最新美国发明专利第2018-01-09期 - 专利汇|PatentHub专利检索|专利查询网|发明专利查询分析

Document	Document Title
US09866259B1	Transmitter/receiver module for millimeter wave 5G MIMO communication systems A transmit/receive module includes an integrated control circuit that is configured to operate in transmit and receive modes. In the transmit mode, the integrated control circuit converts a digital input signal into a plurality of phase shifted RF transmit signals. In the receive mode, the integrated control converts an RF receive signal into a digital output signal. The transmit/receive module further includes a plurality of transmit/receive integrated circuits connected. Each of the transmit/receive integrated circuits amplify one of the RF transmit signals using a power amplifier during the transmit mode, and amplify one of the RF receive signals using a low noise amplifier during the receive mode. The integrated control circuit biases the power amplifier and calibrates a power level the power amplifier in the transmit mode. The integrated control circuit protects the integrated control circuit from damage by controlling the low noise amplifier during the receive mode.
US09866258B2	Universal receiver The invention is a universal receiver that addresses the problem of collecting consumption data from multiple types of utility metering wireless devices that use different and often proprietary protocols where such parameters are unknown to the system owner. The universal receiver automatically detects unknown AMR/AMI broadcasts utilizing know parameters for typical AMR/AMI signals and executing a decoding algorithm that includes series of RF parameter detection, signal characterization, signal decoding, and data qualifying techniques with minimal or no involvement needed by a user.
US09866252B2	Mobile terminal There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a case having a display unit coupled to a front side, a first antenna mounted in the case and comprising a first slot extended in a first direction and having a closed end and an open end, a second antenna mounted in the case and comprising a second slot extended in a second direction opposite to the extended direction of the first slot and comprising a closed end and an open end, a power supply unit mounted in the case, a first feeder supplying the power of the power supply unit to the first antenna, and a second feeder supplying the power of the power supply unit to the second antenna.
US09866250B2	Adaptive maximum power limiting using capacitive sensing in a wireless device An apparatus for satisfying Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) compliance criteria including a first capacitance sensor, a second capacitance sensor, a memory, and a processor. The memory is configured to store pre-established proximity regions that include a free space region of proximity based on baseline capacitance measurements obtained from the sensors when no human body is proximate a wireless device and a first region of proximity based on initial capacitance measurements obtained from the sensors when the human body is spaced apart from the wireless device by a first predetermined separation distance. The processor is configured to instruct a radio frequency (RF) transmitter to operate at a first output power when subsequent capacitance measurements received from the sensors are within the free space region of proximity and at a second output power, less than the first output power when the subsequent capacitance measurements are within the first region of proximity.
US09866249B1	Card holding member and card connector The card holding member is able to hold a card including terminal members and is able to be inserted into a card connector, and comprises a frame portion opposing the side surfaces of the card, and a movable lock portion arranged in the frame portion which is able to engage and disengage from a lock portion of the card connector, the movable lock portion being a spring member made of a metal plate and including at least one corner portion, and the movable lock portion also being elastically deformable in the width direction of the card holding member.
US09866247B2	Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods A communications device including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of sub-units of an encoded transport block of data in a plurality of time-divided units within frequency resources of a wireless access interface allocated to the mobile terminal, each of the sub-units being received a repeated number of times within a repetition cycle; and circuitry configured to combine a same sub-unit received the repeated number of times to form a composite sub-unit to recover the transport block.
US09866244B2	Electromagnetic couplers for multi-frequency power detection Multi-output electromagnetic couplers configured to detect multiple frequencies simultaneously, and devices and systems including same. In one example a multi-output electromagnetic coupler includes a main coupler transmission line extending between and electrically connecting an input port and an output port, a first coupled line section configured to couple electromagnetic power in a first frequency band from the main coupler transmission line to provide a first coupled output signal at a first coupled port, and a second coupled line section configured to couple electromagnetic power in a second frequency band from the main coupler transmission line to provide a second coupled output signal at a second coupled port simultaneously with the first coupled output signal being provided at the first coupled port.
US09866243B2	Forward error correction codeword synchronization method, device, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a forward error correction codeword synchronization method, device, and system. The method is: sending, by a central office device, synchronization information of an FEC codeword to a terminal device by using a management channel, where the information includes information about an agreed location of an FEC codeword, and the information about the agreed location of the first FEC codeword indicates a location that is of the first FEC codeword and is corresponding to data at an agreed location of an agreed time-frequency resource block; and receiving, by the terminal device, the synchronization information that is of the FEC codeword and is sent by the central office device, and adjusting a status parameter of an encoder or a decoder according to the information, so as to complete codeword synchronization. The embodiments of the present invention are used for FEC codeword synchronization.
US09866240B2	Map algorithm-based turbo decoding method and apparatus, and computer storage medium An MAP algorithm-based Turbo decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: iteratively estimating an information symbol by using an MAP algorithm, acquiring an α and β window boundary values of each sliding window by means of window boundary value inheritance, acquiring an α block boundary value and β block boundary value of each sub-block by means of block boundary value inheritance, and recursively calculating posterior probability Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values of a whole window and a whole block according to the α boundary values and the β boundary values (101); and performing decoding decision according to the LLR values (102).
US09866239B1	Method and system for bi-phase mark coding (BMC) decoding Embodiments of methods and systems for BMC decoding are described. In an embodiment, a method for BMC decoding involves performing a unit interval estimation of a BMC encoded bit stream, locating a bit boundary of the BMC encoded bit stream based on the unit interval estimation and a known sequence in a preamble of the BMC encoded bit stream, and measuring a time duration across multiple bit transitions from the bit boundary and decoding the BMC encoded bit stream based on the time duration and the unit interval estimation.
US09866231B2	Interleaved successive approximation register analog to digital converter In an example, the present invention provides an analog to digital converter device for a high speed data transmission from 1 GS-s to 100 GS-s, although there can be other variations. In an example, the device has an input receiver device coupled to a transimpedance amplifier. In an example, the transimpedance amplifier is coupled to an input stream of data at 10 GHz to 100 GHz, or other variations.
US09866225B2	Digital phase-locked loop supply voltage control Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) in a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and a control loop. The DCO can generate an output signal having a frequency based on a value of a digital information. The control loop can adjust a value of a supply voltage of the DCO based on the value the digital information. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09866222B2	System and method for synchronizing multiple oscillators using reduced frequency signaling An embodiment method for voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) control includes detecting a first VCO output signal of a first VCO. The first VCO output signal has a first VCO output frequency. The method also includes determining a first down-scaled signal in accordance with the first VCO output signal. The first down-scaled signal has a first down-scaled frequency that is reduced by a fixed ratio relative to a current value of the first VCO output frequency. The method also includes modifying the first VCO output frequency using a first phase lock loop (PLL) in accordance with the first down-scaled signal and an oscillating reference signal, and detecting a second VCO output signal of a second VCO. The second VCO output signal has a second VCO output frequency. The method also includes modifying the second VCO output frequency in accordance with the second VCO output signal and the first down-scaled signal.
US09866221B2	Test circuit to isolate HCI degradation Embodiments are directed to a system for synchronizing switching events. The system includes a controller, a clock generator communicatively coupled to the controller and a delay chain communicatively coupled to the controller. The delay chain is configured to perform a plurality of delay chain switching events in response to an input to the delay chain. The controller is configured to initiate a synchronization phase that includes enabling the clock generator to provide as an input to the delay chain a clock generator output at a synchronization frequency, wherein the clock generator output passing through the delay chain synchronizes the plurality of delay chain switching events to occur at the synchronization frequency resulting in a frequency of an output of the delay chain being synchronized to the synchronization frequency of the clock generator output.
US09866220B2	Timing device A timing method and a timing device are disclosed. A Gray code count output may be obtained by performing a Gray code count on a basic clock. Then m number of sub-clocks may be obtained by separately performing a phase shift on a least significant bit output of the Gray code count output, where a phase difference φ between each of the m number of sub-clocks and the least significant bit output may satisfy: φ=n×α and φ≠90°, 180° may be divisible by α with no remainder, and n may be an integer greater than 0 and less than 180°/α. If 90° is divisible by α with no remainder, m=180/α−2; and if 90° is divisible by α with a remainder, m=180/α−1. When a predetermined event occurs, a timing result of the predetermined event may be obtained according to the Gray code count output value, outputs of the m number of sub-clocks, a period of the basic clock, and the α.
US09866218B2	Boolean logic in a state machine lattice Disclosed are methods and devices, among which is a device that includes a finite state machine lattice. The lattice may includes a programmable Boolean logic cell that may be programmed to perform various logic functions on a data stream. The programmability includes an inversion of a first input to the Boolean logic cell, an inversion of a last output of the Boolean logic cell, and a selection of an AND gate or an OR gate as a final output of the Boolean logic cell. The Boolean logic cell also includes end of data circuitry configured to cause the Boolean logic cell to only output after an end of data signifying the end of a data stream is received at the Boolean logic cell.
US09866217B2	Voltage level shift circuit for multiple voltage integrated circuits A voltage level shift circuit comprises a first pair of transistors and a second pair of transistors. A first transistor of the second pair of transistors is coupled with an input signal terminal. A second transistor of the transistors of the second pair of transistors is coupled with an inverted input signal terminal. The transistors of the second pair of transistors are cross-coupled with the transistors of the first pair of transistors. The voltage level shift circuit also comprises a third pair of transistors. The transistors of the third pair of transistors are coupled with the transistors of the first pair of transistors and the transistors of the second pair of transistors. A first transistor of the third pair of transistors is directly coupled with an output signal terminal and second transistor of the third pair of transistors is directly coupled with an inverted output signal terminal.
US09866212B2	Tuning capacitance to enhance FET stack voltage withstand An RF switch to controllably withstand an applied RF voltage Vsw, or a method of fabricating such a switch, which includes a string of series-connected constituent FETs with a node of the string between each pair of adjacent FETs. The method includes controlling capacitances between different nodes of the string to effectively tune the string capacitively, which will reduce the variance in the RF switch voltage distributed across each constituent FET, thereby enhancing switch breakdown voltage. Capacitances are controlled, for example, by disposing capacitive features between nodes of the string, and/or by varying design parameters of different constituent FETs. For each node, a sum of products of each significant capacitor by a proportion of Vsw appearing across it may be controlled to approximately zero.
US09866210B2	Bridge circuits and their components A half bridge is described with at least one transistor having a channel that is capable in a first mode of operation of blocking a substantial voltage in at least one direction, in a second mode of operation of conducting substantial current in one direction through the channel and in a third mode of operation of conducting substantial current in an opposite direction through the channel. The half bridge can have two circuits with such a transistor.
US09866209B2	Radio frequency switch with improved switching time A radio frequency (RF) switch which comprises an RF domain section having a plurality of RF switching elements. A DC domain section is provided having circuitry configured for controlling the RF switching elements in response to one or more control signals. A resistive load is provided between the RF domain section and the DC domain section. A bypass circuit is configured for selectively bypassing at least a portion of the resistive load.
US09866202B2	Digitally controlled attenuators with low phase shift Digitally controlled attenuators with low phase shift are provided herein. In certain configurations, a digitally controlled attenuator includes an attenuation circuit electrically connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, a bypass circuit electrically connected in parallel with the attenuation circuit between the input terminal and the output terminal, and a plurality of phase compensation capacitors including a first phase compensation capacitor and a second phase compensation capacitor electrically connected in series between the input terminal and the output terminal. The bypass circuit is configured to receive a mode control signal for selecting the bypass circuit to control an amount of attenuation between the input terminal and the output terminal. Additionally, the phase compensation capacitors are operable to compensate for a phase difference between a first signal path through the attenuation circuit and a second signal path through the bypass circuit.
US09866196B2	Quasi-differential RF power amplifier with high level of harmonics rejection A quasi-differential amplifier with an input port and an output port. The amplifier has a phase shifter network with a first port connected to the input port, a second port, and a third port. A first amplifier has an input connected to the second port of the phase shifter network, and an output, and a second amplifier has an input connected to the third port of the phase shifter network, and an output. A balun circuit includes a first differential port connected to an output of the first amplifier, a second differential port connected to an output of the second amplifier, and a single-ended port. An output matching network is connected to the single-ended port of the balun circuit and to the output port.
US09866194B2	Electric power transmission device and electric power transmission method An electric power transmission device characterized in that the electric power transmission device includes a power transmitting unit which wirelessly transmits an electric power and a power receiving unit which receives the electric power, the power transmitting unit and the power receiving unit include a coil for electric power transmission and an inclusion unit made of a dielectric material covering the coil for electric power transmission, at least one of the power transmitting unit and the power receiving unit includes an impedance adjustment unit which varies the impedance thereof, and the electric power is transmitted at a resonance frequency determined by an impedance of the power transmitting unit, an impedance of the power receiving unit, and an impedance of the conducting medium.
US09866191B2	Audio control using auditory event detection In some embodiments, a method for processing an audio signal in an audio processing apparatus is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio signal and a parameter, the parameter indicating a location of an auditory event boundary. An audio portion between consecutive auditory event boundaries constitutes an auditory event. The method further includes applying a modification to the audio signal based in part on an occurrence of the auditory event. The parameter may be generated by monitoring a characteristic of the audio signal and identifying a change in the characteristic.
US09866188B2	Dead time circuit for a switching circuit and a switching amplifier A dead time circuit (750) for a switching circuit is disclosed. The dead-time circuit comprises: an input (752) for receiving a switching signal of the switching circuit with at least one supply rail having a ground bounce signal; first and second outputs (754a, 754b); a first feedforward path (756) coupled to the first output and arranged to receive the switching signal; a second feedforward path (758) coupled to the second output and arranged to receive the switching signal; a first feedback path (760) forming a first feedback loop between the first output and the second feedforward path; and a second feedback path (762) forming a second feedback loop between the second output and the first feedforward path; wherein each of the first and second feedforward paths includes a respective first and second delay circuit (764a, 764b), each having a time delay greater than a predetermined time period of the ground bounce signal. A switching amplifier is also disclosed.
US09866187B2	High efficiency class D amplifier with reduced generation of EMI A class-D amplifier includes a signal processing block. The signal processing block generates a first processed signal representing a difference between a first differential signal and a second differential signal, when a duty cycle of the first differential signal is greater than that of the second differential signal. The signal processing block generates the first processed signal representing a reference DC level, when the duty cycle of the first differential signal is less than that of the second differential signal. A second processed signal representing a difference between the second differential signal and the first differential signal is generated when the duty cycle of the second differential signal is greater than that of the first differential signal, and the second processed signal representing the reference DC level is generated when the duty cycle of the second differential signal is less than that of the first differential signal.
US09866185B2	Optical transmission circuit with upper and lower threshold control The high-speed and high-quality reception operation of a transimpedance amplifier of an optical communication module and a router including the same can be achieved. A preamplifier performs current/voltage conversion with respect to intersymbol interference due to bandwidth shortage of a laser diode. A threshold control circuit which generates positive and negative threshold voltages with respect to a center potential of an output signal, latch circuits, and a selector circuit are provided to the output of the preamplifier. An NRZ signal is received as a duobinary signal based on the sign determination result of the previous bit. The determination error rate of the latch circuits can thus be improved.
US09866184B1	Degenerated transimpedance amplifier with wire-bonded photodiode for reducing group delay distortion An integrated circuit includes a degeneration network configured to improve group delay across one or more variations, wherein the degeneration network includes a transimpedance amplifier with one or more degeneration inductors. The transimpedance amplifier further includes one or more transistors, and the one or more degeneration inductors are connected after at least one emitter of the one or more transistors.
US09866182B2	MRAM-based pre-distortion linearization and amplification circuits A circuit has a magnetic device to produce a pre-distorted signal from a sinusoidal input signal. The magnetic device has physical attributes selected to produce characteristics of the pre-distorted signal. A power amplifier is coupled to the magnetic device. The power amplifier processes the pre-distorted signal to produce an output signal with reduced nonlinear behavior associated with the power amplifier.
US09866172B2	Hollow supports and anchors for mechanical resonators A micromechanical resonator having one or more anchoring stems which are hollow to increase resonator Q factor. By way of example a micromechanical disk resonator embodiment is shown utilizing a resonant micromechanical disk anchored by a stem between at least one electrode used for input and output. To increase resonator Q, a hollow stem is utilized in which an outer thickness of stem material surrounds a hollow area interior of the stem, or that is fabricated with a plurality of vias and/or fabricated substructures containing hollow spaces in the stem material. Measurements have confirmed that Q values can be increased using the hollow core stems by a factor of 2.9 times in certain implementations and operating modes.
US09866169B1	Photovoltaic junction box with non-zero angle between diodes A photovoltaic junction box comprises a body having a first end and a second end opposite to each other in a lengthwise direction thereof, and a first side and a second side opposite to each other in a widthwise direction thereof, a plurality of conduction terminals disposed in the body, and a plurality of diodes each having an anode pin and a cathode pad respectively soldered on two adjacent conduction terminals. An angle between two adjacent diodes of the plurality of diodes is not equal to zero.
US09866167B2	Modular solar mobile generator A mobile solar generator for autonomous and continuous supply of electricity in a transportable automatically or semi-automatically unfolding/folding system. The mobile solar generator generally includes photovoltaic modules, energy storage (lithium ion batteries), power converters, and a mechanical system to fold/unfold the photovoltaic modules. The mobile solar generator may also optionally include a detachable trailer. The mobile solar generator typically has the ability to provide alternating current at a voltage of 120 or 230V single-phase or three-phase 400 V/460V 50 or 60 HZ. Electricity is generally provided by 12, 16 or 24 photovoltaic modules 347 W depending on the version of the product is typically a photovoltaic power 4, 5, or 8 KWp. The mobile solar generator can preferably be folded on itself for shipping purposes. The SMG can also include skids for water treatment or other skids which use the power generated by the SMG.
US09866166B2	Four-phase switched reluctance motor torque ripple two-level suppression method A four-phase switched reluctance motor torque ripple two-level suppression method in which power is supplied to adjacent phase A and phase B for excitation. The power supplied for excitation to phase A leads the power supplied for excitation to phase B by θr/4. An entire commutation process from phase A to phase B is divided into two intervals, phase A which uses the second set of torque thresholds while phase B uses the first set of torque thresholds. Critical position θ1 automatically appears in the commutation process, thus obviating the need for additional calculations. Total torque is controlled between [Te+th2low and Te+th2up]. In rotor position interval [θ1, θr/4], phase A continues to use the second set of torque thresholds, phase B continues to use the first set of torque thresholds, and the total torque is controlled between [Te+th1low and Te+th1up].
US09866165B2	Monitoring motor condition In various implementations, a condition of a motor may be monitored based at least partially on time required to achieve a change in speed. A notification may be transmitted based on the condition of the motor.
US09866163B2	Method for controlling operating speed and torque of electric motor Systems and methods for controlling the operating speed and the torque of an electric motor using an operational model are described. An operational model for the electric motor, including a plot of engine performance parameters, is used for reference, and a most efficient output path, which may pass through an optimal operation region in the operational model, is selected. The most efficient output path may be determined, for example, according to locations of a current output state and a to-be-reached target state in the operational model, enabling the operating state of the motor to reach the target state from the current operating state. By selecting a more efficient output path, the operating efficiency of the motor may be optimized, the life of a battery improved and/or the operating mileage of the vehicle may be increased, without significantly reducing the driving experience.
US09866161B1	Universal monitor and fault detector in fielded generators and method A method and system for monitoring an engine driven generator system (GMS) is provided herein. The system self-configures across generator types and manufacturers via a learning algorithm. Additional sensors are included in the system to provide a robust set of sensor data. Data analysis employed includes comparison to threshold levels, trending of historical data, and Wavelet analysis. A graphical touch screen is provided to users for both controlling the GMS and for viewing results. Monitoring results include operating conditions, existing faults, and warnings of undesirable conditions. Ethernet connections afford review of real time data, diagnostic feedback, and prognostic information at a central location. A sleep state of the GMS conserves generator battery life.
US09866158B2	Method and arrangement for monitoring a permanently excited synchronous machine The present disclosure provides a method for monitoring a rotor position sensor of a PSM machine having at least three phases operated by a field oriented control, where the electrical angle of the PSM machine may corresponds with a rotor position. A first calculation of the electrical angle of the PSM machine may be based on a measured mechanical rotor position and the pole-pair number of the PSM machine. A second calculation of the electrical angle of the PSM machine may be based on the phase of a phase current indicator and regulated target currents in the d,q-coordinate system. The method may include a comparison of the values of the respective electrical angles of the PSM machine determined by the first calculation and the second calculation.
US09866157B2	Method and apparatus for a position sensor for a transmission integrated synchronous motor A transmission assembly has an integrated torque machine including a torque machine stator and a torque machine rotor. The torque machine rotor includes at least one set of rotor magnets. An integrated rotational position sensor is configured to monitor rotational position of the torque machine rotor in relation to the torque machine stator. The integrated rotational position sensor includes a sensor rotor element and a sensor stator element. The sensor rotor element includes at least one set of sensor rotor magnets. The sensor rotor element is positioned such that the at least one set of sensor rotor magnets are aligned with respect to a rotor pole of the at least one set of rotor magnets of the torque machine rotor. The sensor stator element is positioned such that the sensor stator element is aligned with a magnetic axis of the torque machine stator.
US09866154B2	Drive system for induction motor Disclosed is a drive system for induction motor, including a two-phase induction motor, a power source filter circuit, an H-bridge power drive circuit and a controller MCU. The power source filter circuit is configured to filter out harmonic components of a DC power source, and generate a power source midpoint voltage required for driving; the controller MCU is configured to generate a switch control signal required for operation of the H-bridge power drive circuit; the H-bridge power drive circuit is configured to generate a drive current and transfer the drive current to the two-phase induction motor; and the two-phase induction motor is configured to receive the drive current generated by the H-bridge power drive circuit.
US09866153B2	Motor-driven appliance A motor-driven appliance includes a motor and a control unit that controls a drive output to the motor. The control unit detects a state amount indicating an operational state of the motor to derive a fluctuation range of fluctuation in the state amount. The control unit detects whether the motor is in an unloaded state or in a loaded state, based on the derived fluctuation range to perform the drive output to the motor, based on the detected result.
US09866152B2	Motor control topology for airborne power generation and systems using same In an example embodiment, a system includes a plurality of drive units coupled to a plurality of propellers. Each drive unit includes a single motor/generator and a single motor controller, and the plurality of drive units includes a first drive-unit pair and a second drive-unit pair. The system also includes a high-voltage bus connecting the motor controllers in the first drive-unit pair to a tether, a low-voltage bus connecting the motor controllers in the second drive-unit pair to the tether, and an intermediate-voltage bus connecting the motor controllers of the first drive-unit pair in series with the motor controllers of the second drive-unit pair. The motor controllers in the first drive-unit pair are connected in parallel via the high-voltage bus and the intermediate-voltage bus, and the motor controllers in the second drive-unit pair are connected in parallel via the intermediate-voltage bus and the low-voltage bus.
US09866151B2	Electrostatic chuck, glass substrate processing method, and said glass substrate An electrostatic chuck that enables high speed and high quality processing of a plate to be processed, and in which the weight of a base member is reduced and the strength thereof increased so as to maintain the flatness of the base member and prevent the plate to be processed from falling; a glass substrate processing method; and said glass substrate. An electrostatic chuck (1) provided with a base member (2) and an electrostatic suction layer (3). The base member (2) is formed by a lower-surface plate (20), side-surface plates (21-24), and an upper-surface plate (25), and has a part (4) for a plurality of individual structures configured therein. The part (4) for a plurality of individual structures has a honeycomb structure that is caused by regular hexagonal tubes (40) and enables the weight of the base member (2) to be reduced and the strength thereof increased.
US09866145B2	Control of leakage currents in systems with a plurality of parallel inverters There is described an electrical energy conversion system comprising: at least a first inverter (1) and at least a second inverter (2), whose outputs are connected in parallel; at least a first DC voltage source (PV1) connected to the input of the first inverter (1) and a second DC voltage source (PV2) connected to the input of the second inverter (2); a ground connection of the first inverter (1) and a ground connection of the second inverter (2). The ground connection of said inverters comprises a ground connection branch (1G; 2G) with a current sensor (5/1; 5/2) which supplies a signal proportional to a leakage grounding current (Ileak) measured in said ground connection branch (1G; 2G). Through the signal proportional to the leakage current measured a feedback signal is generated to control the leakage current (Ileak).
US09866144B2	Three port converter with dual independent maximum power point tracking and dual operating modes A method and apparatus for a three port converter with independent dual input comprising: a first DC port for coupling a first half-bridge circuit of the three-port converter to a first external DC line, a second DC port for coupling a second half-bridge circuit of the three-port converter to a second external DC line, wherein the second half-bridge circuit is decoupled from the first half-bridge circuit, and an AC port for coupling to an external AC line, wherein (i) the first half-bridge circuit and the second half-bridge circuit are operated as a full H-bridge during a full-bridge operating mode, and (ii) the first half-bridge circuit or the second half-bridge circuit is operated as a half H-bridge during a half-bridge operating mode.
US09866143B2	Switching device A switching device according to the present invention is a switching device for switching a load by on-off control of voltage, and includes an SiC semiconductor layer where a current path is formed by on-control of the voltage, a first electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer, and a second electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer for conducting with the first electrode due to the formation of the current path, while the first electrode has a variable resistance portion made of a material whose resistance value increases under a prescribed high-temperature condition for limiting current density of overcurrent to not more than a prescribed value when the overcurrent flows to the current path.
US09866141B2	Chopped electrical energy converter A chopped current input electrical energy converter includes at least one conversion module (K1, K2) generating at least one first output signal (Vout1) and one second output signal (Vout2) and including: a transformer (10), an input switching stage (20) controlling the transfer of electrical energy to the transformer (10), and at least one first output stage (30) and one second output stage (40), the first output stage (30) generating the first output signal (Vout1), and the second output stage (40) generating the second output signal (Vout2); the level of the first output signal (Vout1) reflected at a primary winding (11) of the transformer (10) is greater than the level of the second output signal (Vout2) reflected at the primary winding (11) of the transformer (10).
US09866140B2	AC/DC power converting apparatus with AC source shortcircuiting for power factor correction and harmonic suppression A power converting apparatus includes a rectifier that converts alternating-current power from an alternating-current power supply into direct-current power, a short-circuit unit that short-circuits the alternating-current power supply via a reactor, and a control unit that controls a short-circuit operation of the short-circuit unit. The control unit changes the number of times of the short-circuit operation during a half cycle of the alternating-current power supply on the basis of a load condition and sets a period from a start to an end of the short-circuit operation during the half cycle of the alternating-current power supply after the change of the number of times of the short-circuit operation to be different from a period from a start to an end of the short-circuit operation during the half cycle of the alternating-current power supply before the change of the number of times of the short-circuit operation.
US09866138B2	Voltage source converter and control thereof A voltage source converter of the controlled transition bridge type, having three phase limbs, each phase limb having a high &de director switch (Sw1 Sw3, Sw5) and a low side director switch (Sw4, Sw6, Sw2) connecting a respective DC terminal (DC+, DC−) to an AC node for that phase limb. Chain-link circuits for each phase limb comprise a plurality of series connect cells, each cell having an energy storage element that can be selectively connected in series or bypassed. The chain-link circuits are operated in a voltage mode to provide a defined voltage transition at the AC node during a transition between one director switch being turned off and the other director switch being turned on. Chain-link circuits are connected to a common node such that, in use, a current can flow from one phase limb to another via the respective chain-link circuits.
US09866135B2	Power conversion device including primary inverter, transformer, secondary converter A power conversion device includes first and second terminals connected to a DC power source, third and fourth terminals connected to a commercial power system or a load, a transformer including a primary winding having seventh and eighth terminals and a secondary winding having fifth and sixth terminals, an inverter circuit connected between the first and second terminals and the seventh and eighth terminals, a converter circuit connected between the fifth and sixth terminals and the third and fourth terminals, a diode bridge including first and second AC input terminals connected to the fifth and sixth terminals, respectively, and first and second DC output terminals, a first capacitor connected between the first and second DC output terminals, and a first resistor connected in parallel with the first capacitor between the first and second DC output terminals.
US09866129B2	Power conversion device including primary inverter, transformer, secondary converter, and controller A power converter includes first to fourth terminals, a transformer including primary and secondary windings, an inverter connected between the first and second terminals and the primary winding, a converter connected between fifth and sixth terminals, and a controller. The converter includes first to eighth switch circuits each including a diode and a switch connected in parallel. When a voltage between the fifth and sixth terminals has first polarity, the controller controls the first switch circuit to be in on-state during a first on-period and controls the fifth switch circuit to be in on-state during a second on-period completely including the first on-period. When the voltage between the fifth and sixth terminals has second polarity, the controller controls the second switch circuit to be in on-state during a third on-period and controls the sixth switch circuit to be in on-state during a fourth on-period completely including the third on-period.
US09866128B2	Semiconductor device and switching power supply device A semiconductor device including a first filter, a second filter, a first comparison circuit, a second comparison circuit and an AND circuit. The first filter generates a first output signal by performing first filtering processing on an input signal of the semiconductor device, the first filter having a first time constant. The second filter generates a second output signal by performing second filtering processing on the first output signal, the second filter having a second time constant different from the first time constant. The first comparison circuit compares the first output signal with a first threshold voltage, to thereby output a first level signal. The second comparison circuit compares the second output signal with a second threshold voltage, to thereby output a second level signal. The AND circuit performs an AND operation on the first and second level signals.
US09866127B2	Electrical power converting device An electrical power converting device includes: a converter circuit part that includes a switching circuit and a transformer and converts a voltage between a voltage on a high voltage power source side and a voltage on a low voltage power source side in an unidirectional or bidirectional manner; a filter circuit part that is connected to a low-voltage side of the converter circuit part and includes an inductor and a capacitor; a control circuit board on which a control part is mounted, the control part controlling the switching circuit; and a metal housing in which an interior space of the housing is divided into a first accommodation space and a second accommodation space by a partition wall including a cooling liquid flow path, wherein the converter circuit part is arranged in the first accommodation space, and the filter circuit and the control circuit board are arranged in the second accommodation space.
US09866123B2	Power converter with dynamic preload A power converter with a dynamic preload. The power converter includes a magnetic component coupled between an input and an output of the power converter. The output of the power converter has an output voltage for providing power to a load. A switch is adapted to control current through the magnetic component according to on and off times of the switch. A dynamic preload circuit is coupled to the output of the power converter. The dynamic preload has loading characteristics that are adjusted responsive to a signal indicative of an output voltage at the output of the power converter.
US09866121B2	Tracking energy consumption using a boost-buck technique The invention relates to an apparatus and method for tracking energy consumption. An energy tracking system comprises at least one switching element, at least one inductor and a control block to keep the output voltage at a pre-selected level. The switching elements are configured to apply the source of energy to the inductors. The control block compares the output voltage of the energy tracking system to a reference value and controls the switching of the switched elements in order to transfer energy for the primary voltage into a secondary voltage at the output of the energy tracking system. The electronic device further comprises an ON-time and OFF-time generator and an accumulator wherein the control block is coupled to receive a signal from the ON-time and OFF-time generator and generates switching signals for the at least one switching element in the form of ON-time pulses with a constant width ON-time.
US09866118B2	Dead-time compensation in a power supply system One embodiment includes a power supply system. The system includes a pulse-width modulation (PWM) system configured to generate a PWM signal. The system also includes a power stage comprising a gate driver, a high-side switch, and a low-side switch. The gate driver can be configured to alternately activate the high-side and low-side switches to provide an output signal to a load in response to the PWM signal, and to provide an activation dead-time between the alternate activation of the high-side and low-side switches. The system further includes a digital delay system configured to measure the activation dead-time and to add the measured activation dead-time to the activation of the high-side switch.
US09866117B2	Power supply with adaptive-controlled output voltage A power supply circuit includes a pre-regulator configured to receive an input voltage and to generate an output voltage, and a switching current regulator coupled to an output of the pre-regulator and configured to regulate a level of current supplied to an output load. The switching current regulator is controlled by a switching signal having a duty cycle. The circuit further includes a controller that generates the switching signal. The controller monitors the duty cycle of the switching signal and controls a level of the output voltage generated by the pre-regulator by providing a control signal in response to the duty cycle of the switching signal.
US09866114B2	Transitioning a power supply from a mode to another mode in response to a length of a portion of a current pulse An embodiment of a power-supply controller includes a switching circuit and a transition circuit. The switching circuit is configured to generate a regulated output voltage by generating first current pulses at an approximately fixed frequency during a first mode, and generating second current pulses at a variable frequency during a second mode. And the transition circuit is configured to transition the switching circuitry from the first mode to the second mode in response to a length of one of the first current pulses. For example, a power supply may include such a power-supply controller to transition the supply from a PWM mode to a PFM mode under light-load conditions. To cause this transition at a predictable load point, the controller may monitor the lengths of the current pulses during the PWM mode, and may transition the supply to a PFM mode in response to the lengths being below a threshold.
US09866111B1	Regulated charge pump circuit Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit for providing a power supply. The circuit includes a control signal generator circuit and a switch network circuit. The control signal generator circuit is configured to generate a control signal with a voltage level that is a function of an output voltage on a load capacitor. The switch network circuit is coupled with the load capacitor and a flying capacitor to form a charge pump circuit. The switch network circuit is configured to charge the flying capacitor in a charge stage and pump the flying capacitor in a pump stage to generate the output voltage on the load capacitor. The switch network circuit is configured to provide a pump control voltage to the flying capacitor during the pump stage. The pump control voltage has a voltage level that is adjusted based on the control signal to maintain the output voltage to be stable.
US09866110B2	DC-DC switched capacitor voltage converter with series and parallel switched capacitors during discharge A switched capacitor voltage converter is provided that includes an array of switches configured to alternately switch multiple capacitors between a charge configuration in which the multiple capacitors are coupled in series with each other and in parallel with the source voltage and a discharge configuration in which a first set of capacitors having n capacitors are coupled in parallel with each other and in series with the load and a second set of capacitors having m capacitors coupled in parallel with the load.
US09866104B2	Circuits and methods for operating a switching regulator The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for controlling the operation of a switching regulator. Closing and opening high side and low side switches may be controlled so that an inductor current may be used to charge and/or discharge an intermediate switching node when both switches are open. In one embodiment, delays between a low-to-high transition and a high-to-low transition of an AC stage may be cycled over multiple periods of a DC stage.
US09866097B2	High speed turbine A number of configurations of a high speed electromagnetic turbine (1300) are discussed. The turbine (1300) includes a housing (1301) includes at least superconducting coil (1307) for the generation of a magnetic field, the coil being retained within a cryogenic envelope of a cryogenic body (1306). The turbine (1300) includes also includes rotor assembly including one or more rotors (13091), (13092), (13093), (13094), (13095) and (13096) positioned on shaft (1310). The rotor being received within the bore (1308) formed between the interior walls of the body (1306) such that it is immersed in the magnetic field. As the current is passed through the rotor assembly the induced force due to the interaction of the current with the magnetic is translated into a torque on the shaft (1310).
US09866093B2	Brushless DC motor with permanent magnet rotor The brushless DC motor of the present invention comprises a permanent magnet rotor rotating coaxially with and inside of the stator containing the electric windings, separated by a radial, axially extending gap. The rotor can be formed of four or more permanent, e.g., ferrite ceramic magnets, spaced substantially equidistantly circumferentially around the rotor and extending radially along the axial length of the rotor. The preferred ferrite magnets are substantially corrosion resistant, and thus durable in the wet rotor environment, in which it may be used, sufficient to withstand the effects of even hot salt water. Preferably, four of the permanent magnets are bar magnets, i.e., rectangular in cross-section, extending radially and perpendicularly to the adjacent magnets. Most preferably, the bar magnets are separated by generally wedge-shaped, or quadrant-shaped, sections of magnetic material. The permanent magnets are polarized so that the north-south flux lines extend transversely to each adjacent magnet, most preferably forming a so-called Halbach Array. This brushless DC motor is especially useful for driving wet rotor pumps, wherein the particular combination of elements forming the rotor results in a highly efficient, effective and durable motor.
US09866091B2	Motor apparatus for vehicle A motor apparatus for a vehicle includes a motor unit, an inverter unit, a case, and a pump. The case has a motor space accommodating the motor unit, two or more inverter spaces each accommodating the inverter unit, and a cooling passage. The inverter spaces are provided adjacent to the motor space via respective walls, and each accommodating at least one of the capacitor, the power converter, and the control circuit. The cooling passage includes a first cooling part configured to cool the power converter and a second cooling part configured to cool the capacitor. A length of the cooling passage from a discharging part of the pump to the first cooling part is made shorter than a length of the cooling passage from the discharging part to the second cooling part.
US09866087B2	Cooling structure for cooling a stator core of a rotating electrical machine and method of manufacturing the cooling structure A cooling structure for cooling a stator core of a rotating electrical machine includes: a stator core (1b) arranged along an outer periphery of a rotor fixed to a rotary shaft (AX) of a rotating electrical machine; a stator frame (2) extending along an outer peripheral surface of the stator core (1b), the stator frame being configured to fix and support the stator core from the outer peripheral surface side thereof; and a motor case (7) having small-diameter end portions on both sides in an axial direction of the rotary shaft (AX), the small-diameter end portions being welded with airtightness onto an outer peripheral surface of the stator frame so that the motor case forms a space, which is the coolant flow path (CC), together with the outer peripheral surface of the stator frame.
US09866086B2	Electrical machine having a housing over a partial circumference An electric machine has a stator and a rotor. The rotor is arranged on a rotor shaft that can be rotated about an axis of rotation. The stator surrounds the rotor radially on the outside with respect to the axis of rotation. The stator is surrounded radially on the outside by a one-piece housing with respect to the axis of rotation. As viewed around the axis of rotation, the housing extends only over a partial angular range. As viewed around the axis of rotation, a remaining angular range, in which the stator is not surrounded by the housing, thus remains. In end regions located at the ends of the partial angular range, the housing has housing-side form-closure elements, which cause a form closure of the housing with the stator in interaction with stator-side form-closure elements.
US09866083B2	Stator for rotating electric machine A stator includes an annular stator core and a stator coil. The stator core has U-phase slots, V-phase slots and W-phase slots sequentially and repeatedly provided in pairs in its circumferential direction. The stator coil has U-phase, V-phase and W-phase windings respectively received in the U-phase, V-phase and W-phase slots. In each of the slots, there are received 2×N in-slot portions of a corresponding one of the phase windings in radial alignment with each other, where N≧2. Each of the phase windings consists of a pair of sub-windings connected parallel to each other. Each of the sub-windings includes winding sections that are classified into N winding section groups. Each of the winding sections of (N−1) winding section groups is connected via only serial connection, and each of the winding sections of the remaining one winding section group is connected via both serial connection and parallel connection.
US09866082B2	Rotor and a motor and compressor comprising the rotor The invention relates to a rotor and a motor and compressor comprising the rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core defining an outer periphery, a bore concentric with a center of the rotor core, a plurality of magnet slots positioned on the outer periphery, and a plurality of oil holes located radially outward from the center between the bore and the magnet slots. Each oil hole includes a body portion and at least one projected portion. The projected portions are located radially outward from the body portions and positioned between the body portions and the magnet slots. The projected portions may increase the contact area of the compressor oil with the rotor core to effectively cool down the rotor core. Another advantage of the projected portions may be to further cool down the magnets in the magnet slots. Cooling the magnets may protect against their demagnetization.
US09866081B2	Motor rotor assembly and motor comprising the same A motor rotor assembly including: a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, and end plates. The permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor core, and the end plates are disposed at two end surfaces of the rotor core, respectively. A plurality of grooves is disposed at the outer edge of the top surface of the end plates, a plurality of convex columns protrudes from the bottom wall of the end plates.
US09866080B2	Compressor, motor included therein, and method for manufacturing the motor A compressor includes a motor which includes a stator assembly configured to include a stator in which a hollow is formed, a plurality of coils formed by a winding wound on the stator, and an insulator for insulating the stator from the coils, and a rotor inserted into the hollow, configured to rotate about a rotation axis. The rotor includes a plurality of poles, and a curvature radius of an outer circumference of a center part of the poles is different from a curvature radius of an outer circumference of an edge part of the poles. A method for fabricating a motor includes coupling a stator hook formed in a busbar assembly having a plurality of busbars to a hook engaging part formed in the stator assembly having the plurality of coils, and fusing a winding onto a folded plate connected to the plurality of busbars.
US09866070B2	Secure wireless power access protocol suited for implementing levels of service in public and private environments Embodiments are directed to a system for transferring power wirelessly from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter having a transmitter processor and a transmitter antenna. The system includes the transmitter processor configured to convert electric power signals to an electromagnetic field (EMF); associate each of a plurality of keys with one of a plurality of operating frequencies, and store the plurality of keys associated with the plurality of operating frequencies in a table; select one of the plurality of operating frequencies stored in the table as an active operating frequency, wherein the active operating frequency is assigned as the current operating frequency of the transmitter antenna, and wherein the key associated with the active operating frequency is assigned as an active key; wirelessly transmit to the receiver the EMF at the active operating frequency; and wirelessly transmit to the receiver the table and an identification of the active key.
US09866065B2	Energy transmission apparatus and method An apparatus and method for wirelessly transmitting electromagnetic energy are provided. The apparatus includes a power source, a transmission unit, and a measurement unit. The power source supplies a power according to a certain frequency. The transmission unit receives the power to wirelessly transmit the received power through self resonance. The measurement unit measures a phase difference between a voltage and current of the transmission unit. The certain frequency is controlled according to the phase difference. Accordingly, the apparatus and method control only the frequency of the power supply when a resonance frequency is changed by the change of an ambient environment, thus enhancing energy transmission efficiency.
US09866064B2	Apparatus and method for monitoring substation disconnects and transmission line switches An apparatus and method for continuously monitoring substation disconnects and transmission line switches to detect improper closing of the disconnects or switches is disclosed. The method includes the step of providing an apparatus adapted to measure, process, and transmit data associated with a disconnect or switch. The method further includes the steps of positioning the apparatus on or in close proximity to the disconnect or switch, using the apparatus to collect data of the disconnect or switch and processing the data for transmission to a remote receiver, and transmitting the processed data to a remote receiver.
US09866063B2	Fault-tolerant power distribution systems for a modular power plant Fault-tolerant power distribution systems for modular power plants are discussed. The systems enable the transmission of a portion of the power generated by a modular power plant to remote consumers. The systems also enable the local distribution of another portion of the generated power within the power plant. The various fault-tolerant systems enable the plant to continuously, and without degradation or disruption, transmit power to remote consumers and distribute power within in the power plant in the event of one or more faults within the distribution system. The various embodiments include redundant power-transmission paths, power-distribution module feeds, switchgear, and other hardware components. Such redundant transmission paths and hardware enable the systems to continuously, and without degradation or disruption, transmit power to remote consumers and locally distribute power to the power plant when one or more faults occur within one or more of the redundant power-transmission paths and/or hardware components.
US09866060B2	Apparatus for performing hybrid power control in an electronic device to allow charging using any of high power adaptors corresponding to different voltages An apparatus for performing hybrid power control in an electronic device includes a charger positioned in the electronic device, and the charger is arranged for selectively charging a battery of the electronic device. In addition, at least one portion of the charger is implemented within a charger chip, and the charger may include: a plurality of terminals that are positioned on the charger chip; a plurality of switching units, positioned on the charger chip; and at least one control circuit, positioned on the charger chip and coupled to the plurality of switching units. For example, the control circuit may be arranged for controlling the plurality of switching units to allow charging using any of a plurality of adaptors corresponding to different voltages, wherein a first charging path and a second charging path of the charger correspond to a first adaptor and a second adaptor within the plurality of adaptors, respectively.
US09866056B2	Lithium sulfur battery pulse charging method and pulse waveform Provided are methods and apparatus for charging a lithium sulfur (Li—S) battery. The Li—S battery has at least one unit cell comprising a lithium-containing anode and a sulfur-containing cathode with an electrolyte layer there between. One method provides controlled application of voltage pulses at the beginning of the charging process. An application period is initiated after a discharge cycle of the Li—S battery is complete. During the application period, voltage pulses are provided to the Li—S battery. The voltage pulses are less than a constant current charging voltage. Constant current charging is initiated after the application period has elapsed.
US09866055B2	Automatic scheme to detect multi-standard charger types Techniques are described herein for detecting one of multiple (e.g., at least three) charger types that may be connected to a portable device. In response to detecting a charging device (e.g., a charger) of a particular charger type, the portable device is configured to charge its battery by drawing the maximum voltage and/or current that is/are allowed by the particular charger type. In an example embodiment, a portable device detects a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection to a charging device and determines whether the charging device conforms to a first, second, or third charger type based on voltages on data lines of the USB connection. The portable device then charges its battery at maximum charging power available from the charging device according to the third charger type.
US09866051B2	Adaptive charger to maximize charge rate An electrical system for charging an electrochemical cell or battery pack is described. The system is configured to dynamically modify the magnitude of the charge power based on the amplitude of the available power source. The system comprises a master control unit which measures the strength of the available incoming power source and dynamically modifies the charge current used to charge an electrochemical cell or battery pack based on the strength of the incoming electrical power available to the system.
US09866050B2	Battery cell charge equalization Battery cell charge equalization devices, systems and methods are provided. A particular method includes receiving a charging current at a battery charge equalization circuit coupled to a battery cell of a multi-cell battery. The method also includes routing at least a portion of the charging current away from the battery cell when a voltage of the battery cell satisfies a first voltage threshold. The method further includes establishing a second voltage threshold in response to the voltage of the battery cell satisfying the first voltage threshold. The second voltage threshold is lower than the first voltage threshold. The charging current is routed away from the battery cell while the voltage of the battery cell satisfies the second voltage threshold.
US09866048B2	Feeding device An electric power is fed from a wireless feeding device to a feeding device, and the feeding device feeds the electric power to an object to which the electric power is fed. The feeding device includes a power receiving module, a power circuit and a controller. The power receiving module receives the electric power from the wireless feeding device. The electric power is fed from the power receiving module or from an AC adapter to the power circuit and the power circuit feeds the electric power to the object to which the electric power is fed. The controller interrupts a supply of the electric power from the AC adapter.
US09866044B1	Combined vehicle and standard electrical outlet charger The combined vehicle and standard electrical outlet charger is a device that is adapted to receive power from multiple power sources to power a plurality of USB ports for use in charging electronic devices. The combined vehicle and standard electrical outlet charger is specifically adapted to draw power either from the national power grid or a standard 12 Vdc electrical system and is capable of powering a plurality of USB ports with 5 volts of power at 2.0 amps each. The combined vehicle and standard electrical outlet charger comprises a car adapter plug, a NEMA 1 plug, a housing, and charging circuitry.
US09866043B2	Apparatuses and methods for removing defective energy storage cells from an energy storage array Apparatuses and methods for removing a defective energy storage cell from an energy storage array is described. An apparatus includes an energy storage array including a plurality of energy storage cells, and a cell removal circuit coupled to the energy storage array. The cell removal circuit is configured to prevent a defective energy storage cell of the plurality of energy storage cells from causing other energy storage cells of the plurality of energy storage cells to become defective. A method includes receiving power at a charging node of an energy storage array, the energy storage array including a plurality of energy storage cells. Responsive to failure of an energy storage cell of the plurality of energy storage cells, current is provided through the defective energy storage cell, and responsive to the defective energy storage cell becoming an open circuit, discontinuing provision of the current through the defective energy storage cell.
US09866037B2	Power receiving device, wireless power-supplying system, and cover unit A wireless power-supplying system includes a power-supplying coil disposed on a ground contact surface side, a power-receiving coil mounted on a movable body and to which power is wirelessly supplied from the power-supplying coil, a cover member provided in the movable body and configured to be opened and closed and cover the power-receiving coil in a closed state, and a bag configured to expand and contract and to open and close the cover member.
US09866034B2	Power transfer unit, method for power transfer, and receiver This power transfer unit includes a power supply portion and a control portion, and the control portion acquires proper voltage ranges of a plurality of receivers and sets a supply voltage value in a common range among the proper voltage ranges.
US09866029B2	Enhancing power system voltage stability using grid energy storage for voltage support Systems and methods for voltage control in an energy distribution system (EDS), including measuring voltage and current at a node in the EDS where a Grid Energy Storage (GES) device is located. A simplified equivalent of the EDS is generated by identifying parameters for the equivalent and calculating phasors corresponding to the measured voltage and current. At least one of a voltage stability index or a voltage sensitivity factor of the EDS is calculated using the equivalent, and at least one of charging or discharging of the EDS is adjusted based on at least one of the voltage stability index or the voltage sensitivity factor to regulate and stabilize voltage of the EDS.
US09866021B2	Load power device, system and method of load control and management employing load identification A load power device includes a power input, at least one power output for at least one load, a plurality of sensors structured to sense voltage and current at the at least one power output, and a processor. The processor provides: (a) load identification based upon the sensed voltage and current, and (b) load control and management based upon the load identification.
US09866019B2	Control apparatus for an energy distribution system and method for controlling an energy distribution system An exemplary control apparatus for an energy distribution system includes a connection to an alternating current supply system and a plurality of predetermined loads each having an energy storage capacity and being electrically connected as by a respective switching device to the alternating current supply system for a duration of a half-wave or a whole number times said half-wave. The respective switching devices are supplied electrical energy from the alternating current supply system for a respective control time period within a predetermined common cycle time period. The start and end of the respective control time periods within the common cycle time period are established prior to the start of said common cycle time period to create a substantially constant loading graph. The optimization procedure is based at least one load in lieu of a continuous control time period having at least two non-continuous block time periods of equal total duration.
US09866016B2	Multiport power converter with load detection capabilities Power converters are provided that convert alternating current (AC) power to direct current (DC) power. A power converter may have multiple ports. Each port may have an associated connector with multiple power and data terminals. When an electronic device is connected to a given port, the electronic device draws DC power from the power converter. To ensure that the capacity of the power converter is not exceeded when multiple devices are connected to the ports of the power converter, the power converter may actively monitor its ports for active loads. Load detection circuitry can determine what number of ports are active. Control circuitry can compute a per-port available DC power level based on the number of active ports and can provide this information to connected devices.
US09866012B2	Method and system for reporting faults and control in an electrical power grid A system and method for reporting and control in an electrical power distribution grid including a plurality of sensor devices forming a sensor network are disclosed. Each sensor device monitors and measures attributes of line current for an associated electrical power distribution line at a selected location. Control sensor devices will have control capabilities in addition to its monitoring and measurement capabilities. The sensor devices can detect a fault in a branch of the power grid and send control and fault detected messages to an adjacent upstream sensor on a wireless network comprising a plurality of contention access and contention free time slots wherein a number of the contention free time slots is equal to or greater than a number of sensors in the plurality of sensors.
US09866011B2	Device and method for interrupting battery current A device and a method are provided for interrupting battery current using a latch relay for substantially high current interruption, which enable the latch relay to return to an ON position after operating to an OFF position. Accordingly, the latch relay for substantially high current interruption is operated to return to an ON (closed) position in only a normal state other than a short-circuit state by self-diagnosing the presence of occurrence of a short circuit before the latch relay attempts to return to the ON (closed) position after operating to an OFF (open) position. Therefore the latch relay may not become fixed and damaged due to the returning of the latch relay to the ON (closed) position during a short-circuit state, thereby guaranteeing the reuse of the latch relay.
US09866009B2	Protection circuit There is provided a protection circuit that is mounted between an AC adapter and a load circuit, operates with power supplied from the AC adapter, has a soft start function, and can perform overvoltage protection and the like.An audio device 10 is configured to include a protection circuit 20 at the side of the AC adapter 8, as well as a load circuit 12 that is an audio circuit body and a speaker. The protection circuit 20 includes an input terminal 22 connected to the AC adapter 8, an output terminal 24 connected to the load circuit 12, a power supply line 25 extending toward the output terminal 24 from the input terminal 22, a switch unit 26 and a DC/DC converter 28, the switch unit 26 and the DC/DC converter 28 being provided along the power supply line 25, and a protection circuit unit 30 that detects a voltage state or a current state on the power supply line 25 and protects the DC/DC converter 28 and the load circuit 12.
US09866008B2	Apparatus for controlling power source A safety unit is provided for this purpose, and includes a position determining unit, a speed determining unit, a logical product unit, and a stopping unit. When a rotation amount (positional data) of an encoder rotating in connection with a rotation shaft of a servo motor falls within a predetermined limiting range, the position determining unit outputs a command for stopping a motor to a logical product unit. When rotation speed of the encoder rotating in connection with the rotation shaft of the servo motor falls within a predetermined limiting range, the speed determining unit outputs the command for stopping the motor to the logical product unit. This control by the logical product unit requires a stop command from both the position and speed determining units. The logical product unit informs the stopping unit to stop the servo motor to a controller.
US09866005B2	Perfected device for fixing elongated bodies, in particular coaxial wires, to a supporting cable A device for fixing elongated bodies to a supporting cable includes a body containing a seat for the supporting cable and a seat for the elongated body, wherein, for the independent closing of the seats, a lid is provided that closes the seat of the supporting cable and a lid that closes the seat of the elongated body. A device according to the invention offers the advantage of not requiring the perfect positioning of the coaxial wire with respect to the supporting cable by having a distinct or separate system for fixing the device onto the coaxial wire and supporting cable, respectively. Another advantage of a device according to the invention lies in its autonomy because it does not require additional elements for consolidating the installation.
US09866003B2	Self-indexing nut plate An aircraft comprises a secondary support structure and a nut plate engaging the secondary support structure. The nut plate includes at least one locator protrusion engaging a mounting hole in the secondary support structure to constrain motion of the nut plate along the secondary support structure. The nut plate further includes means for additionally constraining motion of the nut plate away from the secondary support structure.
US09866002B2	Recessed support for hidden sockets A recessed support, preferably in a recessed box, for hidden sockets, comprises a front face from which a recessed compartment extends which is destined to house electric plugs inserted in the sockets and which has an inclined lateral wall on which at least an electrical socket is afforded. A slidable cover is associated to the front face, which is constrained to the body of the support by guide and sliding means so as to be slidable between a closed position for covering the compartment and an open position which uncovers the compartment. Also present are a first and a second blocking screw of the socket to the inclined lateral wall; both the first and the second blocking screw in turn comprise: a stem having at least a threaded portion; a screwing head having a transversal dimension that is greater than the stem; the stem being interposed between the cover in the closed position and the head.
US09866001B2	Electrical connector with release and fit buttons The present invention is a connector for connecting an electrical cable to an aperture in an electrical panel. The assembled connector has a spring ring, a shell, and a block along a longitudinal axis. The spring ring has a base from which two insertion tabs extend coaxial with the axis. The block has a joining wall and a springing feature. The shell has a through opening coaxial with the axis. The insertion tabs retain the spring ring in the shell's through opening, and the springing feature retains the block in the shell's through opening. The insertion tabs of the spring ring have hook latches extending past the block that lock the connector in the panel. And the base of the spring ring has a hole to receive the cable where first and second clamping tabs clampably lock the cable in the connector.
US09866000B2	Cable ladder A cable ladder formed by two side rails and crosspieces, all formed of extruded polymer material. The side rails have a channel receiving a corresponding end of the crosspieces. The channel has a lower rib and an upper rib. A projection of the lower rib or upper rib has openings along a longitudinal direction of the side rail. The ends of the crosspieces go through the opening of the projection and have a recess in which a corresponding portion of the channel is snap-fitted. The lower rib of the side rails is bent over itself along a bending line, such that a final section of the lower rib experiences downward expansion by elastic bending when the end of the crosspiece is introduced.
US09865998B1	Electrical bus interlaced technique for a shared resource distributed electrical power distribution system A method, apparatus, and system are described for a radial bus Shared Resource Distributed electrical power Distribution System, which has multiple electrical power distribution platforms and a radial power distribution bus. The multiple electrical power distribution platforms are coupled to the radial bus in an interlaced fashion to supply AC electrical power to the downstream electrical loads. The electrical loads are dual corded and are configured to nominally receive AC electrical power from two separate power distribution platforms. A first power distribution platform electrically connects to a first set of the dual corded electrical loads. Also, the first power distribution platform electrically connects to a second set of the dual corded electrical loads. A second power distribution platform electrically connects to the first set of the dual corded electrical loads, and the second power distribution platform electrically connects to a third set of the dual corded electrical loads.
US09865997B2	Double shutter shroud and tunnel for MCC bus connections A double shutter shroud (5) and a flexible sheath (11) surrounding a stab (10) of an MCC unit, form a protective tunnel (30) for the stab to connect to a bus 4. A first shroud (6) mounted on the bus, includes a first gate (12). A second shroud (20) mounted on the MCC unit includes a second gate (24). When the MCC unit slides into an MCC section, a unit key (16) opens the first gate. When the stab is advanced toward the bus, a stab key (28) opens the second gate, forming a protective tunnel (30) from the flexible sheath and through the first and second shrouds. The protective tunnel protects the stab and bus from contamination, helps prevent dielectric breakdowns and short circuits between different phase busses, and protects an operator from electrical hazard of touching the bus or stab with tools or fingers.
US09865995B2	Overvoltage protection plug An overvoltage protection plug is disclosed. The plug includes a housing forming a body, a handle, and an insertion portion. The plug further includes a circuit board mounted at least partially within the body. A portion of the circuit board protrudes from the housing at the insertion portion and includes metallic connection pads configured for interconnection to a connection block. The plug also includes a gas tube mounted to the circuit board and residing within the housing, the gas tube electrically connected to the metallic connection pads by a plurality of circuit traces on the circuit board. The handle of the housing can extend rearward from a top edge of the housing. The body can include an interior cavity having generally parallel side walls including a thinned region surrounding the gas tube. A circuit connection block assembly is also disclosed.
US09865992B2	Method for mode control in multimode semiconductor waveguide lasers One embodiment is a wide stripe semiconductor waveguide, which is cleaved at a Talbot length thereof, the wide stripe semiconductor waveguide having facets with mirror coatings. A system provides for selective pumping the wide stripe semiconductor waveguide to create and support a Talbot mode. In embodiments according to the present method and apparatus the gain is patterned so that a single unique pattern actually has the highest gain and hence it is the distribution that oscillates.
US09865989B2	Compensation of distortion from SBS/IIN suppression modulation A method includes modulating a laser that is coupled to a fiber; modulating the laser with a member selected from the group consisting of low frequency thermal modulation or bias modulation to broaden a laser linewidth, increase an SBS threshold and reduce an IIN; and modulating the laser with a predistorting modulation selected from the group consisting of phase modulation or amplitude modulation, the predistorting modulation being of equal magnitude but opposite phase as that produced in at least one member selected from the group consisting of the laser or the fiber as a result of the low frequency thermal modulation or bias modulation. An apparatus includes a laser; and a fiber coupled to the laser, wherein the laser is i) modulated ii) modulated with a member selected from the group consisting of low frequency thermal modulation or bias modulation to broaden a laser linewidth, increase an SBS threshold and reduce an IIN and iii) modulated with a predistorting modulation selected from the group consisting of phase modulation or amplitude modulation, the predistorting modulation being of equal magnitude but opposite phase as that produced in at least one member selected from the group consisting of the laser or the fiber as a result of the low frequency thermal modulation or bias modulation.
US09865987B1	Second harmonic generation in resonant optical structures An optical second-harmonic generator (or spontaneous parametric down-converter) includes a microresonator formed of a nonlinear optical medium. The microresonator supports at least two modes that can be phase matched at different frequencies so that light can be converted between them: A first resonant mode having substantially radial polarization and a second resonant mode having substantially vertical polarization. The first and second modes have the same radial order. The thickness of the nonlinear medium is less than one-half the pump wavelength within the medium.
US09865984B2	Fiber pump combiner An optical fiber combiner comprising a coupling device having an input surface area, and you Ain, and an output surface area, Aout, wherein the input surface area Ain is greater than the output surface area Aout, and a plurality of optical fibers each having an input surface and an output surface, wherein the output surfaces of the plurality of optical fibers are coupled to the coupling device, wherein the coupling device combines optical power emitted by the plurality of optical fibers.
US09865980B2	Multi-node server platform A multi-node server platform including a cubby chassis and at least one multi-server sled. The cubby chassis includes partitions defining a plurality of sled positions. The multi-server sled includes a chassis having a vertical sidewall and a horizontal bottom wall with an open top and an open side. A side-plane PCB is mounted to the vertical sidewall and a plurality of dividers are attached to the bottom wall and oriented perpendicular to the side-plane PCB. One or more server cards are connected to the side-plane PCB and are supported the plurality of dividers. The server cards include a server PCB having a first side facing the bottom wall and an outward facing second side enclosing the open top of the sled chassis. A cover is coupled to the horizontal bottom wall to enclose the open side of the sled chassis and help direct airflow across the server cards.
US09865977B2	Signal pair element with insulative frame and ground shield Integrated signal pair elements are disclosed that can be inserted into and removed from a backplane connector housing as a single piece. Each element includes an insulative frame that supports a pair of conductive terminals in a spaced-apart arrangement. The frame is attached to a ground shield that provides a ground plane that extends around three sides of the signal pair. Cable wires can be terminated to tail portions of the signal pair and an insulative material is molded over the cable wire termination area to form an integrated signal pair element. The individual signal pair elements may also be commoned together in a linear array of signal pair elements by a commoning member that contacts the ground shields of the array of signal pair elements.
US09865973B2	Pluggable electrical connector A pluggable electrical connector includes a thermally conductive housing having an opening and a circuit board having electronic components, at least one plug contact and at least one joining surface. The circuit board is surrounded by the housing. A joining seam connects the housing and the circuit board to each other. The joining seam is located between the at least one joining surface and the housing and is produced on an exterior side of the pluggable connector such that the opening is at least partially closed by the joining seam.
US09865971B2	Reconfigurable recessed electrical conduit receptacles Reconfigurable electrical and electronic communication receptacle boxes are in an assembly that has a face or plurality of faces having electrical and electronic communication receptacles. The faces are recessed from flanges which are mounted on a wall into which the assembly is inserted. The boxes in the assembly are secured to the wall by rotatable clips having a bent or kick to position correctly the clip when rotated. The assembly can be augmented after initial installation with minimal intrusion and destruction of the wall.
US09865970B2	Connector and manufacturing method of connector A connector includes a housing unit which accommodates terminals which are crimped onto respective ends of a plurality of electric wires. The housing unit includes housings of a number corresponding to a number of the terminals, each of the housings configured to accommodate each of the terminals. At least one of the housings is formed by a material which has a dielectric constant at which impedance between each of the terminals is a desired impedance.
US09865967B2	Connector A connector is disclosed. The connector comprises a circuit board having a plurality of contact pads arranged in a two-dimensional fashion on a first face facing a mating connector side, the plurality of contact pads configured to make contact with a plurality of contacts of a mating connector, and a housing having a locating portion in contact with the first face of the circuit board, the locating portion locating the first face with respect to a direction of mating with the mating connector.
US09865966B2	Connector A slide lever (30) provided on a fit-in side housing (F) includes cam functioning portions (31) configured to enter the receptacle (11) in the process of connecting the waiting side housing (M) and the fit-in side housing (F), and the cam functioning portions (31) are formed with cam grooves (32) to be engaged with cam followers (15) in the process of connecting the two housings (F, M). An operating portion (33) projects substantially parallel to a moving direction of the slide lever (30) from rear end parts of the cam functioning portions (31) in an entering direction into the receptacle (11) and is arranged forwardly of a front face (S) of the panel (P).
US09865961B2	Connector and electrical connection device A connector including: a housing; a cover that is fixed to the housing so as to cover an opening of the housing; a slider that is housed within the housing, is provided so as to be slidable along the housing, and is configured to slide so that the housing is fitted to the partner connector; an operation-target part configured to slide the slider upon being operated; and a lock mechanism that includes a slider engagement part that is formed on the slider, and a second cover engagement part that is formed on the cover, and is configured such that the slide engagement part engages with the second cover engagement part in a situation where fitting of the housing and the partner connector to each other is complete, so that the cover is prevented from being separated from the slider.
US09865960B2	Coupler connector and cable terminator with side contacts An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising a wire guide, a cube shaped securing cap comprising an open end for installation over the wire guide, and pairs of piercing contacts for piercing respective conductors of the cable. When assembled, an outer end of each of the piercing contacts is exposed on an outer surface of a respective securing cap sidewall. The assembly also comprises a coupler connector comprising one of a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) socket or a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) plug, a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket, wherein pairs of contacts are exposed along at least one side wall of the socket, and further wherein each of a plurality of the tines in the modular socket or the terminal contacts of the plug is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts. When the cable terminator is inserted into the cable terminator receiving socket, each of the piercing contacts comes into contact with a respective one of the contacts, thereby interconnecting each of the tines (or each of the terminal contacts) with a respective one of the conductors. A back-to-back connector is also disclosed.
US09865955B2	Access terminal for card socket The present disclosure relates to an access terminal for a card socket provided to an electronic device such as a mobile communication terminal and, more specifically, to an access terminal for a card socket capable of multi-accessing one card terminal provided to a card. The access terminal for a card socket, of the present disclosure, provided in a housing of the card socket for an electronic device so as to access a card containing various pieces of information or data includes a main terminal, an auxiliary terminal, and a connection unit for connecting the main terminal and the auxiliary terminal. The main terminal is provided in numbers corresponding to the numbers of card terminals of the card so as to access the card terminals. The auxiliary terminal is connected to the main terminal and selectively accesses the same card terminal accessed by the main terminal.
US09865952B2	Plug contact with organic coating and printed circuit board arrangement A plug contact is provided for the provision of a press contact with a mating contact. The plug contact is composed of an electrically conductive material. The plug contact has a first contact section for the provision of the press contact. The first contact section has, at least in places, an electrically conductive organic coating, and the organic coating contains a metal, an alloy, and/or an electrically conductive polymer. A printed circuit board arrangement is also provided.
US09865951B2	Connector for flexible printed circuit board An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing, a fastener and a first sealing ring. The insulative housing has a rear section extending backwardly. The rear section has a rear space and a first peripheral wall around the rear space. Each contact has a connecting leg extending into the rear space. The fastener has a mating section to engage with the rear section and a board receiving chamber extending therethrough along a front to back direction. The fastener has a fixed position on the insulative housing, and as moving the fastener to the fixed position, the connecting legs are pressed into the board receiving chamber for electrically connecting with the flexible printed circuit board, and the first sealing ring is sealed around the junction of the contacts and the flexible printed circuit board.
US09865950B2	Plug connector assembly A plug connector assembly having a first plug connector and a second plug connector, wherein the plug connectors each have at least two contact elements, wherein the contact elements of the first plug connector make contact with the contact elements of the second plug connector at contact points in the plug-connected state of the plug connector assembly, such that the contact elements of the two plug connectors are designed in the form of contact lugs which project into a free space and can be elastically deflected.
US09865947B2	SIM connector An electronic card connector comprises: an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals mounted to the insulating housing. Each terminal comprises two resilient arms, a contacting structure and a tail. The two resilient arms each have a first end and a second end, the two first ends of the two resilient arms are spaced apart from each other and fixed to the insulating housing, and the two second ends of the two resilient arms are connected to the contacting structure. The contacting structure comprises a convex curved surface for contacting the corresponding conducting pad of the electronic card.
US09865945B2	Attachment structure for housing An attachment structure for attaching a recess of a housing to a DIN rail includes first and second movable strips. The first movable strip extends continuously from an operable portion and being movable along a surface of the housing in a first direction toward the recess and in a second direction opposite from the first direction. A first claw of the first movable strip and a second claw of the second movable strip move toward the DIN rail in accordance with a movement of the first movable strip in the first direction and engage ledges of the DIN rail. A koma converts the movement of the first movable strip in the first or second direction to a movement of the second movable strip in a direction opposite from the movement direction of the first movable strip.
US09865939B2	Connecting element with a spring tab A connecting element for galvanically connecting two electrically conductive surfaces, comprises: a body plate having a body plate upper surface defining a body plate top level; and a spring tab extending from the body plate and having a spring tab upper surface comprising an upper contact section above the body plate top level. The connecting element has a connecting element bottom level, and the spring tab has a spring tab lower surface comprising a lower contact section, the spring tab having a rest position in which, with no external force applied onto the upper contact section, the lower contact section lies above the connecting element bottom level, and is bendable, by applying external force onto the upper contact section, to a compressed position in which the lower contact section lies in or below the connecting element bottom level.
US09865924B2	Antenna device and communication terminal apparatus An antenna device that includes a coil antenna with a coil conductor wound around a winding axis. The device further includes a planar conductor with a surface and an edge end portion, where the surface extends in the direction of the winding axis and the edge end portion is adjacent to a coil opening of the coil conductor. A booster antenna is also provided and includes a looped or spiral coil conductor and is coupled to the planar conductor and/or the coil antenna.
US09865921B2	Directional multi-band antenna There is disclosed a directional multi-band antenna comprising: a primary reflector, at least one secondary reflector, a multi-layer dielectric layer selectively reflective or transmissive of incident radiation according to wavelength, the layer being provided at the surface of either the primary or the secondary reflector, an RF unit comprising a collocated sensor and transmitter, an Optical unit comprising a collocated sensor and transmitter, arranged such that the primary reflector is for passing signals between the secondary reflector and the environment, the secondary reflector is firstly for passing signals between the primary reflector and the RF unit, and secondly for passing signals between the primary reflector and the Optical unit and arranged such that the antenna is operable to transmit or receive, RF or Optical signals, along a common beam axis.
US09865920B1	Antenna isolation in a multi-band antenna system An apparatus includes a first reactive component coupled between a first antenna and a second antenna in a multi-band antenna system. The apparatus further includes a first operation circuit coupled to the first reactive component. The first reactive component and the first operation circuit together form a signal path to enable signal flow between the first and the second antennas when the first and the second antennas are operating at a first frequency. The first operation circuit disables signal flow along the signal path when the first and the second antennas are operating at a second frequency.
US09865917B2	Wireless handheld devices, radiation systems and manufacturing methods A radiating system for transmitting and receiving signals in first and second frequency regions includes a radiating structure, a radiofrequency system, and an external port. The radiating structure has first and second isolated radiation boosters coupled to a ground plane layer. A first internal port of the radiating structure is between the first radiation booster and the ground plane layer, and a second internal port is between the second radiation booster and the ground plane layer. A distance between the two internal ports is less than 0.06 times a wavelength of the lowest frequency. The maximum size of the first and second radiation boosters is smaller than 1/30 times the wavelength of the lowest frequency. The radiofrequency system includes two ports connected respectively to the first and the second internal ports of the radiating structure, and a port connected to the external port of the radiating system.
US09865915B2	Electronic device with diverse antenna array having soldered connections A wireless electronic device may be provided with antenna structures. The antenna structures may be formed from an antenna ground and an array of antenna resonating elements. The antenna resonating elements may be electrically connected to the antenna ground using solder. The antenna resonating elements may be formed from metal traces on a dielectric support structure that surrounds the antenna ground. The antenna ground may be formed form stamped sheet metal and may have slanted steps adjacent to the antenna resonating elements. To form a solder joint between the metal antenna resonating element traces and the sheet metal of the antenna ground, laser light may be applied to the sheet metal of the antenna ground in the vicinity of the solder paste. Separate metal members may also be provided in the vicinity of the solder paste and may be heated using the laser to join metal traces on plastic carriers.
US09865914B2	Multi-position display deck and antenna A display (122, 622, 722) comprising a display screen (142, 742) is repositionable with respect to a deck (20, 120, 220, 520, 720) comprising keys (24, 724). The display (122, 622, 722) is repositionable between a raised position and a lowered horizontal position. An antenna (28, 528, 628, 728) is located within the deck (20, 120, 220, 520, 720) at a location outwardly beyond the display (122, 622, 722) when the display (122, 622, 722) is in the lowered horizontal position.
US09865913B2	Communication terminal and card antenna module A communication terminal in which a card antenna module is loaded into a terminal casing including an antenna is operated such that a degree of coupling between a terminal-casing-side antenna and a module-side antenna is minimized and that a module-side antenna has a desired frequency characteristic. The communication terminal includes a terminal casing including a terminal-casing-side antenna, and a card antenna module loaded into the terminal casing. The card antenna module includes a coupling coil which is disposed at a position close to the terminal-casing-side antenna and which is coupled with the terminal-casing-side antenna via a magnetic field, and a module-side antenna which is disposed at a position more distant from the terminal-casing-side antenna than the coupling coil.
US09865909B2	Cavity resonator with thermal compensation An exemplary cavity resonator has a resonant frequency and includes a conductive body containing a cavity and a plate attached to the body enclosing the cavity. The position of a conductive tuning mechanism that protrudes into the cavity affects the tuning of the resonant frequency of the cavity resonator. A portion of the enclosed cavity is made of a shape memory alloy (SMA) material that has been trained to have a coefficient of thermal expansion that results in dimensional changes of the portion as the temperature varies so that the dimensional changes produce changes in the resonant frequency that counteract the combined change in the resonant frequency due to dimensional changes with temperature associated with the other portions of the enclosed cavity made of materials other than SMA material. This results in a stable resonant frequency versus temperature characteristic.
US09865907B2	Cooling mechanism for batteries using L-V phase change materials A 3-D “phase change heat exchange” structure and method are used in a rechargeable battery to dissipate heat from surfaces of the battery cells and lower the temperature inside the battery cells. The battery cells are placed inside an enclosure and spaced apart from each other with free spaces in between. A liquid to vapor phase change material (L-V PCM) is provided inside the enclosure. A hydrophilic thin film or wick or fiber structure is provided on the cell surfaces to help form a thin liquid layer of the L-V PCM over cell surfaces. During operation, the L-C PCM is evaporated at the cell surfaces and condenses back to a liquid either on the battery enclosure or in an external heat exchanger, and drips back on top of the cells. The designs extend the battery life and improve the battery performance significantly.
US09865905B2	Battery coolant loop pad for electric vehicles A battery pack for an electric vehicle may include a plurality of battery cells arranged into at least a first row and a second row. The first row may be parallel to the second row. The battery pack may also include a coolant loop with at least one channel through which liquid can flow. The coolant tube may run between the first row and the second row. The battery pack may additionally include a thermal pad comprising a first side and a second side. The first side of the thermal pad may be shaped to conform to the coolant loop and the second side of the thermal pad may be shaped to conform to curvatures of the first row.
US09865901B2	Battery system and method for connecting a battery to the battery system A battery system and method for connecting a battery to the battery system are disclosed. In one aspect, the battery system includes at least one first battery, a second battery, a first switch configured to connect the second battery in parallel to the first battery and a second switch and a resistor connected in series and configured to connect the second battery in parallel to the first battery. The first switch and the second switch are connected in parallel. The battery system further includes a battery management system (BMS) configured to turn on the second switch so as to connect the second battery to the first battery. The BMS is further configured to turn off the second switch and turn on the first switch when the difference in voltage between the second battery and the first battery reaches a predetermined value.
US09865894B2	Solid oxide fuel cells fueled with reducible oxides A direct-electrochemical-oxidation fuel cell for generating electrical energy includes a cathode provided with an electrochemical-reduction catalyst that promotes formation of oxygen ions from an oxygen-containing source at the cathode, a solid-state reduced metal, a solid-state anode provided with an electrochemical-oxidation catalyst that promotes direct electrochemical oxidation of the solid-state reduced metal in the presence of the oxygen ions to produce electrical energy, and an electrolyte disposed to transmit the oxygen ions from the cathode to the solid-state anode. A method of operating a solid oxide fuel cell includes providing a direct-electrochemical-oxidation fuel cell comprising a solid-state reduced metal, oxidizing the solid-state reduced metal in the presence of oxygen ions through direct-electrochemical-oxidation to obtain a solid-state reducible metal oxide, and reducing the solid-state reducible metal oxide to obtain the solid-state reduced metal.
US09865884B2	Roll-to-roll fabrication of high performance fuel cell electrode with core-shell catalyst using seeded electrodes A method for forming a fuel cell catalyst includes a step of forming an ionomer-containing layer including carbon particles and an ionomer. Tungsten-nickel alloy particles are formed on the carbon particles. At least a portion of the nickel in the tungsten-nickel alloy particles is replaced with palladium to form palladium-coated particles. The palladium-coated particles include a palladium shell covering the tungsten-nickel alloy particles. The palladium-coated particles are coated with platinum to form an electrode layer including core shell catalysts distributed therein.
US09865883B2	Fuel cell electrodes using high density support material Methods of preparing fuel cell electrodes having catalyst with high density catalyst support are provided. One method of fabricating a fuel cell electrode comprises adjusting an active catalyst particle loading to increase catalyst layer thickness to within a desired range.
US09865879B2	Binder for lithium ion battery electrode, paste for lithium ion battery negative electrode, and method for producing lithium ion battery negative electrode The present invention is directed to a binder for a lithium ion battery electrode, comprising a polyimide precursor having a tetracarboxylic acid residue and a diamine residue and/or a polyimide, the polyimide precursor having a residue of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride selected from those represented by the following general formulas (1) and (2) as the tetracarboxylic acid residue, and a residue of a diamine selected from those represented by the following general formulas (3) and (4) as the diamine residue, the content of the acid residue being from 0.90 to 0.95 moles based on 1 mole of the diamine residue.
US09865874B2	Apparatus for preparing inorganic compound and method of preparing inorganic compound using the same Disclosed is a hydrothermal synthesis device for continuously preparing an inorganic slurry using a hydrothermal method. The hydrothermal synthesis device includes a mixer to mix at least one precursor solution for preparing an inorganic material, injected via at least one supply tube, to prepare an intermediate slurry, a connection tube provided at a side of the mixer, continuously discharging the prepared intermediate slurry to a reactor, and having an inner surface contacting a precursor solution mixture on which abrasive polishing has been performed, and the reactor performing hydrothermal reaction of the intermediate slurry supplied from the connection tube by receiving a liquid stream heated to supercritical or subcritical conditions using a heat exchanger and connected to the connection tube into which the intermediate slurry prepared from the mixer is introduced and to at least one injection tube into which the heated liquid stream is injected.
US09865871B2	Silicon oxide and storage battery Silicon oxide which is an oxide containing at least silicon, in which part of silicon is replaced by boron, aluminum, or gallium, is provided.
US09865867B2	Lithium manganese composite oxide, secondary battery, and electrical device The volume density or weight density of lithium ions that can be received and released in and from a positive electrode active material is increased to achieve high capacity and high energy density of a secondary battery. In a lithium manganese composite oxide, each particle includes a first region including a crystal with a layered rock-salt crystal structure and a second region including a crystal with a spinel crystal structure. The second region is in contact with the outside of the first region. The lithium manganese composite oxide has high structural stability and high capacity.
US09865861B2	Battery module of improved connection reliability and battery pack employed with the same Disclosed herein is a battery module including a plurality of unit modules, based on battery cells which can be charged and discharged, electrically connected to each other, wherein the unit modules are electrically connected to each other in series and/or in parallel or the unit modules are electrically connected to a bus bar in series and/or in parallel, the battery module has two or more electrical connection points, and the number of electrically connected members at each of the electrical connection points is less than the total number of the electrically connected members of the battery module.
US09865858B2	Lithium ion secondary battery A lithium ion secondary battery according to an embodiment of this disclosure includes: a positive electrode mixture layer provided on a main plane of a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode mixture layer provided on a main plane of a negative electrode current collector; and an insulator covering a region of a part of a surface of a gradually-decreasing portion included in the positive electrode mixture layer. The portion has thickness gradually decreasing toward a terminal of the positive electrode mixture layer; the surface of the portion has a tangent line in contact with the surface in at least two contact points, and has a depressed part between any adjacent two contact points on the tangent line; and an end of the insulator is positioned between the contact points closest to and farthest from the terminal of the positive electrode mixture layer along the tangent line.
US09865853B2	Method for producing electrochemical device An electrochemical device of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a separator. The separator includes a first porous layer composed mainly of a thermoplastic resin and a second porous layer composed mainly of insulating particles with a heat-resistant temperature of 150° C. or higher. The first porous layer is disposed to face the negative electrode.
US09865850B2	Supporting element for a housing of a vehicle traction battery The present invention relates to a supporting element for a housing for a vehicle traction battery, the vehicle traction battery being constructed of a number of power storage modules. The supporting element is constructed of a module supporting element and at least one closing element, which has a plate-shaped design, the module supporting element having a number of module fastening elements, to which the number of power storage modules are fastened. Furthermore, the module supporting element has at least one recess which is closed by the plate-shaped closing element. The present invention further relates to a process of producing a corresponding support element for a housing for a vehicle traction battery.
US09865846B2	Polymer battery module packaging sheet and a method of manufacturing the same A polymer battery module packaging sheet includes, as essential components, a base layer (61), an aluminum layer (62), chemical conversion coatings (64a, 64b) coating the opposite surfaces of the aluminum layer (62), and an innermost layer (63). The chemical conversion coatings (64a, 64b) are formed by processing the opposite surfaces of the aluminum layer (62) by a phosphate treatment method. The base layer (61) and the innermost layer (63) are bonded to the chemical conversion coatings (64a, 64b) of the aluminum layer (62) with adhesive layers (65a, 65b), respectively.
US09865843B2	Display device A display device is disclosed including a plurality of pixels arranged above a substrate, and a sealing film arranged above the substrate so as to cover the plurality of pixels, wherein the sealing film includes a stacked first inorganic film, second inorganic film and third inorganic film, a first organic film arranged between the first inorganic film and the second organic film, and a second organic film arranged between the second inorganic film and the third inorganic film, and wherein the first organic film is divided into a plurality of regions by a first partition wall, and the second organic film is divided into a plurality of regions by a second partition wall.
US09865842B2	OLED display panel and method of encapsulating the same, and display device An OLED display panel and a method of encapsulating the same, and a display device are disclosed. The OLED display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed oppositely, a first sealing agent, a second sealing agent and a plurality of barrier blocks. The first sealing agent is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and forms a sealing space with the first substrate and the second substrate; the second sealing agent is filled in the sealing space formed by the first substrate, the second substrate and the first sealing agent; and the plurality of barrier blocks are disposed in the sealing space formed by the first substrate, the second substrate and the first sealing agent and are arranged along the first sealing agent at an interval.
US09865840B2	Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display (OLED) device and a method for manufacturing an OLED device are provided. A thin-film transistor is disposed on a lower substrate. An organic light-emitting element is disposed above the thin-film transistor and includes an anode, an organic light-emitting layer on the anode and a cathode on the organic light-emitting layer. A passivation layer is disposed on the organic light-emitting element and includes hydrogen. The hydrogen absorption layer includes at least one hydrogen absorption layer coming in contact with the top surface and/or the bottom surface of the passivation layer. The OLED device can suppress the performance of the thin-film transistor from degrading by using the hydrogen absorption layer that absorbs residual hydrogen in the passivation layer.
US09865836B2	Broadband light emitting device with grating-structured electrode A light emitting device includes a substrate layer, a first electrode layer, a light emitting layer, and a patterned second electrode layer. The patterned second electrode layer includes a periodic grating structure having a grating period λg less than or equal to 200 nm and the patterned second electrode layer and the light emitting layer are separated by at most 100 nm.
US09865831B2	Polymer, organic thin-film solar cell using the same, and electronic product comprising the cell To provide a polymer excellent enough in photoelectric 5 conversion efficiency and in light resistance to be suitable for solar cells, also to provide a solar cell using the polymer, and further to provide an electronic product comprising the cell. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a polymer comprising a repeating unit of the following formula (M1). In the formula, R1 is a substituent group selected from the group 15 consisting of alkyl groups, and alkoxy groups; each R2 is independently a substituent group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, and aryl groups; and each X is independently an atom selected from the group consisting of O, S and Se. The embodiments 20 also provide a solar cell having an active layer containing the above polymer and further an electronic product comprising that cell.
US09865827B1	Adaptively optimized biological components for biohybrid devices Embodiments of apparatus, compositions, methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed relating to the optimization and production of biological components for use in biohybrid photosensitive devices and systems and other applications. In some embodiments, biologically derived components are disclosed having properties and/or characteristics that are optimized for applications of interest relative to corresponding components derived from naturally occurring organisms. In some embodiments, properties and/or characteristics of biological components are optimized by subjecting organisms and/or populations thereof to forced adaptation.
US09865822B2	Blue phosphorescence compound and organic light emitting diode using the same A blue phosphorescence compound and an organic light emitting diode using the same are disclosed. The blue phosphorescence compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1 below: wherein ‘A’ and ‘B’ are symmetrically or asymmetrically substituted at positions of Nos. 2 and 7 or Nos. 3 and 6 of dibenzofuran core and are independently formed of an aromatic cyclic compound or a heterocyclic compound.
US09865820B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1, wherein, in Formula 1, L1, E1, R1, X11 to X13, X21 to X26, a1, and b1 are described in the specification.
US09865816B2	Solution for forming function layer contained in organic light emitting element and method for manufacturing organic light emitting element A solution contains a functional material for constituting a function layer, and a solvent. The solvent contains a high-boiling-point solvent composed of one or more solvent components having a boiling point of not less than 200° C. The high-boiling-point solvent has a viscosity of from 13 mPa·s to 25 mPa·s, inclusive, and a surface tension of from 33 mN/m to 37 mN/m, inclusive.
US09865815B2	Bromine containing silicon precursors for encapsulation layers Methods of depositing silicon nitride encapsulation layers by atomic layer deposition over memory devices including chalcogenide material are provided herein. Methods include using iodine-containing and/or bromine-containing silicon precursors and depositing thermally using ammonia or hydrazine as a second reactant, or iodine-containing and/or bromine-containing silicon precursors and depositing using a nitrogen-based or hydrogen-based plasma.
US09865813B2	Method for forming resistive memory cell having a spacer region under an electrolyte region and a top electrode A method of forming a resistive memory cell, e.g., CBRAM or ReRAM, includes forming a bottom electrode layer, forming an oxide region of an exposed area of the bottom electrode, removing a region of the bottom electrode layer proximate the oxide region to form a bottom electrode having a pointed tip or edge region. An electrically insulating mini-spacer region is formed adjacent the bottom electrode, and an electrolyte region and top electrode are formed over the bottom electrode and mini-spacer element(s) to define a memory element. The memory element defines a conductive filament/vacancy chain path from the bottom electrode pointed tip region to the top electrode via the electrolyte region. The mini-spacer elements decreases the effective area, or “confinement zone,” for the conductive filament/vacancy chain path, which may improve the device characteristics, and may provide an improvement over techniques that rely on enhanced electric field forces.
US09865806B2	Electronic device and method for fabricating the same Electronic devices and systems having semiconductor memory are provided. In one implementation, for example, an electronic device may include a substrate; an under layer disposed over the substrate and including conductive hafnium silicate; a free layer disposed over the under layer and having a variable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer disposed over the free layer; and a pinned layer disposed over the tunnel barrier layer and having a pinned magnetization direction, and wherein the free layer includes: a first ferromagnetic material; a second ferromagnetic material having a coercive force smaller than that of the first ferromagnetic material; and an amorphous spacer interposed between the first ferromagnetic material and the second ferromagnetic material.
US09865804B2	Magnetoresistive device and method of manufacturing same A magnetoresistive-based device and method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive-based device using one or more hard masks. The process of manufacture, in one embodiment, includes patterning a mask over a selected portion of the third layer of ferromagnetic material, wherein the mask is a metal hard mask. Thereafter, etching through the third layer of ferromagnetic material to provide sidewalls of the second synthetic antiferromagnetic structure, through the second tunnel barrier layer to form a second tunnel barrier and provide sidewalls thereof and the second layer of ferromagnetic material to provide sidewalls thereof. Thereafter, etching, through the first tunnel barrier layer to form a first tunnel barrier to provide sidewalls thereof and etching the first layer of ferromagnetic material to provide sidewalls thereof. The process may then include oxidizing the sidewalls of (i) the first tunnel barrier and (ii) the first layer of ferromagnetic material. Thereafter, the metal hard mask may be connected to an electrical conductor.
US09865799B2	Electronic device Provided is an electronic device including a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory may include: a pinned layer having a pinned magnetization direction; a free layer having a changeable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the pinned layer and the free layer, and including a metal oxide; and a carbon-based compound patch positioned at one or more of between the pinned layer and the tunnel barrier layer, between the free layer and the tunnel barrier layer, and in the tunnel barrier layer.
US09865796B2	Method for driving piezoelectric element, piezoelectric element, and piezoelectric element applied device A method for driving a piezoelectric element including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer formed on the first electrode and containing a composite oxide of an ABO3 type perovskite structure, and a second electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer, and the method includes driving the piezoelectric element by applying a signal having a predetermined driving waveform by a predetermined number of times, and driving the piezoelectric element by applying a signal having the predetermined driving waveform in reverse polarity.
US09865794B2	Thermoelectric devices with interface materials and methods of manufacturing the same Thermoelectric devices with interface materials and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. A thermoelectric device can include at least one shunt, at least one thermoelectric element in thermal and electrical communication with the at least one shunt, and at least one interface material between the at least one shunt and the at least one thermoelectric element. The at least one interface material can comprise a plurality of regions comprising a core material with each region separated from one another and surrounded by a shell material. The interface material can be configured to undergo deformation under (i) a normal load between the at least one shunt and the at least one thermoelectric element or (ii) a shear load between the at least one shunt and the at least one thermoelectric element. The deformation can reduce interface stress between the at least one shunt and the at least one thermoelectric element.
US09865793B2	Method of forming a thermally enhanced energy generator A method for forming an energy generating device which includes two layers of dissimilar materials in terms of electron density and configuration in contact with each other, sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. The two layers of dissimilar materials are each formed as a paste or ink and include an ionic material absorbed or incorporated into the two layers of dissimilar material. The ionic material facilitates the flow of electrons within the device, thereby creating a cell with an electric potential across an interface of the two layers of dissimilar material.
US09865792B2	System and method for manufacturing a temperature difference sensor An embodiment of the invention relates to a Seebeck temperature difference sensor that may be formed in a trench on a semiconductor device. A portion of the sensor may be substantially surrounded by an electrically conductive shield. A plurality of junctions may be included to provide a higher Seebeck sensor voltage. The shield may be electrically coupled to a local potential, or left electrically floating. A portion of the shield may be formed as a doped well in the semiconductor substrate on which the semiconductor device is formed, or as a metal layer substantially covering the sensor. The shield may be formed as a first oxide layer on a sensor trench wall with a conductive shield formed on the first oxide layer, and a second oxide layer formed on the conductive shield. An absolute temperature sensor may be coupled in series with the Seebeck temperature difference sensor.
US09865789B2	Device and method for thermoelectronic energy conversion A thermoelectronic energy converter device (100) comprises an electron emitter (11) being adapted for a temperature-dependent release of electrons (1), an electron collector (21) being adapted for collecting the electrons (1), wherein the electron collector (21) is spaced from the electron emitter (11) by an evacuated gap (2), a gate electrode (31) being arranged between the electron emitter (11) and the electron collector (21) for subjecting the electrons (1) in the gap (2) to an accelerating electric potential, wherein the gate electrode (31) has a plurality of electrode openings (34) being arranged for transmitting electrons (1) miming from the electron emitter (11) to the electron collector (21), and a magnetic field device (50) being arranged for creating a magnetic field with magnetic field lines extending between the electron emitter and the electron collector (11, 21), wherein the magnetic field device (50) is arranged such that at least a portion of the magnetic field lines pass through the electrode openings (34). Furthermore, a method of converting energy using the thermoelectronic energy converter device (100) is described.
US09865784B2	Optoelectronic component including a reflective layer sequence and method for producing a reflective layer sequence An optoelectronic component includes a first layer sequence being designed to emit or to detect electromagnetic radiation, and a second layer sequence being arranged at a first side of the first layer sequence and designed to reflect the electromagnetic radiation emitted or to be detected by the first layer sequence. The second layer sequence has a first reflector layer, a second reflector layer and an adhesion promoting layer. The first reflector layer contains a first material and is arranged at a first side of the second layer sequence facing the first side of the first layer sequence, the adhesion promoting layer contains a second material and is arranged at a second side of the second layer sequence facing away from the first side of the first layer sequence, and the second reflector layer contains the first material and is arranged between the first reflector layer and the adhesion promoting layer.
US09865782B2	LED package structure and lens thereof A lens of an LED package structure includes a square-shaped base layer, a first light-guiding portion integrally connected to the base layer, a second light-guiding portion taperedly extended from the first light-guiding portion. The second light-guiding portion has an apex located away from the first light-guiding portion. The lens includes four side curved surfaces and four boundary curved surfaces connected to the apex. Four first projecting regions are defined by orthogonally projecting the four boundary curved surfaces onto the base layer, and the four first projecting regions are arranged on two diagonals of the base layer. Any two adjacent boundary curved surfaces are provided with one of the side curved surfaces there-between. Each boundary curved surface has a first radius of curvature (R1), a portion of each side curved surface arranged on the second light-guiding portion has a second radius of curvature (R2), wherein R1/R2=M√{square root over (2)} and M=0.8˜1.2.
US09865780B2	LED package with encapsulant having planar surfaces LED packages are disclosed that are compact and efficiently emit light, and can comprise encapsulants with planar surfaces that refract and/or reflect light within the package encapsulant. The packages can also comprise a submount with one or more LEDs, and a blanket conversion material layer on the one or more LEDs and the submount. The encapsulant can be on the submount, over the LEDs, and light reflected within the encapsulant will reach the conversion material, where it will be absorbed and emitted omnidirectionally. This allows for reflected light to now escape from the encapsulant. This allows for efficient emission and a broader emission profile, for example when compared to conventional packages with hemispheric encapsulants or lenses. In certain embodiments, the LED package provides a higher chip area to LED package area ratio. By using an encapsulant with planar surfaces, the LED package can provide unique dimensional relationships between the various features and the LED package ratios, enabling more flexibility in using the packages in different applications.
US09865777B2	Semicondcutor light-emitting device and fabricating method thereof A semiconductor light-emitting device including a light-emitting diode chip and an electrode disposed thereon is provided. The electrode at least includes a plated silver alloy (Ag1-xYx) layer, wherein the Y of the Ag1-xYx layer includes metals forming a complete solid solution with Ag at arbitrary weight percentage, and the X of the Ag1-xYx layer is in a range from about 0.02 to 0.15. The fabricating method thereof is also provided.
US09865774B2	Nitride semiconductor device and method for producing the same A method for producing a nitride semiconductor device. The method comprises providing a substrate made of a material other than a nitride semiconductor. The material has a hexagonal crystal structure. An upper face of the substrate has at least one flat section. The method further comprises growing a first nitride semiconductor layer on the upper face of the substrate. The first nitride semiconductor layer is made of monocrystalline AlN. The first nitride semiconductor layer has an upper face that is a +c plane. The first nitride semiconductor layer has a thickness in a range of 10 nm to 100 nm. The method further comprises growing a second nitride semiconductor layer on the upper face of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The second nitride semiconductor layer is made of InXAlYGa1-X-YN (0≦X, 0≦Y, X+Y<1). In an initial stage of growing the second nitride semiconductor layer, micronuclei are formed in multiple locations on the upper face of the first nitride semiconductor layer such that a plurality of upside-down hexagonal pyramid-shaped or upside-down hexagonal frustum-shaped recesses separate the micronuclei above the at least one flat section of the upper face of the substrate. After the initial stage of growing, further growth is performed to reduce a size of the recesses until the recesses are substantially eliminated. The further growth is performed such that the recesses are substantially eliminated before a thickness of the second nitride semiconductor layer grows to 800 nm. The second nitride semiconductor layer is grown to have an upper face with at least one flat section.
US09865772B2	LED structures for reduced non-radiative sidewall recombination LED structures are disclosed to reduce non-radiative sidewall recombination along sidewalls of vertical LEDs including p-n diode sidewalls that span a top current spreading layer, bottom current spreading layer, and active layer between the top current spreading layer and bottom current spreading layer.
US09865770B2	Semiconductor light emitting element and method for manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a light emitting element includes n-type and p-type semiconductor layers and a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, the light emitting unit emits light with a peak wavelength of not less than 530 nm. The light emitting unit includes an n-side barrier layer and a first light emitting layer. The first light emitting layer includes a first barrier layer provided between the n-side barrier layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, a first well layer contacting the n-side barrier layer between the n-side barrier layer and the first barrier layer, a first AlGaN layer provided between the first well layer and the first barrier layer and including Alx1Ga1-x1N (0.15≦x1≦1), and a first p-side InGaN layer provided between the first AlGaN layer and the first barrier layer and including Inya1Ga1-ya1N (0
US09865766B2	Ultraviolet photodetectors and methods of making ultraviolet photodetectors A method of making an ultraviolet sensor includes applying a metal-containing solution to a substrate using a spin coating technique to form a metal-containing coat. The metal-containing coat is baked and pyrolyzed to form a metal-containing oxide film on the substrate. The metal-containing oxide film has a cubic crystalline structure suitable for ultraviolet photodetectors in flame detection applications.
US09865763B2	Method, a semiconductor detector, and a detector arrangement, for the detection of sunlight The present invention concerns a method for the detection of sunlight with a detector arrangement that delivers an output signal as a function of incident sunlight. In the method a detector arrangement is deployed with an SiC-semiconductor detector, which is only sensitive to the UV-component of the incident sunlight. By the deployment of such a detector arrangement a disturbance of the sunlight detection by artificial light sources is to a large extent avoided, so that a more reliable detection of the sunlight is enabled.
US09865757B2	Method for quick self interconnection of photovoltaic cell arrays and panels Interconnectable solar photovoltaic appliance that can be connected to each other and other derivative products in multiple series and parallel configurations to supply a specific amount of electrical power to an application requiring electrical energy. The resultant design is modular and expandable. Examples include photovoltaic appliances that are variable in size in shape so as to accommodate the spatial constraints and power requirements of their intended applications.
US09865754B2	Hole collectors for silicon photovoltaic cells One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a base layer comprising crystalline Si (c-Si), a hole collector situated on a first side of the base layer, and an electron collector situated on a second side of the base layer, which is opposite the first side. The hole collector includes a quantum-tunneling-barrier (QTB) layer situated adjacent to the base layer and a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) layer situated adjacent to the QTB layer. The TCO layer has a work function of at least 5.0 eV.
US09865753B2	Metallization of solar cells using metal foils A solar cell structure includes P-type and N-type doped regions. A dielectric spacer is formed on a surface of the solar cell structure. A metal layer is formed on the dielectric spacer and on the surface of the solar cell structure that is exposed by the dielectric spacer. A metal foil is placed on the metal layer. A laser beam is used to weld the metal foil to the metal layer. A laser beam is also used to pattern the metal foil. The laser beam ablates portions of the metal foil and the metal layer that are over the dielectric spacer. The laser ablation of the metal foil cuts the metal foil into separate P-type and N-type metal fingers.
US09865749B1	Merged P-i-N Schottky structure A Merged P-i-N Schottky device in which the oppositely doped diffusions extend to a depth and have been spaced apart such that the device is capable of absorbing a reverse avalanche energy comparable to a Fast Recovery Epitaxial Diode having a comparatively deeper oppositely doped diffusion region.
US09865746B2	Semiconductor device A highly reliable semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. Oxide films each containing one or more kinds of metal elements included in an oxide semiconductor film are formed in contact with an upper side and a lower side of the oxide semiconductor film where a channel is formed, whereby interface states are not easily generated at an upper interface and a lower interface of the oxide semiconductor film. A material which has a lower electron affinity than the oxide semiconductor film is used for the oxide films in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, whereby electrons flowing in the channel hardly move in the oxide films and mainly move in the oxide semiconductor film. Thus, even when an interface state exists between the oxide film and an insulating film formed on the outside of the oxide film, the state hardly influences the movement of electrons.
US09865745B2	Thin-film transistor and method for forming the same A thin-film transistor comprises a substrate, a first electrode on the top surface of the substrate, an insulation layer on the top surface of the substrate and covering the first electrode, a semiconductor oxide layer on the top surface of the insulation layer, a protection layer on the top surface of the semiconductor oxide layer, an organic dielectric layer on the top surface of the semiconductor oxide layer and covering the protection layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode both penetrating the organic dielectric layer from the top surface thereof. A channel thickness of the semiconductor oxide layer is not thicker than 20 nanometers. The source electrode contacts the semiconductor oxide layer at the first side of the protection layer and the drain electrode contacts the semiconductor oxide layer at the second side, opposite to the first side, of the protection layer.
US09865739B2	Replacement metal gate structures Replacement metal gate structures with improved chamfered workfunction metal and self-aligned contact and methods of manufacture are provided. The method includes forming a replacement metal gate structure in a dielectric material. The replacement metal gate structure is formed with a lower spacer and an upper spacer above the lower spacer. The upper spacer having material is different than material of the lower spacer. The method further includes forming a self-aligned contact adjacent to the replacement metal gate structure by patterning an opening within the dielectric material and filling the opening with contact material. The upper spacer prevents shorting with the contact material.
US09865737B2	Formation of FinFET junction A finFET structure, and method of forming such structure, in which a germanium enriched nanowire is located in the channel region of the FET, while simultaneously having silicon-germanium fin in the source/drain region of the finFET.
US09865735B2	Horizontal gate all around and FinFET device isolation Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and device structures for horizontal gate all around (hGAA) isolation and fin field effect transistor (FinFET) isolation. A superlattice structure comprising different materials arranged in an alternatingly stacked formation may be formed on a substrate. In one embodiment, at least one of the layers of the superlattice structure may be oxidized to form a buried oxide layer adjacent the substrate.
US09865732B2	Integrated circuits and methods of forming integrated circuits An integrated circuit includes a gate electrode and spacers along sidewalls of the gate electrode. The integrated circuit further includes a source/drain (S/D) region adjacent to the gate electrode. The S/D region includes a diffusion barrier structure at least partially in a recess of the substrate. The diffusion barrier structure includes an epitaxial layer having a first region and a second region. The first region is thinner than the second region, and the first region is misaligned with respect to the sidewalls of the gate electrode. The S/D region includes a doped silicon-containing structure over the diffusion barrier structure. The first region of the diffusion barrier structure is configured to partially prevent dopants of the doped silicon-containing structure from diffusing into the substrate. The second region of the diffusion barrier structure is configured to substantially completely prevent the dopants of the doped silicon-containing structure from diffusing into the substrate.
US09865729B1	Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor with segmented gate oxide A power transistor is provided with at least one transistor finger that lies within a semiconductor material. The gate oxide is segmented into a set of segments with thick field oxide between each segment in order to reduce gate capacitance and thereby improve a resistance times gate charge figure of merit.
US09865718B1	Power MOSFET with metal filled deep sinker contact for CSP A method of forming an IC including a power semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having an epi layer thereon with at least one transistor formed therein covered by a pre-metal dielectric (PMD) layer. Contact openings are etched from through the PMD into the epi layer to form a sinker trench extending to a first node of the device. A metal fill material is deposited to cover a sidewall and bottom of the sinker trench but not completely fill the sinker trench. A dielectric filler layer is deposited over the metal fill material to fill the sinker trench. An overburden region of the dielectric filler layer is removed stopping on a surface of the metal fill material in the overburden region to form a sinker contact. A patterned interconnect metal is formed providing a connection between the interconnect metal and metal fill material on the sidewall of the sinker trench.
US09865717B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes transistor cells formed inside a semiconductor body. First and second semiconductor well regions have second conductivity type dopants and are arranged external of the transistor cells. The first semiconductor well region is arranged between two transistor cells and the second semiconductor well region is electrically connected with a load contact. A separation region has first conductivity type dopants and extends from a surface of the semiconductor body along the vertical direction and is arranged between and in contact with each of the first and second semiconductor well regions. The first semiconductor well region extends at least as deep as each of body regions of two transistor cells. A transition in a first lateral direction between the separation and first semiconductor well regions extends continuously from the surface to a point in the semiconductor body at least as deep as each body region of two transistor cells.
US09865716B2	System and method for a vertical tunneling field-effect transistor cell A semiconductor device cell is disclosed. The semiconductor device cell includes a transistor gate having a gating surface and a contacting surface and a source region contacted by a source contact. The semiconductor device cell further includes a drain region contacted by a drain contact, wherein the drain contact is not situated opposite the source contact with respect to the gating surface of the transistor gate. Additional semiconductor device cells in which the gate contact is closer to the source contact than to the drain contact are disclosed.
US09865710B2	FinFET having a non-uniform fin A dual width SOI FinFET is disclosed in which different portions of a strained fin have different widths. A method of fabrication of such a dual width FinFET entails laterally recessing the strained fin in the source and drain regions using a wet chemical etching process so as to maintain a high degree of strain in the fin while trimming the widths of fin portions in the source and drain regions to less than 5 nm. The resulting FinFET features a wide portion of the fin in the channel region underneath the gate, and a narrower portion of the fin in the source and drain regions. An advantage of the narrower fin is that it can be more easily doped during the growth of the epitaxial raised source and drain regions.
US09865709B2	Selectively deposited spacer film for metal gate sidewall protection A method of fabricating a fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The method includes forming a carbon-based layer on a plurality of gate structures formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each gate structure overlies at least one fin formed on the semiconductor substrate. The carbon-based layer covers sidewalls of the gate structures. A metal silicide layer overlies the carbon-based layer. The metal silicide layer and carbon-based layer are removed, and a metal layer is formed between adjacent gate structures.
US09865705B2	Vertical field effect transistors with bottom source/drain epitaxy A vertical fin field-effect-transistor and a method for fabricating the same. The vertical fin field-effect-transistor includes a substrate, a first source/drain layer including a plurality of pillar structures, and a plurality of fins disposed on and in contact with the plurality of pillar structures. A doped layer epitaxially grown from the first source/drain layer is in contact with the plurality of fins and the plurality of pillar structures. A gate structure is disposed in contact with two or more fins in the plurality of fins. The gate structure includes a dielectric layer and a gate layer. A second source/drain layer is disposed on the gate structure. The method includes epitaxially growing a doped layer in contact with a plurality of fins and a plurality of pillar structures. A gate structure is formed in contact with two or more fins. A second source/drain layer is formed on the gate structure.
US09865704B2	Single and double diffusion breaks on integrated circuit products comprised of FinFET devices One illustrative integrated circuit product disclosed herein includes, among other things, a plurality of FinFET devices, each of which comprises a gate structure comprising a high-k gate insulation material and at least one layer of metal, a single diffusion break (SDB) isolation structure positioned in a first trench defined in a semiconductor substrate between first and second active regions, the SDB isolation structure comprising the high-k insulating material and the at least one layer of metal, and a double diffusion break (DDB) isolation structure positioned in a second trench defined in a semiconductor substrate between third and fourth active regions, the DDB isolation structure comprising a first insulating material that substantially fills the second trench.
US09865702B2	Method for manufacturing laterally insulated-gate bipolar transistor The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a laterally insulated-gate bipolar transistor, comprising: providing a wafer having an N-type buried layer (10), an STI (40), and a first N well (22)/a first P well (24) which are formed successively from above a substrate; depositing and forming a high-temperature oxide film on the first N well (22) of the wafer; performing thermal drive-in on the wafer and performing photoetching and etching on the high-temperature oxide film to form a mini oxide layer (60); performing photoetching and ion implantation so as to form a second N well (32) inside the first N well (22) and second P wells (34) inside the first N well (22) and the first P well (24); then successively forming a gate oxide layer and a polysilicon gate (72), wherein one end of the gate oxide layer and the polysilicon gate (72) extends onto the second P well (34) inside the first N well (22), and the other end extends onto the mini oxide layer (60) on the second N well (32); and photoetching and injecting N-type ions between the mini oxide layer (60) and the STI (40) adjacent to the mini oxide layer (60) to form a drain electrode, and at the same time forming a source electrode (51) inside the second P well (34).
US09865694B2	Split-gate trench power mosfet with protected shield oxide A plurality of gate trenches is formed into a semiconductor substrate in an active cell region. One or more other trenches are formed in a different region. Each gate trench has a first conductive material in lower portions and a second conductive material in upper portions. In the gate trenches, a first insulating layer separates the first conductive material from the substrate, a second insulating layer separates the second conductive material from the substrate and a third insulating material separates the first and second conductive materials. The other trenches contain part of the first conductive material in a half-U shape in lower portions and part of the second conductive material in upper portions. In the other trenches, the third insulating layer separates the first and second conductive materials. The first insulating layer is thicker than the third insulating layer, and the third insulating layer is thicker than the second.
US09865693B1	Semiconductor memory cell, semiconductor memory device, and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device and a semiconductor memory cell thereof are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of semiconductor memory cells and an electric isolating structure. Each semiconductor memory cell includes a substrate, a first gate, a second gate, a first gate dielectric layer, a second gate dielectric layer, and a first spacing film. The first gate and the second gate are formed on the substrate. The first gate dielectric layer is between the first gate and the substrate, whereas the second gate dielectric layer is between the second gate and the substrate. The first spacing film having a side and a top edge is between the first gate and the second gate. The second gate covers the side and the top edge. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device is also provided.
US09865686B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor A semiconductor device includes a fin extending on a substrate along a first direction; a gate extending along a second direction across the fin; and source/drain regions and a gate spacer on the fin at opposite sides of the gate, in which there is a surface layer on the top and/or sidewalls of the fin.
US09865679B2	Compound semiconductor device, method for producing same, and resin-sealed type semiconductor device In a semiconductor element having a compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate, an object is to suppress generation of deficiency or problems of reliability deriving from the ends of the element that are generated when dividing into semiconductor devices by dicing. A compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate is formed via a buffer layer made of aluminum nitride. In the periphery of the semiconductor device, a scribe lane is present to surround a semiconductor element region. Along the scribe lane, the aluminum nitride layer is covered with a coating film for protection against humidity and moisture.
US09865676B2	Power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device includes a substrate, a main body, and an electrode unit. The main body includes an active portion disposed on the substrate, an edge termination portion, and an insulating layer disposed on the edge termination portion. The edge termination portion includes first-type semiconductor region, a second-type semiconductor region and a top surface. The first-type semiconductor region is adjacent to the active portion and has a first-type doping concentration decreased from the top surface toward the substrate. The electrode unit includes a first electrode disposed on the insulating layer, and a second electrode disposed on the substrate.
US09865674B2	Low temperature fabrication of lateral thin film varistor A structure and method for fabricating a laterally configured thin film varistor surge protection device using low temperature sputtering techniques which do not damage IC device components contiguous to the varistor being fabricated. The lateral thin film varistor may include of a continuous layer of alternating regions of a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer formed between two laterally spaced electrodes using a low temperature sputtering process followed by a low temperature annealing process.
US09865673B2	High resistivity soft magnetic material for miniaturized power converter An on-chip magnetic structure includes a magnetic material comprising cobalt in a range from about 80 to about 90 atomic % (at. %) based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, tungsten in a range from about 4 to about 9 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, phosphorous in a range from about 7 to about 15 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, and palladium substantially dispersed throughout the magnetic material.
US09865669B2	Organic light emitting diode display and manufacturing method thereof An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate; a scan line on the substrate, extending in a first direction, and configured to transmit a scan signal; a data line on the substrate, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and configured to transmit a data voltage; a common voltage line in the same layer as the data line and configured to transmit a common voltage; a first electrode on the data line and an assistance member on the common voltage line, the first electrode and the assistance member being separated from each other in the first direction or the second direction; a second electrode on the first electrode and the assistance member; and an organic emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The assistance member is separated from the data line in the first direction.
US09865662B2	Transparent organic light emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A transparent organic light emitting display apparatus include a base substrate, a first electrode disposed on the base substrate, a second electrode disposed on the first electrode, the second electrode including a first portion disposed on the first electrode and a second portion which is disposed adjacent to the first portion, an oxygen content of the second portion being different from that of the first portion, and a light emitting structure disposed between the first portion of the second electrode and the first electrode.
US09865661B2	Display device A display device includes a pixel electrode provided on an insulating surface, a pixel separation film provided on an end of the pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer provided to cover the pixel electrode, and a counter electrode provided to cover the light-emitting layer and the pixel separation film. The pixel separation film includes a photoelectric conversion element, one of a first electrode and a second electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the counter electrode, and the other is electrically connected to a wiring through which current generated by the photoelectric conversion element flows.
US09865660B2	Organic magnetoelectroluminescence for transduction between magnetic and optical information An optoelectronic device which can read magnetically stored information, and convert it into optical light signals using organic or “plastic” semiconductors is described. Such a device may use OLEDs, and may be termed an “organic magneto-optic transducer” (OMOT). An OMOT device can read magnetically stored information, and convert it into optical light signals. The OMOT may provide benefits such as non-volatile storage, flexible films, reduced cost, and operation at room temperature.
US09865654B1	Semiconductor structure A semiconductor structure includes a front side and a back side opposite to the front side, at least a transistor device formed on the front side of the substrate, and an adjustable resistor formed on the back side of the substrate. The adjustable resistor includes at least a phase change material PCM layer.
US09865653B2	High density resistive random access memory (RRAM) A memory cell includes a substrate layer, with a plurality of silicided semiconductor fins stacked on the substrate layer and spaced apart from one another. A first metal liner layer is stacked on the plurality of silicided semiconductor fins and on the substrate layer. A plurality of first contact pillars are stacked on the first metal liner layer adjacent a different respective one of the plurality of silicided semiconductor fins. A configurable resistance structure covers portions of the first metal liner layer that are stacked on the substrate layer and portions of the first metal liner layer that are stacked on each of the plurality of silicided semiconductor fins. A metal fill layer is stacked on the configurable resistance structure. A plurality of second contact pillars ism stacked on the metal fill layer adjacent a space between a different pair of adjacent silicided semiconductor fins of the plurality thereof.
US09865651B2	Threshold switching device, method for fabricating the same and electronic device including the same A threshold switching device may include: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the first electrode layer; and a second insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the second electrode layer, wherein the first and second insulating layers contain a plurality of neutral defects, a concentration of the plurality of neutral defects being at a maximum along a first interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the threshold switching device has an ON or OFF state according to whether electrons are ejected from the plurality of neutral defects.
US09865650B2	Magnetic tunnel junction based logic circuits Resistance elements, including Magnetic Tunnel Junction devices are configured as magnetoelectronic (ME) devices. These resistive devices are useable as circuit building blocks in reconfigurable processing systems, including as logic circuits, non-volatile switches and memory cells.
US09865646B2	Flexible LED display This present invention provides a flexible LED display by utilizing flexible wirings and the locations of the conductive pins on the bottom side of each single color LEDs or full color LEDs to make each of the single color LEDs or full color LEDs mount on each pixel defined by the flexible wires formed on the transparent flexible substrate, and this flexible LED display which characterizes in separating the wirings crossing over with each other by a so-called bridge technology and utilizing a single-layered substrate to save costs of processes and materials.
US09865642B2	RGB-IR photosensor with nonuniform buried P-well depth profile for reduced cross talk and enhanced infrared sensitivity A front-side-interconnect (FSI) red-green-blue-infrared (RGB-IR) photosensor array has photosensors of a first type with a diffused N-type region in a P-type well, the P-type well diffused into a high resistivity semiconductor layer; photosensors of a second type, with a deeper diffused N-type region in a P-type well, the P-type well; and photosensors of a third type with a diffused N-type region diffused into the high resistivity semiconductor layer underlying all of the other types of photosensors. In embodiments, photosensors of a fourth type have a diffused N-type region in a P-type well, the N-type region deeper than the N-type region of photosensors of the first and second types.
US09865638B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate having a first wiring layer which includes a first conductive pad, a second semiconductor substrate disposed on the first semiconductor substrate and including a second wiring layer which includes a second conductive pad, a first oxide layer disposed on the second semiconductor substrate and containing a second end of an intermediate connection which extends vertically through the second semiconductor substrate and has a first end electrically connected to the second conductive pad, and a third semiconductor substrate disposed on the first oxide layer and including a third wiring layer which includes a third conductive pad. The second end of the intermediate connection layer is electrically connected to the third conductive pad via a metal bond.
US09865630B2	Image sensor pickup region layout Embodiments of the present disclosure include an image sensor device and methods of forming the same. An embodiment is an image sensor device including a first plurality of pickup regions in a photosensor array area of a substrate, each of first plurality of pickup regions having a first width and a first length, a second plurality of pickup regions in a periphery area of the substrate, the periphery area along at least one side of the photosensor array area, each of second plurality of pickup regions having a second width and a second length.
US09865627B2	Display device and method of manufacturing display device using a mask Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a display device having a display area and a non-display area, the method including aligning a mask over a substrate, the mask including a central shield portion, a peripheral shield portion outside the central shield portion, with an opening between the central shield portion and the peripheral shield portion, a holding portion in the opening that connects the central shield portion with the peripheral shield portion, and a diffusion area under the holding portion defined by a thickness difference of the mask between the holding portion and one of the central and peripheral shield portions; depositing a conductive material on the substrate through the mask to form a single pieced, loop-shaped conductive path surrounding the display area in the non-display area; and forming a transparent conductive layer on the substrate, the transparent conductive layer being continuously formed in the display and non-display areas and formed to be in direct contact with the single pieced, loop-shaped conductive path.
US09865624B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a gate line and a data line disposed on a substrate, a reference voltage line aligned with the data line, and a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix form. In such a liquid crystal display, each pixel includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a driving unit electrically connected to the gate line, the data line and the reference voltage line. In such a liquid crystal display, one reference voltage line is disposed between two adjacent pixels.
US09865623B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a peripheral common electrode line for supplying a common voltage and a plurality of sub-pixels. The array substrate further includes first connection portions and second connection portions; the first connection portions extend along a first direction and are provided between the peripheral common electrode line and common electrodes of the sub-pixels adjacent to a side of the peripheral common electrode line along a second direction, for electrically connecting the peripheral common electrode line with the common electrodes of the sub-pixels adjacent to the side of the peripheral common electrode line along the second direction; and the second connection portions extend long the first direction and are provided between the common electrodes of adjacent sub-pixels along the first direction, for electrically connecting the common electrodes of the adjacent sub-pixels along the first direction.
US09865622B2	Array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate comprises a base substrate (4) and signal lines on the base substrate (4). The signal lines comprises a plurality of conductive layers (11, 12) in different layers, and the plurality of conductive layers (11, 12) are provided with insulation layers (21) therebetween, and are connected in parallel through one or more vias (3). Embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a method for manufacturing the array substrate.
US09865613B2	Semiconductor devices There is provided a semiconductor device having an arrangement structure in which high-density line patterns having relatively small widths and relatively tight pitches may be formed. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of line patterns that are spaced apart from one another. The plurality of line patterns include a plurality of main lines that have a first gap therebetween and extend in a first direction and a plurality of sublines that are bent from one end of each of the plurality of main lines. The plurality of sublines have therebetween a distance that is greater than the first gap, and may be spaced apart from extension lines that extend from the one end of each of the plurality of main lines corresponding to the plurality of sublines in the first direction.
US09865608B2	Method of forming a device including a floating gate electrode and a layer of ferroelectric material A method disclosed herein includes providing a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure comprising a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack, the gate stack comprising a gate insulation material over the substrate, a floating gate electrode material over the gate insulation material, a ferroelectric transistor dielectric over the floating gate electrode material and a top electrode material over the ferroelectric transistor dielectric, performing a first patterning process to remove portions of the top electrode material and the ferroelectric transistor dielectric and performing a second patterning process after the first patterning process to remove portions of the floating gate electrode material and the gate insulation material, wherein a projected area of an upper portion of the gate structure onto a plane that is perpendicular to a thickness direction of the substrate is smaller than a projected area of the lower portion of the gate structure onto the plane.
US09865604B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a high degree of freedom of layout has a first part AR1, in which a plurality of p-type wells PW and n-type wells NW are alternately arranged to be adjacent to each other along an X-axis direction. A common power feeding region (ARP2) for the plurality of wells PW is arranged on one side so as to interpose the AR1 in a Y-axis direction, and a common power feeding region (ARN2) for the plurality of wells NW is arranged on the other side. In the power feeding region (ARP2) for the PW wells, a p+-type power-feeding diffusion layer P+(DFW) having an elongate shape extending in the X-axis direction is formed. A plurality of gate layers GT extending in the X-axis direction to cross the boundary between the PW and NW wells are arranged in the AR1, and a plurality of MIS transistors are correspondingly formed.
US09865603B2	Transistor structure having N-type and P-type elongated regions intersecting under common gate A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, at least one first elongated region of n-type or p-type, and at least one other second elongated region of the other of n-type or p-type, the first and second elongated regions crossing such that the first elongated region and the second elongated region intersect at a common area, and a shared gate structure over each common area.
US09865599B2	Transistor with deep Nwell implanted through the gate A method of fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit (IC) includes implanting a first n-type dopant at a first masking level that exposes a p-region of a substrate surface having a first gate stack thereon to form NLDD regions for forming n-source/drain extension regions for at least a portion of a plurality of n-channel MOS (NMOS) transistors on the IC. A p-type dopant is implanted at a second masking level that exposes an n-region in the substrate surface having a second gate stack thereon to form PLDD regions for at least a portion of a plurality of p-channel MOS (PMOS) transistors on the IC. A second n-type dopant is retrograde implanted including through the first gate stack to form a deep nwell (DNwell) for the portion of NMOS transistors. A depth of the DNwell is shallower below the first gate stack as compared to under the NLDD regions.
US09865597B2	Semiconductor device having fin and dual liner A semiconductor device is provided as follows. A first fin is formed on a first region of a substrate, extending in a first direction. A second fin is formed on a second region of the substrate, extending in a second direction. A first dual liner is formed on a lateral surface of the first fin. The first dual liner includes a first liner and a second liner. The first liner is interposed between the second liner and the lateral surface of the first fin. A second dual liner is formed on a lateral surface of the second fin. The second dual liner includes a third liner and a fourth liner. The third liner is interposed between the fourth liner and the lateral surface of the second fin. An epitaxial layer surrounds a top portion of the second fin. The first liner and the third liner have different thicknesses.
US09865591B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a transistor region, a diode region, a gate line region, and a gate pad region. The gate pad region and the gate line region are each disposed to be sandwiched between the diode region and the diode region, and a gate electrode on the gate pad region and the gate line region is formed on an insulating film formed on an epitaxial layer. Thus, breakdown of the insulating film in the gate region can be prevented without causing deterioration in quality of the gate insulating film, upon switching and avalanche breakdown.
US09865589B1	System and method of fabricating ESD FinFET with improved metal landing in the drain A mandrel is formed over an active region that includes a first region and a second region. The first region and the second region are reserved for the formation of a source and a drain of a FinFET, respectively. A portion of the mandrel formed over the second region is broken up into a first segment and a second segment separated from the first segment by a gap. Spacers are formed on opposite sides of the mandrel. Using the spacers, fins are defined. The fins protrude upwardly out of the active region. A portion of the second region corresponding to the gap has no fins formed thereover. The source is epitaxially grown on the fins in the first region. At least a portion of the drain is epitaxially grown on the portion of the second region having no fins.
US09865588B2	Semiconductor device and electronic device A semiconductor device that is hardly broken is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device having high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a first wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring. The second circuit has a function of protecting the first circuit. The second circuit includes a first transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The first wiring is electrically connected to the first circuit through the second circuit. The first wiring is electrically connected to the first circuit through the second circuit. The first wiring has a function of inputting a signal. The second wiring is electrically connected to the first circuit. The second wiring is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor. The third wiring is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor included in the second circuit.
US09865587B1	Method and structure for forming buried ESD with FinFETs A semiconductor structure is provided that includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) device integrated on the same semiconductor substrate as semiconductor fin field effect transistors (FinFETs). The ESD device includes a three-dimension (3D) wrap-around PN diode connected to the semiconductor substrate. The three-dimension (3D) wrap-around PN diode has an increased junction area and, in some applications, improved heat dissipation.
US09865586B2	Semiconductor device and method for testing the semiconductor device A semiconductor device and a method for testing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a diode (protection element) and a semiconductor element having a withstand voltage that is higher than that of the diode provided on one and the same first-conductive-type semiconductor substrate, the diode having a second-conductive-type first semiconductor region selectively provided in a front surface layer of the semiconductor substrate. A high concentration region is open in a normal time, but is short-circuited to a potential higher than that of a GND pad through a second wiring layer in a screening test time. Thus, a semiconductor device and a method for testing the semiconductor device are provided, in which a protection element can be prevented from breaking down and initial failure of a device which is formed on one and the same semiconductor substrate as the protection element can be detected accurately.
US09865583B1	Process for making and using a semiconductor wafer containing first and second DOEs of standard cell compatible, NCEM-enabled fill cells, with the first DOE including snake open configured fill cells, and the second DOE including stitch open configured fill cells A process for making and using a semiconductor wafer includes instantiating first and second designs of experiments (DOEs), each comprised of at least two fill cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The first DOE contains fill cells configured to enable non-contact (NC) detection of snake opens, and the second DOE contains fill cells configured to enable NC detection of stitch opens. The process may further include obtaining NC measurements from the first and/or second DOE(s) and using such measurements, at least in part, to selectively perform additional processing, metrology or inspection steps on the wafer, and/or on other wafer(s) currently being manufactured.
US09865577B2	LED display with wavelength conversion layer A display and method of manufacture are described. The display may include a substrate including an array of pixels with each pixel including multiple subpixels, and each subpixel within a pixel is designed for a different color emission spectrum. An array of micro LED device pairs are mounted within each subpixel to provide redundancy. An array of wavelength conversion layers comprising phosphor particles are formed over the array of micro LED device pairs for tunable color emission spectrum.
US09865571B2	Light emitting diode lighting module A light emitting diode (LED) lighting module includes a plurality of LED components and a carrier. The LED components are electrically connected in series, and each LED component includes a LED die having a perpendicular structure. The carrier includes a substrate and a protecting dam, the LED components and the protecting dam are respectively placed on the substrate, and a height of the protecting dam is higher than that of each LED component. When a specific condition is satisfied, a short circuit condition between two adjacent LED components when performing die-bond procedure is prevented.
US09865570B1	Integrated circuit package with thermally conductive pillar Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated circuit (IC) package, including a molding compound positioned on a first die and laterally adjacent to a stack of dies positioned on the first die. The stack of dies electrically couples the first die to an uppermost die, and a thermally conductive pillar extends through the molding compound from the first die to an upper surface of the molding compound. The thermally conductive pillar is electrically isolated from the stack of dies and the uppermost die. The thermally conductive pillar laterally abuts and contacts the molding compound.
US09865568B2	Integrated circuit structures with recessed conductive contacts for package on package Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) structures having recessed conductive contacts for package on package (PoP). For example, an IC structure may include: an IC package having a first resist surface; a recess disposed in the first resist surface, wherein a bottom of the recess includes a second resist surface; a first plurality of conductive contacts located at the first resist surface; and a second plurality of conductive contacts located at the second resist surface. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09865564B2	Laser ashing of polyimide for semiconductor manufacturing A system for laser ashing of polyimide for a semiconductor manufacturing process is provided. The system includes: a semiconductor chip, a top chip attached to the semiconductor chip by a connection layer, a supporting material, a polyimide glue layer disposed between the supporting material and semiconductor chip, a plasma asher, and an ashing laser configured to ash the polyimide glue on the semiconductor chip.
US09865559B2	Method for manufacturing stretchable wire and method for manufacturing stretchable integrated circuit Provided is a method for manufacturing a stretchable wire, the method including removing a portion of a photoresist layer on a substrate to form a photoresist pattern comprising at least one pattern slit, applying a liquid-phase conductive material on the photoresist pattern to form a liquid-phase conductive structure in the pattern slit, forming a stretchable first insulating layer on the liquid-phase conductive structure, after removing the photoresist pattern, and separating the liquid-phase conductive structure and the first insulating layer from the substrate.
US09865556B2	Semiconductor device and method of self-confinement of conductive bump material during reflow without solder mask A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a die bump pad and substrate with a trace line and integrated bump pad. Conductive bump material is deposited on the substrate bump pad or die bump pad. The semiconductor die is mounted over the substrate so that the bump material is disposed between the die bump pad and substrate bump pad. The bump material is reflowed without a solder mask around the die bump pad or substrate bump pad to form an interconnect. The bump material is self-confined within a footprint of the die bump pad or substrate bump pad. The bump material can be immersed in a flux solution prior to reflow to increase wettability. Alternatively, the interconnect includes a non-fusible base and fusible cap. The volume of bump material is selected so that a surface tension maintains self-confinement of the bump material within the bump pads during reflow.
US09865555B2	Self-aligned under bump metal An integrated circuit including a self-aligned under bump metal pad formed on a top metal interconnect level in a connection opening in a dielectric layer, with a solder ball formed on the self-aligned under bump metal pad. Processes of forming integrated circuits including a self-aligned under bump metal pad formed on a top metal interconnect level in a connection opening in a dielectric layer, by a process of forming one or more metal layers on the interconnect level and the dielectric layer, selectively removing the metal from over the dielectric layer, and subsequently forming a solder ball on the self-aligned under bump metal pad. Some examples include additional metal layers formed after the selective removal process, and may include an additional selective removal process on the additional metal layers.
US09865553B2	Microelectronics package with inductive element and magnetically enhanced mold compound component The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with an inductive element and a magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a process for making the same. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a thinned flip-chip die with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, the magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a mold compound component. The thinned flip-chip die is attached to the module substrate and includes a device layer with an inductive element embedded therein. Herein, the inductive element is underlying the first surface portion and not underlying the second surface portion. The magnetically enhanced mold compound component is formed over the first surface portion. The mold compound component is formed over the second surface portion, not over the first surface portion, and surrounding the magnetically enhanced mold compound component.
US09865548B2	Polymer member based interconnect An interconnect (124) suitable for attachment of integrated circuit assemblies to each other comprises a polymer member (130) which is conductive and/or is coated with a conductive material (144). Such interconnects replace metal bond wires in some embodiments. Other features are also provided.
US09865546B2	Contacts to semiconductor substrate and methods of forming same An aspect of the invention includes a method for forming a contact in a dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate. The method may comprise: forming a contact opening in a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate to expose an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate; depositing a first liner layer to conformally coat the contact opening; causing a portion of the first liner layer to diffuse into the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate to form a first intermix region at the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate; depositing a refractory metal layer over the first intermix region; and depositing a metal in the contact opening thereby forming the contact.
US09865537B1	Methods and apparatus for integrated circuit failsafe fuse package with arc arrest In described examples, an apparatus includes: an integrated circuit die having multiple terminals; the integrated circuit die positioned on a die pad portion of a leadframe having leads for external connections, at least some of the leads having an inner portion electrically coupled to at least one terminal of the integrated circuit die; a fuse element coupled between one of the leads of the leadframe and at least one terminal selected from the multiple terminals of the integrated circuit die; and encapsulation material surrounding the integrated circuit die and the leadframe to form a packaged integrated circuit including the integrated circuit die and the fuse element, and having a cavity in the encapsulation material surrounding the fuse element such that the fuse element is spaced from the encapsulation material.
US09865536B2	Electrical fuse structure and method of formation An embodiment is a fuse structure. In accordance with an embodiment, a fuse structure comprises an anode, a cathode, a fuse link interposed between the anode and the cathode, and cathode connectors coupled to the cathode. The cathode connectors are each equivalent to or larger than about two times a minimum feature size of a contact that couples to an active device.
US09865535B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a planar interconnection layer formed on a substrate and made of a semiconductor, a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer formed on the interconnection layer, a semiconductor-metal compound layer formed so as to cover the entire upper surface of the interconnection layer except for a bottom portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating film surrounding the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode surrounding the first gate insulating film, and a first gate line connected to the first gate electrode.
US09865534B2	Stress reduction apparatus A device comprises a metal via having a lower portion in a first etch stop layer and an upper portion in a first dielectric layer over a substrate, a second etch stop layer over and in direct contact with the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over and in direct contact with the first etch stop layer, a stress reduction layer over and in direct contact with the second dielectric layer, a third etch stop layer over and in direct contact with the stress reduction layer and a metal structure over the metal via, wherein the metal structure comprises a lower portion in the second etch stop layer and the second dielectric layer and an upper portion in the stress reduction layer, wherein a top surface of the metal structure is level with a top surface of the stress reduction layer.
US09865533B2	Feedthrough assemblies Various embodiments of a feedthrough assembly and methods of forming such assemblies are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the feedthrough assembly can include a non-conductive substrate and a feedthrough. The feedthrough can include a via from an outer surface to an inner surface of the non-conductive substrate, a conductive material disposed in the via, and an external contact disposed over the via on the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate. The external contact can be electrically coupled to the conductive material disposed in the via. And the external contact can be hermetically sealed to the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate by a bond surrounding the via. In one or more embodiments, the bond can be a laser bond.
US09865531B2	Power module package having patterned insulation metal substrate A power module package is provided, including a substrate, a first chip, and a second chip. The substrate includes a metal carrier, a patterned insulation layer disposed on the metal carrier and partially covering the metal carrier, and a patterned conductive layer disposed on the patterned insulation layer. The first chip is disposed on the metal carrier not covered by the patterned insulation layer. The second chip is disposed on the patterned conductive layer and electrically connected to the first chip.
US09865526B2	Chip package and method for forming the same A chip package including a first substrate having an upper surface, a lower surface and a sidewall is provided. A sensing region or device region and a conducting pad are adjacent to the upper surface. A through-hole penetrates the first substrate. A redistribution layer extends from the lower surface into the through-hole and is electrically connected to the conducting pad. The redistribution layer further laterally extends from the lower surface to protrude from the sidewall. A method for forming the chip package is also provided.
US09865518B2	Electromagnetic wave shielding support base-attached encapsulant, encapsulated substrate having semicondutor devices mounted thereon, encapsulated wafer having semiconductor devices formed thereon, and semiconductor apparatus The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave shielding support base-attached encapsulant for collectively encapsulating a semiconductor device mounting surface of a substrate having semiconductor devices mounted thereon or a semiconductor device forming surface of a wafer having semiconductor devices formed thereon, the support base-attached encapsulant including a support base having an electromagnetic wave shielding property of 20 dB or more within a range of 100 MHz to 1,000 MHz, and an encapsulant composed of a thermosetting resin layer laminated on the support base. There can be provided a support base-attached encapsulant that can collectively encapsulate a semiconductor device mounting surface of a substrate having the semiconductor devices mounted thereon or a semiconductor device forming surface of a wafer having semiconductor devices formed thereon without occurrence of warping of the substrate or the wafer, peeling of the semiconductor devices from the substrate, and breakage of the wafer even in the case that a large-diameter wafer or a large-area substrate such as inorganic, organic, or metal substrate, especially thin one, is encapsulated, and that has excellent electromagnetic wave shielding property, reliability such as heat resistance and moisture resistance after encapsulating, and extremely high versatility, mass-productivity, workability, and economical efficiency.
US09865513B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes an element forming step of forming an element structure on a front surface of a substrate and forming a back structure on a back surface of the substrate, and a film forming step of performing film forming on a front surface of the element structure while measuring the temperature of the substrate by using a radiation thermometer that applies infrared rays of a wavelength λi to the back structure to obtain an infrared emissivity of the substrate. The back structure has a first layer exposed to the outside and a second layer in contact with the first layer, the refractive index of the second layer being smaller than that of the first layer, and the layer thickness of the first layer is set in a range from (2n−1)λi/8 to (2n+1)λi/8, with n being a positive even number.
US09865507B2	Low-cost CMOS structure with dual gate dielectrics and method of forming the CMOS structure Impurity atoms of a first type are implanted through a gate and a thin gate dielectric into a channel region that has substantially only the first type of impurity atoms at a middle point of the channel region to increase the average dopant concentration of the first type of impurity atoms in the channel region to adjust the threshold voltage of a transistor.
US09865505B2	Method for reducing N-type FinFET source and drain resistance A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure, the substrate structure having a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor fin, a first gate structure, and a first mask layer on a first semiconductor region. The method includes forming a second mask layer on the substrate structure, etching first mask layer and second mask layer to expose a portion of a first semiconductor fin not covered by the first gate structure, performing a first ion implantation on an exposed portion of the first semiconductor fin to introduce impurities into a portion of the first semiconductor fin located below the first gate structure, etching the first semiconductor fin to remove a portion of an exposed portion of the first semiconductor fin, and epitaxially growing a first semiconductor material on the remaining portions of the first semiconductor fin to form a first source region and a first drain region.
US09865503B2	Method to produce a semiconductor wafer for versatile products Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The method includes utilizing a subset of lower level masks in a mask set to form multiple modular units of lower level circuit structures on a semiconductor wafer. The mask set includes the subset of lower level masks and at least a first subset of upper level masks and a second subset of upper level masks. The first subset of upper level masks defines intra-unit interconnections. The second subset of upper level masks defines both intra-unit interconnections and inter-unit interconnections. The method further includes selecting one of at least the first subset of upper level masks and the second subset of upper level masks based on a composition request of a final integrated circuit (IC) product and utilizing the selected subset of upper level masks to form upper level structures on the semiconductor wafer.
US09865497B2	Method for manufacturing bonded wafer A method for manufacturing bonded wafer including: producing bonded wafer having thin-film on its base wafer by an ion implantation delamination method, and reducing film thickness of the thin-film, wherein the step of reducing the film thickness includes a stage of reducing the film thickness by sacrificial oxidation treatment or vapor phase etching, wherein the method for manufacturing bonded wafer further includes a cleaning step of cleaning the bonded wafer exposing the delamination surface just before the step of reducing the film thickness, wherein the cleaning step includes a stage of performing a wet cleaning by successively dipping the bonded wafer to plural of cleaning baths, and wherein the wet cleaning is performed without applying ultrasonic in each of the cleaning baths in the wet cleaning. The method enables to clean bonded wafer exposing delamination surface remaining damage of ion implantation using a cleaning line in a strict control level.
US09865494B2	Substrate holding method, substrate holding apparatus, exposure apparatus and exposure method A wafer holding apparatus for holding a wafer including a wafer holder on which the wafer is placed; and a lift pin that is configured to be lifted up and down with respect to the wafer holder in a direction along a normal line of a placement surface of the wafer, the lift pin includes a tip part, the tip part includes: a bottom part that forms a suction region for sucking a rear surface of the wafer; and a convex part that supports the rear surface of the wafer in the suction region. When a substrate is placed on a target position, it is possible to prevent a local deterioration of flatness of the substrate even if the substrate is large.
US09865493B2	Substrate plating jig A plating jig that can form a metal plating film simultaneously on both surfaces of a semiconductor wafer by one plating process. The plating jig includes a base section and a cover section that can hold a substrate to be plated, and a center section that holds the substrate between the base section and cover section; the base section, the cover section and the center section each having an annular portion having an opening at a center thereof; seal packings each having a conductive ring disposed thereon being attached to each of facing surfaces of the annular portions of the base section and the cover section; the substrate to be plated being disposed inside the opening of the center section; and the substrate to be plated being held from front and back surfaces thereof with the seal packings attached to the cover section and the center section.
US09865485B2	Apparatus and method for determining the location of plate elements of a wafer boat An apparatus and method determines the location of wafer boat plate elements having a plurality of plate elements arranged substantially parallel to each other. At least three sensors are moved along travel paths perpendicular to the plate elements, wherein at least a first travel path is above, at least a second travel path is below the wafer boat and at third travel path is laterally spaced from the first or second travel paths above or below the wafer boat. During this movement the position of the sensors along a respective travel path is determined continuously, and it is determined, in which position a respective plate element enters the measuring area of a sensor and exits the same. A distance between a sensor and an edge of a plate element is measured and the location of a respective plate element is determined by means of the sensor signals.
US09865477B2	Backside polisher with dry frontside design and method using the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor fabrication apparatus in accordance with one embodiment. The apparatus includes a wafer stage that is operable to secure and rotate a wafer; a polish head configured to polish a backside surface of the wafer; an air bearing module configured to apply an air pressure to a front surface of the wafer; and an edge sealing unit configured to seal edges of the wafer.
US09865472B2	Fabrication of a silicon structure and deep silicon etch with profile control A method of etching features into a silicon layer with a steady-state gas flow is provided. An etch gas comprising an oxygen containing gas and a fluorine containing gas is provided. A plasma is provided from the etch gas. Then, the flow of the etch gas is stopped.
US09865471B2	Etching method and etching apparatus A method for etching a silicon film formed on a substrate includes supplying HBr gas, NF3 gas, and O2 gas into a chamber and performing a plurality of etching processes on the silicon film with a plasma generated by the supplied HBr gas, NF3 gas, and O2 gas, gradually reducing a flow rate of the HBr gas during the plurality of etching processes, and adjusting a flow rate of the O2 gas according to the reduction of the HBr gas.
US09865466B2	Silicide phase control by confinement Implementations described herein generally relate to methods of selective deposition of metal silicides. More specifically, implementations described herein generally relate to methods of forming nickel silicide nanowires for semiconductor applications. In one implementation, a method of processing a substrate is provided. The method comprises forming a silicon-containing layer on a surface of a substrate, forming a metal-containing layer comprising a transition metal on the silicon-containing layer, forming a confinement layer on exposed surfaces of the metal-containing layer and annealing the substrate at a temperature of less than 400 degrees Celsius to form a metal silicide layer from the silicon-containing layer and the metal-containing layer, wherein the confinement layer inhibits formation of metal-rich metal silicide phases.
US09865464B2	Nanocrystalline diamond carbon film for 3D NAND hardmask application A nanocrystalline diamond layer for use in forming a semiconductor device and methods for using the same are disclosed herein. The device can include a substrate with a processing surface and a supporting surface, a device layer formed on the processing surface and a nanocrystalline diamond layer formed on the processing layer, the nanocrystalline diamond layer having an average grain size of between 2 nm and 5 nm. The method can include positioning a substrate in a process chamber, depositing a device layer on a processing surface, depositing a nanocrystalline diamond layer on the device layer, the nanocrystalline diamond layer having an average grain size of between 2 nm and 5 nm, patterning and etching the nanocrystalline diamond layer, etching the device layer to form a feature and ashing the nanocrystalline diamond layer from the surface of the device layer.
US09865462B2	Strain relaxed buffer layers with virtually defect free regions A strain relaxed buffer layer of a second semiconductor material and of a second lattice constant and containing misfit dislocation defects and threading dislocation defects is formed atop a surface of a first semiconductor material of a first lattice constant that differs from the second lattice constant. The surface of the first semiconductor material includes at least one recessed region and adjoining non-recessed regions. An anneal is then performed on the strain relaxed buffer layer to propagate and amass the misfit dislocation defects and threading dislocation defects at a sidewall of each of the non-recessed regions of the first semiconductor material.
US09865461B2	Process for producing structured coatings The present invention relates to a liquid-phase process for producing structured silicon- and/or germanium-containing coatings by the application to a substrate of at least one coating composition, the partial activation of the resulting coating on the coated substrate, and oxidation of non-activated coating on the substrate, to the coats produced by the process and to their use.
US09865460B2	Semiconductor device having fin-type channel and method for forming the same A method for forming a semiconductor device having a fin-type channel is provided. The method may include the following operations: forming a first buffer layer over a substrate; forming a first dielectric layer over the first buffer layer; patterning the first dielectric layer over the first buffer layer; forming a barrier layer over the first buffer layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the barrier layer; patterning the second dielectric layer over the barrier layer; forming a channel layer over the barrier layer; and patterning the second dielectric layer, such that at least a portion of the channel layer protrudes to form the fin-type channel.
US09865456B1	Methods of forming silicon nitride by atomic layer deposition and methods of forming semiconductor structures Methods of forming silicon nitride. Silicon nitride is formed on a substrate by atomic layer deposition at a temperature of less than or equal to about 275° C. The as-formed silicon nitride is exposed to a plasma. The silicon nitride may be formed as a portion of silicon nitride and at least one other portion of silicon nitride. The portion of silicon nitride and the at least one other portion of silicon nitride may be exposed to a plasma treatment. Methods of forming a semiconductor structure are also disclosed, as are semiconductor structures and silicon precursors.
US09865455B1	Nitride film formed by plasma-enhanced and thermal atomic layer deposition process Provided are methods and apparatuses for depositing a nitride film using one or more plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition cycles and one or more thermal atomic layer deposition cycles in a single reactor. The number of thermal atomic layer deposition cycles can be equal to or greater than the number of plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition cycles. Incorporation of thermal atomic layer deposition cycles with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition cycles can allow for greater fine-tuning of properties of the nitride film. In some implementations, the nitride film is a silicon nitride film. The silicon nitride film can be fine-tuned to allow for a more silicon-rich film with a greater refractive index. In some implementations, the plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition cycles and the thermal atomic layer deposition cycles can be maintained at the same wafer temperature.
US09865454B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber including a top plate, a rotary table rotatably disposed in the vacuum chamber, a first process gas supply part that supplies a first process gas to be adsorbed on a surface of a substrate placed on the rotary table, a plasma processing gas supply part that is disposed apart from the first process gas supply part in a circumferential direction of the rotary table and supplies a second process gas to the surface of the substrate, a separation gas supply part that supplies a separation gas for separating the first process gas and the second process gas, a plasma generator that converts the second process gas into plasma, and an elevating mechanism that moves at least one of the plasma generator and the rotary table upward and downward.
US09865453B2	Semiconductor devices including device isolation structures and methods of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of recess regions on an upper surface of a substrate, forming a first oxide layer in the recess regions, forming a polysilicon layer on the first oxide layer, forming a second oxide layer by oxidizing the polysilicon layer, and forming a gap-fill layer on the second oxide layer to fill the recess regions, wherein at least a portion of the polysilicon layer remains between the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer after forming the second oxide layer.
US09865452B2	Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus Disclosed is a substrate processing method that includes a water-repellency step, a rinse step, and a dry step. In the water-repellency step, a water-repellent agent which is heated to a first predetermined temperature and then reaches a second predetermined temperature lower than the first predetermined temperature, is supplied to a substrate. In the rinse step, a rinse liquid is supplied to the substrate after the water-repellency step. In the dry step, the rinse liquid on the substrate after the rinse step is removed.
US09865450B2	Low-pressure discharge lamp with fluorescent particles having a small particle size In different embodiments, a low-pressure discharge lamp (1) is provided. The low-pressure discharge lamp has a discharge vessel (2) and a coating structure (7). The coating structure is formed on an inner face of the discharge vessel (2). The coating structure (7) has first fluorescent particles (34) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits red light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.5 μm to 1.9 μm, second fluorescent particles (36) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits green light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.6 μm to 2.8 μm or from 1 μm to 4 μm, and third fluorescent particles (38) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits blue light and the average particle size of which ranges from 1 μm to 4 μm.
US09865447B2	High brightness laser-sustained plasma broadband source The broadband light source includes a gas containment structure and a pump laser for generating a pump beam including illumination of a wavelength near that of a weak absorption line of a neutral gas contained in the gas containment structure. The broadband light source also includes anamorphic optics for focusing the pump beam into an elliptical beam waist positioned in or near the center of the gas containment structure. The broadband light source also includes collection optics for collecting broadband radiation emitted by the plasma in a direction aligned with a longer axis of the elliptical beam waist.
US09865445B2	Multi-reflecting mass spectrometer To improve spatial and energy acceptance of multi-reflecting time-of-flight, open traps, and electrostatic trap analyzers, a novel ion mirror is disclosed. Incorporation of immersion lens between ion mirrors allows reaching the fifth order time per energy focusing simultaneously with the third order time per spatial focusing including energy-spatial cross terms. Preferably the analyzer has hollow cylindrical geometry for extended flight path. The time-of-flight analyzer preferably incorporates spatially modulated ion mirror field for isochronous ion focusing in the tangential direction.
US09865444B2	Time-of-flight mass spectrometer Ions ejected substantially simultaneously from a collision cell after being temporarily held inside the collision cell arrive at an orthogonal acceleration unit through an ion transport optical system. When the ions enter the orthogonal acceleration unit, voltages having a predetermined potential difference are applied to an entrance-side electrode and an exit-side auxiliary electrode, and as a result an electric field having a rising potential gradient along an axis is created in the orthogonal acceleration unit. As ions having low an m/z values and entering the orthogonal acceleration unit first is significantly decelerate, the packet of ions spread in the X-axis direction in accordance with the m/z values are compressed in the X-axis direction after entering the orthogonal acceleration unit. Thus, a mass-to-charge ratio range of ions that are accelerated in the orthogonal acceleration unit is broadened, and a mass spectrum of a broad range of mass-to-charge ratios can be obtained.
US09865443B2	Mass analysis method and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer An Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer including: a plasma ionization part; a mass analysis part; a storage part that stores ion information about mass-charge ratios and presence ratios of isotopic ions of all elements and mass-charge ratios and generation probabilities of compound ions and multivalent ions generated when the measuring object samples are plasma-ionized; a representative sample measuring part; and an element-containing inferring part that infers types of elements contained in the representative sample; an interference ion judgment part that, respective target elements in the inferred elements, judges according to ion information whether there are isotopes without interference ions; a determination part of measurement mass-charge ratio that determines the mass-charge ratio of the isotope without interference ions and a mass-charge ratio of an isotope whose a mass peak has the maximum intensity obtained by subtracting the intensity as a mass-charge ratio for measurement; and an all-sample measuring part.
US09865442B2	Curved ion guide with non mass to charge ratio dependent confinement A non-linear ion guide is disclosed comprising a plurality of electrodes. An ion guiding region is arranged between the electrodes, and the ion guiding region curves at least in a first direction. A DC voltage is applied to at least some of the electrodes in order to form a DC potential well which acts to confine ions within the ion guiding region in the first direction.
US09865434B2	Rare-earth oxide based erosion resistant coatings for semiconductor application An article includes a body that is coated with a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating may include Y2O3 in a range between about 45 mol % to about 99 mol %, ZrO2 in a range between about 0 mol % to about 55 mol %, and Al2O3 in range between about 0 mol % to about 10 mol %. The ceramic coating may alternatively inculde Y2O3 in a range between about 30 mol % to about 60 mol %, ZrO2 in a range between about 0 mol % to about 20 mol %, and Al2O3 in a range between about 30 mol % to about 60 mol %.
US09865432B1	RF impedance matching network An RF impedance matching network includes an RF input configured to operably couple to an RF source, the RF source having a fixed RF source impedance; an RF output configured to operably couple to a plasma chamber, the plasma chamber having a variable plasma impedance; a series EVC; a shunt EVC; an RF input sensor; and a control circuit configured to: determine an input impedance; determine the plasma impedance; determine a first capacitance value for the series variable capacitance and a second capacitance value for the shunt variable capacitance, the determination of the first capacitance value and the second capacitance value based on the plasma impedance and the RF source impedance; generate a control signal to alter at least one of the series variable capacitance and the shunt variable capacitance to the first capacitance value and the second capacitance value, respectively.
US09865430B2	Boron implanting using a co-gas An apparatus and methods of improving the ion beam quality of a halogen-based source gas are disclosed. Unexpectedly, the introduction of a noble gas, such as argon, to an ion source chamber may increase the percentage of desirable ion species, while decreasing the amount of contaminants and halogen-containing ions. This is especially beneficial in non-mass analyzed implanters, where all ions are implanted into the workpiece. In one embodiment, a first source gas, comprising a dopant and a halogen is introduced into an ion source chamber, a second source gas comprising a hydride, and a third source gas comprising a noble gas are also introduced. The combination of these three source gases produces an ion beam having a higher percentage of pure dopant ions than would occur if the third source gas were not used.
US09865429B2	Ion implantation with charge and direction control The present disclosure provides for various advantageous methods and apparatus of controlling electron emission. One of the broader forms of the present disclosure involves an electron emission element, comprising an electron emitter including an electron emission region disposed between a gate electrode and a cathode electrode. An anode is disposed above the electron emission region, and a voltage set is disposed above the anode. A first voltage applied between the gate electrode and the cathode electrode controls a quantity of electrons generated from the electron emission region. A second voltage applied to the anode extracts generated electrons. A third voltage applied to the voltage set controls a direction of electrons extracted through the anode.
US09865428B2	Preparation of cryogenic sample for charged-particle microscopy A method of preparing a sample for study in a charged-particle microscope, whereby the sample is subjected to rapid cooling using a cryogen, comprising the following steps: Providing two conduits for transporting cryogenic fluid, each of which conduits opens out into a mouthpiece, which mouthpieces are arranged to face each other across an intervening gap; Placing the sample in said gap; Pumping cryogenic fluid through said conduits so as to concurrently flush from said mouthpieces, thereby suddenly immersing the sample in cryogenic fluid from two opposite sides.
US09865427B2	User interface for an electron microscope A user interface for operation of a scanning electron microscope device that combines lower magnification reference images and higher magnification images on the same screen to make it easier for a user who is not used to the high magnification of electron microscopes to readily determine where on the sample an image is being obtained and to understand the relationship between that image and the rest of the sample. Additionally, other screens, such as, for example, an archive screen and a settings screen allow the user to compare saved images and adjust the settings of the system, respectively.
US09865425B2	Sample holder and sample holder set Disclosed herein is a sample holder which holds a sample such that a surface is exposed and can be mounted in each of multiple measurement devices that perform measurement based on different measurement principles so that properties of the sample can be measured by each of the measurement devices. The sample holder includes: a main body that surrounds the sample; alignment marks that are arranged at each of two or more different positions in a surface of the main body and can be detected by the measurement devices; and a sample-retaining portion that is disposed within the main body and retains the sample such that a height difference between a mark surface of the alignment mark and the surface of the sample is set to a predetermined value.
US09865420B2	Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact portion including a fixed contact; a movable contact portion including a movable contact that contacts the fixed contact; and an electromagnetic device that operates the movable contact portion so that the movable contact contacts the fixed contact, and includes an armature that adsorbs to a magnetic core surface of the electromagnetic device and operates the movable contact portion by rotating with respect to a fulcrum, a hinge spring that pushes a part of the armature at an opposite side of the magnetic core surface while interposing the fulcrum therebetween so that the armature moves away from the magnetic core surface, and a fixed member that fixes an end portion of the hinge spring while having outside of a side surface of the armature as a fixed position, and wherein the fixed member is configured to fix the end portion of the hinge spring by moving the hinge spring from an upper side to a lower side of the armature, when attaching the hinge spring.
US09865417B2	Circuit breaker The invention relates to a circuit breaker that can be switched between an ON position and an OFF position, such that in the OFF position an interruption path comprising an arcing space is formed. The circuit breaker comprises a storage volume for a quenching gas, which is in gaseous communication with the arcing space and has an inlet port for the quenching gas. The inlet port also has a valve comprising an obturator, and the obturator has a heat-insulating coating.
US09865412B2	Push-button switch device for vehicle In a push-button switch device for a vehicle including a first case member fixed to a vehicle body or a lid openably and closably mounted on the vehicle body, a second case member mounted on the first case member forming a case together with the first case member, a push-button supported on the case configured for a pushing operation, and a switch housed in and fixed to the case in a state in which waterproofness is ensured while a switching mode thereof is changed in response to a pushing operation of the push-button, the entrance of water into the case is suppressed as far as possible. A labyrinth passage bent up and down is formed between the first and second case members further inside than an abutment part formed by mutual abutment of at least upper edges among peripheral edges of the first and second case members.
US09865411B2	Safety device for a photovoltaic system The disclosure relates to a safety device for a photovoltaic system for feeding into a power supply system, that includes at least one input for connection to a PV generator, at least one output for connection to an inverter, and a switching element for de-energizing the at least one output. The safety device includes an evaluating unit configured to switch the switching element based on a low-frequency signal at the at least one output. The disclosure also relates to a method for operating such a safety device.
US09865400B2	Capacitor A capacitor that includes a conductive porous base material; a dielectric layer; and an electrode. The conductive porous base material, the dielectric layer, and the upper electrode are laminated together to constitute an effective part that accumulates charges in the dielectric layer when a voltage is applied between the conductive porous base material and the electrode. The conductive porous base material includes at least one groove having a width of 10 μm or more at ½ of a depth of the at least one groove.
US09865397B2	Multilayer electronic component A multilayer electronic component includes an element body having an internal electrode layer and a dielectric layer. These are substantially parallel to a plane including a first axis and a second axis and are alternately laminated along a third axis direction. Side surfaces facing each other in the first axis direction are respectively equipped with an insulating layer. End surfaces facing each other in the second axis direction are respectively equipped with an external electrode. A main component of the insulating layer is constituted by glass containing Si at 25 wt % or more. The external electrode includes glass containing at least Si. The external electrode covers an end portion in the second axial direction of the insulating layer. A diffusing layer is partially present at least at a bonding portion of the insulating layer with the external electrode in the side surface.
US09865396B2	Method of manufacturing capacitor including intermediate dielectric layer with first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes A capacitor includes: dielectric layers including a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and at least one intermediate dielectric layer laminated between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer; first interlayer electrode and second interlayer electrode arranged alternately with each other between at least two layers among the dielectric layers; a first external electrode disposed on lateral surfaces of the dielectric layers and coupled to the first interlayer electrode; and a second external electrode disposed on lateral surfaces of the dielectric layers and coupled to the second interlayer electrode, wherein the intermediate dielectric layer includes first internal electrodes coupled to the first interlayer electrode, arranged in a plane direction of the intermediate dielectric layer and spaced apart from each other, and second internal electrodes coupled to the second interlayer electrode, arranged alternately with the first internal electrodes and spaced apart from the first internal electrodes.
US09865392B2	Solenoidal series stacked multipath inductor A series stacked, solenoidally wound, multipath inductor includes a plurality of turns disposed about a center region on two layers. The turns on the two layers have corresponding geometry therebetween. Each of the plurality of turns includes two or more segments that extend length-wise along the turns. The segments have positions that vary from an innermost position relative to the center region and an outermost position relative to the center region. A cross-over architecture is configured to couple the segments of a turn on one layer with the segments on a turn on another layer to form segment paths that have a substantially same length for all segment paths in a segment path grouping between the two layers.
US09865388B2	Electronic component and common mode choke coil An electronic component includes a main body formed from an insulative material, coil conductors, outer electrodes provided on a surface of the main body, and outer pads. Each coil conductor is constituted by a spiral-shaped coil portion and a lead portion connected to the coil portion and extending linearly. The outer pads connect the lead portions to the outer electrodes. At a contact point that connects one of the coil portions to their corresponding one of the lead portions, an angle formed by the coil portion and the lead portion is an obtuse angle.
US09865385B2	Linear solenoid A linear solenoid has a coil, a plunger, a magnetic attractive core, and a magnetic delivery core. The coil generates a magnetic force when being energized. The plunger is supported to be movable in an axial direction on an inner side of the coil. The magnetic attractive core magnetically attracts the plunger in the axial direction by the magnetic force generated by the coil. The magnetic delivery core delivers a magnetic flux to an outer surface of the plunger. A shaft that is non-magnetic and extends in the axial direction is fixed on the inner side of the coil. The plunger has a shaft hole defined around an axial center of the plunger, and the shaft is inserted in the shaft hole. The plunger slides while being in contact with the shaft. One end of the shaft is fixed to the magnetically attractive core.
US09865384B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator including a first magnet provided at an upper end of a cover of an ice bucket and a second magnet provided at a ceiling of an inner liner. The ice bucket is fixed in a state in which the cover of the ice bucket is in tight contact with a front wall of an ice-making compartment due to magnetically attractive force between the first magnet and the second magnet.
US09865372B2	Deflection containing electrical conductor An electrical conductor is provided that includes at least one strip of conductive material defining a length and having a first end with a first cutout and a second end having a second cutout. The cutouts engage electrical terminals. The at least two deflections are orthogonal to the length of the strip. The deflections are located between the first cutout and the second cutout and are in plane or out of plane of the cutouts. The electrical conductor is particularly well suited for interconnection of batteries associated with a vehicle power system.
US09865371B2	Carbon nanotube composite material and conductive material Provide is a carbon nanotube composite material and conductive material to solve the problems of the prior art described above by providing a high conductivity and showing excellent durability against repeated stress such as strain. A carbon nanotube composite material of the invention is a conductive material having carbon nanotubes dispersed in a matrix including observing a peak in each region of 110±10 cm−1, 190±10 cm−1 and 200 cm−1 or more in a Raman spectroscopic analysis at a wavelength of 633 nm, and a ratio R/R0 of an electrical resistance R after a load of repeated stress of 100 times at 10% elongation with respect to an electrical resistance R0 prior to applying a load is 5 or more. In addition, a conductive material of the invention comprises these characteristics of the carbon nanotube composite material.
US09865367B2	Process and apparatus for separation of technetium-99M from molybdate Systems and methods for separation or isolation of technetium radioisotopes from aqueous solutions of radioactive or non-radioactive molybdate salts using a polyalkyl glycol-based cross-linked polyether polymer. Some embodiments can be used for the effective purification of radioactive technetium-99m produced from low specific activity 99Mo.
US09865365B2	Decay heat removal system with hybrid heat pipe having coolant and neutron absorber for cooling nuclear power plant Disclosed is a decay heat removal system for cooling the decay heat of a reactor core and the spent fuel. The decay heat removal system including: a first heat pipe which is placed in an upper plenum of the reactor vessel and arranged in upward and downward directions corresponding to a position of an insertion hole formed on a top of the nuclear fuel assemblies; a control rod drive mechanism which is connected to an upper portion of the first heat pipe and drives the first heat pipe to move up and down so that the first heat pipe can be selectively inserted in a control rod insertion hole of the reactor core arranged in the nuclear reactor vessel; and a second heat pipe which is coupled to and in close contact with a bottom surface of the reactor vessel and removes the decay heat generated in the reactor core.
US09865362B1	Method and apparatus for testing error correction code (ECC) logic and physical memory onboard a manufactured integrated circuit (IC) Method and apparatus for testing the memory components of an integrated Circuit (IC) using a routing logic and a built-in design for test (DFT) hardware processing device. Based on input provided from an interface controller to the IC, the IC is tested according to one of at least two modes. In a first mode, the built-in DFT hardware processing device executes a test that checks for faults in the physical memory of the IC. In a second mode, the built-in DFT hardware processing device executes a test that checks for faults in the error correction logic of the IC. By using the same routing logic and built-in DFT hardware processing device, tests of the memory components according to the first and second mode can be executed on an automatic and serial basis, even after the manufacture of the IC.
US09865360B2	Burn-in memory testing A method performed by a controller includes initiating a first data write operation and an erase operation on a portion of a non-volatile memory. The first data write operation corresponds to a first write resolution. The method includes initiating a second data write operation to write test data to the portion of the non-volatile memory. The second data write operation corresponds to a second write resolution that is greater than the first write resolution. The method also includes reading a representation of the test data from the portion of the non-volatile memory.
US09865354B1	EPROM device for storing multi-bit data and read circuit of EPROM device An EPROM device may include a unit cell, a switching unit, a decoder, and a comparing unit. The unit cell may be disposed between a ground voltage terminal and a bit line coupled to a program voltage supply line. The switching unit may control an electrical coupling of the program voltage supply line and the unit cell according to input switching control signal. The decoder may generate a plurality of output signals according to an input of binary data. The comparing unit may compare each of a plurality of reference voltages with a bit lien voltage and generate a program mode output signal. The level shifter may receive at least one output signal of the output signals of the decoder and the program mode output signal, and may output the output signal of the decoder or the program mode output signal as the switching control signal.
US09865353B1	Cell location programming for storage systems There is provided a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells and a controller configured to receive data to be stored in a set of memory cells and map a first portion of the data to a selection of memory cells to be programmed from the set of memory cells, wherein the number of cells to be programmed k is less than number of cells in the set n. The controller is further configured to map a second portion of the data to a plurality of voltage levels to be programmed into the memory cells to be programmed and store the first and second portions of the data in the set of memory cells by programming each memory cell of the selection of memory cells to be programmed to a respective voltage level of the plurality of voltage levels.
US09865351B2	Memory system with non-volatile memory device that is capable of single or simulataneous multiple word line selection A memory system includes a memory device including a memory cell array having a first region of multiple first memory cells and a second region of multiple second memory cells, first word lines each connected to a gate of one of the first memory cells, and second word lines each connected to a gate of one of the second memory cells, and a controller configured to control an operation of the memory device. The memory device selects one word line when reading from or writing to the first memory cells and selects more than one word line when reading from or writing to the second memory cells.
US09865350B2	Content addressable memory, an index generator, and a registered information update method A content addressable memory according to the present invention includes plural index generators, an output unit, and a controller. The plural index generators generates a signature of an input vector using plural hash functions, and to generate index corresponding to the input vector by searching registered information for a registered vector based on the signature. The output unit combines each output of the plural index generators to produce the index corresponding to the input vector. The controller configured to control an update of the registered information. Each of the plural index generators is configured to generate a first signal indicating whether the index generated based on the signature exists as the registered information to supply the first signal to the controller, to generate the regenerated vector of the index vector by using the index generated based on the signature, to generate a second signal indicating whether the regenerated vector matches the input vector, and to supply the second signal to the controller.
US09865345B2	Electronic device including a semiconductor memory having memory arrays with variable resistance storage elements and a bias voltage generator arranged between the arrays An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes: a word line driving unit for driving a plurality of word lines; a first circuit area including a first cell array arranged at one side of the word line driving unit; a second circuit area including a second cell array arranged at the other side of the word line driving unit; a bias voltage generation unit arranged between the first cell array and the second cell array; a first read control unit; and a second read control unit. The first and second cell arrays include storage cells having variable resistance elements, and the bias voltage generation unit generates a bias voltage based on currents flowing through a first reference resistance element included in the first cell array and a second reference resistance element included in the second cell array.
US09865343B2	Method for reading out a resistive memory cell and a memory cell for carrying out the method A method for reading out a resistive memory cell comprising two electrodes that are spaced from each other by an ion-conducting resistive material was developed, the memory cells being transferrable from a stable state having a higher resistance value (high resistive state, HRS) to a stable state having a lower resistance value (low resistive state, LRS) when a write voltage is applied. A read voltage is applied as a read pulse for reading out, wherein the number of ions driven through the ion-conducting resistive material during the pulse is set by way of the level and duration of the pulse in such a way, proceeding from the HRS state, they suffice for forming an electrically conducting path through the ion-conducting resistive material at least until the onset of a flow of current through this path, and thus for the transition into a metastable VRS state (volatile resistance state) having a reduced resistance value and a predefined relaxation time for return into the HRS state, but not for transition into the LRS state. In this way, it is ensured that, in all cases, the memory cell once is again in the same state after the read-out as it was prior to the read-out. This allows in particular memory elements that are composed of an antiserial circuit composed of two memory cells to be read out non-destructively, without this diminishing the option of implementing large arrays composed of these memory elements.
US09865340B2	Enhanced temperature compensation for resistive memory cell circuits A computer-implemented method for performing a voltage-based measurement of a resistive memory cell having a plurality of programmable cell states includes providing, via a processor, a prebiased voltage at a connecting node. The method further includes prebiasing a bitline capacitance of the resistive memory cell. In other aspects, the method includes settling, via the processor, a sensing circuit to a target voltage. The method further includes outputting a resultant value based on a sensed voltage at the resistive memory cell.
US09865335B2	SRAM device capable of working in multiple low voltages without loss of performance A memory device comprises a tracking control circuit for controlling the write operation or the read operation of the memory device. The tracking control circuit comprises a plurality of tracking cells, wherein the timing characteristics of the tracking cells emulate the timing characteristics of a bit cell during a write operation or a read operation of the memory device. The memory device further comprises at least two reference word lines for configuring the number of tracking cells of the tracking control circuit; and a selection circuit configured to activate one or more of the at least two reference word lines.
US09865333B2	Temperature compensated read assist circuit for a static random access memory (SRAM) A memory circuit includes a wordline, memory cells connected to the wordline and a wordline driver circuit including a p-channel pull-up transistor. The memory circuit further includes a read assist circuit including an n-channel pull-down transistor having a source-drain path connected between the wordline and a ground node and an n-channel diode-connected transistor having a source-drain path connected between a positive supply node and a gate terminal of the n-channel pull-down transistor. The n-channel diode-connected transistor is configured to apply a biasing voltage to the gate terminal of the n-channel pull-down transistor that is a relatively lower voltage for relatively lower temperatures and a relatively higher voltage for relatively higher temperatures.
US09865332B2	Scalable floating body memory cell for memory compilers and method of using floating body memories with memory compilers A floating body SRAM cell that is readily scalable for selection by a memory compiler for making memory arrays is provided. A method of selecting a floating body SRAM cell by a memory compiler for use in array design is provided.
US09865331B2	Amplifier A circuit includes a plurality of first circuits, a selection circuit, and a second circuit. The selection circuit is configured to selectively couple a first circuit of the plurality of first circuits with the second circuit. The first circuit includes a first data line and a second data line; and a pair of cross-coupled transistors of a first type coupled with the first data line and the second data line. The second circuit includes a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit; and a pair of cross coupled transistors of a second type different from the first type. The pair of cross-coupled transistors of the first circuit and the pair of cross-coupled transistors of the second circuit are configured as part of a sense amplifier when the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit are turned on.
US09865325B2	Memory device and semiconductor device Provided is a memory device with a reduced layout area. The memory device includes a sense amplifier electrically connected to first and second wirings and positioned in a first layer, and first and second circuits positioned in a second layer over the first layer. The first circuit includes a first switch being turned on and off in accordance with a potential of a third wiring, and a first capacitor electrically connected to the first wiring via the first switch. The second circuit includes a second switch being turned on and off in accordance with a potential of a fourth wiring, and a second capacitor electrically connected to the second wiring via the second switch. The first wiring intersects the third wiring and does not intersect the fourth wiring in the second layer. The second wiring intersects the fourth wiring and does not intersect the third wiring in the second layer.
US09865322B2	Low resistance bitline and sourceline apparatus for improving read and write operations of a nonvolatile memory Described is an apparatus for improving read and write margins. The apparatus comprises: a sourceline; a first bitline; a column of resistive memory cells, each resistive memory cell of the column coupled at one end to the sourceline and coupled to the first bitline at another end; and a second bitline in parallel to the first bitline, the second bitline to decouple read and write operations on the bitline for the resistive memory cell. Described is also an apparatus which comprises: a sourceline; a bitline; a column of resistive memory cells, each resistive memory cell in the column coupled at one end to the sourceline and coupled to the bitline at another end; and sourceline write drivers coupled to the bitline and the sourceline, wherein the sourceline write drivers are distributed along the column of resistive memory cells.
US09865321B2	Spin transfer MRAM device with reduced coefficient of MTJ resistance variation We describe the manufacturing process for and structure of a CPP MTJ MRAM unit cell that utilizes transfer of spin angular momentum as a mechanism for changing the magnetic moment direction of a free layer. The cell is formed of a vertically or horizontally series connected sequence of N sub-cells, each sub-cell being an identical MTJ element. A statistical population of such multiple sub-cell unit cells has a variation of resistance that is less by a factor of N−1/2 than that of a population of single sub-cells. As a result, such unit cells have an improved read margin while not requiring an increase in the critical switching current.
US09865319B2	Electronic device and method for fabricating the same Provided is an electronic device including a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory may include: an under layer including first and second metal layers and a barrier layer having a dual phase structure of different crystal structures and interposed between the first and second metal layers; a first magnetic layer positioned over the under layer and having a variable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer positioned over the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer positioned over the tunnel barrier layer and having a pinned magnetization direction, and the under layer may further include a barrier layer having a dual phase structure between the first and second metal layers.
US09865318B2	Transmission circuit, and semiconductor apparatus and system using the same A transmission circuit may be provided. The transmission circuit may include a strobe control circuit and an output driver. The strobe control circuit may generate strobe driving signals based on information and a clock signal. The output driver may generate a strobe signal by driving a signal transmission line. The transmission circuit may drive the signal transmission line to a specified level for a predetermined time after transmission of the strobe signal is completed.
US09865313B2	System and method for dynamic caching In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method executable by a server system to store data in a data cache and refresh the data based on a dynamic schedule is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a processor, data from a first resource; storing, by the processor, the data in a data cache; determining, by the processor, a type of the data, and an access frequency of the data; determining, by the processor, a dynamic schedule based on the type of the data, and the access frequency of the data; and refreshing the data cache with new data from the first resource based on the dynamic schedule.
US09865310B2	High density memory modules Solid state memory modules are disclosed having increased density for module size/footprint. Different embodiments also provide for improved interconnect arrangements between the memory modules and the corresponding field programmable gate array (FPGA), micro-processor (μP), or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). These interconnects provide for greater module interconnect flexibility, operating speed and operating efficiency. Some memory module embodiments according to the present invention comprises a plurality of solid state memory devices arranged on a first printed circuit board. A second printed circuit board is on and electrically connected to the first printed circuit board, with the second printed circuit board having a pin-out for direct coupling to a host device.
US09865307B2	Recording device, recording method, and non-transitory recording medium A recording device includes an imaging unit that takes a video, a recording time conversion processor that converts a frame rate of specified video data in the video so as to adjust the video to fall within a specified recording time, and a tag range processor that sets a tag range where a tag can be assigned in accordance with a level of importance to the video data, and the recording time conversion processor converts a frame rate at a first thinning-out rate that thins out a frame in a first video data range where the tag range is not set in the video data, and converts a frame rate at a second thinning-out rate that thins out a frame in a second video data range where the tag range is set in the video data in accordance with the level of importance.
US09865304B2	File generation device and method, and content playback device and method The present disclosure relates to a file generation device and method, and a content playback device, enabling efficient access to arbitrary subsamples within a sample. Information for acquiring arbitrary subsamples (tiles) is disposed not by extending the sidx and the ssix, but by defining a separate box, a general subsegment index box (gsix), after the sidx and the ssix at the beginning of the segment file. The present disclosure may be applied to a content playback system equipped with a content server and a content playback device, for example.
US09865303B1	Creation of media clips from media broadcasts A media sharing system receives a media stream from a broadcaster system. The media sharing system streams a transcoded version of the media stream to user devices that request the media stream broadcast. Additionally, as the media stream is received from the broadcaster system, the media sharing system generates media segments that include the content of the media stream. Based on programming information received for the media stream, the media sharing system creates a media clip for each program included in the media stream. The media sharing system uses content from the media segments to generate the media clips. Further, as a user is viewing a media stream broadcast to the user's device by the media sharing system, the user may request the creation of a media clip from the media stream. The system identifies media segments that include content of the desired media clip and creates the media clip.
US09865302B1	Virtual video editing Virtual video editing is disclosed. In some embodiments, a definition of a virtual clip of a source file is received from a user and saved for future playback of the virtual clip. The virtual clip is not encoded as a separate file. Rather, a portion of the source file specified in the definition of the virtual clip is played back when the virtual clip is played.
US09865301B1	Selectable magnetic writers of different target geometries for reducing performance variance A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.
US09865299B2	Information processing device, information recording medium, information processing method, and program Provided is an information processing device including a data processing unit that executes reproduction processing of content recorded in an information recording medium. The content includes an individual segment region formed of a plurality of variation data in which identification information different from each other is embedded and each of which can be decrypted by a different key, and a common segment region formed of single data. The variation data is formed of a 6144 byte aligned unit. The data processing unit calculates a reproduction path by applying a device key held in a memory, and selects an aligned unit corresponding to one variation data that corresponds to the calculated reproduction path from a plurality of aligned units configuring the plurality of variation data in the individual segment region included in the data read from the information recording medium, and then, executes the decryption and reproduction processing.
US09865298B2	Conical pumping seal Provided herein is an apparatus, including a stationary component, a rotatable component configured to rotate relative to the stationary component, and a conical pumping seal formed between the stationary component and the rotatable component.
US09865296B1	Heat-assisted magnetic recording device capable of laser calibration during a background operation A storage device performs a background operation involving seeking a read/write head between inner and outer diameters of a disk of the storage device. During the seeking, adjacent test tracks are written at a diameter between the inner and outer diameters of the disk. The adjacent test tracks are written using varying levels of laser power applied to the disk via the read/write head. An optimum value of the laser power is determined based on reading at least one of the adjacent test tracks.
US09865295B2	Information recording medium and method for reproducing the same An information recording medium (10) including a first region (11) in which medium identification information has been recorded, a data region (13), and a second region (12) which is positioned between the first region (11) and the data region (13) and in which control information has been recorded, in which an area of the first region (11) is greater than an area of the second region (12) in size.
US09865291B1	Primary and secondary servo timing gates used with simultaneously operating readers First and second read channel logic circuits are configured to process first and second signals communicated from respective first and second readers that simultaneously read from a magnetic disk. A first servo detection circuit generates a primary servo gate based on timing data from the first reader. The primary servo gate is used for processing the first signal via the first read channel logic. A second servo detection circuit that generates a secondary servo gate based on the primary servo gate and an adjustment value. The secondary servo gate is used for processing the second signal via the second read channel logic.
US09865289B2	Magnetic tape media having servo patterns Magnetic tape media according to one embodiment includes a plurality of servo tracks having physical characteristics of being written by an apparatus that monitors a lateral position of the magnetic tape media passing over a servo writing head during a servo track writing operation and writes servo marks to the magnetic tape media. A timing of the writing of each servo mark is based on the monitored position of the magnetic tape media.
US09865288B2	Suspension board with circuit A suspension board with circuit includes one pair of pedestals. A pedestal conductive layer of one pedestal has a fan portion and a continuous portion. The pedestal conductive layer of the other pedestal has at least the fan portion. When the pedestal conductive layer of the other pedestal has only the fan portion, the pedestal supporting layer is disposed so as to be overlapped with the fan portion in the thickness direction in each of the pedestals and so as not to be overlapped with the continuous portion in the one pedestal and when the pedestal conductive layer of the other pedestal has the continuous portion, the pedestal supporting layer is disposed so as to be overlapped with the continuous portion or is disposed so as to be overlapped with the fan portion and so as not to be overlapped with the continuous portion in each of the pedestals.
US09865287B2	Suspension board with circuit and producing method thereof A suspension board with circuit includes a first layer made of a metal supporting board, a second layer having insulating properties and provided at one side in a thickness direction of the first layer, and a third layer provided at one side in the thickness direction of the second layer and made of copper or a copper alloy. The first layer includes a first opening portion passing through in the thickness direction. The first opening portion is provided with a conductor layer that is, when projected in a direction orthogonal to the thickness direction, overlapped with the first layer. The conductor layer includes a first conductor circuit having a first electronic component-connecting terminal for being electrically connected to a first electronic component and made of copper or a copper alloy. The third layer includes a second conductor circuit having a second electronic component-connecting terminal for being electrically connected to a second electronic component.
US09865277B2	Methods and apparatus for dynamic low frequency noise suppression Methods and apparatus for dynamically suppressing low frequency non-speech audio events, such as road bumps, without suppressing speech formants. In exemplary embodiments of the invention, maximum powers in first and second windows are computed and used to determine whether dampening should be applied, and if so, to what extent.
US09865275B2	Low delay modulated filter bank The document relates to modulated digital filter banks, as well as to methods and systems for the design of such filter banks. In particular, the document discloses a method comprising accessing a time-domain audio signal and applying a first filter bank to the time-domain audio signal, thereby producing a first plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data representative of at least a part of the audio signal. The filter bank comprises an decimated modulated filter bank obtained from an asymmetric prototype filter. The method further comprises applying a second filter bank to at least a first subband of the first plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data, thereby producing a second plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data representative of at least a part of the audio signal. The second modulated filter bank comprises an asymmetric modulated filter bank which includes no decimation. The method further comprises outputting at least the second plurality of subbands of frequency domain audio data.
US09865271B2	Efficient and scalable parametric stereo coding for low bitrate applications The present invention provides improvements to prior art audio codecs that generate a stereo-illusion through post-processing of a received mono signal. These improvements are accomplished by extraction of stereo-image describing parameters at the encoder side, which are transmitted and subsequently used for control of a stereo generator at the decoder side. Furthermore, the invention bridges the gap between simple pseudo-stereo methods, and current methods of true stereo-coding, by using a new form of parametric stereo coding. A stereo-balance parameter is introduced, which enables more advanced stereo modes, and in addition forms the basis of a new method of stereo-coding of spectral envelopes, of particular use in systems where guided HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction) is employed. As a special case, the application of this stereo-coding scheme in scalable HFR-based codecs is described.
US09865260B1	Proactive incorporation of unsolicited content into human-to-computer dialogs Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are described related to automated assistants that proactively incorporate, into human-to-computer dialog sessions, unsolicited content of potential interest to a user. In various implementations, based on content of an existing human-to-computer dialog session between a user and an automated assistant, an entity mentioned by the user or automated assistant may be identified. Fact(s)s related to the entity or to another entity that is related to the entity may be identified based on entity data contained in database(s). For each of the fact(s), a corresponding measure of potential interest to the user may be determined. Unsolicited natural language content may then be generated that includes one or more of the facts selected based on the corresponding measure(s) of potential interest. The automated assistant may then incorporate the unsolicited content into the existing human-to-computer dialog session or a subsequent human-to-computer dialog session.
US09865255B2	Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus A speech recognition apparatus that controls one or more devices by using speech recognition, including: a speech obtainer that obtains speech information representing speech spoken by a user; a speech recognition processor that recognizes the speech information, obtained by the speech obtainer, as character information; and a recognition result determiner that determines, based on the character information recognized by the speech recognition processor, whether the speech is spoken to the device(s).
US09865253B1	Synthetic speech discrimination systems and methods The present invention is a system and method for discriminating between human and synthetic speech. The method and system include memory for storing a speaker verification application, a communication network that receives from a client device a speech signal having one or more discriminating features, and a processor for executing instructions stored in memory. The execution of the instructions by the processor extracts the one or more discriminating features from the speech signal and classifies the speech signal as human or synthetic based on the extracted features.
US09865249B2	Realtime assessment of TTS quality using single ended audio quality measurement A system and method of regulating speech output by a text-to-speech (TTS) system includes: evaluating speech that has been converted from text using an initial speech quality test before presentation to a user; applying a classification test to the evaluated speech if the evaluated speech falls below a threshold based on the initial speech quality test; generating an abnormal speech classification for the evaluated speech; and applying a corrective action to the evaluated speech based on the abnormal speech classification.
US09865246B2	Laser-induced ultrasound generator and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a laser-induced ultrasound generator and a method of manufacturing the laser-induced ultrasound generator. The laser-induced ultrasound generator includes: a substrate including a plurality of nanostructures provided on a first surface of the substrate; and a thermoelastic layer provided on the first surface of the substrate, the thermoelastic layer being configured to generate an ultrasound by absorbing a laser beam incident onto a second surface of the substrate, the second surface facing the first surface. The nanostructures may be cylinder-shaped nano-pillars.
US09865243B2	Pillow set with snoring noise cancellation Active noise control systems, devices, and methods are disclosed herein. Anti-snoring systems can include a first pillow unit having at least one error microphone and at least one speaker, at least one reference microphone configured to capture sound produced proximate to the at least one reference microphone, and a control unit operatively coupled to the first pillow unit and the at least one reference microphone. In some aspects, the control unit can be configured to produce an anti-noise in the at least one speaker disposed in the first pillow unit by processing signals received from the at least one error microphone and the at least one reference microphone using gated dynamic adjustments such that the anti-noise cancels any sound produced proximate the at least one reference.
US09865242B2	Single coil multi-tone horns A vehicle includes a horn assembly disposed behind a grille. The horn assembly includes a coil configured to generate a magnetic field in response to a current, a first diaphragm connected to a first plunger, a second diaphragm connected to a second plunger, and a spring. The spring is connected to the first and second plungers such that oscillation is transferred from the first diaphragm to the second diaphragm through the spring in response to the magnetic field from the coil.
US09865240B2	Command interface for generating personalized audio content The personalized content system of the system combines a summary music identification value creation and identification algorithm that represents a mathematical summary music identification of a song, an audio file, or other relational music criteria and data (e.g title, artist, genre, style, beats per minute, etc.) or any combination thereof. The derived value represents the musical taste or style attributes of a song or style. The user can control the system by issuing one of a plurality of commands comprising artist command, song/title command, genre command, and album/filtered list command. These commands then lead to command trees that may be used in a voice controlled system, for example.
US09865237B1	Mouthpiece for wind musical instrument The present mouthpiece for wind musical instrument generally provides a wider range of the tone in the wind musical instruments. An improved mouthpiece for wind musical instrument includes a first and a second reeds coupled by a coupler at the musical instrument side, a first and a second apertures in the first and second reeds respectively, a decorative bolt with a first and a second washers, a decorative nut, and a spring.
US09865234B2	Method and apparatus for adjustably associating two components of a stringed musical instrument The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjustably associating two components such as two components of a stringed instrument. Such invention is particularly well suited for adjusting the action of a guitar and for allowing any one of a plurality of guitar necks to be quickly and easily associated with a guitar body. One embodiment of the invention includes associating a body-plate with a body interface defined by guitar body and configured for being mechanically associated with a neck-plate associated with a guitar neck wherein the body-plate in the neck-plate are movably associated with each other so that the action of the guitar maybe easily adjusted. Another embodiment of the invention utilizes a pintle block and pillow block configuration for providing the same function. Additionally, a method is disclosed for using such apparatus to define a universal body interface and an universal neck interface allowing any one of a plurality of guitar necks to be quickly and easily associated with any one of a plurality of guitar bodies.
US09865229B2	Image display device and image display method An image display device comprises: a memory capable of storing source data that are sources of a plurality of screen images; a display capable of displaying at least one screen image selected from among the plurality of screen images; an illumination source disposed around the display and capable of emitting light of a specified emission color; and a controller. The controller produces a current screen image data from the source data, and produces a current screen image based on the current screen image data to display the current screen image. The controller also produces a selective screen image data for producing a selective screen image which is different from the current screen image from the source data, produces an illumination data based on the selective screen image data, and controls the illumination source to emit light of an emission color determined based on the illumination data.
US09865227B2	Performance control of ambient light sensors A device and method to control measurements of light intensity are described. The device includes two or more ambient light sensors arranged at respective surface locations of the device, each of the two or more ambient light sensors measuring the light intensity at the respective surface location. The device also includes a processor to control operation of the two or more ambient light sensors.
US09865224B2	Transparent display apparatus and display method thereof A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display includes a display including a plurality of transparent display layers, and a controller configured to control the display, when a first event occurs, to display a first screen on a first transparent display layer from among the plurality of transparent display layers, and to display a second screen on a second transparent display layer that is from among the plurality of transparent display layers, wherein the controller controls the display to display the first screen that is currently displayed on the first transparent display layer to be displayed on the second transparent display layer for a predetermined time when a second event occurs.
US09865223B2	Optoelectronic modulation stack An optoelectronic modulation stack includes a substrate, a plurality of touch sensing units, at least a first anti-interference spot and a nano-structural layer. The touch sensing units are coplanarly disposed on the substrate, and a first interval region is formed between the adjacent touch sensing units. The first anti-interference spot is disposed within the first interval region, and the width of the first anti-interference spot is substantially less than that of the substrate or touch sensing unit. The nano-structural layer is disposed below the first anti-interference spot and includes a plurality of nano structures. When the light passes through the nano structures and the first anti-interference spot, the optical characteristic of the light is changed.
US09865218B2	Display device A display device includes pixels arranged in a matrix form, gate lines extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction, first and second unit pixel columns, each defined by adjacent data lines and the pixels connected thereto, first and second channels which transmit data signals to each of the first and second unit pixel columns, and a line selector which connects the first and second channels to the data lines and provides data voltages to the data lines in response to control signals, where a pixel connected to a first gate line is connected to a data line at a side thereof, a pixel connected to a second gate line is connected to a data line at the other side thereof, and each of the first and second channels is connected to a data line of each of the first and second unit pixel columns.
US09865217B2	Method of driving display panel and display apparatus A method of driving a display panel includes generating a reference gate signal delayed by a predetermined period from a gate signal applied to a gate line disposed in a first end area of the display panel, the first end area being an area in which a RC delay of a data line is the smallest, receiving an input gate signal applied to a gate line disposed in a second area of the display panel, the second area being an area in which the RC delay of the data line is the largest; and selectively controlling a delay time of each of the plurality of gate signals applied to each of the plurality of gate lines according to a result of comparison between the reference gate signal and the input gate signal.
US09865215B2	Gate signal line drive circuit and display device A gate signal line driving circuit includes plural basic circuits, each outputting to a gate signal line a gate signal which is high during a high signal period and low during a low signal period. Each of the basic circuits includes: a gate line high voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the high signal period to apply the high voltage to the gate signal line; a gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the low signal period to apply the low voltage to the gate signal line; and a second gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on to apply the low voltage to the gate signal line in at least a part of a period between turning off the gate line high voltage application circuit and turning on the gate line low voltage application circuit.
US09865212B2	Display device A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of gate lines connected to the plurality of pixels; an output terminal connected to a gate line of the gate lines; a first transistor connected to a first node, a first clock signal input terminal and the output terminal; a second transistor connected to a second clock signal input terminal, a low-level power voltage and the output terminal; a third transistor connected to a second node, the low-level power voltage and the first node; a fourth transistor connected to a first forward input terminal, the low-level power voltage and the second node; and a fifth transistor connected to a first backward input terminal, the low-level power voltage and the second node.
US09865210B2	Selection circuit for inversion mode and display device having the same A display device according to an embodiment includes switches. Low and high voltages of a selection control signal applied to each of gate electrodes of the switches are varied according to whether one of positive and negative data voltages is applied to each of the source electrodes of the switches. As such, the swing width of the selection control signal can be maintained regardless of the positive and negative data voltages. In accordance therewith, undesired power consumption can be prevented.
US09865209B2	Liquid crystal display for operating pixels in a time-division manner A liquid crystal display is provided comprising an LCD panel including data lines formed along a column direction, gate lines formed along a row direction perpendicular to the column direction, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern at intersections of the data lines and the gate lines, a data driver that supplies data voltages to the data lines, and a gate driver that sequentially supplies gate pulses to the gate lines. Subpixels of each of the pixels share one data line through which a data voltage is sequentially charged to the subpixels in a time-division manner. A column-directional length of each of the subpixels is longer than a row-directional length of each of the subpixels.
US09865208B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device is provided as follows. A display panel having a first aspect ratio includes pixels, scan lines and data lines. The pixels are arranged at intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines. A display panel driver, in a partial mode in which an image having a second aspect ratio different from the first aspect ratio is displayed on a partial region of the display panel for two or more frame periods, supplies scan signals only to a first number of scan lines electrically connected to pixels of the partial region for a first type frame period of the two or more frame periods, and supplies scan signals to the plurality of scan lines for a second type frame period of the two or more frame periods.
US09865205B2	Method for transmitting data from timing controller to source driver and associated timing controller and display system A method for transmitting data from a timing controller to a source driver includes: applying a plurality of data rates to a discrete data rate setting; and transmitting image data of a plurality of frames by using the plurality of data rates, respectively, wherein for each of the frames, its corresponding image data is transmitting by using only one of the data rates.
US09865204B2	Circuit and method for eliminating shutdown after-image, and display device The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and provides a circuit and a method for eliminating a shutdown after-image, and a display device. The circuit for eliminating the shutdown after-image in a liquid crystal panel comprises a control module configured to apply a common voltage of a liquid crystal panel to a gate line of the liquid crystal panel under the control of a shutdown signal when the liquid crystal panel is shut down. According to the present invention, it is able to eliminate the shutdown after-image and prevent the occurrence of large shutdown current.
US09865196B2	Display panel of combining gate control signal and emitting control signal A display panel includes a display area first and second gate line driving circuits. The display area includes a plurality of pixels is configured to determine how to process a data transmitted on a data line according to first and second control signals transmitted on first and second gate lines respectively and a second control signal transmitted on a second gate line and determine when to emit light according to a light emitting control signal transmitted on a light emitting control line. The first gate line driving circuit is coupled to the first gate line and for providing the first control signal thereto. The second gate line driving circuit is coupled to the second gate line and the light emitting control line and configured to provide the second control signal and the light emitting control signal thereto, respectively.
US09865193B2	Image display apparatus and image display method for reducing power consumption Provided herein is an image display apparatus including a receiver configured to receive first image data; a signal processor configured to process the received first image data; an outputter configured to output the processed first image data; a storage configured to store second image data; and a controller configured to cut off power supplied to at least one component from among components of the image display apparatus and to control the outputter to output the stored second image data to an area of a screen, in response to the image display apparatus entering a power saving mode.
US09865190B2	Display unit with a safety function Provided herein is a display panel where a plurality of data lines intersect a plurality of gate lines, thereby each forming a unit pixel area; a first data driving unit connected to one side of the plurality of data lines; a second data driving unit connected to another side of the plurality of data lines; a first gate driving unit connected to one side of the plurality of gate lines; and a second gate driving unit connected to another side of the plurality of gate lines, wherein the display panel is driven by one of a first driving channel that includes the first data driving unit and first gate driving unit, and a second driving channel that includes the second data driving unit and second gate driving unit.
US09865188B2	Image display device The image display device resolves inconsistency in the brightness of the image while effectively reducing local speckle noise that remains due to the laser scanning of which the scanning speed fluctuates. A waveform pattern (PT2) that includes an on period and an off period within the pixel displaying period (T2) is selected for the center pixel (P512). A waveform pattern (PT1) that includes an on period and an off period within the pixel displaying period (T1) that is longer than the pixel displaying period (T2) is selected for the side pixel (P1) or (P1023) that is scanned at a scanning speed slower than that for the center pixel (P512). Here, the on period in the waveform pattern (PT1) is segmented more than the on period in the waveform pattern (PT1), and the time ratio of the on period accounting for the waveform pattern (PT1) is smaller than the time ratio of the on period accounting for the waveform pattern (PT2).
US09865179B2	Tactical combat casualty care training system for hyper-realistic™ emergency medical training The Tactical Combat Casualty Care Trainer For Hyper-Realistic™ Emergency Medical Training (“TCCC”) of the present invention includes a tactical combat training device for the purpose of providing an emergency medical services provider hands-on training. The TCCC includes an artificial human skeleton having specific anatomical features which provide the trainee or provider with appropriate tactile response analogous to a real human patient, thereby increasing the fidelity of training and improving the skills necessary to conduct procedures such as cricothyrotomy, intrasosseous infusion, CPR and other medical services to human patients. The skeleton is covered by a realistic coating that simulates human skin, which adds to the TCCC's training value. The TCCC also includes a removable trachea module and training pucks located at the sternum as well as the left and right proximal humeral heads to simulate the use of infusion-type devices.
US09865178B2	System and method for tracking articles with tactile feedback for visually impaired spectators A method for tracking objects including sensing, with a processor, at least one object, determining, with a processor, a position of the at least one object relative to a portion of a sporting venue, presenting the portion of the sporting venue on a feedback device, and providing, through the feedback device, at least one tactile feedback presenting the position of the at least one object relative to the portion of the sporting venue.
US09865177B2	Nutrition education game for children The disclosed board game is designed to teach children basic nutrition principles in a fun-filled way. The game is designed to be played by a minimum of five players and/or teams. The game board depicts a fictional community where players have the task of planting nutritional foods in each of five gardens so as to provide nourishment to various sectors of the community. Players acquire colorful magnetic fruit and vegetable tokens to plant in their assigned gardens by correctly answering nutrition-related questions asked by a game facilitator. The first player or team to collect and plant all seven of the fruit and vegetable colors is the winner of the game. The object of the game is to enhance knowledge and understanding of the principles of personal nutrition, daily food consumption and meal planning.
US09865176B2	Health monitoring system Systems and methods provide automatic messaging to a client on behalf of a healthcare treatment professional by setting up one or more computer implemented agents, each specializing in a disease state, with rules to respond to a client condition; during run-time, receiving a communication from the client and in response selecting one or more computer implemented agents to respond to the communication; and automatically generating a response to be rendered on a client mobile device to encourage healthy behavior.
US09865174B2	Sensory feedback adapter for use with a laser based combat training system An adapter assembly permits sensory feedback such as a pain penalty to be incorporated into a combat training system of the type which includes simulated weapons which output a laser hit signal representative of a projectile and user monitoring devices worn by participants having laser sensors to provide an indication when a participant is hit by a simulated projectile in a combat training exercise. The adapter assembly works with an electrical impulse device also worn by the participants to deliver an electrical shock to the participant in response to receiving an activation signal. More particularly, the adapter assembly has input sensor for sensing when a user monitoring device indicates a hit to the user, and a signal output for generating an activation signal which can be received by the electrical impulse device to shock the participant when hit.
US09865172B2	Information processing device, information processing method, program, and imaging system [Object] To provide an information processing device for enabling a user to easily carry out effective photography depending on a subject or location.[Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a flight route generation unit that presents a template of flight route information showing a flight route of a flying object, and generates flight route information of the flying object, associating the flight route information of the selected template with a flight range of the flying object, on the basis of an operation performed by a user.
US09865171B2	Geographical positioning in time A dispatch control system includes a data store with records of previously-attended geographical positions of a mobile unit indicating at least a duration of attendance. The dispatch control system is configured to calculate one or more stochastic characteristics for the durations of attendance representative of a variability of the durations of attendance at said past geographical positions, and generate data indicative of an order of attendance for the mobile unit based on travel and estimated durations of attendance. This data is re-ordered and volatility metrics for each set of modified data are determined. The set of volatility metrics is used to modify the data indicative of an order of attendance for the mobile unit. The dispatch control system is configured to transmit to the mobile unit data indicative of geographical positions corresponding to said modified generated data for use in generating routing instructions.
US09865170B2	System and method to increase conspicuousness of vehicles Systems and methods are provided for real time dynamic triggering of a conspicuous signal for a vehicle on a path of travel. A sensor array detects environmental factors presenting a predetermined risk to the vehicle. A decision module assesses the environmental factors and the associated risks and determines if the conspicuousness signal is warranted and a type of signal to be made. An actuating module actuates the conspicuousness signal based on the determining of the decision module.
US09865167B1	Traffic control assisting system A traffic control assisting system (“assisting system”) stores action data on an action of a moving object, geographic data in which geographic attribute information, which is information on a reference of movement of the moving object, is imparted to individual segments that are meshes into which a map is divided, and responsiveness data on the moving object's responsiveness to an instruction. The assisting system estimates an ideal action of the moving object based on the responsiveness data; calculates a difference between the estimated action and an action in the action data; updates the responsiveness data based on a result of the calculation; estimates probability of presence of the moving object at certain coordinates at each time point based on the action data, the geographic data, and the responsiveness data and generates a geographic E map; and predicts future coordinates of the moving object based on the geographic E map.
US09865165B2	Traffic sign recognition system A traffic sign recognition system includes a display for displaying caution information of a traffic light, and a processor configured to execute a traffic light detecting module for detecting a traffic light, a bypass lane detecting module for detecting a bypass lane, a line of sight detecting module for detecting a line of sight of a driver, and a vehicle behavior determining module for detecting a traveling direction of a vehicle. The processor controls the display to display caution information when the line of sight is different from a direction of the traffic light, and controlling the display to refrain from displaying the caution information when the detected line of sight matches the direction of the traffic light. The display is refrained from displaying the caution information when the bypass lane is detected and the traveling direction is toward the bypass lane, regardless of the line of sight.
US09865159B2	Disrupting bone conduction signals Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for disrupting bone conduction signals. According to one aspect, a device can receive a signal via a communication path that is external to a body of a user associated with the device. The device can generate a disruption signal to disrupt the signal. The device can send the disruption signal through the body of the user to disrupt the signal.
US09865152B2	Room privacy device A room privacy device sounds an audible alarm when a door to a room is not closed and sound is detected in the room. This helps prompt people in the room to close the door to maintain the privacy of the conversation and/or prevent sound in the room from disturbing others outside the room. In some embodiments, the room privacy device includes a door sensor for detecting whether a door is open, a microphone for capturing sound, and a speaker for providing an audible alarm. The room privacy device also includes a processor that causes the speaker to sound an audible alarm based on a signal from the door sensor indicative of the door being open and a signal from the microphone indicative of sound being detected.
US09865150B2	Millimetre-wave seat occupation radar sensor The present invention discloses a mm-wave radar sensor to be deployed in the vehicles for seat occupation detection applications. The key system relevant components are utilization of mm-wave integrated radar, specific planar high-gain antenna radiation pattern, and analyzing of the heartbeat and optionally also respiratory dynamics. The method of operation calculates probability of the seat occupation event regarding: detection of the passenger on the seat, detection of a baby or a child on the seat, detection of the presence of a baby or a child in the vehicle after the driver has left the vehicle, detection of the human or animal presence of intrusion in specific vehicle environment. In case that probability is above a predefined threshold, typically the interaction with vehicle control system is initiated using arbitrary automotive interfaces. Corresponding predefined actions are taken in that case. The predefined actions could be one or combination of the following: audio signal alerts to driver, inside cabin light condition change, engine operation condition change, opening of the windows or corresponding communication using arbitrary wireless means to outside vehicle environment. Optionally, the system is utilizing additional parameters like vehicle cabin temperature and/or timing information about engine stop and driver leaving the car. Preferably, the system is using 60 GHz or 77-79 GHz integrated radar front end working in Doppler operation mode, with 4×4 Tx and Rx planar radiation elements, with physical size typically in the range 4×2×1 cm, or smaller.
US09865145B2	Control tag with environmentally selected conditional response Systems (100) and methods (300) for selective device responsiveness using a plurality of control tags (132) affixed to a plurality of objects (102). The methods involve: receiving, by a plurality of control tags, a reporting command signal sent from an interrogation device via a communications link; and communicating a response to the reporting command signal from only those of the plurality of control tags which are (1) currently being moved, (2) have been moved within a first specified period of time, and/or (3) have a surrounding environment with at least one characteristic that has recently changed.
US09865140B2	Systems and methods of electronic gaming A gaming system is disclosed which includes a plurality of spinners, each spinner being associated with a plurality of display positions and having a plurality of symbols disposable at the display positions. A spinner controller is arranged to select the symbols to appear at the display positions for each spinner, and an outcome evaluator is arranged to determine whether the symbols shown at the display positions correspond to at least one winning outcome by reference to at least one defined win condition. Each win condition comprises a win line having at least three display positions from two adjacent spinners. A corresponding method of gaming is also disclosed.
US09865139B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing the rate of play of a gaming device The invention includes a system and method for determining and achieving an optimized rate of play of a gaming device for a given player. The system monitors play at a gaming device, determines whether adjustments to parameters that effect the potential maximum rate of play should be made, and makes the appropriate adjustments. Monitoring play includes measuring such things as force applied to input buttons and tracking unnecessary button presses at inappropriate times (i.e., while the reels are still spinning). Parameters that effect the potential maximum rate of play include reel resolution time, length of bonus displays, payout rate, and the like.
US09865137B1	Networked gaming system enabling a plurality of player stations to play independent games with dealer assisting display A system, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a networked blackjack game that enables a plurality of players to wager on one or more dealers at different dealing stations dealing independent games simultaneously. A live video is captured on each dealing station and simulcast to player stations where players are playing at. Players can bet on any combination of the games that are being broadcast. Players at player stations can be playing in a tournament mode or in regular play using the same dealer stations. A touch screen display can be used at each dealer/dealing station in order to instruct the dealer as to which actions the dealer should take, such as dealing cards, etc.
US09865133B2	Outcome determination method for gaming device Embodiments of this concept are directed to a method of operating a gaming device to determine game outcomes by using a range of game numbers for winning game outcomes. That is, the gaming device includes a range of numbers associated with a generic winning outcome or each winning outcome to ensure that a winning outcome or specific winning outcome will hit within the specified range. This method may be used a variety of game types including slot machines, video poker, keno, video pachinko, etc. These gaming machines may additionally include one or more proximity indicators or meters associated with the various outcomes.
US09865130B2	Systems and methods for crediting wagering activity Systems and methods are disclosed for provisionally crediting a financial account of a gaming environment based on player funds received by gaming devices in the form of wagers. The financial account can be maintained at a financial institution. The player funds can be currency, electronic funds, or combinations therefor. Once the currency is physically transferred to the financial institution, the provisional credit can be converted to a full credit. Similarly, for wagers using electronic funds, once the settled funds are received by the financial institution, the provisional credit can be converted to a full credit. Using provisional credits, benefits from the funds can be enjoyed by the gaming operator prior to the physical currency and/or settled funds being received and processed by the financial institution.
US09865129B2	Gaming system and method providing a plurality of different player-selectable wager alternatives when a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount and greater than or equal to a lowest eligible credit balance Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a plurality of different player-selectable wager alternatives if a credit balance of a player is less than a designated wager amount (such as a cost to cover a play of a wagering game or a maximum wager amount for the play of the wagering game) and greater than or equal to a lowest eligible credit balance (such as 1 credit). Generally, selecting one of the different wager alternatives when the player's remaining credit balance is less than the designated wager amount and greater than or equal to the lowest eligible wager amount enables the player to utilize the player's remaining credit balance (or any suitable portion thereof) in a manner that is different than, separate from, and in addition to wagering on one or more plays of the wagering game.
US09865128B2	Products and processes for a point exchange Methods of tracking points among participants in various wagers. An indication of a wager may be received, including point distributions, participants, an event, etc. An indication of an outcome of the wager may be received. Points may be allocated among participants in accordance with a desired point distribution based on the outcome of the wager. An indication of a point associated with an external exchange between participants in a wager. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09865126B2	System and method for connecting gaming devices to a network for remote play A first remote player device records a state of the gambling game that is in progress. The gaming system interrupts the gambling game and transfers the state of the gambling game to a second remote player device. The gambling game resumes on the second remote player device.
US09865124B2	Gaming and/or entertainment device The present invention relates generally to a gaming and/or entertainment device having at least one screen which is adjustably arranged at a device panel. In this respect, the invention in particular relates to a multigame table having a plurality of player positions at which one respective screen is arranged at a table panel and/or desk panel. In accordance with the invention, the at least one screen is adjustable between a lowered position lowered into the device panel substantially without projecting over the device panel and an operating position protruding out of the device panel. The lowered position can in particular serve as an idle position in which the respective screen is so-to-say not in the way and a substantially planar device surface, in particular a table surface, can be provided. In the named lowered position, the screen can optionally be lowered beneath the device panel and the corresponding cut-out can be closed by a cover. Preferably, however, the screen in the named lowered position is lowered substantially flush with the panel surface.
US09865121B2	Modular gaming terminal configurations Gaming machines, gaming systems, modular gaming terminals, and methods for assembling modular gaming machines are disclosed. A gaming machine is presented which includes an input device for receiving wagers to play a wagering game, and a display module with a display device for displaying outcomes of the wagering game. The display device is coupled to a display module housing, which includes a male or a female mounting interface. The gaming machine also includes a core module with an electrical bus that electrically connects to the display device. A core housing, which stows the electrical bus and supports the display module, includes the other one of the male and female mounting interfaces. The female mounting interface receives the male mounting interface such that moving the male interface into the female interface automatically aligns the display module with the core module and removably attaches the core housing to the display housing.
US09865119B2	Pharmaceutical dispensing unit, pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus equipped with same, and method for controlling pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus A removal head with improved performance in terms of reading pharmaceutical information. The removal head of the present invention comprises a movement path component, a first braking component, and a sensor. The movement path component moves a substantially cylindrical pharmaceutical container that has an identification label and that has been taken out of a pharmaceutical container holding cassette that holds pharmaceutical containers. The first braking component is provided to the end of the movement path component, and stops the pharmaceutical container that has moved along the movement path component at a specific location. The sensor reads the identification label of the pharmaceutical container whose movement has been stopped at a specific location by the braking component. The movement path component has a movement face that moves along the movement path of the pharmaceutical container, and the movement face has a contact component that comes into contact with the pharmaceutical container.
US09865116B2	Method for verifying a valuable document having a polymer substrate and a transparent window and means for carrying out said method Described is a method for checking a value document having a polymer substrate and at least one see-through window, in which a digital transmission image of the value document is captured, the transmission image comprising pixels, in the image an edge brightness value for the brightness of an edge of the at least one see-through window is ascertained, using the edge brightness value, a threshold value for the recognition of a print removal is ascertained which is smaller than the edge brightness value but greater than the minimal brightness in the image, it is checked whether pixels which lie in at least one specified portion of the image and outside the at least one see-through window and its edge have a brightness which lies above the threshold value.
US09865115B2	Coin processing device A coin processing device including: a material detection sensor including first and second coils facing each other with a coin passage interposed therebetween; an outer diameter detection sensor including ring-shaped third and fourth coils that surround the first and second coils, respectively; a first oscillation circuit connected to the material detection sensor that oscillates a first oscillation signal in an individual connection state and a series connected state and is connected to the material detection sensor and the outer diameter detection sensor; a second oscillation circuit connected to the outer diameter detection sensor that oscillates a second oscillation signal in the individual connection state; a switching unit that switches the individual connection state and the series connection state; a coin identification unit that detects an outer diameter of a coin using the second oscillation signal in the individual connection state or the first oscillation signal in the series connection state.
US09865113B2	Apparatus, system and method for dynamic identification and key management for vehicle access A system for providing dynamic access to a vehicle via a plurality of devices. A device and/or a server of an authentication network stored fob data relating to one or more key fobs linked to the vehicle, and device data that includes data relating to one or more devices that are authorized to access the vehicle. The vehicle receives an access request indicating that a new device is requesting access to the vehicle, whereupon a challenge may be transmitted to one or more of the authorized devices. The one or more devices may respond, granting access to vehicle functions. The vehicle and/or authentication network generate a secure fob key and access limitations based on the response and transmit the secure fob key to the new device. The new device may be authenticated to access vehicle functions subject to the limitation based at least in part on the fob key.
US09865112B2	Apparatus, system and method for dynamic identification for vehicle access A system for providing dynamic access to a vehicle via a plurality of devices. A device and/or a server of an authentication network stored fob data relating to one or more key fobs linked to the vehicle, and device data that includes data relating to one or more devices that are authorized to access the vehicle. The vehicle receives an access request indicating that a new device is requesting access to the vehicle, whereupon a challenge may be transmitted to one or more of the authorized devices. The one or more devices may respond, granting access to vehicle functions. The vehicle and/or authentication network generate a secure fob key based on the response and transmit the secure fob key to the new device. The new device may be authenticated to access vehicle functions based at least in part on the fob key.
US09865110B2	Method and system for securely and automatically obtaining services from a machine device services server A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date. A service provider's server, or a user device, provides services to, or can access, respectively, the vehicle upon receiving the authentication acknowledgement.
US09865109B2	Systems and methods for controlling an electronic lock for a remote device A system for controlling an electronic lock of a remote device is disclosed. The system includes an input unit configured to receive a user code. The system includes a lock controller connected to the input unit and configured to transmit the user code to a power distribution unit. The system includes a memory configured to store a user access table of user codes associated with users having access to the remote device. The power distribution unit is configured to determine whether the user code is in the user access table. The power distribution unit is configured to communicate, to the lock controller, an indication to unlock the electronic lock when the user code is in the table of user codes.
US09865108B2	Vehicle security system A vehicle security system comprising a first interface, an immobilizer electronic control unit and an immobilizing electronic control unit, each of which is connected to a CAN bus. The security functions are installed on the immobilizer electronic control unit which can be accessed by a user using a vehicle access code. The information is communicated over the CAN bus in an encrypted format.
US09865103B2	Imaging system and method An imaging system includes a camera and a controller. The camera is configured to be disposed on a first vehicle system or at a wayside location along a route to generate image data within a field of view of the camera. The controller is configured to monitor a data rate at which the image data is provided from the camera. The controller also is configured to identify a stimulus event within the field of view of the camera based on a change in the data rate at which the image data is generated by the camera.
US09865095B2	Method for determining contact position parameters of a joint connecting two bones A data processing method for determining six parameters, corresponding to six degrees of freedom, of a contact position of a joint which connects two bones, comprising the steps of acquiring a 3D model of each bone, acquiring four of the six parameters as given parameters, selecting initial values for the two remaining parameters and varying the two remaining parameters virtually in order to achieve a virtual relative position between the two 3D models such that they are in contact with each other.
US09865093B1	Contextual augmented reality devices collaboration A first display device determines a first device configuration of the first display device and a first context of a first AR application operating on the first display device. The first display device connects to a second display device and determines a second device configuration of the second display device and a second context of a second AR application operating on the second display device. The first display device generates a first collaboration configuration for the display device and a second collaboration configuration for the second display device. The first and second collaborations are based on the first device configuration, the first context, the second device configuration, and the second context. The second display device modifies an operation of the second AR application based on the second collaboration configuration. The first display device modifies an operation of the first AR application based on the first collaboration configuration.
US09865092B2	Method and system for predictive processing of virtual reality content Aspects of the present disclosure include a method and system for the predictive processing of virtual reality content that enables a more immersive experience to the user by adaptively changing parameters of virtual reality content using desired resolution distributions. in some embodiments, the desired resolution distributions can be used in generating resolution-defined projections. The resolution-defined projections can be two-dimensional and virtual reality content agnostic. According to some aspects, the projections can be used to generate virtual reality content images and video that can be encoded and/or compressed using predictive processing and transmission with lower or without increasing bandwidth requirements, and to be perceived of a higher resolution. Additional aspects include, the adaptive focus via the resolution-defined projections using the user's viewing direction and/or orientation, optimization data from a feedback loop and/or crowdsourcing data.
US09865091B2	Localizing devices in augmented reality environment Examples are disclosed herein that relate to identifying and localizing devices in an environment via an augmented reality display device. One example provides, on a portable augmented reality computing device, a method including establishing a coordinate frame for an environment, and discovering, via a location-sensitive input device, a location of a physical manifestation of the device in the environment, assigning a device location for the device in the coordinate frame based upon the location of the physical manifestation, and modifying an output of the portable augmented reality computing device based upon a change in relative position between the portable augmented reality computing device and the physical manifestation in environment.
US09865089B2	Virtual reality environment with real world objects An HMD device renders a virtual reality environment in which areas of the real world are masked out so that real world objects such as computer monitors, doors, people, faces, and the like appear visible to the device user and no holographic or virtual reality content is rendered over the visible objects. The HMD device includes a sensor package to support application of surface reconstruction techniques to dynamically detect edges and surfaces of the real world objects and keep objects visible on the display as the user changes position or head pose or when the real world objects move or their positions are changed. The HMD device can expose controls to enable the user to select which real world objects are visible in the virtual reality environment.
US09865088B2	Evaluation of augmented reality skins Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to evaluate an augmented reality skin. In some examples, when an augmented reality skin, when an augmented reality skin is executed in a full mode, the augmented reality skin may produce a set of augmented data. The set of augmented data, when rendered, may produce a first set of media attributes related to execution of the augmented reality skin in the full mode. The augmented reality skin may be executed in an evaluation mode to produce the set of augmented data and to produce a set of preview data. The set of preview data may be rendered to display a second set of media attributes related to a preview of the augmented reality skin. A preview image of the augmented reality skin may include the first set and second set of media attributes.
US09865081B2	Re-utilization of render assets for video compression Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to using viewport state data objects (VSDO) to render a series of video frames according to render instructions to achieve video compression. In a particular implementation, the video compression format exposes the VSDO and render instructions to a video render client, allowing the video render client to finish rendering a sequence of video frames from different spatial locations and view transform parameters. Implementations of this video compression format further allow any arbitrary client with enough graphics processing power and bandwidth to retransmit novel, completely rendered viewports to thin clients without taxing the root remote render devices.
US09865079B2	Virtual endoscopic image generated using an opacity curve In generating a virtual endoscopic image, an interior of a lumen is made viewable even when the viewpoint position is changed. A virtual endoscopic image generation element generates a virtual endoscopic image by volume rendering based on three-dimensional data. An opacity curve setting element sets an opacity curve which defines the relationship between pixel values of the three-dimensional data and opacity values. A viewpoint position setting element sets a viewpoint position of a virtual endoscopic image. A movement amount determination element determines a movement amount of the opacity curve with respect to an opacity curve at a reference viewpoint position. When a virtual endoscopic image is generated by the virtual endoscopic image generation element, the opacity curve setting element sets an opacity curve obtained by moving the opacity curve by the determined movement amount in the virtual endoscopic image generation element.
US09865077B2	Redundant pixel mitigation Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mitigating redundant pixel texture contribution for texturing a geometry. That is, the geometry may represent a multidimensional surface of a scene, such as a city. The geometry may be textured using one or more texture images (e.g., an image comprising color values and/or depth values) depicting the scene from various view directions (e.g., a top-down view, an oblique view, etc.). Because more than one texture image may contribute to texturing a pixel of the geometry (e.g., due to overlapping views of the scene), redundant pixel texture contribution may arise. Accordingly, a redundant textured pixel within a texture image may be knocked out (e.g., in-painted) from the texture image to generate a modified texture image that may be relatively efficient to store and/or stream to a client due to enhanced compression of the modified texture image.
US09865075B2	Graphics processing apparatus and graphics processing method A graphics processing apparatus and a graphics processing method are provided. The graphics processing method processes applications using a plurality of GPUs includes rendering a plurality of video data constituting at least one application using the plurality of GPUs, blending the plurality of video data that are rendered by the plurality of GPUs, and outputting blended images, wherein the blending performs blending through at least one of the GPUs that does not perform a rendering job and a video processing constituent element which is different from the plurality of GPUs.
US09865074B2	Method for efficient construction of high resolution display buffers Graphics processing systems and methods are disclosed which may minimize invocations to a pixel shader in order to improve efficiency in a rendering pipeline. In implementations of the present disclosure, a plurality of samples within a pixel may be covered by a primitive. The plurality of samples may include one or more color samples and a plurality of depth samples. The nature of the samples which were covered by the primitive may be taken into account before invoking a pixel shader to perform shading computations on the pixel. In implementations of the present disclosure, if at least one sample is covered by a primitive, but none of the samples are color samples, an invocation to a pixel shader may be avoided.
US09865073B2	Computer animation of artwork using fast 2-dimensional deformation solving Systems and methods disclosed improve the speed of animating artwork by determining the handle affine transformations used to animate 2 Dimensional (2D) artwork in a computationally simpler manner than prior techniques. The improved technique represents vertex coordinates (e.g., x1, y1) in 2D artwork as the real and complex portions of complex numbers. Doing so allows minimizing a closed form expression to find handle affine transformations that provide a deformation of the object with minimal stretching and squashing in local areas. Determining handle affine transformation parameters in this way is more efficient computationally than prior techniques because it combines the local and global steps into a single formula. Moreover, the formulation can be quickly evaluated with only additions, multiplications, and square roots without any need for conditional branches. Furthermore, the form of the function allows it to be solved with a simple optimization method.
US09865072B2	Real-time high-quality facial performance capture A method of transferring a facial expression from a subject to a computer-generated character and a system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for the same. The method can include receiving an input image depicting a face of a subject; matching a first facial model to the input image; generating a displacement map representing of finer-scale details not present in the first facial model using a regression function that estimates the shape of the finer-scale details. The displacement map can be combined with the first facial model to create a second facial model that includes the finer-scale details, and the second facial model can be rendered, if desired, to create a computer-generated image of the face of the subject that includes the finer-scale details.
US09865071B2	Simulating variances in human writing with digital typography Methods and systems for rendering text to simulate human penmanship are described. A text rendering engine converts a text string into an image that can be displayed using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render variations of each character of the text string using the seed numbers to select from a set of single-character or multi-character glyphs, or to modify a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve point of the character.
US09865069B1	Method and system for generating a 360-degree presentation of an object Methods and systems for generating an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of an object are disclosed. The methods and systems obtain data describing the object, where the data includes information about a number of images of the object, as well as additional information about the object. The images are automatically obtained and rearranged into at least one sequence of images substantially evenly distributed around 360 degrees. It is determined whether to add hotspot(s) to image(s), and if hotspot(s) are to be added, the hotspot(s) are automatically added to the image(s). The ordered images of the sequence(s) are then merged into an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of the object.
US09865068B2	Image processing device, and image procesing method There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users being present in an input image captured by an imaging device, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit, and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by overlaying the display information acquired by the information acquisition unit on the input image. The output image generation unit may determine which of first display information associated with a first user and second display information associated with a second user is to be overlaid on a front side on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a distance of each user from the imaging device.
US09865067B2	Method of reconstruction of an object from projection views The present invention relates to a method of reconstruction of an object from projections, more particularly to a quantitative reconstruction of an object from projection views of the object. For example, quantitative reconstruction of an image of a human breast from projection views generated by digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), computed tomography (CT), or standard mammography, and use of the reconstruction to identify densest regions.
US09865065B2	Method of and graphics processing pipeline for generating a render output using attribute information A graphics processing pipeline includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine attribute information for an object to be rendered for a set of sampling points from a compressed representation of attribute information associated with the object, when the set of sampling points is being processed by the graphics processing pipeline to generate a render output. The processing circuitry is also configured to use the determined attribute information to control the processing of the set of sampling points by the graphics processing pipeline when generating the render output.
US09865063B2	Method and system for image feature extraction Image feature extraction includes extracting an cutout image that includes an object from an original image; filling borders of the cutout image with a single color as a background to generate a minimum square image; resizing the minimum square image into a resized square image having a first predetermined size; dividing the resized square image into sub-image blocks having a second predetermined size; computing luminosity derivatives of neighboring pixels in horizontal, vertical, positive 45°, and negative 45° directions for the sub-image blocks; obtaining a quintuplet characteristic vector for the sub-image block; and forming an image characteristic vector of the original image using the quintuplet characteristic vectors of the sub-image blocks.
US09865060B2	X-ray computed-tomography apparatus and imaging-condition-setting support apparatus In an X-ray computed-tomography apparatus of an embodiment, a reconstruction processing unit reconstructs image data based on projection data that is generated from output of an X-ray detector. A specifying unit specifies a scan position or a scan range for main scanning. A changing unit identifies characteristic points based on a structure inside the subject from image data, and changes the scan position or the scan range specified by the specifying unit based on a result of checking data relating to the characteristic points and data relating to corresponding anatomical characteristic points in a virtual subject against each other.
US09865056B2	Video based method and system for automated side-by-side drive thru load balancing A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for directing a vehicle in a side-by-side drive-thru are disclosed. For example, the method receives one or more video images of a side-by-side drive-thru comprising two or more lanes, detects a vehicle approaching an entrance of the side-by-side drive-thru, calculating an estimated order time for the vehicle and directs the vehicle to one of the two or more lanes based on the estimated order time for the vehicle or a previously estimated order time of each one of the a plurality of vehicles already in the first lane and the second lane of the drive-thru.
US09865053B1	Method for scoring pathology images using spatial statistics of cells in tissues The disclosure concerns a method for extracting geographic distribution statistics from patient tissue samples assayed with a tissue-based test for the purpose of scoring the patient tissue samples and guiding treatment based on the score(s). The method described herein utilizes digital image analysis of an image of one or more tissue sections to extract object-based (e.g., cells) features to generate a data array representing said tissue numerically in image analysis feature space. The numerical representation of the image of the tissue section in image analysis feature space is further processed using one or more algorithm processes to extract sophisticated geographical distribution features of one or more object type or sub-type in the tissue. Statistics describing the geographic distribution features are summarized to generate a patient-specific diagnostic score, and this score can be evaluated to guide patient treatment decisions.
US09865052B2	Contour-based determination of malignant tissue in a thermal image What is disclosed is a system and method for contour-based determination of malignant tissue in a thermal image of a patient for cancer screening. In one embodiment, the method involves receiving a thermal image for cancer screening. Pixels in the thermal image with a higher temperature value are displayed in a first color and pixels with a lower temperature value are displayed in a second color. Pixels with temperature values between the lower and higher temperature values are displayed in gradations of color between the first and second colors. The thermal image is then analyzed to identify a patch of pixels with an elevated temperature relative to a temperature of pixels associated with surrounding tissue. Thereafter, tissue associated with the identified patch is determined to be malignant or non-malignant based a measure of irregularity calculated for boundary contour encompassing that patch of pixels.
US09865048B2	Radiotherapy information generation apparatus and radiotherapy information generation method According to one embodiment, a radiotherapy information generation apparatus includes a region specific unit and a planning estimation unit. The region specific unit is configured to specify at least one area defined with respect to a tumor by analysis processing of diagnostic image data. The planning estimation unit is configured to display estimation information of planned dose values calculated based on the area and expected dose values of a radiation. Further, according to another embodiment, a radiotherapy information generation method includes specifying at least one area defined with respect to a tumor by analysis processing of diagnostic image data; and displaying estimation information of planned dose values calculated based on the area and expected dose values of a radiation.
US09865046B2	Defect inspection method and defect inspection device In order to achieve highly precise alignment of inspection images when integrating a plurality of inspection images having different imaging conditions to improve inspection performance, and in order to achieve highly precise alignment of images acquired at different inspection angles and different polarization states, an inspection device is configured to comprise: an image acquiring unit that acquires image data, under a plurality of imaging conditions, for a sample; a feature extracting unit that extracts at least one feature point; a position correction calculating unit that calculates, on the basis of the feature point, the amount of position correction for the plurality of image data sets; a position correcting unit that corrects the position of the plurality of image data sets with the amount of position correction; and an integrating unit that detects defects by integrating a plurality of data sets for which position correction is done.
US09865045B2	Orthogonal and collaborative disparity decomposition A novel disparity computation technique is presented which comprises multiple orthogonal disparity maps, generated from approximately orthogonal decomposition feature spaces, collaboratively generating a composite disparity map. Using an approximately orthogonal feature set extracted from such feature spaces produces an approximately orthogonal set of disparity maps that can be composited together to produce a final disparity map. Various methods for dimensioning scenes and are presented. One approach extracts the top and bottom vertices of a cuboid, along with the set of lines, whose intersections define such points. It then defines a unique box from these two intersections as well as the associated lines. Orthographic projection is then attempted, to recenter the box perspective. This is followed by the extraction of the three-dimensional information that is associated with the box, and finally, the dimensions of the box are computed. The same concepts can apply to hallways, rooms, and any other object.
US09865041B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and computer-processable non-transitory storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a degree-of-degradation detector, a correction coefficient calculator and an adaptive gradation correction unit. The degree-of-degradation detector detects a degree of degradation of image quality for each of areas included in image data and having predetermined size. The correction coefficient calculator calculates a correction coefficient for gradation correction, for each of the areas of the image data. The adaptive gradation correction unit performs adaptive gradation correction appropriate to the degree of degradation of the image data, based on the degree of degradation detected by the degree-of-degradation detector and the correction coefficient calculated by the correction coefficient calculator.
US09865039B2	Restoration filter generation device and image processing device A restoration filter generation device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information showing a difference that depends on a color of an optical transfer function of an optical system; and a restoration filter generation unit that generates a restoration filter, which weakens restoration strength according to the difference that depends on the color of the optical transfer function on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquisition unit, and makes the restoration strength of the restoration filter weaker than the restoration strength of an ideal filter decided assuming that the difference that depends on the color of the optical transfer function does not exist. As a result, the overcorrection is reduced.
US09865038B2	Offsetting rotated tables in images A method for image processing, including: obtaining an image including a table; identifying a first line corresponding to the table in the image, a first confidence value for the first line, and a first angle for the first line; initiating a plurality of angle bins corresponding to multiple angles; calculating, based on the first confidence value, a first plurality of bin values for a first subset of the plurality of angle bins within a window surrounding the first angle; adding the first plurality of bin values to the first subset of the plurality of angle bins; identifying an angle bin of the plurality of angle bins having a maximum bin value; and rotating the image based on the angle bin having the maximum bin value.
US09865033B1	Motion-based image views The display of images, such as panoramic images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to view different portions of the image, including translating or zooming within the image. Sensors can be used to determine the motion for adjusting the display. The same or other sensors can also assist a user in capturing such an image. For example, a compass can determine the relative orientation of the device and a gyroscope can determine rotation of the device, to determine an appropriate path of motion for the capture and any deviation from that path. The user can be provided with information enabling the user to follow the path with an appropriate device orientation.
US09865028B2	Information detecting device, information detecting system, and information detecting method A memory stores video information obtained by photographing an object that reflects light in which embedded information is superimposed onto a plurality of components in a color space. A processor emphasizes a signal obtained from an image included in the video information on the basis of a result of emphasizing a first color component more than a second color component according to a spectral reflection characteristic in a range including the object, and detects the embedded information from the emphasized signal, the first color component and the second color component being from among a plurality of color components that correspond to a plurality of wavelengths, the first color component having a reflectance higher than a reflectance of the second color component. A display device outputs information on the basis of the embedded information detected by the processor.
US09865024B2	Systems and methods of determining optimal scheduling and dispatch of power resources A system and process/method is provided, which economically optimizes the dispatch of various electrical energy resources. The disclosed process/method is linked to and communicates with various sources of input data, including but not limited to, EMS/SCADA legacy Energy Management Systems (EMS), legacy Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Demand Response (DR) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) monitor, control, schedule, and lifecycle management systems (DR/DER Management System), and Energy Markets, electrical energy commodity trading systems (Trading Systems), and Operations System (OPS) in order to compute optimal day-ahead, day-of, and real-time schedules of various durational length for generation, demand response and storage resources while taking into account bilateral contracts and market-based trade opportunities.
US09865020B1	Systems and methods for generating vehicle insurance policy data based on empirical vehicle related data The present disclosure generally relates to a computer implemented system and method for automatically generating insurance policy related data. The system and method may determine a vehicle operator and generate empirical vehicle operator identity data. The system and method may further acquire empirical vehicle operation data related to the actual vehicle operator, and correlate the empirical vehicle operator identity data and the empirical vehicle operation data to generate vehicle insurance policy related data. The system and method may further include processing one or more insurance options, including underwriting and pricing, based at least in part on the vehicle insurance policy related data.
US09865019B2	Route risk mitigation A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed.
US09865018B2	Systems and methods using a mobile device to collect data for insurance premiums A system and method for determining a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, the system comprising: a mobile device, comprising: one or more sensors associated with the mobile device and configured to automatically collect vehicle operation data during a data collection session; a processor; a non-transitory storage medium; a display; a transmitter; and a set of computer readable instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium and when executed by the processor configured to allow the mobile device to collect vehicle operation data and transmit the collected vehicle operation data; and a remote processing computer, comprising: a server that receives collected vehicle operation data; a database that stores collected vehicle operation data; and a rating engine that determines a vehicle insurance premium based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data.
US09865015B2	Projection shopping with a mobile device A method for making purchases with a mobile device at a physical location is described. A service provider receives information about an item available for purchase, and this information is projected on a surface. A user in the vicinity of the surface views the projected information and provides input through the user's mobile device. The projected information changes based on the input. The user selects an item for purchase and pays for the selected item through the mobile device.
US09865005B1	Unified content visibility and video content monitoring Techniques for measuring the visibility of video content are presented. The video content, such as a video advertisement, may be played or presented by a video player, for example as part of a web page. Initialization code may be incorporated within a video player. The initialization code may examine metadata associated with video content to determine whether to measure visibility information associated with the video content. If a measurement flag is encountered in the metadata, the initialization code may initialize measurement code designed to measure visibility information associated with the video content. The measurement code may execute to measure visibility information associated with the video content and transmit the visibility information to a measurement server.
US09865001B2	Determining incentive for crowd sourced question A computing device receives one or more questions. The computing device determines at least one of an urgency factor, an importance factor, and a difficulty level associated with the received one or more questions and determines at least one of an availability factor, a skill factor, and a quality level associated with the received one or more questions. The computing device determines an incentive based on the determined at least one of an urgency factor, an importance factor, and a difficulty level associated with the received one or more questions, and the determined at least one of an availability factor, a skill factor, and a quality level associated with the received one or more questions.
US09865000B1	Merchant services for service provider catalog items A service provider may obtain information about a plurality of items offered for acquisition by a merchant. The service provider may identify one or more items of the plurality of items that are the same as one or more respective items included in a catalog of items associated with the service provider. The items included in the catalog of items may be available for acquisition via the service provider. Additionally, the service provider may communicate with the merchant to offer services in relation to the items included in the service provider catalog of items that match the items offered by the merchant.
US09864998B2	Asynchronous advertising A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device.
US09864997B2	Systems and methods for soliciting secondary information while maintaining access to primary information Methods and systems to provide for a user to request information over a network and receive the requested information through one or more information channels. A user, through a client device, may access, through a network, a web page that is hosted on a server. The server, while providing primary information, may further provide an opportunity for the user to request secondary information. The user may request access to the secondary information, while maintaining access to the primary information. Included in the request may be a channel selection, and associated channel selection information, through which the user wishes to receive the information.
US09864996B2	System and method for automatically authenticating a caller Systems and methods include an input interface that receives registration information including a contact number input into a mobile device of a user, a call interface that transmits a call signal to a call center system, wherein the call signal comprises the call signal contact number that placed a call associated with the call signal and a communication interface that transmits the registration information to a profile database that stores the registration information as a profile for authenticating the mobile device user and identifying information from the mobile device of the user during the call. The call center system includes a call authentication processor that retrieves the user profile, an authentication interface that receives the identifying information, and an authentication processor that compares the identifying information with the user profile, and routes the call on an authenticated call path if the identifying information at least partially matches the user profile.
US09864992B1	System and method for enrolling in a biometric system A system and method for enrolling in a biometric authorization system. A system user may be authorized to enroll by providing biometric data from both his person and a third party token.
US09864990B2	Method and apparatus for ordering goods, services and content over an internetwork using a virtual payment account A virtual payment system for paying for goods, services and content ordered over an internetwork is disclosed. The virtual payment system includes a commerce gateway. Buyers and sellers becomes registered participants by applying for virtual payment buyer and seller accounts. Once an account is established with the commerce gateway, a digital certificate is stored on the registered participant's computer. A buyer can then order a product, i.e., goods, services or content from a seller and charge it to the virtual payment account. When the product is shipped, the seller notifies the commerce gateway, which applies the charges to the buyer's virtual payment account. The buyer can settle the charges using a prepaid account, a credit account, or by using reward points earned through use of the virtual payment account. A buyer may create sub-accounts.
US09864988B2	Payment processing for qualified transaction items Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a portable consumer device (e.g., a plastic card) that includes a coupon code and an account number (e.g., embedded on a magnetic stripe or a chip) where the portable consumer device is configured to apply a coupon to goods and services purchased at a merchant (e.g., store). Upon identifying the goods and services under a particular category specified by the coupon code (e.g., healthy food category), a user may pay for a predetermined portion (e.g., 50%) of the goods and services under the particular category using the portable consumer device. The user may pay for the remaining portion using a benefits card (e.g., state benefits card). As such, by allowing the user to pay for the predetermined portion using the portable consumer device, the user has incentive to purchase goods and services that fall under the particular category.
US09864987B2	Account provisioning authentication Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing a secure authentication scheme for authenticating users and accounts on behalf of a service provider server computer offering services to a user. Upon determining, by the secure authentication scheme, that the user and/or account identifier associated with the user is authenticate, the service provider server computer may be provided with assurance that the user is authenticate and thereafter provide a service requested by the user.
US09864984B2	Apparatuses and methods for operating a portable electronic device to conduct mobile payment transactions Methods for operating a portable electronic device to conduct a mobile payment transaction at a merchant terminal are provided. The electronic device may verify that the current user of the device is indeed the authorized owner by requiring the current user to enter a passcode. If the user is able to provide the correct passcode, the device is only partly ready to conduct a mobile payment. In order for the user to fully activate the payment function, the user may have to supply a predetermined payment activation input such as a double button press that notifies the device that the user intends to perform a financial transaction in the immediate future. The device may subsequently activate a payment applet for a predetermined period of time during which the user may hold the device within a field of the merchant terminal to complete a near field communications based mobile payment transaction.
US09864979B2	Transaction terminal device When settlement terminal device performs a settlement process with a settlement destination device (for example, an acquirer or a settlement processor), settlement terminal device displays a screen regarding the settlement process on display unit of touch panel and detects an input operation of important key input reception icon displayed on display unit. CPU determines whether an input operation with respect to this important key input reception icon, that is, an operation for selecting important key input reception icon and dragging and dropping important key input reception icon to YES icon has been performed. When a drag and drop operation of important key input reception icon is detected, CPU executes content of the input operation with respect to important key input reception icon, and transmits a settlement processing request to the settlement destination device. Settlement terminal device facilitates the operator being conscious of an operation with respect to a specific target.
US09864977B2	Automated banking machine with slide mounted devices Apparatus including an automated banking machine is operative to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that is operative to read card data usable to identify at least one of a user of the machine and a financial account. A computer associated with the machine is operative to cause card data to be read through operation of the card reader, and to cause a determination to be made that read card data corresponds to a financial account authorized to conduct a transaction through the machine. The computer is operative responsive at least in part to the determination to cause the financial account to be at least one of assessed and credited with a value associated with a financial transaction.
US09864972B2	Vehicle interface One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US09864961B2	Method and system for organizing and storing manufacturing process information A method and system for capturing, organizing, storing, and analyzing manufacturing process information, with storage and performance characteristics suitable for use in resource-constrained embedded devices. Process information is organized into extensible Channels, each of which captures information stored as extensible Events, each of which may include Metric, Category Value, Annotation, and System Fields. Shared Boundaries between Channels make it easier to organize, store, interrelate, analyze, and explore information. Channel Boundary Relationships (e.g., Coupling, Fragmenting, Projecting, and Aggregating) create shared Boundaries; and can create, or be combined to create, sets of Channels that share Boundaries (referred to as a Slice Set). Shared Boundaries and Channel Boundary Relationships facilitate rule-based traversal of Exploration Hierarchies constructed from Channels, Categories, and Metrics, which enable users to view, analyze, interpret, understand, and otherwise benefit from Metrics and other information while traversing groups of Categories.
US09864959B2	Providing geographically relevant website content A method, system and computer-readable device for presenting geographically relevant content are provided. They can include reading a remote internet protocol address of a user computing device based on an initial request for content from the user computer device, determining a primary home airport based on the internet protocol address of the user computing device and searching a database for an available flight and hotel package having a flight originating at the primary home airport. They can also include identifying a preferred flight and hotel package from among a plurality of available flight and hotel packages having flights originating at the primary home airport by eliminating travel packages from among the plurality of available flight and hotel packages that have destinations unlikely to be popular for a particular geographic region associated with the internet protocol address.
US09864958B2	System, method, and computer program product for video based services and commerce A system, method, apparatus and computer program product for providing location based functions and mobile e-commerce comprising a central processing unit including a processor, a storage device, and programming stored in the storage device, a display device, an audio input device, an audio output device, a communications module, a commerce module, an image module, and a location module. The programming controls the operation of the present invention to provide functions based on location data, to facilitate commercial exchanges by wirelessly exchanging payment and product information with venders, to identify services such as venders meeting selection criteria, to wirelessly exchange select information with other users and systems, to restrict and/or monitor the use of the device based on authorized user parameters, selecting one of a plurality networks through which to communicate, detecting a trigger for performing an action based on a change in location and sensed data, storing a voice annotation with a computer data file, determining service providers and associated communication parameters, contemporaneously maintaining a wireless voice and data link, providing a system for selecting and delivering mobile advertisements, and many other functions and services that are described herein.
US09864954B1	Optimized testing of a partially symmetric quantum-logic circuit A method and associated systems for using wreath products and invariance groups to test a partially symmetric quantum-logic circuits. A test system receives information that describes the architecture of a quantum-logic circuit to be tested. The system uses this information to hierarchically organize the circuit's inputs into non-overlapping blocks. The system creates set of groups associated with the blocks, and then generates an invariance group that contains one or more invariant permutations of the inputs by computing a wreath product of the set of groups. These invariant permutations identify a minimal number of tests required to verify the circuit for all possible input vectors. The system then directs a test apparatus to perform the resulting optimized test sequence upon the circuit.
US09864953B2	Systems and methods for Bayesian optimization using integrated acquisition functions Techniques for use in connection with performing optimization using an objective function. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: identifying, using an integrated acquisition utility function and a probabilistic model of the objective function, at least a first point at which to evaluate the objective function; evaluating the objective function at least at the identified first point; and updating the probabilistic model of the objective function using results of the evaluating to obtain an updated probabilistic model of the objective function.
US09864952B2	Controlled question and answer knowledge system management confirming customer does not want to terminate/cancel service/relationship In a system for knowledge system management, the system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a question from a customer; determine whether to not the question satisfies a first criterion for obtaining an automated response to the question; in response to determining that the question satisfies the first criterion, transmit the question to a knowledge system for generating automated responses to questions; receive the automated response to the question from the knowledge system; determine whether or not the automated response satisfies a second criterion for providing the automated response to the customer; and in response to determining that the automated response satisfies the second criterion, transmit the automated response to an electronic device operated by the customer.
US09864949B1	Cognition model-based product assist An open domain question answering apparatus includes a communication parser and a machine learning module. The communication parser parses a communication from a user account. The communication parser uses a natural language interpretation algorithm to construct a query and identify a product. The machine learning module is coupled to the communication parser and populates a plurality of potential responses to the query based on data associated with the identified product. Each of the plurality of potential responses has an associated level of detail. The machine learning module applies a machine learning user capacity model to the plurality of potential responses to identify a response with an associated level of detail commensurate with the machine learning user capacity model. The machine learning user capacity model is trained using data relating to a cognitive capacity of the user account.
US09864948B2	Hand pliers The invention relates to hand pliers (1) which are in particular embodied as crimping pliers. According to the invention, the hand pliers (1) comprise a counting device (16) which counts the number passed working strokes (17). The counting device (16) is built with a sensor which senses the distance or displacement of two components moved relatively to each other over the working stroke (17), in particular the distance or displacement of hand levers (2, 3).If the count number registered by the counting device (16) exceeds a threshold value, it is possible to produce a display at a displaying device of the hand pliers (1) which indicates that an exchange of drive elements or an exchange of dies or a certification of the hand pliers is required.
US09864945B2	Electrical control unit and RFID read/write device An electrical control unit which is supplied in operation with an operating voltage, has: a non-volatile memory for storing operating parameter values and/or program code of the control unit, a control device which is coupled to the memory and controls an operation of the control unit depending on the stored operating parameter values and/or the stored program code as long as the control unit is supplied with the operating voltage, and a passive radio-frequency identification transponder, which is coupled to the memory and, regardless of whether the control unit is or is not supplied with the operating voltage, is designed to store operating parameter values transferred from an RFID read/write device and/or program code transferred from the RFID read/write device in the memory and/or to transfer operating parameter values stored in the memory and/or program code stored in the memory to the RFID read/write device.
US09864944B2	Display card with user interface A display card 301 with a user interface for providing one or more services. The card 301 comprises: an external interface 302, 303 for communication with a terminal external from the card 301; a Chip 401 comprising one or more servers for storing one or more applications, wherein the Chip 401 is arranged to communicate with the external interface 302, 303; a user interface 304, 305, 306 for interacting with a user of the card 301; a micro-terminal 402 for controlling the provision of one or more services, wherein the micro-terminal 402 is arranged to communicate with the user interface 304, 305, 306; and the Chip 401 and micro-terminal 402 are arranged to communicate with each other via an internal interface 403 of the Chip 401. Applications include payment cards and passes.
US09864940B2	Method and system for generating and printing three dimensional barcodes A system that includes a three-dimensional (3D) printing device, processor and computer-readable memory a 3D barcode and prints a three-dimensional object containing information embedded in the 3D barcode by: (i) receiving information to be embedded in the 3D barcode; (ii) determining a barcode symbology, wherein the barcode symbology includes at least one symbol character in a z-dimension; (iii) generating a build sequence that will cause the 3D-printing device to print the 3D barcode that embeds the received information in the 3D barcode in accordance with the barcode symbology; and (iv) using the build sequence to print the 3D object so that each symbol character of the symbology that is to appear in the z-dimension is printed as a physical representation in the z-direction on the 3D object.
US09864939B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, method of sharing data, and recording medium storing data sharing control program A service provider system obtains, from a request for registering a job to process electronic data, first user information regarding a first user who sends the request, location information indicating a data storage area at which the electronic data to be processed is stored, and second user information regarding a second user, and allows the second user to execute the job being registered.
US09864932B2	Vision-based object detector A method for detecting an object includes acquiring a first video of a source domain where a vision-based object detector is trained. Change detection is performed on the first video to collect one or more first localized, unlabeled sample images from the source domain. A second video is acquired of a target domain where the vision-based object detector is used. Change detection is performed on the second video to collect one or more second localized, unlabeled sample images from the target domain. A domain adaptation parameter is determined based on, one or more domain shift properties between the one or more first localized, unlabeled sample images from the source domain and the one or more second localized, unlabeled sample images from the target domain. The vision-based object detector is adapted to be used for object detection in the target domain based on the domain adaptation parameter.
US09864929B2	Image clustering for estimation of illumination spectra This disclosure concerns processing of electronic images, such as hyperspectral or multispectral images. A processor performs a method for estimating an illumination spectrum of an image which defines an input spectrum for each point of the image. The processor determines for each point of a first set of points a measure of variation in relation to the input spectrum of that point. The processor then selects one point from the first set based on the measure of variation. The processor determines a cluster of points based on the input spectrum of the selected point and determines an estimate for the illumination spectrum based on the input spectra of points in the cluster. Since the processor selects a point based on the measure of variation and then determines a cluster based on that point, it performs better than using other methods where the cluster is determined based on a random starting point, for example.
US09864916B2	Method for triggering a driver assistance function upon detection of a brake light by a camera In a method for triggering a driver assistance function of a subject vehicle, image data of surroundings in front of the vehicle is generated by a camera and supplied to an analyzing unit. A driver assistance function is triggered upon detection of a brake light of an other vehicle in the image data. A geometric region of the detected other vehicle is determined as exhibiting the highest pixel brightness values and the color red. The geometric region is detected as a raised brake light of the other vehicle if the geometric region is positioned essentially in the middle of the horizontal structure of the other vehicle, or at least a predetermined height above the roadway, or at least a predetermined distance below a rear window of the other vehicle.
US09864911B1	Selecting items for placement into available volumes using imaging data Imaging data regarding an interior portion of a storage vessel may be obtained from an imaging device (e.g., a digital camera or depth sensor) and interpreted in order to identify an available volume within the storage vessel. Where the imaging data includes an image of an interior of the storage vessel, an area of one or more contiguous spaces of a rear face of the storage vessel may be identified from the image and multiplied by a depth of the storage vessel in order to estimate the available volume. Where the imaging data includes a depth profile of the interior, the depth profile may be processed in order to estimate the available volume. Once an available volume has been estimated, the capacity of the available volume to accommodate one or more additional items may be determined, and information regarding the capacity may be provided to a user.
US09864910B2	Threat identification system A head mounted device (HMD) includes a transparent display, sensors to generate sensor data, and a processor. The processor identifies a threat condition based on a threat pattern and the sensor data, and generates a warning notification in response to the identified threat condition. The threat pattern includes preconfigured thresholds for the sensor data. The HMD displays AR content comprising the warning notification in the transparent display.
US09864906B2	Method and system for creating a validation document for security A document validation system receives a scan image of a document to be certified, analyzes the scan image to identify one or more characteristics of the scan image, and uses the identified characteristics to identify a security template. In response to a validation request, the system uses the identified security template to create a validation document that includes descriptive material comprising the location of one or more security elements on the document to be certified.
US09864904B2	Motion analysis device and motion analysis system An motion analysis device includes a processing unit that performs motion analysis of a subject using an output of a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes an angular velocity sensor capable of measuring angular velocity of at least 2500 dps, a second acceleration sensor capable of measuring acceleration of at least 50 G, and a first acceleration sensor capable of measuring acceleration of at least 24 G. The sensor unit is mounted on at least one of a golf club and a subject. The processing unit calculates a posture of the sensor unit at the time of motion using the angular velocity measured by the angular velocity sensor, and performs selection of outputs of the second and first acceleration sensors according to acceleration applied at the time of the motion and calculates a position of the sensor unit during the motion using the selected acceleration of the sensor.
US09864902B2	Apparatus and method of collating categories of images An image processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of images; a condition checking unit that checks imaging conditions of the plurality of images; a collation determining unit that determines whether to collate images among the plurality of images based on the imaging conditions of the images; a collation unit that collates the images determined to be collated by the collation determining unit to obtain a degree of similarity; and a classifying unit that classifies the collated images into a same category when the degree of similarity is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US09864890B1	Systems and methods for contextualizing data obtained from barcode images A method for contextualizing barcode content data includes a mobile device obtaining images containing one or more barcodes, decoding at least one of the barcodes to determine its content, determining a metric magnitude quantifying a measurable relationship between at least one decoded barcode and the imaging device, comparing the metric magnitude to a predetermined condition, if the predetermined condition is satisfied, then accessing a respective barcode specific information data record based on respective barcode content, and providing at least one of contextual information and contextual instruction to the mobile computing device, via one or more forms of multi-modal communication (e.g., visual display, audio notification, tactile stimulus, etc.). Determining a distance between at least two barcodes in the image, and displaying a message based on the distance. A system configured to implement the method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for a processor to perform the method are also disclosed.
US09864883B2	Scanner, scanning apparatus and scanning method for a shelf Provided are a scanner, a scanning apparatus, and a scanning method for a shelf, capable of scanning articles stored in accommodation spaces of a plurality of layers in the shelf. The scanning apparatus for a shelf is configured in that a scanner having an antenna scans the accommodation spaces in the shelf without a shadow zone while moving along the shelf, thus accurately acquiring location information on the articles in the accommodation spaces.
US09864879B2	Secure subsystem An apparatus for performing secure operations with a dedicated secure processor is described in one embodiment. The apparatus includes security firmware defining secure operations, a processor configured to execute the security firmware and perform a set of operations limited to the secure operations, and a plurality of secure hardware registers, accessible by the processor and configured to receive instructions to perform the secure operations. An apparatus for performing secure operations with a plurality of security assist hardware circuits is described in another embodiment. The apparatus comprises one or more secure hardware registers configured to receive a command to perform secure operations and one or more security assist hardware circuits configured to perform discrete secure operations using one or more secret data objects.
US09864875B2	Event driven permissive sharing of information Event driven permissive sharing of information is disclosed. In an aspect, user equipment can include information sharing profiles that can facilitate sharing information with other devices or users, such as sharing location information. The information sharing profiles can include trigger values, such that when a target value transitions the trigger value, a permission value is updated to restrict or allow access to sharable information. As such, event driven permissive sharing of information allows for designation of temporary friend information sharing with user-defined triggers.
US09864873B2	Managing data handling policies A method, computer usable program product or system for automatically sharing a set of sensitive data in accordance with a set of predetermined policy requirements including receiving across a network a set of certified policy commitments for a node; authenticating the set of certified policy commitments; utilizing a processor to automatically determine whether the set of certified policy commitments satisfies the set of predetermined policy requirements; and upon a positive determination, transmitting across the network the set of sensitive data to the node.
US09864871B2	Masking of haptic data A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: obtaining haptic data comprising multiple data channels representing multiple characteristics of the haptic data; analyzing the haptic data to identify sensitive portions of the haptic data to which haptic masking rules apply; and masking the haptic data by applying the haptic masking rules to the sensitive portions of the haptic data in one or more data channels of the multiple data channels.
US09864866B2	Dynamically configurable online data update system A data object update system provides a flexible framework that can be used to upgrade, renew, replace or supplement data objects that are provisioned in a large base of network-enabled devices that been deployed in the field to end users. The system has the flexibility to configure, for example, the following items, based on different requirements received from network operators: which device key and/or certificate is to be used to authenticate request messages from network-enabled devices before a specific data object update request is accepted into the system; which device identifier is to be used to authorize data object update requests; which device identifier is to be used for generating device specific data objects; and which protection mechanism is to be used to secure the delivery of data objects to network-enabled devices.
US09864864B2	Industrial security agent platform Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for facilitating communication in an industrial control network. A system includes an industrial control network, one or more controller devices, one or more emulators, and an encryption relay processor. Each controller device can be operable to control one or more operational devices connected to the industrial control network. Each emulator can be configured to communicate with a respective controller device, and each emulator can be configured to reference a respective profile that includes information about security capabilities of the respective controller device. The encryption relay processor can be operable to facilitate communication to and from each emulator over the industrial control network. The encryption relay processor can execute a cryptographic function for a communication between the emulator and a node on the industrial control network when the respective controller device is incapable of performing the cryptographic function.
US09864862B2	Data concealment apparatus and method using an error correction code Disclosed are a data concealment apparatus and a data concealment method using an Error Correction Code. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to prevent important information from being easily exposed to a third person by generating encoding data through convolution encoding of input data and thereafter, concealing the encoding data on an image through adjustment of a pixel value on the image and minimize an error which can occur at the time of recovering the input data by extracting the encoding data from the image in a soft decision scheme and performing Viterbi-decoding on the extracted encoding data in order to recover the input data concealed in the image.
US09864861B2	Object oriented marshaling scheme for calls to a secure region A system is disclosed and includes a processor to automatically execute enclave initialization code within a host application at run time of the host application. The enclave initialization code includes marshaling code to create a secure enclave separate from the host application. The marshaling code is generated at build time of the host application. The system also includes a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) including a dedicated DRAM portion to store the secure enclave. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09864860B2	Code property analysis for security mitigations Attempts to make code secure often are associated with performance penalties. To facilitate striking an acceptable balance between performance and security, vulnerable areas of source code are identified. The vulnerable areas are examined for areas that are actually safe and the safe areas are filtered from the universe of code that receives security mitigations. The remaining code receives security mitigations appropriate to the level of risk of the code.
US09864859B2	Technologies for secure bootstrapping of virtual network functions Technologies for bootstrapping virtual network functions in a network functions virtualization (NFV) network architecture include a virtual network function (VNF) bootstrap service (VBS) in secure network communication with a VBS agent of a VNF instance. The VBS agent is configured to execute a secure VNF bootstrap capture protocol in the NFV network architecture. Accordingly, the VBS agent can be configured to register with the VBS via secure communications transmitted between the VBS and the VBS agent. The secure communications include transmitting a security quote from a TEE of a platform on which the VNF instance is instantiated and a security credential request to the VBS, as well as receiving a security credential in response to validating the security quote and the security credential request. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09864856B2	Efficient hardware trust verification in data communication systems that comprise network interface cards, central processing units, and data memory buffers A data communication system comprises a Network Interface Card (NIC), Central Processing Unit (CPU), and Data Memory Buffer (DMB) to efficiently verify hardware-trust. The NIC, CPU, and DMB execute boot-up software, and in response, the NIC, CPU, and DMB execute hardware-trust software to assert control over their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The NIC, CPU, and DMB receive and hash hardware-trust data with their physically-embedded hardware-trust codes to generate hardware-trust results. The NIC, CPU, and DMB transfer their hardware-trust results for hardware-trust validation. The CPU may execute Network Function Virtualization Virtual Network Functions (NFV VNFs) for Software Defined Networks (SDNs).
US09864848B2	Method and system for updating media lists in portable media devices A method and apparatus for updating a media list or a media list collection of a portable media player device is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the updates are generated by a proxy or a third party server, based at least in part on data gathered for media preferences for a user of the portable media play device and one or more other users of one or more portable media player devices. In various embodiments, the method is practiced respecting the access rights of the media files (if access rights are required). Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US09864840B2	Systems and methods for embolism prediction using embolus source and destination probabilities Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a patient risk assessment or treatment plan based on emboli dislodgement and destination. One method includes receiving a patient-specific anatomic model generated from patient-specific imaging of at least a portion of a patient's vasculature; determining or receiving a location of interest in the patient-specific anatomic model of the patient's vasculature; using a computing processor for calculating blood flow through the patient-specific anatomic model to determine blood flow characteristics through at least the portion of the patient's vasculature of the patient-specific anatomic model downstream from the location of interest; and using a computing processor for particle tracking through the simulated blood flow to determine a destination probability of an embolus originating from the location of interest in the patient-specific anatomic model, based on the determined blood flow characteristics.
US09864835B2	Genetic comparisons between grandparents and grandchildren Displaying a comparison of genotypic information between relatives is disclosed, including receiving an indication that a first individual is a grandparent, receiving an indication that a second individual is a grandchild of the first individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual and calculating a similarity score, and displaying an indication of the similarity score graphically using colors.
US09864830B1	Method and apparatus for placement and routing of circuit designs Methods and systems are disclosed for placement and routing of a circuit design. A set of timing constraints is retrieved that specifies timing for objects included in a first shell circuit design configured to provide an interface for communication between the circuit design and the set of dedicated hardware resources on an IC. One or more objects of the first shell circuit design that do not affect timing of the circuit design are identified and removed from the first shell circuit design to produce a second shell circuit design. The circuit design is placed and routed according to timing constraints specified for objects of the first shell circuit design that are included in the second shell circuit design. The placed and routed circuit design is stored in a memory circuit.
US09864827B1	System and method for modeling electronic circuit designs The present disclosure relates to a system and method for modeling an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include receiving, at one or more computing devices, an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may also include partitioning, at a graphical user interface configured to display at least a portion of the electronic circuit design, at least one portion of the electronic circuit design into one or more sub-zones and generating, at the graphical user interface, one or more ports at each interface between one or more sub-zones. Embodiments may further include receiving a selection for an electromagnetic (EM) solver for each of the one or more sub-zones. Embodiments may also include modeling each of the one or more sub-zones.
US09864818B2	Providing answers to questions including assembling answers from multiple document segments A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying a plurality of candidate answers to the query; and for at least one of these candidate answers, identifying at least one proof of the answer. This proof includes a series of premises, and a multitude of documents are identified that include references to the premises. A set of these documents is selected that include references to all of the premises. This set of documents is used to generate one or more scores for the one of the candidate answers. A defined procedure is applied to the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the answers, and this includes using the one or more scores for the at least one of the candidate answers in the defined procedure to determine the ranking for this one candidate answer.
US09864817B2	Determination of relationships between collections of disparate media types Architecture that automatically determines relationships between vector spaces of disparate media types, and outputs ranker signals based on these relationships, all in a single process. The architecture improves search result relevance by simultaneously clustering queries and documents, and enables the training of a model for creating one or more ranker signals using simultaneous clustering of queries and documents in their respective spaces.
US09864814B2	Systems and methods of online interfaces for hierarchically arranged user-generated content Systems and methods are provided methods for providing an online interface for displaying hierarchically or logically arranged user-generated content. One method including receiving, from a first user over a network, topical user-generated electronic content, the topical user-generated electronic content being related to a topic of a web page; displaying the topical user-generated electronic content received from the first user on the web page; receiving, from a second user over the network, responsive user-generated electronic content and an indication of a desire to post the responsive user-generated electronic content on the web page in association with the topical user-generated electronic content; and displaying, adjacent to the topical user-generated electronic content on the web page, a user element or link that a third user can manipulate to display the responsive user-generated electronic content adjacent to the topical user-generated electronic content.
US09864812B2	Converting spreadsheet applications to web-based applications A networked version of a spreadsheet application can be automatically created from an existing “conventional” spreadsheet. In one implementation, a server may obtain a data file, where the data file represents a networked version of a spreadsheet application that was converted from the “conventional” application and the data file defines characteristics of the networked version of the spreadsheet application including logic and interactivity attributes of cells in the networked version of the spreadsheet application. A remote request may be received from a client to access the networked version of the spreadsheet application. In response, the server may transmit a document to the client that represents a portion of the networked version of the spreadsheet application that the interactivity attributes specify as being displayable to the client.
US09864802B2	Rules-based knowledge-driven search filters Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method for rules-based knowledge-driven search filters includes receiving metadata for a plurality of searchable objects, the metadata including at least one of an object type definition and object properties. The method includes defining search filter rules based on user properties and data conditions. The method includes performing a search according to a rule-based configuration, the rule-based configuration including filters for object properties and filter ordering rules. The method includes displaying search results according to the rule-based configuration.
US09864801B2	Responsive layout based on behavioral intent in a multi-tenant platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system A responsive layout based on behavioral intent in a multi-tenant PaaS system is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes determining a profile of a user of a PaaS system, an application context for each application associated with the user and hosted by the PaaS system, and a task context of an access to the PaaS system by the user, providing indicators of the determined profile, the determined application context, and the determined task context to a browser application of the user, and providing HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files of the management console to the browser application, wherein the provided indicators are applied to the HTML and CSS files to generate a responsive layout, wherein the indicators are associated with one or more variants of the HTML and CSS files that provide the responsive layout.
US09864800B2	Method and system for identification of distributed broadcast content A method and system of performing high-throughput identifications of broadcast content is provided. A device can send a content identification query, which includes a sample of content being broadcast, to a server to request an identity of the content. The server will perform a computational identification of the content, return the result to the device, and store the result. For all subsequently received content identification queries requesting an identity of content being broadcast from the same source and in a time during which the content is still being broadcast from the source, the server will send the stored content identification in response to the subsequent queries. If a subsequent content identification query does not request the identity of content being broadcast from the same source or is not received during the time that the content is still being broadcast, the server will perform a computational identification of a content sample.
US09864799B2	Converging tool terminology Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for automatically generating a display to present different terms. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to identify a first and a second user using applications in a software as a service (SaaS) environment and store, for the first and the second user, a first term associated with the first user and a second term associated with the second user in the SaaS environment. Responsive to identifying the first term associated with the first user and the second term associated with the second user have functionally equivalent definitions, embodiments of the present invention can replace the second term associated with the second user with the first term associated with the first user and generate a display for the first term associated with the first user that replaced the second term associated with the second user.
US09864797B2	Defining a new search based on displayed graph lanes A system, method and graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a new correlation search based on a set of displayed graph lanes. The graph lanes may provide graphical visualizations of key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with one or more services and may assist a user in identifying a situation (e.g., problem or a pattern of interest) in the performance of the services. A user may adjust (e.g., add graph lanes, zooming-in) the graph lanes in order to display the situation, at which point the user may submit a request to create a new correlation search to detect if the situation reoccurs. The system may generate the new correlation search by iterating through the set of graph lanes and analyzing the fluctuations of each KPI to determine triggering criteria. The system may then run the correlation search and generate a notable event or alarm when the situation reoccurs.
US09864796B2	Databases from models One or more model elements may be extracted from a model. Coding patterns may be generated based on the extracted model elements. The coding patterns may be translated into statements, such as Structured Query Language (SQL) statements, which may be executed to instantiate at least a portion of a database. The database may be used to store, edit and/or query data that is arranged according to the model. The model may define a modeling language specification, such that the stored data may define various models that comply with the modeling language specification. Accordingly, the database may be queried to analyze the contents of the modeling-language compliant models.
US09864783B1	Systems and methods for identifying outlying point of interest search results Systems and methods for identifying and eliminating outlying point of interest search results to improve the readability of the mapped results are provided. One exemplary method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of points of interest. Each point of interest has an associated location. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a distance score for each of the plurality of points of interest. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a distance ratio. The distance ratio compares the distance score associated with the point of interest having the distance score of greatest magnitude to the distance score associated with the point of interest having the distance score of second greatest magnitude.
US09864782B2	Systems and methods for identifying word phrases based on stress patterns The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating matching phrases based on user-defined criteria including a desired stress pattern of a phrase. The system may determine a stress pattern based on user-defined criteria including an auditory file of a melody, and use the determined stress pattern to generate a plurality of matching phrases that include the same stress pattern.
US09864781B1	Search of NAS data through association of errors A computer-perceptible search input, whether typed, spoken, based upon machine vision, detection and/or interpretation of gestures, for example, may be received by a computing device from a single user. The received input by the single user may be matched with one or more stored digital items based upon prior inputs by the single user that previously led the single user to access the digital item(s). That is, it may be determined whether the received input is the same or similar to a previous input or inputs that led the computing device to search for, select and present digital items that were subsequently accessed (e.g., opened) by the user, which action signifies a successful search.
US09864780B2	Gait-based biometric data analysis system Systems and methods for diagnosing a user's condition based on his gait. A sensor module with multiple sensors is placed inside a user's shoe and biometric data is gathered from the sensors when the user takes a step or walks. The data is used to generate loops as the various sets of data is plotted against each other. The loops obtained from the data are then compared against stored loops previously obtained. Based on the results of the comparison, the user's condition is diagnosed using predetermined indicators of specific health issues. Using the biometric data and in conjunction with data from various databases, it can be determined whether the user has a specific condition, whether a specific condition is worsening, or whether a specific condition is improving.
US09864774B2	Granular buffering of metadata changes for journaling file systems Responsive to determining an in-memory image of a metadata disk block, a buffer is generated in memory and includes metadata updates made to the metadata disk block. Metadata updates to the disk block by a first transaction are recorded and stored in the buffer. Transfer of metadata updates that are logically complete, but remain in an active transaction list stored in the buffer, are delayed to a completed transaction list, scheduled to be written to a log file on disk at a subsequent time. A determination is made as to whether the metadata disk block is deleted by a second transaction following the first, and responsive to determining the metadata disk block is to be deleted and the metadata updates of the second transaction transfer to the completed transaction list, preventing the writing of the metadata updates to the log file and the metadata disk block to disk.
US09864772B2	Log-shipping data replication with early log record fetching Methods, systems and program products for log-shipping data replication from a primary system to a communicatively-coupled standby system. Embodiments of the invention may receive transactional log data at a standby system, from the primary system, and before the transactional log data is written to storage on the primary system. Embodiments may then receive a notification from the primary system indicating that the corresponding log data was written to storage on the primary system, and responsive to receiving the notification, may process the received transactional log data.
US09864770B2	Customizing enterprise level business information networking Systems, apparatus, and methods for implementing enterprise level social and business information networking are provided. Users can receive relevant information about a database system and its users at an appropriate time. Users can then use this relevant information to reduce errors and limit redundant efforts. For example, an update of a record in the database can be identified, and a story created automatically about the update and sent to the users that are following the record. Which updates have stories created and which stories are to be sent to which users can be configured. Other events besides updating of records can also be tracked. For example, actions of a user that result in an event can be tracked, where such tracking can also be configurable. Subscriptions to follow an object can be automatic, and access checks can be used to ensure that unauthorized users do not see certain data.
US09864769B2	Storing data utilizing repeating pattern detection A system and method for efficiently storing data in a storage system. A data storage subsystem includes multiple data storage locations on multiple storage devices in addition to at least one mapping table. A data storage controller determines whether data to store in the storage subsystem has one or more patterns of data intermingled with non-pattern data within an allocated block. Rather than store the one or more pattern on the storage devices, the controller stores information in a header on the storage devices. The information includes at least an offset for the first instance of a pattern, a pattern length, and an identification of the pattern. The data may be reconstructed for a corresponding read request from the information stored in the header.
US09864768B2	Surfacing actions from social data Social data is used to extract actions that end users perform in order to provide deeplinks for search results. Social data from social networking services may be accessed and analyzed to identify actions performed by end users. Additionally, the social data may be analyzed to identify URLs of web pages at which the actions may be performed. Information regarding the actions and corresponding URLs is stored for use by a search engine service to provide deeplinks for search results returned in response to user search queries.
US09864764B2	Evolving data archives A data archive constructed from source data, whose structure and associated schemas can evolve based on the generated responses to user data requests. Based on the analysis of the responses, the schema and/or archive structure can be modified to provide greater knowledge, definition and operations available to be performed on the data, as well as to reduce the processing and storage costs associated with housing and accessing the data within the archive.
US09864762B2	Systems and methods for mapping a value to a new domain Source values are mapped to new user-defined categories. The new user-defined categories are stored in a new user-defined field. In an embodiment, a user-selection of an existing field is received. Based on a data type of the existing field, a specific mapping interface is displayed. The interface guides the user through specification of the new field and categories, and identification of the source values to map to the new categories.
US09864761B1	Read optimization operations in a storage system A system and method for performing read optimization of a volume while allowing user operations to target the volume. Read optimization is prevented from being performed for a top level of the medium graph for a given volume, wherein the top level is in a read-write state. Rather than waiting for the given volume to be idle so as to perform read optimization, read optimization is run at lower levels in the medium graph of the given volume. This allows user operations to modify the medium graph of the top level of the given volume while simultaneously read optimization is being run on mediums which underlie the top level.
US09864758B2	Image recognition verification Systems and methods of verifying the results of an initial image recognition process are presented. A verification engine can receive a set of candidate images corresponding to the results of an image recognition process performed on a captured query image. The verification engine can determine an appropriate verification technique to apply to the images of the candidate set, and classify, re-rank or otherwise re-organize the candidate set such that the best match from the candidate set is confirmed as a proper match.
US09864756B2	Method, apparatus for providing a notification on a face recognition environment, and computer-readable recording medium for executing the method According to a method for providing a notification on a face recognition environment of the present disclosure, the method includes obtaining an input image that is input in a preview state, comparing feature information for a face included in the input image with feature information for a plurality of reference images of people stored in a predetermined database to determine, in real-time, whether the input image satisfies a predetermined effective condition for photographing. The predetermined effective condition for photographing is information regarding a condition necessary for recognizing the face included in the input image at a higher accuracy level than a predetermined accuracy level. The method further includes providing a user with a predetermined feedback for photographing guidance that corresponds to whether the predetermined effective condition for photographing is satisfied. According to the method, a condition of a face image detected for face recognition is checked, and if there is an unsuitable element in recognizing the face, it is notified to a user such that an obstruction environment hindering the face recognition by the user is removed, for enhancing a success rate of the face recognition.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10