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US09985553B2	Control device of inverter A control device (2) of an inverter converts electrical power generated by a solar cell (3) into alternating current power connecting to an electric power system (7). The control device includes: an alternating current voltage sensor (14) sensing a system voltage (Vr) of the electric power system; an MPPT executer (23) controlling a direct current voltage (Vdc) applied to the inverter (1) to cause the electrical power output from the solar cell (3) to be a maximum when the direct current voltage (Vdc) is higher than a lower limit (VL); a direct current voltage lower limit calculator 22 reducing the lower limit (VL) when the system voltage (Vr) is lower than a predetermined voltage; and an electrical power controller (25) controlling reactive power based on the system voltage (Vr), the reactive power being output from the inverter (1).
US09985542B2	Controller IC with zero-crossing detector and capacitor discharge switching element An integrated circuit (IC) for controlling the discharge of a capacitor coupled across first and second input terminals of a power converter circuit, wherein the first and second terminals for receiving an ac line voltage. The IC includes a switching element coupled across the first and second input terminals and a detector circuit. The detector circuit including first and second comparators that produce first and second output signals responsive to a zero-crossing event of the ac line voltage. The first and second output signals being used to generate a reset signal coupled to a timer circuit responsive to the zero-crossing event. When the reset signal is not received within a delay time period, the timer circuit outputs a discharge signal that turns the switching element on, thereby discharging the capacitor.
US09985541B2	Feed forward controlling circuit and method for voltage ripple restraint A feed forward controlling circuit is used to perform a feed forward controlling method to restrain ripple of the output voltage in a power converter. The power converter is controlled by a control signal outputted from an output terminal of a controller. The method includes steps of: receiving an output voltage from an output terminal of a voltage converter; attenuating the output voltage to generate an electrical signal; acquiring a DC signal from the electrical signal; and obtaining a ripple compensation signal in accordance with the electrical signal and the DC signal to output to an output terminal of a controller. The output terminal of the controller outputs a control signal to control the power converter.
US09985540B2	Reference voltage generator for a switched mode power supply An isolated fly-buck converter is provided for converting an input voltage to an output voltage, and for generating a voltage indicative of the input voltage. The isolated fly-buck converter comprises on its secondary side an input voltage sensing circuit for generating the voltage indicative of the input voltage, the input voltage sensing circuit comprising a capacitive element and a rectifying element connected in series. The input voltage sensing circuit is connected across a secondary winding of the isolated fly-buck converter such that the rectifying element prevents current from flowing through the input voltage sensing circuit during the fly-buck phase of operation of the converter. The input voltage sensing circuit also has a voltage buffer arranged to buffer a voltage which is indicative of a sum of the output voltage of the converter and the voltage over the capacitive element, and output the buffered voltage or a voltage based on the buffered voltage as the voltage that is indicative of the input voltage. The output of the voltage buffer is connected to ground via a first resistive element in series with a parallel combination of a second resistive element and a third capacitive element.
US09985535B2	Control circuit of switching power supply, insulated switching power supply A negative power supply generates a voltage Vm that is negative when a source voltage Vh′ of an activation element is used as a reference. A differential voltage between the above-described voltage Vh′ and the voltage Vm is applied to an activation circuit arranged between the activation element and a control power supply voltage Vcc. The activation circuit is configured to include a current detection resistor, a voltage conversion resister, a current source, a first PMOS switch, a second PMOS switch, and a control amplifier. The control amplifier operates in a voltage range between Vh′ and Vm, and an output of the control amplifier is connected to a gate of the first PMOS switch.
US09985530B2	DC-DC converter and control method thereof A soft switching system DC-DC converter includes a switching element, a transformer or a reactor, and a controller configured to control a switching operation of the switching element; and carries out the switching operation of the switching element in a state that a voltage or a current to be applied to the switching element is zero. In a case where a required output value of the DC-DC converter is lower than the minimum output over which soft switching is established, the controller controls the operation of the switching element so that an operation period in which an output of the DC-DC converter becomes the minimum output or higher and a stop period in which the output becomes zero are alternately repeated.
US09985529B2	Power control method and related apparatus capable of providing compensation to inductance variation A power supply control method capable of compensating inductance variation of an inductive device in a power supply. The power supply has a power switch controlling a winding current through the inductive device, and converts an input voltage into an output voltage. A sampling time is provided within an ON time of the power switch. The sampling time has a length substantially independent from the ON time, the input voltage, and an inductance of the inductive device. A current-sense signal, a representative of the winding current, is sampled to hold a sample voltage after the sampling time. The power switch is controller in response to the sample voltage so as to make the output voltage comply with an output rating.
US09985520B2	Pulse width modulator for DC/DC converters A conventional single-ended, primary-inductance converter (SEPIC) has its switching frequency determined by a controller, which determines the duty cycle at which the switch operates by measuring differences between the SEPIC output voltage and a reference voltage. A controller is coupled to a switch of the SEPIC and provides a pulse train which determines the duty cycle and frequency at which the switch operates. The duty cycle is selectable between first and second percentages, the frequency is selectable between first and second frequencies, and the duty cycle and frequency are selected by the controller responsive to a voltage at an input voltage terminal of the SEPIC. Output voltage overshoot and undershoot are reduced.
US09985519B2	Voltage generation circuit According to one embodiment, a voltage generation circuit includes: a charge pump circuit configured to boost a voltage input to a first node and output a first signal to a second node; an operational amplifier configured to receive a first reference voltage and a first voltage obtained by dividing a voltage of the second node and output a second signal to a third node; a first transistor having a gate coupled to the third node, one terminal coupled to a power supply, and the other terminal coupled to the first node; a logic circuit configured to detect the voltage of the second node and output a third signal; and a charge-up circuit configured to receive the third signal and charge a voltage of the third node.
US09985518B2	Circuit and musical instrument A circuit includes: a signal processing unit which is configured to perform signal processing; an amplifying unit which is configured to amplify a signal output from the signal processing unit; a first power supplying path which is extended from a battery to the signal processing unit; a second power supplying path which is branched from the first power supplying path, and which is extended to the amplifying unit; a power limiting unit which is provided in the second power supplying path, and which is configured to limit power flowing in the second power supplying path; and a capacitor which is connected to the second power supplying path, and which is configured to supplement power to be supplied to the amplifying unit.
US09985515B1	Controllers for regulated power inverters, AC/DC, and DC/DC converters The present invention relates to methods and corresponding apparatus for regulated and efficient DC-to-AC conversion with power quality, and to methods and corresponding apparatus for regulation and control of said DC-to-AC conversion. The invention further relates to methods and corresponding apparatus for regulation and control of AC-to-DC and/or DC-to-DC conversion.
US09985509B2	Induction generator and method for generating an electric current using an induction generator An induction generator (100) is proposed, having at least one permanent magnet (130) for generating a permanent magnetic field (138), at least one reflux plate (106) for guiding the permanent magnetic field (138), a coil (108) and a spring element (104), wherein the permanent magnet (130) and the reflux plate (106) are separated from one another by an air gap (140) through which the permanent magnetic field (138) passes, and wherein the coil (108) is connected to the spring element (104) and is movably disposed in the air gap (140), characterized in that the spring element (104) is designed to cause an oscillation movement of the coil (108) in the air gap (140) transverse to a magnetic flux of the permanent magnetic field (138) inside the air gap (140) in response to a deflection of the coil (108).
US09985504B2	Electronic apparatus A primary strut, which extends integrally from a heat sink main body, supports a circuit board at a location between a connector terminal and one of a switching device or a drive wiring. A secondary strut, which extends integrally from the heat sink main body, supports the circuit board at a location that is on an opposite side of the switching device and the drive wiring, which is opposite from the connector terminal. A temperature sensor is installed to the circuit board at a location, which is spaced from the primary strut, the switching device and the drive wiring, and at which the temperature sensor senses a temperature of the secondary strut. A control device limits an electric current supplied to the switching device upon estimating a temperature of the switching device while using the temperature, which is sensed with the temperature sensor, as a reference temperature.
US09985501B2	Generators with open loop active cooling A rotor body for a high-speed generator includes a rotor body with interior and exterior surfaces, a coolant inlet and outlet, and a rotor cooling path for actively cooling the rotor body. The coolant inlet and outlet extend between the interior and exterior surfaces. An interior segment of the rotor cooling path fluidly couples the coolant inlet and coolant outlet and is bounded by the rotor body interior surface. An exterior segment of the cooling path is bounded by the rotor body exterior surface and fluidly couples the coolant outlet an environment external to the rotor body.
US09985498B2	Device including an electric machine with a lightweight design An active part (4) of an electric machine (2) is connected to a supporting body (5) via a connecting structure and is fixed relative to the supporting body (5). A rotor (4′) of the electric machine interacts electromagnetically with a stator core (4″) and is mounted rotatably relative to the stator core (4″) so that the rotor (4′) is rotatable about an axis of rotation (8). The connecting structure comprises at least one hub (9), a supporting ring (12) and first and second struts (15, 19). The hub (9) surrounds the axis of rotation (8) and extends in the axial direction from an upper hub end (10) to a lower hub end (11). The hub (9) adjoins, with the upper hub end (10), the supporting body (5) and is fastened there to the supporting body (5). The supporting ring (12), on the outer side (13) thereof, adjoins the active part (4) and is connected to the active part (4). The first struts (15) extend in a radial plane (16) radially outwards from the lower hub end (11) to the supporting ring (12). The first struts (15) merge with the hub (9) in a respective radially inner transition region (17) and with the supporting ring (12) in a respective radially outer transition region (18). The second struts (19) extend from the upper hub end (10) to the supporting ring (12). In relation to the radial plane (16), the radially inner transition region (17) and the radially outer transition region (18) of a respective first strut (15) each form an angle (a) with the axis of rotation (8).
US09985497B2	Electrical linear actuator An actuator that transforming electrical energy into mechanical energy (or vice-versa) that is particularly suited to portable applications requiring a high degree of efficient control, e.g. applications in which human-like movement needs to be simulated or interacted with. The actuator has a stator comprising electromagnetic sectors for generating phased electromagnetic fields around the stator and at least one cylindrical element (and preferably two such elements). The stator and the cylindrical element(s) are arranged concentrically around a central axis. The cylindrical element has permanent magnetic elements magnetized radially and arranged as one or more discontinuous helices. Phased magnetization of the stator causes the cylindrical element to rotate around the axis along a helical path, thereby exerting a longitudinal force along the axis. Preferably one cylindrical element rotates along a helical path relative to another cylindrical element that has permanent magnetic elements magnetized radially and arranged in one or more helices. Applications of the actuator include prosthetic limbs and orthoses, and for service and remotely operated robots.
US09985495B2	Apparatus for mounting a motor such that vibrations are decoupled An apparatus for mounting an electric motor, in particular a fan drive of a heating or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, such that vibrations are decoupled, having a number of elastic damping elements which are plug-mounted on the motor, and also comprising a corresponding number of mounting contours, which are associated with said damping elements, in an external housing which at least partially surrounds the motor housing, wherein the respective damping element has a central insertion slot for the corresponding radial lug, and wherein the respective damping element has material spokes, which extend in the manner of a star starting from the insertion slot, so as to form spoke sections which face one another and between which slot regions which are free of material and open at the periphery are formed.
US09985494B2	Electrical machine and controller and methods of assembling the same A fluid circulating assembly includes an electrical machine having a rotor assembly, a stator assembly, and a housing. The housing includes an annular center section and at least two extension portions extending radially outward from the annular center section of the housing. The fluid circulating assembly also includes a controller assembly coupled to the housing. The said controller assembly is positioned radially outward from the stator assembly and located in at least one of the at least two extension portions.
US09985490B2	Electric motor or generator An electric motor or generator having a stator having two coil sets arranged to produce a magnetic field for generating a drive torque; two control devices; and a first capacitor arranged to be coupled to a power source for providing current to the two control devices, wherein the first control device is coupled to a first coil set and the first capacitor and the second control device is coupled to a second coil set and the first capacitor, wherein each control device is arranged to control current in the respective coil set to generate a magnetic field in the respective coil set.
US09985489B2	Separated coolant circulation structure for water-cooled power generator and cooling method thereof A separated coolant circulation structure for a water-cooled power generator includes a cooling circulation channel for a stator bar to cool heat of a stator bar winding, and a cooling circulation channel for a connector ring to heat of a connector ring, wherein the cooling circulation channel for the stator bar and the cooling circulation channel for the connector ring form separate coolant supply paths to improve cooling efficiency and reduce a pump load.
US09985488B2	Environmentally robust electromagnets and electric motors employing same for use in nuclear reactors An electromagnet comprises a plurality of nested freestanding electrically insulating former layers, and electrically conductive wire wrapped around the outsides of the freestanding electrically insulating former layers to define a multilayer electrical coil in which adjacent layers of the multilayer electrical coil are spaced apart by intervening freestanding electrically insulating former layers. Electrically energizing the multilayer electrical coil generates a magnetic field inside the multilayer electrical coil. In some embodiments the electrically conductive wire is bare wire not having electrical insulation. In some embodiments the former layers comprise a ceramic material. In some such embodiments the electromagnet further comprises a ferromagnetic core disposed inside the multilayer electrical coil. An electric motor employing such an electromagnet as a stator pole is also disclosed. Control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) and coolant pump embodiments are also disclosed employing such a motor, for use in a nuclear reactor.
US09985481B2	Dynamic power adjustment mechanism for mitigating wireless power interference Wireless charging, such as that conducted according to standards formed by the AirFuel Alliance and/or various other industry standards for wireless charging, can cause interference with data transfer on a cellular modem of a mobile device. Systems, devices, and methods herein provide power breaks where a power transmitter unit (PTU) will stop generating an electromagnetic field used to charge a power receiver unit (PRU). During the power break, the mobile device can send or receive data over the cellular modem with less or no interference from the wireless charging operations. If the PTU cannot provide a power break, the PRU de-tunes a receive resonator circuit in the PRU to mitigate the interference from the wireless charging operations. Further, the power breaks can also be used by PTUs to scan for near field communication (NFC) tags or devices that could be damaged by wireless charging activities.
US09985480B2	Electrical system incorporating a single structure multimode antenna for wireless power transmission using magnetic field coupling An electrical system incorporating a single structure multiple mode antenna is described. The antenna is preferably constructed having a first inductor coil that is electrically connected in series with a second inductor coil. The antenna is constructed having a plurality of electrical connections positioned along the first and second inductor coils. A plurality of terminals is connected to the electrical connections that facilitate numerous electrical connections and enables the antenna to be selectively tuned to various frequencies and frequency bands.
US09985478B2	Portable terminal having a wireless charger coil and an antenna element on the same plane A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a shielding member attached to an inner surface of an external part, a shielding wall formed on the shielding member, a first coil attached to a surface of the shielding member that faces the inner surface of the external part, and a second coil attached to the surface of the shielding member, with the second coil surrounds the first coil on a same plane and the shielding wall being disposed between the first and second coil.
US09985474B2	Display apparatus and power supplying method thereof Disclosed are a display apparatus and a power supplying method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a backlight driver configured to drive a backlight to emit light; a main power supply configured to detect connection of the backlight to the backlight driver and supply a voltage to the backlight driver in response to a control voltage; and a standby power supply configured to supply the control voltage to the main power supply, in response to determining the connection of the backlight to the backlight driver.
US09985473B2	Transformerless multi-level medium-voltage uninterruptable power supply (UPS) system Systems and methods for supplying power at a medium voltage from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to a load without using a transformer are disclosed. The UPS includes an energy storage device, a single stage DC-DC converter or a two-stage DC-DC converter, and a multi-level inverter, each of which are electrically coupled to a common negative bus. The DC-DC converter may include two stages in a unidirectional or bidirectional configuration. One stage of the DC-DC converter uses a flying capacitor topology. The voltages across the capacitors of the flying capacitor topology are balanced and switching losses are minimized by fixed duty cycle operation. The DC-DC converter generates a high DC voltage from a low or high voltage energy storage device such as batteries and/or ultra-capacitors. The multi-level, neutral point, diode-clamped inverter converts the high DC voltage into a medium AC voltage using a space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) technique. The UPS may also include a small filter to remove harmonics in the AC voltage output from the multi-level inverter.
US09985472B2	Sensing device and wearable device with same A sensing device includes a main body, a first battery, a second battery, and a battery switching unit. The first battery includes a power terminal and an ID terminal having a length less than a length of the power terminal. When the battery switching unit detects that the power terminal and the ID terminal are both electrically connected to a connector positioned in the main body, the battery switching unit switches to the first battery and the sensing device is powered by the first battery; when the battery switching unit detects that the ID terminal is just disconnected with the connector, the first battery keeps providing power to the sensing device through the power terminal and the battery switching unit switches to the second battery so that the sensing device is powered by the second battery before the power terminal being disconnected with the connector.
US09985463B2	Mobile terminal charging device and vehicle equipped with same A controller of a mobile terminal charging device compares a resonance frequency or a resonance voltage of each of a plurality of foreign object detection coils with a reference resonance frequency or a reference resonance voltage of each foreign object detection coil, stored in a memory, corresponding to a position of a charging coil. The controller performs a safety operation on the basis of a comparison result.
US09985462B2	Power transmitting unit and power receiving unit with control data communication and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from a power transmitting unit. A wireless radio unit is configured to communicate with the power transmitting unit. A controllable rectifier circuit is configured to rectify the wireless power signal. The controllable rectifier circuit can include a rectifier configured to generate a rectified voltage from the wireless power signal, based on switch control signals. A rectifier control circuit is configured to generate the switch control signals and to generate first control data that indicates a first rectifier duty cycle of the switch control signals. The wireless radio unit sends the first control data to the power transmitting unit. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09985461B2	Systems capable of self-harvesting energy from wireless devices and methods of using the same A system and method for self-harvesting energy from a wireless device and supplementing the battery power of the wireless device using the self-harvested energy includes the steps of collecting at least a portion of radio frequency signals transmitted by the wireless device; converting the collected radio frequency signals from radio frequency signals to direct current energy; further converting the direct current energy to energy compatible with charging requirements for a battery electrically connected to the wireless device; and transferring the compatible energy to the battery of the wireless device through a wireless device interface in order to add the compatible energy to the battery.
US09985458B2	Method of power transmitting unit (PTU) for determining location of power receiving unit (PRU), and PTU employing the method A power transmitting unit (PTU) transmits a power wirelessly based on a location of a power receiving unit (PRU). The PTU determines whether the PRU is located within a charging area of the PTU based on frequency information corresponding to an inflection point detected on a curve of electrical characteristics of a resonator of the PTU.
US09985457B2	Charger for blocking standby power and method of controlling same A charger for blocking power when charging a battery is provided. The charger includes a charging voltage generating unit that generates a charging voltage for charging a battery. The charger includes a control unit with at least one microprocessor for controlling calculation and comparison and determination required for charging. A back-flow preventing unit is disposed between the charging voltage generating unit and the battery and has a plurality of diodes. A driving unit is connected between the control unit and an AC power supply unit and includes a relay for supplying/blocking AC power to the charger according to the control of the control unit. An alarm unit provides notification of a contact failure or charging completion when charging the battery. A cable connector is connected to a target device.
US09985456B2	Power management A controller is to control a discharger to provide power from an energy storage to an electrical device during a period when the electrical device is to require a power maximum. The controller is to control the charger to provide power from a power supply to the energy storage during a period when the electrical device is to require a power minimum. The electrical device is to be powered by a power supply.
US09985453B2	Apparatus for discharging a high-voltage bus A power inverter including a multi-phase inverter circuit is electrically connected to a high-voltage DC power source, and includes a capacitor electrically connected between positive and negative conductors of a high-voltage bus. A normally-ON discharge switch is electrically connected in series with a discharge resistor between the positive and negative conductors of the high-voltage bus. The discharge switch includes a control gate, wherein the control gate of the discharge switch is in communication with an ignition switch. The discharge switch is controllable to an open state between the positive and negative conductors of the high-voltage bus when the ignition switch is in an ON state. The discharge switch achieves a closed state to provide a low-impedance electric current flow path through the discharge resistor between the positive and negative conductors of the high-voltage bus when the ignition switch is in an OFF state.
US09985451B2	System and method for providing rechargeable batteries A system and method for charging a plurality of batteries is disclosed. A battery charging hub may have a plurality of charging/discharging ports capable of applying varying charging programs based on the state of a battery. A battery charging hub may include wired or wireless communication ability to allow the battery charging hub to communicate with remote units regarding the state and quality of batteries at the charging hub. A virtual disposable battery is also disclosed.
US09985444B2	Electric storage device management apparatus and method of equalizing capacities of electric storage devices A method for equalizing states of electric storage devices, which are connected in series, of an electric storage device assembly, includes preparing discharging time period data including discharging time periods associated with sequential numbers, determining whether a voltage of each electric storage device has reached a reference voltage during charging or discharging of the electric storage device assembly, and discharging the electric storage devices, using a discharging circuit, for respective discharging time periods associated with the sequential numbers, the sequential numbers being assigned to the electric storage devices according to a sequence of the electric storage devices determined based on time points at which the voltages of the electric storage devices have reached the reference voltage.
US09985437B2	Combined electrical power plant A combined electrical power plant is provided to supply power to a grid and a method to operate such a combined electrical power plant comprising a thermal power generation facility and an energy storage facility with a suitable energy storage capacity being able to supply additional electrical power to the grid and to receive and store electrical power from the thermal power generation facility or from the grid. Both facilities are electrically coupled to providing a combined power output to the grid and further comprise a plant controller to process the demand signal and to generate at least a first control signal and a second control signal from the demand signal, where the first control signal is a smoothened function of time of the demand signal resulting from a smoothening process executed by the plant controller taking into account operational characteristics of the thermal power generation facility.
US09985436B2	Digital messages in a load control system A load control system may comprise load control devices for controlling respective electrical loads, and a system controller operable to transmit digital messages including different commands to the load control devices in response to a selection of a preset. The different commands may include a preset command configured to identify preset data in a device database stored at the load control device and/or a multi-output command configured to define the preset data for being stored in the device database. The system controller may decide which of the commands to transmit to the load control devices in response to the selection of the preset.
US09985433B2	Output circuit According to one embodiment, there is provided an open-drain-type output circuit which outputs a signal of an internal circuit. The output circuit includes a first signal output terminal, a first signal line, a first floating line, a first rectifier element, and a first ESD protection circuit. The first signal line connects the first signal output terminal and the internal circuit. Potential of the first floating line is not fixed. The first rectifier element is connected between the first signal output terminal and the first floating line. The first ESD protection circuit is connected between the first floating line and ground potential.
US09985430B2	Fault current limiter A fault current limiter (FCL) has a core structure with a first and second magnetisable core members and an AC magnetomotive force source configured to generate a varying magnetic flux in at least a portion of the first and second magnetisable core members. Static magnetomotive force sources being positioned to provide a magnetic circuit within at least part of the magnetisable core members. The FCL may have a ring core structure and the static magnetomotive force sources may include a mitered or tapered joint interface with the core member.
US09985429B2	Inrush current limiter circuit Systems and methods for reducing inrush current into a component, such as a power converter (e.g., LED driver), which receives alternating current (AC) power from an AC power source (e.g., AC mains). The method may include pre-charging the input capacitance of a component or circuit for a determined period of time after closing of a control switch (e.g., photocontrol, contactor) using a capacitive load pre-charge circuit (e.g., resistor), and then shorting the capacitive load pre-charge circuit using a bidirectional AC switch coupled in parallel with the capacitive load pre-charge circuit after the determined period of time to selectively bypass the capacitive load pre-charge circuit. The bidirectional AC switch may include two source-connected metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) which have a very low “on resistance,” such that during steady-state operation, the protection circuit wastes very little power compared to conventional inrush protection circuits.
US09985428B2	Sampling implementation method and device based on conventional sampling goose trip mode Sampling implementation method and device based on conventional sampling GOOSE trip mode. CPU of master NPI plug-in, after receiving a second pulse, transmits sampling pulse generation time and a transmission enable bit to FPGA of the master NPI plug-in at a fixed interval; after detecting the transmission enable bit, the FPGA of the master NPI plug-in judges whether time of its internal timer is greater than/equal to the sampling pulse generation time, if yes, generates a sampling pulse to FPGA of collection plug-in; after receiving sampling pulse, the collection plug-in carries out A/D sampling, and transmits sampled data to the master NPI plug-in; when detecting that all A/D samplings are completed, the master NPI plug-in transmits data packets to protection CPU plug-in. The device includes an MMI plug-in, a protection CPU plug-in, a master NPI plug-in and a collection plug-in. Protection maloperation is thereby reduced.
US09985423B2	Wire harness and method for producing wire harness An objective is to achieve a configuration for mounting a wire harness in a vehicle to protect the wire harness and regulate a path in a simpler manner with fewer components. A wire harness has a wire harness main body including at least one wire, and a protection member protecting the wire harness main body. The protection member includes an inner peripheral protection portion formed by hot-pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness main body and an outer peripheral protection portion formed by hot-pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the inner peripheral protection portion in an extending direction.
US09985422B2	Universal pole mounting assembly for mounting an enclosure to a pole Universal pole mounting assemblies and kits for mounting enclosures, such as electrical enclosures, to poles, such as utility poles is provided. Each pole mounting assembly includes a pair of arms, a mounting member and a pole mounting member. The pair of arms can be adjusted to fit the width of an enclosure to use existing mounting holes in the enclosure. The mounting member can be secured to the arms and can mate with the pole mounting member either after the pole mounting member is secured to a pole or before the pole mounting member is secured to a pole.
US09985420B2	Discharge device A discharge device capable of maintaining a stable discharge performance even in a highly humid environment or an atmospheric environment containing salt includes a discharge electrode discharging when a voltage is applied thereto, a substrate supporting the discharge electrode, an induction electrode arranged apart from the discharge electrode, and an insulator enclosing all of the substrate and the induction electrode. The discharge electrode has a root portion supported by the substrate, a pointed end protruding from a surface of the insulator, and a taper portion tapering from the root portion toward the pointed end. An outer peripheral surface of the root portion is made of a material having an ionization tendency lower than that of hydrogen.
US09985418B1	Spark plug A cylindrical metal shell extending in an axis direction has a seat portion projecting radially outward, and an annular gasket is disposed so as to oppose a front end surface of the seat portion. A value G/S obtained by dividing an arithmetic average roughness G of a first surface, of the gasket, which comes into contact with the front end surface of the seat portion by an arithmetic average roughness S of the front end surface of the seat portion satisfies 0.5≤G/S≤2.0. The arithmetic average roughness G is not more than 0.16 μm, and an average of an area of a second surface on a back side of the first surface and an area of the first surface is not more than 280 mm2.
US09985417B1	Narrow sized laser diode Gallium and nitrogen containing optical devices operable as laser diodes are disclosed. The devices include a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member, which may be semipolar or non-polar. The devices include a chip formed from the gallium and nitrogen substrate member. The chip has a width and a length. The devices have a cavity oriented substantially parallel to the length of the chip, a dimension of less than 120 microns characterizing the width of the chip, and a pair of etched facets configured on the cavity of the chip. The pair of etched facets includes a first facet configured at a first end of the cavity and a second facet configured at a second end of the cavity.
US09985414B1	Open-loop laser power-regulation Apparatus and associated methods relate to an open-loop control circuit (OLCC) configured to determine a lasing element drive current as a function of a commanded optical power signal and a measured temperature signal, where the absolute value of the second derivative of the optical output power with respect to laser drive current exceeds a predetermined threshold. In an illustrative example, the absolute value of the second derivative may exceed the predetermined threshold in a non-linear operating region of the laser element. The non-linear operating region may represent, for example, a characteristic output power vs. drive current curve of the lasing element. The OLCC may provide laser peak power control for arbitrary peak power, within linear and non-linear regions of laser efficiency. In some embodiments, the OLCC may substantially improve control over laser optical output power over a wide dynamic range of, for example, temperature associated with the lasing element.
US09985411B2	Light-emitting device and package for light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a base body; light-emitting elements mounted on an upper surface of the base body; a frame body bonded to the upper surface of the base body, the frame body including inner lateral surfaces, outer lateral surfaces, and first through-holes that extend through the frame body in a lateral direction; lead terminals that extend through the first through-holes, and each of which is electrically connected to the light-emitting elements; a cover bonded to the frame body; plate bodies bonded to an outer lateral surface or inner lateral surface of the frame body, each of the plate bodies having one or more second through-holes, wherein each of the lead terminals extends through a respective through-hole; and fixing members, each of which is disposed in a second through-hole and fixes a respective one of the one or more lead terminals.
US09985407B2	Fiber laser apparatus and method of detecting failure of fiber laser apparatus To provide a fiber laser apparatus capable of detecting a failure of an optical fiber within a wide range of the apparatus with an inexpensive configuration. The fiber laser apparatus 100 has a plurality of fiber laser units 110, a combiner 120 operable to optically combine output laser beams outputted from the fiber laser unit 110 to generate a combined laser beam, a laser emission portion 130 operable to emit the combined laser beam, output laser beam power detection parts 170 operable to detect a power of an output laser beam of each of the fiber laser units 110, a combined laser beam power detection part 140 operable to detect a power of the combined laser beam, and a failure detection part 160 operable to compare the total of detected powers of the output laser beams (total laser beam power) with the detected power of the combined laser beam and determine that a failure has occurred in the fiber laser unit 110 when a ratio of the power of the combined laser beam to the total laser beam power becomes lower than a predetermined threshold T.
US09985404B2	Method for producing a cable end crimp connection A method for producing a crimp connection includes initially guiding a cable end of a cable with a gripper to a crimping press. For this feed movement the gripper is moved by an actuator in an axial direction along the cable axis. The cable end is thereafter connected with a crimp contact. During the crimping process the gripper is, for compensation for length extension of the cable during crimping, moved along the cable axis in a return movement in an opposite direction to the feed movement.
US09985403B1	Power connector assembly for a communication system A power connector assembly includes a power rail having a power supply circuit being configured to be mounted within an equipment cabinet and a sliding power connector configured to be terminated to a host circuit board. The sliding power connector has a power contact electrically connected to the power supply circuit of the power rail. The sliding power connector is configured to be slid along the power rail as an equipment rack holding the circuit board is opened and closed during an extension cycle of the equipment rack. The power contact maintains electrical connection with the power rail during the entire extension cycle.
US09985402B2	Hydroplaning reducing slip ring apparatus A slip ring apparatus including a ring assembly having a conductive ring with a conductive ring engagement surface, a contact assembly having a contact element with a contact element engagement surface for engaging with the conductive ring engagement surface, and a surface discontinuity provided in at least one of the conductive ring engagement surface and the contact element engagement surface. An apparatus including the slip ring apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a housing having an interior and a shaft rotatably extending through the interior of the housing. A method for reducing the potential of a hydroplaning effect in a slip ring apparatus, including providing a surface discontinuity in at least one of a conductive ring engagement surface and a contact element engagement surface.
US09985399B2	Accessory shoe device to which accessory is attached, image pickup apparatus, and accessory An accessory shoe device enabling multi-polarization of a connector for connection to an accessory without degrading the versatility thereof. The accessory is attached to an engagement member. A signal terminal connector has contacts arranged in a lateral direction orthogonal to an attaching direction. A pair of first engagement portions in the engagement member are spaced by a first width in the lateral direction, and a pair of second engagement portions in the engagement member are spaced by a second width larger than the first width. The signal terminal connector is disposed forward of the first engagement portions in the attaching direction. A length of the signal terminal connector in the lateral direction is larger than the first width and smaller than the second width. The second engagement portions are formed rearward of the first engagement portions in the attaching direction.
US09985397B2	Plug-in power supply with interchangeable mains plug units A plug-in power supply for supplying a consumer with a low voltage and a plug-in power supply which in operation is configured as a power adapter unit with one of its matching interchangeable mains plug units. The power adapter unit comprises a housing; a voltage transformer module for converting a mains voltage into the required low voltage in the housing; an engaging seat, for the plug unit, at an inner side of the power adapter unit to be directed towards a mains socket, the plug unit being slidably connected with the engaging seat; at least two electric contacts in the seat connecting the transformer module with contacts at an inner side of the plug unit directed towards the power adapter unit; and a locking member, at a rear profile of the engaging seat which limits the sliding of the plug unit. The plug unit comprises at least two mains plug pins, extending from an outer side of the plug unit and connected to the contacts at the inner side of the plug unit; safety recesses, for said contacts at the inner side of the plug unit; and a locking structure, comprising a button, for interacting with the locking member so that pressing on the button releases the structure and allows sliding of the plug unit from the engaging seat.
US09985395B2	Medical cable connector for a medical lead providing an electrical receptacle that is movable relative to an outer body A medical cable connector of a medical cable receives a medical lead while an electrical receptacle within the medical cable connector is placed into a distal position relative to an outer body of the medical cable connector. The electrical receptacle is retracted to a proximal position once insertion of the medical lead into the medical cable connector is completed. The electrical receptacle may be mounted to an inner body which moves relative to the outer body. A biasing member may be present to bias the inner body to a particular position. A slider may be present to provide a clinician with a surface to touch when applying force to position the electrical receptacle in the distal position for insertion of the medical lead. Various other features may be present to facilitate insertion of the medical lead and/or to maintain the position of the electrical receptacle relative to the outer body.
US09985392B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector has an insulating body which comprises a housing and a tongue; a plurality of conductive terminals, each conductive terminal has a mating portion and a soldering portion; a metal inner shell which surrounds to form a first frame, the first frame is fixed on the insulating body and surrounds a rear portion of the tongue to form a mating cavity; a metal outer shell which surrounds to form a second frame, the second frame encircles an outside of the first frame, a plurality of soldering legs extend out from two sides of the metal outer shell; and an insulating outer shell which is engaged with the metal outer shell integrally, a rear portion of the insulating outer shell is formed with a receiving cavity; the metal inner shell is correspondingly inserted in the receiving cavity, the insulating outer shell surrounds a front portion of the tongue and forms an insertion opening, the insertion opening is integrally communicated with the mating cavity along a front-rear direction. The present disclosure can increase the overall structure strength and facilitate the smooth insertion of another mating connector.
US09985387B2	Portable device comprising an electrical cable A portable device has an electric motor connected to a housing with a female electrical socket, an electrical power cable with a male plug and an electrical safety device. The safety device has a first element borne by the male plug and a second element located within the housing. The second element has a locking element to lock an activation element for activating the motor in a deactivated position. The first element of the male plug is configured to engage with the locking element to free the activation element to activate the motor.
US09985386B1	Junction box assembly with internal power connecting feature A junction box assembly configured to shield the eyelet terminal includes a power distribution box and a bottom housing. A bottom housing is configured to mate with an undersurface of the power distribution box. The eyelet terminal is disposed within the bottom housing. A first connection housing is disposed in the bottom housing. The first connection housing is configured to house a first bus bar having a female connector. The first bus bar is electrically connected to the eyelet terminal. A second connection housing is disposed on an undersurface of the power distribution box. A second bus bar is mounted within an inner space of the power distribution box and a connecting portion of the second bus bar is disposed within the second connection housing. The first connection housing engages the second connection housing within the bottom housing so as provide a shielded.
US09985381B2	Waterproof electrical connector having a seal movable to cover a seal and having a cable recess A housing assembly for a waterproof connector includes a housing, a sealing device, and a protective cover. The housing has a sealing chamber receiving a seal. The sealing device is movable to cover the seal in the sealing chamber. The protective cover covers the seal and the sealing device.
US09985380B2	Connector and position assurance member received therein A connector is disclosed. The connector comprises a cap having a first cable inserting hole, a coupling space recessed in the cap communicating with the first cable inserting hole, and a housing body including a housing lock. The connector also comprises a position assuring member received in the coupling space and fastened to the housing lock.
US09985379B2	Electrical connector and the method of making the same An electrical connector (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a cover (50) and a plurality of terminals (32) retained in the insulative housing (1). The insulative housing (1) includes a base (10), the base (10) defines a first region (13) disposed on the lower surface thereof. The electrical connector (100) further comprises a body portion (40) injection molded on the first region (13). The body portion (40) is disposed between the insulative housing (1) and the cover (50) and defining at least one spot-welded portion (43). The cover (50) is spot-welded on the spot-welded portion (43) of body portion (40) so as to cover the insulative housing (1).
US09985376B2	Connection member and connection assembly The invention discloses a connection member and a connection assembly. The connection assembly includes a housing and the connection member. The connection member is inserted in an accommodation chamber of the housing. The connection member includes a support body, a current conduction bar, and a protruding contact portion. The support body is defined by a surface and end portions. The current conduction bar is connected to the end portions of the support body, and the current conduction bar is used to transmit a current. The protruding contact portion is disposed on the surface of the support body in a protruding manner, and is used to be urged against the housing with which the connection member engages. The connection member of the present invention is capable of connecting to the housing via the protruding contact portion.
US09985370B2	Connector which is configured to electrically connect a flat cable to a circuit board A connector includes a housing, terminals and a lock member. The housing has an insertion slot for inserting a flat cable having an engaging protruding portion projecting outward in the transverse direction. The terminals are mounted in the housing for establishing an electrical connection with conductive wires in the flat cable. The lock member is mounted on the housing for locking a flat cable inserted into the insertion slot. The lock member includes a spring member having a free end vertically displaceable with respect to the housing and an engaging protrusion connected to the free end of the spring member. The engaging protrusion has an inclined edge portion formed in the front in the insertion direction of the flat cable. The inclined edge portion is inclined relative to the insertion direction of the flat cable when viewed from above.
US09985368B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals. The terminals are respectively provided in grooves of the housing. Each terminal has a portion fixed to the housing, an upper elastic portion extending from a top end of the fixed portion and a lower elastic portion extending from a bottom end of the fixed portion. The upper portion has a first arm extending from the fixed portion, a first contact section extending from the first arm, extending out of a top surface of the housing and bending, and a second arm extending from the first section, and a distal end of the second arm abuts against abutted structures in the corresponding groove when the first section is pressed down.
US09985367B2	High speed bypass cable for use with backplanes A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high frequency transmission line that connect a chip package on a circuit board to connector spaced apart from the chip package. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that allows for low loss between the chip package and the connector. Multiple cables can be used to provide a number of differentially coupled channels.
US09985365B2	Connector having partition plate with an elastic hook A connector is disclosed. The connector comprises a case having a top case and a bottom case and a partition plate disposed between the top case and the bottom case separating an inside space of the case into a plurality of receiving chambers. The bottom case has a first slot. The partition plate has a first side edge facing the bottom case and a first elastic hook formed on the first side edge. The first elastic hook is inserted into and elastically engages the first slot to connect the partition plate to the bottom case.
US09985363B2	Electrical connectors with low passive intermodulation This disclosure relates to electrical connectors that exhibit low passive intermodulation. A conductive shielding layer of a coaxial cable can be coupled to a ground plane. The ground plane can include an extruded hole that includes a side wall that is integrally formed with the body of the ground plane. The conductive shielding layer can be soldered to the inside surface of the side wall of the extruded hole in the ground plane.
US09985358B2	Electrical connector with short length along mating direction An electrical cable connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals disposed in the housing, a mating cavity formed in the housing and forwardly communicating with an exterior. The terminal includes a front contacting section and a rear connecting section with an extension section therebewteen in a front-to-back direction. The front contacting section is exposed in the mating cavity, and the rear connecting section includes a soldering region and a pair of securing structure formed on two sides of the soldering region and secured to the housing for retaining the terminal in position with regard to the housing.
US09985357B2	Staggered network based transmit/receive switch with antenna polarization diversity A system and apparatus is provided to reduce signal routing, area and signal loss in double-pole, double-throw (DPDT) switch implementations in wireless and millimeter-wave front ends. A staggered arrangement of receivers, transmitters and antenna ports connecting with DPDT switches reduce signal cross-over and allow for compact, low-loss multi-antenna configurations.
US09985354B2	Array apparatus comprising a dielectric resonator array disposed on a ground layer and individually fed by corresponding signal lines, thereby providing a corresponding magnetic dipole vector An array apparatus includes a plurality of spaced apart dielectric resonators, and a plurality of spaced apart signal lines disposed in one-to-one relationship with respective ones of the plurality of resonators. Each one of the respective ones of the plurality of signal lines is disposed in off-axis electrical signal communication with a first portion of the respective ones of the plurality of resonators.
US09985353B1	Antenna system for metallized devices An embedded antenna system is described for use with metallized enclosures and housings used with wireless communication devices. One or multiple radiators are coupled to a metal cover, with ground points established on the metal cover to improve radiation efficiency and control the frequency response of the antenna system. Dynamic tuning methods are described wherein detuning of the antenna system from sources such as body-loading are compensated by adjusting impedance properties of the combination of radiator and metallized cover.
US09985351B2	Multi-band antenna and electronic device for supporting the same A multi-band antenna is provided. The multi-band antenna includes a plurality of radiator patterns that are configured to operate according to different frequency bands, a plurality of feeding units that are respectively connected to different contact points of the antenna radiator for connecting feeding units of the plurality of feeding units to at least one radiator pattern included in the plurality of radiator patterns, and a switching unit configured to switch between feeding units of the plurality of feeding units for connecting at least one radiator pattern included in the plurality of radiator patterns to the switched feeding unit.
US09985349B1	Multi-band LTE antenna A surface-mounted multi-band LTE antenna that covers the frequency band of 698-960 MHz (LTE 700/800/900 bands) and 2400-2500 GHz (WLAN 2.4G band) is disclosed herein. The antenna preferably has high gain and high radiation efficiency, and is used for a variety of wireless communication devices applications. The surface-mounted multi-band LTE antenna has compact size, wide bandwidth, good return loss, high gain and high radiation efficiency, and no matching circuit is needed.
US09985348B2	Controlled reception pattern antenna Disclosed herein is a controlled reception pattern antenna that prevents the degradation of anti-jamming performance in a compact array antenna by increasing the antenna gain at a low elevation angle. The proposed antenna includes a radiator for receiving a satellite signal, a ground platform in which the radiator is arranged, and a radiating slot formed in the ground platform. By simply forming a radiating slot in the ground platform, antenna gain may be increased at a low elevation angle. Therefore, it is possible to maintain anti-jamming performance and to reduce the size of the array antenna.
US09985347B2	Broad band radome for microwave antenna A radome for an antenna is provided as a composite of an isotropic outer layer and a structural layer of foamed polymer material. The composite is dimensioned to enclose an open end of the antenna. The radome may be retained upon the antenna by a retaining element and fasteners. The outer layer may be a polymer material with a water resistant characteristic. The structural layer may project inward and/or outward with respect to a plane of the seating surface of the radome.
US09985346B2	Wireless communications package with integrated antennas and air cavity Antenna package structures are provided to implement wireless communications packages. For example, an antenna package includes a package carrier and a package cover. The package carrier includes an antenna ground plane and an antenna feed line. The package cover includes a planar lid having a planar antenna element formed on a first surface of the planar lid. The package cover is bonded to a first surface of the package carrier with the first surface of the planar lid facing the first surface of the package carrier, and with the planar antenna element aligned to the antenna ground plane and the antenna feed line of the package carrier, wherein the first surface of the planar lid is disposed at a distance from the first surface of the package carrier to provide an air space between the planar antenna element and the package carrier.
US09985345B2	Methods for electrically isolating areas of a metal body Unitary structures having conductive portions electrically separated by non-conductive portions are described. In some embodiments, the non-conductive portions are made of metal oxide. In some embodiments, the method involves an oxidizing process adapted to convert an entire thickness at a selected portion of a metal substrate to a metal oxide, thereby creating metal portions that are electrically isolated from one another. In some embodiments, the thickness of the metal substrate is reduced at certain regions prior to oxidizing in order to provide a sufficiently thin metal for complete oxidization through the entire thickness. In some embodiments, the oxidizing process involves a plasma electrolytic oxidation process. In some embodiments, the plasma is concentrated at certain regions of the substrate for preferential oxidation. Applications for the substrate include enclosures and electrical components for electronic devices that use radio frequency communication.
US09985344B2	Electronic article and process of producing an electronic article Electronic articles, antennae, and processes of producing electronic articles are disclosed. The electronic article includes a rigid substrate having a non-planar region and a sintered conductive ink positioned on the non-planar region. The antenna is a specific type of electronic article covered by the disclosure. Additionally or alternatively, the antenna has a light transmission of at least 85%. The process includes positioning a substrate having a non-planar region, applying a conductive ink to the non-planar region, and sintering the conductive ink on the non-planar region thereby producing the sintered conductive ink on the electronic article and/or producing an antenna having a light transmission of at least 80%.
US09985342B2	Antenna mounting unit for vehicle A roof antenna mounting unit for a vehicle is provided. The roof antenna mounting unit is mounted in a mounting aperture formed in a roof of a vehicle and fixes an antenna. The mounting unit includes a fastening member having a molding portion and a fastening portion that is inserted into the mounting aperture. An upper cover is integrally coupled to the fastening member by injection molding to surround an outer circumferential surface of the molding portion and is disposed at an upper side extraneous to the roof. A sealing member is interposed between the roof and the upper cover and a fixing nut is mounted on the fastening portion inserted into the mounting aperture at a lower side in the roof.
US09985338B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal, including metal back cover including metal cover plate, first and second metal frames respectively arranged at two opposite sides thereof for forming first gap, first metal frame comprising first, second and third radiating portions; antenna module fixed on metal back cover close to first metal frame, antenna module comprising system ground connected with metal cover plate, and antenna circuit board connected with system ground and first metal frame, antenna circuit board including grounding, feeding, matching circuit and tuner; grounding circuit comprises grounding point and grounding pin and going across first gap; the feeding circuit comprises feeding point and feeding pin and going across first gap; first, second and third radiating portions are configured that when tuning in middle-high frequency, first and second radiating portions serve as radiator of antenna module, and when tuning in low frequency, second and third radiating portions serve as radiator.
US09985337B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal comprises: a terminal body; and a first antenna device and a second antenna device disposed at one side of the terminal body in an adjacent manner, and formed to operate at different frequency bands, wherein the first antenna device and the second antenna device are provided with conductive members each having a slit at one side thereof, and wherein the conductive members form part of an appearance of the terminal body.
US09985335B2	Methods and apparatus for backside integrated circuit high frequency signal radiation, reception and interconnects In an example arrangement an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side surface including circuitry and a backside surface opposing the front side surface; a plurality of metal conductors formed over a front side surface of the semiconductor substrate; at least one cavity opening etched in a backside surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a radiator formed in a portion of the metal conductors and configured to radiate signals through the cavity opening in the backside surface. Methods and additional apparatus arrangements are also disclosed.
US09985334B2	Antenna mandrel with multiple antennas Antennas and antenna mandrels or assemblies may be designed and configured to enable one of one- or two-way communication and/or power transfer with mechanical devices such as ophthalmic devices, including contact lenses. These antennas and antenna mandrels or assemblies may be utilized to transmit data from the mechanical devices to receive data from a transmitter, and/or inductively charge an electromechanical cell or the like incorporated into a mechanical device.
US09985328B2	Management of the operation of a system for producing electric power from hydrogen and hydrogen from electric power A method for producing electric power from hydrogen and hydrogen from electric power, comprising: a reversible electric power-hydrogen conversion stage comprising a fuel cell stack to produce electric power from stored hydrogen and an electrolytic cell stack to produce hydrogen from electric power; a hydrogen pressure modification stage to modify the pressure of hydrogen supplied to or produced from the reversible electric power-hydrogen conversion stage; an electric power management and conditioning stage to condition electric power from/to the reversible electric power-hydrogen conversion stage; and a management stage to differentially manage the operation of the reversible electric power-hydrogen conversion stage, the hydrogen pressure modification stage and the electric power management and conditioning stage according to whether the system produces electric power from hydrogen or hydrogen from electric power and on a user-settable operation management strategy.
US09985323B2	Portable computer battery indicator A portable computer may include battery indicator light structures. Battery status information in the portable computer may be presented to a user using an array of light-emitting diodes or other light emitters. Light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a printed circuit board. A stiffener may provide the printed circuit board with rigidity. The printed circuit board may include a connector that allows the board to be connected to a main logic board. A switch on the printed circuit board may be actuated by a power button on the portable computer. An opaque member with an array of holes may be used to reduce light bleed between adjacent light-emitting diodes. Diffusing plastic may be mounted within the array of holes. Bumps in the diffusing plastic may mate with corresponding holes on a portable computer housing.
US09985322B2	Battery clamping device, battery heating device, battery drying device, battery cooling device and method for manufacturing battery A battery clamping device includes: interposition member configured to be interposed between rectangular parallelepiped batteries such that interposition member is stacked with a plurality of the batteries alternately; clamping portion configured to clamp by pressing the stacked batteries and interposition member in a stacking direction of the batteries and the interposition member from outside in the stacking direction.
US09985315B1	Hydrothermal carbon anode, polymer stabilized, sodium-ion cell An electrical power cell includes a cathode capable of accepting sodium ions, an anode comprising one or more hydrothermal carbon (HTC) nano-structures, and an electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode, the electrolyte comprising a solid electrolyte inter-phase (SEI) inhibitor.
US09985314B2	All-solid battery and method for manufacturing the same A method is provided for preparing an all-solid battery that at least includes a negative electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode current collector containing a metal that is in contact with the negative electrode layer and can react with the sulfide solid electrolyte, in which a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the metal contained in the negative electrode current collector and the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the negative electrode layer is not present in a contact portion of the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector.
US09985312B1	Non-aqueous electrolytic solution, secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic apparatus A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and non-aqueous electrolytic solution including a cyclic ether compound that includes a skeleton and one or more substituent groups introduced into the skeleton. The skeleton includes one or more four-or-more-membered oxygen-containing rings. The one or more substituent groups each are a monovalent group represented by Formula (1). —X—O—R (1) (X is one of a divalent chain saturated hydrocarbon group, a halide group thereof, and nothing. R is one of a monovalent chain saturated hydrocarbon group, etc. At least one of one or more Rs includes one or more of the monovalent chain unsaturated hydrocarbon group, the monovalent cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, the monovalent oxygen-containing cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, the halide group thereof, and the monovalent group obtained by bonding two or more thereof, and includes a carbon-carbon multiple bond (one of —C═C— and —C≡C—) bonded to an ether bond (—O—).)
US09985308B2	Controlled hydrogen production from hydrolysable hydride gels Today, energy requiring equipment commonly relies on batteries for power. The excessive weight and size of batteries severely limits their performance. Described herein is a lightweight portable energy system which includes an ultra-high capacity hydrolysable hydride gel cartridge for use in supplying hydrogen gas to hydrogen based energy generators. Hydrolysable hydride reactivity is controlled by tuning the amounts of hydrophilic and hydrophobic content in a polymer gel encapsulant of the cartridge.
US09985306B2	Hydrogen-generating fuel cell cartridges The present application is directed to a gas-generating apparatus (10). Hydrogen is generated within the gas-generating apparatus and is transported to a fuel cell. The generation of hydrogen is regulated automatically by the selective exposure of a catalyst (48) to the fuel mixture depending on the pressure inside the reaction chamber (28) of the gas-generating apparatus. Catalyst sealing mechanisms (40, 42) are provided at least partially within the reaction chamber to regulate the hydrogen pressure and to minimize the fluctuations in pressure of the hydrogen received by the fuel cell.
US09985305B2	Output control apparatus for fuel cell The object of the present invention is to balance: the suppression of deterioration of a fuel cell and degradation of its durability and the optimization of the output control of the fuel cell. The present invention provides an output control apparatus for a fuel cell, being capable of switching a control mode between a power control mode in which an output power of a fuel cell connected to a load is controlled so as to be at a target power and a voltage control mode in which an output voltage of the fuel cell is controlled so as to be at a target voltage, wherein a control in the voltage control mode is performed when the output voltage of the fuel cell decreases below a predetermined low voltage threshold value.
US09985295B2	Solid oxide fuel cell structures, and related compositions and processes A solid oxide fuel cell is disclosed. The fuel cell includes a porous anode, formed of finely-dispersed nickel/stabilized-zirconia powder particles. The particles have an average diameter of less than about 300 nanometers. They are also characterized by a tri-phase length of greater than about 50 μm/μm3. A solid oxide fuel cell stack is also described, along with a method of forming an anode for a solid oxide fuel cell. The method includes the step of using a spray-agglomerated, nickel oxide/stabilized-zirconia powder to form the anode.
US09985284B2	Forming sulfur-based positive electrode active materials In an example of a method for making a sulfur-based positive electrode active material, a carbon layer is formed on a sacrificial nanomaterial. The carbon layer is coated with titanium dioxide to form a titanium dioxide layer. The sacrificial nanomaterial is removed to form a hollow material including a hollow core surrounded by a carbon and titanium dioxide double shell. Sulfur is impregnated into the hollow core.
US09985269B2	Highly heat-resistant film for electrode terminals Disclosed is a highly heat-resistant film for electrode terminals. The heat-resistant film includes a polymer layer as a central substrate to be sealably interposed between a pouch and electrode terminals. The polymer layer is formed of a mixture of (a) at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-norbornene copolymer and a polymethylpentene with (b) a polypropylene resin. Preferably, the polypropylene resin is highly heat resistant and the mixture has a weight ratio of 1.9 to 5:5. The heat-resistant film simultaneously meets requirements in terms of thermal adhesiveness and high temperature dimensional stability, which are contradictory to each other in conventional films for electrode terminals of secondary batteries. In addition, the heat-resistant film has enhanced electrolyte resistance to improve the durability of a secondary battery.
US09985267B2	Bus bar attachment to battery terminals An assembly connecting a battery bus bar to battery cell terminals, with the bus bar provided with spring clips. The clips fit over the battery terminals and hold the bus bar and terminals in contact, with welding attaching the clip to the terminals.
US09985265B2	Flexible ribs of a bus bar carrier The present disclosure includes a battery module having a housing with a cell receptacle region defined by walls of the housing and configured to enable passage of electrochemical cells therethrough. The battery module also includes a bus bar carrier sealed in the cell receptacle region. The bus bar carrier includes a perimeter having flexible ribs extending along at least a majority of the perimeter and configured to enable intimate contact between the walls of the housing and the perimeter of the bus bar carrier.
US09985263B2	Polylactam coated separator membranes for lithium ion secondary batteries and related coating formulations The present invention is preferably directed to a polylactam ceramic coating for a microporous battery separator for a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of making this formulation and application of this formulation to make a coated microporous battery separator. The preferred inventive coating has excellent thermal and chemical stability, excellent adhesion to microporous base substrate, membrane, and/or electrode, improved binding properties to ceramic particles and/or has improved or excellent resistance to thermal shrinkage, dimensional integrity, and/or oxidation stability when used in a rechargeable lithium ion battery.
US09985262B2	Battery A battery capable of improving the energy density and improving the battery characteristics such as cycle characteristics and high temperature storage characteristics. A cathode and an anode are oppositely arranged with a separator in between. The open circuit voltage in full charge is in the range from 4.25 V to 6.00 V. The separator has a base material layer and a surface layer. The surface layer opposed to the cathode is formed from at least one from the group consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride, polytetrafluoroethylene, polypropylene, and aramid.
US09985261B2	Separator for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A separator according to the present disclosure includes cellulose fibers and fluororesin particles.
US09985256B2	Energy storage apparatus, method for manufacturing the same and method for manufacturing adjacent member for energy storage apparatus Provided is an energy storage apparatus including an energy storage device, an opposedly facing member which opposedly faces the energy storage device in a first direction, and an adjacent member which includes a body portion disposed adjacently to the energy storage device in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and containing a connection portion partially connected to the opposedly facing member at an end portion of the body portion in the first direction. The body portion of the adjacent member contains a cavity portion which opens at an end portion of the body portion in a direction orthogonal to the second direction and extends in the direction orthogonal to the second direction.
US09985255B2	Battery encasement for implantable devices Various embodiments of a battery assembly include a first housing shell, a second housing shell, an insulator and battery components. The first housing shell has a first perimeter side wall, a first housing bottom, and a first contact area on the first housing bottom. The second housing shell has a second perimeter side wall, a second housing bottom, and a second contact area on the second housing bottom. The second housing shell is disposed in the first housing shell with the second contact area opposing the first contact area. The insulator is interposed between the first housing shell and the second housing shell to effect electrical insulation between the first housing shell and the second housing shell. The battery components include an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a separator interposed between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The separator contains an electrolyte.
US09985247B2	Luminous module with flexible organic light-emitting diode The invention relates to a flexible organic light-emitting diode. The diode includes at least one curved part, of which at least one portion is covered with a layer of varnish.
US09985242B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same Provided are an organic light-emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate; an organic light-emitting device provided on the first substrate and including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an intermediate layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second substrate covering the organic light-emitting device and disposed to face the first substrate; and a sealant bonding the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least a portion of the sealant is a intermixing region which is formed as an inorganic material permeates an organic material.
US09985241B2	Electro-optical apparatus and electronic device An electro-optical apparatus includes an element substrate which includes a display region in which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a matrix form, and a terminal region in which mounting terminals are arranged outside the display region; a sealing film which seals the plurality of light emitting elements; and a sealing substrate which is arranged on the element substrate via the sealing film, in which a distance between the sealing substrate and the mounting terminal is equal to or longer than a thickness dimension of the sealing substrate when seen from a surface normal direction of the element substrate.
US09985240B2	Sealing material and sealing method using the same A sealing material is formed of a glass ribbon having a thickness of 1 to 100 μm. The sealing material has both surfaces and side surfaces formed into fire-polished surfaces.
US09985235B2	Organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting diode display including the same An organic light emitting diode according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron injection layer between the second electrode and the emission layer. The electron injection layer includes a first halogen dipole material based on a transition or post-transition metal I, and a second halogen dipole material based on a metal having a work function of 4.0 eV or less.
US09985233B2	Light-emitting element having a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.
US09985231B2	Compositionally graded bulk heterojunction devices and methods of manufacturing the same Systems and methods are described to form compositionally graded BHJ structures utilizing solvent-fluxing techniques. In implementations, the systems and methods described herein involve a high boiling point additive, a solution of a polymer donor and an acceptor, a substrate material, a working solvent, and a flux solvent for formation of compositionally graded BHJ structures.
US09985230B2	Fluorine-modification process and applications thereof The present invention is related to a process for reducing surface energy of a hole transport layer. The disclosed process comprises providing a hole transport layer; and providing a fluorine-containing layer directly on said hole transport layer. The configuration of said fluorine-containing layer reduces the structural disorder of an active layer and is able to recover a moisture-degraded hole transport layer, and thereby improves the performance of an electric device containing the same.
US09985223B2	Iridium organometallic complexes comprising 4-arylpyrimidines Provided is a novel substance that can emit phosphorescence. Alternatively, provided is a novel substance with high emission efficiency. An organometallic complex in which a 4-arylpyrimidine derivative is a ligand and iridium is a central metal is provided. Specifically, an organometallic complex having a structure represented by a general formula (G1) is provided. In the general formula (G1), R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 represents any of hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, R3 represents hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms.
US09985222B2	Organic compound, and organic thin film and electronic device An organic compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic thin film, an organic thin film transistor, and an electronic device include the organic compound.
US09985221B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, lighting device, and organic compound To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV.
US09985218B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device A light-emitting element with low drive voltage, a light-emitting element with high current efficiency, and/or a light-emitting element with a long lifetime are/is provided. Specifically, a light-emitting element with low drive voltage, a light-emitting element with high current efficiency, and/or a light-emitting element with a long lifetime are/is provided by the use of an organic compound with a dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline skeleton in a light-emitting layer. In a light-emitting element which includes a light-emitting layer containing an organic compound between a pair of electrodes, the organic compound has a 2,3-unsubstituted dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline skeleton, a hole-transport skeleton selected from a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophene skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuran skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted carbazole skeleton, and an arylene skeleton, and the 2,3-unsubstituted dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline skeleton and the hole-transport skeleton are bonded through the arylene skeleton.
US09985215B2	Light-emitting material, and organic light-emitting element The compound represented by the following general formula is useful as a light-emitting material for an organic light-emitting device. Z1, Z2 and Z3 in the following general formula each independently represent a substituent.
US09985214B2	Monoamine compound, charge transport material, composition for charge transport film, organic electroluminescent element, organic EL display, and organic EL lighting A monoamine compound characterized by being represented by the following general formula (1). [In general formula (1), R1 to R3 each independently represent a phenyl group which may have a substituent in at least one of o- and m-positions, in which the substituent may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure. R1 to R3 are a group different from each other.]
US09985213B2	Compound, material for organic electroluminescence element, organic electroluminescence element, and electronic apparatus A compound is represented by a formula (1) below.In the formula (1), n is 1 or 2. Ar1 is represented by a formula (2) below. Ar2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 1 to 20 ring atoms. Ar3 is represented by a formula (3) below.
US09985205B2	Layered cross-point semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first and second interconnect parts, and a second interconnect connection part. The first interconnect part includes a first core part, and a first interconnect layer. The first interconnect layer includes a first surrounding region and a first extended region. The second interconnect part includes a second core part, and a second interconnect layer. The second interconnect layer includes a second surrounding region and a second extended region. The second extended connection part overlaps a part of the first extended region in the third direction, overlaps the second core part in the first direction, and is electrically connected to the second core part. The second extended surrounding part is provided around the second extended connection part and contains a material contained in the first surrounding region.
US09985204B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device including first lines and second lines overlapping and intersecting each other, variable resistance memory elements disposed at intersections between the first lines and the second lines, and switching elements disposed between the variable resistance memory elements and the first lines. At least one of the switching elements includes first and second chalcogenide compound layers, and conductive nano-dots disposed between the first and second chalcogenide compound layers.
US09985199B1	Prevention of switching of spins in magnetic tunnel junctions by on-chip parasitic magnetic shield Techniques for preventing switching of spins in a magnetic tunnel junction by stray magnetic fields using a thin film magnetic shield are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a magnetic tunnel junction includes: forming a stack on a substrate, having a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier, and a second magnetic layer; etching the stack to partially pattern the magnetic tunnel junction in the stack, wherein the etching includes patterning the magnetic tunnel junction through the second magnetic layer, the tunnel barrier, and partway through the first magnetic layer; depositing a first spacer and a magnetic shield film onto the partially patterned magnetic tunnel junction; etching back the magnetic shield film and first spacer; complete etching of the magnetic tunnel junction through the first magnetic layer to form a fully patterned magnetic tunnel junction; and depositing a second spacer onto the fully patterned magnetic tunnel junction.
US09985196B2	Multi-layered film and method of manufacturing the same A multi-layered film includes an electroconductive layer made of platinum (Pt), a seed layer including lanthanum (La), nickel (Ni), and oxygen (O), and a dielectric layer being preferentially oriented in a c-axis direction, which are at least sequentially disposed on a main surface of a substrate made of silicon.
US09985195B2	Piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric vibration device, and portable terminal A piezoelectric actuator which is capable of reduction of noise resulting from vibration of a piezoelectric element, a piezoelectric vibration device, and a portable terminal are provided. A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element including a stacked body composed of internal electrodes and piezoelectric layers which are laminated, and a surface electrode disposed on one of main surfaces of the stacked body so as to be electrically connected to the internal electrodes; a flexible substrate electrically connected to the surface electrode; and a shock-absorbing material disposed on the flexible substrate. The shock-absorbing material, at least partly, is disposed on a first region of the flexible substrate which overlaps with the piezoelectric element.
US09985190B2	Formation and structure of post enhanced diodes for orientation control Embodiments are related to systems and methods for fluidic assembly, and more particularly to diodes offering orientation control properties in a fluidic assembly system.
US09985189B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a mounting substrate with a land having a first surface and a second surface higher than the first surface, a side-emission type light emitting device including an external connecting terminal disposed on the first surface, and a bonding member disposed at least on the second surface to bond the external connecting terminal and the land.
US09985186B2	Light emitting diode laminated with a phosphor sheet and manufacturing method thereof A method for laminating a film over a light emitting diode (LED), where the thickness of a portion of the film disposed over the top surface of the LED is reduced by pressing a flattening element against the top surface of the LED. The resulting form of the phosphor encapsulation allows for an improved color homogeneity.
US09985185B2	White light emitting diode with single crystal phosphor and the manner of production According to the invention, the diode with a single crystal phosphor placed over the chip selected from the InGaN, GaN or AlGaN group comprises the fact that the single crystal phosphor (21) is created from the monocrystalline ingot (51), created by LuYAG or YAP hosts, doped with the atoms selected from the Ce3+, Ti3+, Eu2+, C, Gd3+ or Ga3+ group, grown from the melt with the method selected from the Czochralski, HEM, Badgasarov, Kyropoulos or EFG group, when the Lu3+, Y3+ and Al3+ atoms can be replaced in the host up to the amount of 99.9% with the B3+, Gd3+ or Ga3+ atoms.
US09985182B2	Light-emitting apparatus and color-matching apparatus Provided is a light-emitting apparatus including a board, a resin frame fixed on the board, sets of light-emitting elements mounted in a region on the board surrounded by the resin frame, wherein the light-emitting elements configuring each set are connected in series to each other. The light-emitting apparatus further includes connection electrodes provided on the board and electrically connected to the light-emitting elements and capable of supplying a drive current selectively to the sets of light-emitting elements, and a sealing resin which includes a phosphor mixed therein and excited by light from the light-emitting elements, and is filled so as to bury the region on the board, to seal integrally the light-emitting elements. The thickness of the sealing resin immediately above the light-emitting elements differs for the respective sets, and thereby, a chromaticity of light emitted from the sealing resin differs when each set of light-emitting elements emits the light singly.
US09985181B2	Epitaxial formation support structures and associated methods Epitaxial formation support structures and associated methods of manufacturing epitaxial formation support structures and solid state lighting devices are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, a method of manufacturing an epitaxial formation support substrate can include forming an uncured support substrate that has a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and coefficient of thermal expansion substantially similar to N-type gallium nitride. The method can further include positioning the first side of the uncured support substrate on a first surface of a first reference plate and positioning a second surface of a second reference plate on the second side to form a stack. The first and second surfaces can include uniformly flat portions. The method can also include firing the stack to sinter the uncured support substrate. At least side of the support substrate can form a planar surface that is substantially uniformly flat.
US09985172B2	Light emitting device In one embodiment, a light emitting device comprises a first light emitting part including at least one light emitting cell; a second light emitting part including a plurality of light emitting cells, wherein each of the light emitting cells include a light emitting structure and a first electrode layer disposed under the light emitting structure; a plurality of pads disposed on the light emitting cell of the first light emitting part, wherein the pads are electrically connected to each of the light emitting cells of the first and second light emitting parts; a plurality of connection layers, each connection layer extending from a region under the light emitting cell of the first light emitting part to a region under the plurality of light emitting cells of the second light emitting part; a second electrode layer disposed under the light emitting cells of the first and second light emitting parts; an insulating layer disposed between the first and second electrode layers; and at least one gap part disposed between the at least one light emitting cell of the first light emitting part and the plurality of light emitting cells of the second light emitting part, wherein each of the plurality of connection layers extends through a region under the gap part and is electrically connected to each of the plurality of the light emitting cells of the second light emitting part.
US09985167B2	Methods for forming an interdigitated back contact heterojunction photovoltaic device with a floating junction front surface field A photovoltaic device includes a crystalline substrate having a first dopant conductivity, an interdigitated back contact and a front surface field structure. The front surface field structure includes a crystalline layer formed on the substrate and a noncrystalline layer formed on the crystalline layer. The crystalline layer and the noncrystalline layer are doped with dopants having an opposite dopant conductivity from that of the substrate. Methods are also disclosed.
US09985166B2	Integrated photosensitive film and thin LED display A system to configure a conductive pathway and a method of forming a system of configurable conductivity pathways include a photosensitive layer that becomes conductive based on photoexcitation, and a light source layer deposited over the photosensitive layer, the light source layer selectively providing the photoexcitation to the photosensitive layer. The system further includes a controller to control the light source layer, the controller illuminating a portion of the light source layer corresponding with a user input image to photoexcite the photosensitive layer and configure the conductive pathway in the photosensitive layer according to the image.
US09985162B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell includes a substrate containing a first impurity of a first conductivity type and made of a crystalline semiconductor, an emitter region positioned on the substrate and containing a second impurity of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, the emitter region being made of a non-crystalline semiconductor, a surface field region positioned on the substrate and containing a third impurity of the first conductivity type, the surface field region being made of non-crystalline semiconductor, a first electrode connected to the emitter region, and a second electrode connected to the surface field region, wherein at least one of the emitter region and the surface field region is made of amorphous metal silicide containing a metal material.
US09985161B2	Multijunction metamorphic solar cell for space applications A multijunction solar cell assembly and its method of manufacture including first and second discrete semiconductor body subassemblies, each semiconductor body subassembly including first, second and third lattice matched subcells; a graded interlayer adjacent to the third solar subcell and functioning as a lateral conduction layer; and a fourth solar subcell adjacent to said graded interlayer being lattice mismatched with respect to the third solar subcell; wherein the average band gap of all four cells is greater than 1.44 eV.
US09985159B2	Passivated contact formation using ion implantation Methods for forming passivated contacts include implanting compound-forming ions into a substrate to about a first depth below a surface of the substrate, and implanting dopant ions into the substrate to about a second depth below the surface. The second depth may be shallower than the first depth. The methods also include annealing the substrate.
US09985157B2	Optical energy transmission system An optical energy transmission system having an energy-emitting unit is provided. The energy-emitting unit has a laser radiation source for generating an energy-transmitting laser beam and an aiming device for aligning the energy-transmitting laser beam relative to an energy-receiving unit which includes an optical/electrical converter, which converts the energy of the energy-transmitting laser beam into electrical energy. The converter has at least one converter element having a plurality of surfaces which reflect the energy-transmitting laser beam and which are arranged relative to one another such that the impinging energy-transmitting laser beam is deflected by one of the reflective surfaces to another one of the reflective surfaces. At least some of the reflective surfaces are formed by a conversion unit which reflects one part of the impinging laser beam and absorbs the other part thereof in a photovoltaic element, and in the process converts the optical energy into electrical energy.
US09985155B2	Backsheet for photovoltaic modules A backsheet for a photovoltaic module includes a support and a primer provided on a side of the support facing a sealing layer, the primer including an acrylic resin and a crosslinking agent, characterized in that the acrylic resin is a copolymer including at least 5 wt % of an acrylate monomer unit containing a UV absorbing group and at least 2 wt % of an acrylate monomer unit containing a crosslinkable group both relative to the total weight of monomer units.
US09985154B2	Solar canopy system A solar canopy has a solar panel assembly including a first solar panel coupled to a second solar panel and oriented non-parallel with respect to the second solar panel. The solar panel assembly has an effective solar-panel-assembly wind loading less than a sum of a first-solar-panel effective wind loading and a second-solar-panel effective wind loading determined individually. An actual load applied by the solar panel assembly to a solar-panel-assembly support structure coupled thereto when the solar panel assembly is subject to a wind loading is less than a design load for the solar panel assembly subject to the wind loading based on a sum of a first-solar-panel net pressure and a second-solar-panel net pressure determined independently.
US09985152B2	Lattice matchable alloy for solar cells An alloy composition for a subcell of a solar cell is provided that has a bandgap of at least 0.9 eV, namely, Ga1-xInxNyAs1-y-zSbz with a low antimony (Sb) content and with enhanced indium (In) content and enhanced nitrogen (N) content, achieving substantial lattice matching to GaAs and Ge substrates and providing both high short circuit currents and high open circuit voltages in GaInNAsSb subcells for multijunction solar cells. The composition ranges for Ga1-xInxNyAs1-y-zSbz are 0.07≤x≤0.18, 0.025≤y≤0.04 and 0.001≤z≤0.03.
US09985150B2	Radiation detector and method of manufacturing the same A graphite substrate is processed to have surface unevenness in a range of 1 μm to 8 μm. Thereby, a semiconductor film to be laminated on the graphite substrate has a stable film quality, and thus adhesion of the graphite substrate and the semiconductor layer can be enhanced. When an electron blocking layer is interposed between the graphite substrate and the semiconductor layer, the electron blocking layer is thin and thus the surface unevenness of the graphite substrate is transferred onto the electron blocking layer. Consequently, the electron blocking layer also has surface unevenness approximately in such range. Thus, almost the same effect as a configuration in which the semiconductor layer is directly connected to the graphite substrate can be produced.
US09985143B2	Schottky diode and method of manufacturing the same A Schottky diode comprises: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer located on the substrate; a second semiconductor layer located on the first semiconductor layer, two-dimensional electron gas being formed at an interface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a cathode located on the second semiconductor layer and forming an ohmic contact with the second semiconductor layer; a first passivation dielectric layer located on the second semiconductor layer; a field plate groove formed in the first passivation dielectric layer; and an anode covering the field plate groove and a portion of the first passivation dielectric layer.
US09985142B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer, a drain region formed at a surface region of the semiconductor layer, and a source/gate region including a source region and a gate region, which are alternatively arranged so as to be electrically connected to each other. The device further includes a resistive field plate that is disposed on the semiconductor layer between the drain region and the source/gate region and spirally wound in a top view. The field plate including an innermost peripheral portion electrically connected to the drain region and an outermost peripheral portion electrically connected to ground. An outermost peripheral ground conductor film is disposed on the semiconductor layer between the outermost peripheral portion of the field plate and the source/gate region. Additionally, a second ground conductor film is disposed on the semiconductor layer between the outermost peripheral portion of the field plate and the outermost ground conductor film.
US09985140B2	Pixel array structure having doped active layer with uneven thickness and manufacturing method thereof, array substrate and display device A pixel array structure and manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method of the pixel array structure includes: forming a doped active layer over an active layer, the doped active layer having a portion with a larger thickness and a portion with a smaller thickness; forming a source/drain metal layer on the doped active layer and the active layer; conducting an etching process on the source/drain metal layer, so as to form a source electrode and a drain electrode, one of which partially covers the portion of the doped active layer with a larger thickness; conducting an etching process on the doped active layer and the active layer in a region between the source electrode and the drain electrode, forming an optimized channel. With the manufacturing method, the on-state current of a channel of a thin film transistor can be raised.
US09985133B2	Protection layer on fin of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure A fin field device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The FinFET device structure includes a substrate and a fin structure extending from the substrate. The FinFET device structure also includes an isolation structure formed on the substrate. The fin structure has a top portion and a bottom portion, and the bottom portion is embedded in the isolation structure. The FinFET device structure further includes a protection layer formed on the top portion of the fin structure. An interface is between the protection layer and the top portion of the fin structure, and the interface has a roughness in a range from about 0.1 nm to about 2.0 nm.
US09985128B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a main region, a sense region, a separation region electrically isolating the main and sense region regions includes a first semiconductor layer positioned on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of main cells disposed in the main region, and a plurality of sense cells disposed in the sense region. Source regions of the main cell become conductive with a source electrode and source regions of the sense cell become conductive with a sense electrode. The separation region includes a plurality of second conductivity type separation body regions and a barrier region and is disposed within a first semiconductor layer and is disposed to abut on the surface of the first semiconductor layer.
US09985127B2	Semiconductor device including a mesa groove and a recess groove To improve the breakdown voltage of a semiconductor device. In a terminal region of the semiconductor device, a mesa groove, a recess groove, an electric field relaxation region, and a gradient distributed low concentration p-type layer region are formed. A recess groove is fromed between a device region and the mesa groove so as to surround the device region. A region where a p-type layer is thinned by the recess groove is the electric field relaxation region. The gradient distributed low concentration p-type layer region is formed on the surface of the electric field relaxation region. The average carrier concentration of the entire gradient distributed low concentration p-type layer region is lower than the carrier concentration of the p-type layer. By forming the gradient distributed low concentration p-type layer region, the electric field relaxation region is quickly completely depleted when a reverse voltage is applied, thereby improving the breakdown voltage.
US09985126B2	Semiconductor device comprising a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode A semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a source region and a drain region disposed adjacent to a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the first gate electrode being disconnected from the second gate electrode. The transistor further includes a body region. The first gate electrode is adjacent to a first portion of the body region and the second gate electrode is adjacent to a second portion of the body region. The transistor further includes first trenches patterning the first portion of the body region into a first ridge, and second trenches patterning the second portion of the body region into a second ridge. The first gate electrode is arranged in at least one of first trenches, and the second gate electrode is arranged in at least one of the second trenches.
US09985124B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device The present invention can reduce an on-resistance while suppressing reduction in a short circuit capacity. The present invention includes a SiC epitaxial layer, a well region, a source region, a channel resistance adjusting region, a gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The channel resistance adjusting region is sandwiched between the source region and the SiC epitaxial layer in a surface layer of the well region. The channel resistance adjusting region is a region in which a first impurity region is intermittently formed in a direction intersecting a direction in which the source region and the SiC epitaxial layer sandwich the channel resistance adjusting region.
US09985122B2	Semiconductor structures A semiconductor structure comprising a substrate, a pre-metal-interconnect dielectric (PMID) layer and a composite layer is disclosed. The PMID layer is above the substrate. The composite layer is between the substrate and the PMID layer. The composite layer comprises a first sublayer and a second sublayer. The first sublayer and the second sublayer are stacked. The bandgap of the second sublayer is larger than the bandgap of the first sublayer. The etch rate of an etchant with respect to the first sublayer is lower than the etch rate of the etchant with respect to the substrate and the PMID layer. Other semiconductor structures are also disclosed.
US09985118B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor having stable electric characteristics. It is another object to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device at lower cost with high productivity. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor where a semiconductor layer having a channel formation region, a source region, and a drain region are formed using an oxide semiconductor layer, heat treatment (heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed so as to improve the purity of the oxide semiconductor layer and reduce impurities such as moisture. Moreover, the oxide semiconductor layer subjected to the heat treatment is slowly cooled under an oxygen atmosphere.
US09985117B2	Method and structure for forming dielectric isolated finFET with improved source/drain epitaxy Described herein is a FinFET device in which epitaxial layers of semiconductor material are formed in the source/drain regions on dielectrically isolated fin portions. The fin portions are located within a dielectric layer that is deposited on a semiconductor substrate. Surfaces of the fin portions are oriented in the {100} lattice plane of the crystalline material of the fin portions, providing for good epitaxial growth. Further described are methods for forming the FinFET device.
US09985113B2	Fabrication process for mitigating external resistance of a multigate device A method for fabricating a multigate device includes forming a fin on a substrate of the multigate device, the fin being formed of a semiconductor material, growing a first conformal epitaxial layer directly on the fin and substrate, wherein the first conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, growing a second conformal epitaxial layer directly on the first conformal epitaxial layer, wherein the second conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, selectively removing a portion of second epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer, selectively removing a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the fin and thereby form a trench, and forming a gate within the trench.
US09985110B2	Semiconductor process A semiconductor process is described. A silicon-phosphorus (SiP) epitaxial layer is formed serving as a source/drain (S/D) region. A crystalline metal silicide layer is formed directly on the SiP epitaxial layer and thus prevents oxidation of the SiP epitaxial layer. A contact plug is formed over the crystalline metal silicide layer.
US09985106B2	Semiconductor devices utilizing spacer structures Semiconductor devices may include a field insulating layer that is on a substrate, a gate structure that is on the substrate and separated from the field insulating layer, a first spacer structure that is on sidewalls and a lower surface of the gate structure and is separated from the field insulating layer, and a second spacer structure that is on a part of an upper surface of the field insulating layer that is overlapped by the gate structure.
US09985099B2	Semiconductor device with low band-to-band tunneling The invention includes a semiconductor device comprising an interlevel dielectric layer over a buried insulator layer over a semiconductor substrate; a source and drain in the interlevel layer; a channel between the source and drain, the channel including a first region having a first bandgap adjacent to a second region having a second bandgap, wherein the first band gap is larger than the second bandgap; and a gate over the channel.
US09985098B2	Bulb-shaped memory stack structures for direct source contact in three-dimensional memory device A etch stop semiconductor rail is formed within a source semiconductor layer. A laterally alternating stack of dielectric rails and sacrificial semiconductor rails is formed over the source semiconductor layer and the etch stop semiconductor rail. After formation of a vertically alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers, memory stack structures are formed through the vertically alternating stack and through interfaces between the sacrificial semiconductor rails and the dielectric rails. A backside trench is formed through the vertically alternating stack employing the etch stop semiconductor rail as an etch stop structure. Source strap rails providing lateral electrical contact to semiconductor channels of the memory stack structures are formed by replacement of sacrificial semiconductor rails with source strap rails.
US09985096B2	High thermal budget compatible punch through stop integration using doped glass A method of forming a punch through stop region in a fin structure is disclosed. The method may include forming a doped glass layer on a fin structure and forming a masking layer on the doped glass layer. The method may further include removing a portion of the masking layer from an active portion of the fin structure, and removing an exposed portion the doped glass layer that is present on the active portion of the fin structure. A remaining portion of the doped glass layer is present on the isolation portion of the fin structure. Dopant from the doped glass layer may then be diffused into the isolation portion of the fin structure to form the punch through stop region between the active portion of the fin structure and a supporting substrate.
US09985093B2	Trench-gate type semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor There is provided a trench-gate type semiconductor device that can prevent breakdown of a gate insulating film caused by a displacement current flowing into a protective diffusion layer at a portion of a trench underlying a gate electrode at a turn-off time and simultaneously improves a current density by narrowing a cell pitch. The semiconductor device has a gate electrode 7 embedded into a trench 5 penetrating a base region 3. The gate electrode 7 is disposed into a lattice shape in a planar view, and a protective diffusion layer 13 is formed in a drift layer 2a at the portion underlying thereof. At least one of blocks divided by the gate electrode 7 is a protective contact region 20 on which the trench 5 is entirely formed. A protective contact 21 for connecting the protective diffusion layer 13 at a bottom portion of the trench 5 and a source electrode 9 is disposed on the protective contact region 20.
US09985090B2	Semiconductor device with low lifetime region In a semiconductor device including a low lifetime region of a depth within a range on both sides sandwiching a p-n junction of a p-type semiconductor region bottom portion, the low lifetime region includes a central region that has a portion coinciding with the semiconductor region as seen from one main surface side and is selectively formed as far as the position of a contact end portion of a region of the coinciding portion with which the semiconductor region and a metal electrode are in contact, a peripheral region wherein the central region extends as far as the position of an outer peripheral end of the semiconductor region, and an expanded end portion region wherein the peripheral region extends as far as an outer peripheral end of the innermost of guard rings. Because of this, it is possible to reduce leakage current while maintaining high reverse recovery current resistance.
US09985085B2	Array substrate for narrow frame design, manufacturing method thereof and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, the array substrate comprises: a base substrate; a plurality of light emitting units disposed on the base substrate to constitute a light emitting region, a display region driving circuit electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting units; and a peripheral circuit disposed at a periphery of the display region driving circuit, at least one light emitting unit is located on the peripheral circuit, and an orthographic projection of the at least one light emitting unit on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the peripheral circuit on the base substrate have an overlapping portion there-between. The array substrate can realize a narrow frame design.
US09985084B2	Flat display device with light shielding layer A flat display device in which a semi-transparent non-display area is processed to be non-transparent for preventing a display area from being reduced and fabricating a thinner flat display device is disclosed. The flat display device includes a first substrate having a display area with a pixel matrix formed therein and a non-display area with a driving circuit for driving the pixel matrix formed therein, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with sealant, and a light shielding layer formed on the second substrate for making the non-display area non-transparent.
US09985078B2	Display panel A display panel includes a substrate, a color filter layer, a first insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a second insulating layer, a display layer, and a second conductive layer. The substrate includes a surface, wherein a first direction is perpendicular to the surface. The first insulating layer includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The second insulating layer includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion disposed between the first and second electrodes, and a third protrusion and a fourth protrusion disposed between the second and third electrodes. The second conductive layer includes a first reflection portion disposed between the first and second protrusions, and a second reflection portion disposed between the third and fourth protrusions. A first distance between the first reflection portion and the surface is different from a second distance between the second reflection portion and the surface.
US09985074B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device is introduced herein. The light-emitting device comprises a first light-generating active layer and a second light-generating active layer stacked in a vertical direction on a substrate wherein the first light-generating active layer and the second light-generating active layer emit light having substantially the same wavelength, and wherein the substrate, the first light-generating active layer, and the second light-generating active layer are formed together in a chip.
US09985072B1	CMOS image sensor with dual damascene grid design having absorption enhancement structure The present disclosure relates to an image sensor integrated chip having a grid structure that reduces crosstalk between pixel regions of an image sensor chip. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has an image sensing element arranged within a substrate. An absorption enhancement structure is disposed along the back-side of the substrate. A grid structure is arranged over the absorption enhancement structure. The grid structure defines an opening arranged over the image sensing element and extends from over the absorption enhancement structure to a location within the absorption enhancement structure. By having the grid structure extend into the absorption enhancement structure, the grid structure is able to reduce crosstalk between adjacent image sensing elements by blocking radiation reflected off of non-planar surfaces of the absorption enhancement structure from traveling to an adjacent pixel region.
US09985070B2	Active pixel sensor having a raised source/drain In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit having a device. The device has a first raised source/drain area arranged over a first source/drain region of a substrate, and a second raised source/drain area arranged over a second source/drain region of the substrate. A first gate stack has a dielectric layer positioned over the substrate and an overlying conductive layer. The first gate stack is laterally between the first raised source/drain area and the second raised source/drain area. Sidewall spacers are located over the dielectric layer and laterally between the first gate stack and the first raised source/drain area and the second raised source/drain area.
US09985068B2	Solid-state imaging device and manufacturing method therefor, and electronic apparatus There is provided a solid state imaging device including a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that generates and accumulates a charge according to a received light amount, a charge accumulation unit that accumulates the generated charge, a first transfer transistor that transfers the charge of the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge accumulation unit, a charge holding unit that holds the charge to read out as a signal, and a second transfer transistor that transfers the charge of the charge accumulation unit to the charge holding unit, in which a gate electrode of the first transfer transistor is formed to be buried up to a predetermined depth from a semiconductor substrate interface, and the charge accumulation unit is formed in a longitudinally long shape to be extended in a depth direction along a side wall of the gate electrode of the first transfer transistor to be buried therein.
US09985067B2	Method of manufacturing a plurality of island-shaped dipoles having self-aligned electrodes An electronic component includes a plurality of dipoles, each comprising an island solid with a base, a first electrode arranged at the top of the island and a second electrode arranged on the base. Its manufacturing includes forming, on the base, a layer of a material capable of being etched by means of a predetermined isotropic etching, forming, over the layer of material, solid patterns made of electrically-conductive material and inert to said etching, applying the isotropic etching of the thickness of material between said solid patterns to form islands totally overlooked by said solid patterns, and depositing electrically-conductive material on top of and between the islands to form the first and second electrodes of the dipoles.
US09985066B2	Solid-state imaging device, method for manufacturing same, and electronic device There is provided a solid state imaging device including a plurality of imaging pixels arranged two-dimensionally in a matrix configuration and phase difference detecting pixels arranged scatteredly among the imaging pixels, the solid state imaging device including: a first microlens formed for each of the imaging pixels; a planarization film having a lower refractive index than the first microlens and formed on the first microlens; and a second microlens formed only on the planarization film of the phase difference detecting pixel.
US09985065B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes: a photodiode formed to be segmented with respect to each pixel in a pixel area in which plural pixels are integrated on a light receiving surface of a semiconductor substrate; an insulator film formed on the semiconductor substrate to cover the photodiode; a recessed part formed with respect to each of the pixels in the insulator film in an upper part of the photodiode; a first light transmission layer of a siloxane resin formed to fill the recessed part and configure an optical waveguide in the pixel area; a second light transmission layer formed to configure an on-chip lens with respect to each of the pixels in the pixel area; and a guard ring formed to surround an outer circumference of the pixel area to partition an inner area containing the pixel area and an outer dicing area.
US09985063B2	Imaging device with photo detectors and color filters arranged by color transmission characteristics and absorption coefficients An imaging device that includes an array of photo detectors each configured to generate an electrical signal in response to received light, and an array of color filters disposed over the array of photo detectors such that the photo detectors receive light passing through the color filters. Each of the color filters has a color transmission characteristic, which vary. To even out color balance, some of the color filters are disposed over a plurality of the photo detectors while others are disposed over only one of the photo detectors. Additional color balance can be achieved by varying the relative area sizes of the color filters and underlying photo detectors based on color transmission characteristics, to compensate for the varying absorption coefficient of the photo detectors at different colors.
US09985062B2	Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same An image sensor includes a substrate that further includes a sensor array and a heat spreading layer on a surface of the substrate. The heat spreading layer may include one or more of a synthetic diamond layer, a graphene layer, or a diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer. The heat spreading layer enables substantially uniform distribution of heat through at least a portion of the sensor array. Such substantially uniform heat distribution may enable substantially uniform dark current in the portion of the sensor array, thereby reducing a probability of dark shading in the portion of the sensor array. The portion of the sensor array may include an active pixel sensor area. The portion of the sensor array may include an optical black sensor area.
US09985058B2	Dual band ultraviolet (UV) and infrared radiation detector A dual band infrared and ultraviolet radiation detector having an ultraviolet radiation detector embedded within a pair of IR anti-reflection layers wherein a first one of the infrared anti-reflection layer reflects ultraviolet energy passing through from the semiconductor, ultraviolet radiation detector back to the semiconductor, ultraviolet radiation detector.
US09985054B2	Array substrate and display device The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device that can suppress the adverse effects in display due to difference in gray-scale luminance of adjacent two rows caused by variation in capacitance of adjacent two rows of TFTs as the result of displacement of the data lines. Scan lines and data lines crossing each other are arranged on the array substrate. Each row of the scan lines is provided with a gate driver circuit, wherein each row of the scan lines is further provided with a compensation capacitor connected to the gate driver circuit, the compensation capacitor including a first metal layer and a second metal layer that are overlapped with each other to form an overlap region at which the first metal layer is isolated from the second metal layer by an insulation layer, wherein the compensation capacitor in an Nth row has a capacitance that changes in a direction opposite to the direction in which the capacitance of the compensation capacitor in an N+1th row changes, and the compensation capacitor in the Nth row has a capacitance that changes in the same direction as the direction in which the capacitance of a thin film transistor capacitor in the N+1th row changes, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1.
US09985053B2	Array substrate An array substrate and a display apparatus including the array substrate. The array substrate includes: a plurality of signal lines aligned in a display area of the array substrate; a plurality of signal pads aligned in a non-display area of the array substrate; a plurality of fan-out lines aligned in the non-display area and respectively connected to the signal lines and the signal pads; a plurality of auxiliary lines respectively overlapping and insulated from the fan-out lines; and a plurality of connection lines connecting in parallel at least two of the auxiliary lines that are adjacent to each other.
US09985052B2	Light-emitting device To provide a light-emitting device capable of suppressing the display of an afterimage. A plurality of pixels arranged in n rows and m columns (n and m are each an integer of 2 or more) is supplied with a first signal containing image data and a second signal for initializing the pixels. Each pixel includes a first transistor for controlling the input of the first signal and a second transistor for controlling the input of the second signal. The first transistor in a k-th row (k is an integer of 1 to n) and the second transistor in a k+1-th row are turned on at the same time, so that the pixels are initialized and display images effectively.
US09985051B2	Display panel, fabrication method thereof and display apparatus A display panel, a fabrication method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes: a nanometer light splitting film arranged between an array substrate and a first polarizer. The nanometer light splitting film includes multiple light splitting units arranged in an array. Each light splitting unit corresponds to at least one sub-pixel unit. The light splitting unit includes a multi-step grating structure for splitting light corresponding to the at least one sub-pixel unit to obtain light of one or more predetermined colors.
US09985050B2	Non-volatile semiconductor storage device and method of manufacturing the same A non-volatile semiconductor storage device has a plurality of memory strings to each of which a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells are connected in series. Each of the memory strings includes first semiconductor layers each having a pair of columnar portions extending in a vertical direction with respect to a substrate and a coupling portion formed to couple the lower ends of the pair of columnar portions; a charge storage layer formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions; and first conductive layers formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions and the charge storage layer. The first conductive layers function as gate electrodes of the memory cells.
US09985048B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first structure, a dummy buffer stack structure, a peripheral contact hole, and a peripheral contact plug. The first structure may include a substrate and a peripheral circuit disposed on the substrate. The dummy buffer stack structure may be disposed on the first structure. The dummy buffer stack structure may include dummy interlayer insulating layers and dummy sacrificial insulating layers, which are alternately stacked, and first dummy conductive rings stacked in a line inside the respective dummy sacrificial insulating layers. The peripheral contact hole may penetrate the dummy buffer stack structure. The peripheral contact hole may be surrounded by the first dummy conductive rings. The peripheral contact plug may be disposed in the peripheral contact hole. The peripheral contact plug may extend to be connected to the peripheral circuit.
US09985046B2	Method of forming a staircase in a semiconductor device using a linear alignment control feature A linear mark extending perpendicular to a primary step direction of stepped terrace for a three-dimensional memory device can be employed as a reference feature for aligning a trimming material layer before initiating an etch-and-trim process sequence. The linear mark can be formed as a linear trench or a linear rail structure. The distance between a sidewall of each trimming material layer and the linear mark can be measured at multiple locations that are laterally spaced apart perpendicular to the primary step direction to provide statistically significant data points, which can be employed to provide an enhanced control of the staircase patterning process. Likewise, locations of patterned stepped surfaces can be measured at multiple locations to provide enhanced control of the locations of vertical steps in the stepped terrace.
US09985043B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same An improvement is achieved in the reliability of a semiconductor device. In a memory cell region, a plurality of fins are provided which are portions of a semiconductor substrate extending in an x-direction along a main surface of the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other in a y-direction orthogonal to the x-direction along the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. Between the fins adjacent to each other in the y-direction, a portion of an upper surface of an isolation region is at a position higher than a surface obtained by connecting a position of the upper surface of the isolation region which is in contact with a side wall of one of the fins to a position of the upper surface of the isolation region which is in contact with a side wall of the other fin. In a cross section along the y-direction, the upper surface of the isolation region has a projecting shape.
US09985040B2	Integrated circuitry and 3D memory Integrated circuitry has an array circuitry region having a repeating array of electronic components. An adjacent circuitry region is immediately laterally adjacent to and contacts one elongated major peripheral side of the array circuitry region. The adjacent circuitry region is distinct in structure from the array circuitry region where contacting the array circuitry region and distinct in operation from the array circuitry region. The array circuitry region and the adjacent circuitry region have a respective longitudinally non-linear edge at an interface relative one another along the one elongated major peripheral side of the array circuitry region. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09985037B2	Method and structure for finFET SRAM A method for forming a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure having a plurality of semiconductor fins disposed on a substrate and a hard mask layer on the semiconductor fins. A first insulating material layer is formed covering the semiconductor fins, the hard masks, and the spaces between the semiconductor fins. Next, a first etch back process is performed to remove a top portion of the first insulating material layer to expose a portion of each of the semiconductor fins. Then dopants are implanted into remaining portions of the first insulating material layer and diffused into the semiconductor fins to form impurity regions. Next, a second etch back process is performed to remove a top portion of the remaining first insulating material layer to remove the implanted dopants in the first insulating material layer. Thereafter, a second insulating material layer is formed overlying the remaining first insulating material layer.
US09985036B2	Semiconductor device having embedded strain-inducing pattern and method of forming the same In a semiconductor device, a first active region has a first Σ-shape, and the second active region has a second Σ-shape. When a line that is perpendicular to the substrate and passes a side surface of a first gate electrode in the first region is defined as a first vertical line, when a line that is perpendicular to the substrate and passes a side surface of a second gate electrode in the second region is defined as a second vertical line, when a shortest distance between the first vertical line and the first trench is defined as a first horizontal distance, and when a shortest distance between the second vertical line and the second trench is defined as a second horizontal distance, a difference between the first horizontal distance and the second horizontal distance is equal to or less than 1 nm.
US09985034B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region defined by a device isolation layer and at least a gate trench linearly extending in a first direction to cross the active region, the active region having a gate area at a bottom of the gate trench and a junction area at a surface of the substrate. The device further may include a first conductive line filling the gate trench and extending in the first direction, the first conductive line having a buried gate structure on the gate area of the active region. The device also may include a junction including implanted dopants at the junction area of the active region, and a junction separator on the device isolation layer and defining the junction. The junction separator may be formed of an insulative material and have an etch resistance greater than that of the device isolation layer.
US09985032B2	Selectively degrading current resistance of field effect transistor devices A method includes selectively degrading a current capacity of a first finned-field-effect-transistor (finFET) relative to a second finFET by forming a material on a fin of the first finFET to increase a current resistance of the first finFET. The second finFET is electrically connected to the first finFET in a circuit such that a current flow through the second finFET is a multiple of a current flow through the first finFET.
US09985029B2	Integrated circuit with NMOS and PMOS transistors having different threshold voltages through channel doping and gate material work function schemes An integrated circuit comprising: first to third nMOS transistors with different threshold voltages, and first to third pMOS transistors with different threshold voltages, the nMOS transistors having channel regions made of silicon subjected to tensile stress and/or said pMOS transistors having channel regions made of SiGe subjected to compressive stress; a first well and a second well that are arranged underneath the nMOS transistors and underneath the pMOS transistors, respectively, with one and the same doping; two nMOS gate stacks comprising one and the same material, two of the nMOS gate stacks comprising materials having separate work functions, an nMOS gate stack having one and the same material as a pMOS gate stack, with the equation: GpVdds−GnGnds=Sn\|σn\|+Sp(\|σp\|−1.65*109)−VarCais+K.
US09985026B2	Transistor, integrated circuit and method of fabricating the same A transistor, an integrated circuit and a method of fabricating the integrated circuit are provided. In various embodiments, the transistor includes a source electrode, at least one semiconductor channel, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a drain pad. The source electrode is disposed in a substrate. The semiconductor channel extends substantially perpendicular to the source electrode. The gate electrode surrounds the semiconductor channel. The drain electrode is disposed on top of the semiconductor channel. The drain pad is disposed on the drain electrode, wherein the drain pad comprises multiple conductive layers.
US09985022B2	Electronic device including a cascode circuit having principal drive and bypass transistors An electronic device can include a first transistor including a first gate electrode; and a second transistor including a second gate electrode. The first and second transistors can be electrically connected in a parallel arrangement, wherein the transistors have one or more different characteristics. For example, gate length, barrier layer thickness, gate-to-drain distance, leakage current, on-state electron density, or the like may be different between the transistors. The difference in characteristics can help to reduce degradation and improve the lifetime of the first transistor.
US09985016B2	Charge pump circuit for providing multiplied voltage A charge pump comprises one or more pump stages for providing a negative boosted output voltage. Each of the one or more pump stages comprises a P-channel transistor formed in an isolated P-well and an N-channel transistor coupled in series with the P-channel transistor. Forming the P-channel transistor in the isolated P-well essentially eliminates a raised threshold voltage due to body effect.
US09985010B2	System, apparatus, and method for embedding a device in a faceup workpiece An integrated package may be manufactured in a die face up orientation with a component proximate to the attached die by creating a cavity in the mold compound during fabrication. The cavity is created with an adhesive layer on the bottom to hold a component such that the top surface of the component is co-planar with the top surface of the attached die. This may allow backside grinding to take place that will not damage the component because the top surface alignment between the attached die and the component prevents the depth of the cavity from extending into the portion of the package that is ground away.
US09985009B2	Manufacturing method of LED light emitting device Disclosed are an LED light emitting device and its manufacturing method. A blue LED chip specification is selected, a green phosphor and the blue LED chip are used to determine a green light frame on the CIE1931 chromaticity coordinates and a red phosphor together with a blue LED chip are used to determine a red light frame on the CIE1931 chromaticity coordinates, and a predetermined straight line passing through the color temperature target frame is selected, and both end points of the predetermined straight line fall within the green light frame and the red light frame, so as to determine the concentration of the green phosphor and the red phosphor, and the green and red phosphors and a blue LED chip are packaged to form a first LED and a second LED, and at least one first LED and at least one second LED are installed on a substrate.
US09985001B2	3DIC package and methods of forming the same A package includes a first molding material, a first device die molded in the molding material, a Through Via (TV) penetrating through the first molding material, and a redistribution line over the first molding material. The redistribution line is electrically connected to the TV. A second device die is over and bonded to the first device die through flip-chip bonding. A second molding material molds the second device die therein.
US09985000B2	Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with die support members and associated systems and methods Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with die support members and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly can include a package substrate, a first semiconductor die attached to the package substrate, and a support member attached to the package substrate. The support member can be separated from the first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die can have one region coupled to the support member and another region coupled to the first semiconductor die.
US09984997B2	Communication interface architecture using serializer/deserializer A memory interface architecture uses a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) to connect a memory array on one semiconductor die to a device on another semiconductor die, for example via a fast interposer.
US09984995B1	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, and a top interposer. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are disposed on the package substrate. The top interposer is electrically connected to the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, and the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are present between the package substrate and the top interposer.
US09984983B2	Semiconductor packages with thermal-enhanced conformal shielding and related methods The semiconductor package includes a substrate, a die, a first metal layer, a second metal layer and an optional seed layer. The package body at least partially encapsulates the die on the substrate. The seed layer is disposed on the package body and the first metal layer is disposed on the seed layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the first metal layer and the lateral surface of the substrate. The first metal layer and the second metal layer form an outer metal cap that provides thermal dissipation and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding.
US09984981B2	Packages with interposers and methods for forming the same A package structure includes an interposer, a die over and bonded to the interposer, and a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) underlying and bonded to the interposer. The interposer is free from transistors therein (add transistor), and includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure over the semiconductor substrate, through-vias in the silicon substrate, and redistribution lines on a backside of the silicon substrate. The interconnect structure and the redistribution lines are electrically coupled through the through-vias.
US09984980B2	Molded lead frame device A molded lead frame device includes a plurality of lead frame units and a molding layer. Each of the lead frame units includes an array of leads. Each of the leads includes a die-connecting portion and a terminal portion that extends downwardly from the die-connecting portion. The molding layer embeds the die-connecting portions of the lead frame units and has spaced apart longitudinal and transverse sections intersecting each other and separating the lead frame units from each other.
US09984976B2	Interconnect structures and methods of formation Interconnect structures and methods of formation of such interconnect structures are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of forming an interconnect includes: depositing a silicon-aluminum oxynitride (SiAlON) layer atop a first layer of a substrate, wherein the first layer comprises a first feature filled with a first conductive material; depositing a dielectric layer over the silicon-aluminum oxynitride (SiAlON) layer; and forming a second feature in the dielectric layer and the silicon-aluminum oxynitride (SiAlON) layer to expose the first conductive material.
US09984975B2	Barrier structure for copper interconnect A method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a dielectric layer overlying a substrate, forming an opening in the dielectric layer, forming a metal-containing layer overlying the opening in the dielectric layer, forming a conformal protective layer overlying the metal-containing layer, filling a conductive layer in the opening, and performing a thermal process to form a metal oxide layer barrier layer underlying the metal-containing layer.
US09984974B1	Method for fabricating semiconductor device having a patterned metal layer embedded in an interlayer dielectric layer A method for fabricating semiconductor device first includes providing a substrate and a shallow trench isolation (STI) in the substrate, in which the substrate includes a first metal gate and a second metal gate thereon, a first hard mask on the first metal gate and a second hard mask on the second metal gate, and a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the first metal gate and the second metal gate. Next, the first hard mask and the second hard mask as mask are utilized to remove part of the first ILD layer for forming a recess, and a patterned metal layer is formed in the recess and on the STI.
US09984969B2	Semiconductor devices, multi-die packages, and methods of manufacure thereof Semiconductor device, multi-die packages, and methods of manufacture thereof are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device may include: first conductive pillars and second conductive pillars respectively aligned to a first row of first pins and a second row of second pins of a first die, the first pins and the second pins differing in function; a first insulating layer covering surfaces of the first conductive pillars and the second conductive pillars facing away from the first die; first pads disposed on a surface of the first insulating layer facing away from the first die, the first pads substantially aligned to the first conductive pillars; and first traces coupled to the first pads, the first traces extending over a portion of the first insulating layer covering the second conductive pillars.
US09984966B2	Semiconductor device having fuse elements Provided is a semiconductor device preventing readhesion of conductive body which forms fuse elements and breakage of the fuse elements. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of fuse elements formed on the first insulating film adjacent to one another, a protective insulating film covering at least side surfaces of the fuse elements, and a second insulating film formed of one of a BPSG film and a PSG film to cover the fuse elements and the protective insulating film. The protective insulating film is higher in mechanical strength than the second insulating film.
US09984962B2	Systems and methods for hybrid flexible electronics with rigid integrated circuits Systems and methods for flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) systems integrate traditional rigid integrated circuits with flexible substrates and/or interconnects. The layout and components of the system may be selected and/or optimized for a desired level of performance or flexibility. Via use of exemplary FHE system principles, improved wearable devices and other portable electronic systems may be realized.
US09984956B2	Through electrode, manufacturing method thereof, and semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Provided are a through electrode including an organic side-wall insulating film, capable of eliminating a barrier layer and achieving satisfactory mechanical reliability and electrical reliability and a manufacturing method thereof, and a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. According to one aspect of the present invention, a through electrode disposed in a semiconductor substrate is provided, including: a copper layer in the semiconductor substrate; and a side-wall insulating film that is disposed between the copper layer and the semiconductor substrate so as to be in contact with the copper layer and the semiconductor substrate, the side-wall insulating film being represented by the following chemical formula (1).
US09984955B1	Lightweight liquid-cooling-plate assembly having plastic frame and heat dissipation system using same The present invention relates to a lightweight liquid-cooling-plate assembly having a plastic frame and a heat dissipation system using the same. The liquid-cooling-plate assembly includes a plastic frame and at least one coolant chamber unit. The plastic frame includes a plurality of lateral walls, at least one accommodation opening, and a plurality of fastening elements. The lateral walls are connected with each other to form and define the at least one accommodation opening. The fastening elements are disposed on a part of the lateral walls. The coolant chamber unit is connected with the plastic frame and embedded in the at least one accommodation opening, and includes at least one surface exposed.
US09984953B2	Semiconductor assembly having a press pack stack A semiconductor assembly includes a stack with a semiconductor module and a cooler, wherein the semiconductor module is provided in contact with the cooler. A clamping assembly is adapted to exert a force on the two sides of the stack. The stack is provided with a through hole between the two sides thereof and a part of the clamping assembly including an electrically conductive part which extends through the through hole of the stack. Thereby, a compact mechanical arrangement is provided while obtaining improved electrical properties, such as lower inductance and more even current distribution.
US09984952B2	Thermally enhanced semiconductor package having field effect transistors with back-gate feature The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package having field effect transistors (FETs) with a back-gate feature. The thermally enhanced semiconductor package includes a non-silicon thermal conductive component, a silicon layer with a thickness between 100 Å and 10 μm over the thermal conductive component, a buried oxide (BOX) layer over the silicon layer, an epitaxial layer over the BOX layer and having a source, a drain, and a channel between the source and the drain, a gate dielectric aligned over the channel, and a front-gate structure over the gate dielectric. Herein, a back-gate structure is formed in the silicon layer and has a back-gate region aligned below the channel. A FET is formed by the front-gate structure, the source, the drain, the channel, and the back-gate structure.
US09984945B2	Semiconductor chip A semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor substrate and a crack detection circuit. The semiconductor substrate may include a circuit structure. The crack detection circuit may include main lines and a chamfer lines. The main lines may be formed in the semiconductor substrate to surround the circuit structure. The chamfer lines may be formed in corners of the semiconductor substrate. The chamfer lines may be connected between the main lines. A first angle may be formed between each of the chamfer lines and any one of the two main lines perpendicular to each other. A second angle wider than the first angle may be formed between each of the chamfer lines and the other main line.
US09984944B1	Integrated circuit containing DOEs of GATECNT-tip-to-side-short-configured, NCEM-enabled fill cells Wafers, chips, or dies that contain fill cells with structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). Such NCEM-enabled fill cells may target/expose a variety of open-circuit, short-circuit, leakage, or excessive resistance failure modes, including GATECNT-tip-to-side-short and/or GATECNT-tip-to-side-leakage failure modes. Such wafers, chips, or dies may include Designs of Experiments (“DOEs”), comprised of multiple NCEM-enabled fill cells, of at least two types, all targeted to the same failure mode.
US09984943B2	Systems and methods for aligning and coupling semiconductor structures In a system for aligning at least two semiconductor structures for coupling, an alignment device includes a mounting structure having at least first and second opposing portions. The alignment device also includes a first mounting portion movably coupled to the first portion of the mounting structure, the first mounting portion configured to couple to a first surface of a first semiconductor structure. The alignment device additionally includes a second mounting portion movably coupled to the second portion of the mounting structure, the second mounting portion configured to couple to a second surface of a second semiconductor structure. The alignment device further includes one or more imaging devices disposed above at least one of the first and second mounting portions of the alignment device, the imaging devices configured to capture and/or or detect alignment marks in at least the first semiconductor structure. A corresponding method for aligning two or more semiconductor structures for coupling is also provided.
US09984938B2	Integrate circuit with nanowires A method includes providing a substrate having a first gate region for a first device and a second gate region for a second device, the first and second gate regions having different channel lengths. The method further includes forming first and second fins in at least the first and second gate regions respectively, and forming first and second stacks of semiconductor layers over the first and second fins respectively. The method further includes performing an oxidation process to the first and second stacks, thereby forming first and second semiconductor wires in the first and second gate regions respectively. Each of the first and second semiconductor wires is wrapped by a semiconductor oxide layer. The first and second semiconductor wires have different cross-sectional geometries in a respective plane that is perpendicular to their respective longitudinal direction.
US09984937B1	Vertical silicon/silicon-germanium transistors with multiple threshold voltages A method of forming vertical fin field effect transistors, including, forming a silicon-germanium cap layer on a substrate, forming at least four vertical fins and silicon-germanium caps from the silicon-germanium cap layer and the substrate, where at least two of the at least four vertical fins is in a first subset and at least two of the at least four vertical fins is in a second subset, forming a silicon-germanium doping layer on the plurality of vertical fins and silicon-germanium caps, removing the silicon-germanium doping layer from the at least two of the at least four vertical fins in the second subset, and removing the silicon-germanium cap from at least one of the at least two vertical fins in the first subset, and at least one of the at least two vertical fins in the second subset.
US09984936B1	Methods of forming an isolated nano-sheet transistor device and the resulting device A method includes forming a sacrificial gate and a stack of materials above a semiconductor substrate, forming a trench in each of the source/drain areas of the device, wherein each trench extends into the semiconductor substrate, forming an empty space under the sacrificial gate structure, the empty space being vertically positioned between the stack of materials and the semiconductor substrate, wherein the empty space is in communication with the trenches, performing a conformal deposition process so as to deposit a conformal layer of a device isolation material adjacent at least the sacrificial gate while at least partially filling the empty space and substantially filling the trenches, and performing a recess etching process to remove at least portions of the conformal layer positioned adjacent the sacrificial gate, thereby defining a recessed upper surface of the device isolation material.
US09984934B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with wider sidewall spacer for a high voltage MISFET An insulating film and another insulating film are formed over a semiconductor substrate in that order to cover first, second, and third gate electrodes. The another insulating film is etched back to form sidewall spacers over side surfaces of the insulating film. Then, the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating films corresponding to the sidewalls of the first and second gate electrodes are removed to leave the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating film corresponding to the sidewalls of the third gate electrode. Then, the sidewall spacers and the insulating films are etched back, so that the sidewall spacers are formed of the insulating film over the sidewalls of the first, second, and third gate electrodes.
US09984931B2	Semiconductor device, method of fabricating the same, and patterning method A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming first and second active patterns on first and second regions, respectively, of a substrate, forming first and second gate structures on the first and second active patterns, respectively, forming a coating layer to cover the first and second gate structures and the first and second active patterns, and forming a first recess region in the first active pattern between the first gate structures and a second recess region in the second active pattern between the second gate structures.
US09984926B2	Solution for TSV substrate leakage A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes providing a wafer, which includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor device located on the semiconductor substrate, an interlayer dielectric layer covering the semiconductor device, and a through hole penetrating through the interlayer dielectric layer and a portion of the semiconductor substrate. A metal layer is formed inside the through hole and on a surface of the interlayer dielectric layer. A first planarization process is conducted to remove a portion of the metal layer on the surface of the interlayer dielectric layer. The method also includes conducting an annealing alloy treatment and conducting a second planarization process to completely remove the metal layer on the surface of the interlayer dielectric layer. The manufacturing methods can slowly release stress of the wafer and effectively prevent cracks in silicon vias, thereby reducing TSV leakage problems, thus improving the reliability and yield of the devices.
US09984924B2	Semiconductor device and formation thereof A semiconductor device and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor device comprises a metal plug in a first opening over a substrate, the metal plug is over a silicide layer, and the silicide layer is over a metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer has an oxygen gradient, such that a percentage of oxygen increases from a top surface of the metal oxide layer to a bottom surface of the metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer unpins the Fermi level of the interface between the metal plug and the substrate, which is exhibited by a lowered Schottky barrier height (SBH) and increased oxygen vacancy states between the V.B. and the C.B. of the metal oxide layer, which decreases the intrinsic resistivity between the metal plug and the substrate as compared to a semiconductor device that lacks such a metal oxide layer.
US09984923B2	Barrier layers in trenches and vias A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming at least one trench in a dielectric layer, forming a barrier layer on a bottom of said at least one trench, sidewalls of said at least one trench and a top surface of the dielectric layer, the barrier layer having a non-uniform thickness, and selectively thinning at least a first portion of the barrier layer using one or more cycles comprising forming an oxidized layer in the first portion of the barrier layer using a neutral beam oxidation and removing the oxidized layer using an etching process.
US09984922B2	Interconnects having sealing structures to enable selective metal capping layers Methods of fabricating a capped interconnect for a microelectronic device which includes a sealing feature for any gaps between a capping layer and an interconnect and structures formed therefrom. The sealing features improve encapsulation of the interconnect, which substantially reduces or prevents electromigration and/or diffusion of conductive material from the capped interconnect.
US09984921B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming grooves in a first dielectric layer on a substrate, the first dielectric layer including a first part between the grooves, forming a first barrier layer and an interconnect layer in each groove, recessing the interconnect layer and the first barrier layer, forming a capping pattern on the recessed interconnect layer, etching at least a portion of the first part by a first etching process, sequentially etching the capping pattern and the at least a portion of the IMD part by a second etching process to form a trench, conformally forming a second barrier layer in the trench and on the recessed interconnection layer, and forming a second dielectric layer on the second barrier layer not to fill the trench such that an air gap is formed in the trench.
US09984915B2	Semiconductor wafer and method for processing a semiconductor wafer According to various embodiments, a semiconductor wafer may include: a semiconductor body including an integrated circuit structure; and at least one tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer formed at least one of over or in the integrated circuit structure, the at least one tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer may include a substance amount fraction of sp3-hybridized carbon of larger than approximately 0.4 and a substance amount fraction of hydrogen smaller than approximately 0.1.
US09984914B2	Carrier tape A carrier tape (300) with a continuous channel (310) is proposed instead of the individual separate embossed pockets (110) prevalent in conventional carrier tapes (100). The continuous channel (310) reduces or even eliminates small bridge problem typically associated with the conventional carrier tapes (100). The proposed carrier tape (300) can include dividers (330) and cutouts (340) to accommodate the devices (205) with minimum pitch without sacrificing corner relief. A cover tape (450) can be included to seal the devices (205) below the top surface of the devices (205). Further, the floor (316) of the continuous channel (310) can be lined with an adhesive (560).
US09984913B2	Tri-modal carrier for a semiconductive wafer A tri-modal carrier provides a structural platform to temporarily bond a semiconductive wafer and can be used to transport the semiconductive wafer or be used to perform manufacturing processes on the semiconductive wafer. The tri-modal carrier includes a doped semiconductive substrate, a plurality of electrostatic field generating (EFG) circuits, and a capacitance charging interface. A positive pole and a negative pole from each EFG circuit are embedded into the doped semiconductive substrate. An exposed portion of the doped semiconductive substrate is located between the positive pole and the negative pole, which is used as a biased pole for each EFG circuit. The combination of these poles for each EFG circuit is used to generate a non-uniform electrostatic field for bonding the semiconductive wafer. The tri-modal carrier also uses flat surface properties and the removal of trapped gas particles to strengthen the bond between the tri-modal carrier and the semiconductive wafer.
US09984907B2	Evacuation method and vacuum processing apparatus An evacuation method used for a vacuum processing apparatus including a vacuum processing chamber is provided. The vacuum processing chamber is evacuated by an exhaust device for a first predetermined period of time by opening a valve connecting the exhaust device with the vacuum processing chamber. A pressure in the vacuum processing chamber is urged to increase by closing the valve and leaving the valve closed for a second predetermined period of time after evacuating the vacuum processing chamber. Evacuating the vacuum processing chamber and urging the pressure in the vacuum processing chamber to increase are performed so as to reduce the pressure in the vacuum processing chamber to a pressure between 6.7 Pa and 13.3×102 Pa (between 5 Torr and 10 Torr) without freezing moisture in the vacuum processing chamber.
US09984906B2	Plasma processing device and plasma processing method A plasma processing device includes a processing chamber defining a plasma processing space and a stage for mounting thereon a target substrate in the processing chamber. The plasma processing device further includes a gas supply mechanism for introducing a processing gas into the plasma processing space, a plasma generation mechanism for supplying electromagnetic energy into the plasma processing space, and a control unit configured to, if a command to start a plasma process for the target substrate mounted on a substrate carry-in stage is issued, perform a warm-up process for supplying the processing gas into the plasma processing space by the gas supply mechanism and supplying the electromagnetic energy by the plasma generation mechanism in a state where no target substrate is mounted on the stage.
US09984905B2	Substrate treatment system, substrate transfer method and computer storage medium An interface station of a coating and developing treatment system has: a cleaning unit cleaning at least a rear surface of a wafer before the wafer is transferred into an exposure apparatus; an inspection unit inspecting the rear surface of the cleaned wafer whether the wafer is exposable, before it is transferred into the exposure apparatus; wafer transfer mechanisms including arms transferring the wafer between the units and a wafer transfer control part controlling operations of the wafer transfer mechanisms. When it is determined that a state of the wafer becomes an exposable state by re-cleaning in the cleaning unit as a result of the inspection, the wafer transfer control part controls the wafer transfer mechanisms to transfer the wafer again to the cleaning unit.
US09984903B2	Treatment cup cleaning method, substrate treatment method, and substrate treatment apparatus A treatment cup cleaning method is provided, which includes: a rotating step of rotating a substrate rotating unit with a substrate being held by the substrate rotating unit; a cleaning liquid supplying step of supplying a cleaning liquid to an upper surface and a lower surface of the substrate and causing the cleaning liquid to scatter from a peripheral edge of the substrate to be applied to an inner wall of a treatment cup in the rotating step, whereby the cleaning liquid is supplied to the inner wall of the treatment cup; and a scattering direction changing step of changing a cleaning liquid scattering direction in which the cleaning liquid scatters from the peripheral edge of the substrate in the rotating step and the cleaning liquid supplying step.
US09984902B2	Apparatus and method for treating substrate Provided are an apparatus and method for treating a substrate. Specifically, provided are an apparatus and method for treating a substrate through a supercritical process. The apparatus includes: a housing providing a space for performing a process; a support member disposed in the housing to support a substrate; a supply port configured to supply a process fluid to the housing; a shield member disposed between the supply port and the support member to prevent the process fluid from being directly injected to the substrate; and an exhaust port configured to discharge the process fluid from the housing.
US09984892B2	Oxide film removing method, oxide film removing apparatus, contact forming method, and contact forming system Disclosed is a method for removing, from a target substrate having an insulating film with a predetermined pattern formed thereon, a silicon-containing oxide film formed in a silicon portion at a bottom of the pattern. The method includes: forming a carbon-based protective film on the entire surface of the insulating film including the pattern by ALD using a carbon source gas; selectively removing the carbon-based protective film on an upper surface of the insulating film and on the bottom of the pattern by an anisotropic plasma processing; removing the silicon-containing oxide film formed on the bottom of the pattern by etching; and removing a remaining portion of the carbon-based protective film.
US09984883B2	Devices with multiple threshold voltages formed on a single wafer using strain in the high-k layer A method for adjusting a threshold voltage includes depositing a strained liner on a gate structure to strain a gate dielectric. A threshold voltage of a transistor is adjusted by controlling an amount of strain in the liner to control an amount of work function (WF) modulating species that diffuse into the gate dielectric in a channel region. The liner is removed.
US09984880B2	Well and punch through stopper formation using conformal doping A method for doping fins includes depositing a first dopant layer at a base of fins formed in a substrate, depositing a dielectric layer on the first dopant layer and etching the dielectric layer and the first dopant layer in a first region to expose the substrate and the fins. A second dopant layer is conformally deposited over the fins and the substrate in the first region. The second dopant layer is recessed to a height on the fins in the first region. An anneal is performed to drive dopants into the fins from the first dopant layer in a second region and from the second dopant layer in the first region to concurrently form punch through stoppers in the fins and wells in the substrate.
US09984878B2	Resist under layer film composition and patterning process The present invention provides a resist under layer film composition containing a novolak resin having a repeating unit shown by the formula (1), wherein R represents a group containing one or more fluorine atoms. There is provided a resist under layer film composition that is excellent in filling property, generates little outgas, and has excellent dry etching resistance and heat resistance.
US09984872B2	Fabrication and structures of crystalline material A surface of the first semiconductor crystalline material has a reduced roughness. A semiconductor device includes a low defect, strained second semiconductor crystalline material over the surface of the first crystalline material. A surface of the strained second semiconductor crystalline material has a reduced roughness. One example includes obtaining a surface with reduced roughness by creating process parameters that reduce impurities at an interfacial boundary between the first and second semiconductor crystalline materials. In one embodiment, the first semiconductor crystalline material can be confined by an opening in an insulator having an aspect ratio sufficient to trap defects using Aspect Ratio Trapping techniques.
US09984871B2	Superlattice lateral bipolar junction transistor A bipolar junction transistor includes an intrinsic base formed on a substrate. The intrinsic base includes a superlattice stack including a plurality of alternating layers of semiconductor material. A collector and emitter are formed adjacent to the intrinsic base on opposite sides of the base. An extrinsic base structure is formed on the intrinsic base.
US09984870B2	Combined reactive gas species for high-mobility channel passivation A technique relates to in-situ cleaning of a high-mobility substrate. Alternating pulses of a metal precursor and exposure to a plasma of a gas or gas mixture are applied. The gas or gas mixture contains both nitrogen and hydrogen (e.g., NH3). A passivation layer is formed on the high-mobility substrate by alternating pulses of the metal precursor and exposure to the plasma of a gas, or gas mixture, containing both nitrogen and hydrogen.
US09984865B2	Light-emitting sealed body In a light-emitting sealed body, a metal structure (electron emission structure) containing an easily electron-emitting material is used, so that it is not necessary to perform feeding for discharge between electrodes. Therefore, a feeding member does not need to be connected to the metal structure from the outside of a bulb. In addition, in the light-emitting sealed body, the metal structure is disposed in an internal space S of the bulb and a positioning unit of the metal structure is disposed only in the bulb. Therefore, in the light-emitting sealed body, the metal structure and the positioning unit do not penetrate the bulb and are not buried in the bulb and weakened portions are not formed in the bulb made of glass. Therefore, a sealing state of the bulb can be maintained surely.
US09984860B1	Apparatus and method for augmenting the volume of atmospheric pressure plasma jets An apparatus and methods to increase and direct the spatial volume of atmospheric pressure plasma jets. One or more additional gas flows is introduced to intersect the plasma jet. As the plasma jet interacts with these additional gas flows, the direction of propagation of the plasma jet is altered, the plasma expands into the volume defined by the additional gas flow, and the volume and effective surface area of the plasma jet increases accordingly, while the power increase needed to drive the increase in plasma volume scales sub-linearly with the increase in volume.
US09984854B2	Ion beam processing method and ion beam processing apparatus The present invention has an objective to provide a processing method and an ion beam processing apparatus capable of inhibiting deposition of redeposited films even for fine patterns. In an embodiment of the present invention, ion beam processing is performed such that an etching amount of an ion beam incident in extending directions of pattern trenches formed on a substrate is made larger than the etching amount of the ion beam incident in other directions. This processing enables fine patterns to be processed while inhibiting redeposited films from being deposited on the bottom portions of the trenches of the fine patterns.
US09984851B2	Ion implanter, magnetic field measurement device, and ion implantation method An ion implanter includes an energy analyzer electromagnet provided between an ion source and a processing chamber. The energy analyzer electromagnet includes a Hall probe configured to generate a measurement output in response to a deflecting magnetic field and an NMR probe configured to generate an NMR output. A control unit of the ion implanter includes a magnetic field measurement unit configured to measure the deflecting magnetic field in accordance with a known correspondence between the deflecting magnetic field and the measurement output, a magnetic field determination unit configured to determine the deflecting magnetic field from the NMR output, and a Hall probe calibration unit configured to update the known correspondence by using the deflecting magnetic field determined from the NMR output and a new measurement output of the Hall probe corresponding to the determined deflecting magnetic field.
US09984847B2	Open-type X-ray tube comprising field emission type electron gun and X-ray inspection apparatus using the same An object of the present invention is to provide the X-ray tube which improves the workability of the baking for obtaining the ultra-high vacuum of the X-ray tube having a field emission type electron gun and have a stable performance. The X-ray tube comprises a field emission type electron gun chamber, an electron beam aperture, an X-ray target and a vacuum pump, in one body with a vacuum sealing structure (vacuum tube section). The vacuum tube section is attachable and detachable to the electromagnetic lens section in the X-ray tube, thereby it is possible to perform the baking by removing only the vacuum tube section. The fitting portions for positioning are provided at the vacuum tube section and the electromagnetic lens section, and therefore it is a constitution to easily perform an optical axis alignment at a mounting time after the baking.
US09984844B2	Switch device and power supply control system The switch device includes a control switch that turns on/off an electrical connection between an apparatus and the power supply, a condition judging circuit that judges conditions of driving the control switch, an electric wave reception circuit that receives an electric wave, and a power supply circuit that generates power from the electric wave received by the electric wave reception circuit. An electric wave transmission device that transmits an electric wave for making the switch device operate is arranged in a space, whereby the electric wave can be received by the electric wave reception device in the specific space. The switch device controls the control switch to be turned off/on when the electric wave is received. Alternatively, when the electric wave is not received, the switch device turns on/off the control switch.
US09984843B2	Method for detecting a latent failure mode in an electronic selector having an interface switch and at least two underlying switches A method for detecting a latent failure mode in an electronic selector having an interface switch and at least two underlying switches includes tracking and counting each of the underlying switch's close/open status change counts in the context of tracking and counting the interface switch selection status change counts. The method continues by calculating the ratio of each underlying switch's close or open status change counts against the interface switch selection status change counts. By comparing these ratios from each underlying switch in respect to the interface switch selection status change counts, a set of new algorithms are formulated to detect an interface switch latent failure mode due to either one of the at least two underlying switches stuck to open or one of the at least two underlying switches chattering between close and open states at a relatively high frequency compared to the interface switch selection event.
US09984842B2	Electronic component assembly structure and electronic component An electronic component including a component main body and a plurality of lead terminals is inserted and accommodated in a housing member, the lead terminals are brought into contact with a plurality of terminal fittings held in the housing member. The lead terminals are formed such that at least one of the number of lead terminals on each side surface before and after the reversing, a distance between the contact portion and the side surface of the component main body facing the contact portion, and a width dimension in a direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the contact portion differs, when the component main body is rotated at 180 degrees to reverse the positions of the pair of opposite side surfaces of the component main body. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent improper assembly of an electronic component.
US09984837B2	Multi configurable alarm station incorporating a push button assembly and assembly kit therefor A kit incorporating a multi-configurable push-button subassembly for installing an emergency stop/deactivate alarm station which can be configured to operate in any of a momentary (depress and immediate reverse bias return) resetting of a previously inwardly depressed push-button, a latching turn-to-reset for the push button, or a latching key-to-reset for (outwardly) resetting the push button following initial depressing of the same in response to a determined alarm condition. The push button subassembly is integrated into an overall alarm station assembly including a gang box body and attachable backing plate, within which existing switch and wiring components are integrated. A cover attaches over the assembly and both exposes and shields the push button from inadvertent depressed triggering in particular from a side location.
US09984834B2	Keycap and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing keycaps, each keycap having a top and a skirt, includes: providing a first jig having a plurality of positioning units; arranging correspondingly a plurality of keycaps onto the plurality of positioning units; attaching a first film including an ink layer and a first release layer to the plurality of keycaps by using an out-mold transfer technique, such that the first film covers respective upper surfaces of the tops and respective side surfaces of the skirts of keycaps; removing the first release film; laser-engraving the ink layer; and forming a protection layer on the laser-engraved ink layer. A keycap manufactured by the method of the present invention is also disclosed.
US09984833B2	Switching system with preselector The invention relates to a step switch, comprising a pre-selector and a fine selector. The invention is characterized in that the step switch has a connection (36) between the pre-selector and the fine selector (18), at least one coupling switch (38) being arranged in said connection. A pre-selector can be switched in a largely gas-free manner by means of said switchable connection with the aid of the fine selector.
US09984825B2	Dielectric ceramic composition, dielectric material, and multilayer ceramic capacitor containing the same A dielectric material includes a barium titanate based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient. In a fine sintered structure of the dielectric material, crystal grains in which a content of Ca is less than 2.5 mol % are first crystal grains, crystal grains in which the content of Ca is 4.0 to 12.0 mol % are second crystal grains, and a ratio of an average size of the first crystal grains to an average size of the second crystal grains is in a range of 1.6 to 2.2.
US09984823B2	Capacitor element and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein is a thin film type capacitor element, including: a body part formed by stacking a plurality of dielectric layers; a first internal electrode provided in the body part and including a first non-plated region; a second internal electrode including a second non-plated region; a first via formed in the first non-plated region; and a second via formed in the second non-plated region.
US09984820B2	Z-directed capacitor components for printed circuit boards A Z-directed capacitor according to one embodiment includes a body having top, bottom and side surfaces, a cross-sectional shape that is insertable into a mounting hole in a printed circuit board, and a plurality of stacked support members. Each support member includes an annular plate mounted on a surface thereof. A first conductive side channel and a second conductive side channel are formed in the side surface and extend along a top-to-bottom dimension of the body. A first set of the annular plates electrically contact the first conductive side channel but not the second conductive side channel and a second set of the annular plates electrically contact the second conductive side channel but not the first conductive side channel. A third conductive side channel is formed in the side surface, extends along the top-to-bottom dimension of the body and is electrically separated from the annular plates.
US09984817B2	Coil for wireless power transmission and wireless power transmission apparatus A coil for wireless power transmission in which a plurality of magnetic connection members are disposed in a manner which magnetically connects coils among a plurality of coils, which are adjacent with one or more coils therebetween, and does not magnetically connect coils among the plurality of coils, which are next to each other, and in adjacent coils among the plurality of coils, which are magnetically connected, directions of magnetic fields that are generated when a current flows through the coils are mutually inverse directions.
US09984816B2	Hand-held power tool rechargeable battery A hand-held power tool rechargeable battery is provided as including a housing, at least one rechargeable battery cell, and an inductive charging unit, which includes at least one coil core and an inductive charging coil for charging the at least one rechargeable battery cell. It is provided that the inductive charging unit is accommodated detachably in the housing.
US09984815B2	Wireless power transfer apparatus and power supplies including overlapping magnetic cores A primary coil can be inside the recess, where the primary coil is wound around the center of the recess. A secondary magnetic core can include a protruding center portion that is configured for insertion into the center of the recess so that the protruding center portion overlaps the primary magnetic core side wall and is configured to provide separation between the primary magnetic core and the secondary magnetic core. A secondary coil can be wound around the protruding center portion of the secondary magnetic core.
US09984813B2	Reactor and manufacturing method of reactor A reactor (2) includes a bobbin (10). The bobbin is a resin-made bobbin, and has a pair of flanges (12a, 12b) that face each other. Coils (3) are wound around the bobbin between the pair of flanges. Each of a pair of plates (20) is bridged from the flange on one side, which is one of the pair of flanges, to the flange on the other side, which is one of the pair of flanges. The pair of plates abuts on circumferences of the coils between the pair of flanges. A resin cover (40) covers one of two outer peripheries of the coils. The two outer peripheries are defined by the pair of plates.
US09984810B2	Reactor Provided is a reactor having a small installation area, low loss, and excellent productivity. The reactor includes a coil having a pair of winding portions and that are arranged side by side, and a magnetic core having a U-shaped core piece that is part of a powder compact. The U-shaped core piece includes a side base that has a portion opposite the ends of the pair of winding portions and uncovered by the winding portions, and disposed across the pair of winding portions, a pair of middle portions that protrude from the side base and respectively disposed inside the pair of winding portions, and an end surface facing a gap, a side extension portion extending from the side base orthogonally from the middle portions, and a central protruding portion protruding from the side base's central region, and are arranged side by side, away from the middle portions.
US09984808B2	Electronic component and method for manufacturing electronic component An electronic component includes a substantially helix-shaped inductor including inductive conductor layers on insulator layers including a first inductive conductor layer and a second inductive conductor layer adjacent to the first inductive conductor layer on the upper layer side. Each of the first and second inductive conductor layers has a contact portion and a linear portion. The contact portion is, when viewed in the laminating direction, overlapped by an inductive conductor layer adjacent thereto on the lower or upper layer side. The linear portion is not overlapped by inductive conductor layers adjacent thereto on the lower and upper layer sides. The lower surface of the linear portion of the second inductive conductor layer is positioned higher than that of the first inductive conductor layer, and is positioned lower than the upper surface of the linear portion of the first inductive conductor layer.
US09984805B2	Inductor component An inductor component has a plurality of layers of spiral wirings a magnetic composite body directly or indirectly covering the plurality of layers of spiral wirings and made of a composite material of a resin and a metal magnetic powder with an average particle diameter of 5 μm or less an internal electrode embedded in the magnetic composite body with an end surface exposed from an outer surface of the magnetic composite body, the internal electrode being electrically connected to the spiral wirings, and an external terminal disposed on the outer surface of the magnetic composite body and electrically connected to the internal electrode.
US09984803B2	Coil bobbin and electromagnetic device The electromagnetic device includes a coil bobbin around which a coil is wound and that is formed from a non-magnetic material, and a movable core that is provided in a cylindrical hollow portion of the coil bobbin and moves by excitation of the coil. A first protrusion and a second protrusion facing a part of the lower half of the movable core are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical hollow portion in ranges extending from two openings to a middle point of the coil bobbin, respectively, and the movable core is supported by the first protrusion and the second protrusion when the movable core moves.
US09984800B2	Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method of manufacturing same A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet allows for manufacture of a transformer that exhibits, when the steel sheet is applied to an iron core thereof, extremely low iron loss and extremely low noise properties, makes highly efficient use of energy, and can be used in various environments. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a strain distribution in regions where closure domains are formed, when observed in a cross section in the rolling direction, with a maximum tensile strain in a sheet thickness direction being 0.45% or less, and with a maximum tensile strain t (%) and a maximum compressive strain c (%) in the rolling direction satisfying Expression (1): t+0.06≤t+c≤0.35 (1).
US09984797B2	High voltage (HV) impedance device with surface leakage proof configuration applied in HV divider A high voltage impedance device with surface leakage proof configuration is applied in a divider. Aforementioned divider is assembled by a high impedance element, an inner case body and an outer case body. The high impedance element is sealed in the inner case body and a closed interlayer between the inner case body and the outer case body is filled with noble gas as an insulating layer. While the high impedance element is applied in high voltage, the closed interlayer can prevent the current-leakage from forming impedance paralleled with the high impedance element. The current-leakage is formed on the surface of insulting portion, or is formed by moisture, dust or corona effect. Therefore, the current-leakage proof divider may maintain the stability/linearity of the voltage division and then reduce the distance between two ends of the high impedance element effectively and still maintain the linearity of measuring voltage.
US09984796B2	Insulation systems with improved resistance to partial discharge, production method for this An insulating system having improved partial discharge resistance includes an insulating tape around a conductor. The tape is a mica tape joined to a carrier. The tape is impregnated with a synthetic resin, and is interspersed with a nanoparticulate filler, present bimodally, in the form of two fractions of the filler differing in particle size and fraction size. An adhesion promoter may be in the resin.
US09984790B2	Sheathed wire harness A sheathed wire harness includes connectors to be fitted to counterpart connectors, electric wires connected to the connectors, and a fibrous resin cloth that is connected to the electric wires and surrounds the electric wires. The resin cloth includes a cover portion that can be moved to a closed position in which portions of the electric wires near the connectors are covered, and moved to an open position in which the portions of the electric wires near the connectors are exposed.
US09984787B2	Conductive paste and solar cell Disclosed is a conductive paste including; a conductive powder including a plurality of conductive particles, a metallic glass disposed between adjacent conductive particles of the conductive powder, and an organic vehicle in which the conductive powder and metallic glass are disposed, and a solar cell using the conductive paste.
US09984783B2	Energy efficient method of coherently transmitting electromagnetically neutralized radiation produced with destructive interference to a target Invention provided for efficiently transmitting energy to a target for producing an overall effective result for applications comprising power transmission and communications. Wherein, first, a source of electromagnetically intense coherent radiation and an interferometer produce a beam of electromagnetically neutralized radiation. The neutralized beam comprises forward propagating photons or forward propagating electrically charged particles which have associated forward traveling waves which superimpose and destructively interfere to an extent, and have oscillatorily time-varying electromagnetic fields which cancel to a corresponding extent. Then, second, the electromagnetically neutralized beam is coherently transmitted through transmission apparatus to a target which then, third, utilizes the transmitted beam. Wherein, the adverse electromagnetic interaction of the neutralized beam with electrically charged particles comprised in the transmission apparatus and the adverse electromagnetic effects of transmitting energy are eliminated in direct proportion to the destructive interference in, and the respective intensity eliminated from, the neutralized beam during transmission.
US09984780B2	Packaging for decommissioned and dismantled nuclear reactors and reactor components A method of decommissioning a nuclear reactor including a vessel defining an inner chamber and reactor internal components positioned within the inner chamber includes removing at least some of the internal components and repackaging at least some of the removed internal components in at least one of the first and second predefined sections of the vessel defining a cutting zone between the at least first and second predefined sections. The method further includes disposing the vessel in a container, and encapsulating the internal components in the vessel and encapsulating the vessel in the container to generate a package. A package including components from a decommissioned and dismantled nuclear reactor includes a vessel and a plurality of components encapsulated in the vessel.
US09984775B2	Localised energy concentration A method of producing a localized concentration of energy includes: creating a shockwave propagating through a non-gaseous medium so as to be incident upon a boundary between the non-gaseous medium and a gaseous medium formed by at least one hole in a barrier separating the non-gaseous medium from a gaseous medium. This forms a transverse jet on the other side of the hole which is incident upon a target surface comprising a depression which is spaced from the barrier in the gaseous medium. An apparatus for producing a localized concentration of energy is also described.
US09984774B2	Localised energy concentration A method of producing a localized concentration of energy includes: creating at least one shockwave propagating through a non-gaseous medium so as first to be incident upon a focusing pocket of fluid within the medium. The focusing pocket of fluid is positioned relative to a differently sized target pocket of gas within the medium, and is arranged to shield the target pocket of gas from the initial shockwave, such that the incidence of the shockwave on the focusing pocket of fluid concentrates the intensity of a shockwave subsequently incident upon the target pocket of gas. An apparatus for producing a localized concentration of energy is also described.
US09984769B2	3D memory with error checking and correction function An error check and correction method of a 3D memory include a) storing check bits, which is used for error check and correction of an upper memory among the plurality of the memory layers, in one or more of spare cell arrays of a lower memory layer stacked below the upper memory layer and the upper memory layer; and b) performing error check and correction of the upper memory layer by using the stored check bits, wherein in the 3D memory, there are stacked a plurality of memory layers comprising a memory cell array with a matrix structure consisting of memory cells and a spare cell array with a matrix structure consisting of spare memory cells for replacing a fault memory cell, in which a fault occurs, and the 3D memory comprises a master layer for controlling the plurality of the memory layers.
US09984768B2	Distributing storage of ECC code words Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributing error-correction codes. A correction module is configured to determine an error correction code (ECC) code word for storage on one or more non-volatile storage media. A mapping module is configured to determine one or more addresses for the ECC code word so that a portion of the ECC code word is stored at a first physical address within a first set of strings of storage cells of the one or more non-volatile storage media and a portion of the ECC code word is stored at a different physical address within a second set of strings of storage cells of the one or more non-volatile storage media. A storage module is configured to cause the ECC code word to be stored in the one or more non-volatile storage media based on the determined one or more addresses.
US09984765B2	Memory circuit with assist circuit trimming A method includes: examining, by a test engine, whether a first bit of a memory array is functional; in response to the first bit being not functional, storing, by the test engine, address information of the first bit into a memory device; and retrieving, by an assist circuit trimming (ACT) circuit, the address information of the first bit from the memory device to selectively activate at least a first one of a plurality of assist circuits associated with the first bit.
US09984764B2	Semiconductor memory apparatus A semiconductor memory apparatus may include a control circuit, a decoding circuit, and a memory circuit. The control circuit may output one of bank group signals as either a first bank group distribution signal or a second bank group distribution signal and output one of data designation addresses as either a first data designation distribution address or a second data designation distribution address, in response to a first test signal and a second test signal. The decoding circuit may generate decoding signals depending on remaining bank group signals, remaining data designation addresses, bank designation signals, the first and second bank group distribution signals, and the first and second data designation distribution addresses. The memory may select certain memory location to output or store data, in response to the decoding signals.
US09984760B1	Suppressing disturb of select gate transistors during erase in memory A memory device and associated techniques avoid a disturb of a select gate transistor during an erase operation for memory cells in a string. During the erase operation, a channel of the string is charged up from a source end of the string. However, there is a delay in charging up a drain end of the channel. A voltage detector connected to a bit line detects when a drain end of the channel reaches a reference voltage. When the reference voltage is reached, a voltage of the select gate transistor at the drain end of the string can be floated. This avoids unintentional programming of the select gate transistor which could otherwise occur if the voltage was floated to soon. Also, a substrate voltage may be ramped up to a first detected level before being ramped up to a second, final level.
US09984759B1	Detecting data integrity in memory systems Systems, methods, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for detecting data integrity, e.g., read disturbance and/or data retention, of memory systems such as NAND flash memory devices are provided. For detection of read disturbance, an indicator string in a block of a memory can be filled with a predetermined state and read with a special read condition to check read disturbance of the block in one read operation. For detection of data retention, a page of a dedicated block in a memory can be chosen as an indicator page. The indicator page can be filled with a predetermined pattern and read with a proper voltage to quantify a retention shift and further to evaluate other data blocks in the memory with the qualified retention shift. The techniques enable a quick method to examine memory and help to refresh memory before data corruption.
US09984757B2	Operating method of memory controller controlling non-volatile memory device performing refresh read operation An operating method of a memory controller, configured to control a non-volatile memory device that performs a refresh read operation, detects a power on state or power off state of the non-volatile memory device and issues a refresh read command. The non-volatile memory device that receives the refresh read command is controlled to perform, one time, the refresh read operation including a read operation on one of a plurality of word lines with respect to each of the plurality of memory blocks.
US09984752B2	Memory system and data encoding and decoding method to mitigate inter-cell interference A memory system and method is provided. The memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a memory interface, and a code processor. The code processor generates a likelihood value for a first read bit, which is read from a first memory cell, from among read bits contained in a codeword read by the memory interface from the non-volatile memory. For example, the likelihood value can be based on the value of the first read bit and on the value of a second read bit read from a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell so as to decode the codeword using the generated likelihood value.
US09984751B1	Three dimensional optical memory device A system includes a data storage medium comprising layers, an excitation circuit, and an emitter. Each layer comprises cells arranged in a horizontal plane. Cells in different layers are arranged in a vertical plane of the data storage medium. The excitation circuit excites a layer during excitation period. Exciting the layer changes an optical property of the layer during the excitation period. The emitter emits a first and a second beam onto a first and a second cell of the layer being excited during the excitation period to orient electrical charges within the first and the second cell to a first and second oriented values and their intensity to a first and second intensity values respectively. The first and second cells maintain the first and second oriented values and the first and second intensity values after the excitation period is over or in absence of the layer being excited.
US09984748B1	Electronic device and method for reading data stored in resistive memory cell A semiconductor memory includes a cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, the plurality of resistive memory cells having a snapback characteristic; and a read circuit configured to apply a read voltage to a memory cell selected among the plurality of resistive memory cells, and sense data stored in the selected memory cell by determining whether or not a snapback phenomenon has occurred in the selected memory cell, wherein the read voltage has a level higher than a level of a first voltage and lower than a level of a second voltage, wherein the snapback phenomenon occurs when the first voltage is applied to the selected memory cell in a case where the selected memory cell stores first data, and wherein the snapback phenomenon occurs when the second voltage is applied to the selected memory cell in a case where the selected memory cell stores second data.
US09984746B2	Nonvolatile memory device that stores data from completed write requests on a power abnormality According to an embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller, and power storage. The controller is configured to receive, from a host device, a write request for writing data into the nonvolatile memory, and then, write the data based on the write request. The power storage is configured to store power supplied from a power supply. The controller writes, when abnormality in power supplied from the power supply to the memory device is detected, the data based on the write request that has already been received, using the power supplied from the power storage.
US09984744B2	Semiconductor memory device that can stably perform writing and reading without increasing current consumption even with a low power supply voltage Cell power supply lines are arranged for memory cell columns, and adjust impedances or voltage levels of the cell power supply lines according to the voltage levels of bit lines in the corresponding columns, respectively. In the data write operation, the cell power supply line is forced into a floating state according to the bit line potential on a selected column and has the voltage level changed, and a latching capability of a selected memory cell is reduced to write data fast. Even with a low power supply voltage, a static semiconductor memory device that can stably perform write and read of data is implemented.
US09984742B2	Tunable negative bitline write assist and boost attenuation circuit An apparatus and method are provided for implementing write assist with boost attenuation for static random access memory (SRAM) arrays. The apparatus includes a memory array comprising a plurality of SRAM cells. The apparatus further includes a write driver connected to each of a differential pair of bit lines in each of the plurality of SRAM cells of the memory array. The apparatus further includes a write assist attenuation circuit connected to the write driver, the write assist attenuation circuit comprising a clamping device configured to modify a control signal as a function of supply voltage and process to attenuate an amount of boost applied to pull one of the bit lines below ground in an active phase of a write cycle.
US09984740B1	Timing control for input receiver Apparatuses for receiving an input signal in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes a signal receiver that receives information signal; a control circuit that provides a plurality of control signals; and a signal receiver replica circuit that receives a first reference signal. The signal receiver replica circuit includes a plurality of receivers. Each receiver of the plurality of receivers receives the first reference signal and a corresponding control signal of the plurality of control signals, and further provides an output signal.
US09984737B2	Reduction of power consumption in memory devices during refresh modes Devices, systems, and methods include an active mode to accommodate read/write operations of a memory device and a self-refresh mode to accommodate recharging of voltage levels representing stored data when read/write operations are idle. At least one register source provides a first voltage level and a second voltage level that is less than the first voltage level. With such a configuration, during the active mode, the memory device operates at the first voltage level as provided by the at least one register source, and during the self-refresh mode, the memory device operates at the second voltage level as provided by the at least one register source.
US09984734B2	Programmable integrated circuits with in-operation reconfiguration capability Integrated circuits may include partial reconfiguration (PR) circuitry for reconfiguring only a portion of a memory array. In some applications, partial reconfiguration may be performed during user mode. During partial reconfiguration, write assist techniques such as varying the power supply voltage may be applied to help increase write margin, but doing so can potentially affect the performance of in-operation pass gates that are being controlled by the memory array during user mode. In one suitable arrangement, ground power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include p-channel access transistors and that are used to control n-channel pass transistors. In another suitable arrangement, positive power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include n-channel access transistors and that are used to control p-channel pass transistors.
US09984733B2	Power control device and semiconductor memory device including the same A power control device and a semiconductor memory device including the same may be provided. The power control device, may include an amplifier configured to amplify an input signal having a second power-supply voltage level to a first power-supply voltage level having a voltage level different from the second power-supply voltage level. The power control device may include an output portion configured to set an output signal of the amplifier to a specific logic level upon receiving a control signal, and output the output signal having the specific logic level.
US09984732B2	Voltage monitor for generating delay codes Voltage monitors include a predelay cell having an input responsive to a first clock signal. This cell is configured to generate a predelayed clock signal at an output thereof. A serially-connected string of data delay cells is provided, which has an input responsive to the predelayed clock signal. A serially-connected string of clock delay cells is provided, which has an input responsive to a second clock signal that is synchronized to the first clock signal. A plurality latches are provided. The latches have respective data inputs, which are responsive to first periodic signals generated at respective outputs of the serially-connected string of data delay cells, and respective clock/sync terminals, which are responsive to second periodic signals generated at respective outputs of the serially-connected string of clock delay cells. The latches enable loading of a delay code value, which indicates power supply voltage variation.
US09984731B2	Storage device and storage method According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a plurality of nonvolatile semiconductor memories, a sensor and a controller. The sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the nonvolatile semiconductor memories. The controller is configured to receive data from a host, determine a rewriting interval of the data and write the data to, of the nonvolatile semiconductor memories, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory having a temperature corresponding to the rewriting interval.
US09984730B2	Negative supply rail positive boost write-assist circuits for memory bit cells employing a P-type field-effect transistor (PFET) write port(s), and related systems and methods Write-assist circuits for memory bit cells (“bit cells”) employing a P-type Field-Effect transistor (PFET) write port(s) are disclosed. Related methods and systems are also disclosed. It has been observed that as node technology is scaled down in size, PFET drive current (i.e., drive strength) exceeds N-type Field-Effect transistor (NFET) drive current for like-dimensioned FETs. In this regard, in one aspect, it is desired to provide bit cells having PFET write ports, as opposed to NFET write ports, to reduce memory write times to the bit cells, and thus improve memory performance. To mitigate a write contention that could otherwise occur when writing data to bit cells, a write-assist circuit provided in the form of a negative supply rail positive boost circuit can be employed to weaken an NFET pull-down transistor in a storage circuit of a memory bit cells having a PFET write port(s).
US09984729B2	Facial detection, recognition and bookmarking in videos Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facial bookmarking in videos. In one aspect, methods include receiving a digital video comprising video data, processing the video data to detect features indicative of a human face in the digital video, determining, from the video data, a first frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining first timestamp data corresponding to the first frame, determining, from the video data, a second frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining second timestamp data corresponding to the second frame, generating an identifier corresponding to the human face, generating a data set including the identifier, the first timestamp data and the second timestamp data, and appending the data set to the video data to provide annotated video data.
US09984728B2	Video content alignment Various embodiments identify differences between frame sequences of a video. For example, to determine a difference between two versions of a video, a fingerprint of each frame of the two versions is generated. From the fingerprints, a run-length encoded representation of each version is generated. The fingerprints which appear only once (i.e., unique fingerprints) in the entire video are identified from each version and compared to identify matching unique fingerprints across versions. The matching unique fingerprints are sorted and filtered to determine split points, which are used to align the two versions of the video. Accordingly, each version is segmented into smaller frame sequences using the split points. Once segmented, the individual frames of each segment are aligned across versions using a dynamic programming algorithm. After aligning the segments at a frame level, the segments are reassembled to generate a global alignment output.
US09984723B2	Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and magnetic recording and reproducing method A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing bit information comprising a magnetic head having a spin torque oscillator configured to readout bit information which is recorded on a magnetic recording medium, a detector configured to detect amplitude of a first signal, the first signal which is to reproduce the bit information, and a controller configured to control the magnetic head so as to read the bit information recorded on the magnetic recording medium when the amplitude of the first signal detected by the detector is smaller than a predetermined value.
US09984719B2	Laser mode hopping detection for heat-assisted magnetic recording device Methods and apparatuses for detecting mode hopping in a laser diode or other optical energy source in heat-assisted magnetic recording. An output power of the laser diode or other optical energy source is measured and the output power is differentiated over time to determine a rate of change. If it is determined that the rate of change exceeds a threshold value, a fault signal is asserted indicating a potential mode hopping event.
US09984716B1	Magnetic tape device and head tracking servo method The magnetic tape device includes: a magnetic tape; and a servo head, in which a magnetic tape transportation speed of the magnetic tape device is equal to or lower than 18 m/sec, the servo head is a TMR head, the magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, the magnetic layer includes a servo pattern, the magnetic layer includes one or more components selected from the group consisting of fatty acid and fatty acid amide, and a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is 45 to 65 atom %.
US09984715B2	Magnetic disk and manufacturing method thereof A magnetic disk of is provided, the magnetic disk having at least a magnetic layer, a carbon protective layer, and a lubrication layer sequentially provided on a substrate. In an embodiment, the lubrication layer a film formed by a lubricant having a perfluoropolyether compound A having a perfluoropolyether main chain in the structure and also having a hydroxyl group at the end and a compound C obtained from a reaction between a compound B expressed by: [Chemical formula 1] CF3(—O—C2F4)m-(O—CF2)n-OCF3 [m and n in the formula are natural numbers.] and aluminum oxide.
US09984713B1	Heat assisted magnetic recording media with enhanced tuning exchange coupling An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage layer, a first write layer, and a second write layer. The first write layer is disposed over the storage layer. The second write layer is disposed over the first write layer. The anisotropy field and magnetization associated with the second write layer at writing temperature is greater than anisotropy field and magnetization associated with the first write layer at the writing temperature.
US09984710B2	Magnetic tape having controlled surface properties of the backcoat and magnetic layer and method of manufacturing the same The magnetic tape has a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and binder on the surface on one side of a nonmagnetic support and has a backcoat layer containing nonmagnetic powder and binder on the surface on the other side thereof, wherein the centerline average surface roughness Ra as measured on the surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 1.8 nm, the logarithmic decrement as determined by a pendulum viscoelasticity test on the surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 0.050, and the logarithmic decrement as determined by a pendulum viscoelasticity test on the surface on the backcoat layer side is less than or equal to 0.060.
US09984706B2	Voice activity detection using a soft decision mechanism Voice activity detection (VAD) is an enabling technology for a variety of speech based applications. Herein disclosed is a robust VAD algorithm that is also language independent. Rather than classifying short segments of the audio as either “speech” or “silence”, the VAD as disclosed herein employees a soft-decision mechanism. The VAD outputs a speech-presence probability, which is based on a variety of characteristics.
US09984705B2	Non-intrusive quality measurements for use in enhancing audio quality Methods and systems are provided for receiving by a first electronic device audio content, determining audio quality of the received audio content, which includes measuring and/or estimating quality related parameters associated with the received audio content, and communicating the quality related parameters to a second electronic device, from which the audio content was transmitted. The quality related parameters may be used to control audio related functions in the second electronic device. The audio related functions may comprise noise reduction, noise suppression, cancellation, distortion reduction, equalization, compression, enhancement and/or audio rate conversion. Determining the audio quality of the received audio content may be based on one or more noise related thresholds. The quality related parameters may be communicated to the second electronic device over a dedicated control channel setup between the devices.
US09984703B2	Sound verification In some examples, sound verification may include a speaker device that may be configured to transmit sound at a dynamic volume level and a listening device that may be configured to receive the sound and provide feedback to the speaker device based on the received sound. The primary transceiver device may be further configured to adjust the dynamic volume level based on the feedback provided by the secondary transceiver device.
US09984696B2	Transition from a transform coding/decoding to a predictive coding/decoding Methods and apparatus are provided for coding and decoding a digital audio signal. Decoding includes: decoding according to an inverse transform decoding of a previous frame of samples of the digital signal, which is received and coded according to a transform coding; and decoding according to a predictive decoding of a current frame of samples of the digital signal, which is received and coded according to a predictive coding. The predictive decoding of the current frame is a transition predictive decoding which does not use any adaptive dictionary arising from the previous frame. At least one state of the predictive decoding is reinitialized to a predetermined default value, and an add-overlap step combines a signal segment synthesized by predictive decoding of the current frame and a signal segment synthesized by inverse transform decoding, corresponding to a stored segment of the decoding of the previous frame.
US09984694B2	Method and device for improving the rendering of multi-channel audio signals Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteristics of scene composition, especially for e.g. multi-channel audio or Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) content. An improved method for encoding pre-processed audio data comprises encoding the pre-processed audio data, and encoding auxiliary data that indicate the particular audio pre-processing. An improved method for decoding encoded audio data comprises determining that the encoded audio data had been pre-processed before encoding, decoding the audio data, extracting from received data information about the pre-processing, and post-processing the decoded audio data according to the extracted pre-processing information.
US09984683B2	Automatic speech recognition using multi-dimensional models Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatic speech recognition using multi-dimensional models. In some implementations, audio data that describes an utterance is received. A transcription for the utterance is determined using an acoustic model that includes a neural network having first memory blocks for time information and second memory blocks for frequency information. The transcription for the utterance is provided as output of an automated speech recognizer.
US09984682B1	Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically generating an assessment of oral recitations of assessment items Provide automatic assessment of oral recitations during computer based language assessments using a trained neural network to automate the scoring and feedback processes without human transcription and scoring input by automatically generating a score of a language assessment. Providing an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) scoring system. Training multiple scoring reference vectors associated with multiple possible scores of an assessment, and receiving an acoustic language assessment response to an assessment item. Based on the acoustic language assessment automatically generating a transcription, and generating an individual word vector from the transcription. Generating an input vector by concatenating an individual word vector with a transcription feature vector, and supplying an input vector as input to a neural network. Generating an output vector based on weights of a neural network; and generating a score by comparing an output vector with scoring vectors.
US09984680B2	Method for improving acoustic model, computer for improving acoustic model and computer program thereof Embodiments include methods and systems for improving an acoustic model. Aspects include acquiring a first standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from first training data and acquiring a second standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from second training data acquired in a different environment from an environment of the first training data. Aspects also include creating a feature adapted to an environment where the first training data is recorded, by multiplying the feature acquired from the second training data by a ratio obtained by dividing the first standard deviation value by the second standard deviation value. Aspects further include reconstructing an acoustic model constructed using training data acquired in the same environment as the environment of the first training data using the feature adapted to the environment where the first training data is recorded.
US09984679B2	System and method for optimizing speech recognition and natural language parameters with user feedback Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for assigning saliency weights to words of an ASR model. The saliency values assigned to words within an ASR model are based on human perception judgments of previous transcripts. These saliency values are applied as weights to modify an ASR model such that the results of the weighted ASR model in converting a spoken document to a transcript provide a more accurate and useful transcription to the user.
US09984676B2	Feature normalization inputs to front end processing for automatic speech recognition A computer-implemented method is described for front end speech processing for automatic speech recognition. A sequence of speech features which characterize an unknown speech input is received with a computer process. A first subset of the speech features is normalized with a computer process using a first feature normalizing function. A second subset of the speech features is normalized with a computer process using a second feature normalizing function different from the first feature normalizing function. The normalized speech features in the first and second subsets are combined with a computer process to produce a sequence of mixed normalized speech features for automatic speech recognition.
US09984674B2	Cognitive computing enabled smarter conferencing An approach for augmenting a teleconference based on cognitive computing. A teleconference transcript is created based on speech-to-text conversion. A portion of the teleconference transcript is replaced based on a substitute word store and on cognitive computing text substitution. A second teleconference transcript and text-to-speech conversion creates augmented real-time audio. Participant audio and augmented audios are combined to create and output augmented audio to teleconference participants. Audio augmentation includes noise reduction, volume normalization, content change and natural language translation.
US09984673B2	Method of cancelling noise and electronic device therefor A method of removing noise and an electronic device thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a speaker, a first sensor configured to output a first signal by obtaining noise around the electronic device, a second sensor configured to output a second signal by detecting vibrations around the electronic device, and a controller configured to determine whether the second signal satisfies a condition of not exceeding a certain threshold value, and output an acoustic signal to be output through the speaker based on the first signal according to a result of the determination.
US09984671B1	Osmotic acoustic source An acoustic projector is provided with an enclosure having a semi-permeable membrane on one side. High salinity liquid is injected at the enclosure to increase osmotic pressure. Valves thereafter allow free flooding between the enclosure and surrounding seawater to equalize the pressure. Transient pressure in the enclosure generates a pressure pulse that propagates from the semi-permeable membrane. The timing of the injection by salt jets and the free-flooding valves enables a repeatable acoustic pulse at low frequencies and a determinable upper frequency. If the acoustic projector is mounted to be conformal to the hull of a ship; the acoustic projector includes a free-flowing region on one side of a semi-permeable membrane and valves. When the valves are opened; the other side of the membrane is free-flooded. Salt jets inject high salinity liquid into an enclosure to increase pressure with the result of an acoustic pressure pulse.
US09984669B2	Reed for electronic musical instrument, and electronic musical instrument The present invention provides a reed for an electronic musical instrument and an electronic musical instrument in which determination of lip position is not susceptible to the influence of noise and the like. In one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic musical instrument is provided with a reed and a plurality of sensor electrodes in the reed, arranged next to one another from a tip side of the reed towards a base side of the reed, each of the sensor electrodes having a center portion projecting towards the tip side of the reed. The lip position of the performer is determined in accordance with the output from the plurality of sensors.
US09984668B1	Music effects processor A method in accord with certain implementations involves, at an audio input, receiving a time domain audio signals; at one or more digital signal processors: converting the time domain audio signal to a frequency domain representation containing at least a fundamental frequency component, modifying the frequency domain representation to produce a modified frequency spectrum, converting the modified frequency spectrum to a modified time domain audio signal; and outputting the modified input signals as an output signal. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09984656B2	Signal converting methods A signal converting method includes: receiving RGB signals; enhancing color of a red component, a green component, and a blue component of the RGB signals to convert the RGB signals into RGBY signals; and outputting the converted RGBY signals. The signal converting method may enhance the saturation of the red component, the green component, and the blue component of the RGBY signals, such that the components of each of the colors are more vivid and more balanced.
US09984654B2	Display driver capable of driving multiple display interfaces A semiconductor chip is described. The semiconductor chip includes a display controller having a driver. The display controller is configurable to select a first, a second, a third and a fourth different display interface. The driver is designed to drive respective signals for each of the first, second, third and fourth interfaces through a single output.
US09984647B2	Video frame rate compensation through adjustment of vertical blanking Systems and methods are configured to adjust the timing of source frame compression in response to detected fluctuations in a variable frame rate at which source frames are rendered into a buffer.
US09984645B2	Display device and control method According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display and a driver. The display is configured to display an image. The driver is configured to execute driving for displaying the image on the display in a display period to display the image, and execute driving different from the driving for displaying the image on the display, in a non-display period subsequent to the display period.
US09984643B2	Data driver, display apparatus having the same and method of driving the display apparatus A data driver includes a first data voltage generator, a data converter and a second data voltage generator. The first data voltage generator is configured to generate a first data voltage based on first pixel data and configured to output the first data voltage to a first data line, the first pixel data being generated based on a first gamma curve. The data converter is configured to convert second pixel data to first converted pixel data, the second pixel data being generated based on the first gamma curve, the first converted pixel data being generated based on a second gamma curve different from the first gamma curve. The second data voltage generator is configured to generate a second data voltage based on the first converted pixel data and configured to output the second data voltage to a second data line.
US09984641B2	Gate protection circuit and display device including the same A gate protection circuit includes: a clock signal generator to generate a plurality of gate clock signals; a gate driver to output gate signals based on the plurality of gate clock signals, the gate driver including a plurality of gate driving circuits cascaded to each other; and a monitoring line configured to transmit a feedback signal based on the plurality of gate clock signals via the plurality of gate driving circuits to the clock signal generator. The clock signal generator is to block generation of the plurality of gate clock signals in response to the feedback signal.
US09984640B2	Semiconductor device, display device and electronic device To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
US09984639B2	Adaptive spatial offset cancellation of source driver A display panel subsystem adaptively employs one of three types of input offset voltage cancellation modes based on an analysis of gray level values of sub-pixels for each row un a frame of image data. The system selects a candidate row within a selected group of rows and applies a first chopper mode to each sub-pixel in the candidate row. Under a row-based mode, the system applies a second chopper mode to each sub-pixel included in a row having gray level values matching the candidate row. Under a per-column row-based mode, the system applies the row-based mode on a per-column basis. Under a sub-pixel-wise mode, for each column, the system changes a chopper mode applied to a sub-pixel in a subsequent row relative to the last state of the chopper mode in a row having the same gray level value as a corresponding sub-pixel in the subsequent row.
US09984638B2	High refresh rate displays with synchronized local dimming A display may have a first stage such as a color liquid crystal display stage and a second stage such as a monochromatic liquid crystal display stage that are coupled in tandem so that light from a backlight passes through both stages. The first (upper) stage may be a high resolution display panel that is operated at a first refresh rate while the second (lower) stage is a low resolution display panel that is operated at a second refresh rate that is greater than the first refresh rate. In particular, the second stage may be configured to provide localized dimming that is synchronized to one or more moving objects in the video frames to be displayed to help reduce the perceived motion blur. The localized dimming may be provided via insertion of a black image portion that only overlaps with the moving objects, a blanking row that tracks the moving objects, a black frame, etc.
US09984637B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and driving method thereof An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel including the array substrate and a driving method thereof are provided. Each of the sub-pixel units of the array substrate includes a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor; the first thin film transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode; the second thin film transistor includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode and a second drain electrode; each of the sub-pixel unit further includes a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the first drain electrode, a second pixel electrode electrically connected to the second drain electrode; and the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are disposed in different layers and insulated with each other.
US09984636B2	Display device and driving method thereof Provided if a display device including a liquid crystal panel, a common voltage generator configured to generate a common voltage, and a common voltage compensator. The liquid crystal panel includes gate lines, data lines, pixels, and a common electrode. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels. The first pixels and the second pixels are respectively disposed in pixel rows adjacent to each other, respectively constitute different columns, are connected to the same gate line, display the same color, and receive data voltages having different polarities. When a boundary of a pattern included in image data, extending in a first direction, lies between the first pixels and the second pixels, the common voltage compensator is configured to compensate the common voltage.
US09984635B2	Display device having a first pixel column with different number of pixels than a second pixel column Provided is a display device including a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixel columns, the display device including: a first pixel column including i pixels (i is a natural number) from among the plurality of pixel columns; a second pixel column including j pixels (j is a different natural number than i) from among the plurality of pixel columns; a first data line connected to the i pixels in the first pixel column, and to k pixels (k is a smaller natural number than j) from among the j pixels in the second pixel column; a second data line connected to j minus k (j-k) pixels from among the j pixels in the second pixel column; and gate lines connected to pixels in the first pixel column and the second pixel column.
US09984625B2	Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving pixel circuit A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes. The circuit includes a source of a TFT used as a drive transistor that is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, and a drain of the TFT is connected to a power source potential. A capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT used as a switching transistor.
US09984615B2	Pixel driving circuit, driving method, array substrate and display device ensuring luminance uniformity of light-emitting device There is provided a pixel driving circuit, a driving method, an array substrate and a display device. The pixel driving circuit comprises: a first switching unit, being turned on or off according to a first scanning signal to control a transmission of a data signal; a first charging unit, having first terminal connected to a second terminal of the first switching unit; a first driving unit, having control terminal connected to a second terminal of the first charging unit, first terminal connected to a first power supply, and second terminal connected to a second power supply; a first driving compensation unit, for producing a predetermined voltage at the control terminal of the first driving unit, so that a current flowing through the light-emitting device is independent of threshold voltage of the first driving unit. Accordingly, the threshold voltage is prevented from affecting light-emitting luminance, luminance uniformity is ensured.
US09984612B2	Image display device Provided is an image display device having a see-through-type display capable of suppressing decrease in visibility when background is visually recognized through a screen. The liquid crystal panel is driven such that chromaticity and a color temperature of source light are approximated to chromaticity and a color temperature of ambient light that have been measured by a color illuminance sensor attached to the display, the source light being transmitted through a region through which the ambient light is originally to be transmitted and having luminance lower than luminance of source light emitted from the light source. With this, in a region through which background of the liquid crystal panel can be seen, transparency seems to be increased and a viewer is able to see the background more easily.
US09984605B2	Wearable display A system for an adult costume toy for entertainment. The system composes at least one cone; a plurality of LED lights configured to be controlled by a microprocessor; at least one motor coupled to a propeller; a memory; at least one battery configured to supply power to the motor, LED lights, microprocessor and memory; at a plurality of user interface buttons configured to receive a plurality of user input. The memory comprises a computer-readable-medium having computer-executable program stored therein that, when executed by the microprocessor, cause the microprocessor to, to control the rotation of the motor and lighting of the plurality of LED to generate a projection of the message on the rotating propeller based on the plurality of user inputs. The plurality of LED lights, the memory and microprocessor, and the motor are housed in a cone shaped housing. The further inventive aspects can be embodied in the adult costume toy wherein the buttons consist on/off switch control, a letter input, and a number input for customizing messages. The other inventive aspects can be embodied wherein the one or more cones augment a portion of the torso and include one or more LED lights providing one or more lovable or provocative messages on the propeller and the least one propeller spins on the at least one cone.
US09984603B1	Modular display panel Embodiments of the present invention relate to modular display panels. In one embodiment, a modular display panel includes a printed circuit board, a shell, a plurality of LEDs, a power supply, and a heat conducting structure. The LEDs are attached to a first side of the printed circuit board. The shell contacts an opposite second side of the printed circuit board. The shell includes a back surface that includes an outer back surface of the panel. A driver circuit is disposed in the shell. The sidewalls of the shell include plastic. The printed circuit board is disposed between the power supply and the LEDs. The power supply includes a power converter for converting alternating current (AC) power to direct current (DC) power. The heat conducting structure is disposed between the power supply and the back surface of the shell. The modular display panel is sealed to be waterproof.
US09984602B2	Decorative illumination recording sheet, method of preparing the same, decorative illumination image sheet, method of preparing the same, and decorative illumination signboard A decorative illumination recording sheet that includes: a resin base; and a white layer that is disposed on the resin base and contains a white pigment and a binder, in which a colorant different from the white pigment is contained, and in a case where an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm is represented by Tv and an average transmittance in a wavelength range exceeding 700 nm, but not exceeding 800 nm is represented by Tr, Tv and Tr satisfy relationships expressed by the following Formulae (1) and (2), a method of manufacturing the decorative illumination recording sheet, a decorative illumination image sheet, a method of manufacturing the decorative illumination image sheet, and a decorative illumination signboard. 40.0%≤Tv<50.0% (1) 40.0%≤Tr<50.0% (2)
US09984599B2	Sign suspender for mounting in channel for ladderless display A ceiling clip for mounting a sign or display includes a spool portion on which is wound a cord that is selectively unwound to a desired length and attached in a line clip for suspending the sign or display from the cord. The ceiling clip includes first and second flanges wherein the second flange is shaped to fit into a channel. The second flange is tapered for insertion into the channel and is of a width to frictionally engage the channel. Multiple ceiling clips may be inserted into the channel. The channel has magnets, hooks, interlocking cleats, or other mounting means that engage a mounting location to mount the channel, ceiling clips, and the sign or display at the mounting location with a single mounting motion. The channel may be mounted or unmounted using a gripper on a pole.
US09984597B2	Temporarily removable reverse-printed label assembly The present invention relates to an adhesive-backed printed pressure sensitive cut label assembly with easy temporary removability, wherein the portion of the label forming the label stock may be printed on the back- or reverse-side of the label face stock and whereby the printed surface is applied with a hot melt or acrylic adhesive that ensures easy short-term removability from a container surface and reapplication thereto. The label stock is laminated to a base stock comprising a paper or polymeric release liner coated with silicone or other adhesive release coating. During manufacturing of the label assembly, the label stock and base stock are simultaneously fed to laminating rollers following a die-cutting process, whereby the two are joined. One feature of the invention is the ease of temporary removability after application to the surface of a container whereby there is no adhesion of the ink printed on the label to the container surface itself. An additional feature is the elimination of the need for an overlamination of the label face stock when using a reverse-printed label face stock over which an appropriate adhesive is applied.
US09984596B2	Cylindrical shrink label and method for producing same A cylindrical shrink label is provided with a heat-shrinkable label base material; and a joint formed by cylindrically forming the label base material so that the edges thereof overlap, and then solvent welding the inner surface of the outside edge, which is positioned on the outside of the cylinder, and the outer surface of the inside edge, which is positioned on the inside of the cylinder. A resin layer, which is soluble in a hot alkaline aqueous solution, is formed on the abovementioned inner surface and/or the abovementioned outer surface, which form the joint.
US09984593B2	Electronic shelf label with attachment means for an information display device and such information display device An electronic shelf label for displaying information. The electronic shelf label includes: a casing; an information display area; a printed circuit board; fastening structure for fastening the electronic shelf label on a shelf; and a recess extending from the side surface of the casing. The recess includes attaching structure for attaching external information display devices to the electronic shelf label. An information display device for use in combination with the electronic shelf label is further provided.
US09984589B2	Tactile measuring instrument A tactile measuring instrument to be used primarily to measure and produce geometric quantities without use of sight, wherein a sliding jaw is configured to move over a guide to adjust the instrument to desired measurement, a mechanically controlled display mechanism is configured to place within tactile perception selected tactile forms or Braille dots, and condensed representation of tactile forms is configured to control display mechanism such that the numerical value of measurement is displayed; and because tactile forms are condensed and more may be packed in the same area, the instrument has high precision. As the display mechanism is small, lightweight and hidden, the instrument is small, portable and simple; and as all information is presented in Braille, it is quick-to-use and convenient. With different configurations of display mechanism and condensed tactile forms, the device may be used for applications other than measurement as well.
US09984583B2	Audio demonstration kit An audio demonstration kit encourages understanding of audio concepts by enabling children to construct and study speaker performance. In a particular embodiment, the audio demonstration kit includes a paper speaker and instructions. The paper speaker includes a backplate, a suspension, and a diaphragm cut from a single sheet of paper. The demonstration kit may feature an amplifier that is configurable to accommodate various hardware additions as a child is ready for more progressively challenging construction. For example, the amplifier of an embodiment allows single and dual mode operation, as well as drives a rotary motor and is coordinated with a strobe light. The amplifier of an embodiment is synchronized with the strobe light and a moveable platform to create the impression of that jiggling figures attached to the table are dancing. Interfaces with smart phone, recording, and other technologies further enhances and encourages the learning experience.
US09984580B2	Method and system for robust network planning optimization of airline flight operations A method, medium, and system to receive a baseline airline schedule including details associated with at least one flight; optimize the baseline airline schedule in accordance with at least one specified optimization objective to generate an optimized airline schedule; evaluate a robustness of the optimized airline schedule based on an execution of a simulation based process to generate a set of quantitative metrics; and generate a record of the set of quantitative metrics.
US09984575B2	Method for requesting transportation services A method for safely and efficiently requesting transportation services through the use of mobile communications devices capable of geographic location is described. Individual and package transportation may be provided. New customers may be efficiently serviced, and the requester and transportation provider locations may be viewed in real time on the mobile devices.
US09984569B1	Haul road accident prevention device A haul road safety system that includes a flashing stop sign is positioned at the intersection in a standard position. A doppler radar is set up and mounted on a wig wag warning sign typically; however, it can be placed on another platform in any convenient location. When the radar detects a moving vehicle, it causes the sign's electronics to activate and the sign to illuminate and its warning lights to blink. The sign is programmed to warn of the existence of the intersection and the necessity to stop ahead. At the same time, a radio signal is sent from the radar/electronics module to the flashing stop sign at the intersection which immediately begins flashing.
US09984561B1	Method and system for remote modification of information for an appliance activation transmission A method to modify activation information operatively stored in a remote location, the activation information is configured to be transmitted in an activation transmission generated by an appliance control device of a vehicle for remote activation of one or more appliances, the information modification method conducted through the support of a modification module having aspects incorporated into a mobile computing device, server, and a telematics unit of the vehicle is herein presented. The method includes the steps of: receiving a command to modify the activation information at the mobile computing device; transmitting the command from the mobile computing device to the remotely located server; receiving the command at the server; transmitting the command from the server to the remotely located telematics unit; receiving the command at the telematics unit; and modifying, via the telematics unit, the activation information prior to access by the appliance control device.
US09984560B2	System and method for guiding result of remote control using mobile device Provided are a system and a method for guiding a result of remote control using a mobile device, and particularly, a system and a method for guiding a result of remote control, which determines a scheme that feeds back the remote control result of a vehicle to a mobile device app of a user.
US09984558B2	Interaction between a mobile robot and an alarm installation A system has a mobile robot for autonomously performing activities and a statically fitted alarm installation for monitoring an area. Accordingly, the robot and the alarm installation communicate with one another via a communication link. The mobile self-propelled robot uses a map of the environment to navigate across a floor space through at least a portion of the area and to locate its position on the map. Triggering of an alarm by the alarm installation is prevented when the robot moves into the area to be monitored. The triggering of the alarm by the alarm installation is made possible again when the robot moves out of the area to be monitored.
US09984557B2	Systems and methods of increasing the efficiency and accuracy of a walk test in a fire alarm system Systems and methods of increasing the efficiency and accuracy of a walk test in a fire alarm system are provided. Some methods can include receiving one or more walk test result signals from a system in a region, the signals indicative of one or more triggered input devices in the system and one or more activated output devices in the system, identifying one or more output devices in the system configured to be activated responsive to the one or more triggered input devices, comparing the activated output devices to the output devices configured to be activated, and transmitting a signal indicative of results of the comparing. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include visually displaying or audibly emitting an indication of the results of the comparing.
US09984553B2	Hygiene compliance module A hygiene compliance module is configured to be retrofit with a compatible dispenser to enable hygiene compliance monitoring functions. The hygiene compliance module is configured to be coupled to the dispenser via a communication interface to receive power, ground, and dispenser actuation signals therefrom. In addition, the hygiene compliance module is enabled to communicate with a wireless data tag that is worn by a user of the dispenser and with a remote hygiene compliance monitoring station.
US09984549B2	Networked sensor systems and methods Embodiments of a system and methods for using a sensing attached to footwear are generally described herein. A device may include an accelerometer to measure a force, a transceiver to: send information about the force to an external device, and receive a response from the external device, the response indicating whether the force exceeded a threshold and occurred within a specified timing window around a sensory output. The device may include feedback hardware to generate feedback when the response indicates that the force fell below the threshold or occurred outside the specified timing window.
US09984548B2	Method and device for providing an alarm There is provided a method and device (2) for providing an alarm (7) on request of a person (1). The person is wearing the device that is attached with attachment means (3, 4, 5) to the wrist or other part of the body. A pulling force (6) of the person acting on the device causes a change in an electrical characteristic of a component (301) included in the device. The change of the electrical characteristic is measured and when detected will result in an activation of the alarm.
US09984546B2	Systems and methods for intra-zone detection Systems (100) and methods (1800) for determining where an object or person is located in an EAS detection zone. The methods involve: simultaneously emitting a first signal from a first emitter and a second signal from a second emitter; concurrently detecting the first and second signals during a first period of time by each of a first detector and a second detector; and determining where the object or person is within the EAS detection zone based on a pattern of a signal output from at least one of the first and second detectors which reflects that at least one of the first and second signals is blocked by the object or person during at least one of a second period of time and a third period of time in which the object or person is traveling through the EAS detection zone.
US09984536B2	Spinner bingo game and method A spinner bingo game system and method is disclosed. A spinner bingo game wherein a winning player can win a first prize for winning the game by covering the game-ending pattern, win a larger secondary progressive prize for covering a single-colored secondary pattern portion of the game-ending pattern, and/or win an even larger tertiary progressive prize for covering the single-colored secondary pattern where a spinner element is also pointing to the same color.
US09984534B2	Enhanced gaming machine with interactive bonus Electronic gaming machines with an interactive bonus game. A touch sensitive display device provides an interactive game environment with prize symbols, a pointer, and a selection game zone with masked or covered selector game symbols. A player input device detects player interaction commands to select the game symbols to move the pointer relative to the prize symbols. A graphical animation effect represents movement of the pointer relative to the prize symbols.
US09984532B2	Gaming system and a method of gaming A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a game implementer arranged to implement a game and to produce a game outcome, an outcome evaluator arranged to determine whether the game outcome corresponds to a winning outcome, and a win modification selector. The win modification selector is arranged to select a win modification identifier when a winning outcome exists from a plurality of win modification identifiers including a plurality of win multiply identifiers and at least one win reduce identifier. The gaming system also comprises a prize allocator arranged to allocate a prize to a player when a winning outcome exists and to modify the allocated prize using the selected win modification identifier. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
US09984531B2	Systems for an intermediate value holder An electromechanical gaming machine for providing an intermediate value holder in a gambling hybrid game. The intermediate value holder may be used to change a set of variables in an entertainment game provided the gambling hybrid game. The intermediate value holder may be obtained as the result of a gambling event or by the expenditure of a form of credit by the player.
US09984523B1	Control system for lock devices A control system includes an electronic key storing identification data. The electronic key includes a biological feature pickup device for inputting biological feature identification information. The electronic key can be paired with at least one lock device. When the electronic key is connected to the at least one lock device, the at least one lock device reads the identification data in a main memory of the electronic key for comparison with authenticated identification information stored in the at least one lock device. Furthermore, the biological feature identification information is compared with authenticated biological feature identification information stored in the at least one lock device. Thus, the at least one lock device can be controlled to be in a locked state or an unlocked state. Thus, a single electronic key can be used to control a plurality of lock devices of different security levels.
US09984520B1	Facility and resource access system A system that allows an end-user to locate and gain access to a private facility, such as a restroom or other resource, without requiring that the end-user interact with any facility personnel. A mobile application allows a user to identify and proceed to a location where a private facility is available. When a user arrives at the location, the mobile application communicates with access control devices at the location to notify facility personnel of the user's presence and unlock doors or otherwise remove safeguards preventing general public access to the private facility.
US09984516B2	Systems and methods for adding a trainable transceiver to a vehicle A trainable transceiver base station for controlling a remote device includes a first transceiver circuit, a power connection, and a control circuit. The first transceiver circuit is configured to transmit activation signals to the remote device, the activation signals formatted based on training information and formatted to control the remote device. The power connection is configured to receive electrical power from a vehicle. The control circuit is configured to cause the first transceiver circuit to transmit the activation signal when a command signal is received at the trainable transceiver base station. The trainable transceiver base station is located at a first location within the vehicle, and the trainable transceiver base station is configured to receive the command signal from a remote button module located at a second location within the vehicle.
US09984515B2	Automatic search based on detected user interest in vehicle A method of automatically performing a search based on user interest detected in a vehicle is provided. A user interest of a user in a vehicle is detected by examining sensor information from one or more sensors in the vehicle. A search is automatically performed for items relevant to the user interest. A user interface in the vehicle is then caused to display the items relevant to the user interest.
US09984513B2	System and method for determining vehicle component conditions A system and method for determining vehicle component conditions are provided. A function that maps features to door conditions is stored. Motor current measurements are obtained for a door over a predetermined time period. The features of the motor current measurements are determined based on the stored function. The features are then analyzed by mapping the features to one or more door conditions via a predetermined function. At least one condition of the door is determined based on the analyzed features.
US09984512B2	Cooperative vehicle monitoring and anomaly detection A cooperative vehicle monitoring method including, at an intravehicular monitor configured with each of a plurality of vehicles, gathering any in-vehicle data associated with the vehicle, detecting any intravehicular anomaly associated with the vehicle by analyzing the in-vehicle data, and reporting intravehicular information including any of the detected intravehicular anomaly and the in-vehicle data, and, at an extravehicular monitor, detecting any anomaly by analyzing the reported intravehicular information in combination with extravehicular data that are external to the plurality of vehicles, and reporting any of the intravehicular information, the extravehicular data, and any anomaly detected at the extravehicular monitor.
US09984510B1	System and method for modifying virtual elements in a virtual environment using hierarchical anchors incorporated into virtual elements The methods, systems, techniques, and components described herein allow interactions with virtual elements in a virtual environment, such as a Virtual Reality (VR) environment or Augmented Reality (AR) environment, to be modeled accurately. More particularly, the methods, systems, techniques, and components described herein allow a first virtual element to move within the virtual environment based on an anchor relationship between the first virtual element and a second virtual element. The anchor relationship may define an equilibrium position for the first virtual element. The equilibrium position may define a return position for the first virtual element with respect to the second virtual element. Responsive to the first virtual element being displaced from the equilibrium position, the virtual element may move towards the equilibrium position.
US09984509B2	Virtual historical displays Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for virtual historical displays. A server computer or other computing device can execute a virtual display service. The virtual display service can obtain behavioral data associated with a geographic location and an activity associated with a user of a user device. The virtual display service can associate the behavioral data with the user device and the geographic location, and detect subsequent activity associated with the geographic location. The virtual display service can determine that the behavioral data is to be shared with a device associated with the subsequent activity. The virtual display service can provide the behavioral data to the device.
US09984498B2	Sparse GPU voxelization for 3D surface reconstruction Processes and systems described herein enable a computing device to perform voxel-based three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction modeling using parallel graphics hardware. The computing device may generate an initial low resolution voxel list. The voxels of the voxel list may be represented as index triples corresponding to the 3D spatial location of a cell within a voxel grid (e.g., {ix, iy, iz}). Based on information of input images associated with an object, the computing device may remove certain voxels that do not intersect with a surface of the object. The remaining voxels may be subdivided one or more times into a certain number of sub-voxels in parallel to generate a new voxel list. The newly generated voxel list may be tested again to determine voxels that do not intersect with the object surface. This process may repeat in part. The output voxels may be rendered as projected images.
US09984497B2	Method and apparatus for performing tile-based path rendering A method of rendering at least one of paths forming an object includes setting an initial value to each of tiles included in a frame based on a position and a proceeding direction of the at least one of paths, calculating a winding number of each of the tiles through which the at least one of paths passes, among the tiles included in the frame, based on the set initial value, and determining whether to perform shading based on the set initial value and the calculated winding number.
US09984496B1	Technique for compact and accurate encoding trim geometry for application in a graphical processing unit In an example embodiment, a technique is provided for encoding trim geometry for application in a GPU. For a UV trim polygon associated with a surface, the UV trim polygon is recursive subdivided into a predetermined number of tiles to produce a set of tiles. Each tile of set of tiles is represented by a value in an array, where the value indicates whether the area of the UV trim polygon corresponding to the tile is entirely solid, is entirely void, or for a case where the tile includes both a solid portion and a void portion, provides an index into an associated linear trim array that stores a trim expression. The set of tiles, and the portions of the linear trim array pointed therefrom, are applied in the GPU to render a trimmed representation of the surface.
US09984495B2	Using video to encode assets for swivel/360-degree spinners A method and system for video encoding assets for swivel/360-degree spinners is disclosed. Still images of a 3D object from different perspectives about the 3D object may be stacked and then video encoded to generate video frames of the object from the different perspectives. The video-encoded assets may be stored on a server or other network-connected device, and later retrieved by a connected client device for display processing by a swivel/360-degree spinner on the client device. The swivel/360-degree spinner may utilize native video processing capabilities of the client device and/or of a browser running on the client device to display video motion of the object moving through different angular orientations in response to movement of an interactive cursor.
US09984492B2	Efficient hierarchy traversal in ray tracing applications Methods and systems disclosed improve the efficiency of ray tracing. In one aspect, a method of ray tracing in a digital representation of a scene includes segmenting the scene into a plurality of voxels, associating each of the voxels with a node of a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) representing one or more object primitives within the scene, determining a set of voxels through which the ray passes, determining a set of nodes associated with the set of voxels, determining a deepest common ancestor node of the set of nodes, traversing the hierarchy starting at the deepest common ancestor node to determine a point of intersection between the ray and one of the one or more object primitives; and updating a digital image of the scene based on the determined point of intersection.
US09984491B2	Apparatus and method for managing commands Provided is a method of managing commands, which includes receiving a frame buffer object (FBO) change command, comparing an FBO designated by the FBO change command with a FBO currently processed by a graphics processing unit (GPU) to determine whether the two FBOs are the same as each other, and managing the FBO change command or a flush command based on a result of the comparison.
US09984489B2	Fluid dynamics framework for animated special effects An animated special effect is modeled using a fluid dynamics framework system. The fluid dynamics framework for animated special effects system accepts volumetric data as input. Input volumetric data may represent the initial state of an animated special effect. Input volumetric data may also represent sources, sinks, external forces, and/or other influences on the animated special effect. In addition, the system accepts input parameters related to fluid dynamics modeling. The input volumes and parameters are applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations as modifications to the initial state of the animated special effect, as modifications to the forcing term of a pressure equation, or in the computations of other types of forces that influence the solution. The input volumetric data may be composited with other volumetric data using a scalar blending field. The solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations models the motion of the animated special effect.
US09984487B2	Facial gesture driven animation communication system Examples of systems and methods for transmitting facial motion data and animating an avatar are generally described herein. A system may include an image capture device to capture a series of images of a face, a facial recognition module to compute facial motion data for each of the images in the series of images, and a communication module to transmit the facial motion data to an animation device, wherein the animation device is to use the facial motion data to animate an avatar on the animation device.
US09984484B2	Computer-implemented system and method for cluster spine group arrangement A computer-implemented system and method for cluster spine group arrangement is provided. A set of spine groups each having one or more spines of clusters and at least one singleton cluster is obtained. Unique spine groups are identified within the set and placed in a center of a display. At least a portion of the remaining spine groups in the set are placed to extend radially from the unique spine groups in the display center.
US09984482B2	Graphical user interface having enhanced tool for connecting components In a general aspect, a method includes displaying a first component of a graph on a user interface, including displaying at least one port of the first component; responsive to a user interaction with the displayed first component, displaying a representation of one or more ports of the first component that is distinct from the display of the first component; and enabling the user to generate a connection between the representation of a particular one of the ports of the first component and a port of a second component of the graph.
US09984479B2	Display apparatus for causing a tactile sense in a touch area, and driving method thereof Disclosed are a method of modeling a haptic signal from a haptic object, a display apparatus, and a driving method thereof, which realize a tactile sense having a shape and texture of a haptic object. The method includes obtaining measurement data corresponding to a shape of a texture object while moving a sensor unit with respect to a haptic object including the texture object, obtaining force measurement data corresponding to a level of pressure applied to the haptic object, calculating shape modeling data and impulse modeling data corresponding to the texture object, based on the measurement data, calculating friction force modeling data corresponding to the texture object, based on the force measurement data, generating setting information of a haptic signal corresponding to the haptic object, based on the shape modeling data, the impulse modeling data, and the friction force modeling data, and storing the setting information of the haptic signal.
US09984474B2	Method and device for measuring features on or near an object A method and device for measuring dimensions of a feature on or near an object using a video inspection device. A reference surface is determined based on reference surface points on the surface of the object. One or more measurement cursors are placed on measurement pixels of an image of the object. Projected reference surface points associated with the measurement pixels on the reference surface are determined. The dimensions of the feature can be determined using the three-dimensional coordinates of at least one of the projected reference surface points.
US09984472B2	Image processing and motion compensation An image processing system receives a sequence of frames including a current input frame and a next input frame (the next input frame is captured subsequent in time with respect to capturing of the current input frame). The image processing system stores a previously outputted output frame. The previously outputted output frame is derived from previously processed input frames in the sequence. The image processing modifies the current input frame based on detected first motion and second motion. The first motion is detected based on an analysis of the current input frame with respect to the next input frame. The second motion is detected based on an analysis of the current input frame with respect to the previously outputted output frame. According to one configuration, the image processing system implements multi-sized analyzer windows to more precisely detect the first motion and second motion.
US09984466B1	Autonomous camera-to-camera change detection system Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to an autonomous camera-to-camera scene change detection system whereby a first camera controls a second camera without human input. More specifically, a first camera having a field of view may receive and process an image. Based on the processed image, the first camera sends instructions to a second camera to focus in on an area of interest or a target identified in the processed image.
US09984463B2	Analyzing posture-based image data Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for determining whether an individual uses proper posture to perform a job duty/task. For example, systems may determine whether an individual utilizes proper posture when lifting a heavy item from a floor. Accordingly, various embodiments comprise an image capture device and a central computing entity configured to receive item information/data for an item to be moved by an individual and to determine whether the item information/data satisfies one or more image collection criteria. Upon determining the item information/data satisfies one or more of the image collection criteria, the computing entity may activate an image capture device to collect image information/data of individuals performing the job duty/task, to compare collected image information/data against a plurality of reference images, and to determine whether the collected image information/data is indicative of the individual performing the job duty/task according to proper posture considerations.
US09984460B2	Automatic image segmentation methods and analysis The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.
US09984457B2	Automated grossing image synchronization and related viewers and workstations Methods, systems, workstations, viewers, grossing stations and computer include a display and a viewer circuit configured to cause the display to concurrently display: (i) a macroscopic view of a grossing specimen with virtual cut location marks associated with orientation and location of actual physical cut locations used to obtain tissue samples from the grossing specimen and (ii) at least one digital microscopic whole-slide image (WSI) of a tissue section from the specimen. The display can show the at least one WSI image on the display with a relevant cut location mark on the macroscopic view shown visually enhanced from other cut location marks on the macroscopic view to thereby allow a user to visually connect where the tissue section in the WSI image was obtained during a grossing procedure.
US09984455B1	Organism growth prediction system using drone-captured images A plant growth measurement and prediction system uses drone-captured images to measure the current growth of particular plant species and/or to predict future growth of the plant species. For example, the system instructs a drone to fly along a flight path and capture images of the land below. The captured images may include both thermographic images and high-resolution images. The system processes the images to create an orthomosaic image of the land, where each pixel in the orthomosaic image is associated with a brightness temperature. The system then uses plant species to brightness temperature mappings and the orthomosaic image to identify current plant growth. The system generates a diagnostic model using the orthomosaic image to then predict future plant growth.
US09984452B2	Monitoring apparatus for machine tool In an NC device having a function as a monitoring apparatus for a machine tool, a monitoring parameter and a retracting parameter which are set and inputted through an input unit by an operator, can be stored in a storage unit. When, for example, monitoring is performed by using a load on a main spindle as machine information, a machining monitoring unit displays a monitored state on a monitor, and compares a threshold value, of the load on the main spindle, according to which occurrence of abnormality is determined, and which is set in the monitoring parameter, and an instruction load generated by a machine operation instruction unit with each other, to determine whether or not abnormality has occurred. When abnormality is determined as having occurred, a retracting instruction is transmitted to a retracting instruction unit according to the retracting parameter, and display is performed on the monitor.
US09984451B2	Linear grouping of recognized items in an image A system and method that determines multiple linear groups of horizontally placed items in an image is disclosed. The method includes receiving an image including a portion of a shelving unit, identifying a plurality of items in the image, determining a plurality of facings, clustering the plurality of facings, merging a plurality of clusters and determining a list of linear groups in the image.
US09984441B2	Unobtrusive sizing and placement of pop-ups A method, system, and computer program product for unobtrusive sizing and placement of pop-ups are provided in the illustrative embodiments. In a method for displaying a pop-up graphical user interface (GUI), using a device to detect eye movements, a first area of a display device is detected where a content is being displayed, the first area being where an attention of a user is focused. A change in the attention of the user to a second area during a future period is predicted. A third area is identified on the display device, wherein the third area excludes the first and the second areas. The pop-up GUI is displayed in the third area.
US09984439B2	Image publication To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired in the same image importing session are marked as coming from the same conceptual film roll. Next, a user is empowered to organize and manipulate the acquired images. The images may be organized by tagging the images with informative keywords and grouping images together into conceptual photo albums. Furthermore, the images may be manipulated by rotating, cropping, and removing red-eye. Finally, the system of the present invention provides simple intuitive image publish systems. A selected group of images may be published in a photobook, published onto the World Wide Web, or published as individual image prints with minimal computer knowledge on the part of the user.
US09984432B2	Processor, system, and method for efficient, high-throughput processing of two-dimensional, interrelated data sets Systems, processors and methods are disclosed for organizing processing datapaths to perform operations in parallel while executing a single program. Each datapath executes the same sequence of instructions, using a novel instruction sequencing method. Each datapath is implemented through a processor having a data memory partitioned into identical regions. A master processor fetches instructions and conveys them to the datapath processors. All processors are connected serially by an instruction pipeline, such that instructions are executed in parallel datapaths, with execution in each datapath offset in time by one clock cycle from execution in adjacent datapaths. The system includes an interconnection network that enables full sharing of data in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, with the effect of coupling any datapath to the memory of any other datapath without adding processing cycles in common usage. This approach enables programmable visual computing with throughput approaching that of hardwired solutions.
US09984426B2	Data processing system for managing activities linked to multimedia content An activity management system is configured to allow users to access multimedia content where the multimedia content is divided in to segments. While a user is viewing or interacting with the multimedia content, the user can submit one or more activities (e.g., comments, questions, replies, or reactions) using a graphical user interface. The system is operable to electronically link the activity provided by the user with the particular segment of multimedia content in which the activity was captured by the system. The system is also configured to determine a sentiment score for particular multimedia content, one or more segments of the particular multimedia content, a user, a group of users, or an organization. The sentiment score may be related to a general mood (e.g., confused, happy, bored) of the user when viewing one or more segments of particular multimedia content.
US09984415B2	Method and apparatus for pricing insurance policies An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements. To evaluate the insurance policy, the most recently bound legally-binding insurance policy is accessed and that document contains the currently effective policy, as well as the policy history.
US09984412B1	Approaches to location based merchant financing A payment system can determine whether a merchant is eligible for a cash advance for a particular amount, along with a fee for the cash advance. The particular amount can be determined by evaluating previous financial transactions that were conducted by the merchant through the payment system. Once a determination is made that the merchant is eligible for the cash advance, the payment system can send an offer for the cash advance in the particular amount to the merchant, for example, in the form of an e-mail or text. The merchant can accept the offer for the cash advance by sending an acceptance to the payment system, for example, through a financing interface provided by the payment system. Upon accepting the offer, the merchant is provided the cash advance for the particular amount, for example, in the form of an electronic deposit in a financial account of the merchant.
US09984409B2	Systems and methods for generating virtual contexts Techniques for generated and presenting images of items within user selected context images are presented herein. In an example embodiment, an access module can be configured to receive a first environment image. A simulation module coupled to the access module may process the environment image to identify placement areas within the image, and an imaging module may merge an item image with the environment image and filter the merged image in an erosion area. In various embodiments, the items and environments may be selected by a user and presented to a user in real-time or near-real time as part of an online shopping experience. In further embodiments, the environments may be processed from images taken by a device of the user.
US09984404B2	Method, medium, and system for e-product vending Disclosed is a merchant web service module arranged to communicate with a client device and an inventory system to provide a product list of vendible e-products and workflows associated with the vendible e-products to the client device, and to facilitate execution of a workflow to order an e-product by: i) receiving data indicative of a desired e-product from the client device, ii) sending an order message comprising data indicative of the desired e-product to a transacting host, iii) receiving data indicative of the actual e-product from the transacting host, iv) converting the data indicative of the actual e-product to a format neutral file that is indicative of the actual e-product, and v) and sending the format neutral file to the client device for conversion to and output of an actual e-product. A method of vending an e-product is also disclosed.
US09984402B2	Method, system, and computer program product for recommending online products Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending online products, a system for recommending online products, and a computer program product for recommending online products. A method for recommending online products is provided. The method includes specifying a main product zone of a query product image, dividing the main product zone into a plurality of local zones, extracting color features from each local zone, looking up candidate recommended product images sharing common characteristics with a query product image based on the color features of each local zone, matching, among the found candidate recommended product images, product images that are similar in terms of color matching to the query product image, and regarding the matched product images as recommended product images.
US09984401B2	Mobile price check systems, methods and computer program products A price check system may receive a vehicle identification number (VIN) or determine the VIN via an image from a mobile price check application. The price check system may determine if build data is available for a vehicle associated with the VIN and, if build data is available for the vehicle, determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the build data and provide same to the mobile price check application. If build data is not available for the vehicle, the price check system may prepare and send a request to the mobile price check application to obtain configuration information on the vehicle from a user of the mobile price check application. The price check system may then determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the configuration information and provide same to the mobile price check application in real time or substantially real time.
US09984396B2	Method and system for customer checkout Disclosed is a system and method for directing a customer to one of a plurality of checkout lanes in a retail store. The system includes a checkout lane selection module that is in communication with each of the plurality of checkout lanes. The checkout lane selection module is part of a computing device, such as a server, that may be resident in the retail store, or remote from the retail store. The checkout lane selection module receives lane status information from each of the plurality of checkout lanes. And the checkout lane selection module receives customer information from a customer profile and from the customer's shopping basket. The checkout lane selection module provides the customer a preferred lane selection, and/or details about each checkout lane so that the customer can make an informed choice about which checkout lane to use.
US09984391B2	Social advertisements and other informational messages on a social networking website, and advertising model for same A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.
US09984389B2	Flying type in-store advertising system Provided is a flying type in-store advertising system which advertises to many customers dispersed to respective counters while flying above an in-store passage for a commodity, an event or the like. In a flying type in-store advertising system of allowing an unmanned aircraft 11 displaying an in-store advertisement to fly in accordance with flight route data of an in-store passage, which is sent from a flight control terminal 12, the unmanned aircraft 11 has an aircraft side communication means 26 and an aircraft flight means 27 for allowing the unmanned aircraft 11 to fly in accordance with the flight route data, and the flight control terminal has a flight route setting means 35, a storage means 36 for storing the flight route data, a terminal side communication means 37 and a terminal side control means 42.
US09984383B2	Wireless tag communication applications for a venue A system for delivering information to a venue guest includes a wireless tag within the venue and having a Universal Resource Locator (URL) stored therein, and a server for providing the information through a web page addressable by the URL. The web page displays the information to any portable media device that interfaces with the wireless tag. A system for delivering location specific information of a venue to a guest at the venue includes a venue app that contains the information and downloadable, machine readable, instructions that are compatible with a portable media device, and a wireless tag having a location indicator is associated with a location of the tag within the venue. If the venue app is executed by the portable media device, and receives the location indicator from the wireless tag, the venue app displays the information, based upon the location indicator, on the portable media device.
US09984382B1	Method and apparatus for performing collective validation of credential information An embodiment of the invention comprises a method and apparatus for performing collective validation of credential information. The invention has applicability in industries that require sales agents or those related to the distribution of a certain product to be credentialed (e.g., licensed and/or appointed) when selling certain products (e.g., life insurance, etc. . . . ). For example, in order to sell some financial instruments sales representatives must meet state and/or federal licensing requirements. Embodiments of the invention provide a way to ensure that sales representatives operate within any regulatory constraints put in place by government or any other organization. Companies may, for instance, utilize embodiments of the invention to ensure that sales representatives operate within a set of defined constraints. One aspect of the invention provides a method for validating sales agents' credentials while processing the sales transaction data to determine commission amounts. The system is configured to perform such transaction processing in an efficient manner that minimizes the amount of computational resources required to determine whether a sales agent has valid credential at the time of a particular sale and is therefore entitled to compensation (e.g., a commission) for the sale.
US09984381B2	Managing customer interactions with a product being presented at a physical location A system detects and manages customer interactions with a product being presented at a physical location. A customer tracking device detects a customer within a predefined distance of a product during a first time period. A product motion sensor detects a movement of the product while the customer is within the predefined distance of the product during the first time period. One or more processors identify and record a first price of the product during the first time period. The customer tracking device further detects the customer within the predefined distance of the product during a second time period. One or more processors further determine a second price of the product during the second time period, and then determine a lower price of the product by comparing the first price with the second price. A price transmitter transmits the lower price to the customer during the second time period.
US09984374B2	Mobile expert desktop Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for handling an interaction via an end user device. The end user device receives context data related to the interaction over a data channel, and displays the context data and a list of media channels available for handling the interaction. A user selection of one of the media channels in the list is received. The interaction is received over the selected media channel. Embodiments of the present invention are also directed to a system and method for handling an interaction via an end user device. An agent is identified as being logged-in, and in response, each of a plurality of media channels associated with the user is monitored for determining presence of the agent on each of the plurality of media channels.
US09984373B2	Negotiable information access in electronic social networks A method for implementing an electronically-based negotiation session between users within an ESN. The method includes sending a message including a request portion and a response portion from a first user to a second user in a round of successive rounds, and in response to receiving the message from the first user, sending a message from the second user to the first user in a subsequent round, the message from the second user including a response portion responsive to the request portion of the message from the first user and a request portion. When a new round is performed, evaluating whether an agreement exists by checking messages previously exchanged, and exchanging subsequent messages, when any rounds remain and the session has not been terminated, and granting access and exchanging data between the users, executing actions, and setting policies as negotiated, when the session has been terminated and an agreement exists.
US09984369B2	Systems and methods to identify target video content A method of identifying target video content is provided. The method includes accessing content metadata of a video content item at a content storage. The method also includes determining at least one content signature based on the video content item and determining whether the video content item includes target content based at least partially on the content signature and the content metadata.
US09984365B2	Device identification based on deep fingerprint inspection A method of identifying a device includes receiving a device transaction request from a remote device, receiving a first device fingerprint of the remote device, and receiving a second device fingerprint of a known device. The first device fingerprint is compared with the second device fingerprint and a first metric indicative of a similarity of the first device fingerprint and the second device fingerprint is generated. A third device fingerprint corresponding to an expected current value of the second device fingerprint is generated, and the first device fingerprint is compared with the third device fingerprint to generate a second metric indicative of a similarity of the first device fingerprint and the third device fingerprint. A response to the transaction request is formulated based on the first metric and the second metric.
US09984364B2	Messaging protocol for secure communication An illustrative method, system, and device for communicating a message over a network between a trusted service manager and a mobile device having a security element includes the steps of: providing a message having a header field and a message field; providing a number in the header field that is unique to the mobile device; providing a message in the message field, the message coming from the mobile device if communicated from the mobile device to a trusted service manager and coming from the trusted service manager if communicated from the trusted service manager to the mobile device; and providing a messaging protocol that enables the network to distinguish between a message having the unique mobile device number in the header field and a message that is without the unique mobile device number in the header field.
US09984357B2	Contextual searching via a mobile computing device A method and associated system for processing a search query to retrieve product information and offers that are customized for an end user. An electronic planogram including expected locations of a product in a retail store is generated. A received communication includes a query object, an approximate location of the product in the retail store, and a database search query. From a comparison between the approximate and expected locations of the product, an electronic message is generated to communicate, to employees of the retail store, that the product is misplaced in the retail store. The database search query is performed for retrieving product information offers that are customized for the end user. The query object and the electronic planogram are used to identify products that have been misplaced, maintain adequate inventory levels to meet customer demands, and track the location of products within the retail store.
US09984349B2	Methods and apparatus for assessing a current location of a node-enabled logistics receptacle Methods, computer-readable medium, and apparatus assemblies are described for assessing a current location for a node-enabled logistics receptacle. In the method, the node-enabled logistics receptacle is operative to detect a level of wireless communication signal activity on a communication interface on the node-enabled logistics receptacle as well as receive and temporarily maintain custody of a package being shipped. The receptacle then records the detected level of wireless communication signal activity over a predetermined period of time in a memory disposed in the node-enabled logistics receptacle. Next, the receptacle compares the recorded level of wireless communication signal activity over the predetermined period of time to a user criteria level for the node-enabled logistics receptacle. Using the comparison of the recorded level and the user criteria level, the node-enabled logistics receptacle is thus able to assess that suitability of the current location of the receptacle.
US09984347B2	System and method for enhancing distribution logistics and increasing surveillance ranges with unmanned aerial vehicles and a dock network A system and method for enhancing distribution logistics and surveillance ranges with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and at least one dock in a dock network. The UAV remains in communication with the dock for enhancing distribution logistics of at least one package and increasing the range of surveillance for the unmanned aerial vehicle. From the dock, the UAV delivers the package to a destination point, obtains the package from a pick up point, recharges the unmanned aerial vehicle throughout the network of docks, and increases the range of distribution and surveillance. A logistics software controls the delivery and surveillance. A wireless communication device enables communication between the UAV and the dock. Light indicators indicate status of the package and the operational status of the UAV. A camera captures an image of the package in the dock. A motion detector detects the UAV for regulating access for loading/unloading and docking.
US09984342B2	Asset data model for recurring revenue asset management Data relevant to a predefined data object of a set of predefined data objects can be extracted from a unit of date received at a recurring revenue management system. The extracted relevant data can be populated to an instance of the predefined data object. One or more relationships between the instance of the predefined data object and at least one other instance of the predefined data object or a second predefined data object. The defining occurs based on a set of parameters associated with the predefined data object and content of the extracted data. An opportunity can be generated for a sale or renewal of a recurring revenue asset based at least in part on the one or more relationships, and the generated opportunity can be presented to a user. Related methods, systems, and computer program products are also described.
US09984341B2	Information system for industrial vehicles including cyclical recurring vehicle information message Industrial vehicles communicate across a wireless environment and the wireless communication, data collection and/or processing capabilities of industrial vehicles are leveraged against robust software solutions to implement enterprise wide vehicle management functions, to integrate industrial vehicle data into existing enterprise workflows and/or to enable trusted third party integration into the enterprise for enhanced asset and/or workflow management. Still further, wireless communication, data collection and/or processing capabilities of industrial vehicles are leveraged with robust software solutions that aggregate and analyze data across multiple enterprises and/or promote the exchange of information between independent entities.
US09984335B2	Data processing device The data processing device includes a display unit, a touch panel unit that detects a touch operation and outputs detection information, a flick detection unit, a label determination unit, and a teacher data generation unit. The flick detection unit detects a flick direction from the detection information of the touch panel unit. The label determination unit determines a label representing a category to which content belongs, based on the flick direction. The teacher data generation unit displays the content on the display unit, and generates teacher data including the displayed content and the label determined by the label determination unit.
US09984324B2	Dual deterministic and stochastic neurosynaptic core circuit One embodiment provides a system comprising a memory device for maintaining deterministic neural data relating to a digital neuron and a logic circuit for deterministic neural computation and stochastic neural computation. Deterministic neural computation comprises processing a neuronal state of the neuron based on the deterministic neural data maintained. Stochastic neural computation comprises generating stochastic neural data relating to the neuron and processing the neuronal state of the neuron based on the stochastic neural data generated.
US09984323B2	Compositional prototypes for scalable neurosynaptic networks Embodiments of the invention provide a method comprising maintaining a library of one or more compositional prototypes. Each compositional prototype is associated with a neurosynaptic program. The method further comprises searching the library based on one or more search parameters. At least one compositional prototype satisfying the search parameters is selected. A neurosynaptic network is generated or extended by applying one or more rules associated with the selected compositional prototypes.
US09984322B2	Measurement probe with heat cycle event counter A system comprising a measurement device and a handheld device is disclosed, the system adapted to withstand, detect, record, and display heat cycle event counts. The measurement device comprises a sensor for measuring and a heat cycle detection unit. The heat cycle detection unit comprises a temperature or pressure responsive element, a detection module, data interface, and data memory. The handheld device comprises a screen, a button, a communication circuit, and a processing system. The communication circuit is configured to communicate with the measurement device and a computing device and the processing system is configured to receive non-measurement information from the measurement device, display the received information on the screen, and cycle the received information displayed on the screen based on an actuation of the button, wherein the handheld device is used to display a heat sterilization cycle count of the measurement device.
US09984319B2	Encoding and decoding data in two-dimensional symbology Examples of techniques for encoding data in a 2D symbology are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes assigning a first data symbol representative of a 0-bit and a second data symbol representative of a 1-bit, each of the first data symbol and the second data symbol include a line segment. The method further includes designating a starting indicator and an ending indicator. The method also includes generating, by a processing device, the 2D symbology. The 2D symbology includes a series of data symbols representing a binary string. Each data symbol in the series of data symbols are positioned in an end-to-end orientation starting at the starting indicator and ending at the ending indicator. The series of data symbols include 0-bit symbols represented by the first data symbol and 1-bit symbols represented by the second data symbol.
US09984313B2	Hierarchical classification in credit card data extraction Embodiments herein provide computer-implemented techniques for allowing a user computing device to extract financial card information using optical character recognition (“OCR”). Extracting financial card information may be improved by applying various classifiers and other transformations to the image data. For example, applying a linear classifier to the image to determine digit locations before applying the OCR algorithm allows the user computing device to use less processing capacity to extract accurate card data. The OCR application may train a classifier to use the wear patterns of a card to improve OCR algorithm performance. The OCR application may apply a linear classifier and then a nonlinear classifier to improve the performance and the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. The OCR application uses the known digit patterns used by typical credit and debit cards to improve the accuracy of the OCR algorithm.
US09984311B2	Method and system for image segmentation using a directed graph Method and system is disclosed for image segmentation. The method includes acquiring a digital image, constructing a directed graph from the digital image, calculating a plurality of cost functions, constructing an electrical network based upon the constructed directed graph and the plurality of calculated cost functions, simulating the electrical network using fixed-point linearization, and thresholding the voltages in the simulated electrical network to produce image segmentation. Simulation may be executed in parallel to achieve desirable computational efficiencies.
US09984310B2	Systems and methods for identifying semantically and visually related content Systems and methods for identifying semantically and/or visually related information among a set of content items, such content items that include similar concepts or that have similar visual aspects, are disclosed. The disclosed techniques provide tools for identifying related information among various content items, such as text pages and documents, presentation slides and slide decks, etc. The disclosed techniques provide improved methods for searching among content items, organizing content items into categories, and pruning redundant content. Furthermore, the disclosed techniques provide improvements to computation of various metrics, including usage, performance, and impact metrics.
US09984309B2	Classifying and grouping electronic images The embodiments relate to classifying and grouping images. Primary images and secondary images are created and stored. A preliminary relationship between the primary and secondary images is established. The primary image is compared with the secondary image to produce a relevance score. The relevance score is converted to a secondary image assignment, which includes selectively assigning the secondary image to a first group based on the relevance score.
US09984303B2	Object detection system, object detection method, POI information creation system, warning system, and guidance system Provided is a technique for, even when the lightness of an image contained in a video changes, accurately separating the background of the image and an object in the background and thus efficiently collecting images that contain a target object to be detected, and also suppressing the amount of data communicated between a terminal device and a server. In the present invention, a terminal device accurately separates the background of an image and an object (i.e., a target object to be detected) in the background so as to simply detect the object in the background, and transfers to a server only candidate images that contain the detected object. Meanwhile, as such simple target object detection may partially involve erroneous detection, the server closely examines the candidate images to identify the target object to be detected, and thus recognizes the object.
US09984301B2	Non-matching feature-based visual motion estimation for pose determination A method for determining a pose of a camera includes obtaining both a first image of a scene and a second image of the scene, where both the first and second images are captured by the camera. A first set of features is extracted from the first image and a second set of features is extracted from the second set of features. The method includes calculating a value of a visual-motion parameter based on the first set of features and the second set of features without matching features of the first set with features of the second set. The method also includes determining the pose of the camera based, at least, on the value of the visual motion parameter.
US09984298B2	Method for outputting a drowsiness warning and control unit A method for outputting a drowsiness warning. In this method, a degree of drowsiness of a driver of a vehicle is initially read in. A display signal is subsequently generated as a function of the degree of drowsiness. The display signal includes a sequence of images as the drowsiness warning displayable via a display device of the vehicle and including at least one eye area of the driver.
US09984289B2	Gaze analysis method and apparatus A gaze analysis method has following steps. When detecting at least one face in an image, according to a face angle and an eye angle, a gazing angle is calculated, and whether the gazing angle falls within a first range is determined, wherein the eye angle is obtained according to information of irises and scleras of left and right eyes. A differential value between a focusing distance and a spacing distance from the face to the object falls within a second range is determined if the gazing angle falls within the first range, and a detecting result whether the differential value falls within the second range is used to determine whether the object is gazed, wherein the focusing distance is determined according to the information of the irises and scleras of the left and right eyes.
US09984277B2	Systems, apparatus, and methods for analyzing blood cell dynamics Systems, apparatus, and methods for non-invasively detecting a white blood cell (WBC) event from in vivo capillary data may include obtaining a plurality of images, followed by specifying two-dimensional (2D) coordinates corresponding to internal contour and external contour of a capillary visible in the images. The two sets of 2D coordinates may be resampled to generate two sets of resampled coordinates, between which intermediate curves, including a middle curve, are generated. Curvilinear distances may be defined based on the middle curve. Intensity values, each of which corresponds to one of the images, one of the intermediate curves, and one of the curvilinear distances, may be extracted and transformed to the Radon domain. A plurality of maxima locations in the Radon domain corresponding to a flow trajectory inside the capillary may be identified. Detection of a visual gap in the flow trajectory inside the capillary indicates a WBC event.
US09984276B2	Group-verification fingerprint identifying system and identifying method thereof A group-verification fingerprint identifying method includes: simultaneously receiving fingerprint input operations from multiple users via a multi-finger fingerprint sensor of a fingerprint identifying apparatus for multiple fingers; generating a fingerprint combination corresponding to the fingerprint input operations; retrieving a registered fingerprints combination; generating a comparison result via comparing the fingerprints combination with the registered fingerprint combination. A more complicated verification mechanism can be provided to enhance security of identification via using group-verification and fingerprint identification.
US09984272B2	Pixel circuit, its driving method, light-emitting diode display panel, and display device The pixel circuit includes a display driving module connected to a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a control line, a data line, a second signal source, a third signal source and an anode of an LED, and configured to, under the control of a first scanning signal, a second scanning signal and a control signal, compensate for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor using a data signal and a second signal, so that a light-emitting driving signal for the LED is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and a fingerprint identification module connected to the first scanning line, the second scanning line, a fourth signal source and a signal read line, and configured to, under the control of the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal, identify a fingerprint and detect a touch.
US09984270B2	Fingerprint sensor in an electronic device A fingerprint sensor is incorporated in a display stack in an electronic device. A single fingerprint can be captured at one time at a single pre-defined fixed location on a display. Alternatively, a single fingerprint can be acquired at one time at any location on a display. Alternatively, multiple touches on the display can be acquired substantially simultaneously where only one fingerprint is captured at a time or where all of the fingerprints are acquired at the same time. The fingerprint sensor can be implemented as an integrated circuit connected to a bottom surface of a cover sheet, near the bottom surface of the cover sheet, or connected to a top surface of a display. Alternatively, the fingerprint sensor can be implemented as a full panel fingerprint sensor.
US09984269B1	Fingerprint sensor with direct recording to non-volatile memory A solid-state fingerprint sensor including an array of pixels, each pixel including an electrically isolated NVM structure, a security NVM cell and a normally-open MEMS switch. The electrically isolated NVM structure includes a polycrystalline silicon gate structure connected by a metal via structure to a fixed electrode that forms part of the MEMS switch. Initial charges stored on the electrically isolated NVM structures before each sensing operation are discharged to ground by the MEMS switch when a fingerprint ridge is aligned with the pixel and produces an applied actuating force on the MEMs switch. Final pixel charge values (i.e., either the initial charge or no charge) stored on each electrically isolated NVM structure after each sensing operation are encrypted using security bits stored on the security NVM cells such that only encrypted image data is transmitted from the pixels to external circuitry.
US09984267B2	Indicia reader having unitary-construction A hand-held indicia-reading device includes a housing and a cable having a unitary-construction. The indicia-reader has a head portion with an indicia-reading system including a printed circuit board. The entire handle portion of the reader is typically over-molded onto a host-connector cable. The host-connector cable includes a circuit board connector on one end and a connector for connecting to a host at an opposite end extending from a base portion of the handle.
US09984266B2	Systems and methods for decoding and using data on cards Systems and methods for decoding and using data on cards are disclosed. According to one disclosed embodiment, a system for decoding and using data on cards includes: a network interface; a scanner configured to scan a passive data source on the identification card and transmit a scanner signal associated with the passive data source; a processor coupled to the scanner and the network interface, the processor configured to: receive the scanner signal; process the scanner signal and determine data stored in the passive data source.
US09984265B2	Cord and cable identification and tracking system A system for identifying and tracking components, including but not limited to cords, cables and connectors, that are associated with an electronic device or apparatus or that are part of a “set.” Devices include TVs, DVD players, VCRs, DVRs, computers, printers, camera, and the like. A plurality of self-adhesive stickers marked with a scannable code, each with a unique code in that set, are affixed to a device and its accessories. The codes are scanned by a mobile computing device for entry into the system. Subsequent identification of a particular accessory can be performed by using the system to scan the coded sticker on that accessory.
US09984255B2	Methods and apparatus to enable runtime checksum verification of block device images A method for verifying data integrity of a block device is provided. The method includes providing a secure world execution environment configured to monitor changes to data blocks of a block device, within the secure world execution environment, generating a hash for changed data blocks of the block device, and within the secure world execution environment, verifying and generating a cryptographic signature.
US09984250B2	Rollback protection for login security policy In one embodiment, an encryption system may protect user login metadata from hammering attacks. A data storage 140 may store an integrity protected data set 602 for an operating system in a storage location. A processor 120 may register a counter reading from a remote counter 202 in a secure location 204 separate from the storage location. The processor 120 may determine a lockout state of the integrity protected data set 602 based on the counter reading.
US09984246B2	Differential hierarchical-based password security mechanism for mobile device Mobile device application access is managing by a hierarchical password protection mechanism. In this scheme, a set of passwords is configured in a hierarchy, wherein a password at a higher level in the hierarchy authorizes greater permissions than a password at a lower level in the hierarchy. Each password in the set of passwords is then associated with a respective application group of a set of application groups, each application group comprising applications having a common security requirement. Thus, a given password in the password hierarchy is associated with a particular application group. When the device detects entry of a given password at a given level in the hierarchy, access to the applications in the application group associated with the given password is then enabled automatically. In addition, access to the applications in each application group associated with passwords that are lower in the hierarchy also is enabled.
US09984243B1	Documents with location attributes for access and storage In electronic document access control, a document controller receives a document access request from an access device. The request is to access an electronic document previously stored in a datastore coupled to the document controller. The request includes a current location of the access device, and the electronic document is associated with an access location attribute. The document controller compares the current location of the access device with the access location attribute associated with the electronic document. In response to a match between the current location and the access location attribute, the document controller sends the electronic document to the access device. In response to no match between the current location and the access location attribute, the document controller does not send the electronic document to the access device.
US09984242B2	Attestation for electronic signatures Techniques for generating a document according to attestation requirements are provided. A method determines attestation requirements for electronically signing an electronic document. The method modifies the document based in part on the requirements, and then provides the modified document to users requested to electronically sign the document, wherein the users are only permitted to electronically sign the document in circumstances satisfying the requirements. An electronic signature service can generate a document whose signing needs to be witnessed and/or recorded according to attestation requirements. The document may be associated with number of signers. The electronic signature service may determine one or more witnesses of the signers and may determine applicable attestation requirements based on the witnesses, the signers, and the document. Further, the electronic signature service may record proceedings associated with collecting signatures for the document and record and/or pause a workflow associated with the document to meet the applicable requirements.
US09984241B2	Method, apparatus, and system for data protection A method, an apparatus, and a system for data protection. A specific solution is: a proxy server receives outgoing data from a user terminal, where the outgoing data carries an identifier of a user; acquires a user grade and a credit value of the user from a credit server according to the identifier, where the credit value is a violation percentage of historical outgoing data of the user; sends the outgoing data, the user grade, and the credit value to a DLP server so that the DLP server inspects security of the outgoing data according to the user grade and the credit value, and further generates a message including an inspection result; and receives, from the DLP server, the message including the inspection result and uses a policy corresponding to the inspection result to process the outgoing data. The present invention is used during a protection process of outgoing data.
US09984239B2	Concealing apparatus, decoding apparatus, concealing method, and decoding method According to an embodiment, a concealing apparatus includes a concealing processor, a mapping information generator, a tag generator, and a concealed, information output unit. The concealing processor is configured to generate a concealed text by concealing a plaintext with a concealing key. The mapping information generator is configured to generate mapping information that is mapped to a keyword for retrieving the plaintext. The tag generator is configured to generate a tag based on the keyword and the mapping information. The concealed information output unit is configured to output the concealed text and the tag as a pair.
US09984238B1	Intelligent storage devices with cryptographic functionality A storage device can include processing and cryptographic capability enabling the device to function as a hardware security module (HSM). This includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt data using a cryptographic key, as well as to perform processing using such a key, independent of whether that processing involves data stored on the device. An internal key can be provided to the drive, whether provided before customer software access or received wrapped in another key, etc. That key enables the device to perform secure processing on behalf of a user or entity, where that key is not exposed to other components in the network or environment. A key may have specified tasks that can be performed using that key, and can be discarded after use. In some embodiments, firmware is provided that can cause a storage device to function as an HSM and/or processing device with cryptographic capability.
US09984236B2	System and method for pre-boot authentication of a secure client hosted virtualization in an information handling system A client hosted virtualization system (CHVS) includes a processor to execute code, a component, and a non-volatile memory. The non volatile memory includes BIOS code and code to implement a virtualization manager. The virtualization manager is operable to initialize the CHVS, launch a virtual machine on the CHVS, and assign the component to the virtual machine, such that the virtual machine has control of the component. The CHVS is configurable to execute the BIOS and not the virtualization manager, or to execute the virtualization manager and not the BIOS.
US09984233B2	Identifying malware based on a relationship between a downloader file and a downloaded file A device may analyze a first file for malware. The device may determine that the first file causes a second file to be downloaded. The device may store linkage information that identifies a relationship between the first file and the second file based on determining that the first file causes the second file to be downloaded. The device may analyze the second file for malware. The device may determine a first malware score for the first file based on analyzing the second file for malware and based on the linkage information. The device may determine a second malware score for the second file based on analyzing the first file for malware and based on the linkage information.
US09984230B2	Profiling event based exploit detection Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to execute an application in a system with an operating system, perform event tracing for the application, analyze each instruction pointer from the event tracing, and determine if an instruction pointer points to an orphan page of memory. The orphan page can be a region of code that is not associated with the application, a region of code that is unidentified, or unusual code that is not associated with the application. In addition, the event tracing can be an embedded application that is part of the operating system.
US09984226B2	Screen sharing server, method of sharing screen, and program for screen sharing server A screen sharing server receives a connection request each from a sender's user terminal and a receiver's user terminal, receives an authentication number to specify the sender's user terminal with which a screen is to be shared, in response to the connection request, allows the receiver's user terminal to display a prompt to ask for an input of the authentication number, authenticates the authentication number in response to receiving the authentication number from the receiver's user terminal, receives shared screen data from the sender's user terminal and sequentially transfers the shared screen data to the receiver's user terminal, if the authentication number is correct, detects that the sender's user terminal discontinues transmitting the screen data, and makes an inquiry to the receiver's user terminal with an authenticated authentication number about whether or not to transmit the shared screen data, in response to the detection.
US09984220B2	Method of authenticating a user holding a biometric certificate The present invention concerns a method of generating a biometric certificate of a user performed by a data processing device of a certifying authority, comprising a step of generating (E4) a certificate for said user comprising data related to the identity of the user and truncated authentication data of said user generated using a method of generating a biometric authentication datum, comprising steps of: acquiring (E1) first biometric data of said user; generating (E2) a first a proof of knowledge of said first biometric data from the first acquired biometric data and from a pseudo-random function; generating (E3) a first truncated authentication datum by applying a truncation function to said first generated proof of knowledge.
US09984219B2	Authentication of users with tremors A device receives a first input for authenticating a user and determines the first input fails to authenticate the user. One or more errors are identified in the input which match a tremor pattern for the user and the one or more errors are corrected to generate a corrected input. The user is authenticated using the corrected input.
US09984214B2	Methods, systems and computer program products for aggregating medical information A method of aggregating medical information can include receiving, at a remote aggregation system, individual syndromes collected by mobile personal medical devices associated with respective bodies as the mobile personal medical devices move within an environment, aggregating the individual syndromes at the remote aggregation system, and determining whether an environmental syndrome exists for at least some of the individual syndromes. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US09984210B2	Method for making radiographs with direct radiographic panels A method for performing a job list of radiographic recordings indicated in a radiographic information systems includes communicating the job list to a mobile apparatus, e.g. a smartphone, whereby, in a first step, a peer-to-peer communication is set up between the radiographic information system and the mobile apparatus by a Near Field Communication technique, whereupon the job list is transmitted to the mobile apparatus via a WIFI peer-to-peer communication. A radiographer then completes the job list by using, inter alia, a self-triggering direct radiographic panel and a radiographic generator.
US09984209B2	Graphical controls for programming medical device operation An example method includes presenting, by a computing device, a range of available parameter values for the therapy parameter via a circular track, indicating, by the computing device, a present parameter value for the therapy parameter via the circular track, and receiving, by the computing device, via a user interface (UI), user input specifying a target parameter value for the therapy parameter, indicating, by the computing device, the target parameter value in conjunction with the present parameter value via the circular track, receiving by the computing device, via the UI, user input activating an adjustment from the present parameter value to the target parameter value, and in response to receiving the user input activating the adjustment, controlling, by the computing device, the medical device to adjust the therapy parameter value from the present parameter value to the target parameter value.
US09984208B2	Medical emergency framework Disclosed herein is a framework for facilitating a medical emergency workflow. In accordance with one aspect, a code cart is paired with a computer system. The code cart may include tracking tags attached to the code cart and cart items. The computer system may include a data collector for scanning the tracking tags and an application. The application may be executable by a processor to perform steps including receiving, from the data collector, information associated with the code cart and one or more selected cart items, and updating a medical emergency record based at least in part on the received information.
US09984199B2	Method and system for classification and quantitative analysis of cell types in microscopy images The disclosed embodiments are directed to a method for accurately counting and characterizing multiple cell phenotypes and sub-phenotypes within cell populations simultaneously by exploiting biomarker co-expression levels within cells of different phenotypes in the same tissue sample. The disclosed embodiments are also directed to a simple intuitive interface enabling medical staff (e.g., pathologists, biologists) to annotate and evaluate different cell phenotypes used in the algorithm and the presented through the interface.
US09984194B2	Integrated circuit design A computer-implemented method of integrated circuit design comprises: using a computer, producing an integrated circuit layout for multiple instances of a circuitry element, wherein interface components in one instance of said circuitry element communicate with complementary interface components in an adjacent instance of said circuitry element, said interface components being identical between said multiple instances; said producing step comprising: for one instance of said circuitry element, generating an integrated circuit layout for said one instance of said circuitry element on the basis of timing parameters of said complementary interface components with which said one instance communicates in use; detecting timing characteristics of said interface components of said one instance of said circuitry element; applying said detected timing characteristics as said timing parameters of said complementary interface components; and repeating said generating step.
US09984192B2	Cell having shifted boundary and boundary-shift scheme An embodiment cell shift scheme includes abutting a first transistor cell against a second transistor cell and shifting a place and route boundary away from a polysilicon disposed between the first transistor cell and the second transistor cell. In an embodiment, the cell shift scheme includes shifting the place and route boundary to prevent a mismatch between a layout versus schematic (LVS) netlist and a post-simulation netlist.
US09984191B2	Cell layout and structure A post placement abutment treatment for cell row design is provided. In an embodiment a first cell and a second cell are placed in a first cell row and a third cell and a fourth cell are placed into a second cell row. After placement vias connecting power and ground rails to the underlying structures are analyzed to determine if any can be merged or else removed completely. By merging and removing the closely placed vias, the physical limitations of photolithography may be by-passed, allowing for smaller structures to be formed.
US09984190B1	Systems and methods for determining parameters of a power MOSFET model Systems and methods are provided for determining parameters of a power MOSFET model. First data related to characteristics of a semiconductor device in a steady-state operation and second data related to transient-response characteristics of the device are received. Variables of one or more functions are fit to the first data to determine static parameters of a power MOSFET model. A computer simulation is executed to determine transient-response characteristics of the model as configured with a current set of dynamic parameters, where the simulation generates a set of values indicative of the model's transient-response characteristics. An error value indicating a difference between the set of values and the second data is determined. Based on a determination that the error value is greater than the threshold, values of the current set of dynamic parameters are adjusted based on the error value and results of computer simulations.
US09984187B1	Switching activity estimation for a multi-clock domain for power consumption estimation A method relating generally to simulation is disclosed. In such a method, a first signal input and a second signal input are provided to a multiple clock domain object. The first signal input is for a first clock domain. The second signal input is for a second clock domain. The first clock domain is associated with a first frequency, and the second clock domain is associated with a second frequency different from the first frequency. The first signal input and the second signal input are converted to a common multiple clock frequency. A signal output is obtained from the multiple clock domain object responsive to the common multiple clock frequency. Switching activity is estimated for the multiple clock domain object. An output estimate associated with the switching activity estimated is output.
US09984185B2	Method for analyzing the behavior of an integrated circuit implemented by computer A method for analyzing the behavior of an integrated circuit implemented by computer comprises: the extraction of the names of the physical components described at the RTL (or higher) level, therefore of the physical components represented, as well as the names of the modules; the extraction of the names of the physical components of a path of the circuit at the logic gate level; the labeling of the names of the physical components of the paths with the names of the known physical components or the names of the parent modules; the extraction of the physical parameters of results of simulation/analysis of the circuit at the higher level. The output is composed of associative arrays containing the physical parameters of the physical components described at the envisaged level; the assignment of the physical parameters determined in the previous step, to the labeled components of the paths.
US09984181B2	Junction meshing for lattice structures Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing three dimensional lattice structures include, in one aspect, a method including: calculating a radius of incidence for respective pairings of beams of different sizes that converge at a junction in a lattice; determining a maximized radius of incidence for each of the beams based on the radii of incidence for the pairings with that beam; comparing the maximized radii of incidence to find a global radius for the junction; calculating local intersection points and global intersection points, respectively, for each of the beams with a local sphere defined by the maximized radius of incidence for that beam and with a global sphere defined by the global radius for the junction; and generating meshing with sockets for the beams at the junction using the local intersection points and the global intersection points.
US09984179B2	Providing building information modeling data Devices, methods, and systems for providing building information modeling data are described herein. One system includes a database having complete building information modeling data associated with a building, and a computing device coupled to the database. The computing device is configured to receive, from a user of the computing device, a request for a particular scope of building information modeling data associated with the building, retrieve, from the database, the building information modeling data in the database that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user, and provide, to the user, the building information modeling data that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user.
US09984172B2	Accessing really simple syndication (RSS) enabled content using session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling A method and system for tracking web content serviced by a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server in the Internet to feed an end device coupled to an application server. The web content is retrieved by the HTTP server responsive to receiving a request for metadata of the web content from the end device. The retrieved web content is relayed to the end device to enable the end device to subsequently send, to the application server, the web content and a first request for a subscription to a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) document accessible by the HTTP server by use of the relayed web content, wherein the web content is represented by the RSS document.
US09984170B2	Community awareness management systems and methods A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data.
US09984168B2	Geo-metric In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first node and a second node in a social graph. The historical location data is available for the first node and for the second node. The method also includes accessing one or more component metrics for computing a geo-metric. The geo-metric represents an assessment of a spatial commonality between the first node and the second node. The spatial commonalities are determined based on historical location data stored for the first node and historical location data stored for the second node. The method also includes accessing one or more coefficients each corresponding to one of the component metrics; calculating the geo-metric by applying the received coefficients to the component metrics and combining the component metrics; and providing the calculated geo-metric.
US09984166B2	Systems and methods of de-duplicating similar news feed items The technology disclosed relates to de-duplicating contextually similar news feed items. In particular, it relates to assembling a set of news feed items from a plurality of electronic sources and preprocessing the set to generate normalized news feed items that share common company-name mentions and token occurrences. The normalized news feed items are used to calculate one or more resemblance measures based on a sequence alignment score and/or a hyperlink score. The sequence alignment score determines contextual similarity between news feed item pairs, arranged as sequences, based on a number of matching elements in the news feed item sequences and a number of edit operations, such as insertion, deletion, and substitution, required to match the news feed item sequences. The hyperlink score determines contextual similarity between news feed item pairs by comparing the respective search results retrieved in response to supplying the news feed item pairs to a search engine.
US09984164B2	Search systems and methods with integration of aggregate user annotations Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate and view their annotations for any document they encounter while interacting with the corpus, including hits returned in a search of the corpus. Users are also able to search their annotations or to limit searches to documents they have annotated. Metadata from annotations can also be aggregated across users and aggregated metadata applied in generating search results.
US09984163B2	Self-presenting report A method, system and computer program product may identify information of interest to form identified points of interest using a report specification, create a master detail relationship using the identified points of interest, apply an order to the identified points of interest, apply annotations to the identified points of interest, apply highlighting to the identified points of interest, generate an enhanced report specification based on at least the order, annotations, or highlighting of the identified points of interest, and execute the enhanced report specification.
US09984158B2	Finding services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) network A method and system for finding services in a service-oriented architecture network may include receiving, in a local service registry from a client, a search query for a particular service. The local service registry may include a local database listing registered services. The network may include querying the local database to determine a first list of services that satisfy the search query and determining a neighboring service registry, in a network of service registries, based on a property other than a property of the particular service being searched for. The method may include sending the search query to the neighboring service registry and receiving, from the neighboring service registry, a second list of services, registered with the neighboring service registry, that satisfy the search query. The method may include returning, to the client, the first list of services and the second list of services that satisfy the search query.
US09984147B2	System and method for probabilistic relational clustering Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields.
US09984144B2	Efficient lookup of TCAM-like rules in RAM A method for classification includes extracting respective classification keys from a collection of data items and receiving a corpus of rules for matching to the classification keys. At least some of the rules include masked bits in addition to the unmasked bits. Rule patterns are extracted from the corpus, defining different, respective sequences of masked and unmasked bits to which one or more of the rules conform. The rule patterns are grouped into extended rule patterns, such that the respective set of unmasked bits in any rule pattern is a superset of the unmasked bits in the extended rule pattern into which it is grouped. Rule entries corresponding to the rules are computed using the extended rule patterns and are stored in a random access memory (RAM). The data items are classified by matching the respective classification keys to the rule entries in the RAM.
US09984141B2	Inferring application type based on input-output characteristics of application storage resources A method for inferring an application type, based on an operational characteristic I/O pattern of a storage volume. One or more processors determine at least one operational characteristic of each storage volume of a storage volume group associated with an application. One or more labels are assigned for each storage volume, based on the operational characteristics of each storage volume. At least one template is received that includes labels of storage volume characteristics of known application types. One or more processors infer a type of application associated with the storage volume group, based on a best-fit match of the aggregate labels of the storage volumes of the storage volume group to the labels included in the templates of storage volume characteristics of known application types.
US09984139B1	Publish session framework for datastore operation records One or more publish control-plane components (PCCs) of a data store determine that operation records (ORs) indicative of operations performed on a data object are to be published via a durable log publisher. The PCCs assign, for a particular publish session of one or more publish sessions established for the data object, an OR submitter to transmit ORs associated with the data object from a designated buffer to the durable log publisher. The OR submitter transmits a particular OR to the publisher, and the publisher replicates the particular OR at nodes of a DAG (directed acyclic graph). Contents of the OR are provided by the publisher in response to a read request.
US09984135B2	Shipping of data through ETL stages Performing an extract, transform, and load (ETL) process. Column data is received by a stage of the ETL process. The size of the received column data is ascertained by the stage. In response to determining that the size of the column data exceeds a predefined threshold, the stage saves the column data and creates a data locator associated with the column data. The created data locator advances through successive downstream stages of the ETL process as a replacement for the column data.
US09984130B2	Batch-optimized render and fetch architecture utilizing a virtual clock Implementations include a batch-optimized render and fetch architecture. An example method performed by the architecture includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page and initializing a virtual clock and a task list for rendering the web page. The virtual clock stands still when a request for an embedded item is outstanding and when a task is ready to run. The method may also include generating a rendering result for the web page when the virtual clock matches a run time for a stop task in the task list, and providing the rendering result to the batch process. Another example method includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page, identifying an embedded item in the web page, and determining, based on a rewrite rule, that the embedded item has content that is duplicative of content for a previously fetched embedded item.
US09984128B2	Managing site-based search configuration data Techniques are described for managing data within a multi-site clustered data intake and query system. A data intake and query system as described herein generally refers to a system for collecting, retrieving, and analyzing data. In this context, a clustered data intake and query system generally refers to a system environment that is configured to provide data redundancy and other features that improve the availability of data stored by the system. For example, a clustered data intake and query system may be configured to store multiple copies of data stored by the system across multiple components such that recovery from a failure of one or more of the components is possible by using copies of the data stored elsewhere in the cluster.
US09984127B2	Using typestyles to prioritize and rank search results Computer-based search results are improved by taking in consideration emphasized content by extracting content of a data corpus items indicated by typestyle emphasis; indexing the extracted emphasized content in the searched corpus; in response to a natural language query from a requester, performing a search such as a deep question and answer search of the corpus including the indexed emphasized content; and producing search results to the requester from the corpus with preference in the order or presentation of the results according to the emphasized content.
US09984124B2	Data management in relational databases At least one user table in a relational database management system (RDBMS) using a first operator within a structured query language (SQL) command is identified. The first operator within the SQL command is utilized to transfer one or more data items from the at least one user table to a data array within the RDBMS. The data array is processed within the RDBMS, and one or more output values are generated based on the processing.
US09984123B2	Reducing resource consumption of a similarity index in data deduplication Embodiments for reducing resource consumption of a similarity index in data deduplication by a processor. In a similarity index of a deduplication system configured to process snapshots, only a latest generation of repository data is represented in the similarity index where a single latest representative value of an index entry of a snapshot is maintained in the similarity index. Implicit deletion is applied in the similarity index such that the similarly index entry is not removed or overwritten until a change with associated data of the similarity index entry is detected. A subset of bytes of the representative value is maintained in a similarity index entry thereby reducing an input/output (I/O) load on the similarity index of the deduplication system.
US09984121B2	Database statistics based on transaction state A computer-implemented method for determining a query execution plan based on transaction state may include determining that a first set of database values in a database table are in a committed transaction state and that a second set of database values in the database table are in an uncommitted transaction state. In response to the determining, the first set of database values may have a first set of statistics generated and the second set of database values may have a second set of statistics generated. The first and second set of statistics may be for use in determining a query execution plan.
US09984120B2	Database statistics based on transaction state A computer-implemented method for determining a query execution plan based on transaction state may include determining that a first set of database values in a database table are in a committed transaction state and that a second set of database values in the database table are in an uncommitted transaction state. In response to the determining, the first set of database values may have a first set of statistics generated and the second set of database values may have a second set of statistics generated. The first and second set of statistics may be for use in determining a query execution plan.
US09984117B2	M2M data processing method, device, and system The present invention provides an M2M data processing method. The method includes: receiving a registration request sent by an M2M device; obtaining a filled capability model according to a capability model and capability information of the M2M device after authentication on the registration request succeeds, where the capability model includes three types of capabilities: a communication capability, a control capability, and a measurement capability, each capability is divided into multiple subentries, and the filled capability model describes at least one subentry corresponding to three types of capabilities of the M2M device; updating an overall capability model according to the filled capability model, where capability information of all registered M2M devices managed by an M2M service platform is recorded in the overall capability model in a type division manner of the capability model.
US09984116B2	Automated management of natural language queries in enterprise business intelligence analytics Systems and methods may automate management of natural language queries of enterprise data. In one example, a method includes performing natural language processing and semantic processing on a natural language query to identify data sets relevant to the natural language query. The method further includes grouping the data sets into one or more query domains based at least in part on one or more relationships among the data sets. The method further includes prioritizing the query domain sets. The method further includes loading one or more of the query domain sets in an order based on the prioritizing of the query domain sets.
US09984114B2	Filtering data in an enterprise system A collection of data is displayed. A filter user input is received from a user in order to filter the data. The filter user input can be on a grid-based filter, it can be on a filter pane, or on a column header filter. The data is filtered, based upon the filter user input, and the filtered data is displayed.
US09984113B2	Method and system for building a streaming model A method of constructing a plurality of downloadable files from an application file and a plurality of transcripts. The application file stores data blocks and implements an application. Each of the transcripts stores at least one order in which at least a portion of the data blocks of the application file were accessed by the application when executed previously. The transcripts are combined into a combined transcript storing at least one combined order comprising a combined portion of the data blocks. The data blocks of the combined portion are arranged in a data structure having an origin. A first set of data blocks within a predetermined distance from the origin is stored in at least one initial execution file. A second set of data blocks outside the predetermined distance from the origin is stored in downloadable sequence files.
US09984111B2	Process metadata triggers and events Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for implementing process metadata triggers and events. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention allow for process metadata events to be defined and generated, including the program code and interfaces that may define the triggering criteria and actions associated with the events. Certain embodiments include ongoing evaluations of triggering criteria for events, including criteria both internal and external to an enterprise system, and generating new event occurrences based on the evaluations of triggering criteria for events. Events and event occurrences may be tracked and monitored, and programmatic actions may be initiated in response to the creation or modification of an event or an event occurrence, including modification of enterprise system software, generation and transmission of targeted user notifications, the generation and customization of electronic documents, and the like.
US09984107B2	Database joins using uncertain criteria A system for joining modeled data with new data sources. Modeled tabular data containing categorical and metric data is received. New data containing structured or non-structured data is received. The new data is indexed and data clusters and/or data facets are identified. Data clusters and data facets are also identified within the received modeled data. A textual query from a user is received and semantically indexed into keywords. Data clusters and data facets within the new data are matched to the keywords in the indexed query. Data clusters and data facets within in the modeled data are matched to the keywords in the indexed query. A table is generated containing the modeled data and matching data clusters and data facets from the new data.
US09984103B2	Adaptive filtering in industrial control system An industrial control system stores three types of models. Models of a first type are associated with models of a second type. When a model of the first type is associated with a model of a third type, the set of models of the second type that are associated with the model of the first type is established. The industrial control system can provide an indication of the set of models of the second type. The industrial control system also establishes the set of models of the first type that are associated with the set of models of the second type. The industrial control system provides an indication of the set of models of the first type. In some embodiments, the industrial control system is a recipe management system and the models of the first, second, and third types are capability models, equipment models, and recipe models.
US09984098B2	Relationship mapping employing multi-dimensional context including facial recognition A system and method for mapping interpersonal relationships, the method including processing a multiplicity of images and contextual information relating thereto including creating and prioritizing a list of a plurality of candidate persons having at least a predetermined relationship with at least one person connected to at least one image, using multi-dimensional information including visually sensible information in the multiplicity of images and contextual information relating thereto and searching the list of a plurality of candidate persons based at least in part on the prioritizing to select at least one of the candidate persons as having at least a predetermined relationship with the at least one person.
US09984097B2	Systems and computer program products for transferring reserves when moving virtual machines across systems According to one embodiment, a host system includes logic adapted for receiving device information from a source system, logic adapted for building a virtual device based at least in part on the received device information, logic adapted for transferring a reserve of a storage device to the host system and/or receiving results of transferring the reserve to the host system, logic adapted for determining if the reserve is held by the host system, logic adapted for recording the reserve if the reserve is held by the host system, and logic adapted for sending a notification that the reserve is not held by the host system if the reserve is not held by the host system. Other systems and computer program products are also described according to various embodiments.
US09984090B1	Method and system for compressing file system namespace of a storage system A computer-implemented method is implemented to compress a file system namespace. The method starts with determining that a first leaf page of a hierarchical data structure of a storage system is sparse. The hierarchical data structure contains root node layer, intermediate node layer, and leaf page layer, where each leaf page contains namespace entries corresponding to a file or a directory of a file system, and where being sparse means a first size of the entries of the first leaf page is less than a first percentage. The method continues with identifying a second immediate adjacent leaf page as a merging candidate. The method continues with merging the second leaf page into the first leaf page upon determining that a second size of combined entries of the first and second leaf pages is less than a second percentage larger than the first percentage.
US09984089B2	Techniques for implementing hybrid flash/HDD-based virtual disk files Techniques for utilizing flash storage as an extension of hard disk (HDD) storage are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system stores a subset of blocks of a logical file in a first physical file, associated with a first data structure that represents a filesystem object, on flash storage and a subset of blocks, associated with a second data structure that represents a filesystem object comprising tiering configuration information that includes an identifier of the first physical file, in a second physical file on HDD storage. The computer system processes an I/O request directed to the logical file by directing it to either the physical file on the flash storage or the HDD storage by verifying that the tiering configuration information exists in the data structure and determining whether the one or more blocks are part of the first subset of blocks or the second subset of blocks.
US09984085B2	Cluster storage system, process for secure erasure of data, and computer program product A cluster storage system includes a plurality of mass storage systems that provide storage capacity to store data blocks, middleware that provides a plurality of virtual storage pools for a plurality of users of the cluster storage system, at least one user interface that accesses the storage pool allocated to a user, wherein the middleware includes at least one erase algorithm for secure erasure of data blocks, the at least one user interface provides an erase function to erase the storage pool allocated to the user, and the middleware is configured to erase all user-allocated data blocks of the plurality of mass storage systems using the at least one erase algorithm and report the successful erasure via the user interface when the user calls up the erase function.
US09984082B2	Index suspension prior to database update Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for suspending and activating a database index. A computer determines a quantity of changes for a number of rows of a database that are to be made by an update of the database. The computer determines whether to suspend an index of the database based, at least in part, on a comparison between the quantity of changes and a pre-determined threshold value. The computer suspends the index of the database based on a result of the comparison that indicates the quantity of changes at least meet the pre-determined threshold value. A suspension of the index of the database initiates a rebuilding of the index.
US09984079B1	Managing data storage using storage policy specifications Techniques are described for managing data storage using defined data storage management policies. In some situations, data storage may be managed using multiple supported storage mechanisms, such as different storage mechanisms of different types and/or in different locations. As one example, the described techniques may be performed to manage data that is available to a software program executing on a computer system, such as by caching a subset of the available data on one or more storage mechanisms to enhance later retrieval times of that data subset by the software program. In this example, the multiple supported storage mechanisms may include one or more storage mechanisms local to the computer system and one or more storage mechanisms remote from the computer system, and a defined data storage management policy for the software program may define particular types of data to store on particular storage mechanisms in particular manners.
US09984078B2	Deleting files written on tape A method for writing a file from an application of a host onto a tape includes sequentially receiving records forming the file from the application, adding a predetermined number of segments of dummy data (dummy records) subsequently to the plurality of records forming the file such that the records of the file and records of a subsequent file are not included in the same data set, interposing the dummy records between a final record of the file and a head record of the subsequent (next) file, to thereby construct at least one data set that is adjacent to one data set and does not include the records of the file, and writing a data set including the records of the file, a data set (dummy data set) including the final record of the file and the dummy records, and a data set including the subsequent file, onto the tape.
US09984070B2	Generating language sections from tabular data A computer implemented method of generating a language section from tabular data in an electronic document may include identifying, in a first tabular portion of the electronic document, a set of categories used to organize tabular data. The method may include identifying a content characteristic for each category of the set of categories in the first tabular portion. And the method may include generating a first language section from at least two distinct categories of the set of categories, wherein a format of the first language section is based on the content characteristics for the at least two distinct categories.
US09984069B2	Input method, input apparatus, and terminal The present invention discloses an input method, including: receiving input end indication information sent by an input module, where the input end indication information indicates that input of a character or a word ends; obtaining a location of a cursor; identifying the input character or word forward from the location of the cursor until a first punctuation input before the character or the word is identified; using the identified character or word as a previous text, and querying a word library for a next text associated with the previous text; and outputting the associated next text to a display module for displaying. The input method provided in embodiments of the present invention is capable of associating a next text according to an input previous text for a user to select after the user presses an input end key, for example, the space key, to end the input of a character or a word, so that the input efficiency is increased.
US09984067B2	Automated comprehension of natural language via constraint-based processing A consistent meaning framework (CMF) graph including a plurality of nodes linked by a plurality of edges is maintained in data storage of a data processing system. Multiple nodes among the plurality of nodes are meaning nodes corresponding to different word meanings for a common word spelling of a natural language. Each of the multiple word meanings has a respective one of a plurality of associated constraints. A natural language communication is processed by reference to the CMF graph. The processing includes selecting, for a word in the natural language communication, a selected word meaning from among the multiple word meanings based on which of the plurality of associated constraints is satisfied by the natural language communication. An indication of the selected word meaning is stored in data storage.
US09984062B1	Generating author vectors Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating author vectors. One of the methods includes obtaining a set of sequences of words, the set of sequences of words comprising a plurality of first sequences of words and, for each first sequence of words, a respective second sequence of words that follows the first sequence of words, wherein each first sequence of words and each second sequence of words has been classified as being authored by a first author; and training a neural network system on the first sequences and the second sequences to determine an author vector for the first author, wherein the author vector characterizes the first author.
US09984058B2	Identifying tasks in messages Methods and apparatus are described herein for identifying tasks in messages. In various implementations, natural language processing may be performed on a received message to generate an annotated message. The annotated message may be analyzed pursuant to a grammar. A portion of the message may be classified as a user task entry based on the analysis of the annotated message.
US09984055B2	Image display apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and display control method Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a display control program, an image display apparatus and a display control method. The apparatus includes a touch panel configured to receive a handwriting input and display a document and handwriting information in a display area thereof. The display control program, when being executed by a processor of the apparatus, causes the processor to perform the following processes. The processes includes: operating the touch panel to display a document and handwriting information in the display area; and in response to detecting an operation onto the document, controlling display of the handwriting information by using a first display mode or a second display mode. The first display mode is a mode to display the handwriting information with being associated with the document. The second display mode is a mode to display the handwriting information with being associated with the display area.
US09984052B2	Verifying content of resources in markup language documents A method and system for verifying content of a resource. A first computer creates, in a markup language document, a markup element including a resource indicator and a first characteristic of the content of the resource stored at a second computer. The first characteristic includes a hash of the content of the resource referenced by the resource indicator. The first characteristic is extracted from the markup element in the markup language document. The resource is retrieved from the second computer according to a resource indicator that references the resource. A second characteristic of the content of the retrieved resource is generated. The second characteristic includes a hash of the content of the retrieved resource. The second characteristic is ascertained to be identical to the first characteristic. The created markup element includes a first attribute-value pair and a second attribute-value pair within distinct non-overlapping portions of the markup element.
US09984047B2	Application page quick access When an interaction barrier exists between an application A and an application B, if a jump link corresponding to the application B exists in a page of the application A, selection and replication operations are performed in the page of the application A, such that the content containing the above jump link is replicated into a clipboard of the system. Further when the user starts the application B, operations are executed to perform extraction and analysis on clipboard content to obtain the jump link, and generate a corresponding access trigger control. The access trigger control serves as a quick access portal, and it is only necessary for a user to click the access trigger control to implement jumping from a display page to a target page in the application B. Thus, the access efficiency is ensured, and the user is guaranteed to experience the relevant functions of the target page.
US09984044B2	Predicting performance regression of a computer system with a complex queuing network model An approach is provided for predicting system performance. The approach predicts system performance by identifying a Queuing Network Model (QNM) corresponding to a clustered system that handles a plurality of service demands using a plurality of parallel server nodes that process a workload for a quantity of users. A workload description is received that includes server demand data. Performance of the clustered system is predicted by transforming the QNM to a linear model by serializing the parallel services as sequential services, identifying transaction groups corresponding to each of the server nodes, and distributing the workload among the transaction groups across the plurality of nodes. The approach further solves analytically the linear model with the result being a predicted resource utilization (RU) and a predicted response time (RT).
US09984041B2	System, method, and recording medium for mirroring matrices for batched cholesky decomposition on a graphic processing unit A batched Cholesky decomposition method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) including at least a first problem and a second problem, include mirroring a second problem matrix of the second problem to a first problem matrix of the first problem, combining the first problem matrix and the mirrored second problem matrix into a single problem matrix, and allocating data read to a thread and to the first problem and the second problem, respectively.
US09984038B2	Method, apparatus, and system for optimizing frequency and performance in a multidie microprocessor With the progress toward multi-core processors, each core is can not readily ascertain the status of the other dies with respect to an idle or active status. A proposal for utilizing an interface to transmit core status among multiple cores in a multi-die microprocessor is discussed. Consequently, this facilitates thermal management by allowing an optimal setting for setting performance and frequency based on utilizing each core status.
US09984037B1	Scheduler for a fine grained graph processor A novel scheduler design is provided that schedules a set of operations to an array of similar or dissimilar, candidate operations on a cycle by cycle basis, out of a total number of operations. The array of similar or dissimilar units can be atomic in nature or ALU like or complete processors. The scheduler is able to map the operations in a data flow/sequencing graph to the two dimensional or 3 dimensional array (which can be extended to a multi-dimensional array) optimally so as to minimize the total execution times. The mapping is path based computation, where a particular sequence of instructions is routed through the underlying matrix in path that minimized the number of memory hops.
US09984035B2	Efficient encoding and decoding architecture for high-rate data transfer through a parallel bus System, methods, and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission/reception of data over a multi-line parallel bus. In an example, the apparatus selects from a sequential series of data bits a plurality of data bits for transmission over a plurality of parallel bus lines. For each bus line of the plurality of parallel bus lines, the apparatus compares a state of a current data bit selected for transmission on a current bus line during a current clock cycle with one or more conditions related to the current bus line or at least one bus line adjacent to the current bus line, wherein the one or more conditions includes a state of two data bits respectively transmitted on two bus lines adjacent to the current bus line during a previous clock cycle, and determines whether to transmit the current data bit on the current bus line based on the comparison.
US09984029B2	Variable interconnect pitch for improved performance A method of designing conductive interconnects includes determining a residual spacing value based at least in part on an integer multiple of a interconnect trace pitch and a designated cell height. The method also includes allocating the residual spacing to at least one interconnect trace width or interconnect trace space within the interconnect trace pitch.
US09984027B2	Multicasting computer bus switch There is disclosed apparatus and methods of multicasting in a shared address space. A shared memory address space may include two or more multicast portions. Each multicast portion may be associated with a respective end point and with at least one other multicast portion. Data units may be transmitted to at least some of the end points via memory-mapped I/O into the shared memory address space. When a destination address of a data unit is in a first multicast portion associated with a first end point, the data unit may be transmitted to the first end point, revised to specify a destination address in a second multicast portion associated with the first multicast portion, and transmitted to a second end point associated with the second multicast portion.

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