibility period, from historical data of said web feed representing statistics of arrivals, during past visibility periods, of content elements to be published. From the number of available content elements to be published, the determined number of content elements are selected, and entries corresponding to the selected content elements are created in the web feed.
US09361387B2	Context-based services Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing context-based services. In one embodiment, context-based output is provided. The context-based output can include context-based search results for a query. Contextual information can be used to improve access to real-time, social, and other content by enabling a search engine to better understand and/or to supplement queries based upon the context within which the query is received. The contextual information can include, but are not limited to, searches and content associated with the searcher, one or more locations associated with the searcher, the time of day at which a query is received, the device from which a query is received, an application running at the device from which the query is received, the capabilities of the device from which the query is received, and other variables. The contextual information can be used to manipulate the search query, the search results, the presentation of the search results, and/or the content surrounding the search results such as, for example, advertising, links, graphics, and other content.
US09361386B2	Clarification of submitted questions in a question and answer system Mechanisms for clarifying an input question are provided. A question is received for generation of an answer. A set of candidate answers is generated based on an analysis of a corpus of information. Each candidate answer has an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer. Based on the set of candidate answers, a determination is made as to whether clarification of the question is required. In response to a determination that clarification of the question is required, a request is sent for user input to clarify the question. User input is received from the computing device in response to the request and at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers is selected as an answer for the question based on the user input.
US09361385B2	Generating content for topics based on user demand Techniques for generating content for topics based on user demand are disclosed. In some embodiments, generating content for topics based on user demand includes determining a topic based on a user demand; automatically generating content for the topic; and selecting the content that is contextually relevant for display within a corpus of content (e.g., a web site, a social networking web page, content customized for mobile devices, content customized based on location awareness, or an electronic mail message).
US09361375B2	Building a research document based on implicit/explicit actions A system and method is described that maintains a record of research performed by a user of an information retrieval system in a manner that reduces the amount of work required by the user to maintain such a record. The system and method obtains information implicitly generated through the interaction of the user with the information retrieval system while performing research and uses such information to automatically construct a research document for the user about a particular research topic. The research document or a means of access thereto is then presented to the user. The research document is configured to maintain both the implicitly-generated data recorded by the system as well as data explicitly provided or collected by the user, such as retrieved document content and user notes, in a manner that is highly-organized and easy to access, augment, and maintain.
US09361371B2	Playlist update in a media playback system Embodiments are provided for updating a playlist that has been added to a playback queue in response to changes to the playback queue. The playback queue may be associated with a zone of a network media system such that items in the playback queue are to be rendered by the zone. The playlist may include one or more items playable by the zone, and may be stored separately from where the playback queue is maintained. Embodiments are also provided for updating a playback queue in response to modifications to a playlist included in the playback queue. In some cases, a user modifying the playlist or playback queue may be prompted upon making the modifications whether to also apply the modification to the playback queue or playlist, respectively.
US09361368B1	Review-broadcasting integrating social networks and product information A feedback module identifies one or more social network data entries received from the at least one social network provider that are related to a content item. The feedback module parses the identified one or more social network data entries to identify feedback related to the content item. The feedback module then generates a feedback result based on the feedback identified in the one or more social network data entries.
US09361366B1	Method and system for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal. These mechanisms and methods for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal can enable embodiments to provide great flexibility to a tenant of the architecture to select the content that may be perceived by the tenant users while allowing the owner of the architecture control over the content.
US09361365B2	Methods and apparatus for searching of content using semantic synthesis A method of semantic searching. The method may include receiving a first search query, obtaining a disambiguation term for semantically disambiguating the first search query, and creating, with a processor, a second search query based at least in part on the first search query and the disambiguation term. The method may also include at least one of outputting search results obtained from a search conducted based at least in part on the second search query and sending the second search query to a search service for outputting search results.
US09361360B2	Method and system for retrieving information from semantic database Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a method for retrieving information from a semantic database having a plurality of semantic data. The method includes selecting a hub that is resolved with a number of semantic data based on a resolution rule, when the number of the semantic data is greater than a threshold in an offline environment; calculating a semantic data set that is associated with the hub based on a searching approach and the resolution rule in the offline environment; indexing the semantic data set in the offline environment; modifying the semantic database to include the semantic data set in the offline environment; and retrieving information from the semantic data set in an online environment.
US09361358B2	Syntactic loci and fields in a functional information system The invention relates to systems and methods using a logical data model for aggregating data entities in a functional information system supported upon a computing platform, and also for providing systems and methods for analyzing economic information using a functional coordinate system.
US09361355B2	Data clustering based on candidate queries Received data records, each including one or more values in one or more fields, are processed to identify a matched data cluster. The processing includes: for selected data records, generating a query from one or more values; identifying one or more candidate data records from the received data records using the query; determining whether or not the selected data record satisfies a cluster membership criterion for at least one candidate data cluster of one or more existing data clusters containing the candidate records; and selecting the matched data cluster from among one or more candidate data clusters based at least in part on a growth criterion for the candidate data clusters, or initializing the matched data cluster with the selected data record if the selected data record does not satisfy a cluster membership criterion for any of the existing data clusters or based on a result of the growth criterion.
US09361352B2	Point pattern match-based change detection in a constellation of previously detected objects A method and system is provided that applies attribute- and topology-based change detection to objects that were detected on previous scans of a medium. The attributes capture properties or characteristics of the previously detected objects, such as location, time of detection, detection strength, size, elongation, orientation, etc. The locations define a three-dimensional network topology forming a constellation of previously detected objects. The change detection system stores attributes of the previously detected objects in a constellation database. The change detection system detects changes by comparing the attributes and topological consistency of newly detected objects encountered during a new scan of the medium to previously detected objects in the constellation database. The change detection system may receive the attributes of the newly detected objects as the objects are detected by an object detection system in real time.
US09361350B2	Data transfer between first and second databases To facilitate data transfer between two databases, a transfer machine accesses both databases and finds matching records. The transfer machine determines and stores a match status of a record in one database. The match status indicates whether the record corresponds to at least one of the records in the other database, and if so, which record or records in the other database correspond to the record. If the match status indicates that the record matches a record in the other database, the transfer machine determines which record is current and updates the other record. If the match status indicates that a record has no match in the other database, the transfer machine adds a copy of the record to the other database.
US09361348B1	Database replication A database server receives a request from a client application for performing a data transaction on persistent data storage. The request is sent to a set of replication servers. An acknowledgement for the request is received from each replication server, including a start sequence number and an end sequence number for data that is stored in local cache of the replication server, and a latest committed sequence number for data that was written to the persistent data storage by the replication server. A maximum value of latest committed sequence numbers received from the set of replication servers is determined. For each replication server, it is examined whether there is a gap between the start sequence number for data stored in local cache and the maximum value of the latest committed sequence numbers. Based on the examining, it is determined whether there is an occurrence of loss of data.
US09361347B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining data signatures in a dynamic distributed device network An apparatus for determining data signatures in a dynamic distributed device network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a first query and generate a local partial closure of the data identified by the first query. The processor may be further configured to synthesize a data signature of the local partial closure. In this regard, the data signature may be an irreducible polynomial expression and the data signature may be orthogonal to remote data signatures generated from remote partial closures. Further, the processor may be configured to store the data signature in an information store within a dynamic distributed device network. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.
US09361344B2	System and method for distributed database query engines Techniques for a system capable of performing low-latency database query processing are disclosed herein. The system includes a gateway server and a plurality of worker nodes. The gateway server is configured to divide a database query, for a database containing data stored in a distributed storage cluster having a plurality of data nodes, into a plurality of partial queries and construct a query result based on a plurality of intermediate results. Each worker node of the plurality of worker nodes is configured to process a respective partial query of the plurality of partial queries by scanning data related to the respective partial query that stored on at least one data node of the distributed storage cluster and generate an intermediate result of the plurality of intermediate results that is stored in a memory of that worker node.
US09361338B2	Offloaded, incremental database statistics collection and optimization A method and associated system for offloading the collection and optimization of database statistics to an external computer system, without using significant resources required by the database system during its normal operation. A processor of a computer system captures and stores information about the database's recent transactions, where the captured information describes how each transaction altered the logical description of the database or revised data stored in the database. The processor uses this captured information to update stored metadata that identifies the database's logical structure, and to further update stored database statistics that describe characteristics of the data stored in the database. These updated statistics are then returned to the production database's optimizer module, which uses them to determine how to efficiently respond to database-access requests.
US09361337B1	System for organizing and fast searching of massive amounts of data A system to collect and store in a special data structure arranged for rapid searching massive amounts of data. Performance metric data is one example. The performance metric data is recorded in time-series measurements, converted into unicode, and arranged into a special data structure having one directory for every day which stores all the metric data collected that day. The data structure at the server where analysis is done has a subdirectory for every resource type. Each subdirectory contains text files of performance metric data values measured for attributes in a group of attributes to which said text file is dedicated. Each attribute has its own section and the performance metric data values are recorded in time series as unicode hex numbers as a comma delimited list. Analysis of the performance metric data is done using regular expressions.
US09361335B2	Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines are disclosed. An example method includes determining that a deployment of a first virtual machine has halted because the first virtual machine is dependent on a parameter of a second virtual machine, detecting that the second virtual machine has been deployed and has caused configuration information to be stored in a repository, retrieving, via a processor, the configuration information, including the parameter, from the repository, and transmitting, via the processor, the parameter to the first virtual machine to cause the first virtual machine to resume deployment.
US09361334B2	Addressing cache coherence in updates to a shared database in a network environment Example embodiments are provided that may include receiving a request to update a particular object based on a modified object, where the particular object is one of a number of objects in a shared database, and the request includes an identification of one or more referenced objects and version information of the one or more referenced objects. Embodiments further include determining whether any of the referenced objects is stale based on the version information, where the particular object is not updated if any of the referenced objects is stale. More specific embodiments include updating the particular object if none of the referenced objects is stale. In yet further embodiments, determining a referenced object is stale is based on a comparison of a version identifier of the referenced object and a version identifier of an object in the shared database that corresponds to the referenced object.
US09361330B2	System and method for consistent embedded search across enterprise applications with an enterprise crawl and search framework In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing an enterprise crawl and search framework, including features such as use with middleware and enterprise application environments, pluggable security, search development tools, user interfaces, and governance. The system includes an enterprise crawl and search framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application. An application development framework allows an application developer to make searchable view objects that are associated with a plurality of enterprise applications. At runtime, a searchable object manager loads searchable objects from persistent storage, validates the searchable object definitions, and provides the searchable objects to the framework for use in searching across the plurality of enterprise applications.
US09361329B2	Managing time series databases A method for building indices for a time sequence in a time series database includes dividing, using a processing device, a time sequence in the time series database into a plurality of subsequences based on a sliding window; building spatial indices for the plurality of subsequences, the spatial indices being used for defining spatial locations of subsequences in the plurality of subsequences in the time sequence; and building content indices for the plurality of subsequences, the content indices being used for defining content ranges of subsequences in the plurality of subsequences.
US09361323B2	Declarative specification of data integration workflows for execution on parallel processing platforms A system for receiving a declarative specification including a plurality of stages. Each stage specifies an atomic operation, a data input to the atomic operation, and a data output from the atomic operation. The data input is characterized by a data type. Links between at least two of the stages are generated to create a data integration workflow. The data integration workflow is compiled to generate computer code for execution on a parallel processing platform. The computer code configured to perform at least one of data preparation and data analysis.
US09361321B1	Backend capacity report for de-duplicated storage systems One example method includes identifying a space that includes pointers that each point to a respective piece of data in the set of data, selecting a first pointer using a sub sample ratio, checking the first pointer to see if the first pointer points to data previously observed in an associated backup stream, if the first pointer points to data not previously observed in the associated backup stream, recording a number of data pieces to which the first pointer points, and if the first pointer points to data previously observed in the associated backup stream, selecting a second pointer using the sub sample ratio. The selecting, checking and recording processes are repeated until the entire space has been sampled, and the required storage capacity is calculated using the sub sample ratio and a sum of the recorded number of data pieces.
US09361320B1	Modeling big data A method, apparatus, and computer implemented method for modeling a Big Data dataset, the method comprising creating non-specific representations of the Big Data dataset by representing, as objects in a computer model, non-specific representations including metaInformation, DataSet, BigData and Properties representations and creating non-specific representations of Properties, wherein at least one of the representations are selected from the group consisting of Analytical, size, volume, and structural.
US09361318B2	Adjacent search results exploration The specification relates to the creation of an image space by receiving an initial image query. A plurality of search queries related to the initial search query are determined. Image results for the initial search query and the plurality of related search queries are obtained. A panel of images representing a number of images from the initial search query and panels of images representing a number of images from the plurality of related search queries are generated. These panels are used to provide an image space. The image space can be centered on the panel representing the resultant images related to the initial search query and can be surrounded by panels representing the resultant images related to the plurality of related search queries.
US09361313B2	System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters can be provided for manipulating the items, which serve as tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate items. The system can utilize virtual folders. The virtual folders can expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. Quick links can be provided, which serve as a set of predefined links (e.g., located on the left side of the display) that can be clicked on to generate useful views of the sets of items. Libraries, which can provide large groups of usable types of items that can be associated together, may also be used.
US09361311B2	Distributed file system using consensus nodes A cluster of nodes in a distributed file system may include; at least two namenodes, each coupled to a plurality of data nodes and each configured to store a state of a namespace of the cluster and each being configured to respond to a request from a client while other(s) of the namenodes are responding to other requests from other clients; and a coordination engine coupled to each of the namenodes. The coordination engine may be configured to receive proposals from the namenodes to change the state of the namespace by replicating, deleting and/or adding data blocks stored in the data nodes and to generate, in response, an ordered set of agreements that specifies an order in which the namenodes are to change the state of the namespace. The namenodes are configured to delay making changes thereto until after the ordered set of agreements is received from the coordination engine.
US09361308B2	State initialization algorithm for continuous queries over archived relations In some examples, a method may include receiving a continuous query, the continuous query being identified based at least in part on an archived relation associated with an application. The method may also include generating a physical query plan for the continuous query. In some examples, the method may also include identifying a query operator in the physical query plan and/or constructing an archiver query for the identified query operator. In some aspects, the method may also include executing the archiver query to obtain a result set of data records related to the application and/or initializing a state of the query operator based at least in part on the result set of data records. Further, the method may also include generating a snapshot output of one or more data values related to the application based at least in part on the state of the identified query operator.
US09361306B1	Managing concurrent write operations to a file system transaction log Systems and methods of managing concurrent log writes to a transaction log are provided. A system may include: a transaction log residing on a non-volatile storage medium for logging metadata transactions of a file system; and a plurality of transaction log buffers, associated with the transaction log, residing in volatile memory. A first write operation may be initiated to write first contents of at least a first of the plurality of transaction log buffers to the transaction log. Concurrently to a performance of the first write operation, a second write operation may be initiated to write second contents of at least a second of the plurality of transaction log buffers to the transaction log.
US09361303B2	Systems and methods to facilitate a request for oilfield services using a data transfer protocol Facilitating a request for oilfield services. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including a data store to receive a services request from a services requestor through a data transfer protocol interface and update an entry in the data store to indicate one or more parameters associated with the services request. The system also includes a monitor tool and a configuration file creator. The monitor tool detects an update to the data store and, if an update is detected, verifies the correctness of the services request that corresponds to the detected update. The configuration file creator detects an update to the data store and, if an update is detected, identifies an affected receiving system, determines a configuration file format for the affected receiving system, and generates a configuration file for the services request having the determined format for the affected receiving system.
US09361301B1	Detecting modifications to a storage that occur in an alternate operating environment Detecting modifications to a storage that occur in an alternate operating environment. In one example embodiment, a method for detecting modifications to a storage that occur in an alternate operating environment may include tracking, in a modify map, modifications to a storage that occur during operation of a primary operating environment, identifying a first most recent transaction identifier in a journal of a file system of the storage prior to closing of the storage by the primary operating environment, upon opening of the storage by the primary operating environment, identifying a second most recent transaction identifier in the journal, determining that the second most recent transaction identifier does not match the first most recent transaction identifier, concluding that the storage was modified in an alternate operating environment between the closing and the opening of the storage by the primary operating environment, and invalidating the modify map.
US09361299B2	RSS content administration for rendering RSS content on a digital audio player Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for RSS content administration for rendering RSS content on a digital audio player. Embodiments include retrieving, through an RSS feed, RSS content; extracting text from the RSS content; creating a media file; and storing the extracted text of the RSS content as metadata associated with the media file. Embodiments also typically include extracting one or more images from the RSS content; and storing the extracted images as metadata associated with the media file. Embodiments also typically include extracting text from the RSS content for audio rendering on the digital audio player; converting the text to speech; and recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file. Many embodiments also include storing the media file on a digital audio player; displaying the metadata describing the media file; and playing the audio portion containing the speech.
US09361294B2	Publishing tool for translating documents Some embodiments of a publishing tool to translate documents have been presented. In one embodiment, a master document written in a first natural language is received. The master document is repurposed to generate a set of output documents in one or more predetermined formats, wherein each of the output document is in a distinct one of a set of natural languages.
US09361293B2	Using renaming directives to bootstrap industry-specific knowledge and lexical resources Mechanisms are provided for generating a lexical resource for linguistic analysis. A document data structure is received that comprises a renaming directive and filter logic is applied to the document data structure to identify the renaming directive within the document data structure. The renaming directive is analyzed to identify a relationship between semantic concepts represented by the renaming directive that are to be used to update a lexical resource based on the renaming directive. The lexical resource is updated based on results of analyzing the renaming directive. The updated lexical resource is output to a linguistic analysis system which performs linguistic analysis of a portion of textual content based on the updated lexical resource.
US09361292B2	Subscription updates in multiple device language models Systems and methods for intelligent language models that can be used across multiple devices are provided. Some embodiments provide for a client-server system for integrating change events from each device running a local language processing system into a master language model. The change events can be integrated, not only into the master model, but also into each of the other local language models. As a result, some embodiments enable restoration to new devices as well as synchronization of usage across multiple devices. In addition, real-time messaging can be used on selected messages to ensure that high priority change events are updated quickly across all active devices. Using a subscription model driven by a server infrastructure, utilization logic on the client side can also drive selective language model updates.

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