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US09748692B1	Electrical connector with male blade stabilizer An electrical connector can include a male blade stabilizer that protects one or more male blade terminals from external objects before, during, and after coupling of the male connector to a female connector. The male blade stabilizer can be slidably disposed within a housing of the male connector and configured to retract when the female connector is coupled to the male connector and extend when the female connector is decoupled from the male connector. The male blade stabilizer is moveable from an extended position to a retracted position when a lever lock of a lever is resiliently deflected by the engagement of a female housing with the male housing to a pre-set position.
US09748688B2	Plug-and-socket connector having a movable closure element A plug-and-socket connector with an electrically conductive female contact for receiving a contact pin and for establishing an electrically conductive connection to the contact pin is described. According to implementations here, the female contact is accessible by an opening in the plug-and-socket connector. Further, a closure element for closing the opening is movably supported inside the female contact.
US09748685B2	Multi-contact terminal A multi-contact terminal is provided integrally with an angular tube having a polygonal tube shape and a plurality of resilient contact pieces extending from side walls of the angular tube and to be resiliently brought into contact with an outer peripheral surface of a mating terminal in the form of a round bar inside the angular tube. According to this configuration, the angular tube functions as a cover for protecting the resilient contact pieces. In addition, since the resilient contact pieces and the angular tube are integrated, the number of components can be reduced. The resilient contact pieces are equal in length in a connecting direction to the mating terminal and arranged at positions different in the connecting direction to the mating terminal.
US09748684B2	Plug connector and mating connector Disclosed is a plug connector for positioning on a mating connector and for producing an electrically conductive connection. The plug connector comprises a guide means and a contact pin. The guide means is configured and positioned such that to produce the electrically conductive connection, contact bars of a contact socket of the mating connector can be guided by means of the guide means toward the contact pin, said contact bars encompassing the contact pin in a frictional engagement to establish electrical contact.
US09748682B2	Actuation system and lithographic apparatus Actuation systems and lithographic apparatus which address the issue of uncontrolled return of common mode currents are provided. In an embodiment such systems aim to prevent the occurrence of corona and discharge between high voltage electric cables in low pressure environments. An exemplary actuation system includes an actuator module, a power source and power transmission cables. The actuator module includes an electrical motor and a first plurality of shielded cables configured to connect to the electrical motor at one end. The actuator module is located in a low pressure environment and each shield of the first plurality of cables is grounded. The transmission cables electrically connect the first plurality of cables with power supply, and include an extra cable configured to connect each shield of the first plurality of cables with the first extra cable, via a choke so as to provide a return path for common-mode currents.
US09748679B2	Socket, connector comprising such socket, and header used in such connector A socket-side terminal includes: a root section that is fixed to a conductive wiring pattern on the main surface of a circuit wiring substrate by using solder; a rising section rising up from the root section and spaced apart from the main surface; an inverted U-shaped section one end of which is continuous with the top end of the rising section; a falling section that extends from the other end of the inverted U-shaped section towards the main surface; an inclined section that, as the inclined section extends from the bottom end of the falling section towards the main surface, is inclined with respect to the main surface to be spaced apart from the rising section; and an opposing section that is continuous with the bottom end of the inclined section, is positioned so as to be opposing the falling section, and is in contact with a header-side terminal.
US09748676B2	Electrical connector The present invention relates to an electrical connector, comprising a connector main body (1) and screws (2, 3). The connector main body (1) includes a housing (4), a multi-socket wire connection structure (5), a multi-socket plug-in connection structure (8), and a multi-socket wire disconnection structure (6). The screws (2, 3) are preferably set screws, which comprise a guide structure (9), a thread structure (10), a fall-off prevention structure (11), and a wrenching structure (12). The present invention has advantages of high connection density, ease of wiring connection, high efficiency, being shock-resistant, loosening-proof and reliable, while meeting the IEC 60603-2 standard.
US09748674B2	Connection terminal for connecting cable A connection terminal for releaseably connecting a cable is disclosed having a terminal body, a contact arm, a cable fastening member, and a cable releasing member. The terminal body has a mating end and an opposite terminating end. The contact arm extends continuously from the mating end of the terminal body. The cable fastening member is positioned on the terminating end of the terminal body. The cable releasing member is positioned on the cable fastening member.
US09748672B2	Insulated jumper of the screw type in particular for terminal blocks of switchboards An electrical connection jumper is of the screw type for terminal blocks of switchboards. The jumper includes conducting body including at least two sub-bodies, each with a shape substantially in the form of an overturned “U”, insulating body including at least two sub-bodies with a substantially parallelepiped shape made of suitable insulating material, connected together longitudinally by a vertical membrane with a reduced thickness in the transverse direction. Insulating body has a plane for coupling with the conducting body. The coupling plane includes, between each sub-body and adjacent sub-body, a pair of arched lugs arranged opposite each other in the transverse direction and extending in the longitudinal direction so that the respective vertical arms are respectively connected to each one of the adjacent sub-bodies. Each arched lug has a tooth extending in the transverse direction towards the inside of the insulating body in empty space between the two sub-bodies.
US09748671B2	Terminal connection structure A terminal connection structure for electrically connecting a conductor and at least one terminal electrode of an electronic component, wherein the terminal electrode includes a plurality of connection terminals, the terminal connection structure includes a male part that includes a hole portion into which a fastening member, which may be threaded, is inserted, and a female part into which the male part is inserted and that includes hole portions equivalent in number to the connection terminals, the conductor is secured by being sandwiched between the female part and the male part and swaging the hole portion of the male part, and the conductor is secured to the electronic component with the fastening member inserted into the hole portion of the male part and fastening mechanisms, which may be threaded, provided to the respective connection terminals.
US09748669B2	Underwater connecting apparatus and assemblies A cable termination apparatus, for an underwater cable with a conductive core and an axially extending annular insulation portion, the apparatus having a cable crimp for electrically connecting the conductive core of the underwater cable to a pin and a conductive crimp screen. The crimp screen is arranged such that when the termination is assembled a portion of the conductive crimp screen extends axially over and is radially outwardly of the annular insulation portion of the cable.
US09748668B2	Diversity antenna module and associated method for a user equipment (UE) device A diversity antenna module comprising a first radiating element adapted to operate with a first transceiver circuit operating in at least one band and a second radiating element adapted to operate with a second transceiver circuit operating in at least one band. The first radiating element is disposed along a first side of a substrate and the second radiating element is disposed along a second side of the substrate, wherein the first and second sides are substantially perpendicular to each other, the first and second radiating elements being spatially dispersed from each another by a distance.
US09748663B2	Metamaterial substrate for circuit design This invention enables Frequency Selective Surface (“FSS”) and Artificial Magnetic Conductor (“AMC”) which exhibits Electromagnetic Band Gap (“EBG”) in any of the substrate's layer from a small and thin systems and sub-systems in package to a large-format PCBs. The metamaterial substrate may be integrated with electronic circuit components or buried in PCBs for circuit designs capable of transmitting, receiving and reflecting electromagnetic energy, altering electromagnetic properties of natural circuit materials, enhancing electrical characteristics of electrical components (such as filters, antennas, baluns, power dividers, transmission lines, amplifiers, power regulators, and printed circuits elements) in systems and sub-systems circuit designs. The metamaterial substrate creates new electrical characteristics, properties and systems, sub-systems or component's specification not readily available with conventional circuit materials, substrates, and PCBs. The metamaterial substrate can be less than 70 μm thick and buried into any PCB layer.
US09748660B2	Antenna with multiple feed points An antenna includes a grounding portion extending in a longitudinal direction, a radiating portion extending in the longitudinal direction and parallel with the grounding portion, a connecting portion connecting the grounding portion and the radiating portion in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and a coaxial cable. The coaxial cable comprises an inner conductor and an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, wherein the inner conductor comprises a first feed point connecting the connecting portion and a second feed point connecting the radiating portion, one part of the connecting portion is shortened serving as a shortened section between the first and second feed points.
US09748654B2	Antenna systems with proximity coupled annular rectangular patches Exemplary embodiments are provided of antennas and antenna systems including the same. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna generally includes a radiating patch element having an annular rectangular shape. An antenna ground plane is spaced apart from the radiating patch element. A feeding element electrically coupled to the radiating patch element via proximity coupling. The antenna also includes at least two shorting elements electrically coupling the radiating patch element to the antenna ground plane. In other exemplary embodiments, the antenna systems include at least one active GPS antenna, at least one passive antenna, and an isolator.
US09748653B1	Multilayer chip antenna Differing from conventionally-used miniature cubic antenna being provided with a signal transceiving conductor on the outer surface thereof, the present invention provides a multilayer chip antenna formed by sequentially stacking a first coupling substrate, a signal transceiving metal layer, and a second coupling substrate. Particularly, the first coupling substrate and the second coupling substrate are disposed with a first metal layer and a second metal layer, respectively. Therefore, when the signal transceiving metal layer transmits or receives a wireless signal, not only a first coupling capacitor is induced between the signal transceiving metal layer and the first metal layer, but also a second coupling capacitor is simultaneously induced between the signal transceiving metal layer and the third metal layer; meanwhile, the first and second coupling capacitors are helpful to enhance the impedance bandwidth as the multilayer chip antenna transmits and/or receives a high-frequency wireless signal.
US09748645B2	Reconfigurable antenna with cluster of radiating pixelates Similar to cell based electronics systems that employ a sea of small unit cells in large scale arrays, such as thin film display monitors or semiconductor memories, an antenna array employs micron to centimeter size antenna pixelate cells that are integrated to form the plate of an antenna. Each row and column of cells in the antenna array may be accessed by digital logic and the RF transmission/reception state of the switchable cell changed. Thus, the antenna plate can be reconfigured and its radiating plate reformed to a specific pattern as an element of a larger array of antennas in wafer scale form.
US09748644B2	Electromagnetic beam steering antenna Described embodiments include an electromagnetic beam steering apparatus. The apparatus includes a first blazed transmission diffraction grating component configured to angularly deflect an electromagnetic beam at a first blaze angle. The apparatus includes a second blazed transmission diffraction grating component configured to angularly deflect an electromagnetic beam at a second blaze angle. The apparatus includes an electromagnetic beam steering structure configured to independently rotate the first blazed transmission diffraction grating component and the second blazed transmission diffraction grating component about a coaxial axis such that an electromagnetic beam incident on the first blazed transmission diffraction grating component exits the second blazed transmission diffraction grating component as a steered electromagnetic beam.
US09748642B2	Low-profile loop antenna A low-profile loop antenna includes a driven element disposed very close, in some cases within about 0.005 wavelengths (λ) or closer, to a ground plane, while maintaining sizable gain and usable feed point impedance. Width of the driven element varies along its circumference, such that two diametrically opposed portions of the driven element are wider, and therefore have lower impedance, than other diametrically opposed portions of the driven element. The antenna may be configured to achieve a desired feed point impedance. The antenna may be tuned over a wide bandwidth. Metallic objects placed near the center of the antenna loop do not significantly degrade performance of the antenna. A parasitic element may be added to create a circularly-polarized antenna, without significantly increasing the antenna's profile.
US09748640B2	Helix-loaded meandered loxodromic spiral antenna An antenna element having a metal pattern with a three-dimensional profile. The metal pattern is at least one helix-loaded helix-loaded meandered loxodromic spiral. The profile is generally that of a domed top adjoined to a rotationally symmetric body such as a conical section. Typically, the metal antenna pattern is fabricated upon or otherwise supported by a dielectric medium.
US09748639B2	Mobile tower system This invention discloses a mobile tower system in which a telescoping tower may be with a plurality of tower structures may be extended to a height much greater than its contracted length. The tower may be transported horizontal, rotated to a vertical position and then the individual tower structures extended and secured via spring pins relative to the adjacent tower structure, the erection of the tower sections may be with external equipment such as a boom truck, or utilizing an internal hydraulic cylinder.
US09748638B2	Electronic device An electronic device including a ground plane, a metal frame, a plurality of radiation elements and a switching circuit is provided. A first end of a frame element in the metal frame is connected to the ground plane, and a second end of the frame element is an open end. Each of the radiation elements is spaced by a coupling distance from the frame element. The switching circuit transmits a feeding signal to one of the radiation elements. When the feeding signal is transmitted to a first radiation element among the radiation elements, the electronic device operates in a first band and a second band through the first radiation element and the frame element. When the feeding signal is transmitted to a second radiation element among the radiation elements, the electronic device operates in a third band and a fourth band through the second radiation element and the frame element.
US09748636B2	Antenna device and electronic apparatus Provided is an antenna device that achieves good communication characteristics when incorporated into an electronic apparatus. The antenna device incorporated into an electronic apparatus and configured to communicate with an external device via an electromagnetic field signal comprises: a metal plate serving as a first electric conductor, being provided inside a casing of the electronic apparatus and facing the external device; an antenna substrate provided inside the casing of the electronic apparatus, and having an antenna coil inductively coupled to the external device and wound around thereon; and metal foil serving as a second electric conductor in sheet form, being provided inside the casing of the electronic apparatus, overlapping or being in contact with the metal plate serving as the first electric conductor, and at least partially overlapping a surface of the antenna substrate, the surface being opposite to a surface facing the external device.
US09748635B2	Electronic device with component trim antenna An optical component such as a camera, an acoustic component such as a speaker, or other electrical component may be mounted on the surface of an electronic device housing. A window structure may overlap the component. The window structure may be formed form an optically transparent material to allow light to pass or may be formed from an acoustically transparent material to allow acoustic signals to pass. A conductive structure such as a metal member may surround at least part of the periphery of the window structure. The conductive structure may serve as an antenna structure for an antenna. Radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may be coupled to an antenna feed for the antenna using a radio-frequency transmission line. The conductive structure may serve as a cosmetic trim for the electrical component.
US09748634B2	Antenna device and communication terminal device An antenna device includes a first conductor plane and a second conductor plane that face each other. The first conductor plane and the second conductor plane are electrically continuous through a first connection conductor, a second connection conductor, and a chip capacitor. A power feed coil is disposed between the first conductor plane and the second conductor plane. The power feed coil includes a magnetic core and a coil conductor. The coil conductor defines a pattern such that the coil conductor winds around the magnetic core. The power feed coil is disposed at a position closer to the first connection conductor and magnetically couples with the first connection conductor.
US09748628B1	Multidirectional communication assembly An apparatus (e.g., a communication assembly) includes a waveform detector operable to detect a waveform. The apparatus also includes a membrane encircling the waveform detector. The membrane has a first portion that is at least partially transparent to the waveform and has a second portion that is at least partially reflective of the waveform. The apparatus also includes a support member coupled to the waveform detector. The support member is configured to moveably support the waveform detector within the membrane at a location that enables the waveform detector to detect a portion of the waveform that is reflected by the second portion of the membrane.
US09748627B2	Devices and methods related to directional couplers Devices and methods related to directional couplers. In some implementations, a coupler can include a driver arm and a coupler arm implemented relative to the driver arm to detect power of an RF signal. Portions of the driver and coupler arms can form an overlapping region, with at least one of the driver and coupler arms having a non-straight arm shape. The overlapping region can include a non-zero lateral offset between the driver and coupler arms. In some implementations, a coupler can include a driver arm having input and output sides, and a coupler arm having input and output sides and implemented relative to the driver arm to detect power of an RF signal. The coupler can further include a phase-shifting feature implemented with respect to at least one of the driver and coupler arms to reduce phase difference of power ripples associated with the coupler.
US09748626B2	Plurality of cables having different cross-sectional shapes which are bundled together to form a transmission medium Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium for propagating electromagnetic waves. The transmission medium can include a plurality of cores for selectively guiding an electromagnetic wave of a plurality of electromagnetic waves longitudinally along each core, and a shell surrounding at least a portion of each core for reducing exposure of the electromagnetic wave of each core. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09748622B2	Tunable high frequency filter The invention relates to an improved tunable high frequency filter of coaxial construction, characterized, inter alia, by the following features: The high frequency filter comprises an outer conductor housing (24) having an inner conductor (10) and a housing cover (22); the resonator (1) comprises a tuning element (30) arranged opposite the inner conductor (10), which in the housing cover (22) is held position-adjustably in the axial position of the tuning element (30), at least indirectly, and which extends into the internal space of the resonator; the tuning element (30) comprises a dielectric material, or is formed from a dielectric material such that between the outer thread (32) and the inner thread (41), current transitions are avoided.
US09748621B2	Step impedance resonator filter A step impedance resonator filter including a first resonator and a second resonator is disclosed. The first resonator includes a first coupled line and a first tapped line connected to the first coupled line. The second resonator includes a second coupled line and a second tapped line connected to the second coupled line. The second coupled line is coupled with the first coupled line. The first tapped line has a first central line which is spaced from an end face of the first coupled line at a first distance. The second tapped line has a second central line which is spaced from an end face of the second coupled line at a second distance. The first distance is larger than the second distance. As such, the performance of the step impedance resonator filter can be improved.
US09748620B2	Structures for registration error compensation Metallization layer structures for reduced changes in radio frequency characteristics due to registration error and associated methods are provided herein. An example resonator includes a first conductive layer defining an error limiting feature and a second conductive layer. The resonator further includes at least one communication feature configured to electrically couple the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer at a communication position. The error limiting feature is configured to reduce changes in radio frequency characteristics of the resonator due to registration error. Methods of manufacturing resonators are also provided herein.
US09748619B2	Onboard battery for vehicle An onboard battery for a vehicle includes battery modules including battery cells disposed in a predetermined state, and a cell cover in which the battery cells are disposed. A part of an internal space of the cell cover is formed as chambers into which cooling air is sent. The onboard battery also includes a housing case that houses the battery modules, an intake duct that sends the cooling air into the battery modules, and an exhaust duct that discharges the cooling air sent into the battery modules. A heater that heats the battery cells is disposed in one of the chambers. A heat sink located opposite to the battery cells and attached to the heater is disposed in the one of the chambers.
US09748616B2	Regeneration of cathode material of lithium-ion batteries Lithium metal oxides may be regenerated under ambient conditions from materials recovered from partially or fully depleted lithium-ion batteries. Recovered lithium and metal materials may be reduced to nanoparticles and recombined to produce regenerated lithium metal oxides. The regenerated lithium metal oxides may be used to produce rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
US09748613B2	Battery cell having a temperature sensor which is integrated in the battery cell housing A lithium-ion battery cell includes a housing with an electrode arrangement and a temperature sensor that is arranged in the interior of the housing. The temperature sensor has an electro-thermal oscillator that converts a temperature into a frequency. A motor vehicle includes the lithium-ion battery cell.
US09748612B2	Battery pack having a plurality of electrochemical battery cells having a device for measuring a difference between two cell currents of two different battery cells The invention relates to a battery pack having a plurality of electrochemical battery cells, comprising a device for measuring a difference between two cell currents of two different battery cells, wherein a first battery cell has a first wound element, consisting of a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, which causes a first magnetic field via a first of the cell currents, and a second battery cell has a second wound element, consisting of a third electrode layer and a fourth electrode layer, which causes a second magnetic field via a second of the cell currents, wherein the first and the second wound elements are arranged relative to each other such that the first magnetic field counteracts the second magnetic field in the case of the first and second cell current being rectified, wherein the battery pack additionally comprises a magnetic field sensor which is configured to measure a superimposed field consisting of the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field, and comprises an evaluating unit which is configured to determine a difference between the first and the second cell current from the measured superimposed field.
US09748608B2	Second battery comprising a phosphate ester compound and a fluorinated carbonate compound The present invention relates to a secondary battery, comprising an electrode element comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode placed opposite to each other, an electrolyte, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the electrolyte; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material, which comprises a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, and a carbon material (c) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector with a negative electrode binder; and the electrolyte comprises a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent comprising 65 vol % or more of a phosphate ester compound, and more than 0 vol % and less than 20 vol % of a fluorinated carbonate compound.
US09748606B2	Additive for electrolyte of lithium battery, electrolyte including the same, and lithium battery using the electrolyte Provided are an additive for an electrolyte of a lithium battery; an electrolyte having the same; and a lithium battery using the electrolyte. The additive for an electrolyte of a lithium battery includes a triazine triphosphonate compound.
US09748604B2	Ion conducting polymers and polymer blends for alkali metal ion batteries Electrolyte compositions for batteries such as lithium ion and lithium air batteries are described. In some embodiments the compositions are liquid compositions comprising (a) a homogeneous solvent system, said solvent system comprising a perfluropolyether (PFPE) and polyethylene oxide (PEO); and (b) an alkali metal salt dissolved in said solvent system. In other embodiments the compositions are solid electrolyte compositions comprising: (a) a solid polymer, said polymer comprising a crosslinked product of a crosslinkable perfluropolyether (PFPE) and a crosslinkable polyethylene oxide (PEO); and (b) an alkali metal ion salt dissolved in said polymer. Batteries containing such compositions as electrolytes are also described.
US09748602B2	Sulfide solid electrolyte material, battery, and producing method for sulfide solid electrolyte material A sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity and high reduction resistance. The object is attained by providing sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising: Li element; Ge element; P element; and S element, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material peaks at a position of 2θ=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKα ray, the sulfide solid electrolyte material does not peak at a position of 2θ=27.33°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKα ray or when diffraction intensity at the peak of 2θ=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and diffraction intensity at the peak of 2θ=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 1.0, and part of the P element in a crystal phase peaking at the position of 2θ=29.58°±0.50° is substituted with a B element.
US09748598B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes a plurality of non-aqueous electrolyte single cells, each single cell being such that a rolled electrode body is housed in a flat case; a plurality of spacers; and a banding member. The rolled electrode body includes a collector portion, and a power generating portion. Each spacer has a recessed portion provided on at least one surface that faces the adjacent single cell. A side plate of the case that faces the surface of the spacer on which the recessed portion is provided includes a thick portion that contacts the power generating portion of the rolled electrode body inside the case, and a thin portion that is thinner than the thick portion and is continuous with both sides of the thick portion in the rolling axis direction. The surface of the spacer on which the recessed portion is provided abuts against only the thick portion.
US09748596B2	Single layer secondary battery having a folded structure Provided is a secondary battery adopting an all-solid-state secondary cell structure with a storage layer sandwiched between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer and which is superior to a conventional secondary battery with respect to at least one of volume, manufacturing, and positioning. The present invention provides a secondary battery including a single-layer secondary cell having a folded structure that a sheet-shaped single-layer secondary cell with a storage layer sandwiched between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer is folded in two or four. Here, it is preferable that a plurality of the single-layer secondary cells each having the folded structure are arranged in parallel and adjacent single-layer secondary cells each having the folded structure are electrically connected directly or via a positive electrode terminal member or a negative electrode terminal member, so that at least one of current capacity increasing and terminal voltage heightening is achieved.
US09748588B2	Reverse flow relief valve for a fuel cell system A method of shutting down operation of a fuel cell system is disclosed, comprising a fuel cell stack, the method comprising the sequential steps of: i) ceasing a supply of fuel to the fuel cell stack; ii) closing a shut-off valve on an exhaust line in fluid communication with a cathode system of the fuel cell system, the cathode system comprising a cathode fluid flow path passing through the fuel cell stack; iii) pressurizing the cathode system with an air compressor in fluid communication with a cathode air inlet port in the fuel cell stack; and iv) ejecting water from the cathode flow path.
US09748582B2	Forming an interconnection for solid-state batteries Disclosed are batteries and methods of manufacturing batteries with improved energy densities. In some embodiments, a first cathode current collector and a first anode current collector are provided on a first side of a substrate. A second cathode current collector and a second anode current collector are provided on a second side of the substrate. A laser is used to form: a first channel through the substrate between the first cathode current collector and the second cathode current collector, and a second channel through the substrate between the first anode current collector and the second anode current collector. A cathode interconnection is formed, via the first channel, between the first cathode current collector and the second cathode current collector. An anode interconnection is formed, via the second channel, between the first anode current collector and the second anode current collector.
US09748579B2	Method of fabricating an LTM perovskite product The present invention provides a fused product comprising LTM perovskite, L designating lanthanum, T being an element selected from strontium, calcium, magnesium, barium, yttrium, ytterbium, cerium, and mixtures of these elements, and M designating manganese.
US09748577B2	Dual coating method for electrode Provided is a dual coating method for an electrode, which coats the electrode of a battery. The dual coating method for an electrode includes transferring the electrode, coating the transferred electrode with a first coating solution, and coating the primarily-coated electrode with a second coating solution different from the first coating solution.
US09748575B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode that includes a positive electrode current collector, an intermediate layer on the positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode mix layer on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer contains a flame retardant and a conductive material having a heat conductivity of 10 W/m·K or more.
US09748574B2	Anode and secondary battery A secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer containing a carbon material and a lithium-containing compound (Li3-aMaN) as an anode active material, where M is one or more transition metal elements. a is a numerical value satisfying 0
US09748570B2	Positive electrode material having a size dependent composition The invention relates to cathode materials for Li-ion batteries having a size dependent compositions. The lithium metal oxide powder has a general formula LiaNixCoyMnzM′mO2±eAf, with 0.9
US09748569B2	Porous, thin film electrodes for lithium-ion batteries A porous thin film battery is described herein. The battery includes a substrate, a porous thin film cathode formed on the substrate, an electrolyte layer formed on the porous thin film cathode and a porous thin film anode formed on the electrolyte layer. The porous thin film cathode includes a first set of pores initially filled with a quantity of a first polymer material and then the first polymer material is removed to form the first set of pores. The porous thin film anode includes a second set of pores initially filled with a third polymer material and then the third polymer material is removed to form the second set of pores. A method of forming the porous thin film battery is also described. A system for forming the porous thin film battery is also described.
US09748567B2	Method for the use of slurries in spray pyrolysis for the production of non-hollow, porous particles A process for preparing a metal oxide-containing powder that comprises conducting spray pyrolysis that comprises aerosolizing a slurry that comprises solidphase particles in a liquid that comprises at least one precursor compound, which comprises one or more metallic elements of at least one metal oxide, to form droplets of said slurry, and calcining the droplets to at least partially decompose the at least one precursor compound and form the metal oxide-containing powder having a non-hollow morphology.
US09748565B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a separator, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode material mixture layer formed on one or both sides of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode material mixture layer has a thickness greater than 80 μm per side of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode material mixture layer includes a positive electrode active material, the positive electrode active material is composed of secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles, the secondary particles have an average particle size of 6 μm or less, and, when diffraction-line integrated intensities of the (003) plane and the (104) plane in an X-ray diffraction chart of the positive electrode material mixture layer are I003 and I104, respectively, the ratio I003/I104 of the integrated intensities is 1.1 or more.
US09748561B2	Methods of forming carbon coatings A method of forming a carbon coating includes heat treating lithium transition metal composite oxide Li0.9+aMbM′cNdOe, in an atmosphere of a gas mixture including carbon dioxide and compound CnH(2n+2−a)[OH]a, wherein n is 1 to 20 and a is 0 or 1, or compound CnH(2n), wherein n is 2 to 6, wherein 0≦a≦1.6, 0≦b≦2, 0≦c≦2, 0≦d≦2, b, c, and d are not simultaneously equal to 0, e ranges from 1 to 4, M and M′ are different from each other and are selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, and Ba, and N is different from M and M′ and is selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, Ba, and a combination thereof, or selected from Ti, V, Si, B, F, S, and P, and at least one of the M, M′, and N comprises Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, or Fe.
US09748555B1	Ni—Mn composite oxalate powder, lithium transition metal composite oxide powder and lithium ion secondary battery A Ni—Mn composite oxalate powder is provided. The Ni—Mn composite oxalate powder includes a plurality of biwedge octahedron particles represented by the general formula: NiqMnxCoyMzC2O4.nH2O, wherein q+x+y+z=1, 0
US09748550B2	Electrode assembly and secondary battery having the same An electrode assembly and a secondary battery having the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the electrode assembly includes a separator interposed between first and second electrode plates and a first electrode tab electrically connected to the first electrode plate; a second electrode tab electrically connected to the second electrode plate. The electrode assembly may further include an auxiliary tab electrically connected to at least one of the first and second electrode plates, wherein the auxiliary tab is positioned between the first and second electrode tabs.
US09748545B2	Propylene-based resin microporous film, separator for battery, battery, and method for producing propylene-based resin microporous film The present invention provides a propylene-based resin microporous film which has excellent electrolyte solution retention property, and can provide a lithium ion battery in which a decrease in discharge capacity is highly reduced even after repeated charge and discharge. The propylene-based resin microporous film is a propylene-based resin microporous film having micropores, wherein a propylene-based resin having a weight average molecular weight of 250,000 to 500,000, a melting point of 160 to 170° C., and a pentad fraction of 96% or more is contained, the surface aperture ratio is 27 to 42%, the ratio of a surface aperture ratio to a porosity is 0.6 or less, and the degree of gas permeability is 50 to 400 s/100 mL.
US09748541B2	Advanced lithium polymer system (ALPS) An Advanced Lithium Power System (10) that employs lithium polymer pouch cells and operates in all environments from atmospheric pressures, upward and through to the harsh and demanding realm of a space vacuum, including any aerospace related environments of launch, flight or operation for satellites, missiles, rockets and aircraft, being comprised of any number of stacked flat lithium polymer battery cells physically arranged and integrated within a constraining packaging enclosure that maximizes safety and power density while mitigating the debilitating effects of shock, vibration, thermal cycle, vacuum, radiation and electromagnetic interference, and simultaneously communicates electronically with a battery management system, providing instant autonomous cell protection, balancing and electronically isolated real-time monitoring of all individual cell parameters of voltage, current, temperature, state of charge and internal resistance, down to the individual cell level.
US09748538B2	Motor vehicle battery A motor vehicle battery has a plurality of battery modules (12). Each battery module (12) is fastened to housing walls (15) of a battery housing (11). The battery housing (11) has at least two housing modules (17, 18) positioned above one another and formed with housing module walls (19, 20). At least some of the mutually adjoining housing module walls (19, 20) interengage in the manner of toothing to form the housing walls (15, 16).
US09748537B2	Storage battery apparatus There is provided a highly reliable storage battery apparatus which can diagnose the status of a temperature detection unit and a cooling unit. In the storage battery apparatus comprising a battery module including one or more batteries, a plurality of temperature detection units and a cooling unit cooling the battery module, the temperature detection units measure, at least, the temperature of the cooling medium inputted to the storage battery apparatus, the temperature of the cooling medium outputted from the storage battery apparatus, and the temperature of at least one of the batteries and the battery module.
US09748531B2	Cap assembly for battery A cap assembly for a battery includes a roll combination member, a terminal combination member, an electrode terminal, a strength reinforcing block, a cap, and a pad assembly. The roll combination member includes at least one opening, so that terminal disposed portions of 2k rolls are capable of passing through the opening and k is an integer greater than 1, wherein one terminal disposed portion is formed by bending portions of central members of two adjacent rolls. The terminal combination member, the electrode terminal, the strength reinforcing block, the cap, and the pad assembly are sequentially combined on the roll combination member, wherein the electrode terminal includes an electrically conductive portion and a thermally conductive portion which surrounds the electrically conductive portion. The cap assembly is electrically connected to the bending portions at the same side of the 2k rolls.
US09748530B2	Lid for storage battery, injection molding method of the same lid, storage battery with the same lid, and terminal section for storage battery An object of the invention is to provide a lid for storage battery, an injection molding method of the lid, a storage battery with the lid, and a terminal section for storage battery, which can save trouble of inserting a nut into a cavity portion of a terminal, and can prevent falling of the nut at the time of connection of an external leading wire. In a lid for storage battery in which a terminal section for storage battery 8 made up of a terminal 4 having a cavity portion, a bushing 6, and a conductive portion 7 joining both is insert-molded in a lid made of synthetic resin, and a storage battery with the lid for storage battery, an anchor portion 4T is projected at a location excluding at least a central portion of a bottom portion 4F of the terminal 4, and a nut is inserted into the cavity portion of the terminal to be fixed. Moreover, in the terminal section for storage battery, the anchor portion 4T is projected at the location excluding at least the central portion of the bottom portion 4F of the terminal 4 (e.g., the U-shaped anchor portion 4T is projected with a U-shaped joining portion 4G interposed).
US09748526B2	Vapor deposition device, vapor deposition method, and method for producing organic el display device A vapor deposition device (1) performs a vapor deposition treatment to form a luminescent layer (47) having a predetermined pattern on a film formation substrate (40). The vapor deposition device includes: a nozzle (13) having a plurality of injection holes (16) from which vapor deposition particles (17), which constitute the luminescent layer, are injected toward the film formation substrate when the vapor deposition treatment is carried out; and a plurality of control plates (20) provided between the nozzle and the film formation substrate and restricting an incident angle, with respect to the film formation substrate, of the vapor deposition particles injected from the plurality of injection holes. The nozzle includes: a nozzle main body (14b) in a container shape having an opening (14c) on a surface thereof on a film formation substrate side and (ii) a plurality of blocks (15) covering the opening and separated from each other, each of the plurality of blocks having the plurality of injection holes. The above arrangement allows a vapor-deposited film pattern to be formed with high definition.
US09748523B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device includes a substrate, on which a transparent electrode and a further electrode are applied. An organic light-emitting layer is arranged between the electrodes. At least one optical scattering layer is arranged on a side of the transparent electrode facing away from the organic light-emitting layer.
US09748521B2	Method of manufacturing flexible display A flexible display and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes forming a metal peroxide layer over a supporting substrate, forming a metal layer over the metal peroxide layer and forming a flexible substrate over the metal layer. The method also includes forming a display layer over the flexible substrate, irradiating the supporting substrate with laser light in a direction from the supporting substrate to the flexible substrate so as to form a metal oxide layer and separating the supporting substrate from the flexible substrate with the metal oxide layer as a boundary between the supporting substrate and the flexible substrate.
US09748520B2	Organic light emitting diodes displays including flexible substrate and manufacturing method thereof A cracks propagation preventing, polarization film attaches to outer edges of a lower inorganic layer of an organic light emitting diodes display where the display is formed on a flexible substrate having the lower inorganic layer blanket formed thereon. The organic light emitting diodes display further includes a display unit positioned on the inorganic layer and including a plurality of organic light emitting diodes configured to display an image, and a thin film encapsulating layer covering the display unit and joining with edges of the inorganic layer extending beyond the display unit.
US09748513B2	Light emitting device and manufacturing method thereof, and display device The invention provides a light emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The light emitting device comprises a base substrate and a laminated structure formed on the base substrate, the laminated structure including a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode which are laminated, the organic layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second electrode is provided with light extraction particles therein. In solutions of the light emitting device and the manufacturing method thereof, and the display device, the metal electrode is provided with light extraction particles therein, the light extraction particles destroy the surface plasma waves generated by the metal electrode, so that light fallen into the surface plasma waves can be extracted, the light extraction efficiency of the metal electrode is increased, and thus the light extraction efficiency of the light emitting device is increased.
US09748511B2	Light-emitting device with alternating arrangement of anode pads and cathode pads The invention relates to a light-emitting device like an OLED comprising a light emission region between an anode (5) and a cathode (6). An alternating arrangement (9) of anode pads (11) for electrically connecting the anode and cathode pads (10) for electrically connecting the cathode and an encapsulation (8) are configured such that the anode and cathode pads are electrically connectable by straight anode and cathode electrical connectors (3, 4) through openings (12) of the encapsulation. The alternating arrangement of the anode and cathode pads can lead to a more homogenous electrical field between the anode and the cathode and therefore allows for an improved degree of homogeneity of light emission. More, since the alternating arrangement of the anode and cathode pads is connectable by corresponding straight connectors, the contacting of the pads can be performed technically relatively easily.
US09748510B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer; an electron transport region disposed between the second electrode and the emission layer; a mixed layer disposed between the emission layer and the electron transport region and including a first material and a second material; wherein the first material and the second material are pyrrolidine-based compounds; and triplet energy EgT1 of at least one selected from the first material and the second material is 2.2 eV or greater.
US09748508B2	Organic light emitting diode and display panel using the same The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode, comprising: a first electrode; an organic material layer which comprises a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer and an light emitting layer, wherein the hole transport layer may be interposed between the first electrode and the light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer may be interposed between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer; a second electrode which is disposed on the organic material layer; and a carrier conversion layer which may be interposed between the first electrode and the hole transport layer or between the second electrode and the electron transport layer; wherein the carrier conversion layer has a thickness of 10 nm to 200 nm.
US09748504B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound comprising a first ligand LA of Formula I: is described. In Formula I, Z is selected from O, S, and Se; at least one of X1, X2, X3, and X4 is nitrogen, while the remainder are carbon; Y1 and Y2 are independently selected from NR, O, and S; R, RA, RB, and RC are each independently selected from a variety of substituents, and adjacent substitutions in R, RA, RB, and RC are optionally joined to form a fused ring; ligand LA is at least a tridentate ligand coordinated to a metal M; M is coordinated to ring A and to ring B through metal-carbene bonds; and the ligand LA is optionally linked with other ligands to comprise a tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate ligand. Formulations and devices, such as an OLEDs, that include the compound with a ligand LA of Formula I are also described.
US09748502B2	Organic metal complexes The present invention relates inter alia to novel organic metal complexes comprising, e.g., platinum and specific side groups, their preparation and their use in electronic devices.
US09748498B2	Transition metal complexes comprising carbene ligands serving as emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLED's) Use of transition metal complexes of the formula (I) in organic light-emitting diodes where: M1 is a metal atom; carbene is a carbene ligand; L is a monoanionic or dianionic ligand; K is an uncharged monodentate or bidentate ligand selected from the group consisting of phosphines; CO; pyridines; nitriles and conjugated dienes which form a π complex with M1; n is the number of carbene ligands and is at least 1; m is the number of ligands L, where m can be 0 or ≧1; o is the number of ligands K, where o can be 0 or ≧1; where the sum n+m+o is dependent on the oxidation state and coordination number of the metal atom and on the denticity of the ligands carbene, L and K and also on the charge on the ligands carbene and L, with the proviso that n is at least 1, and also an OLED comprising these transition metal complexes, a light-emitting layer comprising these transition metal complexes, OLEDs comprising this light-emitting layer, devices comprising an OLED according to the present invention, and specific transition metal complexes comprising at least two carbene ligands.
US09748497B2	Electronic device including a diazachrysene derivative There is provided a compound having Formula I In Formula I: R1-R10 are the same or different and can be H, D, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, silyl, or deuterated analogs of alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy and silyl, where adjacent R groups can be joined together to form a ring; and all other sites are H or D. Additionally in Formula I: (i) at least one of R1-R3 and at least one of R4-R6 is alkyl, alkoxy, silyl, or a deuterated analog, and (ii) at least one of R1-R3 and at least one of R4-R6 is aryl, aryloxy, or a deuterated analog.
US09748494B2	Compound, material for organic electroluminescence element, organic electroluminescence element, and electronic apparatus A compound is represented by a formula (1) below.In the formula (1), n is 1 or 2. Ar1 is represented by a formula (2) below. Ar2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 1 to 20 ring atoms. Ar3 is represented by a formula (3) below.
US09748490B2	Organic compound, organic light-emitting element, and image display unit An organic compound contains 8H-naphth[2,1-b]carbazole as the basic skeleton thereof. An organic light-emitting element includes an organic compound layer containing the organic compound. A display device and an image display unit each include the organic light-emitting element. The organic light-emitting element is also used in a lighting device and an image forming apparatus.
US09748485B2	Mask frame assembly and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display apparatus using the same A mask frame assembly includes a frame, an open mask, and stick masks. The open mask is supported by the frame. The stick masks are disposed on the open mask and include ends coupled to the frame. The open mask includes: a first opening disposed in association with opposing ends of the open mask; and a second opening disposed between the first openings, the second opening being larger than the first opening. First deposition patterns of a first stick mask of the stick masks and second deposition patterns of a second stick mask of the stick masks overlap the second opening.
US09748482B2	Semiconductor sensing device comprising conductive nanowires and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor sensing device that includes a nanowire conductive layer, a semiconductor sensing layer, and a conductive layer is provided. The nanowire conductive layer includes a plurality of connected conductive nanowires, and gaps are formed between the conductive nanowires. The semiconductor sensing layer is electrically connected to the nanowire conductive layer. The conductive layer is electrically connected to the semiconductor sensing layer. The semiconductor sensing layer is located between the nanowire conductive layer and the conductive layer. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor sensing device is also provided.
US09748481B2	Semiconductor device including a resistive memory layer and method of manufacturing the same including the cleaning of byproducts A method of semiconductor device fabrication that includes sequentially forming an interfacial conductive layer and an etch stop layer on a resistive memory layer; forming a main conductive layer on the etch stop layer; exposing a portion of the etch stop layer by patterning the main conductive layer; exposing a portion of the interfacial conductive layer by patterning the portion of the etch stop layer; forming an upper electrode structure by patterning the portion of the interfacial conductive layer; cleaning a surface of the upper electrode structure and an exposed surface of the resistive memory layer; and patterning the resistive memory layer using the upper electrode structure as an etch mask.
US09748480B2	Semiconductor constructions and memory arrays Some embodiments include semiconductor constructions having an electrically conductive interconnect with an upper surface, and having an electrically conductive structure over the interconnect. The structure includes a horizontal first portion along the upper surface and a non-horizontal second portion joined to the first portion at a corner. The second portion has an upper edge. The upper edge is offset relative to the upper surface of the interconnect so that the upper edge is not directly over said upper surface. Some embodiments include memory arrays.
US09748476B2	Method for producing a device A method for producing a device includes depositing a lower electrode metal and a film whose resistance changes. The film whose resistance changes and the lower electrode metal are etched to form a pillar-shaped phase-change layer and a lower electrode. A reset gate insulating film and a reset gate metal are deposited and etched to form reset gates.
US09748471B2	Perpendicular magnetic memory element having magnesium oxide cap layer The present invention is directed to an STT-MRAM device comprising a plurality of memory elements. Each of the memory elements includes an MTJ structure that comprises a magnetic free layer structure and a magnetic reference layer structure with an insulating tunnel junction layer interposed therebetween; a first perpendicular enhancement layer (PEL) formed adjacent to the magnetic free layer structure; a magnetic dead layer formed adjacent to the first PEL; and a magnetic fixed layer exchange coupled to the magnetic reference layer structure through an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer. The magnetic reference layer structure includes a first magnetic reference layer formed adjacent to the insulating tunnel junction layer and a second magnetic reference layer separated from the first magnetic reference layer by a second PEL. The first and second magnetic reference layers have a first invariable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof.
US09748469B2	Multilayer actuator and display device comprising the same Provided is a multilayer actuator and a display device comprising the same with improved driving displacement that includes, for example, a plurality of electroactive layers, wherein the electroactive layers comprise a ferroelectric polymer, and polarization directions of all electroactive layers are substantially the same.
US09748468B2	Actuator device Actuator device has a main body with base and superstructure bodies, the device having a plurality of actuators formed from a piezoelectric or electrostrictive material and each extend from the base body and form the superstructure body. The actuators each have at least two inner actuating electrodes of which at least one first inner actuating electrode extends, in a positive depthwise direction from the front side up to a distance from the rear side, and of which at least one second inner actuating electrode extends in a negative depthwise direction from the rear side up to a distance from the front side. At least one first inner actuating electrode of each actuator is provided for electrical connection to a first connection pole of an actuating device, a rear-side layer which is formed from electrically conductive material arranged on the rear side of the actuator device.
US09748467B2	Piezoelectric vibrator A piezoelectric vibrator element is more stably bonded to reduce the displacement with respect to an external force. The piezoelectric vibrator element is provided with a pair of vibrating arm parts extending from a base, and support arm parts extending from the base on both outer sides of the vibrating arm parts in parallel thereto. Further, the piezoelectric vibrator element is bonded on a mounting part in the package with the pair of support arm parts to thereby be fixedly held. Two or more bonding regions of each of the support arm parts are disposed in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the bonding region on the base side is disposed on the base side of the centroid of the piezoelectric vibrator element. Thus, the length from the bonding point to the tip of the vibrating arm part can be shortened, and the displacement at the tip of the vibrating arm part can be reduced with respect to an impact from the outside. On the other hand, in order to suppress the vibration leakage from the vibrating arm part, the bonding region located on the base side is disposed on the centroid side of a connection part between the base and the support arm part.
US09748466B2	Wafer scale thermoelectric energy harvester An integrated circuit may include a substrate and a dielectric layer formed over the substrate. A plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements may be disposed within the dielectric layer. The p-type thermoelectric elements and the n-type thermoelectric elements may be connected in series while alternating between the p-type and the n-type thermoelectric elements.
US09748465B2	Thermoelectric module, heat exchanger, exhaust system and internal combustion engine A thermoelectric module (13), for converting thermal energy into electric energy, includes a plurality of leg pairs (26), which have each a p-doped semiconductor leg (27) and an n-doped semiconductor leg (28), which are contacted with one another electrically via metal bridges (29). At least one electrically insulating ceramic plate (30), which is arranged on a hot side (18) of the thermoelectric module (13) or on a cold side (19) of the thermoelectric module (13) and is flatly in contact with metal bridges (29) associated with this side (18, 19) and is fastened thereto. The pressure stability of the thermoelectric module (13) can be improved if the respective ceramic plate (30) is segmented, so that a plurality of ceramic plate segments (31) are arranged next to each other, which are each flatly in contact with a plurality of metal bridges (29) and are fastened thereto.
US09748463B2	Athletic activity monitoring device with energy capture Aspects relate to an energy harvesting device adapted for use by an athlete while exercising. The device may utilize a mass of phase-change material to store heat energy, the stored heat energy subsequently converted into electrical energy by one or more thermoelectric generator modules. The energy harvesting device may be integrated into an item of clothing, and such that the mass of phase change material may store heat energy as the item of clothing is laundered.
US09748457B2	LED with scattering features in substrate In one embodiment, the transparent growth substrate of an LED die is formed to have light scattering areas, such as voids formed by a laser. In another embodiment, the growth substrate is removed and replaced by another substrate that is formed with light scattering areas. In one embodiment, the light scattering areas are formed over the light absorbing areas of the LED die, to reduce the amount of incident light on those absorbing areas, and over the sides of the substrate to reduce light guiding. The replacement substrate may be formed to include reflective particles in selected areas. A 3D structure may be formed by stacking substrate layers containing the reflective areas. The substrate may be a transparent substrate or a phosphor tile that is affixed to the top of the LED.
US09748454B2	LED package structure and chip carrier An LED package structure includes a chip carrier and an LED chip. The chip carrier includes a ceramic substrate, a circuit layer, a ceramic reflective plate disposed on the ceramic substrate, and a metal slug. The ceramic substrate has a first thru-hole. A main portion of the metal slug is embedded in the first thru-hole, and partially protrudes from the first thru-hole with a height of 10˜30 μm to define as a protrusion block. An extending portion of the metal slug is connected to the outer edge of protrusion block, and the top surfaces of extending portion and protrusion block are coplanar to define a mounting surface. The ceramic reflective plate has a second thru-hole, and the mounting surface is exposed from the ceramic reflective plate via the second thru-hole. The LED chip is fixed on the mounting surface and is electrically connected to the circuit layer.
US09748449B2	Optoelectronic system An embodiment of the invention discloses an optoelectronics system. The optoelectronic system includes an optoelectronic element having a first width; an adhesive material enclosing the optoelectronic element and having a second width larger than the first width; a phosphor structure formed between the optoelectronic element and the adhesive material; and a transparent substrate formed on the adhesive material.
US09748447B2	Semiconductor light emitting device Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device including: a plurality of semiconductor layers; and a first electrode which is formed on an exposed region of the first semiconductor layer created by mesa etching portions of the second semiconductor layer, the active layer and the first semiconductor layer, and includes a contact layer in contact with the first semiconductor layer, a reflective layer formed on the contact layer, while facing an exposed region of the active layer created by mesa etching and reflecting light, and an anti-rupture layer formed on the reflective layer.
US09748439B2	Active matrix light emitting diodes display module with carbon nanotubes control circuits and methods of fabrication An active matrix light emitting diodes display module integrated with single-walled carbon nanotubes control circuits includes a light emitting diode pixel having a crystalline semiconductor light emitting diode, single-walled carbon nanotubes switching transistors and a charge storage capacitor.
US09748438B2	Nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device A nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device includes: a base layer formed of a first-conductivity type nitride semiconductor material; and a plurality of light emitting nanostructures disposed on the base layer to be spaced apart from each other, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting nanostructures includes: a nanocore formed of a first conductivity-type nitride semiconductor material, an active layer disposed on a surface of the nanocore and including a quantum well which is divided into first and second regions having different indium (In) composition ratios in a thickness direction thereof; and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer, and an In composition ratio in the first region is higher than an In composition ratio in the second region.
US09748437B2	Multicolor LED and method of fabricating thereof A device includes a support including at least a first area and a second area, and a plurality of first light emitting devices located over the first area of the support, each first light emitting device containing a first growth template including a first nanostructure, and each first light emitting device has a first peak emission wavelength. The device also includes a plurality of second light emitting devices located over the second area of the support, each second light emitting device containing a second growth template including a second nanostructure, and each second light emitting device has a second peak emission wavelength different from the first peak emission wavelength. Each first growth template differs from each second growth template.
US09748436B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a thin film transistor and wirings connected to the thin film transistor, in which the thin film transistor has a channel formation region in an oxide semiconductor layer, and a copper metal is used for at least one of a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate wiring, a source wiring, and a drain wiring. The extremely low off current of the transistor with the oxide semiconductor layer contributes to reduction in power consumption of the semiconductor device. Additionally, the use of the copper metal allows the combination of the semiconductor device with a display element to provide a display device with high display quality and negligible defects, which results from the low electrical resistance of the wirings and electrodes formed with the copper metal.
US09748433B1	Method for recovering efficacy of solar cell module and portable device thereof The present disclosure provides a method for recovering the efficacy of solar cell modules and a device thereof. The method includes providing a solar cell module and scanning the solar cell module with a light-beam. The light-beam has a power density between 20 W/cm2 and 200 W/cm2, a width between 1 mm and 156 mm. The light-beam scans a solar cell module with a scanning speed between 50 mm/sec and 200 mm/sec. Furthermore, the present disclosure also provides a portable device for recovering the efficacy of solar cell modules. The portable device includes two types such as placed type and hand-held type. The aforementioned devices can perform a hydrogenating process on solar cell modules to improve the degree of light-induced degradation (LID) so as to improve the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of solar cell modules.
US09748429B1	Avalanche diode having reduced dark current and method for its manufacture An avalanche diode includes an absorption region in a germanium body epitaxially grown on a silicon body including a multiplication region. Aspect-ratio trapping is used to suppress dislocation growth in the vicinity of the absorption region.
US09748424B2	Solar cell and preparing method of the same A solar cell according to the embodiment includes a back electrode layer on a support substrate; a first through hole dividing the back electrode layer into a plurality of back electrodes; a first contact pattern in the back electrode layer; a light absorbing layer formed on the back electrode layer and including a second contact pattern on the first contact pattern; and a front electrode layer on the light absorbing layer.
US09748423B2	Photovoltaic device with fiber array for sun tracking Disclosed is a photovoltaic device that includes a solar cell on a light transmissive substrate in the form of an array of equal diameter optical fibers laid adjacent to each other in the transversal direction of the fibers. With such an arrangement, light harvesting at high angles is improved by 30%.
US09748421B2	Multiple carbon nanotube transfer and its applications for making high-performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET), transparent electrodes, and three-dimensional integration of CNFETs A wafer-scale multiple carbon nanotube transfer process is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, plasma exposure processes are performed at various stages of the fabrication process of a carbon nanotube device or article to improve feasibility and yield for successive transfers of nanotubes. In one such carbon nanotube transfer process, a carrier material is partially etched by a plasma process before removing the carrier material through, for example, a wet etch. By applying the subject plasma exposure processes, fabrication of ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics is facilitated. The ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics fabricated utilizing embodiments of the invention can be used, for example, to make high-performance carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) and low cost, highly-transparent, and low-resistivity electrodes for solar cell and flat panel display applications. Further, three-dimensional CNFETs can be provided by utilizing the subject plasma exposure processes.
US09748420B2	High accuracy module assembly process The present invention relates to an assembling method for a base plate of a concentrated photovoltaic module comprising the steps of: assembling a heat sink on the base plate; and assembling a photovoltaic cell assembly on the heat sink after the heat sink has been assembled on the base plate.
US09748419B2	Back contact design for solar cell, and method of fabricating same A method includes depositing spacers at a plurality of locations directly on a back contact layer over a solar cell substrate. An absorber layer is formed over the back contact layer and the spacers. The absorber layer is partially in contact with the spacers and partially in direct contact with the back contact layer. The solar cell substrate is heated to form voids between the absorber layer and the back contact layer at the locations of the spacers.
US09748418B2	Solar cell and method for producing same A rear contact heterojunction solar cell and a fabricating method. The solar cell comprises a silicon substrate having a passivating layer and an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer. At a back side of the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, an emitter layer and a base layer are provided. Interposed between these emitter and base layers is a separation layer comprising an electrically insulating material. This separation layer as well as the base layer and emitter layer may be generated by vapor deposition. Due to such processing, adjacent regions of the emitter layer and the separating layer and adjacent regions of the base layer and the separating layer partially laterally overlap in overlapping areas in such a way that at least a part of the separating layer is located closer to the substrate than an overlapping portion of the respective one of the emitter layer and the base layer.
US09748413B2	Solar cell module In a solar cell module, a plurality of solar cells are provided between a front surface protection member and a back surface protection member and bus bar electrodes 20 of the plurality of solar cells are electrically connected to each other by wiring members. The solar cell module includes an adhesive layer made of a resin 60 containing a plurality of conductive particles 70, the adhesive layer provided between each of the bus bar electrodes 20 and the wiring member 40. Each of the bus bar electrodes 20 and the corresponding wiring member 40 are electrically connected by the plurality of conductive particles 70. The resin 60 covers side surface of each of the bus bar electrodes 20 and configured to bond the wiring member 40 with the surface of a photoelectric conversion body 10.
US09748410B2	N-type aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate and vertical nitride semiconductor device A vertical nitride semiconductor device includes an n-type aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate having an Si content of 3×1017 to 1×1020 cm−3 and a dislocation density of 106 cm−2 or less. An ohmic electrode layer is formed on an N-polarity side of the n-type aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate.
US09748409B2	Power semiconductor devices incorporating single crystalline aluminum nitride substrate The invention provides a power semiconductor device including an aluminum nitride single crystalline substrate, wherein the dislocation density of the substrate is less than about 105 cm−2 and the Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) of the double axis rocking curve for the (002) and (102) crystallographic planes is less than about 200 arcsec; and a power semiconductor structure comprising at least one doped AlxGa1−xN layer overlying the aluminum nitride single crystalline substrate.
US09748408B2	High-voltage semiconductor device and method of producing the same The semiconductor drift device comprises a deep well of a first type of electrical conductivity provided for a drift region in a substrate of semiconductor material, a drain region of the first type of conductivity at the surface of the substrate, a plurality of source regions of the first type of conductivity in shallow wells of the first type of conductivity at the periphery of the deep well of the first type, and a deep well or a plurality of deep wells of an opposite second type of electrical conductivity provided for a plurality of gate regions at the periphery of the deep well of the first type. The gate regions are formed by shallow wells of the second type of electrical conductivity, which are arranged in the deep well of the second type between the shallow wells of the first type.
US09748399B2	Semiconductor device and display device comprising an oxide semiconductor channel region having a different crystal orientation than source/drain regions To provide a novel semiconductor device in which a reduction in channel length is controlled. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer having a crystal part, and a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer which are in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a channel formation region and an n-type region in contact with the source electrode layer or the drain electrode layer. The crystal orientation of the crystal part is different between the channel formation region and the n-type region.
US09748398B2	Thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof, display device A thin film transistor, its manufacturing method, and a display device are provided. The method comprises: forming a gate metal layer (35), forming a step-like gate structure (352) by one patterning process; performing a first ion implantation procedure to forming a first heavily doped area (39a) and a second heavily doped area (39b), the first heavily doped area (39a) being separated apart from the second heavily doped area (39b) by a first length; forming a gate electrode (353) from the step-like gate structure (352); performing a second ion implantation procedure to form a first lightly doped area (38a) and a second lightly doped area (38b), the first lightly doped area (38a) being separated apart from the second lightly doped area (38b) by a second length less than the first length. By the above method, the process for manufacturing the LTPS TFT having the lightly doped source/drain structure can be simplified.
US09748396B2	Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same As source and drain wiring, a base layer and a cap layer are each formed of a MoNiNb alloy film, and a low-resistance layer is formed of Cu. The resultant laminated metal film is patterned through one-time wet etching to form a drain electrode and a source electrode. Cu serving as a main wiring layer does not corrode because of being covered with a MoNiNb alloy having good corrosion resistance. Further, even when a protective insulating film including an oxide is formed by plasma CVD in an oxidizing atmosphere, Cu is not oxidized. With the wet etching, the sidewall taper angle of the laminated metal film can be controlled to 20 degrees or more and less than 70 degrees.
US09748389B1	Method for semiconductor device fabrication with improved source drain epitaxy A method includes receiving a precursor having a substrate and first and second pluralities of gate structures, the first pluralities having a greater pitch than the second pluralities. The method further includes depositing a dielectric layer covering the substrate and the first and second pluralities; and performing an etching process to the dielectric layer. The etching process removes a first portion of the dielectric layer over the substrate, while a second portion of the dielectric layer remains over sidewalls of the first and second pluralities. The second portion of the dielectric layer is thicker over the sidewalls of the second plurality than over the sidewalls of the first plurality. The method further includes etching the substrate to form third and fourth pluralities of recesses adjacent the first and second pluralities, respectively; and epitaxially growing fifth and sixth pluralities of semiconductor features in the third and fourth pluralities, respectively.
US09748388B2	Method of forming strained structures of semiconductor devices A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises providing a substrate with a shallow trench isolation (STI) within the substrate and a gate stack. A cavity is formed between the gate stack and the STI. The cavity comprises one sidewall formed by the STI, one sidewall formed by the substrate, and a bottom surface formed by the substrate. A film is grown in the cavity and thereafter an opening formed by removing a first portion of the strained film until exposing the bottom surface of the substrate while a second portion of the strained film adjoins the STI sidewall. Another epitaxial layer is then grown in the opening.
US09748384B2	Semiconductor component and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor component including: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor device provided thereon, the device being a field-effect transistor that includes: a gate insulating film provided on the substrate; a gate electrode provided via the film; and a pair of source-drain regions provided to sandwich the electrode, the substrate including a patterned surface in a portion where the electrode is provided, the patterned surface of the substrate including a raised portion where the film is formed to cover a surface that lies on the same plane as a surface of the pair of source-drain regions, and the electrode is formed on a top surface of the film, and the patterned surface of the substrate including a recessed portion where the film is formed to cover surfaces of a groove formed toward the interior than the surface of the pair of source-drain regions, and the electrode is formed so as to fill the groove provided with the film.
US09748381B1	Pillar formation for heat dissipation and isolation in vertical field effect transistors A method of fabricating a vertical field effect transistor includes forming fins from a portion of a substrate. At least a first fin of the fins is associated with a first device, at least a second fin of the fins is associated with a second device. The method includes forming alternating pillars of a first polymer and a second polymer on the substrate, removing the pillars of the second polymer except between two or more fins of a same device, and forming the substrate pillars below the pillars of the first polymer. The etching creates a deep trench between the first fin and the second fin. Removing the pillars of the first polymer and any remaining ones of the pillars of the second polymer is followed by performing an oxide fill to fill the deep trench and gaps between the pillars of the substrate with oxide.
US09748380B1	Vertical transistor including a bottom source/drain region, a gate structure, and an air gap formed between the bottom source/drain region and the gate structure A vertical transistor includes a fin structure formed on a substrate, a gate structure formed on the fin structure, and a bottom source/drain (S/D) region formed on the fin structure, such that an air gap is formed between the bottom S/D region and the gate structure.
US09748377B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a gate structure, a source region and a drain region. The source region and the drain region are on opposite sides of the gate structure. The source region includes a first region of a first conductivity type and a second region of a second conductivity type. The second conductivity type is opposite to the first conductivity type. The first region is between the second region and the gate structure. The second region includes at least one projection protruding into the first region and toward the gate structure.
US09748375B2	Nano MOSFET with trench bottom oxide shielded and third dimensional P-body contact A semiconductor power device may include a lightly doped layer formed on a heavily doped layer. One or more devices are formed in the lightly doped layer. Each device may include a body region, a source region, and one or more gate electrodes formed in corresponding trenches in the lightly doped region. Each of the trenches has a depth in a first dimension, a width in a second dimension and a length in a third dimension. The body region is of opposite conductivity type to the lightly and heavily doped layers. The source region is formed proximate the upper surface. One or more deep contacts are formed at one or more locations along the third dimension proximate one or more of the trenches. The contacts extend in the first direction from the upper surface into the lightly doped layer and are in electrical contact with the source region.
US09748374B2	Semiconductor device having a field-effect structure and a nitrogen concentration profile A semiconductor device includes a silicon semiconductor body having a main surface and a nitrogen concentration which is lower than about 2*1014 cm−3 at least in a first portion of the silicon semiconductor body, the first portion extending from the main surface to a depth of about 50 μm. The nitrogen concentration increases with a distance from the main surface at least in the first portion. The semiconductor device further includes a field-effect structure arranged next to the main surface.
US09748373B2	MISFET device Embodiments of the present disclosure include a MISFET device. An embodiment includes a source/drain over a substrate, a first etch stop layer on the source/drain, and a gate dielectric layer on the first etch stop layer and along the substrate. The embodiment also includes a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer, and a second etch stop layer on the gate electrode.
US09748371B2	Transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor assemblies Embodiments of semiconductor assemblies, and related integrated circuit devices and techniques, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a semiconductor assembly may include a flexible substrate, a first barrier formed of a first transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material, a transistor channel formed of a second TMD material, and a second barrier formed of a third TMD material. The first barrier may be disposed between the transistor channel and the flexible substrate, the transistor channel may be disposed between the second barrier and the first barrier, and a bandgap of the transistor channel may be less than a bandgap of the first barrier and less than a bandgap of the second barrier. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09748369B2	Lateral bipolar junction transistor (BJT) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate A bipolar transistor is supported by a substrate including a semiconductor layer overlying an insulating layer. A transistor base is formed by a base region in the semiconductor layer that is doped with a first conductivity type dopant at a first dopant concentration. The transistor emitter and collector are formed by regions doped with a second conductivity type dopant and located adjacent opposite sides of the base region. An extrinsic base includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer in contact with a top surface of the base region. The epitaxial semiconductor layer is doped with the first conductivity type dopant at a second dopant concentration greater than the first dopant concentration. Sidewall spacers on each side of the extrinsic base include an oxide liner on a side of the epitaxial semiconductor layer and the top surface of the base region.
US09748363B2	Semiconductor device including fin structures and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure having a top surface and side surfaces. A mask layer is disposed over the top surface. A doping support layer is formed to cover part of the fin structure. A first impurity is introduced into a first region of the fin structure covered by the doping support layer, by implanting the first impurity into the doping support layer so that the implanted first impurity is introduced into the first region of the fin structure through the side surfaces.
US09748361B2	Integrated circuits using guard rings for ESD systems, and methods for forming the integrated circuits An integrated circuit includes at least one transistor over a substrate, and a first guard ring disposed around the at least one transistor. The integrated circuit further includes a second guard ring disposed around the first guard ring. The integrated circuit further includes a first doped region disposed adjacent to the first guard ring, the first doped region having a first dopant type. The integrated circuit further includes a second doped region disposed adjacent to the second guard ring, the second doped region having a second dopant type.
US09748360B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device The present invention makes it possible to improve the reliability of a semiconductor device.In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, when a resist pattern is formed over a cap insulating film comprising a silicon nitride film, the resist pattern is formed through the processes of coating, exposure, and development treatment of a chemical amplification type resist. Then the chemical amplification type resist is applied so as to directly touch the surface of the cap insulating film comprising the silicon nitride film and organic acid pretreatment is applied to the surface of the cap insulating film comprising the silicon nitride film before the coating of the chemical amplification type resist.
US09748352B2	Multi-channel gate-all-around FET A high performance GAA FET is described in which vertically stacked silicon nanowires carry substantially the same drive current as the fin in a conventional FinFET transistor, but at a lower operating voltage, and with greater reliability. One problem that occurs in existing nanowire GAA FETs is that, when a metal is used to form the wraparound gate, a short circuit can develop between the source and drain regions and the metal gate portion that underlies the channel. The vertically stacked nanowire device described herein, however, avoids such short circuits by forming insulating barriers in contact with the source and drain regions, prior to forming the gate. Through the use of sacrificial films, the fabrication process is almost fully self-aligned, such that only one lithography mask layer is needed, which significantly reduces manufacturing costs.
US09748349B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a gate structure on the substrate; an interlayer dielectric (ILD) around the gate structure; a first contact plug in the ILD layer; a second dielectric layer on the ILD layer; a second contact plug in the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first contact plug; and a spacer between the second contact plug and the second dielectric layer.
US09748348B2	Fully-depleted SOI MOSFET with U-shaped channel A method of forming a MOSFET device is provided including: providing an SOI wafer; forming a dummy gate oxide and dummy gates on portions of the SOI layer that serve as channel regions of the device; forming spacers and doped source/drain regions in the SOI layer on opposite sides of the dummy gates; depositing a gap fill dielectric; removing the dummy gates/gate oxide; recessing areas of the SOI layer exposed by removal of the dummy gates forming one or more u-shaped grooves that extend part-way through the SOI layer such that a thickness of the SOI layer remaining in the channel regions is less than a thickness of the SOI layer in the doped source/drain regions under the spacers; and forming u-shaped replacement gate stacks in the u-shaped grooves such that u-shaped channels are formed in fully depleted regions of the SOI layer adjacent to the u-shaped replacement gate stacks.
US09748347B2	Gate with self-aligned ledged for enhancement mode GaN transistors An enhancement-mode GaN transistor with reduced gate leakage current between a gate contact and a 2DEG region and a method for manufacturing the same. The enhancement-mode GaN transistor including a GaN layer, a barrier layer disposed on the GaN layer with a 2DEG region formed at an interface between the GaN layer and the barrier layer, and source contact and drain contacts disposed on the barrier layer. The GaN transistor further includes a p-type gate material formed above the barrier layer and between the source and drain contacts and a gate metal disposed on the p-type gate material, with wherein the p-type gate material including comprises a pair of self- aligned ledges that extend toward the source contact and drain contact, respectively.
US09748346B2	Circuit configuration and manufacturing processes for vertical transient voltage suppressor (TVS) and EMI filter A vertical TVS (VTVS) circuit includes a semiconductor substrate for supporting the VTVS device thereon having a heavily doped layer extending to the bottom of substrate. Deep trenches are provided for isolation between multi-channel VTVS. Trench gates are also provided for increasing the capacitance of VTVS with integrated EMI filter.
US09748345B2	Modification of electrical properties of topological insulators Ion implantation or deposition can be used to modify the bulk electrical properties of topological insulators. More particularly, ion implantation or deposition can be used to compensate for the non-zero bulk conductivity due to extrinsic charge carriers. The direct implantation of deposition/annealing of dopants allows better control over carrier concentrations for the purposes of achieving low bulk conductivity. Ion implantation or deposition enables the fabrication of inhomogeneously doped structures, enabling new types of device designs.
US09748344B2	Nitride semiconductor substrate having recesses at interface between base substrate and initial nitride The present invention provides a nitride semiconductor substrate having an initial nitride and a nitride semiconductor sequentially stacked on one principal plane of a base substrate, wherein the nitride semiconductor substrate comprises recesses depressed from an interface between the base substrate and the initial nitride toward the base substrate along one arbitrary cross section; the recesses each have a diameter of 6 nm or more and 60 nm or less and are formed at a density of 3×108 pieces/cm2 or more and 1×1011 pieces/cm2 or less; and the recess preferably has a depth of 3 nm or more and 45 nm or less from the interface between the base substrate and the initial nitride toward the base substrate.
US09748343B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a SiC layer having a surface inclined with respect to a {000-1} face at an angle of 0° to 10° or a surface a normal line direction of which is inclined with respect to a <000-1> direction at an angle of 80° to 90°, a gate electrode, an insulating layer at least a part of which is provided between the surface and the gate electrode, and a region, at least apart of which is provided between the surface and the insulating layer, including a bond between carbon and carbon.
US09748340B2	Graphene field effect transistor Graphene FETs exhibit low power consumption and high switching rates taking advantage of the excellent mobility in graphene deposited on a rocksalt oxide (111) by chemical vapor deposition, plasma vapor deposition or molecular beam epitaxy. A source, drain and electrical contacts are formed on the graphene layer. These devices exhibit band gap phenomena on the order of greater than about 0.5 eV, easily high enough to serve as high speed low power logic devices. Integration of this construction technology, based on the successful deposition of few layer graphene on the rocksalt oxide (111) with SI CMOS is straightforward.
US09748339B1	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer formed thereon; a first well region disposed in a portion of the semiconductor layer; a second well region disposed in another portion of the semiconductor layer; a pair of third well regions disposed in a portion of the semiconductor layer at opposite sides of the second well region; a plurality of isolation elements disposed over the semiconductor layer, respectively between the third well regions and the first and second well region; a deep well region disposed in a portion of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the semiconductor layer between the first and second well region; a first doping region disposed in the first well region; and second doping regions disposed in the third well regions.
US09748336B2	Semiconductor device including dual-layer source/drain region A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a channel region interposed between a first active region and a second active region, and a gate structure formed on the channel region. A first dual-layer source/drain region is on the first active region and a second dual-layer source/drain region is on the second active region. The first and second dual-layer source/drain regions include stacked layers formed of different semiconductor materials. A first extension region is embedded in the first active region and a second extension region is embedded in the second active region.
US09748333B2	Semiconductor structure including dummy structure and semiconductor pattern structure including dummy structure A semiconductor pattern structure includes a substrate, an input/output (I/O) region defined on the substrate, a core region defined on the substrate, a dummy region defined on the substrate, and a gate electrode formed on the substrate. The dummy region is formed between the I/O region and the core region. The gate electrode crosses the I/O region and covers a portion of the dummy region.
US09748329B2	Trench-based power semiconductor devices with increased breakdown voltage characteristics Exemplary power semiconductor devices with features providing increased breakdown voltage and other benefits are disclosed.
US09748328B2	Oxide semiconductor film A highly reliable semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor is provided. Provided is a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor layer, an insulating layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate electrode layer overlapping with the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a first region having a crystal whose size is less than or equal to 10 nm and a second region which overlaps with the insulating layer with the first region provided therebetween and which includes a crystal part whose c-axis is aligned in a direction parallel to a normal vector of the surface of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09748324B2	Method of fabricating magnetic core inductors for an integrated voltage regulator Methods of fabricating magnetic core inductors for an integrated voltage regulator are disclosed. In some methods, an insulating layer is attached upon a carrier layer, and the insulating layer is patterned to form a core area and a trench area. A conductive inner core is formed in the core area. A magnetic winding coil is formed in the trench area.
US09748323B2	Organic light-emitting diode display An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate, a scan line formed over the substrate and configured to provide a scan signal, and a data line crossing the scan line and configured to provide a data voltage. A driving voltage line crosses the scan line and is configured to provide a driving voltage. The display also includes a switching transistor electrically connected to the scan line and the data line and a driving transistor electrically connected to the switching transistor and including a driving gate electrode, a driving source electrode, and a driving drain electrode. The display further includes a storage capacitor including a first storage electrode formed over the driving transistor and the driving gate electrode as a second storage electrode. The second storage electrode overlaps the first storage electrode in the depth dimension and extends from the driving voltage line.
US09748321B2	Organic light-emitting diode display An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate that includes a first sub-pixel region and a second sub-pixel region adjacent to the first sub-pixel region, and a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit respectively disposed in the first sub-pixel region and the second sub-pixel region. The first and second driving circuits include a first thin film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT. The display further includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode electrically connected to the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit, respectively, and a common electrode facing the first and second pixel electrodes. A first organic emission layer is interposed between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode, and a second organic emission layer interposed between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode, and a light-shielding member is configured to shield incident light.
US09748320B2	Thin-film transistor substrate and display device comprising the same A thin-film transistor substrate and a display device comprising the same are provided which can improve display quality by reducing or preventing deterioration of the characteristics of thin-film transistors. The thin-film transistor substrate comprises thin-film transistors on a lower protective metal layer. Each thin-film transistor comprises a buffer layer, a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film, a gate electrode, a second insulating film, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a first electrode. The lower protective metal layer is electrically connected to the gate electrode and overlaps the channel region of the semiconductor layer.
US09748317B2	Organic light emitting display device, organic light emitting display panel and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display panel and an organic light emitting display device according to the present invention may include a substrate, a pixel electrode positioned in each of a plurality of pixel areas on the substrate, a bank positioned in a non-emission area on the substrate, having a portion overlapping an edge of each pixel electrode and exposing a portion of each pixel electrode, and an organic layer positioned on each exposed pixel electrode. A plurality of grooves or holes may be positioned in the bank, and a material the same as that of the organic layer may be positioned in the groove or hole.
US09748313B2	Organic electroluminescent element The objective is to provide an organic electroluminescent element with an improved luminous efficiency. The organic electroluminescent element has a structure in which a first light-emitting unit containing a phosphorescent red light-emitting material, a second light-emitting unit containing a phosphorescent yellow light-emitting material, and a third light-emitting unit containing a fluorescent blue light-emitting material are stacked with interlayers in-between. A peak emission wavelength of the phosphorescent yellow light-emitting material is in a range of 530 nm to 570 nm. A peak emission wavelength of the fluorescent blue light-emitting material is in a range of 440 nm to 480 nm. The organic electroluminescent element has a ratio of a yellow emission intensity to a blue emission intensity in a range of 1.0 to 2.0. The organic electroluminescent element further has a ratio of a red emission intensity to the blue emission intensity in a range of 1.5 to 3.0.
US09748311B2	Cross-point memory and methods for fabrication of same A cross-point memory array includes a plurality of variable resistance memory cell pillars. Adjacent memory cell pillars are separated by a partially filled gap that includes a buried void. In addition, adjacent memory cell pillars include storage material elements that are at least partially interposed by the buried void.
US09748309B2	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 number of switches, which are each provided for controlling at least one pixel.
US09748304B2	Image sensor devices, methods of manufacture thereof, and semiconductor device manufacturing methods Image sensor devices, methods of manufacture thereof, and semiconductor device manufacturing methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes bonding a first semiconductor wafer to a second semiconductor wafer, the first semiconductor wafer comprising a substrate and an interconnect structure coupled to the substrate. The method includes removing a portion of the substrate from the first semiconductor wafer to expose a portion of the interconnect structure.
US09748301B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductive substrate includes a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, a radiation sensing device disposed in the semiconductive substrate, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) disposed over the first side of the semiconductive substrate, and a conductive pad passing through the ILD, disposed in the semiconductive substrate and configured to couple with an interconnect structure disposed over the ILD, wherein a portion of the conductive pad is surrounded by the semiconductive substrate, and a step height is configured by a surface of the portion of the conductive pad and the second side of the semiconductive substrate.
US09748300B2	Radiation detector element The present invention generally relates to a radiation detector element wherein a photodiode is transversely fixed to a detector element substrate through at least one connection comprising two fused solder balls, wherein a first of the two fused solder balls contacts the photodiode and a second of the two fused solder balls (contacts the detector element substrate. The invention further relates to a method of transversally attaching two substrates, in particular constructing the above-mentioned radiation detector element. It also relates to an imaging system comprising at least one radiation detector element.
US09748298B2	Image sensors with backside trench structures A backside illumination image sensor with an array of image sensor pixels is provided. Each pixel may include a photodiode, a storage diode, and associated circuitry formed in a front side of a semiconductor substrate. In accordance with an embodiment, a trench isolation structure may be formed directly over the storage diode but not over the photodiode from a back side of the substrate. The backside trench isolation structure may be filled with absorptive material and can optionally be biased to a ground or negative voltage level. A light shielding layer may also be formed over the backside trench isolation structure on the back side of the substrate. The light shielding layer may be formed from absorptive material or reflective material, and may also be biased to a ground or negative voltage level.
US09748297B2	Optical modules including focal length adjustment and fabrication of the optical modules Fabricating optical devices can include mounting a plurality of singulated lens systems over a substrate, adjusting a thickness of the substrate below at least some of the lens systems to provide respective focal length corrections for the lens systems, and subsequently separating the substrate into a plurality of optical modules, each of which includes one of the lens systems mounted over a portion of the substrate. Adjusting a thickness of the substrate can include, for example, micro-machining the substrate to form respective holes below at least some of the lens systems or adding one or more layers below at least some of the lens systems so as to correct for variations in the focal lengths of the lens systems.
US09748295B2	Image sensor and electronic device including the same An electronic device may include at least one image sensor that includes a plurality of photo-sensing devices, a photoelectric device on one side of the semiconductor substrate and configured to selectively sense first visible light, and a plurality of color filters on separate photo-sensing devices. The plurality of color filters may include a first color filter configured to selectively transmit a second visible light that is different from the first visible light and a second color filter transmitting first mixed light including the second visible light. The electronic device may include multiple arrays of color filters. The electronic device may include different photoelectric devices on the separate arrays of color filters. The different photoelectric devices may be configured to sense different wavelength spectra of light.
US09748294B2	Anti-reflection layer for back-illuminated sensor An image sensor for short-wavelength light includes a semiconductor membrane, circuit elements formed on one surface of the semiconductor membrane, and a pure boron layer on the other surface of the semiconductor membrane. An anti-reflection or protective layer is formed on top of the pure boron layer. This image sensor has high efficiency and good stability even under continuous use at high flux for multiple years. The image sensor may be fabricated using CCD (charge coupled device) or CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology. The image sensor may be a two-dimensional area sensor, or a one-dimensional array sensor.
US09748293B1	Image sensor packages with folded cover-glass sealing interface An image sensor package with a folded cover-glass sealing interface includes (a) an image sensor with a light-receiving surface, (b) a substrate having (i) a recessed surface to which the image sensor is bonded, (ii) a second surface facing in a direction parallel to optical axis of the image sensor, surrounding the recessed surface, and being further than the light-receiving surface from the recessed surface, and (iii) a third surface facing the optical axis, and adjoining and surrounding the second surface, and (c) a cover glass bonded to the substrate with a folded sealing-interface at the second surface and the third surface.
US09748292B2	Oxide semiconductor device including photodiode A solid-state image sensing element including a transistor with stable electrical characteristics (e.g., significantly low off-state current) is provided. Two different element layers (an element layer including an oxide semiconductor layer and an element layer including a photodiode) are stacked over a semiconductor substrate provided with a driver circuit such as an amplifier circuit, so that the area occupied by a photodiode is secured. A transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer in a channel formation region is used as a transistor electrically connected to the photodiode, which leads to lower power consumption of a semiconductor device.
US09748288B2	Image sensor including pixels having plural photoelectric converters configured to convert light of different wavelengths and imaging apparatus including the same Provided are an image sensor and an imaging apparatus. The image sensor of a multi-layered sensor structure, the image sensor includes a plurality of sensing pixels, each of the plurality of sensing pixels including a micro lens configured to collect light, a first photoelectric converter configured to convert light of a first wavelength band into an electric signal, and a second photoelectric converter formed on a substrate configured to convert incident light into the electric signal, wherein a central axis of the second photoelectric converter is spaced apart from an optical axis of the micro lens.
US09748287B2	Power storage element, manufacturing method thereof, and power storage device Disclosed is a power storage element including a positive electrode current collector layer and a negative electrode current collector layer which are arranged on the same plane and can be formed through a simple process. The power storage element further includes a positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode current collector layer; a negative electrode active material layer on the negative electrode current collector layer; and a solid electrolyte layer in contact with at least the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are formed by oxidation treatment.
US09748283B2	System and method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate In a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate, a first metal layer is formed on a first surface of a base substrate. The base substrate is cooled by contacting the first metal layer with a first cooling plate and by contacting a second surface of the base substrate with a second cooling plate. The first and second surfaces of the base substrate face opposite directions. A gate electrode is formed by patterning the first metal layer. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed. The source electrode is spaced apart from the drain electrode. The source and drain electrodes partially overlap the gate electrode. A pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode is formed.
US09748281B1	Integrated gate driver A method is presented for forming a semiconductor device. The method may include forming a first gate structure on a first portion of a semiconductor material located on a surface of an insulating substrate, the first gate structure including a first sacrificial layer and a second sacrificial layer and forming a second gate structure on a second portion of the semiconductor material located on the surface of the insulating substrate, the second gate structure including a third sacrificial layer. The method further includes etching the first and second dielectric sacrificial layers to create a first contact region within the first gate structure and etching the third dielectric sacrificial layer to create a second contact region within the second gate structure. The method further includes forming silicide in at least the first and second contact regions of the first and second gate structures, respectively.
US09748275B2	Display device To provide a display device including a flexible panel that can be handled without seriously damaging a driver circuit or a connecting portion between circuits. The display device includes a bent portion obtained by bending an element substrate. A circuit for driving the display device is provided in the bent portion and a wiring extends from the circuit, whereby the strength of a portion including the circuit for driving the display device is increased and failure of the circuit is reduced. Furthermore, the element substrate is bent in a connecting portion between an external terminal electrode and an external connecting wiring (FPC) so that the element substrate provided with the external terminal electrode fits the external connecting wiring, whereby the strength of the connecting portion is increased.
US09748272B2	Semiconductor-on-insulator with back side strain inducing material Embodiments of the present invention provide for the application of strain inducing layers to enhance the mobility of transistors formed on semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating an integrated circuit is disclosed. In a first step, active circuitry is formed in an active layer of a SOI wafer. In a second step, substrate material is removed from a substrate layer disposed on a back side of the SOI wafer. In a third step, insulator material is removed from the back side of the SOI wafer to form an excavated insulator region. In a fourth step, a strain inducing material is deposited on the excavated insulator region. The strain inducing material interacts with the pattern of excavated insulator such that a single layer provides both tensile and compressive stress to p-channel and n-channel transistors, respectively. In alternative embodiments, the entire substrate is removed before forming the strain inducing material.
US09748266B1	Three-dimensional memory device with select transistor having charge trapping gate dielectric layer and methods of making and operating thereof A gate dielectric layer including a tunneling gate dielectric layer, a charge trapping gate dielectric layer, and a cap gate dielectric layer is formed on a horizontal semiconductor channel. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over the gate dielectric layer. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conducive layers. Memory stack structures are formed through the alternating stack and the gate dielectric layer. Electrical charges can be injected into the charge trapping gate dielectric layer from the horizontal semiconductor channel to program the threshold voltage of a select field effect transistor employing a bottommost electrically conductive layer as a select gate electrode. The programmable threshold voltage can be advantageously employed to provide enhanced electrical isolation among word lines.
US09748264B1	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, conductive layers, insulating layers, a memory structure including first memory structure clusters and second memory structure clusters, isolation trenches, and common source trenches. The conductive layers and the insulating layers are interlaced and stacked on the substrate. Each first memory structure cluster include first memory structures and each first memory structure cluster include second memory structures. The first and second memory structures penetrate the conductive layers and the insulating layers. Each isolation trench is formed between a first memory structure cluster and a second memory structure cluster. The isolation trenches span horizontally on the substrate in a discontinuous manner separated by gaps. Common source trenches are formed on the substrate that run substantially parallel with the isolation trenches.
US09748263B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes string select lines extending in a first direction, vertical pillars connected to the string select lines, sub-interconnections on the string select lines, bitlines connected to the vertical pillars through the sub-interconnections, and upper contact plugs connecting the sub-interconnections to the bitlines. The string select lines include odd and even string select lines alternately arranged in a second direction. The sub-interconnections each connect a pair of vertical pillars respectively connected to one of the odd string select lines and one of the even string select lines that are adjacent to each other. Each of the upper contact plugs is between one of the sub-interconnections and one of the bitlines. Each of the upper contact plugs is arranged more adjacent to one string select line of the adjacent string select lines to which the pair of vertical pillars connected by the sub-interconnections are connected.
US09748255B2	Split gate memory devices and methods of manufacturing Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory device, which includes a floating gate formed over a channel region of a substrate, and a control gate formed over the floating gate. First and second spacers are formed along sidewalls of the control gate, and extend over outer edges of the floating gate to form a non-uniform overhang, which can induce a wide distribution of erase speeds of the memory device. To improve the erase speed distribution, an etching process is performed on the first and second spacers prior to erase gate formation. The etching process removes the overhang of the first and second spacers at an interface between a bottom region of the first and second spacers and a top region of the floating gate to form a planar surface at the interface, and improves the erase speed distribution of the memory device.
US09748251B1	Methods of forming semiconductor devices using semi-bidirectional patterning Devices and methods of fabricating integrated circuit devices using semi-bidirectional patterning are provided. One method includes, for instance: obtaining an intermediate semiconductor device having a dielectric layer, a first hardmask layer, a second hardmask layer, a third hardmask layer, and a lithography stack; patterning a first set of lines; patterning a second set of lines between the first set of lines; etching to define a combination of the first and second set of lines; depositing a second lithography stack; patterning a third set of lines in a direction perpendicular to the first and second set of lines; etching to define the third set of lines, leaving an OPL; depositing a spacer over the OPL; etching the spacer, leaving a vertical set of spacers; and etching the second hardmask layer using the third hardmask layer and the set of vertical spacers as masks.
US09748245B1	Multiple finFET formation with epitaxy separation A semiconductor device including an nFET device and pFET device adjacent one another. The semiconductor device includes a shallow trench isolator (STI), a gate and a substrate having fins extending upwardly through the STI. The fins include: nFET fins disposed in an nFET epi well formed in the STI and pFET fins disposed in a pFET epi well formed in the STI, a top the STI being above a top of the fins.
US09748241B2	Semiconductor device for simultaneous operation at two temperature ranges A semiconductor device for simultaneous operation at two temperature ranges includes a substrate, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The substrate has a first active region and a second active region. The first transistor includes a plurality of gate stacks disposed in the first active region. The second transistor includes a plurality of gate stacks disposed in the second active region. A ratio of the number of the gate stacks of the second transistor to an area size of the second active region is less than a ratio of the number of the gate stacks of the first transistor to an area size of the first active region.
US09748240B2	Semiconductor device including a boundary of conductivity in a substrate A device includes first and second semiconductor-regions located in a substrate which are adjacent to each other at a boundary. First contacts are located in the first semiconductor-region along the boundary and are electrically connected to the first semiconductor-region. Second contacts are located in the second semiconductor-region along the boundary and are electrically connected to the second semiconductor-region. The second contacts are not located in parts of the second semiconductor-region on an opposite side to the first contacts across the boundary. The parts of the second semiconductor-region are adjacent to the first contacts in a first direction s perpendicular to an arranging direction of the first and second contacts. The first contacts are not located in parts of the first semiconductor-region on an opposite side to the second contacts across the boundary. The parts of the first semiconductor-region are adjacent to second contacts in the first direction.
US09748238B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes first and second gate structures extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a dummy gate structure provided between the first and second gate structures, a first source/drain region between the first gate structure and the dummy gate structure, a second source/drain region between the second gate structure and the dummy gate structure, a connection contact provided on the dummy gate structure, and a common conductive line provided on the connection contact. The dummy gate structure extends in the first direction. The connection contact extends in the second direction to connect the first source/drain region to the second source/drain region. The common conductive line configured to a voltage to the first and second source/drain regions through the connection contact.
US09748234B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same Semiconductor devices may include a substrate, gate electrodes on the substrate, and source/drain regions at both sides of each of the gate electrodes. Each of the gate electrodes may include a gate insulating pattern on the substrate, a lower work-function electrode pattern that is on the gate insulating pattern and has a recessed upper surface, and an upper work-function electrode pattern that conformally extends on the recessed upper surface of the lower work-function electrode pattern. Topmost surfaces of the lower work-function electrode patterns may be disposed at an equal level, and the upper work-function electrode patterns may have different thicknesses from each other.
US09748233B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a gate structure thereon; forming a silicon layer on the substrate to cover the gate structure entirely; planarizing the silicon layer; and performing a replacement metal gate (RMG) process to transform the gate structure into a metal gate.
US09748229B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: an FET structure that is formed next to a looped trench on a semiconductor substrate and that has an n+ emitter region and an n− drain region facing each other in the depth direction of the looped trench across a p-type base region; a p-type floating region formed on the side of the looped trench opposite to the FET structure; and an emitter connecting part that is electrically connected to the n+ emitter region and a trench gate provided in the same trench, the emitter connecting part and the trench gate being insulated from each other by the looped trench. The trench gate faces the FET structure, and the emitter connecting part faces the p-type floating region, across an insulating film.
US09748222B2	Fin type electrostatic discharge protection device A fin type ESD protection device includes at least one first fin, at least one second fin, and at least one gate structure. The first fin is disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and a source contact contacts the first fin. The second fin is disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a drain contact contacts the second fin. The first fin and the second fin extend in a first direction respectively, and the first fin is separated from the second fin. The gate structure is disposed between the source contact and the drain contact. The first fin is separated from the drain contact, and the second fin is separated from the source contact.
US09748219B1	Self-balanced silicon-controlled rectification device A self-balanced silicon-controlled rectification device includes a substrate, an N-type doped well, a P-type doped well, at least one heavily doped clamping fin, at least one first P-type heavily doped fin, and at least one first N-type heavily doped fin. The N-type doped well and the P-type doped well are arranged in the substrate. The heavily doped clamping fin is arranged in the N-type doped well and the P-type well and protruded up from a surface of the substrate. The first P-type heavily doped fin and the first N-type heavily doped fin are respectively arranged in the N-type doped well and the P-type doped well, and protruded up from the surface of the substrate. The abovementioned elements forms silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs) are forward biased to generate uniform electrostatic discharge (ESD) currents through the SCRs.
US09748214B2	Techniques for tiling arrays of pixel elements and fabricating hybridized tiles A first substrate having an array of emitters or detectors may be joined by bump bonding with a second substrate having read-in (RIIC) or read-out (ROIC) circuitry. After the two substrates are joined, the resulting assembly may be singulated to form sub-arrays such as tiles sub-arrays having pixel elements which may be arranged on a routing layer or carrier to form a larger array. Edge features of the tiles may provide for physical alignment, mechanical attachment and chip-to-chip communication. The pixel elements may be thermal emitter elements for IR image projectors, thermal detector elements for microbolometers, LED-based emitters, or quantum photon detectors such as those found in visible, infrared and ultraviolet FPAs (focal plane arrays), and the like.
US09748213B2	Circuit device and method for the production thereof A circuit device has a base plate, a first substrate arranged on a first outer side of the base plate, a second substrate arranged on a second outer side opposite the first outer side of the base plate, at least one electrical connection element that electrically connects the first substrate and the second substrate, at least one electronic component arranged on or in the first substrate, at least one electronic component arranged on or in the second substrate, a mold package molded around the two substrates and the electronic components arranged thereon, and at least one contacting element for electrically contacting the first substrate and/or the second substrate. The at least one contacting element is electrically conductively connected to the first substrate and/or the second substrate and is led out from the mold package.
US09748209B2	Light source device having multiple LED chips of different thickness A light source device including a substrate, a plurality of first light emitting diode (LED) chips, and at least one second LED chip is provided. The substrate has an upper surface. The plurality of first LED chips are disposed on the upper surface and electrically connected to the substrate. Each of the first LED chips includes a first chip substrate, a first semiconductor layer, and a plurality of first electrodes, and the first electrodes are disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The second LED chip is disposed on the upper surface and electrically connected to the substrate. The second LED chip includes a second chip substrate, a second semiconductor layer, and a plurality of second electrodes. A thickness of the second chip substrate is different from than a thickness of the first chip substrate, and the second electrodes are disposed on the upper surface of the substrate.
US09748205B2	Molding type power module A molding type power module includes: a leadframe including a first step and a second step; a first planar power device including a first surface having electrodes and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the electrodes being correspondingly bond to the first step respectively; and a second planar power device including a first surface having electrodes and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the electrodes being correspondingly bond to the second step respectively, wherein, the first surface of the first planar power device and the first surface of the second planar power device face each other, the projected areas thereof on a vertical direction at least partially overlap, and the first planar power device at least has one electrode electronically connected with the electrodes of the second planar power device.
US09748204B2	Semiconductor device including semiconductor chips stacked over substrate According to the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first layer formed over the first surface, a second layer thicker than the first layer formed over the first portion of the first layer, the first and second layers being formed of a same material, a first semiconductor chip mounted over a second portion of the first layer; and a second semiconductor chip commonly mounted over the first semiconductor chip and the second layer.
US09748199B2	Thermal compression bonding process cooling manifold Embodiments of a thermal compression bonding (TCB) process cooling manifold, a TCB process system, and a method for TCB using the cooling manifold are disclosed. In some embodiments, the cooling manifold comprises a pre-mixing chamber that is separated from a mixing chamber by a baffle. The baffle may comprise at least one concentric pattern formed through the baffle such that the primary cooling fluid in the pre-mixing chamber is substantially evenly distributed to the mixing chamber. The pre-mixing chamber may be coupled to a source of primary cooling fluid. The mixing chamber may have an input configured to accept the primary cooling fluid and an output to output the primary cooling fluid.
US09748198B2	Hybrid bonding systems and methods for semiconductor wafers Hybrid bonding systems and methods for semiconductor wafers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a hybrid bonding system for semiconductor wafers includes a chamber and a plurality of sub-chambers disposed within the chamber. A robotics handler is disposed within the chamber that is adapted to move a plurality of semiconductor wafers within the chamber between the plurality of sub-chambers. The plurality of sub-chambers includes a first sub-chamber adapted to remove a protection layer from the plurality of semiconductor wafers, and a second sub-chamber adapted to activate top surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor wafers prior to hybrid bonding the plurality of semiconductor wafers together. The plurality of sub-chambers also includes a third sub-chamber adapted to align the plurality of semiconductor wafers and hybrid bond the plurality of semiconductor wafers together.
US09748194B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a mount board, first and second electronic components flip-chip mounted on a surface of the mount board with bumps interposed therebetween, and a sealing member that seals the first and second electronic components on the mount board. A thickness of the first electronic component is larger than a thickness of the second electronic component, and a height of the bump bonded to the first electronic component is smaller than a height of the bump bonded to the second electronic component.
US09748189B2	Multi-chip package structure and method of forming same A device comprises a first semiconductor die embedded in a molding compound layer, a surface-mount device embedded in the molding compound layer, a plurality of interconnect structures formed on the molding compound layer, wherein the first semiconductor die is electrically coupled to the interconnect structures and the surface-mount device is electrically coupled to the interconnect structures through at least one V-shaped via and a plurality of bumps formed on and electrically coupled to the interconnect structures.
US09748185B2	Semiconductor devices with impedance matching-circuits Embodiments of semiconductor devices (e.g., RF devices) include a substrate, an isolation structure, an active device, a lead, and a circuit. The isolation structure is coupled to the substrate, and includes an opening. An active device area is defined by a portion of the substrate surface that is exposed through the opening. The active device is coupled to the substrate surface within the active device area. The circuit is electrically coupled between the active device and the lead. The circuit includes one or more elements positioned outside the active device area (e.g., physically coupled to the isolation structure and/or under the lead). The elements positioned outside the active device area may include elements of an envelope termination circuit and/or an impedance matching circuit. Embodiments also include method of manufacturing such semiconductor devices.
US09748183B2	Fabrication method of semiconductor package A semiconductor package is provided, including: an insulating base body having a first surface with an opening and a second surface opposite to the first surface; an insulating extending body extending outward from an edge of the first surface of the insulating base body, wherein the insulating extending body is less in thickness than the insulating base body; an electronic element having opposite active and inactive surfaces and disposed in the opening with its inactive surface facing the insulating base body; a dielectric layer formed in the opening of the insulating base body and on the first surface of the insulating base body, the insulating extending body and the active surface of the electronic element; and a circuit layer formed on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the electronic element. The configuration of the insulating layer of the invention facilitates to enhance the overall structural rigidity of the package.
US09748179B2	Package and method of manufacturing the same The package includes: a substrate having at least one circuit layer; at least one electronic component mounted on at least one surface of the substrate; a molded part formed on the surface of the substrate to enclose the electronic component; at least one via formed in the molded part to be electrically connected to the circuit layer of the substrate; and a pattern connected to one end of a plated tail connected to the circuit layer connected to the via and exposed to the exterior of the substrate.
US09748178B2	Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging device A semiconductor device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a connection part, and an alignment mark. The connection part includes a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate, a second electrode which is disposed on the second substrate, and a connection bump which connects the first electrode and the second electrode. The alignment mark includes a first mark which is disposed on the first substrate and a second mark which is disposed on the second substrate. A sum of a height of the first mark and a height of the second mark is substantially equal to a sum of a height of the first electrode, a height of the second electrode, and a height of the connection bump.
US09748177B2	Embedded structures for package-on-package architecture Electronic assemblies including substrates and their manufacture are described. One assembly includes a die embedded in a dielectric layer in a multilayer substrate, and a dielectric region embedded in the dielectric layer in the multilayer substrate. The multilayer substrate includes a die side and a land side, with the first dielectric region and the dielectric layer extending to the die side. A plurality of vias are positioned within the first dielectric region, the vias extending to pads on the die side. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09748176B2	Pattern placement error compensation layer in via opening A method includes forming a first conductive feature positioned in a first dielectric layer. A conductive polymer layer is formed above the first dielectric layer and the first conductive feature. The conductive polymer layer has a conductive path length. A second dielectric layer is formed above the first dielectric layer. A first via opening is formed in the second dielectric layer and the conductive polymer layer to expose the first conductive feature. A conductive via is formed in the first via opening. The conductive via contacts the first conductive feature and the conductive polymer layer.
US09748169B1	Treating copper interconnects Techniques relate to treating metallic interconnects of semiconductors. A metallic interconnect is formed in a layer. A metallic cap is disposed on top of the metallic interconnect. Any metallic residue, formed during the disposing of the metallic cap, is converted into insulating material.
US09748165B2	Packaging structure A packaging structure includes a lead frame, a chip, and a packaging material. The lead frame has a pair of opposed first surface and second surface, and has a first recessed region located on the second surface. The chip has a pair of opposed first surface and second surface. The first surface of the chip is fixed on the first recessed region. The packaging material surrounds the lead frame and the chip. The second surface of the chip is exposed from the packaging material, and the first surface of the lead frame is exposed from the packaging material.
US09748162B2	Chip to wafer package with top electrodes and method of forming A chip package and a method for forming the same are provided. The method includes: providing a first chip, wherein the first chip comprises a first surface and a second surface, and a first plurality of pads are disposed on the first surface; providing a second chip, wherein the second chip comprises a third surface and a fourth surface, a second plurality of pads are disposed on the third surface; combining the second surface of the first chip and the third surface of the second chip, wherein the second plurality of pads are out of the combination area of the first chip and the second chip; and forming a first insulation layer, wherein the first insulation layer covers the first chip, and is combined with the second chip. Processes of the method are simple, and the chip package is small.
US09748160B2	Semiconductor package, method of fabricating the same, and semiconductor module A semiconductor package, a semiconductor module, a method of fabricating a semiconductor package are disclosed. The semiconductor package may include a substrate, a semiconductor chip, a connection terminal, a mold layer, and a protection layer. The protection layer may be provided to cover the substrate, the connection terminal, and the mold layer. The protection layer may be removed from a lower portion of the connection terminal, and thus, the lower portion of the connection terminal may be exposed. The connection terminal may be coupled to a module substrate through the lower portion, and a result, the semiconductor module may be fabricated. The connection terminal, the substrate, and the mold layer may be prevented from being exposed to outer air or moisture, owing to the presence of the protection layer.
US09748158B2	Liquid sealing material and electronic component using same A liquid sealing material which has excellent PCT (pressure cooker test) resistance, and an electronic component which is obtained by sealing a part to be sealed with use of the liquid sealing material. A liquid sealing material contains (A) a liquid epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent, (C) a silica filler and (D) a coupling agent, and the boron content in the silica filler (C) has an average of 1-50 ppm.
US09748156B1	Semiconductor package assembly, semiconductor package and forming method thereof A semiconductor package includes a cover, a substrate, at least one semiconductor device and at least one corner stiffener. The cover has at least one corner portion. The substrate is in force communication with the cover. The substrate has at least one corner portion. The semiconductor device is present between the cover and the substrate. The corner stiffener is present on at least one of the corner portion of the cover and the corner portion of the substrate.
US09748154B1	Wafer level fan out semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A wafer level fan out semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A first sealing part is formed on lateral surfaces of a semiconductor die. A plurality of redistribution layers are formed on surfaces of the semiconductor die and the first sealing part, and solder balls are attached to the redistribution layers. The solder balls are arrayed on the semiconductor die and the first sealing part. In addition, a second sealing part is formed on the semiconductor die, the first sealing part and lower portions of the solder balls. The solder balls are exposed to the outside through the second sealing part. Since the first sealing part and the second sealing part are formed of materials having thermal expansion coefficients which are the same as or similar to each other, warpage occurring to the wafer level fan out semiconductor device can be suppressed.
US09748152B2	Semiconductor arrangement and formation thereof Forming a semiconductor arrangement includes non-destructively determining a first spacer height of a first sidewall spacer adjacent a dummy gate and a second spacer height of a second sidewall spacer adjacent the dummy gate based upon a height of a photoresist as measured using optical critical dimension (OCD) spectroscopy. When the photoresist is sufficiently uniform, a hard mask etch is performed to remove a hard mask from the dummy gate and to remove portions of sidewall spacers of the dummy gate. A gate electrode is formed between the first sidewall spacer and the second sidewall spacer to form a substantially uniform gate. Controlling gate formation based upon photoresist height as measured by OCD spectroscopy provides a non-destructive manner of promoting uniformity.
US09748149B2	Method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device including forming a protective film with a 2-layer structure comprised of silicon and carbon A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes ion implanting an impurity into a surface of a semiconductor substrate comprised of silicon carbide, forming a protective film in the surface implanted with the impurity, and heat treating the semiconductor substrate covered by the protective film to activate the impurity. During formation of the protective film, the protective film has a 2-layer structure including a first protective film in the surface of the semiconductor substrate that supplies atoms that become insufficient in the semiconductor substrate as a result of the heat treating, and a second protective film in a surface of the first protective film that suppresses vaporization of silicon atoms from the first protective film. The first protective film may be a silicon film and the second protective film may be a carbon film or a carbon nitride film.
US09748147B1	Method of fabricating epitaxial layer A method of fabricating an epitaxial layer includes providing a silicon substrate. A dielectric layer covers the silicon substrate. A recess is formed in the silicon substrate and the dielectric layer. A selective epitaxial growth process and a non-selective epitaxial growth process are performed in sequence to respectively form a first epitaxial layer and a second epitaxial layer. The first epitaxial layer does not cover the top surface of the dielectric layer. The recess is filled by the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer. Finally, the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer are planarized.
US09748146B1	Single spacer for complementary metal oxide semiconductor process flow A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a high-k dielectric fin liner on the first plurality of fin structures in a first device region and a second plurality of fin structures in a second device region, and forming a gate structure including a low-k dielectric gate sidewall spacer on the channel region of the first and second plurality of fin structures. A first epitaxial semiconductor material on the first plurality of fin structures from which the high-k dielectric fin liner has been removed. The first epitaxial semiconductor material is then oxidized, and a remaining portion of the high-k dielectric fin liner is removed. A second epitaxial semiconductor material is formed on the second plurality of fin structures.
US09748143B2	FinFETs with strained well regions A device includes a substrate and insulation regions over a portion of the substrate. A first semiconductor region is between the insulation regions and having a first conduction band. A second semiconductor region is over and adjoining the first semiconductor region, wherein the second semiconductor region includes an upper portion higher than top surfaces of the insulation regions to form a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin has a tensile strain and has a second conduction band lower than the first conduction band. A third semiconductor region is over and adjoining a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconductor fin, wherein the third semiconductor region has a third conduction band higher than the second conduction band.
US09748139B1	Method of fabricating dual damascene structure A substrate having thereon a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a hard mask layer is provided. A partial via is formed in the second dielectric layer and the hard mask layer. A first photoresist pattern with a first trench opening above the partial via and a second trench opening is formed on the hard mask layer. The hard mask layer and the second dielectric layer are etched through the first trench opening and the second trench opening, thereby forming a first dual damascene structure comprising a first trench and a first via, and a second trench in the second dielectric layer, respectively. A second photoresist pattern having a self-aligned via opening above the second trench is formed. The second dielectric layer is etched through the self-aligned via opening, thereby forming a second dual damascene structure comprising the second trench and a second via under the second trench.
US09748137B2	Method for void-free cobalt gap fill Provided herein are methods of depositing void-free cobalt into features with high aspect ratios. Methods involve (a) partially filling a feature with cobalt, (b) exposing the feature to a plasma generated from nitrogen-containing gas to selectively inhibit cobalt nucleation on surfaces near or at the top of the feature, optionally repeating (a) and (b), and depositing bulk cobalt into the feature by chemical vapor deposition. Methods may also involve exposing a feature including a barrier layer to a plasma generated from nitrogen-containing gas to selectively inhibit cobalt nucleation. The methods may be performed at low temperatures less than about 400° C. using cobalt-containing precursors. Methods may also involve using a remote plasma source to generate the nitrogen-based plasma. Methods also involve annealing the substrate.
US09748134B2	Method of making interconnect structure A method of making a semiconductor device including forming a first adhesion layer over a substrate. The method further includes forming a second adhesion layer over the first adhesion layer, where the second adhesion layer is formed using an inert gas with a first flow rate under a first RF power. Additionally, the method includes forming a low-k dielectric layer over the second adhesion layer, where the low-k dielectric layer is formed using the inert gas with a second flow rate under a second RF power under at least one of the following two conditions: 1) the second flow rate is different from the first flow rate; or 2) the second RF power is different from the first RF power. Furthermore, the method includes forming an opening in the dielectric layer, the second adhesion layer, and the first adhesion layer. Additionally, the method includes forming a conductor in the opening.
US09748130B2	Wafer taping scheme A method includes setting a first tension value of a laminating tape during a standby mode. A second tension value of the laminating tape is set during taping on a wafer. The second tension value is different from the first tension value. A third tension value of the laminating tape is set after taping. The third tension value is different from the second tension value.
US09748128B1	Systems and methods for wafer alignment Various embodiments of aligning wafers are described herein. In one embodiment, a photolithography system aligns a wafer by averaging individual via locations. In particular, some embodiments of the present technology determine the center locations of individual vias on a wafer and average them together to obtain an average center location of the set of vias. Based on a comparison of the average center location to a desired center location, the present technology adjusts the wafer position. Additionally, in some embodiments, the present technology compares wafer via patterns to a template and adjusts the position of the wafer based on the comparison.
US09748127B2	Structure for fastening together resin members in substrate storing container The upper wall is provided with a recess indented from the outside toward the inside of the container main body, and a protrusion projecting outward on the inside of the recess. The top flange is provided with an insertion part which can be inserted into the recess from the outside of the upper wall. The insertion part is provided with a through-hole capable of penetrating from the side further from the upper wall to the side nearer the upper wall. With the recess in the upper wall opening upward and the insertion part of the top flange inserted into the recess, a molten resin poured into the through-hole of the insertion part from above fills the recess from the bottom surface thereof up to the outer peripheral surface of the protrusion and the inner peripheral surface of the through-hole.
US09748126B2	Magazine for packaged integrated circuits An IC magazine with retractable stop pins at both ends of the IC magazine. An IC magazine with retractable stop pins on both ends of the IC magazine. The retractable stop pins project into the magazine slot through an opening from a cavity in the base of the IC magazine. The long segment of an L-shaped push rod projects through an opening from the cavity through the magazine rail. The short segment of the L-shaped push rod is coupled to the bottom of the retractable stop pin inside the cavity. A spring inside the cavity between the underside of the short segment and the bottom of the cavity holds the retractable stop pin in an up position. An IC magazine with retractable stop pins at both ends of the IC magazine. The retractable stop pins project into the magazine slot through an opening from a cavity in the base of the IC magazine. A stop collar surrounding the retractable stop pin inside the cavity. A spring inside the cavity that pushes up on the underside of the stop collar and pushes down on the bottom of the cavity.
US09748123B2	Pressure-controlled wafer carrier and wafer transport system Disclosed are a wafer carrier that keeps wafers under a constant pressure, at any preset value below or above the atmospheric pressure, to prevent wafer contaminations arising from atmospheric exposure in conventional wafer carriers, and also, a wafer transport system and method utilizing the same wafer carrier. The wafer carrier charged with a preset carrier pressure is transported and docked with an airlock of a wafer processing tool comprising the airlock, a vacuum transfer module, and a process chamber. The airlock adjusts, by a gas pump, inner pressure to equate successively with, first, the carrier pressure before opening the carrier door, and next, the vacuum transfer module pressure before opening the latter's door. The wafers are then transferred into the process chamber. After processing, the wafers are transferred back into the wafer carrier and charged with the preset carrier pressure before undocked and transported to the next wafer processing tool.
US09748122B2	Thermal processing apparatus and method of controlling the same A control unit can select a large-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is large, and a small-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is small. When a temperature is increased or decreased, the control unit can select the small-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C5 whose number is small, heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C5. When a temperature is stabilized, the control unit can select the large-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals signals from the temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C10 whose number is large, the heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C10.
US09748120B2	Apparatus for liquid treatment of disc-shaped articles and heating system for use in such apparatus An apparatus for treating a disc-shaped article comprises a spin chuck and at least three individually controllable infrared heating elements. The infrared heating elements are mounted in a stationary manner with respect to rotation of said spin chuck. The infrared heating elements are arranged in a nested configuration so as to define individually controllable inner, middle and outer heating zones adjacent a disc-shaped article when positioned on the spin chuck.
US09748118B2	Substrate treating apparatus Provided is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a treating container having an opened upper portion, a substrate heating unit heating a substrate disposed in the treating container while supporting the substrate, and a treating solution supply unit supplying a treating solution onto the substrate disposed on the substrate heating unit. The substrate heating unit includes a rotatable chuck stage on which the substrate is placed, a rotation part having a hollow shape, the rotation part being coupled to the chuck stage to rotate the chuck stage, and a heat generation part disposed in the chuck stage.
US09748115B2	Electronic component and method for producing the same An aspect of the invention is an electronic component including a semiconductor substrate 11 that has an electrode pad 12, a first resin layer 14 and a third resin layer 15 that are located above the semiconductor substrate, a second resin layer 16 that is formed such that at least portions of the second resin layer are located on the first resin layer and the third resin layer, a resin projection 17 that includes the first to third resin layers and is higher than the first resin layer, and a wiring layer 24 that is electrically connected to the electrode pad and lies above the resin projection.
US09748112B2	Quality evaluation method for silicon wafer, and silicon wafer and method of producing silicon wafer using the method After determining the size of oxygen precipitates and the residual oxygen concentration in a silicon wafer after heat treatment performed in a device fabrication process; the critical shear stress τcri at which slip dislocations are formed in the silicon wafer in the device fabrication process is determined based on the obtained size of the oxygen precipitates and residual oxygen concentration; and the obtained critical shear stress τcri and the thermal stress τ applied to the silicon wafer in the heat treatment of the device fabrication process are compared, thereby determining that slip dislocations are formed in the silicon wafer in the device fabrication process when the thermal stress τ is equal to or more than the critical shear stress τcri, or determining that slip dislocations are not formed in the silicon wafer in the device fabrication process when the thermal stress τ is less than the critical shear stress τcri.
US09748110B2	Method and system for selective spacer etch for multi-patterning schemes Provided is a method for increasing pattern density of a structure on a substrate using an integration scheme, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a first spacer pattern and an underlying layer, the underlying layer comprising a first underlying layer, a second underlying layer, and a target layer; performing a conformal spacer deposition using an oxide, the deposition creating a conformal layer; performing a spacer RIE process and a pull process, thereby generating a second spacer pattern, the spacer RIE process includes adsorption of N-containing gas on a surface of the substrate which activates the surface to react with an F- and/or an H-containing gas to form fluorosilicates; and wherein the integration targets include selectively etching spacer films within a target spacer etch rate, enhanced simultaneous selectivity to the first underlying layer and the second underlying layer and preventing pattern damage.
US09748109B2	CMP-friendly coatings for planar recessing or removing of variable-height layers An IC device manufacturing process effectuates a planar recessing of material that initially varies in height across a substrate. The method includes forming a polymer coating, CMP to form a planar surface, then plasma etching to effectuate a planar recessing of the polymer coating. The material can be recessed together with the polymer coating, or subsequently with the recessed polymer coating providing a mask. Any of the material above a certain height is removed. Structures that are substantially below that certain height can be protected from contamination and left intact. The polymer can be a photoresist. The polymer can be provided with suitable adhesion and uniformity for the CMP process through a two-step baking process and by exhausting the baking chamber from below the substrate.
US09748108B2	Method of forming graphene nanopattern by using mask formed from block copolymer Methods of forming a graphene nanopattern, graphene-containing devices, and methods of manufacturing the graphene-containing devices are provided. A method of forming the graphene nanopattern may include forming a graphene layer on a substrate, forming a block copolymer layer on the graphene layer and a region of the substrate exposed on at least one side of the graphene layer, forming a mask pattern from the block copolymer layer by removing one of a plurality of first region and a plurality of second regions of the block copolymer, and patterning the graphene layer in a nanoscale by using the mask pattern as an etching mask. The block copolymer layer may be formed to directly contact the graphene layer. The block copolymer layer may be formed to directly contact a region of the substrate structure that is exposed on at least one side of the graphene layer.
US09748107B2	Method for removing semiconductor fins using alternating masks A mask set and method for forming FinFET semiconductor devices provides a complementary set of fin-cut masks that are used in DPT (double patterning technology) to remove fins from non-active areas of a semiconductor device, after the fins are formed. Adjacent fins, or adjacent groups of fins, are removed using pattern features from different ones of the multiple fin-cut masks.
US09748105B2	Tungsten deposition with tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) etchback Implementations described herein generally relate to methods for forming tungsten materials on substrates using vapor deposition processes. The method comprises positioning a substrate having a feature formed therein in a substrate processing chamber, depositing a first film of a bulk tungsten layer by introducing a continuous flow of a hydrogen containing gas and a tungsten halide compound to the processing chamber to deposit the first tungsten film over the feature, etching the first film of the bulk tungsten layer using a plasma treatment to remove a portion of the first film by exposing the first film to a continuous flow of the tungsten halide compound and an activated treatment gas and depositing a second film of the bulk tungsten layer by introducing a continuous flow of the hydrogen containing gas and the tungsten halide compound to the processing chamber to deposit the second tungsten film over the first tungsten film.
US09748103B2	SONOS stack with split nitride memory layer A semiconductor device includes a polysilicon substrate, a first oxide layer formed on the polysilicon substrate, an oxygen-rich nitride layer formed on the first oxide layer, a second oxide layer formed on the oxygen-rich nitride layer, and an oxygen-poor nitride layer formed on the second oxide layer.
US09748102B2	Semiconductor chip arrangement and method thereof A method for processing a semiconductor carrier is provided, the method including: providing a semiconductor carrier including a doped substrate region and a device region disposed over a first side of the doped substrate region, the device region including at least part of one or more electrical devices; and implanting ions into the doped substrate region to form a gettering region in the doped substrate region of the semiconductor carrier.
US09748101B2	Substrate treatment method, computer storage medium, and substrate treatment system The present invention is configured to: form, on a substrate, a neutral layer having an intermediate affinity to a hydrophilic polymer and a hydrophobic polymer; form a resist pattern by performing exposure processing on a resist film formed on the neutral layer and then developing the resist film after the exposure processing; perform a surface treatment on the resist pattern by supplying an organic solvent having a polarity to the resist pattern; apply the block copolymer onto the neutral layer; and phase-separate the block copolymer on the neutral layer into the hydrophilic polymer and the hydrophobic polymer.
US09748100B2	Substrate processing method, storage medium and substrate processing system There is provided a method of processing a substrate using a block copolymer composed of a first polymer containing an oxygen atom and a second polymer containing no oxygen atom, the method including: coating the block copolymer onto the substrate on which a predetermined pattern is formed; phase-separating the block copolymer into the first polymer and the second polymer; and heating the substrate in a low oxygen atmosphere to selectively remove the first polymer from the phase-separated block copolymer.
US09748099B2	Laser irradiation method and laser irradiation device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes modifying a first laser beam from a first laser to form a first linear-shaped laser beam and modifying a second laser beam from a second laser to form a second linear-shaped laser beam. The method further includes overlaying the first linear-shaped laser beam and the second linear-shaped laser beam to form an overlayed linear-shaped laser beam, wherein the overlayed linear-shaped laser beam has a width and a length where the length is ten times or more as large as the width. The method also includes scanning a semiconductor film formed over a substrate with the overlayed linear-shaped laser beam to increase crystallinity of the semiconductor film, and patterning the semiconductor film to form a semiconductor layer which includes a channel formation region of a transistor.
US09748094B2	Semiconductor compound structure and method of fabricating the same using graphene or carbon nanotubes, and semiconductor device including the semiconductor compound structure A semiconductor compound structure and a method of fabricating the semiconductor compound structure using graphene or carbon nanotubes, and a semiconductor device including the semiconductor compound structure. The semiconductor compound structure includes a substrate; a buffer layer disposed on the substrate, and formed of a material including carbons having hexagonal crystal structures; and a semiconductor compound layer grown and formed on the buffer layer.
US09748092B2	Liquid chemical for forming protecting film Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film at least on a surface of a recessed portion of an uneven pattern at the time of cleaning a wafer having a finely uneven pattern at its surface and containing silicon at at least a part of the uneven pattern. This liquid chemical contains a silicon compound A represented by the general formula: R1aSi(H)bX4-a-b and an acid A, the acid A being at least one selected from the group consisting of trimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, dimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, dimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, butyldimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, butyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, hexyldimethylsilyl trifluoroacetate, hexyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, octyldimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, octyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, decyldimethylsilyl trifluoroacetate and decyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate.
US09748090B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first cleaner and a second cleaner. The first cleaner polishes a semiconductor substrate or a polishing target material on the semiconductor substrate with an abrasive and then cleans a top face of the semiconductor substrate or of the polishing target material while the semiconductor substrate is rotated. The second cleaner rubs an end portion of the semiconductor substrate with a physical contact according to rotation of the semiconductor substrate.
US09748085B2	Systems and methods of detecting and demonstrating heat damage to hair via evaluation of peptides A method to measure heat damage of keratin fibers comprising eluting a peptide from a hair sample with an aqueous solution; extracting the peptide using a suitable solvent sample; analyzing the peptide samples with MALDI-MS; resulting in peptide results; identifying presence of a marker peptide and identifying the m/z ratio for the peptide.
US09748084B2	Direct sample analysis device adapters and methods of using them Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.
US09748082B2	Apparatus for cylindrical magnetron sputtering A cathode target assembly for use in sputtering target material onto a substrate includes a generally cylindrical target and a magnetic array. The magnetic array is adapted to provide a plasma confinement region adjacent an outer surface of the target. End portions of the magnetic array are adapted to make the shape and strength of the confinement field at the turns of the racetrack closely match the shape and strength of the confinement field along the straight part of the racetrack so as to significantly reduce cross-corner effect.
US09748079B2	Cylindrical sputtering target material Provided is a cylindrical sputtering target material formed of copper or a copper alloy, in which an average value of the special grain boundary length ratios LσN/LN which are measured with respect to the outer peripheral surfaces of both end portions and the outer peripheral surface of the center portion in an axis O direction is set to be equal to or greater than 0.5, and each measured value is in a range of ±20% with respect to the average value of the special grain boundary length ratios LσN/LN, and the total amount of Si and C which are impurity elements is equal to or smaller than 10 mass ppm and the amount of O is equal to or smaller than 50 mass ppm.
US09748078B2	Dual phase cleaning chambers and assemblies comprising the same In one embodiment, a dual phase cleaning chamber may include a turbulent mixing chamber, a fluid diffuser, an isostatic pressure chamber and a rupture mitigating nozzle. The turbulent mixing chamber may be in fluid communication with a first fluid inlet and a second fluid inlet. The fluid diffuser may be in fluid communication with the turbulent mixing chamber. The rupture mitigating nozzle may include a first fluid collecting offset, a second fluid collecting offset, and a displacement damping projection. The displacement damping projection may be disposed between the first and second fluid collecting offset and may be offset away from each of the first fluid collecting offset and the second fluid collecting offset, and towards the fluid diffuser. A pressurized cleaning fluid introduced from the first fluid inlet, the second fluid inlet, or both flows through the outlet passage of the first and second fluid collecting offset.
US09748076B1	Apparatus for frequency tuning in a RF generator A radio-frequency (RF) generator is provided that includes an exciter, a power amplifier, a filter, a sensor, and a frequency-tuning subsystem. The frequency-tuning subsystem includes a non-transitory, tangible, machine-readable medium containing instructions to perform a method that includes receiving an impedance trajectory of the plasma load; receiving a reference point in a complex-reflection-coefficient plane, the reference point lying on a reference vector passing through the reference point and the origin; receiving, from the sensor, a measured impedance of the plasma load; determining a measurement angle between a reference vector and a line passing through the reference point and a point in the complex-reflection-coefficient plane corresponding to the measured impedance; scaling the measurement angle by a predetermined constant to produce a frequency step; adding the frequency step to the initial frequency to produce an adjusted frequency; and causing the exciter to generate a signal oscillating at the adjusted frequency.
US09748074B2	Data generating apparatus, energy beam writing apparatus, and energy beam writing method In one embodiment, a data generating apparatus generates data including an irradiation amount of a beam in each pixel for an energy beam writing apparatus. The data generating apparatus includes a target irradiation amount calculating section configured to calculate a first irradiation amount in each pixel, an irradiation amount rounding section configured to round the first irradiation amount based on an irradiation amount control unit and calculate a second irradiation amount, a difference calculating section configured to calculate a first difference between the first irradiation amount and the second irradiation amount, a difference sum calculating section configured to calculate a sum of the first differences in a first group of a plurality of adjacent pixels, and an allocating section configured to allocate an irradiation amount based on the irradiation amount control unit and the sum to a pixel in the first group.
US09748069B2	X-ray generator and X-ray imaging apparatus including the same An X-ray includes: electron emission devices that are arranged in one dimension or in two dimensions and are configured to emit electrons; and an anode electrode configured to emit an X-ray by using the electrons emitted by the electron emission devices and comprising regions having irregular thicknesses.
US09748061B2	Switching device A switching device has a first switching path having first switching contacts and has a second switching path having second switching contacts, wherein the first switching path has a first electromagnetic tripping apparatus having a first coil winding, wherein the first coil winding has a first winding direction, wherein the second switching path has a second electromagnetic tripping apparatus having a second coil winding, and wherein the second coil winding has a second winding direction. The first switching contacts and the second switching contacts are coupled for substantially simultaneous actuation. The first switching path and the second switching path are arranged adjacent to each other in the switching device. The first winding direction is opposite the second winding direction.
US09748058B2	Key structure and portable computer using the same A key structure includes a key cap, a bridge assembly, a first supporting part, a second supporting part, an attractable element and a magnet. The bridge assembly includes first and second hinge parts. One end of the first hinge part has a first link bar, and the other end has a first pivot coupling portion and a first shaft having a first connecting portion. One end of the second hinge part has a second link bar, and the other end has a second pivot coupling portion and a second shaft having a second connecting portion coupled to the first connecting portion. When the magnet under a first attractive position, the first end of the attractable element is attracted to the first attractive position. When the magnet under a second attractive position, the second end of the attractable element is attracted to the second attractive position.
US09748057B2	Device with movable buttons or switches A surgical device comprising: (a) one or more functional elements, and (b) a selector assembly including: (i) one or more activation buttons, (ii) one or more circuit board switches, and (iii) a shuttle in communication with the circuit board switches or the one or more activation buttons to move the circuit board switches or the activation buttons between at least a first position and a second position so that the circuit board switches or the activation buttons are moveable relative to each other; wherein the one or more functional elements provide a first function when the circuit board switches or the one or more activation buttons are in the first position, and the one or more functional elements provide a second function when the circuit board switches or the one or more activation buttons are in the second position.
US09748052B2	Automatic transfer switch and method thereof A system and method for an automatic transfer switch comprising a fixed contact, a first oscillating rod communicatively and operatively connected to a first movable contact, a second oscillating rod communicatively and operatively connected to a second movable contact, a link rod communicatively and operable connected to the first and second oscillating rods, and a guide plate. The automatic transfer switch is operable to position the guide plate based at least on a state of a solenoid. A permanent magnetic actuator communicatively and operatively connected to the link rod via a third oscillating rod is operable to rotate the first oscillating rod or the second oscillating rod based at least on the position of the guide plate.
US09748051B2	Operating mechanism including a movable element supported by electromagnetic force There are provided a row of external permanent magnets and a row of internal permanent magnets; a floating output ring is provided on which is wound a 3-phase coil, between these rows. The floating output ring has no mechanical restraining relationship with any other member in the linear motor). Instead, a controller that controls a PWM inverter that injects AC exciting current into the 3-phase coil brings the central axes of the double cylinder and the floating output ring into coincidence by generating supporting force with respect to the floating output ring by magnetism, by controlling the d axis current component of the exciting current.
US09748049B2	Deformable contact having a flat surface and a curved surface opposite the flat surface A contact has a flat surface and a side surface that is parallel to the flat surface. At least a part of the side surface is curved so as to swell. At least a part of the contact is able to be elastically deformed in parallel to the flat surface.
US09748048B2	MEMS switch Several features are disclosed that improve the operating performance of MEMS switches such that they exhibit improved in-service life and better control over switching on and off.
US09748041B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor including main phase grains and a secondary phase A dielectric ceramic layer includes main phase grains and a secondary phase. The main phase grains include a perovskite-type compound. The perovskite-type compound includes Zr, Mn and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Ca, Sr, and Ba. In the perovskite-type compound, a molar ratio z between Ti/(Zr+Ti) satisfies 0≦z≦0.2, a molar ratio between Zr/(Zr+Ti) is equal to 1−z, a molar ratio x between Sr/(Ca+Sr+Ba) satisfies 0≦x≦1.0, a molar ratio y between Ba/(Ca+Sr+Ba) satisfies 0≦y≦0.3, a molar ratio between Ca/(Ca+Sr+Ba) is equal to 1−x−y, and a molar ratio m between (Ca+Sr+Ba)/(Zr+Ti) satisfies 0.95≦m<1.03. The secondary phase contains segregated Mn. In a body including the dielectric ceramic layer and an internal electrode alternately stacked, the secondary phase is located inside of a second region and not located inside of a third region.
US09748038B2	Contactless power supply mechanism and secondary coil for contactless power supply mechanism In a contactless power supply mechanism, a power receiving unit for supplying power to an electric device includes a secondary coil and a power supplying unit for supplying power to the power receiving unit includes a primary coil. The primary coil includes a primary core formed of magnetic material and a length of winding wire wounded around the primary core. The secondary coil includes a bar-shaped secondary core formed of magnetic material, a length of winding wire wounded around the secondary core and a magnetic sheet attached to at least one of end faces of the secondary core. The magnetic sheet includes a close-contact portion placed in close-contact with the end face of the secondary core and a curved portion which extends outwards from the close-contact portion beyond an outer edge of the end face and whose normal line has a portion un-parallel with an axial direction of the secondary core.
US09748036B2	Transformer A transformer includes a primary winding unit, a secondary winding unit and a magnetic core. The primary winding unit includes a first input primary winding part and a first shielding winding part. The first input primary winding part is electrically connected to at least one switch component, and the first input primary winding part is electrically connected to the first shielding winding part. The secondary winding unit is inductively coupled to the primary winding unit, and the first shielding part is disposed between the first input primary winding part and the secondary winding part. Then, the primary winding unit and the secondary winding unit are assembled to the magnetic core.
US09748034B2	Laminated coil component A laminated coil component that can use inexpensive copper as an internal conductor, and has excellent direct current superimposition characteristics is provided. In a laminated coil component including: a magnetic section including a ferrite material; a non-magnetic section including a non-magnetic ferrite material; and a coiled conductor section containing copper as a main component embedded inside the magnetic section and the non-magnetic section, the non-magnetic section contains at least Fe, Mn and Zn, and optionally Cu. The non-magnetic section has a Fe content of 40.0 mol % to 48.5 mol % in terms of Fe2O3, a Mn content of 0.5 mol % to 9 mol % in terms of Mn2O3 and a Cu content of 8 mol % or less in terms of CuO.
US09748030B2	Annular sintered magnet with radial magnetization and reinforced mechanical strength A sintered annular magnet with a radial orientation of a remanent magnetic field, including: a principal annular part made from a ferromagnetic material, that has a first degree of magnetic anisotropy in the radial direction; and an annular reinforcing part fixed to the principal part of the magnet, the reinforcing part being made from same ferromagnetic material as the ferromagnetic material forming the principal part, and that has a second degree of magnetic anisotropy in the radial direction, the first degree being higher than the second degree.
US09748027B2	Method for manufacturing non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet Provided is a method for stably obtaining a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with high magnetic flux density and excellent productivity, at a low cost by casting in a continuous casting machine a slab having a chemical composition including by mass %, C≦0.0050%, 3.0%
US09748024B2	Passive arc control with sequestered phases in a vertical bus system of a motor control center A passive arc control system for a motor control center 60 includes an arc attenuating box having sides separating adjacent vertical bus bar phases 54, providing a physical barrier to arc flash energy. The box is open at its top and bottom forming a chimney 55. A shutter assembly for each box includes an insulator cap 62 on a free end of the bus bar and an independently moveable, box-shaped shutter 64 that slides along the bus bar away from the insulator cap, when a device is connected to the bus bar. The shutter has an opening 65 through which the bus bar passes when the device is connected to the bus bar and an opening 55′ aligned with the box's chimney. The arc control system provides a high degree of arc protection for personnel working around open motor control centers and is highly modular and easy to construct.
US09748019B2	Single phase lead-free cubic pyrochlore bismuth zinc niobate-based dielectric materials and processes for manufacture Both single phase lead-free cubic pyrochlore bismuth zinc niobate (BZN)-based dielectric materials with a chemical composition of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5−x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y), with 0≦x<0.23 and 0≦y<0.9 and films with these average compositions with Bi2O3 particles in an amorphous matrix and a process of manufacture thereof. The crystalline BZNT-based dielectric material has a relative permittivity of at least 120, a maximum applied electric field of at least 4.0 MV/cm at 10 kHz, a maximum energy storage at 25° C. and 10 kHz of at least 50 J/cm3 and a maximum energy storage at 200° C. and 10 kHz of at least 22 J/cm3. The process is a wet chemical process that produces thin films of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5−x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y) without the use of 2-methoxyethanol and pyridine.
US09748016B2	Process for producing carbon nanotube composition and carbon nanotube composition A method of the present invention for producing a carbon nanotube includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a carbon nanotube in a solvent by carrying out a dispersion treatment that brings about a cavitation effect, the carbon nanotube having an average diameter (Av) and a diameter distribution (3σ) that satisfy 0.60>3σ/Av>0.20; and a mixing step of mixing carbon nanotube slurry obtained in the dispersing step with latex.
US09748015B2	Deformable polymer composites with controlled electrical performance during deformation through tailored strain-dependent conductive filler contact The present invention generally relates to deformable polymer composites, and more particularly to, deformable polymer composites with controlled electrical performance during deformation through tailored strain-dependent conductive filler contact. According to embodiments, a deformable elastomeric conductive material includes: an elastomeric polymer matrix; and conductive filler material uniformly dispersed in the elastomeric polymer matrix sufficient to render the material electrically or thermally conductive. The conductive filler material comprises a plurality of substantially non-entangled particles having an aspect ratio sufficiently large to enable the particles to substantially remain in contact and/or in close proximity with adjacent particles so as to maintain conductive pathways in the material when the material is subjected to deformation up to and exceeding 10% strain.
US09748010B2	Handling and confinement hood, application to handling holders of samples of nuclear materials such as nuclear fuels The present invention concerns a hood for handling and confinement of at least two objects of slender shape, including an external enclosure and internal enclosures inside the external enclosure and at least one motor fixed above an internal enclosure and inside a barrel, the motor(s) being adapted to rotate the screw of the screw-nut mechanism of each internal enclosure and therefore the nut over a stroke A, and first and second mechanical control means, arranged in part above the cover of the external enclosure, respectively for manually guiding the internal enclosures in translation over a stroke A0 and manually pivoting the barrel in order to bring a holding member of one of the internal enclosures opposite the opening in the bottom of the external enclosure. Application to the handling and confinement of nuclear material sample holders.
US09748004B2	Combined core makeup tank and heat removal system for a small modular pressurized water reactor A combined makeup tank and passive residual heat removal system that places a tube and shell heat exchanger within the core makeup tank. An intake to the tube side of the heat exchanger is connected to the hot leg of the reactor core and the outlet of the tube side is connected to the cold leg of the reactor core. The shell side of the heat exchanger is connected to a separate heat sink through a second heat exchanger.
US09748002B2	System-in-package module with memory A system-in-package module with memory includes a non-memory chip, a substrate, and a memory chip. The non-memory chip has a first portion and a second portion. The substrate has a window and the substrate is electrically connected to the second portion of the non-memory chip. The memory chip is placed into the window of the substrate to electrically connect the first portion of the non-memory chip, and there is no direct metal connection between the memory chip and the substrate.
US09747988B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device When selectively erasing one sub-block, a control circuit applies, in a first sub-block, a first voltage to bit lines and a source line, and applies a second voltage smaller than the first voltage to the word lines. Then, the control circuit applies a third voltage lower than the first voltage by a certain value to a drain-side select gate line and a source-side select gate line, thereby performing the erase operation in the first sub-block. The control circuit applies, in a second sub-block existing in an identical memory block to the selected sub-block, a fourth voltage substantially identical to the first voltage to the drain side select gate line and the source side select gate line, thereby not performing the erase operation in the second sub-block.
US09747987B1	Endurance of silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) memory cells Apparatuses and methods of pulse shaping a pulse signal for programming and erasing a Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon (SONOS) memory cell are described. In one method a pulse shape of a pulse signal is controlled to include four or more phases for programming or erasing a SONOS memory cell. A write cycle is performed to program or erase the SONOS memory with the pulse signal with the four or more phases.
US09747984B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor system A semiconductor device may include a ZQ calibration circuit, a reference code setting circuit, a variable information generating circuit, and an internal circuit. The ZQ calibration circuit may perform a ZQ calibration operation in response to a ZQ calibration enable signal to generate a ZQ calibration code. The reference code generating circuit may output a predetermined code value as a reference code. The variable information generating circuit may compare the ZQ calibration code to the reference code to generate variable information. The internal circuit may determine operation timings based on a difference between the ZQ calibration code and the reference code.
US09747974B2	Non-volatile memory apparatus and on-the-fly self-adaptive read voltage adjustment method thereof A non-volatile memory apparatus includes a non-volatile storage circuit and a controller. The non-volatile storage circuit reads a corresponding data voltage set, and converts the corresponding data voltage set to the corresponding data in accordance with the read-voltage parameter of the controller. The controller decides whether to perform the on-the-fly self-adaptive read-voltage adjustment in accordance with the number of error bits of the corresponding data. The on-the-fly self-adaptive read-voltage adjustment includes: providing a left (or lower) read-voltage parameter to the non-volatile storage circuit for converting the corresponding data voltage set to the left corresponding data; providing a right (or higher) read-voltage parameter to the non-volatile storage circuit for converting the corresponding data voltage set to the right corresponding data; and deciding the adjusting-direction and the adjusting-amount of the read-voltage parameter in accordance with the relationship between the corresponding data, the left corresponding data and the right corresponding data.
US09747967B2	Magnetic field-assisted memory operation In one embodiment, a magnetoresistance random access memory (MRAM) such as a spin transfer torque (STT) random access memory (RAM), for example, has a subarray of bitcells and an electro-magnet positioned adjacent the subarray. A magnetic field is directed through a ferromagnetic device of bitcells of the first subarray to assist in the changing of states of bitcells of the subarray from a first state to a second state in which the ferromagnetic device of the bitcell is changed from one of parallel and anti-parallel polarization to the other of parallel and anti-parallel polarization. Accordingly, the content of the subarray may be readily preset or erased to one of the parallel or anti-parallel state with assistance from an electro-magnet. During a normal write operation, the bits to the other state are written. Other aspects are described herein.
US09747961B2	Division operations in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing division operations in memory. An example apparatus might include a first group of memory cells coupled to a first access line and configured to store a dividend element. An example apparatus might include a second group of memory cells coupled to a second access line and configured to store a divisor element. An example apparatus might also include a controller configured to cause the dividend element to be divided by the divisor element by controlling sensing circuitry to perform a number of operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US09747959B2	Stacked memory devices, and memory packages and memory systems having the same A stacked memory device includes a master semiconductor die and a plurality of slave semiconductor dies stacked on the master semiconductor die. The master semiconductor die includes a first power line coupled to a first power supply voltage, a second power line coupled to a second power supply voltage, a memory device coupled to the first power line, and a data input/output buffer coupled to the second power line. Each of the plurality of slave semiconductor dies includes third and fourth power lines and a memory device coupled to the third power line. The third power line is electrically connected to the first and fourth power lines, and the fourth power line is electrically disconnected from the second power line. The data input/output buffer buffers data communicated between an external device and the memory devices included in the master semiconductor die and the plurality of slave semiconductor dies.
US09747957B1	Power delivery circuitry The disclosure is directed to a system that includes a memory device. The memory device includes a memory system and an energy storage device including a capacitor. The memory storage device includes power delivery circuitry that delivers to the memory system a first power from the energy storage device and a second power from an external power supply coupled to the memory device.
US09747956B1	Base for protecting external welds of hermetically sealed electronic devices Described herein is a hard disk drive that includes a base and a cover. The base includes a closed end, sidewalls, an open end, and one or more corner portions. The sidewalls extend from the closed end, and the open end is defined by the sidewalls. The closed end, sidewalls, and open end define an interior cavity of the hard disk drive. Each corner portion is proximate a respective intersection of the sidewalls and positioned exteriorly of the interior cavity. The cover is welded to the sidewalls over the open end by a weld bead such that the weld bead is positioned between the interior cavity and the corner portions. The weld bead hermetically seals the cover to the base. Furthermore, at least one of the corner portions is at least substantially flush with the cover.
US09747952B2	Storage device of media units A method, system and apparatus for media storage is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for storing media units has a housing having a lid and a base. The base has a plurality of receptacles. Each of the plurality of receptacles has a plurality of walls. A first writing surface is coupled to the housing.
US09747948B2	Method of automatically modifying the probability of random selection of a presentation based on how long the user delays before skipping (time-based skip weighting) A method of adjusting the probability of a presentation being randomly selected during random play based on user feedback where the length of delay prior to the user pressing the skip button causes a modification in the probability of that presentation being displayed again.
US09747947B2	User device with access behavior tracking and favorite passage identifying functionality A user device presents passages of an electronic publication. The user device tracks a user's access behavior for the passages of the electronic publication. The user device identifies the user's favorite passages of the electronic publication based on the user's access behavior and stores an identification of the user's favorite passages.
US09747945B2	Method for creating a content and electronic device thereof A method for creating a content in an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring first media data acquired by at least one external electronic device, acquiring second media data on a basis of at least a part of the first media data, recognizing a feature of the second media data acquired by the at least one external electronic device, and creating the content on a basis of at least a part of the feature of the second media data.
US09747944B2	Zeotrope animation disc assembly Zeotropic effects are created while an observer experiments with video data and speed controls of a rotary motor. A system facilitates user creation of a customized zoetrope animation disc by enabling a user to take a video of a repetitive motion (e.g., a person doing a jumping jack, a hand opening and closing, a person swinging back and forth on a swing, etc.). The system prompts a user to select a start point and end point to the video. The system further prompts the user to specify a number of frames desired for the animation disc. The animation disc is then printed for use on a rotary motor based on the user input.
US09747940B2	Methods and devices for reducing couple imbalance in a hard drive In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a basedeck; a motor coupled to the basedeck and having a rotatable hub; and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth discs coupled to the hub. Three of the five discs are biased against the hub in a first direction and two of the five discs are biased against the hub in a second direction. In certain embodiments, a method includes biasing at least three discs against a hub in a first direction and biasing at least two discs against the hub in a second direction.
US09747939B2	Devices including near field transducer and adhesion layer A device including a near field transducer (NFT); a write pole; at least one dielectric material positioned between the NFT and the write pole; and an adhesion layer positioned between the NFT and the at least one dielectric material.
US09747930B2	Tunnel valve read sensor with crystalline alumina tunnel barrier deposited using room temperature techniques In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic tunnel junction device having a reference layer, a free layer, and a tunnel barrier layer between the free and reference layers. The tunnel barrier layer is primarily crystalline alumina. In another general embodiment, a method includes forming a first magnetic layer, forming a tunnel barrier layer above the first magnetic layer, and forming a second magnetic layer above the tunnel barrier layer. The tunnel barrier layer includes crystalline alumina. The tunnel barrier layer is formed at a temperature of less than 100 degrees centigrade.
US09747929B2	Method to coat NFT area with highly thermal conducting material in HAMR structure Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method for forming a HAMR head. The method includes depositing a drop-on-demand mask on a portion of a surface of a slider using a drop-on-demand tool. The surface of the slider includes at least a portion of an NFT. A first protective layer is deposited over a remaining portion of the surface of the slider and over the drop-on-demand mask. The drop-on-demand mask and a portion of the first protective layer disposed on the drop-on-demand mask are removed, exposing at least the portion of the NFT. A second protective layer is deposited on the first protective layer and at least the exposed portion of the NFT. By using the drop-on-demand tool to deposit the drop-on-demand mask, the alignment between the drop-on-demand mask and the portion of the NFT is less stringent, and the drop-on-demand mask can be easily removed using a wiping tool.
US09747925B2	Speaker association with a visual representation of spoken content Speaker content generated in an audio conference is selectively visually represented. A profile for each audience member who participates in the audio conference is obtained. Speaker content spoken during the audio conference is monitored. Words of the speaker content are classified to have different weights according to a parameter of the profile for each of the audience members. A relation between the speaker content to the profile for each of the audience members is determined. Different visual representations of the speaker content are presented to different ones of the audience members based on the determined relation.
US09747920B2	Adaptive beamforming to create reference channels An echo cancellation system that performs audio beamforming to separate audio input into multiple directions and determines a target signal and a reference signal from the multiple directions. For example, the system may detect a strong signal associated with a speaker and select the strong signal as a reference signal, selecting another direction as a target signal. The system may determine a speech position and may select the speech position as a target signal and an opposite direction as a reference signal. The system may create pairwise combinations of opposite directions, with an individual direction being selected as a target signal and a reference signal. The system may select a fixed beamformer output for the target signal and an adaptive beamformer output for the reference signal, or vice versa. The system may remove the reference signal (e.g., audio output by the loudspeaker) to isolate speech included in the target signal.
US09747917B2	Position directed acoustic array and beamforming methods Methods and systems are provided for receiving desired sounds. The system includes a position sensor configured to determine an occupant position of an occupant engaging in speech within a defined space and transmit the speaking occupant position. A plurality of microphones are configured to receive sound from within the defined space and transmit audio signals corresponding to the received sound. A processor, in communication with the position sensor and the microphones, is configured to receive the speaking occupant position and the audio signals, apply a beamformer to the audio signals to direct a microphone beam toward the occupant position, and generate a beamformer output signal.
US09747916B2	CELP-type speech coding apparatus and method using adaptive and fixed codebooks In a CELP-type speech coding apparatus, switching between an orthogonal search of a fixed codebook and a non-orthogonal search is performed in a practical and effective manner. The CELP-type speech coding apparatus includes a parameter quantizer that selects an adaptive codebook vector and a fixed codebook vector so as to minimize an error between a synthesized speech signal and an input speech signal. The parameter quantizer includes a fixed codebook searcher that switches between the orthogonal fixed codebook search and the non-orthogonal fixed codebook search based on a correlation value between a target vector for the fixed codebook search and the adaptive codebook vector obtained as a result of a synthesis filtering process.
US09747908B2	Device and method for bandwidth extension for audio signals An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes low-band encoding parameters, index information, and scale factor information from the encoded information. The processor also decodes the low-band encoding parameters to obtain a synthesized low frequency spectrum, replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using the synthesized low frequency spectrum, and adjusts an amplitude of the replicated high frequency subband spectrum using the scale factor information. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency spectrum, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum.
US09747903B2	Device control method, device management system, and voice input apparatus A method is provided that includes receiving, from a voice input apparatus associated with a first target device among a plurality of target devices, instruction information that includes first voice information indicating an operation instruction for any target device, and recognizing the operation instruction from the first voice information included in the received instruction information. The method also includes specifying the first target device by referencing a first database, and determining whether second voice information indicating an operation object for the operation instruction is included in the instruction information. The method further includes transmitting, (i) when the second voice information is not included in the instruction information, a first control command for executing the recognized operation instruction to the first target device, and (ii) when the second voice information is included in the instruction information, the first control command to a second target device associated with the operation object.
US09747902B2	Method and system for assisting patients A system for use in assisting a user in a social interaction with another person is provided, the system being configured to determine whether the user recognizes the person and, if it is determined that the user does not recognize the person, to provide information to the user about the person. A corresponding method and computer program product for performing the method are also provided.
US09747901B1	Speech interaction for unmanned aerial vehicles An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be used for delivering products or other articles. The UAV is configured to detect the presence of nearby people, animals, or other interactive objects. Upon detecting a nearby object, the UAV may produce speech in order to warn or instruct the object. The UAV may also have speech input capabilities in order to capture and respond to speech from the object. The UAV may conduct a speech dialog with a nearby person in order to request information and/or answer questions from the object. In certain situations, the UAV may detect whether an object is in the way of a desired landing area and may communicate with the object through speech to ask the object to move or to ask the object to specify an alternative landing area.
US09747898B2	Interpretation of ambiguous vehicle instructions Various exemplary embodiments relate to a command interpreter for use in a vehicle control system in a vehicle for interpreting user commands, a vehicle interaction system including such a command interpreter, a vehicle including such a vehicle interaction system, and related method and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, including: a memory and a processor, the processor being configured to: receive, from at least one human via a first input device, a first input having a first type; receive a second input having a second type via a second input device, wherein the second type comprises at least one of sensed information describing a surrounding environment of the vehicle and input received from at least one human; interpret both the first input and the second input to generate a system instruction; and transmit the system instruction to a different system of the vehicle.
US09747897B2	Identifying substitute pronunciations Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, including selecting terms; obtaining an expected phonetic transcription of an idealized native speaker of a natural language speaking the terms; receiving audio data corresponding to a particular user speaking the terms in the natural language; obtaining, based on the audio data, an actual phonetic transcription of the particular user speaking the terms in the natural language; aligning the expected phonetic transcription of the idealized native speaker of the natural language with the actual phonetic transcription of the particular user; identifying, based on the aligning, a portion of the expected phonetic transcription that is different than a corresponding portion of the actual phonetic transcription; and based on identifying the portion of the expected phonetic transcription, designating the expected phonetic transcription as a substitute pronunciation for the corresponding portion of the actual phonetic transcription.
US09747894B2	System and associated method for speech keyword detection enhanced by detecting user activity The invention provides a system for speech keyword detection and associated method. The system includes a speech keyword detector, an activity predictor and a decision maker. The activity predictor obtains sensor data provided by a plurality of sensors, and processes the sensor data to provide an activity prediction result indicating a probability for whether a user is about to give voice keyword. The decision maker processes the activity prediction result and a preliminary keyword detection result of the speech keyword detection to provide a keyword detection result.
US09747892B1	Method and apparatus for electronically sythesizing acoustic waveforms representing a series of words based on syllable-defining beats Speech is modeled as a cognitively-driven sensory-motor activity where the form of speech is the result of categorization processes that any given subject recreates by focusing on creating sound patterns that are represented by syllables. These syllables are then combined in characteristic patterns to form words, which are in turn, combined in characteristic patterns to form utterances. A speech recognition process first identifies syllables in an electronic waveform representing ongoing speech. The pattern of syllables is then deconstructed into a standard form that is used to identify words. The words are then concatenated to identify an utterance. Similarly, a speech synthesis process converts written words into patterns of syllables. The pattern of syllables is then processed to produce the characteristic rhythmic sound of naturally spoken words. The words are then assembled into an utterance which is also processed to produce a natural sounding speech.
US09747885B2	Noise reduction system According to one embodiment, a noise reduction system for reducing noise including impact noise repetitively generated at a time interval includes the following elements. The error signal generator generates an error signal based on the noise being detected. The delay signal generator has a time delay characteristic and delays a signal, which is generated based on the error signal, to generate a delay signal, the time delay characteristic being determined based on an imaging sequence or pre-scanning by the MRI device and corresponding to the time interval. The control filter generates the first control signal from the delay signal. The loudspeaker unit includes at least one pair of a first filter and a control loudspeaker and a transmission unit.
US09747882B1	Switched reversing configuration control for string instruments and boost circuit therefor A switched reversing configuration control for string instruments connects to a pair of pickup sensors located on an electric string instrument for selectively electrically configuring the pickup sensors between (a) the pair of pickup sensors being coupled with like polarity in one of series or parallel with respect to a pair of output terminals, or (b) effectively coupling only one of the pair of pickup sensors to the output terminals, or (c) the pair of pickup sensors being coupled with opposing polarity in one of series or parallel with respect to the output terminals. An optional reverse polarity passive boost circuit is provided for increasing the output voltage coupled to the output terminals when the pickup sensors are coupled with opposing polarity as compared to the output voltage that would otherwise be provided absent the reverse polarity passive boost circuit.
US09747878B1	System, method and computer program product for generating musical notes via a user interface touch pad A music generating system enables a user to generate independent and sequential musical melodies, having reduced latency periods, without playing an electronic percussion instrument. The music generating system includes an electronic percussion instrument, a MIDI controller coupled to the electronic percussion instrument, a unidirectional USB communication link coupled to the MIDI controller, a MIDI converter coupled to the unidirectional USB communication link, a bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link coupled to the MIDI converter, and a rhythm drum machine in communication with the bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link. The MIDI converter is configured to independently and sequentially receive and learn a first audio control signal and a second audio control signal in a non-overlapping pattern, and thereby independently and sequentially generates and transmits to the rhythm drum machine a first musical melody and a second musical melody corresponding to the first audio control signal and the second audio control signal, respectively.
US09747876B1	Adaptive layout of sheet music in coordination with detected audio A device is configured to display electronic sheet music. The device may display electronic sheet music that can be magnified and displayed in sequence by reflowing electronic musical symbols between pages. In addition, the device may adaptively determine a layout based on user preferences, such as a desired magnification, an orientation of a device or the like, and may display a current location in the electronic sheet music based on user input, a remote trigger, a desired playback speed or by monitoring an audio input from a microphone and determining a current location in the electronic sheet music. For example, the device may detect a series of pitches and display the electronic sheet music based on a most recent pitch in the series of pitches.
US09747875B2	Accordion and electronic accordion An accordion includes a right hand play side, a left hand play side, a bellow, four rows of buttons, and two rows of buttons. The four rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous four pitches are assigned, a second column to which second continuous four pitches are assigned, and a third column to which third continuous four pitches are assigned. The two rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous two pitches are assigned, the first continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the first continuous four pitches, a second column to which second continuous two pitches are assigned, the second continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the second continuous four pitches, and a third column to which third continuous two pitches are assigned, the third continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the third continuous four pitches.
US09747873B2	Tone control member and tone-controlled functional acoustic guitar The present invention relates to a tone-controlled functional acoustic guitar that prevents a body from being deformed to avoid the changes in sound, increases sound transmission, finely adjusts tone fields in accordance with a player or user's selection, and has a specific structure on a head thereof to suppress bending on a neck caused by the tension of strings. According to the present invention, the tone-controlled functional acoustic guitar includes: a body having a top plate, a bottom plate and a side plate connecting the top plate and the bottom plate with each other; a neck fixed to one side of the body; a head disposed at the end portion of the neck; and a tone control member detachably mounted at the inside of the body in such a manner as to be controlled in length to support a space between the top plate and the bottom plate of the body, wherein the tone control member includes: a contacting and moving member; and height control means expandably and contractably moving the contacting and moving member.
US09747871B2	Portable terminal device, program, device shake compensation method, and condition detection method A portable terminal device operable by an operator is provided with a display unit which displays display data, an image capturing unit and an image signal processing unit which acquire image data containing the face of the operator, a detection unit which detects a relative positional change between the display data displayed on the display unit and the face of the operator based on the acquired image data to create change data, a determination unit which determines whether or not the operator is walking, and a display control unit which, in a case where the determination unit has determined that the operator is walking, controls a displaying position in the display unit of the display data displayed on the display unit so that the relative positional change detected by the detection unit is suppressed.
US09747870B2	Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for superimposing a graphic on a first image generated from cut-out of a second image Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for generating a graphic and superimposing the generated graphic on a second image generated from a cut-out of a first image of a scene, the cut-out representing the field of view of a virtual camera, the device comprising: receiver circuitry configured to receive the second image and a set of cut-out corner coordinates; homography determining circuitry configured to determine, a homography between coordinates of the first 2D coordinate system defined within the cut-out and coordinates of a second 2D coordinate system defined for the second image; feature determining circuitry configured to determine a feature of the virtual 3D map of the scene within the field of view of the virtual camera; graphic generator circuitry configured to generate the graphic from the determined feature of the virtual 3D map; and graphic superimposing circuitry configured to superimpose the generated graphic on the second image.
US09747868B2	Foldable display device and method of controlling therefor A foldable display device and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of configuring illuminance of a display screen according to an illuminance value detected based on a folding angle between a first body and a second body of the foldable display device.
US09747866B2	Optimizing light output profile for dual-modulation display performance Techniques for optimizing light output profiles in display systems are described. A light output profile is defined in relation to a plurality of sample locations on an illuminated surface. Point spread functions that satisfy illumination performance values specified in the light output profile in aggregate are computed or derived. A design process that adds or removes optical components to a display light assembly derives an optimal design of a light illumination layer for display systems. Relationships and parameter values determined in the design process may be configured into display systems along with the optical components for the purpose of generating optimized light output profiles in the display systems.
US09747861B2	Driving voltage generating device, display device including the same, and method of generating driving voltage A driving voltage generating device, a display device including the same, and a method of generating a driving voltage are provided. The driving voltage generating device includes a driving voltage setting unit receiving initially set data on a driving voltage and a feedback voltage and outputting a control signal, a driving voltage trimmer receiving finely adjusted data on the driving voltage and adjusting the feedback voltage, and a DC to DC converter generating the driving voltage based on the control signal and an input voltage.
US09747858B2	Source driver and source drive method of liquid crystal panel of unequal row drive width The present invention provides a source driver and a source drive method of a liquid crystal panel of unequal row drive width. By providing the input signal decoding control unit electrically coupled to the plurality of data signal output channels and encoding the data signal output channel start address signal and the data signal output channel end address signal in the transport packages of the data signal to be transported to the input signal decoding control unit, the input signal decoding control unit controls the amount of activated data signal output channels to adjust the row drive width for each scan according to the received data signal output channel start address signal and the received data signal output channel end address signal. The row drive width of scan for each row can be dynamically adjusted to transport the data signal to the pixels required to display in each row. It is applicable for non rectangular display for reducing the output power of the liquid crystal panel and the source driver of the liquid crystal panel of unequal row drive width is derived from the present drive structure design. The structure is simple.
US09747856B2	Display device A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction, a plurality of common electrodes extended in the first direction, a gate scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the gate lines, and a common scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the common electrodes. The common scanning circuit includes a shift register unit, an interconnection connecting unit, and a switch unit. The gate scanning circuit and the common scanning circuit are configured of single channel thin film transistors. The gate scanning circuit is disposed between the shift register unit and the interconnection connecting unit, and the interconnection connecting unit is disposed between the gate scanning circuit and the switch unit in a planar view.
US09747854B2	Shift register, gate driving circuit, method for driving display panel and display device A shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a display device relate to a field of display technology. By aid of adding an output control unit, a second pull-up unit, a second pull-down unit and a selection control signal terminal on the basis of the shift register in the prior art, it can be controlled whether a scan signal should be outputted at a selection driving output terminal. In the gate driving circuit, through controlling the selection control signals applied on the selection control signal terminals, the scan signals can be outputted to a part of gate lines selectively. In the display panel provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, besides the gate driving circuit, switch devices each of which is connected between third nodes of two shift registers, switch devices each of which is connected between fourth nodes of two shift registers and a mode switching circuit connected to the driving control circuit are incorporated. As such, the mode switching circuit can make the display panel display in different resolutions according to different mode control signals, such that the power consumption of the display panel can be reduced selectively to prolong standby time.
US09747853B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate where a pixel electrode is formed; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a driving device connected with the first substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a pixel area where pixels emit light, and a load storage area provided between the pixel area and the driving device and constantly maintaining a load applied to the pixels in the pixel area.
US09747846B2	Display device In order to achieve a display device that can display a plurality of images and also prevents a lowering of resolution of the images displayed by emitting light in a plurality of different direction from one pixel, a display device, which is a display device that can display at least two images by emitting light in at least two directions from each of a plurality of pixels, includes: a backlight unit, a backlight side substrate, a display side substrate, a MEMS shutter, and a display control unit. The display device can display an image for a first viewpoint and an image for a second viewpoint by the display control unit controlling the MEMS shutter for each of the pixels.
US09747845B2	Backlight control circuit, electronic device and display panel driving method A display panel driving method for driving a LED module of an electronic device to emit light, the method includes steps: controlling to scan a left-eye image and a right-eye image when the electronic device works at a 3D mode (S401); controlling the LED module to turn off and does not emits light during a predetermined period less than a scanning time of the left-eye image or the right-eye image, after switching to scan the left-eye image and the right-eye image (S402); and controlling the LED module to turn on and emit light after the predetermined period has passed (S403). The present invention also provides a backlight control circuit and an electronic device, the present invention capable of controlling the backlight module to emit light via the same signal and do not cause the interference between different signals.
US09747844B2	Backlight brightness adjusting method and device, and liquid crystal display device The disclosure discloses a backlight brightness adjusting method and device and a liquid crystal display device. In the backlight brightness adjusting method, grayscale characteristic values of respective primary colors in an image to be displayed are obtained, that is, contributions of the respective primary colors to an overall grayscale are obtained, to thereby obtain the grayscale contributions of the respective primary colors in the image to be displayed respectively; a backlight value is determined by giving different coefficients to the grayscale characteristic values of the respective primary colors; and finally an output of a backlight driver is adjusted according to the backlight value to thereby adjust backlight brightness.
US09747839B2	Pixel driving circuit, driving method, array substrate and display apparatus A pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and an array substrate are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a data line (Data), a gate line (Gate), a first power supply line (ELVDD), a second power supply line (ELVSS), a reference signal line (ref), a light emitting device (D), a driving transistor (T7), a storage capacitor (C1), a reset unit, a data writing unit, a compensating unit and a light emitting control unit. The pixel driving circuit can compensate and remove non-uniformity in displaying caused by variances in threshold voltage among driving transistors.
US09747838B2	Pixel and organic light emitting display using the same A pixel may include an organic light emitting diode (OLED) with a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor with a first electrode coupled to a data line, with a second electrode coupled to a first node, the first transistor being turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a third power source to charge a first capacitor voltage corresponding to a data signal supplied from the data line, and a pixel circuit charged by the first capacitor voltage to supply current corresponding to a charged first power source voltage from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED.
US09747836B2	Signal processing method, display device, and electronic apparatus A signal processing method includes inputting a first gradation signal and a second gradation signal, the first gradation signal representing a gradation of a predetermined pixel in a first frame, the second gradation signal representing a gradation of the predetermined pixel in a second frame that follows the first frame; determining whether or not the gradation of the predetermined pixel in the first frame is a low gradation based on the input first gradation signal; and adjusting one of a first signal voltage and a second signal voltage in a case where the determination result is positive, the first signal voltage defining a light-emitting brightness of a light-emitting pixel corresponding to the predetermined pixel in the first frame, the second signal voltage defining a light-emitting brightness of the light-emitting pixel in the second frame.
US09747835B2	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and OLED display having the same An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display panel includes a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The panel further includes a plurality of OLEDs formed in the display region, a plurality of pixel circuits formed in the display region, and a pixel repair circuit formed in the peripheral region. When one of the pixel circuits is a dead pixel circuit, the dead pixel circuit is disconnected from a corresponding dead pixel OLED and the dead pixel OLED is connected to the pixel repair circuit via a corresponding repair line. The pixel repair circuit is configured to provide the dead pixel OLED with a grayscale repair current for representing a grayscale of the image and a compensation repair current for compensating a line load of the repair line.
US09747834B2	Pixel circuits including feedback capacitors and reset capacitors, and display systems therefore A display with a pixel circuit for driving a current-driven emissive element includes a feedback capacitor in series between the emissive element and a programming node of the pixel circuit. During driving, variations in the operating voltage of the emissive element due to variations in the current conveyed through the emissive element by a driving transistor are accounted for. The feedback capacitor generates voltage adjustments at the programming node that correspond to the variations at the emissive element, and thus reduces variations in light emission. A reset capacitor connected to a select line is selectively connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor and resets the driving transistor prior to programming. The select line adjusts the voltage on the gate terminal to reset the driving transistor by the capacitive coupling of the select line to the gate terminal created by the reset capacitor.
US09747831B2	Flat panel display device, method of aging the same, and method of testing lighting of the same A flat panel display device formed in a pentile structure is provided, which includes a pixel portion and a lighting tester. The pixel portion includes a first pixel column, a second pixel column and a third pixel column. In the first pixel column, first pixels for displaying a first color and second pixels for displaying a second color are alternately arranged in a direction the data lines. In the second pixel column, first and second pixels arranged in reverse order of the first pixel column in a direction parallel to the data lines. In the third pixel column, third pixels for displaying a third color are arranged in a direction parallel to the data lines. The lighting tester applies a first voltage to the first pixel column and applies a second voltage to the second pixel column during a first time period. The lighting tester applies the second voltage to the first pixel column and applies the first voltage to the second pixel column during a second time period.
US09747829B2	Display device Variance in luminance deterioration in a display is suppressed. A display device in which a self-illuminating display element is used to display information comprises a display component in which are disposed a plurality of pixels made up of a plurality of colors of sub-pixels, and a controller for controlling the drive of the display component. The controller records an accumulated luminance for each sub-pixel, and calculates a luminance adjustment amount for each sub-pixel based on the difference between the accumulated luminance values. The controller also detects when no one is viewing the display device, produces a corrected image according to the luminance adjustment amount, and displays the corrected image on the display component while no one is viewing the display device.
US09747818B1	Sign holder system A sign holder system having a back plate and a front plate. The back plate is mountable to a wall surface, and the front plate is removably secured to the back plate. The front plate has a forward-facing surface for displaying indicia, such as a room number or a person's name. The back plate includes at least one recessed opening for receiving a clip attached to the back of the front plate. The recessed opening also includes a recessed pocket. The clip can be slid into the recessed pocket to secure the front plate to the back plate. The recessed pocket can have a ridge which engages with an elevated portion of the clip having similar or matching geometry. The ridge can have a wall that abuts the clip to lock the clip over the ridge. The back plate can additionally include a keyway for permitting a key to pass therethrough. The key has an end that, when inserted through the keyway, deflects the clip away from the ridge, thereby releasing the clip from the ridge and permitting the front plate to be released from the back plate.
US09747815B2	Demonstration tools for geometric properties A variety of tools for demonstrating the mathematical properties is disclosed. In one embodiment, a demonstrator uses the tools to illuminate geometric relationships between objects in two and three-dimensional space. The tools may be a stationary exhibit or collected into a portable kit. Whether portable or stationary, the tools provide an easy to use, multi-functional, and visually captivating vehicle for demonstration of geometric properties.
US09747812B2	Saliency based awareness modeling In one or more embodiments, driver awareness may be calculated, inferred, or estimated utilizing a saliency model, a predictive model, or an operating environment model. An awareness model including one or more awareness scores for one or more objects may be constructed based on the saliency model or one or more saliency parameters associated therewith. A variety of sensors or components may detect one or more object attributes, saliency, operator attributes, operator behavior, operator responses, etc. and construct one or more models accordingly. Examples of object attributes associated with saliency or saliency parameters may include visual characteristics, visual stimuli, optical flow, velocity, movement, color, color differences, contrast, contrast differences, color saturation, brightness, edge strength, luminance, a quick transient (e.g., a flashing light, an abrupt onset of a change in intensity, brightness, etc.).
US09747807B2	Systems and methods for displaying quick preview notices to airmen A flight display system or method in accordance with this disclosure involves the presentation, on an aircraft, of a “quick preview” notice to airmen (“NOTAM”) display that includes a plurality of stacked flight route portion boxes, each of the plurality of flight route portion boxes pertaining to and being labeled as one of: a departure taxiing portion, a standard instrument departure portion, an en route portion, a standard terminal arrival route portion, an approach portion, and an arrival taxiing portion; each of the plurality of flight route portion boxes graphically displaying flight route symbology pertaining to and labeled as each airport taxiing reference point and/or each aeronautical waypoint that falls within its labeled flight route portion; and wherein at least one of the plurality of flight route portion boxes further graphically displays NOTAM symbology pertaining to at least one of the NOTAMs that are relevant to the flight route.
US09747802B2	Collision avoidance system and method for an underground mine environment Described are methods and systems for collision avoidance in an underground mine environment that use one or more of a computer vision component, an asset tracking system, and a motion detection component for the purpose of determining and responding to potential collision threats. Imaging is captured and processed in real time, so that assets of interest can be identified and used in evaluating potential for collision with other assets. Location data from an asset tracking system is likewise evaluated and used to determine proximity of assets in relation to the host. A final input is provided by the motion detection component that intelligently determines movement patterns and direction of travel. Once these components' inputs are collectively evaluated, a proximity or a threat value is generated which determine an audible or visual signal or action to prevent collision and increase safety in unfavorable conditions.
US09747799B2	Radio device A modulating and demodulating section receives, from another radio device, a packet signal including at least position information of another vehicle in which the other radio device is mounted. A position information acquiring section acquires position information of the vehicle in which the radio device is mounted. An estimating section estimates a time taken for the vehicle and the other vehicle to encounter each other on the basis of these two pieces of position information. A deriving section derives a distance between the vehicle and the other vehicle on the basis of these two pieces of position information. A determining section provides notification of an encounter with the other vehicle in a case where the estimated time is equal to or less than a first threshold value or in a case where the derived distance is equal to or less than a second threshold value.
US09747798B2	Method for locating parking spaces A computer-implemented method for locating open parking spaces. The method includes the steps of receiving, at a server database, location information from a user via a wireless transmission over a network, transmitting parking rules for an area within a particular radius of the location from the server to the user, transmitting the location of open parking spaces for an area within a particular radius of the location, and displaying a map showing the location of the open parking space. Once parked, the user may upload to the database the changed condition of the occupied parking space. The server also communicates to the user a notification when the parking time limit of the occupied space is a particular amount of time from being reached so that a user knows to vacate the space.
US09747796B1	Oncoming vehicle alarm technology Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method by a device for detecting an approaching vehicle. The method includes recording a sound waveform, and determining whether the recorded sound waveform is associated with a vehicle. A further determination is made whether the vehicle is approaching the device, which recorded the sound waveform, based on determining that the recorded sound waveform is indeed associated with a vehicle. An alert is generated which indicates that the vehicle is approaching the device, based on the determination that the vehicle is approaching.
US09747792B2	Vehicle or moving object detection The present application relates to the detection of moving vehicles and other objects, in particular though not exclusively for the application of switching stationary charging pads for moving electric vehicle charging. There is provided an electric vehicle detecting apparatus for switching a charging pad for charging a vehicle transmitting a locating signal, the apparatus comprising two sensors separated in the direction of travel of the vehicle, and a detector arranged to detect the vehicle by comparing the locating signals received by each of the two sensors.
US09747787B2	Method for configuring a home-automation installation Described are methods, recording media, and devices for configuring a home-automation installation comprising at least one first part of the home-automation installation and one second part of the home-automation installation and one configuration device.The first part of the home-automation installation comprises elements including a remote control unit and equipment controlled by the remote control unit, communicating over a first home-automation network, the first part having a first key, and the second part of the home-automation installation comprises elements including a remote control unit and equipment controlled by the remote control unit, communicating over a second home-automation network, the second part having a second key.
US09747785B2	Transmitter for vehicle subsystems A system for remotely actuating a subsystem in a vehicle is disclosed. A transmitter is configured to transmit a signal to a receiver associated with the subsystem. The system has an associated buffer which is configured to allow the transmitter to transmit a signal to the receiver a predetermined number of times.
US09747782B2	Wired data communications network A wired data communications network for use in a building for the detection of fire or intrusion, the network including a control unit connected by cable to a series of uniquely addressable transducers for the transmission and reception of data in a polling signal. Each transducer has a memory for control data and for its own unique address and responds to a predetermined start voltage pulse in the polling signal to clear its memory and then responds to control data and address data in the polling signal to store the control data when the address matches its own address and transmit data to the control unit representative of its own status. At least one of the transducers determines whether the control data is extended data and, if so, stores the extended control data and the further control data, and performs the said transmission of data to the control unit and any other process dictated by the extended control data.
US09747779B2	Devices, systems, and methods for promoting hygiene compliance Devices, systems, and methods for facilitating hand hygiene compliance are provided including a device for dispensing hygiene maintenance material that also monitors a detection zone to determine if an individual is present. A hygiene facilitation system is also provided comprising a retrofittable hygiene facilitation device that can be mounted on, or collocated with, conventional hygiene devices. The devices, systems, and methods hereof provide alerts and, optionally, tracking of use of the dispensing device and the relation of that use compared to a desired use profile.
US09747775B2	Somatosensory type notification alerts A computing device is described that can receive contextual information related to a user associated with the computing device. The contextual information may relate to at least one of a physiological condition of the user at a current time or a type of activity associated with the user at the current time. The computing device can select, based at least in part on the contextual information, a type of alert to output as an indication of notification data. The type of alert may include at least one of an electric stimulus type alert, a shape-memory alloy type alert, and a vibration type alert. Responsive to selecting the type of alert, the computing device can output an alert based on the notification data, the alert being of the selected type of alert.
US09747773B2	Suggesting adjustments to a helmet based on analysis of play Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for suggesting adjustments to an adjustable helmet based on analysis of play. Aspects include monitoring a plurality of sensors in the adjustable helmet and performing an analysis of play for a user of the adjustable helmet based on data received from the plurality of sensors. Aspects also include determining if an adjustment to the adjustable helmet should be made based on the analysis of play and creating an alert indicating that an adjustment to the helmet is needed.
US09747771B1	Tracking and safety smart watch The tracking and safety smart watch is a signaling device that is worn in the manner of an accessory. The tracking and safety smart watch communicates through messages with an appropriate authority such that security information regarding an individual wearing the tracking and safety smart watch can be monitored. The tracking and safety smart watch allows an appropriate authority can determine the location of the tracking and safety smart watch and to monitor the exterior surroundings of the tracking and safety smart watch. The tracking and safety smart watch provides for the transmission of an emergency message from the individual to the appropriate authority. Safeguards are incorporated into the tracking and safety smart watch to prevent removal of the tracking and safety smart watch from the individual without the approval or the appropriate authority. The tracking and safety smart watch comprises a timepiece, a control system, and a housing.
US09747764B2	Guidance system To provide a guidance system that can quickly guide a person along a guidance route without anxiety.Provided are: a plurality of unit control apparatuses; and a plurality of unit light emitting apparatuses controlled by the unit control apparatuses, wherein at normal times, light emitting elements of a plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit light emitting apparatuses are continuously lit at an illuminance of 100%, and at guidance, the illuminance of the light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit display apparatuses is attenuated to 30%, and then the illuminance of the light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit display apparatuses is sequentially controlled to 100% based on count values stored in an emergency exit number count value storage unit to generate an optical flow toward a guidance direction.
US09747763B1	Networked audible and visual alarm apparatus and method of synchronized alerting A networked visual and audible alarm apparatus and method of synchronized alerting provides audible and visual alerts upon detection of events, such as smoke, carbon monoxide and gas. The apparatus adapts to a light bulb socket to provide normal lighting when no event is detected. The apparatuses are systematically disposed through different sections of a structure. Each apparatus independently emits an audible signal, dependent on the type of event detected in the respective section for the apparatus. Further, each alarm apparatus provides a colored high strobe light that illuminates at a color and intensity that varies, dependent on the type of event detected in the section of the alarm apparatus. A microphone enables the alarm apparatus to initiate the audible signal and the high strobe light upon detecting an audible signal from an adjacent alarm apparatus. Also, voice commands can be used to power off the alarming apparatus.
US09747758B1	Banking systems controlled by data bearing records A cash handling device having at least one processor, a communication interface, an item accepting device, an item dispensing device, an internal currency scanning system, an internal currency transport system, one or more currency storage cartridges, and a memory may receive, from a user, a request to perform a deposit transaction. Based on receiving the request to perform the deposit transaction, the cash handling device may receive at least one deposit item for deposit. Subsequently, the cash handling device may validate the at least one deposit item received for deposit. Based on validating the at least one deposit item received for deposit, the cash handling device may generate a deposit transaction record that includes information directing a banking server to apply a provisional credit to a treasury account associated with the user. Subsequently, the cash handling device may send the deposit transaction record to the banking server.
US09747756B2	Gaming machine and control method thereof As a normal game, symbols to be rearranged on a lower image display panel 141 are randomly determined, and the determined symbols are rearranged. When the combination of the rearranged symbols achieves bonus trigger, how many bonus symbol 167 is included in the symbols achieving the bonus trigger is included is determined. For the number of times corresponding the determined number of the bonus symbol 167, random determination is executed based on the bonus game number random determination table 192. The total sum of the numbers of times of execution of the free game having been awarded is awarded as the number of times of execution of the free game.
US09747753B2	Team gaming system and method therefor A system and method for allowing multiple players to place independent wagers on a single game is disclosed. The game may be a skill-based game played on a skill-based slot machine type of gaming machine. The outcome of the game is based only upon the skill of the main player that is playing the skill-based game. Each wager is placed on at least one in-game event that may be achieved by the main player while playing the skill-based game. A main player is physically located at a system operator, such as a casino. Additional players may join the main player and place wagers on the skill-based games that the main player is playing. The wagers that the additional players place are treated and paid out independently from the wagers placed by the main player. Furthermore, the players and the main player may communicate with each other throughout the betting process. The gaming machine may have an input module, an output module, a communication module, and a processor that all allow multiple players to place independent wagers on a single skill-based game.
US09747748B2	Web based methods and apparatus for pari-mutuel historical gaming A system for pari-mutuel wagering on actual past events includes, in one embodiment, game terminals and a game server, all couplable to a network. The game terminals are configured to receive respective initial pari-mutuel wagers on a historic gaming event from respective players. The game terminals are further configured to receive respective winner selections for the historic gaming event for respective players. The game server is configured to randomly select the historical gaming event from a database and determine respective payouts for the game terminals based on results of the historical gaming event and the respective winner selections. The game server is further configured to admit at least one of the respective players to a bonus game, provide a bonus pool for the bonus game, and determine bonus payouts from the bonus pool to the at least one of the respective players based on bonus game results.
US09747746B2	Gaming system and a method of gaming A gaming system that is arranged to facilitate selection of one or more win lines by a player is described. The gaming system comprises a weight allocator for allocating a weight to a wager, the allocated weight being dependent on a number of win lines selected by the player. The gaming system further comprises a prize allocator, and a trigger determiner arranged to determine a trigger condition, the trigger condition being dependent at least in part on the allocated weight. The gaming system is arranged to allocate a prize to a player in response to determination of the trigger condition.
US09747742B2	Product dispensing device A product dispensing device includes: one product discharging device; and the other product discharging device. The one product discharging device includes: a DC motor serving as a drive source; and a driving force applying unit configured to apply a driving force from the DC motor when a discharge command is issued. The driving force applying unit includes: an output gear configured to rotate about a central axis of the output gear according to a driving state of the DC motor; an arm member configured to rotate in accordance with a rotation direction of the output gear when the output gear is rotated; and a link lever member configured such that the one product discharging device and the other product discharging device are alternatively driven in accordance with a rotation of the arm member.
US09747737B2	Systems and methods for locking device management including time delay policies using random time delays A locking device employs improved lock management techniques based on time delay polices that use a random period of time. The locking device receives a first credential of a custodian, validates the first credential and determines a random period of time based upon a time-delay policy when the first credential is validated. The locking device executes a lock release protocol upon expiration of the random period of time.
US09747733B2	Digital recording and replay system for an aircraft and method for reproduction of onboard instrumentation of an aircraft Digital recording and replay system for an aircraft, comprising a Mission Computer with an Operational Flight Program for generating instrument data for onboard instruments of the aircraft; a Mission Data Recorder connected to said Mission Computer for recording said instrument data; and a Mission Debriefing System; wherein the Mission Debriefing System is configured to reproduce the onboard instruments of the aircraft based on instrument data retrieved from the Mission Data Recorder. Method for reproduction of onboard instrumentation of an aircraft, comprising the steps of connecting a Mission Data Recorder to a Mission Computer of an aircraft having an Operational Flight Program for generating instrument data for onboard instruments; recording instrument data; providing a Mission Debrief System and causing it to reproduce the onboard instruments of the aircraft based on instrument data retrieved from the Mission Data Recorder.
US09747732B2	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.
US09747731B2	Method and apparatus in connection with forestry machine An apparatus comprising means for collecting data measured from operation and/or a state of a forestry machine and/or describing an environment thereof, which date may consist of one or more parameters, means for processing the collected data, and means for influencing, on the basis of the processed data, one or more parameters controlling the operation of the forestry machine or for conveying feedback or an instruction or a prompt to a driver to change his or her control.
US09747722B2	Methods for teaching and instructing in a virtual world including multiple views Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for generating visual instruction to a user of a system, such as for exercise instruction or rehabilitation purposes. Preferably, the system includes a user imaging system with the system generating an output adapted to couple to a display device. The systems and methods serve to guide a user body motion. In one preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving first user positional information from the user imaging system, and then generating a first mirror image of the user positional information. Additionally, the method includes generating a first instructional image having the same positional orientation as the first mirror image of the user positional information. Finally, the method and system generate a composite output display including the first mirror image of the user positional information and the first instructional image.
US09747721B2	Technique for filling holes in a three-dimensional model A mesh repair engine is configured to repair a hole in a three-dimensional (3D) model by (i) filling the hole with a rough mesh, (ii) refining the rough mesh, (iii) collapsing the refined mesh, (iv) refining the collapsed mesh, (v) flattening the refined, collapsed mesh, and then (vi) deforming the flattened mesh into a 3D surface that smoothly fills the hole in the 3D model. One advantage of the disclosed repair engine and associated hole repair technique is that the mesh repair engine is capable of generating polygons that fill regions of a 3D model that are not defined. Consequently, an end-user of the mesh repair tool is able to generate watertight 3D models from previously incomplete and non-watertight 3D models.
US09747720B2	Method and device for processing a geometry image of a 3D scene Method and device for processing a geometry image generated from a mesh associated with a 3D scene and comprising a plurality of charts that each represents a part of the 3D scene, the method comprising computing a reference direction from mesh coordinates associated with a current pixel and mesh coordinates associated with a first pixel, the first pixel corresponding to a pixel of the border of the first chart located along a determined direction having as origin the current pixel; comparing the reference direction with a set of candidate directions being each computed from the mesh coordinates associated with the at least one current pixel and indirection mesh coordinates associated with one pixel of the neighbourhood of the first pixel, the indirection mesh coordinates corresponding to mesh coordinates of a pixel of the border a second chart corresponding to the pixel of the neighbourhood of the first pixel; and selecting a pixel of the border of the second chart according to the comparison result.
US09747718B2	System, method, and computer program product for performing object-space shading A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing object-space shading. A primitive defined by vertices in three-dimensional (3D) space that is specific to an object defined by at least the primitive is received and a shading sample rate is computed for the primitive based on a screen-space derivative of coordinates of a pixel fragment transformed into the 3D space. A shader program is executed by a processing pipeline to compute shaded attributes for the primitive according to the computed shading sample rate.
US09747713B2	Performing editing actions on recent drawing marks This document describes techniques for performing editing actions on recent drawing marks using a recent mark tool. The recent mark tool is configured to separately access recent drawing marks drawn on a drawing interface, and to perform an editing action (e.g., erase or move) on the recent drawing marks without affecting previous drawing marks drawn on the drawing interface. In one or more implementations the recent mark tool is implemented as a recent mark eraser that is configured to erase a recent drawing mark made to the drawing interface without erasing previous drawing marks made to the drawing interface.
US09747711B2	Display of graphical representations of legends in virtualized data formats A computer-implemented method for displaying graphical representation of legends in a data visualization engine is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving input to configure a plurality of swatches of the legends of graphical charts, the input comprises at least one of a threshold number of swatches, an identification of graphical area for displaying the swatches, and a size or a data of the swatches for display in the graphical charts of the data visualization engine. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the legend swatches, based on the received input. The computer-implemented method further includes generating a plurality of graphical charts of the data visualization engine for displaying the swatches, based on the modification, wherein the display is generated randomly, based on at least one user preference for displaying the swatches.
US09747708B2	Method for generating writing data and an electronic device thereof An apparatus and a method for generating writing data by obtaining data generation information in an electronic device are provided. A method for inputting data in the electronic device includes displaying an attribute of the writing data by detecting a first input, checking a type of the writing data by detecting a second input, and determining output writing data, and displaying the output writing data according to the attribute of the writing data. The attribute of the writing data includes at least one of a position of the writing data to generate, a length, an angle, or a vertex of a line of the writing data.
US09747704B2	X-ray computed tomography apparatus and medical image processing apparatus An X-ray computed tomography apparatus according to embodiments includes image processing circuitry and decomposition circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to perform an image processing on each of a plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data of different energies, the plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data being generated from projection data. The decomposition circuitry is configured to decompose, for each of a plurality of basis materials specified in advance, the plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data after the image processing, to generate basis material image data of each of the plurality of basis materials.
US09747699B2	Plane detection and tracking for structure from motion Plane detection and tracking algorithms are described that may take point trajectories as input and provide as output a set of inter-image homographies. The inter-image homographies may, for example, be used to generate estimates for 3D camera motion, camera intrinsic parameters, and plane normals using a plane-based self-calibration algorithm. A plane detection and tracking algorithm may obtain a set of point trajectories for a set of images (e.g., a video sequence, or a set of still photographs). A 2D plane may be detected from the trajectories, and trajectories that follow the 2D plane through the images may be identified. The identified trajectories may be used to compute a set of inter-image homographies for the images as output.
US09747697B2	System and method for tracking Systems and methods are provided for generating calibration information for a media projector. The method includes tracking at least position of a tracking apparatus that can be positioned on a surface. The media projector shines a test spot on the surface, and the test spot corresponds to a known pixel coordinate of the media projector. The system includes a computing device in communication with at least two cameras, wherein each of the cameras are able to capture images of one or more light sources attached to an object. The computing device determines the object's position by comparing images of the light sources and generates an output comprising the real-world position of the object. This real-world position is mapped to the known pixel coordinate of the media projector.
US09747695B2	System and method of tracking an object The invention relates to detecting and tracking objects in a sequence of images. In particular, a method, software and system for tracking a non-rigid object in a plurality of images. Initially, a first set of parameters for a parameterized shape model are generated (410) based on a first image. Then a second set of parameters are generated (415) for the parameterized shape model by fitting the parameterized shape model to the object in a second image of the plurality of images. This fitting is according to (i) the one or more constraints defined independently of the object or (ii) the first set of parameters. Also, the first and second sets of parameters define a tracking of the non-rigid object between the first and second images.
US09747693B1	Object identification A system for identifying objects within an image. Disclosed are methods and systems for an image processing system to segment digital images. Generally stated, certain embodiments implement operations for consolidating shapes in a digital image, including: performing a shape identification analysis of pixels within the digital image to identify shapes within the digital image; analyzing each shape to identify attributes of each shape; comparing the identified attributes of each shape to the identified attributes of other shapes to determine if the shapes are sufficiently related to constitute an object; and if the identified attributes are sufficiently related, associating the shapes with each other to form an object.
US09747689B2	Image processing system, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and image processing method An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first aligning unit, an output unit, a second aligning unit, and a display unit. The first aligning unit aligns first three-dimensional medical image data with second three-dimensional medical image data. The output unit outputs, as output data, data obtained by adding alignment information to the first three-dimensional medical image data and to the second three-dimensional medical image data or synthetic data obtained by aligning and synthesizing the first three-dimensional medical image data with the second three-dimensional medical image data. The second aligning unit receives the output data and aligns the second three-dimensional medical image data with one or a plurality of pieces of X-ray image data. The display unit displays image data obtained by aligning the first three-dimensional medical image data with X-ray image data based on an alignment result.
US09747688B2	Surface and image integration for model evaluation and landmark determination Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a software program that displays both a volume as images and segmentation results as surface models in 3D. Multiple 2D slices are extracted from the 3D volume. The 2D slices may be interactively rotated by the user to best follow an oblique structure. The 2D slices can “cut” the surface models from the segmentation so that only half of the models are displayed. The border curves resulting from the cuts are displayed in the 2D slices. The user may click a point on the surface model to designate a landmark point. The corresponding location of the point is highlighted in the 2D slices. A 2D slice can be reoriented such that the line lies in the slice. The user can then further evaluate or refine the landmark points based on both surface and image information.
US09747687B2	System and method for detecting polyps from learned boundaries A system and method for automated polyp detection in optical colonoscopy images is provided. In one embodiment, the system and method for polyp detection is based on an observation that image appearance around polyp boundaries differs from that of other boundaries in colonoscopy images. To reduce vulnerability against misleading objects, the image processing method localizes polyps by detecting polyp boundaries, while filtering out irrelevant boundaries, with a generative-discriminative model. To filter out irrelevant boundaries, a boundary removal mechanism is provided that captures changes in image appearance across polyp boundaries. Thus, in this embodiment the boundary removal mechanism is minimally affected by texture visibility limitations. In addition, a vote accumulation scheme is applied that enables polyp localization from fragmented edge segmentation maps without identification of whole polyp boundaries.
US09747684B2	RF ablation planner In planning an ablation procedure, a planned target volume (PTV) is imported, which is typically selected by a doctor but may be computer identified. An initial set of candidate ablation regions that covers the PTV is computed. Ablation probe trajectories that avoid critical structures are computed to provide surgical 5 options for safe entry points and angles. An optimization component determines a minimum number of ablation regions, which fully covers the PTV, and generates locations and orientations for each ablation. A tracking system can be given these ablation targets, enabling the surgeon to control the probe more precisely to the desired location.
US09747681B2	Measuring apparatus, measurement method, information processing apparatus, and measurement program A measurement apparatus for measuring values for color adjustments in a print technique includes a measurement instrument including a measurement value detecting device at an arbitrary measurement point, a movement device, a reference coordinate calculation device, a measurement coordinate calculation device, and a computation device. The reference coordinate calculation device calculates a measurement point reference coordinate value. The measurement coordinate calculation device compares both origins to calculate a corrected value relative to the coordinate system of the reference-image, and corrects the position of the measurement origin based on the corrected value to correct the reference coordinate value and calculates a measurement coordinate value in the coordinate system of the measurement-image corresponding to the measurement point of the reference-image. The computation device calculates information for comparing and evaluating the measurement value acquired at the measurement point of the reference-image and the measurement value acquired at the measurement point of the measurement-image.
US09747679B2	Method for measuring the deflection of a fuel element can for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor A method for measuring the deflection of a fuel element can for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor involves taking an image of the fuel element can with a camera and evaluating the image using photogrammetry. By means of the method, it is possible to determine the deflection of a fuel element can by taking a single image, even in the absence of external structural features recognizable in the image, and without knowledge of the relative position between the camera and the fuel element can.
US09747677B2	Transmission of images for inventory monitoring An example disclosed method includes generating a composite image by merging unblocked portions of first and second images, each of the first and second images being representative of an environment; identifying a blocked portion of the first and second images; determining, by the processor, whether the blocked portion has been blocked for greater than a threshold amount of time; and in response to determining that the blocked portion has been blocked for greater than the threshold amount of time, including the blocked portion in the composite image.
US09747675B2	Image processing system Provided is an information processing system configured to: receive a plurality of images; select a standard image; search, in extracting partial images for complementing a too bright region/too dark region in the standard image from a reference images, using correction images obtained by subjecting each of the images to multivalued processing for each division of luminance components, for regions having matching shapes of respective regions included in the correction image of the standard image and the correction images of the other images; and complement image portions corresponding to the too bright region and/or too dark region in the correction image of the standard image using image portions, which are matching regions and correspond to appropriately bright regions, to thereby generate a synthetic image. Each image is dividable into at least three values: a too bright region, an appropriately bright region, and a too dark region, and has a relationship in which a boundary luminance between the too bright region and the appropriately bright region aligns with a boundary luminance between the appropriately bright region and the too dark region in a darker image having an adjacency relationship therewith.
US09747670B2	Method and system for improving wafer surface inspection sensitivity Improvement of wafer surface inspection sensitivity includes acquiring a first inspection image from the surface of the wafer, generating a reference image by applying a thresholding function to the first image in order to isolate a speckle signal component of the first image induced by wafer surface roughness, acquiring one or more measurement inspection images from the surface of the wafer, and generating a difference image by subtracting the generated one or more reference images from the acquired one or more measurement inspection images.
US09747667B1	Systems and methods for changing projection of visual content First visual information defining the visual content in a first projection may be accessed. Second visual information defining lower versions of the visual content in the first projection may be accessed. A transformation of the visual content from the first projection to a second projection may be determined. The transformation may include a visual compression of a portion of the visual content in the first projection. The portion may be identified. An amount of the visual compression of the portion may be determined. One or more lower resolution versions of the visual content may be selected. The visual content may be transformed using the one or more lower resolution versions of the visual content.
US09747663B2	Method and apparatus for providing mapping of geo locations on schematic maps An approach is provided for providing instantaneous and efficient mapping of geographic locations on to a schematic map. A map generation platform designates one or more reference locations for creating at least one schematic map associated with at least one schematic coordinate system. The map generation platform also creates at least one triangular mesh based, at least in part, on one or more geographic coordinates of the one or more reference locations, wherein the one or more geographic coordinates of the one or more reference locations represent one or more vertices of the triangular mesh. Further, the one or more geographic coordinates of one or more non-reference locations are mapped to the at least one triangular mesh, and then morphed for placing them on the at least one schematic map.
US09747658B2	Arbitration method for multi-request display pipeline Embodiments of an apparatus and method are disclosed that may allow for arbitrating multiple read requests to fetch pixel data from a memory. The apparatus may include a first and a second processing pipeline, and a control unit. Each of the processing pipelines may be configured to generate a plurality of read requests to fetch a respective one of a plurality of portions of stored pixel data. The control unit may be configured to determine a priority for each read request dependent upon display coordinates of one or more pixels corresponding to each of the plurality of portions of stored pixel data, and determine an order for the plurality of read requests dependent upon the determined priority for each read request.
US09747657B2	Reducing power for 3D workloads Various embodiments are presented herein that may reduce the workload of a system tasked with delivering frames of video data to a display generated by applications executing within the system. Applications executing within the system may generate new frames of video content at a specified frame rate known as frames per second (FPS). The CPU and/or GPU may be responsible for actually generating the frames at the specified FPS. These frames are then delivered to a display communicatively coupled with the system for rendering. Reducing the frame rate (FPS) may reduce the work being performed by the system because fewer frames may be generated within a given time period. This may be especially advantageous when the system is operating on battery power because it can extend the life of the battery.
US09747649B2	Identifying groups for a social networking system user based on interactions by the user with various groups A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determines scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. The social networking system may identify a set of groups based on interactions between the user and various groups occurring during a specific time interval and determine scores for groups in the set. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for times associated with interactions between the user and various groups. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may identify a time to present the selected one or more groups to the user based on prior user interactions with various groups.
US09747648B2	Systems and methods for publishing data on social media websites Methods and systems for publishing data on social media website(s). A system may include an identifier processing device for determining a device identifier (ID) of a computing device publishing a social media website. The device ID uniquely identifies the computing device in a network. The identifier processing device may also be configured to extract data from the determined device identifier of the computing device. The system may also include a tagging device for associating the extracted data with a user-generated data and a generated data. The system may further include a data publishing device for publishing the extracted data along with the user-generated data on the social media website on the computing device.
US09747647B2	Missed feed unit for content feeds A social networking system provides a content feed to a client device associated with the user of a social networking system, the content feed including a plurality of content items. The social networking system identifies one or more missed content items, of the plurality of content items, that were part of the content feed and were not displayed by the client device. The social networking system generates a subsequent content feed that includes one or more content items that have not been previously provided to the client device and a missed feed unit that is associated with the one or more missed content items. In one embodiment, the missed feed unit, when selected, redirects the user to a new page that presents a different content feed including the identified missed content items. The social networking system provides the subsequent content feed to the client device for presentation to the user.
US09747645B2	System and method for capturing sales tax deduction information from monetary card transactions Systems and methods are provided for managing sales tax information. The information may be generated, for example, in connection with transactions involving financial accounts, such as a credit card account. The sales tax information may be received electronically from, for example, a merchant or a point of sale device. A determination may be made whether there is any missing sales tax information. If there is missing information a request may be generated and sent to a source having the information. The source may receive the request, retrieve the desired information, and transmit it to the requesting entity. The sales tax information may be stored and later retrieved for presentation to a user, such as the account holder. The account holder may use the information in completing a tax return.
US09747643B1	System and method for operating an on-demand auction for a financial instrument A system and method for operating an on-demand auction for a Financial Instrument are provided in which a request is made for a Trading Center to conduct an on-demand auction for a Financial Instrument. If requirements are met, the Trading Center transitions from an Open Trading State (OTS) to a SNAP Auction State (SAS), excludes from the auction any order which explicitly requests exclusion, includes in the auction any remaining Resting Orders, includes in the auction certain new orders which arrive before the auction ends, activates and includes currently dormant orders, takes a snapshot of displayed buying/selling interest and attempts to include in the auction any available buying/selling interest in other Trading Centers which must be satisfied, computes the auction price, sends external Satisfaction Orders, attempts to match all responses to Satisfaction Orders and all internal orders included in the auction, and transitions back from the SAS to the OTS.
US09747639B1	Systems and methods for measuring data quality over time Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for evaluating data quality may include storing a plurality of records sharing a common attribute, and reading first values for the common attribute corresponding to a first time period and second values for the common attribute corresponding to a second time period. A business rule for evaluating the common attribute is accessed, and first and second consistency data are generated. The first consistency data may reflect consistency of the first values with the business rule at the first time. The second consistency data may reflect consistency of the second values with the business rule at the second time. The first consistency data and the second consistency data are processed to generate a quality change rate of the common attribute from the first time period to the second time period, based on the difference between the first consistency data and the second consistency data.
US09747634B2	Vendor website GUI for marketing greeting cards A method includes displaying, by a display screen, a front view of a card for sale. The front view includes a front plan view in which a front surface of the card appears to be parallel with a front surface of the screen. The card is portrayed on the screen as rotating oscillatorily while remaining less than 90 degrees from the front plan view.
US09747627B2	Transactions via a user device in the proximity of a seller Embodiments of methods and systems are provided that allow a user to upload inventories, view inventories in the proximity of the user, and/or facilitate transactions over a user device in a simple manner. In an embodiment, a method for transactions comprises loading, by a server at a remote location, an application on a user device of a user, wherein the application allows the user to upload an inventory comprising one or more items and/or services offered for sale by the user, as well as to view on the user device other inventory offered for sale by one or more other users as the user comes into proximity of the one or more other users, and wherein an inventory list maintained at the user device is constantly updated with the other inventory viewed by the user device. The method also comprises receiving, by the server at the remote location, transaction information associated with conducting a transaction in connection with the inventory list over the user device. The method further comprises facilitating, by the server at the remote location, the transaction between the user via the user device and the one or more other users.
US09747626B2	Vehicle customization and personalization activities A service request is received by a remote trouble analysis server from a vehicle control and interconnection system installed in a vehicle, indicating that the vehicle is in need of assistance. An analysis is performed by the trouble analysis server based upon the service request, a remote service center is selected, and a communication is initiated from the trouble analysis server to a computer of the selected remote service center to effect repair of the vehicle. The vehicle is relocated to a service bay for necessary repair, and a service complete communication is received from a service bay computer of the service bay that performed the repair. Then, a verification communication is initiated to the control and interconnection system of the vehicle, whereby the control and interconnection system polls at least one vehicle subsystem to confirm that the diagnosed problem is properly resolved.
US09747622B1	Point-and-shoot product lister Listing content is transmitted from a wireless mobile device to a server, where it is automatically posted in a listing database and made available on a network, such as the Internet, to third parties. The listing content may include both image data, captured by an integrated camera of the wireless mobile device, and text data, input by a user of the wireless mobile device. The wireless mobile device may provide an interface on its display to facilitate the capture of the listing content in discrete data components. After capture, the discrete data components for a single listing may be automatically associated together such that it is unnecessary for a user to manually associate them. The captured listing content may be automatically transmitted to the server in response to a single user selection received through the interface on the wireless mobile device.
US09747620B2	Systems and methods for determining the time to buy or sell a vehicle Systems and methods for assisting a vehicle owner in making decisions regarding when to replace a vehicle by determining a vehicle owner's satisfaction with the vehicle relative to the cost of owning the vehicle. In one embodiment, a system is configured to provide a model for owner satisfaction which is based on historical vehicle replacement information, but is tailored to a particular owner according to user input. An owner satisfaction curve is produced from this model and is compared to a cost-of-ownership curve that is tailored to the vehicle and possibly also the user. The owner satisfaction curve is compared to the cost-of-ownership curve to enable the user to determine where the cost of ownership exceeds the owner's satisfaction, and the vehicle should be replaced.
US09747616B2	Generating apparatus, generation method, information processing method and program A generating apparatus generates a set of gain vectors with respect to a transition model having observable visible states and unobservable hidden states and expressing a transition from a present visible state to a subsequent visible state according to an action, the set of gain vectors being generated for each visible state and used for calculation of a cumulative expected gain at and after a reference point in time, the apparatus including a setting section for setting, with respect to each hidden state, a probability distribution over the hidden states for selection used to select vectors to be included in the set of gain vectors from the gain vectors including a component for a cumulative gain, and a selection section for including, in the set of gain vectors, with priority, the gain vector giving the maximum of the cumulative expected gain with respect to the probability distribution for selection.
US09747614B2	System and method for a multiple merchant stored value card The loyalty system allows a consumer to accumulate general loyalty points from one or more merchants, and convert any desired subset of general points to loyalty dollars associated with a specific merchant. The system stores, for each consumer, the merchant loyalty dollars (or monetary equivalent) by merchant within a remotely-accessible host database or within a smart card database. Upon conducting a purchase at a particular merchant, the consumer may utilize a code key to facilitate access to the consumer's own loyalty dollars for the particular merchant. The loyalty dollars are then applied to the purchase transaction as a discount or rebate. The consumer may also re-load the merchant loyalty dollar accounts.
US09747612B2	Systems and methods for automated RFID based commerce rewards Systems and methods for social sharing and online publishing of advertisement messages concerning products or services. In one embodiment, an advertising message associated with a radio frequency identification based transmission may be published online by a user of a wireless ordering device. The users sharing of such messages may serve as an endorsement of the brand, product or service. A system, such as a commerce data organization system and/or vendor system, may then reward or credit the message sharer (e.g., consumer affiliate) based on variables the vendor or advertiser chooses, such as social influence, audience reach and performance based metrics. In some cases, the technology involves a method for consumers to engage with RFID based advertising to gain rewards. The rewards may be in the form of affiliate points that consumers may gain each time they share a message.
US09747611B2	System, method, and software for predicting the likelihood of selling automotive commodities Provided are computer-implemented techniques for determining a probability of selling an (F&I) automotive commodity associated with a vehicle of interest to a consumer. Individual consumer data about the consumer interested in acquiring a vehicle is retrieved using an electronic interview. Dealer management system (DMS) data is retrieved and includes transactional data relating to automotive commodities. Group consumer data is retrieved about other consumers who have previously purchased the vehicle of interest, vehicles similar to the vehicle of interest, or automotive commodities associated with the vehicle of interest. Consumer resource data is retrieved from an online consumer resource. Deal data indicative of transactional terms is retrieved. The techniques predicatively analyze the retrieved data and compute a probability of selling at least one of the automotive commodities to the consumer based on predictive analysis. The techniques generate a displayable visual indicator that relates to the computed probability.
US09747606B2	Systems and methods for targeted advertising on food and beverage preparation and dispensing machines Providing targeted advertising on food/beverage preparation or dispensing machines may include electronically presenting selected targeted media on or in proximity to a food/beverage preparation or dispensing machine. This may involve automatically activating consumable item preparation or dispensing mechanisms of the food/beverage preparation or dispensing machine, or activating an item selection menu, in conjunction with electronically presenting the selected media. The targeted advertising may be based on receiving user input such as information identifying a particular user or consumer or menu selections and then selecting the selected media based on the received user input. User interface elements may also be provided enabling a user to request additional information regarding selected targeted media be electronically sent to them or an order be placed for a related product. Compensation to a user or another entity may be activated each time the selected media is played.
US09747605B2	Measuring quality of user interaction with third party content An online services system provides monitoring of user interaction with third-party content. The monitoring is performed by a script in a web page provided by the online services system, which script provides a timer invoked when the browser leaves the online services system's page for a page comprising third party content. When the online services system serves the page, the browser reads the HTML to render the page, including the script with the timer. When the user leaves the online services system page, the timer begins, and when the browser returns to a page provided by the online services system, the timer ends and duration information from the timer is provided to the online services system. Applications include measurement of the quality of interaction between users and a third party advertisers, in which time spent viewing third party content is a proxy for the quality of the interaction.
US09747602B2	Method of registering advertisements on an electronic map There is provided a method of registering advertisements for display on an electronic map through the use of an advertisement registration server. The advertisement registration server receives an access request from a terminal via the network. The server then searches a map information database for predetermined map information and transmits searched map information to the terminal. The predetermined map information is associated with center coordinates and a scale value. Further, the predetermined map information is structured into a lattice having a plurality of lattice units. From the terminal, the server receives an advertisement contents registration request having advertisement information identifying one or more of the plurality of lattice units. The server registers in an advertisement database the advertisement information in association with the one or more lattice units identified in the registration request, and the center coordinates and the scale value of the predetermined map information.
US09747592B2	End-to-end content delivery network incorporating independently operated transparent caches and proxy caches Some embodiments provide an end-to-end federated CDN solution that assimilates a transparent caching server that is operated by a transparent caching server operator into a CDN that independently operates CDN caching servers. Specifically, the logs from the transparent caching server are assimilated into the CDN by aggregating the logs from the transparent caching server and processing the transparent caching server logs to identify network usage for content of a CDN content provider customer that is delivered by the transparent caching server. The network usage is then combined with the network usage that tracked by the CDN caching servers in order to provide comprehensive report metrics for the content provider customer and to bill the content provider customer for all network usage related to delivering the content provider customer's content irrespective of whether the content was delivered by a transparent caching server or a CDN caching server.
US09747589B2	Mobile one-time card number generator for ATM usage Embodiments are directed to a mobile bank card number generator for digital wallet. Embodiments receive a request from a user to perform an ATM transaction on an account owned by the user; in response to the request to perform an ATM transaction, generate a one-time bank card number associated with the account owned by the user; generate a readable indicia based at least in part on the one-time bank card number; and initiate communication of the readable indicia to an ATM, wherein the ATM receives a user authentication credential from the user, a bank system validates the user authentication credential and in response to validating the user authentication credential, approves the ATM transaction for the user's account.
US09747588B2	Automated teller machine (“ATM”) currency stamper Apparatus and methods for an automated teller machine (“ATM”) currency stamper are provided. The currency stamper may be configured to mark currency retracted by the ATM. The mark may include one or more attributes of the currency. The mark may include transaction information associated with a dispensing and/or retraction of the currency. Marked currency may be stored in the ATM. Marked currency may be scanned. A scanning of marked currency may read the attributes of the currency and the transaction information included in the mark. The scanning of the marked currency may erase the mark. A value of the marked currency may be calculated. The value may be determined based on the currency attributes and transaction information included in the mark applied to the currency.
US09747587B2	Consumer due diligence for money transfer systems and methods A method of transferring money from a sender to a recipient using a third party money transfer service a point of sale device receiving transaction details for a requested money transfer; determining whether the requested transaction is an allowable transaction; and either aborting the transaction; attempting to identify the sender as an existing customer using the transaction details; using the sender's transaction history and the transaction details to determine whether to allow the requested transaction to proceed. If the requested transaction is allowed to proceed, the method includes creating a money transfer record for the requested transaction; associating a money transfer control number to the money transfer record; and using the transaction details to determine whether to monitor the requested transaction.
US09747581B2	Context-dependent transactional management for separation of duties Context-dependent transactional management of services within a cloud environment for an organization using business rules includes generating a partitioned graph representing the organization and the business rule, where the business rules include one or more separation of duties requirements. Upon receiving an access request from an end user of the cloud service, a determination is made if the access request to the cloud service violates any of the one or more separation of duties requirements. Based on determining that the access request to the cloud service does not violate any of the one or more separation of duties requirements, transaction with the cloud service is granted to the end user. Based on determining that the access request to the cloud service violates one of the one or more separation of duties requirements, access to the cloud service is denied to the end user.
US09747580B2	Method and apparatus for multiple agent commitment tracking and notification A system for tracking client contacts for a host organization utilizes a multimedia database and a user interface at a connected computer device. The database stores client communications as full content, and relates contacts by issue, and the user interface displays client contact communications as objects, such as icons, in issue related chronological strings. In a preferred embodiment the interface also provides an input facility for a host agent to select appropriate responses to client communications, to make commitments for response, to assign responsibility for commitments, and to notify personnel affected by entered commitments in various ways, such as reminders. Other notifications include fulfilled and unfulfilled commitments.
US09747579B2	Enhanced user assistance Methods, devices, and systems that provide enhanced user assistance. A method includes receiving a query related to an electronic device through a first interface associated with the electronic device, and providing an assistance corresponding to the query through a second interface associated with the electronic device. A system includes an electronic device including a first interface and a second interface. The system further includes instructions which when implemented in the electronic device cause the electronic device to receive a query related to the electronic device through a first interface associated with the electronic device, and provide an assistance corresponding to the query through a second interface associated with the electronic device.
US09747571B2	Integrated asset management Methods and systems for integrated asset management are disclosed. According to one embodiment, information from a first reporting source about an asset is received. In addition, information is received about the asset from a second reporting source. Inspection information about the asset is received from a first enabled device. A database is then populated with the information from the first reporting source, the information from the second reporting source, and the inspection information from the first enabled device, such that the information from the first reporting source, the information from the second reporting source, and the inspection information from the first enabled device can be collected or accessed in an integrated manner from the database for use by a client information system.
US09747564B1	Aircraft maintenance and inspection with data analytics enhancement A system and method for analyzing aircraft operation and maintenance history in light of maintenance reports, aircraft type system failure history, health management reports, and aircraft exterior structural conditions to produce a real time recommendation regarding aircraft maintenance and dispatch. A visual inspection report is generated by capturing a real time image of an exterior of the aircraft, inverting the real time image, superimposing the real time image on a previous image of the aircraft exterior, and detecting any variation on the combination of superimposed inverted image on the previous image of the aircraft exterior. Aircraft type historical systems failure reports are analyzed to identify any predictive latent system failure of the aircraft based on the aircraft type historical systems failure report and aircraft operation history and maintenance history.
US09747563B2	Apparatus and method for matching large-scale biomedical ontologies An ontology matching apparatus for large-scale biomedical ontologies according to the present invention is provided, and the ontology matching apparatus includes a preprocessing unit configured to classify received candidate ontologies into one or more ontology subsets to generate ontology subsets, a distribution processing unit configured to divide the generated ontology subsets by virtue of a distribution algorithm, apply a matching algorithm to the divided ontology subsets to generate matching threads, and deliver the generated matching threads to individual cores of participating nodes, and an aggregating unit configured to collect and sum matching results generated by the individual cores performing matching operations based on the matching threads to generate an ontology mapping.
US09747560B2	Method and system for combination of independent demand data streams A system and method of combining independent demand forecast streams. Demand data is extracted from each of the demand forecast streams. The extracted data is combined based on one or more criteria to yield a single resultant demand data set. The resultant demand data set is released for supply network planning rather than any original forecast data stream.
US09747557B2	Ticketing systems and methods incorporating interactive seating charts Ticketing systems and methods, as well as related computer product programs, provide efficient and user-friendly seat selection by incorporating realistic seating charts. An advantageous ticketing system may include data related to a physical layout of a venue. The ticketing system may generate a three-dimensional model of the venue, from which one or more seating charts may in turn be generated. A user may search the ticketing system for seats based on customized user search parameters, which may include searching across multiple performances. In response to the user search, the ticketing system may provide an interactive three-dimensional seating chart depicting a relatively accurate seat layout based on the venue data. The user may manipulate the seating chart to view the venue from various perspectives, and the user may select seats from the seating chart. Other embodiments of the ticketing system are also disclosed herein.
US09747549B2	Guiding metaheuristic to search for best of worst Figures of merit by actual design parameters are tracked over iterations for candidate solutions that include both actual design parameters and actual context parameters. Instead of returning a current iteration figure of merit, a worst observed figure of merit for a set of actual design parameters is returned as the figure of merit for a candidate solution. Since the candidate solution includes both actual design parameters and actual context parameters and the worst observed figures of merit are tracked by actual design parameters, the figure of merit for a set of design parameters will be the worst of the observed worst case scenarios as defined by the actual context parameters over a run of a metaheuristic optimizer.
US09747547B2	Hardware enhancements to radial basis function with restricted coulomb energy learning and/or k-Nearest Neighbor based neural network classifiers A nonlinear neuron classifier comprising a neuron array including a plurality of neuron chips each including a plurality of neurons of variable length and variable depth, the chips processing input vectors of variable length and variable depth that are input into the classifier for comparison against vectors stored in the classifier, wherein an NSP flag is set for a plurality of the neurons to indicate that only that plurality of neurons is to participate in the vector calculations. A virtual content addressable memory flag is set for certain of the neuron chips to enable functions including fast readout of data from the chips. Results of vector calculations are aggregated for fast readout for a host computer interfacing with the classifier.
US09747545B2	Self-timed, event-driven neurosynaptic core controller Embodiments of the invention relate to a system for controlling program execution. The system comprises an event-based core controller including a set of state-preserving elements. The core controller starts and stops the program execution based on one or more control signals. For each instruction of the program, the core controller triggers a target component to execute the instruction by generating and sending an instruction and/or a trigger pulse to the target component.
US09747544B2	Method and system for wastewater treatment based on dissolved oxygen control by fuzzy neural network A method and system for wastewater treatment based on dissolved oxygen control by a fuzzy neural network, the method for wastewater treatment comprising the following steps: (1) measuring art inlet water flow rate, an ORP value in an anaerobic tank, a DO value in an aerobic tank, an inlet water COD value, and an actual outlet water COD value; (2) collecting the measured sample data and sending them via a computer to a COD fuzzy neural network predictive model, so as to establish an outlet water COD predicted value, (3) comparing the outlet COD predicted value with the outlet water COD set value, so as to obtain an error and an error change rate, and using them as two input variables to adjust a suitable dissolved oxygen concentration. Accordingly, the on-line prediction and real-time control of dissolved oxygen wastewater treatment are achieved. The accurate control of dissolved oxygen concentration by the present method for wastewater treatment can achieve a saving in energy consumption while ensuring stable running of the sewage treatment system, and the outlet water quality meets the national emission standards.
US09747542B2	Systems and methods for breakaway RFID tags A breakaway RFID tag is configured such that it comprises part of a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCB). Thus, the breakaway RFID tag can be used to track the PCB as it migrates through a manufacturing process. In one embodiment, the RFID tag can be assembled first and then used to track the PCB as it is populated with components and installed into larger assemblies and ultimately into the end device. Once the PCB is installed into a larger assembly or the end device, the breakaway RFID tag is configured such that it can be broken off and attached to the outside of the larger assembly or end device.
US09747540B2	Magnet mounting pad with RFID tag An RFID tag reading system affixed to a machine bearing housing is provided. The reading system includes a mobile data collector having an RFID reader for reading a unique identity of the RFID tag, an magnet electro-mechanically connected to the mobile data collector and a magnet mounting pad fixed to the machine housing. The magnet mounting pad having a ferromagnetic contact body for housing the magnet mounting pad and an RFID antenna disposed within the RFID tag for transmitting a unique identity of the RFID tag. The RFID tag is disposed within the ferromagnetic contact body. The magnet is magnetically connected to the magnet mounting pad. The mobile data collector automatically reads the unique RFID tag identity transmitted from the antenna of the RFID tag when the combination mobile data collector and magnet are placed onto the RFID mounting pad.
US09747538B2	Low power radio frequency communication A method, system and tag for low power radio frequency communication is described. In one embodiment, the RF tag comprises: an energy harvesting unit operable to convert incident RF energy to direct current (DC); a storage unit operable to store recovered DC power; a passive wakeup pattern detector operable to generate an interrupt in response to detecting a set of one or more subcarriers; one or more sensors for sensing; a communication mechanism; and a microcontroller coupled to the energy harvesting and storage units, the one or more sensors, and the backscatter communicator, the microcontroller operable to wake up from a sleep state in response to the interrupt and cause the communication mechanism to exchange data wirelessly with another while powered by energy previously harvested and stored by the energy harvesting and storage unit.
US09747537B2	Power controlling device, image processing apparatus, computer readable medium, and power controlling method A power controlling device includes a detecting unit that detects a person in a detection area, a first imaging unit that takes an image of the person in a detecting range in an operating state, a second imaging unit that takes an image of a face of the person for use in user authentication in an operating state, and a power controller that supplies power to and brings the first imaging unit into the operating state if the person is detected, supplies power to and brings a processing unit that performs a process into an operating state if the approach of the person is determined on the basis of the taken image of the person, and supplies power to an brings the second imaging unit into the operating state during a period from the detection of the person to the shift of the processing unit to the operating state.
US09747534B2	Printing system with visual recognition unit Provided is a printing device including a print data receiving unit, a page calculation unit that calculates a number of pages before stopping with using a page length of received print data and a distance from a printing mechanism unit to a visual recognition unit, a print instruction unit that changes the number of pages before stopping or a number of printed pages and performs print processing when the received print data corresponds to a control page for controlling printing, and a print stop unit that stops printing when the number of printed pages coincides with the number of pages before stopping.
US09747533B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Replacement processing is executed when the number of times of permission for a pixel corresponding to an ejection defective nozzle in a mask pattern is larger than a smallest number of times of permission, of the numbers of times of permission for pixels corresponding to ejection normal nozzles.
US09747532B1	Multi-level protector coat bitmap generation for printing systems An application of clear protectant to a printable medium is described that allows for different amounts of protectant to be applied to the medium based on the amounts of colorant that is applied to the medium. Colorant bitmaps are analyzed to calculate an amount of colorant coverage for a medium. Printable features in the colorant bitmaps are replicated into different intermediate protectant bitmaps based on the colorant coverage for the printable features, where the intermediate protectant bitmaps specify different amounts of protectant to apply. Features in the intermediate bitmaps are expanded and replicated into a final protectant bitmap. A determination is made for the amount of protectant to apply to the medium that is based on the different amounts specified by the intermediate bitmaps.
US09747529B2	Sequence program creation device A sequence program creation device includes a search-key-circuit specification unit specifying a search key circuit; a search-area specification unit specifying a search area for searching for a circuit similar to the search key circuit; a search-index specification unit specifying an index in a process of calculating a similarity to the search key circuit; a similarity calculation unit calculating a similarity to the search key circuit, based on the index, for each circuit included in the search area; a search-target-part determination unit determining whether the similarity is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold for each circuit for which the similarity calculation unit has calculated the similarity; and a search-result display-screen display unit displaying on a search-result display screen a circuit whose similarity is determined to be equal to or more than the predetermined threshold by the search-target-part determination unit.
US09747528B1	Capturing contextual information on a device An approach is disclosed that captures, at a digital camera of a first information handling system, a digital image of a display of a second information handling system. The approach analyzes the captured digital image with the analysis resulting in an identification of a network location that corresponds to the captured digital image. Data from the identified network location is retrieved via a network connection from the first information handling system and this data is displayed on a display that is accessible by the first information handling system.
US09747525B2	Method and system for improved hemodynamic computation in coronary arteries Systems and methods for non-invasive assessment of an arterial stenosis, comprising include segmenting a plurality of mesh candidates for an anatomical model of an artery including a stenosis region of a patient from medical imaging data. A hemodynamic index for the stenosis region is computed in each of the plurality of mesh candidates. It is determined whether a variation among values of the hemodynamic index for the stenosis region in each of the plurality of mesh candidates is significant with respect to a threshold associated with a clinical decision regarding the stenosis region.
US09747522B2	Image processing circuit and method thereof An image processing method is provided. The method is for calculating a first weighted sum of absolute difference (WSAD) of a first search window and a corresponding first target window, and a second WSAD of a second search window and a corresponding second target window. The first and second search windows have a common matching window, and the first and second target windows have a common target block. The method includes: a) calculating a plurality of absolute differences of the common matching window and the common target block; b) determining a first weight coefficient group and a second weight coefficient group; and c) summing up products of multiplying the absolute differences by the first weight coefficient group to generate the first WSAD, and summing up products of multiplying the absolute differences by the second weight coefficient group to generate the second WSAD.
US09747519B2	Classifying ambiguous image data Examples are disclosed herein that relate to classifying ambiguous data in an image. One example provides, on a computing device, a method of processing image data, the method comprising defining a contiguous area of ambiguous data in an image, determining a border surrounding the contiguous area, classifying the contiguous area as dark or far based on a characteristic of one or more pixels of the border, and for the classified contiguous area, processing one or more pixels of the contiguous area differently if the contiguous area is classified as far than if the contiguous area is classified as dark.
US09747517B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium storing image processing program Provided are an image processing apparatus, as well as an image processing method and recording medium storing image processing program, in which it is possible to ascertain the number of times a particular kind of processing has been implemented with regard to an image. To achieve this, an image is analyzed and tag information possessed by the image is acquired. Processing content corresponding to the acquired image tag information is read from an image processing table. Processing defined by the read processing content is implemented with regard to the image and the number of implementations of this processing is increased. The processed image is displayed.
US09747513B2	Path compression of a network graph In an approach to analyzing a path on a graph, a computer receives a graph comprising a plurality of vertices and edges, each edge linking two vertices. The computer, for each one of said plurality of vertices, analyzes edges linked to said one of plurality of vertices to determine a number of outbound links from said one of plurality of vertices, orders said edges, and assigns a value to each ordered edge. The computer, for the graph, receives a path comprising a plurality of edges linking two of said plurality of vertices through at least one other of said plurality of vertices, encodes said path, the encoding using said number of outbound links and said assigned values of each of said one or more edges linking said two of said plurality of vertices, compresses the encoded path, and analyzes said path on said graph using said compressed, encoded path.
US09747505B2	Lane level traffic Lane level traffic levels are determined based on traffic camera images. A controller aligns a three-dimensional map with a traffic camera view, and identifies multiple lanes in the traffic camera view based on lane delineations of the three-dimensional map. The controller calculates a traffic parameter based on the multiple lanes in image frames from the traffic camera view and provides a traffic graphic based on the traffic parameter.
US09747501B2	Fire detection method and apparatus A fire detection method and apparatus accurately detects a fire. The fire detection method includes obtaining RGB data from an image; calculating at least one index related to the attributes of fire using the obtained RGB data; and determining the occurrence of a fire using the index.
US09747500B2	Wearable retina/iris scan authentication system A wearable retina/iris authentication system includes: a frame; a retina/iris scanner mounted to the frame for capturing images of a retina and/or an iris of a user; a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device including a memory for storing information about the user; a position determining device coupled to the mobile computing device for continuously determining a location of the user and providing the location to the mobile computing device; a display mounted to the frame and coupled to the mobile computing device for displaying information received from the mobile computing device; a database for storing information about one or more of a plurality of retina images and a plurality of iris images for matching with the captured images of one or more of the retina and the iris of the user; and a communication interface for comminuting with external systems remote to the wearable system.
US09747496B2	Image processing device, method for processing image An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: obtaining a first image and a second image; determining a first direction of a certain first reference point of a first region of a user included in the first image and a second direction of a certain second reference point of a second region of the user included in the second image; extracting a first feature quantity from the first region and a second feature quantity from the second region; generating a third feature quantity from the first feature quantity or a fourth feature quantity from the second feature quantity on the basis of the first direction or the second direction; and authenticating the user on the basis of similarity between the first feature quantity or the third feature quantity.
US09747491B2	Dynamic handwriting verification and handwriting-based user authentication Handwriting verification methods and related computer systems, and handwriting-based user authentication methods and related computer systems are disclosed. A handwriting verification method comprises obtaining a handwriting test sample containing a plurality of available parameters, extracting geometric parameters, deriving geometric features comprising an x-position value and a y-position value for each of a plurality of feature points in the test sample, performing feature matching between geometric features of the test sample and a reference sample, determining a handwriting verification result based at least in part on the feature matching, and outputting the handwriting verification result. The geometric features may further comprise values derived from the geometric parameters, such as direction and curvature values. The handwriting verification result can be further based on a count of unlinked feature points. Handwriting-based user authentication methods can employ such handwriting verification methods, or other handwriting verification methods.
US09747486B2	Decoding visual codes Various algorithms are presented that enable an image of a data matrix to be analyzed and decoded for use in obtaining information about an object or item associated with the data matrix. The algorithms can account for variations in position and/or alignment of the data matrix. In one approach, the image is analyzed to determine a connected region of pixels. The connected region of pixels can be analyzed to determine a pair of pixels, included in the connected region of pixels, that is separated a greatest distance wherein a first pixel and second pixel of the pair of pixels is associated with image coordinates. Using the image coordinates of the pair of pixels, a potential area of the image that includes the visual code can be determined and the potential area can be analyzed to verify the presence of a potential data matrix.
US09747484B1	Module or arrangement for, and method of, reading a target by image capture with an imaging reader having offset imaging and aiming systems An imaging sensor of an imaging reader senses return light from a target to be read by image capture along an imaging axis over a field of view that extends along mutually orthogonal, horizontal and vertical axes. Two aiming light assemblies are offset from the sensor and are spaced apart along the horizontal axis at opposite sides of the sensor, and direct two aiming light lines, each having a predetermined brightness, at the target. The aiming lines are collinear along the horizontal axis and have inner linear end regions that overlap on the target to form a bright, linear, aiming mark having a brightness greater than the predetermined brightness to visually indicate a center zone of the field of view, as well as outer linear end regions that visually indicate approximate end limits of the field of view, over a range of working distances.
US09747480B2	RFID and robots for multichannel shopping The present invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for consumers using RFID-tagged items for multichannel shopping using smartphones, tablets, and indoor navigation, preservation of consumer's privacy related to RFID-tagged items that they leave a retail store with, and automatically reading and locating retail inventory without directly using store labor. Robots and aerial mobile automated RFID reading devices are disclosed.
US09747479B2	Smart passive RFID reader with adaptive beamforming capability A smart passive RFID reader includes an RFID reader, a microcontroller providing a means for increasing the probability of detecting correct passive RFID tags and decreasing the probability of detecting incorrect passive RFID tags, and antennas connected to the RFID reader, wherein adjacent antennas have orthogonal polarization and the antennas each have a pivoting axis, whereby rotating the antennas about their pivoting axes causes a change in the overlap of the antenna beam radiation patterns and thereby provides a means for adaptive beamforming in order to improve tag reading.
US09747473B2	Marking comprising two patterns on a surface Marking comprising on a surface: a first pattern for coding a first numerical information item on said surface, the first pattern comprising a specific arrangement of a plurality of symbols belonging to a set of symbols, each symbol in the arrangement being intended for the coding of a portion of said numerical information item, each symbol including at least one differential pair of elements positioned in a specific way, each element having a parameter, the parameter of the first element of each differential pair having a first value and the parameter of the second element of each differential pair having a second value different from the first value, a second pattern for coding a second numerical information item on said surface, wherein the first and second pattern are adapted to be read under corresponding distinct first and second reading conditions.
US09747470B2	Secure data processing method and use in biometry The invention relates to a processing method, including the calculation of one function between a datum to be compared and a reference datum. The function can be written in the form of a sum of: a term that depends on the datum to be compared, a term that depends on the reference datum, and a polynomial, such that all the monomials of the polynomial include at least one coordinate of each datum. The method includes an initialization step including: generating masking data; scrambling reference data by means of a server unit on the basis of said masking data; and calculating, by means of a client unit, the term of the function that depends on the datum to be compared. The method also includes steps for executing the calculation of the function between the datum to be compared and the reference datum, indexed by an index c, during which: the client unit sends the coordinates of the datum to be compared to a secure component, which returns said datum, in a masked form, to said component; the client unit retrieves, from the server unit, the reference datum, indexed by the index c and scrambled by the masking data; and on the basis of the data obtained from the secure component and the server unit, the client unit calculates the sum of the term of the function that depends solely on the reference datum and the polynomial term and adds, to said sum, the term that depends on the datum to be compared, such as to obtain the result of the function.
US09747468B1	System and method for communication among mobile applications Systems and methods for communication among mobile applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for a first mobile application and a second mobile application on a mobile device to share information includes (1) a first mobile application executed by a computer processor on a mobile device determining that a second mobile application is present on the mobile device; (2) receiving, from a user, permission for the first mobile application to access data from the second application; (3) the first application executed by the computer processor requesting data from the second application; and (4) the first application receiving the requested data from the second application.
US09747463B2	Securing access to business information To provide a secure access to business information, restriction rules are generated and associated with metadata of the business information. The restriction rules are propagated to a device application functioning on a device. The device application monitors a geo-fencing location of the device based upon the received restriction rules. Based upon a request to access the business information triggered at the device, the restriction rules associated with a current geo-fencing location of the device and the restriction rules associated with the requested business information is determined. Based upon the restriction rules associated with the requested business information and network connectivity, the requested business information is downloaded to the device. Based upon the restriction rules associated with the current geo-fencing location of the device, an access to the downloaded business information is rendered.
US09747460B1	Systems and methods for data sharing and transaction processing for high security documents Systems and methods for data sharing and transaction processing for high security documents are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) at least one computer processor verifying that a sender of a document is authorized to send the document; (2) the at least one computer processor verifying that a receiver of the document is authorized to receive the document; (3) the at least one computer processor identifying at least one restriction to associate with the document; and (4) the at least one computer processor associating the at least one restriction with the document.
US09747458B2	Methods and apparatus for efficient computation of one-way chains in cryptographic applications Techniques are disclosed for efficient computation of consecutive values of one-way chains and other one-way graphs in cryptographic applications. The one-way chain or graph may be a chain of length shaving positions i=1, 2, . . . s each having a corresponding value vi associated therewith, wherein the value vi is given by vi=h (vi+1), for a given hash function or other one-way function h. An initial distribution of helper values may be stored for the one-way chain of length s, e.g., at positions given by i=2j for 0≦j≦log2 s. A given one of the output values vi at a current position in the one-way chain may be computed utilizing a first helper value previously stored for another position in the one-way chain between the current position and an endpoint of the chain. After computation of the given output value, the positions of the helper values are adjusted so as to facilitate computation of subsequent output values. Advantageously, a storage-computation product associated with generation of the output values of the one-way chain has a complexity O((log s)2).
US09747457B2	Efficient storage of encrypted data in a dispersed storage network A method for storing a data object includes identifying data segments of the data object. The method continues with generating key indexes for the data segments. For a data segment, the method continues with accessing data segment key information based on a corresponding key index of the plurality of key indexes to determine whether an encryption key has been generated for a similar data segment. When the encryption key has been generated for the similar data segment, the method continues with using the encryption key to encrypt the data segment to produce an encrypted data segment. The method continues with compressing the encrypted data segment to produce a compressed and encrypted data segment. The method continues with storing the compressed and encrypted data segment in a storage unit of a dispersed storage network (DSN).
US09747455B1	Data protection using active data Data of an organization or other entity may be protected using active data objects. The data may be storage in a storage system maintained by the organization or a separate organization. The data storage system may receive request for data, if the request violates one or more constraint conditions, the storage system may provide in response to the received request active data. The active data may include executable code that, when executed by a computer system, causes depletion of one or more resources used by a computer system executing the code.
US09747453B2	Testing integrated independent levels of security components hosted on a virtualization platform A virtualization platform that provides a systematic, transparent and local testing of components hosted by the virtualization platform in their integrated context. The virtualization platform comprises integrated interceptor modules connected to the components via communication channels, each interceptor module being interposed in the communication channel connecting two components, and an integrated analyzing device connected to the interceptor modules and comprising a control device and a testing device. The control device is configured to put each interceptor module in an operational mode selected out of a set of predetermined operational modes including a testing mode. The testing device is configured to locally test the components connected to the interceptor modules being put in the testing mode.
US09747452B2	Method of generating in-kernel hook point candidates to detect rootkits and the system thereof A method for determining whether a to-be-tested program contains malicious behavior is disclosed. The method includes steps of providing an emulator having a kernel and a plurality of installed hook points, wherein the kernel has a plurality of in-kernel functions; executing the to-be-tested program in the emulator dynamically to invoke the plurality of installed hook points to obtain a specific in-kernel function set from the plurality of in-kernel functions; and determining whether the to-be-tested program contains instructions for malicious behavior based on an invocation sequence of the specific in-kernel function set.
US09747450B2	Attestation using a combined measurement and its constituent measurements An attestation system for asserting and verifying assertions of a known-good state of a computer system is provided. The attestation system allows a challenger and a prover to conduct an attestation so that the challenger can verify an assertion of the prover. To conduct the attestation, the prover sends, as an assertion of its state, a combined measurement of resources along with a constituent measurement of each resource to the challenger. The challenger verifies the assertion by verifying that the asserted constituent measurements represent known-good measurements and verifying that the asserted combined measurement can be generated from the asserted constituent measurements. To verify the asserted constituent measurements, the challenger determines whether each asserted constituent measurement for a resource is a known-good measurement for that resource. To verify the asserted combined measurement, the challenger generates a combined measurement from the asserted constituent measurements received from the prover.
US09747447B2	Suspicious program detection A processing device (10) includes a processor (12), an interface (14) and a memory (100). The memory (100) is formed from system Random Access Memory (RAM) and one or more other storage devices. The memory (100) can be considered as comprising working memory (110) and persistent storage (120). The working memory includes the system RAM but may also use memory from one or more other storage devices and when certain suspicious program detection modules are operating also stores a comparison table (112) discussed below. Contained within the persistent storage are several executable program files as follows: an Absolute Memory Address Calculator executable program (121) which is responsible for causing the system (10) to inspect a copy of a persistently stored (and compiled) executable program (e.g. an executable program (125, 126, 127, . . . as stored in the persistent storage 120) and to calculate expected absolute memory locations for the various functions or helper programs that it makes calls to and to store these in a table (112) that it creates in the working memory (110) for this purpose; a Loaded Program Accessor executable program (122) which is responsible for causing the system (10) to inspect a copy of an executable program as loaded in the working memory (110) of the system after loading and linking of the program have been completed, to determine the actual memory locations stored in the Import Address Table (IAT) of the loaded program, and to store these actual memory locations in the comparison table (112); a Memory Location Comparator executable program (123) which is responsible for causing the system (10) during execution of this program to compare the calculated expected absolute memory locations with their respective actual accessed memory locations as stored in the comparison table of memory locations (112); and a Corroborator executable program (124) which is responsible for causing the system (10) during execution of this program to perform a corroboration of any mismatches of memory locations detected in the memory location pairs stored in the table (112) of memory locations, by, in the present embodiment, inspecting the contents of any executable instructions contained at the actually accessed memory location to look for the presence of an instruction causing a new thread of execution to be instantiated.
US09747441B2	Preventing phishing attacks A method, system and program product for preventing phishing attacks, wherein the method comprises: acquiring links in a Web page; classifying the acquired links according link types; and determining whether a phishing attack exists according to the classified links, wherein the links are classified into two types: internal links belonging to the same domain as the address of the Web page, and external links belonging to a different domain from the address of the Web page. By carrying out the method or system according to the above one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, since it is first detected whether a Web page is a fake website of a phishing attack before displaying the reproduced Web page to the user and the user is warned upon detecting a fake website, unnecessary losses due to phishing attacks can be prevented.
US09747439B2	Dynamic network tuner for the automated correlation of networking device functionality and network-related performance A dynamic network tuner establishes fluid, continuous, and automatic correlation between the extent and/or degree of a networking device's functionality, on the one hand, and the network-related performance (i.e., network data traffic and/or network application performance), on the other. The dynamic network tuner can be embodied as a discrete device ready for installation into a host network. Preferably, such (and like) tuner embodiments are integrated into a network to automatically correlate, according to user-predefined parameters, the network's performance with the operation within the network of specifically-targeted, performance-altering networking devices, such as network security devices, or more preferably and particularly, intrusion prevention devices.
US09747436B2	Method, system, and device of differentiating among users based on responses to interferences Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. An end-user device interacts and communicates with a server of a computerized service, or with a local application or Web-browser running on the end-user device. A usage interference is injected or introduced, or an input/output mismatch or abnormality is created, causing an output displayed on the screen of the end-user device, to be non-matching to the expected or intended output that is typically displayed in response to regular non-interfered user gestures or regular non-interfered user input. The reaction or corrective manual actions of the user are tracked and analyzed, to differentiate among users, or to differentiate between an authorized human user and a human cyber-attacker, or to differentiate between an authorized human user and a computer bot or an automated computerized script.
US09747435B2	Authentication and control of encryption keys An apparatus, a method, and a system are presented in which the apparatus may include a security circuit, a processor, and an interface controller. The security circuit may be configured to generate a keyword. The processor may be configured to determine one or more policies to be applied to usage of the keyword, and to generate a policy value. The policy value may include one or more data bits indicative of the determined one or more policies. The interface controller may be configured to generate a message including the keyword and the policy value. The interface controller may also be configured to send the message.
US09747432B1	Remotely enabling a disabled user interface of a wireless communication device A communication control system to control access to a wireless communication device comprises a communication transceiver and a processing system. The communication transceiver is configured to receive access information for the wireless communication device indicating a user interface access level and a user notice, and receive an access request to access a disabled user interface of the wireless communication device. The processing system is configured to authenticate and authorize the access request, and in response to authenticating and authorizing the access request, generate user interface control data that indicates the user interface access level and the user notice for the wireless communication device. The communication transceiver is configured to transfer the user interface control data for delivery to the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device enables the user interface at the user interface access level and graphically displays the user notice responsive to the user interface control data.
US09747428B2	Dynamic keyboard and touchscreen biometrics Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward providing ongoing authentication using biometric data. Fingerprints and/or other biometric data can be captured during the normal use of an electronic device, such as typing on a keyboard, and compared with associated reference biometrics to provide ongoing authentication to an application while the electronic device is being used. Comparison results may further be combined with additional physiological or behavioral biometrics to determine a level of authentication encompassing multiple biometric inputs and/or types.
US09747426B2	Handling masquerading elements Embodiments include a method, a computing device, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a method implemented in a computing environment. The method includes receiving a designation of an individualized digital identifier. The method also includes associating a human-perceptible form of the designated individualized digital identifier with each element of a group of human-perceivable elements displayed by the computing environment.
US09747425B2	Method and system for restricting execution of virtual application to a managed process environment Methods and systems for restricting the launch of virtual application files. In one embodiment, a launching application is signed with a digital signature. When the launching application launches a runtime engine and instructs it to execute an application file, the runtime engine determines whether an entity identifier associated with the launching application identifies an authorized entity. If the entity identifier identifies an authorized entity and the digital signature is valid, the runtime engine executes the application file. In another embodiment, a ticket is transmitted to the launching application along with an instruction to launch the application file. The ticket includes a digital signature and an expiration date. The launching application communicates the ticket to the runtime engine, which will execute the application file only if the digital signature is valid and a current date is not later than the expiration date.
US09747424B2	Systems and methods for drug development Systems and methods are provided for drug development under a fully transparent development model. The model is configured to provide transparency to the patients, the researchers, clinicians, physicians, and any other registered users of the system who wish to contribute. According to various embodiments, the system and model enable drug development that leverage the combined wisdom and insight of the user population eliminating many of the drawbacks of conventional development approaches. In one embodiment, the system includes drug development engine configured to manage execution of parameters of a clinical trial, including collection of health and treatment information from a patient population. The development engine can publish collected execution data for review and analysis.
US09747421B2	Multi-factor brain analysis via medical imaging decision support systems and methods A medical imaging decision support system is provided that can conduct, and help medical professionals conduct multi-factor brain analysis. Data for disparate processing modes (for example, EEG, MRI, etc.) can be input to the system, processed in parallel in a cloud environment, and the results can be rendered in a thin client (for example, browser) for a user's rapid multi-modal evaluation of a brain.
US09747413B2	Adaptive processing for sequence alignment Disclosed are various embodiments for adaptive processing for sequence alignment. In one embodiment, among others, a method includes obtaining a query sequence and a plurality of database sequences. A first portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a graphical processing unit (GPU) based upon a predetermined splitting ratio associated with the plurality of database sequences, where the database sequences of the first portion are shorter than the database sequences of the second portion. A first alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the CPU based upon the first portion of the plurality of database sequences and a second alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the GPU based upon the second portion of the plurality of database sequences.
US09747412B2	Method for identifying activation of transferases The present invention provides a method for identifying differential activation of a bisubstrate protein modifying enzyme between samples, comprising: (i) incubating a first sample with x different concentrations of the non-protein substrate of said enzyme, wherein x is 2 or greater than 2; (ii) quantifying modification of a polypeptide in said sample at each of the x different concentrations of the non-protein substrate; (iii) determining the affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate; (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) for a second or subsequent sample; and (v) comparing the affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate between said samples; wherein a difference in affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate between samples is indicative of differential activation of said enzyme between samples. The present invention also provides a method for identifying an in vivo substrate of a bisubstrate protein modifying enzyme.
US09747411B2	Energy expenditure Aspects relate to calculating energy expenditure values from an apparatus configured to be worn on an appendage of a user. Steps counts may be quantified, such as by detecting arm swings peaks and bounce peaks in motion data. A search range of acceleration frequencies related to an expected activity may be established. Frequencies of acceleration data within a search range may be analyzed to identify one or more peaks, such as a bounce peak and an arm swing peak. Novel systems and methods may determine whether to utilize the arm swing data, bounce data, and/or other data or portions of data to quantify steps. The number of peaks (and types of peaks) may be used to choose a step frequency and step magnitude. At least a portion of the motion data may be classified into an activity category based upon the quantification of steps.
US09747405B2	Buffer chain management for alleviating routing congestion Systems and techniques for alleviating congestion are described. A set of buffer chains that pass through a congested region of the circuit design can be identified. Next, the set of the buffer chains can be removed from the circuit design. A placement blockage in the circuit design can then be created that covers at least a portion of the congested region. Next, the buffer chains that were removed can be reconstructed in the circuit design in the presence of the placement blockage, thereby alleviating congestion. Once the buffer chains have been reconstructed, the placement blockage can be removed from the circuit design. In some embodiments, congestion can be alleviated by spreading out buffer chains based on spreading out center of mass lines corresponding to the buffer chains.
US09747403B2	Power-and-ground (PG) network characterization and distributed PG network creation for hierarchical circuit designs A chip layout can include a top-level portion and a set of blocks. The power-and-ground (PG) network for the chip layout can be specified by a set of chip-level PG constraints that is defined using a PG constraint definition language. The set of chip-level PG constraints can be characterized into new sets of PG constraints that correspond to smaller regions of the chip layout, e.g., a set of top-level PG constraints that corresponds to the top-level portion, and a set of block-level PG constraints for each block in the set of blocks. The new sets of PG constraints can then be provided to one or more instances of a PG compiler that executes on one or more processors to create the PG network for the chip layout.
US09747402B2	Methods for double-patterning-compliant standard cell design A semiconductor chip includes a row of cells, with each of the cells including a VDD line and a VSS line. All VDD lines of the cells are connected as a single VDD line, and all VSS lines of the cells are connected as a single VSS line. No double-patterning full trace having an even number of G0 paths exists in the row of cells, or no double-patterning full trace having an odd number of G0 paths exists in the row of cells.
US09747399B2	Method and apparatus for providing rule patterns on grids Described is a machine-readable storage media having one or more machine executable instructions stored there on that when executed cause one or more processors to perform an operation comprising: define properties of a layout grid, wherein the layout grid provides a three dimensional (3D) space for organizing a plurality of objects on the layout grid; and define rules for the plurality of objects, wherein the rules define a relationship between the plurality of objects with reference to the defined properties of the layout grid.
US09747398B2	Managing and controlling the use of hardware resources on integrated circuits Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods and apparatus for managing and allocating hardware resources during RTL synthesis. For example, in one exemplary method disclosed herein, an RTL description of a circuit to be implemented in a target architecture is received. The target architecture of this embodiment comprises a fixed number of hardware resources in a class of hardware resources. One or more operator instances are determined from the RTL description received, where at least some of the operator instances are implementable by the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources. In this embodiment, and prior to initially synthesizing the RTL description into a gate-level netlist, assignment information indicative of how the operator instances are to be implemented using the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources is automatically determined. A graphical user interface is also provided that allows a user to view and modify the assignment information.
US09747397B2	Multi-mode multi-corner clocktree synthesis In one embodiment, a method for building a clock tree for an integrated circuit design is provided. The clock tree may include a clock tree root node and a plurality of clock tree nodes that couple to sink pins for circuit elements of the integrated circuit design. The clock tree nodes may be arranged to distribute the clock signal to the sink pins. In synthesizing the clock tree, the sink pins may be clustered into one or more clusters. Clock tree nodes may be placed for the clock tree to distribute the clock signal to the one or more clusters. Timing information is determined to measure the clock signal delay from the root to the sink pins in the one or more clusters based on the placed one or more clock tree nodes. Different sets of timing information may be determined based on different sets of clock tree timing variation parameters. For example, the clock tree timing variation parameters includes timing information for multiple process corners and/or multiple modes of operation.
US09747394B2	Automated design and manufacturing feedback for three dimensional (3D) printability A system and a method assess the three dimensional (3D) printability of a 3D model. Slices of the 3D model are received or generated. The slices represent two dimensional (2D) solids of the 3D model to be printed in corresponding print layers. Further, printing of the slices is simulated to identify corresponding printable slices.
US09747393B2	Methods and systems for upscaling mechanical properties of geomaterials There is provided a method for modelling a hydrocarbon reservoir that includes generating a reservoir model that has a plurality of sub regions. A solution surrogate is obtained for a sub region by searching a database of existing solution surrogates to obtain an approximate solution surrogate based on a comparison of physical, geometrical, or numerical parameters of the sub region with physical, geometrical, or numerical parameters associated with the existing surrogate solutions in the database. If an approximate solution surrogate does not exist in the database, the sub region is simulated using a training simulation to obtain a set of training parameters comprising state variables and boundary conditions of the sub region. A machine learning algorithm is used to obtain a new solution surrogate based on the set of training parameters. The hydrocarbon reservoir can be simulated using the solution surrogate obtained for the at least one sub region.
US09747391B2	Method and device for designing a current supply and collection device for a transportation system using an electric vehicle Provided is a method for designing a current supply device for wirelessly supplying power to a vehicle having a current collection device. In the design method, the gap between the two adjacent magnetic poles of the current supply device is received as input and then the gap between the current supply device and the current collection device is determined based on the gap between the two magnetic poles. Next, the magnitude of the power to be supplied to the current supply device is determined based on the value required with respect to the magnitude of the magnetic field and the gap between the current supply device and the current collection device. According to the design method, current supply device can easily be designed since various functional requirements are decoupled from each other.
US09747385B2	Compression of cascading style sheet files One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating compression of a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file. During operation, the system stores the CSS file in a local storage device and identifies a merge parameter in the CSS file. The merge parameter can be one of: a repeated selector, a repeated property in a selector, and a same value of a property in different selectors. The system then determines whether a merge condition is satisfied for the merge parameter and merges the merge parameter in the CSS file to obtain a compressed merge parameter. The merge condition indicates whether merging of the merge parameter is consistent with original style in the CSS file.
US09747384B1	Website personalization and predictive analytics using social networks, location, mobile and behavioral data A social media and social network system matches and personalizes websites and communication to specific users using profile, location, GPS, mobile device, and ecommerce data. Websites may behave in a personalized manner for each individual user and deliver matched content. A user behavior model enables history and decision processes to be stored for future predictive behavior models, algorithms, advertisements, and analysis. A server may enable mathematical and behavioral modeling of one or more social network users as individuals, groups or in the aggregate to establish one or more personalized states for the social network, website, webpage, or subset webpage. Social network data may match a user with search engine results, products, brand products, vendors, users, and services desired by a user on a social network, website, or ecommerce site. Users receive more targeted information. Personalized marketing and ecommerce by a vendor is enabled and unsolicited e-mail and advertisements are minimized.
US09747380B2	Grid-based geofence data indexing One or more location updates from one or more user devices can be associated with one or more grid elements dividing a geographic area. Each location update corresponding to a set of user device data can be stored in a hashtable according to grid element. The hashtable can be resized based on the number of grid elements containing one or more sets of user device data. A set of grid elements can be determined to overlap a geofence, and zero or more sets of user device data can be retrieved from the hashtable corresponding to zero or more user devices located within the geofence.
US09747379B1	Distributed promotional platform for promoting securities information Systems and methods are provided for promoting securities information. The method includes: storing, in a memory, a database of securities information; indexing, using a processor, the database of securities information to enable a first user to search through the database of securities information; displaying, using a graphical user interface, a digital searching tool, wherein the first user is able to search through the indexed database on the graphical user interface using the digital searching tool; receiving, from the first user, using the graphical user interface, one or more filings selected from the indexed database; and transforming at least one of the selected filings into a shareable digital widget, wherein the widget, when shared, is configured to display a description of each of the at least one of the selected filings to one or more second users.
US09747374B2	User specific feed recommendations A system for recommending feeds for a user comprises a client with a web browser, an application server, and a content server. The browser tracks the user's browsing activity and transmits user data related to the user's browsing activity to the application server. The application server searches the content server to determine feeds that may be relevant to the user's browsing activity and then communicates those feeds to the browser. The browser displays the received feeds to the user as feed recommendations, prompting the user to select from among the recommended feeds. Once the user has selected one or more feeds, the browser transmits the user's selection to the application server, which enables the feeds to be presented subsequently to the user. In this way, the system uses the user's browsing activity to obtain automatically for a user feeds that are likely to be relevant to the user.
US09747373B2	Inquiry method and system, inquiry search server and inquiry terminal The disclosure relates to the communication field and disclosures an inquiry method, an inquiry system, an inquiry search server and an inquiry terminal. The method includes that: after receiving an inquiry request from an inquiry terminal, an inquiry search server acquires a keyword related to the inquiry request, determines a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals, and sends the inquiry request to each target inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group. The disclosure enables the users of inquiry terminals to inquiry of each other about a question and to obtain a corresponding answer, which undoubtedly facilitates the operation of the users and contributes to promoting the technical solution of the disclosure, moreover, the disclosure truly pools the wisdom of the masses to achieve an excellent inquiry-and-answer effect.
US09747367B2	Communication system for establishing and providing preferred audio An audio customization system responsive to one or more audio profiles to define a transformation to apply to audio information. The system allows users to select the profiles that dictate the nature of the customization of the audio delivered to an audio output devise such as a headphones. The system is set up to be able to lessen the influence of undesirable audio and enhance desirable audio. The system may specify aspects of audio to be modified by specification of filtering algorithm, characterization of audio samples, monitored distortion, user selection, location specification or environmental specification and may be used in a social networking system.
US09747364B2	Systems and methods for character string auto-suggestion based on degree of difficulty In one embodiment, the method includes a computing device receiving one or more characters as a user enters the characters into a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device. The method also includes the computing device determining one or more auto-suggestions, where each of the auto-suggestions presents a character string determined based at least in part on the entered characters. The method also includes the computing device determining a degree of difficulty of the user completing the respective character string for each of the auto-suggestions. The method further includes, for each of the auto-suggestions, if the degree of difficulty is at least approximately equal to or exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the computing device providing to the user the auto-suggestion for completing the character string.
US09747356B2	Eager replication of uncommitted transactions Techniques are provided for eager replication of uncommitted transactions. A first plurality of change records is received, corresponding to database changes applied to a source database in a first transaction. First transaction dependency data is computed based on the first transaction. At least a portion of the first plurality of change records is applied to the target database before processing a commit record indicating that has been committed on the source database. Target dependency data is updated after processing the first commit record to reflect completion of the first transaction, the target dependency data including dependency data for a plurality of transactions applied or scheduled to be applied on a target database.
US09747353B2	Database content publisher Various embodiments of systems and methods to publish database content as service for accessing business data are described herein. In one aspect, a business transaction instantiated by a user is executed on an application server. During the execution, at least one database table of a plurality of database tables and at least one database relationship associated with the at least one database table are identified. In another aspect, a data structure model is automatically generated based on the identified at least one database table and at least one database relationship. In yet another aspect, data from the at least one database table is exposed to be consumed as a service based on the data structure model.
US09747344B2	Algorithmic changing in a streaming environment A stream computing application may permit one job to connect to a data stream of a different job. As more jobs dynamically connect to the data stream, the connections may have a negative impact on the performance of the stream computing application. A variety of performance indicators (e.g., CPU utilization or tuple rate) may be monitored to determine if the dynamic connections are harming performance. If they are, the stream algorithm may be modified to mitigate the effects of the dynamic connections.
US09747333B2	Querying operating system state on multiple machines declaratively A sysSQL technology for querying operating system states of multiple hosts in a cluster using a Structured Query Language (SQL) query is disclosed. An administrator of a cluster can use a graphical or text-based user interface to submit an SQL query to determine the operating system states of multiple hosts in parallel. The technology parses the SQL query to determine the datasets needed to execute the SQL query and aggregates those datasets from the multiple hosts. The technology then creates a temporary database to execute the SQL query and provides the results from the SQL query for display on the user interface.
US09747332B2	Audio playlist system and method Information about desired songs is collected on a portable memory device in communication with a radio tuner. The radio tuner may receive signals from a terrestrial or satellite digital radio transmission, or from an analog radio transmission. These transmissions may include text data about the current song being played. Upon activation by a user, song data is stored on the memory device. The memory device is then connected to a computer system, which uses software to extract the song data and uniquely identify the song. The identified songs are stored on the computer system, and can be used to allow the user easy access to the identified song through prior art techniques. If no textual data is stored about a song, the song is identified by identifying the radio station that played the song and the time at which the user activated the mechanism.
US09747331B2	Limiting scans of loosely ordered and/or grouped relations in a database Data within a database object are accessed based on a query with a predicate including a plurality of conditional expressions. Elements of the database object are stored among a plurality of different storage regions along with range values for element values within each storage region. Each conditional expression of the query predicate is applied to the range values for each storage region to produce evaluation results of that conditional expression for each storage region. The evaluation result of each conditional expression for a corresponding storage region is combined to produce aggregated results for each of the storage regions, where the aggregated result for a corresponding storage region indicates results of a tri-state evaluation (e.g., true/false or unknown) of the conditional expressions for that storage region. One or more corresponding individual storage regions are scanned based on the aggregated results for those storage regions when the tri-state evaluation is unknown.
US09747329B2	Limiting access to asset management information A system and method for limiting access to asset management information is disclosed. According to one embodiment, information is received from a first reporting source about an asset. Information from a second reporting source about the asset is also recited. The information from the first reporting source and the information from the second reporting source is stored in a database such that the information from the first reporting source and the information from the second reporting source can be accessed from the database. A first entity is enabled to access a first subset of the information stored in the database while a second entity is not allowed to access the first subset of the information stored in the database.
US09747328B2	Method and apparatus for modifying a row in a database table to include meta-data One embodiment of the present invention provides a database system that facilitates modifying a row in a database table to include meta-data about operations performed on the row. During operation, the database system receives a definition for an extensible row descriptor, the extensible row descriptor indicating meta-data associated with operations performed on a row in a database table. The system then receives a condition for updating the extensible row descriptor. The system determines that executing a command satisfies the condition for updating the extensible row descriptor, and updates the extensible row descriptor.
US09747327B2	Managing content item syndication by maintaining referential integrity between remote or isolated systems Embodiments of the present invention relate to managing content item syndication by maintaining referential integrity between isolated systems. A computing device receives a first content item, wherein the first content item has an external dependency with a second content item defined by a first reference. In response to determining that the second content item does not exist on the computing device, the computing device generates a second reference to replace the first reference, wherein the second reference defines a dependency of the first content item to a third content item. The computing device generates a link that directs a user to the third content item in response to the user attempting to access the second content item.
US09747326B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores document evaluation program that evaluates consistency in document A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a document evaluation program executable by a computer in a document evaluation apparatus includes first program code that causes the computer to determine that a plurality of pages from each of which the same type of object has been detected are in the same group and to detect the plurality of pages in the same group from the document, second program code that causes the computer to evaluate consistency in the plurality of pages, in the same group, that have been detected by the first program code, and third program code that causes the computer to display an evaluation result obtained by the second program code.
US09747325B2	Duplicate station detection system Embodiments are disclosed for identifying duplicate stations in a radio station network. An example method includes identifying stations within a radio station network, determining which of the stations are duplicate stations, and selecting, via automated operated content management devices or user input directed to manually operated content management devices, which of the duplicate stations to show and which of the duplicate stations to suppress from being presented to a user. The example method further includes selectively displaying a selected duplicate station of a group of duplicate stations depending on a radio network's contractual agreements with various partners.
US09747324B2	System, apparatus, and method for transferring updates between storage devices A first information processing apparatus includes a unit to attach control information to update processing data containing update differential data per storage device and a unit to transfer the update processing data to a second information processing apparatus, and the second information processing apparatus includes a reflecting unit to reflect the update differential data in the transferred update processing data respectively to one or more storage devices, an exclusion setting unit to set exclusion of the storage device given in a list of the storage devices when the first reflecting unit of the reflecting unit reflects the top update differential data in the update processing data, and an exclusion cancelling unit to cancel the exclusion when the second reflecting unit reflects the last update differential data in the update processing data in the storage device.
US09747322B2	Storage of data in a distributed storage system A distributed storage system has multiple instances. There is a plurality of local instances, and at least some of the local instances are at physically distinct geographic locations. Each local instance is configured to store data for a non-empty set of blobs in a plurality of data stores having a plurality of distinct data store types. In addition, each local instance stores metadata for the respective set of blobs in a metadata store distinct from the data stores. There is also a plurality of global instances. Each global instance is configured to store data for zero or more blobs in zero or more data stores and store metadata for all blobs stored at any local or global instance. The system selects one global instance to run a replication module that replicates blobs between instances according to blob policies. Some systems also include dynamic replication based on user needs.
US09747320B2	Efficient reference counting in content addressable storage A process manages database storage. The process receives a first object comprising one or more content chunks. The first object is identified by a unique object ID and each content chunk has a unique offset within the first object. For each chunk, the process inserts a record into a reference table. The record includes a content hash and the object ID. The process stores each of the chunks in content storage. Later, the process obtains a request to delete a first chunk from storage. The first chunk has a corresponding first content hash. The process determines whether the reference table includes a reference record corresponding to the first content hash. When the reference table does not include any reference records corresponding to the first content hash, the process deletes the first chunk. When the reference table includes a corresponding reference record, the process does not delete the first chunk.
US09747315B2	Bucket skiplists The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing a bucket skiplist. In one example, a method comprises identifying a value to be searched for within a skiplist comprising a data structure for referencing a plurality of ordered nodes, the data structure having a plurality of linked lists, each node representing at least one memory block, wherein each node is associated with a bucket including a set of ordered values, where the first value in each bucket of each node is the relatively lowest value in the bucket, comparing the value to the first values in each bucket to identify a particular node in which the first value may be located, and, in response to determining that the first value of the particular node is not the same as the value to be searched, comparing the value to be searched with the ordered values in the bucket.
US09747312B2	Computer implemented method for creating database structures without knowledge on functioning of relational database system Computer implemented methods for storing ad hoc relations between previously unrelated database objects assigned to different database structures using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods including: causing the electronic computing device to define at least three database structures: structure A, structure B and structure C, where each of the at least three database structures each includes a number of objects, where there exists at least one relation between objects of structure A and objects of structure B, and where there exists at least one relation between objects of structure B and objects of structure C; filtering data of structure A; accessing structure B using a first selected relation between structure A and structure B; storing information about filtering of structure A and information on a first selected path between structure A and structure B; filtering results obtained from structure B.
US09747307B2	Systems and methods for immersive backgrounds An immersive interactive system includes a platform with specialized panel(s) supporting placement of a static background scene and one or more displays; a play area proximal to the platform; an object recognizer to detect one or more items of interest on or near the play area; one or more sensors to detect one or more user activities on the platform; and a processor coupled to the one or more displays, wherein the processor correlates and serves video and optional audio to the one or more displays based on detected object activities and sensor data.
US09747303B1	File location application programming interface Media, methods and systems are provided for interfacing a mobile device to an application virtual machine via an application programming interface (API). A first set of file connection properties for one or more internal storage locations and a second set of file connection properties for one or more external storage locations are defined at a mobile device. The first and second sets of file connection properties define the file storage locations for a plurality of media types. Requests are received from the application virtual machine for the first and second sets of file connection properties. The application virtual machine identifies a current default storage area that can be selected from the one or more internal storage locations and the one or more external storage locations, and indicates whether the current default storage location is an internal storage location or an external storage location.
US09747296B2	Method and apparatus for managing storage space on storage device in an electronic apparatus by using context data and user profile data A method and apparatus for reserving a usable storage space on a storage device is provided. The method includes collecting context data representing an environment surrounding the storage device; selecting at least one file from among files stored in the storage device by using at least one of the context data and user profile data; and processing the selected file and reserving a usable storage space on the storage device. The method reserves the usable storage space by using the context data or user profile data, thereby allowing efficient reserving of usable storage space without a user's manual intervention and preventing waste of unnecessary resources.
US09747291B1	Non-disruptive upgrade configuration translator Implementations are provided herein for non-disruptive upgrade including rollback capabilities for a distributed file system within a cluster of nodes. To continue availability of the file system to external clients during the upgrade process, nodes can be upgraded piecemeal, for example, in one implementation, one node at a time. When a node is undergoing certain stages of the upgrade process, external clients can be directed toward the remaining nodes of the file system that are not currently being upgraded, including already upgraded nodes, to perform client activity. During the upgrade process, a first subset of nodes can be running in an upgraded state while a second subset of nodes can be in a non-upgraded state, both providing access to external clients in a seamless manner. In one implementation, a second namespace can be established at the onset of the upgrade process that reflects the new version of the operating system. The second namespace can be maintained in parallel with the original namespace during the pendency of the upgrade and/or downgrade process. A configuration translation layer can also be established on each node of the cluster of nodes. The configuration translation layer can provide the necessary key value pair translations that allow a request made an old version node to be performed by a new version node and vice versa. At the conclusion of an upgrade or a rollback, the cluster can enter a committed state and the namespace data that is no longer needed can be expired.
US09747290B2	Relevance bar for content listings A client computer receives a set of search results ordered based on scheduled time of broadcast associated with respective listings of content. The listings of content include data representing time-bounded events. The client computer displays or otherwise presents a set of objects along an axis of a display bar, the objects corresponding to subsets of the search results. For example, the axis is associated with a unit of time or a unit of relevance.
US09747283B2	Predicting future translations Technology is disclosed for snippet pre-translation and dynamic selection of translation systems. Pre-translation uses snippet attributes such as characteristics of a snippet author, snippet topics, snippet context, expected snippet viewers, etc., to predict how many translation requests for the snippet are likely to be received. An appropriate translator can be dynamically selected to produce a translation of a snippet either as a result of the snippet being selected for pre-translation or from another trigger, such as a user requesting a translation of the snippet. Different translators can generate high quality translations after a period of time or other translators can generate lower quality translations earlier. Dynamic selection of translators involves dynamically selecting machine or human translation, e.g., based on a quality of translation that is desired. Translations can be improved over time by employing better machine or human translators, such as when a snippet is identified as being more popular.
US09747279B2	Context carryover in language understanding systems or methods Systems and methods for determining a user intent or goal for contextual language understanding by utilizing information from one or more previous user natural language inputs and one or more previous system generated responses to the user natural language inputs are provided. More specifically, the systems and methods utilize a common schema for determining features from the responses and natural language inputs and provide carryover tracking between responses and the natural language inputs. Accordingly, the systems and methods for contextual language understanding provide for a more accurate, a more reliable, and a more efficient context carryover and goal tracking system when compared to systems and methods that do not utilized the responses in determining the user goal/intent.
US09747278B2	System and method for mapping text phrases to geographical locations A system and method for mapping text phrases to geographical locations is provided. Entities, each comprising one of a location, person, and place, are identified in one or more documents. Possible candidate locations associated with each entity are determined. An initial score is assigned to each location. The initial scores are adjusted and the candidate location with the highest adjusted score is selected for each entity. The selected candidate location is applied to all occurrences of the entity in the documents.
US09747277B2	Predicting individual or crowd behavior based on graphical text analysis of point recordings of audible expressions Embodiments relate to determining a crowd behavior. A method of determining a crowd behavior is provided. The method collects, at one or more recording points in a crowd of individuals, audible expressions that the individuals of the crowd make. The method generates a graph of the audible expressions as the audible expressions are collected from the individuals. The method determines a crowd behavior by performing a graphical text analysis on the graph. The method outputs an indication of the crowd behavior to trigger a crowd control measure.
US09747276B2	Predicting individual or crowd behavior based on graphical text analysis of point recordings of audible expressions Embodiments relate to determining a crowd behavior. A method of determining a crowd behavior is provided. The method collects, at one or more recording points in a crowd of individuals, audible expressions that the individuals of the crowd make. The method generates a graph of the audible expressions as the audible expressions are collected from the individuals. The method determines a crowd behavior by performing a graphical text analysis on the graph. The method outputs an indication of the crowd behavior to trigger a crowd control measure.
US09747275B1	Notification of potentially problematic textual messages A processor may determine, using natural language processing, a writing style of content of a composed message written by a composer. The processor may analyze, using natural language processing, a set of previous message written by the composer. The processor may identify, based on the analyzing, writing habits of the composer. The processor may also identify a difference between the writing style of the content and the writing habits of the composer. The processor may display a notification of the difference to the user.
US09747274B2	String comparison results for character strings using frequency data A similarity between character strings is assessed by identifying first and second character strings as candidate similar character strings, determining a frequency of occurrence for at least one of the first and second character strings from a collection of character strings, and designating the first and second character strings as similar based on the determined frequency of occurrence.
US09747269B2	Smart optical input/output (I/O) extension for context-dependent workflows Systems, methods, and computer program products for smart, automated capture of textual information using optical sensors of a mobile device are disclosed. The capture and provision is context-aware, and determines context of the optical input, and invokes a contextually-appropriate workflow based thereon. The techniques also provide capability to normalize, correct, and/or validate the captured optical input and provide the corrected, normalized, validated, etc. information to the contextually-appropriate workflow. Other information necessary by the workflow and available to the mobile device optical sensors may also be captured and provided, in a single automatic process. As a result, the overall process of capturing information from optical input using a mobile device, invoking an appropriate workflow, and providing captured information to the workflow is significantly simplified and improved in terms of accuracy of data transfer/entry, speed and efficiency of workflows, and user experience.
US09747260B2	Information processing device and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing device includes a detail level estimation unit that estimates a detail level of each of at least two documents, the detail level indicating degree to which a content of the document is detailed, a similarity degree estimation unit that estimates a similarity degree between two of the at least two documents, and a document relationship output unit that outputs a document relationship for the two of the at least two documents the similarity degree of which satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein in the document relationship, one of the two of the at least two documents is determined as a summarized document that shows a summary of other document of the two of the at least two documents, and the detail level of the one of the two of the at least two documents is lower than the detail level of the other of the two.
US09747258B2	System and method for the creation and use of visually-diverse high-quality dynamic layouts A website building system, the system includes a layout database to store least one layout and an associated signature where the signature represents a semantic composition of the at least one layout, a page analyzer to at least generate an associated signature for a user supplied handled component set, a signature comparer to perform a comparison of the signature of the user supplied handled component set with the associated signature of the at least one layout stored on the layout database, a layout searcher and generator to acquire at least from the layout database a set of candidate layouts according to the results of the signature comparer and where the candidate layouts are visually different and semantically similar from the user supplied handled component set and a layout adapter and applier to adapt the handled component set to a selected layout from the set of candidate layouts.
US09747255B2	Inverse transformation using pruning for video coding A method for decoding an encoded video bit stream in a video decoder is provided that includes determining a scan pattern type for a transform block to be decoded, decoding a column position X and a row position Y of a last non-zero coefficient in the transform block from the encoded video bit stream, selecting a column-row inverse transform order when the scan pattern type is a first type, selecting a row-column inverse transform order when the scan pattern type is a second type, and performing one dimensional (1D) inverse discrete cosine transformation (IDCT) computations according to the selected transform order to inversely transform the transform block to generate a residual block.
US09747253B2	System and method for simultaneous article retrieval and transaction validation A system and method for dispensing an article from an article dispensing machine by reducing the amount of time for completing a transaction involving the article is provided. A request related to a selected article and payment information for a balance related to the selected article may be received at the article dispensing machine through a user interface. The payment information may be validated, and simultaneously and in parallel, the selected article may be retrieved from a storage unit in the article dispensing machine. The selected article may be dispensed from the article dispensing machine if the payment information is valid. If the payment information is not valid, the selected article may be returned to the storage unit. Quicker dispensing of articles during consumer transactions with the article dispensing machine may result. The articles may include media articles, such as DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, and video game discs.
US09747252B2	Systematic method of coding wave-pipelined circuits in HDL The present invention classifies all critical paths into two basic types: a series critical path and a feedback critical path, and divides each of wave-pipelined circuits into two components: a static logic part, called critical path component (CPC), and a dynamic logic part, formalized into four wave-pipelining components (WPC) shared by all wave-pipelined circuits. Each wave-pipelining ready code in HDL comprises two components: a WPC instantiation and a CPC instantiation wire-connected and linked by a new link statement. Each WPC has new wave constants which play the same role as generic constants do, but whose initial values are determined and assigned by a synthesizer after code analysis, so designers can use after-synthesization information in their code before synthesization for wave-pipelining technology. The responsibility of analyzing and manipulating wave-pipelining ready code, generating and implementing wave-pipelined circuits on a design-wide or chip-wide scale in HDL is shifted from designers to synthesizers.
US09747250B2	Effective memory management for host objects in a runtime environment with embedded garbage-collected based dynamic language A system for improving memory management in a hybrid programming environment where a server program receives a request to execute a script. The server program instructs an embedded script engine to execute the script. The server program creates a session manager to manage objects associated with the script. The objects are comprised of host objects that reside in a program memory space, and script objects that reside in an embedded script engine memory space. The session manager creates a session associated with the execution of the script, and associated objects created during the execution of the script. Upon receiving notification of completion and/or termination of the execution of the script, the server program requests invalidation and/or deletion of the objects associated with the session. Deletion of host objects immediately releases memory in the program memory space without waiting for the scheduled garbage collection.
US09747249B2	Methods and systems to achieve multi-tenancy in RDMA over converged Ethernet A method for providing multi-tenancy support for RDMA in a system that includes a plurality of physical hosts. Each physical host hosts a set of data compute nodes (DCNs). The method, at an RDMA protocol stack of the first host, receives a packet that includes a request from a first DCN hosted on a first host for RDMA data transfer from a second DCN hosted on a second host. The method sends a set of parameters of an overlay network that are associated with the first DCN to an RDMA physical network interface controller of the first host. The set of parameters are used by the RDMA physical NIC to encapsulate the packet with an RDMA data transfer header and an overlay network header by using the set of parameters of the overlay network to transfer the encapsulated packet to the second physical host using the overlay network.
US09747247B2	Serial peripheral interface and method for data transmission A serial peripheral interface of an integrated circuit includes: a first transfer pin for receiving an instruction and an address; and a clock pin for inputting a plurality of timing pulses each having a rising edge and a falling edge. After the first transfer pin receives the instruction, the integrated circuit receives the address through the first transfer pin in continuity with the receipt of the instruction. The first transfer pin receives the instruction at either of the rising edges and the falling edges of the timing pulses and receives the address at both of the rising edges and falling edges of the timing pulses.
US09747246B2	Electronic device for communicating between a microcontroller unit (MCU) and a host processor and related methods An electronic device may include system and serial peripheral interface (SPI) clocks, and a host interface each switchable between active and inactive states, a serial controller coupled to the system clock, and a memory. A slave controller may generate a request active signal based upon a transaction request from a host and causing each of the system clock, SPI clock, and host interface into the active state, store request data in the memory, and switch the host interface to the inactive state based upon the request data being stored. The serial controller may process the request based upon the request active signal, and generate a request complete signal based upon the request being processed. The slave controller may switch the system clock to the inactive state based upon the request complete signal. The SPI clock may be switched to the inactive state based upon the request complete signal.

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